Now that I'm all back in the swing at my not-so-new job, things are becoming more 'normal,' such as:

I overslept this week. Twice. Been working full time for nearly 30 years, and I still can't get up in the morning. On top of that, we've had storms roll through a couple times this week which woke me up very early, and then I couldn't get back to sleep. Nice.

Had my first review this week. Hate them! But I got a really great report, and people...

As opposed to drunken, booty-shakin' pole-posing. This is the stuff I've been blabbing about for months.





We played until midnight and I limped to work today. Oh, and have some wicked pole burn. Ouch.

How about that shirt?

Dad is having triple by-pass with a twist of stint.




Also, they are going to remove the spot on his head while they have him under.

He is nervous.

He had 100% blockage in his back artery and 90% in 3 other arteries. The doctor couldn't believer he was alive.

I had to come back home, but Mr GG will go back tomorrow morning and I will go late Sat night and stay with him thru Sun/Mon morn, then back again on Wed/Thurs...

with a retired actress 50 years older than me who works at the bookshop. She loves Murdoch and hates Roger Federer. She thinks people who read the Guardian (me) are whimsical lefties and she thinks all children should be taught Latin from pre-school upwards. When I sent her a postcard from Paris she circled all my spelling mistakes in red pen and made everyone laugh at my absolute idiocy, and told me she'd treasure it forever.

I'm enraptured!

My life is made up of...

It all depends if I can keep enough money in my bank account by September. It will be my best month ever.

iiiiiiiiiiiiiPhonnnnnnnnnneeee.

I'm gonna miss my old little Sony Ericsson like crazy, that's fer sure.

I adore the movie "Empire Records," it's a great one to pop in when I'm sick or down or bored because it totally picks me up. It's about a record store, the kids who work there and the one day that changes their lives forever, but in a totally quirky, slightly indie, '90s kind of way.



A portion of the movie is dedicated to Rex Manning, a former teen idol turned bitter pop singer...

I finally broke down and threw in my $25. I've been meaning to do so, it's just too many things have been happening to me.

Back in March I lost my teaching job, but just a few weeks ago I finally got a new one. This time I'll be teaching high school Algebra 1. This will be my first time ever to teach high school. I've been in middle school/junior high for years. So I'm a little anxious.

And last week for the second time I saw Coldplay (my other favorite band) down...

ok.. haven't posted in a while but tonite was a zinger for me..


Where do I start.. well while I am in Ireland my sister in law is home watching my 11 yr old son, dog and cat.. She can be 'sorta unreliable' sometimes.. Well let me get to the point.. I bought tix to Green Day at the Verizon Center in DC for tonite cuz my son is a HUGE FAN so I bought 3 tix with the intention of my SIL taking Liam to see them tonite along with my BIL. I call home about two...

Holy crap this was one of the best shows I've ever been to! Balloons, confetti, people in animal costumes, trippy visuals, great music, happy dancing audience - what more could you wish for?

I completely forgot that because I remembered about the show too late I got a seated ticket instead of GA, so at first it felt a bit disappointing that I couldn't join the floor. Still, it was a pretty good seat compared to some other people who were only able to see one side of the stage....

Good show but not as good as the two previous times I've seen them. Which I think was mostly due to the crowd - I was in the second row from the stage and the people around me had all the liveliness and enthusiasm of corpses. Of course you try to have fun regardless but the flat crowd does make a difference. The band were on form though, Jetstream was a perfect opener and they played a good selection from the new album and their back catalogue (boo to no Satellites, yay to Kingdom of Rust). Jimi...

Saw her in concert tonight for the first time in 15 years. I went basically the moment I walked in the door from our San Francisco trip.

My friend Greg had never seen her and he wanted to go and invited me along.

It was a good show. I didn't know most of the songs because I stopped listening to her pretty much after her second album. But still she put on a great show and the audience was pretty hyped. There were a few songs I knew, "Icicle", "Cornflake...

. . .back to the here and now. . .

Anybody remember that song?

Well, I'm back from San Francisco, with sore muscles and a finish medal in my bag. I did the 26.2 miles and though it was pretty miserable, I'm glad I did it. I'll be doing a blog in a few days with the blow by blow account.

So, now, can't put it off any longer we have to face our new life in the States. It is daunting to say the least. Right now I'm working an hour and a half from where...

so today I got this all-too-tempting email from AT&T:



I have a real love-hate relationship with technology. I love what it can do, and I'm fascinated by the amazing things that can be accomplished with it, but I also hate that we are constantly being shoved and forced into buying the...

I ran 3 miles yesterday... well I walked for about 6 minutes total, but I got through the three miles. (to think that last year I did a 10K no problem )

I swam today. I was slow as hell, I couldn't turn right and I knocked my shin getting out of the pool, but I swam.

If I can get my booty out of bed before it gets to be 90+degrees tomorrow morning to ride my bike, I'll officially be back in training.

Two races, one the weekend before the...

I'm not going to be online for the next few hours/days because my dad crashed the computer again!


I'm not sure if this is a good reason but I think it's because he's been adding too much spyware lately and it's from unproven (at least in my eyes) websites claiming free spyware programs and not from either Windows PC or a professional!

So if anyone knows of where to get an installation progams (We have Windows Vista) or something similar...leave it in...