The Random Dilettante

I’m up and I shouldn’t be, but oh well. Audrey’s home for the day…for silly reason’s actually, but that’s beside the point. So I’ll be up until she goes down for nap time, and in the meantime I’ve been watching “Meet The Robinson’s” for the 6th time since we bought it last Saturday. She loves it, I love it..I think we all do. We first saw it in the theater on Andrew’s Birthday this April, and when I noticed it came out on DVD I had to have it. It’s a great little story for all us orphans out there..haha. Truly inspiring, and when I first saw it, I cried at the end..it has such a happy ending, I couldn’t help it.

Anyway, at the end there’s a song by Rob Thomas that’s called “Little Wonders” and it’s got one hell of a message. When I watched it this morning it made me think of things that have went on in my life over the past few years, and things that are going on with other people I know right now, and how if I could just truly take the advice of the lyrics in the song, how much better I’d be off….how much better we’d ALL be off.

Here’s the Lyrics & Video - let me know what you think
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“Little Wonders”

Let it go,
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don’t you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in,
Let your clarity define you
In the end
We will only just remember how it feels

Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders,
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours,
These small hours still remain

Let it slide,
Let your troubles fall behind you
Let it shine
Until you feel it all around you
And i don’t mind
If it’s me you need to turn to
We’ll get by,
It’s the heart that really matters in the end

Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders,
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours,
These small hours still remain

All of my regret
Will wash away some how
But i can not forget
The way i feel right now

In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists & turns of fate
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away but these small hours
These small hours, still remain,
Still remain
These little wonders
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away
But these small hours
These little wonders still remain

Let me just say that I’m all better now, and so is Audrey..I’ve just been tired/distracted/busy so far this week. Tonight I got pulled from the cottage I work in to go to our secure facility because some girl was acting up so bad she got taken away by the police TWICE. And brought back TWICE. Go figure. Anyway, she was having a “power struggle” with another staff that was working so they switched me out with him until she fell asleep. I was stuck there until about 2am and then came back to my cottage and had to make snack for tomorrow (cupcakes) and breakfast (bacon & pancakes) so I didn’t really have any time to even sit down until now (4:30am). I still have things to do so I have to make this short too…BLAH.

Not that there’s much else going on, but with more time I’m sure I could come up with something.
Tomorrow’s Friday! YAY! I seriously can’t wait.

I’m writing a post at 3:30 in the afternoon. Normal for most people…pretty strange for me!

I went to the doctor yesterday because my throat was killing me and it turned out I had strep throat. Needless to say I didn’t work last night. I actually slept in my bed on a Thursday night, it was SOOOOO nice. My throat was much better this morning too
Audrey has been home the past few days with pink eye. Man is that some nasty stuff! Her being home all day also cut into my sleep time and totally threw off my schedule, which didn’t help me feel any better. The worst parts over now though, and by Monday we should all be fine. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a “normal” week.

Delta is still doing great..she’s an awesome puppy. I can’t say enough. Chief hates her though. He runs from her all day, and usually retreats to his kennel or someplace up high where she can’t get to him. I’m not sure what his problem is. I’ve been making sure to give him plenty of attention, nothing seems to work though. Hopefully with some time he’ll warm up. At first he was great, but then I think her welcome wore off.

Anyway the main reason I wanted to blog was to write about a new album I CAN’T WAIT to come out…and now days that’s rare. It’s a new band from the lead singer of TOOL, Maynard James Keenan, called “Puscifer” and it’s GENUIS. Good beats, and his music has a lot of content, which I love. There’s always a message…perfect for every “thinking” girl out there that loves when people speak their mind! The album is called “V For Vagina” and comes out October 30th. Oh yeah. It’s mine. Oh! Spider Man 3 comes out on DVD on the 30th too. Double the sweetness!! If my favorite month of the year has to end, I’m glad it’s going out with a bang
The band isn’t for everyone, but if your curious, check them out at: http://www.myspace.com/censorshipisacancer (make sure to listen to “REV 22 20″) and you can also go to - https://store.puscifer.com/ - they have a kick ass website.

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I’ll be back Saturday night. (I picked up an extra shift at work)

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Delta had an awesome day…she’s THE BEST! So far we don’t even have a problem with the potty-training, she goes with the boys when they are all outside. I went to bed around 9am this morning, and then let her out at noon, and then I was back to bed at 1pm and then let her out again at around 2:45 because she was whining and had to go to the bathroom. All in all not bad!

I will be glad when she gets a bit larger. She’s so tiny and constantly weaves in and around our feet that it’s hard to not step on her. We are all on tip toes around the house, it’s hilarious.

Oh, and Andrew didn’t have a problem with her last night, she slept all night. Wheww! I was worried he’d be up all night and grumpy to me this morning. He wasn’t though, and actually said more than a few times today how damn cute she was. That’s a great sign to come from Andrew!

In other news, I also got my Senseo in the mail yesterday. I should have gotten it Friday, but somehow I missed that it was being delivered to my old address in Carthage. Luckily I caught it though and called UPS to get it sent to the right place….it just didn’t get here as quick. Anyway, I absolutely LOVE it. It’s so easy and the coffee is AWESOME. The only thing I noticed was that their version of 1 Cup isn’t really much at all, I have to hit the 2 cup button to fill a coffee cup. Maybe the 1C button is for those really tiny coffee cups. I don’t own any of those. Go big or go home!! ha. Also, it suggests to use 2 of the coffee pods for the 2 cups option, and I found that to make extremely strong coffee…..even too strong for me! So I just use 1 pod and it’s perfect. I’ve even used the same pod twice…and it’s still good. Last night it took a little over 1 min and I had a nice cup of coffee to go to work with me, it was nice. I was just thinking how nice it is for company too…you know..for that random person that wants a cup of coffee…no problemo! I am completely sold as you can tell!

* For anyone interested I’ve noticed EBAY has pretty decent prices for them. Sometimes the shipping is high, but even with that, I’ve seen you can potentially save a good $20 to $30 over retail. I should have looked over there first, but I didn’t even think about it! I paid around $70 for mine and I see identical packages on Ebay for around $45 including shipping! Not too shabby. Here’s a link to an auction right now on the system I got. I picked the “gift package” that includes a nice coffee mug to take on the go, 2 pod canisters, and 2 full packages of coffee pods. It’s a good starter set.

Anyway, I better get to work…it’s 2 am and all I’ve done so far is surf the net!

PS- The new template is to honor HALLOWEEN….can you believe it’s almost here?  Yay!

Alrighty…well here it goes…

I’ve made another impromptu decision about something I wanted.  It’s major too, not just your run of the mill dilemma on whether you should upgrade your cable to include HBO or Showtime.  Nope, it’s way more than that, and it’s not that I regret the decision, it’s that in the back of my head I know it wasn’t the wisest choice.  It was a pretty stupid one actually, and really made no sense what so ever.  I expect a lot of ridicule from people about it actually…and a whole lot of “What!?!”  “You did not!?” — oh yeah…I can hear it now.  But damn it all, it was love at first sight and I couldn’t think straight.

So what the hell did I do?  Prepare yourself.

I bought a puppy.  And we have 3 dogs now.

3 DOGS

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Yes, yes.  I know you think I’m crazy.  We’re all crazy in our own way though….. right??  Right? Ha.

We first saw her at the mall on Sunday, so tiny and cute, but Andrew said HELL TO THE NO and we went home.  He’s always the rational one.  Then tonight we went back to show the girls the puppy I talked about constantly last night, and really, once I think about it, Andrew should have known better to let me go back so soon.  I asked to hold her so we took her to a little playroom and she was just the cutest thing you ever saw.  Not timid at all, just happy to be out of her little white cell.  I couldn’t imagine putting her back in that cold looking cage, even if the jury was still out with Andrew.  I knew it wasn’t practical, I knew we could put out money to better things (like bills!) but F*ck!  I didn’t do the sensible thing at all…I caved.  And I feel a little stupid, until I look at her and it all washes away.

Her name is “Delta”  and she’s a mini dachshund.  She weighs a whole 3.2 pounds and is black with a hint of brown on her feet and ears.  The “boys” (Chief & Gatsby) have been great with her so far, and she’s a little spit-fire with them and not afraid one bit.  I can just imagine how huge they must look to her, yet she jumps up on them and tries to play all the same.  She’s been great in the kennel so far too.  Gatsby and Chief sleep in theirs and prefer it that way because that’s how they’ve been raised, so we will do the same with her…or it just wouldn’t be fair, and the boys just might go on strike!  She doesn’t seem to mind at all, she just cuddles up in the blanket and settles in for a nap.  Of course, I haven’t spent a night with her yet, but Andrew is as I type this, so hopefully she does good tonight and doesn’t keep him up all night.  Like I said, Andrew is the sensible one so he is still warming up to the idea and giving me “looks”….yeah…you can imagine.

I will try and get to taking some pictures of her tomorrow.   And I will let you know how easy it is (or isn’t) to catch some Z’s during the day with a puppy in the house.  Hopefully it’s not too bad.  Cross your fingers for me, even if you do think I’m stupid!

Hell yes!  It’s Friday!! I’m at work (as usual) and I’m pulling my last shift for the week and I’m about to start a 2 day weekend!  It’s been over a few months since I haven’t picked up an extra shift, so usually I get to sleep in Friday nights, but I’m back at it again Saturday at midnight.  It’s been wearing on me, to say the least.  Then last weekend I worked Friday night and ended up getting “stuck” till 4pm on Saturday…I was not a happy camper.  My 8-4 staff called in and when that happens they try to find someone to cover it, but if they can’t, the person already on shift gets stuck.  We had plans for Saturday too, so I was pretty upset…but what can you do.  It went on top of the overtime I already had, which is pretty good money, so at least they paid me a good bit to stay.  The money was the only thing that helped console me a little.

Normally I should be getting off at 8am on Friday mornings and be off till midnight on Sunday (my monday) -  it just hasn’t been the “norm” lately.  I’m hoping to start just picking up an extra shift every other week.  They’ve been short-handed though, so it’s hard to tell.  I have this weekend off, and thats all that matters for now!

I don’t even know what we’re doing this weekend, and I really don’t care.  I’m just happy to get 2 full nights in my bed
Oh!  And guess what I got for myself for my birthday?!?!  (ya gotta take care of yourself ya know, hehe)  I got one of those Senseo coffee makers that makes one cup of coffee at a time and the coffee comes pre-measured in little “pods” which is awesome.  It’s perfect for me because I’m the only one that drinks coffee at my house, and when I do it’s only 1 or 2 cups.   I can’t wait to try it out.  It’s supposed to be here tomorrow sometime.  yay!

Alright, I better go and get some work done.  More later!

For those of you wondering, my birthday went off well. I didn’t do a whole lot because I worked the night before, but Andrew and I did go out to eat at our favorite mexican place up here, so that was nice. I had a few glasses of wine and the conversation was great, I couldn’t have asked for much more. When we got back home, I went back to bed for a short nap before work and when I got up I had a message on my phone from my dad and he sang me Happy Birthday….not the short version either…the whole thing, hehe. He’s done it every year since we’ve been back in contact, it’s pretty funny and brought a smile to my face…even if he was being a big nerd. Thanks for the call dad.

Then today after work I checked the mail and had a card in there from my brother and sister-in-law, THANKS GUYS! It was probably there on my birthday, but I’m a reject and didn’t even think of checking that day. We don’t have a mailbox at our house, it’s at a big station at the end of our street, so it’s lucky to see me once a week. I’ve been trying to get into the habit of checking it on my way home in the mornings though…every once in a while there is something worth checking in there, lol.

I actually sat down and typed out a much better blog last night around 1 am but I got interrupted and even though I thought I saved it, when I went to retrieve it, there was no trace of my previous effort. I hate when that happens so I threw in the towel for the night. Lately I’ve had to sit back in the dorms of where I work because the rooms where the residents sleep don’t have sensors anymore due to some remodeling that’s going on. On one hand I don’t mind it because I get to sit back in the office, and I take the supervisors ethernet cord from his computer and hook up my laptop, so I have internet…which is pretty awesome.

The downfall is that I’m stuck in this chair most of the night, and I’m used to having the run of the cottage at night. I got into a routine of watching certain shows on TV and then doing all my tasks I need to get done at night during the commercials. It worked, and made my night pass pretty quickly. Now I have no TV, but with the internet I’ve actually got to watch a lot of the new shows that have been coming out. Mainly on ABC, because thier site is really good about offering full episodes online. It’s user friendly and puts out a great picture, I love it. I’ve watched “Pushing Daisy’s” and the one about Dirty Sexy Money…or something like that…both very good shows that had I not had the oppertunity to watch online I probably never would have seen. I hardly watch any TV at home anymore. I’m always either sleeping, cooking, cleaning…you name it, anything but watching TV. I don’t say this like it’s a good thing either!

Anyway, I better get off here for now. The security guy will be up here soon and that’s what happened last time, I stopped to talk to him and lost my post forever! Grrr…

It’s my 31st birthday today, and I figured I’d start it off right and create a new blog. My old blog @ blogger served me well, but I’m ready to move on. There’s just so much of my past wrapped up inside it…some of it worth forgetting. Ok, maybe not totally forgetting all of it, but I aim to work past it all instead of suspending myself in the stench of the past. Maybe that was half my problem lately with blogging; every-time I would post I would think about what my blog used to be, and how much has changed since I began it. Trust me, if you get into thinking like that for too long, things have a way of getting clogged up and words don’t flow very easily.

So here I am, with no guarantee’s, other than I hope this blog serves me as well as my last.

I’m 31 yrs old…that’s some crazy shit.  My age doesn’t bother me near as much as how fast I seem to have gotten here!  No lie, time flies wicked fast.  Before I know it I will be 40 years old…or 50…eek.  That’s truly scary.

Anyway…here’s to “moving forward” and not putting myself into a rut again.  I’m a “30 something” now…I gotta get my shit together!