FICTION OF THE NINJA KIND

Just Life

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:35:25 GMT

It's so crazy. I feel like I have no time anymore. I have breakdowns on a semi-regular basis which make me feel stupid and stress me out more. Anyway, all that aside I'm still alive and aside from being insanely busy am relatively happy.

Some people might wonder what a ninj day looks like so to illustrate have my schedule. I'm actually doing this for school purposes as I have to experiment with changing my schedule and routine for my next class.

5:30 AM Pry self from bed.
5:40-6:20 AM Let dogs out, bring them in and feed them. Put them back out because I am not a morning person and I do not want to deal with their happiness. Eat yogurt cup try to read a little. Get dressed
6:20-7:30 stop for Starbucks drive one hour to work. Witness frequent car accidents.
7:30-5:00PM Work-enough said
5:00-6:30 drive home. This should only take an hour, but due to traffic the drive home takes longer
6:30 get home change. Feed dogs.
6:45-7:30/8:00 Take River to dog park. Must do this as regularly as possible for both our sakes. this got moved up due to lack of daylight
8:00 onward-try to do homework/spend time with husband (Mondays and Tuesdays) or do anything relaxing until 10:30 which is bedtime for optimum functioning.

Starting this week I will be working OT on my Fridays and Saturdays off. Woot. Well, Saturdays I'm not in school anyway.

Finished my third graduate class. Only 11 more to go. Yikes. Most of the class for some reason Business Law was their last class. They were thrilled. I have a year left to go.

Work is busy-but good.

Dogs have eaten sprinkler control valves twice.They are costing me money and stress hand over fist. I asked Chris if we could get rid of one and got yelled at.

My earliest vacation date is New Years when I will be going to visit my parents at their new home in TX.

I miss Wisconsin.

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And I don't know what to do, 'cause I've been so lost

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:13:16 GMT

Hello again internet! I've missed you. Actually, I've had internet for a week but I got caught up in stuff.

Like finishing my first graduate class. Hells yes! Good times, I'm telling you. I like it a lot, and I really hope it continues going well.

The Triple Crown is over. And I didn't talk about it much. Three races, three different horses. I don't know what to say. It's okay though, Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandria race next weekend. So there is more horse racing to come.

Work is going well. Because I'm a greedy selfish bitch I applied for another promotion. And the guilt is eating me up inside. This week at work is going to be terrifying,I have to give a presentation in front of my boss, my co-workers boss, and the senior manager of our division. Oh, and the co-workers whose work I now evaluate. This presentation? I have to do it three times at three separate offices. First thing in the morning.

I'll be back with more updates soon.

I think I want a Zenyatta Icon. Or Castiel.

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Bloodless

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:35:36 GMT

Freedom feels good. I can honestly say now that the second season of True Blood is over I feel no compulsion to see third season. I will miss ASkars who I think is amazing, but ugh. The changes they made from the books kills me interest. It was much easier then I anticipated because I really thought I'd be more interested in the third season. So, this is good. One more show off my list.

Work has been interesting. We're working some OT, but there is only one week left before we are cut off again. I guess I should be happy that management just expects us to do our job? I don't know.

I am enjoying watching the Bears and Packers play. I'm surprised it's on the west coast. Right now the Packers are winning. I hope that lasts all the way through the game. It would be nice.

Dr. Horrible won an Emmy. Yay!

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Don't Use Words I Don't Understand

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:28:47 GMT

Ahhh. Crap. I hate you fandom. Torchwood broke my little fangirl heart and I swore off fandom for awhile, but True Blood. I should have known my love of vampires was going to suck me right back in. Possibly, I should re-think that last sentence. Anyways, thoughts are under a cut for spoiler purposes.

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IN RL news I'm having to switch dates for going home to WI. Well, at least i hope to be. There's a lot going on in September for Chris and I and I don't know if I can take time off, plus work is being pushy about how I knew I didn't qualify for paid time off. Yes, I knew. I just assumed I'd take unpaid time off. Apparently, that's not allowed.

Work is stressful because we're so far behind and there's so much to do. Good news is that I stay busy. I like being busy.

The dog and I have been on better terms this week. We're working on a strict schedule of walks and feeding, and I realize that unless I want to deal with a sick dog I no longer get to sleep in on weekends. Ugh. Life is not fair.

I spent time in Borders this week reading the latest book by Michelle Sagara. Very interesting. I really enjoyed it despite missing 60 page gap of which 30 showed up randomly in the book later. No really. The book went from 270 to 300 something and then later 270 to 300 showed up but the rest of the missing pages did not. So I was really confused for awhile. Tiamaris and Nightshade are going to be having some interesting conversations.

Bah it has suddenly turned hot and muggy. I am turning on the AC. In good news-Chris is coming home for the night. I don't know why, but he's on his way. YAY.

And: RACHEL ALEXANDRIA WON THE HASKELL AGAINST SIX BOYS INCLUDING SUMMER BIRD. GO RACHEL!!!

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Just Some Thoughts

Thu, 14 May 2009 01:33:46 GMT

Well, remember when I said that the noticeable absence from The Kentucky Derby was Barbaro's full brother? Yes well, I know who that is now he's a three year old cold named Nicanor, and today he broke his maiden. Horses who run in maiden races have never won before. This was Nicanor's fourth race and they moved him to the turf (grass) and he won by 15 lengths. An impressive victory. So that's where is. No, not Kentucky Derby material by far. However, if he continues to do this well on turf we might be hearing more of his name later this year. So I found that on my livejournal friends page today and thought I'd share.

In other horse racing news the Preakness Stakes the second leg of the Triple Crown is on Saturday. Now, I'm going to say something shocking: I don't want there to be a Triple Crown winner this year. No offense to Mine That Bird who ran a surprising Derby and all, but I want Rachel Alexandra to win the Preakness. And no, it's not just because of the name. It's because she rocks. Now, some of you may be asking how does this effect the field?

Well, Rachel Alexandra won the Kentucky Oaks by a strong 20 lengths. Also, Calvin Borel the jockey for Mine That Bird was her rider. In fact, he's contractually obligated to ride Rachel Alexandra over Mine That Bird. So, I just tried to check who is know the jockey for Mine That Bird but the official website still says Calvin Borel. I know he's impressive, but even I don't think he can ride two horses at once. So I think a lot of Mine That Bird's performance was how Calvin rode him. Plus there is the concern for him about the shorter Preakness distance. I would be a fool to count him out of the race, but I think things will challenge him.

Often times I feel like the Preakness is the weakest of the three races, but I really don't feel that this time. The first four finishers in The Kentucky Derby are at the race. Plus Friesan Fire is in the race and I think he would have been a bigger Derby contender if he hadn't stepped on himself coming out of the gate. Pioneer of the Nile did a good job during the Derby of staying near the leaders and I think that stalking style might be to his benefit.

My predictions plus the magic hat (which really screwed up the Derby this year) on Saturday morning.

In real life....human resources departments are failing all over. Mine insists that I can't have two middle names, I must have two last names. Hence why I couldn't log onto my time card because it kept asking for my last name and then rejecting me. Little did I know it's because I don't know my own last name. Okay, snarking done now. SO has also had HR problems. He went up to the park on Monday to do orientation only to find out that none of his background check cleared. Apparently there is two ways to do the math on 'list four years of previous residences'. He did the math wrong. Also his uniforms are not ready. HR insists he can't work without passing a background check (which I understand) but no one else is scheduled to work on Friday so Chris's boss would very much like them to get on that. We're still waiting for word.

Went down to LA for Mother's Day due to some unexpected time off for Chris. It was good times. Got to see Scout, and explain to Robin our hectic moving schedule. We're hoping for limited trips back and fourth between LA and Fresno. Pets complicate lives so much. Hopefully we get Scout when we move by June 19th. It's almost like a birthday present to me.

LA included SUSHI. Fresh yummy sushi. I missed it so so much. There was spicy tuna rolls, eel, CA rolls (for non fish loving SO) and edamame (not sushi). Sushi Don is a very strip mall like place near the Starbucks. A few tables and one counter. It's fresh, the guy who runs in came to America in the 1980's before sushi was trendy and spent time in CO explaining the concept to tourists. Sushi Don is affiliated with Sasabune a much more affluent and well known sushi restaurant in the LA area. Rummer has it they have a sign that says something to the effect of "We do not serve American sushi here-no CA rolls". So I have heard. We shall see.

This entry is getting long and I haven't even gotten to Dollhouse or NCIS yet. Tomorrow is another day.

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It Has Begun

Thu, 07 May 2009 03:11:19 GMT

The move to dreamwidth has begun. I am of course ninj on dreamwidth. This is thanks to the wonderful starlady who gave me the code. I have had everything from lj imported to dreamwidth. Sadly, this all came over with my new default icon of The Fool. So that icon is less thrilling then it first was when I picked it. I have disabled comments on lj so you will have to log in with open ID on dreamwidth (it's just your lj user address) to comment. If this is hard and you don't want to, but would like to comment on this journal by all means let me know and I will switch it back. Most of my friends list is still on LJ so I will still be there too.

Tagging. Um help. Because I thought Dreamwidth was supposed to have a better tagging system so that I could link tags that were related, but I can't seem to figure it out. I played around with it a little. The plan right now is to do one month of historical tagging a day and sort of catch up from there. I'm starting in 2005 because I was reading journal entries before that, and I'm just not sure I want people find those. Besides a lot of them would be tagged with 'I was stupid'.

Work is long and hard. We are supposed to go live tomorrow at noon. Cross your fingers people because it's going to be pretty darn interesting. I got my numbers back from April and those were good. I'm happy because April was a pretty bad month for work days. Sadly, my timecard system is not working at this point. I would very much like to get paid next week. Yes.

NCIS continues to make me twitch. This was not the Ziva and Tony relationship I've seen forming for years . Nope. And they've said somebody is going to die. Yay, more character death. Oh look, another new tag *twitches*.

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