ANAL

I had an argument with my bosses boss today & I've come to the conclusion that I'm a control freak. I get pissed when I don't get my way, ESPECIALLY when I know I'm RIGHT.
Why can't he just admit I'm right, and why can't I just let it go? Why do I let these things eat me up inside and make me miserable?

The Christmas Tree

I knew it was going to be a good day when on my way to work "Meet Virginia" came on the radio. I like that song.

Haven't been able to sleep lately. I just want one good nights sleep!

When I was in high school I had a teacher, Mrs. B, who talked about how she wanted a real christmas tree, not an artificial one. She seemed genuinely upset, and disappointed about not having a real x-mas tree.......but her husband wouldn't allow her to buy a real one because he had already bought, and put up an artificial tree. My friends Lisa, John, Mike and I decided that if Mrs. B wanted a real tree, then she would have one....and we'd get it for her!
So we did get her one....and we took it to her house,took down the fake, and put up the real tree for her..I remember her laughing, and clapping and being so excited about us bringing her the real tree..........now.......jump ahead 20t years..........my son's u.s. history class...same teacher that my friends and I brought the tree too......she finds out danny is my son and she tells him about the christmas tree.(I had forgotten about it)..and my son tells me that she giggled the whole time she was telling him the story........then she tells him she has worried all these years that maybe we had stolen the tree................I put her worries to rest......but in all honesty, I can't remember where we got the darn tree.

High School Crush

I didn't sleep well last night. No reason in particular. I just didn't.

I did a little shopping after work. I bought some paint for the hallway outside my bedroom, a carmel scented candle, (it smells yummy), tampons, chocolate, motrin, and some storage containers for some of the crap in my closets and drawers.

My bedroom is 3/4 of the way finished. It looks nice!

I had a huge crush on my high school art teacher. I was in his class my junior and senior year. I used to fantasize about him seducing me,......and of course he'd fall in love and we'd live happily ever after......

I'm going to bed. Niters.

Passing The Torch

While my oldest son was in high school I would on rare occassion find a butter knife in the back seat of my car, or on the steps up to his bedroom. It was so rare that I really didn't give much thought to it. I just kinda filed it in the back of my mind and went on with life.
On his last day of high school I caught the rear end of him handing a butter knife to his younger brother. I was thinking "WTF" and I insisted on an explanation. Seems my son was stealing a butter knife daily from the school cafeteria and I had just witnessed him "passing the torch" to his younger brother.

Cleaning House

My on-call status ended Friday at 5P AND this is my weekend off! YAY!
I got up today and read my favorite blogs, took my daughter to cheerleading practice, came home and took a 5 hour nap! It felt so good!

I threw most of my furniture away sometime last year and have been slowly re-placing it. The only thing I haven't thrown out is my bedroom furniture. I plan on doing that tomorrow. Then I will clean and paint the room.
I want twin beds in the room and a dresser. Nothing else.
My parents still have mine and my younger sisters childhood twin beds. My dad offered them to me. I think they will be perfect!

I'm considering opening up the entrance between my kitchen and dining room. Right now it's the size of a regular doorway. I'd like to have a huge archway, or maybe even knock the wall completely out, and just have one large room.Both rooms are only 12x10 (or something close to that). I'm also thinking about pulling up my wall to wall carpeting. I have beautiful hardwood floors underneath the carpet. I'm just not sure how much work it takes to care for hardwood floors. So we'll see.

Music, Nicknames, ect.

I worked today. I had to orient a new nurse. We had fun. It was nice having an extra set of hands. I caught up a lot of work in preperation for our state inspection. They're due in anyday.

Tommy Poos mom sent us, the nurses who took care of Tom, a thank you letter. It made me cry. I miss him.

I'm listening to Fleetwood Mac......"down there, in the sea of love...."

I'm not sure when to pick my tomatoes. I wonder do I wait until they're orange? And I can't wait to eat my one and only watermelon I have growing.

I once dated a guy who called me Pita (pain in the ass) Girl. I liked it.

I didn't like the book The Life of Pi..........except the part where Pi talks about good-byes.....
I'll have to look up exactly what he said and put it on the blog.

Old Loves

An old boyfriend emailed me today. I was surprised, kinda. I mean I always knew we'd talk again. I just didn't expect it would be today.
He's a guy I met from on the computer. We IM'ed for several months, then talked on the phone, and finally traveled back and forth to see each other. It was a long distance thing...him being from Pa, and me from Ky.
He was very involved in directing community theatre, and was a wonderfully talented man. (I love community theatre)
I went to PA for his opening night of Hamlet. The show was exceptional, to say the least. I picked the music (Enya) for the show and the newspaper complimented my choice :O)
I thought I loved him. He loved me, even proposed marriage. But I wasn't ready for all of that stuff having just gone through a divorce, among other things.
Eventually the relationship ended. There was lots of anger and hurt feelings,,,,blah blah blah.......and then he contacted me, maybe a year or so later, and we agreed to try being friends. That was short lived when I told him I was seeing someone.He left in a huff.
So it's been maybe 17 months since I've heard from him, until today.
I was happy to hear from him, and to talk to him.
We decided we'd give the friendship thing another try.I don't think it will work, based on our history....but we will see.