Winter slipped in with little notice

I had yesterday off.  Today also.  But I was able to walk around and get some pictures.  For those of you who follow my life here or elsewhere you know I like to snap pictures.  I don't care if they are amazingly great pictures I just like snapping what I see.  This was one I found representative of where I live.  Winter mixes with the tropical bits and pieces that come up from beyond our country.  California was 'sub tropics' and here they can't even put the sub in front.  It's the tropics mostly.  We get exotic bits from other countries that escape from the zoos during hurricanes or are smuggled and dumped in the local glades deep in the night. 

This year flew by.  Not a bunch of good mostly sheer survival.  But I did survive.  Chaos is the new change and I keep my mouth shut and work.  I work too much but I have to say I have a wonderful safety net once I clock out.  I have friends and loved ones by my side.  I can text or call or just walk down the street to remember how cool other humans can me.  Work is to pay bills.  Life is what I do when not clocked in to work.  That said I still battle the changes that are being done without anyone asking if what they are doing is structurally sound.  Sucky but tis what tis.

I had a blessed year.  My family survived cancer and other assorted bumps in the road.  My friends survived other horrific things.  I was able to write and walk around and take pictures of the beauty that surrounds me.  I thank all of you for being my friends and taking time out of you lives to pop in and read if nothing else. 

For 2014 I wish the best to you and yours!

Oct? Really?

Okay, so I sucked blogging lately since I see my last post was Oct 25th.  My parents 55th wedding anniversary.  Brother and I got them dinner to a fancy restaurant mom loves.  She thanked me with a thank you note after thanking me on the phone.  Needless to say her birthday is Saturday and bro and I are repeating that gift.  She said to me, "Finally someone listened to me about what I wanted."  Noted!!!

Yeah I know picture is slanted but it was best I could do while taking picture inside with cell phone.

Another NaNo under my belt.  I barely was in forums but I liked what I wrote until the last week.  That's all been trash canned already.  I got at least 10 weeks of tale so I am happy. 

Just got car out of shop.  Ouch.  But needed.  Toyota cleared 80,000 miles so there were things that had to be done.  Happy days paid the bill in full and know that I am safer now.  Well as safe as you can be on the highways.

Work got even more interesting.  Came back from Thanksgiving to find the new 'lead' was fired.  He'd been shoved into the job when they demoted my lead.  She's now same level as me and took a $3.00 an hour pay cut.  She says it is all good.  Uhuh but she's over sixty so what else can she say?  That means heading into holidays with short staff and tons of vacations.  Joy ...

Hope you are all well.