I have been fairly busy lately, using what little spare time I have to catch up on chores, and play a little World of Warcraft.

I’m about to turn another year older.   I’m not really looking forward to it.  I guess I don’t really celebrate birthdays anway.  I remember when I was the youngest person in the control room.  Now, I’m often the oldest!  That’s scary at my age, that’s for sure.

I’ve got to get back to getting some things done.  Hopefully I’ll have time to write more soon.

I’m still around.  I just haven’t had any time to blog since I got done with vacation.  I’ve been swamped with work that was held over until I got back.  I haven’t caught up yet!

Well, my vacation time is almost over.  It just doesn’t seem like it ws long enough.  It was great having time off, but I miss Gary.  Also, there were some other things of a personal nature that I wish had worked out better, but I won’t go into that here.  It’s unfortunate, but it’s how it goes.

You know, selfish people really irritate me.  I see a lot of it lately, and it hurts me to see it.

I guess I need to get winding down and getting some rest.  I have a long drive ahead of me in the morning.

Mom and Dad now have DSL service.  It’s much, much better than their dial up service.  It’s better than the satellite service that we get at home.

I’ve had a few people ask me about why I disliked Hot Springs so much.  Well, first of all they covered up all of the hot springs!  They said that people were “tainting” the hot springs.  So, instead of leaving them alone, they covered them!  How stupid.  Plus, the town as a whole was dirty, generally unsafe, and depressing.  A guy pulled up alongside my sister and I and made a lewd request of us.  So, I can’t recommend anyone stop by that town, or the park there.  If you do, go at your own risk!

Once again, I’m reminded about how much I dislike dial-up internet.  Arrrgh.  Mom and Dad have placed an order for DSL, but I don’t know if it’s going to be installed before I head back or not.  I think they’ll like it a lot more.

My sister and I found out that Hot Springs, AR is a nasty place.  I’ll have to go into detail later.  Little Rock & the Clinton Presidential Library was actually not bad.

How come when people buy something, or are going to buy something, they feel the need to brag about it?  It’s terribly irritating.  I guess part of it is that I’ve never been able really been able to buy lots of nice things, so I just can’t compete.  It’s also something that I feel is in just terrible taste.  If you want to buy something, buy it.  I know a lot of people that do that.  I think that it’s also an invitation for someone to overhear you and decide they want your stuff more than you do, and some people won’t think twice about stealing it.  I know, I had someone break into my house a long time ago, and they stole what little I had at the time.  I was quite sorry I’d ever mentioned having a decent computer back then.  Bragging about material things is a turn off to a lot of people anyway.  I know, I’m a little guilty of it myself, even though I don’t have much to brag about.

Finally.  I’m going to take some time off & I will be away for several days.  I don’t know if/when I’ll be around the internet, so my email may get a bit neglected.  Hopefully when I come back, I’ll be in better spirits.

I can’t remember a time when I’ve cried during the news while I was directing a newscast. I guess today was a first. I have a real soft spot for cats and dogs, and this story broke my heart, Strays brought to Tulsa to Die.

I didn’t all out start bawling or weeping out loud, but my eyes filled with tears, and I had to try not to sniffle. It’s a good thing that they don’t have the video posted that we ran online of the little puppies and kittens crammed into tiny cages. There were at least 30 or 40 puppies & kittens, and I was told that all of them in the video were put to sleep yesterday.   I found another more in depth article from the local newspaper.
I’ve got to get back to work. Just writing about it makes my eyes fill with tears again.

Well, I don’t feel real comfortable blogging right now.  Not in a real mood for it I guess, and I’ve had my blogs picked on a bit.

I am taking some time off from work here in a week or so.  Maybe that will help me feel physically & mentally a bit better.  We’ll see.

In the World of Warcraft, I’m on my way to having my second level 70.  My paladin just hit 51 today.  I have one friend that quit a while back, and sold his account.  I was amused when Blizzard found out and banned that account, because selling accounts is against the terms of service.  It’s also quite unfair to the rest of us who play and had to take time to get their characters leveled up.

Hopefully the backstabbing blog I wrote the other day won’t come to pass.

I have a really eerie feeling that someone is about to stab me in the back.  I can’t quite explain it, and it’s not someone I’m really close to, but we aren’t enemies either.  It’s just a feeling I have around this person lately.  I can’t shake it, so there must be something to it.

What do I do to defend myself without creating “drama” or an unpleasant situation?  Maybe it’s just a weird vibe and nothing will come of it.  I don’t really get those kinds of feelings too often, so I guess I better be extra careful about what I say and do.  I’ll be the nicest I can, and hopefully nothing will come of it.

Do you ever have those feelings?  What would you do?

Today was not a good day.  I wound up staying home because I did not sleep at all last night, and I was in a lot of pain.  I try not to take sick time, but I just felt bad.

I also managed to offend a friend of mine who is a regular on MySpace.  I didn’t mean to, but I did, and now I feel like crap.  I’m thinking of leaving MySpace & Facebook, even though I’ve reconnected with some old friends.  Trying to express myself without hurting someones feelings has become a burden.  Sometimes people just take what I say the wrong way.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better, and I’ll do my best not to offend anyone.

I knew I needed a new tire.  My car hasn’t felt quite “right” for a couple of weeks.  I actually had more than one bad tire, which is crappy, because I haven’t had them long.  I got those replaced at a discount since they had some warranty left.

What really made me angry though is that I have a hub bearing that’s shot, and a tie rod end that’s shot as well.  The tie rod end is under warranty since I had it replaced last year, but the hub bearing is really expensive.  The man at the tire shop said that I can thank Oklahoma’s roads for tearing up my car.  He said that pretty much all of the damage is from hitting all of the lumps and bumps on our roads.  For those of you who don’t live here, it’s just terrible.  I’ve never, EVER driven in another state where a huge hole can go all the way across the expressway, or a big bump where they’ve done a terrible patch job is taller than the hole was deep that they tried to patch.  We live out on a really rough road where chunks of pavement are actually missing and no one has bothered to ever patch those, and they can’t be avoided because they are huge. I’m seriously thinking of having the guy at the tire shop write up a special bill, and I’ll send it to the City of Tulsa, and to the state capitol.  I know they won’t pay for it, but I’ll attach an angry letter anyway.  Oklahoma is the absolute worst.
I guess I could just let it go since I want to get a new car this year anyway, but I’ve always taken care of my cars, and I just can’t bring myself to do that.  I’ve got to take it back tomorrow, and the quote on all the work, plus the tires I got today is quite expensive.

In addition, I don’t think I’m going to stick with American cars anymore after this one.  Dad has always had really good luck with Fords, but I’m a bit disgusted. I will not buy a GM product, I’ve had major issues with those, hoses busting, oil leaks.  Chrysler seems to have issues with their paint coming off of their cars after just a couple of years, plus lots of sensor issues.  I’m hoping to try out a Mazda next.

In other news, I’m getting a bit better from my illness.  I’m quite angry now, so I’m a bit distracted.

Also, stop it with the insane “Sex and the City” talk already.  Not every woman  wants to go see that movie!  I don’t get into all of the fashion, shoes, and frilly silly things!  I can’t get away from all the talk about it.  It’s just not my thing, I’ve never been into high fashion.  That’s one reason I was unpopular in high school.  I guess I’m a bit too nerdy for that whole thing, and just really don’t want to hear about it.  So, if you start discussing the movie with me after you see it, please don’t take it personal when I stick my fingers in my ears and walk off saying “LA, LA, LA” loudly to drown you out.

Those of you who visit Facebook & MySpace know that I haven’t been feeling my best lately.  I guess the most polite way to put this is that I’ve been suffering from “lower digestive distress” since the middle of last week.  I guess it’s something I caught from someone else, because a co-worker was saying that she was ill for over two weeks!  Yikes.  I guess there isn’t much I can do but just let it run its course.

I’d love to take some sick leave from work and try to get over this, but that is not possible.  I can’t really discuss the reasons why here, I’d wind up in some trouble over that.

Thanks for your well wishes.  Hopefully everything will get better soon.  I’m tired of being in constant pain.

We finally found a Wii, but I don’t know what games I’d enjoy most!

I need some Wii game suggestions.  I’ve played mostly PC games until now, some Game Boy games, but mostly PC.  I like World of Warcraft, Diablo I & II, Warcraft I, II & III.  I enjoyed Sims 2, not the first version of the Sims though.  I like all the versions of SimCity.  I also enjoyed Doom, Sim Coaster & Roller Coaster Tycoon as well.

So far with the Wii, I like Smash Brothers, and the Wii Sports is OK.  I don’t like the off road racing game that we picked up too well.

I’m open for suggestions!  Just send me an email! (you’ll have to take out the nospam though)

I read the other day that Obama, the candidate that I was leaning toward for president may have started smoking again. It may seem silly to you, but if that’s true, that causes me to rethink things a bit.

I’m anti-war, so McCain is out for me, since he has pledged his ongoing support for the war in Iraq. Even though McCain does support the right to bear arms, the Iraq war is a real sticking point with me.

I have some very personal reasons for not wanting a current smoker in the president’s chair as well. I won’t go too much into those here, but I don’t think it’s appropriate. An ex-smoker, I can live with. That’s someone who has proven they can defeat the addiction.

Hopefully what I heard was just a bit of nasty gossip, and that’s that. Otherwise, I don’t know who I’ll wind up supporting in the upcoming election.

A bunch of us went to a friend’s house & played horseshoes on Saturday.  Wow, I was just awful.  Next time, I think I’ll just sit & watch.  I’m pretty bad at stuff like that, yet I continue to go and embarrass myself.

Yesterday was a long day.  We had a ton of errands to run, and Gary had to go back to work in the afternoon.  There wasn’t time for me to go home first, so I had to come back with him. We got home just an hour or so before bedtime.  We also didn’t get all of our errands done.

The weather is supposed to get lousy later today.  I sure hope not, but we’ll see.