Impartial Opinion needed

• Jan 22, 2008
  Current mood:confused
  
  
  Okay people.  Those of you who know us all.  ;)  We're having big arguments in my house about this picture.
  I think it's Carson.  Cade thinks it's Carson.  Jake thinks it's Cade.  Carson thinks it's Cade.
  
   
  Opinions?
• (for reference...THIS is Cade.)
  
  
  
   
  I've had both of these pictures in a frame on a shelf for the last eight years.  I refuse to believe that I have had two pictures of Cade side by side in a frame for all this time.
  Can't you SEE the mole on Carson's upper lip?  Is that my imagination?
  
   
  Seriously.  Help me.
  
   
  lmao

Things I wish

• Jan 18, 2008
  

  Current mood:bummed
  

  In no particular order....
  

  I wish my tax money would be here already.
  

  I wish important choices were clear cut and obvious.
  

  I wish it was going to be 85 degrees and sunny tomorrow.
  

  I wish Florida was close enough to drive to for a weekend.
  

  I wish I could see a Bellamy Brothers show.  Right now.
  

  I wish I could lose ten pounds while I'm sleeping.  Twice.
  

  I wish that on my playlist Jeff Bailey was singing Crying.  No offense to Roy....but omg Jeff can sing that song.
  

  I wish my kids would stop with the mono already.
  

  I wish some select parts of Robert Heinlein novels would come true.
  

  I wish I could force my kids to learn from mistakes that I already made.
  

  I wish that those adorable black shoes that I bought last week were more comfortable.
  

  I wish I had a remote to the tv in my hand so I could turn off that annoying show without standing up.
  

  I wish I could figure out why that guy from Mad Money looks so damned familar.
  

  I wish the world had all happy people, then there'd be no more wishing to do......ooohhhhhh.....    ha  I crack myself up.  Nobody is going to get that.
  

  and oh, I wish.  I wish I wish I wish.
  

Paperwork and Pills

• Jan 7, 2008
  

  Current mood:annoyed
  

  So sometimes personal business and BUSINESS business gets mixed up together, right?  It does in my life, okay?  Deal with it.  :)
  

  So I'm at work, and I'm having a 'clean off my desk day' because it's a little over due.  Between taking off for surgery and working part time for most of December and doing inventory and dealing with end of year issues in Payroll....well, my desk is a mess.
  

  So I'm going through the piles of paper sorting out worker's comp claims and insurance certificate/W9 requests from the cash audit sheets and the vehicle registrations.  I have tax levies from the IRS (on people that haven't worked here in FIVE FREAKIN YEARS!!!)  I have credit card payments that need to be posted, and I have flexplan forms/I-9 forms/insurance enrollments to deal with.
  

  In the middle of this mess, I get a call from a former employee who wonders if he missed his last check...because...are you ready?  "well, the first week I worked, you know, I didn't get a check.  Then I got paid for the last week that I worked, but since I didn't get a check the FIRST week, shouldn't I get that check now?"  So for the nine hundredth time in my life I explained that we don't actually keep the first check, we just give it to you ONE week late.  Then every week you get paid for last week.  See how that works?  so if you GOT your paycheck for the last week that you worked, then you got all your money.  Okay?  (I always wonder if the former employee on the other end of the phone line wonders what that banging sound is...it is, of course, my head hitting my desk.  Repeatedly.)  THEN he called back two seconds later to see if he could change his address for his W-2 form.  Well, of course.  Let me just get back into payroll and open up your file.  Again.  You loser.  And then he says "can I just come pick up my W-2?"  um.  it's January 7th.  IT'S NOT READY YET!!!!!
  

  Anyway.  So I have paper piled up everywhere and ninety different things going on at once and I move a pile of paper and see the personal business (empty pill bottle) that I put on my desk this morning so I wouldn't forget.  Yeah, time to refill my anti depressants.
  

   
   

  can anybody say 'cause and effect'?  :)
  

  Would you like to hear about my daughter's blown transmission?  No?  Would you like to take me out for a cherry bomb?  Call me.  ha
  

   
   

  and of course, the most appropriate way to deal with this type of problem is take a break and post a blog on myspace.....LOL
  

  
   

Nashville and fairy tales

• Oct 16, 2007
  

  In case any of you wondered, I had a really good time in Nashville.  The conference was good, the keynote speaker made me laugh and got stupid songs stuck in my head....I learned some good things in some of the sessions....and I got a good nap one day when there were only useless sessions right after lunch.  :)
  

  I spent some time walking around on Broadway listening to music (yeah, like the t-shirt said "I went bar-hopping on Broadway").  Good stuff.  I saw a guy that almost won Nashville Star.  LOL
  

  I saw the Country Music Hall of Fame (cool) and the Opry Mills Mall (just a damn mall) and I got to sit and look at a river for a while. 
  

  I came home in time to make it to the Bellamy Brothers show, which was awesome!  I got to hang and talk to the band guys a little, and I did get some pictures with them (I told you so!!!!) but I haven't processed them yet.
  

  Lazy me.  :)
  

   
   

  Hey, I was a little bored one night in the hotel, so I started writing a story.  A fairy tale.  Tell me what you think.....
  

   
   

  Once upon a time in a land far away there was a beautiful princess who was perfectly happy with her life, and then she met a prince.  She kissed him, and he turned into a frog.  So she left.  Then he stopped paying his child support, and now he owes her eleven thousand dollars.  and she's living happily ever after without him, even though she can't afford to pay her bills anymore.
  

  ha
  

The Bellamy Brothers

• Sep 19, 2007
  

  Current mood:silly
  

  Yeah, so I'm a little obsessed, so what?  :)  I was just posting my pictures, and I'm a little dissatisfied with my ability to put captions under the pictures.  I mean, I put some captions on there, but I can never say what I want.  I guess I should add pictures to my blog, that would be better.  ha
  

  See, here's the thing.  There are no pictures of Michael Tucker (the drummer) and you can look at my pictures all day long and most of you will never notice that lack, but it makes me mad.  I like Michael.  He's my favorite-ist drummer ever.  (yeah, he's better than Tico was back in the day. )  But it's so freaking hard to get a good picture of him because for ONE thing he's always at the back of the stage.  (imagine that, a drummer being at the back of the stage....) and for ANOTHER thing he's usually behind one of those um, things that they use for drummers.  LOL  Man, am I doing a good job explaining this.  But you know what I mean.  The plexiglass or whatever it is little whatever that makes the lights shine weird when you try to take a picture,  THEN there's the thing where he throws his hair around.  Now sure, that's part of what I like about him.  Mike (you don't mind if I call you Mike, do you?) Mike has some truly great hair...and I love the way he tosses it around while he's playing....but it doesn't help the picture taking opportunities much.  I did get some pictures in Ruidoso...of his hair covering his face...but they are so dark you can barely see who it is.  :(
  

  but it's okay, cause I have a plan.  (insert evil laugh here)
  

  so the Bellamys are coming to Lubbock on Oct 12, and I'm gonna be there.  In case none of you realize the depth of my desire to see this show AGAIN, let me just tell you this.  I'm going to be in Nashville for a few days in October for a payroll conference...so I have a free trip to Nashville. (well, okay...technically it isn't free, it's pretty freaking expensive, but I'M not paying for it....so, you know..free.)   The conference ends on Friday afternoon.  The airfare home is actually so much cheaper on Saturday than it is on Friday that I could have kept the hotel room for one more night and still saved money, it would have been cheaper to spend Friday night in Nashville.
  

  Friday night in Nashville, people.  But no.  I'm coming home - on the more expensive flight (that I'm not even paying for) so that I'll be home in time to see the Bellamys.  So I'll wake up in Nashville, and fly home and go to the Wild West.  It'll be a little culture shock, but I can take it.  :)
  

  and the plan?  Well, I'm taking my camera to the show, and I'm going to get some pictures of these people....BEFORE they get on the stage.  Not that I intend to be a pest or anything, but honestly, these guys love me.  Really.  They do.  (yeah yeah, i'm rolling in the floor.  I'm not actually delusional, okay?  stop worrying)  But here's the thing, they've seen me enough times that they recognize me.  Not recognize in the 'oh look!  There's Kathy!!!' kind of way....more in a 'oh look...there she is again' kind of way.  :)  But Michael knows my name.  We've had actual conversations.  The Bellamys aren't even the first band he's ever been in that I loved, so there!  I'm a Michael fan from WAY back.  Like when Jake was in diapers - and he's turning 21 in two days.  (that's a whole different blog right there)
  

   
   

  anyway.  Michael doesn't think i'm totally nuts, and he talks to me.  And Randy talks to me.  Randy even gives me hugs when it's time to go.  (and once he kissed me from the stage but I'm not gonna talk about that because YOU might misunderstand and think I'm a groupie, and I'm not)  Wally smiles at me, and he waves sometimes.  Like when we're all in the same hotel and we see each other in the parking lot.  Speaking of being in the same hotel, I ran into Larry at the elevator, and he was friendly too, and he smiled and waved from the stage later, so SEE!!! They love me.  (they don't run and hide, therefore they love me.)  work with me here, people. 
  

  so the plan is I'll take my camera and when I get to the show I'll find the guys and say, 'hey, honey....can I get a picture with you?' and without fail they will smile and say ' of course!!  I'd love that! Will you e-mail me a copy?'  and there you go...I'll have pictures of me and Randy and me and Wally and me and Larry and me and Michael...you see where I'm going with this?
  

  Now - I would love...truly LOVE to have a picture with David and Howard too, but that's a little harder.  They spend a little less time walking around in the bar before the show, you know? Now they are very friendly and relatively open to meetings...I actually got them to pose for a picture once already...a long time ago....but before you start thinking I'm greedy, let me explain.
  

  I went to Clovis and saw them play at the Dairy Fest.  When the show was almost over I ran to the back of the stage and when they came down I asked if i could get a picture,and David said "sure."  Actually it was like a fairly long almost discouraging pause, then 'sure', but I'll take what I can get.  So I say 'thank you....' and I turn around to hand the camera to my son, and my son is not there.  Not one of my sons was there.  I mean, all three of them were THERE...somewhere...but not close to me.  Those ungrateful little turds.  (jk jk jk)  But they have deserted me in my time of need.  So I hand my camera to one of the security guys (nice job, btw...stand there and watch while the crazy lady bothers the stars....) and ask him to take the picture. David and Howard stand there nicely, with their arms around me (hehehehe) and the dude looks at the camera and scrunches up his face and I explain how it works (um, look at the big window on the back, and when it looks good, push the button on top)  and he stands there and looks, and he pushes the button, and I tell David and Howard thank you SO much and they go off and get on the bus.  Then I look at the picture. There's not a face in it.  Seriously, not one face.  Three people, not one face. Actually, he didn't even get Howard in the picture at all. It's me and David, from shoulders to hips.  JUST the memory I was looking for.  geez.  How can you not know how to work a digital camera?
  

  So I need to try this again, in a more controlled atmosphere...with Calvin holding the camera, maybe.  But how to get them to stand still again....there's the dilemma.  Now of course, if Michael, who for some reason has my myspace url were to actually LOOK at this page, and say he even took the time to read my blog (and decide that I AM crazy after all, and maybe he shouldn't talk to me anymore....or maybe he'd just think I'm funny) but just SAY he took the time to look me up and read my blog, and say while they're on the bus riding down the highway he might say something like 'hey guys, we all need to get pictures with Kathy tonight in Lubbock...David, Howard...she wants a pic with you guys, so make it happen, okay?'  I mean, it COULD happen, right?
  

  It could too.  shut up.
  

  I'm going to stop rambling now and go to bed.  But just in case Michael or Randy is really reading this...(LMAO) I seriously need some pictures, okay? and hey, could you get David to sing Persuaded again?  I've totally given up on She's Gone With the Wind, I'm not even asking for Highway of Regret, don't really expect to hear Life is a Beach...but come ON!  Persuaded shouldn't be that much of a stretch.  I haven't heard Rip Off the Knob in an awfully long time either.  :)  Really, I'm leaving now.  (and no, I don't really believe that anybody is still reading.  you bunch of damn lightweights.)
  

Headlines

• Aug 22, 2007
  

  Current mood:content
  

  I like headlines. I'm a girl who has gone through life threatening to put everything I think on a t-shirt so people CAN read my mind. The problem with that is I change my mind too often. 
  

  Vince's headline is "I'm SOFA KING tired". I'd steal that from him if I didn't mind being a stealer. But, you know, I kind of do. I don't mind stealing lines from songs or phrases from books or (currently) a quote from a sign hanging on a wall in Lincoln, NM…but I draw the line at stealing a headline from a guy that lives on the next block. So although I am, indeed, sofa king tired…my headline will never say that.
  

  It might say some of these things someday. Um, does it make me a dork to have a file of 'headlines I might use someday'? Do I care??? Not so much.
  

  So…..possible future headlines.
  

  A lot of love and a little laughter, you'll find out that's all that really matters.
  

  If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.
  

  Faith makes things possible. Not easy. (and Nikki used that one, but it wouldn't be stealing, cause she stole it from me. LOL)
  

  Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln
  

  If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
  

  What's the definition of an impotent loser? A guy who can't even get his hopes up.
  

  Flies spread disease -- keep yours zipped.
  

  A waist is a terrible thing to mind….
  

  I thought I wanted a career, turns out I only wanted paychecks.
  

  And like Carson says….. I wish my grass was emo, so it would cut itself.
  

   
   

Sloganizing

Aug 10, 2007

Seriously, you should probably just skip this.  I haven't even written it yet, and I'm telling you to skip it.

Unless you are as tired and confused and desperate and desperately tired as I am...you probably won't think this is funny.  But it's making me laugh, and that's good enough for me.

:)

So I'm playing with the little sloganize website, and I did my name and it was fun and whatever.  But (as you all know) I'm currently obsessed with the Bellamy Brothers, I decided to sloganize Bellamy.

 
 

And I'm having some fun now (see, if YOU were obsessed with the Bellamy Brothers, you would know why THAT is funny.  But you don't, and I'm not telling.)

 
 

So here are my Bellamy slogans.  I may get some t-shirts.  LOL

Wouldn't you like to be a Bellamy too?

So Easy, no wonder Bellamy is 1

More than just a Bellamy

Bellamy, take me away

Nobody does it like Bellamy

All Bellamy, all the time.  (HEY!!!  That's like my cd player.)  :)

Probably the best Bellamy in the world.

Do the Bellamy

Tonight, let it be Bellamy

Choosy mothers choose Bellamy

Get the Bellamy habit

It's Bellamy time.  (and when isn't it Bellamy time?)

Get Serious.  Get Bellamy

Great Bellamy.  Great Times.

Things go better with Bellamy

What would YOU do for a Bellamy?

Show me the Bellamy!!

Feel the Bellamy

Get back your 'ooo' with Bellamy

I want my Bellamy

Nothing works better than a Bellamy

Nobody better lay a finger on my Bellamy

The Bellamy for all ages.

Bellamy really satisfies.

Try Bellamy, you'll like it.

All you need is a Bellamy and a dream.

You've always got time for Ballamy

If only everything in life was as dependable as a Bellamy .   (sigh, I can only WISH that was true)

okay, enough of that.

 
 

and I didn't even mention the one that said Making Bellamy taste better.....

 
 

ha.

 
 

I need help.  I need serious help.