Happy Joy Joy.. It's Friday. Before I went to sleep last night, the weather guy told me that there might be snow on the ground when I woke up this morning. Thankfully, he was wrong. But I think it's gonna do that today a little bit. Bleah. I am NOT READY for that yet. Please.. tell me again why I live where the snow is.

I have no TV taste. Almost every show I like is on the verge of cancellation, it seems. Well, except The Office. It makes me laugh and laugh, perhaps because I work in an office. Because I don't - and never have - worked in a restaurant, this movie didn't make me laugh at all. I've never seen anything quite as dumb. Literally, 90 minutes of jokes about boy-naughty-bits, and not funny jokes at that. Swing and a Netflix-Miss on that. Oh well.

Gathering at the H-household tonight, dinner and merriment tomorrow night, plus some running around in between equals the upcoming weekend. I'm starting to get a little jazzed about christmas shopping and all that hoo-ha. Before all that begins, though, I have to start and finish today. Onward! Ciao, kids. Have a good one.

We tossed back a couple of adult beverages after work, because sometimes you just have to do that. I came home and fell asleep almost instantly - at about 9:30. IssyCat woke up at 3:00, wanting to be fed and he wasn't gonna take no for an answer, so I was a good kitty-mom and fed him. When the alarm went off at 4:40 he was just settling down to sleep again, so I got to wake HIM up. Heh. I win, my feline friend.

Awww - Get well soon, Coach!

No politics on cheleblog. Rumsfeld is stepping down. And that's all I have to say about that.

No religion on cheleblog, either. But what the hell is this? I don't want to go to that church.

Well, geez. Here I thought he was gonna marry me next. You're breaking my heart, Jeff Gordon.

The week is plodding along.. I've been waking up every morning thinking "is it Friday yet?", which isn't necessarily a good sign. Another early morning meeting, and then more general chaos of the day, although less so now that most of the moving stuff is done. I owe one of the guys at work some chocolate chip cookies (yes, I will resort to bribery sometimes to get PBX problems resolved!), so there will be more baking tonight, and a little laundry time thrown in there as well. Time to get it all underway, so I will bid you a fond farewell. Ciao. TiAmo.

Honestly, I haven't even clicked over yet to see who won the elections here. I want to turn on the TV and savor the lack of campaign ads. I want to answer the phone and know that it won't be recorded messages from candidates. Republican, Democrat, red state, blue state... I just want this to be done. Go back to politics as usual.

And now that I have clicked over it's not even surprising. The Dems took back control of the house, which is what we were all expecting.

They also report that Democrats took the majority of governorships, except here, where Republican incumbent Tim Pawlenty won.

(Did you notice how this whole entry breaks the "no politics on cheleblog" rule?)

These were three issue-races that I was keeping an eye on.. and South Dakota rejected the near total abortion ban, Arizona rejected the gay marriage ban, and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research.

And just because I'm nutty for trivia like this - here's why we vote on a Tuesday in November instead of May or August or Saturday.

On to more important news. My Minnesota Wild lost, but we still lead our division at 10-4-0. Yay!

I'm tired of hearing about this girl and her soon to be ex, and they should just go away now.

Dan Rather is now 106 year old, and is defending a story that was PROVEN wrong. Pssst, Dan. Time to retire now.

I saw the video clip of Faith Hill having her little freakout. I dunno - it looked pretty real to me.

Finally, wow - Genesis is going to tour again. Hello, memories from college days.

There you go - much news packed into one informative entry! Now I've gotta go get ready for the day of one million meetings. Ciao, Bellas.

Oh, the simple pleasure of having coffee upon first waking up. I didn't get to have any yesterday, and I wasn't right all day. Aaaaah. Much better. And no headache.

The simple pleasure last night was gnocchi for dinner. Even though they were store bought and not handmade, they were still pretty good. Doctored up a little sauce, too, had some bread and some cheese.. it was an excellent comfort-food meal.

Thank God it's Election Day. I don't even care who wins and who loses any more. I'm sick of the campaigning, sick of the ads on TV, sick of the phone calls (whatever happened to that "do not call" thing, anyway? I got a recorded message from this guy yesterday reminding me to vote! Let's just be done.

Let me do a little bit of the happy-dancing - just look at how my Minnesota Wild are doing. In case this changes down the road - because it's a live stats page - we're numero uno in our division. (you may not be able to see that today. live journal has been broken a lot lately.)

Yay Kirstie Alley! I love her attitude. And fat or thin, she's pretty.

I think I will start on the day now. I have early early meetings through the rest of this week. I wish you a bright and shiny day (whatever that means), and I will talk to you tomorrow. Ciao.

Back again after the weekend, and I even got to sleep in a little bit this morning. So in case you didn't go to live journal to keep up with events, I'll give you the lowdown here.

Friday night we watched Of Mice and Men which was good, yet horribly upsetting. BUT, we also had pizza and I got to curl up on the couch with blankets which made the whole day much much better, really.

Saturday I started cleaning up the place and ran about a zillion errands. CuzGirl and I went to a little italian place (so small it doesn't even have a website, evidently) for dinner and general girl time.

Sunday was the big cleaning in earnest. NOW most everything smells good and is very shiny. I say most everything because just as I was finishing up - around 2:00 - the electricity went out. Again. Because, you know, on a clear bright sunny day with no wind or rain or any kind of bad weather to speak of, it's NORMAL for the power to just go out. And when the power goes out here, it's really strange. My building must be on two separate grids, because sometimes I don't lose everything. Yesterday the laundry room and bathroom were still on - I had one outlet in the kitchen that worked (but not the one that the fridge is on, unfortunately) - and nothing at all in the living room or bedroom. Strange. I took myself over to Target to do a little shopping and to wait for the power to come back. It finally did. Last night I chatted with il ragazz' for a long long time, and then I went to sleep.

I got to sleep in this morning because I have a physical this morning. Because I can't eat or drink anything, I am, of course, starving. Heh. I never eat in the morning, but today I want to. Go figure. The worst is no coffee.. It's a bad addiction, I'm thinking. After work there is much knitting to be done. I've only done a little bit since last time, I'm ashamed to say.

And so there you have it! Another few rotations of the earth, and more things accomplished. Have a good day, peeps, and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Ciao.

I think I'll be doing my weekend stuff on il journal di live (made up italian word.. lol). Go visit there, please!

The day was not quite as long as I thought it would be, because girls' night consisted only of dinner and not theater too. We were all fine with that. We met here, and walked around and looked at the cool little shops and then had some yummy mexican food. Stopped for a couple errands on the way home and decided that it would be a good idea to crawl into bed early. At 9:30 chele was sleeping.

Which means that at 4:00 this morning, chele was wide awake! It's actually kind of nice to be up early sometimes. I played on the internet, read some news, drank my coffee. It's good to have a little me-time before the chaos of the day begins. Once I get to work, the day is no longer mine. I joked with a co-worker yesterday that I get a lot of "walk-in traffic" in my office. When I'm actually at my desk and not on the phone (two rare occurences), people take advantage of it. I've been there longer than about 90% of the folks who work there now, so I know where everything is, or where to get it, or where I THINK you can get it, or what you can get INSTEAD of that. Most of the time I'm happy to help.. but sometimes I get rather overwhelmed by it all. When the weekend comes I feel like I've earned it.

Speaking of the weekend, I'm glad it's almost here. I've put in my request tonight for movies, pizza, adult beverages and blankets on the comfy couch. We've done a lot of running for weeks and weeks in a row. A quiet night in front of the TV will be nice. È tutto, bellas. I'm outta here. Ciao.

Greetings. Salutations. Damn, it's early. It's going to be the ultra long day, because it's a girls' night out after work. Fun will be had.. but the day gets long when I leave at 6:30 in the morning and don't get home until 10:00 at night.

Someone needs to explain this amnesia thing to me. This guy has done this twice. How do you just forget who you are?

She was a good tenant, she didn't seem like a crazy person.. but oh yeah - she served time for murder, drank all day and then set a fire that killed six people. Um..Right. Sometimes there just aren't words.

I also have no words for this. How can you NOT know you're pregnant?

I got Audrey's oil changed last night. When I was coming out from the Goofy-Lube place, I rounded the curve.. it was dark, and I took it a little too sharply. Honest to God, the car coming from the other direction did the same thing, and we missed each other by inches. It didn't freak me out then.. but it's freaking me out right now. Eeeek. I'm paranoid about driving carefully (ask ragazzo how many times I've told him to do just that. heh) - this is why. *shudders*   Moving on...

Time to get ready for the long long day. I hope yours is the best ever. Ciao, bellas. TiAmo.

Now I REALLY can't believe how fast the days go by. How is it even possible that it's November? My birthday is 4 weeks from today. And I don't say that to get presents (although if you want to, how great would that be! heh.), I say that because it seems like the last one wasn't all that long ago. This year has been one of the best ever.

The main order of business last night was laundry. Again. Who wears all this stuff, anyway? I actually had clothes that didn't make it into the closet from last laundry day, so I had double the stuff to put away. The one thing I lost when I moved into this place was lots of closet space. I need more storage solutions, and I don't want to spend a ton on it. Time to do some re-thinking.

November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and after a couple years of thinking about it, I joined in the fray. I write a lot anyway. I blog, I journal, I e-mail, I blather. I thought it could be fun to try my hand at this. 50,000 words in a month? I betcha I can do that. Now, let's see what I'm saying on the 30th.

Time to go.. Have a good day, peeps. Ciao.