FICTION OF THE NINJA KIND

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.

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!

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.

AHHHHH. It happened again. My favorite character died on Sarah Connor. And it made me mad. Details under the cut.

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Dollhouse is good. Getting better. I shall have a drawer of inappropriate starches someday. YES. Sierra and Victor I think I love you. Echo and Ballard (not as a couple) too. And Echo's handler. Okay, I'll admit it I think this is another good cast show. Although Topher really does have his skeevy moments.

Dollhouse thoughts under the cut.

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Second interview yesterday did not go as well as I had hoped. My brain seems to become fearful mush. I should find out sometime in the next two to three weeks if I'm hired. I hope so very much that I am.

I am currently watching ***** my ****** play in dirty laundry. It's just what I want to do on this chilly Sunday afternoon. Fresno is a lot cooler then I was expecting. I hear that sometimes it even snows in the city of Fresno. It hasn't for the last two years though. Anyway, fall is coming to the central valley. and we've discovered some things. Our heat doesn't work. And because of ***** we can't get the heat fixed. I'm pretty convinced it's not broken and my husband just can't figure out the controls. So the stars refer to our pet. But since we're not supposed to have a pet we'll just stick with stars. And the pet will not be making frequent appearances in this lj until the future. No questions please.

Work is going okay. I continue to get positive feedback despite not having any signs of either a raise or a long term position. Which as you might imagine makes me a little grumpy. As did getting retrained to do a completly different job that I was supposed to do for four weeks and then it became a week. And then it went down to four hours and I was done and back to my old job. The Housing Authority needs to get it's act together. I don't know if I should suck it up and look for a better job now or just stick with this one for the year and then move onto a better job when we relocate.

Chris and I are really pushing our cooking, because I just spent this last week bored with food. I don't want to cook anymore because we only ever make the same things. We tried Chicken Cordon Blue last night and that was nummy, but somewhat bland. We decided that the breading needed spices. And Chris even cooked. Even better.

I got to go book shopping today and I lost round 300 with Chris over maybe watching Battlestar. He just refuses. BAHHHHH. He says this based off the old one which he saw. He has no idea what he's missing. He liked Tricia Hefler in Burn Notice maybe if I tried the she's naked act? Chris always look at me like I'm stupid crazy when I try that trick. And then says something disgustingly mushy about how he loves me and doesn't want to look at other naked women. Uh Huh. And the sun turned green. He loves me this is true. He won't even do anything with another women also true. He however has eyes and I don't care if he looks.

Sarah Connor Chronicles got better. I am so glad. I was kinda iffy there for a few weeks. Now I have my show back and there's love. And two more episodes have been contracted. Woot. It's not dead yet.

My favorite character died on CSI. So goes another show. Not that I've watched CSI in recent years.

Polictics suck, but I'm really starting to appreciate CA. They send you the full text of every law that is on the ballot. And well as Pro and counter arguments. Sadly Proposition 8 banning gay marriage will probably pass. I'm hoping the CA supreme court will just over turn it again as unconstitutional, but I don't think they'll be ballsy enough to do it twice. Thankfully, no one has come door to door yet.

I am starting to suffer from my lack of pet. I don't know why. I didn't have one all through college except fish. However, it really seems to both me that I didn't have one. I know why we can't have Scout here, and I wouldn't want him here because he'd be miserable. Really I thought I was holding up okay until Saturday. Saturday we were outside of Home Depot next to a PetSmart when Chris announced the following. "I want a ferret" I had never thought of a ferret. So we went to Home Depot and did our thing.

Then as Chris is advocating the joys of ferret ownership (they're smart, they're active, they like to cuddle as they calm down) I started thinking about it. Ferrets live in cages, our lease doesn't say anything about animals who live in cages, ect. So we go to PetSmart and are examining their wide selection of ferret cages, food, toys ect. There is only one problem-no ferrets. So we ask one of the workers. "Oh ferrets are illegal in CA but you can buy one online" Considering the contradiction of supplies, and her own statement of advocating illegal pet ownership we thought she was just dumb (I'm sorry oh petsmart worker wherever you are) so we go to the other petsmart across town to get the real story because the SPCA works there. We ask the SPCA "Ferrets are illegal in CA we ship them to Arizona if we find any" Indeed it is true, ferrets are illegal in CA. Painfully my pet dream has died. It was too late though because darn it now I want a ferret. I got a book on them and they sound like a lot of fun.

Work continues to go well. I finally got direct deposit. That's pretty much the bright side of my continued Fresno existence. I might get to go to a Buddhist temple in Fresno to discuss the poetry of Rengetsu. Who I know is famous but despite my most sincere wishes I don't think I can translate her poetry the way Robin's friend wants me too. But I might still get to go for trying so I'm all on board.

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As for House I have just one thing to say: Wilson. NOOOOOOOO.

I have this sinking suspicion at work that I'm overachieving. The job still seems to be too easy which means I'm cruising through rx packets with ease. To the point where I'm in the top two of the new people hired. I suspect that the girl who's with me is actually better over all as I am sometimes somewhat scattered. I still really like my job because it makes me think. It may be a nine hour a day office job but it's hard and I like a challenge.

My parents came this weekend which was really cool if somewhat stressful. They enjoyed coming to see us in Fresno and took us out to dinner. Additionally, we went to Sequoia National Park which was a lot of fun. Those trees are huge. Plus no bears, but we did see a mule dear. And got some killer home grown strawberries on the way up there.

Chris and I have picked up swimming as a hobby which is fun for us. It's a good way to cool down and stretch out after a day of work.

The Olympics have been really fun to watch. Mostly for the footage of China where it's like "I've been there, only it was cold". I'm still mad that the equestrian footage isn't on any station, but I am pleased that they are streaming it live. The last time I checked the US was in third over all. The Cross Country course looks amazing. Very pretty. The best part about streaming online is the lack of commentary other then someone they paid to type some comments here and there. Those tend to be helpful and brief.