Counting my blessings

I got a call today from someone in another work group. He was calling to tell me that he's going to be on Family Medical Leave for several months. His wife is quite ill. They have two children. One is only 8 months old...

I told him I would keep them in my thoughts and prayers. Not sure if that is PC or not, but he appreciated it.

Point me...in the direction of Albuquerque

Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. It's been awhile since my last post but I had to write about the runaway bride, Jennifer Wilbanks.

As if planning a wedding that has 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen isn't proof of insanity...she now states she wasn't trying to run away from her fiance or the wedding....she was trying to run away from herself??

But, gee, everytime she turned around herself was still there....so she had to keep running. All the way to Albuquerque...maybe she was watching reruns of the Partridge Family show where the girl was trying to get to Albuquerque on a Greyhound bus???

http://www.twin-music.com/lyrics_file/partridge/part/point.html

BTW, her fiance is the mayor of Crazytown....he still wants to marry her...

Hunky, Funky and Skunky

The "designers tell all" episode was last night on Project Runway. All the designers, even the ones that were eliminated on the first few episodes show up to dish on everyone.

Some really good outtakes and they poke fun at Heidi Klum with her "You're either een, or you're out"

Robert looked f-i-n-e!! Vanessa was a total brat and is just toxic. Jay's outfit was hilarious.

Next week is the final three who are designing a line for Spring Fashion week in NY and my money is on Kara Saun with Jay as a possible upset and Wendy...well, if she wins it will be unreal.

Itty bitty exposure

From msnbc.com:
Lara Flynn Boyle startled some passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight when she showed off her twin peaks. The ''Practice" star gave one of her more bizarre performances when she reportedly flashed her breasts at the crew aboard a British Airways plane and then tried to crawl into bed with a passenger she didn't know (In some planes, first-class seats convert into beds.), MSNBC.com reported. Boyle's shenanigans apparently didn't result in any formal complaints from her fellow travelers.

WOW....I didn't realize she even had any tatas to show??? Wonder what kind of medications she was mixing???

Brooding

I've been quiet. I've been brooding. I've been having a mid-life crisis I think. Lots of introspection lately....not something I typically enjoy doing.

I'm homesick for my friends and family back east. I think I can make a trip in April. Maybe I have SAD (seasonal affective disorder). It's been raining a lot (big surprise...rain in Seattle in January).

I've been trying to blast myself out of this funk cause work is very busy....I think I'm sad cause when I try to imagine how I'll ever get back permanently to the east coast...it doesn't seem very viable...

Living in unstable times

Wow...it's been a banner four weeks of natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunami, mudslides) Makes you wonder when we're going to get our big earthquake or tsunami we've been hearing about for years. Being in the Cascadia Subduction zone http://www.pnsn.org/NEWS/PRESS_RELEASES/2004Tsunami.html

The earth is going through a period of instability as is my work place. About 70 people were laid off this week from various depts in our larger org. They were basically automated out of a job. We don't typically experience layoffs here so it was a big shock to everyone and a wake up call to a lot of people.

Makes you think about how much you spend, could you get by on one income, medical benefits...and then of all the people that work so hard here. Who live to work instead of work to live. There are murmurs in the hallway regarding company loyalty, good performers being cut, no stability for employees anymore, having to keep increasing your skills so you are marketable and as indispensable as anyone can be.

It's been a sad 2005 indeed.

SNOW!!!!!

We had an awesome day playing in an unexpected few inches of snow today. We made snow men, sledded, threw snowballs and now we're exhausted!!

We don't typically get much snow here...just in the mountains...so it's about an hour drive to decent snow.

It may get a little icy tonight...not sure about school for my girl tomorrow....