Sears Point!

Friday, I got to go see Drag Races at Sears Point Raceway! Okay, technically, its called Infineon Raceway, but even 511 Traffic Info called it Sears Point when I said Infineon, so there! Anyway, it was SOOOO AWESOME! This car went a mere 328 MPH! It was funny to see cars hitting 5th gear in under 50 feet! We were in the 44th row! The VERY TIPPY TOP! You'd think that would be a bad seat. In fact, they were the best seats because you can see the entire strip and still feel the rumble in your seat when the Funny Cars and these guys Burn Out! My favorite part is the Beat the Heat. They have kids in high school, race Cops in their own cars. Anybody can sign up for it. I like this for two reasons. (#1)Its fun to see average kids, run red lights, and not get busted for it! (#2) My Daddy used to do Beat the Heat races in a 1953 (or 54) Blue Hudson Hornet. (Yes, just like the one in the movie Cars!) They ALWAYS give the cops a HUGE head start, and the kids still beat them! One was a k-9 unit, with the dog! Apparently at a heat before we arrived, the K-9 stuck his head out the window, and barked all the way down the 1/4 mile strip during the race! The down side of being in the 44th row, the climb! There are no elli-laters at Sears Point! ITs a huff-huff-huff-huff climb ALL THE WAY up! Needless to say, you definately determine how badly you have to pee, or how thirsty you REALLY are. Smart people bring a cooler of supplies. We were a part of the smart group. Next time I go, Id like to go for the finals! We were there for the frist night, so it was mostly qualifying runs, but still a blast! If you have NEVER gone to drag races, GO! 

HOTTER than anything I can remember!

Okay I feel like I am going to literally MELT in my shoes! It is so flippin hot here! This is where Id rather be! But Im stuck in a house with no a/c in 100f heat! This is why I hate summer. I am sooooo uncomfortable in the heat, I cant sleep. I try but I wake up in a pool of sweat! Gee now why is it that Im still single? LOL!

I got irritated at work today. I am now a key carrin, alarm code totin big wig. No, I dont get more $$$ (unfortunately). You see I am one of those rare people who actually uses my brain for thinking and problem solving. I know, I know, Im progressive. Everything I know about my job, I learned on my own. I am constantly the person who they throw into the fire to learn something nobody else knows how to do. Then, I get to train everyone else. yeah me (NOT!) I dont really like having to do that ALL THE TIME. I dont like flying blind. So, when they decided to bring me into the ranks of key carrier, alarm code toter, they decided that since I was "SOOO Smart" (yes, that is a direct quote from the BIG BIG boss) I can figure it all out on my own. WRONG! I was not about to let them do this to me yet again! So, I left a stern voice mail to my fellow toters and carriers that I was not about to be thrown into something blind yet again. I told them that someone needs to actually show me what to do correctly the first time, then I got it. Surprisengly enough, I recieved not only appologies all around, I got 2, yes 2, volunteers to train me on the necessary steps I need. Naturally, I chose the one who I dont want to strangle everytime she speaks. Wish me luck! 

I CANT FIGURE IT OUT!

Okay, I consider myself to be somewhat intelligent (with a side of bad speller tossed in for flavor). I have tried EVERY WHICH way to get a picture on my profile, and everytime I try to save the changes, the link is too many characters!!! Why dont they make uploading your picture into your profile as easy as posting one? or how about a little upload your profile pic here button! NOOOOOO, Blogspot would like you to edit the HTML but dont copy the HTML link cause the pic will be too big. HELLO, user friendlier please!!! We are novices! We need tabs and colorfull buttons, Click here's and so on! Please dum it down a tad. I have followed their directions to the letter, and STILL my pic wont load. I even edited my picture and reduced the file size, but NO. GRRRRR! Okay, Im good now.

Pet Peaves, Peves, Peeves (pic ur spellin)

My cat has decided that he likes to sleep in my dirty laundry basket. This particular evening, all my laundry was done but he still wanted to sleep in it. So, I tossed in some blankets for him. Weird isnt he. Anyway..........I am going to list some of my general irritants. #1, signing up for a blogger account, just to leave a lame ass one liner comment on someones blog that you dont know, #2 people who park in front of your house and leave their car there ALL DAY and half the night forcing you to park waaaaaay far away so when you have to go to work at 330 AM, your walking far to your car. #3 chicken drivers who hessitate or yield at a non-yielding traffic merge forcing you to gun it and tailgate so you and the car behind you dont get creamed by the 18 wheeler, #4 people who dont use their brain for thinking skills and force me to show them how to do a job that they as an executive manager should know how to do in the first place especially if I personally have trianed them on said task multiple times! Thats all for today. Thank you. PS~ I still have not figured out how to fix the computer. I still dont feel like fiddlin with it today. 

By the way.....

I sort of got my internet fixed. Apparently the only thing I have wrong now is my Norton is set at too high so it blocks EVERYTHING now. Including my own ISP! Funny huh! I cant get online unless I disable it. I just have to figure out now, how to reduce the settings. Im too tired now to fiddle with it.

Confession

I discovered something this evening. I am addicted to pictures. I have GOBS AND GOBS of them. Apparently, I am also addicted to picture albums. I pulled all of mine down this evening after dinner just to flip through them. I had 3 albums with the same theme. DUH! My new project will be to condense my albums and make a few that make sense. Maybe then I can actually fill them up. You'd also think that out of all those pictures I have, that some of them would be good huh. WRONG again! I have got to be the worst picture taker with the biggest desire to take good pictures but they only come out goofy, person there is.

Dont you hate work days that have you running around like crazy, but not accomplishing a darn thing. That was my day today. My staff I had today was not exactly the thinking staff. I had to teach them the most basic stuff today. It was okay though, made me feel like the smartest person in the building. GO POOH! GO POOH! YOUR THE SMART ONE! YOUR THE SMART ONE! For a change! I was always at the back of the pack in school. In fact, one of my teachers actually called me stupid in front of the entire class, when I was in 4th grade, then again in 5th grade, then again in 6th grade. Good grief! Its a freggin miracle that I went to and graduated from college! Mean, nasty bitches! There names are..........drum roll please...........Mrs. Lindsay (4th & 5th grade) and Mrs. Mullet in 6th. To bad she didnt actually have one! I have no shame in posting their name on the WWW for people to search. Maybe they will see it by some miracle and realize how badly they damaged one of their own students they claim to want to help so bad. Loosers! I hope they suffer from chronic yeast infections.

No pic today.............blog access by accident!

There I was minding my own business and playing with a vacation planning CD-Rom on my puter, when suddenly I was online! You see, I have not been able to get online for 2 days. SBC says that my lines have issues. DUH, I figured that out when I couldnt access the internet. I actually am computer literate. It frustrates me to NO END that everyone is outsourcing to flippin India! We have people here in the USA, starving and impoverished due to lack of jobs with a liveable wage. So naturally what do all these companies do? Go over to some crap hole country and give them the work! What ever happened to chartiy begins at HOME! Tangent sorry!

Anyways, SBC has told me for 2 days that they are "working on it". They also told me that oh the line department is off today being sunday. My reply to her was "so they arent working on it then" I stumped her. Apparently my reply was not on her list. I got angry and hung up. Why is it so difficult for them to put out a notice on their stupid never ending phone tree saying "if you live in the Northern Buttwipe regon of Yahoo State, we are aware of connections problems and are working hard to restore your service." Not too difficult eh? Apparently so. At work this morning, I had to be on hold with our help desk for 30 minutes only to find out that the problem I was reporting was global, they already knew, and they will call us when they get it fixed. Well, I left work at 2pm, no call, AND our problem was resolved thanks to yours truely using her cranium for something other than holding my ears apart.

PS. If I offended you.............too bad its my blog, if ya dont like it, dont read it. Freedom of speech and all that jazz. GO AMERICA!

The happiest day of her life, and mine too!

So, of the pics Ive had the pleasure of seeing thus far, these 4 are my favorites! Well, I have some others that actually are a little better, but I promised a certain someone, Id keep them a secret! But I like to tease so thats all Im giving you! The upper left is K & her father. That one is my absolute favorite picture! I LOVE IT! the upper right, is K, M, & myself dancin the night away in the rain, with a little help from the grape gods! Some SCREAMIN good wine, or maybe it was champagne. I dont really know, but I do know that I liked it so much I had 6 glasses! Im quite the boogier aint I? NOT, I am the POSTER GIRL of white chick cant dance but do anyway!

The lower left is K & her Mom. Notice the amazing effort to hold back tears so as ot to ruin her makeup or make her eyelashes fall off! And last but definately not least, the first kiss as husband & wife! All together now..............................aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 

One more thing, okay maybe two

I also wanted you to see Rajah's reactionto what I was doing. Im walking around the wood trying to get a good picture of it so you can fully appriciate the size of the stack and the neatness of said stacking job. I look up and there is my boy, just staring at me with this, "What the hell are you doing Mom?" look on his face. I also wanted you to see that our lawn is indeed GREEN in July! SHHHHH! Dont tell it that it rained until late May. I also accidentally eliminated the word PEOPLE from the previous post. Feel free to inject it where it needs to go. 

Retirement has set in!

Here you see evidence that my father, is indeed, retired! The upper left is the first harvest from the garden to its right. As you can see by the size of the tomato plants, its quite humorous to only get one itty bitty cherry tomato! There is also some sweet basil in the middle there, its rather large itself to my surprise. The two lower pictures are my Dads, forced project. We have trying to get him to replace that fense for YEARS! Well, it got tired of standing up after 35 years, and decided to fall. Most normal would toss out the rotted wood. But as you see, my father pain stakenly stacked it on a wheel barrel. He says "It has a nice batena to it". I was not aware that rotten wood had batena (however you spell that word). So now, the only thing that seperates us fromour neighbors, is a little bit of concrete. Luckily, they are nice and actually helping with the cost of the fense like a good neighbor should. 

Saw it, loved it, want it!

Okay, yesterday I went to see Pirates 2. I LOVED IT! Yes, some of the battle scenes were a bit lengthy, but it was still very good. They left an opening for a Pirates 3, which thankfully will have the origianl cast in it again. I think that is what seperates a sequal from a bad sequal......casting. People hate it when you take a perfectly good movie that has potential for a sqeual, and squash it with new casting. Im not a huge fam of sequals. There is only a handfull that I like. The Star Wars that came out when I was little ( Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi), Indiana Jones trillogy, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Lethal Weapon. Now, I can add to my list, Pirates of the Caribbean! I will definately be there opening weekend in May 2007 for the 3rd installment! 

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!!! :o)

So there I was, minding my own business and running some errands in town. THen, I spot it, in the window of one of those mail stores, WE SELL DISNEY KEYS! I was in that store in a flash! They had about 10 different Disney keys. I was so excited! Finally I have a house key that nobody will mistake for theirs! It was ony $5 too! Isnt it CUTE! The second picture is M showing off her Sweet 16 diamond ring that her Granny got her. She cried when she opened it, it was cute. I took her out to lunch today because I was working on her birthday. I wanted to give her her gift when I could watch her open it. I got her some silky pjs that she loves! I also took her around town topick up job applications and helped her fill out a couple. THAT, was weird!

On the 4th of July K, M, and my sister came over. K is 18 and a HS grad, as you all know. She is definately reveling in her new found independence. She got a tatoo! Yes, my little K, got a tatoo on the top of her foot of a star. Its probably about 3 or 4 inches from left point to right point. Its cute, but it was a little bit of a shock. Not a total and complete shock. She has been weilding her indy since March. So far the only permenant damage she has done is this tatoo. Im also jealous, cause I wanted to get one first but I guess Im waaaay to chicken to let someone color on my skin with a needle! 

Happy Birthday Sweet 16!

So today (July 6, 2006) is M's birthday! I cannot believe that she is 16! Sixteen and has had a boyfriend for over a year! I am in shock. My little Ra~Ra~Rissa~Rissa~Pooh~pooh~pooh is a little lady old enough to drive and manipulate her mother like there is nO TOMORROW! Go M! Unfortunately, I did not get to spend any part of today with her. SHe went to Water World all day with her sister and some of her friends and I had to work over night. Tomorrow, I will go take her birthday present to her and take her out to lunch. The top picture is of M on the 4th of July this year, and the second pic is from Easter I think. As you can see, shes pretty flexable! Always has been. Happy Birthday M! 

Happy 4th of July & Happy Birthday Mom!

Okay, I tried the Collage This button on Picasa to see what it would do. Looks neat. These are some of the few shots I was able to get with my super mega cheesy digital camera. This is the Fireworks Display put on by my itty bitty home town, A/C. The upper left & lower right ones looks like a face dont they? Today is my Moms bday also. I got her a cake from Sweetie Pies Bakery. It was YUMMMMY! Chocolate cake filled with whole fresh rasberries! She had a good day! Happy Birthday Mom! Love you! 

My vampire side rears its ugly head once more!

Its nice to know that you are so needed and skilled at you job itsnt it? My boss tells that if I ever leave and this is a direct quote, "WE are SO SCREWED!" They tell me all the time that the store has never looked so good. Apparently evern our district manager has complimented my work at the store. Here is the down side. I know how to do A LOT in our store, so when things so crazy and wrong, who do you t hink is the FIRST person they call? Yes thats right, me. Yesterday, after already working from 5am ~ 2pm that day, I was at home relaxing. After working the past 2 weeks all graveyard shifts (5pm~2am!) I was off for 2 days and then suddenly thrusted back into god awefull early mornings, hense the 5am ~ 2pm shift. My body, did not like this sudden and abrupt change in sleeping patterns, and did not let me go to sleep until about 1am the night before. So I go in, I do my job and make a hasty retreat at EXACTLY 2pm. On the way home, exhaustion sets in. I make it home fine, but then find myself wide awake. I enjoy a nice diner with the fam, and then just start to relax when it happens. The phone rings! Im not worried though its never for me. "SUSAN PHONE!" is the next sound I hear. I know it can only be one place. work. SHIT! "The person who was scheduled to do audit that night called out sick and we need you to come in and do it. I will give you an extra day off next week paid!"; "Fine, I'll be there at about 930pm" Im soooo not happy but the audit needs done or catastrophic things happen. I go in at 930 that night not happy but thinking it will be a mere 2 hours and I can go home. WRONG AGAIN! THe so called Executive mamagers who supposedly know how to run the store fucked up and caused me and one of my collegues to find where they screwed up and fix it until 330AM!!!! I was indeed PISSED! It came down to the fact that they started a task, and did not complete it! I left a very FIRM voice mail to all of them. I was the one who got stuck working a split 15 hour day and the one who was awake for an entire 24 hour period! Not a happy camper! THe good news it, I have gobs and gobs of favors to pull in and I know EXACTLY when I will call them in! 

You are all missed dearly!

Today, I was talking with my Mother about some pets I had growing up. I dont have them on my computer yet, but these are 3 of our cats who went missing or passed away this year. The first one is Bucky. M's kitty. He was a great hunter and LOVED to play with the feathers on a stick! If you waved it in front of his face, then lifted it off the ground, he would look for it as if it was suddenly lost. He had cancer, love you Bucky!

The second pic is Carl, Bucky's twin brother. Also M's kitty. They were INSEPERABLE, until a severe storm frightened Carl and he ran off, never to be seen again :(. He was very pitiful looking when he was wet. We assume that he masterfully removed his coller (again!) and someone took him in out of the rain. He used to love to come in for his nightly attention bath! If you stopped petting him, he gently reminded you of your duty to him with a head butt!

The third picture is Figero, aka: Figgie! She was a little bitty thing, but ruled the house! She was K's kitty and loved the same things she does; luke warm Tea, velvet blankets and good snuggle! Of course, at dinner time Figgie was always quietly sitting next to the table and would gently tap you with her paw to ask for a piece of whatever it is we were eating. She died suddenly from what we found out was cancer.

I just wanted to share 3 of my family members with you all. I love you all dearly, and miss you TONS!