Wow. I complain for so long that I'm stuck and that nothing's happening. When it starts, it STARTS. I got a call this morning from another job in Texas. They want to talk to me about a new position that's open that they think I'd be right for. I'm going to take an early lunch and call and we'll see what it is. If it's development, I'm out. I know that's where the money is, but that's not where my heart is. If it's anything else, well, I guess that's when I'll go into the bargaining thing. Have to weigh all the pros and cons. Money, the actual position, job responsibilities.

Either way it looks like it won't be long before I'm tellin ya'll I'm out in 30 days. Looking at houses on Friday too. Wish me luck!

So I'd convinced myself that I didn't get the job I wanted in Dallas. If they hadn't called by now, they weren't going to.

Until noon today. They want me back for a second interview and said I'm still very much in the running. WOo HOOOO!!! Cross your fingers for me!

You KNOW this would make your trip to the grocery store a bit more pleasurable. :)

Man, why can't I live in Tulsa?!?

I'm tired of having all my nights free. Two weeks outta school and I'm gettin bored. I don't wanna spend them in class... but come on... there's gotta be something more exciting that watching HBO On Demand...

I've been having trouble keeping up with what day it is. I'm skipping all my days the rest of the week and going straight to the long weekend.

Our office moved this morning in 2 hours flat. I was sweating like I had just run five miles so I'm home for lunch and a shower. All in a days work...

I left my margarita mix at Shelby's and now I'm wishing I hadn't. Because now I've just got a lonely bottle of tequila. And what am I going to do with that??

Look, Ma! I made the paper! Check 73112!

Too true...

A DOG'S DIARY:

7 am - Oh boy! A walk! My favorite!

8 am - Oh boy! Dog food! My favorite!

9 am - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!

Noon - Oh boy! The yard! My favorite!

2 pm - Oh boy! A car ride! My favorite!

3 pm - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!

4 pm - Oh boy! Playing ball! My favorite!

6 pm - Oh boy! Welcome home Mom! My favorite!

7 pm - Oh boy! Welcome home Dad! My favorite!

8 pm - Oh boy! Dog food! My favorite!

9 pm - Oh boy! Tummy rubs on the couch! My favorite!

11 pm - Oh boy! Sleeping in my people's bed! My favorite!

A CAT'S DIARY:

Day 183 of my captivity. My captors continued to taunt me with bizarre
little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am
forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of
escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from clawing the furniture.

Tomorrow I may eat another house plant. Today my attempt to kill my captors
by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded -
must try this at the top of the stairs.

In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again
induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair - must try this on their
bed.

Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body in an attempt to
make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear in their
hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I
was. Hmmm, not working according to plan.

There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in
solitary confinement throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise
and smell the food. More important, I overheard that my confinement was due
to my powers of inducing "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to
use it to my advantage.

I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches.The dog
is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously
a half-wit.

The bird, on the other hand, has got to be an informant and speaks with
them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current
placement in the metal room, his safety is assured. But I can wait; it is
only a matter of time.

The cluster headaches are back.

They've been sneaking up on me at work every now and then and I can usually just take a break, chill out for 15 and then get back to business as usual.

However, I woke up at 12:45 a.m. this morning in pretty much the most devastating pain I've ever felt. It's like somebody shoved a frozen metal spike all the way through my left eyeball and into my brain. They're caused by lack of oxygen to my brain, and yeah, it's a little tough to remember to breath deeply and try to relax with a metal spike shoved through your eyeball. I was about 5 seconds from calling 911. This one lasted about 30 minutes and then went away and I went back to sleep. Then another one hit at 3 a.m. same thing only a little less intense. That one lasted about 20 then I slept like a baby til 7:45 this morning.

So I'm a little exhausted today. I went to the gym yesterday and I'll try to again today. One day at a time. :) They finally installed TV's that you can watch and listen to through your headphones. It makes it so much easier to run when you're distracted from the pain you're in.

Happy Tuesday. One day closer to Friday...

Well well well. Here we are, Monday. I guess it's not so bad.

Grades finally posted this weekend. And guess what? Yep, that's right. It's the smooth operator herself. All A's. I have no idea how it happened, because technically I had a guaranteed B in one class because of absences. But I guess the good doctor was feeling benevolent and I got a 4.0. Which means, yep, I graduated with honors, once again. Tssssss. I'm smokin!

Lookin for something fun (and cheap) to do with the long weekend coming up. I'm thinking camping or something... Probably going to the Wichita Mountains in Lawton. If anybody wants to join, let me know and we'll make a party of it! :)

Happy Monday!!

Well I'm having the best day ever.

So I woke up this morning, got ready to go, went out to the car. Dead as a doornail. Didn't leave lights on. Didn't leave a door open. Just dead.

Called the roadside service for a jump. He jumped me and I went happily on to work, albeit 45 minutes late. We had the group meeting for which they were waiting on me to start. Went back out to the car to leave to do some visits. Deader than the first doornail. I got a girl upstairs to give me a jump in her malibu. No luck. Got the security guard in his big z71 to give me a jump. No luck.

Finally me and my good buddy, Tyler, unscrewed the battery, took it to walmart where they said Oh! It's not the battery. It's 90% charged! But we'll put it on the big charger just in case.

Got the battery charged. Took it back to work, put it in the car. Wah-LAH! Started right up. Then we drove to auto zone to have both the alternator and the battery tested. Both are perfect. My car's just fucked. That's the only thing I can think of.

So I've got more visits to go out on this afternoon. We're just gonna cross our fingers that it keeps starting... but just in case I'm gonna ask dad to leave a spare set of keys at the store for me...

It's all pretty accurate except the temper thing at the end. I cry more quickly than I get mad... Interesting.

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I don't know what's gotten into me this morning. Must be the hangover. I can be a hard ass when I have to be and I definitely had to be this morning in court. I pissed off a couple of people, but you know what? You need to take responsibility for your own shit. I'm not the one with the drug problem and who lost her mind and who got her kids taken away. I've given you TWO YEARS to fix it. And now I'm about to fix it for you.

Man, this job!

Anyway, so it sounds like Ryin's Vegas/Circus Mexicus extravaganza is going quite well, seeing as he left the casino at 7:45 a.m. this morning. I'm extremely jealous. I need a trip like that and soon.

Not gonna make the four hour round trip to WF tonight for the TJ/NJ show. I'll wait for the fabulous people watching experience that will be Rodeo weekend this weekend in V Town.

Well, I've gotta run take my 2 hour lunch before court this afternoon. Laters!

Somebody mentioned to me an article in the Baptist Messenger a couple of months back. They said they thought I might be interested in reading it... they insinuated I was mentioned.

I said, great. This crap never ends.

Then I found this story about James, Kelli, and Kaden. James and Kelli were two of my clients at the clinic for years. Kelli came in for a test when she was 16 and the article describes what followed. They ended up breaking up because her family hated him and Shawna and I spent months trying to get Kelli to even speak to James. He came every week without fail, by himself, to parenting classes for a child he wasn't even allowed to see.

Glad to see it all worked out in the end. And glad to see maybe I did do something of worth those four years at the clinic...

Man, the weather around here has been great lately. Lots of good picnicking and watering the flowers weather. I hear it's supposed to get hot again tomorrow though. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

I have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do this week besides work. It feels weird but I love it.

So that crazy lawyer with the annoying commercials, Bill Daniels, got shot this morning. And so did his wife. I walked in the office and being that we all already have sick senses of humor because of the nature of our work, I put $5 on it being a murder/suicide. And sure enough! Man, that sucks. I can't even imagine being so desperate that I'd take someone else's life and then my own. Especially if I had a small child. But so it goes.

I think Maroline and I will finally be getting some good girl time in on Friday. We're on a budget so we'll probably be cooking up something tasty and watching our favorite sing-a-longs. :) No throwing up spaghetti in the living room!!

I got nothin else. I'm out like trout.

So, while I'm biding my time, waiting til 4 p.m. to leave because it's more socially acceptable to leave early from work at 4 p.m. as opposed to 3:30, I thought I'd do a small tribute to one of my most favorite people in the world, who just happens to be turning 23 today.

It's my little sister.

When mom found out she was having a girl, she and dad approached me and gave me two choices of names for my little sister: Abby and Dani. I didn't even have to think about it. I already had a Care Bear I had named Abby and we sure didn't need two of those. So she got stuck with Dani. And no it's not short for Danielle. It's just Dani. Plain and simple.

She came out kickin and screamin on May 11, 1983 and hasn't quit yet. She was the meanest (and only) little sister I ever had. She would pull my hair just to hear me squeal and deck me as hard as she could for no reason when passing me in the hallway. I'd let her have it back and she'd turn on the tears, tell mom I hit her, and I got in trouble. Isn't that the way it always works?

She grew up to be one of the most beautiful and intelligent women I know. She graduated from A&M last year with a degree in Exercise Physiology. She starts PA school in Galveston in the fall. She embodies everything I value in a woman. She's smart, sexy as hell, and can party her ass off. And I love her. She's my little sister. I taught her everything she knows. :)

Yay! Today is my Friday! So if I can sail through today, I'll be home free. (However, looming over the horizon is the fact that tomorrow morning my group will be assigned TWENTY new cases. Spread out over 5 1/2 people. This is not good.) But hopefully I'll only be able to make my introductions to my new families and then I'll be out the door to bigger and better things, hundreds of miles away.

I pick up the lil tonight from our great and wonderful Will Rogers INTERNATIONAL aeropuerto at 8:40 p.m. on the dot. It's always worried me that our airport was named after a guy who died in a plane crash. But that's the way we roll in the 405! Anyway, this weekend marks a major milestone in my life.

I look back over my life and it kinda seems that things just happen to me. Good things. I tend to put forth a considerable amount of energy making the bad things happen. But I really think I've been very fortunate to have the opportunities I've had. I have a great family that's been through some tough things, but we all still love each other in the end. I have been fortunate to work in a field I'm passionate about and have had great opportunities doing it. I have a very expensive education that I got for FREE because of my mom's hard work. And now I have a masters degree (which wasn't free, consequently. Will be payin' on that for a while...)when I never really expected to graduate with a bachelors. I've been very fortunate to be surrounded by people who encourage me and love me for who I am. And I'm excited about the new people who just recently are getting in on the freak show that is my life.

I hope to see Ms. Carney, Assistant Dean of the University College, at convocation on Saturday. Just to let her know how her "mistake" of admitting me to OU in 01 turned out. Not too shabby, I'd say.

And on a lighter note, the party's on for tomorrow night. The fam is going to Ted's for Dani's birthday, and then at approx 10:30 p.m., we'll all (minus mom) be heading to the Hi Lo for the drag show. Come one, come all. See just HOW much attention a big, blond, long haired, tattoo sleeved boy attracts from boys in sequined dresses. It's gonna be GREAT! I think cover's usually a dollar. Gets ya used to spendin your singles. :)

Happy Thursday!

(MEXICO!!! There, Ryin. Beat ya to it. :)

Check out what Maroline and I were getting ready for this time last year. Jeez. I need a west coast fix bad.

Check out May 15th-20th.

I've only been at work for 30 minutes and I've already got most of my loose ends tied up for today. After the day I had yesterday, I expect that today will be much better. And today I'm really thankful for the friends in my life, old and new. Sometimes we find ourselves in places in our lives that sometimes we need to surround ourselves with people who have been there. Who understand. And I feel like I'm in that place and that's cool. I also woke up this morning to an email from a friend from high school that I haven't seen in years. And she was like my big sis til she graduated a year ahead of me. It's so great to see how we grow and change and how if we let it, great things can happen in our lives.

It's also cool to look back at my life and see the girl I was then compared to who I am now. She saw P's picture and said, Wow. A tattooed band boy. That's awful forward for the girl I know! Well, I guess it's been a while and I left my non-boat rocking self behind years ago.

So anyway, it's Mr. Hood tonight! YEE HAW! SHEEEIIIT!! And before that I'll be doin C-n-C therapy at home while I deep clean Tucker's room for my guests this weekend. I dusted every table in the house last night. And just to tell you how susceptible my house is to dust... I cleared off the dresser and dusted it thoroughly at 6 p.m. By 10 p.m. I could run my hands across it and a thin layer of dust had already accumulated!! Damn you drafty and dusty old house!! Anyway, it's looking better already.

Dani flies in tomorrow night at 8:40 and mom will roll into town at 2 p.m. Friday. P will get here when he gets here and Shelby's coming up Saturday afternoon. Party on, party people!

See you out tonight with your dancin' shoes on!

Hey, go check out Cesar on myspace. He just sent me the most profound and prolific message to end all messages. Check this shit out:

i bet u taste good.

Oh, Cesar. If you only knew. But sadly, you never will!

Happy Monday! I woke up bright and early at 6:15 this morning to hit the road for OKC. I took Tylenol PM last night to help me sleep and my eyes kept crossing on the way back home this morning. But I arrived at work at lovely DHS safely and soundly. Everybody asked about the interviews and my boss even said she prayed for me Thursday night. I thought that was sweet. And we shall see.

Had a great weekend. Spent lots of time sleeping and a little time drinking. Mostly just hanging out and relaxing. That was fun. I'll be glad to get to whatever's after this juncture in my life. I love where I am but I'm ready to get over the hump and into the big stuff that's looming on the horizon.

Gonna spend most of this week cleaning the house and getting everything ready for the fam coming in for graduation. And my little baby sister turns the big 23 on Thursday. This'll be the first year in like 5 or 6 years that I actually get to see her on her birthday, so we're gonna make it a good one.

I gotta get to court and try to get a case dismissed. Days like today are happy days. Kids get to go home permanently, parents are happy, and I'm outta their lives forever. Wish us all luck!

Well happy saturday morning from V town. :)

I'm sitting here watching P's 4 year old niece do a great version of some kind of walk like an egyption dance to the new CD. Cute Kiddos.

The interviews yesterday went great! I feel like I'll probably get some kind of offer from the one I had yesterday morning, but I think it's only going to be part time. It's a really slow paced, laid back kind of office... which I like. The job I interviewed for yesterday afternoon in downtown Dallas would be a great job for me. It would be very fast paced and I would have lots of creative control. And it's on a row of renovated victorian houses in a historical district, so my office would have like 15 foot ceilings and great wallpaper. :) It would be a big change for me and a big job too. The interview went well and I got to spend some time with all of the people in the office. So I'll know within the next couple of weeks. Tryin not to get my hopes up and I'll keep sending out resumes.

This week's the big graduation! Can't believe it's here. It feels like it took 2 seconds to get the master's degree. But that could be because I was on the 7 year undergrad plan. :)

And a big congrats to Maroline who got a new job and a raise! Woo HOO!

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Sitting in the park. 15 minutes til my next interview. The first one was a slam dunk. This one should be even better. Still tryin not to get my hopes up. But come on. They need me! :)

So it's back to vintage Daisy Girl. Throw back to 04. It's spring and I'm feeling like I need a pick-me-up. So much looming overhead right now that if I think about it too much it makes me want to take a nap.

I think tonight I'm going to sip on some C-n-C, change the bag in the vacuum cleaner, and clean the house for a bit. It's getting outta control and I'm gonna have all kindsa company next weekend.

It's a beautiful day and I miss my friends. I feel disconnected right now. Somebody send me some love! :)

Today is a good day. No. Today is a GREAT day. Let me tell you why.

After the fiasco with my car yesterday and the dealership telling me they needed $600 to fix my anti theft system so the car would start, the sales and service guy accidentally let slip that they had actually already gotten the car to start. I said good. I'll just pay my $80 "diagnostic fee" and be on my way. He said I'll have someone pull the car around for you. And they did. And I've been driving around all day today, no problems. Crazy. I almost gave them $600 of my dads money!!

And this morning I sent out a couple more resumes and by lunch time I had lined up another interview in Dallas on Friday morning! So I guess I'm gonna drive down Thursday night and spend Friday going to inteviews and hopefully looking at some houses! Exciting times!

And the last piece of the puzzle that makes today absolutely fabulous is it is my last and final day of class. And here we are. I'll have a masters degree. Who'da thunk it? Not me, for sure. Now shooow me the money!

So yeah, it's a great day! Hope yours is going well too!

Weekend Fiasco. I mean Fantastico.

This weekend was fabulous. Only one minor glitch in the road, my car is dead and needs about $600 in repairs. No worries. Dad hooked me up, so I still had a ride for the road. I headed out to Stillwater (finally) around 5:30 p.m. on Friday and rocked out to one of the best shows I've seen TJ play. That place was nuts. I peed on the sidewalk backstage because there was no way I was gonna be able to hold it all the way back to the bathroom then stand in line for 20 minutes for one of the two stalls that were actually working. So that was fun. And so was the monsoon outside. It's ok. A little rain never hurt anybody. And then around 11 we left to beat the crowd to Shortcakes and that was yummmm as usual. Saturday morning it was a trip to the guitar store then we hit the road for Vegas. Ended up in Tennessee. Those Nashville lights were blindin' but that just wasn't me. So I ended up in Texas... (sorry). But we stopped for onion fried burgers in Chickasha and ended up at the great and glorious festival that is Odell Days around 3:30. Small town people are an interesting breed. The normal rules for what is acceptable in general society go right out the window. Makes for great people watching.

Sunday we didn't do much except lay around and bleach P's hair (once again). We cooked some bad ass steaks with the in laws. That was killer. Then P and I stood outside for more than an hour looking at the stars and talking about the Big Questions. Really. It's funny. At one point he was like, I feel like we're on exactly the same page. You just have way better words to express it with. :) I'm so thankful that not only is the love of my life the... love of my life... but he's also my bestest bud. We get each other and that's cool.

We got up bright and early at 6:30 this morning and I headed home. And here I am. Just finished my LAST PAPER OF MY GRADUATE COLLEGE CAREER. Holy crap. That's awesome. And tomorrow night is my last night of class. What's that Wanda Jackson song... Woooo! Let's have a party! Makes me wanna pull out my Wanda Shoes.

Anyway, happy Monday all! Smile and be happy!