Insomnimusing: Allons-y!

I'm starting to think sometimes, "why did I do this?" I REALLY needed the pay increase, for one. That might even have been the biggest one. But I also needed to FEEL something more about my work. I'd been sort of dying off inside before. Now, though, I do question the wisdom in it sometimes. It's been - what? - three weeks now? Or is it four? Nearly every day's been upward of 12 hours. Most right about 13. And those are packed hours, too. The time flies because it doesn't stop for a minute. In fact, minutes overlap. Things have to be done at the same time, or I even have to be in two places at once. And it doesn't end. This week is going to be brutal, and I'm only working three days. Off today, although I went to shoot a parade for work. Tomorrow - almost certain to be hell. Wednesday, off, but wondering if I really will be off. Thursday and Friday - work. I'm expected to do so much - then I'm thrown two more. When I start dropping balls,

I took the girls on their first flight today! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Oh this really IS a flashback! I don't think I'd heard this song since HIGH SCHOOL! It's Danger Danger's "Naughty, Naughty"!!!!!

Man, I used to LOVE this song! It's Aldo Nova's Fantasy! Life is just a fantasy....

Where have I been? Well, I've been at work every waking hour, or close to it. I've put in minimum 13-hour days almost two weeks solid now. But I'm still loving it. Meanwhile, most of my readers have abandoned me. I don't blame them. I've been extremely neglectful. I have three (completely separate) blogs, and I give THIS one the most attention. So you can only imagine how my other ones are doing. I might will be adding a fourth blog for work. You know I love this one. I have a more emotional tie to it than either of my others. I've had it much longer. And I really don't want to see it die. I am hoping that things will be easier next week, so I'll have more time to spend here - oh yeah, and with my kids too. ;) Why will next week be better? We started our new paginator this week. She's been in training, which is why my days have been longer, because I and the editor have been building all of the pages for the paper. We've also been writing most o

I got my new Blackberry today. It's cute. It's pink. It's activated, but I'm transferring my phone number from my old phone, and my old phone company hasn't deactivated the number yet. Probably because customer service is only available during regular office hours now. Pathetic. Anyway, the web browser and e-mail are working,so I'm still getting to play around with it a lot. So I ask you... what are the best Blackberry applications? Specifically free ones. I don't want to put a lot of garbage on my new toy. So I want to know which Blackberry apps you actually use all the time and love. And if you could, tell me what's so great about them. I was required to get a Blackberry or some sort of smart phone for work, so now I want to get as much bang out of my nifty little device as I can get. By the way, does anyone know if I can watch streaming football (soccer, for the uninitiated) on this gizmo? A web site address that's got video compatible with the br

I had to do it. :) This week's Flashback Friday is Henry Lee Summer's "I Wish I Had a Girl."

It's been a long week, but it's flown by. Does that make sense? I've had ridiculously long days in the office this week - one was fourteen and a half hours. But I'm loving it. I'm exhausted. My house and my kids are being neglected. But I just FEEL happier. Tomorrow's going to be a rough one though. Next week too. After that though, I'm hoping that everything will be in order, and I can get back to some semblance of normal life. I'll reintroduce myself to my kids, and all will be well.

Fourteen and a half hours at work today. Frickin' exhausted. Bed. Now.

Well, I started my new job this week, and although I'm incredibly busy and working very long hours, I'm actually really loving it. :) I spent Monday at my old office, then Tuesday, I went in to the new job. The morning started out with our weekly editorial meeting. I felt like I was pretty well received. As soon as I got out, I found that I had a message from the school saying Munch's tooth was hurting. (I'd had an appointment scheduled at the dentist for her on Thursday, but apparently, it was not going to wait any longer.) So I called and scheduled an appointment for her for Tuesday, then I called the school and said I'd pick her up. So, I'm called out of the office already on my first day. Munch had to get a “baby root canal.” She goes back for a permanent filling next Tuesday. My mom will take her for that. I returned to the office while Pooh watched the girls. Stayed until about 8 p.m. Wednesday I was back in my old office again in the morning (they had a f

Flashback Friday with Roger Hodgson's Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy). I have to tell you, one verse of this song went through my head for YEARS, and it drove me nuts that I couldn't remember the artist or the name of the song or find any reference to it anywhere at all. Yet again, Google comes to my rescue! Enjoy the flashback! Hope someone else remembered this one too....