i took down my Christmas Tree today.
my parents came over and my mom helped me take it down.

every time i look outside, there is more snow. now i don't look outside much but still. we shoveled after work today and it could use another shoveling.

i'm sick of snow. and shoveling.

i just uploaded 3 new albums to picasa give them a look see.

oh and i added 1 picture to my random folder.

3rd load of laundry is in the washing machine right now.

i have at least 20 articles of clothing that need to be ironed.
i have Christmas decorations and the tree to take down.

at least i'm kind of snowed in. we got about 7 or 8 inches here. my mom said she only got a half inch.

i paid the neighbor kids to shovel the driveway and walk. the mom came over to tell them they didn't do the sidewalks right. then she ended up helping them with the rest of the neighbors. i think the girl was in 5th grade (based on overhearing her talk to another neighbor) and then the boy was even younger. he used a little kiddie shovel.

life update - from a few days ago

this is the first time i've used my laptop in over a week. i've used dave's though. i also haven't used my mac in days.

I got my Victoria's Secret order in the mail today. It came early. 2 pairs of yoga pants, jeans, gray dress pants. button down white shirt, 2 sweaters, 2 long sleeve sh irts. i don't know what to wear to work tomorrow. the white button down shirt needs to be ironed. also some of my stuff from over a week ago (dec 26) needs to be ironed. maybe the wrinkles fell out of what i bought on the 26th.

i still have to go back to new york and company to get an ink tag removed from one of my shirts.

i have so many things to do this weekend. i probably won't do many though. I seem to enjoy being a lazy bum. I'm watching the season 2 finale of nip/tuck right now. i don't have any more to watch after this.

I also have so many things to do at work.

i'm in charge of something at work that is supposed to change our corrective action program. it will totally revamp it. it is across all of Westinghouse.

We got a new computer to replace Shady. So now I can get to updating my weight graph and checkbook again.

apparently i forgot to hit post on this post earlier. it's from Thursday night.

we got too much snow someone should shovel the driveway for me.

i just assemlbled 2 stamp sets and cleaned up my crafts a little. I still have a long way to go. I should finish dealing with my income and expenses for the year.

I have a lot more to do but I think I will just go watch TV.

I wonder if I should be productive today and go to New York and Company to get the ink tag removed from the shirt I bought last week and go to Bed Bath and Beyond to exchanged a Christmas gift.

it's an awful idea to go grocery shopping right after eating too much

18 episodes of the OC is more fun than cleaning.

one tree hill is better than The OC though.

i just watched 12 episodes of the OC. Oops.

i just said to dave "looking at this house, you'd be surprised we're having a party here tomorrow night."

it's so messy. i should probably clean instead of playing mario kart.

i have a nice to do list. it's the list of stuff that needs to be cleaned. i made it for the last party i had. i just changed the dates in the hater and uncrossed stuff out. i had to add stuff. but i did get to take stuff off of the list too. there are probably only about 50 things left on the list.

it sucks that i just had to use a stamp to mail a $1 medical bill.

BTW I hate medical bills. I get too many.

laundry

i've heard of losing a sock in the wash but never half a bra.
it tore or something in the front. i only have the left piece. i don't know how that happened. i wonder where the other half is.

update: i found the other half of the bra. it was stuck in the dryer.

2nd week in a row that we forgot to take out the trash.

today

i did some shopping today.
i spent my Christmas money... times 3. oops

i bought a white (or maybe it's off white) suit. i got some sweaters and long sleeve shirts.
then at target, we got some Christmas stuff on sale and I found arch supports there. Everywhere is always out. I bought 1... they only had 1. I also bought a jewelry box at Kohl's. I wanted a 30" chain but they were out.
target and kohl's were mad houses. i hated it.
anne taylor loft and new york and company weren't that bad. well new york and company was a little bad. they had stuff on manicans but i couldn't find the shirts anywhere. and i couldn't find workers to ask.

i fell asleep through 30 rock. so i tried to watch it again. and i fell asleep. i think i did a 3rd time but PB wouldn't let me. then i napped. and woke up 3 hours later.

i had some crazy dreams. one was that gram was living at her house on the main floor and someone else lived upstairs.

we were all baking cookies and weird desserts for my wedding. we were doing it at grams but for some reason we had to park way down the moutain. the mountain part of it i think is because of jason's house. not sure about the wedding part of it. i just know that the cookie part of it is because i need to make more cookies.

our neighbors have a Christmas party tonight. it starts in 3 hours.

today

I made so many cookies today.
ok i barely made any but i spent pretty much most of the day. I still have to cover the peanut butter balls. the sugar cookies sure are good.

post from 3 days ago

the following post is from 3 days ago. but my program on my mac kept having a server problem and wouldn't post.

i stayed up too late
the last 2 episodes were hard to stay awake through

i probably only have 10 more before i'm totally caught up with all 6 seasons

i bought a new watch today. a fairly cheap one.
but in the past month or so my one watch battery died and the band on that one was about to break. then i lost my dressy watch that became my everyday watch. so then i finally used my old watch that was so worn down. it was silver and gold. but some of the finish kind of wore off and turned red. well i left that watch at my parents.

i'm naked without a watch. and meetings at work are awful without a watch.

i just took a 2 and a half hour nap. i think i should go to sleep for th enight or something.

i'm so tired. i didn't get to sleep enough. My heart attack alarm died in the night. i shook it and it started ticking again but i don't think that is smart. i shouldn't trust it for another night unless i get new batteries in it.

Time to finish getting ready to head to my parents.

I really wish I would have had some cafeine yesterday. I might have some today. we'll see.

work party

tonight was our work christmas party.
that was an awesome Christmas party. it kind of sucked
but then someone (the VP of my business unit at work. aka the highest ranking person at our Christmas party) talked with me and a friend for like 25 min (well and this other guy) but then he talked 1 on 1 with me. Based on our conversation he said i would be good in projects. that what i said. that's what dave said. he said it and i didn't tell him that's what I thought.
... while we were talking as a group that other guy was hitting on Jen. and then he made fun of her and then we started talking with VP right after that. i think he was hitting on me. he kept inches toward me and we were touching arms. and i'd move away and he'd do it again (then after my friend noted that to me too). and at one point he put his hand on the small of my back and like moved it up and down. i forget what it was about. one of the party coordinators walked over and said to the VP that of course he'd be standing next to a pretty girl... we talked work and stuff. it was just interesting to talk to him. i also talked to people in Quality and not just my quality group. i talked to a few other people i knew there. i didn't mingle much but i didn't know too many people first. i'm still kind of freaked out about talking to dan.

there were more things that made the day interesting too.

one odd thing was i only knew 2 guys in NPP outside of quality and outside of the managers that I know because of CAPs. both of those guys were practically the only guys who danced. very odd. numerous people tried to get me to dance. mostly girls in my group and guys in my group (who wanted all the girls to dance). i was not dancing though.

7 horus of sleep total in 2 days. not good.
time to go to sleep. i didn't even get to sleep early tonight.

i want more One Tree Hill but it'll be 6 days before Season 2 is downloaded.
they are up to the 6th season. I can't stop thinking about this show.

i accidentally stayed up too late.
for the 2nd night in a row.

i have PT at 7:30 tomorrow. this is going to suck.

i was up until 4 last night.

stupid TV show.

i put the lights on the tree last night.

too many on the bottom so i was running out so then the top isn't as densly populated.


i took pictrue.s

now i'm filing down my shelf so it will actually fit in my bookshelf. my dad cut it about 1mm too long.

i added 5 new albums and 1 picture in the random gallery http://picasaweb.google.com/colleen.michelle.mccloskey

lights

i put tree lights on today. only 3 strands. so if i do 3 strands a day. the lights should be on in 6 days if i put as many lights as last year. i did want to put less.

i stayed up too late.

for the last hour i've been so tired i could barely keep my eyes open.

i'm at my parents again tonight. i went shopping with them today. my leg gets worse and worse. my mom was limping and limping just like me. i think i conked out before she did.

on our way home from kmart my dad remembered that he had to go to a funeral home tonight.

i'm hungry and there's no food.

all the kids (besides PB) weighed ourselves before and after eating today.

i had the 3rd most lbs weight gain, and the 2nd most percent weight gain. i wrote down the numbers so i can put it in the scrapbook. timmy won

all the roads 'n 'at are snow covered. i wonder how they are to drive on them.

today my knee felt the best that it's felt in awhile. i started to almost think that i might become normal again.
then i took the shower. that hurts.

it made me forget about the hurt from my flu shot yesterday and the hurt from my allergy shot the day before.

allergy shots don't ever hurt. or didn't used to ever hurt.

last night i didn't sleep well. i couldn't sleep on either side. and i'm a slide sleeper so it wasn't fun.

today is the first day since i got my laptop at work that i didn't bring it home.

tomorrow is going to be a long day. the warranty guy shows up at 7:30am. i hope he's not early.
then after work I am giving a stampin' up class here and providing dinner (salad and stuffed shells)

haircut

I saw the hair cutting scissors so i decided to give myself a hair cut.

i tried to link it to the picture but after i loaded it once it didnt' show up. so you have to click to get to them i think

before (note the location of hair to wording on shirt): before

i cut it but dave said it looked the same: middle (well after first cut and before second)

then i got a shower and dave cut more: after

very upsetting

well a few weeks ago i got new VS pants with a 36" inseam so that's nice
i wore the one pair of black pants and all they did was stretch all day.
that was stupid
the next thing was they say to line dry
well i forgot.
and
well they shurnk 3.5 inches. .......... so mad.

i'm still trying to get my work laptop to work right. i woke it up from hibernation at 9:15 and the usb mouse wouldn't work. then other stuff wouldn't work and i tried to reboot and that wouldn't work

ugh. i came upstairs to post this and do a few things. it's attempting to log me in right now. and it's been for awhile.

partial update

this is the first time i've used my mac since monday.

tuesday and wednesday night i slept at my parents house so that i didn't have to drive as far to get to WM for work the next day.

We did introduce a girl to engineering day at WM. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_598423.html the girl they quoted (april) is a volunteer that i put in charge of a certain area. i never get interviewed or my picture taken but i do a ton of work. IGE was on both Wed and Thurs and the Dry run for volunteers was on Tuesday.
On Tuesday I went to Aunt Elaine's afterwards to visit the baby. He ws fussy since he has an ear infection.

I was so exhausted this week that i fell asleep on the couch a little after 9 on Thursday night. so i didn't get to do all i wanted to do.

i called and got my MRI results. I need surgery. well 2 options. surgery or PT. i've done PT. they said that surgery will only help for a short while or something like that. it won't make it good forever and also said something about that i'll get arthritis. i didn't get the actual letter yet, i called and made them read it to me over the phone.

more has happened but i need to get my knee brace on and do some stuff that i've been putting off.

my laptop took 3 min to boot up from shut down. but it takes forever to wake up from being asleep. perhaps no more putting it to sleep.

it's cold.
at work it was cold. my feet were numb. i left work 15 min earlier than i planned because i couldn't take the cold. now i'm home and my feet are numb again.
i'm ready for bed. i stayed up too late.

today i've watched tv, gone to the movies, took a nap, watched tv.

oh i guess after movies and before falling asleep i ate at steak 'n shake. that was the only meal i had today. i did eat popcorn at the movies.

my laptop took 17 minutes to boot up. i timed it.

took 17 minutes to wake up from being asleep. i should time it it from being shut down.

i forget what i even wanted to use the computer for. and while it was booting, i thought up 2 other things. if only I could remember.

super tired

still about an hour of cleaning to do if i can suffer through the pain
then 2.5 hours minimum of cooking

people arrive at 12. i'm so dang tired.
i had to search in my email to find out what foods I'm cooking tomorrow. i couldn't remember. i probably should allot an extra half hour for something i forgot to buy at the store.

so 4 hours
so start my "day" at 8.
hmm i need to allot for 20 minutes of the heating pad at least once in there.

am i allowed to wear my pj pants tomorrow with company here?

my laptop takes about 20 minutes to start up now. i don't know what's wrong with it.

so tired.

it's probably bad taht i didnt' buy the food for Saturday yet.
and i won't be home until 10 tomorrow.

it sucks that i still need to go grocery shopping for food for saturday and for stuff for tomorrow. i can barely walk. stupid knee

of coruse iw ork tomorrow and this is the altest i've stayed up all week.

we dropped dave's car off to get an oil change and warranty work. then we went to dinner. we went down route 8 and didn't find anything so we turned around and went on the turnpike to cranberry and then went to on the border.

i didn't do nearly enough on my to do list.

i did aboug 5 of 58 yesterday
and 1 today
i started a few things but didn't finish. i still have some time before my next break. maybe i'll get some stuff done.

I'm up

i'm up already. on my vacation day. i wanted to go back to sleep. i couldn't. am i turning into an early bird or something. i haven't even been staying up past 10 lately. i used to stay up until 1 all the time. and that time difference is more than 1 hour so it's not only the clock change.

i'm so tired. this isn't good. i need to stay up for awhile to see election stuff.

i am never going to make it staying up late tomorrow. i'm so tired right now.

tomorrow is more exciting than Christmas so maybe i'll be hopped up on excitement and stay up all night.

also tomorrow is like Christmas but better.

all i do is eat.

I didn't get paid for 12 of my OT hours.

all i want to do is eat.

i didn't wear my knee brace to work today. i wish i had.

we had 21 kids for halloween here. one kid took 3 candybars and then he kicked our obama sign repeatedly.

splitcoast stampers website is so slow lately. it makes it take longer to get card ideas.

cookies

so i made no-bake cookies tonight
i thought i could take some in to work for my group
then thought I could take some in to JD
then remembered tomorrow is Friday... so it's JD's birthday.

so then i made JD a birthday card
then i went to go put cookies in containers but they are not cool
i want to go to sleep since i have to be at work really early tomorrow

but i'm the type of person that can't fall asleep knowing there is something to be done. sigh
i have a feeling they have hours before they arent' soft.

i put some in a ziplock and put them in the freezer. i hope that doesn't ruin them.

you use ziplocks so when you sneek some frozen ones, you don't end up breaking the container.

anyway so now i have to put the cookies in containers tomorrow morning. and i already have to get to work super early and hate to wake up in the morning. now i have to make sure my alarm is set early enough for me to have time to get ready. and i didn't even change my regualr alarm. so i'm only relying on heart attack alarm. it doesn't have a snooze. this could end up bad.

and it could also end up bad in taht sometimes when i'm afraid i'll sleep in, i don't sleep well the entire night.
we'll see how it goes.

i decided since i email people about all kinds of random stuff but the don't respond that i should just post it all in here. people don't respond here but at least it's all compiled nicely together.

i hope i can remember that i decided this.

pants

last week i got so fed up with my pants not being long enough and not being able to find pants long enough anywhere in stores that I ordered pants from Victoria's Secret

so 2 days ago they were delivered. i was pretty excited. and afraid that i would have picked the wrong size

the "yoga" pants are awesome. they are long. my ankles don't get cold. they fit at the waist and the crotch.  i hope they wash well. if they lose an inch or 2 in the length they will still work because i got 36 inch inseam on all my new pants.
the new black pants, i wore yesterday stretched the entire day.  so they got way too big.  sadness.  they are long enough though.
the khaki pants (i wore today) are nice and long. they fit well and they did not stretch.

so 2 out of 3 isn't bad and the 1 that i don't like i still like better than my other pants.

make my nose stop dropping. that's all i want for now. i can deal with my nose,upper lip, and eyes being super dry later.

so how come PB got me sick and he was only sick for 2 days and I'm on day 5 of being sick?

i went to work wednesday then went to giant eagle on the way home because dave wanted me to and i said i'd just grab a few of the things we really need. i bought the entire list. i'm dead today. sicker than i was. and now my throat is killing me.

so i had bloodwork done at quest. i get separate bills for all the different tests they ran. they cost me stamps and each bill is under 5 bucks.

cancel Amex card

I tried to cancel my blue cash and my blue for students amex cards today. I have my coporate card and my Citi Amex still.

So I call
put in numbers to one of the cards
a choice is cancel card
i say it. it can't hear me or understand me.
i repeat. it still can't understand me.
so then i hit the number associated with canceling a card (you can say "cancel a card or press 4" (or whatever number it was)
and it then takes me to "add a card" not "cancel a card"
and i cant' get out of it right. i can't go back. at other areas it says you can say "go back" and it will take you back.

The 2nd time i called, i didn't say or press the cancel a card and said representative and then hit 0 and i got to one.

then there were all these problems and slowness on their end. I only got 1 card canceled. The guy apologized. the 2nd one wouldn't go through. I have to call back another time. These cards haven't been used in years but i want to get rid of it.

stupid stupid stupid


(i guess i forgot to post this yesterday)

pictures

house pictures

very few uploaded yet. but finished house pictures not halfway built house pictures

dinner

I only ate 20 small cheese raviolis for dinner.
normally i eat 45-55. sad times. i also ate less bread than normal.

well i'm home sick today and my nose won't stop running. i'll probably go through over 1 entire box of kleenxes. i have been searching for vaseline but can't find it. my nose is starting to get raw.

I'm probably getting sick or sick when I go to sleep at 10pm. and if i go to sleep at 10 2 out of 3 nights, i know something is up. i'm just preparing to get sick now.

well and my nose keeps running.

so many things make me mad.

why is it that when i bump a knee it's always my bad knee?

i just swiveled in my chair to get up and really bumped my right knee. i almost knocked over the bookshelf (if it was just free standing, it would have been knocked over)

now our lawn has 3 heights. it got dark too soon.

and i keep grass staining all my pants.

the grass is always wet. today is the first day it didn't rain. it was still wet.

it's too cold in here. we should turn on the heat.

3 thermometers upstairs read 64, 65, and 66. brrr

garage door opener is now installed.
and the garage is in the midst of being organized

i also wiped off the layers of dirt from our front door and porch railing.

all it does is rain. well rain for a few minutes

our grass has been half cut since Sunday.

i just ironed 14 things.

11 more to go (at least)

UPS said they delivered a package but I never got it. They said they left it on the porch.

My mom needs surgery on her knee.


I am finally going to iron. (I didn't say I would iron all my clothes that need to be ironed, but some will get ironed.)

the worst time getting gas today.

the card wouldn't swipe
the pump didn't work

they did charge me the wrong amount too. that was 20 cents under. but more than whatn I lost got sprayed out from the pump. stupid thing.

also our upstairs toilet is clogged. we bought a plunger today but the plunger seems to suck.

lawn mowing is nothing but trouble
it takes too long
also i need to buy a weed wacker. i was going to get one today but felt ready to pass out at sears so we left after we bought the garage door opener and before looking at weedwackers.

i finally made a new icon. I think it's been 2 years.

i was gone from the house for more than 12 hours today.

my legs are going to be sore tomorrow.

never buy a Toshiba Laptop

that is all.

it is not a good idea to watch criminal minds right before bed. i think i've said that before too. i guess i didn't learn. i was in bed trying to fall asleep for over an hour and was scared because of the show I just watched.

I want to watch more TV. I didn't do anything this weekend that I wanted to do. I did some stuff I guess like laundry, yardwork, and carry some stuff upstairs.

i just spent 40 min puling weeds and cleaning up straw and you can't even tell.

i watched lots of TV shows last night. i stayed up until 4:30 am.

My knee really hurt when I woke up.

I have tons of stuff that should get done today but I want to finish watching TV. I should probably make a to do list and finish a few things.

wedding

i have to go to a wedding today. i had to figure out what to wear a little bit ago.

i decided to wear a skirt/shirt since my dresses suck or are summery and then i remembered this one outfit that i wore in summer 2005 that my mom said "it looks like you are going to a wedding" so i had to dig that shirt out. i havent' worn either since. now i have my outfit picked out and i don't have to go shopping.

i would upload a pic but i don't know how to upload to my site from my mac. it's probably really easy. oh i can upload it to my picasa. ehh i'll do that later. no i'll wait until i'm actually ready for the wedding instead of dripping wet hair and upload that pic so i look nice in it.

i have a tripod that is more than a few inches high. now i can take all kinds of pictures.

i have to c lean. but instead i am watching keith. then going to watch the debate. then going to watch post debate coverage.
i got home from work a little bit ago but I ate and it got so late.

the weekends just fly by. i need another vacation day. or 2.

we can get our cars in the garage now. just the rest of the house is junky. our kitchen is too small. i think if we didn't switch the powder room and closet then we'd have enough space. it's like i need one more cabinet. and i would have had that. it's because we buy too much food at once beause we really hate to go to the grocery store.

we tried to buy some furniture today but we can never find anything that we are looking for. i wish the room was a foot or 2 deeper and a foot or 2 wider then we wouldn't have to worry about dimensions.

weight graph

i finally updated my weight graph
http://colleen.akwire.net/weight/
the last time was July 28. I always forget to change the last updated date on the page.

it's normal to use 3 computers at one time. right?

chair

id on't think my black desk chair is going to match my room.

but right now i'm sitting on a step stool since my chair is downstairs.

mac

i finally set up my mac. it's only been 3 weeks.

we spent about 4 hours at ikea today.

one of the things we got is missing the box of hardware.
also we tried to be sure we didn't lose the receipt and i kept it this time. and then we get home and it's not in my purse. it disappeared. i wanted to analyze it too.
everything we bought just barely fit into the car...using the trunk and back seat and making the front seats be up further than normal. this is the impala too.

gram is out of intensive care.

3 days in a row i didn't get home until after 9. so tired.

gram is in the hospital. 3rd one in a week.

last night i rode a mechanical bull. my thighs hurt so bad right now.

I live in the sticks
pizza hut doesn't deliver here.

i'm at a conference in Erie.

It's fun. it kind of sucks having to be somewhere by 8am on the weekends though.

1.5 hours into putting up this tv wall mount my arm is sore. the directions say it takes 10 min to instal.

today someone told me: i didn't even recognize you. you look so pretty
i didn't do anything special. i even didn't have a necklace on. i had on a skirt. curled my hair ends under.

well

well i finished my conference call for work.

The cable guy left.  He was here over 2 hours.

complain

I seem to like to complain. --well it seems that i like to anyway.
I logged on to post that my shins hurt.