Another name to add to the Wall of Shame

Really a quick post since I literally have to be out the door in like five minutes. Have a new name to add to the wall of shame. We all know that once I get to the point of referring to any man by a character nickname then it's all downhill from there. Mr. Paralysis from Analysis is the new addition. Funny thing about this particular guy is that I really liked him even though he didn't work at trying to even establish a baseline friendship. While the final chapter to the book will be the guy whose imperfections I can live with while he lives with mine...all of the dates and guys that I like who didn't like me; the rejects and those who rejected me are just as interesting. I'm glad to have met them all since many would believe I've led this simple, genteel life. LOL. I'm truly on a great adventure! I kind of feel like Aretha Franklin in her autobiography only I haven't slept with nearly as many men as she and I don't have any singing talent. O.K. will elaborate later or Monday. Have plans today as well as tomorrow so that's good. Looks like a really nice start to the first full day of spring. Later.

Winter No More

I can't believe this is the official last day of winter already. I needed more snow! It's kind of ironic that Spring starts tomorrow at 7:44am and it will be the coldest day of the week. LOL. It's late so this will be a short post as usual. It was a good day. I went to my volunteer gig and enjoyed it. Called to follow up on sponsorships as well as called for price quotes on a huge print job that will be upcoming. It's a nice office so I'm glad that my help is needed. Next week they will have me following up with sponsor phone calls. Good deal. Later in the evening I had a "bar date". You know those dates where a guy will buy you a drink to gauge if he would go out with you on a real date. LOL. I had a good time and he did ask me out for a real date. The funny thing was that while we were talking and drinking at the bar, other guys were checking me out! I know it's not all in my mind. That was interesting. I must say that I did feel pretty darn cute today. O.K. better go. Want to see the President on Leno. I hope his little slip up about the Special Olympics isn't blown up into something. People harp on wording too much sometimes. More tomorrow. Happy Spring in advance! Can't wait until Easter to get some Marshmallow Peeps.

Just a Walk in the Park

Headed out to walk in a few minutes. Body slightly sore but for the most part feeling fine. Tomorrow is an "off" day so that I can relax a bit...cool beans. Later I start volunteering at my gig. Looking forward to it. Better get going. More when I get back and before I leave again.

Insomnia...Round 2

Still awake. Getting frustrated with this not sleeping thing. I'm going to look up some more homeopathic sleeping remedies later. Going to try the old warm milk and honey trick tomorrow.

Forgot to add on Sunday that I had a fabulous time at the party on Saturday. Even got out on the dance floor and some guy even came up and started dancing with me and flirting with me. LOL. Yup...I've still got it and don't you forget it!

OK. going to try this sleeping thing one more time.

Can't Sleep...Again

I am wide awake. What the fudge?!? Tossed and turned for an hour before deciding to get up and turn on the computer. I've been taking melatonin for a spell but it doesn't seem to be helping. I think I'm going to try kava kava instead. At least no headaches yet so that's always good. I'd rather be not sleepy than to have the migraines. Wish there was somebody to talk to on night's like this. Well...technically I can talk to myself but that's no fun in the middle of the night. LOL. I am going to attempt to fall asleep again and let's see what happens since I'm sure staring at a bright glaring screen isn't helping anything. More later.

A.I.G. and Arborside?

Are they kidding? Is A.I.G. trying to pull an early April Fool's Day joke on all of us? They can't be serious in thinking it's o.k. to dole out our tax paying dollars to give bonus money out. Yet that's exactly what they did today! How dare they? As Elijah Cummings said this morning...it's like they took the government bailout money and turned around to slap us all in the face with it! SHAME ON A.I.G. I don't care about the "contractual bound" issues that they say requires them to pay out bonus amounts ranging from $1,000 to 6.5 million dollars. Gee...lets see, what would all those folks do if they didn't get their bonus money? Sue? Then let them spend the money they have now to do just that. It's malarkey for them to say they have to and I must say that I was slightly disappointed with Obama's camp conceding a bit that AIG has to pay it out. Cummings is right...where the hell are these executives going? Nowhere. They got us into this mess with their greed and now it's another injustice to all of us that they still have their jobs and are getting taxpayer dollars to continue funding their personal lives. Absolutely ridiculous. AIG gets 170 Billion dollars so that they can dole out 165 million in bonus money. Just is not right but that's how the world goes huh. I hope those who got more than 50K in bonus money choke on it. Really pisses me off. The rich always get richer but rarely wiser. I'm not against people who work hard making money but many are never humble enough to remember there is so much suffering in this world where some of that money can help. How much does one need to live?

On a separate non-related news story...Arborside? I didn't know there was a word for basically tree abuse. Somebody is cutting trees down in Inwood Park. Perhaps its someone who doesn't have a place to live and needs firewood. Gee..where are the high money rollers at AIG to help someone stay warm and safe??? Goodnight.

OK God...I'm Listening

You know...just when I want to be really down on myself, the big guy upstairs reminds me in the most unique ways that I am not forgotten while temporarily here on Earth. OK God..I'm listening! Weekends so far have been the proverbial thorn in my side but today was really interesting. I toggle back and forth from 9 to 9:30 since I don't have DVR or anything. I am a devoted CBS Sunday morning "disciple" however it also conflicts with Joel Olsteen's inspirational message. This morning, I changed the channel exactly at the moment Joel said " you are not forgotten". It's like God knew I needed to hear that this morning. I literally told Evan on Friday (to paraphrase), I can now accept that I will be alone on the companionship front since I seem to be the common denominator in every scenario. Early this afternoon I got not one but two differing emails where the three of us had our alma mater in common. Talk about six degrees of separation. One guy I worked with over ten years ago...didn't even know he remembered me. The other, someone who I may have indirectly worked with in my old traffic and continuity days. He too went to my undergrad school. We talked on the phone for like two hours. It felt nice to talk to a human being on a weekend. Then I checked email and Lori sent me a really cute ecard sending me a smile. All of these "God hits" helped lift me today. While I haven't been feeling "rock bottom" I am not exactly at my high point these days. I know the big guy is reminding me that I matter and that a window will open up somewhere. Just pray that there are no problems with unemployment insurance and I will be ok. Don't want the messes that I have heard from other people where employers are basically being asses and creating mess for former employees when it isn't justified all to save a greedy buck. I'm listening. Going to remember to keep myself open on all fronts from career to personal to spiritual roads. I really want to become fluent in Spanish but lately I have also been thinking about Italian also. Better get on the linguistics. OK...better sign off so that I don't jinx the good karma. Thanks God! I'm going to keep praying.