Happy New Year

 

 

lots of reflection today --

 

 

 

I've been the working Diva today -- got up at 5:30 and started laundry -- loaded the long arm with a quilt -- did a spot of tidying in my sewing space ... (finished two crib quilts during last night's laundry binge) .. then I went to the office --- 'tis W2 and 1099 Season!

 

And garbage season -- who knew one small office could generate so much trash!  I had a large pile of cardboard in the truck -- finally got it to the recycling container -- then I managed to fill one of the office recycling containers, the shredding container (and another box) and two bags of real trash.  wth. 

 

I'm home with work -- and the long arm awaits me and I bet (with $$$) there is more laundry down there ... trying to keep ahead of it this winter....

 

 

Reflections

It's been a tough week on 3rd Street -- meetings, meetings, year end, year end prepping (or attempting to prep) ... and the death of clients, friends and facebook family members ...

Life has a way of changing perspective -- just flipping a switch ...

I was at a retirement gig yesterday -- it was a switch flipper moment.


Live well. 
It is all that matters.




 

so ..

the craziness continues
just when I think I've got it figured out .... in comes another

curveball


on the flip side -- most traces of Christmas have been removed from the office -- my truck is full of flattened cardboard for recycling.  I made it a retirement gig at the PUC -- retiring director, my third retirement in a week -- have to admit the gypfoods cake is pretty darn tasty.

I think all of our payrolls are done.  will be interesting to see how high the $$$'s come out to be.

rambling, rambling, rambling
or
babbling, babbling, babbling

better than

whining, whining, whining

 

less cynical

  Hopefully I am less cynical today. 

  Although ranting can be healthy.  Sometimes.  Not sure about yesterday's rant.

  Enough. 

  The great paper shuffle for 2017 has begun on 3rd street.  Individual client packets went out yesterday -- expensive project.  When the post office has to "order in" the stamps.  good grief.  And the product, the stuffing, the handling -- argh -- it's a lot of whoopty woo.

  Project of the day yesterday -- order tires for my truck.  Monday or Tuesday of next week -- traction will be better.  Not as expensive as I thought. 

  Project of the day today -- not sure yet.


 

 

death

  another celebrity died.

  I refuse to fall into that death trap.

  Notice that all of us hard working peeps seem to live a long life.  Must be the work eh?  or the lack of time to eat, drink, smoke, inhale and be merry ... let alone travel the world and have peeps jumping when we snap our fingers. 

  Granted that last statement doesn't apply to all -- but really ... really .....

  I'm sticking to the hard work theory -- just a bit less of it.




rant over -- back to being Tuesday!


ps:

okay I was so busy ranting over celebrity death .... and poof -- just found out a client died yesterday .... life is short peeps ... life is short ...



 

Marcy and I or Me and Marcy

 

I made it over the hill this morning -- in one piece ... I truly thought it would be a skating rink and was pleasantly surprised ... going back up won't be difficult .. a lot of tree branches are down.  Between the driving rain (yes, driving rain) and the wind ... then ice when it froze ....

 

 

So I was doing my morning reading ... and ran across this on the Herald's website ... it's retiring week at the Government Center -- I presented the plaque to Marcy in Environmental Health -- 31 years ...

I don't remember the joke but it must have been good ...

 

 

This was pre-haircut -- the haircut wizard waved his magic wand and the shaggy / out of control curly look is gone ... ... now if he good do the same for the double chin ....

M
 

Merry Merry

ah ... Christmas --

Sometimes we are all so busy running around getting ready for the Holiday, celebrating the Holiday and resting up from the chaos of the Holiday we forget the reason for the Holiday ...

All part of our excessive society --

It was a very calm day on Daisy Lane --

I overslept -- egads 7:30 -- probably should not have started watch the John Wayne movie "The Cowboys" at 10:00pm ... seemed like the thing to do at the time  --  and it is an old favorite ...

The presents got unwrapped and the mess tossed out -- I wrapped. 

Lunch/Dinner/Noon eats happened and dishes got washed and put away after a bit of rest the tasty apple pecan pie was devoured ... and Auntie Joanne was delivered back to her apartment building.

Leftovers appeared for the evening meal (including the pie) ... I'm not a pie fan but it must have been tasty -- the rest of the group ate it ...

Laundry got done -- a spot of sewing got done ...

The weather is weird -- rain, lots of rain -- which means ice, lots of ice by morning.  WTH.



So for the last 6 days of 2016 I have a couple of projects ...

1.  get the stuff buttoned up at the office.
2.  get the new years resolutions documented.
3.  get tires on the truck
4.  get a plan of attack down for Jan, Feb, Mar & April


so --