can't catch zzzzzzz's

I'm asking for help...

How does everyone nap? I have yet to find the appropriate way to do it. I can never time it right or find the right location.

This is frustrating because I need them lately.

Party on Wayne

I can not contain my excitement! We've been having a contest at work through Samsung. All we do is sell Samsung products, report our sales, and earn points! Everything I have entered for Jan-May has given me 300 points. Saturdays are slow at work so I started going through June sales....

2000 POINTS FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!! I've been trying to save them, but I had to spend today! I've gotten a book here and some shoes there, but I was a big spender today! I got a guitar! Black with blue flames! How rockstar is that?!

I have no idea how to play the guitar hehe! So looks like I'm going to be giving my new buddy Brent a call for some lessons! I will let you all know how it goes!

Summertime At Last

So I woke up this morning in a funk (and not because I haven't showered in two days). I had a fear that my alarm clock wouldn't go off so I was waking up every two hours to check the time. Finally, at 6, I decided not to go back to bed. This week has been very stressful. I got back from New Orleans late Saturday night. Sunday was spent unpacking, developing pictures, and talking to Growth Group. Monday I had class in the morning, chaperoned my boss's sons field trip, then class again in the evening. Tuesday work all day. Wednesday class in morning, work, class in evening. Thursday work all day then class. I just couldn't face the day this morning. I needed EMILY time. So I called my boss (who is the world's greatest) and told her that I wouldn't be in. As I laid in bed I started thinking about Milah's blog about her front porch. I knew exactly what I needed to do with my day. So I grabbed a broom and started sweeping!
Doesn't sound like too much fun for a day off, but it needed to be done. Our front porch gets put away every winter. The furniture that fills it is very aged and needs a lot of TLC. So every mother's day we get everything out, hose it down, and piece it back together. For some reason that didn't get done this year. I was always too busy to help. Amy was never in town the same time Mom was. And so on....

As I unpacked everything from the block garage and hauled it up to the house, I start smiling. I've always been jealous of those people who remember everything. Everytime I start to think I have no childhood memories God throws something at me to spark it. Like the hideous yellow elephant table with removable top. I used to carry that thing around the porch and take everybody's orders. Then go inside to prepare the "food". Or the wicker chairs that I wanted to paint one year, but Grandma insisted that "ALL the wicker was to remain white!"
After the windows are cleaned, carpets vaccummed, and WHITE wicker is dusted, I stare at the finished product. It looks the same as it did the first time I ever laid eyes on it. Summer has begun and my funk is gone.

Say Cheeeeeese!

So I had to get another new camera....

Not everyone knows my camera stories so I will make this really short. The first digital camera I bought was a 3 megapixel (which is what my phone has now) and was roughly $300. I put it in layaway at Wal-Mart for as long as they would keep it. I had a good run with that camera until it was stolen. Right out from under my nose! It was on the table one minute and the next it was gone :(

Camera numero dos was a christmas present from mom. It lasted until Easter. It still works. The screen is just shattered. Kind of defeats the purpose of a digital camera! I'm not pointing fingers, BUT when I took my memory card out to get pictures developed, the last image was of Audra taking a self portrait...

On to number 3. I told myself when I got my tax stimulus back I was going to get a camera. It had been a long year without one. I was dependent on others to make copies, upload, or burn cd's for me long enough! So Friday morning when that check was in my account, I was in Sears. Kodak has always been good to me so I picked one out. The price on the display was $169.99, which was in my range. When the man grabbed it from the back the tag on the box said $101.97! So I bought a 2GB card and the extended warranty.

Good thing.

The camera wouldn't charge, wouldn't transfer pictures...NOTHING! So I call my ex brother-in-law (because he is a genius and can explain things at my level) and NOTHING again! So the next day I get to work, check my email, and he sent me a link. 12 PAGES ON GOOGLE ABOUT HOW AWFUL MY CAMERA IS!!!!!! I just need it to get me through New Orleans, and I will do something about it when I get back. It died on Wednesday :(

So camera number 4 is red and I will keep you posted.

R.I.P. George Carlin

1. I don’t have pet peeves — I have major psychotic hatreds!
2. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
3. Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
4. I wanna live. I don’t wanna die. That’s the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.
5. If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
6. No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.
7. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
8. The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
9. Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
10. I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
11. I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
12. When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.
13. Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
14. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them; I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
15. I’ve never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.
16. One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired.
17. In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
18. “One thing leads to another”? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
19. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
20. I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
21. Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
22. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
23. So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.