So I have been exhausted for the last couple of days. I think inbetween the final wedding festivities, relaunching the website, and running around for hospice, it has been really tough. I can't help but to snooze the last couple of days away. I am hopeful that after a couple of low key days I will get to moving again.

So the site, got all relaunched, and it seems to be going well. No major complaints, and I am hoping a better layout will drive traffic back to the site, and well working on the site again couldn't hurt either. I just love being able pre position content and then having it load up later. It is awesome.

I met with my hospice patient for the first time on Saturday. She is a lovely lady. We played some cards and chatted. I think it worked out well. I am hopeful she had a nice time too. I thought she was very nice, and I really love to hear older people talk about their lives and their life experiences.

In the task of transitioning my website to a different platform I have been writting intro paragraphs about each recipe. Maybe not whole paragraphs, but several sentences about each recipe, and why it is spectacular. It is exhausting to write all of this. I only have 300 or more so to transition, and now I get to go back to the past 900 or so that I have already posted. I find it difficult to get worked up over each recipe one after another.

So we had a bachelor party this weekend. We did a day at the spa, went to Feast, then to the hotel with intentions to drink lots of wine. So, in theory this was ideal, in practice, I don't advise anyone to have major plans after they have been repeatidly being massaged. You just want to go to sleep ;-) We were all tucked in around 1 pm. It is hell getting older.

Ok, back to writing about more recipes. Yeah!

I managed to spend the whole day at the house. That's pretty odd for me, and I can't tell you the last time this happened. I have been working on web updates, cleaning the kitchen out, and getting caught up on laundry. I am amazed that this weekend I did about six loads. Where do all of these clothes come from?

Went to see the musical "The Gold" last night, it wasn't too bad, but then the 2nd half of it really need some rewritting, and the thing as a whole needed some scaling back. It was nearly three hours long.

I made a round eye roast today. It wasn't bad. I had not ever bought that cut of meat before due to memories of my mother's swiss steak. A couple of things I have never had since leaving home, cow liver and onions (I like pate), swiss steak, and spinach out of a can. I would change a few things, but it will make for a decent lunch to bring to work.

I ended up sitting at the house tonight instead of getting a massage. I started out and then streets were too flooded for a car. So I came back home and rescheduled. I am sitting here now watching some lame show on Vampires. It sucks, and I have seen it before. Zillions of channels and nothing to watch. The rain eventually calmed down for the most part. I am sure tomorrow I will be picking up branches in the yard that fell. My trees manufacture sticks, and lots of them.

So I think searching for a wedding dress basically sucks. I think it sucks if you aren't 25 and a size 6. For the last month I have went with a friend of mine on a search for a wedding dress. The bridal shops are scary, bright floral, and general weirdness goes on in there. Where do the nice dresses go? It isn't at the bridal shops, if you have seen my big fat greek wedding, well those awful dresses still exist. Then again, when I got married I picked a nice green dress out of my closet and got married in that. So you might say I am not predisposed towards the traditional wedding dress. They should serve cocktails in there, it would make the experience much nicer, along with larger dressing rooms, and chairs in the dressing rooms. That's what they should do.

So I went to a wine tasting last night. I the wines were ok, nothing to write home about. But I did find another person who was a casualty of HP. She had been with EDS for 20+ years, technical IT person, who is now looking for a job. I was laid off by HP a couple of years ago. The package is now *much* smaller, I was able to be a lady of leisure for about 5 months before I went back to work without it impacting me. There is another lady in the room who was also laid off by them.

I gave her the limited advice that I have about being laid off, I'd would follow up with one of the jobs that she posted for through a friend of mine. More and more I have been hearing about friends or people who know someone that has lost a job. It is disheartening.

So yesterday I threw this BBQ to partially celebrate my friends wedding. And then partially to address an issue with another friend. So what happens we have BBQ, my co-dependent self buys a cake, and I do a nice BBQ, and said friend does not show up. So life has its ironic intervention.

Also, note to self, I feel that I had too much red wine yesterday. I woke up with a shrivelled head. I am still liking the inkberry wine, but man, my head still needs to be hydrated.

We still had a BBQ that was good, and I didn't destroy the meat. I did leg quarters, chicken breasts, new york strips, and veggies. And everything turned out well. I am the person who did catch a brisket on fire before when I just got my grill.

Ok, time to sort out invoicing issues, and other goodies.

So my points on this would be a friend of Michael's is now calling me several times a week and addressing me as "bad girl" and asking me if I want a spanking. Since he is married, this is par for course.

I also learned while not intentionally apparently men are mezmerized by red high heel shoes, ok, so yeah the shoes are cmf red, and they do look like a classy hooker's shoes. But, I never thought they would invoke a response such as some man chatting about my shoes endlessly, making numerous wizard of oz comments. I had always thought big boobs were enough to mezmerize them.

Ah yes! Life is slowing returning back to normal.

I am feeling accomplished today. I have scrubbed out my pantry, which was a good thing, because there was something that may have been a long forgotten onion. I cleaned everything out washed out the food pantry with soap. I also managed to wash the refrigerator. When I moved in I really planned on getting all of this done, but I failed to do so. Now I just need to finish up cleaning the kitchen, it is still a bit of a mess from cleaning everything else up.

Yesterday was a unique day. Friday night, Chad had been in a bad car accident, and yesterday I went to a wedding a bit unexpectidly, he was the best man, and I wanted to make sure he went to the wedding. I am now a firm believer that you could randomly attend a wedding without being invited. Everyone is so polarized.

I am sitting in an airport and I will be doing so for a long time. My flight has been delayed, and the weather is starting to get bad. I hate to see what time I will actually make it on the plane, I think it will be awhile. The lounge is jammed back, and there are a lot of people sitting on the floor. Thanks to a very kind man, I got a chair with a power supply. Thank God for itunes and podcasts.

I haven't enjoyed this trip tremendously it was unplanned, I think I am a control freak. I didn't have much spare time, and this has meant for me, a couple 15+ hour days, not necessarily working but getting back and forth to the airports. I did get a trip to my favorite tea store. So I have come home with a variety of really nice tea.

I thought the training was good, and it went well. So it was worthwhile.

I am laying here watching bad TV, I have one of my cats attacking my feet, it happens to be the cat with claws so this isn't going well for me.

I have good news in that my house in Michigan is under contract. They want to hurry up and close. The house passed inspection just fine, and at least that is done. This is going pose a problem for me at some time and point in the future, I want to move into the 610 loop, and get out of kingwood. I have got to do something to this house to get it to sell, because obviously what I had going on last year didn't get it to moving.

I asked Denise this question yesterday while inside Kroger. I know I am back in the big city now. Also there was a man doing charactures, a juggler, and other craziness. Denise came over and we made sauerkraut, or at least we got it started. We should have it in a couple of weeks. She also helped me to decide that Teavana tea um not so special. I am suer it won't be the last of my crazy purchases.

I have the car completely legal now with all of the right stickers on it and everything. Huzzah! I won't be up for a ticket on that for another year. I dont' know why, but I seem to have a real mental block on this. For now I am good though. I also have had the second person to come out and price a new AC and heat. I think I am going to have to have it replaced, I really don't want to go through another really uncomfortable summer. I really hate having to do this, because it means for me, I may stay here longer in this house.

Anywho. Still settling back in and trying to get my life to some semblance of normal. I know I told Denise yesterday that I don't feel that I am quite there, I feel like I am at about 60% back to normal, it will still take awhile.

Last night I had dinner with a couple of girlfriends. We are all single, so we all brought parts of the meal, and alas we all had a great meal. I think sometimes being single means not always making up a full meal. We all laughed over the things that we call dinner. It was enjoyable discussing our dating experiences and what not. It is amusing that we all have fascinating tales, but I think I heard the best on so far, a guy one lady dated was on the run from someone who killed is last girlfriend in a las vegas hotel and chopped her into bits..... Oh nice.

Denise and I had lunch today. I don't think we have had lunch together on a school day since college. Nope there wasn't hot curry to make you cry, but the company was great just the same. We used to get cheap chinese food across from Sam Houston when we were going to school. Helping the 2nd person this week with a resume. My workload is very light, and if I can help someone out in their job search, that's great.

Stephanie and I went out to a pub last night. It had been awhile since we had seen each other. I didn't think this morning, and put on a chico's outfit and a scarf. Chico's is granamals for adults everything matches each other, and is often in the shade of black. So I got a couple of strange looks, and I said, hey I really don't wear black everyday. I wanted something warm and comfy, and that's what I picked out today.

Got my new TV last night, assembled it all by myself, I think its the damn cable that is off on the color. I am still missing greens and reds. I am going to keep that TV, but now I need to call the cable company about the color. *sigh*.

I am still reeling over that tea purchase. No refunds says the receipt. Geez. I will be serving up tea for quite awhile. Grrrr.

Went to Body Worlds today, that was cool. I think that man is demented, or I am. I don't mind looking at diseased body parts, but I don't really care for the weird posing of the bodies that is done. I would also advise one to eat before they go. You will not want BBQ, or a piece of steak afterwards.

So I stepped into the Gallaria for the first time in a couple of years. I hate to shop, I mean I really hate to shop. I hate malls. Typically I only go into the mall to go to a movie. So I went with some friends, made it all the way through and back and there is a tea shop. My current downfall. Prices really aren't listed at Teavana, I am thinking how much is tea anyway. Well there it is highly pricey. Ok, I make a decent living. I walk out of their 180 dollars later with 4, yes only 4 tins of tea. It is tasty tea. But did I realize their version of sleepy time tea was 55 bucks a can, no. That's enough to loose sleep over. Seriously, that's pricey. Thankfully I don't have too many vices lately. So if anyone see's me buy anything more than a cup of tea in a tea shop, just shoot me. I can't even fit all of the tea I own into my cabinets any longer. WTF!

Got my laundry done, and my bedroom mostly straightened now. I wished I could say more for other rooms in my house. I don't have every room like I want just yet. I am getting there, but it is slow going. I am having a couple of folks over Tuesday night for a single ladies dinner, so I need to get the living room into some more organized sense. I called Maria, and hopefully she will get me back on schedule.

One thing I was really struck by at the Gallaria was the blatant commercialization. We hear the economy is doing badly, but stuff seemed to be moving off the shelves there. It was crazy. And with 55 dollars for a tin of tea, I most likely got out of there easy.

Ok, so I got my wireless broadband thingy from work today, today I login to my desktop. First time since 11/06. I have my copykat email on there. 5000+ emails. Any wonder on how long that is going to take to download. Why do I need to be emailed everytime there is activity on my website? I am a sick puppy, or I don't know how to turn that off one of the two. Great one mailbox is done, yeah!

So I next week I am really going to try to ride the bus back and forth to work and see how that goes. This getting stuck in traffic for close to two hours is driving me nuts. I drive home wishing I had a cigarette and a drink. I really dislike the traffic. What I hate more than anything is getting behind a wreck and then by the time I get to it, it has cleared. I feel like I am pergatory or something, I shouldn't get so worked up about this but it is making me crazy.

I like the job. Nice people. It is so nice to work for a company that is in a growth cycle. I have been with companies that have been downsizing since 99. I hate lay offs, I have been impacted twice by them. They are stressful for those who get laid off, and those who remain. I can't say I mind the time off, but hey, I like a paycheck.

Email is downloading slowly apparently one person thought that when I didn't answer them immediately, they chose to email me quite often 10+ times a day or better for awhile. So if the first email doesn't get you a response write a lot more, that will help. I am going to regret having responded to that email many times over. I kinda have that feeling....

I really dislike my commute. Tonight, 2 hours to get home. I am going to slit my wrists or consider taking the bus. I haven't decided yet.

Sometimes I remember things that I liked about MI, while not many, one was traffic there. This morning I encounter 3 wrecks going to work, it should take me 45 minutes, today it look me 1 hour and 45 minutes. Going home 1 wreck so it took me just a measly 90 minutes. What a pain in the ass. Work is nice. The view is wonderful. My co-workers are really nice. I can't complain. It is hard getting back into the grind. I am going to work my way into moving my day to later in the day, I really just need to by-pass the traffic. NPR isn't the balm that tames the beast right now.

Deb came over for dinner tonight. She managed to fracture her knee and had been walking around undiagnosed until today. Poor girl! I don't think I would have had the patience that she had with that. I would have been in the doctor's office long before her.

It is nice but more difficult than I remembered going to work everyday ;-). I am going to crawl into bed early. The TV has normal color in the bedroom!

I had a very busy weekend. I can't get over how isolated I think I was up in Michigan. Saturday I went out with Brenda for some morning shopping, a late breakfast, then a stop at a bar. A few hours later I went out with John, Liz, and Trey for a movie and dinner. So, very few things I miss in Michigan, cheap movies is one of the things I miss the most. Today I got together with my mother and grandmother, she is flying back to Missouri today. I went to Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up a couple of things that didn't make it back to Texas. I went grocery shopping, which I don't want to do again on a Sunday, and then finished up bagging up some leaves that I had in the back yard.

I really think that in Michigan I could have spent the whole weekend without that much company. At this point I am looking forward to eating out less, and getting back to a regular schedule. I feel like I have been in free form for a couple of months now. While that has been the case, I kinda like a more normal routine.

Ordered a TV online, I hope it all works out. I am really annoyed about the color on my tv. No greens, no red. I did watch an old black and white movie, and it was ok. I think if I can get this TV out of the house I am going to leave it on the street on big trash day. I know someone will pick it up before they actually come to take it. It has always been fascinating on what people will take from your pile on big trash day.

So I miss cheap movie theaters in Michigan. A first run movie 2.50, a drink 1.25, and a popcorn 1.25. Tonight I went to the movies with John, Liz, and Trey. 9.50 for the movie, and you know I have to have popcorn with a movie, and that means a drink, so that was another 8.50. It wouldn't have been so bad, but a bunch of junior high kids sat down next to us during 2nd half of the movie, and were talking and talking. So I felt compelled to tell them to move to shut up. It is just annoying to go to a movie, and then not be able to watch it for the activity of others.