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I'm doing a thing, now, where I try to see the fun in everything. *snort* I know.

That's a good thing, trust me - - my son's wisdom tooth went berserk, car inspection, AND my fridge died, all in the same week, LOL. You HAVE to laugh.

Invited my knucklehead brother to the laundrymat with me - in the dead of night, of course; it's US - and we had a blast, lol. Things are actually FUNNIER, now that we're liEk elderly; I love when we get tellin' stories, and BELIEVE me, we both got good ones. Great ones..Amazing ones. There are only two people on the planet that can make me just flat-out, donkey-bray guffaw, and they're my son and my brother :)

We played, 'The Band Game' - and my brother is the FIRST one to ever beat me.

With, Onyx, no less, the final blow was struck..

Let the Boys Be Boys, I guess.

Getting SO excited for the Pluto flyby - the pictures are amazing, and something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime. The heart, the whale.

Rest in peace, little Peanut. I'm so glad we could love you for as long as we were able.

Everything turned out fine, just so you all know. LiEk, a piano, off my back. It involved our new lease agreement packet - which had been hand-delivered while I slept on God-Knows-When - and a son, with a huge pile of back-mail..All taken care of, now, but JEEZ.

Ebay, you task me...you TASK me..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apollo-astronaut-ALAN-BEAN-4th-man-on-Moon-Autograph-Autographe-Signature-/111529598692?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19f7ae9ee4

Absolutely beautiful. And my (second? first?) favorite Al Bean painting.

Payment plan..

It's a beautiful day, today. Perfect, really. But, boy, I'm feeling my age - no two ways, about it.

I've got about five hundred MORE pounds of pond stone, waiting for me, and I just totally dread it - my back certainly dreads it..but this has stretched out, more than long enough, no more excuses. After watching an almost three-hour documentary on the original Star Wars trilogy with DJ, I slept pretty good, yesterday, so..

Charging my mp3 player, as we speak.

You know what I want? I want a 1963 Airstream Bambi. Small enough for my Jetta to pull - hopefully - and just big enough, for me. Behold, the fabulousness:




When did fear become such a close companion? When did hesitation overtake confidence? When did other peoples' opinions become so important?

Hmmm...interesting, from rickysbaby:



I love the idea of a structured subject chat meet-up, especially something so..intriguingly frivolous...

Week 3 of La Vida Pete-less. ( Read more... )



And this is CRACK, to me. CRACK:

Okay. The 'net is back, again. For now.

The guy came today, instead of tomorrow, which is good, but = no sleep. Annnnnnd more snow, tonight. Into tomorrow. Into freezing rain/ice on Wednesday. 'Cos we just don't have enough.

This is a bit ridiculous. The mountains of snow, outside, are taller than me. Our walkway is like walking down a luge chute. Just hope the roof keeps holding - as there's at least three feet piled up on it, with parts of fallen trees, sticking out, here and there. I somehow sprained my left wrist - either digging someone/something out, or working so long, by myself. It's a bit better, tonight. It has no choice.

Won't even go into how many times I've fallen, lol - or how many times my car got stuck. Finally had to abandon it on Friday, down the hill, and just walk/crawl home. And that is *not* a Typical Indiwise Exaggeration.

I refuse to pack extra uniforms, etc, for the newest oncoming follies, after last week's mess..Well, maybe just a few things. Phone and Poor Little iPod ™ are charging, just in case.

I am glad that the internet is back, for practical purposes, at least, but it wasn't that bad, without it - thank God for good books and, Cosmos to watch.

You guys. Remember way back when - in September, when I took my dearly departed Neil-cat to work to visit some residents?

http://indiwise.livejournal.com/1211853.html

Well. Got a phone call from work, this morning, telling me that I won the, 'Whatever It Takes', award for the month of September. Bzuh. What.

Weird that they just now got in touch with me for it - but, my name will go on a plaque on the wall, and there's a check for $100, waiting for me in the office, which I will pick up, tomorrow morning - that I have to cash before the end of the year. Not a problem.

First time in ten years. And first time someone from night shift has gotten it, I believe.

Out of the freakin' blue - and realllllly makes me miss mein Neil-er, but GO, NIGHT SHIFT! MERRY CHRISTMAS!


Just have to get thru tonight - and then, off for Christmas Eve AND Day!

P.S. - BE CAREFUL MIKE AND RICK!

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/december/space-station-crew-removes-ammonia-pump-next-spacewalk-set-for-tuesday/

I don't even know what to say, at this point.

a) Winter has officially arrived. *points at crap outside window*

b) Work is borderline hilarious, at this point. Acuity levels are the ONLY things rising, around there - it sure aint pay or staffing, and it SURE aint morale! Getting REAL sick of their constant texts and voicemails, begging us to come in - going to start turning my phone off, so I can get some #$%^ sleep. And boy, are they screwing me - I start a four-day, tonight...one off..into ANOTHER four-day. I may die from it, and I'm only half-joking, here. So much for Thanksgiving, which my family has scheduled for 4 in the afternoon..

c) Mein Neil got out while we were getting up all the leaves from the entire county, it seemed on Saturday night, and ran off into the possibly Bigfoot-infested woods, laughing all the way. Wish I were kidding. No, he's not been back, since, and I cannot even talk about that - just noting it.

d) What is it with everyone popping up with thyroid issues, suddenly? I know, I know...but one of them is my niece, and that stinks. Scheduled for surgery.

e) Don't even get me started on Fukushima. Just don't. See above.

The Good:

a) 'Dollar Tree' peach cobbler is surprisingly good.

b) My kids are amazing geniuses who work really hard.

c) I *finally* organized my, 'Astronauts/NASA' pictures. It took over an hour and a half, and blew up into 23 individual folders..That's NOT counting, 'NASA GIFS', 'Crew pictures', 'Cosmonauts', 'NASA Films', 'Video pics' or, 'Miscellaneous'...Jeez. I know.

d)

e)

f) 'Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast', is still hilarious. :)

g) I....like cigars. Especially the flavoured ones. :/

Also, fascinating stuff:



I was amazed, last night, how many of my residents asked me if I'd heard of Scott Carpenter's demise as I went room-to-room (they know I'm a retro-space nut, and were all still watching the nightly news as I did my first set of rounds) - also, the evil ADON noted my NASA pin, and asked; she remembered his flight - and Sealab, as well. Go figure. She doesn't look that old! Had some very interesting conversations, while they shared their memories. Sometimes, I love my job - not management; NEVER management...but my people. Yes. Always :)

I do know that our space program is not...as popular as it used to be in its glory days, but THOSE days are the days that I remember - albeit vaguely, in most aspects; STILL so much to learn - and revere; and so do they. Sad to realize that we will never see their like, again.

"It just doesn't seem right, that those boys are that old." - Miss Peaches

"He was one good-looking man." - Miss Evelyn

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gayalithiel absolutely shocked me by buying me THIS. For no apparent reason, apparently, except she's amazing in so many ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_the_Fire:_An_Astronaut%27s_Journeys

HOLY CRAP. Can't WAIT to get my hands on it.

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Rain, rain, rain.

Kinda glad, as our little foray into That Scary Halloween Place was cancelled because of it. NOT THAT I'M SCARED, mind you - I just didn't want to waste the money, as it's so tight, of late. It will be rescheduled - which is better, as some key people were not able to attend, and this gives more notice. Hilarity ensued while I tried to keep up with all the texts flying in at me from all directions, while clearing things up, LOL. HOW DO THESE PPL TEXT SO DAMNED FAST?!?

*~*~*

DJ and I found a great Simpsons streaming site, and that is what we did, all night, tonight. That, and eat burritos and tomato soup in a pile of purring cats.

Well, four. We're down to four (Neil, Jeeves, Blackie and Tiberius), and occasionally a fifth (Bossyboots) that stops by. Which is PLENTY. All sport collars, now, at least.

I'd not seen the show in, liEk, a decade, so it was fun.

REMEMBER FUN?

Okay. Back to work, tonight.

I've learned:

a) as messy as they can be, these cats are all fuckin' brats treasures, and good company, with their own personalities and idiosyncrasies, but - in the end - just loving little four-legged people beings that never stop surprising me.

b) I actually have WAY more...social anxiety/personal appearance issues than I previously thought - and so do others. MUST work on this. Not getting any younger, folks, and it's all downhill, from THIS, so..

c) having no money frees me from a lot of decision-making, especially when I see how others spend theirs, and the decisions they make.

d) that I MUST quit smoking.

e) that the internet CAN get boring, eventually.

Good things:

a) the teenagers that came up to me in the Thorndale Good Will - freaking out over my NASA teeshirt. We talked for a good while - I told the boy that I got it at Target, of all places - they were cute as all hell, and had been planning a road trip to Johnson Space Center, but, 'summer got away from them'. They were all bright and beautiful, to the last, and their manners and curiosity and friendliness gave me hope for this generation, coming up - and I told them so. I told my son, when I got home, that I'd met my, 'future daughter-in-law', LOL.

b) my son is now in the, 'super-sekrit underground', VW In-Crowd - and is getting roughly two grands' worth of work done on his car for......less than three-hundred. The Mystery Poohbah is going to take him in-hand and do the work with him, so he'll learn, too. DJ is actually thinking of purchasing a...Scirocco, now, as his daily driver..and keeping the Golf in storage with this guy. Twenty bucks a month. Not too shabby.

c) I can be REALLY creative with the make-do cooking. We were the recipients of a TON of broken taco shells.....and I've found loads of uses for them...well, a couple, anyway. Muffins...breading for chicken...I created a, 'pineapple upside-down' cornmeal pudding that aint half bad...

d) music really IS what keeps me alive. :)