Last day

Now you can see why the guys were ga-ga!

Brett posing!

Seth

Keith P.S. Yes we ate outside today, it was gorgeous!

So to catch up for Thursday and today...Thursday morn I woke up at 6 and left United Hospital after my sleep study. I didn't feel like I slept at all, though I know I had one dream. The other thing is - I usually wake up one or two times to pee in the night and when I finally decided I better go pee, it was 6am. The sleep technician doesn't think I have apnea but I won't know any details until I see Dr Hottie (I think next week) I am sure the technicians know when people have issues though. For once I may not have an issue! Ta da!

For lunch Teresa and I (she is the dept admin) went to the AxMan Surplus store to get gag gifts for the guys and then to lunch at the Highland Grill where they had the most DELICIOUS Caprese Burger. It was marinated in balsamic viniagrette, had fresh mozzarella melted on top and then julienned strips of basil. I think it was the best burger I have ever had! I got Keith a glass urinal - is that what you call it? The thing for men to pee in when they are in the hospital? (he likes to make his own beer) and decorated it with the words Beer Splash with stick on letters. I also got him a West Coast Chopper bottle opener. I got Seth a Huggy Jesus doll (because he kinda resembles a Young Jesus) and Julie put the words Mini Me on his sash. I got Brett a glass BANDAGE jar with syringes for the days he will want to put himself out of misery and Rightfax is overwhelming (and for those bad Andy days!). I also got him a Neanderthal man just because and a little devilish looking head that you can put your cigarette butts out. Quirky and silly gifts but it was fun.

There was a little thank you reception last night for the NAMI Walk volunteers so Julie and I went. I was hoping they would have pizza or something but they just had candy, crackers and cheese and granola bars. Not to be thankless or anything but this non-profit reallllyyy watches their dollars. Which is good! I know they aren't like United Way where the CEOs rake in lots o money on the side! Then I was off to school for a test which I didn't think I would need to study for since it was on computers. BUTTTT I don't think I did that well. Not that I failed but of course I always want to get every answer right and get an A. Wellll, I used to. Okay I am rambling here. I used to work my butt off to ensure I always got an A in school back in the day. Now I am more like, okay an A would be nice but if it doesn't happen that's okay too. Back in old school days I wanted to get A's for that approval from everyone. Now I am old and don't care if people approve of me. I shouldn't say that sooo offhandedly because I don't want everyone to hate me BUT I know that you can't like everyone and they can't like you. Hence, I don't need to get an A. I figure it's a nice thing but -eh. I will probably study a wee bit next time though. The thing is, the dude asked questions that are barely used in everyday IT. Like how does MRAM differ from RAM? Whatev! Does anyone even USE MRAM for every day? It stands for something like magno blah blah memory. Apparently my memory wasn't working! But it's okay. Just means I may need to actually READ the chapters next time! So my bad.

After class I went to Julies (with the gifts and she helped me wrap them and wrote Mini Me on the doll) and then to work to do some testing with one of the businesslines. But the dude never showed up! I wasn't too sad, just wanted to try and get his issue resolved before I left but I had to pass it along.

Today just me, Seth, Keith and Brett went to lunch at Lucky's Pub in Mendota Heights. They have a nice menu. The waitresses were all dressed up for Halloween and out waitress was Super Girl (or Super Woman) and she had these thigh high red hooker boots that Keith could not quit admiring! He was funny.

I left work around 3 today and all the guys left with me and Keith carried out my box of desk stuff. Chanda is coming home from Nashville for a few days so when she gets into town she is going to come by and we are going to watch a movie.

Happy Halloween!

What I learned in Therapy today

1). I need to validate my emotions - if I feel mad, that's ok and I can be mad, etc


Today I had a quick meeting with Rod - he is my third level manager. I basically went over how messed up our project is for the Rightfax upgrade from our current version of 8.7 to 9.3 due to Andy being incompetent and screwing things up so we are going 2 steps forward and 1 step back. I didn't actually come out and say Andy is the screw up, I just went over all of our steps that we have taken and then had to back out because the planning was not thorough. As in, we now have 5 edited versions of our new server and application architecture and with each step we have started the process and then had to stop. Ohhhh I could go on and on. Anyhoo, I wondered for many weeks if I should say something and I finally decided I just need to. I need to get it off my chest but ALSO we are wasting so many bank resources because Andy says to go ahead and then we have to pull back. It is a waste of time AND money and the bank is so cheap and watches every penny that I can't believe they don't see how much money is wasted by managers making bad decisions. But I suppose...Rod had no clue about all that was going on. I am not about Andy getting fired, but he perhaps should be in a different position other than manager. ORRRRR he needs manager training. But people are who they are so I don't know if it would do any good for Andy to get any training anyway. He would still be a control freak.

Well off to sleeping with wires all over my body.

I admit it, I am 43

but I STILLLLL love watching all the holiday shows. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is on my tv right now. And I can't WAIT for the Christmas claymation shows! 3 days left of Rightfax management irritation. I think the reason why I dislike Andy so much is because he is one of those people that you never know how to act around him. When he is in his a** mood you want to be FAR FAR AWAY. When he is in his "happy" mood then I almost think he's not such a bad guy after all. And I thought I was bi-polar! Actually, I can feel awfully witchy but I try my hardest to hold it back as much as I can because I know when I am in a mood. Usually my mom gets the brunt of it. You know...mom's just know how to tweak their kids and irritate them! But I love you anyway mama! I always laugh when I am over at the Bear's because Beth gets irritated with her mom Peggy and when I see that I see myself with my mom. But when I see the Bears' I think to myself, Beth you don't need to get so uptight with your mom! But I think it's just the daughter mom thing.

Wednesday night I am going for a sleep study which is on my checkoff list of things to do for the gastric bypass. I know I can't sleep on my back because my tongue closes off my breathing but I think I am okay if I am on my side. We'll see. The one bonus will be that I get to go back and see Dr Hottie...Dr El-Halwani for the results in November! On the list of preparation it says Bring your own pajamas. Patients are not allowed to sleep in only undergarments. Does that mean sleeping in my birthday suit is out of the question? hehehehehe. I did go buy new jammies last Friday at Lane Bryant that is a top and bottom because I didn't want to wear just a sleepshirt. (Did I say this before)...anyway I had a sleep study years ago in Connecticut but I never did really fall into a deep sleep that night so they didn't get any data. I just remember the room was cold and the bed uncomfortable. Dr Hottie did say he would prescribe an Ambien for me to help me sleep because I had told him this little story. I hope it works. I am sure my brain just freaks out in general which makes me not sleep so it will be interesting to see if the Ambien can conquer my neurosis!

I talked with Stella tonight, there are rumors of another 200 layoffs in Bridgeport (they just went through a round). But the City is so retarded. Even though they are all union, the ones with the most seniority aren't necessarily safe - it is purely a motive where if you pissed someone off, you are axed. I hate the injustice. I continue to thank my lucky stars for moving back to MN - even though I miss my CT peeps dearly.

Well off to focus on the Great Pumpkin, or as Cousin Alice says (according to her papa Lonny) the Great Punchkin! She was asleep when I went to Carrie's last night but it would be great to hear her say that. Cousin Lon, I think you should put up a video of Alice admiring the "punchkins" on your blog!

Peggy Bear is 70!

Since today is the actual birth-day of Peggy Bear, we had a smaller crowd tonight for dinner to celebrate. We ate at Axel's Charhouse in the Radisson over by Rosedale mall. It was the first time I had been there and the food is pretty good and the waitress was awesome. I had Steak Oscar (2 small filets over crab cakes with asparagus) As Rachel Ray would say Yum-O! Beth, Heather and Charley, Peggy and her friend Fern and Fern's daughter's friend Brenda. We all split a piece of Bailey's Chocolate cake for dessert and that was heaven (but totally enough for 6 people after their dinner). After dinner I stopped by Carrie's to visit. I hadn't seen her in a bit and I had bought some upscale peanut butter dog biscuits for Baxter and Bella. It was nice to hang with the cousin! I also told her it's time to BLOG!

4 more days of Rightfax support, not that I am counting or anything!

OHHH and if you live in the Twin Cities....if you go to Axel's Charhouse ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, you get a meal for free. Since Peggy and Beth were on one tab, Peggy's steak was free since they both ordered the same thing. Otherwise it goes by whoever's meal is the cheapest. Anyhoo, DARN GOOD DEAL! I wanted to pass the word in case anyone is interested!

Sunday

Well I had to call dad and Ellie to let them know it was SNOWING here in MN. It won't stay at this point since it's too early. I think it is supposed to be back to 50 by tomorrow or Tuesday. And they let me know it was 88 and sunny in Arizona. Oh yay!

I got paged again for work this morning...ARGH. It ended up being a huge network problem at the bank with DNS not resolving names (I know, techno babble) but I was a bit annoyed because the person that answered the call at the Help Desk must have just taken the word of the lady calling in the problem without doing any troubleshooting or asking any questions because if they HAD and had actually talked more to the employee, they would have found out she couldn't log in to any application at all and that it affected their whole data center in Ohio! DUH. And then when I got the ticket and talked to her and found this out, I IM'd the NEC (I don't know what it stands for, but whenever there are severity 1 or 2 issues they are usually driving the paging of support people, making sure the right ones get involved, etc). Anyhoo the NEC knew of no issues and the dude is like - but I can ping her computer. And I said I know because I can remote connect to it, but when I run an IPCONFIG to get her IP address of her workstation, it says there is an internal error and no device attached. I suppose they have to ask all these questions but when I have already DONE the troubleshooting and know that the problem is more widespread than my little application - DAMMIT, just do the work and get the network people involved. So it was about 4 hours later before they resolved but I also had to keep in touch with my lady that had opened the ticket to me to make sure that when the network stuff was fixed, she could still get her faxes (and she did). Yes, a fun Sunday. My last weekend of ON CALL for Rightfax Woo Woo!

My friend Marilyn from Sandy Masin's campaign came over with her daughter Vicki and also Joan and another Sandy from the campaign committee. There will be huge doorknock and phone bank work next weekend through Tuesday for the election so we needed to make sure there was food, etc for all the volunteers.

And that's about it, another weekend gone already!

Peggy Bear is 70

Rachel, Brittney, Wyatt and Adam at Snuffy's!
Pirate Peggy, Charley, dad Marty and great aunt Barb
Auntie Beth and Charley

Pirate Peggy again with Marty and Barb

Peggy buttering her popover (which are DE-LISH)

Today I went to the River Room at Macy's downtown St Paul to celebrate Peggy Bear's 70th birthday (which is actually Monday). She doesn't really like change so getting anything new and different takes her forever to decide. She has had her blowdryer for her hair since I KNOW Beth and I were in High School. It has been there forever. So that was my birthday present to her. We are also going out for dinner on Monday at Axel's in Roseville. She is pretty much another mom to me and they are my family too. Peggy is one of the sweetest kindest people I know. I enjoyed celebrating her birthday with her. Oh and Macy's had Coach purses for 50% off! But I didn't purchase anything!

Rachel and the kids won medals in the Lakeville tourney today so that was cool! It is supposed to snow and be super windy tomorrow so instead of staying here tonight they went to stay with John's brother and sister in law in St Cloud. Grandma and Grandpa Hamre are there too which means tomorrow Rachel can follow the Hamre's home to Stephen which is good and I know puts the Grandparents minds at ease!

Before Rachel and the kids left we met Adam at Snuffy's Malt Shop over by Adam and Joey's place. Brittney who is the pickiest eater fell in LOVE with Snuffy's and she said, "the next time we come down to the cities and go for ice cream, we have to come here!" I am glad it was a hit. She even thought the hot dog she had was one of the best hot dogs ever! Those kids just crack me up.

This is my last weekend of ON CALL with Rightfax and THANKKKK gawwwwdddd. I got paged this morning plus had a couple changes this weekend so have had to log in 3 times already today. They are definitely making sure to get every drop of blood out of me these last days!

New Lane Bryant

The Lane Bryant at Rosedale is moving across the street to the little strip mall behind - next to Kohls'. Today was the new store Grand Opening and everything was 40% off. Today only. Of course, Julie and I had to check it out! I need some actual pajamas for my sleep study on Wednesday (I feel weird just wearing a sleep shirt) and then got some bras and underwear. Seems like I always need those things! I still spent a hundred bucks but oh well. I used to spend probably close to a hundred bucks a week going to the bars back in the day (well, maybe only 80 - but still!). At least now I keep up with cute undies and bras with support! HA!

Rachel and the kids are coming for the weekend again - there is a karate tournament in Lakeville which is MUCH closer to my house than the last one. John is on call this weekend so he couldn't come with the the family. That is the sucky thing about being in a job with oncall, etc. You end up missing family things...so I totally know his pain!

More blah blah

I had a therapy appt tonight. Last week I ended with an ah-ha moment about not wanting to get into relationships because of the last one I had - I felt so crappy and I didn't want to feel like that again. Tonight I talked about all 4 (yes, a whopping 4) relationships I have had in detail. I have never done that...usually just brushed them aside. Lo and behold it came to light that each of the men I have dated were emotionally unavailable. No wonder they didn't work out. It was good to talk about the past relationships, draining but good and yes I had a stomach ache when I was all done. But I know at some point as I keep trudging through everything I will come out way better on the other side. I have always felt that no matter what I have done in my life, whether good or bad it was all to learn. Perhaps that all life is really about - just learning. Who knows? That would be a pretty deep thought. I guess hopefully that I know now that I picked men that were emotionally unavailable that will get me the right one (if I so desire) down the road. I think I was freaking for awhile because my sister got re-married, an aunt got re-married and a cousin is getting re-married and I was feeling the pressure. This week I don't feel it so much. This week I am career focused. We (Lisa and I) talk about this a lot....I need to live in the present, not the past and not the future. It's hard to remember that when my mind flies about as often as it does. But I think that for SURE if I could learn to live more in the present things would be even better.

Facts is facts

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea/?ln


Also, I got an A in my Wednesday class. Woo Woo.

Hillary

Today at the University of Minnesota Hillary Clinton was in town to help campaign for Al Franken. I am an avid supporter of Al...I love a smart man. But Hillary - the more I see her and hear her the more I love her. I totally admire the woman! Unfortunately I didn't make it into the main auditorium and ended up being in one of the overflow rooms - hence the crappy pictures of the big screen. But again as I have said many times before it is just great to be with a bunch of like minded people who are excited and believe in basically the same ideals for America as I do. I sit and take in the hordes of people...the kids, the students, the young adults, the grandmas and grandpas, the professionals, the poorer people. I just love the mix of the crowds.

I had a meeting at work today with my new manager to be (as of November 1) and the rest of the people. I found out that I will be working nights (which I knew) but they will be 4 - 10 hour days. One week I will work Sun-Wed from 10pm - 8:30am and the next week will be Sat - Tues from 10pm - 8:30am. I am psyched to be treated like an adult once again in the workplace. It has happened from time to time but it's amazing how many insecure and crappy managers are out there in Corporate America and they treat you like dirt because of their insecurities.

Friday - Sunday

Jon, Genevieve and Julie

Kelsey, Michele, Abby, Jon, Gen

Part of J'nell! Kelsey and Michele and Jon

Kelsey, Michele, Abby, Jon (and his new toy - a phone)

Justin, Me and Brian (J'Nell's significant other!)

Julie and Addison

Addison

Kevin and his niece Sophie

Dawn, her mom Carol and Blaine

Tanya, Ben, Tim and J'Nell

Friday morning I had an appt at the St Paul Lung Clinic to see if I needed to have a sleep study done for sleep apnea. This is part of the list of things I need to do for gastric bypass surgery. I had an appt with Dr El Halawani and ohhhh la la. He was sooooo hot. He had the most gorgeous eyelashes! sighhhh. So that was a good start to the morning. I go to United Hospital on Wed the 29th or whatever that date is to do a sleepover. My sister Julie uses a CPAP to sleep at night so it won't surprise me if I need to.

After work on Friday I met Julie Lindegard and her daughter Leanna and granddaughter Addison in White Bear Lake. They came down for the weekend for a wedding. Leanna had wedding practice so Julie and Addison and I went shopping in Stillwater. I picked up some realllyyyyy cute things but they are going to be Christmas presents so I can't tell you what they are! Then we ate at Lily's Grill and Malt shop and it was quite scrummy. I stayed overnight with them and left Saturday morning for the quarterly Nordin breakfast. Then we all went over to Rosedale but I didn't feel like getting anything. I ended up going home and napping because I hadn't slept that great at the hotel.

Sunday morn Julie and I went for a massage at our favorite spa - Solimar. Then had brunch at Granite City.

And that was about all the excitement. Vikings lost to the Bears today ...ARGH.

So I had some excitement and some relaxation which is what the weekend is alllll about!

Wednesday class is done

Wow, my first class is already finished. It was only 2 credits so just ran half the semester. I think I only missed 2 points possible out of the semester so I should be getting an A. I don't know if the class was the easy or if it's because I am older and wiser?

I felt kinda sad at the end because I really liked all my classmates. They were fun to be with in class. I don't think anyone else felt that way :-( I suppose they didn't feel sad because most of the people are working fill time and doing school part time. Oh well.

I heard a bit of the debate on the radio on the way home and again - all McCain wants to do is bash Obama and yet I never hear him come out with any plans to get the US back together. Of course, I only heard about 20 minutes of it but it was enough to know it was going to be the same ol' McSame. Or as I like to call him McLame. I just hope that enough people see through his "no plans".

ARGH! I've been duped!

Thank gawd I am overly cautious anymore. So this online dude was giving me the willies because he was already saying he was in loveeee with me and he can't wait to meet me and blah blah blah. And I was like woooo this is moving wayyy to fast. I googled him and the only thing I could find was a MySpace account with the EXACT SAME INFO. This is how dumb I am, when he first started sending emails I thought himmmm, he can't type very well. And NO I didn't give any information out! Anyhoo, so last night he write this little sweet poem alll lovey dovey and I was like WTF? He hasn't even met me. Well today I know why! He asked me to send him 350 dollars to help cover a contract until Friday. Then in another email he says if I send him 350 bucks he will pay me back on Friday with 400 bucks. And here is the REAL fun part....I needed to Western Union the money to an address in Nigeria. DAMNNNNNN I have been scammed!

So let's just say that is the end of my online dating. I reported the abuse on the DemocraticPeopleMeet (and I was so thinking it might be a good site) and I also went and reported the abuse on My Space. Tonight I decided to google the dude's user name which was KeithSmith2002 and ended up coming up with a romancescam website where he was posted. They find a fake picture and create a profile. It is soooooo sad that you can't even try to meet people on the Internet without wondering if they are real or not. I wish there was some way the world governments would come up with a tool to get all these bastards. The Internet is evil and good..I suppose that's how everything in life is because some people are evil and some people are good.

I'm just glad that for once I listened to my gut when I was thinking this dude is wayyyy too fast.

So on to other things.

I had a legislative meeting tonight at NAMI where we determine as an organization what improvements or bills we need to try and pass (after 12 years of work the mental health parity bill just got passed). Anyhoo, they are looking for someone to be on the State Advisory Council for Mental Illness (or mental health). Pretty much anyone that Sue Abderholden - the director of NAMI - recommends will get the appointment. I passed it up in the first email because the meetings are held every month on the first Thursday from like 12-3p. BUTTTT now that I am going back to nights, this is something that I think I can actually do. It is a Governor appt'd position for 2 years. I am just going to verify with my new manager Deb that it would be okay to do that (to make sure we don't have group pow-wow's or something on the first Thursday) and then let Sue know that I am willing to be on the Council. I think it would be really interesting and a lot of fun. The Council was created to help the Governor stay in-tune with Mental Health.

An Epiphany

Today was Columbus Day so I didn't have to work and instead had a dentist appt and therapist appt. I wasn't really sure what I was going to talk about in therapy today but I usually come up with something. Well for whatever crazy bug bit me over the weekend I decided to create an online profile at DemocraticPeopleMeet.com. I must have been in a weak moment and decided to see if I can find any men out there. Well, someone bit. But he lives in California. He seems like a nice guy. Anyhoo I brought that up in therapy because I drive myself crazy with this back and forth relationship stuff. One day I think it would be kinda nice to have a male companion or husband, and then other days I totally like being by myself. Lately every time I have gone to therapy I have talked about relationships. I think I don't want to talk about relationships but somehow it comes around. One thing I know is that if a relationship does work out down the road, I do not want to be suffocated (in the past I was probably the one doing the suffocating). I need my space. My friends Danielle and Mike have probably the best relationship/marriage I know. They respect each other, they each can do their own thing (Mike likes to golf, Danielle likes to shop) and yet they totally enjoy doing things together and being with each other. I think that if I could find something like that, I would be good to go.

My epiphany came at the end of therapy today....as I was talking about being afraid of feeling suffocated in a relationship, etc and what came out is that I am scared to death of what may happen to me if it doesn't work out again. The last relationship that ended (I was in CT) I ended up at Yale Psychiatric Hospital because I was so depressed and I can't even explain the pain I felt and I don't want to go through that again. I guess I haven't been very anxious to get into another relationship because of that.

Soooooo yeah, lots to still work through. But I have to admit - I kinda get a high when I get that AH-HAAAAAAA feeling. The sucky thing is that figuring this out brought back up all that pain and blech feeling I felt - not as severe of course but it's never fun. I also know that when I drum up the pain again it will help me move forward.

Sorry Weekend

I have been fighting a nasty cold since about Wednesday. Now that it's Sunday I think I will survive. I stayed home and slept a lot over the weekend other than Friday night where I ended up working from 11pm until 5:30am Sat morn. Was only supposed to be a 2 hour change on the servers and well, when you are in IT you know how that goes.

I did make it out to DSW yesterday with Julie. We had coupons for a free bag if you spent 40 bucks and I needed some dress shoes for work (as well as Julie) so we shopped (but only for 30 minutes, can you believe it?)

I am working on a paper that's due for my Wednesday class so it was okay to spend my weekend recovering from a cold.

Sandy Masin Fundraiser

One of the food tables (still preparing)

Sandy Masin's son Rob took this picture of me waiting to ask Mayor Rybak to take a pic with me (we thought it was funny at the moment!)

Mayor Rybak and me. If only he wasn't happily married, growllllll!

Mayor's Rybak and McGuire

Tonight I skipped school. Well I was going to go to class after Sandy's fundraiser (which was from 5-7:30) and I figured I would go to class late - around 6:30 because Mayor RT Rybak from the City of Minneapolis was going to be there to talk. I called my teacher at work today since he works where I work and asked what was on the agenda. He was just going over chapter 2 and 3 in the book and it's all stuff that I am familiar with so I told him I was going to go home and relax. So I sorta did, just a little later than if I had gone home right after work!

I attended a house party for Sandy Masin (had actually helped with some of the planning) and we had a great spread of food. The highlight though was talking with Mayor RT Tybak. He is JUST awesome. Soooooo good looking and just a nice guy. We were talking for about 10 minutes just about whatever but then he had to start his speech! I also talked to Mayor Mike McGuire - Eagan Mayor - he bought a scooter in August to get around. How awesome is that? I totally want to get one now. I have been thinking about it for a long time but after talking to him I definitely want one. Plus, what a great way for him to save money for gas! I met his wife too even though I didn't know it at the time and she is awfully friendly too.

I also met some more people and it's just nice to be around a bunch of Democrats who feel the same way I do about this world.

Therapist Tuesday

Short and sweet...I had a voicemail today around 4:15pm and it was my therapist Lisa saying that the Eagan clinic rescinded their earlier decision. They ARE going to let Lisa continue being a therapist on a part time basis so IIIIII can continue seeing her in Eagan! Yipppeee!

Great news indeed for me.

Forgot to add one thing

I got this in an email today and it totally sums up Palin's debate in a nutshell. Did I say this before? Usually I am ALL ABOUT WOMEN and want to see them move up and I KNOW we need more women in power to being sense to this world, but this lady is just plain an embarassment to women and it's too bad. I really can't believe she will bring over any female voters that were for Hillary unless they really weren't Hillary supporters. Any of us Jerome and Nordin women are freaking smarter than Sarah Palin - why aren't any of us running as VP? Perhaps someday!

Karate!

Friday night Rachel, Wyatt and Brittney Hamre (Rachel is the daughter of Joey and Peggy Wilebski) came to spend the weekend with me. They had a karate tournament - their first one - in Winsted MN which is 65 miles away and totally in the boonies and full of Republican signs along the way! Blech! hahahaha Anyway, minus the multiple stops I made because I got almost totally lost, the drive was pretty. It was really interesting to watch the tournament and all of the Hamres got medals so that made it even MORE fun. John is in Iowa for work until the 17th hence why he wasn't able to join the tournament because they are all taking karate together.

That was most of the day Saturday and after we got back to the City and I was breathing a sigh of relief for civlization we met with Joey and Adam Wilebski at Key's Cafe for dinner. Wyatt, Adam and I all had the meatloaf dinner. When I was a kid I hated meatloaf but now I just LOVEEEE a good piece of meatloaf! And Key's cafe is good almost home cooking food. Oh and I failed to mention that I think my cousin Joey is way more prepared for guests....Wyatt has mistakenly torn the medal part off his ribbon and asked if I had a needle and thread. Uhhhh no. Sorry, Cousin Heidi doesn't sew but I THINK his uncle Joey does! I called Joey and lo and behold he DOES have a sewing kit so he brought it to Keys and fixed Wyatt's medal as we were waiting for dinner, yes Cousin Joey does know how to do a stitch in time. He showed me up on the domestication. Argh! Just kidding, it's okay by me. I would rather buy something new than repair. My bad.

On the way home from dinner I rented Daddy Day Camp and The Bee Movie so between last night and this morning we also watched them and laughed. They left around 11:30 this morning and I decided to test out my air couch mattress thingee and took a little snooze until 2.

I met Julie at 3 and we went for pedicures and I also stopped at Michele and Jim's house to check it out. It is nice and spacious which is good for them with 4 kids - even if Jim's Zach is in college.

We then called Carebear and asked what she was doing for dinner (I also wanted to see the inside of her place) and ended up honing in on the Jerome House Celebration dinner at Red Lobster. BUT it was Shrimp Fest so it was awesome.

Just ramblings

Tonight I got to leave class early because the instructor was going to let everyone out early. He let us out for a break and then was going to talk about servers and then let people go. Soooo I went up during the break and asked if it would be okay if I leave since I work with servers and networks all the time. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I got to leave. I was able to run to HOM Furniture store and buy an airmattress that butts up to my couch to create a queen size bed for guests. I saw it a couple years ago when I bought my living room furniture but just kept putting off buying it until now. Rachel Wilebski Hamre called me last night and her and the kids are coming down for a karate competition and since her brother Joey's house if full of peeps they are going to stay here. And I am glad because I finally remembered that this mattress thing was something I have been meaning to pick up but never think about it or when I do think about it I don't have the spare change to buy it (trying to stay clear of any credit card debt, so I don't buy if I can't pay....trying to stick to that anyway). Here is the link to the mattress thingie....this way people can ALWAYS come and stay at my place as long as it isn't a family of 6 or more!

http://www.enduraease.com/

I also got to watch most of the debate tonight - even though I had recorded it. I liked it a lot better than the first Presidential debate just because McCain was such a pouty dupa that night, he drove me up a tree. I kinda think Palin twisted some things to make the Republicans not so "anti-middle class" but then don't all politicians twist stuff. I know that and take everything with a grain of salt. But y'all know my heart lies with the Dems anyway, but at least it was much more palatable to watch.

What a day....

First of all to answer your comment Yooo-lie, yes the Prime Minister is married. But I hear ya, if he were single, cha cha cha! Speaking of which, I did have a ummm slight date a couple weeks ago. It was with one of the guys from Sandy Masin's campaign. We have a lot in common with both being Democrats and also loving sports BUTTTTT - no go. We hung out for a couple hours to see if there was chemistry and there was NONE. But it's okay. I guess just the fact that I even put myself out there is amazing itself. He also had no arm hair or leg hair and his hands looked like those soft squishy man hands that some guys have and YES I am picky because it totally grosses me out. I told this to my mom too and she also has an issue with the soft squishy man hands (that really aren't manly) so I thought it was pretty funny. I told this to my therapist today because I haven't seen her in a couple weeks and while I feel like a failure whenever a man has no interest in me, she was ecstatic that I even put forth some effort. It will probably take me another 10 years but what the hay. Maybe by the time I am 70 I will be ready for that step.

Speaking of my therapist, she gave me the news that she is leaving the Eagan practice. My heart sunk to my toes. I always have issues with abandonment anyway and especially when I feel a strong connection to someone like I do with her. I almos WISH she wasn't my therapist but then I could be stuck with a shmoe. She is going to work at the Stillwater prison. BUT all is not lost. She tried to see if Eagan would let her work part time but they chose to be a**holes so she is hoping that in a few months she will be working part time at a clinic in Golden Valley. She just took her board test for the State of MN and Golden Valley won't hire unless you have that certification from MN. I am hoping she will get the results before she leaves Eagan. But she said she had a really hard time telling me because I am one of her favorites...awww ain't that sweet. So it sounds like worst case scenario it would be about 3-4 months before she will be ready in Golden Valley. I know I can manage by myself because I have for years but I just felt like I was really working hard on things so it's a bummer for me that it "may" be at a standstill for a few months. So yeah, not the way I wanted to end my day especially since I FINALLLYYYYYY

GOT THE JOB! I know I know, 3 months of waiting! I will start November 1. I am excited and yet anxious about it (and anxious about not having a therapist for a bit) because it's always nerve-wracking starting a new position and since it's a brand new position I know there will be lots of details to still work out as we go along. Which could be very stressful. But then everyone has those days. The great thing will my manager Deb who is soooo supportive and I know will totally back me and that means a lot.

Anyhoo, time to end for now. I don't have my Wednesday class next week which will be nice but I do have to write a thesis paper so I guess I will be doing that instead (yeah right, knowing me it will be the Tuesday before the Wednesday that it's due that I sit down to write!). Ok Ok..NO PROCRASTINATING! HA