Middle of February

This month of few days is already confusing me. I keep thinking that stuff is due or happening next week when it is really the following week. And that week is developing quite a list:

• Turns out Feb 15 is the date all tax info is due to me so I can turn it around to the CPA
• County taxes posted for the year (I need to check immediately to ensure some mortgage company doesn't grab mine again)
• Ken Jennings and whatshisname go against the IBM computer on Jeopardy
• Chef Anita comes again!
• If Amazon refund not posted yet, follow up
• My co-worker on vacation - I'm covering her hours

Ok, good. Now I have a list and that will help.

I had my 6 am publish this morning and then a bit of other work to do and now I am actively procrastinating. I need to get to the gym and back to work. I always deliver the bears on the first working day of the month but if there is lots of work when I get back from the gym, delivery may need to be postponed until tomorrow. (The bear place is only open weekdays until noon.)

ok. I'm out of excuses. Slapping on the shoes and heading over...

Middle of February

This month of few days is already confusing me. I keep thinking that stuff is due or happening next week when it is really the following week. And that week is developing quite a list:

• Turns out Feb 15 is the date all tax info is due to me so I can turn it around to the CPA
• County taxes posted for the year (I need to check immediately to ensure some mortgage company doesn't grab mine again)
• Ken Jennings and whatshisname go against the IBM computer on Jeopardy
• Chef Anita comes again!
• If Amazon refund not posted yet, follow up
• My co-worker on vacation - I'm covering her hours

Ok, good. Now I have a list and that will help.

I had my 6 am publish this morning and then a bit of other work to do and now I am actively procrastinating. I need to get to the gym and back to work. I always deliver the bears on the first working day of the month but if there is lots of work when I get back from the gym, delivery may need to be postponed until tomorrow. (The bear place is only open weekdays until noon.)

ok. I'm out of excuses. Slapping on the shoes and heading over...

Gym Report

Turns out I was a little over an hour earlier than I usually get there and discovered that 1. There are a lot more people there before 9 than after - there was only one treadmill not in use when I got there! 2. The sun bounces off the windows of a building across the street and nearly blinds you no matter what machine you are on. It is a killer. Finally, just before I was ready to just stop 5 minutes early and go do strengthening or something, Tija came and let the blinds down (polarized blinds - you can see out but the laser glare is gone).

I did 20 minutes on the treadmill and then - because of the glare, I moved to the sit up bike where I did the last 10 minutes.

Then I walked up the stairs. I am sweaty.

Gym Report

Turns out I was a little over an hour earlier than I usually get there and discovered that 1. There are a lot more people there before 9 than after - there was only one treadmill not in use when I got there! 2. The sun bounces off the windows of a building across the street and nearly blinds you no matter what machine you are on. It is a killer. Finally, just before I was ready to just stop 5 minutes early and go do strengthening or something, Tija came and let the blinds down (polarized blinds - you can see out but the laser glare is gone).

I did 20 minutes on the treadmill and then - because of the glare, I moved to the sit up bike where I did the last 10 minutes.

Then I walked up the stairs. I am sweaty.

Today's Basket

Pink bear legs start off February. The January bears are gone and the green chair is bare of bear.

Today's Basket

Pink bear legs start off February. The January bears are gone and the green chair is bare of bear.

Only a little scathed

I'm nearly done with work - probably one more email coming in from YouKnowWho who sent me her last direction addressed 'Hi Tina'. I'm not clear if she's demanding I change my name (probably) or just meant the bug for someone else. As soon as I get a clarification back from her, I'm declaring me done. Day off tomorrow. Yeah!!!

I got the most unusual email a bit ago. It's from a distant cousin. She's really into ancestry and has done a lot of work on the history of my maternal grandmother's side of the family. Apparently, through that, she was contacted by a guy looking for relatives of my Uncle Billy.

Uncle Billy was my Mom's older brother and only sibling. He was killed in World War II in France - within a month or two of my Mom's first husband who was also killed in France. Not a good war for their now much smaller family.

Uncle Billy was married to Joan. They had no kids. Joan married again and had several but I have no clue where she is, what her last name is or if she's still alive.

Uncle Billy went to Oklahoma Military Academy in 1939 and 1940. That school is no longer there but on its site is Rogers State University and they are building a memorial. The hunt for a live relative is so they can send an invitation to the unveiling this summer. I honestly don't care and I don't think my brother does but just in case, I wrote back and volunteered to be their live relative.

Good old Uncle Billy.

Oh, just got an email saying that the bug should have gone to Tina and 'thanks for the second set of eyes'... I'll admit it. There is nothing this woman can do that I won't mock or bitch about. Mostly deserved but maybe not all.

The desk I got from Office Depot - the laptop cart... is actually quite nice - really well put together if I do say so myself. It is a nice height has excellent rolling action. I like it.

I just had a friend from Ravelry (the knitting site) ask me to play Words with Friends. She mentioned her new iPad so I'm pretty sure she does not mean Facebook. I have no clue how to play it but it's installing on my iPad right now. There's no friggin' help screen with this thing. ARugh.

Only a little scathed

I'm nearly done with work - probably one more email coming in from YouKnowWho who sent me her last direction addressed 'Hi Tina'. I'm not clear if she's demanding I change my name (probably) or just meant the bug for someone else. As soon as I get a clarification back from her, I'm declaring me done. Day off tomorrow. Yeah!!!

I got the most unusual email a bit ago. It's from a distant cousin. She's really into ancestry and has done a lot of work on the history of my maternal grandmother's side of the family. Apparently, through that, she was contacted by a guy looking for relatives of my Uncle Billy.

Uncle Billy was my Mom's older brother and only sibling. He was killed in World War II in France - within a month or two of my Mom's first husband who was also killed in France. Not a good war for their now much smaller family.

Uncle Billy was married to Joan. They had no kids. Joan married again and had several but I have no clue where she is, what her last name is or if she's still alive.

Uncle Billy went to Oklahoma Military Academy in 1939 and 1940. That school is no longer there but on its site is Rogers State University and they are building a memorial. The hunt for a live relative is so they can send an invitation to the unveiling this summer. I honestly don't care and I don't think my brother does but just in case, I wrote back and volunteered to be their live relative.

Good old Uncle Billy.

Oh, just got an email saying that the bug should have gone to Tina and 'thanks for the second set of eyes'... I'll admit it. There is nothing this woman can do that I won't mock or bitch about. Mostly deserved but maybe not all.

The desk I got from Office Depot - the laptop cart... is actually quite nice - really well put together if I do say so myself. It is a nice height has excellent rolling action. I like it.

I just had a friend from Ravelry (the knitting site) ask me to play Words with Friends. She mentioned her new iPad so I'm pretty sure she does not mean Facebook. I have no clue how to play it but it's installing on my iPad right now. There's no friggin' help screen with this thing. ARugh.