Wait til you see the pictures! This past Sunday Glenn's brother Daniel took us out on the boat for Glenn's birthday ... and let me tell you it was just what the doctor ordered for BOTH of us! I posted the pictures in my Scrapbook (link to the left) but I have yet to fill in captions and descriptions.

Also - I saw this today:

SERVICE
The high road to service is traveled with integrity, compassion and understanding - people don't care how much we know until they know how much we care.

So I changed the layout look. One of these days I'll create my own layout like xsnehax does. Nothing looks quite as nice as a self-made customized layout.

I stepped outside to tend to the doggies. I didn't really notice it at first with Sattva because it didn't take him long to do his business. But Bodie just kept standing there, staring off into space, occasionally lifting his nose to sniff the air. He would languidly turn his head one way, following a distant noise, then turn his head the other way. I swear he was soaking up the sunshine.

I stayed in the shade, close to the house, observing him and urging him to "go potty!". Eventually I walked down to the dock where he was standing, looked down at him and told him to hurry up and do his business. I stood there a few minutes, before sitting down on the steps, and then I was done. I sat there in the warm sunshine, feeling the breeze wash over me ... ahhhhhh. Then I really wished I was heading to the beach!

So you know what I did? I found my beach-iest t-shirt, put on my shell necklace, and slathered suntan lotion on me, just so I'd smell like I was going to the beach! It worked! I feel so relaxed, and it put me in a great mood.

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Here's a random thought - I think I'm going to find a new layout to use ...

Can somebody please tell me what happened to April? It was JUST here a moment ago! I think someone needs to look into this, days and weeks are passing by much too fast. Surely we've entered some sort of time-shift differential, or there is a black hole forming in the galaxy nearby, SOMEthing, but this needs to be looked into ASAP.

Yesterday after I got out of the shower, before I had to go to work, I decided to cut my hair. Then I snapped some pictures...

Without a doubt my outspokenness. I am outspoken because many times things that upset me - or thrill me - cause me to have an immediate reaction, especially if the situation touches me emotionally, whether positively or negatively. The first thing I do is open my mouth and utter my reaction. Reacting that way would have been fine if my boss and supervisor saw things the same way I did, but they often don't, so I made myself look like a loose cannon to them which they perceived to be a threat.

It has gotten me in trouble in other ways too. I have alienated people who otherwise would have been my friends, y'know, the kind of people you WANT to be friends with. I have had to learn that sometimes it is valuable to keep your mouth shut. However, that being said, I also believe that there are times when it is absolutely necessary to speak up and speak out - sexual harassment, sexual abuse, corrupt office politics that take fundamental rights away from others, gossip that is damaging, animal abuse ... that's the type of thing that needs someone who is outspoken but then there is the issue of tact. I'm not good at being tactful when my emotions are touched; often I am quite blunt, and it took me a long time to realize that I damage the issue I want to help more by not stopping to think before I speak.

So stay tuned, as this is truly a work in progress!

I just uploaded over 20 new userpics, you have to check them out! They're all Star Trek: Voyager and Stargate SG-1.

More to come, same theme. I did not make any of these, so please check out the artists' pages who did make them, maybe you'll find some for yourself that you like. :)

I was about to do something or look up something here on LJ ... can't remember what it was.

I just love going crazy. Gives me something to write about in my journal.

Poo.

Edited 4/25/2008 at 9:57pm

Oh we are so short-handed at work; the morning shift has been down approximately 5 directors: a spot that was vacated by a firing last summer that never got filled; a guy that quit recently; one has been very extremely sick the past 2 weeks; one who had a heart attack earlier this week; and another whose aunt died. Anyway, long story short, the slack falls on the evening directors and people's days off to pick up. Yesterday I directed three hour-long shows: ABC 6am, ABC 10am, and NBC 4pm, with no sleep in-between. I'm making a note of this so I can come back to it for the occasional ego-stroking, because let me tell you this was no small feat to pull off. I did all that yesterday on 1 hour of sleep that I stole after my regular shift the night before. Ridiculous; that's all anyone does, we shake our heads and mutter, "Ridiculous." It really feels like Bob (our boss) has cut off his nose to spite OUR faces, because all the long hours we pull is mainly to cover his butt for not hiring people in order to keep this from happening.

As it is, right now I'm preparing to work a full-length shift beginning at around 4am, and after that I'll work the first half of my normal night shift from 3pm to about 7pm.

Ridiculous, yes.

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Out of town on my weekend. Went to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa on Monday. Took tons of pictures. Have yet to post them anywheres. The stingrays were the BOMB! They would swim up to you and let you pet them! And sometimes they would gently splash you with their fins/flippers/whatever they're called. There were two types in the pool: Atlantic stingray and a cow-nosed one or something like that, I forget the exact name of it. Oh man, those stingrays were the coolest. They were so gentle and funny... so much personality. After that we went to the manatee exhibit ... that was awesome too. There was also a big ol' frog exhibit, I could not believe the colors on some of these frogs!!! I got good pictures and good video too, hopefully I'll be able to post them before too long.

Gotta go, back to work. :(

So I've discovered another blog site - Insane Journal - looks a lot like LiveJournal, not sure if they're connected at all (I didn't dig that deep). I think it's an LJ 'backup' journal site, like you can backup your LJ entries on IJ. Anyway, today I thought it might be worthwhile to start a food journal, not just so I can keep track of just how well or poorly I'm eating, but also if I have a really great meal I can remember what it all consisted of, how long it took me to prepare (if I include that info), and how much time passes in-between.

I also thought of just having a basic account here for the same purpose and reserve IJ for something else.

Actually I'm just looking for an excuse to start ANOTHER blog! Like I ever needed an excuse before! HA!

Read my latest post in Provenance: Childlike hope

Last night in our nightly ritual of watching Stargate SG-1 with our dinner after I get home from work, we watched the episode, "Threads" from season 8. It was really complex and deep and multi-layered, which I really appreciated. Even the soap opera parts were done really well I thought. This episode dealt with major, major turning points for all 4 characters, all in one episode, and it wasn't even a 2-parter! HA!

( Stargate SG-1 Season 8 spoilers )

To be continued later...

Will have *new* pix to post soon, FINALLY!!! Finally uploaded the ones on my phone.

Here are some of the things I'm doing to make everyone's lives greener, and/or reduce my carbon footprint:



( These are my Top 4 tips for improving the environment. )

So please America, I'm begging you: let's all work together on this quality of life thing, shall we?

Soooooo loving Twitter. I put it (the widget) on my Facebook too.  I should put the widget here too!

Today is my friend's birthday, throw_away_game. Happy Birthday!!!

More later...

I'll tell you what I'm addicted to - mobile blogging. I think it's the most clever use of a cell phone ever. It is definitely my most favorite use. I could text to my blog all day long and I would be happy ...

... actually, if I could spend a few hours doing it, that would be awesome.