Sometimes I get a phrase stuck in my head, and I use it continually.. almost to the point of annoying myself..
Its kinda rare, the last one I remember doing was ducky and that was back in high school.

Believe it or not, I have two now..
one being "frankly" the other being.. "which of course"..
Frankly, its ticking me off, which of course is something I want to rid myself of quickly..

somehow I don't think writing this one down is going to work..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 5:46 AM

Ok.. its five am, and im up.. what's with that?
had yet another loud dream. Man.. Id do something about it, but often they are quite intriguing... like reading a good book.

I only have three parts to this dream. I KNOW the all wind around and connect some how, but im not quite sure how.

The first part, I was cleaning my room.. (yup.. my room will always connotate the bedroom of the house I grew up in) and I looked out the window.. My current kitties Em and Ol were out there on the grass waiting for me to open the window so they could come in..

The next part, I was at a party with a guy. We had left the function, and were walking around outside.. He was confiding to me that he was involved in something he could not get out of. and while he never officially killed anyone, people had been killed on his behalf and bodies were burried We were walking on grass, but there was a bog/marsh/ocean type area near us.

Lastly, and hte part that woke me up, I and a compainion arrived at a station that had a telescope. It was on a dock in the marsh/bog/ocean area.. I looked in it, and saw the earth. I knew that it wasn't right, so I told the person with me, and he looked in it. he then started adjusting the telescope, and pointing it higher and higher up on the horizon.eventually he had to be on his knees to look in the lens.. I noticed at that point just how long his hair was. The telescope was then pointing directly up in the air... and of course, fell off its hindges, and proceeded to roll into the ocean/bog/marsh. He tried to stop it, and I guess I took off my shoes to wade in to help, but he got it, and brought it back up onto the platform with some flourish. which knocked my shoe into the water. I guess I took my clothes off to go swimming to get the shoe, because the currents were strong and were pulling it away quickly, but my compainion jumped into a speed boat (where did that come from??) and went after it. The wake of the boat caused the little piece of something I was sitting on to start slowly sinking.. I tried to gather the clothes up to keep them from floating away.. I heard my friend yelling, and he had gotten my shoe, but he was also sinking into the water. I was going to get off my platform and walk back to safty, but he yelled out not to.. that it wasn't safe, that I could step on something.. and the dream me connected it with the conversation of burried bodies, and the last thing I wanted to do was to step on a corpse... which of course freaked me out so much I woke up..

and I couldn't go back to sleep.

so here I am..

Aren't you glad?

I know you are.
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 5:44 AM

day one of unemployment..

Um.. Feels kinda like a sick day. Im currious what is going on 'at work'. Sigh. Monday Im going for unemployment.. That's always fun, getting paid to sit around at home.. I can live with that. I have a few beads on some work.. although Im not in that much of a hurry to get it.. I so want THE COMPANY to pay for my full unemployment compensation..

Wil Wheaton has been auctioning off some stuff at ebay.. Im totally surprised that autographed items of his would go for two and three hundred dollars.. but then again I am totally clueless when it comes to autographs.

One good thing about not having to work, I get to cook.. Im making lasagna tonight.. with garlic bread.. its cooking right now and smells very good. I also cleaned out the fridge. Rearranged the shelves.. cleaned up the kitchen a little.. and yet, I did it all from the comfort of my jammies.. (eeek.. did I just admit that??)

Also, Adam made my day this morning. I emailed him last night asking for a job.. Ok.. for those who don't know.. Adam and Donna created Neopets.com Adam has a twisted sence of humor, and loves asparagus. While Christmas shopping this year, I found some ceramic asparagus and sent it out to him. This morning he or someone put the asparagus in front of their webcam..

I've also been catching up on some stuff I have wanted to watch on Tv.. Right now Im watching Muppets take Manhatten and its just about over.. guess that means I'll have to catch up on my exercise after this.. (noooooooooooooo.. giggle)

I think my project for monday will be a redo of this site.. Should clean up all the excess files on my server too.. I think THAT would be a huge project though.. (feels overwhelmed at the thought)

Well.. time to put the cheese on the lasagna.. :)
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 4:53 PM

Oh if only I had known..

see this morning, I was yet another statistic.. I have been laid off from my job.. Give me a few days to decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 3:29 PM

Well the end of this work day is coming to a close.. This is the tough part of the day where you have finished up your projects, but you don't want to start anything new cause your leaving in 8 minutes.. (or 10 or 12.. but you know what I mean)

I was thinking today that I should dig out my "novels" and work on them some more.. I write stories, but I have a real hard time doing anything bad to my charaters.. lol.. i know i know.. with out a conflict, there isn't much of a story.. I have two unfinished works at the moment.. One took a decidely wrong turn in the third chapter... time line wise, and I didn't have the patience to fix it.. the other just stopped 'talking' to me. See.. that's how I write my stories.. The charaters 'talk' to me and explain what happened in their lives so I can write it down.. I really liked that second story.. it was progressing nicely. I should re-read it and see what happens.. They are burried in my computer at home somewhere.. hey.. I could stick them in a blogg.. so when I felt inspired to write I could write here..

Only problem with that is this new publishing policy blog has... man that is totally annoying. But hey.. its free.. so Im not going to complain.:)

ok well maybe im going to complain, but not very loudly..

I also have to stop by my parents house after work.. My dad did something to my mom's computer... yet again.... Its why they have his and hers computers now.. But I have a feeling that this one isn't really his fault.. he said the modem isn't responding, so they probably had a power surge, and she'll need to get yet another modem. They have had THE worst luck when it comes to computers of anyone Ive ever known. I feel kinda bad for them.. and it doesn't help that dad keeps exploring in places he shouldn't.. but that's just his curious nature.. Which I got from him, along with his toes..

toes you say? Yup.. See a while back when dad was in the hospital, his feet came out from underneith the sheet one day when he was napping.. To pass the time I spent time looking at his feet, and his toes look VERY much like my toes.. which was very surprising to me since I think my feet are very darn cute..

Actually genetics run quite strongly in my family. I look a LOT like my dad, and my uncle, and one of my uncle's daughters. I also met one of my dad's sisters while he was in the hospital too. See when I was little there was a big todo when my father's parents died.. and I never met two of his sisters. One commited suiside, and the other I met a few years ago. I was absolutely floored when I saw her because she looks like if my other two aunts had been put in a blender and created her.. it was freaky..

Well.. its now 5pm.. and im expected at my parents house.. :)

c u real soon..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 5:01 PM

Hmmmmm, welcome you are! Your fortune of today here is:

Your direction in life will change without your noticing.
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 12:45 PM

Btw.. For you spammers out there.. I don't want my breasts to be bigger, I don't have a penis, and for goodness sakes, I DO NOT WANT A NEW CELL PHONE!!!!!
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 11:35 AM

I have Tivo and it recorded for me one of the cutest things Ive seen in a really long time.. Unfortunately it was produced by Rumpus, which has gone out of business, so I can't link you to any good sites.. but there was this review..

A major milestone on the Internet stage was marked this Easter Sunday 2000 when Rumpus premiered the animated Herschel Hopper, New York Rabbit!The 38-minute Flash animated movie -- the first Web original movie for kids -- stars a varied cast of voices including Jason Priestley, Brendan Sexton III, former NY Mayor Ed Koch and famed columnist Liz Smith. Based on characters and story by Schwarz,
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:53 AM

Im thinking I need a new layout.. in fact, I think I need a new lay out for my entire site.. now.. the question would be, do I use the same graphics for each and every page ever, or stick with the multitude of graphics which Ive encorporated into my site.. hum... the other question being where on earth do I do this remodling.. do I tear the whole thing down and start fresh.. oh the possibilities..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:27 AM

Was reading FBK this morning (see link on left) and found this link. You so have to love people's creativity..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 9:55 AM

I am EVER so bored at work these days.. I mean there is stuff to do and it needs to get done, but its the same old same old stuff.. I could probably do it in my sleep.. not that they would let me here.. and not that Id want to risk falling asleep around these people.. who knows what horrid things they would do to me while I slept.. probably draw a mustache on me and call me charlie.. :)

Im having fun poking through other people's bloggs lately... Some that have caught my attention Ive listed here.. I so need to make a webpage for me of links of pages to visit on a daily basis.. I will get to that one of these days.. but I digress.. Me.. poking.. and Ive come to realize that either I have an incredible luck or skill or I am being lead, but I have run into a large number of bloggs where the writer has a strong enough love of God to write about Him or their devotion to Him. I have to say its quite heart warming..

I also have to note that after weeks of feeling pretty darn good physically, my stomach has decided to pair up with my headache to work on me to take a few days off from work.. at this point I am winning, but they seem to be trying to talk my lungs into joining in the fight.

On a much lighter and cooler note.. I have a new favorite beverage.. "Mad River Red Tea".. Its pretty darn good stuff.. Unfortunately I can't find it in most shops.. but I went to one place where I do get it and asked if they would order me a case of the stuff.. Gonna try and make that a regular occurance.. get a case a month or something..

Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 2:43 PM

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are
members of a weird religious cult?
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 9:19 AM