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Friday, July 10th, 2009
10:15 am	My friend the babbling Brooke.. Hey girly! I adore your convictions to stand by William J. Clinton and Hillary Clinton during their presidential administrations and run for prez. When people would ridicule one or the other, you are firm and hold your head up high. I appreciate that you jumped ship for the McCain Palin ticket.. even though we all get ridiculed for that now.. it was fun and great to be friends with somebody with a common goal... and you know I told you I'm not a political person.. but for three fun filled months after Palin was issued on the Republican ticket.. I gained many new friends, including you and I value your friendship as one among many in spite of our differences. I know that your birthday is coming due and I saw this in the store a few weeks ago... Okay. Its cute even though it cuts on your girl a little bit.. An unlikely pair of friends.. glad we are friends!!! Current Mood: amused Current Music: Don't Stop Thinking about tomorrow... (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
3:45 pm	Off and on... I watched this MJ memorial. It was fit for a king and very nice. I was very young when Elvis died, but I'm sure it was a similar media parade. I'm glad that we had a Michael Jackson. I'm sorry he was a bit of a nutjob in the last 15 or more years. It taints his excellence, and I'm sorry. Love to the Jackson Family. Now we can move along, right? Give it a month and they'll have a commemorative DVD... and maybe a disc of the music that was played. Current Music: Anything Thriller Because Michael Was Still Black (5 Comments |Comment on this)
11:41 am	Posting to see if this thing works... I haven't written in a while. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 26th, 2009
11:28 am	Writer's Block: RIP Michael Jackson In honor of the King of Pop: What is your favorite Michael Jackson song? Submitted By deathbylies View other answers Don't stop till you get enough... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
3:15 pm	I am totally dragging my feet... the yucky weather is only part of it.. but I'm s'posed to be packing for the shore. My man is supposed to go down there and his parents will be there... I am glad I got the car washed and vacuumed yesterday.. but I haven't done much else. Kitchen is clean- er.. clothes are packed.. need to pack doggies, meds, camera, some DVD's, the wii, some dry goods so I don't have to buy everything at Acme... and I'm just wiped. And I sure as shooting do not want to go to the shore first before he arrives. I experience too much trouble that way. Now its mid afternoon and getting late.. I want to be on the road in the next two hours.. I guess.. lets see what I can get done in the meantime.. Anyway.. I'm expecting to have some kind of internetz down the shore so I hope to post toasties while I am gone. Now if I could just haul ass and get out the door..... Current Mood: tired Current Music: Pirates of the Carribean on tv (Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
4:27 pm	Another young person dies before their time... Died today, Gary Papa This morning, Saturday, I got to watch Action News's tribute to Gary Papa, and the tears just flowed. Gary is on the left, with Peter Jennings on the right around the time he started for Channel 6. What is ironic that what eventually killed this man, he was captain of the Race4YourLife, promoting Prostate cancer awareness. Team Papa was at the top. This was my response on Philly.com yesterday... Posted by Ariel72 04:11 PM, 06/19/2009 Dear Gary, You fought the good fight, sir. I'm so glad to have known you in the Channel 6 family. I'm sorry that you could not stay with us a few more years. You are a courageous inspiration to keep kicking in spite of a serious illness. Never give up, never surrender. We will love and remember you always. My heart and condolences go out to the Papa family. -EBG I'm not really sure why I am crying... Maybe because I grew up with him... Maybe it was watching Dave Roberts speak of Gary, in hushed tones, trying desperately not to cry, telling of his constant texts over the iPhone... and his last was Live and Love. That did it. I'm so done. Now I have to finish putting things together for the shore, opssibly driving in crap weather, dealing with family and trying to relax after this insane spring. Tchhh.. Hope to have a more cheerful outlook one way or the other later this week.. Current Mood: sad Current Music: Another One Bites The Dust- Queen (1 Comment |Comment on this)
10:54 am	iPhone day 6/19/09 I promised Mark that I'd get him an iPhone after he'd had a new job for a few months, and it's here today. We picked it up early this morning in a pre-order line at ATT. I returned my clear case. I didn't like it because it got dirty fast. I accumulate crumbs under the plastic and it was a pain in the neck to open the pajama bottoms. I returned it for the little leather case "Premium leather sleeve" they call it. I think that this will work much better. I will miss the plastic sheet over the display, but I could take it out and clean it or dock it if I needed it. I did get a simple bluetooth headset but have not yet tried it. I am hoping over the weekend that Mark might have time to do some practice runs with me so that I would feel comfortable using it. It's new, of course, so I just want to do it correctly. The idea was that if I had to use my hands for something, like cooking or walking dogs, I could still talk to somebody and have my hands free. I don't know how I would like to drive with it on. One burnt bridge at a time. THE BLOGGER... This is also my last day at Burpee for a while. I was asked about working the summer but I kind of want my break. I've had a long, obnoxious run and a rotten winter and spring. None of this rotten'ness has to do with the job.. strangely, just at home domestic issues. I could come back as early as mid August, or mid fall, and pinch hit for manefestation in November or nothing at all and return at Christmas with all the other classic Burpee people. January 2010.. I can't see that far ahead yet. I have to get past late August when D goes to senior high school. Tchh! More to come, my pretties. I still have some work to do that they are paying me for today. Then I come home and finish packing for the shore. So much to do, so little time to do it! Happy Summer, people. Love to all. If you Facebook, drop me a line and I will addz you! Current Mood: tired Current Music: The Outfield-Play Deep (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
1:33 pm	Stolen from filthyvamp A Meme! ( Read more... ) Current Mood: bored Current Music: Sky Blue _Dylan McGuire (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
10:28 am	Little or no sleep... As I lay me down to sleep... a line of thunderstorms started to rumble in our area. Little Seamus started to squeak and cry, then alternately jump on my bed to cuddle.. shake and walked away.. jumped off the bed.. Lather, rinse, repeat for at least the better part of an hour. It wasn't even storming consistently... just a graze where it would rumble every few minutes.. rather than seconds. It rained hard, again.. but then it eventually went away and I found sleep. But then I stirred after some weird dreams.. it was 5:44 again.. urhghgh. I was sleeping so good too.. after a fretful start. It was a bad night to sleep alone. :( Got David to the bus and went back to sleep for another hour. I'm still tired today but I'm going to be bizzy. I have confirmation that my last day is FRIDAY... so any packing I'd need to do, I have to do it at night or just bail and come on Saturday or Sunday instead. I've been running laundry like it's going out of style, to pack the nicest clothes for a week, like my new nighty's and maybe a naughty or two... good shore clothes that are comfortable and light on my skin should I get burnt... David and I are just going to enjoy the week for ourselves, maybe go bikeriding, hit the beach, visit some friends relatives and hang at the "boardwalk", such as it is. A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at work. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: The Outfield- Your Love (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 15th, 2009
9:14 am	Customer Service Emails... So I was writing "notes" and I usually date it and write my name.. 6... 15?!?! 6/15/09 -ERIN GARDNER Is it really mid-June already? I was up stupid early because I had slept enough and the dog needed to whiz early. The it was impossible to get back to bed so I spent all morning on Facebook. I posted very "morning person" friendly videos like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, the opening theme song. ."It's a Beautiful day in the Neighborhood.." and "Sunrise Serenade" by Glenn Miller. I napped from 7:30 til 7:45 and finally got up for the day. There are days that it's good to sleep alone. Not many.. but some. I'm debating going away this week. I have personal reasons to go and not go.. I am in conflict. Good reasons to go,.. it will be nice to see the beach. Bad reasons to go.. family,. It's not like we've all been in a good way over the last few months. I could go for a day or two and go home if things get weird. I dunno. I haven't committed to packing anything either. And it's a big job to get dogs, kids and me ready to go away for a while. David is already pre-burnt so he'll have beautiful color in time for the weekend. Jeeez. Well, one of the local carnivals are coming into town. They begin on Tuesday night. I have plans Tuesday and Thursday so the only time I can go would be Wednesday or Friday night. Tchaaa. Well, Happy Friday all. Current Mood: mischievous Current Music: Song of India-Artie Shaw (Comment on this)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
9:43 am	Oh no, it's raining again... Yea, so I did some laundry and sometimes I put my towels out on the deck so that they dry separately and the real clothes can dry immediately in the dryer. Wellll.. it rained overnight so these towels are still clean but dripping wet. I will come home at lunch and toss them into the dryer and they'll be fine for tonight. Tchh. This should be my last Friday here.. I really want to be let go next Thursday so I can spend Friday making calls to Unemployment and packing for a possible getaway at father's day weekend. My sister and I were making some plans to rent a cabin for a couple of days at a resort up in the Poconos, but that fell through recently. My kid has a Freshman dance tonight and he might just spin around and then leave, but I hope that he chooses to stay for a little while with his friends. Today they are going to an on site "camp" place where they have activities and team building excercises, but it's still rainy and probably muddy and disgusting... just like the last time that they were there.. as 7th graders. I hope that the sun comes out a little while for the kids. Tomorrow, Mark and I are putting in requests for iPhones. I think that I'd like to add a line with a simpler phone for David. That way three contracts start at the same time, and whether or not he feels he will use it, David should have a phone. All of his cousins have them, most of his friends have them and that 10 year old kid outside who walks dogs with him has one. Maybe David wont use it much, but it would be a great way for him to keep phone numbers of friends, and in an emergent situation, he could just call me or my mom or Mark. Just to have, as I say. We'll see. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: City Lights- Dylan McGuire (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
9:56 am	Lets do the Watusi.. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
3:11 pm	Fishy fishy fishy! After flip flopping back and forth, it sounds like Mark is possibly moving forward with the new 3rd Generation iPhone, and I'd take the 2nd generation iPhone. We'd have similar capabilities, and he already has some apps from the prior model he had at work (before they took the phone away when they let him go) so I'd have some toys to start with and we'd be on an even keel with what our phones can do, but his will be faster and have more juice. I will lose the keypad, but I can do things on it I could never do with other phones like taking pictures and listening to music. I don't quite know how that will work, but it's a start. So after payday on Friday, Saturday can be spent setting this up and we'll have new phones next week. I'm hoping to go down the shore on the day that these phones come in and we can set them up together. It will be a nice break since last fall when summer ended abruptly, and launched into fall with job changes and parental domestics, overwork, stress and relationship crippling moves put sanity on the back burner. As flattered as I was that they asked me to keep working, I got stuff to do this summer. Of course, I'm posting like crazy because nobody's calling and there's no email to write and drumming my fingers impatiently. I just want to be home, either resting, killin' SIMS and tossing garbage left and right to clear the basement. It would be Mark's Mancavia, a quiet respite in case upstairs is too irritating while he tries to do work or rest, but it's hard shovelling through 8+ years of stuff that accumulated. But I need the time, the contractor bags and a sturdy slave named David to haul ass. I can sort and make trash easily, but I often end up blocking myself in... Heeeeeyulp! I just wanna go home soon. But there is a chance they will ask me to stay til 7... tchhhhaaa. Current Mood: restless Current Music: WWOZ- BTE (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
10:25 am	Strolling Bowling tonight! The employees at Burpee have started a summer league at the local bowling alley on Tuesday nights at 6pm. I don't know how long I'd be there tonight, but I hope that we have fun. I'm not working here for the summer.. I got things to do like clean house, organize the storage bin and fix my marriage, but I can still see my cow-orkers during the break and maybe by the time it ends, they can take me back for the fall if I am needed. I don't get to go out very often socially so I know that I'm going to bowl badly. It's just for fun, isn't it? Also, the i-Phone is deliriously reduced. I know that I'd like to get a new phone (this one is 3 years old), but would the 99 dollar iPhone be good for me? Sunny Walks has to carry over! I can almost bet that Mark is interested in the new one coming on the 19th. MJG, if you are coming tonight, call me when your appointment is over. I can give a status where I am then. Thx. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: The Tigger Song (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
1:51 pm	Blueprint for Hope Everybody knows somebody with a mental illness, particularly depression and bipolar disorder. I don't usually jump out of my seat to attend things like meetings and stuff, but I saw this on the news yesterday morning,. Good day FoxPhilly's Dr. Mike (U of Penn) was on with Paige Hemmis from Extreme Makeover and they were going to do a talk downtown about this topic. It was near the PHL airport so if Septa schedules cooperated, I would have taken the train. ( Read more... ) Current Music: Long Lost- Better Than Ezra (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
10:43 am	Are You Thin Skinned or Thick Skinned? You Are Medium-Skinned You can be sensitive at times, but that's totally normal. Your sensitivity means you can be empathetic and compassionate, even if you're a bit thin-skinned. You take what people think into account but you try not to let it get to you. It's hard not to take things personally, but you do your best. Are You Thin Skinned or Thick Skinned? (Comment on this)
9:22 am	Weird Wednesday Seems that I am starving, but when I actually eat something, I just want to throw up. Meh. I've had to push myself a little bit to clean house, for me.. what I'd needed time to do all along. I'm distressed at the clutter but tired and minimally motivated, but it needs to be done before I finish working. I have plans for father's day weekend and I'd like to be able to return to a cleaned up house. I came back this weekend and the stink bugs and ants were in my kitchen. I nipped that in the bud quickly. With Shannon not having a lot of teeth, her kibble falls out and it must be swept up right away. David has been an amazing help and I mix it up so he has time to play and I have time to vegetate, and then a quick burst to move some things around. I wanted the house picked up so that Shannon can traipse the house without bonking into things. She really cannot see well at all and is using smell to get her around. I keep wondering if I should put her down sooner rather than later. Right now, she's holding her own and doing fine so far. I'm going to make some time to be with friends this weekend, maybe take David to a movie. Depends what's going on with everyone. There is an event at the airport tonight. Dr. Mike C and some other girl are going to be doing a talk on Depression and Bi-polar. I'm debating driving or taking the train. Ut oh. New problem. I have been looking forward to having some time off to breathe and get reset from all the jazz going on this past fall, winter and spring. I have been approached to stay in the summer and work 40 hours and continue doing what I am already doing. This could be good or bad depending on how you look at it. I have some plans during the summer already, shuttling Kyle to camp in the mornings, possible trips to the shore and plans to kick the basement into gear, paint walls, sort crap, and make the house comfortable for all of us. Many variables and not enough answers. I need to think about it a little while. Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: Long Lost- Better than Ezra (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
11:00 am	Writer's Block: There Can Be Only One Do you believe in monogamy? View other answers Yes, I think it's important to stay true to one person, when married, until all possibilities are exhausted and you have to move on. Some of my friends are poly and thats their damn business. If they make it work, then let them have cake. I like to be one guy one girl and it's been a difficult time with my husband lately, I have never strayed from him. I do not like sharing. If he went with another girl, he's done. If I went with another guy, I would expect the same. Current Music: return to the post moderns _better than ezra (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
2:34 pm	I Kinda forgot to eat this morning I bypassed the Wawa, and did not bring anything to munch today. Food I bought last week, thinking Mark was going to stay a while is starting to go bad. Tcha. This morning I had a few sesame sticks and a lot of water. By lunch, I was vaguely hungry so I cut up an orange to eat at my desk. It's not the intended way to lose weight, as I will probably eat normally tomorrow. The good deal is that I bought some 20's last week in pants and they fit okay. The 24's are falling off, 22 is comfortable. Anyway, hanging in there. Current Music: Normal Town-Better than Ezra (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
11:01 am	Just a few more Saturdays at Burpee and then we move on to summer hours. I'm not coming in next Saturday, I actually have plans for Memorial Day. Sorry, Suzie. Anyway, my post is to indicate that I lost 4 pounds. The first week was when Mark away away and he didn't have to be,. So I probably did not eat as well as I should have. This week, I went to the gym just one day and it was actually a pretty good time. Instead of the 60 minutes I did a few weeks ago, I did 40 minutes. I walked 2.04 miles in the span of 43 minutes, flicking between 2.8 and 3.5 speed. Usually I can do 3.0 speed and 2.0 incline, but I have to get back to a level where I can go to the gym and do the walk and then have time for the machines. I haven't done them in a while because I hadn't made time for it. Some things are important to make time for. Anyway, such a small change is motivation enough to keep going. I'd like to have more room in my swimsuit this year. Already I can wrap a towel around me after my shower and it stays up.. well.. until I bend over and bust it open. Woot. I also want to drop another pant's size by summers end if I can. I was 24 for a long time, more recently, 22. Certain pairs of 20 fit, but not comfortably. My ultimate goal is to return to size 16, but I haven't been there in a very long time. I would like to see 18-20 by the end of the year, if I had my way. We shall see. Current Mood: crazy Current Music: The Best Thing- Bang Crash Boom (Comment on this)