Not today.....

Today is one of those days that I wish I could stay home. But I won't because I get to go to a class on booooombs tonight. And tomorrow I get to do online training for 8 hours. So I'll only be in the terminal for a few hours today. That's good.

Saw someone famous yesterday. I told my husband I saw Zephram Cochrane. Dang he's tall. I know, I know that's not his name.
He's got a pony tail. I guess eccentricity is rampant in entertainment, but to me he'll always be ZC as opposed to the farmer in Babe. LOL.

Car is in the shop for at least 5 days. They have to take the bumper off and replace all the innards because that is what took the brunt when the impact hit. Thank God for insurance. They only pay 15$ a day for a rental car so we have to ante up 8$ more. But at least we will have transport.

Fog really came in last night. Dropped the temps too. 2 days ago it was 86 and today it's 63.

Not much else. Later.
Ciao.

changed my mind . i am gonna go play in a new truck

Not saying goodbye to a friend

Okay so this post is going to be about 1 thing.

Saying goodbye.

Yesterday I found out that a woman who I knew from a message board, quite well, we'd emailed and snail mailed each other a bit, died. She was young. Mid 30's. 2 kids. Loving husband. Lived in TX. Had lymphoma. Fought it for over 6 years. In the end it got into her liver and there was nothing left to do. She had chemo, radiation, alternative therapies. God wanted her in heaven so she is there. I will miss her dearly. We both had GSP's and loved them. God speed dear Paula.

The other good bye is someone who I thought was a close friend. We went on excursions and adventures. We laughed and cried. He quit a job somewhere I used to be quite involved in. He didn't tell me. He just said this is it, I'm gone, after 12 years. No nothing.

At this point it's don't let the door hit y0u on the way out. I hope you find what you are looking for. I am not going to enable you to make me the villian because I told you I felt pretty darn hurt that you talked to me the night before and didn't tell me anything. You hurt my Mom and my kid, not physically but emotionally. You've been a part of this family for 9 years and you just walk and not say anything? You've done this before to other people but I thought since you were sober now it might be different. So now you'll be somewhere else and people will stroke you and tell you how wonderful you are but you will be lonely and you will be missing something that you can't put your hands on. Friendship. You burned the bridge bucko. It's done and over. And I am glad that it is. I have my family , my friends and my dogs. And someone who is as flawed as I am but loves me none the less. Later dude. I hope you and your dogs are happy in your house on the hill. My phone is off.

So I got that off my chest. I guess you never know people do you?

Tomorrow will be my day off. I think I am going to swim till I turn into a prune just to get this anger out of me.

Ciao.

A Quick Chuckle

Karma does come around.

Tom Ridge, who was the first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security came through the checkpoint I was near yesterday. He got the dreaded SSSS on his boarding pass. Perhaps his name is on the no fly list? Perhaps he's whatever. Anyway, he got the full 5¢ patdown. Too bad.

In other news, people still ask where the baggage claim is for the airline they came in on, where the closest area is they can smoke, where can they take their dog inside security to take a whiz, and are you sure my baggage is here. I felt sorry for one lady whose flight was delayed then cancelled. I directed her to baggage services and told her they could help her.
There were several people who thanked me profusely for telling them that yes there are restrooms by baggage services. And they walked by 2 sets of restrooms after they left the plane.

Another person came up to a group of people who work for the organization and asked them( mind you these are guvmint employeees here) if they could call Thai Airways and tell them a group was delayed? Um no. You need to contact them yourself. Not connected to airlines at all. Just a thorn in the side.

Another news item, someone at DIA dropped the ball and a jungle jet had to get reverse screened when it landed here. Isn't that locking the barn door after the horse is out? Did they check the RJ after it landed for secreted knives or weapons? Or tell people after they had already landed they couldn't take their 15 oz shampoos with them?

::insert head pounding genie here::

And a certain airline changed the code to the ops center downstairs and some of the flight crews didn't have it. But we did. I have gone into the area once to get a bottle of water from the vending machine in the lunchroom. I have actually been in the ops center, years ago when I was taking a class in travel management. It was cool. But then I had been in the TWA ops center and comm center at LAX a few times in my wasted youth.

Oh well. Another exciting day in the life of a drone.

Ciao babies.

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still coughing, etc

Well I went to see my doctor today and she wants me to pump myself full of antibiotics before I go back to work. Hence, one more day at home drinking liquids and swallowing pills. Also gave me an inhaler so I can work on the wheezing at night. Fun.

There's going to be a march in downtown LA tomorrow. May Day, Immigration, the like. Wonder if all the people who are being inconvenienced by the thousands of people who are downtown will protest. Nah. Wouldn't get any coverage. I bet the husband will have to find a new route home if the onramps he uses are blocked.

I think BICE/DHS should be there too with a bunch of vans. Imagine how many people they could deport tomorrow night if they wanted to. I've seen deportees, don't look much different than the people you see at Food 4 Less or any other store. Jeans and sweatshirts and tennis shoes. But they are guarded by 2 BICE officers who stay till they are on the plane and the jetway has pulled away and the plane taxis away from the gate. Not much luck there.

Tomorrow I have to do a fasting blood test and pee test. Just to check to see that all my systems are working okay and the drugs that I have taken over the last 18 months ( ie meds for the shoulder) haven't done anything strange to my systems.

Being sick was okay. I lost 6 lbs in 7 days. I can stand to lose a lot more. That is the next project. Walking dogs and all that.

Time to think about dinner.

Ciao.
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Peeeeeza, bring on da peeeeeza

Ahhhh the joys of pizza. I was craving breadsticks but settled for pizza because I didn't want to get dressed and go to the Olive Garden to settle my craving. That's the thing with this bug, I get hungry about dinner time and that's it for the day. I have a couple of 100 calorie snacks during the afternoon and that's it. OF course I am filling myself with water. So we got Papa Johns and are sitting upstairs watching science programs on disasters that could affect the world. Do you realize that a super Tsnumani would wipe out the airport because of it's location on the coast? Bye Bye El Segundo Blue Butterfly too. That coastal area would be under da water. We, by the grace of being in the hills, would have several areas of deep water before we'd actually get hit. Of course I am not planning on that happening at least in this incarnation.



I am unusually cheery this evening. And have no idea why.

My good friend or so I thought, quit his job of 10+ years today and said later to everyone who cared about him. I had talked to him yesterday and he didn't even have the courtesy to tell me. I was not there for the announcement as I am under the weather. I called and said I must really rate pretty low for you not to tell me the news. Life will go on. It always does.


Finished an interesting book called Hollywood Car Wash and it was pretty good. A fictionalized story about a small town girl who comes to Hollywood by accident and how things change for her overnight. Supposed to be pretty close to Katie Holmes' story. I wonder if "all the money in the world" makes up for living a lie.

So I am going to curl up and read another book and just relax, tomorrow I see the doctor and I am not going to take any meds so I can cough my glorious cough.

Ciao Babies!
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Friday Cough Update

Well let's just say the throat isn't as raw as it was but the cough is still as nasty azz as ever. I just took some more Phenergan with codeine and I hope that it will calm it down. I forgot to take my other meds this morning, just plain forgot. Guess I'll have to mark the calendar again. Oh yeah, Lidocaine solution for sore throats just plain sucks eggs. I should have asked them to flavor the stuff if they could. God, it makes you pray to get better just so you could not have to take the crap.

I am sure work is thrilled over my absence. Better coughing and hacking here than hoping someone will come relieve me so I can run to the john and hack this crap up. That's a problem at some of the exits, no one pays attention to you. They are too busy doing their prescribed work that they forget to even look at you.

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Tomorrow is going to be lay low again. But the husband will be home. He's glad, it's been a long week. Has to get some estimates for the car, and then take it in. He can't wait to get the police report from the CHP and find out about the guy who hit him. Wonder if they found him.

Am having vegetable rolls and beef teriyaki for dinner tonight. SOunds good to me. The rest are having sushi and sashimi.

Gonna be an early night again tonight.

Ciao Babies.

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Damn

I woke up with a really sore throat. Think I got it from the husband.
Just what I don't need.
Nice day outside. Dogs are quiet.
Politics suck. Unless the prospective candidates give me more to go on, I don't think I'll be happy with any of them.
9 more dead. 30 ton truck bombs. 3333 dead. And we're winning?
Too sad. This administration has been nothing but stone cold liars from day one. And my TX inlaws think he's the best thing since sliced toast. Who knows what this country will be like in 2008. We have kabuki theater for security. Safety is a joke.
Time to go and rest.
Ciao.

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Sheesh

So my husband is driving home from work yesterday. I am already on my shift watching the exit when I get a text message. My husband has been involved in a car accident. The details are bizarre. Here we go:

He's on the 10 east fwy headed towards the 405 south. Traffic backs up at the offramp due to congestion. He stops. Someone behind him does not stop. Slams into him. The car behind them slams into them and he gets hit again. He and #3 car pull off the freeway. Guy 2 tries to start his car, but no luck. Guy 2 exits his car with the keys and his backpack. 1&3 say hey we need your info, guy 2 says in a minute I've got to pee in the bushes. GUY 2 BAILS AND RUNS INTO THE BUSHES AND DISAPPEARS LEAVING HIS CAR IN THE #2 LANE ABANDONED AND SMASHED. The CHP comes and does the report, the EMT's come and check out my husband. I leave the terminal and he picks me up. I call our medical group and they want him to go to the hospital. So we go to the hospital and he gets checked out. They say whiplash and take an NSAID. He's okay though my baby car has some bumps. I can't believe the guy bailed and left his car. CHP will check and chase. Just another day in LA.

My ortho prescibed Celebrex. The ER doctor said throw it out. I have an appt with my PCP tomorrow and will talk to her about the meds. You'd think the ortho would ask about other meds, I guess they dont' care. If I didn't take the time to check out the meds and read the contra's I could be doing myself great damage.

After I see my PCP I am going to fax my ortho and ask him to refer me to a neurologist because my PT person said it's not bones it's nerves that are acting up.

#1 child got a Wiiiiii today. What fun for him.
#2 child forgot her cel phone at church, good thing I got a call from the finder and picked it up.

Enough good news for today.

Ciao.
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tales from airside, part III

I was in the dungeon again yesterday. During my first break I walked up to one of the locked exit doors in the terminal and took this picture looking eastward from the airport. The sky was that black and the clouds were just hanging. We had rain from 0300 till about 1200 and then it stopped but east of us there was a lot of precip. The flight pattern had just changed from taking off to the east back to normal ops when I went to work. Kind of cool to see a fully loaded 747 lift off into the sky over the heavily populated areas. It just lumbers along till the air relaxes and it can get the power to fly off.

Things at home are normal. All are gone this Saturday. 2 to work, one to a choir festival and then an afternoon and evening at Magic Mountain. Due to my lack of transport I am at the mercy of others so I have to leave in about an hour. Oh well I will take my book and read it hopefully I can find a quiet corner to make myself invisible.

This is my Friday and I am glad of it. We are treated like 2nd class citizens. What else is new? Nothing.

Ciao babies.
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Still stunned

I don't know what to think about the shootings at VT. All I can think of is the families whose lives will never be the same. And how do you go back to school and walk into a classroom and wonder if you will be safe?

Too much.
bye

Days off go by too fast

Especially when you sleep late and then go to your favorite beach hangout for a late breakfast. Except I think the eggs or the ham weren't fresh and I got sulfur emissions and then the runs, sorry but I think Scottie's is to blame this time.

<----- Big Dog and Big Guy. Just came back from a walk and big dog wanted to go after the cats who had been sunning themselves on the warm asphalt of the driveway. He may end up being trained yet. Ha.

------> I was told that I am the kind of person who will make lemonade out of the lemons I have been handed. Yeah, and eventually I will get them sweetened and things changed for everyone who has the same situation. Squeaky wheel gets greased you know. It just just takes time and patience. Lord knows I have patience, I JUST WANT IT NOW..... ::: runs and ducks:::::

I took a muscle relaxant about an hour ago and the tightness that was in my neck has dissapated a bunch. The only problem is that I can't take it all the time. But now it's okay for the time being.

I have been busy reading The Alexandria Link and I really like it. I am reading a different book at work, because I can do it in bits and pieces. In the throne room I have a book on pirate history. Not a room in the house without a book is the motto here. I lent my Mom the non fiction book by John Grisham, An Innocent Man. Won't see it back for a while because she is re-reading The Robe.

Big kid is getting a package from Singapore. Ooooooh. It's a pocket watch. I can't wait to see it. It's going to be at the post office tomorrow morning. He is excited. Little kid goes back to school tomorrow. Back to a routine.

Tomorrow I do taxes. Will take about 3 hours and then we sign them and mail them in. I hope we have good news. I had no income for the year so we should be okay.

Here's to a nice quiet night.

Ciao.
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Yum, 4 new books to read

I like the cat but it's not that I am so bored. I have a bunch of things to do before I go to work. Like sort out my change so I have bus fare and all that.
I don't know where I will be today, but chances are it's the dungeon for me. Oh well. At least I have a job and I am getting paid. Whee.

Bought some books yesterday and I am so glad that I went to the bookstore. I bought Steve Berry's The Alexandria Link, and on the buy 2 get one 1 free display I bought Eats, Shoots, and Leaves which is wonderful, Santa Montefiore's book
The Gypsy Madonna, and John Krakauer's book Into The Wild. These will occupy me for a while. I am going to take the thinnest one with me to work. Maybe I can get a few pages looked at if I am in the dungeon.

My MIL is having surgery today. I hope that it goes well. She's a nice person. She did give birth to my husband so I guess she's not all bad.

Postage is going up again. Joy. I guess I'll have to get some forever stamps for .41¢
I do mail a lot of stuff to my casework since the fax number I have is bad. I wish I could email her but it doesn't seem like federal workers like to get email from their constituents.

Not much else going on.
Need to do some stuff with my withholding etc.
CHeers!
Ciao.
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Unplanned day off

So I have to take some of my stored hours and take the oldest kid to the doctor. Joy. At least I have them to use.
The kid smashed his fingers this morning so I get to go to the doctor with him.

HE can't tell them he did it at work because they don't accept workers compensation claims at the medical group any longer. Probably lack of funding from the insurers. Thank God I was able to have it there when I got hurt. Lord only knows what kind of mess I would have had to endure had I seen the company doctors....wait, I've already had to endure a mess. What's the difference?

Big news.

The kid who went to Disneyland got stuck on the ride. IT stopped on a curve for her. They were evacuated out. What fun. So she has a story to tell. They were given fast passes to use at the park in lieu of riding the Matterhorn. Lucked out. They will use it on Space Mountain.

I am going to treat myself to 2 new books today. I need something new to read instead of thrice read Nora Roberts bodice rippers. Borders, here I come!

Flights have been full this week. Lots and lots of people coming off of them and moaning about the long walk from the gate to baggage claim. Why doesn't this airport have moving sidewalks? Good question, it certainly would make a difference. Why doesn't this airport have a single entry point and have all the terminals interconnected? The planners didn't anticipate the need for stringent security measures and each terminal has a different layout, ownership and needs. Why are the terminals so shoddy. NO major rehabs in over 20 years. TBIT was build in 1984 and is just now getting some needed work. OF course adding more airplanes to the mix makes it just that much more crowded. Wait till Qantas flies the A380 into here. Want to see a mess????? Betcha there will be gate checks then and people will be royally pissed off.

The wind is picking up and there are a lot more clouds in the sky. Fun. Wonder if any of that wet stuff will fall from the sky?

Nuff said for now. Need to get showered and ready to go to the docs!

Ciao. Babies.
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Monday ---...---...---

Made it through the weekend. Got through work on Friday and only worked 1/2 a shift on Saturday. I got my shopping done after that and got a decent night's sleep. I got up at 545 on Sunday and got to 630 service. Read my lessons and listened to the sermon that was preached in Korean and translated into English. Then I came home and went to sleep till I had to get up and go to 2nd service. Again a joint service and the added bonus of a soprano saxophone solo. Not good. Oh well, it's only once a year.

Did the dinner about 5pm at my Mothers house. I brought all the food and had precooked most everything so all we had to do was bbq the brats and dish up the rest of the goodies. I had parboiled the brats at home, cut up 2 lbs of onions for grilled onions, brought chips and dips, and an antipasto salad as well as a fruit salad. All Mom had to do was make the baked beans. We had a nice time, everyone sat and talked and shared stories. I was exhausted when I got home and went to bed at 8PM. The white Zin helped that.

Both kids are still asleep. I am supposed to take the younger one to the social security office this afternoon. She's sacked out. Now she's up. I have to get the son up and will bribe him with food to drive us there. Older one when to a party and came home and is still asleep.

Didn't go to the gym today. I was pooped. Suppose I should have gone.

Not much else to report. I am going to read for a while and then see what gives.

Ciao. Babies.
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I'm angry, tired and hurting

Yeah this is so true. No return beyond this point. I had a nice happy post running around in my mind and then the pain started. I've stood under a hot shower for 10 minutes and it's not helping one little bit. I hurt like an SOB.

I will go to work and do what I can for the 8 hours. If they insist I go to TBIT and count bodies, so be it. If they tell me to go to the dungeon so be it. I have to get through today and tomorrow. Then 2 blessed days without people asking me where the baggage claim is or how to get to UAL. Ugh. It's not the people, it's the pain. I can legally lift my arm over my head for 2 hours a shift. What kind of suck ass instruction is that? I have a <5>

My goal for this weekend is to get through tomorrow, I will get off early and get to bed at a decent hour. Going to church on Sunday. Having dinner with the family Sunday night.
Monday:
Do the taxes. Get the taxes signed and mailed.
Write my case worker and see if I can go to another orthopedist and get a 2nd opinion that is not weighted to the employer.
Clean my family room. Have my son help me do that.
Scream out loud.
I just can't articulate my frustration at the way this department is handled. I see things and I wonder how these people can manipulate this system and get away with it. I have no one to share my frustration with at work. It's like the scarlet letter on the chest. Instead of A it's an L. The depression is just getting to me I think.

Nothing else. I doubt if anyone will read this anyway.

Ciao.

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Ouch Ouch Ouch

I had my 9th steroid injection into my shoulder today. And even with the cold spray it hurt like an SOB. This was a 3/3/1 injection. 3 of Marcaine, 3 of Lidocaine and 1 of corticosteroid. Hopefully it will do something. I am tired of hurting. But since I've had a bunch of others, and the result wasn't smashing I don't have a lot of faith that this one will be any different. But when you see the syringe and it's filled up with 7ml of liquid you feel just a little queasy. At least I do. I've got the bandage still on.

On brighter notes. I went to the gym this morning and after speaking with the doc, I can do the breast stroke but nothing over head. I can also use machines but do no lifting overhead. I can row to my hearts delight. I will have to figure out a way to get to the gym since I wont' have a car. ::insert not happy face here :::

The chupathingy is now legal and registered. It needs an oil and transmission fluid change desperately. Next paycheck goes to that I think.

Can't think of much else to write now.
Ciao, babies.
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Saturday Ipod Musings

Let's see what the Ipod shuffle has up for us today? It's Saturday afternoon, the muscle relaxant is doing it's job, the pain pill I haven't taken yet but I will lay down in a few and take a nice nap.

Have some plans for this evening.
The chupathingy passed it's smog test. Hopefully the boys who are working on it can fix the turn signals by finding the wires. Someone hid the wires good. Needs some little things but it's running. No a/c though. 55MPH a/c only.

Shuffle away:

1. My Back Pages The Traveling Wilbury's
2. Heaven's Bright Shore Alison Krauss & Union Station
3. Hot Rod Lincoln Asleep at the Wheel
4. For All the Saints Trinity College Choir, Cambridge
5. Hard Time Killing Floor Chris Thomas King
6. Virgin Born, We Bow Before Trinity College Choir, Cambridge
7. Sonata, op.2/1 Aria Amarosa Red Priest
8. Funky Town Lipps Inc
9. Eine Kleine Nachmusik'Rondo Academy of St Martin in the Fields
10. The Well Tempered Clavier, Bk 1 Friedrich Gulda

Lots of interesting stuff in the little pink machine.

Not much else to say. I am going to rest my neck and head.

Ciao. Babies.
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Better living through Chemistry

Yep, back to the doc again today. Neck is so stiff that I can hardly stand it. Have vicodin and flexeril to work with it. She asked me why I didn't have something to work with the Ibuprofen? I said my ortho doesn't like to give me pain pills even if I need them.

So I will sleep well tonight. The Flexeril is doing it's job and I am less in pain. Haven't taken the other yet.

Guarded the escalator last night. Support for the mission you know.

Tonight I can go to bed at a decent hour. And wake up refreshed. I usually get home by 2330 and then I can't get to sleep till nearly 0100. I can read a while but I am so tired I don't sleep well. Last night I coughed and coughed. Go figure.

Got the big dog a used soccer ball to chase around the back yard. Also bought a Chilton's Guide to the Chupathingy. Need wiring diagrams. Joy.

Ciao. Babies.

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That whole Kabuki thing...

I realize I am biting the hand that feeds me, but you have to wonder how a 2 year old who is being given a full pat down is a threat to you and me? In the meantime I will guard the exit with all the zeal for the mission that I can muster (which isn't a whole hell of a lot).

Errant husband is thrilled with his new job. He's doing a bunch of work at home right now and next week he'll be up there daily. He passed his pee test, passed the safety meeting and got his badge. I am jazzed for him. Plus he can take me to work and I don't have to ride the damn train.

Today is my hump day. I can do this. I can do this. I can do this.

Cheers.
Ciao. Babies.

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No more sleeping on Mondays

Nope. No. Nada.
I'm going to the gym on Mondays, hopefully will go a few more days, but that will depend on if I have a car or not. But while my mom does her water exercises I do aqua aerobics. I'll pay for the exercise tomorrow but I do feel pretty good today. The pool is warm, the jacuzzi is hot and there are lots of things to do at the gym. So perhaps at almost 54 I am on my way to a better lifestyle. Need to bring my water bottle though. Water dehydrates you awfully fast. And I need to get a different swim suit bottom, without that oh so lovely skirt that keeps flying up. I think a boy short bottom would be best. We shall see.

Back to work tomorrow. More of the same.

Time for lunch and some reading.
Ciao.

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Is this the way to ????

This is my every other day office. Isn't it lovely? You don't know if it's daytime or nighttime, what the weather is and whether or not the sky is falling. There are no contingency plans for emergencies down here, if there is an earthquake do we head for the nearest exit, save our own skin, or what? Might be nice to know wouldn't it? I love organizations that are prepared for things. Ficticious alerts to keep people on their toes. That's kind of fun, barring the escalator from all people. As if. Again the appearance of a Kabuki theater.

Damn I am tired. Last night I was in a better outpost but still it gets to be long. Whenever an aircraft pulls in, I mentally contemplate how many people are going to ask me questions and how many are going to confuse the police officer and I for airline employees. Don't laugh. It happens. At one point last night there were no aircraft parked at the gates on the east side of the terminal. Then in short order 5 large people bearing aluminum cans pulled in. There was one extremely large group of high school students heading down the corridor. The noise level was raised quite a bit. I imagine the FA's had a fun time with them.

Last night while I was observing and doing my job, I saw some interesting things. A young man with 2 prosthetic (state of the art) legs and a prosthetic arm. I am wondering if he was the young man profiled on a Discovery special. I saw an actor, known for his performance on a show on Monday nights, who was killed off I believe 2 seasons ago. He pitches insurance now. I saw a young woman who's sense of style was interesting. Black leggings, a white satin slip over them, and over that a shirt. Lots of families, lots of tourists ( spring break is here) and just it seems masses of people being disgorged from those blue tubes.

I saw flight attendants that have been flying since propellors drove the aircraft. They make pilots retire at 60 but there aren't such rules for flight attendants. I guess they love their jobs. And you know they bid for the best routes and best stations on the aircraft. But if they are cheerful and do a good job then bully for them.

So today and tomorrow I rest and recuperate. Tomorrow morning I am going to start with swim aeorbics. Probably a very good thing. And since I have a gym membership maybe I can go more often and use the treadmill and work on my legs and abs. And have some energy to boot.

That's about it for now.
Ciao. Babies.

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How do you put a spin on negative information?

Okay
So I went to a meeting yesterday and we were presented with some information regarding a survey taken in 2006 regarding job satisfaction and all that. For the most part all the responses ( 551 people out of approximately 2000 took the time to respond) were overwhelming negative. But the powers that be insisted that the positive be pushed. Now if I can read a color chart and the bright red is higher than the bright blue ,I think I can tell that there is great dissatisfaction among the ranks. Me included but that's a different story for a later time.

I couldn't fully participate so I did some online courses to catch up with things I have missed over the last few years. It was okay. They are trying but they aren't where they should be.

Today is my Friday and I will hopefully have some new uniform pieces to bring home and wash and wear. One pair of work pants is not cutting it.

Husband may be working closer to home. That's a good thing but he will be using my car. That means I am back to train and bussing it. I'll have to leave at 115 now instead of 145 to get to work. Joy.

Ciao. Babies.

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Oh ho Oh Ho it's wondering I go.....

Oh geez. I go back to work tomorrow. I don't care, it gets me out of the house, but honestly, I need the money. Big Time. My mom is pissed at me. What else is new? It's my own damn fault.

Neighbors have a schnauzer. Barks like my mutt. Kind of eerie. I wish they could meet each other.

Made a cassarole tonight. Just winged it. Chicken, noodles, cream of chicken soup, some ortegas for zip, and some corn just for the heck of it. Tasted good. Will be good leftover.

Don't have to pick up the kiddo tonight. She is busy rehearsing. I didn't get to see her perform in this one. Thanks to odd work hours.

Wonder what will happen tomorrow. I sent an email to my HR contact and I told them about the abysmal chairs they have for people to sit in. One that I use has only one arm and pieces of wood falling out. Really good representation of the organization. I have my doubts that much more of this is just Kabuki theater.

Thinking about other things.
Ciao.
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Sorta rainy and cold- Happy Spring!

Does our president ever listen to how he speaks? Does he watch tapes of his news conferences? The man sounds like an imbecile. Geez, 2008 will have to be better, but I don't like Hilary and I don't like Obama either. I don'd know who I like? Maybe I'll vote green.

ATC is full of calls about icing and nasty weather in the clouds. The news at noon said there was hail. No real rain here, just misty and cold. Makes the sick kid even sicker. This flu is nothing to play games with. At all.

Nothing exciting going on in my life. The errant husband went back to work. Doc told him to cut back on the tea, too much caffeine. He had some more blood drawn for a liver panel and needs to have a fasting blood test drawn so they can check some other things. He was not happy when he got back from the appointment. I think she was not happy with him blowing off things he needs.

Maybe more later. Maybe not. Depends on how I feel.
Ciao.
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So it landed....

Get your flu shot people. I'm just telling you this for your own good. It's a really nasty ass disease and even with anti virals you still feel like the shoe bottom that walked through mud. I am asking for 2 more days to get over this. No way I can work feeling this crappy and spreading it all over LAX.


My bed is my friend. So is my comforter. I am only on here to warn you. Even the dog knows I am sick.

Take care of yourselves.
Ciao.
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A380 coming to LAX tomorrow!

And it's my day off so I don't have to deal with traffic, parking, or loads of people gawking at the plane. I feel sorry for the people who have to work over on World Way West and trying to get to the offices over there when the thing taxis across their bridge. Gonna be a traffic jam for sure. Pretty big news here in lala land.

I have the flu. Diagnosed and everything. Taking Tami Flu and hoping that it will make me feel better than the bottom of the shoe sole I've been channeling the last 2 days. Came home from work ( sitting at the bottom of an escalator in the basement of a building is so much excitement ya know) Thursday and felt pretty good. Friday morning I had aches and fever and I still am running a clammy one now. Felt so crappy yesterday that I called Urgent Care and went to the doctor. Got a note and faxed it to the office after I called into the call center at work ( have to make 2 calls at least 2 hours before you are scheduled to work to be legal, otherwise you are marked AWOL-- No lie. )

So Bball has been droning on behind me. I watched the end of SW3 and thought what a crock George Lucas had created with those 3 movies. Now I am going to curl up with a mindless romance novel and relax for a while.

Ciao Babies!

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Who ever thought this up should do the job first

Okay I've been back for a little over a week. And I sit and observe and answer questions, talk into a crappy walkie talkie and secure areas from unseen foes. But does sitting at the bottom of an exit escalator serve as an important part of the mission? If someone comes up the down staircase and is intent on causing harm will a 5'2" middle aged woman with a walkie talkie be any match? Think about it.

I am wired but will go to bed soon. No other reason but I do need my sleep to keep my energy up to "fight the bad guys". I will give it 3 months and then, decide what to do. I hope and pray that the husband gets a decent job with benefits so I can go elsewhere.

Ciao Babies!

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A day off

I hate the time change. I don't feel like I get enough sleep and then it's time to go to bed and I am not tired. Working swing is interesting. I do eat a good lunch before I go to work because sometimes they forget about me, sitting in my chair and guarding the exit. Lots and lots people walk by and they keep me on my toes. I am okay otherwise. Pain is still pain, but I guess it's my lot in life. Got another car for the kid to drive or me or whomever will get it. NEeds work but it can run. Needs front turn signals. Have to be ordered. Someone needs to do that. Kid is scared to drive it till it's street legal. I can use hand signals if I need to. 91 Honda civic dx. Tiny little thing. Till tomorrow. ciao.

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The continuing saga of trying to go back to work

Waited another 2 hours in line today to pick up a badge. Why they don't make the process easier is beyong me. But I am now h'official in the eyes of LAWA and the DHS. You go girl.

Working tomorrow and Saturday and then I have Sun/Mon off and then 5 days straight. Oh joy. But hey at least it's money and insurance. Hopefully it is not going to be absolutely boring. It could be but then it could be good too. Look on the bright side.

Waiting on dinner.
Ciao.

The Songs We Loved in 1971

These are the songs that were on the Billboard List of most requested in 1971. I turned 18 in 1971. There are some memories here:

1971's Greatest Hits
1.	You've Got A Friend - James Taylor
2.	Joy To The World - Three Dog Night
3.	Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
4.	Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
5.	Imagine - John Lennon
6.	Behind Blue Eyes - the Who
7.	What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
8.	Proud Mary - Ike and Tina Turner
9.	Friends - Elton John
10.	Maggie May - Rod Stewart
11.	Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations
12.	Hot Pants - James Brown
13.	Love Her Madly - Doors
14.	Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
15.	She's A Lady - Tom Jones
16.	Black Magic Woman - Santana
17.	River Deep-Mountain High - Supremes & Four Tops
18.	Oye Como Va - Santana
19.	Revival (Love Is Everywhere) - The Allman Brothers Band
20.	Colour My World - Chicago
21.	Truckin' - Grateful Dead
22.	Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
23.	Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
24.	Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
25.	Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
26.	If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
27.	Nathan Jones - The Supremes
28.	Peace Train - Cat Stevens
29.	So Far Away - Carole King
30.	Riders On The Storm - Doors
31.	If - Bread
32.	Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
33.	Eighteen - Alice Cooper
34.	Beginnings - Chicago
35.	For The Good Times - Ray Price
36.	Cherish - David Cassidy
37.	Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
38.	Temptation Eyes - the Grass Roots
39.	Won't Get Fooled Again - the Who
40.	I Feel The Earth Move - Carole King
41.	Draggin' The Line - Tommy James
42.	Questions 67 and 68 - Chicago
43.	Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
44.	I Don't Know How To Love Him - Yvonne Elliman
45.	Indian Reservation - Paul Revere and the Raiders
46.	Wild Night - Van Morrison
47.	Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
48.	We Gotta Get You A Woman - Runt
49.	Brand New Key - Melanie
50.	Love The One You're With - Stevphan Stills
51.	Tired Of Being Alone - Al Green
52.	I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After
53.	(I Know) I'm Losing You - Rod Stewart With Faces
54.	Man In Black - Johnny Cash
55.	Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
56.	Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
57.	If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John
58.	One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley
59.	Sooner or Later - Grass Roots
60	I'm A Believer - Neil Diamond
61.	Sweet City Woman - Stampeders
62.	Reason To Believe - Rod Stewart
63.	Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
64.	Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye
65.	I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edmunds
66.	Bell Bottom Blues - Derek & The Dominoes
67.	Chicago - Graham Nash
68.	Hill Where The Lord Hides - Chuck Mangione
69.	I Don't Need No Doctor - Humble Pie
70.	One Man's Leftovers (Is Another Man's Feast) - 100 Proof Aged Soul
71.	Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
72.	The Wedding Song (There Is Love) - Paul Stookey
73.	Done Too Soon - Neil Diamond
74.	Go Away Little Girl - Donnie Osmond
75.	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez

Too many memories. And how many weddings did we go to where they sang Stookey's Wedding Song. (Puke)
Those were the good old days of music!

Ciao,

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I'm better today

I got some sleep after I deposited sundry children at their destinations. We have a car lined up for sundry children but it needs some TLC like turn signals and tires. I am looking forward to sundry child being able to take himself to work and to school. After working swing and coming home late at night and having to get up early, my quality of sleep may be affected. Thank God I have the little black dog to sleep with me and make me comfy.

I told my doctor I would give it 3 months and then see what was going on. I have lots and lots of pain in my shoulder and no one seems to want to deal with that. If I can't handle the pain, with meds, something is going to have to be done. I am alternating, 1 week at a time, 800 mg Ibuprofen and 500 mg Naproxen. And of course taking Zantac to guard the stomach. As well as using Lidoderm patches on the sore places.

My uniform is ready. How stylish it is. I need to steal a pair of sox from my kid or go and buy some tomorrow at Target. I have to call the uniform place and find out how to replace my name badge. Mine broke years ago and it is gone. But to get on the website to order new clothes/uniform pieces I need those 6 little numbers. So we shall see what happens.

Not much else to say. I wish my friend a safe journey across the country with her kids to get her grandkids. I wish her son a recovery from his TBI incurred in Iraq and for him to get the best of care at Walter Reed. I wish this war would end.

Ciao Babies...the wind is a coming up.

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All this for a job?

Well I am supposed to start work this week, if I can accurately jump through the hoops that the government and the airport authorities have set in front of me. Get fingerprinted again, they haven't changed since the last time I was printed, nor have I been arrested for, charged with or convicted of any capital crimes.

First like a good little soldier I go to the office where I am supposed to be fingerprinted and an officious young man tells me well you're XXX and you should know that you need a birth certificate or a passport to allow you to be fingerprinted. Wait a minute, says I, I was with an HR person yesterday and they said nothing about that. Call HR, oh the airport is wrong, Go back. Ask for so and so. They will correct it. Okay, back in I trot and I get the oh so valued paperclip. Please go stand outside in the line that wraps it's way around the building and we will get you processed. Now mind you this is just for being printed.

After the prints clear ( I've been printed 10 times in my life for various and sundry jobs in banking and education) I go back to HR and get another valued piece of paper and go back to this same office, see the same person at the desk, and get in the same line as before and then get my badge. Is there something wrong with this scenario? Yes. A. Lot. Nothing like wondering what the government is doing.

So when I finally get back to work, and mind you this is going to be a light duty assignment, I will be working swing and being nice to people. This I can do.

Tonight I am going to watch House and go to bed and get a good nights sleep.

Ciao.

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Be vewy vewy carefull. we're hunting ....

Something that makes a lot of noise. Oh hell I don't know what old Elmer is going after. I just thought it was cute.

March is starting to come in like a lion, though not nearly as bad as it is in the South. We've got a nice breeze and the lemon tree that I can see from my window is moving quite nicely. I may have to impose on my kid to jump up on the dog condo and pick some lemons for me.

It's pizza night tonight. We'll get a cheese, olive and tomater for the kid who gave up meat, and a meaty one for the rest of us. I really do like pizza and it's a good meal. Sorry to the others in the world but I do like pizza. The kid works at a place that has pizza for it's main offering as well as tons of kids games. He fixes things. He likes to work with things hands on. And he gets paid so that is good too.

The other kid had a friend over this morning who made curry and made a mess in the kitchen. I do hope that she plans on cleaning it up. I had done the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen and now it's a disaster again. How many pots do you need to make curry????

I faxed in my formal acceptance of the light duty job offer. So that's done. Now I have to go to the main offices on Monday and get reindoctrinated for the job. Good thing I am a cynic. Maybe I'll be lucky and it will take longer than 1 day to get me reindoctrinated, uniformed and badged. I also have to get a parking pass to the employee parking lot. That's not cheap. But it's better than having to take the train and bus to work. I hated that when I was working graveyard. Nothing like being the only person on the train.

I hope my husband gets a job closer to home and will be home at night. After all these years, I rather miss him. I'd feel better if he was home when I came home at midnight from work. I am praying that something will come up. His contract is almost over and I am praying that the company he is working for will offer him a full time job.

I think I am going to go downstairs and read for a while. I need to read.

Ciao.

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