chocolate, coffee, chaos, clutter

luck of the green

2009-03-17T20:26:00.000-07:00

funny, sitting here thinking about st pattys day, everything green. except of course for the mud outside that is supposed to reseamble a lawn. and the jeep that is a very brown shade of road grime. and my favorite, the very empty wallet that is supposed to resemble having greenbacks in it.
heading on a short road trip tomorrow to the dentist, knowing the outcome will be braces for both kids and hours and hours of driving time between here and there. very worth it yes for my kids to have nice looking teeth, but wondering how it is going to get done cost wise and driving wise. i guess God knows.
Sure wish God would learn to text. would make my life a lot easier. even an email would be great. just to let me know that is still thinking of me and knows i am still floundering.
I wonder if i told him i only needed $200 to start this t-shirt thing if he could plop it into my paypal account? lol.

k, enough pitty pot for me. i need to make myself a cup of tea and get some serious laundry folded.

new biz idea

2009-03-03T08:32:00.000-08:00

had an idea for a new biz yesterday. custom made t-shirts. not screen printed, cheaper than that. fabric spray paint. for school events, team spirit, to support your son or daughters number on the basketball team, to announce a new sale at the local mom and pop.
it wouldnt be as detailed as screen print of course, one or two colors, but, it would be a cheaper way of putting your messegae on a shirt or a banner/flag.
i cant figure out a name and a matching url though. so i need help with that. any thoughts?

saturday inside the house?!? huh??

2009-02-28T14:11:00.000-08:00

this is the first saturday we have had sun and somewhat warm weather (50 degrees) since probably november. where are my two young monsters? in thier rooms playing games. i want to go out and dig up my garden but the ground is still mushy and frozen, but the day is sooooo pretty. so i am outside picking up trash and leaves and basically piddiling around just to stay outside and not freeze and soak up some sun. yes, i am covered head to toe in layers to stay warm, but still, its the idea of being OUT in the sun. i even thought about washing the jeep, but cant find my waterproof gloves. its alright i guess. supposed to rain/snow this coming week for a week anyway.

twitter followers?

2009-02-26T20:48:00.000-08:00

I have a gas finding new people to follow on twitter. when i find someone i enjoy talking to and i get good information from them, i go to thier profile page and see who they follow, and then, when i find someone new and interesting i follow them myself! it's like looking in someone's roledex and finding thier hidden treasure contacts!

try it. its not how many follow you, its how much information you can trade and learn!

manic monday

2009-02-23T19:39:00.000-08:00

found out today i dont qualify for unemployment. seems you cant quit before you get fired. but, if i would have gotten fired, i would never work in this county again. catch 22. so thinking i should learn to say, do you want fries with that?

hello? anyone home?

2009-02-22T10:10:00.000-08:00

hello? anyone home? i am loving twitter, but my gosh there is not enough room to type what my brain is thinking. i am thinking i need to kick my brain up a notch and really get into this spirit of not working outside the home and going beyond what is considered normal by the worlds standards. status quo is no longer acceptable.

raising taxes again? for what??

2007-04-12T10:25:00.002-07:00

reading in the paper yesterday that the city needs to find new ways to increase revenue. how about allowing worldwide known buisnesses to move in and set up shop? Colt Firearms? Payless Shoes? hello? how about being small business friendly and not killing small business owners with nit picky rules and regulations that have nothing to do with the price of tea in china and are only there to make the enforcer of the rules have a job? the city councel is trying to kill this town with taxes? for what reason? so we can maintain our small town feel? our small town politcs? our small town boredom? if the prisons were not here, what would this town do for income? city councel, think outside the box here. don't rely on co's to pay your taxes. they don't even shop here! bring in growing business! allow others to grow! stop taxing us to the point of poverty! susanville really really needs something for the kids/teens to do. besides get drunk, do drugs and steal things. we do not need to raise yet another generation of susanville stupid! give these kids an idea of what life in the outside world is really like, teach them to be smart and responsible. make it better for them to show up to work than to be stoned. city councel, raising the sales tax is not your answer........ think again

saturday coffee, monday frustrations

2007-02-24T09:35:00.000-08:00

this week at work, a corp suit decided that we do not need more supplies to do our job effectivly. we serve 400 lunches in one hour. we have 250 trays. that means that half way through lunch, we have to stop and wait for more clean trays. the powers to be say we don't need 400 trays. if they buy us more trays, then need to buy more trays for the other cafeterias. they serve 180 lunches and have 300 trays. go figure. suit logic.

the main head maintence guy at my work, (he is the highest paid employee in our district) couldn't figure out what was wrong with our garbage disposal yesterday. he had poured a gal of liquid plummer down it a month ago, that should have fixed any problem......... well, come to find out the barring is going out. how is liquid plummer suposed to fix that? hello? why is it that the more men get paid the dumbmer they get? congress is full of dumb men. sentate, government. all full of men that do not have a clue as to the every day functions of life. but, becuase they are brown nosers and can talk thier way out of any situation, ( re: lying) they get paid the big bucks and sit on their pattooties all day contemplation the rising cost of imported cigars.

Sunday - what to do now?

2007-02-11T10:14:00.000-08:00

This has been a very "drama" week. Anna Nichole dies, and a love struck woman goes on a rampage. Honestly i don't give a rats pattoie about anna nichole. she chose that lifestyle. you reap what you sow. her garden was full of what made her die. clean up and move on.

Lisa Nowak, let her obsseive compulisve personality get out of control. i feel for her. obviously she had no friends to talk to, no one to bounce ideas off of. no one to snap her out of her 'drama'. don't blame her husband, he probably did not have a clue.

and back in the real world, gas prices are only at $2.52 a gallon, we still have not had any snow this winter, (normally at least 2 feet) and the laundry in the wash room has doubled overnight somehow and the dishes in the sink did not jump into the dishwasher......

so, lets all make another pot of coffee, and find our center, our balance, and make today a better day.

keeping in touch

2007-01-17T19:18:00.000-08:00

so after all of the holiday parties and social gatherings and family gatherings....... after hearing all of the 'lets keep in touch' 'lets do lunch' and 'dont be a stranger' comments, how many of those people have you actually called, emailed or instant messengered? yahoo, aol, icq among others was invented so that people who can't spare the few seconds to shoot off an email, or the few minutes to snail mail, can instantly tell thier friends across the country hello. even if that person is not online.

so, find your yahoo, fire it up. find your aol, open it. icq. remember those numbers....... come on people. don't let another year go by that you lose touch with people outside of your box.

joyfullsunshine - yahoo
joyfullsunshinee - aol
12727052 - icq

cold in california

2007-01-15T22:09:00.000-08:00

yes, california does get cold. right now, at 10.00 pm it is 13 degrees and dropping. hard to get motivated to do anything outside when it is this cold. a warm blanket, cup of hot coffee and a good book sounds much better than going outside to do laundry, or like tomorrow, walking to work at 6.00 am. going grocery shopping is not on the top of the to do list either.
i dont mind cold, i prefer it over hot, but this single digit stuff is for the birds, penguins.....

background checks

2007-01-14T09:49:00.000-08:00

i applied for a new job back in october. did the testing in nov, had the interview in dec. i really wanted this job, it would have tripled my income and gotten our family out of poverty. but, since they did a credit check and saw that my two credit cards are over the limit, and 5 years ago i had a bankruptcy (with ex husband) they decided that i am not good enough for the job. so, here i sit, still in poverty, in a house that is 62 degrees, with kids that wonder why there is not enough food to eat, all because the credit check showed i don't have enough money to pay my bills on time. go figure.

which way are you going?

2007-01-13T13:44:00.000-08:00

i was waiting at the 2 way stop sign to turn right. a row of cars is coming down the road so i wait. the first car goes flying past, but the next three turn. not one of them used a turn signal. i could have turned right onto the road all that much faster if one of those three mindless drivers had used the turn signal.
have we as adult drivers turned so inconsiderate that we can't even move our pinkies to switch on the turn signal? you know you are turning, is it so hard to fill the rest of the drivers on the road in on your plan?

come on people, use your brains

thanks giving?

2006-11-21T17:28:00.000-08:00

i remember the days when thanksgiving was this huge family gathering, where all the relatives came to one house, watched football and ate food for what seemed like hours. after dessert the women would sit around and decide whose house was going to get christmas dinner, was it going to be on christmas eve, christmas noon or the sunday before christmas. what was the price range for the kids' toys, what did the kids need, want. and was there going to be presents for the adults this year? as i grew older we ended up the adults drew names for who they would buy for. so the kids got gifts and each adult got one gift. my relatives were always boring and got things like socks and slippers and pot holders. my grandma would always make the gravey and now that she is gone the gravey is not the same. each year a different aunt tries to make it, and each year we mention how much we miss grandmas gravey and fudge.

this will be the first year since 1992 that i will be in my own house making my own thanksgiving dinner for my own family. the first year i will not be making the drive back home to see all the relatives and friends and spending the long weekend eating and catching up on lives and news. i guess now that i am 41 years old it is time to make my own traditions and my own place that my kids want to come back to every year. but this year, there will be no extended family around the table. this year it will be friends, neighbors, other people just like us that can't make the trip across the state(s) to see family.

maybe this year as we are all sitting around the table passing mashed potatoes and green beans and rolls we can each share a special thought of who made the best gravey when we were growing up. what was the best dessert ever, how did grandma make that fudge? this year, write down the recipies before they get lost to old age, write down the names of the aunts and uncles that have died before the next generation forgets who they are and why we should know them. lets make this year a giving of thanks to those people sitting around our tables.

corporate suits

2006-09-17T20:11:00.000-07:00

i really dislike corporate suits. they make new policy, expect it to be followed with out any idea if the new policy is actually do able. feasable. possable. grandious plans, no clue on follow through.