fashion print binder clips

Brillant... simply brillant.  Someone out there is truly thinking about me when they design stuff like this.  I swear it.

Especially when it comes to office supplies... I mean come on... for those who know me, know that I'm a office supply freak.  I love office supplies.  I know it's weird, but I just can't help it.

Awhile back, my sweetheart came home from a trip to Office Depot & had bought these for me.  Does he know me or what?  I felt like a kid in a candy store.

Seriously though, aren't these just the coolest.
I know that everyone wants to run out & buy some now.
And yes... I have both leopard & the zebra ones.

Now I wonder if someone makes animal print paper trays?  I know I've seen leopard & tiger print office chairs at Office Depot too & I'd love to have one (if only I could afford one).

Someone needs to open up a strickly animal print office supply store.  I mean all types of animal print too, not just leopard, tiger & zebra.  I know I'd probably be their biggest customer if there was such a store.

Just thinking about it, wow that could be dangerous.

come back daylight

Maxine says it perfect - I totally feel that way somedays.

It sucks when you get off work at 5pm & it's already starting to get dark outside.  Makes me feel like I've wasted the day for some reason.

I'm so glad that time of year is ending now.

My favorite time of year is when it stays light outside til like 9pm at night.  That's great because then you can get more done outside if you want instead of trying to hurry & beat the sunset.

With this crappy weather & it getting dark so early in the evenings, you feel like you're hibernating for months at a time.  Don't get me wrong, I would like to hibernate during the colder weather, because I hate to be cold... but... the cold weather shouldn't last this long.

After being cooped up for a certain amount of time, I start to drive myself absolutely nutts being inside all the time.

Hurry up summer time & warmer weather, I miss you.

education & weight

With time, women gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out to the rest of our bodies.

So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy.

Beginning today, when I look at myself in the mirror I will think,
Good grief, look how smart I am!

surprise filing cabinets

Much to my surprise, I walked in to my office this morning & I had 2 new filing cabinets sitting in the middle of my floor.

Did they fall from the leaking ceiling?
Nope... apparently "someone" decided they needed more room in their office & even though I didn't have room in mine... I got stuck with them anyways.  FANTASTIC!

Originally I had 6 filing cabinets, two of which are stacked on top of each other in the attempt to have a little more room, but now I'm up to 8 filing cabinets.

I'll be the first one to admit, I have to have things a certain way.  I'm picky about organization bigtime, so now instead of doing any real productive work today... I will be re-organizing my office to my satisfaction.  Hoping I can make it all work in a way that I won't feel like my office is closing in on me.

Wish me luck.

smokin' confession

As many of you know I've been a dedicated smoker for um... let's just say a "few" years.

Ok truth is... I lit my first cigarette when I was 15 years old.

Around 10th grade I put 'em down for almost an entire year & didn't pick even one up what-so-ever.  Of course the first time I did though... well I didn't put 'em back down again for the rest of my high school days.

Then around the age 27ish I decided to quit again.  Went to the dr & got some pills to help me quit this habbit & was almost successful but then when life started falling apart & the stress levels went up in my life, I failed.  I failed badly.

I've been wanting to quit for a long time now, but my hard true confession is that... I'm scared.

A little over a month ago, there I was once again at the dr's office asking for pills to help with the addiction.  The first week I was so determined & focussed on quitting & I cut back to almost half of what I was smoking.  I felt better physically & I kept thinking if I could just reach the point where I can go one entire day without a cigarette I believe at that point I can truly conquer this for good.  The dr made it very clear to me that I shouldn't try to stop "cold turkey" & because of my history of smoking, this would be a slow process over a 2-3 month period or I would be more likely to fall off the wagon later.

The older I've gotten... the harder everything seems to be.
It's harder to maintain that "skinny" figure that back-n-the-day I didn't even have to think about or work for.  If I even think about food, I gain weight nowdays.  I swear it.

I'm scared to fail again & my nightmere of weight gain while trying to quit smoking has come true.

So it's a toss up.  Gain weight & strickly concentrate on stop smoking OR keep smoking & work on losing weight.  Doing both at the same time is just simply impossible for me.  Even the dr told me that would be just asking for trouble to attempt both at the same time.

Here's another hard true confession for me...
I was doing great with the cutting back on smoking & working towards quitting altogether, but in the past week I've been so depressed about the weight gain I've failed badly with smoking.  So I'm stuck.

I don't expect or want to be some 100 lb anorexic barbie doll by any means, but I'd like to lose a few lbs & get back to where I should be again.

So what do I do?

I'm scared of failing again, but being depressed & not feeling so great about the way I look equals stress for me.  And stress equals smoking.

Everything costs money that I don't have.

I would run to the weight dr & beg for help... but that takes money.
Then I could attempt to lose weight & stop smoking at the same time... maybe I could do it, hell I don't know.

Stress... Stress... Stress... Stress...Stress

I feel like I'm stuck in a mud hole & I don't have 4 wheel drive to get myself out!

PS:  I'm currently taking donations

invited... but to pay

Has anyone ever been invited to eat & automatically assume that they are not paying for the meal?  Lets just say, like for instance if it were your boss who invited you.

Talk about frustrating.
Especially when you don't have the xtra money to be footing the bill for a lunchtime outing in the first place.

Lets say you had other "plans" for your paycheck that week.  Like maybe bills or something kinda important.

And the fuse gets shorter.

Shannon II aka Cletus

Saturday, February 20th.

Here's Shannon II aka Cletus... cute as a button.

(Fred's 5 year old nephew Andrew re-named him Cletus)

Don'tcha just want to pick him up & hold him?  I do.

He's just a little bitty thing, but oh so full of energy.  He was buckin' around in the hay & havin' a grand ole' time.  Not even a week old & already full of it.

Oh he's gonna be a mess.
You just can't help but fall in love.