Living Loving Maid

My favorite Led Zeppelin!!! Makes me want to learn to play the drums and rock out.

My second fave is - been a long time since I rock and roll. That is an excellent one as well.

Trying to get motivated to work tonite, but.....

I thought I would goof on You Tube a bit, and then I thought I would listen to some good music and that would motivate me to work. However, it is 9 pm and I am still goofing on You Tube and enjoying AC/DC.

For those about to rock - we salute you!!! Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll (sans drugs but sub a gin and tonic or a Killian's Irish Red).

Going to bed at 1:30 is not cool

Came back to Providence, RI yesterday and was supposed to depart Charlotte at 7:50. When we arrived, our delay was expected to be 8:30 and ended up being 8:40. Not too bad on the surface. The bad part was, once we got to the runway, there were bad storms in the area and we could not take off. We sat through a thunderstorm and 3 or 4 deluges of rain before the takeoff window could be opened.

After taxing out about 9 pm, we had to stop as all departures had been closed. I knew we were in real trouble when at 9:45 they rolled out the beverage cart. There was such a backlog, that we ended up taking off at 11 pm and arrived at 12:45 am. By the time we got to the hotel and checked in, I got into bed around 1:30 am.

I have a roaring headache today, and I can't wait to be done for the day and collapse after dinner. I thought it was bad enough when I fell asleep sitting up in the chair Friday night at 9 pm because I was so exhaused. I did manage to doze off after takeoff and woke up about 12:30 this morning. However, it was not terribly restful sleep but I guess it was better than nothing.

Hope your Sunday/Monday was better than mine!

TWIA vs. TWIB

For many years, I followed the Atlanta Braves. I began watching with my dad when I was 13. It was 1982, and the Braves had won their first 13 or 14 games to start the season. I was hooked. It was more father/daughter sports to add to the golf, football, and basketball that we already watched together. There used to be this show, and it's probably still on cable somewhere, called This Week in Baseball or TWIB for short. It was a 30 min highlight show with all of the great highlights, and I used to watch it on Saturdays. It was a cool show and the narrator was so into it.

So lately I have been attending an hour webcast on Wednesday afternoons called This Week in Accounting. I put it on my outlook calendar this week as TWIA, and it made me think of TWIB. It brings all us pocket protector accounting geek types up on recent changes to accounting. Last week, it was all about how you account for potential losses. Fun geek stuff, and I get one hour of CPE that is free!

I am in Providence, RI again this week and next. At least I get to fly home on Friday for the weekend. Jim is not a happy camper this week. He is already planning Friday night dinner of scallops for me. He does not like them, but he likes cooking for me and fixing stuff I like. He makes the bay scallops (small ones) and puts them in the mushroom caps topped with cheese and bakes in the oven. That is just the appetizer as he grills the larger sea scallops on the grill after marinating them overnight. Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not missing - just swamped

I haven't posted in a week or so and just wanted to say hi since I have been totally swamped. I had a very busy week last week and managed to take Friday off to go to Carowinds with my mom, Quincy, and a good friend's little boy that plays with Quincy when she comes to Columbia. Qbert and Ben came up with mom for the day and we sweltered at Carowinds but had a great time. Fortunately, it was not humid and we could get relief in the shade!

After that, we went to Columbia for the weekend for a family weekend for my sister's birthday. I don't like that she is now 36. That means I am really 39 :(. Guess there is only one alternative and that one is not viable - seriously. We had so much fun. Quincy woke me up twice Sunday morning. The first 7 am wakeup was not successful, so at 7:30, she came back in the room and said Mafa - come play with me! So I got up. 20 minutes later we're having breakfast and she says, "Mafa, are you going to church wif me?" How can I say no to that?

So I somehow managed to get myself presentable for a 9 am service. Meg played before the service, and it was nice to go and hear her play. Mom, Qbert, and I went and I sat with Quincy and parented her during the service. I was "it" all weekend as far as Quincy was concerned. She wanted to play with me the whole time. Meg says she loves me so much. She was really good during the service and wrote her letters and numbers and worked the letter game on the children's bulletin. Then, when the sermon started, sweet thing cuddled up to me and hugged on me for a good 15 minutes. How sweet. That was definitely worth all of the running around I had to do to get ready for church and finishing my makeup in the car to be on time!

We had a great time but it was nice to come home at a decent time on Sunday. I have worked two 10 hour days the past two days and today is shaping up to be the same. I worked out Monday nite to get rid of the stress and it was great. However, last night at 8 pm, I realized I was just too tired and took a break. Will try to be motivated again tonite and spend an hour and fifteen de-stressing!

Dinner and a Movie

So Friday afternoon, Jim went to the store and got all of the ingrediants to make something I like but don't have often - eggplant parmesean. The recipie he used was really good, but it should have a caution - will make more food than you need warning on it. All of the food network stuff he tries is really good, but makes too much food. Plus, he said the 20 min. preparation time was grossly underestimated.

He made everything from scratch Saturday nite for dinner. I now have enough to have eggplant parmesean every day for a month as it made a ton of food. I think he could do the same thing and just fry up the breaded eggplant and sprinkle cheese on it and cook it in the oven and I would be happy. As it stands now, I have a ton of food to reheat and eat or feel guilty for throwing it away.

After he got the dish ready, we watched a movie that he DVRd the other day - Knocked Up (with Katherine Heigl and some guy I had never seen). It is a comedy, but I just didn't get that much out of it except movie bonding time with Jim after a delicious and lovingly prepared dinner.

I kept waiting for the movie to be uplifting in some way, but I think it lost me at the 50th time they dropped the "F" bomb. I am exaggerating, but it was terribly overused. I told him yesterday I wish the movie had been better, but the company and the dinner were the best. I didn't expect anything morally relevant with the Knocked Up title, but at least if he had won a lot of money during the vegas trip it would have added something more to the so-called plot.