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Friday, May 12, 2006

My God-daughter

Whom I get to go see this weekend. :) This is her and I at her birthday party this past February:

Sahara and I

I love her.


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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

20 Ways to maintain insanity

20 WAYS TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a
hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries
with that.

4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."

5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten
over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for smuggling
diamonds."

7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."

8. Don't use any punctuation.

9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat -- with a serious
face.

11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

12. Sing along at the opera.

13. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds
all day at work.

14. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the ! poems don't rhyme.

15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their
party because you're not in the mood.

16. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock
Bottom.

17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won! I won!"

18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot
yelling, "run for your lives, they're loose!!"

19. Tell your children over dinner "due to the economy, we are going to
have to let one of you go."

20. And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity . . e-mail
this to someone to make them smile. Its called therapy


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Kid News

From my friends Kim and Steve about their children

Oldest: She discovered her first loose tooth today. When asked how she felt, she replied, "I wonder how much the Tooth Fairy is going to give me?"

Middle: She is turning into a good helper. Today she helped with JC's bath.

Baby: JC has done little giggles the past few days, but today he had his first good laugh. He has also slept, for the last 2 nights, for 6 hours.

That is all the good news we have to date


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Monday, May 08, 2006

I Need a Vacation

From work.

Last weekend was great. The hotel was awesome, the gaming was fun and occurred most of the time (which is more than I expected, though a little less than I wanted), and it was wonderful being with my friends. It was also nice to have Jim driving with me, and the way home was fun and relaxing 'cause of it.

Which has only made me realize that I *need* a vacation from work. I've been saying for a while I should go on vacation. I've even said the words that I need a vacation, but I meant it in the scheme of life that I need to go on vacation to one of those places I want to see, because I haven't gone *anywhere* other than to see family and friends in two years, and I've only gone somewhere new once in almost five years. And with turning towards reading for a baby ever more present in my life (2 more years max, really?), I should get to at least one of the far off places I want to go before being tied down to home for several years. But this last weekend and then today (I stayed home and worked some, and was bothered by people at work way more than I wanted to be) has helped me realize I need a good vacation. I don't necessarily mean going away on vacation. I mean getting away from work. Relaxing, enjoy the company of friends or new people, not having to wake up at a certain time each morning, and not having to respond to people who have slowly been accumulating annoyance factors in me.

But we have a May 19th deadline. Gr, sigh. I would have taken today off, but I knew it wouldn't have been approved because of the deadline.

I also keep saying that I might just take a week vacation and stay home. Now I know it's not just that I want to, I need to. And I really want to too. I want to stay home, maybe get some things done, get some house work done, and spend lots of time hanging out with friends.

But I need to count my vacation days. I'm pretty sure I don't have enough time to do both vacations this year, the stay home a week and the trip out to the rain forest in Washington state. Ppppptttthhhh.

Then there's the whole job discussion which could change my vacation possibilities, which I've refrained from posting about partially because I don't know if anyone from work actually reads this.


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