"Soon" is a relative term.....

Things have been in a constant state of change around here lately, but I have finally remembered that "hey, I have a blog I promised to update", so for the very few of you that actually read this (hi Mom!), here we go.........

I now am working the wonderful, very strange, shift of 11pm to 7:30am, and I really wish that I could tell you all about the things that go on at work because it really is freakin' hilarious some nights, but I like my job and I would like to not get fired for writing about said job on the internet.  We'll just leave it at the fact that I haven't had to pay money to go see a comedy in a while because I work in one.  The entertainment value is off the charts some days.

The downside to working that shift is that our building is the one that all the kids want to play at during the day when I'm trying to sleep, and I'm not exactly sure how they manage to confuse it with a jungle gym but 100 elephants couldn't make the noise these kids make and that is kind of putting a damper on my sleep.  On the flip side, we've been acquiring a number of musical instruments lately, some that were family instruments that found their way to us, and some that we bought, and as my husband puts it, we have the makings of a jazz band, but given the fact that the parents have no interest in keeping their kids from using the side of my apartment for ball practice, I have quit caring about the sound of four different instruments playing four different tunes in our apartment.  Turn about is fair play.  Or something like that.

Hmmm...what else is going on?

My husband will believe me the next time I say the car sounds like its about to spew engine parts all over the freeway.

The animals are still insane.

So are the humans.

NASCAR is back and I am happy.  (Seriously, that's really all it takes to make me happy.  Although mochas help too.)

That's about it.  

Coming Soon.....

Updates.
Really.
I promise.

Sleep might actually come soon.

First, I have to mention that it has become pretty much the norm around here for the kids to send me text messages and emails telling me if they need something picked up from the store, or reminding me that they need something for school, etc., since I am working again and have a really weird schedule for the next two months. That is fine with me. What amuses me is they also do this if they want to know what's for dinner. When they're in the next room. Anyways...moving on.......

I have finally finished my part of the website that I've been building for a friend who is opening her own online store. It was more work than I thought it was going to be when she first asked me if I could fix something on her computer. I thought maybe she had a virus. I didn't know we'd be building a new website to replace the one she had. But it's been fun, and alot of work, but I think it looks ok for the first real website store I've made that didn't come in a prepackaged way. I built one several years ago, but all I had to do for that one was upload photos. Done. This was a bit more challenging.

So hopefully that will be online soon. There are a few things that she has to do before it can launch. But my part is done, which means that maybe I'll be able to go to bed and not lie there for two hours thinking about what I need to do for the site. Granted, I'll probably lie there and think about what I should be doing for three other projects, but hey....maybe there'll be variety now.

The new job is good. And while I can't actually talk about the job, I can tell you that they have a really good cafeteria, and a nice fitness room, which is good because considering how much I eat at that cafeteria, I'm going to need the fitness room. My coworker that sits next to me has fun watching me come in every morning and pull out my coffee, Diet Coke, and Red Bull. This apparently amuses her. I think it just worries everyone else.

Looking forward to Thanksgiving this year, but I'm not sure if its because of Thanksgiving or because everything will be closed and I will have no choice but to stay home and try to relax.

I can dream, anyways.

Life in the crazy lane

It's been a tad hectic around here lately. I finally started my job, which I won't say where it is or what it is because I've heard way too many stories about people being fired for blogging job specifics, but I will say that it pretty much kicks ass. It's probably the best job I've ever had. Good money, good benefits, good people. Especially in this economy, it doesn't get better than that.

We have a friend of my daughter's living with us right now. Right as I got used to having two teenagers in the house, we now have three. Somehow, and I'm not sure how this works, I think it actually got calmer with three instead of two. Go figure.

I've also been building a website for someone for their online store which hopefully will launch soon, because I'm running out of hours in the day to work on stuff.

I'm really not happy that we just got over Halloween and now I'm hearing Christmas music on the radio and houses are already decorated with lights. Can I get through Thanksgiving first?

That's pretty much it around here, which is plenty, and hopefully it will get a bit calmer soon but at least the crazy is all good stuff. I'll take that.