My iphone is slowly dying..

It's not a problem with the battery.  It's not a problem with the phone.  It's the fact that we have had our iphones over two years and Apple has come out with newer versions.  We are no longer in a contract with AT&T, it's been long enough that we could move on if we chose to. 

Bit by bit, our iphones are dying.  First, it was our Weather Channel application.  It kept crashing.  I deleted it.  Clicked on the app store icon.  Found the application again.  Clicked install.  Boop!  Error message.  "This app requires an upgrade".  Really?  Umm.  K.  Nah.  Not ok.    : (.. 

Next, I decided that I needed new games.  Boop.  "This app requires the ios4".  Really?  Whatever.  Next.  Again.  And again.  And again.  Finally got a few ancient games to load.  I'm only finding one or two games that don't require the brand spankin, been out on the market for a month or so iphone.

Now?  Facebook.  Crash.  Crash.  Crash..  Nooooo..  Not my facebook.  Crash.  Ugggghhhh.  Crash.  crash.crash.crash.  Dang it.  Delete.  App Store.  Social Networking.  Facebook.  Boop!  Noooo!  I can no longer add the Facebook application without upgrading to the new phone.  Really? 

My iphone still functions.  It still works.  : (..  The phone still makes and receives calls.  It still sends and receives emails.  The calculator still calculates.  The apps?  They are slowly dying.  One app at a time.  Sigh. 

I am suffering Facebook withdrawals.  Especially when dh is sleeping and I can't get on the 'puter at home.  I am addicted to the electronic convenience to which I have become accustomed to. 

Soo.  DH has already decided that it's finally time to "upgrade".  To another iphone?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  Lol.  Yay.  I don't know if I want to do this again within two years when Apple upgrades to the iphone 5.  I'm keeping my ears and eyes open to other people talking about their phones.  Samsung?  HTC?  Blackberry?  Hmm.  The possibilities are endless.  Thankfully.  Sigh.  : (..

Even my Pandora app (which I love Pandora and my, "Susie Blue" channel) started bugging out yesterday.  I was stressed enough without that.  Lol.  Started to play Pandora, it would play about 30-40 seconds of a song and then...  freeze.  Really?  : (..  nooooo.  ugh.  dang it.  : (..

Curse you Apple!  : (..

sigh.

Time for a new phone though!

Yay!  : )..

Longest.. Week... Ever....

Lol.  So, how can short weeks seem like the longest week ever?  Sheesh.  I'm tempted to let my inner child loose to do her little "I don't wanna work anymore..." dance.  Ugh.  One more lonnnng day to go.  Whew.  I actually have the entire weekend off this time, despite the fact that my group home co-worker was hinting around that I could definitely work her overtime shift for her.  Yeah.  Right.  Nah.  She cut me out of being offered the shift, sooo, I didn't feel the least bit guilty about saying, NO!  : )..  Ha!  Ok.  I didn't say, "Ha!" to her, but it was there.  Lol.

Catching up on the housework and laundry this weekend though.  Joy of all joys!  Can't wait.

Perusing the Yahoo stories and found an article about the Vasquez family and three kid's version of Adele's, "Rollin in the Deep" cover.  The kids are 15, 12 and the singer is 10.

Check the video out here.  They've got a great sound and a bright future for sure.

I think the article said their father is a music producer?  Lol.

I'm betting they will be heard from soon.  : )..

December 22nd..

Sunday Shake..

I love having a milkshake maker.  : )..  And no, there were no boys that came to my yard.  Seriously, my milkshake maker has definitely paid for itself.  A little ice cream, a little caramel syrup this time, a little milk, stir it up and voila.  Yummy.  Love it.

I love a little malt in my shake, but we hadn't looked at our malt in a while.  Lol.  It was a huge lump that was impossible to work with.  That's ok though, a super ez, super yummy caramel shake sure hit the spot!  Awesome...

Ohhh Yeah..

Ohh but I was a happy camper today when I ran upon these!  I almost did a happy dance right there in the store!  Lol.  Took them to work and my co-workers did a little happy dance right there in the call center floor.  Then, I tried one. Gotta say, it disappointed me a little.  : (..  I kinda expected something like a candy apple sucker without the big honkin stick poking out of it.  These weren't hard shelled with a creamy center, they were chewy with the apple-y center.  Sigh..  Just not what I expected.  Lol.  Guess I'll stick with the suckers with the sticks.

It might be my Friday.. Yay!

Some great Pinterest pics I found..  : ).

Random ramblings for the day...

I noticed several, miserable, sniffly, sneezy, stuffed up co-workers today. Allergy season is running rampant here. Word of advice: if you have allergies, buy locally harvested honey from as close to your home and eat a spoonful a day. You will build a tolerance for the pollen in your area.

Got weeds? Apparently they don't like vinegar and water.

Husbands don't understand that even though they had the entire day off and are off tomorrow but their spouses were awake until 4am the night before and didn't get a lotta sleep, that when the sleepy spouse goes to bed because their shaggy puppies have an early morning date with the groomer and so the sleepy spouse turns out the light and ays down quietly it's not the opportune time to flick on the hall light and keep chatting away. Do they have an off button?

Lol. Umm. That's about it for now.

On a serious note however, my heart is still with the Sheley family for a tragic loss they suffered this week. My worst troubles pale in comparison and so I wish them comfort and much love and support.

Dang.. Looks like it's going to be a looong football season...

I can't decide if the Chiefs are tanking to get rid of a coach or what is going on. I guess we have lost three of our big players to injuries, one of which is already out for the rest of this year? The rest of our team has turned Red Fridays into Red Sundays. Sheesh. Second game into the season and our opponents both beat us 40+ points to barely any for us. It was 48-3 today. Ohhhh. Are you ready for some football? Could you come play for us? Lol. It's.. Going.. To.. Be.. A.. Loooooooooong, long, long season. Dang. Whew. Yikes!

Crazy busy day today..

I knew today would be crazy so last nite I cooked breakfast in the crockpot using a recipe found on Pinterest. Hash browns, sausage, mozzerella and Parmesan cheese, milk, eggs, salt and pepper. Let it cook overnight and it turned out really well. Took the pups to the puppy store, went to lunch, went to a wedding (Congrats Jamie and Matt!) and made it to two birthday parties on the way home. Whew. I'm beat. : ).. Crockpots rule. And they cook a lot better than I do.

Also heard continuous barking last nite and saw that our neighbors dog Daisy had gotten loose (after being left outside all nite again) and was racing another neighbors dog up and down their fenceline. Daisy ran and ran and ran! Jackson barked and barked and barked! Our neighbors who love animals never once checked to see why their dogs were barking. I'm hoping Daisy has decided to go and fond a family who will love her but she probably laid down on their porch after all that running. She had fun though! Whew. Go Daisy!

A little holiday and vacation this weekend.. Awesome..

It's almost my Friday!  Yay.  Two more days and then I will be off for five in a row.  Whew.  I am soo ready for a mini break.  I plan on having some of these flavored with a little grenadine..  I see six of them in my immediate future.  : )..

And "Greaserama" is this weekend. It's a rat rod hot rod show where the cars aren't spit shined and trailered in because no one wants to put any miles on them, but where some of them are trailered in because they don't run.  Lol. "Good Guys" is also here this weekend, but that's where all the spit shined trailer queens take their shiny, chromed out hot rods. Check out this rat rod that was at Greaserama last year.  No fish were actually harmed during the show.  Yes, those are live goldfish in that cracked headlight. Lol. Great idea! 

Two more days..  Two more days..  Two more days..

The many moods of Jan today.

The start.  Please write me back and let me know.  K?

Umm.  Hello?

Umm.  Hellllo.  Really?

Hmm.  Reeeallllly?

(i am in no way affiliated with marvin the martian, just feelin him today)

no good deed goes unpunished

Ahh. Saturday. Finally.

Lol.  I love Big Smith out of Springfield, MO.  They are great

and this is a great video for their song, "Trash".  : )..

(btw, there is a picture of Johnny Cash's middle finger in

the midst of the clips, so if you are easily offended, you

might wanna skip this one..)

Hurricane Irene..

For all of those who are in this storm's imminent path, I hope that you will be safe and that Irene takes it easy on you.  This is the first hurricane to threaten our shores since Ike in 2008.  My mother-in-law rode Ike out by going further inland in Texas.  Luckily, her marina was protected from the storm's strength and the damage done was fixed within a short amount of time.  I hope the same can be said for those now.

ADT always starts hopping during a hurricane event.  If you have a system and are in the storm's path, believe me, we know that you are going through a chaotic and stressful event.  Please bear with us and we will help you as much as we can.  We will be there for you before, during and after as much as possible.  If we are continually calling and you are tired of hearing from us, please let us know and we can place your system on test so that we don't keep pestering you.  We want to help as much as possible.  I'm sure that I can speak for my colleagues when I say that we all wish you the best during this time. 

Yay for me.

Hmm.  Soo.  A few months ago we were in the hunt for a used vehicle.  We had a pretty good amount of money to work with, so we were lookin online and at some of the car lots.  I ran across this sweet little honey that was well within our purchase price, with money left over for whatever..

 It was a 1998 Saab 900 Convertible and it was suhweet.  I wanted it.

I would have loved to have gotten it.  : (..

 But, we have two of these and it had two doors and leather seats.  Not good for two of those.

 Soo.  This is what we got instead.  The McJackwagon.  Yay.  Yay for me.  Passes everything but a gas station.  Here it is in it's natural habitat.  Look at the mighty majestic way it rips the hose off the pump and gulps and gulps and gulps the gas.  Yay.  Yay for me.

The big "selling" points for us getting the McJackwagon instead of the suhweet Saab?  Ooooh.  Saab's require maintenance and have expensive parts and you have to buy special equipment and books to work on them or pay out of the nose to have a qualified Saab specialist to work on it.  Plus, my other half had no earthly idea how to even begin to understand the alien technology that Saab's possess.  Soo.  Subaru's are soo much easier to work on.  Mmm..  K..  Mind you, this is the same person who has spent over $21,000 to build this and rebuild a new engine for it last year...



But.  Saab's are alien technology.  Soo.  The McJackwagon picked up a front end wobble.  Lower Ball Joint.  Had to buy a manual to learn how to change said lower ball joint.  Ohh.  Fixed it.  Had to buy a special part.  Nice.  And, yay for me, I had to help.  Yay.  Yay for me.

Yay.  Sooo worth it. 

I am in such a beachy mood today. : )..

Somethin like this..

 Or this..

 I could use a little of that..

 Or somewhere with a few of these..

But, alas, it is not to be.  Sigh.  One day.  Some day.  It'll happen.  : )..
Preferably here..

Whew! Whatta breezy night!

I was sooo enjoying my last 15 minute break last night.  I sat outside about 10pm with a little breeze kickin up.  It was sooo nice and was about 76 degrees.  Just the way I like it best!  There was a little lightning off to the north, but no thunder.  Ahh.  Finally!  The breeze right before it rains.  Ohhh, how I have missed that!

Finished working at 11pm and that little lovely breeze right before it rained?  Lol.  It became 70+ mph winds, sheets of rain and a little pea sized hail.  Within an hour, it cut loose upon us.  We had about four people run in completely soaking, sopping wet.  The only thing dry on them were their insides.  Wow!  It eased up after about fifteen minutes so I decided to brave it.  Guess the storm was a slow mover, despite those heavy winds and so I caught up with it again about two miles away.  I took shelter under a banks big six lane drive thru with about five other vehicles.  Lol.  That lovely, little, wonderful breeze?  It was rocking my car like a baby's crib.  Whew.  It took me an hour and a half to make it home when usually I'm there in thirty minutes.  Dang!  So much for the little breeze right before it rains!  (it was still sooo worth it though.  it was soooo nice out there while it lasted!)

Facebook reminders rock! : )..

Facebook reminded me that one year ago today, I added a post from the Jack Johnson concert.  I loved seeing him.  He put on a such a great show, after a while he played several acoustic songs onstage by himself and then ended the show with all of his opening acts like this:

This video was shot in Salt Lake City, but it was still the same awesome version they played for us.

  By the way, I find hearts in the strangest places.  I have found a heart shaped soda stain on a table, a heart shaped water spot on my kitchen floor, heart shaped potato chips (including one this morning), but I have two that are extra special to me.  One was a little heart shaped gas smudge floating in the water that I caught on my Go Phone camera right before it dissipated and disappeared.  If I ever find the memory card for my phone, I will get that back (Trust me, I am lookin!). 

This little heart is my other favorite.  My other half was kinda irritating me on the way to the concert because he was being petulant and really didn't want to go.  He didn't "know" how awesome Jack Johnson was, even though I had played some of his music right before the show, so he was being...  Umm..  Quite the..  Umm..  Well..  My momma always said, if you don't have something nice to say..  Sooo..  We will skip that and go on to the heart.  I got out of our truck when we stopped by to meet up with friends who were going, and I found this little heart waiting for me in the street.  I always call my found hearts "a little love from up above".  It's my way of acknowledging those who were closest to me that have been lost.  So, without further ado..  Here's my Jack Johnson / Little Love From Up Above memento.  It is sooo going somewhere special.  Love it.  : )..

August 16, 2011.

I have to do what today?

Umm.  K.  Somehow, despite the fact that I knew tomorrow was the 15th of August, it never occured to me that today was already August 14th.  Don't ask me how that happened, I think it was pure denial.  Lol.  Sooo, there I was, relaxing for a couple minutes after letting the puppies outside this morning, pokin at my iphone when all of a sudden, August 14th tapped me on the shoulder and smacked me in the face.  You have to work at the group home this morning!  Helllloooo.  Wha?  Huh?  Wha?  It's the WHAT?  14th?!  Lol.  Sooo.  Yeah.  Guess I had to work this weekend after all.  It's a good thing that I have a calendar app on my main page! 

By the way, yesterday was a full moon.  Wanna know how I knew that little tidbit of information?  Umm.  I made two trips to the grocery store with our clients and there were people there who were acting bizarre that weren't a part of my group!  There were some very, very, very, very, very strange people out today.  A lot of them.  Also, I think I was in half the shopper's way, while the other half was in mine.  But the grocery store wasn't the craziest part of my day.

There had been a little commotion across the street at the group home last night at an apartment complex which has been known for trouble before (including a visit from Swat and snipers in the past, no less).  One of our clients was cleaning up around the facility (he thinks it's his job, usually cleaning up the gazebra - yup - gazebra - lol) and low and behold, he found this (see below) in the trash.  There are six empty spots.  Nice.  Great.  Awesome.  Anyway, I am not scheduled to be back there for a while.  Won't miss it a bit.  : )..  Whew.

It's Red Friday here in KC..

And that only means one thing..  Are you ready for some football?!  Chiefs!  Pre-season game numero uno.  I went in to work soooooo early this mornin so that I could get off work earlier than usual.  I paid for it, but now that I am officially kickin off my weekend, it was worth the caffeine riddled mornin that I muddled through.  Although, lol, there might be some really confused people with some very interesting QA evaluations out there this round.  Lol.  Kinda reminds me of this commercial..

Except instead of watching baseball, I think I was watching the back of my eyelids.  Zzzz.  (don't worry, i actually fixed the evals before i saved them.  lol.)

Anyway!  I'm so ready for some football!  Go Chiefs!

Ha! Procrastination schmastination..

I will be adding some craft pics shortly. Got a few things I'm workin on. : ).. It's been a pretty productive evenin. Amazing what a little caffeine can do for ya. Yay me! Procrastination has met it's match! I might be awake for a while, but by golly, it will be worth it. Yay caffeine! Awesome...

I also figured out my smart iPhone is a talented ventriloquist. Apparently it lives in Chicago, Illinois. Lol. Great. : )..