Ok now all the Holidays are over it is time to return to work! CRAP!!!! I was enjoying my time away from work. I think we should all get a week to return to the normalicy of work.

 We took the family to: Out of Africa (Camp Verde, AZ),  Flagstaff, and to ride the Polar Express. The kids had a blast. We played in the snow (thank god I dont have to live in it). It was great! Then the wind picked up and it got cold and we had to break out the jackets.

Out of Africa gets better EVERYTIME! The Polar Express was FANTASTIC!!! The kids really love it.

Ok, fun over and we are back at home. It id freaking colder here than playing in the windy snow. GRRRRR!!!! I guess the two week cold snap we get is here. That means I have to break ice every morning for the animals. I want another two days off, I don't want to be at work today!!! Waaaaaaa!!

Ok, my fit is over!

Hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year. 

By Gopal Sharma Tue Sep 23, 12:12 PM ET

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Dozens of skydivers will attempt the first parachute jumps over Mount Everest next week, organizers said on Tuesday.

At least 34 skydivers from 14 countries, including Britain, the United States, Canada, Denmark and New Zealand plan to jump from an aircraft flying 465 feet above the Everest summit on October 2.

Hurtling past the 8,850-meter (29,035 feet) peak, the skydivers plan, weather permitting, to freefall for 1 minute before deploying their parachutes and cruising for 8-10 minutes to land in a flat drop zone at 12,350 feet.

"This will be the most important event in the Himalayan adventure since 1953," said Nigel Gifford, owner of the British company High & Wild which has organized the team.

"To freefall in front of Mount Everest with four other highest mountains is an exceptional experience," said Gifford, 62, who climbed Everest in 1976. "It has never been done before."

Mount Everest was first climbed by New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa 55 years ago.

Each participant will wear an oxygen mask and carry a larger than normal parachute to help a fast descent through the thin air of the world's highest drop zone.

"It is a very big adventure, it is a truly historic adventure," said 40-year-old Danish participant Per Wimmer.

"This is not walking the path. This is true adventure," said Wimmer, a financier and entrepreneur living in London, adding that the plan was not free from risk.

Not finding the drop zone after the fall, extreme cold and malfunctioning of oxygen masks were some of the potential hazards, Wimmer said.

(Editing by Bappa Majumdar and Alex Richardson)

To get the oil companies to realize that we aren't playing around, here is my alternate way of traveling!  And guess what???  Its a very green way to go!  If only more of us went to using this mode of transportation, oil and gas companies would have to lower the prices because they wouldn't be making a profit off of us anymore!!!

I know some people might think of this as an adventure. I would cry and crap in my pants!

http://www.brightcove .tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

It has begun.. I have already encountered some tourists up here, and have just remembered why I hate summer. I had a prick cut me off while pulling out of a hotel, drive 10 mph under the speed limit, and then slam his brakes so he didn't miss McDonalds. This particular McDonalds was less then a mile from the hotel, and we have been having some BEAUTIFUL weather up here. Why travel all the way to Alaska to eat at McDonalds? Why not go to ANY of our local restaurants and try some LOCAL food? You can get a greasy McD's burger ANYWHERE in America, you can't get any of our seafood fresh anywhere else!

The population of my city is about to triple. There is already no parking downtown, but now it's going to be even worse. I drove through there the other day, and the amount of people is INSANE! Normally you can drive around 30 mph and hit every light green… Not anymore, don't plan on going over 20, and plan on stopping at EVERY green so you don't hit a tourist that doesn't pay attention the the little White Man and Red Hand.

Soon the stupid questions will start. "Where can I find an igloo" - where? Do you see any F-ing snow on the ground? How the hell do we build igloos when there's no snow? "Where is that Moose Ranch I heard of that I can ride a moose?" - That one is ALWAYS great. The Moose Ranch doesn't exist. It's something locals tell them exists when we're stressed out from dealing with them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the bring in tons of money. I would rather our state run off money from Oil and other Natural resources (salmon, gold, jade, etc.) then have to deal with these idiots every year. Don't get me wrong, some are ok. Most of them think it's cool to stop in the middle of the road to take a picture because "It's the best shot".

Why is it called Tourist Season if I can't hunt and get my limit?

I would love to, but I am too chicken

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I laughed my ARSE off when I read this little tidbit. . . .

here I go:

1. I didn't want to BUT I saw it anyway cuz the rest of my family wanted to see it…Beowulf..slept thru the 1st 20 mins then woke up cuz of all the screaming and watched the rest and actually liked it.  had to read it back in high school but never did!

2. stupid lady in the parking lot at babies r us who saw me riding behind her while she was walking in the parking lot and STILL continued to walk slowly and looked at me like "as if" with an attitude!!  I'll run you over biatch!!

3. people who look/stare at me while driving or in traffic!

4. people running stop lights–been happening a LOT around my part of the city since the hurricane!

5. David (my husb), I have to tell him to do things around here like he's a child!  he wonders why I nag is because he should KNOW better!!  I'm TIRED of doing it ALL!!  the kids can only help so much, then I have to go back behind them to do it better anyway!!  you see something that needs to be done, DO IT!!

He was on vacation last week from work and we still have little things around the house that aren't finished, NOTHING, NOTHING, not ONE thing was done!!!

6. can't find a Wii to save my life!!  the people at toys r us suggested that I either camp out the night before they come in or come real early that morning!!!  are you serious??!!  for me, it's NOT that serious!!  they just WON'T get one! my luck, I'll camp out there and STILL won't get one, cuz he told me that only 50 had come in that day and they had a line wrapped around the store waiting for them to open!!!

7. the Saints, could they SUCK any harder??!!  how the F*CK do you LOSE a game in the LAST 20 SECONDS!!!!! 

So my week has been crummy. I had the flu on Monday and Tuesday, now it's turned into a chest cold. I feel like living proof of Murphy's Law lately. Anything that can go wrong, is going wrong. It's all the little stuff too, nothing big, just all the small stuff. It's so aggravating. For instance, this morning I hit snooze, and my alarm clock just decided to not go off again. I woke up 10 minutes before I had to be at work, and my clock's : was still blinking showing that it was in snooze mode. It just wasn't going off. Yesterday I had car issues, which lead back to money issues, which lead back to my ex. Then I got pissed about that, which got me pissed at myself, which left me super depressed. Anything I touched fell or broke.

I'm also having these horrible dreams. Not the typical "nightmare" either, just seriously demented and unexplainable dreams. Nothing in them has anything to do with what happened during the day. The other night I dreamt I was hit by a train. The next night I watched the world end. In the world ending dream I was supposed to go to Vancouver to find this house - so I googled the street and the house really is there. So it's not like it's "just a dream" anymore, this place really friggin exists! Last night I had a dream that my friends dad was super sick and getting surgery in this house I was having a party at. It's just all so messed up anymore.

I don't know if I need a vacation, or if I need to get away from something, or if it's just not my week. Maybe the stars aren't aligned right for me or something. But life friggin sucks right now.

Don't you hate it when you come back to work after a week off, and CRAP is piled on your desk?  I swear, sometimes I feel like when I take a few days off, the rest of the office goes on mental vacations, meaning they can't make any decisions.  Then you add going through the 100s of emails that are backlogged, and it makes the first day back a nightmare.

Last summer a teacher at my kids' school died in a car accident on the way home from visiting family in Texas.  She left her husband and small children behind. 

Yesterday we just found out that yet another teacher died on the way to vacation in Lake Tahoe on July 14. 

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This time the entire family was killed.  Both kids are upset but especially my daughter who was Mrs. Calevro's assistant in the mornings.  Two summers in a row we have had to tell our kids about the death of a teacher.  I also worked with Mrs. Calevro often when I used to volunteer in the Parent Center.  Please keep their family in prayer. 

Okay going to let it go this time, because I have had it!!!!!!
Just got a phone call from my father, the man who is a millionaire, has a girlfriend that he hooked up 2 weeks after my mother died of cancer, when he stuffed her in a nursing home to die and expected me to quit my job to take care of her. He decided to chew my ass for not spending time with him. Let me add once a month at least they, witch and him, go on vacations. So he isn't even home 10 days a months. He is retired and could drive to my house anytime he wants and I have offered dinner, but my food is not good enough, as we eat cheap. I gave him my side of the not spending time with him.
A. I work two jobs
B. I can't afford gas to get to work how can I afford it to drive 40 miles to his house for a visit.
C. I get to work at 6:30 am, and go to bed at 9:00 pm
D. I have a teenage daughter who has a life and does want to spend time with her mother
E. My only day off is Sunday used for household chores, and for me to get to relax and for maybe an hour do nothing.

He doesn't want to hear it. Then when I attempt to defend my actions, and explain don't blame me for my self centered brother, he gets on my ass about being crabby. I AM AT WORK!!!!!!!! A job that I hate right now, and have no one to talk to at work or spend time with because I have nothing in common with them. And he wants me to drop everything and come running. Where is the witch that you can spend time with? He is pissed because I don't want to join his bowling team. I have carpal tunnel and can't hold a bowling ball let alone throw one, I hate bowling! I did it in college and I am over it. I don't want to spend my one day off with a bunch of old people BOWLING!!!!

His brillant solution to my being crabby………… YOU JUST NEED TO BE HAPPY!!!!! WHAT THE HELL? Can someone please tell me how you snap your fingers and are just happy?
Because I work so much, I have no free time, and the only time I have with my friends is on the phone for 10 minutes for me to hear about all the fun they had over the weekend, which I could not do because I was at work. I don't know how I am going to pay my bills every months, and still have enough to just do something with my daughter or let her do something with her friends. I have been divorced for 6 years, and just ended a relationship with a huge loser who drained me emotionally and made me feel so bad about myself I don't want to get out of bed, but the best part is…. .He won't go away! Just when I start to feel better and maybe just smile, he calls! Or shows up at my house to say HI! Let's not forget we work togther at part-time job! YIPPEE! In the last 7 months, since ending the relationship, I have been asked out 7 times, any guesses on how many times I have been stood up? HOW ABOUT 7! So, basically, my money situation……screwed, my family situation……screwed. My time to relax….. don't have any, My social life……screwed, My love life….. screwed, my health… take a guess….Screwed!

Someone please tell me how I snap my fingers and poof I am happy? I am not focused on being crabby, I am just focused on getting by at this point. HAPPY would be nice.