Okay, I have to apologize for not coming right back when I said I would.  I've just been sooooo preoccupied and busy with all kinds of things.

At work.....things are starting to come to a head.  Everything that I'm doing to help out other people is starting to catch up with me.  Lara has been riding my back to help her all the time since I've been helping George.  And when Ms. J is out, I have to take over her areas as well.  Then the unthinkable happened.  While I was out on sick leave, some paperwork that I had accepted for one of her employees got lost and was never processed.  I had to get out of bed and help out.  I called the employee from home and tried to get some strings pulled in payroll to make it happen, but it worked out.  The ONLY problem is that Ms. J's liaison wasn't too happy that it had happened and even though I went through some extraordinary measures to get the problem fixed, he still wants an explanation and a detail process assuring that it wil never happen again.  WTF??!?!  He can suck on that one! 

Things are really starting to hit the fan now that our merger has been approved.  Everybody is running around trying to get things in order before we become one in the Head Office.  Booshy has been getting in trouble for, what I call - being "dangerously dumb".  She "thinks" she knows a lot, but she REALLY doesn't and it's just making more work for everyone else.  At least George recognizes that he has an issue.

I've become more fond of George over the last few weeks.  I think we are becoming fast friends.  I think I take a sick kind of joy in talking to him all the time.  He's becoming pretty fascinating.  I think I may have even gotten a little jealous when he had a woman over for a lunch date the other day.  I don't know why I could have thought I was his only friend. 

Anyway, when I was sick, I ended up having to be out for the whole week.  My doctor is a little wacko, so I'm currently trying to find another one.  She told me that my pink eye was going to go away on it's own and it just ended up getting worse and if she would have given me the medicine to get it corrected on Monday, I wouldn't have had to see her again on Wednesday just for her to tell me I needed to be out two more days to start taking the medicine.  I was PISSED.  It was like I had do diagnose myself!!  WTF!?!?  I spent my co-pay on absolutely NOTHING!! 

Needless to say, Shelly bitched and complained behind my back about me being out, but she didn't DARE say any of those things to me.  She needs to grow some supervisor-balls if she wants to act like that. 

Oh yeah, my old supervisor is slowly but surely taking our employees over to her new job with her.  She just offered a job to my old assistant, who just happens to be our ONLY payroll person right now.  Her last day is going to be on May 23rd.  Wow, I wonder how long it will be before she comes to get Shelly.  They were totally BFFs when she was here, but I think she may know how much Shelly DOESN'T know and doesn't want to take her.  

On the home front, things are better than ever right now.  We finally got Sam into Pre-K at the school where Felicia and Jason goes, so our commute is soooo much better now.  It takes all of 20 minutes to drop everyone off and get to the subway!  It's awesome!!

Karl and I have been fighting over various things, one thing in particular - my going out.  He thinks I go out too much and wants me to take it into consideration that he doesn't go out.  I wanted to KILL George when this subject came up because he had JUST talked about having that SAME problem with his wife.  And I just kept saying, I'm not that bad!  I'm better than that, but then Karl called.  I was pissed!  But that didn't stop me from going out on Friday night.  I was actually going out with his best friend from work, Taylor and her partner Laura, so it was all good. 

But we ended up going to an adult entertainment party at one of their friend's houses.  It was pretty interesting.  I had met a guy that I ended up snuggling up with so that I didn't inadvertantly get a lap dance from one of the girls.  Every time they came over, I just kinda passed them off to him.  He was really nice though, we talked a lot during the night. 

I'm going to keep a lot of the rest that happened to myself.  I was peer pressured into doing something and I almost made us some money because apparently there were some Fat Admirers in the crowd.  We had a good time and for those of you wondering - it was NOT a gay party!

I told Karl what I did and he was laughing, I think he wanted to see it.  So I'm thinking he wants to be invited to the next party.  That's gonna be SOOOO fun, we'll see if he can handle how I act when I'm drinking!  LOL!

The very next day on Saturday, I actually went back to my church after about 5 years.  I went for their Mother's Day Tea.  Sam was home, so I took her with me.  I swear that girl has A.D.D., she can't sit still to SAVE HER LIFE, but the program was pretty good.  The food was cold, but that was to be expected.  Aunt Carla (moneybags)  was the speaker for the afternoon and she did a pretty amazing job.  She did this poem at the end that had all of our eyes watering.  It was nice.

Today, I spent the day with the kids, making cookies and watching movies.  We only ended up getting through Nancy Drew.  Sam still couldn't sit still and they all ended up fighting, so I sent them to their rooms.  I had wanted them to camp out with me on the air beds in the living room the night before, but around midnight, the girls were kicking each other and fighting and since Jason looked like he was going to cry when I threatened to send them all to their rooms, so I did. 

Lately, Jason and Felicia have been doing a lot of over-dramatic stuff and Sam has been doing a lot of snitching and stuff.  I understand that Jason is under a lot of pressure at school, we're doing the science fair project and now he has another social studies project on the state of Maryland.  He's got a lot to handle.  Felicia is getting into "middle-child" mode again.  She constantly needs attention and I'm just hoping I'm giving her enough.  She seems to be doing well at school, but when I went to Mom's and Muffins the other day, her teacher is just getting more and more ghetto to me!  I can't WAIT until she gets out of her class!

I've done the paperwork to get Sam tested for early admission into kindergarten, but Karl has yet to drop off the papers.  I don't know what's taking him so long, but it's driving me crazy, so since I'm off tomorrow, I'll probably do it myself. 

YES, tomorrow I'm OFF!!  And I'm not doing ANYTHING, I'm going to get my feet and my nails done and I'm canceling my appointment with the nutritionist.  They sent me a bill for $150, so now that my insurance isn't paying for ANY of it, I want to quit and just use what they taught me so far.  I'm still going to swim aerobics and cutting my portions.  I'm just trying to stick to it.

Okay, I'm gonna have to go.  It's almost time to get everyone up, so I'll talk to you again soon! 

Sorry for such a brief update, but things have been so crazy around here -  with work, Jason's science fair project, Felicia's new "crying" stage, my swim aerobics classes started again, Karl being sick, Sam's sassy new words and so on and so on and so on.  I wish I could tell you about everything right now, but I'm beat. 

I just washed 2 loads of clothes, picked out clothes for tomorrow, unloaded and loaded the dishwasher, baked cookies and cleaned the kitchen.  I should lie down, I'm tired.  My swim class starts at 8:15 now, I elected to take the late class, so now I don't get home until 9:30, but it's all good, I get to spend more time with the kids before I go.  It's great to be back in the swing of things.

I promise I will update more tomorrow and make my rounds to visit.  I miss you guys.  I'll talk to you soon!

Hi everyone, I'm totally back to normal now and I have tons of updates for you even though most of the week was spent on my BACK!!  LOL!  I'll be back tomorrow with those because I'm BEAT!!  And I want to make sure I get some rest tonight since this will be my first day back to work after missing the entire week!

I just wanted to stop in an thank you ALL for your well wishes and your concern!  The jury is still out as to whether my laryngitis was actually strep, but I did actually end up with a very nasty cold and pink eye in both eyes.  It took a while, but I finally got some drugs for both.  I'll tell you more about that tomorrow!

I'm off to bed - Goodnight, smooches and thanks for coming by!

This is going to be short and sweet, because I'm about to hit the bed!  I canceled my dentist appointment, so that I could go to the doctor's, but unfortunately, I couldn't get an appointment until 7:20.  My throat was hurting and my eyes looked REAL RED. 

Well apparently, I DO have pink eye and I have laryngitis, so I'm out of commission until at least Thursday.  Doctor's orders.  I'm sure my voice will be completely gone tomorrow and now I'm definitely sure that I'm going to be blamed for every little ailment that goes around in the office! 

Anyway, I'm about to take some medicine to knock out my cold and sniffles and hopefully it will put me out too!  I'll talk to you again soon!

Sorry I haven't updating or visiting in a while, it's been a pretty hectic week.

I may have tried to get out of my last sickness a little too soon because I'm STILL having some issues.  I went to work all last week, but I had been BEAT when I got home.  It probably didn't help that I returned to swim aerobics while I was still coughing a little, but I went anyway.  I don't know what's going on with me, but I feel like a CRAP SANDWICH right now! 

Saturday, I just didn't feel like myself.  On Friday, I worked late - REAL late!  Like until about 9:30p.m.trying to get this report out that was WAY overdue for Shelly.  She even told me not to leave until it was done, but she didn't want me to stay past 5.  I still wasn't done at 5 and i didn't want to hear her mouth on Monday, so I stayed. 

When I left, Ray picked me up and we went over Toni's house for drinks.  I had fun, met some nice new people, but I can't seem t remember all of it, probably because of the red bull/gin mix in my system!  I remember dancing and I vaguely remember a group hug, but that's all!  But I do know we had a nice time!

Saturday, I woke up and I wasn't quite "hungover", but I knew something was wrong.  I was coughing again and I couldn't open my eyes.  I ended up just sucking it up and getting dressed and taking CC to the nail salon for a mani/pedi.  We had to get ready for my little cousin Tony's sweet 16 party.  His mom, Cindy, wanted Ray and I to help out and to kinda chaperone it.  I kept saying I was going to be one of the bouncers!  So CC and I spent some time at Annapolis Mall, buying clothes and she got him a gift (an Ed Hardy shirt - yeah, I have no idea what that means), and we headed home just in time to get dressed and head out.

I felt like CRAP and Ray continued to "FORCE" me to go.  Maybe I need to explain that more since she gets a little upset when I say she FORCED me to do something.  Ray has a way of making you feel like SHIT without even knowing it.  She probably doesn't even know that's how she made me feel, but I know I told her I wasn't feeling well and that I was probably going to stay home, but she was picking me up and she just kept on insisting that I was coming "no matter what!"

So went, we ended up having a nice time.  Toni's hubby was the DJ and he was doing an awesome job.  At first I thought it was going to be easy helping out at this party, but these kids wouldn't dance or anything, it was like pulling TEETH to get them to get up and dance.  Me, Ray, Toni and her daughters had to start dancing in order for them to participate and even when we literally PUSHED them on the dance floor they STILL just stood around!  Cindy was having her own party at the bar next door, so periodically Ray and I went over there.  But CC was stuck to me like WHITE ON RICE!!  Understandably, she didn't really know anyone there, even though her brother and Doug and some of our other cousins were there, she totally CLUNG to me and it was starting to get annoying.  Then Chloe showed up, she's Cindy's stepdaughter.  She's a sweetie and it was sooo good to see her, CC ended up hanging out with her and I introduced Chloe to Toni's girls and they stayed together for a while.  Thank GOD!  I could finally get a drink!

The end of the party was a blower because the people that worked there was being real rude about forcing us out so that they could close it.  It was kind of a buzz kill, but we still had fun.  I was soooooo glad when I got home and was able to get in bed! 

I felt HORRIBLE on Sunday morning and I STILL feel bad.  I need to go to the dentist today, but I may cancel since I need to go to the doctor and figure out what's wrong with my throat.  I also may have contracted "pink eye" somewhere along the way, so I need to get that checked out too.   That would be a bummer because now if anyone else gets it, EVERYONE I came in contact with this weekend is going to blame it on me!  I was in bed almost ALL DAY until I had to take Felicia's hair out and help Jason with the next steps on his science fair project.  His project topic he picked is a little lame, but we're going to do the best we can to spice it up!

Today is Jason's birthday, so I'll probably have to make a trip to the school to bring in goodie bags or something for him.  I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but I told him I would do something.  Right now my throat is on FIRE and I can't swallow without some added effort.  I'm about to get ready to go in to work to finish up my report.  I'm supposed to be off today, but my dentist appointment is downtown, so I'm going in for a few hours. 

I'll talk to you again soon!

Okay, where do I BEGIN?!?! 

I was sick last week, so I didn't really do anything.  Karl was WONDERFUL, he waited on me hand and FOOT!  He's the best husband anyone could ask for!!  Okay, yeah, enough of that.  He's totally getting on my nerves now.  It seems like whenever he gets "some" he acts strange afterwards.  It's as if he felt the need to be nice up until that point and since he thinks he won't be getting any for a while, he acts like a prick!

It's alright though, he'll get what's coming to him sooner or later.

This past weekend, all my kids went their separate ways.  Sam spent the night with her Auntie Tiff on Saturday night.  Jason stayed over Josh's house until Sunday while Felicia went to my little cousin's sleep over. Karl had a BALL in the house all by himself while I went out.

 I just KNEW that Sam would talk Tiff to death when she went over there.  I almost felt sooooo bad sending her because Tiff looked as if she was ready to crash in the bed!  But I sent her and she had so much fun!  I was glad she didn't talk them into getting her whatever she wanted and I was glad that she listened to them.  She has an issue listening and that seems to always get her in trouble!

Felicia came home from the sleep over with some lip gloss and now she feels the need to put it on every chance she got!

I went out on Saturday night.  I needed to make sure I wasn't sick so that I could go out with the girls (and guy) from my old job.  We had so much fun, we went to a seafood restaurant, we made WAY too much noise, but the waitress seemed to love us!  She was taking pics of the table and everyone, it was fun.

After we were leaving it was just about 7:30 and I didn't want to end my night, so some of us went on to another club.  There were mostly white people there, but it was cool.  I ended up seeing this one guy from my job.  Mmy lesbian friend,Taylor, drove me and Bethany there .  We met up with her girlfriend, Laura.  Now I LOVE to party with Laura, no matter where we are, she ALWAYS makes sure I have a drink in my  hand and she keeps them coming for me.  THEN she fusses when I pull my money out to pay for myself! 

Later we were supposed to be going to a gay club, but Beth took to long to drink her drink, so we all just ended up going home.  I had a BALL though!  Dancing, drinking and helping Beth find a new man.

Alright, so anyway, work is work.  George is still on my hip at the moment and it's getting a ittle weird because now people are starting to think we like each other.  Oh great!!

Right now, my eyes are closing and I don't even know what's written here, so I'm going to bed.  I'll be back tomorrow!

I'm only going to be here for a second, I need to get some rest.  I've been in "Cleaning Mode" all day, so I've been trying to get everything spotless.  I've only succeeded on both bathrooms.  But that's a start.  The only problem is, I think I'm still sick.  I stayed in bed all day Friday and half a day Saturday, so that I could go out with my old NASA co-workers.  We had been planning this outing for a MONTH. 

I think I may have tried to get out too soon.  Because now, my throat is hurting again.  Oh great!

I'll be back tomorrow to talk about going out yesterday, I had so much fun!  I'l leave the work issues where they are for right now.  It's always the same shit, on a different day.  I don't know if I told ya'll this yet, but Candi, Lara and I were going to take George out for drinks on Friday.  He kinda had a melt down at work and I actually got real worried about him.  He's that shy, quiet type that might be depressed and nobody knows it.  He dropped the "f" bomb about 10 times while talking to me and that's just not like him. I just wanted to get him into a more relaxed setting.  I don't know.  I've dealt with his clients before, that's probably why he doesn't have a problem venting to me about it, I just thought it would be better if we could do it outside of work.  They seem to be watching him like a hawk.

We actually didn't get to take George out for drinks on Friday night like we had planned, partially because I was sick, and partially because he kinda wanted to back out, but didn't know how to tell us.  He did say he wanted us to go out to lunch next week though.

I did talk to him for over an hour on Friday while I was at home and he seemed to be okay.

Anyway, I think I'm okay.  I don't have the Sunday Blues too bad today, but I can't seem to get to sleep.  I'm about to get as much sleep as I can before 4:30a.m.  I have to be at work bright and early, we're moving AGAIN!!! Hopefully for the LAST time!!

I've actually been sick the last few days.  But I wanted to come out and say "Hey".  I'm sure I'll be back to normal tomorrow, but right now I'm getting back in bed.  

I don't know why I feel bad, but I missed my swim class tonight and I feel like I let myself down.  I knew that Big Steph wouldn't be there and I really didn't feel like going, but I know I should have gone anyway.  I'll be there and back in full swing on Thursday.

Work was not so hot today.  I didn't get the chance to talk to Sally about this "issues" today because she ended up leaving early and I said that I wouldn't tell her until it was time to go because I didn't want to ruin her whole day while she was at work.  We'll see what happens on Thursday since she won't be here tomorrow either.

I'm on the verge of taking some time off, I'm burned out.  George has been looking extra pathetic lately, so I've been helping him out too.  Shelly gave him a big ass tongue lashing today.  I think she was kinda showing off in front of the other girls in the office from the Head Office.  She didn't have to use him as an example like that, it was cruel. 

Tomorrow, were going to be moving (again) so that our cubicles can be expanded to add more space.  Ms. Booshy was over there complaining about not having her same window.  Whatever.

I'm actually fine with it.  It's just that they are moving us for TWO FREAKIN' DAYS.  We had to pack up all our stuff for TWO FREAKIN' DAYS!!  It's crazy!  I hate it, but that's what we have to deal with.

I'll probably be back to post again, but I'm soooo tired right now, I need to get to bed.  I'll talk to you again soon!

Tagged by Emzkie!  

Name 11 people you can think of right off the top of your head. Don't read the questions underneath until you write the names of all 11 people. This is a lot funnier if you actually randomly list the names first.. No cheating.

1. Karl
2. Tiffany
3. Lara
4. George
5. Josh
6. Ray
7. Toni
8. Liz
9. Big Steph
10. Ms. Dora
11. Rob

HOW DID YOU MEET #4?
He’s my co-dependent co-worker.  We met at work about 4 years ago.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITHOUT # 6?
I would probably die. 

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF #2 AND # 6 WERE GOING OUT?
 Yeah, they go out a lot without me.  But it’s all good, they remember me sometimes when they partying.  Now if you mean going out as in “dating”, that would be interesting, but I don’t think they would have a good relationship, they both have such strong personalities.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF #5 CONFESSED HE/SHE LOVES YOU ?
That would be a little complicated since we’ve already been down that road and it didn’t work out.

5.WHO'S #10'S BEST FRIEND?
Big Steph

HAVE YOU EVER EATEN AROUND #1?
All the time!!

DO YOU MISS #2?
Yeah, we don’t get to see each other that much and I need to get better at that.

WHO IS #11 DATING?
  Gosh, I hope he’s not dating anybody! I wouldn’t be able to stalk him if he did!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF #3?
She’s a good friend, I’m glad I found her.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF #9?
Yeah, my mom’s a little psycho, but I love her anyway!

WHAT WOULD U DO IF #4 AND #7 were dating?
 Wow, that would be interesting.  I don’t know if he would be able to handle Toni!  LOL!

WOULD YOU MARRY #8?
I mean, my sis-in-law is cute and all, but I’m already married to her brother!

DO YOU LOVE #10?
Yes, she’s helped my mom out of some tight situations and she’s still helping her with her job and stuff.  She’s an awesome friend!

EVER SLEPT IN THE SAME ROOM AS ANY OF THE NUMBERS?
 Yup.  #1 (Karl) I sleep with everyday, #2 (Tiff) we use to live together, #5 (Josh) we used to date, #6 (Ray) we used to share a room when we were little, #9 (Big Steph/mom) we used to live together for a while and I would LOVE to be in a room with #11 (Rob)!!  LOL!