Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Apparently, snoring in my family is not limited to humans


I did feel a tiny bit guilty for taking pictures AND recording the snoring. Good grief though! I could hear him over the music I had playing. Looks like we have a "snuffy" jr in the family. When I'm working in my office he almost always sleeps under the back side of the chair. One of these days I'll forget he's down there.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Griswold Get Together



What: Griswold Get Together

When: December 20th 2008 7pm
Where: My place. If you are reading this and wondering where that is, this whole thing might be a bad fit.

Attire: You are strongly encouraged to come dressed as any of the lovable characters from any movie featuring the Giswold clan.
Details: I will be making a Turkey. 50/50 odds it will turn out. If it doesn't we will be enjoying the vodka jello mold and it will tie in nicely with the theme of the night. There will also be side dishes and plenty of Christmas cookies. Beer will also be provided. Any "cup" purchases will be donated to Toys for Tots. DESIGNATED DRIVERS ARE A MUST! Otherwise, prepare to fend for the guest bedroom or one of the couches downstairs.
Hope to see everyone there!




Gimme Gimme a man after midnight.....

Holy Mary Mother of God, I just discovered the coolest thing ever. Wait for it....

ABBA FREAKING RADIO ON XM!

Yep, that's right. Channel 31 ABBA radio. Andy, let me just say you are damn lucky I had no idea about this channel when we were staffing together. For anyone else working with me look out, everyone is about to get an appreciation for some fine music. I'm telling you I was born too late, I needed to really experience the 70's.

I'm sitting here giddy as all get out working on scheduling, and syncing my new blackberry up. This thing is freaking sweet. Visual voice mail rocks, and I love getting updates on my emails.

Who knew I could enjoy working at 6pm on a Friday. Just give me some ABBA and I'm GOLD!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Ho hum!

Work was very trying today. Mainly b/c someone pissed in my Wheaties before ten.

Hank is sitting under my feet snoring loud enough to wake the dead. which means when I get up to go to bed he will be bouncing off the walls.

I was able to pick up my phone today. I didn't have time to take it to Verizon and have it activated. That will be priority number one after I get off work tomorrow. Alltel blows and soon I won't have to deal with them anymore! Whoot!

I haven't been sleeping all that well. I think my body is so far down on the exhaustion scale that I'm in more of a zombie like state. My left eyelid was twitching today though so I know I'm close to zonking out. The eye twitch was always my indicator in school for when I had done too many all nighters. Eventually my motto became if I don't know if by midnight I'm not going to....so screw it. I did well with that philosophy.

Later gators!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Grrrr!

Dammit all to hell! I missed my FedEx delivery today for my new phone! Naturally I work the next two days 9-7pm and will probably not be able to pick up the phone until Friday. I want to to leave Alltel worse than I want the phone. There are no words for how annoyed I am when I'm sitting in my office and I have no cell signal.

I may try to see if I can pick it up tomorrow morning.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Over heard in the pharmacy

"Well FUCK IT! I'll just stay sick then" Said in response to telling a patient there was nothing over the counter to cure strep throat.

"The price of meth has been going up" Not sure how that topic was started since I was on the phone with an insurance company. I do know you shouldn't be purchasing Sudafed while making those kinds of comments. I really wish I hadn't been on the phone.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

MADONNA!

Madonna was worth every penny! She was in my top five for performers I wanted to see live and she did not disappoint. She was the ultimate concert experience.

It was a very short trip, but it was good to get out of town for a bit. We stayed with Ryan and had a great time! I also took care of my good dead for the day. I had an extra set of tickets that I couldn't sell, worth $180. Our bartender at the Zone was chit chatting with us about our trip, etc. and when it came up that we were in Denver to see Madonna she become really animated. Exact words, "Oh my God! I would LOVE to see her" I told her I had an extra set of tickets and she pretty much said she couldn't afford to pay me face value. We left, but I got her number and told her I might be giving her a call. I really just didn't want the tickets to go to waste. I wanted someone to experience the show as well. So I texted her an hour before the show and told her to meet us at a bar and I'd take whatever she could give me. I made her month.

The first video is my favorite song of the night, Las Isla Bonita. The video is long but worth watching all the way through. If you are impatient, I would recommend skipping forward to 3:55. Second song is an interlude and then turns into four mintues to save the world.

I hope to have more concert info and videos up tomorrow.

Enjoy!




Friday, November 14, 2008

Nebraska Safe Haven Law Part II

We can't get this law changed quick enough. CNN has now flown in a reporter and done a video piece which you can view here. The latest incident, a father flew his son in from Miami and left him here.

Anyone, have any thoughts? It is sad that there are people in need of help out there and they feel so desperate or don't feel like they have any other options. Very sad.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

DIA BLOWS!

One of the worst traveling experiences at an airport, ever. Read here or here. We were almost the last two people on our plane, and we only made it there b/c Southwest took pity and delayed the original take off time.

I lost track of how long we were standing around waiting for the train. Nothing better than getting through security once, then waiting around for a train that never comes. We were then told to leave the secure area, made to stand in line for an hour, go through security again, attempt to follow the signs posted to catch a shuttle to terminal C, and then finally ask for help and have a woman say, "oh the trains are running again" I could have been arrested. Worst quote of the day, "just a simple malfunction folks" Does a mass of pissed off people as far as the eye can see sound simple? I picked the wrong day to fly hung over.

I have so many concerts to talk about, but it is late and I need my shut eye. Tomorrow, I shall bring all kinds of goodness about Jacks Mannequin, Treaty of Paris, Fun, Madonna, and last but not least NKOTB. Whoot.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Wed Hump Day

Well, the country made history last night. And no it was not for the most people shown sobbing on camera in a two hour window. I would be interested in that tally though. I couldn't get Josh to sob uncontrollably so I was a bit disappointed. I hope history was made with people voting with their minds and not with their hearts. I truly hope that Obama can bring everything to the table that he has promised throughout this election. We shall see if this will indeed be change. Will he do what he promises? In the end they are both politicians and I hate politicians and trust them about as far as I can throw them. Someday, I'd love to see someone running for president donate all their contributions to the less fortunate. That would get my vote. Although this election did get someone near and dear to me to actually participate in the election process. I consider the inciting texts and his voting turn out a victory. Now we won't have to hear "he's not my president" anymore. Thank god.

I was very very impressed with McCain's speech last night as well. Classy guy and great speech. Today is a new day and he is right, we are all Americans. Sadly, I don't think we will ever be rid of all the bickering and fighting b/t the parties.

Another disappointment, Nebraska has to deal with Mike Johanns again. I think that might have been what put me over the edge as far as my foul mood was concerned last night. The guy is a sleeze bag. Hey, Tom if you give me $10,000 of the STAN associations money when I run for governor I won't forget it. I'll move you up six ranks and put you in charge. I should have just wrote a letter asking what $10,000 would get me and if it would be possible for me to get Col. of the state patrol. And Lee Terry is sadly still with us.


On a side note, I am sick of losing games at home in shuffleboard. Beyond sick of it. I wanted to smack the guy for saying "you're a great little shooter girl" I made some un characteristic mistakes that were costly and we still took both teams we lost to down to the wire. There are no moral victories though and I'm ultra competitive and it pisses me off. That is the bottom line.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Videos, and more videos...

I have sadly returned to the land of reality and went back to work today. My vacation was much needed. Well, I needed everything except the ass whooping sent the Huskers way on Saturday. I shall post more about the trip to Norman tomorrow. Right now I don't want to make myself nauseous again.

I spent some time searching YouTube for some more videos from the last two concerts I attended. I found five more clips for your viewing pleasure from the STP show in Lincoln. I have been unable to find any from the Toadies show at Sokol. I did however find a clip of my favorite Toadies song from the show in OKC.

And to answer your question Cort, I do have tickets to NKOTB. I know I can hear some of my friends grumbling out there. Yes, it is a guilty teenage pleasure. I still remember seeing them at the state fair in Lincoln. I may have to give the other ticket away to get anyone to go with me. Then again Andy attended the last show so maybe he'd be up for round two? What do you say Andy? I'm also flying back in that day from Denver so it will be a tight squeeze.














Thursday, October 30, 2008

STP and Norman Bound!

Stone Temple Pilots absolutely blew my socks off Tuesday night. They played everything. Andy kept listing off song after song, and they played em all. I have fond memories of driving around in NP with my friends and jamming out to Core. This has been such an amazing year of concerts for me. This will be a tough act of shows to follow next year.






The first video is from the show in Lincoln on Tuesday. The second is a clip from the show at Red Rocks this past summer.

I have a ton of errands to run today. Ted, Josh, and I are heading to Norman for the game this weekend. We are sitting in the northeast end zone above where the Sooners come out onto the field. Watch for us, part of my day includes making a sign for the game. It is another nationally televised game, so lets pray that we don't get blown clear out of the water. The odds of an upset are slim but as a Husker fan I have to believe that we have a chance on any day.

We also have Shuffleboard tonight so if anyone wants to join in the festivities we will be at Harold's most of the night.

Have a great weekend gang!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Nebraska Safe Haven Law

Thank you Gov. Heineman for FINALLY calling a special session of the state legislature to fix this horrible bill. For those of you living outside of the fine state of Nebraska, we have a safe Haven Law that allows parents to drop off their kids at local hospitals and not face prosecution for child abandonment. The law was intended to protect new born infants. In a stroke of genius our state legislature failed to put an age limit on the children being left.

So far we have had 23 children left at area hospitals. One mother drove all the way from Detroit to leave her son at CU Medical Center. The 23rd child was a 17 y/o left at Bryan LGH in Lincoln. Our legislature is not scheduled to meet until next year and the Governor has cited the high cost of calling a special session as his reason for waiting to amend the law until next year. How much money are we having to spend in social services to handle all these kids? Think of all the therapy involved with a 12 y/o whose mother wanted to relinquish her rights as a parent? The law was intended to help protect children, specifically infants. How letting this go on for months has been in the best interest of any child is beyond me. Won't it be a great story to tell down the road to their own kids someday. "Yeah I remember the time mom drove us all the way to Omaha to leave me. You kids are lucky that I want you"

And we have now made National news with this as there is now a link on CNN.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Toadies Concert

I am still grinning ear to ear about that show. I was front row dead center, right in front of the lead singer. Got a copy of the set list AND the entire band autographed it for me. The have a new album out that I'm also digging. Personal favorite song is Song I Hate. They actually have the newest disc available to purchase on vinyl. I may have to purchase it and get it framed with my set list. Anyone who has a chance to see the Toadies should definitley go! And the opening band People in Planes, wow. Go check em out! I'm still mulling around the idea of having a separate blog just for music info. With all the shows I go to it wouldn't be a bad idea. Then again it would be one more thing I have to update.....

Next up is Stone Temple Pilots on Tuesday and then Jack's Mannequin!

Ooooh and it is official. I'm on Vaca! Whoot!

Later gators!

New Lost Promo!

Holy Hell this promo is amazing! Is it wrong to be more excited about the upcoming season of Lost than I am about the holidays?




There are also some great screen caps to check out on DarkUFO as well. Some initial thoughts, it looks as though the island has moved back in time. Is that the Swan hatch Juliet is uncovering? Is Daniel meeting Desmond ( his constant) coming out of the hatch? What sort of vacation do you take a kid on with a gun Kate? Although with Kate that really shouldn't surprise anyone. Is that Yemmi's (Ecko's brother) plane? If the island did indeed move back in time, it supports parallel time lines. Those left behind would be in the wrong time line. The plane wouldn't have even crashed yet if that were the case. Ugh. So many questions!

February can not get here fast enough!

Friday, October 10, 2008

The state of the economy

Good Lord, could we get some stability on Wall Street please!?!?! I don't know why I bother checking my accounts anymore. I've lost over seven thousand dollars in four days. I can't even stomach to type what I've lost since the start of September. Oh, and did I mention that my financial advisor isn't returning my emails? I hope he didn't have a mental break. This disaster triggered by craptastic lending practices has now gone global. I don't know if we need a better example of how much we are impacted by other parts of the world.

I feel so bad for people who are close to retirement right now. I'm just flat out pissed and frustrated about things, but it isn't like I need the money tomorrow. I'm young and in this for the long haul so I need to sit tight and ride this out. There should be some great investment opportunities once this thing finally bottoms out. I'm just scared that many analysts are saying we haven't hit the bottom yet. We're under 8,000 on the DOW, I'm afraid to ask where the basement on this thing is going to end up being. How many jobs are lost before we stabilize? How many more people lose their homes before the bail out fully takes affect?

At the end of the day I count my blessings and I'm thankful for what I have.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Big boy Hank!

I need to talk about something light and humorous after the week I've had.

Little Hank-y lifted his leg while taking care of business the other day. And he will probably never do it again after all my cheers of joy. I know he's my dog, but it was so damn cute. He was squatting and all of a sudden he started to lift his right leg up ever so slowly. You could almost follow the thought process going on in his little mind. "Hmm, I don't know why I'm lifting my leg up, but it feels like I should be doing it" Then he cranked his head around to give me the "Duh I know I'm a good boy" look.

One word, priceless. Trust me.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Things you shouldn't do at the pharmacy...

I should dedicate a whole new blog to this topic. I understand that people tell their hair stylist A LOT of things. However, I think things people do in a pharmacy though are a little known gems for totally inappropriate behavior and comments.

At the top of my list this week is someone buying Sudafed while shouting to someone I assume is his girlfriend, "don't forget the Drano" If he'd had more teeth I might have thought he was joking.

A close second would be the gentleman who was all but having phone sex while I was ringing him out at the register. "Oh no you don't. Girl, girl. Damn girl. You naughty girl. Oooh what I'm gonna do? What's that? Girl your ass gonna get spanked" I mean really? WTF? And to answer every one's dying question, no he was not picking up a script for Viagra. Who talks like that in public? And really how awkward for me to have to ask him if he has any questions about his script?

I may have to add a section to this blog for all the random things I see and hear during the course of my work day.

Have a great Friday gang!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

The experiment is over.....

I mean really over. Dead, done, not to be revisited for another six months. Hank had been doing so well with his potty/house training. I decided to start letting him stay out in the house with Ellie for small periods of time. Each time he did better and better so I started increasing the time. Well, three hours and 30 minutes was the breaking point. He peed twice in my bathroom. Naturally, he can't go on the wood or linoleum floors b/c that would be far too easy for me to clean up.


I figured what the hell I would try one more time. Crucial mistake on my part. Next time the pee was on my bed, soaked all the way through to the mattress. I spent midnight to almost 3am last night trying to clean it up. Needless to say we have re established who the pack leader is in this house and she is not named Hank or Ellie. I also slept by myself, minus the two dogs last night for the first time in weeks. I would love to tell you I slept like a baby but I was too busy trying not to roll over onto one side of the bed while laying on a beach towel.






Oh and the Chiefs suck. I mean really, without a doubt suck. Sucking the soul right out of me trying to watch/listen to them play. Thank god I was at work today and didn't have the visual. Taking out Brady may be the only thing they do this season, and that wasn't done on purpose.

Have a good Monday gang!

Friday, September 5, 2008

Where does the time go?

Hello again gang! I'm didn't fall off the face of the earth. Close, but still here. This post is going to be all over the place so bear with me.

Things have been hectic as usual. I did manage to squeeze in some fun time at the lake the last few weeks. Work has been both frustrating and incredibly rewarding (more on that in another post). It is a bleak and rainy day here in the big O and both my puppies are sleeping by my feet. Hank is growing like a weed and by mid month I think he will be bigger than Ellie. Scary stuff, he's not even six months yet.

I've also been to some great concerts and have more coming up. The Mile High Music Festival, WOW! I can't accurately describe what it was like to be watching a concert with 50,000 other people. The plan is to go again. Insane stuff! I had GREAT seats for DMB here in Omaha and I saw them perform with Tim Reynolds twice in one week. I consider myself blessed. Flogging Molly, the Faint, and Gaelic Storm rounded out the summer concert series. I absolutely adore the guys in Gaelic Storm. Coming up this fall, Tina Turner, The Toadies, Stone Temple Pilots, Jack's Mannequin and Madonna. I know, I have really random taste in music. I'm all over the place. I'm going to continue keeping track on my blog. It's kinda cool to look back on the year and remember all the great shows.

On a random note I had my eyes dilated this morning. I hate when I have to go through that process. The drops sting as well. Not to mention the fact that it feels somewhat like what I imagine an alien probe to the back of your brain would feel like.

More random, I joined Netflix. I'm diggin it. I have some disorder that prevents me from ever returning a movie on time. No I don't have to and I don't need to leave the house either. Plus, I can get a ton of blue ray selections without paying $30 a pop for them. And I do love my new set up. I'm feeling lazy today, must be the weather. I think I may stay in tonight and watch some movies and get up early and enjoy all that is College Game Day morning. Until Andy moves to his new place I have two big screens set up downstairs, so anyone who wants to overload on football tomorrow give me a call.

I love this time of year. Fall is in the air, baseball and football are in full swing. I can take the dogs for a walk at any time of the day and not worry about them passing out from the heat. Good times.

I leave you with a video from the Flogging Molly Show. I need to point out a few things. First, I was waaaaaaaay to close to the pit for my own liking. In fact for a brief time I was in the pit. I took an elbow to the stomach and the boob. However, not to be walked over I threw my own elbow and moved the hell out of the way. I just don't get moshing. Second, Angie, Josh and I were NOT the oldest people at the show. The 80 y/o man with his 60 something son in a kilt won that award. "This is my dad, he's fucking 80" and "This is my dads fifth show, he's fucking 80" Sorry for the language but it loses something if I say "bleeping" Because literally that is how we were introduced to his dad. Who I might add was also in kilt and a bitchin hat. Just a wild guess but I think alcohol played a part.





Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Four inches and more

In all the drama over my work suckage I forgot to mention I cut my hair. I also had a bit of a miscue with the hair cut as well. My hair had been down past the middle of my back. I think my mom was worrying about the Crystal Gail effect. I have only been "trimming" the ends for the past four years. I thought, you know it would be good to take about four inches off. With as long as it was it would be hard to tell to average person. Well, my dear Gina took off more than eight. I blame it on the hormonal swing of just having a baby. It went down something like this....

Me: I can't believe I'm taking four inches off. I haven't done that in years.
Gina: Umm, I took more than four. (While holding up a section of my now detached hair that was around eight inches.

The longest section of my hair is now almost to my shoulders. I'm having a slight identity crisis over the whole thing. Now, it doesn't look bad. In fact, it looks pretty good. I just wasn't ready to part with my hair. I feel a bit like I didn't mentally get ready to part with it. On the plus side, blow drying my hair is no longer an upper body workout. If anyone is curious they can check out a couple pictures I uploaded to Facebook.

Have a great Hump day.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

It's 3am and I can't sleep

So, today (yesterday technically) is my new all time low for my career. I should know by now that when things look like they are going well, it means the whole thing will blow up in my face. I enjoyed exactly one week of solely being a pharmacy supervisor again. Not that I haven't been doing that all along these past few years. I've also been wearing numerous other hats a well. Yes, I'll be a staff pharmacist, pharmacy manager, payroll person, hiring person, firing person, flu shot giver, bitch at me because I do the scheduling person. You get my drift.

So today someone gives their notice and I am once again back to being the jack of all pharmacy trades. And I cried. I never cry. I am not one to be short sighted. I see the big picture, not just today, but what I want to be doing five years from now. The only major problem, my picture seems to be getting farther and farther away. I'm disgusted, mad, pissed, depressed, and I feel totally adrift. The sad thing is I actually understand the reasoning behind having to go to this store. I'm the best person for the job. That almost makes it more difficult. I'm always the team player, even at my own expense. I made no effort to hide my disappointment to my boss. But you know what real life is a bitch and we can't all have it our way.

I had plans for going back to school in the spring. I know, that is a totally separate post. Seven years wasn't enough, I'm looking for more punishment. I've been wanting to go back for some time to work on finishing my undergraduate degree in Spanish and work towards integrating this into my job. So put that on hold, again.

I feel like I'm becoming one of those jaded individuals who never gets excited about anything anymore because I'll always be waiting for the other shoe to drop. I let my guard down and actually let myself get excited about learning something new with my job. Maybe even having some time to myself while I was at it. If I seem withdrawn or cranky this week, just know that I need to mope and deal with this. I'll have to have the best of the best A game to get this store rolling and I need to get this out of my system. And did I mention I need to do all this by Monday?

To finish up my rant. If you tell an employer during an interview that they won't regret hiring you........you're full of shit. And if anyone ever hears that during an interview and they look to good to be true, run the other way. Twenty years in the business and I'm a hundred times better person let alone pharmacist than she is. Maybe I should write my own book? Tenatively titled, "Guess what, you're full of shit and 101 other reasons why you can't hack it as an independent retail pharmacist" Really, I think I could be on to something here. It would save so many people valuable time.

Sorry for the negativiy that is dripping from this post. I needed to talk this thing out. I think I can sleep now.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Stormy Summer

The Midwest has just been getting slammed this summer. Already, we have had a tornado in Millard, another tornado that took out a boy scouts camp not far outside Omaha, and a storm that brought "straight line winds" with hurricane force. I was really lucky I did not sustain any damage worse than a few downed tree limbs. Others in my neighborhood were not as lucky. I was without power for a little over a day. Nothing to complain about considering some people were without power for a week.

We headed to Bambino's to drink and converse with others without power. It was hilarious. Flashlights and candles and a flash light was a must for anyone using the restrooms. Anyone reading this familiar with Shawn of the Dead? Well, Bambino's was our Winchester. As one man said, "Look, more survivors" LOL!

The Olympic swim trials were in town this past week. Wow! I was blown away by the Qwest center crowd. I saw Phelps and Hoff each break the World record in their event. I have never heard the Qwest center so loud. I also saw Bob Costas. He was literally 15 feet from me. On the live coverage we were sitting just off screen. Kind of cool. I think I might be taller than him too!

The puppies are doing great! Hank is now joining Ellie at Doggie Day Care. Its worth every penny when they crash and sleep hard at night. Speaking of Hank, he will be getting "fixed" on Friday. Poor guy, he has no idea what is coming. I hate that I have to leave him there over night. I'll keep everyone updated on his recovery.

The fourth rocked. We headed out to the lake and had a very relaxing day on the water. Nothing better than floating on the water and having a few cold ones. The dogs survived the fireworks, but not without the help of valium. I'm a firm believer in drugging the dogs for the fourth now.

The Roger Clyne show is tomorrow night. I'm way excited. I had the opportunity to meet Roger after the last show. The guy is a class act. I'm also just a little over a week away from my trip to Colorado. Whoo Hoo!

Well, I should stop blogging and get back to writing the August schedule. Have I mentioned that I loathe doing the scheduling? Primarily because it always seems to take forever. Second, no one is every pleased. I had been working on it for two hours when I took this break. After two hours I only have two stores and three vacation requests complete. ugh. Here come the other three.

Happy Hump Day gang!

Monday, June 23, 2008

This town....otherwise known as Omaha

Great song and video by O.A.R, shot in the old Market in downtown Omaha. This is the song for this years CWS! Great fit for the NCAA, the CWS, and Omaha!






My streak of not missing a CWS remains intact. And I have a nice red stripe down my legs to show for it too!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Catching up!

Can anyone believe it is the 20th of June?!? My apologies for neglecting the blog. Real life has been kicking me in the butt non stop for a few weeks.

Work has been crazy. New people, training, scheduling, and staffing. I hope I have some more breathing room in July. Which should be the case. I think I will be able to remove myself from staffing. I'm also taking a few days of vacation in July! Whoo!

My landscaping is almost complete in the backyard. I will try to upload pictures soon. I could go out there and take a picture now but I'm in my pj's and going out back is now a process with little Hank. The only thing left to do is cement the area under the deck. Which is otherwise known as the breeding ground for nasty spiders. It is also my dogs' favorite place to dig and bury bones. Lovely, I know.

Speaking of Hank, he is doing great. He is a stink pot but he has the most loving disposition. Ellie is finally warming up to him and they are great play buddies. He is much more lovey than Ellie was at this age. Ellie would let you know when she wanted some love which was usually only at bed time or in the vets office. Hank will take hugs any time. I've got to keep a good eye on him in the yard now though. I had a flower casualty on day one of my new landscaping. Those darn bulbs are just too tempting for the boy. Potty training is also going well. We aren't 100% there yet, but we are definitely farther ahead with the second time around. We've also bee getting up in the morning around 5:30am. Anyone who knows me knows this is not ideal hours for me to keep. I'm warming up to it though. Next week I am going to start running after I let them out in the morning.

My tv downstairs is on its last leg. I had Aksarban tv pick it up to diagnosis the problem. I wish I had just left it alone. The thing is seven years old and will be pricey to repair. So of course I saw this as the green light to redo my entertainment center downstairs...completely. How could I say no to two year financing? The Mart has also pissed me off for the final time. I will be buying all my electronics from here on out at Best Buy. The tv revolution will be complete on Tuesday. If no one sees me for a few days just stop by the house and I'm sure you'll find me camped out in front of the tv with a glossy look in my eyes.

The Sister Hazel show is this weekend and I'm definitely jazzed. I'm going to try and fit a baseball game in this weekend as well. If I don't get down there it will be the first time in almost ten years that I missed a CWS game. Speaking of the CWS, anyone else loathe the new schedule?

Okay, I need to hop in the shower and head to work. Hank is also running around the living room with a magazine cover in his mouth. Seriously, give him his bed or a piece of paper and he is entertained for hours. Of course, the paper thing sort of re enforces bad behavior so that is a no no. Which is unfortunate because how cost effective would that be?

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Kudos Omaha!

Finally, some respect for the big O! Kiplingers lists Omaha as the number three place to live in the country. Now I realize not everyone is going to agree with this ranking, but they do lay out their criteria and essentially the formula they used to come up with their rankings. I think the big thing to take away from this is that there is a lot to be jazzed about here in Omaha and it is nice to get some accolades from outside the state. I've lived here since 1994 (wow, that is ridiculous to type and say outloud) and this is HOME! I can't imagine living somewhere else. I love to travel, but Omaha is where I call HOME!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Meet Hank!



Yes, I may need my head checked. I have always wanted two dogs. I definitely wanted a companion for Ellie. Hank is literally her little brother. I was able to go with the same breeder and get the same parents. They look quite a lot alike and the mannerisms they share is quite uncanny. I won't say things have been easy over the past two days, but things are definitely much smoother the second time around. I've got my fingers crossed hoping he will be potty trained quicker than Ellie was.

I had three names in mind. Boone, Hank, and Hutch. I have no idea where I came up with Boone, I just like the name. Hank is after Henry (Hank) Aaron the true King of home runs. Hutch is after one of my favorite patients at work. No one outside of work seemed to like Hutch and my brother claims that everyone thought Boone was too red neck. So not wanting my dog to be harassed by Andy and all his buds for life I went with Hank.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

It does make me want to break into song....



There is so much to love about this commercial. I'm sure most of you guys have seen it, if not enjoy for the first time. I read on someone's blog, "if this doesn't make you smile, not much will" Word.

Anymore, I find myself watching only Discovery or A&E. So I LOVE this commercial.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Code 14 J

Another sneak peak......



I would post more here but I'm tired AND hungry. I had myself quite the b-day weekend. Or should I say it was quite the "marathon" on Saturday. I finished the race but it wasn't necessarily pretty. I will however say this, we need our own bar code lingo. I will give an example.

MTS 1, rough translation me + tequila + shot + 1 times. MJB 2, me jaeger bomb two times. Also short code for stupidity around the corner and everyone should stop buying me shots for my b-day.

I was up and at em on Sunday. Pure inertia kept me going. I slept very well once I was able to fall asleep on Sunday. I know its ridiculous. I went so far down on the exhaustion scale that by the time I was able to sleep I had difficulty falling asleep. I was the poster child for Ambien last night. Too bad I didn't have any.


Have a great week gang!

Friday, April 11, 2008

New Lost Promo's

I give you two more preview clips for upcoming lost episode number nine, the shape of things to come.






Oh, it is going to be a long two weeks.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Validation!

So, I have what some may call a slight obsession with shoes. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, me some shoes. A rather large subset of this obsession is sneakers, blue ones in particular. I'm the type of person that will buy a pair of shoes and build the outfit around the shoes. Hmmm, I don't have anything that matches these shoes....yet. I still remember being such a tomboy in middle school and I was the envy of most all the boys in my class because I had the new bo jackson cross trainers. Yes, I know. I dated myself quite badly there.

So imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon this GEM.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Play Ball!

FINALLY! Opening day has arrived. Of course I was working, but ah well. Life is still good. I've got the MLB package and my XM radio running. I can have baseball non-stop. This is far and away my favorite time of year. Spring isn't quite in the air yet around here, but its getting closer.

Blue Man group was phenomenal last night. The highlight of the night for me was easily the opening act Mike Relm. Run don't walk to go and check him out. He controls both the audio AND video LIVE!

Here are a few clips.









The third video is a bit long but still worth watching.

I'm trying to keep with my go to bed early theme during the week so I'm going to keep this short. Plus, I have to get up earlier enough to figure out an alternate route to Bellevue tomorrow since the most direct route will be closed for the next two freaking months.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A couple reviews

I've been so busy with work lately I forgot to post about the last two shows I attended.

First, Mamma Mia. It is no huge secret for those who know me well that I am an avid ABBA fan. I won't go into the laundry list of cd's and dvd's that I own. I had such a great time at the show. The icing on the cake for me was they played my favorite song last. If Beckie and Lisa are reading this they definitely know which song that is. I played it every morning without fail. I think Beckie once said, "could you just play any of their other songs in the morning" Well, I could and I did sometimes, but I always had to start my day off on the right foot and play my song.



I have serious boot envy going on when I watch this video. Love, love the silver boots. Not only are they fabulous and shiny but they would give me a good four extra inches. The surprising thing is the outfits in this video are tame compared to some of the others I've seen.

Next up was the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band show! We were up in the nose bleeds dancing away. I could have cared less, the sound was amazing.

Check out this link for a set list and brief review of the show. Scroll down about three shows for the Omaha list. I couldn't find any videos from the Omaha show. This clip is from the show before at Nassau I believe. The sound isn't the greatest but its the energy of that is amazing.

WOW!




I can't tell you how amazing the game was tonight. The Jay's were out sized, shooting like hell, and the ref's were the worst I'd seen in a while. Now, I did DVR the game tonight so I will with hold final judgement on the officiating until I see the game on tv. I am so proud of the team tonight. They trailed all night except for approximately ten seconds. They never gave up. Great game, great atmosphere, helluva good time.







Friday, March 14, 2008

KC Trip!

I've been trying for a while now to get a trip to KC together. I've only been down there the past few years for DMB shows, stay for the concert leave the next day type of thing. Or the ill fated Big Twelve Championship game a couple years ago. I don't think I need to go into details. So this is what I propose this year.

Leave after everyone gets off work on August 1st (which is a Friday) or early Saturday morning. Head to KC. The White Sox are in town battling the Royals. There are games on Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. We can hit Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. Spend a night downtown at the Plaza or Westport. I would also like to stay through Tuesday. Why? Because the BoSox are in town Monday through Wednesday. We could catch the Monday night game and head back to Omaha Tuesday.

What do you think? We could make a great weekend trip with little time off form work. Call, email me, or post a comment if you're interested and I can start planning to purchase tickets, ect.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Keeping the faith and all kinds of poop

You know, karma is a real bitch. And one day I'm going to reap the benefits of taking the high road and being the better person. I may be in my geriatric days before it ever happens but dammit I'll wait. And if someone/something looks too good to be true.......they are.

And that is the end of my negative nellie attitude for the day.

Ellie and I took a walk tonight and she did sooooooooo good. She's pulling much less and she's finally making the connection b/t pulling and choking herself. Now we need to work on how to keep her brain from short circuiting when she sees a squirrel. She has started "stalking" them from inside the house.

And speaking of Ellie, I know I kept you all hanging from last week with my "shitscicle" comment. Ellie has many nicknames, she responds immediately to Pooper. I started calling her this when I was trying to house train her and she would run downstairs and poop. The funny part about it..... Andy was living in my basement at the time and she would always take care of business in front of his bedroom door. And on a couple of occasions on his bed.

Well, my little pooper is living up to her nickname. There is crap everywhere out back. The snow has finally melted in 95% of the yard. There is no way during the dead of winter I'm going to try and pick up poop that is sinking straight to the bottom of the snow. The downside to this strategy was evident today when I spent an hour picking it all up. An hour. My poop scoop also broke. Yes, thats right. It was getting so much use today it just flat out died. She was looking at me as if to say, "you know that's my poop right? why would you collect it" She even took care of business while I was picking it up. The good news is she is very particular about where she takes care of business. Only on the outer edge of the fence and she leaves a good foot on the other side b/t her and the fence so she can exit the area without walking through it. Smart girl. Unlike someone I know who has a dog that poops two inches from the steps. Now on to the "shitscicle"

Last week I tried to take care of this but the entire back of the yard was ice and literally I could see it but couldn't get to it. I also slipped on it and nearly had a heart attack. No, I did not fall in dog doo. It was a close call though.

I know, you were all dying to hear me blog about poop. Moral to this story...There is shit everywhere in life and its unpleasant to deal with any of it. Keep your head up and get through the shit and better times will come. But I'd rather pick it up in the backyard.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Not the weekend yet.....

It's only Tuesday and I'm wiped out. I need to start going to bed much earlier. Which is why I will not still be up posting and checking email after 10:30pm. No exceptions.

So I've been venturing into the world of facebook a bit. My near and dear friend Lisa got me started on the whole thing. I don't have any fancy bells and whistles on my account. Just the basics. I have a hard enough time updating this thing. I don't need to get sucked into the online world of facebook. And I still hold firm and refuse to join Myspace. Although, with facebook it is nice to give a quick shout to friends and family. And who knew I had so many family members using this new fangled technology? Well, three really shouldn't be called many, but I don't get the chance to talk with them often so it feels like so much more.

Okay, in order to keep my firm deadline of 10:30pm I need to cut this short. Tune in tomorrow however for my horrendous story about a girl who wandered into a land not so far away called "shitsville" and nearly slipped and fell on a a "shitscicle" Yes, I know.....language. I'll warn you all to put your kiddie blinders on for the post tomorrow.

Sleep tight everyone!

Monday, March 3, 2008

Exhausted!

What a long, long, oh so long day. I've got to get up early again, and attempt to get more done than I did today. Monday's are always a crap shoot. We're so freaking busy just trying to keep up with work flow that its nearly impossible to get other stuff done.

Work story for the day. I did not expect a 70 something woman to pull down her britches to show me the rash that was in the vicinity of her groin. More unexpected was the fact that she wasn't wearing any underwear. Priceless was the look on her friends face. I bet she wasn't banking on that show when she agreed to take her to the store. Ah yes, geriatric modesty at its finest. "I had no idea it was that bad" No idea indeed lady. I'm telling you, I could be one helluva poker player if I can keep a straight face through that. She was pissed the doctor hadn't given her a script for "an itch cream" and was ready to walk away without the pills he prescribed. Lordy. The guy behind the two of them was trying real hard not to listen and he was looking everywhere but at her once the pants started to come down. When she's shouting "look at this" with her pants half down no patient privacy sign stands a flipping chance. You can stand back there behind the sign but privacy left the building. Along with a few more years of my life.

On the upside of things she was oh so pleased that after giving her fine patient counseling I also finished writing out her check for her AND I had also written it into the register. "Oh you're such a good young girl" Rough translation, she's anal retentive about her checkbook like I am. I try, but really lets think about carbon copy checks just in case not every girl is as "nice" as I am.

So to all my family and friends, when you wonder why I seem so impatient or irritated with you for the littlest thing, remember that I used 99.9% of my patience up at work. Its also possible that I've seen something that could give me nightmares.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

The quest for just one pint!

"The one, the one, don't go for the one" I had a fabulous few days of concerts. I was due for some fun. I had come down with the flu last week and felt like the underside of shoe with dog poop on it. More on that later.

First up on Thursday was Gaelic Storm. I was mighty impressed. I even bought their CD, and frankly I can't remember the last time I actually bought a CD. If Irish music isn't your cup of tea this band probably isn't for you. I however had a BLAST!

Here is the one of the videos Josh took from the show.




And my favorite song of the evening Don't go for the one. Josh was having a hella good time singing as well ;-).



Next up was the They Might Be Giants show with Oppenheimer. And no, I don't mean the investment group. Oppenheimer is a two man show and WOW! They can definitely rock it.
The down side to the show was there was absolutely NO video. So I'm linking one of their music videos from youtube.



And last but not least we have A Birdhouse in your Soul. I have wanted to see these guys for ages. Someone was able to capture a great video at the Omaha show!



And a kick ass guitar solo that leads into Istanbul from the show in Madison.



These shows were all at the Slowdown in downtown Omaha. I hope they continue to book great shows. We capped off the night by heading to Old Chicago and according to Andy we "never go anywhere fun" but we managed to get by.

Well, I'm currently up waiting for my last load of laundry to finish up. I've got big day at work tomorrow. I want to get up and at em early. I'll save the rest of my ramblings for later this week.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Good eye sniper!

WOW! The show last night was amazing! Coheed and Cambria lived up to every expectation! Amazing sound! I was impressed with Linkin Park's perfomance. I'm not a huge fan but I had myself one hella good time.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Angels we have heard on high!


Holy Mary Mother of God! Andy actually posted on my blog. I am beyond thrilled! I know I give you shit pile upon shit pile, but I love you mostest dear brother. I'm glad I have finally joined the heirarchy of cool in your book. Stop by more often. You are often fodder for my blog. Ha!


Love ya and call me after you've caught up on Lost!


Oh and everyone give Andy, not with an i, a big hug and round of applause!





Saturday, February 2, 2008

Sharing my pain

Please check out this post from the Angry Pharmacist. I find it amusing that it was just a few days after my little rant about the first of the year. We all must be reaching our threshold for rude at the same time. I always feel so much better after reading one of his posts.

Enjoy.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Chaos and my life

My picture is right there next to the definition. So today I totally effe'd up my work schedule. So the end result was I showed up an hour late to work. Lovely start to the first day of the month. Also referred to today as Narcotic Friday. I have one of these screw ups once a year. Looks like I got this one out of the way early this year. To complicate things further we have a pharmacist about to pop a baby out any minute now. She's working up until the moment her water breaks. This means there are four of us who are in a holding pattern with our schedules. All four of us have two schedules for February and March. That is of course until I receive word that the she's on her way to the hospital. Then I'll get on the bat phone and call a code maternity and shift everyone's schedule upside down. So I transposed the wrong pharmacist shift for today onto the maternity schedule, hence the screw up, and no one at the store. I loooooooooved working without the benefit of a shower this morning. I'm too tired to go out or do anything tonight. I've already taken a mini nap and Ellie is still giving me the stink eye.

In other news, I met one of my New Years goals and made some changes with my bank accounts. This led to a conversation with my mother the other day. I was telling her how organized I felt and relieved to get these things in order. The next thing she says is something along the lines of not wanting to freak me out. She tells me I need to have a will in place. Yeah, bit awkward. She does have a point though. This led to the hilarious conversation about my parents will. Apparently they haven't updated theirs since before Andy was born. He is 28. I laughed my ass off. I've always told him he wasn't in the will. Technically, his name isn't. Of course, I will probably start referring to him as "any subsequent children" from here on out. Sub for short. Yes mom, I know I have a big mouth. Honestly, it is just to funny to pass up and I hear Andy put it up on his myspace page.

In other pharmacy news, I have a "cousin Eddie" Rph. You know cousin Eddie from Christmas vacation. I want everyone to try and remember the part of the movie with the squirrel running around in the house and Clark saying "Where is Eddie when you need him? Doesn't he eat these things?" I will refer to this indivdual as Rph to protect his identity. Although, I'm sure he could care less. Rph has a squirrel problem in his backyard. He became frustrated to the point that he resorted to using a pellet gun to solve his problems. Unfortunatley, instead of teaching the squirrel a lesson and scaring him off, he taught the other squirrels one of life's most important lessons. Death, dying and not screwing with the bird feeder. Yep, killed the little sucker. So he's on his way out to dipose of the little guy and suddenly a light bulb goes off somewhere upstairs.

Rph remembers reading somewhere about squirrel meat being very lean and tender. The guy is an avid hunter and has some hunters cook book with a recipe for squirrel. So you can all see where this is going. Yep, skinned it, cooked it, and ate the thing. Apparently, it tastes like rattlesnake. I know, it probably isn't a good comparison for anyone other than him. Unless of course rattlesnake tastes like chicken. I am beyond disgusted as my brother tells me this story. You may as well kill a rat and eat that too. Ugh. I plan on telling him to be careful the next time I see him. Why? Because I hear squirrels are high in cholesterol content.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Lost mobisode 13, So It Begins

I have no words for how genius this one is!!! Enjoy and let the countdown begin......



Many thanks again to DarkUFO and all those who continue to make it a kick ass site!

Friday, January 25, 2008

Lost Sneak Peak!

From E Online and DarkUFO, new video clips for Lost Season 4. Am I the only one who is just ridiculously excited for next week?


Monday, January 21, 2008

More mobisode goodness

I can't say it enough. Get over to DarkUFO and check out all of the mobisodes. Some are more heavy hitting than others but I have still enjoyed all of them. I'll take my fix wherever I can find it these days.





And the jaw dropper, for me anyhow, Room 23.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Hello 2008!

Wow! It has been forever since I posted something on here. I haven't had much positive news, or so I thought. So I have avoided being a negative Nellie. Until now, my cup runneth over.

The beginning of the new year is also known to those of us in the retail pharmacy business as HELL ON EARTH. It has been 16 days of.... I've never paid that much EVER! Why did my co pay go up? DEDUCTIBLE? What do you mean DEDUCTIBLE? Why isn't it four dollars? Aren't ALL Generics $4? At Wal-Mart they are. No I don't have a new insurance card. We get this ALL DAY EVERY DAY. On top of that I had a pharmacist quit two weeks before Christmas and he gave me exactly two weeks notice. If any PharmD candidates are reading this, it is NOT professional courtesy in our profession to give two weeks notice. Your employer will not place an ad, conduct interviews, get someone hired, AND train them in two weeks. Professional courtesy is 4 weeks, nothing less. This is important information and it might just save your life one day. I really did want to squeeze the life out of him with my bare hands. No worries though, he went to Walgreens, and I hear they hire anyone with a pulse and a license.

Now we were able to get some part time pharmacists hired. It is far from perfect because they are still learning our system. I can say this though, things are so much improved from where we were the past two years. Night and day. And 2008 is only going to get better.

I did make a few resolutions this year. I always hesitate to get too crazy with New years Resolutions. Sometimes I think its just setting ourselves up for failure. So far so good though. So here is my failure....err resolution list.

Work out consistently. Nothing is worse than working out for a few months and then stopping. The pain your body goes through. Every time I'm berating myself for the pain I'm in.

Tying in with working out more is eating less fast food and losing some weight. This requires me to be organized and actually put something together and take to work.

Drinking less. This is tough to do during Shuffleboard season. I know I can hear some of you laughing. But really, shuffleboard does require a frosty beverage. We have two more weeks left. Work can leave me very very frazzled and I need to have a better outlet for my stress than meeting up with everyone at the bar. Not that I don't enjoy that, I enjoy it too much.

Doing better with financial planning. I bought Microsoft money and I'm totally organized at this point. I received my year end credit card statement and it is scary the amount of money I spent on complete crap. My credit cards will be paid off in three months and I am going to attempt to keep them at zero balances for the rest of the year. Remember the word failure.

Getting up earlier in the morning. This is going to be the toughest of them all. Those who know me well know I love my sleep. It might be my favorite part of the day. I'm not a happy camper in the mornings. Unless of course you're Ellie. Then I'm the worlds best snuggler. And how can I be angry with a wagging tail while she's still laying down looking at me.

So now that I have put all of this in writing I hope my chances for success with be higher.