Got what I wished for... sort of...

Well, I finally got one.  I got me a laptop.  Well, it's a loner right now - and it's not the shiny pretty pink one that I wanted, and it's a bit old, and well, it doesn't have a wireless card so I can't really use it anywhere other than my office or my bedroom unless I don't want to hook up to the internet.  But, I finally got one.  I'm thinking of purchasing it (old and NOT PINK and all) from a friend of mine.  He's letting me give it a try.  It's a little slow -but I think if I take it to my "computer geek guy" and get him to tune it up (and put a wireless card in it) then it will be fine.  And really, right now I'm so busy working at the bar and photography studio that I have no time to go to Starbucks or Borders or Panera and look all "I'm so cool I'm sitting here drinking my latte' while surfing the web."  So really, the fact that I can only use this thing in two room of my house right now and the bedroom on my comfy bed being one of them?  Is perfectly fine with me.  And well, look - it finally got me to blog again.

See David?  I TOLD YOU I NEEDED A LAPTOP!!! :~)

So not much is new in my life other than I'm working a lot at the bar and photography studio.  I've decided that while I still enjoy photography and I'm learning a lot, I'm even more assured that I made the right choice to NOT HAVE CHILDREN. Great photographers (like the one that I'm becoming) get those great looking shots of kids smiling and having so much fun that it makes most everyone want to have children.  Those photographers?  Don't have said children.

After 6-8 house of photographing SCREAMING, NON-COOPERATIVE, SICK AND JUST DOWN-RIGHT ROTTEN CHILDREN?  (and don't forget the creepy husband/dads that are hitting on me and my co-workers while their wives are doing all the work with THEIR offspring - ugggh)  I am so.convinced. that I made the right decision to never-evah-have children.  (and I'm REALLY beginning to hate married men too) Oy - are kids a lot of work! And all I can think about when I'm driving home is that I'm so thankful that it's still legal to keep dogs locked in a kennel or outside while mommy relaxes with a fifth of vodka after work cocktail.

Working at the bar has been quite entertaining as well.  So far, in the month that I've been there I've met all.sorts.of.folks.

Today?  I was hit on by a guy who just got his Jeep working - and he was just soooooo happy about that.  It hasn't run/ran in 3-4 whole months.  I know, right?  3-4 months and it wasn't running and? he was a mechanic too - OBVIOUSLY not a good one or so I thought.  The Jeep you see sat idle for 1 month, but he was on HOUSE ARREST for 3 months - so you see?  It all worked out - he didn't really NEED the jeep all this time.

Yeah, I know what you're thinking - "Oh Shopgirl, look how you have turned your life around.  Why, just one year ago, you were working for the largest retail corporation in the world and now?  You're serving beer and shots to Mr. House Arrest." I know, I too, have to pinch myself each morning just to make sure it's real.

Other things going on in my life right now, we are in the middle of a Blizzard/Windstorm here in Shopgirls hometown.  It's a balmy 46 degrees here with 33 MPH Winds.  And in true Shopgirl - I - can't -wait -to-see-what-happens-to-me-next fashion, I'm sure that I will wake up tomorrow with absolutely no more siding on my house.  I'm also lying in bed with a sweatshirt hoodie on with the hood up because my OLD house is SO OLD that the wind is blowing through.  I feel a little like Dorothy and and scared that I'm going to wake up in Oz tomorrow.  Which actually?  Wouldn't be so bad since I'd  loves me some red sparkly shoes right about now.

One more thing to ramble on about before I check out of here and hit the sack - Just watched "Four Christmases" tonight with the dreamy and hilarious Vince Vaughn and Cutie Pe-tutie Reese Witherspoon and let me sum it up for you:  Laughed so hard I nearly peed - funniest movie hands down.  This is a must see -if you haven't been a lame girl like me and saw it when it originally came out.

Well, I have to go get my mittens and scarf and about 4 more blankets and head to bed in my igloo of a home. I just hope it doesn't get blown away tonight.

Nitey Night....

I had to post something... so here's a little Sassy for you...

This is Sassafrass, or Sassy as I like to call her.  At just 11 months, she looks cute and innocent enough eh?

Yet, this sums up what my shoes, books, rugs, shoes, shoes and more shoes have endured over the past 10 months...  

 Why you look mad?

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!!

Yee haw!  I got the job, or I won the audition.   Ok, now you KNOW the economy is bad when I'm excited about a PT job slinging brewskies and spirits at a local watering hole.  But, right now?  I'll take what I can get LITERALLY.  I mean, the job market is horrible here and there was an article in our local paper that yet another company will probably be laying off 300 people in the next month if they don't extend some contract or get another client or something.  Either way?  That's 300 MORE people that I have to compete against for any job out there.  Also?  The more people there are out of work?  The more power the employers get - and can hire for much, much less than they would have a year ago.  And while I'd work for less, I don't see my mortgage payment going down or my gas/electric/water bills shrinking either.

But, today I'm not going to dwell on the negative.  I got a job!  So yea for me and yea for my pocket book!! 
And?  This is what, my 3rd post in less than 2 weeks?  WAY TO GO SHOPGIRL!! :~)

But, it's going to be short one again - because I have to get ready for work - I actually start today!!

C-ya later and.....
don't forget to tip your bartenders!!

Exercise Two: Try to write SOMETHING... anything...

Something.....


Anything....

OK, I did it - now can I go back to bed?  I'm kidding (sort of) - I'm out of bed, and will stay out of bed until it's reasonably acceptable to go back to bed.  My PJ's?  Yes, I'm still in them (I know it's12:30pm) but I don't care.  Actually, I'm getting out of these pretty soon too - I have an "audition" today at 2pm - so I need to go make myself all purdy-like.

My "audition?" is not for anything remotely exciting (for anyone who's reading this) it's more of a "working interview" at a bar in my neighborhood that has an opening for a bar-bitch tender.  So, I have to get myself moving so I can do down and serve the locals their brewskies and 7 & 7's for a couple of hours.  I better get paid for this audition (at least the tip money..) 

My friend was at the bar last night while another contender was there, and apparently she had no skillz - which of course made me very happy.  He also sounded a little drunk (you did) but I'll take whatever positive feedback I can get these days. 

Well, as Bugs Bunny used to say... "That's all Folks!" - I'm going to say that too - since I need to get ready for this audition/interview.  Wish me luck - and hopefully everyone will just order beer or really easy drinks like Rum and Coke. 

So much to say.... so why can't I blog all about it??

Have you ever been in a place in your life where you've just lost interest in everything that you once loved to do? Or, in my case - have you ever gotten so excited about something, hobby, past-time, or even person and have gone full-force, full throttle with all the passion in your being, only to find yourself later not even remotely interested in said activity? 

Well, I've felt that way my whole life.  I'm very much an "in the moment" kinda girl.  I like NEW things - to try NEW stuff.   I get super excited about something (photography, scrap-booking, traveling, writing or blogging) and then BLAH... I hit a wall and I lose all interest..  My $500 camera (and all the "extras" that I had to have that would make me a better photographer) and my THOUSANDS of dollars worth of scrap-booking shit products, and now, by blog sit idle wondering where I've gone and if I'll ever come back. 

The sad thing is.. is that I want to, but yet here I sit and try to write a blog and while it is somewhat theraputic about putting my feelings down on paper (or into the blogoshpere) it is so. incredibly. hard. to keep typing.
I have soooo much I want to write about yet my mind feels like a pinball machine and my focus is as chaotic as that ball bouncing from side to side and back and forth until eventually it goes down the drain.  

So today's post (while incredibly short) was an exercise to get me back in the game.  According to the "experts" out there, it's all about baby steps and goal setting.  So, today's goal was to write something, anything... and I did that.  It's not my best work and it's not as long as my previous (and more enjoyable) posts have been, but I did it.  And I didn't even need a brand new shiny lap-top to do it. 

You see, I think and I keep telling my friend Dave (and myself) that if 'I only had a LAP TOP' then, THEN I'd be able to write again - you know, because now that I'm unemployed and have ALL THIS TIME on my hands - I could go to cool places like Starbucks, Panera Bread, Borders - where the Wi-fi is FREE - because I'm on a BUDGET and I could become the "serious" writer that I want to be (and once was.)  Because? No.One. writes at home!  NO!  It's all about the mobility... right?  Yeah, that's it....

THAT and going out and buying something NEW.  Hmmmm.... seems to be a pattern here....

Manic Monday

Patsy Cline sang it (and Willie Nelson wrote it) best:

Crazy
Crazy for feeling so lonely
Im crazy
Crazy for feeling so blue

I knew
Youd love me as long as you wanted
And then someday
Youd leave me for somebody new

Worry
Why do I let myself worry
Wondrin
What in the world did I do

Crazy
For thinking that my love could hold you
Im crazy for tryin
Crazy for cryin
And Im crazy
For lovin you

Keeping it legal y'all: 

Written by willie nelson
(as performed by willie nelson)
Also performed by patsy cline and ray price

Update... and I'm out of my PJ's....

My TO DO List:

1. Clean Room - almost done.
2. Clean Bathroom - worst job in the house.....
3. Organize/Clean my home office  - aka - catch all - I don't know where to put it so it will just go into my "office" room.  So. not. looking.forward. to. this. item.
4. Clean livinging room.
5. Laundry - DONE!  (believe it or not, I LIKE to do laundry... I know, I'm weird.) - found more - but it's DONE now too!
6. Kitchen - done last night - also like to clean the kitchen - don't like to cook -but like to clean...
7. Pick up dog doodies in the yard  - ok - this is the WORST JOB IN THE HOUSE. - going to have a beer first (if there's any left... if not?  VODKA it is...
8. Throw up from performing task number 7 - if Vodka is involved?  Tossing my cookies is a certainty....
9. Mow the lawn.
10. Drink Vodka... lots of Vodka.  (I could mix item number 10 in between several of the earlier tasks.) Check, Check and Check!!


I just love crossing things off the "to do" list!!