Ahhh we watched Monster's Inc again tonight. That is such a cute movie! I laughed, I cried. hehehe... I love it. I may watch it again tomorrow before I work out. It's due back Saturday. Hubby can return it while I am working.

Speaking of work, I haven't heard back from my manager as to whether I switch hospitals this weekend. *sigh* she is awful about calling back unless it's just URGENT. *eyes rolling up in head* I guess it wasn't that urgent that I switch hospitals.

On to other work... working out! I went and worked out tonight - I'm so proud of myself. I'm doing really well if I do say so myself. And I've been sticking with my eating plan, and I've already lost 3 lbs! YAY! Woohoo! I need to go to Walmart this weekend and get some vitamins, I have a list of the ones I need to get. It's really only a few, but I can't remember the names of them unless I write them down.

OK, on to "Things that made me laugh today" (and no it wasn't that squirrel either), does anyone remember that movie Krull? It came out in like 82 or something... I remember seeing that movie when I was a wee child. I loved that movie. And apparently other people did also! Look at this link! KRULL for KRULL! That did make me laugh a LOT. I mean it was a good movie... but it's a been almost 20 years.. and it wasn't THAT good... hmmm... funny... Also... this was on of Liam Nelson's first movies! HAHAHAHAHA! He had a small part in the movie (go look at the pictures on the site, there are two of him!).

Well I better go to bed... My googley-bear is already in bed... hehehe... yeah I love that movie...

Damn.. you will not even belive what happened to me yesterday... So I'm driving in yesterday, and I'm talking ot my husband as I drive... then... I hit a squirrel! WUMP... damn.. I can not belive I whacked a squirrel. DH just kind of sat there looking at me. And what did I do? I started laughing! Sheesh. I just kill a cute little animal and I laugh. Not an evil, menical laugh... "Bwhahahahahaha... I got you! You little bastard! HAHAHAHA!" No, not like that. But I did laugh. Let me explain part of what was funny (I know your thinking.. there's nothing funny about this at all.... but let me continue...) Last week we had been driving in the same area and I remembered something from a long long time ago about when my dh hit a bird while we were on vacation - and when that happened (he could not avoid it at all), it sort of happened like a cartoon - the bird hit the grill of the car and a plume of feathers sprayed up... then I would not let him stop the car for a while, I was afraid I'd see a bird plastered to the grill and I didn't want that. So I thought about that all of the sudden and started laughing. After a few minutes hubby said "You didn't even slow down.", but I did! I just didn't see the little fucker until he was right infront of the car! Apparently hubby SAW the little vermin charging across the 4 lanes of traffic and he THOUGHT I saw it also, but didn't say anything. Well I was looking at the traffic ahead of me and not watching the median for squirrels with bad judgement. OK, OK, I realize that I've probably just racked up some bad karma for that... a little for hitting the squirrel and a lot for the laughter... I have a lot of karma to burn off... anyway.. later... Hubby was being irritating, he put his head on my shoulder when we were sitting on the sofa and said he'd go to sleep there.. I told him he better not or I'd cause him physical harm, he made some smart comment, and I said "You better watch it, I whacked that squirrel today and he didn't do a damn thing to me." hehehe.... he laughed. Anyway, I do feel bad that I did that, but not to terribly bad (I've rationalized this out already..) I mean, I can't feel to bad for a critter who has the brain the size of a grape and can't figure out NOT to run into traffic, I'm imagining he just got added to the Darwin Awards in the squirrel world. OK, if you would like to tell me how awful of a person I am now, please feel free.. I do belive the comments are working.

Last night we watched 4 weddings and a funeral. I have mixed feelings on that movie. I enjoyed the comedy of it, and I even enjoyed Hugh Grant's character (which is a surprise since I generally don't like the characters he plays) and I loved seeing so many Brit comedy regulars with parts in the movie, but I thought Andie McDowell did a horrible job - her acting was so stiff. I was disapointed that Rowan Atkins didn't get a bigger part also. And I really did not like Andie McDowell's character at all.. she really screwed up this guy and she KNEW she was doing it. But the other characters and events in the movie made it completly enjoyable... Andie McDowell's character could eaisly be ignored for most of the movie, since the other characters were so charming and funny. And.. what she pregnant when she did this movie? I wonder because she looked bigger than normal in the wedding dress, then she wore this horrible shapeless gray trench coat thing to mess up Hugh Grant's wedding. eh, who knows...

Anyway.. I have to go, have to get my house cleaning done.

OMG - We rented Monsters Inc. tonight. That is the cutest movie! I loved it! Boo reminds me of my oldest so much. It was such a sweet movie. *sigh* I wouldn't let hubby buy it when we were in Hastings, told him he could get it for the girls for Christmas... but... now I want it NOW! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Such a dork I am! We also rented 4 weddings and a Funeral. Hope that is funny. We tried to find the old version of The Time Machine, but they didn't have it. I guess we will have to look at Blockbuster.

Another OMG - my husband's 20th High School reunion is coming up! AHHHH!!! He's such an old man. hehehehe... He made sure to get on the list of people who would help to plan this thing, because for the 10 year it sucked. hahahaha... Now he's glad I prodded him into starting to work out (and by the way, last night he said thanks to me for that, that he really hadn't wanted to but now he was glad he had because he was feeling better, etc... that AND this past weekend he went swiming with his brother and he said that when his brother took off his shirt he had rolls of FAT. *snicker* So hubby doesn't want to look like his brother. men are so vain). So anyway.. I can not belive that his 20th is coming up! That means that my 20th is coming up also! IN 6 years! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Anyway... that black cat has not returned.. it's for the best.

Ahhh... A - I have strong feelings about Yeats as well... a strong urge to vomit. I had to do one of my senior papers on Yeats... uggh.... hehehe... But I'm not surprised that you do like poetry. You seem like the type to like it... dreamy, idealistic, passionate... a granola girl... that's why I love you! ;o) Try not to be upset by L.. I know it's hard to hear things you don't want to hear, especially about thoes you love and feel bound to by loyalty... It's ok for L to feel like that, it doesn't mean she loves anyone of you any less.

Hmmm everyone else has their blog elsewhere... as in on their own site... and I'm still here on blogger... which is not that great. I need to move it.. but I don't know how.. I'm such a gob. *sigh*

So this is bizarre... there was a black cat outside my door today. Just mewing and mewing. I opened the door to shoo him away and he walked right into my apt! Damn! My cats were NOT happy. So I put him out. But he hung around for a LONG time. He was climbing my screen and everything... damn cat. Although.. he was very cute... I don't know if I'll be able to resist feeding him if he keeps coming around... *bad me*

So someone made me laugh today... they were talking about getting butt augementation.

Well I changed the template yet again... I was getting to damn frustrated trying to make that last one work... although it was extremely cool. Ahh well... it's just a place for my ramblings.

Anyway... odd that I mention Lord Byron yesterday.... Someone pointed out that I (my family that is) have a tie to him. Biography of C Lamb He had a torid affair with the wife of one of my ancestors.Hehehehe.. this makes me laugh quite a lot.

I finally remembered what it was that I was wanting to write about the other day... right before bed I remembered and grabbed a piece of paper and scribbled it down. HAHAHAHA.. I'm such a dork some days.

My hubby got some movies for us on Sunday - he rented The Time Machine and Blade II. The Time Machine - the old movie - is one of my favorite movies, so I was looking forward to this. But I was sorely disapointed... I thought it sucked really. Although I did recognize the man who played Alexander's friend as someone from a Brit Comedy that I watch - DH didn't believe me at first but he looked really hard and started laughing. Anyway... I did not like the changes in the story. I thought the old movie was so great, the new changes really detracted from the movie. And there were plot holes... I hate big gapeing plot holes... And why is it when ever people travel to the future, it's usually a future of perfect, sexy, scantily clad people? by the end of the movie I was quite sick of seeing the perfect girl in the sheer, metalic mesh mid-drif shirt who's hair always conveniently covered her nipples... Sheesh.... But Blade II... I loved it... Wesley Snipes makes a very sexy vampire. Much sexier than Tom Cruise... (WS could kick his ass any day...) yeah it was bloddy, and gory and violent.. but it was a Vampire movie... and it was based on a comic book (not one that I have actually read though). I had heard that it sucked, but hey, it's a vampire movie.... isn't that what they do...suck?... HAHAHAHA! Ok, that was stupid.... anyway.. I really thought it was on par with Blade I, which was not a FABULOUS movie, never going to win any awards but very entertaining, and DAMN WS looks soooo hot in leather!

So... I guess that probably says a lot about me. snicker....

The other thing I was going to elaborate on yesterday... hehehe.. was nutrition... Back in the 80's the experts were saying how bad meat was for us, how bad fat was for us, how low fat plans were the answer...

*damn... interuption* I'll get back to this later...

OK, it's ll pm now, so I guess I can get back to this thought HAHAHAHAHA! As I was saying, all through the 80's they pushed a low fat diet as the best thing, saying how red meat was sooooooo bad for us.... But, the American public contiued to get fatter and fatter... and the incidence of obesety related diseases continued to rise... as the models and actresses continued to get thinner and thinner... what a bizarre correlation... Then sometime in the 90's some Dr.s started saying that maybe a diet high in protien and lower in carbs would be better... but they were not really taken seriously... Then... do a lot of reading on health and nutrition... recently the medical community has started to take a longer look at this notion that the American public eats too many carbs which is contributing to the extra poundage. I totally believe that some people are extra sensitive to carbs. My own experience... Before I got pregnant with my oldest I went to Weight Watchers, I did the program and lost 23 lbs. Then my mom died and I put it back on... I rejoined while I was trying to get pregnant with her and got pregnant after being there for about 3 months... and I had only lost about 10 lbs. It was such a struggle. Then I stopped, they won't let you stay in the program while you are pregnant. I didn't gain much when I was pregnant. Shortly after I had her I was back to my pre-pregnancy poundage. When she was about a year and a half I started going back to WW, and I was keeping to the program very well. I was loosing about .5 lb a week ... most weeks... some weeks, it was nothing.. which was sooo frustrating. Then I kept reading about the low carb, high protein plans, and I picked up a book. I did it for a week, and when I went in for weighing, I had lost 6 lbs! That was more than I had lost the entire time I had been going this time! I was sooo excited. I stuck to it and the next week I had lost 5 more. Well... then I got pregnant again. LOL - this time I was shocked. We tried for 6 months before we got pg the first time - I've never had regular periods and had never ovulated regularly so it was just shooting in the dark - really... truly.. This time - boom... I was pregnant. funny thing was, a few months prior I had read an article about a women who had a weigh problem and had been diagnosed with POCS - which is made worse by being over weight, her Dr. put her on a low carb diet and she got pregnant (she had tried for almost 10 years prior to this). Anyway... My whole point is that, isn't it odd how the advice/learning on nutrition has kind of come full circle?

Just my thoughts...

Well since y'all did the Monday Mission, I figured I'd do them too (that and I keep forgetting what I want to write about.. no it isn't senility setting in, I just keep getting side tracked..)

1. Do you have a favorite piece of poetry or prose written by someone else? Care to share it?
Why yes I do, I'm glad you asked...'She Walks In Beauty' by Lord Byron.. It's not something I can quote or anything but I remember reading it in Senior English then in College... and I dearly loved it... or maybe it was the story behind the poem I loved so much... who knows... that's the one I think of when I think of poetry.. not that I'm really into poetry... actually I don't really like it that much... hmmm... go figure...

2. In High School, did you enjoy creative writing? Do you currently do any other writing in addition to your Blog? Did I enjoy it? hell I lived for it! I knew if it was creative writing I was going to get an A (at least in content, my spelling sucked... worse than it does now). I have several journals I write in now in addition to this blog. I have them in different places and write in them at different times. I'm disorganized in that area, what can I say. I've been mulling over a storybook for the girls.... but I'm not sure what to do... write it first then illustrate it... or do the illustrations then the text... or... do them at the same time... write some... draw some... see what happens... *sigh* I'm suffering from my disorganization..

3. Have you ever noticed that the Blog entries you least expect to get the most comments do, and those you expect to generate a lot of feedback don't? Which Blog entry of yours surprised you by getting a lot of comments? Which one did you think would generate a lot but didn't? Bwhahahahahahahaha! No one reads this thing! Well just 4 people hahahah.. they never comment here, just on their own blog....

4. Sometimes you get a chance to make a lifestyle change that has a huge impact on the course your life takes. That is, a moment where something became very clear to you, and that realization changed your life, such as: the need to leave a relationship, to stop an addiction, to bond with someone, to start a new career, and so on. Have you ever had an "awakening" moment in your life? yes....... at the very least one... I can't imagine NOT having one in your adult life... that's what makes life interesting... challenging... worth living.

5. Then there are other times where you can have a huge impact on someone else's life. You suggest they see a doctor, stop them from taking that last drink, or maybe just say some kind words at the moment. Have you made a lasting positive impact on the life of someone else? Hmmm.... I don't know... I'd like to think I have, but that sounds vain and conceited to say that I definitly have... I just try to live my life the best I can, as God would want from me. I know many people have had that affect on me, maybe someday I will have it on someone else.

6. Are there any charities or organizations which you support? How did you come to be involved with them? Hmmm.... I used to support Green Peace and World Wild Life Federation, but that was a long time ago... I was such a tree hugger then. I don't now, not that I don't want to, I just haven't... I guess I have a bit of guilt at being a former tree hugger and using disposable diapers on my babies. *oh the shame!* The Cancer Federation, because both my mother and my mother in law died from cancer. Also the ASPCA... whole animal lover thing there... not much else... I tend to be somewhat jaded at times as to where the funds are being dispersed...

7. Care to collaborate with me? Help me out and write the rest of this poem:

I drifted though a dream last night,
visions full of colors bright.
My thoughts began to drift to you,
and in an instant we were two.

I touched your hand,
We began to blend,
Filled with a feeling
that should have no end.

hmmm... crap... I'm so bad at this poetry thing... I suck... All that seems to be coming to me are dirty limericks... sorry.. you'll have to finish this one on your own.

....

BONUS: Hey cutie, what's up with this attitude?
Me attitude? It's called PMS, Putting up with Mens Shit... bye-bye... see you later...

A - you kill me... "Fuck" is all you have to say? You must elaborate.

L - where are you? :o)

Topics up for discussion today:
Laundry
White sneakers
Aliens (alien abductions and crop circle..)


Laundry... seems like thats all I ever do. You never get finished with it. Everyday it piles up more. I guess the only solution would be disposable clothes and large rolls of paper towels in the bathrooms... but then you'd be bitching about having to take out the garbage. I have this image of everyone wearing clothes that look like paper towels and napkins. hehehehe... OK, I know it's stupid.. but funny.

White sneakers.... I bought a new pair of sneakers a few weeks ago. White canvas... nice.. comfee. I bought these instead of the white leather ones.. I didn't like the style of the leather ones that well.. they were much like the ones I already had. Anyway... I also thought these would be eaiser to keep clean.. Just throw them into the washing machine. hmmm... bad thought... they don't seem to want to come clean. Damn... they are still pretty new and they look dirty. grrr..... I should have just bought black sneakers.. but I really like White sneakers... *sigh*

Aliens... my Dh and I were talking about alien abductions, etc the other day... well... not exactly like that... we were talking about something big and important... very intellectual stuff about the cosmos and all. Then for some reason we started talking about kids and teenagers. Hubby said "What if all thoes alien abductions are just that... teenaged boys playing pranks? 'Hey let's go trailer tipping!' type thing." Then we got to thinking about what the alien teen aged girls would do. Crop circles! HAHAHAHAHA! That was good for a few laughs over fajitas!

Well I need to go.. the laundry calls.

hmmm.. well crap.. I seem to have dumped my code for my comments when I was screwing with this stupid template... I thought I had put it back on.. but apparently NOT! Damn it...

Well I tried to fix this damn thing... I don't know what I'm doing... it's been so long since I messed with this template thing... I think it's obvious I don't have a freaking clue what I'm doing... damn it... maybe it will adjust itself. hahahahahaha... I can hope... Oh well.. I should go to bed... I'm tired...

Damn... I keep screwing this thing up. I changed the template a while ago... then I tried to make some changes... make the text part wider... It didn't work, so I left it be. All of the sudden, days later, the text part is to damn wide now. *sigh* I tried to fix it last night but succeeded in doing nothing at all. I'll be changing this thing later... I don't know to what... I looked for new templates last night and didn't find anything I liked... so... who knows what I'll end up screwing this thing up with.. I mean doing with this.

whew.. it has been a busy week. Just when I thought work was calming down, it got all busy again. But in a good way. My Friday at Hell Hospital (that's my special name for this hospital, it's generally hell to work at - very disorganized) went surprisingly well. I got there at 8:30 am like my manager wanted me to, and went to HR to get my badge (apparently I could work on the weekends without a picture badge but not on the weekdays). HR had no paper work for me, so no badge. *sheesh* So I go back to the lobby and wait for my manager to meet me at 9 am (which I do not know why she needed to come to the hospital with me, I've worked it before... but I guess it was a good thing yesterday). She shows up and I tell her the situation, she calls who ever is in charge of these things, then we head over to HR again, by the time we get there - about 10 minutes to walk from one building to the other - they have the paper work and I get my badge (it was a good hair day, so good pic hehehe). Charlotte get's a new badge and the HR guy and her are talking talking talking (Charlotte talks way to much... she's very nice and very business like, but she does like to talk... all our staff meetings run long...), the guy is in awe because we are baby photographers (eyes rolling up in head) and how do we get the pictures, yadda, yadda, yadda... Charlotte him how it's mostly luck, sometimes you get lucky and get a cataloge quality picture, but that's rare, yadda, yadda, yadda... She finally shuts up and we head back to the other building. OK, it was pretty humid Friday, but not really all that hot - maybe 88. Charlotte did not like having to walk from one building to the other, she was trying to figure how to use the link between the buildings... and I told her that, yes they do connect but it would take longer to figure that out. She asks the security person who is on a golf cart about it, and he tells her the same thing, then offers us a ride. *sheesh* Of course she takes it! It would have taken us less time to walk it than to get this old guy to take us to the other building. This was starting to really irritate me, she walks slow as it is. Well of course she get's into a conversation with the security guy. So we get to the building and I have to stand there waiting for her to shut the hell up so we can go to the nursery. As we go up, she informs me that I am in violation of the dress code by having my hair down. (personally I think this is just a plot by short haired women who are jealous of my lovely waist length tresses.. hehehehe... let me live in my little fantasy here...), then asks me if I have a smock (we are supposed to wear these rather ugly blue smocks), I lie and say no (I was actually thinking .... I can't remember where I stuffed that thing...), but that's partially because my last manager ordered the wrong size for me even though I told her that I needed a larger size. Well whatever, if she wants me to have another one, she can order me one... not that I'll wear it... but she can order me one. So up on the floor, before we even get to the nursery one of the nurses tells us that there is a couple who are getting ready to go home and they want the picture done, they are in the nursery NOW. So in we go, I start gathering my forms and stuff... Get this couple take care of. Charlotte is sort of hanging around.. I don't think she believed me when I said that I had worked the hospital before and knew how to do it. Anyway, I get the baby in the cart and start taking pictures while she is still kind of standing around. Friday must have been my LUCKY day because this baby took absolutly perfect pictures, the parents were thrilled. Charlotte was impressed - she even took the proof sheet to show someone... hehehe... Then she offers me a different hospital to work on Saturday and Sunday - instead of the one I currently have as my third hospital, I'd get one that is much busier and closer to my home. OK, sounds good to me. She'll call me sometime this week to let me know if the switch will happen. So I had 25 babies on my list Friday! Took 11 pictures, 7 orders ($428!). It was a great day and it went very smoothly. Only one customer had crappy pictures. A set of twins that were leaving NICU. The one baby would not wake up and got really fussy. The nurse there was being a DICK. He had called for me to come get the pictures, but he was rushing this couple to get the hell out. Kept asking them if they were going to start taking things down. So the dad was getting uptight, and the baby was getting pretty fussy. I was irritated by all this. Twins are almost always a guarantee sale. We give twin parents a free package of pictures for one baby - so if they order the $33 package for one then we give them a $33 package for the other. They almost always want a picture of the babies together also, so that's good for another sale. Well these pictures were utter crap, so no sale. Damn. Anyway - Hell Hospital turned out to be very pleasant - 7.5 hours of work though!

Anyway... enough work talk.. I do love my job, but enough of that.

I've been painting the other side of that stool. I'm very irritated, I need to get more paint. I have a big bag full of paints, but I can not find it. I think my dh may have inadvertently put it somewhere and have forgotten it. I'm putting the Frog Prince and the Princess on the other side. It's very cute. I have most of the Frog Prince done, and part of the princess' face but I need more paint for her hair. I'd take a picture but it looks kind of funny right now.

Well I should go now...