Barbie Zasada

Hi folks! It is that time of year again when I am getting my list of addresses together for Christmas cards. If you would like to exchange Christmas cards, send me an email with your current address and full name. Let me know if you want mine as well and I will send you my info.

BTW.sorry for the long absence! I've been incredibly busy. Had a computer melt down last week and have been entrenched in kid stuff and financial goodies for the past week or 10 days. I expect it to let up in a day or two and to be able to get back to regular posting and reading! I miss all of you so much!!!

MWAH

I found this online and couldn't resist passing it on!!!

11. I eat puppies, kittens, and other cute animals, and sending me pictures of them only makes me hungry for more. 10. I've been on the Internet forever and have already seen/heard/smelled whatever you're sending before. 9. You'd like me to remain your friend. 8. I don't care if the kid dies from cancer. 7. I have a sense of humor and that joke isn't remotely funny. 6. If you forward that message to ten of your friends then a unicorn dies. 5. You'll prove once and for all that I'm smarter than you. 4. I am actually hoping to get robbed/mugged/carjacked. 3. If I wanted to see pictures of babies, I'd buy an Anne Geddes book. 2. If it doesn't have to do with making my penis bigger then I don't want it in my Inbox. 1. Bill Gates already sent me my free Xbox, $1000, and tickets to Disney. I don't want to be greedy.

My life has just been so incredibly crazy busy that I cannot keep up!!!  I swear if I could make a nickel for every minute I spend doing something I'd rather not be doing I would be rich, rich, rich.

I now have another crazy week behind me and another in front of me. When is it going to slow down? I rather doubt anytime until after the New Year. *sigh*

And again I am struggling to remember anything that happened early in the week. The things I do remember:

* Both Hubby and I worked late almost every night and most of those I was up even later than he was, sometimes not going to bed until 3 or 4 a.m.

* Wednesday night we had TWH's fall sports banquet. It was really nice and it was very interesting to see the volleyball team off the court and relaxed.

* Hubby and I got into a big fight on Wednesday night and neither of us is really happy with the other right now. We are getting along pretty well though, all things considered. We'll see what happens as time goes by; I'm sure a big part of the stress on the relationship is his work, my work and financial woes.

* Because of the upset that night, Thursday morning I woke up with the runs (TMI I know) and ended up sleeping until 1:30 in the afternoon. I had to cancel the time I would have spent at my client's office that day.

* I really need a new computer with more speed. I've been doing just about everything I can to clean mine up and speed it up; but it just isn't enough. I don't see a new computer in the future for at least 3 months though. Even then I'm going to have to ask my Mom to put it on her Best Buy card and then make the payments on it. She's not going to like it, but that is the way things are going to have to be. But until we are on our feet and steady, it won't happen.

* Speaking of finances, I think we are going to have to surrender his life insurance policy so that we are not borrowing any more money. We really need it so that we can get back on our feet. I haven't even looked at the bank account this week because I'm just too afraid to.

* This week was the week for the my other client's financial reports. They can be such a pain in the ass sometimes. What's worse is waiting for the client to get me the answers I need so that I can get them done without wasting my time.

* More computer woes over at client #1's. It seems the CPU power unit is going out on the old computer. I've got it shut down now and a replacement part is ordered. It should be here by Tuesday and I will replace it then. I really hope that this will resolve all the computer problems there for a good long while. I am very frustrated by all the issues we've had with them over the past few months.

* Tonight we have an event to go to. I am torn between really looking forward to it since we never get to go out and really wanting to stay home. I'm very much in a place where all I want to do is cocoon right now.

* I spent about 45 minutes trying to choose between 4 dresses and I have it narrowed down to 2. I'm just not sure which I want to wear. I really hate my selection of semi-formal wear right now. Most of it is just a size or two too small and that leaves me with about 2 things to wear (one I can wear in the warmer months and the other when it is cooler) and one of the ones for tonight is one of those "well it fits and I like it but it will look like shit if I bloat".

* I've had no time to work on the website or my writing and that really pisses me off and makes me feel very unproductive.

I'm sure next week will be just as crazy, maybe a little less so, but TWH will be home and you know how that goes. And she will be a bit pissy this time because I am taking her TV, keyboard and mouse away from her because every time she is supposed to do something, she either ignores it or gets distracted by those things. There are also still issues of responsibility and respect that we are dealing with. *sigh* Sometimes I really hate being a parent.

On the other hand, The Poet is doing quite well. She's stressed trying to manage school and work, but she is in love again and very happy in that department.

Me: Can you do me a favor?

Hubby: Where do I have to go?

Me: Nowhere...I just need you to bring me home all the trust statements for this year

Hubby: Oh. I can do that. Plus, bring home plastic.

Me: *grin* Oh I'm so proud of you!!!

Hubby: Okie dokie.

Me: I'll even be impressed if you actually remember when you come home.

Hubby: Well, HAR-de-har!

Me: I might even be impressed enough to let you fuck me!

Hubby: We'll see about that. You're ALWAYS impressed enough to let me do that!

Me: ROFL! Well...what can I say? When you're married to the sexiest man in Aurora, how can you help but wanting him to do naughty things with you all the time?

Hubby: Okay, NOW it's getting really DEEP in here. I've got to go!

Me: *grin* LOL

Hubby: LOL

(Side note: When we were first dating he was not up on internet lingo and thought LOL meant "Lots of love" so that how we say by at the end of an IM)

What do you do to get rid of a cold or flu? 
Submitted by ashenflowers.

A wonderful OTC called Zicam.  Oh baby does that stuff knock a cold out in no time at all.

Life rears its ugly head to destroy whatever semblance of peace and contentedness that I am feeling. If only it would stop doing that.

Money has become a major issue again. We are going to have to seek out a friend or family member to get a loan from so that we can get on solid ground. It is so hard to get there for us once we’ve started tiptoeing out into the marshy swamps of robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s finally caught up with us and it sucks big donkey dick. There is his life insurance policy, but I don’t know how or if we can get money out of that – and how quickly we could get the money if we can. I’ll have to look into it tonight.

One of the computer’s over at my client’s office is acting up again. I am ready to just throw my hands up. I spent 1 ½ hours working on figuring that out. I downloaded new drivers from the Dell site and hopefully that takes care of the problem, I really don’t want to get on the phone with them. Then on my way home, there was a detour that was a hassle. There is a lot up development going on in our downtown right now. However, we have 4 streets running east and west that are all one way – 2 running east and 2 running west. The east bound street that I take was closed. There were lines of cars on the detour. It’ll be nice once the development is finished, but in the meantime there are major headaches trying to get through the downtown.

I was really looking forward to getting home and into comfies so that I could do some things around the house and then start working. I have financial reports to do tonight and well, you know what my lists are looking like these days. Long, long, long. My Mom called though and I have to pick her up from an appointment because somebody else dropped her off there. *sigh* And one of these days I have to tell my Mom about my writing since I am using her maiden name for my pseudonym. I really dread it, but if I get a story accepted and it goes to print and anybody sees it and it gets back to her she’ll be mortified. Not to mention if anybody ever Googled me.

Well, off to pick up Mom.

My English professor was stopped for speeding. When asked
why she was driving so fast, she quoted Robert Frost:
"I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep."

"But, Miss," replied the officer, obviously familiar with
the poet, "Frost chose the road less traveled, and,
unfortunately for you, this wasn't it."

And I am really liking them.  Interesting that these changes have occured over the past week as their sister service, LJ, has also had some nice upgrades made to it.  The ones here that I like is that you get a notice when someone responds to a comment that you've made.  They weren't doing that before.  There was something else I noticed, but I don't remember what it is now.  But WTG six apart!!!

Today has been a perfect day. Hubby and I woke up and got our freak on. Then we went to TWH's volleyball tournament. It was the conference championship. They took 2nd place. My throat is raw from all the screaming and shouting - both encouragement and WTF do you think you're doing's (okay, I didn't say it that way). It was a great game. It really was. The team won the first match, lost the 2nd and the 3rd was hanging by a thread and holding your breath as you watched them stay close all the time but still losing. *sigh* But it was great! After the game we came home and I spent an hour on the computer checking email and whatnot while he had a bite to eat and a little TV. Then he started to work on his book. I helped him since he is not all that familiar with Word for Windows (he works on one of those suck ass Macs). I think he is realizing what a great tool Word is when used on its proper platform and not on a Mac. I had plans to get a lot of cleaning done while he was working, but that fell by the wayside because he had a lot of questions and was constantly calling me to show me this or that. But I didn't mind much. I did get some laundry done, the bedroom and bathroom both cleaned. That was progress. I have tomorrow and Monday home that I can work on the other rooms. Most of them just need a quick pick up, dusting and sweeping. No big thing...an hour or two and I'll be done. Then I can spend the rest of my time working on that 7 page list of mine! I hope to get some writing and website time in as well.

Hubby had to run to the office earlier to get some disks that he'd left there. While he did that I took a wonderfully relaxing bubble bath. I took a glass of white wine in with me; I put Norah Jones' CD in the player and just sank into the hot, bubbly water and felt like I was in heaven. I still feel that way. Hubby and I have really been connected to one another today; just really in sync with each other and what a difference that makes as to how your day goes. After my bath I put on his favorite scented lotion and body spray and fixed myself up just a little. *naughty smile* Then I went downstairs and made a wonderful dinner for two with candle light, smooth jazz in the back ground and a wonderful pinot noir to compliment both the dinner and the mood. He is doing the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen right now and when he is done we are going to settle into bed to watch all the shows I taped for us this past week.

How is your weekend going?