Since....

Since I've been in the IT department I have been running my butt off and running around this building. I've spent a good deal of company money, gotten things tested and fixed, worked 10 or so hours of overtime.....

ugh........


ok more later...

i need to write to get stuff out

My boys! And will it happen??

My Boys! Poseidon going goofy over their bone! Tug of war over a duck!




Will I be moved to IT full time is the current question up in the air and the reason I can't sit still currently.

*update* at least for now I will be doing 4 hours of tech support and 4 hours of IT, however they are still watching and evaluating to move me to IT full time :)

**Update** As of 2/26 I am full time IT

I'm Proud of her

Lyndsay joined Job Corp to finish her diploma and get her certificate in Certified Nursing Assistant. She leaves for Portland on the 13th. Her dad and I fully support her and in fact bought her luggage and supplies to get her started. She has yet to tell her mom that she is leaving but I'm sure she is not going to be happy about it.

She will be down there for a year that we know of, although her scholarships gives her up to two years there.

I get to see my sweetie

yea does the happy dance I've spent the past two nights with my sweetheart and I get tonight with him as soon as I get home from class. And then I get allllll weekend with him....yea babby

on the work front things are looking up, I may be moved at least part time into IT. to help them install operating systems and such. I got my amplifier back for my phone and suddenly I can hear again. We'll see. I'm working on keeping my voice calm and collected and not let any frustration show in my voice. Hopefully it will work bring my scores up.

Complex Problems

from my starbucks cup:
"Complex problemse defy simple solutions. One cannot end poverty by giving money to every poor person, nor is the world cleaned up if everyone rode their bikes to work instead of driving. We need to commit to a total solution for our perceived problems. We need to also remember that most solutions hurt people too. What or who we hurt and who or what we fix is always the tough part of the equation."

John Adamski
Starbucks customer from Corvallis, Oregon

Hmmm What to have for dinner

What do I want to have for dinner? I was not really all that hungry last night but forced myself to eat top ramen just to get something in my stomach. So what should Daryl and I have for dinner tonight?

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

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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.