Got some work done on both my choreography and my list of dance moves. I'll admit that I did the "easy" ones on the dance moves list first as I didn't feel like sitting in front of the tv for a couple of hours watching the same section of DVD over and over.
Pizza dough is rising and I have most of the stuff I need to do before tomorrow's shopping done. All that's left is making out the deposit slips and I can't do that until Skywise gets home with the check, obviously. So I'm going to laz a bit until it's time for the next phase of pizza making. I got a new book today that should help with my "bad guy" characterization. I'll probably look though it while I wait. The "getting an agent" book requires a bit more concentration than I can devote to it right now.
Later.

Back from "Payday Insanity." Barely survived.
Filled a prescription the dentist gave me on my last visit -- a generic that set me back over $30.00 with potential side effects that have convinced me to wait until Skywise is home for an extended period before I start it! If my tongue swells up and I start having trouble breathing, I'd kinda like him here! I'll be talking to Nike this afternoon and I'll get her input. Since she's a pharmacy tech, she will likely be able to tell me what I can realistically expect. 
On the plus side, I have dark chocolate M&Ms. I may indulge and TRY to relax.
Later.

Well, I've thoroughly screwed up the 30 most recent posts with my additions to the Avatar Depot. Can't be helped though, that's the way the board software works! I haven't got the gals done yet (was adding to the guys' thread) so I suspect that I shall foul things up repeatedly until I have all the avatars I want to display up. I'm thinking a minimum of three more threads, maybe four. I want things to be as easy to find as possible which means I do the sorting. Guy avatars. Girl avatars. Animal avatars. Creature avatars... you get the idea!
Need to tend to the dishes.
Later.

Skywise is home and I'm heading out. There is laundry on the bed that needs to be dealt with and I AM the ULTIMATE DEALER WITH LAUNDRY!
Yeah, I've been talking with Nike all evening!

Everyone sleep well and be safe.

Skywise left for work and I'm so sleepy I can hardly keep my eyes open. I think it's the antibiotic so I'm going to go lay down for a while.
Later.

Dinner's in the oven, a bit later than I'd planned thanks to trying to figure out what's wrong with the phones and the War Queen's need to be petted. She misses her Sister Queen quite a bit, I think, and sometimes she needs to know that we love her. So I petted her and scratched her ears while she ate. Weird, I know, but sometimes she wants to be petted while she eats.
Anyway, dinner will be served in about an hour. Which is good. I haven't eaten much today -- being asleep most of the afternoon WILL throw off one's meal schedule! -- and I'm hungry!

Skywise is home. Yay!!
I just wandered over to the Hero Games site and discovered that they are coming out with a new Sixth Edition of their core rulebook for GenCon in August. I will, of course, be getting said Sixth Edition. I didn't get the revised 5th Edition that came out a few years ago but since I intend for RPGers everywhere to be able to experience the Castle world in the comfort of their living rooms, I'm gonna have to pick up the Sixth Edition. I won't be going to GenCon even though it is being held in Indianapolis but as the release date gets closer, I'll have my fav game store order it for me.  With luck and some purchases, I'll have enough "loyalty points" to knock about $20.00 off the price.

On another note. I forgot to mention it but my belly dance suite is finally "fixed" and I've burned it to a CD. I'll probably burn a couple of "spares" too since one piece exists only in my iTunes library and on the DVD it was composed for. I'm glad that Skywise was able to get it for me since it is EXACTLY what I needed in that spot -- sexy, suggestive and erotic as all get out! And it doesn't sound like "stripper music" either. I've more determined than ever to get an area cleared in the basement to practice in. I have to remember to see what Wal-Mart has in the way of full length mirrors. .....might have to go with "mirror" tiles. Anyway, I've been listening to the CD every chance I get and the body does move with it.

We have "weather" moving into the state. A line that had stretched north of Milwaukee all the way back to Kansas City is moving eastward and has inched its way into north and western Indiana. Oh joy. I was so in hopes of sleeping tonight. Gotta stay up a while longer anyway to take my meds on time. Be back in a while.

Uggg. Life.

Well, the new job (I say new, even though I've been at it a year now) at the call center in Customer Care for a cell phone company is starting to become more and more aggravating.   When we (my class and I) were hired we were promised up one wall and down the other this job is not, and will never be, about sales.

Well, guess what.... it's become a sales job.  We are about to start getting bonuses on the money we make the company.  Not taking care of the customers (which is what we were hired for).  Some days, I get home and I don't even want to LOOK at a computer screen.

And, it does not help the customers themselves are IDIOTS.  Your bill is too high because YOU TALKED TOO MUCH!  Fracking duh!  Grrr...

I'm indulging in a combination smirk and giggle. I just found out that the local Rural Water Company issued a "boil order" a couple of days ago to last "until further notice." This amuses me greatly and I'm laughing every time I turn on the tap today.
Background: About twenty years ago, some "city people" bought undeveloped land out here only to discover after the deal was done, that said real estate didn't have water on it. Or if it did, it wasn't enough for their needs. Not willing to undertake the kind of measures that people living in parts of rural Brown County have to do (which is build large ponds or cisterns with water purification systems) these knuckleheads decided that they wanted "city water" in the country. After much huffing and puffing, they managed to form a "water utility" with all the powers thereof, raised money, invoked "imminent domain" and proceeded to build a water storage tower down the road from here (I can see it from the Guest House front yard. Damned thing looks like something out of a 50's "Aliens Invade!" B-movie), tore up part of our yard to put in their waterlines and started to pressure everyone along the line -- including my mother and us -- to sign up. As I pointed out to one particularly obnoxious individual, why should I sign up to pay for water when I have two already paid for wells, one for each house? The only expenses I incur in getting my running water is the cost of the electricity to run the pumps. The lout had no answer for that particular question.
To make a long story short. The "water company" for which the founders had such high and unrealistic hopes went bankrupt and the Indianapolis Water Company, from which the local outfit was buying water, took it over and immediately raised the rates. [Yeah, I laughed about that whole thing too!] The rates have been inching upward ever since and "boil orders" are no surprise. The only thing surprising about this one is that it seems "open ended" and I've yet to be able to track down the reason for the order.
The moral of the story is, if you want "city conveniences", live in the damned city. Don't come out into the woods and expect to live like you would in suburbia.
End of rant...   

Talked to Nike this evening. I'm glad we both have YaHoo now. Makes it much easier to stay in touch cause "bad things" happen when you don't talk!
We were discussing our mutual vacation plans which are still up in the air. We're hoping she can get here so we can all go to the King Tut exhibit at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The exhibit will be there until October 25, 2009.
I got a couple of new books today. One is titled "Nothing is too good to be true." I think I'll read that one first along with the "get yourself an agent" book I'm also reading right now. I have a feeling that they might dovetail. There are other things that I want that could come under the heading of "Too Good to be true!" but getting published and having the book be successful is currently at the top of my list! Nike said to me this evening "Where there is a will, there is a way." I've got PLENTY of "will", I just need to get my teeth into the "way!" Anyone contemplating getting in my way might as well just step aside 'cause I'm in "move or die"  mode at the moment when it comes to my goals. I'm gonna have to be in order to get done what needs doing!
And right now..... the trash needs to go out! 

Morning!
It's a beautiful day! The sun's out but it's pleasantly cool and the humidity is low. Hope it stays this way through the 4th. We'll be making our annual trek to see the fireworks that night and it's a lot more pleasant when it ISN'T hot as and humid to the point that sweating is a waste of time!
Skywise has the day off and I think we're going to spend part of the morning at the Children's Museum. We aren't going to the King Tut exhibit today, that requires special tickets and it's gonna be crowded like nobody's business! We'll wait until things settle a bit and go in September. Today we will check out the Clone Wars exhibit and the huge expansion project that they built in order to do justice to the Tut exhibit. I know that I HAVE to get pics of the new front. It is TOO cute! Darned imaginative too!
I'll be back later with a full report.

Making headway on dinner finally. The kitchen needed more cleanup than I'd expected. Things are preceding now. Yeast is proofing and Moonie is shredding a block of mozzarella.

Observation shared by Skywise: He really needs a "partner in  crime" so the two of them could "gang up" on me.   Very naughty evil man, my Skywise is.
Which is a good thing because I'm of a like mind....
Just saying...

Time for my meds and bed. *yawn!* Or rather, back to bed!  This time to sleep!

Everyone sleep well and be safe!