Foxy Lady ...

so it's official, Macy and I are being stalked by foxes! Frickin' things are scaring the bejesus outta me! Every morning we walk with our friend Mona, she's a retired nurse that walks an hour every morning around the village (she's my hero!). We walk over to her house to meet her and then she escorts us home ... at least this used to be our routine. She lives in an area that is a little more secluded than my downtown metro location (lmao) and the stretch of about 1 block before her house is open field, a ravine, a bunch of bushes etc so no where to go and it is dark ... especially at 6:15 am when we are walking. We've seen foxes MANY times and they often just stop and watch you but 2 times last week they followed me up her driveway. The most recent time on Sunday they followed at a good trot and thank god her front door was open this time so I could go in. That bloody thing followed us right to the door and then sat down to watch us for a few minutes. By the time she came out to us it was gone. I think they might be living in the drainage thingies in her ditch. So as I was near vomiting on Sunday night stressing out and figuring out how I was going to tell her I couldn't walk that way anymore, or beg her to drive over to my house so neither of us would have to walk alone anymore ... turns out she was feeling the same way! Monday morning we headed out to meet her and she was already almost at our house, she had parked down at her friends house so she could miss that nasty stretch of road where the foxes mostly like to hang out. We now walk for 45 mins in the morning with her and do pretty much her whole route around the village. This is even better than what we were doing before! Will be good for both Macy and I ... and most importantly we have not yet seen 1 fox!

So my cruise is now 1 week away! I can hardly stand it! I now have a list a mile long of potential things to pack ... oh the fun it will be this weekend trying to narrow it down! The ridiculous thing is a lot of the ensembles revolve around a certain new pair of grey boots I bought ... ones that have been worn once and then the 2nd time I put them on the zipper split on me. I was livid! There were a lot of bad words said! I have now taken them to the shoe doctor and I am optimistic that he is going to be able to fix the zipper because if he can't it will be $25 a zipper to replace them ... I only paid $60 for the boots in the first place! I feel a road trip to Pt. Huron this weekend coming on to try to return them! Hmm that might not be such a bad plan because I am also obsessed with getting a pair of black pointy toed dress shoes as all my dress shoes are open toed. I think this would solve a lot of hassle for my trip, they will be very functional with all the dress ensembles I am planning for the formal/semi-formal dinners. Damn me and my obsessiveness! Once I get an idea I often have to give in an go with it! Yep I'm going to Pt. Huron! lol

Did I mention how fantastic it will be to have 2 weeks off work?!?!? I soo need it. Luckily I am already just about in vacation mode, I had a meeting today with my staff and some of them I seriously just don't understand. I don't ask a lot of them, and frankly they've gotten away with WAY too much in the past. I am trying to lay down the law a little tougher now (ha that's hysterical ... me lay down the law!) ... and the one just has such an attitude about it. Seriously part of the job requirements since the day she walked in the door almost 10 years ago were that she dress business casual meaning no jeans and t-shirts ... today I told her no more jeans Monday - Thursday and she got pissed off. Seriously?!?!? We've been letting you get away with it for a few years and you're lippy about being called out on it? Thank god I'm going on holidays because I can't deal ...

on that note I have about100 more ATC cards to make for this cruise and they aren't gonna make themselves so I'm off to work! I came up with one really cool design if I do say so myself. I used the picture of Macy that is in the header here and made it an Andy Warholish design. I have a few fun sayings that I'm putting on as well. Fun!

Typical Amy

so in typical Amy fashion last night ... I fell! I got a call from my friend Lisa about going to walk our dogs together, but of course I missed her call so instead of just walking Mace we went over to the ball park to see if we could find them ... not there but what we did find were a couple men's baseball games going on. Why haven't I been going to them all summer long?!?! Anyways after we walked around and did our business I decided to stop and watch a bit of the game. Was a good game and chatted a bit with Jeff the umpire who also umps my leagues. Got a bit of low down on some drama that happened in the Thursday night league (gasp, shock! Drama in the Thursday night league?!?! lol) ... and if I wasn't imagining things I got a few looks from some of the fellas playing. Great and I was looking so ravishing ... sweatshirt, running shoes, jeans ... not glam at all! lol Anyways after about 20 mins or so Macy was starting to get restless and then someone hit a fly ball up over the fence and it bounced off the bleachers scaring the crap outta Macy. As she was moving away my arm was twisted over my head to try to stop her and I lost my balance and there was nothing I could do but tip over off the end of the bench. Graceful! Landed right on my knee and it hurt like heck! lol The guy behind the bleachers was looking at me with a look of shock like "did I just see you fall of the bottom of the bleachers?!?!" Yep ... typical Amy ...

It's the Final Countdown! duh duh duh duh duh duh duh

2 weeks today and I am outta here!! I have never before felt so much like I need a vacation. I am at the point where everyone and everything irritates me, even the tiniest thing. So lucky for me in 2 weeks I leave for the most amazing trip I can imagine! I am headed to NYC and then on to New Jersey where I get to climb on board a Royal Caribbean cruise to New England and Canada! Ok so the location isn't super exotic but it will still be fantastic ... and on top of that ... Tim Holtz! I will be going to daily work shops with my favourite designer! All supplies will be given to us so all we have to do is show up, it's fanfreakintastic! I cannot wait to see what amazing projects he's got for us.
Now the big dilemma ... what to pack? Oi yoi yoi ... I am not a good packer, I'll admit it. I am getting better though!

for fear of getting any more hate comments (Sus!) I thought I would write a little ditty ... I had an absolute crap week even though it was a short one. I believe the before mentioned Sus also had a crappy week ... maybe I should stop hanging around her?!?! Just kidding! lol
It was just a rather stressful week at work so I'm glad to see it over. And a nice way to end the week was playing ball. We began our year end finals tournament tonight. We played 2 games, won one 14 -0 and lost the other by 1 run! Dang it! We had a lot of fun though so it was all good. The games begin again tomorrow morning at 9 am. I figured we needed all the fans we could get so I've recruited my entire family. I believe even as I type my parents are on their way here from Indiana ... now those are dedicated fans!! Hopefully I don't suck tomorrow!

On another fun note ... I leave for my cruise in 18 days!!!!! I cannot wait! I am so freakin' excited! I'm part of a yahoo group for all the people going on the cruise, well the Tim Holtz part anyways and the emails have been flying back and forth. The excitement is definitely building up! I'm excited to be able to spend a day and a half in NYC too! woo hoo! now if only I could find that money tree in the next 18 days. Actually I'd like to find it in the next 2 days as I've twisted (ha ha ha) Sus & Vic to go to The Bay with me on Sunday! A girl can't go on a cruise without some new duds!

Well gotta go check the laundry and then take the pupperoni for a walk. Hopefully no foxes tonight or in the morning! Those stinkin' things freak me out and they are all over the place!