Happy Hour Chatter

go so fast? (sigh) I woke up this morning with a "to do" list a mile long. My weeks are so busy with work and teaching, that I'm lucky I get supper made and my preparations for the next day done (so I don't have to worry about it in the morning). Thus, my weekends are jam packed with things that need to get accomplished (i.e. cleaning, laundry, preparation cooking for meals the next week, bookwork, etc.). I am really enjoying the DRV-DishNetwork however. I'm looking forward to sitting down tomorrow afternoon, painting my nails (a guilty pleausure) and being able to watch Oprah in record time because I can zip through those commercials! Yeah! Now, you may ask, why aren't I going to be watching the SuperBowl or go to any SuperBowl parties? 1) The Cowboys or Vikings aren't in it 2) We weren't invited to any Bowl parties 3) I just want to veg in my jammies, paint my nails, and relax!! Will I watch the game? Maybe. Who do I want to win? The underdo...

Well, I just went through a liteniny of woes on my Yoga blog, but I'll list an entirely different set of woes here. Where to start - I have my computer back after having memory installed due to my wonderful new little printer using up so much memory. The computer guy says, "it's not the printer" - but your antivirus program (Norton) is using a ton of memory, and it's not even a good program - it catches only 1/2 the viruses out there." Huh?? Just what I wanted to know. That, and I STILL can't print using my accounting program as it is an antiquated program that won't work with anything out there! Fabulous!!! He suggested going out and getting the Office Home and Student version of Microsoft Word (I'm running Works, which NOBODY uses anymore) and install it ($150 later), as well as uninstall my Norton to free up some memory (of which I have TONS of new stuff installed) and install a FREE awesome antivirus called AVG. Ok - I'll get right on that...

..smashing the heck out of my new printer with a rubber mallot! Geeeez!! My other printer died. I had it for 7 years and it was a wonderful little printer, it just ran out of ommmmph! Get a new printer with some bells and whistles, and now my accounting software doesn't want to play nicely with my printer,or vice versa! Of Coursseeeeeeeeeee, it's tax season and I need to get my stuff to my accountant. I've been working with this dang thing off and one for the last two days and I'm no more ahead today than I was on yesterday. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it is a regular heat wave out there! It has warmed up to -10 below zero!!!! (How sad is that?!) The bright spot in all of this - is that this weekend we are actually supposed to go ABOVE zero for a change, actually hitting the 30 above mark. Woooo Hoooo! Break out the shorts and flip flops! (Kidding, of course). I'm psyched for today though. It is my 1/2 day at work - which is a wonderful start to the 3-day weekend. I am picking my wonderful mother-in-law up at noon. She hasn't been out of her house for 3 weeks nor has she had her hair done for 3 weeks. Now, we as females, can appreciate how we feel when we get our hair done - especially after three weeks! When I told her that I would take her to get her hair done if she could get an appointment, she JUMPED at the chance! (laughing). She called me yesterday and had the following plans already laid out: 1) Her stylist could get her in at 9am - the first appointment of the day. 2) Her stylist, Jane, would pick...

This is ridiculous! I’m a pretty patient person – I can withstand most anything and find the positive side. To be quite honest, I’m having a tough time keeping a positive outlook right now. I’ve been staying at my sister Peggy’s house since Sunday morning. T went to the main farm on Sunday morning and immediately called back and said, “if you hope to go to work this week, you’d better pack a bag – I’ll be back to get you in 15 minutes so I can follow you in to town” – which he did. Good lord were the roads nasty!! In the short time that he had been gone and returned, the roads had drifted in – to the point that if he hadn’t been blazing a trail for me, I don’t think I’d have made it. Peggy has been most wonderful! She has opened up her house to me and we’ve had so much fun! Monday & Tuesday a good friend of hers – Kathy - also stayed (her roads weren’t any better than mine!) and we had a regular slumber party. We ate, we drank, we talked, we didn’t get much sleep! (hahah...

On Thursday night I was just getting home from Yoga at 8pm and it started to snow. We were in a storm warning at 6pm that night but I thought maybe it would miss us. T was home and when I stated that it had started to snow, he shook his head and got this absolutely deflated look on his face; his shoulders visibly slumped. I felt so sorry for him. We were getting ready to crawl in to bed when he took that all important "last look" outside and saw how heavy the snow was coming down and decided he should head over to the main farm. Enroute he called me and asked, "how bad do you want to make it in to work tomorrow?" That pretty much told me what I needed to know. At 11:00pm I packed up and drove in to town to stay with my sister Peg. The roads had already started to fill in and the "weather" had just started. Peg welcomed me in to her home and I ended up staying Friday night as well. Although the storm had ended by 5pm, T didn't sound real enthus...

..come back....NEVER! Uggggh! I'm so tired of the winds in ND. Especially when they blow that fluffy white stuff around and plug up the roads. T spent another night over at the main ranch. He wasn't sure he would be able to make it over there this morning due to the high winds we had yesterday and last night. (Our roads fill in with snow if someone sneezes) Cattle (in our business) are a priority and he and his brother need to make sure that they are fed, watered and that everything works alright in these sub-zero temps. I spent the night watching a few good movies. Dedication with Mandy Moore. It is billed as a romantic comedy but it wasn't much of a comedy, and the romance was hidden. I must say that I enjoyed it though. Made of Honor (with Patrick Dempsey) was good - that was a typical romance and closely resembled the My Best Friends Wedding , which was outstanding in my book. I was watching the CBS Sunday Morning show today and it brought up how nostalgic ...

it snowed again last night! We woke up to another....4? inches of fresh powder, which would be great if we were in the Rockies skiing! It really is quite pretty although it makes travel on these country roads a bit tricky at times. I went in to town yesterday and I felt like I was one of those monster truck drivers - I had the trucked locked in to 4-wheel drive (low, I might add) and blazed through a mile and a half of some serious snow drifts. I felt quite proud of myself! Then I fretted the whole time I was in town "how the heck am I gonna get home if the wind comes up?" Luckily, the snow plow came through and made a path down the middle of the road - which I'm sure is now filled with MORE SNOW! ~L~ I'm getting a bag packed so that I can leave it at my sisters house (Peg, hope that is alright with you?) and getting my yoga stuff prepared as well - just in case I can't get home for a few days. I'm finishing cleaning house this morning and Boris is on my ...

..a new year began! The stress and/or difficulties of the last year seemingly gone only to be replaced by hope, optimisim, and a clean slate of the new year. If only it were that simple. Though 2008 was a great year for me, some of the worries and woes that I experienced will certainly carry over to the next. The new year brings with it hope and a sense of renewal, giving ourselves permission to wipe the slate clean and open our thoughts and minds as to how to deal with these conflicts in our life. I think that the purpose of a resolution is sometimes NOT to follow through on them, but to examine our lives, discover what is holding us back and bring those areas of great angst to the forefront. Acknowledge them, focus on them and work on them so that they no longer become these great issues ever present in our lives. I asked on my blog survey whether anyone makes new years resolutions. I always do, though I seldom keep them. I have a very good friend who is resolving to "bring mo...