always working

All work and no play makes me very cranky indeed. Probably one more full week of it and I will be finished with the project and won't have anything to work OT on. I am trying not to complain because I need the money for the dreaded furlough days. I will need my Mondays off after all the work I have done.

I still haven't heard anything on the appeal I submitted to try and get out of being furloughed. I'm not sure what their deadline is but I don't expect it to be approved anyway. I had to try regardless. If I do get approved I can have one hell of a shopping spree.

My weekend was not nearly long enough. I took Cassidy (aka Sassy Lashes) to the vet to get her diet medication refilled.





The clinic that I take my dogs to has 4 vets and I really like all but one of them, I call that doctor Dr. Doomandgloom. He is the one that tells us that one of our dogs may have a brain tumor if we bring them in with an ear infection. If he had been the one that had diagnosed Dexter I wouldn't have believed him at all (that wouldn't have happened, Dexter was partial to Dr. Reed, the female vet from New Zealand so we always made sure she would be there). Anyway, he made a big deal about how he doesn't like the diet medication even though it has worked in the past because it is too labor intensive. By labor intensive I guess he means giving the dog the medication once a day and bringing them into the vet to be weighed when they need the medication refilled? Instead he checked her thyroid. I am sure he will decide she has thyroid cancer before the end of the day. I will call Dr. Reed and talk to her after he tells me what the test results are. Her thyroid was borderline low 2 years ago.

I came back home and worked 8 hours. At least they are letting me do some of the work from home where I have plenty of help.

If you ever need a W typed repeatedly, Sidney if your man for the job. His stamina isn't the best though, after a few minutes of hard work pushing the "W" key he passed out,

I was a little jealous, so I had to lay down with him.

Yesterday we went to lunch with my parents. My dad is so freaking cool....

It was alright, nothing too stressing. We went to the in-laws for dinner, I really didn't want to go but I did. I found out the royal family* will be here the fourth of July weekend I hope to be out of town on the 6th so it might work out ok.

July 6th is a huge concert to raise money for tornado recovery. Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Willie Nelson, and a few others are playing. I am not a huge country fan but I love Garth and Willie, and a few of the older Toby Keith songs. Tickets are only $25 so I am sure they will go fast. If things go my way I will be in Norman for that all day that day and can avoid the last day of royal family crap. With my luck I will miss another knock down drag out fight though. Tickets go on sale this Friday so I will know soon enough.

This week is going to be another busy one. I am going to work 2 hours OT tonight and probably Friday, 8 hours on Saturday and maybe 4 on Sunday if I need to finish anything up. Wednesday I am finally going to see the counselor, I am a little nervous about that. Thursday I get the permanent crown for the crown (during my lunch hour none the less) that broke when I was in Galveston and we have a town hall meeting with our Col. later that afternoon. Friday I am going to give blood so I can get 4 hours off work, I can really use that small break, then getting my turquoise, purple and blue streaks in my hair redone since they have faded. Oh, and I am going to try to get the tickets for the concert. I hope it goes by fast. Next week I get to travel to my favorite destination in the world, Lawton, OK.  As much as I hate Lawton, I am ready for a few days away from this place and away from the computer.

I actually did well with exercise last week. I ran on the TM Tuesday and Thursday, took a break from work and walked for 20 minutes on the TM on Friday. Saturday I got up bright and early and ran 3 miles. It wasn't early enough though, I thought I was going to die of heat stroke. I am so not a hot weather person. I might be spending a lot of quality time in the gym the next few months. I'm not sure what's worse; running 11 miles on the TM or having to get up at the butt crack of dawn to run in the still hot and humid outside.

*The royal family is Dennis’ brother, his wife and daughter.  For years everyone was expected to wait by the phone on the day they were going to be here for a phone call from MIL when they made it to the OK, MO state line.  We were supposed to race to the in-laws house and wait patiently for them to arrive and eat sandwiches.  I had a runaway one year and asked Dennis why the crap his mom thought we needed to be there after they had driven over 12 hour.  I would want to eat and go to bed.  I asked him if we were supposed to meet them at the state line with a police escort, a red carpet, trumpets, and bow before them; thus royal family.  MIL does everything in her power to make DIL and granddaughter happy.  Dennis said that since we don’t have kids we don’t matter, true dat.  The wife is a complete bitch who expects to be waited on; she is rude to MIL and allows the child to run wild.  The kid is maybe 12 now and she is much more mature then her mother. Mom is an alcoholic anorexic self centered person.   When we went to Dennis’ sister’s wedding in Florida they stayed with his other sister and her family in a huge house they rented.  They never offered to pay for anything and acted like it bothered her to leave the pool to socialize with other people who had traveled for the wedding.  She ended up getting into a huge fight with the sister they were staying with, like a literal screaming match because the sister that got married asked them to take the flowers from the wedding home and mail them to her since they had driven and everyone else flew and had limited space.  It got out of control and they ended up packing up and leaving right then.  I have so many stories I could share but I will spare you.   

Hope everyone has a great week.