a lunar eclipse? where??

There was no such thing for us last night, for it was, of all things, overcast here.  Ol’ Mother Nature was preparing to dump buckets of rain on us.

It was raining when we woke up at 4am this morning.  It was still raining when we left at 5am.  It wasn’t raining when we got to work, but it was raining as late as about an hour & a half ago… Can’t really tell if it’s raining now, too far away from windows to tell…

So, we missed the last lunar eclipse for what, 2.5 years?  That sucks. :-(  Silly rain.  Oh well.

as if I needed another reason…

...to not vote for Bush:

Schoolchildren threatened with expulsion if they wear anything pro-Kerry to the event.

This is really no surprise, considering I’ve read about people being arrested for wearing pro-Kerry shirts or holding pro-Kerry signs at Bush’s appearances, and any ticketed events he shows up at, they have to sign some sort of pledge of their support to Bush before they’re allowed to attend.  My boss at the yarn store even admitted she signed one of those forms so she could go see him (she is a Bush supporter, though) when Bush came through Phoenix, weeks before the debate in Tempe.

Feh.  It’s nice to see how our rights are tromped all over by the President just so he doesn’t have to bear witness to people who *gasp* don’t want to lick his boot heels and simply show their opinion by holding up a sign or wearing a shirt or button or ballcap that doesn’t have Bush-Cheney slapped all over it.  It really makes me sick.

Via SEB.

a visit from the sick-bug…

Not me, yet, anyway.. but poor Josh just headed back home after dropping me off at work this morning.  He hadn’t planned on turning around and going home, as he had been ok upon waking, but on the way in he started feeling ill.  Considering he was sweating in a car that was probably 65F degrees, yeah, he’s definitely coming down with something.  :-(

So, he’s on his way home now, hopefully he’ll get there OK and in one piece.  He’ll be reporting in later to let me know what his temperature is.

I’m guessing it may be the flu, since he usually doesn’t get the sweats & shivers with a cold…  We’ve never been the type to get flu shots anyway, so the shot shortage that’s going on didn’t affect us, technically.

I’m just hoping whatever he has will pass me by like usual.  I’m already two sick/vacation days in the hole into next year, I really don’t need to be having to take any more… as it is, we think this little surprise sickness is going to end up burning a couple of his sick days from next year, too.

Yes, only October and we have absolutely no PTO days left.  For him, it’s because he started out with about 3/4th of the normal number of PTO days since he only started working in March.  He’s used some here & there and then we both have 40 hours reserved for our December vacation.  For me, in addition to the vacation in December, I also used two weeks of my PTO for my wedding & the honeymoon, in addition to misc sick & personal days.  I think I may have also started a day or two short from borrowing into this year in 2003…

Five weeks of vacation/sick time seems to disappear faster than you’d think.

aaaaand rest.

That was practically back-breaking…

Spraying the weeds in the yard is not fun.  But hopefully the white-death that is all-vegetation-killer will nip those things in the bud (ha-ha).

Now to go veg in front of the t.v. until it’s time to go get dinner.  Maybe I’ll see if I can try out the Spryo game we picked up yesterday if Josh isn’t using the t.v. for GTA: San Andreas…  If he is, then I guess I’ll do some more knitting on his afghan.  It’s nearly done!  yay!

playing catch up…

I have started to slack with my posts here, but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that only one of us can be remote-desktop’d to home, and I try to refrain from posting very often while at work if I can’t RDP.

Plus, with our current schedule, waking up at 4:10a and leaving by 5a to head to work, then finally leaving work at 4p and getting home by 5pm-ish, leaves very little time to eat, catch up on some shows on TiVo, and then off to bed by around 8:30-9p…  I spend maybe 5 minutes on my Powerbook skimming email (either before leaving in the morning, or just before bed at night), just so it doesn’t pile up.

So, there really isn’t much time for anything like blogging.  Unless I do it from work (like today).

Work was busy this week.  A little more than usual, it seemed.  It actually made me really glad we got moved to the 2nd half of the week, so we only have to endure 3 days of “normal business hours” instead of five.

I’m working on three knitting projects right now.  One, which is nearly complete, is a huge afghan the husband requested, in purples & blues.  It’s about 6ft wide, and will be about 6ft long when it’s done.  And dayam, that thing weighs a ton!  Oh, made of miscellaneous yarns, all acrylic (and some leftover chenille on one section).

The second is a baby afghan for my sister-in-law’s baby, due in Feb.  Only just starting it, maybe have about six inches done.  Also acrylic yarns, but “quality” acrylics from the LYS I work(ed*) at.  In lilac, yellow, & a multi-color pink/lilac/yellow (three strands held together).

The third is another baby sweater.  I decided instead of giving the mint green one I made earlier this summer to the SIL for her baby, that I’ll give that one to my sister instead (she had a little girl in july), and make a new one in white & pink for the SIL’s baby.  It’s a top-down raglan, maybe 1/4 done.  Also quality acrylic from the LYS.

I also have a few UFO’s sitting in wait…

• - a men’s sweater, originally intended for a brother, but I think I’ll give it to my dad when it’s done.. in red heart acrylic (yuck)
• - a cardigan for myself, in Lion Brand Homespun.  It’s in moss stitch, which I got really bored with really fast, so this one may sit for a while before I pick it up again.  Got about 1/6th of the back panel done, and that’s it.
• - socks for myself… Lion Brand Magic Stripes (?), purple/white/gray… working from toe-up, but haven’t gotten to the heel on the first sock yet.

I think that’s all the UFOs.. And I have a project in mind that I’ll work on after I finish Josh’s afghan, (mainly because I need the size 15 needles the afghan is currently using), which should knit up pretty quickly as it will only require two skeins of boucle.. a shawl that I can wear when I go to restaraunts that leave their freezing cold A/C on that always seems to blow straight onto me while we’re dining…

That’s about it for the knitting.

I decided to join Blog Explosion (yeah, I know everyone else jumped on that band wagon like, last week or something… so I’m slow) to see what kind of traffic it can really give me.  I just signed up today, so my blog is in the “waiting for approval” status at this point.  If you visit via BE, please be sure to drop a comment to say hi so I know it’s working for me. 😉

Well, I guess I should get back to work.  Oh joy.

an interesting turn of events…

Some “reshuffling” of personelle was necessary this week due to things that happened on Tuesday.. And now Josh & I find ourselves being moved back to a four day work week.

Unfortunately it’s still on the day shift… and even worse, we’ll be having to be at work an hour earlier than we do currently.

Yes folks, 6a-4p.  Four 10 hour days.

We’re happy to have our three day weekends back.  Unhappy that we’ll need to go to bed an hour earlier on “work nights” (you know, like a “school night”).

Worst of all, is that I may be out of a job at the yarn shop.  :down:
Because one of their seasonal part-time ladies is now working M/Tu/W, and Mondays & Tuesdays will be the only days I can work.  The boss said she’d do what she could to try to keep me on the payroll, but unless the other part-timer is willing to switch days, no more working there for me.  :-(

So tomorrow may be my last day there.  I’m really quite sad about it.

I may be getting my full weekend back, but what about the discount, man?  The discount??  *pouts*

stay of execution…

for now.

but boy, were my nerves shot this morning.

And there’s no telling what may happen in the weeks to come.

and in other news…

These posts are just falling all over themselves today, aren’t they?

I saw Dr. Barnet this morning, finally (after a reschedule of a reschedule).

His recommendation is to “wait and see” with my eyes.  They are still changing, even a year after the surgery.  Fortunately, since he considers this a part of “ongoing treatment”, all visits will be on their tab, and he told me if anyone tries to argue with me about it, to tell them to go talk to him.  teehee!

So anyway.  I discovered today that my left eye is now slightly worse than my right…whereas before, the left was always better than the right.

I’m ok with it I suppose.  I manage ok, and while seeing street signs at night is a little iffy, at least in the distance, as long as I’m not driving anywhere unfamiliar it’s no biggie.

In other eye-related news, I had an “episode” last week at work (either Monday or Tuesday, can’t remember anymore), where the right side of my peripheral vision just up and left the building.  And bits of my central vision, too.  But it wasn’t just blackness… it was more of a white-ish dance-y flickering.

It freaked me out, but it wasn’t the first time it has happened.  Oh, and it was in both eyes.  Followed by an excruciating headache.  A headache that took four Advil (in the span of an hour), to finally conquer (when normally two will do it nicely).

I brought this up to Dr. Barnet, and his diagnosis was, “classic migraine”.  I asked this after he had already looked in my eyeballs with the really bright light, and he didn’t think it was anything else but a migraine.  Oh joy.  Migraines.  Whee!

He did recommend I visit my regular doctor if they started to happen on a more regular basis, as he says there are some pretty good migraine medicines these days.

Up until last week it hadn’t happened in a long while… probably more than a year I think, if not longer than that, since I don’t recall having an “episode” since my lasik surgery.  I just hope they don’t start happening on a more regular basis, especially while I’m at work.  I was totally useless (during the blind spot part) for about 20 minutes.  I did try to work while it was happening but when it started creeping into my central vision, it made it really hard to see what I was doing.  Bleh.  Not fun.

But anyway… enough of that.  Time to go get dinner!

under the executioner’s axe…

So.

Josh & I, and Josh’s step-dad, are waiting to see whether we’ll have jobs by the end of this week.

But, we can’t assume we’re safe even if we are still employed by the end of this week, either.

That’s because our company will leave the axe hovering over our heads until March (that’s when they claim they’ll be “done” with the layoffs).

Needless to say, morale slipped a bit at work today, and will probably remain that way for a while.

I’ll be really cranky, though, if either Josh or I (or his step-dad) get the axe while trouble-makers get to keep their jobs.  People who have been performing poorly, but are “protected”, for whatever stupid reasons.

So.  Hopefully the three of us will get to keep our jobs.  But who knows.  The waiting is really going to suck.

I don’t consider this neighborly…

Josh & I are getting annoyed with one of our neighbors.  Read this to see why.

As he said, it’s not even 6pm and the water company, who we pay for garbage removal, says we have until 6pm to move our trash can back up to the house.  Out to the curb by 6am, back to the house by 6pm the same day.

Today, we came home to the trash can, sitting on the driveway, in front of the garage.

Neighborly would be, maybe, pulling it up to the side of the house where we keep it.  Not blocking the entrance to our garage.

Anyone have any ideas to deter any future displays of neighborlyness without causing bodily harm?  We’re thinking a nice thick coat of vaseline on the handle.  It’ll give the gross factor but won’t be dangerous.  Or maybe some double-sided sticky tape?

Just need something to get them to stop.  I can move my trash can up to my house quite well on my own, thank you very much.

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