in my backyard! I kid ya not, I was taking a rest from morning gardening work when I looked up and saw something huge surface in the water. It was large, slow moving dolphin coming up for air. It went back under and I went to grab my camera but alas I couldn't locate it again What a beautiful morning to be out swimming too. Of course I have to go get my car washed and make a Home Depot run . . . someone please tell me to take a break for just once and take time to smell the roses and go to the beach or something fun other than painting, washing, cleaning, gardening. I'm not so good at doing nothing. But since the new job kicks up on Monday i really should take advantage, huh?

Oh and I have fish now. Each day I take a handful of old catfood and toss it into the canal to see what comes up to eat. Two large catfish usually surface but some days it's a huge sheepshead. Catfood - catfish - makes sense. :-) Hmm, wonder if dolphins like catfood

Have a great day all!

Tags: life
Current Mood: excited

to Ms steelhearts, the wonderfulest soccer Mom in the whole world. Have a great day Mama!

Tags: happy birthday
Current Mood: birthday-y
Current Music: Hardy +1 Month - Roundtable

the cat she is not happy. she's been telling me just how pissed she is that I abandoned her yet again. I mean twice now in as many months. poor thing, I really do need to get her a pet but alas I'm afraid she'll eviscerate it.

Vegas, ah Vegas. much to tell. . .but that will keep for now. must go pander to pissed off kitty now.

Gustav go away now.

Tags: home, travel

jet airplane. . .you know the drill, shampoo, rinse, repeat, Vegas, 3 days, back in time for storm prep.

take care all!

Tags: travel, vegas

I was driving home last night when the big highway warning signs displayed "Aug. 25, School Starts, Be Extra Careful." Now that's cool. Remember how much fun it was to buy school supplies, pick out your bestest, kewlest outfit and head back to see all the friends you hadn't over the summer? I felt nostalgic . . . for about two minutes.

I am soooo glad to not be going back to school today; especially as a teenager. Getting up before dark, trapped in a classroom all day, barely enough time to eat lunch or even make it across campus for your next class, being jostled in the halls by folks who are probably now in prison. Yeah, I thought to myself, I'm really glad to be a grown up today.

There are trade offs of course. Paying bills, getting up early just because you have to, worrying about peace in the middle East and the stability of financial markets. But all in all I wouldn't change anything. Life is pretty good.

Vegas in two days for me. Cancun for my parents. Mom is totally excited and Dad is getting there too. What they don't know yet is that I bought them First Class tickets so the ride there and should be a blast. Yip, it's good to be a grown up. . .

Tags: grown ups, life

Can you believe I haven't been to Vegas at all this year?! crazy, I know. So to celebrate finishing up the current project and the almost end of summer and just mostly b/c I can, I'm booked for a few days next week into Sin City. For the first time in forever I won't be at the LV Hilton but over at the new Hilton Grand Vacations on the The Strip. I usually don't spend much time in the room anyways so we'll see how it works out.

Nothing too exciting on the agenda; weather will be hawt so minimal pool time and outdoor walking but perhaps a massage and one last perusal through the Trek stuff over at the Hilton - so sad. And Spamalot is closed so that sux but there are some other shows I might find interesting so we'll see.

Tags: travel, vegas
Current Mood: thankful

I have a Wii now! Holy carp can it be fun and exhausting. Took me a month to find one but Toys R Us finally came through on Friday morning. The key to finding one (at least in Texas) is that if a store has them in their sales circular they have to have at least a few in stock when the store opens that day. Spent way too much getting the whole kit-n-kaboodle to get up and running with extra remotes, Mario Kart and misc. accessories but it's exercise, right?

I'll probably get the Wii Fit thing soon and also Rock Band but I can only justify spending so much money at any one time so I'll wait till next week. Little man was here helping me set it up and geez, amazing how six year olds can totally kick your backside when it comes to these games. But then he's had his for a year so he's had a head start or me. I still crack up everytime I think about trexphile's fabulous bowling style as she almost took out packerslaw's mega-expensive Sony flat screen TV. Heh - DanaZool!

B/c I've had the boy child and for the first time ever, the girl child over this weekend, have totally been missing the Olympics but hey they make me smile so how can I resist. Girl child went home but now I have the boy child for another day at least.

So packerslaw - the gauntlet has been laid down. I'm online with the Wii, though I still have no idea how to play against others over the net yet but I'll figure it out soon. You need a wireless router so we can have some serious Wii time soon.

Tags: life, wii
Current Mood: exhausted

but ugh, feeling rather slugly today. But I have to go into the office for a few hours or else how can I justify Happy Hour tonight? prolly rather easily. I finished several projects yesterday so those loose ends are tied - go me. Now just a few more to go and then. . .ugh, well then more.

I did finally manage to get the contractor out here to start on various home improvement projects so that's one more thing off the list. Tomorrow I go boat shopping with da brudder and then promised to pick up the little man for the weekend. Should be a grand weekend too.

Was anyone else up past midnight to see the end of the men's gymnastics? that's prolly why I'm so tired, eh? oh well, work then play- I'm so responsible that way. someone remind me to play more often - and kayaks! I need to buy some kayaks now.

Tags: happy hour, life, work
Current Mood: lethargic

As seen in trexphile and trexchic's journals.

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

( the list. . .  )

Okay, there's pretty much nothing I won't try once - I may not be able to swallow it but hey I'm a woman, I'll be discreet about it.

Tags: food, life
Current Music: 'lympics on the tele

having the olympic men's volleyball players wear your sunglasses without lenses in the frames, at night nonetheless, does not make me want to buy your product. In fact, it looks really foolish and only highlights how inferior your products are b/c they had to remove the frames since they kept fogging up. If you want to sell me a product, make it work for the task and don't try to shove your name down our throat while hindering our athletes.

that is all.


this has been another olympic whinging moment brought to you by dinda.

Tags: marketing, olympics