Pauline's Happenings

If you don’t watch Scrubs, you really should. It reminds me of MASH in that it is funny while it is giving you some different prespectives on life. I love all the characters and what they have done with them. And unlike some of the other shows I’ve watched, they have yet to screw it up…………think West Wing the last few years….gggrrr…there is so much potential.

We are also addicted to LOST and The Daily Show (I love John Stewart…….funny as hell).

We don’t watch that much TV. We watch sports, news and a few shows…….otherwise we like to shut it off and listen to music or enjoy some silence.

Enough of my babble, time to head to bed. I have an early day tomorrow.

Already, time to catch everyone up.

Last time I had posted I was telling you happened on Thursday (my supposedly day off) with me going into work…..icks. =) No problem, it worked out having Friday off.

We did spend more time doing errands then I wanted to do, that is for sure.

We also made time to stop a Veterans Reunion. They had what is called “The Moving Wall”, a replica of the ‘Nam Veteran Wall in DC. It is one of the largest gathering of Vets in the nation. We didn’t go last year, partly cuz we didn’t know until too late and partly cuz I didn’t know I if I could handle it. I get emotional during a commercial…..

Considering my father, husband, and my late grandfather are Vets, things like that have my interest. I have a deeper interest in ‘Nam since my dad is a Vet from that war and I feel it gives me a better understanding of what he had gone through. It is not something that he talks about and I don’t feel it is something that I could really ask about. Dad never brought his work home with him while he was in the Army. It wasn’t until after he retired that I finally learned and understood some of the things that he did.

It was kind of weird to see some of the stuff I grew up out on display. Like type of hat dad wore in ‘Nam, I have it…………I have one of his soldier’s manuals.

Here is the pics we took & some commentary about it from Harold :

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/vets_042806/

Images 074.jpg and 076.jpg are the “jets” of the boat; they did not use propellers and were one of the first “Jet Skis”.

The images of the Wall speak for themselves.

After we got back, I did jump in the pool and enjoy what time I had left for it. =)

Then it was on to attack setting up my new vaio. I was so proud of myself; I figured out through hidden files how to transfer my settings from one notebook to other without wasting tons of time on set up. So all I needed was a new keyboard with a usb for my desk setup.

Well Saturday, I had to go in for a store meeting @ 7am even though I didn’t have to work until later that afternoon. So after the meeting I headed over to the local office supply store and picked me up the keyboard (I get the split ones). Go to use it on my new perfectly set up vaio……….and it doesn’t work! I was so disappointed. Well, I got to sony support chat tried several things but had to stop to head into work. Harold later calls me and tells me that some how the usb drivers weren’t working so sony says we have to reformat. =(

I don’t know if we did something, so did it accidentally come that way?

So guess what my husband was doing all day for me Saturday? Not only did he reformat my notebook, he got nearly every single program set up. He was so sweet to do that. =) So the last 2 days before heading into work, I’ve been working on getting my setting done. I will say with what I learned the 1st time; it made it hell lot easier and a lot quicker. So now, all I need to do is go through everything so I have it backed up and then I can clean out my old notebook and get it set up for kids this summer and then for my dad.

Today was recovery from working this weekend (which was a bitch I may add). We did some housework, some emails, and then I did some errands. It is amazing how much time is lost on errands. =( If I had my way I would not have left the house, but some things can’t wait. I did get some pool and sun time in. No way near the amount that I would like.

But I have hope for this weekend. =) It is my one weekend off a month. And we are going to get the spare bedroom ready for my folks and the kids and then I’m going to get some sun time. =)

Well………….my day had an interesting beginning. Started with a rough day at work yesterday to crashing last night around 01:30 since I didn’t have to work today to waking up from a dead-sound sleep to my phone going off at 07:00. It was one of my managers, Kristy, she had a female medical emergency and she was freaking out. She was suppose to open this morning and had called me to see if I could.

She didn’t have the new guy (Jim’s) number (and personally I didn’t want him called since it was his 1st week and I didn’t want to freak him out), she didn’t call Sandee since she was coming in later that afternoon and would’ve made for an extremely long day.

The whole time she was freaking out I couldn’t understand why my phone was so god awful loud that it was hurting my ears. When I finally got out of the bedroom and moved to the office, so to give Harold some peace, I discovered that some how I had turned on my speaker! Holy cow! I was so confused and lost…….I just keep looking at the phone trying to figure it out. I thought I hit the right button so I could talk regularly and ended up hanging up on her…….doh! She called back, by that time I had gathered some of my wits together to let her know that I was going in.

Luckily, I had showered last night except for washing my hair (I hate going to bed with wet hair & do that in with my morning shower), so all I had to do was wash my face, brush my teeth, put my hair up (since it wasn’t going to do anything) & try to dress myself. How I got myself together enough to get out the door I have no idea.

I got to work, while eating two granola bars, surprising Jackie & Brooke that I was there. All things considering, with my brain not wanting to work correctly, I was able to get some stuff done. I was very proud of myself since I felt like a loopy dork all day.

I called the Sandee in the afternoon, because if I was here today I wanted tomorrow off. Which I knew would be no problem, I just wanted to make sure it was okay with her that the new guy opened tomorrow since we had certain projects we had to get done. She was cool about it. When she got there, I left shortly afterwards, even though the actual full shift had 3 more hours to go. I would’ve stayed with I was with it more. But I was so out of it.

While picking up the mail the UPS guy passed me…………I knew what that meant. =) That I was getting my VAIO and I was already feeling good since the mail had a couple of things that Harold had ordered.

We munched down some food and started to dig out our new toys. =) It is weird that VAIO doesn’t come with a back up CD. It has it own thing back up system, in fact it barely came with anything. It does provide a way to make back up cds. The only problem is unlike other back ups with individual cds, for individual programs…………you get stuck with all that crap that they put on at the factory. =( I hate all that excess shit that I don’t need and clutters up my files. But I went and made the back ups, cuz I don’t trust anything.

We decided to jump into the pool to relieve our frustrations with the doing a new set up. It was great! It was a little strong with the chemicals, but we were still able to enjoy it. I’m so looking forward to being able to spend more time in it tomorrow.

We then went and got the firewire stuff and we have been working with the setups ever since. I’m probably going to set up both my notebooks on the patio so I can get the exact settings I want and clean up the other one for day and jump in the pool whenever I’m sticky…………grin……..boy, does that sound like a plan to me.

I’m so looking forward to my day off!