Many people believe the dinosaurs became extinct
because of some loopy meteorite showers.
This is simply not true.
The dinosaurs became extinct because they held out for love.
Dinosaurs wouldn't settle for relationships of convenience
(like the roaches for example). It was a tough choice between
extinction and compromise. But in the end, they refused
to procreate until they found that special someone
~ and as we all know, that's not easy when you're bigger than
Lincoln Memorial and have a brain the size of a pea.
So one by one the great dinosaurs died
~ Choosing to sacrifice their species
rather than live in a world without love.
Only one dinosaur survived,
the St. Valentine's Fairy Dinosaur.
She lives to insure all other species find love
~ true love ~and make the dinosaur's great sacrifice worthwhile.
So on Valentine's Day, of all days
~ Get out there & love somebody ~
in honor of the dinosaurs.
Happy Valentine's Day!!
Love . . . Liz
Monday, February 14, 2005
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Grocery Store Insanity
I know better than to go to the grocery store on Sunday afternoon ... but there was stuff we needed and I bit the bullet and went ... by the time I left I was so frazzled I think my hair might have been standing on end ...
I was amazed at the numerous people who had their cart stationed in the middle of the aisle and looked at me like I was a bitch when I politely said, "Excuse me" ... and for those that couldn't seem to comprehend, "Excuse Me" I then moved the cart out of my way ... one woman actually snapped "Don't touch my cart!" ... as politely as I could muster I said, "My plan wasn't to shop with you today, so in order to proceed I must move your cart." ... she seemed a bit perplexed ...
As I stood in line to check out I felt myself shaking with frustration ... an older [than me] woman actually pushed my cart out of the way and got in front of me in line ... I explained to her the items on the belt were mine and that I was actually in line waiting to check out ... she wouldn't move ... so I wedged myself between her cart and mine and just pushed forward ... it was like being in a Twilight Zone ...
I unfortunately chose a checker that felt it was his mission to chat up the woman in front of me ... I checked my watch because I know time can be skewed in the grocery when I think I have actually entered the depths of hell ... 9 minutes they chatted ... 6 of those he wasn't even checking anything out ... just flipping through a notebook to look up items ... but would stop flipping while they chatting ...
When I could finally see the light and all her items were scanned out came the coupon book ... holy shit how can you not have these out ahead of time ... or during the chat fest ... now I was totally locked into line ... even if I had a breakdown I couldn't escape ... after perusing her coupon book I was ready for my turn ... she just had to pay ...
Lo and behold out comes a checkbook ... all I could think was ... "what the FUCK ... checks ... who the fuck uses checks anymore ... are you kidding me ... you are writing a check and you didn't take it out of your God damn purse until this moment" ... how could she not have filled it out while he was checking her out ... not only am I stunned that people are still using checks ... but to wait until everything is complete to fill it out ... and better yet after he gave her the receipt she stood there and entered it into her registry and did the math ...
I will seriously ... in the future ... try never to go to the grocery on Sunday afternoon ... it was almost worse than going when the mass public freak out cause there is going to be snow and I unfortunately need regular groceries ... not 87 rolls of toilet paper ... carts filled with loaves of bread and enough milk to nourish an army of preschoolers ...
I was amazed at the numerous people who had their cart stationed in the middle of the aisle and looked at me like I was a bitch when I politely said, "Excuse me" ... and for those that couldn't seem to comprehend, "Excuse Me" I then moved the cart out of my way ... one woman actually snapped "Don't touch my cart!" ... as politely as I could muster I said, "My plan wasn't to shop with you today, so in order to proceed I must move your cart." ... she seemed a bit perplexed ...
As I stood in line to check out I felt myself shaking with frustration ... an older [than me] woman actually pushed my cart out of the way and got in front of me in line ... I explained to her the items on the belt were mine and that I was actually in line waiting to check out ... she wouldn't move ... so I wedged myself between her cart and mine and just pushed forward ... it was like being in a Twilight Zone ...
I unfortunately chose a checker that felt it was his mission to chat up the woman in front of me ... I checked my watch because I know time can be skewed in the grocery when I think I have actually entered the depths of hell ... 9 minutes they chatted ... 6 of those he wasn't even checking anything out ... just flipping through a notebook to look up items ... but would stop flipping while they chatting ...
When I could finally see the light and all her items were scanned out came the coupon book ... holy shit how can you not have these out ahead of time ... or during the chat fest ... now I was totally locked into line ... even if I had a breakdown I couldn't escape ... after perusing her coupon book I was ready for my turn ... she just had to pay ...
Lo and behold out comes a checkbook ... all I could think was ... "what the FUCK ... checks ... who the fuck uses checks anymore ... are you kidding me ... you are writing a check and you didn't take it out of your God damn purse until this moment" ... how could she not have filled it out while he was checking her out ... not only am I stunned that people are still using checks ... but to wait until everything is complete to fill it out ... and better yet after he gave her the receipt she stood there and entered it into her registry and did the math ...
I will seriously ... in the future ... try never to go to the grocery on Sunday afternoon ... it was almost worse than going when the mass public freak out cause there is going to be snow and I unfortunately need regular groceries ... not 87 rolls of toilet paper ... carts filled with loaves of bread and enough milk to nourish an army of preschoolers ...
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Early Valentines
I had a very special Valentine's Day 2 days early ... while out and about we stopped at Dick's Sporting Goods and David got me a heavy bag and boxing gloves ... I've talked about wanting it for some time now but just decided it wasn't necessary ...
It was the perfect Valentine's Day gift ...
Once we left the store David asked if I wanted to go ahead and go to my office to hang it up ... I was game so we made the trip to College Park after stopping at Home Depot for chain ...
I was impressed with David's will and determination to get the bag hung ... we have a 15 foot ceiling in the warehouse where the bag was going and we didn't have a ladder tall enough to easily reach it ... so for over an hour David swung rope to get it over the rafter ... then attached the chain to pull it up over the rafter ... I would have given up long before David ... but he kept at it and eventually got the bag hung ...
for a while it felt as if we were on an episode of the Amazing Race and this was one of our challenges ... actually more like a Road Block since I kept cheering him on like the women on the show do ...
The bag is AWESOME ... best workout ever in half the time ... I can't wait to get back to the office on Monday to do some boxing ... it really was exactly what I wanted ... a great first Valentine's Day as husband and wife ... :)
It was the perfect Valentine's Day gift ...
Once we left the store David asked if I wanted to go ahead and go to my office to hang it up ... I was game so we made the trip to College Park after stopping at Home Depot for chain ...
I was impressed with David's will and determination to get the bag hung ... we have a 15 foot ceiling in the warehouse where the bag was going and we didn't have a ladder tall enough to easily reach it ... so for over an hour David swung rope to get it over the rafter ... then attached the chain to pull it up over the rafter ... I would have given up long before David ... but he kept at it and eventually got the bag hung ...
for a while it felt as if we were on an episode of the Amazing Race and this was one of our challenges ... actually more like a Road Block since I kept cheering him on like the women on the show do ...
The bag is AWESOME ... best workout ever in half the time ... I can't wait to get back to the office on Monday to do some boxing ... it really was exactly what I wanted ... a great first Valentine's Day as husband and wife ... :)
Friday, February 11, 2005
A permanent solution to a temporary problem
I am still stunned at what I saw yesterday ... as I was leaving my house for work I saw 4 police cars ... yellow "do not cross" tape enclosing a section of grass area ... and a tarp coving a person ... in the building behind me someone jumped to their death ...
I haven't been able to get the image out of my head no matter how hard I try ... it is there ... in the foreground of everything I am thinking ...
I contacted the local Fox News station to see if what I saw was what I thought I saw ... they confirmed that it was but since it was a suicide they don't report on the story ... that statement alone kind of shocked me ... it makes it seem like no one will know it is a problem if they don't report on it ...
I can't help but wonder what they were thinking at the time they decided to jump ... it seems like such an awful choice ... and such a scary thing to do ... I have so many questions that I will never know the answers to ... I am sure just like their family ...
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem ...
On my way home I had to drive by the same spot ... the grass is gone and it is like a crater is there ... it made my stomach sink when I saw it ... I feel so affected by someone I don't even know ...
it is just so sad ... sad ... sad ...
I haven't been able to get the image out of my head no matter how hard I try ... it is there ... in the foreground of everything I am thinking ...
I contacted the local Fox News station to see if what I saw was what I thought I saw ... they confirmed that it was but since it was a suicide they don't report on the story ... that statement alone kind of shocked me ... it makes it seem like no one will know it is a problem if they don't report on it ...
I can't help but wonder what they were thinking at the time they decided to jump ... it seems like such an awful choice ... and such a scary thing to do ... I have so many questions that I will never know the answers to ... I am sure just like their family ...
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem ...
On my way home I had to drive by the same spot ... the grass is gone and it is like a crater is there ... it made my stomach sink when I saw it ... I feel so affected by someone I don't even know ...
it is just so sad ... sad ... sad ...
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Vivid Dream
I had the most amazing dream last night ... it was so vivid and so real ... it makes me a bit nervous ...
It was my friend Mike ... that I went to college with ... the last time I heard from him we were supposed to meet in NYC ... some time before 9/11 ... but we never hooked up ... then I didn't hear from him for ages ... I got an email from a mutual friend when I started planning the wedding and wanted to send Mike an invitation ... the email explained that Mike was a heroin addict ... he had lost his wife, job, house, car ... and our friend had no idea where he was or if he was still alive ... it still makes me cry thinking about it ... I miss him terribly ... we stayed close even after we both moved away from Lawrence ...
well in my dream last night Mike was right there with me ... and we were hugging ... tightly ... I could feel his skin next to mine and I was sad ... and I didn't want to let go ... and David was there [even though he has never met Mike] and I remember thinking "I feel bad hugging Mike with David there" but in the dream David could hear my thoughts and he said to me "It is OK Liz ... stay close to him ... he needs this ... he is leaving ... he is saying good-bye" ... which made me start to cry ... and then Mike held me tighter and tighter and tighter till I thought I couldn't breath any more but I didn't want to let go ... so I just kept squeezing ... and I kept saying to myself, "Liz make a mental memory of this ... how this feels ... how his skin feels ... make a memory ... you have to remember this" ... and it was like I could feel it all ... and then I started sobbing ... I kissed his lips ... and then woke up with tears in my eyes ...
It shook me up enough that I couldn't go back to sleep ... I decided to get up ... splash some water on my face and go sit outside for a bit ...
Was he saying good-bye? ... was that it? ... is there no hope that he will one day be alright? ... get his life back from the grips of heroin? ... is he gone? ...
As I relive this dream while writing it I am again brought to tears ... he is/was such a wonderful person with so many amazing ideas and a huge heart ... I've missed our talks for years now ... but now I fear there will never be another one ... that he has left for good ... and taken a piece of me with him ...
It was my friend Mike ... that I went to college with ... the last time I heard from him we were supposed to meet in NYC ... some time before 9/11 ... but we never hooked up ... then I didn't hear from him for ages ... I got an email from a mutual friend when I started planning the wedding and wanted to send Mike an invitation ... the email explained that Mike was a heroin addict ... he had lost his wife, job, house, car ... and our friend had no idea where he was or if he was still alive ... it still makes me cry thinking about it ... I miss him terribly ... we stayed close even after we both moved away from Lawrence ...
well in my dream last night Mike was right there with me ... and we were hugging ... tightly ... I could feel his skin next to mine and I was sad ... and I didn't want to let go ... and David was there [even though he has never met Mike] and I remember thinking "I feel bad hugging Mike with David there" but in the dream David could hear my thoughts and he said to me "It is OK Liz ... stay close to him ... he needs this ... he is leaving ... he is saying good-bye" ... which made me start to cry ... and then Mike held me tighter and tighter and tighter till I thought I couldn't breath any more but I didn't want to let go ... so I just kept squeezing ... and I kept saying to myself, "Liz make a mental memory of this ... how this feels ... how his skin feels ... make a memory ... you have to remember this" ... and it was like I could feel it all ... and then I started sobbing ... I kissed his lips ... and then woke up with tears in my eyes ...
It shook me up enough that I couldn't go back to sleep ... I decided to get up ... splash some water on my face and go sit outside for a bit ...
Was he saying good-bye? ... was that it? ... is there no hope that he will one day be alright? ... get his life back from the grips of heroin? ... is he gone? ...
As I relive this dream while writing it I am again brought to tears ... he is/was such a wonderful person with so many amazing ideas and a huge heart ... I've missed our talks for years now ... but now I fear there will never be another one ... that he has left for good ... and taken a piece of me with him ...
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Week From Hell
Finally I am able to write about the mess we have been in ...
On January 24th we woke up to find everything on our server gone ... gone gone gone ... someone [I am guessing an ex-employee] logged onto the server and deleted files ... files being every website on the server ... it was a mega mess ...
We got the server back up ... found some back ups here and there on our own computer ... and started working on the server non-stop Monday night ... we were up most of the night and just dead tired for work the next day ... as I worked on rebuilding sites for ones we had no back up of the server was starting to look normal again ... and then it happened ... it crashed hard core ... they couldn't even get it to boot ... i was crushed ... crying ... i couldn't believe 4 years and now 4 hard days of work were just gone ...
this time we just had a new server built ... i couldn't risk going through this again ...
so now a week later the server is almost back to normal ... i lost our wedding site which is kind of a bummer ... but it is getting there ...
it was one terrible week last week ...
On January 24th we woke up to find everything on our server gone ... gone gone gone ... someone [I am guessing an ex-employee] logged onto the server and deleted files ... files being every website on the server ... it was a mega mess ...
We got the server back up ... found some back ups here and there on our own computer ... and started working on the server non-stop Monday night ... we were up most of the night and just dead tired for work the next day ... as I worked on rebuilding sites for ones we had no back up of the server was starting to look normal again ... and then it happened ... it crashed hard core ... they couldn't even get it to boot ... i was crushed ... crying ... i couldn't believe 4 years and now 4 hard days of work were just gone ...
this time we just had a new server built ... i couldn't risk going through this again ...
so now a week later the server is almost back to normal ... i lost our wedding site which is kind of a bummer ... but it is getting there ...
it was one terrible week last week ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
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