A Splash of Color

Its been a hell of a few days. I feel lousy and since I feel lousy I shall update my journal. A long entry so prepare yourself.


~The Event
A friend of mine from work, Chris came to see the event and brought his son who was 13. The boy was facinated with the archery and said "God if I had armor i would be all OVER that!" Chris told me the next day that the boy had said "Dad, I know you're a history geek (he does Civil War reinactment), but these people are nuts!" SCORE!
Ended up with Second in the fencing tourney, which was nice. I missed the wins total by two. I either suck asshole or I take second now....so...I'm getting more and more pleased with my performance. I undressed Baron Phillipe on the list field. Now THAT Was funny. Also organized a dinner for the Terrae Fini crowd. It tried to fuck up royally when we actually got to the resturant. They had told me when I had called a day prior that they didn't take reservations...They did. AND they were so not prepared for a group of 25, when they said that they could handle it. Everything turned out alright in the end I guess, just left Ruth stressing out a lot...


~The Past Few Days!

A coworker of mine, a lovely older woman has heard me have several conversations with Richard in the mornings before my shift starts or in the afternoon on my lunch break. In one of them (at least one) she has heard us talking about Collin. A few days ago she asked me something while I was working on a project and was focused on my objective. Conversation is as follows...
"hey Diane?"
"Hmm?"
"How old is your son"
"Oh he's 7"
"Oh that's a Great age!"
This is the moment where my brain turns on and I go "What did I just say" but by then its too late...Much too late indeed since she is already walking away...

Collin however said this the other day...
"Mommy lives in America, but Carla lives in Rotterdam"



For you my love, to tell Collin. He might find the idea amusing.

Twee mensen klimt op de ATV (een kleine robot)....Beide mensen hebben (sparks? sorry I don't know that word) vlighen op hun hoofd. Een man dansen met de robot, de andere man springen met de robot af.

I know I'm missing a few words here and there but correct me if you would in your telling of it to the boy? Or better yet...correct me here? A pair of associates climbed up on an ATV, one of our small robots. and with the sparks flying over their heads one starts to dance with the robot while the other one jumps off of it. He jumped off I think because the other associate started to make it move. Yeah. It was quite the funny thing to watch. You had to be there.

Okay this will amuse one of you at least on my list. I ran into one of my nearest and dearest friends, Elizabeth...(Shes's been my friend for 14 years) today. I've missed her so very much! She's pregnant with her 2nd child! She's due in September! All squealing aside...She teased me that I needed to get busy to give her 6 year old son a playmate, not to mention the baby. I wonder if i'll dream the sex of this baby, they find out on Wednesday!

I (with the help of my coworkers) saved someone's life today. The drugs that I gave him, kept him alive till he could get to the Emergency Room. Its a hell of a feeling.


( 30 question Meme )

Thoughts for the day...

I got to listen to him sleep last night...It was wonderful because even though I couldn't see him I know just how peaceful he looked. There's so little of that in his life. Hearing him whisper my name in his sleep though...Gods. I cried.

It's such a beautiful thing to watch men who truly love their children. God watching Richard and Collin interact, it just fills me with such a warm fuzzy feeling. *happy sigh* Especially when he came in when he couldn't sleep. I just watched and smiled. It warms my heart.

I sang for him today. I've never really done that before for anyone.

Im toying with my necklace...I think I need to take the ring Greg gave me off of it. I've been wearing it because he was a apart of my life that was still important to me. It's not anymore. It seems wrong to wear it, even around my neck when I am so in love with someone else. I've been wearing a simple silver band on my left hand to discourage intrest from the men in the plant.

And now for what a lot of you have been waiting so patiently for...
( More trip details )

Okay so today was the most insanely busy day I've had at work to date. As I am decompressing I will share with those who wish to read more about my trip to the Netherlands, more about my trip!

( Juicy details... )

I tried to gather enough energy to post this last night but alas someone plied me with alcohol, and put WAY too much vodka in my drink. I didn't notice how strong it was as they did a darned good job in covering it. I didn't even try to make it back to Bloomington yesterday night.

My trip was wonderful. It was everything I had hoped it would be and more, with the sole exception of the voyage there and back. That was disasterous. I will post more about both things later, when I have had time to process it more. I want to go back more than anything. I will in time, I think that this will become a regular trip that I save for. I left part of me there.


Now the primary thought in my head is..."if I ever HAD to be happy with just one person...I think I could..."
*sigh*

Several things I have discovered today...

1. Shins, clumsiness and metal steps do not make a good combonation, and I have aquired a pair of new "notnice" bruises.

2. Every robot production line has a different song that it plays on startup. It was a beautiful thing to hear the symphony restart after lunch. I just closed my eyes and listened. Aparently when it plays the wrong song, it is a bad thing.

3. The Japanese Executives and installers should not be allowed to run around the plant without a translator. I don't speak Japanese well enough to deal, and the broken english didn't tell me anywhere near where they needed to be. I looked like a fricking idiot following them around like a lost soul.

4. When they say watch out for the lift trucks, boy howdy do they mean it!

5. I need people to make me think happy things when I'm down like this. I just don't want to deal anymore and I do not know why. I know what triggered the drop but I don't know how to get out of it.

This whole switching shifts, morning to night to morning without even 24 hours in between...Not working so well. Dad asked me yesterday "Why can't you just drive home to get your stuff, it's not very far! Why should we go out of our way to bring it to you?"

1. Well I thought you wanted to see me.
2. I've switched shifts 3 times in the last week.
3. I am notorious for falling asleep at the wheel, and not realizing it.

At least I am not on shift this time with an arrogant, self centered, egotistical, barely 19 year old asshat who was training me yesterday. *sigh* Mimicing me, and making fun of my speech patterns and just generally being an Immature 19. I've been told I've had my moments where I acted like that....If I ever do it again will one of you shoot me? Please?

Off to work.

I've done a lot of updating in the past few days. It's my journal after all! They finally called me at 9:30...I didn't get the message until Noonish. *shrug* THey thought it was funny that My little car was stuck. HAhah...Real funny

I wish today had been a good day. I mean it wasn't horrible but...It was bright (good) and damn cold (bad). I don't even know when I started shovelling snow. Oh wait...5 AM! We got 17 inches of snow I think yesterday. While I was clearing off Kate's driveway I turned around to see Dawn's Neighbors shovelling their snow onto my car, which I had already cleared.

Now I can't start my car, battery is dead for some reason. *Sigh* It was only on for 15 minutes today and has a full gas tank. I do not know why the battery would be dead.

Hell of a Valentines Day. Singles awareness anyone? I will post my musings on love later, when I'm in a better mood. I really, really, REALLY need a project. Either that or someone shoot me.

It was an interesting first day...Lots and lots and lots of paperwork. There are even bits of paperwork that I have to do that I didn't know I have to do yet. Letters of good standing from the last EMS office I worked for. Yeah. I have to find out who the EMS medical director is for Elgin and then get a letter from her. I was in good standing when they fired me so it should all be good. Then I have to take the protocol exams to get into the system for this silly county.

Got my uniforms, they're not horrible looking. They have pants in that storage closet that I could swear are a million years old. They're very shrunk, and I had to try on 6 pairs to find one that fit. I was supposed to have 4 so you do the math. The only problem I have with it is that socks are a required part of the dress code. *sigh*

My supervisor walked in as I was getting glassy eyed at the security officers videos. Not the best time to surprise me by appearing behind me but thats what he did. I am amazed that he could sneak up on me, must've been concentrating...and there were 12 of the videos. Yuk!

The bit that has me concerned is this...They were just sold to another company so effective April 1 I may not have a job. That is why they didn't start me last Tuesday. Mitsubishi asked them to hire on all of the people that work for Gregg, but who knows if that is actually going to happen or not. Even if it does I still have to go through the application and interview process all over again!

I train Tomarrow, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.