Good Morning to another crappy week at another crappy job. See, thats what happens when I don't have coffee!!!

Anyways, since I had so much fun with the last one, WE have compiled another list...

1. I went to my first bon fire since high school on Saturday night.
2. It reminded me of my last bon fire from high school, in which I made out with Nick S., who I had had a crush on for about three years.
3. My Mother in law is a raging bitch and proved that fact once again yesterday.
4. To get into a better mood last night I went into a cooking frenzy and made another batch of chocolate chip cookies, a vat of homemade spagetti sauce and a huge pan of salisbury steak.
5. I'm getting too large to fit into my clothing, ok that isn't a happy thought but still needed to be stated.
6. I bought two new fall lipcolors that I can't wait to test out on my hubbys....neck.
7. Fall makes me want to curl up in blankets in a cabin somewhere and make lots of love and eat beef stew.
8. Funniest thing that happened to me this morning - proving that I work with rednecks...two women were trying to spell 'chic' like so - 'schiek' and when they finally found the correct spelling they were so amazed. I laughed my ass off.
9. Chesa got to herd cattle this weekend.
10. She also got to play with her dog, which she misses desperatly.
11. I got to spend some 'quality time' (wink, wink) with my hubby on Friday night in the cutest little town, in the coolest little bar.
12. We are looking forward to quality time off this weekend, no work, no family obligation, just fun.
13. Chesa actually considered getting someone a calf for her birthday...that makes me laugh for some reason.
14. I am having a little dinner party on Sunday for some very sweet people. So, I get to cook - YAY!!!

Oh, and I'm so disappointed in you all for not guessing what we are going to be for halloween! We are going as saloon girls in some very trashy costumes that are being made by us! YAY!!!

Ok, lunch time. Later, gators.

I feel like I haven't talked to a good friend fo mine when I don't blog. Well, ole friend, it's good to see you. I thought about doing some witty story like T-Bone, or exciting things that go on like Kami, or what great things that I'm accomplishing like Joe. Alas there are no huge relationship milestones to report. Like I said earlier this month, Julia and I have been doing some thinking, some soul searching. It's the whole changing seasons thing, but nonetheless, it's necessary. After all this thinking, it's time to lighten up. BON FIRE WEEKEND!!! There's nothing like the cool fall weather, a warm sweater, the one you love...oh yeah, and LOTS of adult beverages. What fun!!! Smores, and good tunes in a field...makes for some good times.

I really want to post about how badly work sucks today, but since coworkers read this and it will just make it worse if I do, I'll just shut the fuck up.

I just thank the Lord that I have the greatest husband in the world, and by far the greatest best friend to help me make it through.

I need cheery today, and what makes me cheery? You guessed it, a list.

List of the day is things that are good in my life right now.

1. The fact that Chesa and I are dressing up for Halloween this year and making our own costumes. If you can guess what we are going to be, I will send you something fabulous.
2. My coworker that used to play for the NFL told me this morning if I ever need to punch anything I could use his arm and if I need to draw a picture on it of the persons face I would like to punch, that would be fine.
3. I get to see a very funny play tonight with my best friend.
4. I have a red skirt suit on today with my favorite black croc heels, and look fantastic.
5. I am also sporting matching red sunglasses that have rhinestones in them
6. I put on a presentation this morning that kicked ass.
7. I get to flirt with one of my favorite clients tonight while I look fantastic and that will be very good for my dwindling ego.
8. The office is empty right now because everyone is at a birthday lunch for a coworker that I don't like.
9. I have a bear on my desk that is wearing a T shirt that says 'Alaska is a gas' and when you squeeze his tummy he farts. That never fails to make me giggle.
10. I got a good cry out last night and laughed so hard that my tummy muscles are sore today.
11. When I gain weight, my boobs get bigger
12. I have eaten THREE huge subway M&M cookies today. and a sub. and a bag of chips. shut up, anger makes me hungry.
13. My husband set the coffeepot for 2:45am this morning so that I could take good coffee in a thermos to drink all morning (saving me from the horror of convenience store coffee)
14. I got to sleep in this morning.
15. I had the most yummy drink last night that tasted like a peach dream. I need another right now.
16. I'm not boring.

To say that we're busy is SUCH an understatement. To say that we're plain worn out, a little closer to point. Either way, my own inspiration has been lacking, or maybe lack of motivatation has made for scarce blogging this past couple of weeks. Work is hectic, with school starting there's high school football games to be at, university football games to tailgate, school kids to visit...the bull shit that's required. Our new ratings period starts today, so no more half awake mornings.....RIGHT!!!! Hell, till all that coffee sets in, I can't tell my ass from a hole in the ground. Here's to morning radio.
To make our menial exsistance significant, Julia and I have taken a good look at where we are, whether or not we're happpy, thoughts like that. Then, I realize, there are moments in my life that are of no time, of no environment. I know I'm rambling off on some tangent, but when I figure out something small, it's a big deal!!!! Every moment can be a struggle. Don't eat that donut, don't fall in love too quick, don't say what you know is the right thing, don't smoke that cigarette, don't pay too much for gasoline....everything requires an argument with yourself, or with reason, blah, blah blah. But when you feel like you're doing the right thing for the first time in years, when you look into the eyes of your niece, or your own child, when you can laugh till you're horce, and fall asleep next to someone you love.....it makes the mundane, "have to do" things tolerable. I think that's the reason I feel watered down lately, bland, oh yeah, and don't forget wasting away in some god damn hilbilly state. It's the everyday tasks that drive me crazy, that don't always allow the living, breathing things inside of me to be used. Sometimes I use all my positive energy up, and forget to replenish it. So that's where we are, in the replenishing stage...storing up on personal time, and the chance to drive around in the Jeep with the follwing glasses

Strange Happenings

This week has been weird. I don’t know if it has to do with the change of seasons, which makes people think about change in their lives or what. But people have been just a little bit tense, a little bit angry, very contemplative. Myself included. It feels like everything is on the edge, not really sure if we are closer to the drop off or closer to safe ground, but edgy nonetheless. Its been like this at work, which makes things even more stressful. It has definitely been this way with the hubby, adding to stress levels and putting them in the red this week. If you have any advice on this subject, please feel free….

On to more fun things.

1.) I have started collecting phrases of the week. Not just cool phrases that I would like to use to be funny, oh no. I’m collecting the office phrases. You know the ones where your boss goes off to motivational training and comes back spouting a few catchy phrases that use new words to describe old ideas. We get a new one about once a week, they are more plentiful if one of our many consultants comes by. I have only been paying attention to this trend for a few weeks so my collection is rather small, but I’m looking forward to watching it grow. Here is the list so far….

-Top of Mind Awareness
-Tell the story (the clients, the listener, the bag lady)

Please add any from your office that make you giggle, laugh, gag, or just roll your eyes.

2.) I had a flashback! I had to go to a three hour training meeting on Tuesday with some fellow sales people. Two of my fellow sales people are VERY large males. One was a big college football player and the other just retired from the NFL. They are two of the nicest guys I have ever met. So, when I sat down for the meeting on Tuesday one sat on my right side and the other on my left side. First of all I felt like a dwarf. Then while we were making faces at each other during the training and giggling at the unnatural pauses the trainer would make I seriously had a flashback to high school. In high school I was always better friends with guys than I was with the girls. It has to do with going through 1-8 grades being one of two girls in my class. And I didn’t like the other girl. My only experiences with girls were with catty bitches, so I stayed away. So, I was always the one in the back row sitting with the football players and trying to out do their spitwads. It reminded me of how much I miss my best friend from high school, Jeff. And it also reminded me how much I have missed having male friends. With male friends you never feel like you have to impress them or compare shoes or talk about shopping. You can talk about a whole different world and get such a different perception on situations than what a woman would give you. Maybe that’s why Chesa and I get along so well, we don’t always talk about relationships and shopping and she always has a different perception that I could have come up with. The question is, how easy/difficult is it to have friends of the opposite sex if you are married? Keep in mind, I am not interested in these two gentlemen in the LEAST!

So, now I have given you TONS to comment on, so you better get to it!!!

Tuesdays are days without identity to me. It's not Monday, which is good, but yet it's not quiet time to be thinking about the weekend yet, either. It's just one of those days. It's not ladies night, it's not foot ball, it's not really anything. That's really very fitting, as that's about how I feel today. I'm very bored with my life right now. The time I spend with anything of meaning, charity work, friends, meaningful conversation,....all those things are scarce right now, and I'm not sure why. I'm bored with my life, with my job, I feel like nothing is worth all the effort. I think it's the job that's throwing the balance off. I feel like my sense of humor is bland, my personality is stale. I'm all rested up from not having to work this weekend, both of which I'm not used to. I've determined that there are days that will feel like I'm running knee deep in mud, and that no matter how hard I strive, no matter how much I care, no matter what I do. Can I just come to work, do my job, and leave? Does that not make me just as complacent as those around me? The show is fine in the mornings, it sounds fine, the listeners are interested, my partner and I are not on each others' nerve, yet I want it to be more, to be better. The local paper is boring, the local news is boring. I miss going out with julia and having a beer, we haven't done that in a while. I take the Jeep for a drive, and that helps considerably. mmmmm Maybe I'll take all the old newspapers laying around here to the animal shelter, play with the puppies, and feel better.....life beyond your own drama, that's what I just posted on Joe's comments.

Another week is here, and with it, things to get done. Good thing I won't be bored this week!!! The last days of summer are here, and that saddens me, as I love the hot weather. At one time, I thought it was pretty crappy to be involved in reality, once I was out of school, as there were no more summer vacations. Then I realized that as real adults, our summer actually last even after school starts. It was a fantastic weekend, with sunshine, the puppies, the creek, and the jeep. Good times.
Now down to business.
I decided I would give into peer pressure, to be a part of the cool kids, and be interviewed. When trying to decide who to be interviewed by, I had so many options, so many witty and funny people to open myself up to, and so round one begins.......take it away Joe:

The Rules:
1. If you want to participate, leave me a comment saying, "interview
me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person's will be
different.
3. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others
in the
same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five
questions.


1) If you could have a dick for a day...what would you do with it?
Why on earth would I want to be stupid for one day?!?! NAH, I'm kidding!! Let's see....probably jump on the bed, to watch other things flop around...oh, oh, and then, I'd walk right up to the asshole that continually treats me like I'm stupid because I'm female, telling me I tend to be too "passionate and emational" and then proceed to slap him up aside the head with it!!!!!

2) Describe the perfect male body.
Men are synonomous with strength, I love a strong body. In describing the perfect male body, I just get a picture of a tan, oiled, buff man walking around in a loin cloth serving me cold drinks on the patio, but I think it's more than that. The perfect male body has dynamic, has callouses from hard work, but gentle hands, has strong arms, but doesn't hold too tight; has broad shoulders to make you feel protected and safe, has a narrow waist, but a huge heart. The perfect male body is the one you're comfortable with, whether it's your body, the body of your man, or the body of the guy you're standing next to at the bar.

3) You are forced to cut off a finger or drink a gallon of cum. Which
do
you choose and why?
Cut off my finger, because I have 9 more!!!

4) What do dreams mean to you?
what a question, joe. I was anxious to get your interview, for fear that you would delve into my dark side, but instead you've touched on my sunny side, and something that's so important to me. Dreams are the fuel that keeps my spirit alive. Whether it's the dream of becoming better at my job, going further in the hard work I do, if it's making the world around me a better place, it's the spice that keeps me from drying up on the inside. When I'm eating mac n cheese, and there's just enough to pay bills, it's my dreams that remind me that so much can, and will change. Dreams keep me from getting caught up in just the present, and the hurdles that are right in front of me. Dreams keep my passion for living fresh and energized.

5) A friend of yours has killed someone and he/she has told no one but
you.
How do you handle this situation?
When you know that your best friend's husband is beating her up, you wish that she would confide such information sometimes. Gosh, what a responsiblity to have to undertake as a friend. I would take everything I owned, sell it all, ALL of it, grab the friend, and go to Mexico, there to live out our days in brightly colored cotton sorongs and bikini tops under the aliases of Rita and Maria.

HAHAHHA JOE!!! I laughed, went mmmmmm, and then gagged..........all within the 5 questions. I needed that this morning. Like Julia said, my life is not a happy place to be, particularly with work. My favorite fuck up of the day ( and yes, there's one everyday), and I'm being vauge as I know folks here at work love to read this.......it's a great disservice to work in a place where you know the folks that get paid more than you work ALOT less than you. I know you understand. It's frustrating to see them have days off, and you don't get any, to see them leave early, and arrive late, and to actually know that they aren't better at their job than you, and still get to hear about a nice fat bonus they just recieved that we were overlooked for. It drives me and my partner crazy, but I thought I would blow a fuse when one of the nameless ones comes to us, and asks how they can sound more like us, cause appearantly we're funny, and run a good show, and they would like to sound like that. My patience is so thin right now anyway, and after yesterday's daily fuck up, it was almost too much. I politely left to get more coffee. I did get to sit on the front porch with my Cowboy man and drink ice tea last night, and that makes it a little better today.
Thanks for listening

Another interview! This time, from our favorite gay new yorker....Joe!

The Rules:
1. If you want to participate, leave me a comment saying, "interview
me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person's will be
different.
3. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others
in the
same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five
questions.

1) Have you EVER had a lesbian encounter? More than a kiss.

There was an experimental moment back in the day, but it didn’t get any further than making out and groping. It just didn’t feel right, I don’t have anything against lesbians and I do think women can be very sexy.

2) Your husband tells you that you must choose between him and Chesa.
You know where this one is going...who do you choose and why?

That is a very hard question! I think I would have to choose my husband because he can give me sex, and Chesa can’t! Seriously, I don’t know how I would live without either one of them. Chesa’s job could take her a million places and while I want her to be successful and happy I don’t know what I will do if she decided to move someplace far away.

3) What is one thing that a friend could do to you to make you sever
the ties with them?

I can get rid of friends pretty easily because I’m easily annoyed and don’t put up with shit. If I think a person is being fake or trying to be somebody they aren’t I will cease speaking to them immediately. Other, more serious reasons would be sleeping with my husband or hurting someone I love for starters.

4) Describe a challenge that you have faced in your life and explain
how you overcame it.

A challenge that I have had in my life is that I was pretty much left on my own when I was about 16. My parents were going through hard times and kind of forgot that they had a daughter. So, I decided to take a job with a dance company and move to Chicago for six months to train. When my training was done, I moved back to Wisconsin, but not with my parents. I moved in with my brother and took responsibility for myself by getting a second job so I could contribute to rent, a car, and save for college.

5) And for my one disgusting question...you ready??...here it
is...Some weird, rich dude offers you a million dollars if you will perform a sexual act (for at least 10 minutes) on one of the following. Which do you choose and why?
a) A yeast encrusted vagina, slathered in herpes
b) A flaccid, uncut dick dripping with moldy cheese (HORK!)
c) An ass covered in hair and numerous, variously covered
dingleberries
d) A doggie penis

This is by far the most disgusting question than even my sick mind could have thought of! I’m going to choose C because the only sexual thing I could do with an ass would involve a strap on, so my skin wouldn’t actually have to touch it.

Holy Shnikes!!!

I think that I have decided that I want to build a house on the lake in northern Wisconsin and become a writer or have some other career where I don't have to deal with people very often. It wasn't much of a weekend. It had its up points, but it had more downers... Friday was just a bad day, Chesa was REALLY having a bad day and its hard to be happy when she is so sad. She is under MUCHO stress and just not having an easy time all around. My Friday consisted of working and then having a beer with my new boss and another sales person. After I got home I just went straight to bed. Saturday when I thought that my husband had decided to FINALLY do something nice for me (I was VERY mistaken) I ended up cleaning my house (which was VERY dirty) and then going to my Mother in laws for dinner....exactly what I wanted to do on a Saturday night (can you see the sarcasm dripping?). Sunday we were suppose to go to a birthday bash for an old friend of my husbands but I told him to call and cancel because I was insisting he take me out to dinner and be nice to me for an entire evening because I deserve it!!! Luckily he complied, so I didn't have to beat him about the head and shoulders. Monday while most people didn't have to work, I did. yay. Chesa had to work more hours than I did, so I will try not to complain too loudly. Today I had my first meeting with my new boss here at work and because I know people at work read this, I will not write any more about that...here. So, here I go I'm off again. And by the way if someone comes into your place of business today and tries to sell you something at least be nice to them while you say No. Thanks a bunch. Oh, and it rained the ENTIRE weekend...I'm so glad I wasn't camping!