Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Well, as first days back from vacation go....That was a doozy!!

So, let's see how did Monday start....2 hours late. I just couldn't quite believe my alarm was going off and didn't bother to get up. Luckily I get up super early to workout in the morning so I wasn't late for work. Missed the workout, not good considering the way my pants felt when I put them on! Oinked it up pretty good out there on the open road!!

**Side note on the "oinked it up" - One of the great things about our road trips to Denver is that we can eat at all those places that we don't have here in Seattle: Tim Horton's all through Canada (gotta love getting a doughnut with every meal), A&W in Canada (cuz you can get a side of gravy for your fries - YUM), Cracker Barrel (I HAVE TO HAVE MY CHICKEN FRIED STEAK!), Sonic (mmmm, Cheeseburger with bacon toaster and an orange/cream slushie), Guadalara (favorite Mexican place in Denver) and The New Dynasty (for Chinese - this place does us in, there are 10 of us and we each order the meal, so that's 10 different dishes we get! (Bad, very bad...) I never claimed any of it was good for me but very tasty and filling, especially around the gut and thighs!!! *sigh*

Ok - Back to my day! So after finally making it to my cubie after being stopped by all the "Glad to have you back!", "How was the Trip?" comments/questions (Ok, it's nice to be missed ....) I signed on the computer and had to spend the entire morning wading thru 267 e-mails - Geeeeeez!! After that my buddy pops her head up and sez we need to go to Starbucks...I reply: Nope I don't, I need to get some work done... No, it seems I NEED to go to Starbucks with her. So there's 30 minutes blown in the parking lot of Starbucks while she rants on about what went down in her world while I was gone - Don't ask, you REALLY don't want to know. We do pick up some coffee to keep up the masquerade (but, technically she's my boss, so no trouble there. I said technically, we know who's REALLY in charge, lol!!)

The rest of the day flew by in a flurry of catch-up. Remembering to turn off the "out of office" message on my e-mail and voicemail (obviously nobody paid any attention to them anyway *eye roll*) figuring out where the person covering for me put my shit, it really should not be that hard to find the tape dispenser, lord! And so on - Blah, Blah, Blah.

I hightailed it outta work, dead tired and a wee bit peeved (reading a book that takes place in Scotland, "wee" has been creeping in the vocabulary a lot lately...)
Anyway - Seems the new season schedule came out for the T-Birds and hubby picked out our ticket package and bought them.....Super!! Except we blew all the money in that account on vacation and I hadn't gotten to the bank yet!! Well, I was on my way there now I guess......Grrrr!

Later at the bat cave.... I lay on the couch too lazy to get up and go to bed, now how pathetic is that?? Kids are in the other room with the TV TOO LOUD (but I'm to lazy to do anything about it...) when I hear what seems to be a small "crack" followed by a "thump" - I figure it's just Big Ugly Cat jumping on the back fence cuz I heard the neighbor's dog barking. And then in come the kidlets: "Mom, we think a tree fell in the front yard" What the.... "Why do you think a tree fell?", "We heard it and looked out the window and it looks like it's laying in the yard" Ooookay, I get off my lazy butt and check outside.... Well timber, there she be!! Half my pear tree laying in the front yard!! It had just spilt in half and keeled over.... I think it had gotten too heavy with pears and since I've been away and didn't get them picked, it just got too heavy on one side and snap. I was going to take care of it this week, I swear I was!!

So! When I got up this morning @ 4:30, Kent was just coming out of the bathroom and leaving for work. Thought I had better warn him about what he would find when he walked out the front door. Wasn't that thoughtful of me!!! - "Hey, pear tree fell over last night, could you just make sure it's all in our yard and not the neighbor's - it was too dark to see last night, mmmkay??" Now he's usually not really awake at the time in the morning - But man, I wish I had a camera to get the look on his face!! Priceless! Woke him right up, too. LOL!!

Dang! That thing was bigger then it looked - 2 trips to haul it all away. At least that's what I heard, I hung out at work a little longer tonight to avoid the whole thing....Yeah, yeah, yeah - I know - tsk, tsk.

Hmmm might be more then a "wee" bit peeved after all! Have a good one!!

As told by moi10:00 PM ...

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