Intermission, folks...

work is sucking the life out of me...

our newest arrival...

okay I just realized that somebody messed up the date in my camera.  Now I'm going to have to search my directions to find out how to fix it or take the wrong date off. 

check out our little baby girl...she had just eaten...slurp!

My youngest daughter was looking for a kitten, her boyfriend is going off to college in another city, she feels lonely, wants something to keep her company as she lives with her Dad, and her big boy cat lives here with me, so she solicited my help.  I think she should take "King Fuzz" home. 

Needless to say, I clicked in Ebay or somewhere and typed in kittens, did a search, several searches in fact, trying to find a kitten close to home, and came across an ad in my county looking for a home for her "Ragdoll." The reason they are called ragdolls is because when picked up their body totally relaxes, therein perfect for children, like a ragdoll. They are an awesome breed of cats, we're excited to get this little half-breed, we don't care that she isn't a full bred ragdoll. Have you seen the prices of a ragdoll kitten? yeah...nearly a thousand bucks. Our cost? free. Also this breed will get really big, just like "King Fuzz." The two together will be stunning side by side,due to their contrasting colors, as Fuzz is caramel and white. I can't wait to get a picture of the two of them together. The lady said they were moving and couldn't take their cat, so they were looking for a good home.  I had no idea on intial contact via email that she even had a kitten.  I was willing to try to take in a beautiful bred cat needing a home, sent an email, half expected no response really...and so I went onto search for Bobbi a kitten.  Who knew the mother was so beautiful...

The lady emailed me back and said she found a home for the mother (above), but that she had a 'half' not full bred Ragdoll kitten, obviously this mother had six babies with some oddball cat, and they had all died except for the kitten you see in the top pic, who now belongs to us.  The lady said she nursed this one with a bottle, the lone survivor, just like Bobbi, she's pretty much been a loner thanks to her Dad.  Its so little and tiny, and those little eyes...yeah suckered me right in.   She is sitting on the step, she can't even get up and down the steps, she's so teeny! Bobbi took the kitten to her Dad's, but I doubt he's going to let her keep it.  We are taking suggestions for names...so throw one out here...

for informative characteristics about this breed, click here.

Elephants Passing By...

LOOk! big white Elephants in the Sky! ha! ...yeah...too good!

My Car Died at the Y, Now What? Plan...

me? have a backup plan?

its funny I have Mater up here at the beginning of the week, the perfect ending for the week too.

As you all know, I've had my share of automotive issues in the last few years, bought two motors due to an over-exuberant and out of control teen and the motor was running great, until yesterday.

While many of you might have thought "time for a new car" back when, I am one of these emotionally attached to their car persons and am not in a financial position to go out and buy the Buick of my dreams...nor anything really above 10 grand..which limits my selection quite frankly.

So far today, I can't even get ahold of Mater to go tow my car off the YMCA parking lot where its transmission refused to go any further. Yes! this time I believe its the transmission. You try to start it, it just kicks off, a smell ensues (not typical of a motor smell), and yes it had been slipping a little, a slight tug noticed occasionally, not always...and I had the transmission fluid checked just the day before as I was concerned about it.

Just the perfect ending for my stressful workday too, as I was wondering what the hell else could happen? in that we were not going to make the deadline with a few clients files...

Yes, f my carless and penniless life. Donations of money or a reasonably running car appreciated. Email me.

Update: A friend of mine looked at my car; he seems to think it wasn't getting the gas, that the hesitation I've been feeling was because of a fuel injector clogging up or the fuel line somewhere blocked. You can hear the pump but it won't start. So, we'll see what the mechanic says...either/or its probably time for a new ride.

Mater Monday

Well my Monday started out needing a tow truck to haul all these 600 files around in, which is pretty much what I did all day...haul files around from FQA to another!

Seeing 600 files is way too much Monday stress too early to deal with and try to come up with a plan? All this before my first cup of coffee? I'm gonna shoot somebody...

My strategy:   Move 'em around Mater~! yep, spread the love around...say ... You've never done this dictator before? Let me introduce him to you...lol...with 182 files of the same client...overkill...where have those files been hiding? yeah...in the words of my friend and colleague, Francis, it was brutal. I'm sure he didn't feel too much love.

With cooperation and perseverance out of my FQA staff, I'm happy to report that we hauled ass!
Mater would have been proud.

I sure was! ha!

and how was your Monday?

I am dog dead tired, folks....

Frankly, every time we have a Monday holiday, its hell the rest of the week. Its been nonstop madness the last two days.  We've had two new clients, an overflow of files, and tackling the onslaught of files has worn me out.  I worked from 7 to 7 two days in a row, today I just quit working at 5, and just said heck with it! I'm over it. 

"Little Queenie" (aka Isabella) and I walked down to check out the new Riverfront Tuesday the 5th, since we didn't even get close to it Monday night when Billy Ray Cyrus took the stage July Fourth; however Kenny Loggins and Blue Sky Riders, his new band took the stage.  Speaking of the night before, the Fourth, the police were not letting anybody pass into the Riverfront area due to over capacity as it was, even arresting those people trying to cross the tracks to get into the place.  Shameful.  However when a lot of the people left after the fireworks, they did let more people go in so at least they could hear Billy Ray sing. I just left, heck with that crowd.  I figured I could watch it on YouTube somewhere...LOL.

A neighborhood friend of mine walked over to us a little while before the concert was going to start Tuesday night (Kenny Loggins), and gave us her VIP tickets (that somebody just gave to her) to be seated up front next to the stage.  We were in the 2nd row, excellent seats, and the drinks were free! That tickled little Isabella as she was thirsty she said, so she helped herself to the freebies, enjoyed the concert and bedtime wasn't till nearly 11:30 p.m.  Getting up the next day was a bear! However the Blue Sky Riders were pretty good. 

Yes, work has been brutal this week.  Today, I was listening to a new client dictate, "The patient is doing well with her Horizontal Therapy treatments..." yeah...that's exactly what I was thinking....

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a nap!

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...well, not exactly! ha!

Kenny Loggins

 

I saw Kenny Loggins in concert tonight in our little hometown.  He has this new band, Blue Sky Riders, and they were pretty good.  I enjoyed myself.  

Happy Fourth!

check out this post. 

Sundays ha-ha's...its Monday...

A man phones home from his office and says to his wife: "I have the chance to go fishing for a week. It's the opportunity of a lifetime. I have to leave right away. Pack my clothes, my fishing equipment and especially my blue silk pajamas. I'll be home in an hour to pick them up."


The man rushes home to grab everything. He hugs his wife, apologizes for the short notice, and then hurries off.

A week later, the man returns and his wife asks: "Did you have a good trip, dear?"


The man replies: "Yep, the fishing was great... but you forgot to pack my blue silk pajamas."


His wife smiles and says: "Oh, no I didn't... I put them in your tackle box!"

Summer Motion 2011

Every year our little town, Ashland, Kentucky, has 4th festivities, not unlike anywhere else, geared for family fun and live entertainment.  For the first two days all activities are held a couple of blocks up from me at Central Park, and next few days, all the activities center around the Riverfront, which has been a few years in the developing, and now is finished.

The headliner this year is Billy Ray Cyrus, who will be performing tomorrow evening, at the riverfront.  His achy breaky heart hit was filmed here at our local Paramount Arts Center, with many local fill-ins in that video. It was quite the hub in the day.  I'm not a country music fan, but I suppose I'll mosey on down to the river, two blocks down from me, and enjoy the festivities tomorrow night.  I wished there was more rock n roll concerts but that's just me...

At Central park these last two days, there were arts and crafts booths, lots of food, a car show, a motorcycle show, a wrestling match, games booths, petting zoos, NASA was there with an exhibit, local health screenings, a 10K race, a cornhole competition (don't ask what that is...lol), inflatables for the kids, and some unique stuff too, like some guy who makes musical instruments into lamps, and another dude blowing hand glass ornamental objects to include forming glass lamps, bulb ornaments, etc...but a little too pricey for my budget.

Also at Central Park performing stage, local talent in the area got their chance to go on stage and perform, and from what I heard, they were pretty darn good. Its been an interesting couple of days, but at least I have a parking place now since things have moved to the Riverfront! The heat is pretty bad outside though, making it rather uncomfortable.  Hope you guys are enjoying your local community events.  Happy Fourth everybody!

I Can't Stand a Thief or a Liar...

Gawd...Some things are so intrinsically wrong they make my blood boil when they happen ... and stealing from me is #1. Denying with lying is #2.  I don't give a shit if you are family or not, if you steal from me, don't think I'm not going to notice, and don't think for one minute that I don't know you stole it, and know for real that I can see through the denial and lying eyes.  You had opportunity.  You had need. Did you think I haven't noticed this has happened before?  Yes, I've noticed, and your crutch would be to use your sister, after all I would believe "she" stole it, right?  Sure...that was YOUR thinking...however that wasn't the case. 

Yes, your sister had a drug addiction problem.  Yes, she stole, lied and connived to support her habit, and so did her do-less husband, no good for nothing.  But don't think for one minute that you are off the hook, because I know for a fact your sister didn't do it.  In fact, she brought money into this house this evening for me to put up for her to save for her rent because she doesn't trust herself not to spend it, as she is an impulsive shopper.  I have a hard enough time trying to build back any trust and respect that your sister destroyed, only to have to worry that now its you who is stealing and deceiving me?  

I have never been so hurt in my life by members of my own family, or even those who had professed to love me at some point in my life, aka your own father who made my life a living hell for years.  I don't have issues with trusting people, in general, just those people who have turned into thieves, liars, or fakes.  I can't stand a fake person either.  You know those people who put more value on 'keeping up with the Joneses and collecting things' rather than having any true grit.  Take Mother-In-Law for instance, she is one of those.  I never thought I would see you fall into this category of liars and thieves, and it hurts me a lot. 

If somebody really needs something from me, they ask, they don't just steal it.  Ask and ye shall receive, right? but steal from your own mother?  If you can't trust your own family, who can you trust? I don't care who you are, stealing from your own family is a cardinal sin.  I am good to you; I pay for you to drive keeping you in insurance, pay your cellphone bill, and you steal money out of my billfold?  I took you just tonight and bought you things you needed; items you wanted, and when we got back home, I am on the porch distracted with a neighbor who dropped by on the sidewalk to chat, while you obviously took that opportunity to lift a few twenty dollar bills.  Can you live with your deceitful deed, really?  after you kissed and hugged me bye.  As your mother, I feel ashamed of you, truly. Will I even try to talk to you about this?  I doubt it.  What good would it do? You would just deny it right? I know what you did.  You know what you did. Its shameful, and not to mention it really just pisses me off.  

Excuse me bloggers, I really had to get this off my chest.  Next purchase: a home lockable combination safe.

a new and interesting blog concept...

hey bloggers, happy Friday, and happy 4th to everybody!  Got plans for the weekend?



While I was out visiting a few blogs and surfing a few new blogs of interest, I came across a website called "Blogger Idol."

Check out this link.

It looks as though auditions have been selected for the first season, which will end here in a few weeks, and it might be something you writer types might like to engage in just for fun! I personally can't write shit, but I can darn sure spell it~!

check out their official trailer...LOL..








and my blog buddy Otin suggested checking out this dude's  blog, so I did..Maybe you will too! I love a good laugh!