Invitation

I have decided to start a photo blog of some of my more interesting shots. You are cordially invited to come on over and see it!

www.yousayhearsay.blogspot.com

Touch My Belly

Oh my God. I am not even sure where this came from, but it is the funniest damn thing.

go here!

Don’t be afraid. It’s a blog with picture after picture of people touching this guy’s belly. It is really and truly hysterical. I think you have to be there, so go, dammit!

tra-la-la….nothing to do….

This was on “Jerk of all Trades” blog. I took it. I was bored.

I was shocked.

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Montana Sunset

Just thought you would like to see the view from the front porch of my Mom’s house in Montana.

This is where I grew up.

And this isn’t even a rare event. There are sunsets like this often.

Interpretation

Remember the dream about the ocean and Hawaii? The swimming pool? The overall blue and the water dream thing? Well, here is what the dream interpretation site said….

Blue represents truth, wisdom, heaven, eternity, devotion, tranquility, loyalty and openness. The presence of this color in your dream, may symbolize your spiritual guide and your optimism of the future. You have clarity of mind.

To see a pool of water in your dream, denotes that you will find much happiness and pleasure in love and marriage. Your social life will keep you busy.

To see an ocean in your dream, represents the state of your emotions and feelings. It is indicative of some spiritual refreshment, tranquility and renewal.

To see a naked person in your dream and you are disgusted by it, signifies some anxiety about discovering the naked truth about that person or situation. It may also foretell of an illicit love affairs, loss of prestige and scandalous activities. On the other hand, if you do not have any problem with another’s nudity, then it implies that you see through people and accept them for who and what they are.

I am not so sure about that “happiness and pleasure in love and marriage thing”. But it was fun anyway.

If you want to interpret something from one of your dreams, go here.

Ahem…..

Well, today has been a very good ego boosting day for me. As most of you know, I started in this new position at the end of August. I have felt it is going well, except for the fact that I have been ABSOLUTELY BORED OUT OF MY EVER-LOVIN’ MIND!

So, I have come up with this great idea – I will personally compile a Master List of all our Legal, Corporate, Trademark, Copywrite Infringement, Real Estate, Pre-Litigation, Litigation, Patent and Store files. I will have locations listed for every file here! It will be done! (It also just gives me something to do besides blog and file my fingernails.)

I have done quite a bit of it already. I have found files that are long forgotten. I have found files that could not be found. I have sent files to the happy hunting ground (off site storage).

Today, during a fire drill, the company’s CFO came up to me (I have never personally met him) and congratulated me on being a great addition to “the team”. He said Pam (the company’s vice pres.) had great things to say about me. She expounded on my organizational skills. He actually said, “She glowed when she talked about you.”

This makes me feel really, really good.

BUT, I do not want to tell any of my direct co-workers because this is what my horoscope said today…..

You can dance circles around others today, for you feel like you are at the top of your game. Others will think you even more charming and witty than usual, but it’s important that you don’t overplay your hand. If you appear too full of yourself, your plans could all backfire pretty quickly. Enjoy the day, but don’t push others too hard.

So, I just had to tell someone, and I figured you all would do!

Dangerous Waters

Okay, it happened again.

I promise I won’t do this to you anymore. At least for awhile anyway.

I had another dream.

This one also centered around water. The girls and I were playing in an old, drained, in-ground swimming pool. There were a few inches of water in the bottom and we were sitting in it. The rest of the pool was painted bright blue (what is it with the water and the blue things?).

Voldemort appeared on the side of the pool and wanted to join us. I started yelling that there was no water in the pool. I was scared that he would dive in and hurt himself – you know, with the blue paint and us sitting on the floor of the pool, I’m sure that it looked as if the pool was full (?).

ANYWAY…..

He climbed in and, I did not notice this fact before – he was naked. Nude. Birthday suit.

Unfortunately, all I saw at this point was the typical “Kevin Costner Butt Shot”. But I liked it. It was good.

Then, we were at a party with another couple. We started doing that new-relationship-kissing-in-front-of God-and-everybody thing. I opened my eyes and saw that his eyes were open too. Sadly, his eyes were open in surprise. Bordering on horror.

I stopped kissing him.

*******

I am obviously going insane and a year of celibacy is beginning to wear me out. Help me. I can’t stand it anymore.

The Great White Burrito

Here is another of my odd dreams for your review and discussion.

My Mother was living in Seattle in a high rise condominium complex that sat right on the edge of Puget Sound. I was visiting her and somehow had lost the girls. Not wanting my Mom to think I was irresponsible, I was of course keeping this from her – all the while in excrutiating panic mode.

I had excused myself and went out onto her deck to call the police. This deck was about 10 floors up and jutted out over the waters of the Sound. When I called the police they said, “We’re sorry ma’am, but it is rush hour and we do not have time to help you with any missing persons matters. You will have to call us back.”

Now, I was officially a mess. I put my head in my hands and leaned against the deck railing. I looked down into the incredibly clear water. The bottom of the Sound was gravelly and shining in the sun. And…. there was a huge shark in there. But that is not the worst part. My kids were on the bottom of the Sound only about 20 feet away from the shark.

And they were wrapped in Taco Bell wrappers.

I knew right then that they were goners. Sharks can smell Taco Bell from miles away.

Everyone knows that.

Best Deal in Town

In the town that I live in we have a State Fair that runs the majority of the month of September. The traffic downtown, which is also where I live, is absolutely horrible. Most people don’t know their way around. And, it doesn’t help that it is very hard to try to figure out any rhyme or reason in our downtown street system.

We live very close to the fairgrounds – about 6 blocks- so September is a time when my neighbors and I just grit out teeth and try to stay at home as much as possible.

All around the fairgrounds businesses and residents charge people anywhere from $5-$20 to park in their lots or on their lawns. Some of these people make thousands of dollars each September. You will see homeowners sitting in their lawn chairs, holding huge cardboard signs and waving pom-poms on sticks. These pom-poms, I guess, attract attention and make it easier to direct the traffic on exactly where to park on your lawn (right next to the petunias, sir).

Last weekend, the weekend of the chicken pox, was going to be the weekend I was going to take the girls to the fair. The entire year builds up around this weekend. It’s like Christmas to them. When the pox hit us, their disappointment was akin to not getting to celebrate Christmas.

Sophie was feverish, so she really had no fight in her, but Maya was desperately sad. I couldn’t really do anything – go to the park, for example – because Soph was miserable AND contagious.

Now, we are six blocks from the fair. On a busy weekend the streets around my house totally fill up with parked cars around 11 am. So, I had the perfect idea. I had Maya make a cardboard sign – “Parking Only $2″. We were going into business.

Sophie was able to come sit in the sun during some of the parking, but she wore herself out in about 15 minutes. We parked 10 cars each day and charged an RV $20 to park overnight in my driveway. Better money than a lemonade stand!

The whole point of this entry is to show you the following picture. Note the hastily scribbled sign stapled onto Maya’s baton. (Yes, this is the same baton as in this post) More importantly note our version of a pom-pom on a stick. That would be my pink scarf tied onto a flyswatter. Cracked me up. Goes to show you, pride is not one of our sticking points….

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Sophie on the Beach

This is, I think, is my favorite picture of all time.