Is there anybody out there????

I'm not getting any feedback here, folks. I started this to keep far-flung friends up-to-date, but need to know if anyone is even interested. Please leave me a comment or two!

They're cute, they're cuddly... they've got to go

This is what I found when I got home last night:


Don't think I need to say any more on that subject.

Will post more later...can't seem to get my brain to wake up.

I sense a battle on the horizon.....

...and I can only hope I'm strong enough to withstand it.

Vickie's talked to her Dad for the first time in a year & a half. His wife left a voicemail the Saturday after her birthday. When Vickie returned the call she found out the wife had done it as a surprise for Kenny. But now he's wanting to get together with her and that's why there may be a battle. Since he's been gone & Vik & I have lived our lives the way WE want we've become the antithesis of everything he claims to be - we're Pagan, members of the SCA, and Vickie is gay. Vickie was afraid that if she saw him & he found out about all that, he would try to make her come live with him. I told her no court in the world would make that happen - she's old enough to decide where she wants to live. (I could feel her relief after I told her that). As for my own battle with him, I just have to keep telling myself, "I am a strong woman, I am a strong woman..."

[Vik & her ex, Winter's End 2007. And yes, I made their garb (grin)]

The big boss came down from Columbus yesterday and at one point did a really strange thing. He got up from the cubicle he was in (which I can see from my desk), walked over to me, and said, "What's going on, man?" I answered, "Not much, what's going on with you, man?" Then he stood there, looked at me for a couple seconds, said, "Ok, I'm done" and walked back to the cubicle. Now my boss (Amy) has told me he's not exactly a people person and I can only think he was making an effort to be sociable and lost his nerve. Amy's even told me she's asked him to get up from the cubicle & walk around the office but he can't do it. Ya have to wonder, how did someone with such a lack of people skills advance as far as he has?

Shout outs for this morning: Hey, Selena & Lucy - it was great to see ya's!

And I leave you with this thought: Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket???

I need to reprogram my body!

For some reason it seems to think it needs to be up at 3:30 or 4 a.m. Even if I take a sleeping pill at midnight, I'm still up that early. I'd do something to beat it into submission but 1) I'm too tired and 2) I'm afraid that would be counter-productive. It's all DJ's fault - for one of his last jobs he had to get up at 4. I'm such a light sleeper that no matter how quiet he was I still ended up awake. I know I should take advantage of this - meditate, exercise, whatever - I just haven't gotten to that point yet. I'm still trying to deal with, "It's summer, it's dark out, and I'm conscious. What's wrong with this picture?"

Speaking of summer... I love Cincinnati - tried for 26 years to get back here. But summers in Cincy suck. There's no other word for it. You walk outside & it feels like someone's thrown a hot, wet blanket over you. You hope everyone's remembered to use their deodorant. Your expenses go up because you're taking 2-3 showers a day & your air conditioning is running full blast, even at night. You turn on the a/c in your car and listen as your engine goes, "Sluuuurp!" You have no energy because the humidity just sucks the life out of you.

[Picture from WCPO.com's webcam gallery]

Take a look at this picture - you can see the humidity in the air! Almost enough to make me want to move north. Almost, but not quite. I'd rather be too warm than too cold. As much as I hate the humidity I despise snow even more. So I'll give up any control I might have over my hair & walk around with a towel under my boobs in exchange for not getting more than an inch or two of the white death.

No news yet on the job. But promisingly enough, there's no posting for it on the home company's web page (although there *is* a posting for another job, same campus).

I just realized I forgot yesterday's shout outs so I'll combine them with today's: thanks to rjk for letting me know you're all right; good luck to Lynne on *your* job interview; muchas gracias to my kids for keeping me young in spirit if not in body; safe journey to Amaris; to N2 - you're doing a great job as parents, keep up the good work!