Hi Monty!

Ok, Monty reads this, I feel better now.
Monty, Boston Legal was much better last night. Did you catch it??? I don't know what happened last week. Maybe I just wasn't in the BL mood.
Had a wonderful weekend. Weather was beautiful up north. Didn't catch any sturgeon, which is ok with me. I have a picture of me and a sucker fish that I'll post later. Got some stuff done around the house, bonded with Greg's daughters. Nice.

Finished "The House of the Seven Gables". It was ok. Story was decent, Hawthorne has a tendency to go off on too many tangents for me. Don't really care for the fancy language either. Next up is another Nathaniel Branden self helper. His books have really enriched my life.

This company is a trip. Right now we are in "fund raiser" mode. For a couple of weeks every year the company pits the departments against each other to see who can raise the most money for charity. This year it is for local food pantries. There are silent auctions, lunches, breakfasts, etc. The last week of October is "Credit Appreciation week". I work in the credit department. They break us in to groups and take us out for lunch a movie and the afternoon off on one day and all week we get "food treats and other surprises." Pretty sweet.

Hellooooooooooooooooooo

Seriously does anyone read this?
Happy hour last night with a few Webex peeps. Maybe happy hour for them, unfortunatley for me, I'm PMSing. Some lady almost killed me on the way to work, I seriously almost followed her so I could chew her a new Ahole!!! Some of you may know that there are not too many more things that annoy me more than people driving like jerks in the morning. Any other time, whatever. A person's drive to work in the morning should be peaceful. Just keep a safe distance, use your blinker. Let people in. It's not that difficult.
I know, I know, negtive today! Sorry, just be glad you're reading my blog and not actually listening to me!!
Taking the day off tomorrow. Going to clean the crap out of my apartment and maybe get some work done in my gardens. Greggy and I are going to go fishing again this weekend. His daughter, Brandy's, birthday is Sunday and they're having a big hoop-de-do on Saturday. We will probably miss it though. That's ok, sounds like it is going to be more partying than I care to partake in. I do adore Brandy, however, so I will try to get together with her later.

Stuff

Tuesday. Did I mention that I hate Tuesdays? Well, today isn't so bad, so far. At least it is summery out!
Boston Legal must have new writers this year. Season premier was last night and it sucked. Oh well, at least I don't have to worry about trying to catch it every week. I watched the season premier of Fringe two Sundays ago and it was pretty cool. Sorta cheesy, but entertaining. I'm going to miss the first normal season episode tonight cuz I gotta grociery shop!
On my walk yesterday I saw one of those huge green caterpillars. The ones that are bigger than your finger. I took a picture with my phone. Cool! I love creepy-crawlies!
Planning on going Sturgie fishing again this weekend. Should be gorgeous up there now with the fall colors!
I have 3 new CDS on their way from cdnow. Yipee!

Sick

The weekend started out good. Greg and I had a delicious dinner at Solea Friday night. Saturday we worked around the house and went to a cookout at Mikey & Lindey's. Greg went home and left me and my bike at the cookout. After the cookout, The Bottle Rockets played at Cranky's. The Bottle Rockets were great, as usual, one of my favorite bands. Saw lots of people there that I haven't seen in a while had a really good time. Unfortunately, I drank too much PBR. Not only did I get sick, but I got sick. I woke up with Greg's cold this morning. I'm sure it will turn out to be a doozy too since I beat my immune system down last night.
It is 6:40 and I'm going to go get comfy on the couch. Packers play at 7 and I hope it doesn't ruin the evenings programming.
I heard a new song on slacker.com by Kasey Chambers recorded with her husband. I ordered the album so I'm excited about that. Wandering Sons have a new 6-song ep and I discovered a Two Dollar Pistols CD from their earlier days that I didn't know about. Thank goodness, new music!!

Getting Better

So, my plumbing problems are all fixed and it only cost me a couple of dollars. Yay! Not much else new around here. Going to see the Bottle Rockets at Cranky Pat's on Saturday. Hopefully annoying drunks don't cause me to leave after the first set like the last time that I saw them.
Greg has a cold, so I guess I'm next.
Getting ready to plant garlic in my gardens. I've been in contact with a good old boy from Tomah. He is going to hook me up with enough cloves to grow 50 bulbs. You plant in October.
I grew beans and tomatoes this year. Beans didn't amount to much and the tomatoes kind of sucked. Garlic in the store is usually pretty old and sucky, so I thought I'd grow my own.
Still working on perfecting the art of Kimchee. This batch has too much garlic. Whew! Can't believe my cats can stand me after I eat it!
Found out today that I work with a fellow backpacker. Excited to have someone to talk backpacking with. Maybe we could do a trip. However, he is male and Greg would probably not dig that too much.

Tuesdays suck

Ugh! Not only do I have to come in early on Tuesdays and create the pivot chart from hell, but my morning is not going so well. First of all my toilet runs and needs to be fixed. Secondly, my tub drain is clogged. Greg tried to get his plumber's snake down it yesterday and unbeknownst to him, he moved the drain stopper in to the closed position. Now my tub is half full and I just thought it was still clogged, so I took the plunger to it. Now it is half full of shower scunge and whatever discusting stuff was on the plunger. Yuck! To top it all off, I forget to bring a new package of English muffins to work with me.
On a happy note, while Greg was over last night (I wasn't there), he left sweet little notes in places that I would find them while I was getting ready for work. So, although things are going wrong this morning, I still have a happy smile on my face!!

Sturgeon fishing

Greg and I took off to go sturgeon fishing on the Menomonee River right after work on Friday. We got up there, fished for a bit, slept on the boat and fished until noonish on Saturday. We caught two rock bass, two small mouth bass and a sucker fish that pulled a rod right in to the river. We had to reel in the other line, pull up two anchors and chase it down. Just the very end of the handle remained afloat! Not a single sturgeon. I think they were nibbling, but they are such gentle eaters, it's hard to get them on. Other people were catching sturgeon, but nothing near the 60" minimum to keep. It was absolutely beautiful on the river. Hardly anyone there. Big difference from last year on the lower Dells. Started raining just before we left, but I didn't care, I had my rainsuit and it was warm. Wished we could have stayed longer and will probably go back up at least once before the season is over (Sept 30)

Fishing tomorrow

I had dinner with Barb tonight and it was delicious! While I was gone, Greg fed my kitties. Greg and I are going fishing tomorrow night after work. When I got home from dinner, this was drawn on my chalkboard. The man seriously has the cutest personality.

Music

I'm dying here. No internet stream at Jansport; period. Ugh! I need NEW music! Seriously people, suggestions.

Patriot Day

I can't even remember which anniversary of 911 this is. That's a shame. It is also a shame that I didn't even realize that today was Patriot Day until the first time I had to type the date this morning. I usually try to wear the colors. The disaster of 911 was definately the biggest thing that has happened in my lifetime and I will never forget the horror, even if I don't remember the date some years.
That aside, not much new. I bought a giant, two person hammock at Menards. Greg is going to hang it in the sunroom. Should be cozy this fall.
Saw Long on the highway on my way in to work this morning. If that doesn't ruin your morning, I don't know what will. I ran in to his step-mom the other day. She gave me a huge hug, told me that she just can't get along with Jeff and that she and Jeff's dad thought I was the best thing that ever happened to Jeff. Duh.
Having dinner tonight with my girl, Barb, at HuHot. Sorry Monty.
Still uncertain as to what the plan will be this weekend. Going to try to get out sturgeon fishing, but the hurricane is sending rain our way. They have raised the size minimum to 60". Fine by me, I like catchin them, but not keeping them. They are just the coolest fish, and so old!!

The Pack

Last night the Packers played. I think it was the first real game of the season. It was great! I have no idea who they played, but I went shopping and had the stores virtually to myself!!

Is this thing on??

Apparently people read this! I guess I need to blog more often. I don't have a whole lot to blog about. Let's see. I went to Greg's daughter's wedding Friday. It was really nice and I shall post a picture or two when I am not at work. Greg picked me up and dangled me over the Fox River. I think someone has a picture of that. We also got busted making out in the Trolley car! I believe I was the only one taking video of the ceremony and I ran out of memory card just before I now pronounce you.....
Saturday Greg and I went out to the Fox Valley Asphalt shop where Greg cut down some trees last year. They are giant hickorys. We have already cut up and brought home the smaller, easy to handle branches, so Saturday we got some monsters. When cut to fireplace size lenght (18") I could still barely roll them by myself. This means we loaded them with Connie. Connie is a tractor, I think a front-end loader? I got to do all of the tractor driving and maneuvering. Fun! I love driving the tractors. It's scary, but fun.
Yesterday was a far less exciting day. I did however, whip up a wicked batch of chili.
I guess I'll keep you posted on my exciting life since you're reading. Whoever you are.