Monthly Archives: March 2008

Actually, I’m not quite sure that the internet can be called the land of the living but I am alive and doing fairly well. Don’t expect much from me in the coming weeks as I’m busy seeing friends and family, shopping, eating at American restaurants and being terrorized by my 5 year old sister.

I did make it safely and without a whole lot of to-do although my last flight was delayed over 3 hours and I was seriously worried about it being canceled but it wasn’t!

I hope you all had a nice Easter, if you celebrated. Samantha is still high on the mounds of candy she received though she was nice enough to give me some. Our house was full of typical family drama which I would rather avoid but I suppose it comes with the territory.

Samantha is on spring break this weak and I have the pleasure of being babysitter; I will be so glad once she returns to school even if it’s only several hours a day! -lol-

More later!

I didn’t think I could, but I finished converting all the picture thumbnails to 100×100 and changed the layouts of the pages, too. I might add captions in the future as well.

I also added a new song for download. Enjoy!

PS, I leave in 10 hours and 35 minutes!

So I’m tying up loose ends before my trip. I packed most of my clothes but a lot of things I’ll use tomorrow yet. I finished most of my cleaning as well and my last day of work was today. I’ve been trying to use up most of the fresh foods but still have one roast that we haven’t been able to use and will probably go to waste, especially because there’s a small chance they may move us while I’m gone.

I just sent out the mail including my credit card bill which is quite low after this last payment so I have a nice cushion if I spend more than I intend to in Wausau.

I’m also trying to finish online things like icon requests and the pictures section of this site. I’ll be able to work on the site at Mom’s but not anything graphic related.

I spent several hours tonight at a Partylite party hosted by a friend of mine. Most of the other ladies there wound up being wives of men who work with Ryan, coincidentally. Partylite has a lot of nice stuff but the prices can be steep, especially when you can find them on Ebay for so much cheaper which I think I will do.

Speaking of Ebay, I purchased some sunglasses in late January and they’re not here yet. There were some communication issues with the seller and they were not mailed off until the 25 of February but that’s been some time and unless Ryan happened to get them in the mail earlier today, I’ll not have them for my entire break with is ridiculous. Every time we’re outside in the sun I say something like “You know what would be awesome right now? Sunglasses” which I’m sure Ryan is sick of hearing.

Tomorrow will be mostly relaxing – trying to spend as much time as possible with Ryan, lunch with a friend to give her baby presents, packing, the last of the cleaning and a load of laundry.

I can’t believe I leave so soon!

I am slowly-but-surely changing the format of all the pictures pages on the site (again). So far I’m focusing on pictures other than of myself and I’ve updated or create pages for Amanda, Samantha, Pets, Past Pets and Family.

I also just finished the pages for Tokyo 2007, Halloween 2005 and Ryusendo Caves.

Actually, it’s not easy being a friend or caring about people when you see them making the same mistakes. There’s some people in my life right now making repeated mistakes and while most people tend to fall into a pattern or routine (sometimes negative) in any aspect of life, I’m seeing it frequently in the terms of relationships – whether it’s a cycle of mistakes in one relationship or making the same errors in a series of relationships.

It’s hard when I can see what seems to be obvious and I want to advise someone as much as possible but know I can’t make them do anything even if it’s for the best. Sometimes I just want to scream these obvious things at them but they’d probably just look like a deer in headlight. “Break up with him,” “Don’t let her do that to you,” “How could you not see it coming?” “You’re only thinking about yourself,” “Your SO doesn’t care about your feelings,” “You’re letting your heart take control” or “You’re just plain stupid” are all the types of things running through my head as I try, as nicely as possible, to tell people they’re being idiots.

But they’re not psychic and they don’t hear. They’re too caught up in the drama to see where it’s not worth it or to see where it is and I can’t make anyone do anything so I just remain frustrated.