How is it that it's only 11:30 at night and I'm trashed? Oh yeah. Missy's wedding! I'm so geared up but drunk as hell and it's early. Yes for once, I'm typing drunk beyond my abilities. I'm so use to playing Mud drunk and able to type without issue. It should be interesting to see this post tomorrow. Sadly, as I type I'm making corrections, so it might not be as bad as I think.

But, yes, Missy and Bob are married. Slippy and I were in a challenge for this evening, but I think it ended as a draw. I do think I got lucky as she was spinning rugrats, which helped me out, but I'll take the draw. Later in the evening I saw Bill Lease behind the bar. I wasn't smoking the purple crack... he was getting ice. My bud, Kelly, confirmmed, so I went with to the other side of "the Aces" and saw Bill and Sue!

On another note, just to prove my brain power - the Canes whooped the Caps 6-zip last night. How fabulous is that!? Ok. I refuse to edit this post. I'm trashed! How is my spelling? I'm on bitch. Even if it took me 7 minutes to type something that should take 2.

I told Rex my undies were from Fredericks, and they matched. Goober didn't believe me even after my end of evening hug and grabbing my ass. So Fredericks - beotch.

Still trying to stay caught up here so I'm a little late with my hockey news being posted, despite it being in the back of my mind. Shawn Mather's deal in Europe definitely fell through as I suspected from a post I found a while back that made me wonder. He is now headed to Fresno to play with the Falcons. At least we won't be playing against him in the same division, there is nothing worse than having a former Chief nailing you on hat tricks.

The other half of the recent news is Mike James going to the AHL. Off he heads to the Houston Aeros and I sit here scratching my head how that happened. Does he have some hockey prowess? Sure, but I wouldn't rank him above many of the other guys I am not seeing making the upward move. Someone's agent deserves a bonus.

Today was the first Middle Eastern Dance lesson which Beff convinced me I should make time for despite my fear of jumping into dance of all things with a pile of women. Yes, I'm glad I went. I think I've been interested in learning ever since seeing Lady Adrian in the SCA dancing, but I was always too afraid. That desire was reinspired by dearie Sandra who was part of a troop down in Raleigh. Wow, it feels good to post something that doesn't involve work for once in how long.

Speaking of work, guess where I am! But get this crap - the only coffee pot on the floor I work on has a great big "Out of Service" sign on it. If I can just get on top of all the documents the rest is butter. Then again, there is a mystery meeting tomorrow morning with my LM and a few other people in the program.

"He said that he would never lie. -Jack off Jill"

In hockey news today two things of note: The announcement of Ronnie Francis' retirement - congrats on an amazing career Franchise! The announcement of the Mississippi Seawolves voluntary suspension for this season due to damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina.

Now, how does that go? Oh yea, back to my documents. *grumble*

Words of wisdom from my team which stems from today's team lunch in celebration of not dying of exhaustion or killing one another:
1). The key to a good parking space is to carpool with the cripple. (Point of note, we now have "Carpool" reserved spaces out front - this is almost as sad as the "mother-only" parking at grocery stores.)
2). If you're cooking with really hot peppers - washing your hands once is not sufficient. Whatever you do... do not go to the bathroom. As pointed out by a team member EVERYTHING they touched was on fire.

At least spirits remain high. It's somewhat a comfort to know we're the only project in the program not suffering major set backs at present. I'm really hoping to keep it that way. Back to my documents!

Another day another rookie. Welcome to Johnstown JB Bittner. At least you'll have a short drive to visit family being a Pburgh native and all.

I'm back into another busy week, I can't believe Tuesday is over already. I didn't get much reading done this evening as the slacker bug was nipping at me again. I'm so into a moody/flighty period - probably best to deal with this now instead of later this month as the project comes to a close. At some point I'll actually be able to hear all of the voices in my head again over the sound of the work and class related thoughts. (That's a joke people.)

I've grown, really I have. I'm pretty good about killing spiders for myself now. Out of necessity only, don't get me wrong, I'd still gladly have someone here happy to squish the little buggers when I squeal. The one thing I have not grown bold with is centipedes. *shiver* Last night I'm in bed, the television is set to turn off in a while. I'm half in and out of sleep when my eyes flutter open ever so slightly. What do I see but this black object up in the corner of the room. With a quick flick of my nightstand lamp I realized what was staring me down - a dreaded centipede.

When I say I've grown bold with spiders I mean I can wad up a huge pile of tissues and squish while half queasy and afraid they'll attack. With the centipede I had to pull out not only the wad of tissues but a flyswatter. After loosening the loathsome creature from the wall he began running about in a disorderly manner as centipedes tend to do. Here I am, now wide awake, in my "typical" sleeping attire darting about swinging the flyswatter like a crazed murderer wields a knife. I'm sure anyone outside who caught a glimpse of my shadow would have wondered what on God's green earth was going on in there. After many swings I managed to do enough damage to incapacitate the centipede. From there I could scoop him up with the swatter and get him to the toilet for his final burial.

Today, after a night's sleep well earned, instead of being productive I headed to Greensburg with the Slipster and Beff. I was suppose to be Christmas shopping but instead I managed to find another pair of dress pants, a nice brown sweater, and two bad ass long sleeve tees perfect for under jerseys, a couple books - oh, and don't forget the superman underware that all three of us bought variations of. (God I miss my wonder woman underroos.) With the nature of many of the books I'm buying and reading lately I think my next better half will be one lucky man. Several of the books today are no exception, but a little less racey than many, as they will give me better awareness of massage and reflexology.

I returned home for the evening and to my joy had the whole Law household here to help me identify some issues in the apartment with the kitchen sink. Speaking of growing, I'm going to try and replace the new supply line on my own when I pick up the replacement. Wish me luck!

At last - sleep! Thursday, instead of sleeping like I should have I ended up at the Boulevard for dinner. Not too bad of a thing since it chilled me out enough to get to sleep quickly. Friday I caught up with a great deal of things and finally allowed my mind to clear from work for the weekend, and boy, did I sleep well last night.

I came home Friday and just let myself accomplish personal tasks for once, nothing for work or class. I can now proudly say that the Chiefs Fan Club website (planned still) has it's content up to date. All I need to do now is deal with the title photos which will take some time to get those just right and to get the site live. This morning (ok, afternoon - I didn't get up til noon) I cranked out an article for the newsletter, so at least I don't feel like a slacker there. Now I can finish the trifecta if I get on top of a poster or two this weekend as well.

For now, I'm watching a movie and chilling back out. Maybe I should do some more online Christmas shopping too. Then maybe on to some class-related efforts. Either way I'll be staying pretty busy now that I'm awake enough to focus once again.

Kill kill kill me. C'mon, join the chant. I bet my dogs would if they could. I put in my day - ran to get my hair done since my stylist has now quit - and ran back to work. Sounds like a great day, huh!

While I was slaving at work, Davey T was slaving at my place, finishing up my deck. I got home after dark so I didn't get to check it out, but I'm psyched to get a good look come morning.

Despite being amazingly distracted by other BS, I do still manage to keep my fingers on the pulse, or at least reasonably close. The announcement on Jason Spence returning to Jtown came out today, welcome back Spence.

Ok. I'm going home - and attempting to sleep, if the fuzzy ones will let me.

Brain aches! I had a good boomer going yesterday which I tried to sleep off. No success. All I can figure is I am once again addicted to caffeine. I woke up a bit before the alarm this morning, popped a tylenol and went back to sleep. The tylenol took the edge off of the pain, but after getting to work I ended up dizzy as could be. I'm not sure if it was because of the tylenol or because I got some coffee in my system and I was getting my caffeine fix. If so, I can't imagine what a major drug junkie goes through because I was fabulously dizzy.

From there I was off in lala-pissy land this morning. I am not sure why the cleaning people are obsessed with cleaning my white board, but I also can't comprehend why they don't notice the work related text on there that - NO, of course I don't want it cleaned off. I vote they should take this extra motivation and spend it on the microwave in the kitchen, that is pretty foul right now.

Ok, mind is refocused now - time to get the testing plans ready for my project and out to the testers and back over to test and document the other project. Somehow I WILL survive the month of September.

The apartment is, at last, clean and ready for a new tenant. Now to just find the new tenant! Next weekend I need to get motivated to finish my outdoor preparations for fall. At least I started weeding last week. It's been nice not having to tend to most of my yard work all summer, but having someone to do work leaves me neglecting the other outdoor tasks.

My long weekend is pretty much over as I need to accomplish some work related stuff this evening. I think I might try to make the best of it by doing my work out on the deck with music blaring and booze in my hand. I can do that since I'm tenantless and not physically at work. *ahh*

Friday was an early day but a long one. After getting in early and trying to get things cranked out we headed to the burgh. On the agenda was a Pirates game. Good game, we lost, but that's okay. It's been YEARS since I was at a Pirates game - so good times. The fireworks post game were amazing, probably one of the longer and nicer displays I've seen in years.

Today I got up a little early to get some things done around the house (Laundry, vacuuming, dishes, dusting) and then readied myself to head to Clymer with the Slipster for a picnic. I've really missed fresh corn straight from the stalk - the junk you buy off the back of trucks in town just aren't the same. I even survived the rugrats!

Now what is on the agenda for this evening. It's uncertain right now but I know whatever it is will involve relaxing a little.

Joe Tallari signs with Bridgeport! Congrats Joe-Joe!

Am I allowed to complain about how busy and overwhelmed I am if I have been a slacker two nights in a row accomplishing little of the things I need to complete? At least my training is done for so I can get caught back up on my real work tomorrow. The game plan right now is to get to work an hour early so I'm not losing too much time with us leaving a wee bit early to head to the burgh. We'll see what my half awake mind and body have to say about that in the morning.

I did get a new wallet since my newer purse didn't allow for the appropriate storage. I also found another nice dress perfect for the cruise and a matress pad that doesn't look like it will annoy me to death. Now it will be cushy under my sweet-ass black satin sheets. My bed is getting comfy enough that I don't even mind not sharing it. Yeah I'm greedy. You are talking to the girl who was accused of rolling herself in the matress to stay warm in the hell-hole rental.

The Chiefs finally announced the signing of D-man Theirry Douville. And then... there was a goon. *smile* Yes, he fought JT and was goofed in the head enough to try and go at it again - but he WAS the one that left the ice bleeding if we saw correctly from our seats at that game in Pee Dee. We also signed Tyler Kindle (another D-man formerly from Pee Dee). His numbers were decent the past two years, I think we've got quite a few solid forwards that will be driving us to the net. Two guys who spent a good bit of a season in Florence... I know Johnstown isn't glamourous - but I've been to Pee Dee. They'll think this place is fabulous.