An Airplane, a uniform and bad singing

Blast from the past....

I was flipping through the channels and stopped on the abc family channel. To my delight, one of my all time favorite movies is on.

TOP GUN!

It has all of the best things in it... Airplanes (fast ones), hot men in uniforms and romance.


Hmmm... I am going to have good dreams tonight

Overwhelmed!

There is only so much one person can do.... Give me a freaking break!

And another thing!

I think my porch is turning into a zoo.

So you know about the damn cat that I cant get rid of. Well, I haven't seen him in a while. Maybe he took Picadilly up on her offer and shipped off for Amsterdam. Don't worry Picadilly, I will send you some flea powder.

So anyway, on top of the cat, there has been a spider that has been living on my porch. I named him Mr. Spider. We both had our own sections of the porch so I left him alone. Now if he had crossed the line I would have smooshed him but we were living in harmony and all was good. Besides he was eating all of the other little bugs that tried to find a home there.

In addition to the cat and the spider, I had a gecko that frequented my lovely porch. I named him Oscar. Well, I guess Oscar found a friend, so now both gecko's have been chillin on the porch.

Well, yesterday I noticed that Mr. Spider was missing. I have a feeling that either Oscar or his friend became a little hungry and ate Mr. Spider and here I thought we were one big happy family. Then Oscar had to go and literally have lunch with Mr. Spider. The least they could have done was clean up the dirty ass spider web.

Primal Instinct at it's finest!

People.....

The crazy people are out in mass these days....

Yesterday I saw a guy smoking a bowl at a stop light, right out in plain view... are you kidding me? Of course that was after I stopped at the grocery store and stood in line for a 1/2 hour because a woman was screaming that the cashier would not sell her alcohol because of a new state law.

Then today, I was talking to my friend and she was telling me this hysterical story. She went into a public restroom at the airport and she was near the handicapp stall where she noticed some unusual activity. Being that she works at the airport she was concered that someone was having a seziure in the restroom. When she took a closer look she realized that there were way to many feet in the stall. Even better the feet had no shoes on. Then she realized the implication.

- Two sets of feet - one obviously male
- Movement that looks like a seizure
- Heavy breathing

She put 2 and 2 together and realized that there was two people having sex!

Can you believe it! In a public restroom, where mother's change their children's diapers and grandma's go to powder their noses.

Needless to say I guess the girl was quite intoxicated and missed her flight and probrably wont remember much of what happend.

Simply amazing.... I think I am going to play it safe and just stay home.

Not much going on

I love these kinds of weeks, not much going on. No drama, no stress... just ______ (nothing).

Have you ever heard of myspace. Well, I guess it is all the rage of "kids" these days. =)

I have become addicted. You would be surprised who has set up shop over there. I have spent many hours searching for people from my past. Not that I really want to contact them, but more of a curiosity of what they are doing now. You know comparing myself to them and all.

Anyway... I really dont have much to talk about since there is no drama and all and I am not feeling particularly insightful these days... so if you are bored to tears from reading this hodge podge of a post... you can always pop over to myspace and see who you can find.

Stupid Cat

I have this stupid cat that likes to hang around on my porch. He/she will not go away. I wouldnt mind the cat hanging out on my porch but it keeps rubbing all up against me and I am terrified that it has fleas. The first time I find a flea I am going to go buy a shot gun. (Just kidding)

Anyone want this cat?

Happy St. Patricks Day!!

You know you are too drunk when you let your friends tape you up while taking pictures

Never fear I am still here!

Wow, a whole week!

I never thought I could be busier but heck I was wrong after this week. To start spring break is over so back to school. I was fit to be tied when I went back to my first class on Monday and it was cancelled. Mind you it is about a 30 mile commute from my job to school. I was irrate.

Then meeting after meeting after meeting, I was so far behind at work it wasnt even funny anymore. On top of all that I must have worked over 50 hours.

Anyway, today was a quiet day at work and I was able to get caught up, then a friend of mine had a Vegas party at her house. I think tomorrow I am going shopping for some new clothes. I am starting to look a little raggity...

Exciting ;)

A Night on the town

Now that I finally have weekends off and going along with my need to break out of my little rut, we have been going doing different things each weekend.

This weeked we went to dinner and then a movie. Not exactly wild and crazy, however we made up for it the night before, St Patricks Day. As soon as blogger allows me to post a stupid picture I will tell you about the evening. The story really wont do any justice without the picture.

So anyway, back to today. Our company has an employee sponsored club. For $1 a paycheck, which equals out to $26 for the year, you can be a member of the employee club. Basically the club was designed to get employees together outside of work for some team bonding. What that means, if you have an event with at least three employee club members the club will refund up to $25 per person to help fund the event. There are some rules, like the club will not pay for any alcohol nor will it cover any non-employee members like spouses and children. Even though it is a pretty good deal.

So we decided to use the employee club to fund dinner. We try to pick a different resturant each time and typically it ends up being random people that decide to come with us. We usually do something in addition to the dinner however, we get the most bang for our buck when we do submit the dinner.

All in all it is a pretty good deal. I figure I am about even with the club. The first 4 years I didnt really do any events - this past year I have been pretty active.

Great way to fund a social life and it is pretty cool because you get to expand your circle of friends.

So anyway, after dinner like I said we ended up going to a movie. Failure to launch. I thought it was good. The other people I was with were less than impressed, I am not really surprised considering they are guys.

Not exactly an exciting post but I am tired and need to go to sleep... Yawn....

Peach Out!

Workaholic

If you were to look in the dictionary for the definition of the word "workaholic" you would definitely find my picture there. I often wonder if it my fatal flaw or my best quality.

I love to have a purpose and I am so extremely competitive that I do what ever is necessary to get the job done, even if that means working a gazillion hours a week or sacrificing a social life.

This new job is definitely a good fit for me. I am control freak and overly organized which is something this department has been lacking for a long period of time. When I moved into my cubicle, there is a 5 drawer filing cabinet behind me. I tossed everything in that filing cabinet. I found things from when I was hired 6 years ago. I found things in there with the company's address that didn't even exist any more. Heck, I found the manual to a typewriter. I haven't seen a typewriter in years.

Yeah, Yeah - I know I need to get a life....

Out of the box

Okay, so I broke my streak.

I am trying to step outside of my tight little box. I am bored. I want to get out and do different things. Experience life to it's fullest. I tend to get into big ruts, trying to climb the walls to get out but getting nowhere.

This last month I have been making progress, doing different things. Last Thursday I went to my first real concert. Bon Jovi. An awesome time, being there watching him shake his booty up on the big screen while people screamed their heads off and sang with him was an amazing experience. It reminded me of my childhood, Bon Jovi is one of the first singers I can truly remember loving. We would watch tapes of his concerts when the babysitter came over dancing in front of the tv, lip singing with a hair brush.

Yesterday I happened to score some tickets to the local hockey team. I really only went because they were tickets for the company suite at the local arena. Let me tell you, the suite tickets were sweet. I was like a little kid in a candy store. Definitely a great experience.

I am keeping my eye open for different things to do. I think this weekend we are going bowling. I haven't been bowling in at least 5 years.

Once Spring Break is over I will look for more traveling options. I hear Seattle has a museum of flight. Maybe I will fly up there and spend a day at the museum. I'll keep you posted.

3 for 3

Three posts in three days... Go me!

Today was my own personal spring cleaning. I started in the bedroom and whipped through the house like a hurricane. What an exciting weekend. It was good though, my house really needed it and it was getting to the point that I was washing one outfit each day. It is quite the novel idea to have all of your clothes clean and hanging in the closet.

The only place left to clean is the fish bowl. At least he has water, it was getting pretty bad there for awhile.

After all of my cleaning, I took a break and saw a movie with a friend. We saw Date Movie. It was cute, I like those spoof movies pioneered by Leslie Nielsen in Airplane.

Now, I am off to bed - 6am comes pretty fast.

Tuna Out!

Rainy Days

You see that green blob over AZ? Yeah, that's where I live. We haven't had rain in over 4 months and today we woke up to the glorious sound of rain drops on the roof.

AZ is one of the few places in the world, that the population rejoices over a bit of rain. It was even the top headline on the local paper and all over the news.

Dont let the fact that I live in the desert confuse you. I absolutely love the rain!! I would definitely be very happy living in Seattle or a rain forest for that fact. My mom thinks I am crazy.

There is definitely nothing better than wrapping yourself up in a warm fuzzy blanket, doing absolutely nothing but watching tv. Hmm.....

Here's to your next rainy day =)

Long time...

Wow, it has been a long time since I sat on my couch trying to think of something to share with the blogger world.

I never really disappeared from the blog world, I just stopped contributing. I was more of a leech reading other's sites. However, I was motivated to write myself by a comment left on someone else's site asking where I have been all this time. So to who ever you were Thank you.

So, my life has changed pretty drastically over the last six months, which is part of the reason I haven't been sharing my "secrets" with the world.

In September I moved into my own apartment, which was a huge step for me. My roommate and I figured it was time to part ways, all on good terms. However, I was unsure of the financial strain the move would place on my checking account so I had to terminate my internet account.

On the plus side, I changed positions in my company and took a promotion which allowed me a few extra cents for which I decided it was time to get reconnected to the information super highway. Never mind the fact that I was going to take an internet class this semester and I did not really want to spend my extra moments sitting in a crowded computer center. I would rather sit on the couch in my pj's while eating french toast. =)

On top of everything my new position while completely rewarding, has been extremely demanding of my time. I am working more than I am sleeping which is a big change for me. Things have finally calmed down and everything is starting to fall into place.

Missed me didn't you?

I am back with stories of far off lands and a wonderful vacation.
I figured I would post the trip in parts because there is so much to talk about, so stay tuned for each port we visited.

(I would post some pictures but Blogger is being a jerk and not playing nice, so until I have more energy to post the pics inline)

To start we left on Sunday July3 - we had a wonderful flight to Amsterdam where we met up with my Dad and Step-mom. There seemed to be a bit of weather issues in Amsterdam so our connecting flight was delayed about an hour, a little more since SAS doesn't have any concept of a quick turn (a quick turn is the process we call when we try to send a late plane back out as quick as possible) . Despite the delay we arrived in Cophenhagen around 1pm and began our journey to the ship. We had to take a train and then walk the rest of the way to the pier. After getting off the train we could see the ship, an absolute amazing site. The ship was huge, it towered over the rest of the buildings in the area and was as long as 3 city blocks. Simply amazing that this thing floated on water.

After a pretty smooth check in process we walked on board our home for the next 10 days. Our room was nice considering it was an inside cabin with no windows but it had mirrors that made the room appear large. It was clean and laid out nicely. After we finally received our bags and took showers we headed out to check out the ship.

I expected the ship to be flashy, gaudy and overdone but was pleasantly surprised. It was absolutely beautiful with light woods and subtle colors. After a little wondering around we decided to have something to eat and take a nap since we had been traveling for over 24 hours and we figured since our next day would be at sea we would have plenty of time to see the rest of the ship.

Let me tell you if you are deciding to take a cruise, I would suggest Princess. Everyone on board was wonderful. The cruise director was extremely knowledgeable about the ports we were visiting, giving very through talks about the ports and his talks were not directed for the passenger traveling on the ships tours. The entertainment staff was great, putting on some excellent productions and their on-board activities directors were energetic and very friendly.

All in all it was a great ship with great staff.

I will write tomorrow on our first port - Tallin, Estonia.

Vacation Mode

I am so in vacation mode. As you can see my countdown is doing it's thing and as the numbers fall I am getting so excited.

I have been so busy these past couple of days, working and shopping. I have had to find a "formal" dress to wear for this cruise.

Unfortunately with my body type it is difficult to find something that hides all of my parts but is not a freaking tent. After visiting a million stores in the 200 degree weather I finally found the dress I was looking for.

Now we just have to figure out how we are going to get to Copenhagen. Even though we are flying standby the tickets are freaking expensive due to the European taxes. We are looking at taking $100 tickets and turning them into $250 tickets because of taxes. It is just ridiculous. The hurdle we come across is we are flying over 4th of July weekend. Flying stand-by sucks when you are flying over any holiday. You never know if you are going to get on the flights, talk about stress.

Anyhow, I better go I have to do some laundry and get ready for work. Just wanted to drop a note letting you know I am still alive and breathing.

Phoenix Monsoon

Last night we had a monsoon. Monsoons in Phoenix are an awesome event. You can see some other pretty good pictures over at PHX Monsoon (that's where I got this one)
I remember the first time I had heard about the monsoon, I didn't quite understand the big deal about monsoons. I had seen some pretty good storms, including a hurricane. So I thought, "How bad could a monsoon be?"

I learned about the power of a monsoon real quick. It rolled in fast, starting out with a dust storm, only to finish up with some amazing down pours and an awe inspiring thunder and lightning show.

One of the most powerful monsoons I have seen was about 2 years ago. I was working at the airport that night and we had been having warnings about the storms for a couple of hours. The dust storm came in thick and fast. We could barely see across the concourse to the other side of the airport. Next came high winds and lightning. It was amazing. The winds were so strong they moved a 757 (our biggest plane) off the gate by about 20 feet. It tour the jetway apart and did a bit of aircraft damage.

Then within 1 hour it was gone, like it had never happened. Amazing.

A little desert humor

Adding to the drama

So my little brother called me today and said that he was thinking about going to school out here in Phoenix.

He is 19 and is currently living in South Carolina with his girlfriend. He graduated a military high school last year, where he did really well academically. Unfortunately, his first year of real freedom didnt go so well and he flunked out of college. My dad (his cash cow) was really pissed so now he has to get himself out of this mess.

I was kinda surprised that he would move all the way out here away from his girlfriend who has him whipped but she is starting college this year and I am sure he is wondering where he fits into the equation.

It may be a pretty good thing because it would solve my roommate problems and he could focus on school.

Well have to wait and see what happens.

Still Breathing

I am still around and unfortunately my blog is being totally neglected. I am still in hyper work mode, just finished up working 5 16 hour double shifts over 6 days. My current mantra is that it will all be worth it when I am cruiseing on the Baltic sea. I am expecting one whopping big paycheck next week. I better not be disappointed.

In other news my roommate has not been home for about 2 weeks. She has been spending all of her time at her boyfriends house. I am happy for her but sad in other ways. It seems that our roommate relationship will be coming to an end soon. September will mark our 5 year anniversary. We met during orientation for the airline. During those 4 weeks we found that we had a lot in common. At the time we both were living with our uncles in the same part of town, our families lived thousands of miles away and were very similar in a dysfunctional kind of way. We decided that we could try the roommate thing and see what happens. I remember when we were signing the lease we opted for a shorter one to make sure that we would get along. Five years later we are still together.

I haven't quite figured out what I am going to do when it is over. I pretty much only have 3 options. I can get my own apartment, which on one hand would be nice but very lonely as well as very expensive. I could try to find another roommate but I think I am getting to old to deal with living with someone I don't know or Cowboy and I talked about getting an apartment together. Unfortunately Cowboy comes with a lot of baggage. His brother is moving to town in August and he has a roommate. I am not sure if I am ready to share a place with 3 guys varying in age from 25 to 50. It would be interesting though and I know damn well that I would have to have my own bathroom.

I guess I am just going to play it by ear, I have never lived with a guy that I was not sleeping with so it would be interesting. Well, see what happens.

I am off to get some running around done, the library sent me an email telling me my books were due and I have been craving Chinese food like you would not believe.

TTFN (ta, ta for now)