Updatage

Well, Helloooooooo!

So what has been going on in the old CharliTan life?? Lets see:

~ Thanks to all of you who participated in my survey of insanity. Insanity you say? Why yes, yes it IS insane to try to guess what a person will do based on what a lot of people who have never met her would do. Especially when *I* don't even know her. Postscript, we found an awesome applicant and it looks as if, assuming she come back clean and legal like, we have ourselves a new coworker. WOOT!!!

~ I took a week off work. I am clinically obsessed with my job. Which is MUCH more obsessed than regular obsessed, so taking a week off for me is pretty much unheard of. My plans for the week included finish planting the garden, clean just about every room of my home, do a wash with all of those "big" things that don't get washed often, find a paint color for the new bathroom, trip to IKEA for new silverware (ok the silverware is an excuse)... what did I ACTUALLY do this week? Sleep. And cough. And fight a fever. I am sick. AGAIN! Balls.

~ I marvel at how hot my girlfriend is. No really. Some of you know me in real life and know that life is not all sunshine and roses. But MAN... she is sooooo pretty. And charming. And all those other things that make her perfect for me, even when things suck. Oh, and she smells good!Lucky me!

~ Speaking of lucky, I am currently treading this fine line between completely committing myself to positive affirmation and the law of attraction and being delusional. Everyone who reads this should know about our new house. The unbelievably expensive new house. If you know me, then you know that we can't afford this house. Yet, we are acting like it's ours. Down to meeting with the sales rep, picking a lot, picking colors, etc. You know, if you are going to commit to something mentally, then COMMIT right? Act "as if". But then again, maybe I'm just delusional. Because I really believe that we will have this house.

~ Ok, on that note, however, I really enjoy my current house. In fact, I am going to regale you now with pointless pictures!

This is the corner of my house that I sit in while I am cracking you all consistently UP with my witty writings and deep thoughts.

This is my Large Ficus Plan. It sits in my Happy Corner. This plant has been with me for over 11 years, through a divorce and 4 moves. What a gal!!!

This is where I ACTUALLY sit on the couch of comfort. Look close... you can see my Ass Groove.

This IS the couch of comfort. The picture may look as if it's a little dark, but actually, the Couch just likes to be shrouded in mystery.

Finally, this is the view out of the window above the Couch of Comfort take if I am actually LAYING on the Couch.

I know. Your day is complete.

YAY!!!!

OMG YAY!

My brother in law came over and tilled the last 10 feet of my garden!!!

So Bubblewench! I will soon have more pictures for you! I have part of it planted (that I hand tilled) and now I have TEN FEET of awesome ground to plant!!!

I am going to have a herb garden and a fruit garden, if I can find something to plant!!!

YAY!

I'll have pictures!

Grief

My heart hurts.

I can't imagine. Well, sure I can, what parent can't imagine? What parent doesn't spend every day of their lives mentally trading one week off the end of their own lives for a guarantee of another healthy day in the life of their child?

I am not the kind of person who finds our culture trivial. I normally take a cheap thrill in the silly things that we collect and value.

But right now, watching Emeril make kicked up diner food seems like the randomest, most gluttonous thing in the world. As if it matters. As if that chocolate milk shake, that no one will actually drink, matters as much as the life of that child who will never drink milk again. Some little kids all the way across the world who I never knew and the grief of their parents that has lived in my nightmares since the day Oakley existed.

My heart hurts.

How do I put a poll on this thing?!?!

Ok, I need everyone to chime in... I am looking for feedback, even if it's anonymous! There is a poll on here so you can simply click a button over yonder, to the right, but in the meantime, here is the scenario:



Imagine that you are around 30, and in possession of a degree and a licence that makes you fairly marketable. Now imagine that, marketable though you are, you don't market for a whole lot of money, overall.



Now, imagine that you are interviewing for a job that pays well for your credentials. In this job, you would be part of a small but prestigious program doing something that is close enough to what you have done for the last 5 years to allow you to use your experience, but not so similar that you will be bored. In addition, your input and creativity will be valued. The hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm M-F.



BUT.



As part of the job you have to work 2 holidays a year, one of which could be a major one and, every 4 weeks, you have to work the weekend, overnight shift (6p to 6a). You then get 3 days off during the week to compensate, but this also means that once a month, you are not in the office during the hours that you need to do your job, therefore you re looking at the reality of being perpetually behind and kind of tired, as the shift switch is very difficult.



Would you take the job?

Speechless

No, literally.

Well, it's not like I can't TALK. Hell I can always TALK!

I just don't have anything to say.

I guess my life isn't really that boring, I am just kind of cranky about it right now. Well, not really CRANKY, just sort of, unsettled...

See?!!?? This is just everywhere! Ok, to rely on the old bullet point:

~ I have lost 5 pounds. Whoopie. Not that I am not excited about losing 5 pounds, but that I have several more to go and I am HUNGRY.. not for veggies or fruit. I am hungry for chocolate.. and for the cupcakes I saw on food TV two days ago... and for doughnuts... you get the point.

~ My job is in flux. My newbie quit (good for her she got a better job doing something she really loves) and so my 2 person operation is quickly becoming 1 person until we hire someone in. Problem is that we have no applications. Sigh.

~ My house needs cleaned. But I don't feel like it. I am not depressed or anything. I just am tired. Probably from the lack of FOOD!

~ I didn't do laundry this weekend, so we had to wear scrounge clothes.. you know, MISTAKE underwear and the cotton ones that you NEVER wear... the skirt that doesn't *quite* match the shirt you had to choose and the hose with runs in them. It was that or the prom dress and it doesn't really fit. Plus it is SO 80's!!!!

~ Guess I'll do some laundry this evening.

~ Got some ass this weekend, though. Now we'll see if my girl actually READS this! She's HOT!! Hahahaha!!!

Ok, some pictures... Long time, I KNOW!

Ok, this is Easter of this year.

And this was a spring trip to COSI

More COSI (Tina and Oakley)

Even more Tina and Oakley at COSI

And in other news, I think that little piggy form the flat earth chips commercial is SO CUTE. I think I'll give up Bacon in his honor.

Nah....

Oh.. hi there

Um, hey y'all.

So right, I have not updated in a week. It's not for lack of wanting to, it's for complete lack of anything interesting to say.

Lezzz seee....

Um... my life, right.

~ Still wanting the new house. We are going to go and meet with the sales guy sometime soon and get exact pricing for the one we want. I'm sure it will be exhorberant, so you all are thinking good Money-Out-Of-Nowhere thoughts at me, right?? RIGHT?????

~ I am a social worker. Today, I held the door open for someone who had forgotten their keys to get into our secure area. That is the most I have helped anyone this week. Go me.

~ I have lost 4 pounds. The result? I am hungry!!! It would be wise to stay away form me lest your arms start to look like chicken legs.

~ I want to join a gym, but what is hysterical about that is that I have it in my head that if I join a gym, I will just get thin by osmosis. Like buying running shoes makes me a runner (it does, doesn't it?). But right now, I am so tired it is taking effort for me to even think clear enough for this post, much less work out and oh yeah, the boy and his need for supervision.

~ It may frost here in Ohio... that is FROST. In APRIL! Nay, almost MAY!!! Helloooo... my flowers are going to die.. MY FLOWERS!!!!!

Sorry folks, that's all I got.

Oh Brooke... Brooke...

*shakes head*

Andrew Lloyd Weber probably has one of the most diverse songbooks in the world. I mean, I'm not sure how a person could possibly NOT find a song that fits them...

But the dread lock dude... "Memory"?? REALLY? I think that was possibly the worst song choice he could have possibly made. Of course, I don't think his voice is strong enough to pull off anything Broadway, so I'm not sure what I would have picked for him.... but not memory, with it's litany of glory notes!

And Brooke... my dear Brooke... It's not that I really *cared* that she stopped and then started over again. But then she just seemed like she might fall over throughout the whole song. I suppose that he choice wasn't awful for her. Not great, but not awful... but my money says she's gone next week.

And Carly... What the FUCK was she thinking? I missed the first part of her clip, so can any one clue me in to what her original song choice was before ALW told her to switch? I would have pegged her for something from "Evita".. if she wanted a slightly lesser known, upbeat song, she could have probably pulled off "Buenos Aires"... but "Superstar"??? Come ON!

I wasn't thrilled with what the smaller, gayer, David did with "Think of Me". On the one hand, it would probably sell on the adult contemporary charts, a dubious honor. On the other hand that's a pretty stand out song from Phantom and I don't know that he will win any votes from the purists. Oh who are we kidding! Once every teenage boy stops jerking off to his squinty eyed lip licking, his phone line will burn UP!

I liked what the older, uglier David did with his song. He pulled it off with out grunging it up. Good for him!

So sayith CharliTan