Last week

 Last week we had some pretty bad storms that went through the area. Here at home there were severe thunderstorms. Lots of thunder and lightning that shook the house.

In Erie, where I work there was lots of damage with trees uprooted. It looked like a tornado had gone through but apparently it was straight line winds that were up to 70 miles per hour.

Last Thursday I got to work and there was no phone or internet. I sent a text to my manager and the big boss. They passed the text on to the appropriate departments. I got text messages from a person who was in touch with our IT department. Several options were given, none of which I could do. It all involved going into this mess in the back room where our modem, router and server are located

 Off to the left where you see all the cords coming out of that one box, there is an outlet behind that. For whatever reason in this building, almost all of the outlets are up near the ceiling.

They finally sent an IT person but I went from 8:30 till 3:30 before I could do any actual work. I sat and read my kindle and played games on my phone all day.

September Happy Mail

 This month I went with a very simple design but I loved this paper.

The inside was also very simple yet what more could I say

Drawings year 3 week 10

 

Happy Labor Day

Labor Day today. A quiet, simple day off, and I’m taking it for what it is. It marks the end of summer and a little pause before everything ramps up again. Nothing big planned — just enjoying the break and the slower pace.

Summer fades in gentle sway, 

September light begins to play. 

Work steps back for just a day— 

We breathe, and call it Labor Day.

Honk Honk

Recently the two little boys across the street were standing at the end of their driveway, pumping their arms up and down at passing cars, hoping for a honk. No luck that day.

But Friday evening (8/28) they were out there again, this time with a few of the other neighbor kids. Whenever a car came down the road, they all rushed to the end of the driveway and pumped their arms as fast as they could. Car after car honked for them.

I sat inside watching TV, smiling every time I heard a honk. I think I was just as thrilled as they were. It took me right back to riding in the back seat of my parents’ car, trying to get truckers to honk at us.

Fortune cookie

Even though I'm the only one in the office now, I'm not totally alone every day. Two days a week my manager comes from out of town and is there. Some weeks the division president also comes to spend part of the day. When he comes he always buys lunch. He usually asks what I want and some days I suggest things and other days I let him pick. The last visit he asked what I wanted for lunch and I said it didn't matter. He asked if I liked Chinese and I said yes. I gave him a menu that we had just gotten in the mail a few days earlier that was supposedly a new place. 

No idea what he ordered but I got sweet and sour chicken with fried rice. The chicken had NO sauce on it at all. It was tasty but not the sweet and sour chicken I'm used to. 

Any way, each meal came with a fortune cookie. I opened mine up and didn't realize it had something on both sides. At first I thought this was my fortune. I thought maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket.

Later I noticed this on the other side.

Hmm, I wonder what goal or dream I should go for. The only thing I can think of right now is to get my doctor to give me answers about my MRI.

My fall look

 I just love those things on Facebook where you can put your face into a picture. They had one that was called a caricature. To me it looks a little too realistic to be a caricature but I loved it. This is my new fall look. I want to be sitting on that porch with my cup of coffee. 

For whatever reason my comments won't publish on your blogs today. If you don't get a comment from me, it's not that I didn't try. 

Birds of a feather

 We have lots of seagulls flying overhead where I work. There have been mornings where the parking lot is loaded with feathers and it looks like there was a mid air attack.

One morning I got to work and spotted a larger feather on the sidewalk. I had to take a picture of it just because I might need it for a blog post.

Assorted stuff

 While scrolling through my phone, I found a picture of a t-shirt that I sent to Amanda.

I told her that would make a good a good Christmas present for her husband. Now I need to get a t-shirt and find an image of a pointing hand that I can use on it.

Saw this one on Facebook and thought it was funny

Kind of makes me happy I don't have to worry about things like this anymore.

Hello September

 The Brrr months have officially started.

I just hope that the snowy weather doesn't start too soon. We need to be able to fully enjoy fall for a bit.

September whispers through the trees, 

 A chill that hums with memories. 

 The “brrr” months tiptoe in with grace, 

 Warm mugs and scarves take their place.

Bad momma

Gibbs here:

I just want you all to know that I have the worst mom ever. She never remembers my birthday. Blog friend Donna remembered it though. She sent me a really nice card in the mail. If I were to tell the whole truth, my mom can't even remember my exact age. She "thinks" I was born in 2013 but without looking at papers she really doesn't know.

She tried to take a picture of me for this post but I wouldn't look at her

She was relentless in her attempts so I finally gave in but I let her know I was not happy.

She's just lucky that I don't hold a Grudge. By the time this publishes I may be done being mad at her. Especially if she supplies me with extra treats.

Drawings year 3 week 9

 

Grocery list

 How do you write a grocery list? I used to write them on paper but always seemed to forget them when I went to the store. I started doing them on my phone which has it's own set of problems.

Once I accidentally deleted the entire list half way through my shopping. Luckily I remembered what else was on the list.

On a recent trip to Walmart, I stopped at the pharmacy first to pick up a prescription. While I was waiting I pulled out my phone to look at my list. There wasn't much on it but one item had me very confused.

Just what the heck are Baby sprinkles supposed to be. I told the girl in the pharmacy that I hated auto-correct and we laughed over the list item and wondered just what it could be. I walked through the entire store trying to figure it out with no luck.

After I got home I was doing some cleaning and noticed the bottle of low dose aspirin on the counter and it hit me. "Baby Aspirin". I got my phone out and added it to the list for my next shopping trip. It again auto-corrected to Baby sprinkles. Apparently I left one of the "i's" out of aspirin so it corrected to sprinkles. I don't get it though because asprin is way closer to aspirin than it is to sprinkles.

A get well card

 Recently Pam from Life through my eyes posted about her grandsons accident. She gave an address for anyone that wanted to send him a get well card. I came up with the perfect plan

Duct tape on the front of a plain card with the words "They say duct tape fixes everything.

And the inside:

I took the pictures at night so the lighting wasn't very good but you get the idea. 

Again with the parking

 It seems that it's becoming a habit. People just don't care about how they park.

I looked out the window at work and again someone was parked slanted while all the other cars were pulled in straight.

Then there is this one who just made their own parking space. My car is parked in the last spot 

I guess people just don't care any more.

It came

 Friday 8/21 I got home from work and it was on my porch.

What is it you ask? It's the computer I finally broke down and ordered. I was a bit nervous about having it delivered while I was at work. I've never had a problem with porch pirates but there's always a first time. 

I only ordered the tower because I already had a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I got everything connected and then went to try and sign in the two browsers I used. It kept telling me to check my internet connection. I did check and it said I was connected. <SIGH> wait till tomorrow.

The next morning all was good. I got my Cricut installed and now it's just a matter of figuring out what other things I need to install. 

Oh and yes, I'm writing this post on the new to me computer. (I purchased a refurbished so it's not really new, just new to me) I so missed typing on a real keyboard.

For real

I went to Walmart,  did my shopping and got in line. I always go to a cashier rather than a self check out. There were two carts in front of me. One the guy was unloading and the other I discovered belonged to a woman who went off to get a second cart to transfer her purchases to once they were rung up.

I should have taken the picture sooner but didn't think of it.

She had found a clearance rack that everything was marked $1 and she must have cleaned it out. Her cart was stacked at least a foot high over the top and she had at least 6 of every item. When she was done she apologized for me getting stuck behind her. I couldn't help thinking that she could have offered to let me go in front of her. My total was $35 hers was $190 something.

I said to the cashier, I wonder how many of those items will be for sale on Marketplace for way more than what she paid.

Drawings year 3 week 8

License plate

Got behind this truck when I was leaving work one day. I thought their license plate was intereating

On the way home

When i was on my way home from getting my MRI I found a couple things to take pictures of while at stop lights. First I happened to drive by the

The building is looking a bit run down since i lived there. Of course that was back in 1982. 

Next i was stopped in front of one of rhe firehouses just as a fire truck was coming out.

I was expecting sirens to come on and thought i would have to pull over. Apparently wherever they were going it wasnt an emergency

apartment I lived in for the first year after I first got married. We had an apartment on the top floor over a laundromat