yawn...

With so much needing to be done at work,I dislike the fact that I am forced to take a vacation day when I don't want to. I am allowed to accumulate 363 hours total and when I checked my pay stub last week I was at 356. I earn 6.5 hours time every 2 weeks,so it was a case of use it or lose it. So here I am at home,cleaning,when I would rather be working on what needs to be done at work. And every 2 weeks, I'll have to use another day...until things settle down a bit at work around mid-June and I can use a few days at a time without feeling like I'm swamping Tracy.

Speaking of Tracy...she just bought her very own house Monday :) I'm soo happy for her. It has a large,empty backyard-and Tracy loves gardening (unlike yours truly,who only works with plants as a career and not a hobby) It's a cute little 2 bedroom house perfect for one person with 1 dog and 3 cats. And the best part for her (and me)....it's on the same street as the nursery! She can walk to work in 5 minutes. So in winter when there's bad road conditions, I won't feel so pressed to risk life and limb so someone can be at the greenhouse. Also,she can be the first called when the alarm system goes off in the middle of the night. She's cool with that cuz it's 4 hours pay,even if you're only there 5 minutes.

Sunday night was fun...karaoke pajama party, and I won 20 bucks for best pj's! And Lisa (who runs karaoke with her hubby Jim) started a contest of sorts to find me a nickname. Most of the regular singers who go bar to bar with them have nicknames and I told her that I was getting tired of being just plain old Mary,find me something lively,catchy and witty. So far we have...
Bruce's Love Slave-I think NOT!!!
or 2 others based on the fact that hubby is a Frank Zappa fan (which has what to do with me?,hubby doesn't even sing)
Yo Mama
Baby Snakes- I kinda like this one,even though I've never heard the song...it sounds kinda like baby cakes.
or maybe the Scratster, since I adore the Ice Age character Scrat so much, I have one stuck on the dashboard of my truck.We'll see.....
fraidy,out......

finally gettin warmer

which is good and bad.....first the good
Bru can finally get his butt off the couch and onto his motorcycle
I can get the wreck of a yard cleaned up
I can drive without a coat on
my furnace can take an occassional break
I can fire up the grill again
the dogs can stay outside and sleep in the sunshine

the bad
since I'm only wearing t-shirts at work,I have to dig out my bras again and wear them
I have to clean up the yard
Bru can get out on his motorcycle
This year,my one project I hope to complete is painting the green garage to match the brown house
No whitewash on the greenhouses yet,so most of the workday when it's sunny,is blown by having to water instead of getting something accomplished
I either have to clean the grill,or go get a new one
In another 3 months,I'll be whining about how hot it is
In another 4 months,I'll be looking at poinsettias again (but on the bright side..I only have nine more poinsettia crops to grow before I retire)

monday,monday

And glad to be back at work,as there is way to much to do this week and not enough time to get it all done. I got babies coming in by the 1000's and no pots filled to put them in. I'm behind on fertilizing and what has been planted is looking a tinge on the pale side....but hey I only have 2 hands and 8 hours a day to get things done,so I'm not gonna stress out over it.I'll take this mountain down one pebble at a time.

Did absolutely nothing all weekend. Except something I haven't done since I was a kid. I put my jammies on Friday night, and stayed in them until Sunday morning. It was great! I'm sure Miss Klass wouldn't agree,since the poor dear has had to spend too much time in bed already.Here's hopin you get back in the saddle soon girlfriend!

And hey hey Jan...hope that bun comes out of the oven soon. I know you can't wait to get back to your man and give him some TLC.

The mega-millions lottery is at 375 million (of course I bought 5 bucks worth of tickets) I told my 2 co-workers if I win, I'll give them each 3 million to walk in the office with me and quit on the spot.That gave us a few laughs for the day just thinking of the stupidvisor's expression if it really did happen.
Well time for me to go make housewife like and toss that chicken/mandarin orange salad for dinner.(Damn oven's broke again so having to get creative on non-baked dinner ideas.)