5/30/03

Lets try this again shall we? Earlier this morning I lost a nice long entry I’d written. Hubby says that if I use Opera instead of IE I won’t “lose” my entries even if I get an error. I don’t know why I don’t use Opera all the time anyway. *shrug*

We had some fun Content Management System Training this morning. Yeah, my ass it was fun. My trip to the Doctor yesterday was more fun than that. Afterwords my boss spoke to us about a few things one of them being the near endangerment of my position within the company. One woman stated how they would no longer need me or my co-worker after this tool was implemented. Luckily there’s more people working for us rather than against us so our jobs aren’t in danger. Who in their right mind is going to turn a bunch of users free with a content management tool? People that can barely maneuver their way around Microsoft Word? I think that would not be a good idea lest we find ourselves with webpages full of 20 point bold lime green font on a yellow background. I have seen what users do to webpages my friends and it is not a pretty sight.

Now would not be a good time to find myself in danger of losing my job. Without my paycheck about 1/4 of our bills and all of our living expenses would not be covered. EEP!! On the upside I’d lose a lot of weight eating 10cent Ramen. Been there, done that, still have the leftover Ramen in the cabinet. Which reminds me…does anyone know how long Ramen is good for?? Is it still edible after 3-4 years?

As for our weekend we have nothing planned, hubby has to get the mowing down tonight as it’s supposed to rain ALLLLL weekend AGAIN. Perhaps I’ll be a pal and do the trimming for him. I love weedwhackers, something about whacking weeds makes my day a little brighter. I am very irritated by the weather though. Please tell me, dear readers, how I am supposed to plant my vegetables when I cannot get a day of sunshine??!! They’re always talking about how farmers need the rain but dammit, we need sunshine too!!!

I’m hoping to find at least a little break in the rain this weekend at a decent time of day. I’d like to take Sara for another walk. You see, I weigh quite a bit more than I ever intended and I need to walk a lot more. I’d like to lose some weight before I visit my family in Oct. I haven’t gained anything since the last time I saw them a little over a year ago so all I have to lose is a couple inches or something and I’ll feel like I’ve accomplished something. I always swore I’d never get “big”. My WHOLE ENTIRE blood related family is big, both sides. I always swore I’d break the mold and be skinny. I have failed, miserably. I ran across an old 9th grade picture of me last night and I was scrawny then, that was 4 years after my “not eating thing” and I still hadn’t put on much weight. Part of it was the fact that I had braces. I didn’t eat much when I had braces, not only did I have braces but I had this plastic almost retainer like thing on the roof of my mouth that was widening my too-narrow mouth. That motherfucker hurt like a bitch most of the time and chewing more than mashed potatoes just wasn’t my idea of a good time. That damn thing was torture, it damn near ruined my ability to play the flute for the 4 years I wore it too. I never made 1st chair until AFTER that damn thing came out. 🙁 How did I even get onto this topic?

Anyway, I’m going to go take care of some work or something. I wish everyone a great weekend. I tend to make the best of mine despite rain and thunderstorms. Actually I LIKE thunderstorms so that will be a nice change of pace to just boring ole rain.