Virtual smoothies

April 24, 2009March 8, 20123 Comments

Mmm, smoothies…yummy!

Today is such a lovely day. It’s a perfect day for an ice cream cone. I may just buy one on my way home from work. A lovely strawberry one, in a sugar cone…Mmm, it doesn’t get any better than that!

How I wish I didn’t have to be cooped up in the office, strapped to my desk. It’s such an inviting day out there and I long to be part of it. The sun is shining, there’s not a cloud in the sky, the temperature is soaring (along with the humidity in anticipation of the impending storm)…Must I stay here in this artificial, climate-controlled edifice? I think not. But there are no errands for me to run, so boo. Oh, if only there were errands to run, then I could go for a walk. And who knows? I might forget to come back. 🙂

Ooo, ooo! We got our pictures back! Apparently they came in quite a while ago, but the photographer never called us to let us know we could pick them up. Jerk. But they were worth the wait, so I’m super-excited. As soon as I get the software for my lovely printer/scanner/copier loaded on my laptop, I intend to get them scanned and then you know I’ll post them. This means I have to get to work on the announcement so that I can get it sent in to the paper for pretty publication. *so much squeeing, you don’t even want to know*

Okay, I think I’m done now. But it’s just so pretty and loverly that I can’t help but be in a good mood! Also, I cruised the loop in Reinbeck last night with the windows down and Eminem up. Totally felt 17 again. The only thing missing was someone else over the age of 6. Actually, after I picked Rachael up, I changed the song to a more family-friendly Barenaked Ladies song. You can’t go wrong with a song named after Brian Wilson.

Alas, I suppose I should quit procrastinating and daydreaming and such and get back to doing actual work. Happy weekend!

So…

April 16, 2009March 8, 20122 Comments

So basically, I’ve been atrocious about posting this month. Sorry. As I just finished telling my bridesmaids, the procrastination bug has bitten quite hard lately. There are a million things I should be doing and yet…none of them are getting done. I can’t even blame Facebook this time! I’ve been playing Bloodlines on MySpace and have become rather addicted. It’s pure boredom, I think, that’s stimulating my fascination with the game. So much for having outgrown my interest in vampires…

I really can’t say that there’s much going on around here because really, there isn’t. My hands have finally recovered from raking leaves last week; I got off work early Friday and spent the rest of the afternoon raking the yard. Yecchh. We have a pretty big yard and lots of leaf-bearing trees, so raking is a huge chore. Plus, Greg and the kids raked all the leaves up last fall and pushed them out to the curb for the City to pick up and then they never came, so when the snow began to fly and the plows began to plow, they pushed all those leaves right back into the yard. Jerks. Their leaf-collecting machine broke, so rather than reschedule the leaf pick-up, they just didn’t do it. Raking wet leaves really, really sucks. You might say it sucks brass monkey balls.

*sigh* Have had it with working. Am more than ready to go home for the day. Really looking forward to the RCIA potluck tonight and the yummy, yummy deviled eggs that will be going with us. Have decided to channel Bridget Jones with my writing style for this paragraph. Am super excited that tax season is officially over. Must now lose weight.

In other news, Twitter is being irritating. While it is rather awesome, it’s also rather a pain. The jury is out on this, too. I suppose now it’s cooperating, I don’t dislike it quite as much as I did a few minutes ago, but that may change. I suppose I alternately love/hate it, much like the Twitter widget in my sidebar that doesn’t update in real time.

I think that’s it for the day.

If only…

April 13, 2009March 8, 20123 Comments

If only I had that much energy today, or any day, really. How nice that would be!

In case I didn’t make it obvious enough, I’m super tired today. It was definitely one of your longer weekends. Saturday was spent running errands and running around and then scrambling to put the house in order before the soon-to-be-in-laws arrived. Then we all stayed up till sometime after midnight so we could go to the Easter vigil at church. I was confirmed and had my first communion as a brand-new Catholic. I think I like the grape juice and bread cubes the Presbyterians serve better than the cardboard wafers and wine. At any rate, there was a reception after the service (which started at 8:15 p.m. and ended shortly before 11:00 p.m.) and then after indulging in cake and coffee and juice, we all went home and indulged in strawberry pie with cool whip, courtesy of Ginny. Yummy! Yesterday brought a way-too-early wake-up call at 7:00 a.m. to see what goodies the Easter bunny delivered and then a trip to Gladbrook before an even bigger trip to Elkader to visit Greg’s family. By the time we got home and watched a movie and went to bed, it was somewhere around 10:30 p.m. I’m functioning solely on caffeine today, and not very well at that. Yeesh! Hopefully it will kick in soon.

*sigh* Too tired…Must catch Z’s…

I suppose I had better get back to work, since I have a desk full of it and the tax deadline is only two days away. Hasta la vista…baby!

No news

April 7, 2009March 8, 20128 Comments

Sorry. There’s just not much to tell lately. I really haven’t felt like writing all that much, which is rather odd for me.

So to update, we’ve finally settled on the bridesmaid dresses. Yay! One thing down, 970 million more to go. Um, I’m being confirmed at church Saturday night. And my tummy hurts. Apparently all the antacid I took after lunch hasn’t kicked in yet. It really needs to, though, cuz I’ve had awful heartburn since yesterday and it needs to go away.

I actually made some progress on my type-up-all-my-old-stories project. I got one all typed up and I started on another one. Oh my God. Seriously. I knew they were bad, but holy crap, I didn’t realize the exact extent of the horror. Yikes! I should be shot for writing such utter drivel. Aside from the fact that every time someone asks my character to tell them about herself, she gives them her life story in one paragraph, well, there are really no words to describe just how bad it was. I kept making remarks like, “It’s a good thing I never got knocked up at fifteen like some people do because I’d have stuck my kid with a truly heinous name,” or, “You have got to be kidding me. What the hell was I thinking?!” And I thought these were good once upon a time? I was out of my freaking mind! Greg asked me why I was typing them all up if they were so bad. I told him it was so that I had a record of what I used to write. “Oh, so you’re not going to have them published?” he asked. “Oh, HELL no!” I replied. “I’d die of embarrassment!”

And I would. They are true horrors. *shudders* And yet, I keep on going…

We got 8 inches of swearing Sunday. This is April, dammit. That’s not supposed to happen. When they said April showers bring May flowers, they meant rain! Not white crap! NO MORE WHITE CRAP!!

Okay, I think I’m done now.

But on the subject of crap, my long-awaited piece of BSB-inspired fluff is nearing completion. Yay! Because everyone loves a good bit of fluff, right? Right? You know I’m right.

*sigh* I hope this afternoon goes by as quickly as this morning did because I just want to go home and curl up in bed. I seem to be feeling rather averse to productivity today. So with that, I think I’ll go back to doing quizzes on Facebook and hope that this time, stupid WordPress will post my entry when I tell it to instead of saving 90% of it as a draft and losing the rest of what I typed. I hate when things of that sort happen. Stupid computer glitches. If I could remember everything that I typed, it wouldn’t be such a big deal, I guess, but my memory sucks, so there ya go. Apparently my computer sucks, too, but I already had suspicions of that.

Friday needs to hurry up and get here.

So proud!

April 3, 2009March 8, 2012Leave a comment

I always knew Iowa rocked. Yay Corn State!

So it seems that I never got around to posting anything yesterday. Whoops. Must have been the Class 3 Skull-Splitter messing with my head. Or the actual work that I had yesterday. They just kept piling it on! I love days like that, where I have things to do. It makes the time pass so much faster. I really appreciate it when the work day flies by because frankly, I would much rather be at home. It’s a lovely day outside and my boys will be home by 3:00. The only thing missing is me! How I wish I could cut out early.

In other news, a good friend of mine has been having rather a hard time lately. She’s lost several relatives, all within a few months of each other, as well as a very good friend. I called her the other night to chat and she had just found out that her uncle had passed away earlier that day from a massive heart attack. I really hope things will start going better for her. Maybe today’s news will cheer her up! I hope so.

Spring is totally in the air today. The sun is shining, there’s not a cloud in the sky, the wind has finally calmed down, and there’s a lovely crispness in the air. It’s beautiful! And they’re discussing possible swearing over the weekend. Apparently the meteorologists haven’t gotten the memo that says since it’s now April, it’s not allowed to swear anymore. Swearing is only allowed in winter and since it is clearly not winter anymore, swearing is strictly and expressly forbidden. The Great Kay has spoken.

*sigh* I keep staring out the window and thinking of Time Enough for Drums. I suppose I always think of it in the spring because it was springtime when I first read that book. Also I think of it because there’s a lovely passage about Jem losing herself to the spell of John reading French and staring out the window into the inviting April day and getting scolded for daydreaming. I love that book.

And now I suppose I’ll get back to searching the internet for work-related items of non-interest…