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Where did the last two days go?  Good Lord.  Everything seems to be flying by.  I’ve been working really hard to make sure I don’t last minute this move of mine coming up.  Somehow, I feel like I am though.  I’ve packed quite a bit.  I’ve thrown out quite a bit.  I still have quite a bit to pack and throw out and organize.

Manager told me yesterday I’ll have access to the new place next week sometime.  I’ll be able to take my time moving stuff, cleaning this place and what not.

I’m trying to get the Major at work who paints on the side to help me paint a few of the walls in the new place before I actually move.  It would make it sooooo much easier on both of us if I get it painted before moving in.

I’m going to be taking the color things into work Monday and Tuesday of next week to give to him and then we will go from there.

Now I just need to find where I put the color cards I got from Home Depot.  I think I packed them already.  *le sigh*   It would just take another trip to Home Depot, so I may do that tomorrow after work if I can’t find them tonight.

Recently, I put True Blood on my Netflix and OH MY GAWD!!!!  I want HBO so badly I can taste it!!!!  However, being the responsible adult that I am *ahem* I am ordering season 1 on Netflix.  There are two episodes per disc.  Can you say dying in between?  I finished the first two episodes earlier this week, put the thing in the mail day and got the new disc Thursday.   I’ve already watched the two episodes. I took it to work with me Friday and I am hopefully going to get the next disc in the series tomorrow! WHEEEEE

I was looking at some office furniture and I would just like to have some of that! My furniture at work is old (ummm probably as old as the building itself) and it’s not comfy and I could make a complaint list about it I’m sure. Oh well. I’m just glad I have a place to rest my butt while I’m working. LOL

Until next time…

Ya know, after Todd died and I was going through that grief journey of mine that seems to still be with me today, I changed.  My interests changed, my attitude changed and I found pleasure in different things.  I also found displeasure in things that once pleased me.

I believe I’ve been going through a grieving process since I moved here to Kentucky a year and a half ago.   I believe that I am constantly changing and evolving.  Sometimes I struggle with those changes and sometimes I don’t.  Sometimes I’m happy, sometimes I’m not.  Sometimes I don’t laugh and sometimes it’s all I do.

I am a human being first and foremost.  Beyond that, the rest is all a bonus.  I am walking, talking, working on improving myself and all the laughter and all the love in my life are bonuses.

I have a great family.  I have great friends.  I have a great recovery support group, which I don’t always utilize like I could.   Does that make me a bad person?  Absolutely not.  It makes me human.

Which one of you or anyone you know of takes every piece of advice you are given?  Who does that?  I think that would be fucking sweet to let people lead me by the nose and not make any decisions for myself.

Every suggestion given to me, depending on how it’s delivered, is written about, prayed about, meditated over and then decided upon.

Sometimes I follow the suggestion and sometimes I don’t.

I go through a thought process on all suggestions and advice given.  Is this suggestion spot on or is the person projecting their own behaviors to me? I tend to do that, so I always look at that option.  Is this person coming from a place of love or a place of judgment?  Are the suggestions meant to help me or hurt me?   Is the suggestion something that would benefit me or them? I try to look at all of that when I’m given a suggestion or advice on something.

But I can tell you one thing, if it is done in a nasty way, mean spirited or the person throws shit in my face, I tend to ignore it (the advice that is).  Until I get over the anger and then I take the appropriate steps to make sure it’s not something I want/need to do.

Life is all a suggestion.  Rules, laws, ordinances.  Suggestions to keep your ass out of jail.  The Gamblers Anonymous program is all suggestions.  They suggest as many meetings as possible, but at least one full meeting per week.  They suggest you get a sponsor.  They suggest you get to know the other members.  They suggest you get involved.  It doesn’t mean we have to follow the suggestions to the T, right?

Sometimes I do follow the suggestions to the T and sometimes I don’t.

Today, I am content with where I am.  I’m finding my way back out of another funk and I’m going to be a better and stronger person for it.  I’ve reconnected with the program to the best of my ability right now and no one can ask for more.  Well…I’m sure they COULD ask for more.  But I doubt they’d get it.

Some of my behavior is still questionable in some people’s eyes and I’m okay with that.  Currently, there is not much I can do for them.  I can only do for me and I’m taking care of my shit and keeping my side of the street clean.

Until next time…

I recently became the Administrator of the local GA group’s website. I got all the login information on Friday night and so I thought I’d fiddle with it today while waiting for the race to come on.  Don’t worry, I’m going to change the layout and the color.  It’s nasty and it hurts my precious eyeballs to look at it.

After I made some content changes on a few of the pages, I emailed some of our GA people here and let them know what changes I made and then what other changes I plan on making.

In the course of sending this email, I somehow emailed two of my co-workers.  The Co-Worker knows I’m in GA and I talk about it with her often.  Major Hottie, on the other hand, had no idea I was in GA.  Well now he does.  *le sigh*

I freaked out, emailed AND texted mah bitches in a panic.  I finally calmed down and while I’m a still a little nervous, I’m not freaking out like I was.

I’m not ashamed that I’m in GA.  Nor am I ashamed that he finally found out.  What I do not like is the way he found out.  It’s not normally the way I like to let people know I’m in recovery.

I usually like to do that face to face in a conversation.  I can relate anything and everything to my recovery when in a discussion with people so it’s usually no problem for me to slip that information in there.

He hasn’t responded and I have not emailed again in a panic, asking him to ignore the email.  I’m hoping he just lets it go and I don’t have to feel uncomfortable about it.  Guess we’ll find out tomorrow since it’s Platoon 1 day.  Then again, he rarely comes up to the office anymore, so it may be a non-issue to begin with.

Until next time…

At the end of my crappy day yesterday, I got the surprise and wonderful pleasure of finding out I made THE LIST!!! Well.  ONE of the lists, anyway!

NYC Watchdog is compiling different lists for 2008.  I have the honor of being listed with Miss Ann and Hilly and Dave2!!!  Can you believe it!!!! I made a list.  The same list as Miss Ann, Hilly and Dave2!!!!

I can’t tell you how honored it made me feel.  Dawg was one of the first blogs I read when I came into the blogosphere.  It makes me giddy and feeling mushy inside!  YAY me!!!!

And now I’m off to work, for Platoon 3 day and trying to figure out how to fit a 6 foot long dresser, 5 drawer chest of drawers, queen size bed with huge four poster headboard/footboard, made of cherry wood into my new bedroom this Friday.   Oh yeah, and a nightstand!  YAY!

Until next time…

I signed the papers for the new apartment, got the keys and went over there.  My first impression?  Graffiti on the wall on the inside of the building.  Klassy.

I entered the apartment and immediately turned right into the bedroom.  Oh boy.  I’m in trouble with my bedroom furniture.  There is NO WAY my furniture will fit in there.  We’ll be lucky to get the dresser and chest of drawers in there with the bed w/out the frame and headboard.  However, I’m going to have to figure something out cause it’s not like I have another bedroom set sitting around to use.  Ya know?

I love the bathroom MUCH more than this one.  It doesn’t have the long drawn out mini hallway into the actual bathroom.  You walk into the bathroom and you are in the bathroom.  No little mini halls to walk.  It’s brighter and more open.  I liked it immediately.

The living room seems bigger and more open than this one.  The dining room area is actually off of the kitchen.  The kitchen that has more counter space!!!!! I’m quite pleased with the lay out of that apartment – just the bedroom vexes me.

I may have more problems with neighbors there than I do here.  I walked out onto the patio area and there are beer cans on the ground just outside.  Someone has also been smoking cigars in the common area – I could smell it and there is a bottle of water at the top of the stairs with butts in it.  *le sigh*

Going from “almost ghetto” to full blown ghetto is not what I had in mind.  However, I will deal with it for the year of my lease and go from there.

I was going to start taking stuff over there today, but I’ve decided I’m too tired, emotionally wiped out and hungry to move anything yet.  I’ll move stuff tomorrow.

I had another post almost ready to go – about how Libra I really am.  It’ll have to wait until later.

Until next time…

I’m a football fan. Actually, I just like sports, period. I was watching the Giants/Patriots game last night. I like the Giants. I’m actually a huge Packers fan and they are my #1 team. But there are several other teams I like due to the way they play the game and/or they have hot team members. I started following the Giants when Jason Sehorn was a part of their team and I haven’t stopped.

I digress. I was watching the game last night, kind of holding my breath. The Pats have been ON FIRE this season and they were on the brink of making history. I was excited for them. Although I was CHEERING for the Giants, I kind of had a feeling the Pats would win anyway. Throughout the first three quarters it appeared the Giants were going to keep Tom Brady and Randy Moss from making history. I didn’t care if Moss made history or not. Don’t really care for him. Tom Brady deserves to make history though and I was slightly sad. And then something changed.

In the fourth quarter, the Giants committed the first turnover/interception in the entire game. Eli under threw the ball to one of the Pats defense. Ooops. The game from there on out was ALL Patriots and Tom Brady. Randy Moss made history. Tom Brady made history. The Patriots made history.

Now let’s see if they can make it to the Bowl and keep that perfect record for the entire season. Intimidating for the other teams, don’t ya think?

I’m under the impression I’m awake too early on a Sunday. However, I was in bed for 9 hours or so and it’s natural for my body to wake up after that long in bed. Notice I didn’t say I slept for said 9 hours. LOL I did sleep pretty well last night though. Better than I have in awhile, which makes me feel better.

I’m drinking my morning coffee, watching Sportscenter and getting ready to go check out the Sunday paper that the newspaper person left halfway down the stairs. Lovely.

One of these days, I’m going to be financially well off enough to have a second home somewhere exotic and tropical. I’m just saying.

Until next time…

Yet he admitted that it happened 5 years ago, in 2002.   My heart breaks only a little bit (OK maybe a lot, I’m just disappointed.)

Here’s part of what I found on Yankees.com:

NEW YORK — Two days after being named in the Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drug use in baseball, Andy Pettitte admitted to using human growth hormone twice during the 2002 season.”If what I did was an error in judgment on my part, I apologize,” Pettitte said Saturday in a statement released by his agent.”I accept responsibility for those two days.”

Pettitte was among 89 players — and 22 current or former Yankees — to be named in Sen. George Mitchell’s long-awaited report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

Through agent Randy Hendricks, Pettitte confirmed the anecdote contained in the Mitchell Report, which stated that the left-hander experimented with HGH on two occasions while rehabilitating elbow tendinitis from April 21 to June 14, 2002, when he was on the disabled list and working out in Tampa, Fla.

So my question would be, are we going to punish Andy (along with the other 89 players) for something they did over 5 years ago?   If so, what would be an appropriate punishment?   Personally?   Once my heart stops shattering on the ground here, I think I just don’t give a flying fuck WHO did or tried steroids.

Andy’s records show inconsistency for years, before and after his use of the human growth hormones.  I don’t care.  He’s still a good pitcher, who has bad days.  Don’t we all have bad days?  Does that mean we all use drugs?  I think not.

Let’s get off our moral high horses and look at these people as we should be looking at them:  As humans who make errors and sometimes have poor judgment.  I’m certainly not above saying I’ve made some pretty huge poor judgment calls in my past.  Doesn’t mean I’m a bad person, nor do I deserve to have my name dragged through the mud.  Which will most likely happen with these 89 past and current baseball players.

Until next time…

And I have found my favorite baseball team in a state of flux. In a way. The team will still have Derek Jeter, which makes me quite happy. Although, I don’t see Derek ever leaving the Yankees. He grew up wanting to play for the Yankees and retire as a Yankee.
Although he’s fighting with the state of New York right now over taxes for the 2001-2003 years. That sucks. I love his dimples! Ooops, back to sports, sorry got distracted!

A-Rod is close to signing a sickly sweet deal for 10 years; which I think is a good move on the Yankees part for working with him. Negotiating to keep the third baseman is a good move on Steinbrenner’s part.

Abreu’s option was exercised, so he’ll be around; Matsui is not going anywhere, even after having knee surgery. OUCH!

Mariano Rivera, one of the best closers in major league history, is reportedly going to re-sign with the Yankees. This, after saying he would not work for anyone but Torre.

The team lost Joe Torre because of George Steinbrenner’s strange, eccentric ways. They almost lost A-Rod, Rivera and Posada.

Posada is close to signing a deal with the Yankees that would keep him in New York for four more years. Good move Cashman and Steinbrenner!

Posada is one of the best catchers ever. In my humble opinion. Jorge can hit just as well as he can catch and last time I checked, he had one of the best hitting records for catchers in the league. Awesome!

And with my heart breaking as I type this, Andy Pettite has filed for free agency. I can NOT tell you how sad it will make me if the Yankees lose him again. He’s an awesome left handed pitcher.

It will be a huge loss if Pettite leaves. The Yankees need some serious help in the bullpen and Pettite gave them that this last season. He is a seasoned veteran pitcher, who could help mentor and mold the newer pitchers on the team. I’m crossing my fingers he does not leave. Again.

All pictures courtesy of MLB(.)com.

I’m going to be taking the girls on their last test run in the car today. I’ve given them their meds already and am just waiting on my laundry to finish and then we’ll be outta here for a few hours.

I really am obsessed with making sure they are going to be OK in the car. I don’t want Miss Monique and I to have to deal with a whimpering Yorkie (Josie) or a puking Chiweenie (Chloe), ya know?

I was cruising the internet today and found a website for Cowboys tickets. If I was a Cowboys fan, I’d be quite excited by this discovery. However, I know there are some Cowboys fans out there, so maybe that link will help you out. Check it out, why don’t ya?

I am quite the NFL fan, just not really a Cowboys fan since the God Emmitt Smith left. I was a Cowboys fan when I was a kid cause I PPH’d Roger Staubach. He was just one of the best quarterbacks ever. Now I like people like Tony Romo (yes, I know…still a Cowboy) and Tom Brady. Go figure.

Until next time….

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I’m full from dinner. I had the fire grilled lobster and shrimp from Red Lobster and it was YUMMEH!!! And then we had a chocolate chip cookie, filled with warm melty chocolate and vanilla ice cream on top for dessert. YUMMEH!

And then I watched the Yankees lose in game 4 of the ALDS to the Cleveland Indians. I wanted to throw up. I still want to throw up.

Now I’m going to watch Heroes and do my recap at Fluff

Be sure to check over there in a few hours. It’ll be up! Now I need to shut the girls up so I can hear the TV. Grrrr I’m cranky!

Updated (10:16 p.m.) OK, the recap is up now!!!

Until next time…