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About This Author
A changeling spirit,
constantly evolving,
revolving around an inner core,
spinning forth legend and lore,
stories and lives
as I come to grips
with who and what I am,
have been and may be.
I am a phoenix:
rising ever above and beyond!
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The White Board
The White Board
 
For meandering thoughts, and mindful walks...for rants and pouts, and blowing off steam. For happy days and sad days, for crazy adventures and delightful victories! :)
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Well, the new job is going okay although it is difficul to play 'cashier' while I learn their register system. Now, granted, I need to know it cold, but omg, I'd forgotten how glad I was to get past that point. I keep wanting to know why they are doing things a certain way, knowing full well, I will not be doing it that way!!! But I finally figured out the best way to handle it!
Being a HUGE 'Survivor' fan, I've decided the scarf I have to wear at work is my 'survivor buff' lol....Don't even want my butt voted out lol. And, funny, it has made a tremendous difference in how i'm perceiving things there...and when all is said and done...I have a new car!!! LOL I LOVE driving it!!!!
Hoping to put a pic up later today. Not tht anyone really cares, but me...but that's ok! I'm am so trilled about it. I'm almost 53 years old and never had a new car in my life that was mine. *starting to feel like a mix between a teenaged kid and a grown-up* Now THAT'S Scary!!! *giggles at herself* But after 10 hours on my feet (which are killing me!!) I can get in the car nd drive on down the road wit the sunroof open and the kick a** stereo blasting and I feel sooooooooooooooo good!!!! |
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of whatever weather it turns out to be!)
The first day of work went well :) Getting uniform shirts today that should fit...ended up with a 2x yesterday...down to my knees, with the sleeves rolled up twice, it was still way long in the sleeves...trying to tuck that much shirt into a pair of pants was NOT pretty! lol. As soon as I wrap my mind around someof the things that are done distinctly differently from last job, all will be well :) Did ok tho......1st day at work at a new job...and that is not the news of the day!!!
I got a new car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whooooooooooooooooo Hooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A 2007 G-6 (add a few more letters here but i don't remember which) and it is awesome!
The color is called 'liquid silver' and the dashboard at night? It is like driving the Enterprise!
I so love it!!! I think I cried half the way home!! This is a totally amazing experience for me!!!!
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I start my new job today! Whooohoooo!!!!
Look what terryjroo sent me!!! Isn't it pretty? There's a sig auction going on now (see info below in my sig) and there are some awesome oneof a kind sigs there :)
Ken's b'day party was a lot of fun! Lots of kids (both of the little and adult variety) were there and an entire angel food cake disappeared! He loved his present! Hopefully I'll have a pc here b tomorrow..his puter is off and I have to dash, so I'll upload it tomorow or maybe tonight!
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March 24, 2007 at 11:57am March 24, 2007 at 11:57am
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I am not a happy camper this morning. Haven't been since late last night, well, early today.
I BLEW IT! I TOTALLY BLEW IT! For 21 days, I was involved with Ter's Poetry Challenge. Every day we had to write a poem, often using certain words and not using others. So every day I cranked out a poem. Some of them I am inordinantley proud of. Some were on the silly side. Some were what I call 'poetry' vs a mere poem. And, to me, there is a distinction. Poetry is an upper level of the category 'poem,' with chosen levels of meaning, word play, obvious and not so obvious messages.
Yesterday was a mish-mash of ups and downs and frazzling frustrations! Waiting for people to call back (who finally did at 10pm--way too late) and needing emails to do other things which tied me to the puter so i couldn't do Ken's birthday project that I'm building so that i couldn't do other things I needed to do INCLUDING writing the poem for the last day of the challenge. Ken gets home from work and now I am trying to write said poem and talk to insurance people and talk to him and...and...and.
Well, I write a killer poem, read it to Ter who is blown away by it and we are happy.
I post it, fuss it up, as a killer pic with it and then start to get ready for a big night out with all of Ken's buddy's at a local pub for karaoke. I'm out of the shower for 5 minutes when his buddy calls, saying that he's already there. Ken says, ok, we'll be on the road in 10. I'm in the bathroom, soaking wet. 10 minutes? I think not! Anyway, I'm dashing to get ready for the night out and drying hair and finding clothes (because I, of course, don't like the first clothes I had on) and we were out the door...me, minus make-up or perfume or.....
Meanwhile, back at the poem, Ter goes to check them for appropriate number of descriptive words and the 'included' word. Mine doesn't have 'final or finally' in it. I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT INCLUDING THAT BLASTED STUPID DUMB WORD!
sO, AFTER 21 DAYS OF TRYING TO DO THIS, I BLOW IT AT THE LAST MOMENT!!!!
STUPID, STUPID!!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOO DUMB! :(
aLL THAT WORK.....BLAST DRAT!
Yeah, I wrote some excellent stuff...but at the last minute.....sigh...I was in tears when I found out. Might seem kind of silly, but I wanted my stuff featured in the newsletter. I wanted that merit badge. I worked hard for it, ya know? I am so disappointed in me. And poor Ter who had to toss my butt out of the challenge at the 11th hour. I feel so bad for her. She was upset too. I want to break something. I son't swear, but I sure was last night!
On the up side, Ken and I had a blast at the pub and a bunch of his friends showed up and he sang (!!!!!!!!!). I got a video of it...grin...if it were a wee bit brighter, we'd have put it on u-tube lol. that would have been a kick.
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A light breeze wafting in the window. Heat's off, windows open and the 'threat' of a thunderstorm. Lovely. Wonderful. I can't wait! Seriously! 1st thunderstorm of spring. Whoo Hoo! Did you know, according to my grandmother, that with the first thunderstom the Seven Sleepers all wake up--the bee, the bat, the butterfly, the corn crake, the water-snake, the cukoo and the swallow! A bit of old New England trivia for you!
On the headline news front....I got the job! Yesterday I was given an 'offer of employment' in writing. When handed the letter in the big boss' office, I didn't hardly read it, just skipped (skep?--oughta be a word) down to the bottom line...show me the money...and they did! *grin* After I got home, I actually read the whole letter....nice ego trip, that, and I'm still flying high!
I start Monday!!! I am so psyched!
Can't believe it is SIXTY-ONE degrees out. Yesterday morning it was snowing! Big, fat, lazy snowflakes fluttering down, defiant of the fact it was the first full day of spring. Michigan....weird weather here! LOL
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March 19, 2007 at 11:18am March 19, 2007 at 11:18am
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My email is sending me 'blog reminders' telling me to update my blog...so I am.
I got THE coolest bunny shell! terryjroo is such a sweetie! Here's what she made for me! 
I absolutely LOVE it!
Still on cloud 9 about my job. I'll be managing a convenience store with gas right here in town...literally 5 minutes from home. The fun part will be rearranging my schedual so I still have my WDC time too! The store is closed at the moment because itis being remodeled, so when I take it over it will be all fresh and new and beautiful!!!! It is going to be so awesome!
Ken's finally feeling better and returned to work today. I'm taking echinaecha and vitimin c and doing everything I can to not let what is trying to take over make me sick. I simply cannot do 'sick' right now! No time and not with a brand new job.
The " Invalid Item"  is winding down and I am sorry abot that. I am enjoying it so and it has pushed me to write some poetry that I am really proud of! I've posted them in a book (for the challenge) as well as static items in my 'Blotter' so that they can get some reviews. It is fun to read every one's entries and to see how some of the writers in the challenge are really reaching new heights in their poetry!
A me plug.....I have a contest and it REALLY needs more entries...Please check it out!
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It has some amazing prizes and an ongoing prompt sequence that build upon itself. Winners and nonwinners alike will have a chance later in the year to compete for additional prizes as well!
Well, I have a pile of reviews to write so I'moff to the Land of Reviews. It wasn't a happy place over the weekend so I hoping today it will be more fun. I get a bit exasperated when I'm reviewing something that (to me) seems really rough..like a draft still and I see all sorts of 4 and 5 ratings for it. I take reviews incredibly serious. To me, to rate something a 5 means it is awesome writing. To give 5's to writing that should be a 3 or..gasp...worse....negates the true 4's and 5's...and i drives me crazy.
*steps off her soapbox*
That being purged...off to write reviews...lol
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone! I'm Irish through and through and today is always a special one for me!
Course, I got me bag o' luck yesteday!!! I GOT THE JOB I WAS AFTER!!!!!!!!
I am so excited! I really wanted this and I go on Wednesday to meet the president of the company who's putting together an employment offer! Yaaaahoooo!!!!!
Been a roller coaster of a week and the Ides of March was the worst of it all...but the dust had settled and life is good. Spring claning commenced and my port has a new look for spring with all new photos of my desk to define my port!
The Easter Egg Hunt was a big success and it was fun seeing Ter clone herself yesterday and be 14 places at once!
She made a bunch of logos for my site! I've only gotten 1 up so far, but they look great!
Lisa made me a sig too!!!!! I've got such sweet and wonderful friends here! 
And while this isn't going to make sense yet, I've got a bunny shell!!!!! *grin* Still waiting for the name but bunny is so kewl and my new mascot I think! Thanks for sharing Zack!
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March 15, 2007 at 10:17am March 15, 2007 at 10:17am
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70 degrees and sunny...glorious one day...fresh snow the next...gotta love the weather in Michigan! And, no wonder I'm still sick!
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Check it out...next time...ii could be YOU! *grin*
Now for the biggest news in my corner of the world....I got called back for a 2nd interview!!!!! It lasted an hour and a half! And he kept saying things like "I want you to meet Mar...the company president" Whhhoooo HOOOO!!! Looking fairly positive YAYYY I am sooo excited! I really want this jobb! We even talked money, benefits etc! Keeping fingers, toes, eyes all crossed! (no wonder I can't type today! *grin*)
Ken and I are both still sick...but today we both a feeling a bit better! At least we both got sick at the same time...he says it gives new meaning to the term...a pair of sickos...lol
The pup just came in from the snow...my fluffball dog now looks like a snowball...she shook and snow went EVERYWHERE!!!
just like a kid tracking snow alllllllll over the house!
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We have a new sig for the The Great Easter Egg Hunt!
This is soooo much fun being a part of this! Loving every minute of it! Especially since I am feeling SO! much better toda than last night. Not 100% by any stretch of the imagination, but enough so that I can probably over do it today because I feel so much better!
Also LOVING the 21 Days of Poetry Challenge...Ter just keeps coming up with sadistic, rotten, nasty prompts designed to drive us nuts! (Just joking...hee hee....)
Seriously tho, I am making so many new friends here and it has made what was excellent even better!! I LOVE WDC!!!!!!!
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Well I'm breathing a sigh of relief now that I've heard from my daughters!!! Both of them. Life is great! Was getting emails tonight from my son-in-law in Iraq who hadn't heard from Cara (my daughter, his wife) in a couple of days and she had been on shore leave and he was freaking! Which of course, had me freaking. Well, she's fine and I am now defreaked!
I'm really excited about my lastest project to be involved in!!! I'm helping with a special fun activity for Easter and it will be raising LOTS of gps for and !!!
Finally got my contest winners picked out, now to write the prompt for the next round!
Still waiting to ear about the job I interviewed for....keeping fingers crossed. |
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| I have a job interview today!!!!! Wish me luck world! It is right here in town, 6 min from the house, pay is good, I've got the experience and I really need it! She wants it! Tons to do.... |
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When I was seven, my mom created a pink tea party for me. When I turned ten, the septic tank died a few weeks before my birthday and there wasn't money for both a new one and a party. The septic tank arrived on my birthday and Mom put a big pink bow on it. Until the men arrived a week later (their big equipment had trouble getting up our two and a half mile long mountain driveway) it was the greatest fort in the world with big round windows.
My mom was one of the first lady real estate brokers in the state of NJ and she made me get my real estate licence when I was 19. First class was the day I arrived home from college in the sprig. I was the only female in a class of 30+ men in their thirties and forties. When the time came for the state licensing exam, I finished the test is less than half the time of any of those men and aced it. Mom was so proud of that.
For many years after that, Mom and I rarely got along; it seemed we were always buttingheads over something. I remember calling her right after my eldest daughter was born. In the time between my daughter's birth and talking to her on the phone, suddenly my mother went from being a total no-nothing (in my dumb brain) to the smartest woman on the planet. From then on, we grew closer and closer, and never looked back.
No matter where I was in the world; Alaska when my daughter was born, Scotland on extended vacation or just halfway across the country from her, she was always there when I needed her. She always managed to come where I was if the need arose. As time went by, I, too, was there for her when ever she needed me.
When my dad died I promised him I'd take care of her and I tried my best. Mom always said I'd been the best daughter one could have. We'd joke about my being born on Mother's Day and always wondered about that.
I remember counting pennies to get a Christmas Tree one year with my eldest daughter sitting at the kitchen table inher high chair. Money was her first word, spoken as we rolled $38.00 worth of pennies.
I remember coming home in May to celebrate the Christmas we couldn't because I'd been in Alaska. She decorated the rubber tree plant. We all always had high hopes.
I remember my mom in tears as the doctor told her she had five days, or five weeks, five months at the outside to live due to an aortic aneurism that ran from where her aorta left her heart to where it split in her groin. I remember my mom trying to 'tie up her affairs' and worrying over whether my oldest daughter (now grown) was responsible enough to take care of Mom's beloved grandmother clock.
I remember the eight years following that as mom saw all of my kids graduate from highschool, one jon the navy and one of them get married and have three children. I remember the mom who morphed into Grammy who then became GG or great-grammy.
The spring before my youngest joined the Navy the following January, we were already making plans to go to Chicago when she graduated from boot camp. Mom said she'd never make it to then. I didn't believe her and continued making plans.
Mom passed away two weeks before my youngest graduated boot camp. I mailed the cards that Mom had ready because I didn't want Cara to know until she'd made it through the tough finals there.
The phone call came one evening four hours or so after I last talked. It was a nice, normal, everyday sort of Mom-daughter yark and we ended it as we always did, saying I love you. Mom didn't asnwer her door at the senior complex she lived in, so her neighbor came in and found her. She'd been lying in bed, all relaxed and cozy watching Law and Order. No sigh of pain...no panic or disarray.
I always thought and still think, my dad called down from heaven and said, hey Gini, the kids are all settled and I miss you. Time to get the heck up here...and she did. No sign of her aneurism hemoraging...nothing. Mom simply went to be with Dad.
I went out to settle things and found a letter she'd written before she died. At the end of it she told me she loved me and to quit crying.
Sorry Mom, I'm crying today. You've been gone four years today and for some reason, I am falling apart. I miss you. I love you...and yeah... I'll quit crying. In a bit.
Anyone who reads this who hasn't talked to their Mom or Dad or Grandmother or Grandfather for a while...call them up and say hi, ask how they are doing or go see them. Tell them you love them. Because you still can ........................
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Well, I've been up since 3 am, wrote a poem, did several loooong, in-depth reviews, edited 15 chapters of my book (just started back on it again...) went out to lunch with a friend I haven't seen in ages, won a contest, and got a merit badge for reviewing....pretty darned good day! Oh!!! and realized I've now been at WDC TWO YEARS! Whooohoooooo Missed my wdc birthday on the day it happened tho' :(
Have my car back and it just isn't right...I think it is possessed! (maybe it is catching??) On the trip out today, windshield wipers wouldn't work, 1/2 the squirters did (wrong side of course), left turn signal refused to signal and my headlights wouldn't come on....coming home, I had wipers, other side squirted, had signals and almost all my lights, but my tac, heat and gas gauges wouldn't work....ran ok-ish but has no get up an go at all....It is the curse of the ex...it is haunting me...ack!
BUT I have it back and it starts when I turn the key and I drove to meet my friend for lunch! What a treat that was!
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3:44 in the morning. I should be asleep. I am up writing after falling asleep on the couch around 8pm. Ken's sawing the arctic forests on the other couch. We do have a perfectly good, comfy bed, but neither of us is going to make it there this night, it seems.
I was trying (yeah, that worked) to stay awake for 10 pm so I could see the prompt for the 21 Days of Poetry thing I'm taking part in. When I woke up at 3am, bright eyed and bushy tailed, I made coffee and went to find the prompt. Applesause, a memory of my youth and certain words not to use. Flat out LOVE what I wrote!! Really, really happy with it....nice way to start the day.[edited] Lisa Dawn - sunny days   said i should put the link to the poem in! So I am.
Yesterday ended well too! I got my car back. I have wheels. I am no longer tied to home and hearth and can go where I want, when I want!! (probly won't go anywhere, but to know I can makes all the difference.)
Course, the 'check engine' light is still on, and it doesn't quite 'sound' right...but we'll see.
Going to have company today :) My erstwhile Avon lady is coming by. She and I became friends, she gave up Avon and now is so busy we never seem to get together. So today will be a catch-up, pot of coffee yack!
Before that, another new friend, (this time the candle lady) is coming by. We clicked when we were talking about writing and she mentioned an old, old book of poetry she has that is her all time favorite book. I, of course, went to my desk to show her MY special, old, dog-eared, frayed binding book of poetry-The Best Loved Poems of the American People- published in 1936. Yup..exact same book...too too wierd. But awfully cool. Better, we both really love some of the same poems. She went looking for one and didn't the book fall open to it? ANYway she's coming over to let me know what she thinks about some of my stuff she took with her a month ago to read. That will be another pot...
Funny how i refer to them as the avon lady and the candle lady...easier for Ken to keep track that way...Name and descriptive term.
New secret pals....whooohoooo....psyched! LOVING this secret pal thing...making new friends here...gotta love it!
Someone read allllll of my story...After the War--the Journals....NOW THAT is awesome!!!! Commented after each chapter and found all the typos!! I will fix em all tomorrow...errr today...errrr later. But they read the whole thing!!!! And liked it!!!!! Sent em a BUNCH of gps....some one finally read all of it thus far....*grin*
From the other room I can hear total cacaphony! The tv is WAY too loud (I swear infomercials are set to be way louder) going on about how I can lose 6 inches off my waist in 6 day using their total body cardio workout system. They haven't explained how that can happen by it sitting in a corner, covered with dust...but hey, miracles happen. Course maybe I missed it. Ken's snoring seemed to grow louder too as if he is trying to drown it out! (hearing) No crunches, no getting on the floor, *gets up to go look at this wonder* ok Hip hop Abs...dance your way to being skinny. They are all in their 20's...they SHOULD be skinny. None of them look old enough to have a tummy...certain no grandmoms in the bunch! All with 'hot, happening music'....give me Neil Diamond! lol All for 4 payments of 19.95. Sure. Uh huh...Yup. Right. Oh and if I call in the next five minutes they send all sorts of extra stuff and free upgrades and take off a payment. Oh goody.
Whoops...I almost missed the extra free gifts!
Free gifts...ahem???? Free...gift....gifts are gifts, they aren't paid fo by the giftee. One of those oxymorons that drive me crazy! The word is oxyMORON after all...*giggles* Think I need some more coffee!
(10 minutes later) Fresh coffee...and something to eat...take that Hip Hop ABs...lol
4:17 wired....off to review I guess....
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. But I also am at the point where I don't know how to feel or act. I hope you are doing well, and I also hope to see you around the community soon.
Remember, 60 is the new 40. I consider age to be really reverse logarithmic. 
umm .. okay ... and ...errr ... for myself because I'm just a big kid at heart. 
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