Weekend Update

Hey everyone....Happy Monday.

Yes, I am still energetic....and the cold is doing much better. I am not coughing anywhere near as much as I was and my taste buds are partially online again. Online enough that I was able to enjoy the chili...though I added way to much cayenne pepper because I couldn't taste it properly until it had simmered for awhile (whoops!) Oh well, it was still incredibly tasty, just a bit spicier than usual. Jase had requested raspberry crisp with vanilla ice cream for dessert so I made a small one. I only had a small serving but oh it was delicious! Happy memories of childhood summers in a dish...yum!

I actually got a lot done this weekend....organized my cupboards, did some cleaning, went through some stuff in my room and tossed junk that should have been tossed awhile ago. Tonight I am going through some more storage containers in my room, finally hang the sisters picture I had framed (since its smaller than the one I am pulling off the wall this means that I will have to reorganize the picture wall). I also need to clear out my desk as I am hoping that freaking fan for my desktop will finally be in (delay, delay and more delays). Oh well, I have been without my desktop for over a year-and-a-half now.....a few more days won't kill me.

What else.....ah, the camera. I have seriously got to learn how to change the aperature setting....and learn what setting to use at what light levels. The stuff I shot from my car (I told myself it was too cold to wander about when I was sick) were too dark. The snowflake macros would have been great except the snow was clumping so much that I didn't get any one clear snowflake (which is what I had been aiming for). No biggie....I will try that one again next winter. There were a few salvageable shots out of the ones I shot, which I will post later (they are on my laptop and I'm currently on the computer at work). I still love the camera though and am having fun playing with it. I think I should start looking around though for a lens that will work for automatic settings to work in conjuction with this manual one.

Heading to the library tonight....I had forgotten a new Temeraire book had come out last year and so I have it on hold. I love new reading material....especially when its from a series I already know and love. I need to branch out and find new authors to read since the ones I love just aren't churning out material fast enough, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Love to all and have a wonderful day gang!

Its been a funny, funny day

Today has been a days of extremes, let me tell you.

Woke up to a foot and a half of snow on my car.....and the snow still coming down. It was absolutely gorgeous and I took a few moments after clearing the car taking macro shots of snowflakes falling onto my scarf (more on that tomorrow when I blog about the new camera). The snowflakes have now, at the day's close, stopped falling and have all but completely melted away and are fast becoming mere memories.

I slushed my way into work, making the mistake of stopping at the gas station for a bottle of orange juice (forgetting I have umpteen bottles of juice at home). I stepped out of the car into a small lake that threatened to flood over the top of my new tennis shoes...but thankfully didn't. My feet managed to stay nice and dry today, which is great since my cold is still hanging in there. I can breathe through my nose just fine but Istill can't smell anything. I had strong french onion soup last night (seriously, I chucked a whole onion into that stock!)...couldn't taste it at all. The orange juice could have been clams for all my now useless taste buds knew. The jalepeno popper I grabbed just to test the 'buds this morning? Nada, Niente, Nothing......a mild sensation of some heat on the back of the tongue and nothing more.

Work was a zoo as we are heading full steam ahead into the summer selling market and all of our local boys are placing large orders that need to be filled pronto. The gladly received (but with really lousy timing) of an assembly order for 6500 switches promises to fill the next few weeks with overtime. Mini crisis turns into mini meltdown between customers and vendors and yet the world keeps on turning.

And me?

Still happy, still full of energy, still feeling amazingly invigorated.

I look forward to the weekend and the promise of a huge pot of chili on Sunday....lets hope I can taste it.

I love my chili.

Roll with it baby!

Today is a good day....no.....correct that.... today is a freaking amazingly GREAT day.




No real reason....in fact, I shouldn't be this sunny.





For starters: its rainy/sleeting outside (okay, that doesn't really work since gray and rainy does perk me up), but I do have a cold that is making me cough, hack and drain like crazy.





For some reason today though I woke up, went about my usual routine (shower, feed cats, get ready for work) feeling okay... but then suddenly had this charge of energy.





I felt amazing.....in a coughing, wheezing, nose-draining kind of way.





The great part is that is hasn't gone away. This morning Bill and I pulled together a few billion boxes of screws, tore apart containers of connectors and repackaged them for a customer. Once that was done I received and sorted a string of deliveries, shipped out orders, finished up a spreadsheet of new product we carry....and I am still going strong.





I'd say I must have eaten an amazing breakfast but I didn't have one (breakfast I mean). The best I can say for breakfast is that I remembered to take my one-a-day vitamins and I had a couple bites of a pb&j sandwich before I got too busy. Lunch was splitting a ft-long tuna sub Bill got us at Subway, but I didn't eat even half of my half. I feel great....and for the first time in a long time I don't have the munchies.





Okay, that part on its own is pretty stinking amazing. I can't remember a time when I didn't have the munchies.





Hmmm....maybe the diet is starting to kick in?





Oh, and the water thing is going stronger than ever.....and yes Miya, I am sloshing!





Sloshing and smiling.....though I am not 100% why I've decided to do as the song says and just Roll with It Baby!