Just a quick note to say I’ve been up since 5:30am and I’m so not loving it. Worse is when there really is no point to me being up this early. I seriously sat around waiting for the next person to arrive at work for over an hour yesterday. Good thing I brought a book.

Update: My boss was there when I got in this morning. Can’t begin to tell you what a difference that makes to my day. That hour of sitting around doing nothing really kills my momentum in the morning.

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Wow, my poor abused blog, I’m so sorry I’ve neglected you so long. It would seriously help if I could get any sort of routine set up, but until my work schedule settles that’s nearly impossible. I’ve been up since 5:30 am, and any one who’s read my blog before knows I’m not a morning person. Now if my sky looked something like this…

THAT would be worth getting up to look at. Well I’m convinced, what I need is a vacation and not just any vacation, an Outer Banks vacation. Seriously, I’m ready to snatch up one of those Outer Banks vacation rentals and go relax in the surf.

Can’t you just feel it — the sun, the breeze, the cool water of the Atlantic Ocean. I can hear the wind whispering through the tall grass as I sit and read. Maybe then I would have time to blog, or maybe not, cause I haven’t even touched on all the wonderful fresh seafood.

That settles it, time to pick one of the lovely homes Carolina Designs offers and get myself a vacation. I need more of this in my life…

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Don’t know how I missed this, but my blog is actually 1 year and 1 week old today! I’ll try and do a Teaser when I get home from work.

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This was one of my favorite performances from Wednesday night…

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I’ve been learning lots about college sports at my new job and it’s been enlightening to say the least. Who would have guessed that there were so many rules and regulations governing college sports and athletic scholarships.

This week we done a bunch to get the social networking aspects of it all up and running. Kind of funny to picture me being responsible for regular tweeting. Fortunately I’ve come up with some ideas for daily and weekly tweets and some apps to schedule them with.

All this new stuff is a little overwhelming and exhausting, not like the way a marathon or operating industrial equipment would be, but in that brain strain kind of way. It’s hard to believe I’m going to add school and homeschool to all of this next week.

Well, I’m off to bed now, I’m so not used to going to bed at 10:30/11pm yet.

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: grab your current read, open to a random page, share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!), share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My 1st Teaser:

It took less than a second, and the whole time I was waiting for the pain to get me. For the flames to hit and then spread like the night I’d met her, only faster.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

My 2nd Teaser:

By the time I realized I’d been alone in the dark and should have been mortally afraid (at least according to D’Eriq), I was walking into my well-lit backyard. Maybe worrying about my spiritual life was a welcome distraction from reliving physical torture.

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

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So, broken toe or no broken toe, I kept my promise to take her to Mud Island Friday. This proved to be a bit tricky as I had to find places to put my foot up so that the toe would stop swelling. Fortunately we had a friend along and that helped to keep her entertained. I took several shots of my favorite bridge and river, it was just too easy, as well as a ton of the girls playing in the “river”.

As we walked along the river, taking breaks when my toe screamed too loudly, I did a bit of people watching. I caught myself being particularly mindful of men’s clothing. I saw everything from guys in suits to skate rats to comfy casual shirt and shorts. Funny but the guys I’m always drawn to are the ones who traverse that range easily and with a certain sense of appropriateness. Since I work with a lot of high school athletes now, I’ve become even more aware of how a guy’s clothing affects the way he is perceived by others. Guess it really is worth it to invest a little in your appearance.

Since the River walk is an exact scale model of the Lower Mississippi River flowing from its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois 954 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico, it is to be expected that our journey’s mid point was successfully reaching and taking a break at the Gulf. The girls dangled their legs (no swimming allowed) in the Gulf then went back to “Lake Pontchartrain” for a good time splashing and “swimming”.

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Every day close to a dozen of these planes fly over my office parking lot. They create some really cool shadows on the windows of my 8th floor office. As you can tell from this shot hazy, hot, and humid are still the key words for our weather here. The constant hazy cloud cover makes me think of a smoky room, you know a bar at the end of the night or some swanky cigar club where the men have been smoking their Padron cigars all evening.

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Miss Muffin 8 Years Ago…

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: grab your current read, open to a random page, share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!), share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

I take a look at the picture that all the papers are running, a shot taken a couple of months ago at an awards show. He’s wearing a bizarre velvet tuxedo, bottle green; it looks like it came from a thrift store, but it’s more likely that he paid some designer a ridiculous sum of money for it. His hair look tangled and dirty–though again, I’m sure he went to a great deal of trouble to get it that way–and his jaw is stubbly.

The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst

On a totally unrelated note I’m pleased to say that a few thundershowers have graced us with a morning that is just 75/81, compared to most of our recent mornings this is down right chilly. I can’t believe I’m saying this but here’s to hoping our 50% chance of thundershowers happens today.

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I killed my computer this weekend, seriously dead with no operating system, it really sucked. I lost about 4,000 photos, what was left of my sanity, and heaven knows what else. I’m back up and operational right now with at least the basic necessities and a few fun things.

I was kind of hoping that I would come out of this one relatively unscathed, but as always there is something that doesn’t quite work out and a large portion of my photos from the last year were the victims this time around. I’m glad there are some in my blog files, and some on webshots & photobucket.

I’m off to use the software I was so hot to install on Friday night, some how it doesn’t seem like as much fun, but I know I’ll love it once I get going.

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It’s 84 with at heat index of 91 at 7:35am cdt, this whole week has been more of that crazy hot, humid weather. Our neighbors got some great outdoor furniture at a fabulous price and I’d be even more jealous of how cute it is, but no one is using it, so… I might consider some outdoor pillows to dress our current stuff up. Now is the time to do it as the summer stuff goes on sale and the back to school craze hits maximum velocity.

Speaking of school… I’ve finished my part of the grant process and now I’m just waiting on a decision. Hopefully I’ll know today and not next week. I’m really excited to start school, mostly cause my life isn’t really crazy enough right now.

Funny thing is it doesn’t matter how hot it is outside, because every day when I go to work I get frozen. Really! It’s like an icebox and since I’m doing tons of data entry my fingers are little icicles when I finish. Oh well, at least it balances out the weather.

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So, it’s 7:49 am cdt and I’ve been up for over an hour. This is so not me! Oh well, the volunteer job is going great, I’ve only got one step left in the grant process, and I have a few leads on paying jobs. I just wish I didn’t have to get up with sun to do it all.

I have been productive this morning though I’ve made coffee, the cats are fed, the litterbox clean, the cat room floor swept, the dog fed, fresh water down for everyone, the fish tank is almost full again, all my emails are read, I’ve showered, and rescued the load of laundry I forgot late yesterday. I think I just made myself tired typing all of that. Now I’ve just got to get dressed, do my hair, throw on a little makeup, and drive to work!

Miss Muffin is not sure she’s loving this, as she is used to having me up with her at night, and there were a few tears when I wouldn’t watch Penguins of Madagascar with her late last night. Guess what Mom will be doing when she gets home from work this afternoon. We also have to go to the library and probably the grocery store.

Now that I’ve bored everyone to tears with my little rambles, I will try to find something fun for tomorrow. TTFN

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This is HAZY, HOT, and HUMID…

This was taken at about 7:10 pm last night and it was still 95 with a heat index of 112. We lost the sun behind a huge bank of clouds around 7:30 pm and gave up watching and melting around 7:40 pm.

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