Well, not so many. Just felt like it was time to change the template of this blog...again. I get a kick out of changing it every so often. Just to keep you all from getting bored with it! (As if! :P)
So for a real weekend, it felt like my usual weekend. Nothing really different or special about it. Wasn't all boring though...ended up covering a TB shift at the SPCO yesterday for someone ...he was lucky I was available. The downside is that I got a ticket for a. expired meter (it was too crazy busy so I didn't get to go and plug it with more quarters) and b. expired tabs. Frick, frick, frick. I have terrible luck in St. Paul. I keep getting busted for stupid crap. It makes me not to want to work there anymore...it's not worth the hassle of parking (yup, I'm becoming one of those people who won't go anywhere unless it's got easy, free parking) ...Then dinner last night w/Irma. Nice dinner. She's got me hooked on this Chinese place called Bill's. Yeah, a funny name for a Chinese restaurant but the food is spectacular. Good company, conversation and food. What more could you ask for on a Saturday night?
Today, mellow day. Didn't do the anniversary lunch with the family after all. My bro called just as I was getting up and yeah, I sounded horrible. Lingering cold. It's mostly gone but we didn't want to take any chances...and frankly, it was a relief. After NOT getting a lazy (aka stay-in-my-pj's) day yesterday, I really wanted one today.
We'll just have to do the celebrating when we can.
I'm actually looking forward to this week and the training we're getting on the Delta reservation system. I sure hope it makes parts of the job easier...aka the finding of answers to questions because I still gotta keep working on bringing my talk time down. I actually did better than I wanted to for August so I'm less stressed about things at work.
So today was a lazy day...I spent most of it reading. I just started a new series by an author named Rachel Caine. A series about a teenage girl, her roommates and the town they live in where vampires rule the town. I love finding a new series and then getting all of the books from the library so I can read them one after the other...it's like watching an entire season of a TV show all in one go. Not having to wait to find out what happens next...but of course, sadly one does get to the point when you're caught up and have to wait for the next book/series/season, etc. As previously mentioned, thank goodness I've got so many others that I read and watch that I can usually keep from getting too impatient about it all.
So I was goofing around on Facebook tonight and just looking for more people from my past and who did I come across? B.V. My first significant adult relationship. Should be interesting to see if he accepts my request to be "friends". I hope he does. I know you can't go back again but it would be nice to just know how he's been.
If he does accept my request...well, that will be great even though I'm feeling a bit self-conscious about the pictures of myself that I have posted. I've certainly "grown" over the years ...and it's been about 20 years since we've seen each other...I'm trying not to freak out about it too much though because thanks to the general encouragement of another blogger...I've decided to adopt her attitude about pictures [of me]...as in, if you want one, OK. Who am I to deny you a picture of yours truly and capturing a moment you'd like to remember? So what the hell, but there certainly is more of me to love than there ever has been.
Well, it's about 1:30am and I don't feel like writing anymore for tonight. So 'til next time....c'est la vie.
Musings from a big and beautiful sometimes "drama queen" on her current state of existence
What's It All About?
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates
While you’re here, in this time and in this space, you are beautiful and you are perfect.
You are right where you need to be to get to where you want to go, so start asking yourself where you want to go.
Noire
She'll be 2 years in 2 months! Time flies!
Things I'm grateful for everyday....
- My family
- My friends, old and new.
- A roof over my head.
- My computer & internet access
- Being employed (even if I don't always like things about my job)
- The public library and the joy of borrowing books with/on/for my Kindle
- That I can walk on two legs, use 2 arms/hands, have ten fingers/toes, can see and hear, etc. (uh, no offense to anyone who is physically challenged)
- Other people's creativity and efforts
- The love of a good man (he IS good)
- My friends, old and new.
- A roof over my head.
- My computer & internet access
- Being employed (even if I don't always like things about my job)
- The public library and the joy of borrowing books with/on/for my Kindle
- That I can walk on two legs, use 2 arms/hands, have ten fingers/toes, can see and hear, etc. (uh, no offense to anyone who is physically challenged)
- Other people's creativity and efforts
- The love of a good man (he IS good)
Current Favorite Quotes
“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu
"The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos Castañeda
"..there’s something lovely about knowing that when it’s right, you really know it’s right because you’ve already been through all the wrong." ~ Sade
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." —Mark Twain
(This bit not so much as a quote but somethings I wrote down that I want to keep and this looks like a good place to do it)
7-25-07
1. Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
2. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
3. Leap and the net will appear.
"The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos Castañeda
"..there’s something lovely about knowing that when it’s right, you really know it’s right because you’ve already been through all the wrong." ~ Sade
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." —Mark Twain
(This bit not so much as a quote but somethings I wrote down that I want to keep and this looks like a good place to do it)
7-25-07
1. Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
2. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
3. Leap and the net will appear.
Facts of Life (per Sonya Friedman)
- 1. No one can bring your life to you
- 2. No matter what you do, someone important isn't going to like it
- 3. Though painful, rejection won't kill you - it may even lead to growth
- 4. Every choice means giving up something different
- 5. Some people aren't capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them
- 6. The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others
- 7. There are no quick fixes that can permanently change your life
- 8. Life is on a rheostat, not an on/off switch
- 9. Some problems cannot be solved - but you can make peace with them