My office is a crime scene

Do you sometimes multitask while working?

If you work from home sometimes that multitasking includes painting your finger/toe nails. I'm not going to lie, I have done this. While reading documents online or listening on a conference call I have once or twice attempted to beautify myself.

There is nothing wrong with this type of multitasking if you ask me. Hey, if you can achieve beautiful toenails and get work done-more power to you!

Well that is what leads to the crime scene that happened today. I cleaned my office and desk last week. Picked things up, Windex applied to my glass top desk. Arranged my nail polish on the desk...you know the normal things people do when cleaning.

Molly has become more and more of her old kitty self. Which means that she visits me quite often during the day. Requires petting. Sometimes types random msn messenger conversations to my boss with the message of 999999gsdhgiosghsts nothing out of the ordinary.

Normally I just throw her off the desk or my lap if she is annoying me and interfering with my work. I usually have to throw her more than once before she gets the idea that she is not wanted. Especially if I am enjoying a snack while I work.

Today something bad happened.

Molly was being really annoying and I really needed to get work done. I have work meetings the rest of this week and will be out of the office. Working was necessary to my day. Cuddling would have to wait for little miss Molly.

Well Molly sent me a very clear very pink idea of what she really thought of me not paying attention. She threw the bottle of very pink nail polish to the floor. It promptly splattered ALL OVER the floor. Pink nail polish EVERYWHERE.

And for those of you who's significant others hate the smell of nail polish or nail polish remover. Believe me when I tell you that my whole house smells of nail polish and remover. A pungent odor that will not go away now is wafting all the way upstairs.

My office floor looks like I killed someone and am trying to cover up the evidence so thankfully the smell is reminding that it was not a crime scene. I will no longer be keeping nail polish next to my desk.

And Molly and I are not on speaking terms at this moment.

Pandora is BACK

When I work I like to have some sort of noise in the background. The creepy silence of our basement scares the crap out of me, and other than the occasional running and jumping of kitties upstairs, my house is quiet during the day.

Someone could be up there lurking around and I wouldn't even know it. Good thing Dru locks the doors when we are home or not home. Right? Sorry that was me being sarcastic of my overly paranoid husband.

I am pretty sure that if someone broke in and I walked upstairs to see what they were up to-they would run away screaming. I am wearing my sleeping pants, an old long sleeved shirt, and my hair is a mess. Haven't even brushed my teeth yet today. I am SEXY.....

But that's not the point. The point is that I had forgotten about Pandora for almost a year. How does one just forgot about something that they use everyday? I have no clue!

But its back. Pandora and I are once again friends. And my work day is now filled with music-soon to be holiday music :) And I am a happy girl

Classy Girls?

In college I was in a sorority. It was the best time of my life and I met life long friends throughout my four years and learned important lessons.

One thing that we always used to say about ourselves is that we were "Classy"

This was our go to phrase. We prided ourselves on being classy-yet still having an amazing good time. Shoot I even wore pearls ALL THE TIME....


Well I am sorry to inform all my sorority sisters the new phrase that I heard on "Rules of Engagement" last night.

And I quote Russell Dunbar

"Classy girls are like Turtles, rarely on their backs but when they are they stay there for a long time"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Alpha Love :)

Fun and Sun

In case you missed that it is now November in the Midwest and currently 38 degrees, I thought that I would share this little piece of information with you.

I also am the whitest that I have EVER been in my 24 years of existence on this earth. My body did not get its tan on this summer at all and therefore I am white. Really white.

I will be going somewhere warm this weekend. Somewhere where the temp is going to be in the 80's. I might even wear a bathing suit and get a tan?

I could not be more excited about our upcoming vacation. To celebrate my Mom's birthday in Vegas with the Family. I have planned a shopping trip to the Mall of America this evening to get some new cute Vegas appropriate clothing for the weekend, and I also need a pedicure and probably should start some laundry and make sure that Dru has clean clothes............Did I mention that I should probably be working instead of blogging?

Happy Almost birthday Mom and Reem and Stan too....Yes I am weird and decided that Stan should share his birthday with two of my favorite people in the world! Love you!

A Poopy Situation

I have something to share with you and I am not proud to do so or looking for sympathy but seriously something happened today that is just not right.

This story actually begins yesterday.

I was going about my normal Saturday activities cleaning the house picking up things and so on and so forth.

Then I discovered that the kitties "poop house" was slightly stinky. It needed to be cleaned out. Not a big deal, I clean the kittys poop house a few times a week. Not something that I can't handle.

I disposed of dirty poop house contents took out the trash and then went to replace the litter with new clean and fresh stuff for my princess kitties.

We were out of the regular litter! And I didn't feel like going to the store. But I couldn't just not refill the poop house because then where would they go potty?

So I used the litter that we had. The stuff that was remaining in the bag from when they had their claws removed. Some natural pellet looking stuff that smells like trees. Not a big deal. They should be fine and I can handle the tree smell for a little while until I go to Target and get more litter.

Well last night I noticed both kitties "inspect" their poop house and make a dirty face and decide that they didn't need to do their business at that point in time. I didn't really think much of it but I didn't think that they would hold out forever. Or maybe they would just learn to use the people potty?

Boy was I wrong!

Today I was continuing my cleaning spree. Thinking that I was going to clean my office a little bit and maybe move the stool from the kitchen table back upstairs that Dru had put in his bar a month ago.

Something didn't smell so great downstairs. A shitty smell. Something stunk and I had a BAD feeling. The kitties had pooped downstairs before-once in the downstairs shower and I figured it was because they might have gotten shut in downstairs.

I checked the shower and my office. NO poop! Thank god...maybe I was imagining the smell?

Wrong again!

I decided to look behind the bar-and OMIGOD poop central. The damn cats had been pooping behind the bar in two different corners (they don't share well?) for probably a day or so. Seriously I wanted to vomit. Or kill kitties. I couldn't decide which.

I cleaned up the poopy situation that I was faced with reluctantly and the sanitized and scrubbed and febreezed and repeated the protocol to rid the basement of poop.

Then I replaced the poop house with litter that was up to par for my princess kitties.

Surprise Surprise-there was NO poop in the tree smelling pellets. Just pee. Hmmmmmmmm...I wonder why?

I'm Not Ready!

Want to know what does not work out well when working from home?

Power Outages!!

We were without power for about 15 hours Tuesday night into yesterday afternoon. It went out when we went to bed on Tuesday and was not back on when it was time to get up for work Wednesday morning.

Working from home means that you rely on a few things and one of them is power. The other being internet/phone.

Internet and phone decided to go out Tuesday night for a few hours when I was supposed to be on a conference call and needed to send some important emails. This is no bueno in my book. But I rolled with it and was done working for the night since I could no longer do what I needed to do.

But power outages make other things not so fun! Like realizing that I could not have my morning coffee Wednesday morning. Or the fact that there were snowflakes falling outside and my heat didn't work due to having no power.

This girl is not equipped for no heat + snow flakes. Not at all!!

So lets hope that the power does not decide to leave this Midwest home ever again, especially during what is going to be a cold winter. Because do we have anything other than a cold winter up here in MN? I think not!

What is that Smell?

I pride myself in taking hygiene seriously.

Most of the time I will shower when leaving the house (unless I am just riding along in the car and not getting out or something...then I am off the hook)...

I am not a stinky person, or at least I don't think that I am (if you know something I don't please let me know).

I am sitting here right now wanting to vomit at how I smell.

Today's smell is not for a lack of showering-I showered with soap and everything this morning. Took time to do my hair and put make-up on and lotion up my skin because winter is coming.

Did you notice the last sentence? "Lotion up my skin" is where I went wrong this morning.

Thank You Blackberry for taking shitty photos.....

Do you own this lotion? I hope not-or if you do then don't lather up your newly clean body from head to toe.

You might find yourself needing another shower.

And you know what, it is Sunday. And I am just not in the mood to take another shower. So I will smell myself all day long and Dru will get to smell me when he gets home in a few hours.

I have a feeling he won't want to snuggle tonight. What do you think?