ummm....

Ok, so you know I don't like people. In a in general sort of way. I especially want people to stay out of my bubble. I know this may seem like a little thing but when you're protective of your personal bubble, it's REALLY irritating!!! I want people to stop using and/or taking things off my desk!!! Seriously! My desk is in an open area of our office suite. Everybody that comes in, has to come past me. It's a little like a small lobby. Usually, if someone needs something, they'll ask. You know, may I borrow your stapler? Can I have a paperclip? Do you have a pen I can borrow? I'm cool with that. But you would not believe how many people just take crap off my desk! Rude! And it ticked me off today. I admit though that today it was partly because I don't like the person who did it. Still...RUDE!


This is just an extra thing...
every morning I drive by this little pond, well I actually drive by several, but this one in particular NEVER has any duck or geese in it. You know why? Because there are a couple fake swans in it. Who knew that swans were so bad ass that none of the other water fowl want to be around them?? 

how I benefit from retirement

I know my fella still struggles here and there, not working and all. So far though, I'm really reaping the benefits of his retirement!

Today for instance, he's making a frame for me, for a watercolor we bought a few months ago.

He's also finished the vanity he built for me;

And he had to move a light box in the attic so he could put up my oh so cool light;

Not to mention that I haven't done the dishes once in the last month!

And last night when I got home from work, this was on the garage door;

Yeah, that's pretty sweet, I must say :-)

what I love about summer

First of all, because we're in the eastern time zone instead of the central time zone, it doesn't get really dark until 10:00. It's kind of cool, all that extra light. It makes you more productive, don't you think?

Second, no school means A LOT less traffic! Oh how I love my summer commute! It shaves at least 10 minutes off my drive! I know that doesn't really sound like a lot but trust me, 45/50 minutes with less boneheads beats the hell out of 60+ minutes watching out for your life! People drive better in California - you know why? Because they're afraid of getting shot! And people were getting shot because decent to OK drivers had had enough of stupid, rude, asshole drivers! 

Third, a lot less TV. Sure, there are shows I like but it is kind of nice that there's not much to watch right now.

Last but not least, the farmer's market! It's so awesome. Every Thursday, right outside our building here at work, we have a farmer's market. It's fantastic! Home grown corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, string beans and more. YUM-O!

Celebrations!

June is a super busy celebration month!

There's the daughter's birthday
The mama's birthday
Father's Day
My wedding anniversary
and one more thing I'm forgetting right now.

Last Sunday, we took Mom to dinner for her birthday and our anniversary. We went to a place called St. Elmo's. OMG! I can't even believe that you can make meat taste that good! We all had filet mignon and honestly, it was SO tender you could almost cut it with a fork! It was heavenly! 

On her actual birthday, we're going to drive up to South Bend and visit Notre Dame University. She said she's always wanted to see it and I am all about making dreams come true! I should've been Santa! Aaaaand, there's a chocolate factory in South Bend that you can take a tour of! Don't be silly, of course we're going to to go that too! Not Bill though...he's going to spend the day at Mom's babysitting the dogs and doing some projects Mom has for him :-) He's so great about that!

Oh! And Saturday is the annual 1/2 Price Books sale! 7 states are participating and 
nothing is over $2.00!!! It's the best thing ever! Movies, music and books!! You can never have too many books. Also on Saturday, there is a mega pet adoption event - all dogs and cats, $30. Over a 1000 of them! I feel like I need to go...but I won't. I really was going to...then I looked it up and saw an article in the paper from last years event and it said they "ran out of dogs" on the first day. They adopted out over 600 hundred dogs! That made me feel really good. Besides, I have my eye on a fella at our local shelter. I'm trying to get Bill to warm up to the idea. He loves the dog but he is already 10 years old. I don't care. He's so stinkin' cute!

I want to love him!!

Barbie

Stop messing around with Barbie! Leave the poor old girl alone. I saw something the other day about sales for some new modern, normal looking Barbie being horrible. All I could think was, duh. Who the hell wants a normal girl fantasy doll!!
Honestly, I didn't know a single girl, when I was little, that wanted to look like Barbie! Granted, I was kind of a tom-boy, but I had a couple of them. My little friends had Barbies. As far as I know, they didn't want to look like Barbie either! She was a doll for heaven's sake. Oh I know pop culture has turned girls into a hot mess but I would venture to guess that the largest majority of them still don't want to look like Barbie! I would also venture to guess that the whole big boobs and big butt thing didn't evolve from wanting to look like Barbie either! Geesh. I do love how Barbie has changed over the years though!

oh my...

The news is just cracking me up this morning! Oh my gosh! There is wacky shit going on in the world.

I know a couple of these are kind of old news now, but I'm just catching up this morning.

First, there's the story about the first Church of Cannabis. This story made me say, when my co-worker asked me what I was laughing about, "the absurdity of people! We are just soooo tolerant!" Really. Why are we so worried allll the time about letting people do what they want? It kills me! This one is so funny though;

http://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/matthew-tully/2015/06/11/tully-cannabis-church-smoke-pray-love/71056430/

This next one isn't really funny but still, what?!!?!? If you don't want to read it, it's about a woman doing 6 life sentences for killing 6 people (2 adult 4 children). Apparently there's going to be some series on a cable channel about violent crimes committed by women or something. But this show is trying to put a sympathetic spin on this woman. You know, she didn't MEAN for them to die, (she set their house on fire), but she was being abused, (she was 18). I don't know. Her attorney, (no wonder your profession is so maligned) says she should be released, she's sorry, she used poor judgement. Duh. Just because your nuts doesn't mean you're not guilty! I hate that! 

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/06/11/indiana-woman-convicted-killing-continues-fight-freedom/71094198/

And this last one? Well, you really have to read it. People are so dumb!!! Why would you even believe in the first place that this chick was black? Huh? 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/12/spokane-naacp-president-ethnicity-questions/71110110/

Whew. OK, back to work...

As time goes by...

today, Bill and I have been married for 26 years. In 4 years, I will have be married to the same person for half of my life. On one hand, I always knew that I would be married to the same person for as long as I was a married person. On the other hand, I can't believe I've been married so long!  Mom said she didn't think anyone would ever marry me! Ha!! Now look at me - twenty six years. 9490 days, give or take a leap year. I might not remember what happened yesterday on General Hospital, but I can still remember, clearly, our wedding day - our honeymoon - all the places we've lived - 26 years of life, shared with another person. Imagine.

Cheers to us!

newest project

Sometimes I think a project isn't going to take very long at all. Other times I think a project is going to take forever. Usually though, it's the design process that takes the longest. This one took me all of 10 seconds to decide on so that wasn't it. But dang, it took a l*o*n*g time to complete! I like it though, it's cheery :-)

Quests are hard!

We had such high hopes. And I ask you, what could be more fun than eating donuts all day?? We drove a little over 100 miles, we were gone for 6 hours, we ate 3 donuts and some donut holes.

Our first stop was the 2nd highest rated donut shop in Indy;

We got there about 8:40. They were out of donuts. Seriously?!

Then we hit the place rated best donuts in Indy!

The line was out the door. We waited 20 minutes. They were awful!!! Under-cooked and when you squeezed them, oil just oozed out. It was gross. It's National Donut Day people! OK, so they had donuts, but geez - they could've at least been good!!

Then we went to another top 5 donut shop;

You guessed it, no donuts here. I was expecting these places to be better prepared I guess.

Then we hit the circle downtown for square donuts. They were free! You can imagine the line, right? So we skipped that. And the next place on our list got scratched off because of road detours and we didn't really know where we were going anyway.

Next stop? This place;

Cute huh? They sell a maple bacon donut that I was really looking forward to trying, but....you guessed it. They were actually closed! 

The next stop in our quest was;

Nope. Nada. Zip. Nill. People!!! Come on!

After that, we were hungry, because we hadn't eaten any donuts, so our next stop was;

After that, we tried;

Thankfully, they were prepared for National Donut Day!! Hooray!! And they weren't bad either! Finally!

Continuing on to;

Yeah, they joined the 'no donuts for you' list.

We had a couple more places we wanted to go but only made it to;

 THEY are pros! Ready and totally yummy! They get all my donut business from now on!

All in all, we had a fun day but our quest was unsucessful. It was a little like shopping on Black Friday, at noon. You know, if want the best deal, you have to go at 5AM. On the other hand, I kept thinking, it's National Donut Day! It happens every year! Be prepared people! Good grief! 

mmmmmmm

We have a new lottery scratch off ticket theme! It's called, bringing home the bacon. It's like a scratch and sniff and it smells like, you guessed it, bacon! Honestly, I'm a little surprised that this is the first smelly scratch off lottery ticket. It seems like they should have done that a long time ago. Anyway, one of the prizes is a 20 year supply of bacon!! Who doesn't want that?! I would want the money though. I mean, what if there idea of a 20 year supply was only a 10 year supply for me? Maybe I could eat A LOT of bacon! 

And speaking of mmmmmm...last year when I asked my fella what he wanted for dinner on his birthday, he said, donuts. It turned out to be more like breakfast but I bought him a dozen different pastries/donuts for breakfast. I bring that up so you'll understand why this next thing is so much fun...
tomorrow is National Donut Day!! Last night I said, "honey!! Guess what Friday is?!?!? National Donut Day!! We better celebrate!" His response was so surprising to me. He told me to take the day off and we could celebrate National Donut Day by driving around the city and tasting donuts! Within an hour, he had a list of all the bakery/donut shops we could  go to. What a fun, whimsical thing to do! So unlike him. How could I say no? I ask you. Well, I couldn't. I'm taking a vacation day tomorrow and my husband and I will be driving around the city trying donuts all day. I'm totally stoked!!

just a couple things...

This morning on my way out the door to come to work, I thought, "off to earn a living!" What the hell does that mean anyway? Earning a living. I earn money for doing a job every day. So does that mean I'm living to earn that money for a job I do every day? Bummer.

Also, "life is short." Well, I guess if you're comparing it to the universe, or even dinosaurs, it's super duper short! But honestly, life is the longest thing you'll ever do!!

Pop culture strikes again:

some people were surprised by the ESPY Award nominations announced Monday, including some on social media upset that Caitlyn Jenner will honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

The recognition is awarded annually to someone "whose contributions transcend sports."

I'm going to stop talking about it now because it's SO STUPID!

Stop it!

Are there really so many transgender people in the U.S. that we should care about Bruce Jenner, aka Caitlyn???? Or is it because there are so few and we should care about that? Seriously?
I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FIG ABOUT BRUCE JENNER! Please stop devoting so much air time to him. It's just stupid!

Look what my fella made for me yesterday;

It's our new coat rack. Those are some authentic, super old glass doorknobs that he's been toting around for about 30 years. I finally found a use for them! It looks better in person. He says he's really enjoying these little projects, that he can take his time doing. Whew! Cuz I have about a hundred of them!!!