And The World Goes On...

Ever had one of those days?









On a happier note, I got my promotion at work this week. A good thing to start the weekend off right! Plus a raise always sounds good. Wonder what I'll do with the extra dollar an hour....
My Dad flies in tomorrow from Pennsylvania! I'm so excited!
Anyway, back to work.......blah......
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As If The Week Wasn't Long Enough

Two days until my Dad gets here! Can't wait!
This week is so busy! And I have to have a tire fixed on my car...freakin' thing has a chunk missing. I was just glad it didn't blow on the way to work.
The weekend is almost here though, and I am so ready for it. It's been a hell of a month. So much crap to do and never seems like enough hours in the day to do it all with. Gonna go out on the lake, get drunk, and hopefully not drown from falling off the boat. Maybe someone will save me before that happens...
It's only Wednesday and already I feel like I've run a marathon this week....will it ever end?
Texas_chic signing off.

Mondays....

I hate Mondays...they're so boring and not good for much of anything.
So much stuff to do today, and all I want to do is go home and crawl back in bed, pull the covers over my head, and sleep for a year. I don't want to see daylight today, it's Monday for crying out loud, the sun is supposed to be hiding! It's too bright for a day like Monday...
Can't wait til Friday! Dad's coming in and I have to go pick him up at the airport. I haven't seen him in like 6 years and I miss him. I hope I don't cry when I see him...
I had a yard sale for the past two weekends to try and declutter my house. It didn't go too well. Don't know why...so now all the stuff that's leftover is going to Good Will.
Anyways...Mondays
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Party Friday

Well it's Friday, last day of the work week and they are running me hard today. The weekend is hovering like a pale mist and my only focus this weekend is the yard sale on Saturday and Sunday. Well and maybe some relaxing time in the evenings. Can't wait for next week, as my Dad is visiting for the 4th of July and we're going to get matching tattoos together. Party at the lake, tattoos, Seadoos, boats, fireworks...what more could you ask for? Can't wait.........
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Good for a Good Laugh

There are just some people who should not be allowed near a computer.
I just watched a 50 some odd year old man, who's been around computers for years (or so he claims), try to type. He had insisted that his keyboard was not allowing him to type capital letters when he used the shift key. So I thought ok, maybe he just has the caps lock key on and is trying to use the shift.
As I stood watching him type in an effort to show me what was happening, I had to restrain myself from bursting out laughing. He has the peck and poke syndrome; for those of you who don't know what that is, it's where you use only your index fingers to type on a keyboard. Most of you know you have to keep the shift key held down to make a capital letter.
Not wanting to alienate the person, as that would probably have landed me in hot water with my boss, I offered to pull the shift keys off the keyboard and clean them. With that done, I replaced them and took a turn on the keyboard myself. As you might suspect, the keyboard worked fine for me. This guy stood there and watched as I typed, then decided he wanted another try on the keyboard while I was there. I relinquished the chair and he sat down and typed a few words, which of course worked until he typed a letter where he didn't hold the shift key down long enough.
He turned to me and said, "It just did it again. I held the shift and typed a k and got a lowercase letter." At this point I didn't know what to say to this man. He typed a few more capital letters with success and decided it must be working correctly.
I told him it might have been that I cleaned the shift keys. He said it might be his touch. What can you say to reasoning like that?
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Virgin Entry

Well, I'm new to this blogging thing. I had some aversions to it, as I am normally a private person, but I figured why not try something new. I'll get you acquainted with me, let you into my world a little.
I'm a writer, poet, computer tech, college junior, daughter, sister, and a girl who likes to party every now and then. Now, I know you're probably wondering how all of those things can fit into one small little package, but I manage.
I'm Italian and I love to cook. I go horseback riding when I get the time, I read alot of books (and not just textbooks either), and family is the most important thing to me. You mess with my family, you mess with me. All us Italians are like that.
My Mom and stepdad live in Glendale, Arizona, along with my 20 year old little brother. My Dad lives in Reading, Pennsylvania. I have a host of cousins, aunts, uncles, and extended family, and love them all very much.
I'm working on my Bachelor's of Science at the moment and plan to get my Master's later. I'll be graduating next summer. My career passion is robotics and artificial intelligence, my dream to build robots that will have an impact on the way we live, play, and work. It's amazing how much technology has changed, and keeps changing everyday.
I work at a Computing Services Center on my college campus, and I love it. Plus it's a real resume builder. I've been around computers since I was in grade school, it's second nature to me, and I don't think I would be able to do anything else.
Hope you learned a little about me, thanks for reading.
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