I have always dreamed of having console tables. I do love my little house, it is easy to clean and keep up BUT there isn’t much room at all. Just look at this one…I really, really want it.

In the news today:

1. Today marks the 50th anniversary of The Flintstones, it premiered on Sept. 30, 1960 at 8:30 in the evening. Obviously (really, truly) I am not old enough to have watched it when it premiered, but it is a favorite of mine and (I am sure) the first cartoon I ever watched. If I was older, the internet was older, and I’d had a blog way back then, Nannygoat’s SSIN (super secret internet name) would have been Pebbles. I called her that as baby/toddler. We always did her hair in the famous Pebbles ponytail sticking up from the top of her head. I can’t believe it has been 50 years.
2. MacDougal’s bank was robbed today. I was working in our other office for the first time today and had just arrived there (one block from his bank). I got an ‘inspired’ thought and texted him to see if we could meet for lunch. He answered back with “We’ve just been robbed.” Those words struck like a cold knife in my mother heart despite his answer to my OMG, are you okay??!!?? question that he was fine, just a little shaken. I immediately (without telling him) went over there to check on him and hug him decided to go buy my lunch at the store his branch is in. He couldn’t talk much and I don’t have many details, but I am requesting a transfer on his behalf to a bank with bullet proof glass and security guards immediately.
3. RAIN! THUNDER! LIGHTENING! All day today. Bizarre, considering I was dying of heat stroke 3 days ago and it never rains in southern california. I love it thought it was awesome.
4. Great Gram had another fall. Apparently it was on Monday, but we weren’t told until today. Not as bad this time, just a few stitches on her forehead and a fracture in her arm (compared to a few months ago & the compound ankle fracture).
5. 000000000000000000000
6. Chloe kitty is putting on so much weight that now when she walks on my keyboard while I am typing she puts in her own number and apparently she wants you to know something about an “o”.
7. y
8. And a “y”
9. And now my bottom and top menu bars are missing and I don’t know how to get them back. Darn cat.
10. I am saddened by the loss of Tony Curtis. Such a handsome bloke and I grew up on his movies. If I judge my age by how old the famous people who have passed away lately are I might think I was old.
11. Tomorrow is Friday. Yabba Dabba Do!

Things are going really well at work. And I have brought home two paychecks already. Being out of work for so long has definitely brought my expenses down and taught me to live on less. Which means, happily, that I can now go shopping. For myself. That is something I haven’t done in years and years. So on Saturday I went shopping and got my nails done and got a pedicure. Pure heaven. Also a learning experience.

Things I Learned Shopping At A Place Called K*ohl’s:

• I see why no one ever told me about this store. It is a dangerous place. I had never been inside and now? I may never come out.
• I may have a previously undiagnosed shoe addiction. My flip flops had to move out!
• That could be because the shoes from the ‘cheap’ store aren’t as comfortable or as cute.
• I don’t have enough money to buy one of everything.
• But I could very well have tried on one of everything.
• Vera Wang has exactly my taste. And I should charge her rent for all the stuff she is now storing in my closet.
• I never understood how someone could pay $38 for a bra. Now I know: if it is well made and fits well it doesn’t actually hurt to wear it. I am impressed.
• I cleaned out my closet and noticed I am was wearing clothes I bought in Utah. And I haven’t lived there since 1998.
• The Goodwill is going to love me. Or hate me.
• I clearly need work on making difficult choices. Or a second job and a bigger closet.
• The cashier said “I’d ask you if you found everything you needed today, but I can see you did just fine.”
• This could be a problem.

A full week has now passed since I started work. I am getting used to going to bed early and getting up early. The environment at work is an adjustment, as different backgrounds and personalities are observed. On the whole, it appears to be filled with very nice people. Mostly they are legacy company workers (pre-buyout by big company) who worked in these two small/mom and pop-type of companies trying to adjust to the big business world of their new parent company. (Which is a very big, successful company….just think of tractors, yellow-green and of deer.) I, on the other hand, already have been through this adjustment years ago, so I maybe I will be able to help them adjust quicker, although it has been my experience that some people can never overcome that kind of change.

At any rate, the parent company is awesome and hopefully in three months I will become a permanent employee and get some health insurance! One of the things they are gung-ho about is flexibility in scheduling and I am quite happy with that. It means we don’t have to cancel our planned visit to Great’s cabin and my dad’s house this week. No internet connection up at the cabin and we leave on Wednesday, so don’t be surprised if you don’t hear from me…unless I get some stuff written between now and then and set it to post. The chances of that happening are pretty darn slim though.

I believe I will have a guest post this week and hopefully get up that contest worth $75 before I go, I just have to figure out what I want you to do to win (thinking.thinking.)

Happy Monday, everyone. I hope your life is starting an uphill climb like mine is!

Thoughts this morning between 5:30-6:38am:

• What is that annoying buzzing sound coming from the clock next to my head?
• Oh crap, I have to get up?
• Who said I have to work a desk job? I bet hookers make good money and they work nights.
• Holy hell,  it’s early.
• Why am I so congested?
• Look at him sleeping so peacefully there….I need a life insurance policy on him. Then I collect on it and stay home.
• Jeez, dressy clothes are too warm. Why can’t I wear shorts and a tank top to work?
• Hookers can wear whatever they want to work.
• Why don’t I shave my head? Then I wouldn’t have to blow dry my hair.
• I hate knee high stockings. Why can’t I wear my flip flops?
• Oh look, it’s so early there is no traffic. Now I am 40 minutes early and the building is locked.
• I need a nap already.
• I wonder, now that Craigslist doesn’t do sex ads, where one would find a pimp?

Work went really well. I am going to love it there, I am sure. Thanks for all your well wishes and support!

I am sure it is obvious from my lack of posts, that I didn’t start work last week (I told you I will post more when I work than went I don’t). It was a bit nerve racking, but just turned out to be a logistical issue with them about the upcoming holiday weekend and setting up logins and such. I do start for real this Tuesday.

In the meanwhile, on my last holiday weekend while still unemployed, we have a Welcome Home Shower for baby Presto on Sunday (which is what you have when the baby shower gets cancelled because the baby shows up 10 weeks early and has to reside in the NICU for 5 weeks) and a BBQ on Monday at my house to celebrate the end of summer, Labor Day, two birthdays and the fact that I have a job. Both of those result in same super quick sewing projects to finish, which I will share after they are given.

Also, I still need to do all that clothes shopping for work clothes. There ain’t no rest for the wicked.

Enjoy your long weekend, if you get it. And if you don’t, enjoy your short weekend!

For those of you who don’t know me on Facebook or Twitter……

I have a job! A real, 40 hours per week, income producing place to go on weekdays. I interviewed on Wednesday and was hired on the spot. After 19 months of sweating things, I am finally, once again, a productive member of society. I start as soon as the pre-employment drug screen comes back, probably Tues or Wed.

As huge a relief as this is….I am still having a hard time grasping the idea of it all. For it’s all well and good. Needed and desired, but you know what? I liked some aspects of being home all day.  This is very good for blogging though, as I blogged a lot more when I had a job and a life outside daytime television!

Still the things that run through my mind! For although my husband may live to see age 50 now that we aren’t stuck at home together, I am already crying about not getting to spend days with RolyPoly. And now that I may be able to save up for things I need and want, I will also have to get up every morning at some hour that is decidedly earlier than 9:30ish. I could go on, back and forth, but I won’t because the truth is? I am damned thrilled.

Have a great weekend everyone! I am going to celebrate it by honoring the fact that now my weekends will be different from every other day!

It’s Tuesday already. I need to know where the days keep sneaking off to. The summer heat has finally hit here and I’ve spent the last week hiding inside trying to stay focused. About all I’ve managed to do is become addicted to some new tv shows (thanks to Mr. Vixen).

My lackluster approach to blogging isn’t working well, is it? It isn’t that I don’t want to post. It’s mostly I don’t have anything to say. Or too much to say. I can’t really decide. It may be the heat is affecting my brain function.

Bullets! How about bullets?! They always manage to distract me a bit.

• Ladybug starts kindergarten tomorrow morning. I have issues. Mostly with how it’s possible that she is old enough to attend school. She qualified for a wonderful Special Day Program, due to her special needs. That is the best thing that could have happened for her and her mommy. Nanny is having great difficulty with the idea of letting her go. I understand that. Tomorrow morning I will head over there, watch her get on the bus, hand out tissues to wipe our tears and then follow her bus to school (seriously. we have to make sure everything is good when she gets there. nothing wrong with that, right?)
• After 585 days of being unemployed; one year 7 months and 8 days of resumes and applications, someone actually called me about a job. I have to say it sounds like it is the perfect match for my skills and experience. I have an interview, tomorrow morning.  I am beyond excited, which probably means I won’t get it. But I am going to try my damndest.
• Butterball turned 3 yesterday, which also seems entirely impossible.
• Sunday before last we celebrated what would have been Collin’s second birthday. I wish I could say this stuff gets easier, but the jury is still out on that one.
• I may have mentioned (several hundred times), we babysit RolyPoly 3 or 4 days a week. It is so rewarding. I will have to admit my body had forgotten how hard it is to care for a baby, but in spite of the aches and pains, the joy of being with him all day is all consuming. And he is four and a half months old now (and 17 pounds)! Note the recurring time-passing-too-swiftly thing???!?!
• I have to go color my hair and shop for an interview business professional outfit. It’s been a long time since I had to dress up for work. We had a very business casual thing going for the last 10 years….