Been a while...

I've been such a bad blogger :( Work has been crazy and I have had absolutely no motivation to post anything... or read any one's blogs for that matter.

Thanks to the lovely economy our business has plummeted!!! Everyone received a 10% pay cut a couple months back with the promise that it would return to normal in June. Hum... not foreseeing that to happen now. A few weeks ago we (the three recruiters) were put the part time every 3rd week. Next week is my part time week. I don't mind the 20 hours... that part is kind of nice. It's the 1/2 paycheck that follows that sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! No clue how long this will last. Maybe until the fall or the first of next year. Keep your fingers crossed that business will pick up soon.

Punky and I disassembled our deck and moved it up against the house!! OMG that was a huge undertaking. I've been in pain for a week... and yesterday was the worst of it. The muscle relaxer I took last night seems to help a bit today. We have it all level and just need to screw down the deck boards on top. That will have to wait thanks to the rain that's supposed to come in. Fucking rain... I'm so sick of it. We actually broke records here for the most consecutive days with rain... and I heard we beat out Seattle. WTF! Crazy stuff. It's been so nice this past week but I knew better than to get used to it.

The pool has been a huge thorn. The covers we got when we tried to close the pool last year would never stay on... so it's been exposed all winter long. UGH! Punky tried to get as much green gunk out as she could, but I ended up borrowing AS's wet/dry shop vac yesterday and sucked the rest of the nastiness out. Then I filled it up with a bit of water to let the caked on shit soak and loosen up before I scrubbed the hell out of it with our shop broom. That about killed me. Then I had to go back and suck all the water out of it again. I spent 4 hours on that damn thing... hence the back issues. I swear I feel like an old lady anymore. I had every intention of going to the grandparents house today to help Dad with the yard, but I'm not sure if I will screw up my back even more or not... I'll have to ponder that one.

I'm just about finished reading the Twilight Saga for the 4th time.... or is it the 5th time? Hell I can't even remember. All I know is I'm completely addicted!! Total Twihard here :) The filming of the sequel New Moon is about to wrap up and then they will start filming the third installation, Eclipse in the fall. They still haven't decided if they will make the 4th book, Breaking Dawn, into a movie yet. I can understand their delima though... there are some things that would be hard to portray correctly... but geeze-o-petes.... they can't leave us hangin.

I made a new page today on Shutterfly. Another site that I'm sure I will have trouble keeping up with. I had no clue it could double as a blog. I like it so far - but we'll see how long this lasts. I'm not sure if I will use the blog part of it though... I just like how you can layout the albums and create an actual web-page looking thing.

YAY YAY YAY... 2 more weeks until my niece is here. It's been like 4 years since we've seen her. Well, everyone except bro. The visit is long overdue. I'll be on part time that week she's here so it works out. Punky wanted to get the deck moved and the pool up and running for when she's here... maybe it will be warm enough to swim? If not we can use the fabulous fire-pit Punky got us last year and make smores. Yum... I might have to have one :)