09.30.05
Posted in Here at 8:57 pm by Think-Tink
I did the things-I-need-before-my-trip-shopping tonight. I didn’t do to badly, got most everything,except for the trash bag rain ponchos and I can get those at the dollar store. For those that don’t know I leave a week from tomorrow to go see Celtic Mama in Atlanta and then to see Revog and her girls and beau in the land of Mickey Mouse.
All I have left to do now is wait and then pack Thursday or Friday night. OK, a few other things that are very minor. This week is going to be torture waiting.
Back to the shopping, had lots of coup0ns and only spent $22. Now, I have to see if I have a size lower pants than what I have been wearing or else I need to go look for those. I got autograph books for characters, a magazine for the plane, shampoo, shaving cream (I bought an electric razor, but decided that I don’t want to have to keep up with a charger and all), lotion, and other things.
I have been biking so much that I have lost weight. If I am correct somewhere between 8-10 lbs. So tomorrow is look at pants and see what still fits or better yet, what fits again day.
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09.29.05
Posted in Here at 8:28 pm by Think-Tink
Why are the plastic things that are around most small electronics so hard to get off? I got bitten by one twice today!
Why do some people think that since you are the person answering the phone you don’t know anything and want to speak to someone of “importance”? The person of “importance” in the office is just going to send you back to me…
Why is it that when you are given permission to purchase something after letting the decision maker know the cost, that it comes as a shock to him how much it really cost?
Why does DMV let so many idiots have driver’s licenses?
Why does dust and stuff accumulate so quickly?
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09.28.05
Posted in Here at 10:10 pm by Think-Tink
SB and I were having a discussion on when we go back to standard time from daylight time. Neither of us was sure, also because we arent sure if the new extensions go into affect now or in the Spring.
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09.26.05
Posted in Job at 8:35 pm by Think-Tink
One of the things I dislike is not being busy. Today I found enough stuff to do for this morning but had to create things for the afternoon. O relented and did some on a project my students are supposed to be doing. Weird looking through files from 10 years ago, and remembering a time before email was in general use. People actually had to write notes and letters. No just sending off a quick email. It was much more formal as a letter meant something important was going on.
This means I have something to do tomorrow as stuff that was duplicates gets taken out and shredded. Shredding is fun and almost something zenish about it.
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09.25.05
Posted in Here at 6:21 pm by Think-Tink
Why are bagpipes an acquired taste? They are only noise if you want to hear them that way.
If things can go on clearance at certain prices, why weren’t they that to beign with?
Why do the makers of swedish fish think we only want red ones?
Why is knitting STILL harder than crochet? How do you turn rows without changing which hand the needle is in?
Why does this keyboard gather so much dust?
Am I obsessive for starting a pile of things to take with me to Florida already?
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Posted in There at 8:09 am by Think-Tink
I went to the Williamburg Scottish Games yesterday. I haven’t been to a games in over a year and I truly didn’t realize how much I missed them. It is very rare to see a grumpy person there. for some reason, parents know they can let their kids run around a little bit and nothing will happen to them. I guess since it is all people with something in common, one way or another, they get along better, no matter what their color.
It was truly weird being there by myself. Normally Celtic Mama and or Piper Boy are with me at the Games. With both of them being off in the wilds of the Deeper South, it just couldn’t happen.
I saw some people from Piper Boy’s band and they miss him. I think the band director is prouder and misses him more than he wants to admit.
One of the neat parts of the day was seeing someone who used to be in 7Nations. The two have gone off in different directions, so they parted ways. Neil Anderson is a very talented musician. He plays 2 different types of pipes and all types of whistles. He even has one part where he is playing uillean pipes (Irish, mouth is free, and so is one hand) and a whistle at the same time.
I resisted the free whisky tasting as I hadn’t eaten much and had to drive.
The location is a much better location than in the past. The Williamsburg Winery used to host the games but they expanded to much. It is now at Jamestown Beach Campgrounds. It looks like a really nice place. Real bathrooms, big camp store, lots of open space. It was easy to find also, after you realize you are going to BFE.
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09.22.05
Posted in Dating at 8:17 pm by Think-Tink
I was out taking a look around the dating websites tonight and found out that I had men leave me messages. I go to the profiles and these men are all upper 40′s +! Do these men think I want someone that old? Maybe if they have one foot in a casket and one on a banana peel.
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Posted in Here at 2:35 pm by Think-Tink
I know I have said it before, but today I was at another area school for a grad fair. I truly don’t remember me or my friends wearing things that didnt leave a whole lot to the imagination. Camisoles with nothing over them. Tattoos in places I don’t let just anyone see out there for all to see. I guess this is a sign I am getting old?
I also wonder if I was as uninformed as some of these kids. One came up to me and said I want to go to Grad School. I said in what? He said I don’t know. I told him to talk to Career Management.
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09.20.05
Posted in Here at 8:14 pm by Think-Tink
Piperboy has started the school finally that was supposed to start the week of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi. The girls are growing. In some ways, I am too, (not my waistline, I have even lost weight since starting to use the bike) in the area of knowing what I want.
I thought I knew. I was dating the guy who had everything I wanted, stable job, sanity, financial solvency, considerate, etc. but I just wasn’t feeling what he wanted me to and really what I wanted to. I felt I should have been. MR was the first to really send me flowers, plan dates, and go along for the ride when he wasn’t sure of the outcome. I have learned from this that what you think you want and what your heart needs are 2 different things. The logical parts of me were all for staying in the relationship but the heart kept niggling at me saying hey it just isn’t there. I got married for primarily logical reasons, if I had waited until uor ceremony was planned I probably would not have married him. So what have I learned? Listen to my heart as well as my head. Once I listened to my heart, the head started to agree that the reasons I was still going out weren’t enough and I would start to feel like I was using him. I am not a user. Also, the longer I prolonged things, the harder it would to let go.
I sincerely hope that MR finds a wonderful woman who will treat him as he deserves to be. I was kind of hoping to be that woman, but my heart and head say no.
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Posted in Here at 11:06 am by Think-Tink
I think I needed today to regroup, reenergize and take the sleepy stuff for my sinuses. If I am awake, I am going to work on some various projects this afternoon, but not going to push it.
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