Who Needs to See Anyway

I went to the eye doctor today and man alive are things expensive! New chicky glasses and contacts. It's rice and beans for the rest of the month!

Today, I feel like seamus. I am so exhausted!

Enough for now...

My Chakras are CLOSED

I am worn out! I have many tedious projects at work and swear the muscle between my shoulders just below my neck is made of immobile steel.

I have started telecommuting once a week and it really allows me to do the big projects that require concentration like captioning a 10 minute video. That would have been impossible without closing my office door. I really like telecommuting. It's cool to be able to crawl out of bed and hit the computer.

Well I am back on my quest to loose weight. The trick this is to stay off the scales. As long as I don't know I am not loosing any lbs, I am not depressed. It's been three weeks and I have not cheated once - send me your good vibes to keep at it. I am one Snicker bar away from diabetes [a family trait of mine].

Enough for now...I leave you with a Seamus' dancing debut, well not exactly.

Exhausted and Confused

Didn't I just take a vacation so that I would be rested and love work again? Well that didn't happen and seems to just drain you. I spend all day, watching the clock dying to leave! I really hate that but... it is what it is and I don't think anyone is happy a work any more. It's the new culture of work.

I need an attitude adjustment hence the vacation. I almost achieved Nirvana but then the boss felt it was okay to call me at home during my vacation and bring all that crap rushing back. I really resent that she fells its okay to call me on my days off!

Enough for now.

Wonderful World of Hibernation

Today was the epitome of the type of vacation I wanted. Rainy and cloudy and reading all day. I went out of the house for the first time this week. I am on my second book, first "Eargon" and now "Eldest." Dragons and magic YEAH!

I changed clothes for the first time in two days, okay it feels better but I refuse to shower when sloth is the order of the day. However, I do think Winston and Seamus are bored.

Enough for now...

V A C A T I O N

For the next ten days, I will not have to face this pose. This is the attitude Winston gives me every morning when I leave for work.

What are my plans? I plan to travel the world or maybe even other planets or even other dimensions - I plan to read! I want to escape my life and I can't imagine a better way than through a good book. I promise not to check my work email or call in to see how things are going. I promise not to even think about that place...okay, I have too many friends there to do that but I won't think about work.

One thing that I do need to do is to plan my funeral and buy a plot. It's not a pleasant thing to do but it's a smart thing, so I may do that this week or I could avoid it as I have been for years now. Smart people plan...will I be smart? Who out is smart? Who wants to actually go to the cemetry and pick out a plot and say "Yeah, this looks like a good spot, are the worms nice here?" Aaarrgg! This is when it would be nice to have a husband who you could add this to the "honey-do" list and I could go on avoiding this issue all together.

What brought all this on? A funeral, today I went to a co-worker's husband's funeral. I feel like Winston did when he posed for this picture.

Enough for now...

F-Stop Stopped

My brain is mush! Spent the entire day in a photography workshop. While the instructor was fascinating and kept the class moving in a good way, I have a hard time sitting, listening and taking notes all day. I do feel like I learned a lot...but don't get too excited about seeing fantastic photos here. I don't have an Digital SLR camera for my personal use, only work. My Kodak point and shoot digital will have to do for Dented Karma.

 

One main thing I did learn is that there is so much more for me to learn! You only scratch the surface with a one-day workshop.

 

The morning didn't start of great either, I had to get my teeth cleaned. Start off the day at the dentist then go to a workshop. I am whipped!

 

Enough for now...

A Good Day

This was a fun and exhausting day! My co-workers and I went to Tulsa first thing this morning for the agency's annual awards. I was nominated for two awards. One was a Teamwork Award and the other was an Einstien Award. I was automatically entered for these awards due to the fact that I won the division awards back in October.

Me and two other co-workers took the Teamwork award, which totally surprised me. I really didn't expect to win at the agency level. But hey, another hunk of lucite! Waaahooo!

Couple of weeks ago, I went the SPJ awards and received 3rd place for my annual report! That one blew me away, I entered that on a lark and really didn't expect to receive such an honor. Look out world, Dana's gonna get a big head...

Enough for now.

Sleep, I need sleep

Any guesses as to why I need sleep? Yep, Seamus is sleeping over again. That beast of a dog is the size of a full size bed! Winston wasn't going to be inconvenienced that meant even less for me. I swear I spent the entire night curled into a ball just trying to get enough covers to cover my butt!

Why is Seamus sleeping over? Well, mom and dad are going to move my great aunt from Atoka to Yukon, she's decide that she doesn't want to cook or clean anymore and wants to move into an apartment for Seniors only. When I am 96 years-young, I am swearing off cooking and cleaning too!

Enough for now...

I am Sooo Bored

I hate Al Gore! Here I thought with all his "Global Warming" rhetoric that I was living in the New Florida without the beach but noooo. I am having to endure two blizzards in one season!

Even though I have had two days off for this horrible weather, I have done very very little and it's depressing! Even my dog is depressed! [You would be too if you had to poop in snow up to bum.]

Maybe I'll clean something...nah, I'll probably just stay in bed AGAIN and read another book. I've already gone through three in the last two weeks.
Enough for now...

Is It ever wrong to giggle?

Today was the second time this week that I failed to leave work on time and failed to leave for lunch. Just slam the food down the kisser at the desk and keep working. We've started preparing for our awareness day at the capitol so let the chaos ensue. I am also trying to figure out how to professionally produce an American Sign Language video of our agency's handbook with freeware [lmao]. As well as create new webpages for the Commissioners...[rolling in the floor laughing].

I know laughing at this point is a sign of delirium but can't help it. Yesterday, I just receive notice that am one of the winners for the Society of Professional Journalist for either my Annual Report or a Press Release. I don't know for which one and fully expect to spend the entire night mingling with strangers for an Honorable Mention. Don't get me wrong I will be tickled pick with that but this is SPJ and the competition are corporate professionals and such. Limelight, crap I don't do limelight well.

More of that crap [snow] is coming, so that mean I have to go to the store and gas station tomorrow and prepare for another blizzard - thanks Al Gore for educating us on global warming! [lmao again!]

Enough for now...enjoy Winston after the last snow storm.

Does it stay in Vegas if you were a bore?

It seems to be the norm for months to go by between blog entries. This is not my intention, it is more from my lack of inspiration. Work is blah and the last think I want to do in my off hours is the computer. I like the work I do and have some great friends at work but when disillusion sets in at work that not good it bleeds through into everything.

January 2, I got to go to Las Vegas with a friend from work who had to go for a conference. I went to play. I discovered that vacations are meant to be shared. I would go to various Casinos and site-see and gamble but it wasn't as much fun by myself. Friend Theresa didn't get out the conference till 5 or 6ish each night and we would do dinner and some site-seeing but there wasn't much time in the evenings. This trip opened my eyes, I often thought that if there was something I really wanted to see such as Ireland or Italy or Turkey I'd just have to go alone. Nope, while traveling alone isn't a big deal, it's just not fun.

Who out there has holiday hang-over? Man alive, my work celebrates Christmas with homemade cookies, candies and the like arriving daily! If I never eat anything sweet again, that would be okay with me.

Along with trying to survive the holidays, I managed to get a sinus infection that lasted from before the Oklahoma Blizzard to last weekend. I finally feel human again, yippee!

Crap so much to cover!!! Okay the video "District 9" disturb me [flash backs of "Children of Men" without the gorgeous Clive]. Michael Jackson dies, Johnson and Johnson heiress dies and Massachusetts elects a Republican - I am not sure but I think have step though a tear in the universe and landed in alternative reality.

More than enough for now!

E=MC²

I had a rather good day yesterday, I attended our division awards yesterday and won the Einstein Award and the Team Work Award!

I knew my boss had submitted the nomination but I didn't think I would win. The Einstein Award is for the total conversion of our website from old design and inaccessibility to new design and totally accessible. If there is something not accessible on that bugger, I sure don't know about it.

The Team Work Award was for Co-Worker Brett, Shirley and myself in our work to create a clipping report each month for the entire agency. In the past only a select few would get the clipping report because, it would come in hard copy form that we couldn't really make accessible. Once our clipping company went electronic, we were able to make the clipping report accessible and everyone in the agency gets a copy.

It was pretty neat!

Enough for now...

Broke, Ever So Freaking Broke

Two weeks ago, my sister came to town and a shopping we went. First Hobby Lobby in Edmond-did okay $4oish spent. Then came Gordman's - not as okay $150ish spent. By then we needed lunch to geer up for the second part, once refueled off to Burlington. !!! $450ish spent - I went bonkers but got two new coats (one rain and one car). Then day two was spent at Kohl's - I lost track of $ but the sweaters are sure cute!

I got some really amazing clothes but I do think my favorite buy was the hooker shoes! They are sooo cute on!

UnFREAKING Believable

Bronchial infection so severe that I am on my second round of antibiotics! Am I falling apart or what? I went to the doctor's again today to receive more drugs - NOT HAPPY. He said if this doesn't do it we will use dynamite next time. If dynamite will make me stop coughing and not feel sooo horribly bad - give me dynamite. This just sucks!

Enough for now.

Pain, so much Pain

Geez, where do I start? I guess I will start with the six-day migraine spree. That was fun. I thought I grew out of migraines a while back. In high school and college, I took medicine daily to ward off those evil things. So when I got the first migraine, I didn't think much about it but on day five I went to the doctor. Who knew you could make it worse by taking a lot of advil day after day - rebound headaches! I didn't know. I now have a new med and it really doesn't work real well but I am not shut in a dark room screaming "don't talk to me, don't look at me" then running to the bath to throw up.

The next weird thing is that my voice is going out. No, it is not a sore throat. The doctor thinks it may be cause by allergies. I now take allegra every night but my voice is still cutting in and out. LOVELY!

My thyroid has decided to act up again. So I am back to going to the doctor's every three months to visit the vampires to try to regulate my meds. It sucks getting old!

Enough for now [don't think I could take any more!].

Evil Eye

Yesterday was a humdinger for me. It was only 6:30 a.m. and I was in my morning routine, brush the teeth, shower, put in contacts.... AAAWWW, pain take out contact. The problem came when only half the contact came out. I then spent the next 30 minutes digging in my eye trying to find that other half.

While I could feel [painfully feel] that other half, I could not find it. So I had to call mom and ask for a ride to the eye doctors when they opened at 8 a.m.

You gotta know my doctor, dead-pan older man to know that I really did not want to go to him and tell him that I lost my contact inside my eye! But the pain drove me on. He takes me back to exam room and I put my chin on the eyeball examining machine. He looks and looks and looks - doesn't say anything just looks. I am starting to panic now, since he's put eye numbing drops in my eye and I no longer can feel the sucker to tell him where it is. He then pushes the machine away, tells me to close my eye and act like I am looking down. He rubs my eye in a downward motion all along the surface. Then I open my eye and put my chin back in that thingy and voila! he finds the other half. Shows it to me and says "no charge" and sends me out.

Today, I wore my glasses. Enough for now.

Blink takes two

I don't know how I manage to snap the photo the exact time the dogs blink - first it was Seamus and now Winston.

Today was Co-Worker S.' birthday and Sunday is the Boss' so my pocket book got tagged this week.

You know, I'm too tire to blog. Enough for now....

Any topic suggestions for my next entry? I'm not really inspired to blog right now. Help.

The Day the Music Died

I have to say that I am so disappointed and ashamed of my government. I have made to bones about being a raging Republican but never did I think that I would see the day when I would see a government asking the public to turn in their neighbors for speaking their minds. I thought the country elected Barack Obama but I am starting to think Adolf Hitler was elected. Parents be careful what you say around your children. This is very frightening.

A Whirlwind of Busy

For someone who has been sooo busy that blogging is impossible, I should have found the cure for cancer or something more. I have to confess, I am just lazy once I get home.

Anyway, I have been a busy girl. I was a major organizer of an awareness day at the state capitol that brought in more than 700 - success! I have gone to the WebAIM Training in Utah [pretty country!] and learned a whole lot of accessible tips and tricks for the web. I have worked like a fend on the landscaping and exterior of my house AND still manged to let my cedar tree get apple rust!

Oh yeah, I spent a week babysitting a little birdy who fell out of the nest. This humane crap ain't easy! First make Winston stop picking up the little thing only to drop it because it moved in his mouth. Then I had to make a nest in a spare dog bowl because of said idiot's activities previously mentioned and put it on the patio table. Where moma bird would come to feed it.

Little birdy is now gone hopefully to some tree somewhere happy.

I attached a new pic of Winston is his svelte new body - now 29.5 lbs, was 38 lbs. Yes, he still hates the camera!

Enough for now.

Poision Control Representives Are My Friends

Let me send out my heart felt thank you to the very nice person at Poison Control who told me that the two idiot heads that live here won't die. Seamus and Winston thought it would be a good idea to eat my body butter! Gross me out! When I found the empty container I panicked and quickly called my vet's office and was told to call Poison Control and they would be able to determine if I needed to bring the idiot heads in.

Who knew that Poison Control would respond to you even if you were calling for two stupid dogs! She was very nice and informative. She told me that they would be fine but to go ahead feed them something to so it wouldn't upset their stomachs and to be wary of a bad case of the runs since there is so much petroleum in the body butter - LOVELY!
This all took place Friday night and I am still peeved at them.

Enough for now.