Go D'Backs! ** I'm outta here in a few, and off to the 1:00 p.m. baseball game. I've got my Purple Power shirt and my rattle ready to go. If they lose today, my day will just be ruined. So please pray for victory! Talk at you all tomorrow!
Posted 11:46 AM by Kerry O.

Rain ** Only in Phoenix can you hear young women squeal and point excitedly out the window for 15 minutes at a stretch just because it's raining. It's pouring and it's beautiful. There's this energy in the building now as we all get happy from the rain. Can I go home now?!
Posted 12:18 PM by Kerry O.

Beisbol ** Yeah, this just sucked.
Posted 11:54 AM by Kerry O.

Girls' Names ** Yes, I know, this is baby stuff. But I don't have comments on the baby blog, so I have to do it here. Tell me which spelling of the girls' names below you like best. When I was a kid, I decided my first daughter would be "Ceili" the Irish word for party (also known in Scottish gaelic as "Ceilidh" but that's really confusing). As I got older I realized that she would be called "See-lee" with that spelling not "Kay-lee" like it's supposed to be. So, even though I still prefer that spelling, I have to be a realist. So..... Which one's best. Morgan's the middle name. No, I don't know I'm having a girl (won't know girl/boy until next Wednesday). I just want to be prepared! :-)

Cailey Morgan, Caillie Morgan, Ceili Morgan, Caylee Morgan, Cailee Morgan, Caileigh Morgan, Caylie Morgan, Cailie Morgan, Caily Morgan, Cayly Morgan, Kaylee Morgan, Kayleigh Morgan, Kaily Morgan, Kaillie Morgan, Kailee Morgan, Kayly Morgan, Kailee Morgan
Posted 9:39 AM by Kerry O.

Dream yourself a merry little Christmas ** Ahhhhhhh. The Neiman Marcus Fantasy Christmas catalog is out. I love this catalog. I think I want the action figures this year. I always wanted to have my own action figure.
Posted 3:49 PM by Kerry O.

Bye bye, Summer ** By the way, it is a perfect day to live in Phoenix. There's a gentle breeze, it's in the upper 80's and simply heavenly! We had a company picnic outside at lunchtime today, and it couldn't have been more beautiful. If only it could stay like this forever.......
Posted 3:09 PM by Kerry O.

Oh... my... goodness... gee... whiz... ** Hrm. Yeah, it's a long story but when I got the job offer for this place, it said in writing we'd get quarterly bonuses based on caseload and performance. Then, at the end of the year we found out they were taking those away (before I ever really got a substantial one), and going to annual bonuses instead. People were livid, but we've all gotten used to the idea now. We found out today that this Friday we will be given kind of interim bonuses to soften the blow of the lost quarterly ones. They range from a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand. Yeah, baby. She called me in....... it's definitely a BIG surprise! It makes this Friday's paycheck like a triple paycheck! I'm sure it will be taxed to high hell and I'll get $10 of it. But holy cow!!! If that doesn't make your day, nothing can!
Posted 9:53 AM by Kerry O.

Now that's unique ** I come up when you search for moose farts. My life is complete.
Posted 8:43 AM by Kerry O.

Cosmic bitching ** Thanks, you guys, for the happy words yesterday. I really did feel great last night, knowing that it was done, and this morning knowing I won't be dodging it today. Of course, the person I sent it to still hasn't responded about how I did, but she's been very very busy. So, no worries. The first part of the solution for project B just happened to land in my lap last night. Project B is fixing the Mazda so we can sell it and pay off the Metro. With my father's help, my car spent months getting completely fixed, re-done and re-painted, ready to sell. The only thing left to do was charge the A/C. So, I charged the A/C one weekend about a month ago. Then I decided to drive it up to the gas station and put fuel injector cleaner in it, since the same gas had now been in it for months! I drove it up to the gas station, filled it up, got back in, and... nothing. Car won't start. The battery gauge comes up when I turn the key, but no crank, no tick, nothing. I had the piece of crap towed back to my house and I promptly chose in anger to forget it existed until this past weekend when I called my dad for help.

He called me last night, out of the blue, and said he was coming by this afternoon to check it out. Phew. Project B is in motion. Thank you, Daddy!!!
Posted 8:41 AM by Kerry O.

Getting there ** Project A is almost done. And it is actually turning out to be pretty good. That helps the ego a little!
Posted 11:56 AM by Kerry O.

Cranky ** I'm not in a very happy mood today. I don't even really care that I'm not in a very happy mood today. Lately, I've been in one of those funks. It happens to me every great once in a while (maybe once a year), pregnant or not. I just go through this brief phase that's almost like depression. I'm not sad about anything, I'm just unmotivated, uninspired and generally useless. When I go through this phase, it starts with avoiding some chore or outstanding thing I don't wan to do. It can be an overdue phone call, or a class I need to take, or a project for work. Anything. One day after another, I procrastinate and put it off. Then, as new things come down the pike that need to be done, I procrastinate on them too. My justification comes from the mental games I play with myself: I can't do projects B, C, or D because I still haven't finished project A. But I never want to get around to project A, because now I've procrastinated too long and it's going to suck. Which pisses me off, because I know I can do better and I'm going to let other people down.

Then I start to feel really stupid, that I put off even project A, let alone projects B, C, and D. So I get stressed out (and I very very rarely ever get stressed out, so this is foreign to me), and emotional, and I really start to beat myself up for getting in this position in the first place. The real problem point is the window of time when I still don't feel like doing anything, I feel like crap about it, but I still haven't gotten motivated to fix it. Well, I'm coming out of that problem point right now, and I'm trying to tackle projects A, B, C, D (and E, F, G......) in order and get them done. I know I'll feel better when I've gotten through it and I can relax again.

[yes, I edited this to remove the rant about my wonderful husband. I love him, even when I'm mad at him, and I don't want the world to think he's evil just because I bitched about him today. So this little bit is really not all that important...]

To start my morning off in a great way, I forgot some papers for project A (which does happen to be a work project) at home, so after I got gas for the car, I swung back by home to pick them up. DH asks me, "Did you forget something?" Yes, obviously, I did. I get the papers, and he actually asks as I'm leaving again, "Are you sure you didn't forget anything else?" One of those looks from me, and he says, "Whaaat?" Nevermind. Yeah, this is going to be a fabulous week.
Posted 9:25 AM by Kerry O.