I had to post something... so here's a little Sassy for you...

This is Sassafrass, or Sassy as I like to call her.  At just 11 months, she looks cute and innocent enough eh?

Yet, this sums up what my shoes, books, rugs, shoes, shoes and more shoes have endured over the past 10 months...  

 Why you look mad?

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!!

Yee haw!  I got the job, or I won the audition.   Ok, now you KNOW the economy is bad when I'm excited about a PT job slinging brewskies and spirits at a local watering hole.  But, right now?  I'll take what I can get LITERALLY.  I mean, the job market is horrible here and there was an article in our local paper that yet another company will probably be laying off 300 people in the next month if they don't extend some contract or get another client or something.  Either way?  That's 300 MORE people that I have to compete against for any job out there.  Also?  The more people there are out of work?  The more power the employers get - and can hire for much, much less than they would have a year ago.  And while I'd work for less, I don't see my mortgage payment going down or my gas/electric/water bills shrinking either.

But, today I'm not going to dwell on the negative.  I got a job!  So yea for me and yea for my pocket book!! 
And?  This is what, my 3rd post in less than 2 weeks?  WAY TO GO SHOPGIRL!! :~)

But, it's going to be short one again - because I have to get ready for work - I actually start today!!

C-ya later and.....
don't forget to tip your bartenders!!

Exercise Two: Try to write SOMETHING... anything...

Something.....


Anything....

OK, I did it - now can I go back to bed?  I'm kidding (sort of) - I'm out of bed, and will stay out of bed until it's reasonably acceptable to go back to bed.  My PJ's?  Yes, I'm still in them (I know it's12:30pm) but I don't care.  Actually, I'm getting out of these pretty soon too - I have an "audition" today at 2pm - so I need to go make myself all purdy-like.

My "audition?" is not for anything remotely exciting (for anyone who's reading this) it's more of a "working interview" at a bar in my neighborhood that has an opening for a bar-bitch tender.  So, I have to get myself moving so I can do down and serve the locals their brewskies and 7 & 7's for a couple of hours.  I better get paid for this audition (at least the tip money..) 

My friend was at the bar last night while another contender was there, and apparently she had no skillz - which of course made me very happy.  He also sounded a little drunk (you did) but I'll take whatever positive feedback I can get these days. 

Well, as Bugs Bunny used to say... "That's all Folks!" - I'm going to say that too - since I need to get ready for this audition/interview.  Wish me luck - and hopefully everyone will just order beer or really easy drinks like Rum and Coke. 

So much to say.... so why can't I blog all about it??

Have you ever been in a place in your life where you've just lost interest in everything that you once loved to do? Or, in my case - have you ever gotten so excited about something, hobby, past-time, or even person and have gone full-force, full throttle with all the passion in your being, only to find yourself later not even remotely interested in said activity? 

Well, I've felt that way my whole life.  I'm very much an "in the moment" kinda girl.  I like NEW things - to try NEW stuff.   I get super excited about something (photography, scrap-booking, traveling, writing or blogging) and then BLAH... I hit a wall and I lose all interest..  My $500 camera (and all the "extras" that I had to have that would make me a better photographer) and my THOUSANDS of dollars worth of scrap-booking shit products, and now, by blog sit idle wondering where I've gone and if I'll ever come back. 

The sad thing is.. is that I want to, but yet here I sit and try to write a blog and while it is somewhat theraputic about putting my feelings down on paper (or into the blogoshpere) it is so. incredibly. hard. to keep typing.
I have soooo much I want to write about yet my mind feels like a pinball machine and my focus is as chaotic as that ball bouncing from side to side and back and forth until eventually it goes down the drain.  

So today's post (while incredibly short) was an exercise to get me back in the game.  According to the "experts" out there, it's all about baby steps and goal setting.  So, today's goal was to write something, anything... and I did that.  It's not my best work and it's not as long as my previous (and more enjoyable) posts have been, but I did it.  And I didn't even need a brand new shiny lap-top to do it. 

You see, I think and I keep telling my friend Dave (and myself) that if 'I only had a LAP TOP' then, THEN I'd be able to write again - you know, because now that I'm unemployed and have ALL THIS TIME on my hands - I could go to cool places like Starbucks, Panera Bread, Borders - where the Wi-fi is FREE - because I'm on a BUDGET and I could become the "serious" writer that I want to be (and once was.)  Because? No.One. writes at home!  NO!  It's all about the mobility... right?  Yeah, that's it....

THAT and going out and buying something NEW.  Hmmmm.... seems to be a pattern here....

Manic Monday

Patsy Cline sang it (and Willie Nelson wrote it) best:

Crazy
Crazy for feeling so lonely
Im crazy
Crazy for feeling so blue

I knew
Youd love me as long as you wanted
And then someday
Youd leave me for somebody new

Worry
Why do I let myself worry
Wondrin
What in the world did I do

Crazy
For thinking that my love could hold you
Im crazy for tryin
Crazy for cryin
And Im crazy
For lovin you

Keeping it legal y'all: 

Written by willie nelson
(as performed by willie nelson)
Also performed by patsy cline and ray price

Update... and I'm out of my PJ's....

My TO DO List:

1. Clean Room - almost done.
2. Clean Bathroom - worst job in the house.....
3. Organize/Clean my home office  - aka - catch all - I don't know where to put it so it will just go into my "office" room.  So. not. looking.forward. to. this. item.
4. Clean livinging room.
5. Laundry - DONE!  (believe it or not, I LIKE to do laundry... I know, I'm weird.) - found more - but it's DONE now too!
6. Kitchen - done last night - also like to clean the kitchen - don't like to cook -but like to clean...
7. Pick up dog doodies in the yard  - ok - this is the WORST JOB IN THE HOUSE. - going to have a beer first (if there's any left... if not?  VODKA it is...
8. Throw up from performing task number 7 - if Vodka is involved?  Tossing my cookies is a certainty....
9. Mow the lawn.
10. Drink Vodka... lots of Vodka.  (I could mix item number 10 in between several of the earlier tasks.) Check, Check and Check!!


I just love crossing things off the "to do" list!!

So much to do... so much to do... why am I so lazy?

So, I've been off work for about 8 months (or so) now and as I look back at those months? It seems like I've accomplished nothing.  NOTHING!!  It's sad - all the time in the world and nothing has gotten done  - lots of things/projects were started, but nothing has been completed.  My TO DO list is long yet my tenacity is short (lived).  Why is it that sleeping until God-knows-when feels so much better than getting up and accomplishing anything?  Why do I love my jammies so much (and it's not like I have cute PJ's or even LOOK cute in them)?  Why am I addicted to crack Facebook?  I swear, it's my only (somewhat) real connection to the outside world right now.  I hated my office job so much and WISHED to be able to be home all day - now?  I've gotten what I've wished for and I love/hate it.  I love being home but I hate not being able to talk with, er, about to anyone. 

So, as I sit here today, in front of my computer (still in my PJ's) and try to compose anything that resembles a blog, my house continues to remain a pig (well, in my case dog) sty.  Ok, so when it was just me and Miss Daisy Dog, I thought I had the dog hair under control.  It wasn't that bad and when I was working? Saturday mornings were my "cleaning" days and I could zip rather quickly through my house and remove the dog hair with little to no effort.  Now?  Two dogs?  And Sassy's hair is BLACK - and the dog hair has not doubled but QUADROUPLED.  Uggggh and the dust?  For the love of DOG BONES the dust is outrageous!!  No wonder I'm sneezing like a maniac. 

Would it be all that in humane to shave Sassy  - hmmmm.. a hairless dog... sounds lovely.. Fugly, but lovely. 

OK - back to reality, that dog hair isn't going to pick itself up out of the pile on the floor (which I swept it into) and put itself into the trash.  It will, I'd guess, double or even triple in size by the time I get back to it though.  So, off I go.. to finish cleaning my bedroom  - then, maybe if I'm not too tired I'll attempt the rest of the house.....

My TO DO List:

1. Clean Room - almost done.
2. Clean Bathroom - worst job in the house.....
3. Organize/Clean my home office  - aka - catch all - I don't know where to put it so it will just go into my "office" room.  So. not. looking.forward. to. this. item.
4. Clean livinging room.
5. Laundry - DONE!  (believe it or not, I LIKE to do laundry... I know, I'm weird.)
6. Kitchen - done last night - also like to clean the kitchen - don't like to cook -but like to clean...
7. Pick up dog doodies in the yard  - ok - this is the WORST JOB IN THE HOUSE.
8. Throw up from performing task number 7
9. Mow the lawn.
10. Drink Vodka... lots of Vodka.  (I could mix item number 10 in between several of the earlier tasks.)

So, I'm off internet peeps - no more Facebooking, time to get cracking... My goal is to be out of my PJ's by 3pm......