I will be offline for the next few weeks....

I'm having surgery day after tomorrow and so will not be writing much for the next two weeks...

Ciao!

I have nerves...

I have to have surgery on the 18th.

I'm glad because I need it.

But nervous because, well, it's surgery.

And they tell you every teeny tiny little thing that can go wrong.

Like I need to hear that before I go under.

All I can say it that I sure am glad to get that first shot that makes you go night, night!

Then you magically wake up.

On the puppy front -

Gracie is walking on a lead better - not so much stopping and flopping.

She can follow the commands, sit, come, down.

We're working on off - she just started jumping up on us like 2 days ago.

And she's still chasing after the cat.  I can't get her to stop - I thought the cat would have taken care of it by now - she did with Gabi.

I guess she's just old and tired.

Gracie also talks back when you tell her no.

It's funny - but not because I can't figure out how to teach her not to bark.

I guess that's a question for our puppy class tomorrow!

Updates

I haven't been keeping in touch very well, neither on my blog or in my life personally.

I need to update my blog to reflect the fact that I'm BACK!

I'm going to keep updating this one until I'm move into our new apartment and our stuff has been delivered by the movers.

I think that's a good demarkation point.  I was there and now I'm here.

Then I'm going to start a new blog and link this one to it.

I've been busy getting things together and living with my bf SP has kept me busy.

Chatting

Shopping

Cooking

Hanging

And who knew kids were so time consuming?!

It's been fun, but I've been shit at calling my friends here and reconnecting, or keeping connected to my friends in the UK and the UAE.

It'll get better once I'm in my own place and have some sort of routine.  But right now I'm just trying to get settled in.

Yesterday we bought a new bed - since ours will not arrive until after the 30th and,

I've started the great job hunt -met with a recruiter and now need to get on the stick to apply and call etc...

Hopefully I'll be employed soon.

If not full time I'm going to go for a part-time job.  Maybe at Starbucks...

Anyway I'm going to make an effort to update more often, call my friends, and get my fricken Skype sorted out.  It keeps freezing up and not allowing me to chat or make phone calls.

Later!

ADD

Attention Deficit Disorder.

I had to look up what the D.D. stood for.

I keep starting tasks, then forgetting what I'm doing.

Looking up things on the regulator website for work, then realizing 10 minutes later that, no I didn't mean to look up images for "naked gay sex in the streets". 

I wanted to see if the Nigerian was serious when he said he saw it on the BBC.

He didn't.  You should google it, there are some pretty weird images.

But no naked gay sex in the streets.

Beautiful men with beautiful chests.

No gay sex.

And there I go getting side tracked again.

I should be working, will be working, am going to work.

After all everything has to be tied up before I go!

AMERICA!

Monkeys and Kittens

This was so cute I just had to share it!

The monkey has adopted the kitten.

It's too cute!

Lady Gaga - Alejandro

Have you seen this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqrrmev4mA

When I first saw it I thought Lady Gaga was making fun of video ho's by having man ho's in her video.

Then my husband looked it up on Google and he saw this:  http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3979

Which is very interesting - a lot of conjecture about the illuminati, God, and homosexual undertones.

I looked it up and got this:  http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1641136/20100609/lady_gaga.jhtml

Apparently the director was thinking about a woman's lost love.

Interesting how people assign their own weird meanings to things.

When I was at University I took an English class, the teacher had us read Cinderella and then wanted us to write about the feminist undertones of the story.  How it highlighted the oppression of women.

I wrote that there were no feminist undertones to the story, that people just assigned their own meanings to it, ones the author never intended.  I wrote that Cinderella was just a story written by some guy trying to shut his kids up, put them to bed, and teach them a lesson at the same time.  The moral of Cinderella - be nice to people or it just may bite you in the ass, aka what goes around comes around.

The teacher was a bit pissed at me at going "off topic" but at least she gave me a C instead of an F.

I'm a Bit Slow...

I just realized that there are Stats on Blogger.

It tells you how many times your blog has been looked at and from what part of the world the looker is from.

I seem to have a lot of hits from Canada.

116 to be exact.  Since May 2010. 

Who likes me in Canada?  Or is it friends here in the UAE that are accessing the internet through Canada? 

You know to circumvent the censoring over here.

I don't know anyone in Canada, and since my internet is circumventing via the US I know it's not me.

It's kinda exciting - seeing that people are looking at my blog.

There are even pageviews from Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

And I haven't been in any of those countries since May.  I haven't been to Denmark since Thanksgiving about 5 years ago.

It's very exciting. 

Itty Bitty Kitty Kat!

Good lord, but I'm on a roll today!

When we were at the vet to pick up Gabi we almost came home with this:

Can you see how little it is?!  She's 6 weeks old and someone threw her and her three littermates into the trash.  Two died and the other one was adopted, this was the last one.

But I'm SURE that she will not be homeless for any length of time - after all I'm NOT a cat person and I wanted to take her home.

But we already have one dog and one cat (yes I do love the cat - she's grown on me after 9 years) and we think a third animal is a bit too much.

Especially one that would require a lot of attention like this little one would.

But man it was hard to put her down!

Mornings

I get up in the morning, get ready, and get in the car to drive to work.  During the drive I always think of something to blog about.

Something cool.

Something funny.

Then I forget what it was when I get to work.

Same thing happens on the way home.

It's like my brain engages when I'm driving then shuts down when I get to work or get home.

Oh well...

I did have a weird dream this morning.

I dreamed that I was so fat no one could pick me up when I passed out - they had to drag me by the arm.

Through the party house.

What the hell is up with that?!

I mean I know why I dreamed I was as big as a house, because I'm, well, as big as a house.

But the party and people dragging me?!

I did watch Numbers before going to bed maybe that's why I was being dragged?!

So anyway that's all I got today.

Ciao Ciao

Voluptuous

That's the word I like when referring to the fact that I'm overweight.

Not Fat.

Not Chubby.

Yes, a girl I know told me I wasn't fat, I was just a bit chubby.

Hmmm, I don't like that word - it makes me feel like I'm five.

Only kids are chubby.

I am VOLUPTUOUS.

VOLUPTUOUS.

or

LUSH.

I can be Lush.

Both words bring to mind a curvy, sensual, woman that loves her body.

Revels in it and rolls around naked in a soft comfortable bed with 1,000 thread count sheets, down pillows, with down comforters.

Eating chocolate.

While beautiful buff men worship her.

Yeah, I can be Voluptuous.

or

Lush.

Mmmmmmm yum.

Moving Blogs

I'm trying to move my travel blog to link up with this blog on my Google account. 

When I tried to do it the way the FAQ suggested it didn't work.  I ended up with an empty blog.

No Bueno.

So I started moving the posts one by one.

This means i have to log into my old account copy the post then log into my other account (the Google one) and paste it. 

Guess what?  You can't be logged into both at the same time.  Even though they have two different e-mail adresses and two different passwords.

Go figure.

So after moving about 5 or 6 posts guess what happened?!

I got a big fat error message.

And I was no longer allowed to log into either blog.

I can see this is going to be a slow process...

But I will persevere and my blog will be moved!!!!

Twilight - the Saga

I found this website:

http://bookstove.com/fantasy/why-i-hate-twilight/?25323#comment-25323

It's 95 reasons why you shouldn't read Twilight. 

And, OH MY GOSH do I love it!!!!

In case you didn't already know I'm not a Twilight fan.

Main reason:  Edward is a pedophile.

What 117 year old man is going to find a 16 year old girl interesting?

Bella looks more like a 13 year old boy than a woman, so he's not interested because she looks like a woman.

So pedophile.

It's the only explanation.

My favorite reasons on the list to not read Twilight are:

26.  Her vampires sparkle. Enough said.
28.  There is too much face touching.
45.  Bella.
46.  Bella is Edward’s beard.
48.  Straight men sparkle?
51.  Edward Cullen is sparkly; crows like sparkly things.
59.  She had only been in Forks for a month when Edward had been watching her sleep for two months. (Ha ha ha!)
65.  The reason Edward can’t read Bella’s mind is because she doesn’t have one.
77.  A hundred years difference = pedophile.
 
I understand that I'm not the demographic that this book is aiming for - but I think I would have had a hard time with this one even when I was 16.  It's creepy when a man goes after a child. 
 
And I love this list because it states the one thing that kept me from even considering this series, the age gap.
 
And he's sparkly - really?  Sparkly?

Sleep

I've been having weird dreams again.

I can't remember them...I only remember waking up and thinking, "Wow, that was weird.  I need to remember that".

And of course I don't remember it, I just go back to sleep.

Maybe I should keep a notebook by the bed - but I don't think I'd write in it because I literally turn over and go right back to sleep.

I just know that the ones I do remember are strange and apparently I think the ones I don't remember are strange too.  I just can't remember why.

Anyhooo...

I just want to say it's suppose to be about 90F today (it's 80 right now) - and I'm still a bit chilly here in the office, with the AC off.

I don't want to wear long sleeves when I leave the house - but I always regret it when I don't. 

But I do have my shawl. 

And I'm rambling.

So I guess I'll work now...

Look What I Did!

I updated my blog page with a new template. 

I'm going to play around with it to see what I get...

Web Design Anyone?

Well I tried to change my blog layout.

As you can tell - it didn't go to well.  I switched back to the original design.

I wanted to go with a more coffee themed background, but the one I picked made reading my blog impossible.

And it took away my ability to change the fonts size and color.  So I had Giganormous lettering that had a color about one shade off from the background color.

Which really makes reading difficult.

I was disappointed to say the least, but I saved a back up copy of my template so all was not lost.

Thank goodness.

I guess my blog is not meant to be Prity like others. 

It's meant to be functional.  Which is the same as boring. 

On the bright side I did figure out how to put a map on my blog. 

Of course the site did it for you, but I pressed the button!

A web designer I am not.

Maybe I'll take a class when I move back home.

Then again - maybe I won't.

Can I just say...

I LOVE shopping.

I bought the cutest dresses for work. They are professional but feminine. 


I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE being a woman.

I purchased some trousers too, now I just need some cute tops to go with them.

I tried to buy some shoes to go with my outfits because my shoes get destroyed here with the heat (the soles actually melt), but the card machine in the mall wasn't working.

For any of the stores.

Gotta love being in a developing country. Dubai is much nicer than most, but it is after all only 38 years old.

So sometimes the infrastructure doesn't work quite like it should.

But at least I have stores to shop in. It could be worse, I could be in Syria or Saudi.

Well, not really because I wouldn't live in either one of those places.

But it could be worse.

I could be back in London!

The Lottery

I'm practicing the Secret.

You know the one that had a book and apparently has been endorsed by celebrities?

My Secret is that I'm going to win the Lottery.

Not just any Lottery. The BIG one.

At least 100 million dollars.

Then I can stop working and just relax. Doesn't that sound nice?

Especially right now when I 'm about to fall asleep at my desk, literally.

Mmmmm sounds so very nice.

I'm Thinking Again!

I keep toying with the idea of having a weight loss blog.  I've lost about 7 pounds but just put 1 back on. 

When I write a goal down in my blog for some reason (most likely because I wrote it down) I follow through or I feel bad.

So I'm thinking that if I start an acutal blog and focus only on weight loss and excercise I might actually lose weight, excercise and keep it off. 

I'll decide this weekend.

Tomorrow is Friday...WALLOWING TIME!!!

He he he...

I love my Fridays.

Three Chickens

When I lived in Atlanta I worked with a guy that was hilarious.  And one thing he use to say is "Three chickens in a bucket Fk it!". 

It means nothing, he would just randomly say it out loud.  Sometimes at inappropriate times. 

And I would laugh.

Well this morning that phrase is in my head.

I don't know why - but I can't get it out.  Maybe it will purge itself after I write this entry.

I wonder how hard he would laugh knowing that almost 15 years after the fact I still remember that phrase.

I wonder if he still remembers the phrase?

Sometimes I wonder if people who have moved out of my life remember random things about me 15 years after the fact?

And if so what are they remembering?

And that's all I have to say about that...

I love sausages with cheese inside


Snow is beautiful - but cold


The Schonbrunn Palace is my favorite Palace


Mustard is good


TV in Austria and Germany is racy and I like it


Christina Aguilera has big boobs in the video on TV


I can't wait to be stinkin filthy rich