stephanie is: 
tired…
here are some samples from the latest cam show… i didn’t really have many ideas so i just started grabbing stuff from my closet and ended up with a cheap-o pleather belt that came free with a pair of pants. use your own judgment based on the thumbnails as to whether the collage is work-safe for you…
so danny is going to be on second shift for two months while someone else is training or something… that means i will work from 6:45am – 3pm and get home at 3:30pm. danny will have to be at work by 3pm and will get home after midnight. suck. i won’t get to have dinner with him unless i am able to go visit him. i will have to get up in the dark and not watch the news while i dress. we will basically not see each other awake until our days off. that is the only good thing… since he will be on a day schedule and he writes the schedule for his shift, he gave himself my two normal days off – friday and saturday. i haven’t had them lately due to weird holiday scheduling and filling in for other people, but hopefully it will settle back into the normal routine now.
i only had saturday off this week, so danny and i spent it together. we went to bed at 5:30pm friday night (as i have been sleeping 2-3 hours per night) and got to sleep before 7pm. there were several hours when i was awake, but i basically got 9 or 10 hours of sleep and woke up at my normal 5:30am weekday time. we started our day off with breakfast at the silver diner. i had scrambled eggs, a biscuit, home fries, a bowl of strawberries, and hot tea. and i ate it all since i hadn’t had dinner the night before. danny had steak and eggs since he is still digging the cow. we stopped home for a little bit then headed out to deposit my paychecks when the bank opened at 9am.
after that we began the Great Boot Quest for danny. we started at tycons corner mall but had no luck. danny bought be a build-a-bear golden retriever that i named maggie (in honor of the 20 maggies we have at work). the lady sewing her up kept calling her a he, but i didn’t notice a penis. i always check for a penis when new dogs come into the room… there are some dogs with pretty ambiguous names.
since we had no luck there we parked at the metro station and rode into georgetown via foggy bottom station. i worked on a baby blanket while on the train. we walked along pennsylvania, wisconson, and m but he couldn’t find anything comfortable in his size. we walked across the bridge out of georgetown and took the rosslyn station to pentagon city mall to try there. after danny got hummus and pea soup into me so i’d have energy again, we walked the whole mall without luck. we walked around the new outdoor shopping area then walked across the street to the pentagon to catch the metro back to the car.
on the way home we stopped so i could look for fabric and yarn. i didn’t have luck with the yarn colors i needed, but the fabric was more important. we put cute little fabric scarves on every dog after it is groomed or bathed and we were running out big time due to all the holiday boarding dogs getting baths this past week. it was hard finding cute fabrics that don’t fray in the price range i had to work within. i really wanted the strawberry one but it was a dollar-per-yard too much. dang.
almost as soon as we got home danny asked me if i wanted to go see “kill bill vol. 1” at the second-run theater right THEN. so i stopped checking my email and we headed back out. the movie rocked. it was filmed beautifully – spurting blood and all. uma thurman kicked ass and lucy liu was gorgeous.
i got bad news about an old online friend passing away when i got back to checking my email, so i wasn’t in the mood to do anything else on my computer. i went upstairs and redid 20 braids while half-watching “indiana jones”. danny fell asleep right after he turned it on. i got to sleep several hours later around 2am despite taking nyquil for my congestion at 11pm.
work was fine… they had pretty much run out of scarves the day before so i cut some up to have ready for the dogs who were going home before i went into the rooms with the puppies.
here is a picture of me and matilda in the lounge. she was sitting on my lap watching tv. she was watching music videos on the spanish language channel since all the other non-staticy ones were playing infomercials. you can see the room in her eye… there is the half-door to the kitchen glowing on the left, the tv, and two dogs…
i just had to move my car out of the driveway so danny can come home and park. that means i am up too late and i need to take my mug of tea and my tired ass upstairs so i can start the long process of winding down for sleep.
night!