Ugh

So sleepy all I wanna do is go to sleep. ....debating on if I am going to stay up and watch 24 tonight or not. Got all my homework done except for the one that is due on Friday.....I gotta do that......

Blah and yea!

Well, Daryl told me that I can quit my job since they said that my vacation is 'dependent' on them finding another person to fill the last tech support position. He said, "It's not like you have to work, you chose too. Yes it will be tight for a while but we will survive." With that said I have started actively looking for another job and hoping that the one with my friend comes available soon. Anything to get me out of my current job. Anything.

Puppy update: Poseidon is doing much better with his hurt paw. He hog tied himself last Wednesday for a couple of hours, when Daryl and I got home it was the size of a baseball almost. I spent two hours in the snow with him that night cold= swelling go down! Some of the swelling went down with that and over the next couple of days we just were careful with him knowing that his paw was hurt and didnt have all the feeling back into it yet. Well yesterday I saw open wounds where the lead had cut in. I took both the puppies out, then left Zeus downstairs so I could treat Poseidon's wounds without having to worry about Zeus. While Poseidon cried he didn't try to snip or bite me at all. He in fact just sit there and licked my face as I applied the neosporin to the gauze and then put the ace bandage around his paw. Bringing Zeus up I let them play while I did chores around the house. While I initially left the ace bandage the normal length I could tell he didnt like it after a couple of hours. So when I took them down to feed them I took the bandage and the gauze off. I got a clean thing of gauze put more neosporin on it and cut the ace bandage so that I only had to go around the wound three times instead of twenty. Seems much happier now.

TV Show update:
My show has finally started! Yea 24 is back on. Wow what a thriller and makes you want to keep your seat. Although I thought they were going to kill Jack in the first show I told myself, "No they won't." Sure enough he lived and escaped his captors....as usual. .... Go Jack!

It snowed!

If you look outside my window whether it be at home, work, or school all you will see is plenty of the white stuff.....SNOW.......... while it was fun trying to drive home from school that didn't close until 7:30 pm last night I realized that there are many drivers here in Seattle who can't drive in the rain much less snow. Although it took me an hour and ten minutes to drive what usually takes me fifteen minutes to drive I took into account the weather and the road conditions and drove slowly. Daryl, my fiance, left work 45 minutes before I left school at 7:30pm when they finally closed school (I should have followed my first instinct and just taken the absense but I'm stubborn and wanted my perfect attendence to go unblemished!) we ended up meeting at the same spot that he had been trying to get to for a good ten minutes when I called him letting him know that they had just closed school and that I was going to attempt the trek home. He said that he would come get me if I got stuck but that I should be able to make it just go slow. I said I have no problems going slow. I will make it home....somehow. At this point I had already seen one accident from someone not paying attention and going to fast, and was seeing people abandon their cars on the side of the road. While I give them credit for getting off the road and not driving any further I tried to imagine the towing bill that was going to come if they don't pick up there car the next day when conditions are somewhat better. I say somewhat cause temperatures were below freezing last night and are not expected to get much warmer than that this week.
Right now I'm at work having made it in with no problems at all to find that one of my coworkers as usual didnt show up due to the weather....knowing that when he was hired he was asked would he make it to work if it snowed.... he said yes......but so far it shows that he lied ....as he repeatedly has not shown up when the weather turns bad.

Yea tomorrow is payday...... question is are they going to reopen school in time for night classes tonight??? I hope that they do as I do not want to have to make up another day of classes.

Another Day

Its one day closer to my wedding and my graduation with my Bachelors degree in Information Security, although right now I wish I didn't have class. I'm just so tired, and I have no energy to do squat. All I want to do is sleep. My head feels like its going to explode, took some sudafed, hopefully it starts working soon and will make my head feel a little better. So cold doesnt help they keep the AC on here at work.

I gotta do some laundry on Saturday and then meet up with a friend on Saturday to work on school work.

Christmas Stocking

Xmas Stocking

leave a gift for Heather your username: your gift: (30 characters or less) get your stocking

Power Outages

Here in Bellevue Washington where I work for the past hour the power has been going off and on, now about 5 times so far. We are all praying that it goes off and stays off and eventually takes the power from the server that has control of the phone system

Poseidon Graduated Training Class!!

The picture to the left is Poseidon (the one with the Purple leash) with his older brother Zeus. This was Zeus's first time on a leash for a while he is not leash trained at all and whines when no one is around. Zeus is older than Poseidon by 30 minutes. As you can tell Poseidon is still smaller than his older brother, being the runt of the litter. He may be the runt but he is full of energy, a smart and quick learner, and is very well loved.


The picture to the left here was taken on Sunday at Poseidon's graduation from Puppy Training at Petsmart. He did very well and even went first for the tests. Good job Poseidon, my baby.

Survey Results

To those that took the survey that I submitted many thanks.
Here are the answers to some of the questions that I could answer from my research.

1. As of January 2006 how many orcas do you think are in marine parks? 45
2. On average how long do you think Orca live in captivity? Roughly 20 years
3. On average how long do you think an Orca lives in the wild? 80 + years for the females
4. How many orcas do you think have been captured since 1961? 135
5. How many orcas do you think Sea World own around the world? 25

So much to do.......

Got so much homework.....got so much to do to plan for the wedding....when will it stop???

Poseidon

Puppy

Here's a picture of the puppy that Daryl and I are getting. We should be able to pick him up this weekend or on the first of August. Daryl and I have named the puppy Poseidon, the god of the sea.

Why Poseidon? Daryl and I are both water signs. Plus Daryl and I both love the water.

ACKKKK geeesh

Sometimes I hate callers! If you have to call tech support for some reason don't be rude. All they are trying to do is help you fix your problem. If they are asking you for a product code, make sure you can locate it and give it to them, more than likely they are trying to register the product so that they can provide support to you!

Ok, now that I can quit ranting and raving, let's move on.

How are the wedding plans coming?
Well, I have already purchased my veil, and tiara. Purchased something else but I can't say because I don't want word getting back to my fiance!

Matron of Honor is selected, my bridesmaids are selected (with the exception of one that I still have to ask....)

D and I are going this weekend to view 3 locations that are quite possible to have the wedding and reception at.

We have decided what our colors will be for the wedding, Seafoam Green and a shade of blue (haven't settled on what shade of blue just yet.)

Moving.....

As of the beginning of September, end of August, I will be moving back into my fiance's house. It will mean sacrifices on both of our parts for awhile. It will help get bills paid off, so that we can save up for purchasing a home that we both like that is in his call area, or using the money for our wedding, or both.

Am I crazy????

Ok I gotta be crazy if I'm going to do this. Do what you ask? As most of you know I got engaged to be married on April 2nd. I start my new job on May 8th. I graduate with my associates degree in September. So you ask, what makes you think you are crazy? Well, not only will I be planning my wedding that will happen in two years time, but at the same time will be working on my bachelors degree as well. So when will I be graduating with my bachelor's degree? Well, I'll be graduating with my bachelors degree, right after my wedding! (well a couple weeks after but shortly after)....so yes I'll have to put off my honeymoon for a couple of weeks but the fiance and I are ok with that.

So why am I going straight back to school to get my bachelors? Well, I can get my bachelors with friends in my classes, gives me more motivation if I just continue straight thru, and I won't have to hem and haw about when I want to go back to school.

Apparently I have the full support of my fiances family to go on to get my bachelors.

The...... Proposal

On Sunday April 2, 2006 at 1:30 am my boyfriend Daryl proposed to me at Alki Beach. I said yes to his proposal and was instantly crying. Alki Beach is one of the first places that we had gone to when we first started dating each other. It came out throughout the day that he was originally going to propose to me when we were up in Victoria B.C. but the one place that was appropriate for the proposal he didn't have the ring yet. He was going to propose at the Italian restaurant that we visited, but didn't due to the loud atmosphere.

Welcome to Spring

Today is officially the first day of Spring. I'm happy that Spring is here as it will start to warm up. But it means so much more for me. It means I'm one quarter closer to graduating with my associates degree in Computer Network Systems. It means its time to do some spring cleaning around my home and get rid of stuff that I no longer use, finish building a computer so I can get it out of my living room and over to my mother-in-laws.

Wishes:
That my 94 Beretta would sell.
That the bar would sell.
That things will go ok for me.

TOBY KEITH!!!!! HERE I COME!!!!

My loving adorable boyfriend has bought me two tickets to go see Toby Keith in Concert at the Tacoma Dome !!! HUGS to my bf! Thanks my love!! :-)

I can't believe I get to go see my favorite artist in concert! and get to take my best friend Stacy with me! I'll let you know more after the concert I'm too hyped!.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone

Sorry

Things have been a bit busy for me lately. Not only with work, but with school, and the holidays.

Was trying to do something nice for my mom for Christmas and all it's given me is a pain in the neck. Go figure. At least I finally got her new computer that I built from scratch built. The only thing I have left to do is install drivers for the modem, the rest she can install on her own.

Am happy for my 'bro' as he recently proposed to his girl.. Congrats you two.

I graduate in September,,....thank GOD!

Exciting....

Well, school starts tomorrow for me at ITT Tech. I'm excited about it. It is definately going to keep me on my toes. I also go on vacation this coming Saturday, going to go visit my grandfather in Oklahoma. It is hard to believe its been 2 years since I was last out there. Seems shorter than that.

Lyndsay may be coming to live with me after all. She realized that she won't be graduating with her classmates in 2006 due to the fact that she screwed around and failed an entire year of high school. She's seeing if her credits will transfer to the Seattle School system so where she will be able to graduate this year. Her dad has made it clear to her that it is going to be stricter rules than it was at her moms and that its not going to be all fun and games. We'll see what happens, she has to call the school on Tuesday/Wednesday to see if they will transfer or not and we'll go from there. Not like its going to matter to me much I'm rarely going to be home with class 3 nights a week from 5:30pm to 10:30 pm. All I'll be doing those nights is coming home, taking a shower and going to bed to be up by 6 am the next morning for work.

I am enjoying my new job, I have a lot more customer contact, but is basically the same as I was doing before just with a lot more work.