A little bit of randomness for your Friday...I am heading home, with the guy (interesting, fun, and descriptive term of reference to come...if I can think of one that does proper justice), to introduce him to the parents and help work a few yearlings tomorrow morning.My new roommate for two weeks, and tenant after that, moved in last night and we got everything solidified, and I am super-excited/relieved/happy/breathing normally again now that I can check getting my house rented off the to-do list. Renting it to a great ag-gal who is really nice and lots of fun is just a great big bonus in my opinion.I'm starting to feel my age again, and am just so thankful for how well everything is falling into place this month!They do not make enough caffeine for months like this, or chocolate.I enjoy architecture immensely, and as a result find myself snapping pictures of it from time to time. The above picture is a result of one such instantaneous whim to take a picture of an old house.I know it's not exactly straight, but try as I might I couldn't get it to look "perfect" as far as straight goes, and finally decided to just leave it a little off kilter, and try to convince myself it adds to the run down, dilapidated state it's in.I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
At my house we're all pretty excited to get out of town and do a little work this weekend. I've sensed some household members are also looking forward to rolling in disgusting dead things and chasing rabbits. I try to discourage such behavior with threats of a bath...to no avail.
My weekend has been planned for a while and includes putting on a 45 minute (?!?!?) photography presentation to an unknown number of 8-17 year old 4-h kids in Douglas Saturday morning, then continuing on home to pour calves and hang out with the family. I was cool with this because:A) There is rarely anything happening in Casper and after a few recent amazing weekends I'm sure the cool quota has been filled for a while.B) The guy (or whatever you want to call him, this is just how I distinguish him on here) is gone this weekend. He's also sick.C) There are new calves to photograph at home.D)I offered to pick up some cabinetry for the parents and deliver it.E)I will already be an hour closer to home after driving to Douglas for the photography workshop.Then this happens:A) Megan from Life of and Accidental Rhinestone Cowgirl is flying to Wyoming for the weekend and invites to Cheyenne to see her and some other fabulous girls.B)Another good friend invites me to the Leachman/CSU bull sale in Fort Collins during the day Saturday in Fort Collins.C)It would be wonderful fun to spent the day in Fort Collins and the evening/night in Cheyenne.D)Christy and friends are also going out tonight in Casper.But I cannot imagine speaking to children for 45 minutes hung over, and my mother has called repeatedly to make sure I'm actually coming (I think she really wants her cabinets and the opportunity to grill me about the guy). She has even implemented her dirtiest trick, which is having my sister ask me.All I have to say is there had better be some really cute calves and those darn kids better love my presentation
So I'm blonde and read the dates wrong and put what my day was like last week. BUT..I did a day on a ranch, so this Friday I'll stick with my life now. BTW this is off the Show us your life blog.
At 6:03 my alarm goes off. I crawl into the bathroom and emerge alive after a shower and brushing my teeth 30 minutes later. Get dressed, do my hair and makeup, eat breakfast and play with the dogs.
Somewhere between 7:25 and 7:35 I kick the dogs outside, start my truck, make a latte (yay!) and head to work.
Arrive at work around 8:00. Fire up the computer and check email, facebook, blog, and a variety of ag-related websites. Then, if it's early in the week I make phone calls, look for story ideas, conduct research and write stories. Really whatever needs to be done for the paper that day. We have a pretty good system and I much prefer weekly papers to daily ones in that regard! Some days I get to travel for interviews or meetings and that breaks up the monotony a little.
On Friday mornings I call in the corrections to the layout lady, update the classifieds on the website, put the flipping book (it should really be called the other "f" word book) on the website and go over the article sheet with Christy for the next week.
At some point I eat lunch and run some errands. Side note here- I have no idea how these town people (I am one now I suppose) do it. One hour to run all your errands. It drives me nuts that I have to list my errands by importance and it takes me all week to get them done.
Sorry, back on track. At around 5:00 pm I load up my work computer and fight traffic back to my house. Greet the dogs, change shoes grab my ipod and off we go on our walk, which takes between 30 minutes and an hour. This is my "me" time with no phone, which I could probably take since I only get a couple calls a week, and they're from my mom :)
6:30 or so we arrive back from the walk, flip on the tv, change into sweats and every other night do an ab workout and some lunges or squats. Clean and organize my house, do chores and eat dinner, which consists of whatever I scrounge up. I don't cook much since I'm never at my house and it's just me.
8:00- Either watch tv or curl up with my latest book. Sometimes drink a cup of caffeine free Lipton tea. Or, if it's Friday this is when I awake from my nap and head to the bar/concert/event going on assuming there is one.
9:30-10:00 crawl into bed, pray, and pray again that I will sleep.
Repeat 5 days a week, stir in a little (or a lot) of weekend fun and viola, my exciting life.
