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Happy Thanksgiving all! *hugs*

It is nice to be posting again. ^_^ I do miss everyone!

I spent my day sleeping alot, because I could! lols! Trying to restore my energy for the big day at work on Friday. Working retail, I planning on a 10 hour day with a 30 minute meal break. And tons of customers to deal with and pickup after. lols! I did all my shopping on Wednesday cause the poor employees are not allowed to hold Door Busters to buy on Friday. So I didn't get the price, but I still got the items I wanted for a good price and that is the main thing. I might see what is left after my shift, to see what else I could get, as employees get the bonus prices all day (IF there is anything left). This is what I will feel like at the end of the day: *a pumpkin*

Not wanting to cook today, we made reservations and went out to a nice local restaurant and had an all you can eat Thanksgiving day meal! *hungry!* Turkey, sweet potatoes mixed with apples, bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries. Yum! And to top it all off pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Boy, was I stuffed! It was all so good! I had seconds on the turkey, mashed potatoes, and bean casserole. ^___^

*Pokes* >.> <.<

Nothing much to say today. Just very tired from work. *blah* Hope to go to bed soon. I need some fun in my life. I am stuck in a rut.

Happy Birthday to me! It's my birthday! *yay!!* ^_^ Today went pretty okay, granted I had to work today and all. A nice lady at work made me a whole cake! It is a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting! Yum!! ^__^ She asked me before hand if I would like that type of cake. I told her I liked something like banana cake or carrot cake and she made this awesome pumpkin cake! Some people at work thought the frosting was too rich but, I loved it! Well, too bad for them just more for me! I took the rest home, little more than half and will return the pan later. She also made brownies for people that might not like it. I took a few and left the rest for the people at work. They at work seemed to like them more. I am not so into chocolate. I like brownies but I don't like chocolate, on top of chocolate, on top of chocolate.

Also from a friend at work I got as a present some welcoming stones to put on my front porch. I set them up already. ^_^ And from another friend, anything I wanted from Starbucks as a treat. ^.^ She also paid for my last drink yesterday too as an earlier gift. Now that's what I like!

Later, at home got an offical birthday cake with candles and everything! It just isn't a birthday without the singing and blowing out those dang candles!

Ugh! What a rainy, dreary, gloomy day. T.T I so dislike rain.

Happy belated Valentine's Day! I had a good day yesterday! I hope others did too! ^__^

Happy Turkey Day!!


We have made reservations to go to Meyer's restaurant for their Thanksgiving day special. No cooking for me!

And what I am thankful for? A job, a car, my health, my family, my friends, a roof over my head and that I am alive. lol!

Happy Thanksgivings everyone!

It snowed Monday here. I woke up and saw all the snow! And it was still snowing when I had to go into work in the morning. It was rather slow going driving in it.

Snow is odd in a way, because looking at it brings a strange feeling of hushness even when you are inside. Like the whole world is hushed in whiteness. It felt like that, that morning. I am fond of waking up and surprisingly seeing snow on the ground and covering up things. I think this goes back to childhood when things were simpler, like the first snow. No worries, or thoughts of what trouble it can be. Just a feeling of wonder and potential fun. It is still there in the back of my mind, even though I now think...oh no, snow! >_< Where did fall go? And I think about all of the problems this season brings in winters past.

And the snow sticked to the trees rather prettily, I have to admit.. It still is, because of the cold and the snow not melting. The first snow can be lovely to look at, but ask me in a few weeks if it is so lovely still when it is grey and dull and dirty.

My, I am feeling wordy tonight! lol!

I have been not posting photos of my dolls for a long time, but that doesn't mean I still don't have them and take photos of them. I think I want to change that and post more of them to share. ^_^ Here is a small sample. This is Marion, my Luts Delf Yder. I got him last year in September so I have had him for a year now. He stands about 60cm, so he is a big boy. He also has these like laser intense eyes which I can blame Soom eyes for. lol!

I only have one for now. I hope to post more from this set and will be putting them behind a cut too. So here is Marion. :D He is such a pretty boy! The sun is washing over him abit in this photo.


( Clicky for dolly goodness! ^_^ (ugh... had to lookup how to do a lj cut again ^^;) )

Hi all!

Lunchtime! ^O^ And I get to go out for it! Weeee!! I better bundle up though if it is cold outside.

Well, I got my check from that Saturday. Which by the way, that Saturday turned out better then I thought. There wasn't much confusion. As the guys opened the boxes and the one women helper I could instruct please easy. I don't know what happened to the other one. And then my manager helped out which was nice cause she actually will work at doing stocking and won't get it all wrong. So....the check was really nice! ^.^ I wish I could get one like this all the time! Woot! But I really had to work hard for it with the overtime. o_O I was really sweating, it was hot.

Also I dislike getting paid biweekly. I wish they didn't change it about a year ago from weekly. It messes up my budgeting. But what can I do?

On to different news, I picked up my first manga book in ages. Go me! It is Vampire Knight. So far so good. ^__^ I really like the art style and the story is nice with an interesting twist. What can I say; I do have a weakness for paranormal stories. Vampires are on that list. I am starting out slow and just picked up the 1st one and will pick up the second one in a few weeks. They have 5 volumes out right now at the stores. I want to read it nice and slow, just like if it was first being written so I can get that feeling of anticipation and excitement. I want to build on it and get into the unfolding story and characters. Sort of how I got into some other series slower and I turned out liking them quite alot and that seems to work for me.

And...now I am going to get something to eat!

So I have been playing World of Warcraft off and on for a few months now. I blame my brother and his friend. >__< It is an addictive game. I have a few characters. I have two main ones, both gnome females, because I think they are the cutiest little things! ^___^ One is named Rysa and she is a Warlock, and the other one is Jillymilly. She is a Rogue. I am all for the power of cute! My Warlock is a tailor so I am making all these cloth goods with her. My Rogue is an engineer and I like all the neat stuff they can make. ^.^

I also really like the Nightelves so have a female Druid and male Hunter waiting in the wings for me to play more when I find the time. ^__^ My brother does have higher level characters then me. >.> He is all into liking the Dwarves. His Dwarf Paladin is his highest level character.

Also recently we tried the Horde side. I have a male Orc Hunter that goes by the name of Ullric. I think he is pretty cool so far. I like the whole Southwestern feel of the area I am in right now. Very nice. My brother has two, a Orc Rogue and a Tauren Shaman. He likens the Shaman as being like Paladins in nature.

I am going to try to get on this week for the Darkmoon Faire that is near Goldshire. Ok, so I am not sure who knows what I mean there.

Question, why does my lj front page have advertising when I am not signed in? *big frowny face* The ads go away when I do sign in though. But sometimes I do look about not signed in at first. Bad habit I know, but now the site loads very slow when I do that. Also who reads those ads anyway? I don't. :/ I never click ads I see online. Also I never figured out how to turn off those "snapshots" they have when you hover over the link. They are nice, but I decided I don't want them anymore, but don't know how to get rid of them. :/

I am working overtime this week. *sighs* It was approved. Darn. I wanted a nice relaxing Saturday. But there is really a TON of work to be done at work. I don't mind coming in really, but what I do mind I will be instructing the other helpers that are coming into help. *sighs* Which means I will be running around not getting anything done myself and showing every little thing to people that don't know how to do stuff in my department (I am very patient, but I just don't want the hassle tomorrow). I have 4 helpers that I found out have conflicting instructions on what to do when they get here in the morning. Great! >_< Good luck in my trying to get them to do something different then what the manager told them to do. I can't have them all do that same thing (open boxes) and me do that other thing (put stuff away from said boxes). I will be overwhemed! *cries* T_T

This is a post that says that I will be posting something on Monday about my week last week. It was very busy! I am a little tired to post much today though.

And I still need new icons! *grr*

I am going to make a little promise to myself and try to post in here at the very least once a week. If things get on a roll maybe twice or so. ^_^ I thought I take it in baby steps. I am a bit out of the loop. I feel cut adrift and got to swim back to shore or something like that. Anyhoo, going to start this out small. My topic today is books.

*crickets*

I have been a bad girl and have not read any books lately. ^^; I seem to go in cycles. I don't read any for months and then bang! I read a bunch just like that and can't get enough! I am in my down cycle right now. *sighs*

Ok, new topic what I did this weekend.

This Saturday I went to Germanfest down by the lakefront. ^_^ It was good. I ate too much but it was great (bratwursts, sauerkraut, strudel, funnelcake), and got too much sun (I have a funny heat rash on my right hand now that it so bothersome and itchy. :( ) Didn't spend too much but with these fests it is hard to keep it really low when it is $3 for soda and $4 for a brat. Bought two stretch bracelets, tiger-eye, and a green stone one that looks like jade but most likely isn't. They are very pretty. A baseball hat with the germanfest logo. I need it for the sun. Did I say I don't like very hot, sunny days? I don't think I could live in a very warm area for a long time. I burn too easy. Also saw the "tail-end" of the Dachshund races. The 2nd annual. They were sooo cute! XD I want one! Maybe one day. I always liked Dachshund. I think I am a dog person at heart. I love little doggys. I also like little pugs. ^.^ As it is, I bought a little pin that has a dachshund on it with the 2008 germanfest logo on it.

And a final note for the night, I think I need some new icons.

It has been awhile. :( All I can say right now is hello. ^_^ *waves*

I HATE my job! >_____< ;_______;

I was sooooooooo sick Tuesday with flu-like symptoms (starting about 10pm on Monday night). :( Blah. I lived in my bathroom for 24 hours. T__T Needless to say, I didn't go into work. And I didn't go into work today to recover from not sleeping for 48 hours. My paycheck is going to be so small this week (and I bet there are not too pleased I called in because there was a truck Tuesday & sale set up for the biggest sales of the season Wednesday [though I did do some set up of it Monday already]). *sniffs* On a good note, my symptoms have lessen a great deal and I ate a whole three spoonfuls of Wheaties cereal today with nothing happening...yet. :grin: