Category: The Daily Grind

It’s pretty much official, I’m on vacation! Actually, today will be day 2 of it. I’m so glad to have a few days of rest and opportunities to catch up around the house. I do have a few times I’ll have to go up to work but hopefully, they’ll either be short and easy or fun or fulfilling. It’s been quite a busy and full fall semester and I know that the spring won’t be much different so I plan on making the most of this time off.

Yesterday, Naomi walked the stage at St. Edward’s University with her Masters Degree and we are all so proud of her. Also, Stacy just graduated from Texas Tech Nursing School but unfortunately, since they only have the graduation ceremonies in May and she’ll be 7 months pregnant by that point, we’ll have to throw her a graduation ceremony/baby shower locally so she can waddle for us. 😉 Here’s our Grey’s Girls at graduation:

From left to right, we have Sarah, Monica, Naomi, Stacy and me. Most everyone is sticking around these next few weeks so I’m sure that aside from our regular Thursday night gatherings, there will be a few other fun days on various outings and gatherings as well.

These next few weeks off will definitely fly by so I’m going to try to make the best of it. If you’re in Austin and want to hang out, give me a buzz. I’ll be doing a lot of cooking, hopefully, so come over and I’ll cook for ya!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Well, if you look down at my checklist, I’m pretty much done with all the “public” rooms so I’m going to call it done for now. I can work on my room a bit tomorrow morning and even after Thanksgiving Day is done. It’s really for my enjoyment more than anyone else’s. My house feels good. I hate that I haven’t been able to really clean it in a few weeks because I’ve been so busy. Luckily, being busy with work is very satisfying so my house being dirty is not seen in any way as personal failure. 😀

I guess I’m going to relax and watch tv for a bit then meet a friend for dinner. *AH* Hope your weekend is fulfilling!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and my family is coming over for some food and festivities. Well, there isn’t really a whole lot of “festivities” with out family Thanksgivings but we do enjoy good stories and drinks and fellowship. Things have been really busy lately and my house is really gross. Not necessarily frat house gross or anything but certainly not ready for anyone to come over! So, today is cleaning day. I’m very glad that although everyone is coming over here, I really don’t have to do any cooking this year. My mom loves to cook and we love her cooking and because she’s so busy, she doesn’t get to cook very often. Don’t want to take that opportunity away from her (or us!)! So, to keep me on track, here’s everything I have to do today:

Kitchen: – DONE!!

Clean kitchen counters

Clean kitchen floors

Clean out fridge (make room for leftovers) – tomorrow

Put away clean dishes and clean rest of dirty dishes

Take out trash

Living Room: – DONE!!

Sort through mail

Put away excess “stuff”

Vaccuum

Bedroom:

Laundry

Put away clean laundry

Vaccuum

Clean bathroom

Other: – DONE!!

Clean guest bathroom

Clean litter box

Go to grocery store – I should do that early and “avoid” the rush – nope, not gonna get done.

So, there are LOTS to do around here. I better get to it! Thank goodness I have the whole day off….

Have a good turkey day!!

I’ve been trudging through life, lots of stuff going on, thinking (or saying) many times, “I should blog about this!”. Do I, obviously not. Sometimes the stuff is meaningful and though through but other stuff is just silly nonsense. Regardless, I just don’t blog about it so I’m gonna. Here goes:

I voted today. Since I’m registered at my parent’s house still, in order to vote without driving to South Austin (or not getting to vote at all) on voting day, I try to early vote every year. So, who did I vote for? You know, I’m not going to say. I will say (and I’m sorry if I offend anyone by saying this) that anyone that votes straight party these days is an antiquated, narrow-minded, non-thinker. First, those folks think that a party has every belief equal to your own is ridiculous. It just doesn’t seem possible for an individual person to allow a large group to think for them…maybe that’s the problem with government! Anywho, to continue with my list (I said “first” earlier), second, to think that everyone within a party will go along with that party’s belief is pretty silly as well. Where is individualism with either of those thoughts?

Like I said earlier, I won’t say who or what I voted for but I do want to say that I find it sad that you can’t vote for who or what you really want. For example, in the last Presidential election, there was the Republican incumbant, a Democratic candidate and two (or three…I can’t really remember how many) other candidates to choose from. I really felt that one of the “other” candidates would do the job the best but knowing that I wanted the incumbant to not get re-elected even more, I almost had to vote Democrat to help that cause. In other words, I ended up voting for the least of two evils instead of voting for the best person for the job. Eh, enough about politics! It all sucks.

I got a bunch of roses yesterday. They’re beautiful!! One of the band dads (that is the band dad that does probably the most) got a bunch for each director to say “thanks” for everything we’ve done so far. He said that we don’t get thanks enough and he just wanted us to take home something as beautiful as we give their kids. That was so very nice of him!!

I’m going to be Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy for Halloween. I’ve got the scrubs being altered to be more form fitting (the scrubs they have for the show contain lycra so they fit really well), a stethoscope on the way, a badge being made and a party on Saturday night. I haven’t been to a good costume party in…well…ever so I’m really excited. Mon, Sam, Stacy & Mark are hosting the party so it should be the most fun!

I’m loving “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”. I can’t put my finger on why but I really do. Sting was on this week…

I’m NOT loving “Friday Night Lights”. The story line is so forced and fake. Not like real high school, not like real Texas football, not real likable.

I bought a new computer. The “o” on my Dell (Latitude X200) stopped working consistently and I’ve gotten some new peripherals that don’t work with the older hardware. Now, I have a Latitude D420. Yes, I still have and use my iBook regularly but because of the prolific use of PCs everywhere I go, I really felt the need to have a working and up to date PC. It’s so tiny and fun!

I’ve come to realize that the first free Saturday I have coming up is the Saturday during Thanksgiving break. The last one I had was the first Saturday in September. I’m surprised I haven’t come down with anything!

And last but NOT least:
The Lion King is coming to Austin!!! I’m going twice and sitting in the Orchestra level both times. Woo woo!!