Friday!!!

First of all, a birthday shout out... Happy Birthday Shirley! (That's Tim's Mommy, for those of you who don't' know).

So I officially don't want to work anymore. Is that bad? They hired my replacement today - he starts on Tuesday. So I get a full four days to train him. Goody... just what I feel like doing. I learned in the proven "Trial by Fire" method. It worked for me, it can work for him. Oh well. So I'm spending my days trying to look busy. Which is actually much harder than it sounds. Yes, I'm doing what needs to get done, but I'm not going out of my way. No motivation what so ever.

There is a new poll... make sure you take the time to vote and continue to check out "Box Watch 2005". I've been doing a pretty good job packing up. I have eight boxes done now - that's ALL of my candles (that's a lot), my pictures, and the shelves in my closet. This weekend I think I'll do the rest of it because SO many people want to hang out with me (Mom... read this in the voice we do "I'm so popular...") next week that I'm worried there won't be much time. That makes me feel good - that my friends want to hang out before I leave. :-D I had to break the news to my choir last night - they're the group I was dreading telling because they're such a wonderful group of people. One lady left rehearsal a little early because she was upset. They're having a birthday party for one of the guys tomorrow night, and they want to combine it into a going away/birthday party. So nice. It's going to be a busy weekend! I'm feeling better about everything today - I was sad about it last night, but I'm back to being excited now!

I went running this morning. Outside. In the park. It was so nice. Seriously cleared my head. Then I went and cancelled it out with a white chocolate mocha. :)

Anyone else have fun weekend plans?

Star Wars

Ok, so last night I get home (it's about 7pm) and I hear chanting. I walk out onto my balcony, and lo and behold, "Star Wars", in my backyard. I'm not kidding. People were lined up FIVE HOURS early for this movie. And they were dressed up. Hard core. As I'm surveying the scene, these two guys start fighting with light sabers in the parking lot. These are grown men, dressed in brown capes fighting with plastic light sabers. So scary. The best part was when some guy walked by dressed up like Yoda. I swear, he must have bought the costume... it looked exactly like the costume from the movie. He had a little cane and hobbled along, just like Yoda would do. There were also Storm Troopers (the guys in the plastic white suits) everywhere. Absolutely crazy.

So, thanks to Eva, we have a new song of the day feature. Perhaps not all of you have my musical taste or have heard of all of the songs I post. When possible, I'm going to include a link so that you can sample the song. They're not always available, but when they are, you just click on the link and click "sample the song". Thanks for the idea Eva!

The packing is coming along quite nicely. I've now packed six boxes. I'm trying to get going so that next Thursday and Friday I'm not frantically throwing things into boxes. A special shout out to Tim for "acquiring" boxes for me. I could definitely use more, but what you've "acquired" so far is really helping! I'm a little worried about moving the fish... well, not really worried, but I just know that it's going to be a pain in the butt. Twenty-nine gallons of fishiness is a lot to move!

Hope you're all having a great day!

Wanted: Bad Pet Owner

Ok, so I'm officially the worst pet parent ever. I have banned myself from having anything that can't stay submerged under water for longer than 10 minutes. At least for now. Last night I made the trip to Petco to "donate" the finches. I know now it was the right choice, but it was very hard. Yes, I know they're just finches. But if you know me, you know how attached I get. So I plopped them all in one cage (I took a picture but can't bear to post it) and put them in the car. The whole time I was driving little Louise was sitting there just looking at me. All skinny and scared looking. Then when I get to Petco I asked the manager (a manager has to sign off on donations) what they do with them. I was afraid they'd kill them or just release them. He looked at me like I was nuts and said they'd be adopted out. Then I had to sign these forms "relinquishing" custody. Then I burst into tears and walked out. Yeah. Not going back to that Petco. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a wanted poster with my picture on it telling people not to let me have any more pets.

In all seriousness, I think it was a good choice. They were pretty riled up by the 10 minute car ride (they were panting which is bad for birds), so I don't think another 500 mile trip would have been good. *sigh*

In happier news, I took my drug test today. Gotta love peeing in that cup. Boys, you have no idea how lucky you are. Apparently God forgot to install the "point and click" feature in women.

That's about all from here. Started the packing process which I'll continue for the next week. Hope you're all having a great day!

Announcement

Hello everyone!

Drumroll please...

*Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

Today I resigned from my job.

Why?

I've accepted a position back home with Intel. I'm so excited! I'll be moving back home in two weeks and will begin shortly after that! Yeah!!!! This is a wonderful opportunity with a great company! I'm sad to leave here, but I definitely think it's for the best!

That means tonight I must do what the poll tells me and box up the birds. Gonna be hard. Gonna shed some tears. But they absolutely can't make the trip and my mama said no. So Petco, here I come.

I'm so excited I could explode!

omg omg omg

What a Wonderful Weekend!

Hi all!

So this weekend was awesome.

On Friday night I sang at a confirmation mass. Nice to get paid to do what I love and always nice to see young people getting confirmed. Then I went to Longs and got some nail polish and did that French manicure thing on my toes and fingers. It actually looks pretty good! It's supposed to be idiot-proof, but I did manage to screw up a couple of nails. It's one of the Sally Hanson kits (they're also the makers of my cuticle cream that I featured in "Products I Love") that has the two nail polishes and the little strips. You stick the strip on and paint the tip white, let it dry, and then paint over the whole thing with nude. Fabulous.

On Saturday Tim and I had a crazy day. We dropped my car off to have the oil changed (I was like 1500 miles over... oops!) and then ran around doing errands. Target, Ralphs, etc. Then picked up my car and dropped his. We were invited to a crawfish boil at the beach by a couple in my choir, so we drove down for that. The husband is from New Orleans, so he knows how to cook a crawfish. They flew in 250 pounds of LIVE crawfish and boiled them. Everyone there seemed to love it (no, I didn't try it) and it was pretty neat to watch. It smelled yummy... not really like fish, but more like the spices that you smell in all the restaurants in New Orleans. After that we rented "Racing Stripes" and "Finding Neverland". We watched "Racing Stripes" last night. HILARIOUS. My favorite line: "Better to burp and taste it than fart and waste it". ROFL... yeah, so not really a serious movie. Funny though, with a lot of celebrity voices! I kept telling Tim I wanted a zebra, but for some reason he didn't seem to into having one. I wonder why...

Today we went to church and then just sort of vegged. Did some minor gift shopping (a graduation and SOMEONE'S birthday) and then laid by the pool. It was so nice out today and the pool finally warmed up enough to get in. It was nice a refreshing and felt so good to get back out and lay in the sun again. Sometimes my pasty white skin just feels like it craves sun. Today was one of those days. Then we came back and watched "Finding Neverland". Can I just say that I love Johnny Depp? Too bad he's living in France with that chick. No really, it was a great movie... a little deeper than I had expected and very moving. I was expecting it to be a little more about the Peter Pan stuff, but it was more about the inspiration. I definitely recommend it. I finished the day off with some laundry and am now going to read until I fall asleep. I have a little headache (too much sun?) but want to get up early to work out (I slipped and didn't really go this week).

HOPEFULLY TOMORROW IS THE DAY! It's killing me! lol... no really, I'm excited and just want to know for sure. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you'll have to wait and find out! :-D

Hope you all had a good weekend... I'd love to have some of you post your weekend stories in the comments section - I know we have a biker babe out there who put some serious miles on her bike!

Friday the 13th

So do you believe that today is a "bad" day? Not me. Not yet at least. lol... that could change at any minute. But, I haven't broken any mirrors or walked under ladders or seen a black cat. So I think I'm safe. I am supposed to get paid today... that could always backfire...

Let me just say, I definitely have no patience. I thought I had worked on this, practiced, gotten better. Nope. I'm nowhere NEAR being patient. *sigh*

I'm sad to say that I don't have much to report right now. I'm just hanging out, waiting. This weekend should be a lot of fun. Tim and I are biking to a crawfish boil tomorrow. Yes, I know that I don't eat seafood (My mantra: I won't eat anything that swims, slithers, crawls, hops, eats poop, or grows in poop). I'm going armed with hot dogs. :) Then I have to get my oil changed (1000 miles past... oops).

My new favorite song? "For The Love of Money". No idea why. Well, that's a lie, I do know why... Bo sang it on American Idol and it's the theme song for the Apprentice. Very catchy. And I'm hooked.... take a listen if you have iTunes and can download it!

Hope you're all having a wonderful day! TGIF!

Massacre at 1 Birdie Lane

That's it. I'm done. Gedaan. Fait. Getan. γίνοντας. Fatto. Feito. сделано. One-Day.

(For those of you who don't speak languages, that's "done" in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Pig Latin.)

Today, there was a massacre. All of the baby birds have been murdered. Tossed from their nests. Starved. Left in the cold. I can't take it. No more. I have imposed a celibacy rule. Well, maybe not, but I've removed all nests, nesting materials and anything that could make finches horny. All eggs that are laid will be properly disposed of. I cannot allow this to continue.

Last night I had two babies left. Louise, Brad and John Paul kept throwing one out of the nest. Yet he continued to live. I couldn't let him be tossed a 4th time, so I placed him in the empty nest of Mac and Louise. Bless their tiny finch hearts, they just didn't know what to do. First they stared at the baby for a few hours. Then, sometime today they pulled all of the cotton out of the nest. They left the baby. I guess they just couldn't handle the pressures of surrogate parenthood.

I mean it. I'm done. No more babies.

Maybe my fish will have some more...

P.S. There is a new poll about this topic. Please note that I will not flush, release or freeze my animals.