Thursday, April 27, 2006

Positive Attitude. Positive Attitude, Positive Attitude

i think i need to back off the negative attitude and re-board the happy train...at least for the next two weeks. then i am back to snyde and cynical! but at least until the 12th of May, which cannot come fast enough at this point. i guess i have to admit it was Oprah that really made me think (computers everywhere are smashing to the ground over that last statement) that i have a really good life, minus the office mumbo-jumbo. i was watching a tivo'd oprah about the genocide in Darfur, and the violence against the children and villagers, and the atrosities i have never seen, let alone ever imagined facing...and it hit me...

shut the fuck up and stop whining chels...you are not being saught out for slaughter, your child is safely riding his bike outside in the gorgeous sunshine without fear of being burned, beaten or turned into a slave or soldier, you are living in a country where you have the option to voice an opinion without the reprocussion being fatal, you are healthy from good food and clean water...etc etc etc...so my friends i digress...i am going to be great regardless of this work stress...and if this all blows up in my face...i will be great in whatever i decide to do after that!

damn you oprah, you crazy self righteous hag, and you Lisa Ling, for that indepth reporting...i was ok wallowing in my muck...now i have to be all realistic about other peoples struggles and the ease i really have in my day to day life.

happy thursday friends.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

well folks...its official...i have no back bone and i am a slave to the monetary compensation i receive for the endentured servatude i perform for my company. i guess that probably doesnt come as a huge shocker to anyone. but it did make for a mild moment of disapointment on my behalf for the younger, bolder chelsea of the past who would've seen an injustice being done to a fellow co-worker and taken a stand. i do recall a time when i have done the old "walk out with a friend over something at the work place". although the position i held at the time was hostess and i only lost a couple bucks an hour as opposed to the monstrous salary i bring in these days! hahahaha...if only that part were true. oh well, i guess these days i have to admit that i need to weigh my options of paying the mortgage and car payments before i go off and quit the jobby job i have. damn you billls...you make my morals and principles much harder to follow...

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Changing Leadership Brings New...

If you thought hope was the word that would follow that sentence you are sorrily mistaken. we got wind of the new management change this morning at a meeting before the sun had risen...note to any employer pulling the rug out from under your employees...wait till after 9. no one wants their world to crash down on their heads before the inhumane hour of 7 a.m. please have at least that much decency. or buy us breakfast, one of the two. or just fuck the fuck off and tell us our world as we know it is over. but dont...i repeat dont try and pep talk me at 7 o'clock mountain time...and dont act like i dont have the intelligence to see when i am being shamboozled...thats a new technical term...just tell me to grab my ankles and be done with it.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Danger, Danger Will Robinson

i have that feeling again my friends...the feeling of impending doom as it relates to the shambles that is my office. i will make it short and sweet and not dwell though as i meander thru the want-ads for a job that might be up my alley...i am thinking toilet cleaner, garbage gal, something i can due regardless of bad management or faulty judgement on the part of the business owner. i am afraid for fear of being cast out i cant go into it any further. all i can say is when bad management happens my friends...beef up your resume and run like hell. or do like i am and hide in your office until your maternity leave begins...(14 works, 5 hours, 43 seconds)

and to top that off i am in the middle of a facist takeover by said boss and all my personal/professional freedoms are at stake due to Phil, the "business systems analyst" he hired to evaluate our processes and business apearance, but i completely acting like we arent going to implode any second now. fuck you Phil. mind your business. i can wear sandles if i want, i am pregnant and swollen, and my sausage feet arent going to fit into my usually sassy high-heels. so stick your sausage face in my high heels for all i care buddy. no one sees my feet past the belly that doesnt quit anyways and i am just as educated regardless of the style of shoe i am squeezing into for the last weeks of my pregnancy. and as far as the visibilty of my tattoo i am betting people arent going to walk out of our design center due to a square inch of ink below my hairline...and if they do they are basing far too much on the outward appearance and not on the huge ass brain i am sporting inside my attractive skull! dont like the tatt? shouldve mentioned it when i was hired. oh, thats right, you cant see it unless you are two inches from the back of my neck! BUT ON ANOTHER NOTE...

I need to mention that regardless of the bullshit at my place of employment (maybe former place) i am really just happy to be alive today. i am happy that my life took the turn it did 6 years ago today and that i am a happy, healthy, and productive member of society and not one more statistic that i couldve been. so thanks to my parents and sisters, for loving me enough to see i was worth trying to save, and thanks to my hubby, for seeing someone worth loving as much as he has since the day that lucky devil met me, and thanks to my beautiful son, who taught me what was really important in this life even when i had no clue. and thanks to both my guys who continually teach me to love without boundaries and expectations. you are both my heros and i hope you know that.

Friday, April 14, 2006

After Close Inspection...

i realized how easy it is to tell we are very unorganized and messy at the Casa Chelsea from the picture of Prince Michael. pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...or the piles of videos waiting to be "put away", or the piles of books on the table, all currently being read by helmet boy! what a load of slobs we are.

Parenting 101

is this the best cover for a parenting book yet?
this is my darling son...wearing his new helmet...while watching the morning news in the lounge...like every 8 year old should do. take a good look at the screen...he's keeping up on his body counts for the metro boise area...my boss got the young prince that helmet on monday and he has been wearing it through-out the week. today is class pictures though, so when he came downstairs wearing it and his school clothes i thought we might be in for a brawl about the difference between expressing ourselves and wearing a helmet to school.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Prior Crush Celebrates Death Anniversary

so as an angst ridden teen can i tell you what a crush i had on this guy? i thought he was just about the most brilliant musician (i never claimed to be a good judge of music) and listened to their cd's like they held the antidote for whatever teen-age poison had a grip on me. i still pop in the unplugged album and have really sereal flashbacks while alone in the car...its strange how some tunes can transport you to a particular memory in a split second...anyways...all reminisance aside...today is his death anniversary and i was remembering what a crazy crush i had on him as a teen-gal...what a great looking heroin junkie. i dont usually find those words in the same sentence anymore...but today is an exception. so thanks Kurt Cobain, for helping me feel like the rest of the world was just as fucked up as i was when i was young.

wow, i am getting really old...

Monday, April 03, 2006

We're Gonna Party like it's 1999!

can i say how stoked i am by Saturdays turn-out and festivities? i am stoked! it was so fun to have a chance to round up all the ladies i love and eat some good chow and open a pile of presents the size of Idaho itself!!! i have never really gotten that tired of opening gifts...i cannot believe i just said that out loud...but i did! i was exhausted! i felt like the faster i tried to open them the faster the pile beside me grew...like gremlins and water! i just aged myself by using a gremlin comparison huh. oh well. i am fast approaching 65 and couldnt care less! 28 i mean, 28! geez.

so the party was a success...no drunken debacles, no baby shower brawls, no nothing! just food, folks and fun (thanks McDonalds for that little ditty) i want to extend my sincerest thanks to the ladies who threw it for me. they kick ass and deserve a night on the town for handling the circus...and i would love to give them one, but i am a baller on a budget and dont really have the cash. they will have to settle for a huge thank you, and my undying love and affection! oh and a thank you card i am sure. i will spring for those, i mean i am not a total schmuck!


thanks to the party we have widdled our list of baby goods down to a few expensive items to go now too!! we have managed to get pretty much all the neccesary junk a kid needs to sustain life on our planet! a crib, a swing, a bouncer, a bedroom (formerly the office) a truck load of blankets and binky's and other acooterments that seem neccesary! i think all we are lacking now is a car seat, and hell those are optional right? a mere suggestion? i believe my hubby has picked out the caddilac of car seats he wants...i swear the damn seat will be nicer than my car now. much like all the new baby stuff is now the nicest furniture we own!