Happy Turkey Day tomorrow everyone!  Eat lots of pie and remember to wear your "fat jeans".

I get to go home tonight and make four more pies.  Three to take to my parents and one for hubby.  I made two last night and my mom will make two more.  That's 7 pies for 10 people.  I like the pie to people ratio.  It's pretty sweet. (Literally)

So, travel safe, have fun and eat well.  I WILL!

Oh, and then I get to try my hand at hunting again on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I hope I get a buck right away so I can stay inside where it's warm the rest of the time, but I won't count my chickens before they're hatched.

CIAO!

If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for?

Answer me, then if you want, post to your own journal and see how many crimes you get accused of

Today is one of those zero ambition days for me.  I can't have it either.  I have a lot of work to get done, but don't wanna.  It's already 11:00, too.  I really only have 4 1/2 more hours to get everything done between lunch break and then having a client come in this afternoon to sign wills.  Maybe if I bust butt after lunch I'll be able to focus and get it all done.

Hubby had a good morning.  He shot a ten point buck.  Nice spread.  He's pretty psyched about it.  Maybe that's why I don't want to focus.  I want to see the buck he shot.  Oh well.  I'll have to wait until I get home tonight.  We'll have to get another mounting kit.  I don't remember what letter I'm up to for naming his dead deer though.  It's a little easier for me as I've only shot two of them so far.

I have to have surgery next Thursday.  One week from today. Yippee.  It's only oral surgery and it won't hurt really bad.  It'll feel like I have two bad pizza burns in my mouth.  Nothing too major.  But I don't want to deal with it anyway.  Oh well, better than having my teeth fall out I suppose.

OK, I'm going to try to get at least this one tape of dictation finished before I go to lunch in 50 minutes.  I hope it starts raining soon so that I don't have to go for a walk.  I kinda wanna go to Big Apple Bagles.  I haven't been there in forever.  Not since I worked in Oshkosh last.  Let's see, that was in 2003 I think, so 5 years.  They make such yummy sandwiches.  I think I'm going there.  Sooooo good.  I'm not even hungry though.  OH well.  You can't go wrong with yumminess.

I think sometimes that men are worse than women.  If you want or need help with something then they should just ask for it, not get mad about it because you didn't swoop in and solve the problem yourself.  Even if someone else does swoop in and fix it, then they get P.O.ed because they didn't get to do it themselves.  And women are never pleased?  Whatever.  I think all people regardless of gender are impossible to please.

If there is something that needs to be done and I say, "I can take care of it, just let me know what information I need to know," tell me the information and let me take care of it.  Let me help!  Hey, I'm not the smartest stinkin person in the world, but given the right information, I bet I can figure it out!!  I just want to scream.....

But no, I have to put on a happy face, smile and be freakin FABULOUS!  Because that's what is expected of me.  I can't have a bad day. It's not allowed.  AHHHHHHHHHH!  I think having to pretend happiness is sometimes harder than dealing with the problem at hand.

Ok, I'm done venting aimlessly.  I'm not feeling any better about the situation, but I'll put on a happy face anyhow and it'll just be freakin fantastic.  Oh I'm so excited.

Hallelujah for Friday!  I'm so looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow.  I had a big lunch so now I want to take a nap.  Applebee's Carside to Go was an amazing idea for the company.  It's like a drive thru almost and I love it!!!!

The weather is supposed to be craptacular all weekend, so I'm going to do a lot of tv catching up and shopping.  I'm coming up to Oshkosh again tomorrow so that I can go shopping with someone that I used to work with in Madison, she's in town and we're going to be meeting up.  So fun.  I don't need anything, and I probably won't buy anything, but it's fun to look anyway.

I don't really have much else important to say.  This weekend won't be as exciting as last because I won't be hunting.  I got a doe last Saturday and I was ECSTATIC!!!!!  That really doesn't even begin to describe it because I was soooo happy.  It was kinda gross having to cut the deer up on Sunday though.  But that's part of the package deal.  I even had to gut the deer out.  Jesse says that if I want to take part in the glory of hunting I have to take part in the guts as well.  Oh well.  It's really not that bad and you're so excited about the fact that you got a deer that you don't worry about having to take out its insides.  I got to use my new camera to take pictures.  It was fun.

I could seriously lay down and go into a food coma right now.  I'm so not going to be hungry for dinner tonight, but that's ok because Hubby is at work anyhow and I don't think its as much fun when you only have to make the food for one person.  I end up having ceareal an aweful lot.  I love cereal.  That and hot dogs and mac and cheese are my default foods if I can't find anything else that looks appetizing.

I have to read a book this weekend for my bookclub.  Maybe I'll do that tomorrow when I'm not shopping and on Sunday while I'm waiting for Trick or Treaters.  I'm love trick or treating.  The little lady bugs and pumpkins are my favorite.  The kids look so cute and fat.  I love it.  They get extra candy.  And I give the teenagers that are way past the age of trick or treating the Swedish Fish.  They should get jobs and buy their own darn candy.  Mine is for the cute little kids.

Okay, I guess back to dictation.  At least my day is almost done.  I get to leave at 4:30, go run errands for Hubby (because I'm told that's what wives are for, hee hee) and then watch the rest of the last season of Sex and the City.  I'm excited for that part.  I saw the movie in the theaters, but I didn't watch the sixth season so some of it had to be explained to me.  I can't believe how much I like the show though.  Weird.

Alright, I'm going to do the work I'm paid to do now.  Talk at you soon.  Have a great weekend.  And for pete's sake people, post away!  I don't have a life and need to hear about yours to make me happy every day. :-)

I get to go hunting this afternoon.  I'M SO EXCITED!  For all non-hunters I don't suppose you can understand, but this is fun for me.  Wish me luck at seeing something, being a good shot and not falling out of the treestand!

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You know how some days you just don't feel like doing anything?  Today is one of those days.  I could lay down and sleep all day I think.  And it isn't as if I don't get enough sleep at night.  I'm getting 7-1/2 to 8 hours every night, but I'm still tired.  Who knows.

I want to go see Fireproof, but it isn't playing in Fond du Lac. Stupid theaters.

I realized I have not posted in over a month.  I check LJ almost every day and I read all about everyone else, okay so the three or four friends I have, and then I go about my day.  I feel like such a taker and not a giver.  Hee hee.

Not much is going on with me though.  Life is like it always is.  I go to work.  I pay the bills.  I help all my friends deal with their lives.  They have so much going on right now.  One is not talking to me because I was honest with her about how she is living her life right now, but I know that she'll come around.  One is dealing with her sister having a baby that has major medical problems all while trying to have her own baby and deal with major financial problems in her life.  One is farther away and can't get a straight answer from her live-in on whether or not he wants to be together forever.  One hardly ever talks to me anymore because she's busy with her own life and we're just kinda growing apart again.

Then there is the plethera of friends that I haven't talked to in forever and I miss.  How did life get so crazy?  I miss kindergarten.  They had nap time, days and weeks went on forever and life was stressless.  My biggest concern was which friend I was going to have sleep over.  At what point did a month last a minute and before you know it the next season is here?  Crazy.

I do love the changing of the seasons though.  I've decided that right about the time I get sick of one season, wham another is there.  I love, love, love Wisconsin.  I don't think I would want to live anywhere else. However it is nice to escape somewhere warm come mid-January.  Besides, we have better cheese than other places (MARY!) and I couldn't live without cheese.  And other states have weird weather or bugs.  Yucky.

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So I got my test results from the doctor this morning.  My glucose and cholesterol levels are elevated.  Blah, blah blah.  So now I have to try and control it with diet and exercise over the next four months and then go back in and get another test done.  The sad thing......it kinda makes me wanna eat Taco Bell.  And Pizza.  And Ice Cream.  Is that a problem?

Whatever.

So I told Jesse and he didn't say I told you so, he just said, "this is why I've been telling you you've gotta be careful."  He says it cause he cares and I know that he has no problem with my weight because I've been like this the last 10 years we've been together.  It's not like I woke up fat one morning or something.  So even though he says it genuinely with love, I still wanna shove a big creamy pie in his face.

Whatever.

So Kenna is coming over tonight and we are going to go running.  And I'm really gonna have to start making sure that I make time to exercise.  Jesse said he's gonna start cracking the whip and making me exercise.  Is that tortur or abuse or anything?  Crap, I guess not.

Ok, so there's validity in the fact that I'm chubby, but can't the world just leave me alone and let me continue to pretend that it's not that bad?  There are people bigger than me, but that doesn't validate it I guess.  Arghh.

Whatever!

I guess I'm done venting now.   A little over two hours until I'm done with wok and then I get to go home and exercise.  Guess I better drink lots of water.  I'm hating skinny people right now, so if you're skinny you don't know what I'm talking about and if your pants size is a single digit number I do NOT want to hear about how fat you THINK you are.

Ech.

 So we went camping this weekend with a friend and his girlfriend.  He's making it sound to us like this is a fairly new relationship, but she blew that out of the water this weekend.  She makes it sound like they've been seeing eachother for over a year, and she just graduated high school.  He's nearly 7 years older than her, which isn't a big deal when one is 30 and the other is 37, but 18 (barely) and 25?  Soooooo much maturing goes on in that period of time.  She just graduated high school for pete's sake.  I don't get people.

I'm so happy I've never had to adult date.  I've been dating hubby since '98.  It makes my life so much easier.

Someone made me think of this e-mail I received and I just had to share it.  Fat girls of the world unite!

Women over 50 don ' t have babies because they would put them down and forget where they left them.

A friend of mine confused her Valium with her birth control pills... she has 14 kids but doesn ' t really care.

One of life ' s mysteries is how a 2-pound box of chocolates can make a woman gain 5 lbs.

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.

The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don ' t know what you are doing, someone else does.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat re really good friends.

Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.

Sometimes I think I understand everything, and then I regain consciousness.

I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting fire to my knicker ' s.  (This one is my favorite)

Amazing!  You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks 2 sizes!

Skinny people irritate me!  Especially when they say things like... ' You know sometimes I forget to eat! ' .....Now I ' ve forgotten my address, my mother ' s maiden name and my keys, but I have never forgotten to eat.  You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat! (so true)

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing and then they marry him. (OK, sooooo not true for me, but maybe for someone?)

I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding?  That ' s my idea of a perfect day! 

The moral of this story?  Eat well, Shop often, and laugh your hinder off!

 So summer humidity is kicking in in full force.  Yucky.  I went running last night and it was miserable.  I was already a little sweaty from mowing the lawn and running was way worse.

A friend of mine has this new boyfriend.  He's from Misouri (we're in Wisconsin) and she just met him a couple weeks ago at her friend's wedding.  She's really falling for him and is already talking about moving to Misouri in December to live with him.  That seems fast doesn't it?  On one hand I think about my grandparents who got engaged after meeting once and were married for 60 years, but on the other hand it kinda wigs me out.  What if, you know?  It comes down to the fact that she is gonna do whatever she wants, but I worry a little bit.  I just want her to be smart about it.

Other than that I don't really have anything.  Hubby is off work tonight so we are going to go to a movie I guess.  That'll be cool.  We're gonna go see Wanted.  Angelina Jolie is hot.  I don't agree with the whole steal Brad from his wife thing, but she's still hot.  Nobody beats Matt Damon though.  soooooooooo HOTTTTT.

Any tips from you guys about how to STAY on a diet and exercise regimine?  Food tastes too good and I'm just too damn lazy.  lifeflowson, you might be the best person to ask since it seems like you stay working out.  Of course being in California might motivate me to work out as well.  We're all chunky monkeys here in Wisconsin.  It's the cheese.  And the beer.  And all the other yummy dairy products i.e. ICE CREAM.  Oh, and Culvers.  Is there a Culvers by anybody not from Wisconsin?  I know they are out there, but I don't know where.

Mary I'm happy I'm not in California.  When I was out there we went to Del Taco for breakfast burritos in San Diego.  YUMMY!!!!  So not healthy, but soooooo yummy.  The fish tacos at Rubio's were yummy too.  I know some of the restaurants up here have fish tacos, but I'm not sure if they are any good.

Hey Eric, what's up?  Are there any good fish taco places in Madison.  FYI, I'll be down in the area on the 20th probably to go visit Amanda.  She's having surgery on Friday on her foot, or feet?  I can't remember if it's one or both.

Lifefest starts in Oshkosh today.  I wish Jesse would stop taking vacation the same week that Lifest is so that I can go.  Two years in a row I've had to give up tickets for it because he's home and won't go.  He's such a snotmonger.  (FYI, everyone is a snotmonger lately.  It's my new favorite word.)

No matter what anyone tells you, don't see The Happening.  M. Night Shyamalan (sp?) has really lost his touch.  Sixth Sense was cool, but since then the movies have gotten REALLY bad.  It's sad that it's like that.   He had potential.

Movies that I am looking forward to though:  I kind of want to see Wanted, the new Angelina Jolie movie and in August: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.  I sorta wanna see the new Batman movie, but I'll really only go if a friend of mine goes on a night that I can make it.  This weekend Jodi Picoult's book "The Tenth Circle" is being shown as a movie on Lifetime.  I have to tape it for my mom, so if it is nice on Saturday night I can always watch it Sunday when the weather is supposed to be craptacular.

I'm going to Country USA tonight.  We aren't going to stay until the end because we aren't huge Sugarland fans and I have to come to work still tomorrow.  Can you say Starbucks?  I'm still not gonna get home until almost midnight probably.  Oh well.  Maybe the Hubby will meet my new boss today since he is picking me up from work here.

So there is my random rambling for today.  I have to go back to work, which is keeping me quite busy.  I did get an e-mail for a former co-worker though saying that my old boss was asking how I liked my new job.  I still feel bad for leaving it, but I just couldn't afford it.  It was sad.  I'm sleepy.  I may have to take a lunch today anyhow and run to Starbucks.  I already had a cold frap from the store, but I'm thinking I need reinforcements.  I hope it doesn't rain tonight.  There is a chance, but we'll see.  Hopefully Jesse's bad luck won't follow him.  I love my window at work.

Sorry, randomness done momentarily.

Ciao!

OK so I haven't posted in like forever.  I'm loving my new job though and I think I'm catching on rather quickly.  I miss the people I used to work with though.  I'll have to maybe head down to Madison the one weekend I'm not swamped in July.

Last week's weather was crazy, but Hubby and I are blessed with a house on just enough of a hill that we didn't get water in the basement (more than a trickle anyway).  Fond du Lac was officially declared a Federal Disaster Area though, so I feel extremely blessed by God on that one.  Yay Him!

Since last week though we've had beautiful weather so it's nice because it helps to dry everything up.  It's so sad though to drive through town and see all the piles of stuff from people's basements.  It makes my heart hurt to see that stuff.  I just want to give them everything I own, but that's not really practical I guess.  Plus, like my boss said, a lot of it looks like it should have been tossed years ago.

I'm having a girl's night tonight.  I love having friends over and just chatting and relaxing with them.  I feel bad for a few of my friends though.  Two of them are contemplating ending their relationships because the guys are just NOT being appreciative of them.  So hopefully tonight will be a good mellow time for them and we can all just support eachother.  Of course my husband, as usual, has suggested we have a pillow fight in our underwear.  He's so hormonally driven and he knows it will never happen, but it makes me giggle every time he says stuff like that.  Other people get offended by it though.  I guess they don't realize that he really is just joking around.

Other than that I don't have plans for this weekend.  Ok maybe that's not true.  I have to go to my parent's house tomorrow and check their mail/feed their cat.  And I think that since I'm out there I am going to visit my Great Aunt and Uncle.  They are such sweeties and I haven't seen them since my cousin's wedding last fall.  I'm horrible at getting up to see them.  So other than THAT I don't have plans and if it is nice I kinda just wanna sit in the back yard and read.  I've got three books at home to read plus the one that I borrowed from a friend of mine like a year ago.

It's a beautiful Friday and it's my bosses birthday.  Maybe I'll luck out and he'll let me go home early today, but even if he doesn't I have plenty of work to do to keep me busy.

So everyone have a blessed day!

Ciao! 

I feel so out of the loop.  I haven't been on LJ since last Friday.  I'll have to make time at night to be sure that I keep up to date with everyone (the whole like five or six friends I have on here).  I'm loving my new job.  I'm loving how close to home I am and how short the drive is.  The girls seem like they are nice enough.  They aren't like CCAP people, but I guess that's to be expected.  Different sort of work environment and all.  I'm amazed at how easy it is to get back into the legal mindset with work though.  I'm so excited about everything that's been going on.  Yesterday I got to go to court with my boss, that was awesome!  I have to change my e-mail though for notices.  It's gonna be different now since I'm not in Madison anymore.  Oh well.  I'll update more another night just in case you all care. :-)  Be blessed!