Stepping out

My friends talked me into stepping out on Friday to hear a local band they raved about and said it was a must hear.  Supposed to be like Stevie Ray Vonn (spelling?) but not so much.  I still had fun.

Work's oddly distracting.  Being laid off but not until May means I can't do too much looking for a job or I lose the the perks.  The frustration of being oh-so-nice is exhausting. Add in the time change and I am one tired woman.

So the manager announced the three of us being given the 'opportunity' of being laid off and then had the gall to ask for ideas for our going away party.  No I am not kidding.

Not much more to add.  Go figure.

March Madness has cometh

Yeah my life went butter side down again.  As of May 6th I will be officially laid off from my job of nearly six years because of outsourcing.  I've been told many times this is a great opportunity for me - and it will be - but dang!

So I took Friday off to wrap my head around my growing opportunity after being violently ill Thursday o'dark and pretty much giving myself a slightly sprained neck aka whiplash.

Monday I walk into work still stiff and one of the other gals in the office tells me I look like a princess.  OMG so a stiff neck and sheer pride makes me look regal?  Or was it the glint of 'off with their heads' caught her attention.  It reminded of me a game my mom used to play with us kids on rainy days (I am certain they were rainy days because otherwise we would have been outside terrorizing our neighbors and their kids). Show of hands ... who put hardcover books on top of their heads and walked around trying to keep the book or books from falling off with their siblings?

Hands?  Dang just me?  I knew it was a game to amuse my mom more than us but I was good at it!

So keep me in your thoughts guys and gals since this is flipping my muse into hiding mode because stress mode is pushing harder!!!!

Forbidden Fruits

I have a rather torrid confession to make.  I am a candle fan.  Not just any candles but lovely, expensive sorts.  Party-Lite candles end up as liquid and disappear completely.  What's not to love?  They have great scents and I've been burning them in my Himalayan Candle holders.  They are salt carved and supposedly cleansing.  Bed, Bath and Beyond with coupon worked for me.  I've been burning in bathroom when company over and in kitchen when cooking.

Now to some bad news.  My nephew's father-in-law passed this past month and Friday is service.  There is no way for me to make it but others will.  That means all of my nephew's wife's family have died in the past 3 years.  Horrid.

Writing not so good ...too much noise in my life and my world.

Checked off "See professional golf tourney"  Honda Classic.  Probably won't go to another ever again but hey...did it.

Wild week in February

There are times I am truly floored by what happens in my world.  I've had folks tell me that I had to be fibbing (or lying) at the very least telling tall tales.  Nope.  Tis my world.

A tornado touched down in my area.  A block over trees were ripped up by their root balls and sent into traffic and pathways.  Power outage for a couple of hours.  Some traumatized pets (mine included - they don't like that sort of noise) while my next door neighbor slept through it.

Fences were pushed around and some of the duplex attached to me had some damage on the roof.  So this weekend was fencing and roof work.  The last worker left hour or so ago.  I have pictures but wasn't able to paste them in (yet?).

Still not writing enough to feed my muse but I am enjoying others work and trying to keep my humor in place.  Tough some days you all know.  The weather from tornado to gorgeous weekend what a world.

Hope you are all well.

Fat Tuesday

My dog has his own Disney stuffed toy.  It is called Sadness.  For some reason he snagged it when I got it right out of the box and decided it was his new pillow.  Some days he literally cuddles it.  So ...touching.  Jack doesn't like toys as a rule because he doesn't know that he is a dog.

Did battles with Xfinto (Xfinity) Comcast for the past 72 hours.  Bought the new "must upgrade" BS finally and went to install on Saturday.  It didn't work.  Three long phone calls later only one TV worked and the other was definitely butter side down with a heap of puppy poop on top.  Confirmed yesterday when they were forced to send out not one but TWO technicians.  Not only was the second 'box' dead in the water (or bedroom what have you) but turned out that nothing was going to work well without switching out some components outside on the damn roof I think.  Either was all good now but payback is going to be ...ME.

Lent is starting tomorrow and I always do my best to spend that time to think and listen.  Listening is hard but in long run helpful.

Hope you all are well.

February again....go figure

So I have the cover in Piker Press this week.  http:www.PikerPress.com and I always love it when I start a new tale.

This year has been crazy already.  Work has been challenging to say the least.  Enough said for that weird trip.  Oh, wait.  Too funny I did one of those 'mandatory' aka "volunteer' studies sent out from corporate.  The 'bait' is the 'reward' of $50 gift certificate.  The 'switch' was it was to the company run merchandise shop survey.  I laughed when I saw that was the 'reward' if chosen at random.  I pretty much trashed the bs nicely and damned if I didn't win!! The kicker there is NOTHING I want there but I must use the full 50 in one shopping experience.

I just spent most of my Saturday dealing with Xfinity to no resolution that is worthy of all my day.  I am trying to not rant but wow....really??? For the past six months the company has been nagging me to upgrade my cable box with all this free and easy ...stuff.  They lied.  They will pay. I have guests coming tomorrow and only one TV.  Need I say more?

At least it's not snowing.  But it is raining.  

Night Job

So I have a new tale launching this February on Piker Press www.pikerpress.com and my friend Sand told me that Piker kept trying to push my tale into another novel long written.  So we are working on new story title.  It cracks me up.  That said - go find and enjoy.

This week has had wacky weather.  Cold and tornado filled.  Mid week I figured out that I was so bad on updating my existence on social media it caused stress for my family on the other side of my universe.  As I told my dad this week...'Bad news travels fast' but at the same time I got it. Growing up most people moved less than a few miles from their folks once married.  Now we don't think anything about living thousand of miles from our loved ones.

Work is wearing me down.  I hope you are all well.