Happy Hour Chatter

Life can be such a challenge, and other days it seems to go off without a hitch. Why is that? Are there days that have better karma than others? Is it MY karma? I try to be in a sunny disposition 99.9% of the time, I really do. But even when it's bright and sunny in my world, someone always manages to rain on my parade. Must be their karma and not mine! ~L~ Today was good day though, seriously. I kicked it hard on some work projects that I've been pondering on (notice I didn't say "procrastinating"). I had the stereo-radio turned up a little and the songs floating through the airwaves were jammin! I couldn't have picked the play list better. Anyone who knows me, knows that my taste in music is eclectic, to say the least. Much to my heart's delight, they played U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", Eagles, "Hotel California," Blondie's "Heart of Glass," Bon Jovi's "Raise Your Hands", Ste...

Sometimes it is quite remarkable how things work out - luck, coincidence or divine intervention? You tell me. Waking up this morning, I realized that I had two appointments scheduled for 4:00pm. After some coffee and a little bit of procrastination, I decided to get ready for the day. As it happened, the phone rang at 8:00am (she usually always calls my cell phone or office phone, but today opted for my home phone) and it was Brooke calling to say she had a cancellation at 3:00 and would I be interested. Yes! Kewl beans! I went to my 3:00pm appointment with her and it ran a little over. I called my 4:00 appointment (by this time it as 4:15pm) and said, "I'm running late! I can either cancel or do a 1/2 hour, which ever you want." She said, "no problem, you're my last appointment for the day, come on over." Wayyyyyyy cool! In May, my path was crossed with quite a nice, dynamic individual who expressed interest in my yoga classes. Through several conversations...

Root canal scheduled for 8:30 am tomorrow morning.  What a lovely way to start the day! (sighs).  Not only the pain associated with the tooth, but the bill also!     

I don't and cannot divulge a whole lot of information about where I work or what goes on inside these walls, but this tore my heart open.   My heart aches for the grandparents of an inmate in the facility.  The mail cleark just brought me a letter from a grandparent who is responding -for the last time -to her grandson's wishes that they "be gone from his life" because he has found a new religion while in prison.  A religion that unites him in brotherhood with his fellow brothers (inmates) and discourages contact with family who shun this "new found religion."     The grandmother is very gracious and spells out the differences between being a Christian (love, faith, peace), and his being a member of this brotherhood (hate, violence, and fear) and goes on to say that, although they are "dead to him," they will continue to pray for him and love him.    Sad, very sad.....and just a little glimpse of what goes on in the dark wo...

  I was thinking that rainy days and Mondays always get me down.  But today, my day radiated with sunshine all by the flash of a smile by a co-worker and a little good natured joking around.   Thank goodness of friends and co-workers.   I'm happy to report that I survived my crazy weekend!  The night-time wiffle ball tournament was an absolute blast!  People were pretty easy going and there to have a good time- which I'm sure everyone did.   I left around midnight so that I could head home and be bright eyed for my free community class on Saturday.    Ten people arrived for the class and it was wonderful to spend the morning doing yoga with them.   Some of the beautiful faces were new to me, while others were wonderful souls that I've known before.    We didn't do alot of strenuous movement, but enough to get our blood flowing and set the tone for the rest of our weekend.  It was ...

Although it is Friday, this one is having a bit of anxiety over all of the things on my plate over the next 24 hours!   Somehow, and I don't know how this happened, I was talked in to participating in a "dusk to dawn" whiffle ball tournament!   A co-worker (and one of the townspeople where this event is being held) sweet talked me in to coming down to play on one of the "teams" from our facility.  I agreed reluctantly by saying, "OK, but I have to be home by 12pm - I have a yoga event to prepare for."   He seemed happy with that!  He informed me that he wasn't out to win - but to drink beer- and we could very well be done by 10pm! LOL   He and his wife are having a little cookout before hand in appreciation to the people who helped them move furniture during the "flood."   I won't be able to attend that as I have a training session with Levi tonight and I know he's gonna put me through my paces.   Wednesday ...

  Yes, I love food, especially when I don't have to cook it.     The facility is hosting an employee appreciation day today and we were treated to cheeseburgers, chips, and brownies.  Although I did the whole cheeseburger thing, my true love was the brownies and chips.   I a weakness for sweet, salty and crunchy - and that weakness was tested today!  Man were they good!!    Good thing I'm going to train with Levi tonight!!    Have a good day everyone!!    

  Well, my day was shot to hell by 8:30 this morning.  On top of that, I spilled coffee on my white slacks.    (Definitely going in to my yoga breath today).   Sherry

Another cheater post - this was posted on my yoga blog moments ago.  ~S~ The Celebrations have started - yours truly has a birthday today!     I've crept a little closer to 50 than I care to admit.  Though the calendar says differently, I feel as if I'm in my 20's!  Young at heart!  ~S~   My celebrations actually started last night, with a beautiful spirit presenting me with a darling water canister and magnet designed by Curly Girl Designs.  She and her daughter picked them out for me!  Very thoughtful and VERY much appreciated.    After a wonderful evening of yoga with my classes, I went home to find that hubs had started dinner.  Now THAT was a surprise, and a welcome one at that. ~S~   Today however, is the actual day of my birth.  Though I am unsure of the exact time, my sister says it was "in the morning".    So, today at 09:09 am - I jumped up out of my chair, r...

I know! How CAN that be possible?! I've been told that I can fill up silence rather nicely - but not today. I have nothing to comment on. Well, I probably do if I sit here long enough; something usually pops in to this brain of mine at one time or another. I could write about my weekend. Nah! Nothing spectacular happened to write about. Boring, mundane,and quite frankly, typical of my life. NOTHING exciting ever happens to me! No parties, no lottery winnings, no drama, just life on the ranch. NOT that I want drama of course. Sometimes it is just fine to be boring, when you think of the alternatives. Come to think of it, maybe I'll just not whine about being boring! ~L~ So, here I am again on a search for a blog topic. I could write about organizing my cd collection by genre, artist, and title. (ok, so I'm just a little anal about having order to my music!) ~L~ I have alot of music and tend to forget what I have. I was talking to a friend the other night about the ...

I'm cheating, I just posted this on my yoga blog.....  thought I'd kill two birds with one post! ~LOL~ Good morning everyone!  I don't know about all of you, but I'm supper pumped that 1) it is Friday 2) it's JEANS Friday 3) it's the start to the long weekend 4) it's going to be gorgeous weather!   Rock on!   ~L~   Ok, I just finished eating 1/2 of a peanut butter chocolate pastry and I'm on a little bit of a sugar rush - but gosh darnit, I'm just so excited I can hardly contain myself ~LOL~    Seriously, I hope everyone is as excited about the weekend as I am at this moment.    I don't have tons of plans for this weekend other than to hit the gym every day (we'll see if I follow through on that), do yoga every morning (I know I won't have a problem with this one), do a little "light" housework, catch up on posting on the blogs, bookwork/advertising projects, and find time in there to watch a movie or rea...

I have an abscessed tooth, and it doesn't feel pleasant at all.     I have a pretty high pain tolerance and can withstand quite a bit, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.  I'm also  extremely nervous that the long holiday weekend is coming up.  I'm NOT going to go the weekend without pain meds.    C'mon...it's hard enough to find a dentist (no offense Dr. JJ) on a normal weekend, let alone a holiday weekend.     Antibiotics don't seem to be kicking in either, so I'm thinking I'll need a stronger dosage or a different antibiotic altogether.    I'm not even going to go in to the expense of an abscessed tooth - that makes it all the more painful.     (sighs).