Snow? NO!!

There were snow flurries in the air today! Didn't amount to anything other than little flakes in the air. Everything insta melted when hit the ground. I think it's safe to say that winter is definitely closer than I'm ready for this year. Not to much new to talk about today. I went to bed too late the past couple of nights and really paid for it this morning when I couldn't even open my eyes to see what time it was. Don't you hate that, when you know you are awake, can hear everything but your eyes just refuse to open?

Halloween is only 6 days away, do you have candy for the little tricksters on hand? Oh, and don't forget to set your clocks one hour behind (WHEEEE I get to sleep one extra hour on Sunday!!)

TC (aka Terror Cat)

I can barely remember the mean she-devil kitty that Terror Cat (a.k.a. TC) was back in 2001. TC was originally owned by a friend of Trudy, who is a co-worker of mine. Based on what I've heard, TC has had a rough life and didn't trust people much at all. After her original owner got married and his new wife refused to allow the cat to live with her, Trudy found TC a new home with Web, another co-worker. I really can't remember how long Web had TC before he decided that she was just too wild for him to tame. He would come to work with tales of the demon cat and he reached a point when he decided to put the cat down, and well, I just couldn't bear the thought of it. I told Web that I would take TC in and see if I could work with her and perhaps even rehabilitate her. My aunt let me borrow her "cage for troubled cats" (it is a very large cage with elevated ledges/perches) and that has been TC's home for the past two years.

We try our best to make sure she is let out for a couple of hours every day to run around now, but it has been a very gradual process. At first TC would bite and hiss at whoever or whatever approached her. She would eventually settle down after you had been in the room for a rather long period of time, but if you left and came back in she would start in with this eerie jungle cat shriek of a growl again. Each time I fed her I would try to pet her and after getting bitten for the umpteenth time I too almost reached to point of deciding to have her put down, but being the stubborn woman I am, there was no way I would admit defeat, so I persisted. I started letting her out of her cage under supervised conditions and would put her back if she started biting or fighting with the other upstairs cat. This was the routine for nearly 18 months, so when I let her out of her cage this past Monday and she crawled up on Scott's lap and stayed there for the better portion of an hour I could hardly believe it. She still needs to learn to control how aggressive she is when trying to get attention, but I swear she's not the same cat!

random rant

It is amazing to me how, sometimes, the most brilliant person can be reduced to a barely erect Neanderthal when his/her beliefs and ideas are challenged. I can't help but shake my head in dismay when the most intelligent response he/she can come up with is "because".

OLD??? no, it just looks like it

Friday morning I woke up a bit earlier than normal, so I wandered down to my office to check emails before heading off to work. Well, I tried to power up my laptop and nothing happened. I continued to try until it was time for me to leave for work. I tried to get my laptop to work again Friday evening and it still wouldn't boot up so I contacted IBM support. It boils down to having to take it to a shop that specializes in both IBM and laptops to get it fixed - and the good news is there are two such shops here in the Sioux Falls area. Sadly, most of the pictures I was going to add to the website are also on my laptop. Perhaps I should start digging through my pictures again and scan them in - UGH, that would be organizing them and I can't have that! More later...

Today I spent most of the afternoon sleeping again. Whatever is making me so tired all the time, I sure hope it passes soon. Strange how I can go from being awake and active to exhausted in what seems like the blink of an eye. It even seems to take energy to log on the computer for more than a couple of hours at a stretch and I used to be able to stay online all day. Yesterday, someone thought I was Scott's mom - I can't tell you how much that hurt to hear. Even if he looks very young for his age, it still means that I look old, and I can't help but wonder if maybe my being tired all the time is having some affect on how I look physically as well as how I feel. Oh heavens, no wonder I'm feel so depressed most of the time!

MAGIC training

Today and tomorrow I'm in a phone/customer service training class ... all day ... both days. I have been surprised so far to find it both fun and rather informative. We had to take a personality test and I was amazed at how close to the mark it was. I've been accused of needing too much detail when I am trying to make a decision, and that everything usually has to be "by the book" - now, I do have some of the other personality traits, all of us do, but I think the most interesting thing that I finally admitted to myself is that I really am a rules person. These are the rules and everyone should work within those rules and it must be fair. It's kind of like seeing a long line waiting to be seated in a restaurant, some would see ways that things could be changed to make the restaurant run more efficiently, some be thinking "this is going to be great, just look at all the people waiting to get in!", others would be thinking, "this will be a great place to spend time with friends, but make a note that to come back at a better, less busy time", and finally there are still others that would be thinking "this place is too crowded, making sure that there is a list and that they get their name on that list, and that people who were there before them are seated first, not those named further down on the list AND then make a note to come back at a different time"... (I'm in that last group if you were wondering) Some of my coworkers made comments about fitting into a certain mold, or changing your personality type because of the job you are in. I have that theory some thought and then concluded that I've been like that pretty much all my life and that the job that I'm in is just a perfect fit for my analytical, rules and order oriented personality.

Oh, I also learned that when my boss lets me loose around other people in a setting like that I am prone to talk, and talk alot!!

Packing mix up at Proctor & Gamble??

Ok, so I'm convinced that the people at Proctor and Gamble were not paying attention the day they packaged the box of DayQuil I bought last week. Non-drowsy formula, indeed. I took two of those and all I wanted to do was sleep. That same evening I took two NightQuil gel caps and had a horrid time trying to get to sleep.