Sans Pants

Sometimes movies without pants are the best kind.

Right side Up

Been having all of these phenomenal dreams, that I wake up longing to post, and then forget. Guess working does that. (Pencils now have new meaning.) Sober life leads to many pre sleep thoughts that seem brilliant at the time. After thoughts...not so much. Watching movies that make me weep. PMS is in clear sight. Sometimes alone brings out the strongest emotions. Living the same life I had this time last year, just all is reversed...and finally right side up.

Up at 7am

Time to work. A job. Leaving the house for a full 8 hours. Talking to people other than those in T-Town and my furry friends. Mike so excited for me to bring something more to the table than internet soundbites. Didn't sleep well. Way too cold in the upstairs bedroom. And then walkway covered in smooth ice. The Mazda's surface suddenly 3-dimensional.
Time to work. Coffee. Lots. No more drinking during the day. Tho I have always ascribed to the belief that there are only three excuses to drink in daylight hours:
Special occasion or Holiday
Vacation
brunch
Time to work. I've delayed too long. And now I'm out of cottage cheese....

Wilderness Family Phelps

Last night, as I lay blissfully sandwiched between The Man and Francis, both snoring away, my meditative state was shattered by a short howl. A dog, I thought. The neighbor's dog, left out in this freezing cold. It was followed by yet another howl. Poor guy, I thought. I really hope they bring him in soon though. Shortly afterward high pitched yipping joined the howl. And suddenly I knew this was no neighbor's dog. A pack of coyotes had trapped something in the field not 100 yards from the very window I was now trying to squint out of. I admit, I'm a country girl at heart. But in 22 years of living in the sticks, I've honestly never heard coyotes. The sound, at first was chilling, but as it persisted, another layer of noise joined in. A hissing. A feline hissing. I looked at Francis, still smiling away in dream land (he really is the cutest cat ever!) And then I heard the sound that will probably never leave me. It was the definite scream of a large cat. A VERY large cat! This was no house cat. I'm assuming, judging by the quick retreat after this scream which was followed by a second, that our poor little coyotes' party had been interrupted by our elusive Mountain Lion friend who lives in the area. Calm quickly resumed after that. And as I looked between my two boys both curled around me, I could not BELIEVE neither had heard ANY of it...and knew they (well, Mike) would never believe me! Shoot!

Super Peppi!

Rest in Peace my sweet little Pepito.

Gettin' things Accomplished and Such

Finally figured out my unemployment benefit extension hoozits. Should be fairly seamless and painless.
Reconnecting with a discarded friend...always a good thing. Let's just hope "the Man" and I can figure out a way to make spending New Years with them work!
Chugging along on newest project. I hate designing built-ins, though its really because I always forget to RESEARCH! Idea files are key...and its a step I just never do! I got it now though. Now we're cookin'...

2009 RE:solutions

I laid awake last night for 2 hours running over these things in my head....

• Figure out what it is in life I always want to be the best at and narrow it down to a career. So far we have painting, cooking, and acting. With the heads up I recently got, cooking may be viable....I just can NOT turn 30 and still feel like a floundering adolescent! Time to get this shite together!
  
• Curb my drinking, determine who in my life I actually enjoy hanging out with sober, and focus on them. Sarah and I realized the other night we have large clumps of friends we've never even SEEN outside of a social drinking setting....that can't be good!
• Get back to where I was at before this whole job thing fell apart! Back to the healthful level, back to the happiness level, back to LEVEL.