Ouch! How?
(secretly waits to hear gory details…)
Howdy Y’all! I survived my first day at new irk. 
I got to sit through a one hour webinar which wasn’t too bad. What’s happenin’ is we’re goin’ to an electronic method for reporting time and travel. The next time time and travel needs to be reported it will be in the new system. That will also be my first time to do it, so I guess it’s good for me comin’ in as the new kid. I shouldn’t have too many problems cause it’ll be the only way I ever knew. I plodded through a bunch of files, started gettin’ a handle on what has and has not been done. A lot has not been done, so my first couple weeks will be a lot of catchup as I learn how to do stuff. Oh well, that’s why it’s called irk right?
Cool weddin’ stories. I think MOOOOOOM’s may be the most romantical still. “Our eyes met across a crowded marina and somehow we knew we were each other’s soulmate.” 
Gotta go eat dindin. It’s all heated up and OYKW is here. Then it’s zoom out the door for Vestry meetin’.
Laterz!
My (4th and last) wedding was a blast! We went to Vegas, and got married in a cheesy chapel with tons of fake plastic roses on the wall.
We went by ourselves, and had the chapel provide the witnesses. I had an actual wedding dress (my other weddings were done by JP’s) and I felt beautiful. One funny thing happened. I sent soon to be hubby down to the lobby because he was pacing and driving me crazy, so I could finish with makeup and hair and the dress.
There I was, unable to zip up my dress by myself! I contorted my body into positions unheard of, and still I couldn’t do it. I was hoping I’d see someone in the hallway, but no dice.
So I took the elevator down to the lobby, and looked around for my fiance. I looked a bit bewildered and lost, I’m sure. Finally I asked a random stranger to zip me up! 
I found him a few minutes later at a poker table.
We proceeded to where the limo was waiting, and were whiske(ye)d away to the chapel. We were half-lit already, and couldn’t stop grinning at each other.
One of the best things was it was Feb 12th, and I was the first bride to be seen around the hotel that Valentine’s weekend. So I got a lot of “Best Wishes” and “Congratulations” - I felt very special.
As you know, Mr Rebo and I just celebrated our 8th anniversary yesterday.
**swampy **- not quite that romantic. He told me he had a boat, but he didn’t let me see it till we were married. It was a boat-shaped pile of wood that soon was just a pile of wood…
Culinary Boy had a good birthday. He loved my gift–I got him a Chicago Cubs coffee mug. He showed it off to everyone. When I dropped him off this afternoon he was planning on showing it off at his meeting tonight. He loves his mug. I done good. 
We went for a long hike on a stretch of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail and then we went to our official coffeeshop (it’s where we met–AW) before wandering around the town for a bit. I’m on a quest to find a bumper sticker that says “People Eating Tasty Animals.” It’s out there somewhere, but not at any of the stores we went to. We stopped in at another store that had a doggy in the window (her name is Millie) and admired their awesome coral reef aquarium. Apparently people come in to admire the aquarium all the time because the girl at the counter didn’t think it was strange when that’s all we did in the store.
See my link:
http://www.teemings.net/series_2/issue_02/georgia_tom.html
I couldn’t have imagine this outcome if I’d tried! We are celebrating the Second Anniversary of Getting Engaged To Be Married tonight (Feb. 13) …
Best wishes to you both
Oh, about three weeks ago my dad was in an accident. As I was leaving the hospital I tripped on the sidewalk. I went to the ER that day and they diagnosed me with a sprained knee. I’ve been back to the doctor 2 or 3 times since for related issues. Today I went back because it was hurting worse that it has in awhile and the damn thing is still swollen after three weeks!
She suggested that I go to the ER because she didn’t see any improvement in the swelling either since the last time. (There is significantly less bruising.) So, I went. They x-rayed. The x-rays didn’t show any problems. I have no health insurance so, once again, I just get to wait and hope I get better. The x-ray tech suggested an MRI or CAT scan, but who’s going to do that to someone without insurance? :rolleyes:
Guess I just keep on keeping on and hope I don’t have to go back again in three more weeks.
I think I’ll go to bed now. It’s not as if I’ve accomplished anything today anyways.
Yeah, I’ve been hit with $1k for a cat scan and I have insurance.
I hope you feel better. At least Pecocet is generic and cheap.
That’s a cool story, Atomic Mama (we need an MMP nickname for you). Also, you’ve met some really interesting musicians.
Hope the knee hurries up and gets better, Sticky.
Good luck getting the babies ready to come home, LiLi.
I love everyone’s stories. I’ll have to think of fun wedding stories to share. I’ve never been married, but have been to some fun weddings.
Very tired and sleepy. Guess I’ll give in to that. 
Hugs.
GT
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 44 Amurrkin out and rainy with a predicted high of 61 and rainyish throughout the day. I say rainyish cause it may not last past mornin’ or it might rain all day. That’s pretty much what the talkin’ weatherhaids said.
{{{StickyBuns}}} I hope your knee gets better soon!
Today I start wadin’ through stuff that needs to be done but hasn’t been done for a couple of months at irk. From what I have been given to understand a lot of it involves me proddin’ people who have not done stuff like they are supposed to but haven’t cause, well, there’s been noone there to prod. So mayhaps this week shall turn out to be da bear makes enemies week. Tomorrow I get to meet most of these people for the first time at a staff meetin’. I reckon that’s when the proddin’ starts. It stuff was not irksome we would not call it irk.
Now I shall find more caffiene and brekkie for rumbly tummy. Then irk purtification must commence.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Morning! Wow, I’m perky this morning. What the hell is wrong with me??
I woke up at 6…
I just figured it out. There’s a bird chirping outside my living room window and I haven’t heard that in a while. We have lots of birds through the winter but they are very quiet birds.
Anyway, I woke up at 6. In the last 48 minutes I have:
Brushed teeth and hair, got dressed.
Made breakfast (bagel with cream cheese, coffee, apple).
Made lunch (PB&J, carrots with hummus, grapes)
Checked e-mail
Ate breakfast
Fed dogs
Started last minute studying for the astronomy test I’m going to fail today.
I don’t even have to leave the house until 8. I don’t know what to do with myself any more. I’m just so damn efficient. And sneezy.
Apparently it is 25° outside. Why the hell is that bird sounding all happy and springy?
Two more tests to fail this week. Ugh. I am so clueless. My astronomy professor says the class is easy and just come to lecture and lab and you’ll do fine. Don’t read the book - it has too much info and we’re not gonna cover it all. Then she says there will be questions on the test from the book and when I looked at the practice test, I didn’t understand 3/4 of the questions (I did read the book BTW, I’m not that gullible).
My ancient greek professor gave us 9 questions and told us to be prepared to spend 1/2 an hour writing about each one of them. We’ll only have to do 2 on the test but we wont know which ones. In the week since he gave them to us, I have had to do over 300 chemistry problems, my normal climatology homework, and study for 2 other tests. I am so not prepared for his 30 minute essays for ANY of the 9 questions. I read the Illiad (and cliff’s notes). I also read the pages in the text that are relevant to the tests. I still don’t know the answers to the questions and I’m starting to suspect that the class really is geared for Classics majors and not science majors who thought the class would be interesting. I’m really appreciating my climatology class right now because it’s the only one that isn’t making me feel like a moron.
I still have to read a chapter in my Chem book and answer another shitload of questions by 8AM tomorrow.
Holy crap that’s a loud animal on my roof. I’m surprised that my dogs aren’t going berserk. I think it’s trying to clean out my gutters by the sound of it.
blurf.
I got my hair cut today. That’s the most excitement in my life right now.
really? which one?
Blurf.
Mr Rebo started coughing about midnight last night, off and on until he got up at 4:00. Then he kissed me goodbye at 5:00 when I had just fallen back asleep. To wish me Happy Valentine’s Day.
Aww!
Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all!
Out of town? Check
Only one who can run the sat truck here? Check.
Up all night barfing my brains out? Check.
Can’t call in - must go to work? Check.
Oh well, at least I have stopped the vomit comet and I had a Coke saved from yesterday’s lunch, so I have an hour and a half to get some blood sugar and feel a little better before work.
And drugs. I have good drugs.
Spent the night between bathroom runs reading certain threads in the Pit. In comparison I was happier barfin. Try to make the best of everything.
Good morning 'all!
Working from the drivers’ break room today while my office furniture is being taken apart and moved, paint finished and electric/phone/network connections moved.
When my older sister got married, she asked a friend to do a reading. At the rehearsal, the friend stumbled a bit coming down from the altar. The next morning, she told us that she’d had a nightmare in which she fell into the choir loft (where the choir sits) during the actual ceremony.
Needless to say, during the actual ceremony…
I wore my hair in pin curls the night before my wedding. When I took them out, my hair was way too curly. For a moment I panicked, then I did the only thing I could do. I strutted out, singing “On the Good Ship Lollipop”. (One of Shirley Temple’s most famous songs, in case you didn’t know.) I’ve never heard my sister laugh so hard. My only regret from my wedding is that I don’t have a photo of myself before I brushed out my hair.
My mother was worried that the bridesmaids (all staying at a Red Roof Inn) would get dressed too early and spend so much time in the motel halls that the other guests, also staying there, would see their dresses before the ceremony. Turns out that one of the bathrooms had a problem, so they went back and forth getting their showers, wearing just their towels in the halls.
Dad took mom and me out to dinner for Valentines. I’m not sure why I was included, logically speaking, but it was yummy.
My sore throat has turned into a baby cold. I feel fine, except from a slight headache from being congested. But when I went to bed last night I started hacking non-stop. Luckily we had cold medicine, and despite it being two years old, it still worked.
I dropped my ancient greek class!!!