Who knew that working at W*M was so good for one’s weight issues?!?!  Who knew, I ask you?!?  Weighed myself this AM and I have hit the 20 lb mark!  Oh, trust me….it doesn’t show!  It’s no big deal.  When you have hovered around the 200 mark for 100 years you know that 10 or 20 lbs just doesn’t show when you lose it.  Slender little stick people that comment that they need to lose 3 or 4 lbs to fit in a dress or a pair of pants leave me in awe!  I am a large woman~big boned~(used to be) tall (as in 5′8″ and now I’m barely 5′5″ thanks to my back issues. geez).  Anyway, I have always carried a large amount of weight.  When I am ’skinny’, aka about as slim as I can go, I weigh(ed) 165.  I think I weighed 175 when we moved to Alaska 30 years ago and swore I’d never get any heavier.  Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! I hit 220 at one point and when I was tired of people asking me ‘when I was due’ I decided it was time to rid myself of the pregnant look and went to Diet Center.  I got down to 168, I think.  That was OH so many years ago!  I eventually crept back up to about 185 and stayed there for years.  then we ‘retired’ and started traveling and I crept up to around 200 and stayed there, give or take 5 lbs.  And as I said, when you are my size, a few pounds make no dif!

So, after being off work for so many months and having my activities limited due to my back and hip issues the past year….I had crept up to about 215.  This morning I stepped on the scale to the tune of 194.4 so I decided that since I had hit the 20lb mark, I would share it here :).  You may think this is silly, but I really don’t want to lose any more weight because then my lovely W*M wardrobe won’t fit me!  I already have a couple pairs of pants that are becoming questionable, LOL.  Besides, my ‘fully packed’ ass will become saggy and in the event that someone may at some point in time give a rat’s ass about the texture or shape of my ass, I would really hate to have a saggy presentation!  And I fear for my thighs!  AGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Well, that’s it for this morning.  Time to get ready for my daily W*M workout!

Thanks for all of your warnings and advice!  My template is safe and tucked away in FileZilla in it’s entirety so that will not be an issue.  At least it shouldn’t be, but knowing me I could possibly screw it up somehow! LOL  Since this is what I believe you call, a hosted blog (as I have my own domain~thus the “.com” rather than “wordpress.com”) so it is a bit complicated for a novice.  I’ll figure something out :).  Or not…….obviously, you will all know soon enough, hahahaha!

Are you ready for the all exciting back update?  Too bad.  Here it is anyway.  Must document somewhere and this is my place of choice.  Had a girlfriend years ago that used to say, “why suffer in silence” and I rather like that idea.

It’s been 6 days since my last injection.  Sat PM I dragged my ass home and was pretty achy.  Last night I dragged my ass home and was even more achy.  My old pain level (of 1-10) was probably a 6-7 last night.  Hubby announced that it was time I sucked it up and realized that the injections are not going to be the answer for me that I was so desperately seeking.  Methinks that mayhaps he is correct.   sigh….

I think what I need to accept here is that the surgeon was right when he said that even with surgery I will never be pain free while continuing on with my current job under the current circumstances.  I am hoping that my manager is there today so he can follow up on the ‘red tape’ stool request.  It will make a world of difference if I can just park my ass on the edge of something at various points throughout the day.  There are about 3 other cashiers that have stools and they sit on them the whole time.  I will never be able to do that because I am just the ‘gotta be up and all into it’ kinda person.  But to just be able to ‘park it’ while checks or debit/credit cards are processing and while the next customer starts unloading…….well, those precious few moments could make all the difference!  That’s all it would take to make the last 3 or 4 hours of my day more endurable!

The perfect scenario would be to work about 5 hours a day and get full time pay and benefits!  (a gal can dream, can’t she?! haha)

Yesterday was definitely “National Ugly Customer Day”.  Why didn’t I notice that on the calendar and just stay home?!  Some days it is bad enough to struggle with the ‘physical’ element of being there, with out adding all the drama!  I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I was going to need a course in “Stress Management” to be a freaking cashier.  I need a thicker skin and I need to toughen up and learn to just roll with the punches!  I have a hard time with blatant rudeness.  Tend to take it personally.  Tend to let it get to me.  I am going to make a list here of just a few of the types of people I had to deal with yesterday.  First allow me a ‘disclaimer’ stating that I am not prejudice against any race, breed, color or gender.  America started out being the ‘melting pot’.  I understand that.  But I am also in a better position now, than ever, to be aware that the ‘melters’ are making no attempt what so ever to fit in and be a pleasant part of the American society.  Make no mistake, tho’.  It is most certainly NOT just the ‘melters’ that are offensive.  I know I will get slammed for using the term ‘melters’.  Those offended…….just suck it up and reread this paragraph and know that it is just my style to create a term for everything and everyone!  It’s the way I roll and if you don’t like it….take a hike!

1.  Oriental folks.  Men or women.  It is my observation that 90% of them either feel animosity towards working women, women in general or just people in general that are beneath them. (ie…a lowly cashier).  Case in point, the Asian woman that was literally screaming at me because I was not quick enough in my quick check lane to find prices on 3 (yes three) things that she brought to the register with no tags attached.  1st of all (which I DID eventually point out) the sign says “20 Items or Less”  NOT “quick”.  No where on the sign does it say ‘quick’.  She had about 30 items, but whatever.  Point is I told her that she could tell me what the price was and I could enter it manually or I could call for price checks which would take 10-20 minutes. She wanted price checks.  SO…I called for someone to run all over the store and find her items WITH tags on them so we could do it her way.  It was busy so it was about 5 minutes before someone could even come to see what I needed.  Anyway, before the CSM got back with said items, she started ranting that she was in a hurry, HURRY, HURRY!!!!!  And WHAT was the problem!!  She wanted to just forget it and check out without the items.  After listening to her rant and spew her rudeness for about 15 minutes…….I (gently) refused to cash her out.  I told her that the CSM should be back any moment and that since they were most likely almost done, I would not make their trip a waste of time.  Her response????  She reached into one of her bags and threw her Kumquats at me!  Yes…..it is true…..!  Short of reaching over and squeezing her little neck till she squeaked, I totalled her out.  Enough already!

2.  Hispanic men.  I would really like to be more informed on what particular countries they come from because some of them are so polite and nice (to me and their wives) and some of them are all macho and mean.  It has to be a difference between the Mexican, El Salvador, Honduras cultures, but I have no way of telling the difference.  (As with the Asians….Viet Nam, Japan, China….few clues).  Anyway.  I get this guy that comes to my lane (just inside the door, btw) with a 2 year old in the cart (crying), comes to me and says “Watch?? Be right back!” and off he runs.  I am like, OMG!  I have a line full, the kid is screaming, I have just been impaled with Kumquats and he wants me to watch his kid?!?!  F%&* ME!!!  It’s really hard to ignore a screaming child that is only 2 feet away from you and tend to business at the same time.  This was endured for about 15 minutes.  (note to self…take Xanax bottle into work with you).

Shortly there after, a young couple (20, maybe).  Hispanic guy, Caucasian girl…7ish months pregnant, came through my line.  He had CD’s and video games and ’stuff’, along with a few food item’s.  When I gave them the total, she quietly and meekly said to him “we spent too much”.  He flew into a rage and told her (in a very loud and cocky manner) that she could just put all the f*&%ing stuff back if she wanted.  She paid as he strutted off, leaving her to push the cart.  I felt sorry for her.  Obviously the infatuation with the intriguing Hispanic hottie was a mistake.  I found myself hoping he would strut out in front of a big ass truck in the parking lot!

But wait……..there’s more!  Then there are the ones that accompany their wives and children.  They are pushing 2 carts full of food, the woman and children hustle to unload and reload the carts, whilst they stand by with their arms crossed watching.  Then, after the Food stamp debit card has been swiped and the bulk of the food paid for  only THEN does he participate by pulling out his wallet, removing a $100 bill, (that he earned ‘under the table’ {that means tax free, people}) to pay the balance and struts off to leave his woman & children to continue their struggle with the 2 carts.

I’m sorry……..but God Damn!!  Ain’t life in America just grand?!?!?!  Bring ‘em on!  Let ‘em in!  yessiree!!

I told a couple of my co-workers yesterday that I had make a very important decision.  I have decided to move back to the United States and asked them if they thought W*M was hiring there.  I thought they were gonna wet their pants!  But, shit fire!  I was half serious!  What would it take?  Where would you go?  No place.  I just need to learn to suck it up.  I don’t care who you voted for or who is in office.  This shit will never change and will only get worse.  Not even Abe Lincoln or JFK could fix this shit.

If you are still reading, I will tell you about the real highlight of my day.  It was towards the end of my day and I had had just about all I could take and still maintain my composure.  White lady & spouse.  Cart FULL in 20 Item lane.  Fine.  WhatEVer.  Had several cans each of 8 different types of canned goods.  Didn’t want them bagged.  Fine.  No problem.  She would hand me a can, tell me how many.  I would scan, hit the quantity key and hand it back to her.  After the 3rd can, she informed me that the way I was handing her can back was making things difficult for her.  WTF?!  So I said, how about I just set them up here on the counter.  She insisted that I was being difficult.  WTF?!?  So she started firing the cans at me with the quantities faster than she THOUGHT I could keep up…..but I fooled her!  (go me!) Then she starts with the produce and tells me to cram as much as possible into as few bags as I can.  I told her I’d rather not (with a smile of course) and she said to just do it.  I couldn’t.  I wouldn’t!  When I finished the first bag (UNcrammed) she thrust it back at me and told me to put more in it.  I said that I was sorry, but I was NOT going to cram her produce into the bags!  I told her she was free to pack her bags the way she liked, but that I wouldn’t do it that way.  She puts her hands on her hips and glares at me, asking how long I have worked there.  I continued scanning and ignored her.  Sooooo, she gets very loud and says “I asked you a question!!  HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED HERE?!?!?!”  I replied “3 months, why?”  She says, “Well, I have worked for W*M for over 10 years!  I guess I am out of touch with who is working ‘the front’ these days and how they are trained.”  (WTF???)  Holy Crap, people!  I was being treated this way by a ‘fellow’ employee?!?!  Heavy sigh………

When this shit just keeps coming at you………it’s a little bit difficult to even THINK about ones state of Zen!

I’m pretty sure that this post will piss alot of people off.  It is not very ‘politically correct’, I am sure.  And if it makes anyone feel better…..I am of Irish descent and I have also had a real live Irishman give me a very unreasonable ration of shit recently.  So there!  All is fair in  nationality slandering!

I could wile away the hours………doing constructive things instead of screwing things up!

After I got home last night (at 7:30) and ate supper (Chuck had actually prepared and waited for me to eat ?! WTF?!)  I decided it was time to get my blog festooned (neener) for Christmas.  As you can see, whilst reading this…..it didn’t work.

I searched for WP.org themes to download and, of course couldn’t find anything I really liked, but tried one anyway.  Followed the instructions given me by my blog designer, Jess and got it loaded.  First problem was that the right sidebar was covering up some of my entry. My entry kinda bled over the invisible line that should contain it, you see.  SOooo, I rearranged my sidebars with the intent of not having anything in my right sidebar.  In the background, where you manipulate all of this stuff it looks clean and should work.  BUT…..as you can see, the reality of it is a couple of things in my sidebar that don’t belong there and that I can not get rid of because they do not appear in the area designated for me to get rid of them in!!  I switched back to my regular theme and it’s still friggled up.

I think I got in over my head with this blog design thing.  I like to have things a certain way and be able to personalize them at will and I am just not savvy enough to do it!  Bit off more than I could chew.  In reality I am not much of a ‘pink person’ so my current blog design is a bit out of character for me.  But I thought it was pretty and a nice change and have enjoyed it.  Now I want something a bit different and don’t know how to manage that.  Mostly, at this point in time, because “pink and flowers” do not go with “Christmas” colors and stuff!  And I certainly don’t wanna attempt to bug Jess about helping me.  She has done that and is far too busy, I am sure, to take me by the hand and spell it all out any further!  She gave me perfect instructions, it’s just that I know nothing about ‘tweaking’ and ‘codes’ and stuff!!  AGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

I suppose I should go try to put everything back the way it was and just forget it!  But I am a stubborn old Yankee and not sure that I want to give up that easily.  I just want my blog to be more flexible and I am thinking that WP.org was a bad choice for the flexibility factor by someone so ‘code illiterate’.  BAH!!!

Part of it is the whole “Header” thing.  I want to be able to change my header pictures and right now, I want pictures of Susie and Dixie with their XMas attire on to put in my header, damn it!!  Mayhaps I will figure something out.  wish me luck

I’m off to play with my blog……..

I’m getting restless……..I keep thinking of all these things I need to get done and want to get done and nothing is happening!

I want to make some changes to my template, mostly geared towards Christmas I think.  Part of me simply can’t decide exactly what I want to do and part of me is afraid to mess with it!

I need to get together with Hubby about a Christmas spending budget this year.  We have not had a ‘budget’ for years!  In the past, I was always working {at a better paying job} and would usually have a Christmas Savings Acct going.  When that was gone, I’d just start using our joint credit cards until he started to whine then I’d start racking up a couple credit cards that he didn’t know I had!  Can’t do that this year.  I’m still struggling with those damn credit card payments (that he does now know about) and there is no Christmas Savings this year.  My little ol paycheck won’t count for squat so…….it’s all up to him!

He has 3 kids from his previous marriage but we don’t buy for them anymore.  They barely ever recipricate (ok, never) so I figure why bother!  They never thank us anyway.  He has 5 grandkids that we do buy for, but they all have all of their Grandparents (2 sets due to divorce & remarriage, etc.) and Great Grandparents along with the Aunt & Uncle thing going so they get plenty of gifts and such.

Christmas for me, is to focus on Terri and the kids.  She is our only child together and therefore, MY only child and they are MY only Grandchildren.  My SIL’s family is kind of hit and miss with the holiday gift giving, so they pretty much only get what Chuck and I get them (in addition to what “Santa” brings, of course) so I like to make it special.  Give them things they really want and as much as I can.  Barely 6 weeks to go and I haven’t even started yet.

I think I have let this whole back thing and this energy sucking job get the best of me and I must focus!!  Time for Christmas stuff to start happening!

Damn!  I should be getting ready for work and all I can think is that I wanna BLOG!  All feakin’ day!  Read and comment and read new folks and STUFF.  But, noOoOoooo…..gotta  go to work.  I’ll take a few minutes, tho’.

Maybe no one at W*M will notice if I don’t take a shower….I’ll stick a fresh clump of Cilantro behind my ear and who will know!?!

I have felt a bit stagnant lately about my blog.  I mean really…..all I write about is my back and W*M and my back with some wondrous Javelina Hunting thrown in.  Funny thing is, when I have ventured off the beaten path and had the audacity to write about…..sarah……shhhh…….it led to me getting some awesome new readers that are just way too fun for words.  Refreshing and entertaining and that actually give my tired old blogging brain renewed hope in climbing out of my stagnant mire!  Not that I will, mind you!  But there is always hope!

Poolie (or was it Beanie) mentioned our next get together and suggested we call it the Trollop Con.  I am bursting with ideas and want to do it NOW!  Is it too soon, guys?!?  Say it ain’t so!!

Which, BTW is one of my 2 new favorite expressions….”say it ain’t so” and “you betcha’”.  Hmmmmm, now why would little ol me pick up on those?!?!

I tend to sit in my chair and read and not always comment much, and just generally let the world of blog go by.  Enjoying most, bored with others and loving some fresh meat.  heh.  That of course makes me wonder how many people are bored with me!  My long time buddies all fly to my comments to reassure me that they are never bored with me, so I get that little rush from the fact that they still love me and that is very important to my adolescent ego!

Then there are my new reads/readers that were drawn in by politacal {shudder} views and I worry that will go away when the dust settles, so I am knuckling down, reading their wonderful blogs and attempting to absorb some of their ‘magic’ to hone my writing skills.  (God! Did I just say that?!?!  Too funny!)

But seriously, we all need ‘freshening’ up a bit from time to time.  D&C of the old Blog Roll and Google Reader as well as fresh material.  Don’t you agree?  I have also found that one needs to reach out more to the tried and true readers/buddies and keep things alive and well and fresh there, too.  Sooooooo…….that is my goal, and DAMN it!  I wanna stay home today and do that!

Alas, the truth is, I will go to work and sling groceries until my ass aches whilst trying to conjure up blog fodder as I go, only to come home too tired to do anything but read and giggle and probably not comment.  I’m totally tired of this job and my back issues taking over my life!  That along with background hubby/friend issues (local-not blog related) sucking my will to pull my head out of my ass!  NO MORE!!!  I just may check out the Vitamin aisle at work today and pick up some Centrum Silver {double shudder} and see if it helps.  Mayhaps it will kick-start my mega dose of Zoloft back into action!

I will end on this note.  A couple of my new reads are always posting the crazy things that people Google search that ultimately lead to their blogs (Plungergirl and Midlife Slices) and so I decided to be brave and uncheck the box that blocks search engines.  Just on a trial run to see if anyone comes to my blog whilst searching for anything other than Yankee baseball stuff……geez!  One of them gets searches regarding ‘vaginas and pickles’ and I am Sooooo jealous!  And this entry now has enough ‘good words’ to entice a couple of interesting searches.  Cilantro should do the trick.

And so, it is off to the shower while I leave everyone scratching their heads wondering WTF is wrong with YC this morning!  Ha!  Hopefully, when I get home (at a VERY early 6PM for a change!) you will have all left me some clues as to where my head is at this morning.  I’ll check under my pillow before I go, but methinks it may be the steroids……… See ya’s!

Well, I didn’t write my post this AM as I intended.  For some reason, I couldn’t sleep last night and was awake until after 3:30!  Arggggg!!  Then up at 6:30 as per our usual AM routine.  Damn!!  I hate that.  I laid in bed thinking too much about things that I really need to be NOT thinking about, so I got up and stared at my computer screen in my glazed daze, smoking like a damn fool.  Jeebus!  What an idiot!  Then up at 6:30 as per our usual AM routine.    Tried to go back to bed after Chuck left for work and couldn’t sleep!   Damn!!  I hate that.

Anyway, I will rely on my faithful Tylenol PM to make sure I get a good nights sleep to return to work tomorrow.  Wouldn’t want to doze off whilst slinging groceries, now would I?

About the only incident about yesterday’s visit to the Hospital for the shot was the sweet little nurse that butchered my hand while putting in the IV needle and stuff.  It was so funny.  She took my hand so gently and was saying what lovely veins I have {weird}.  But yes, i do have great veins…hands, arms…very easy access!  Well, I’m here to tell you, when she ‘inserted’ the needle, it felt like she had shoved a zucchini us my ass!!  (Sorry, but DAMN!  It HURT!) Then blood proceeded to spurt all over the bed, and her and up my arm and down my hand!  What a waste!  I could have saved a life with the blood she wasted!!  But I must say, I have very beautiful blood.  Thankfully, I don’t get to see it that often, especially in such copious quantities.  Methinks, mayhaps some handsome vampire would be delighted with my rich, ruby red offerings….  SNAP!

Naturally, today my hand is black and blue, bearing a slight resemblance to having been run over by a truck tire.  At any rate, if nothing else, it will be a ‘conversation piece’ at work tomorrow.

The shot itself is working fine.  I just hope it lasts longer this time.  The doctor (DR Elliott) told me that he will  do a 3rd one in 4 weeks if I need it, but if that doesn’t fix me up for several months, then he won’t do any more.  He doesn’t feel that the steroids are a good thing for the old body if they are not helping more.  If this series of shots does, in fact, last me for several months, then we can repeat the process.  If not, it’s surgery time.  But he did tell me NOT to let the surgeon lead me to the surgery.  He said that I have to lead HIM.  It has to be ME saying that I can’t deal with the pain any more, please do it rather than having the surgeon say, you have to do this now.  Very good advice, for sure.  I also asked him if he was familiar with this particular surgeon and he said yes.  That he seems very straight forward and capable, but advised me to ask him just how many Spinal Fusions he has done and what the results were.  He assured me that I must question him about everything and that I must trust him and have confidence in him before I proceed.  If I don’t feel comfortable with him, that I should keep looking until I find the right one.  I felt really good about having had that talk with Dr Elliott.  And I certainly appreciate his advice and input.

And so we shall see.  At least I didn’t get the Spinal Headache today, like last time.  He was very surprised that I had it, saying that they CAN happen, but are very rare.  And if it happened again this time, he will do an additional porceedure next time that will prevent it.  A ‘blood plug’, I think it’s called.  the head ache is VERY much like a severe migraine and it is caused by having spinal fluid leak from the spinal cord after the injection.  Something that is rare, but it figures that it would happen to me!  heh.  I felt a bit woozie and had the all over ‘flushing’ like before, but that was all.  Managed to get groceries, return a stooopid impulse purchase of an optical keyboard and mouse that wasn’t worth a good shit, baked some cookies (that were ) and actually did some work on a quilt.  Not bad!  But since I neglected the laundry, I hope I have clean W*M attire for work tomorrow.  Pretty sure i do, but I’ll worry about that in the AM.  Now, since yesterday was pretty much a total waste, I wish I had another day off.  But I’ve got to wait til next Tues and then Friday.  Then it’s another 5 in a row (all the 11-8 shift~pffft) but the I get Thanksgiving day and Black Friday off!!  Major Wootness!!  I get to cook a real Thanksgiving dinner (for 2, haha) and I don’t have to work the busiest shopping day of the year at W*M!!  How on earth did I get so lucky?!?!  Maybe I’ll try to go riding!  That would  (well, COULD) be heavenly.  It’s been since Feb since I last tried.

Well, I’m off to hit the Tylenol PM bottle.  All y’all have a good night!

I have been lax about sharing some of the Javelina Cantina fun with those of you that may not read my Javelina Trollop Buddies blogs. So here is a photo that I stole from my5cents, on accounta her hubby so graciously took pictures of all of us (as well as dealing with all our important nonsense )

This first one is of the 5 of us after our yummy (first) lunch at the OK Cafe.  From left to right is me, Beanie, my5cents, Rosie and Poolie.  Ain’t we just an awesome bunch?!?!  We look all sweet and oh so innocent, don’t we?!?!

But then we transformed into our true selves!  I present to you the Javelina Cantina Trollops!

Again, from left to right is “Cowgirl Trollop” (me), “Pie-Rat Trollop” (Poolie), “Grandma Trollop” (my5cents), “Queen Trollop” (Rosie)~ complete with Tiara imported from Australia I believe {waves at Hissie} and the “Flame Trollop” (Beanie).  We truly walked the streets of Tombstone inviting strange men to light our puffies {giant marshmallows} and like magic…it worked!!  Some very official looking gentlemen even took a bite!  Such a naughty town.  I dearly love it there, indeed I do!

Here is a shot I took of a church in town that Rosie attends…….look! It stands!! One day she hopes to have her own services there for all Trollops, past and future! Reverend Rosie has a nice ring to it, dontchathink??

And here is our Sweet Rosie making her debut at Six Guns! She sang several songs, but my favorite was “Cowboy, Take Me Away”. I get goose bumps just thinking about it!! She is amazing, people. Such an incredible voice and beautiful presentation!! I wish I had had my new camera so I could have recorded her!!

I was frantic just now thinking that I had lost some of my Tombstone photos, when I remembered they were on my laptop!! Thank GOD!!!

I had my second Spinal Injection today, but I’ll save that adventure for in the morning. Goodnight, Peeps!

It is SO interesting to see you in my stats all the time. What is it you are looking for? What do you want here? After all this time, surely you are bored with what you see here. No one in my little corner of the world has anything to say TO you or ABOUT you, so what is of interest to you here??? I am confused. You obviously find me despicable and yet you keep reading. Whatever! You are welcome to read. I don’t intend to block anyone. But curiosity has gotten the best of me. What is the big attraction??

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Okay, I got one thing off my chest in the previous post so now I can spew on other issues, heh.

Reading.  I have SO many books waiting to be read and I’ve been struggling through the one on my sidebar, “Heart Sick”, forEVer!  Now sure why.  I have been leaving it in my truck to have available to read during my lunch hours or at DR appointments and have been working on it for weeks and weeks!  I am finally down to the last few pages and will likely finish it today at lunch time.  It came highly recommended to me by my Lovely Daughter (who actually does book reviews here).  She does such awesome reviews and often teases me into buying even more to add to my collection of unread books!  But this time, she told me that the killer in this book made Hannibal Lector look like a school boy.  That sucked me right in!  But after reading 99% of the book, I am still waiting………Sorry, Terri.  It IS in fact a very good book, but I was expecting a big, fat juicy steak and got a veggie burger!  (my5cents will laugh the hardest at that remark )  More on that later.  As for the book, I am relieved that I am almost finished and hope that the next one I pick up will be one of those ‘hate to put it down/stay up all night reading’ kinda books.  Mayhaps I have had too much else on my mind to let this one suck me in.  That’s usually why I love to read….to get all caught up in the book and put real life issues on hold for a bit.

Now….about that big, fat juicy steak.  I am a meat eater!  Toss in a few veggies now and then and I am a happy camper, however…..I could eat meat all the time.  A thick rare steak is my 1st choice with bacon cheddar burgers coming in second, then just bring on the chicken or ribs and I’m good!  (And  yes, I am sure that is why I now suddenly have low HDLs and part of the reason for my ‘calcification of my aeorta’, blah, blah, yada, yada. whatever)  While on my recent Adventure to Texas and Tombstone, it seemed that meat was getting scarce and I found myself with incredible cravings about a week into it.  Hubby & I left on a Sunday AM and I did have a meat fix Sunday PM for dinner.  But the 2 days at the ranch, Mary Belle had cooked meatless meals and it didn’t even occur to me.  She is a wonderful cook and I scarf up anything and everything that she whips up.  Just a coincidence that the meals were meatless.  So on to Tombstone, and while I picked up a Bacon Cheddar Burger at a Cracker Barrel in El Paso on Wed about noonish I guess it didn’t hold me over very well.  Most of you know that our dear Poolie is a vegetarian and I respect that and have no problem what-so-ever with it.  When she & Beanie & I met up in Benson to pick up some groceries to take on to Casa-Rosie’s I was actually looking forward to trying the veggie burgers we picked up!  (and they weren’t half bad!)  And God knows we had protien. Huge baked potatoes smothered in cheese and broccoli.  Scrambled eggs and cheese.  And chocolate.  And rice krispie treats.  And chips.  All the important stuff!  We ate very well!  ;)  But come Friday, Terri T and I headed to town to do the shopping thing and menus posted in the windows of various eating establishments kept catching my eye.  There were several times that Terri had to back track and fetch me from the various restaurant windows, where I was standing and drooling whilst looking at the Rib Eye Steaks on their menus, LOL.  It didn’t take her long to figure out that I was in serious need of a ‘hunk of meat’ and we had some good laughs over that!  Thankfully, that night over dinner at Six Guns (where Rosie made her singing debut) I indulged in a big ass, rare Rib Eye that was simply to die for!

So, I must dash off to work!  The W*M customers are just waiting for me and my winning smile!!  (gag)

Don’t even freakin’ read this if you don’t wanna see one more person defend the Governor of the greatest state in the Union!

Ya know……..some of the the same people that elected a man that can’t gather his thoughts and complete a sentence without his teleprompter {oh, I forgot……he was tired. poor baby} are STILL bad-mouthing Sarah. No, guys…..I’m not necessarily talking about this blogosphere. It’s everywhere and I’m so tired of it. Of course I’m the one that keeps going to the blogs of Anti-Sarahites and reading their shit. {no one on my blogroll, BTW. “outside sources”}  Some of you will be glad to know that these people are Alaskans that have an agenda against her. I can’t believe how incredibly stupid that these people actually feel the way that they do.  But it takes all kinds and everyone is entitled, blah, blah, yada, yada.  I started to call them stupid, but I crossed it out, see??  That’s because it is incedibly ignorant of me to call people stupid when they are just lost in the clouds and can’t help themselves.  Neither can I.  It’s good that Alaska has her back.  They need her.  Some of them just don’t realize it.  But some of them do.  Like the hard working family man and his wife, with 5 children to raise in that unique environment.  Ask him.  Oh, dear God!!  I must stop!!  Just know that she will be back and she will be a force to be reckoned with.  And we will all be glad of it.  Y’all can’t make her crawl in a hole and die.  She’ll just become tougher and stronger and better, and when she comes back………will we ever need her then!

There.  I feel better and so I shall post this and write a ‘regular’ post separately.