Mondays...

So, today was Monday...I have poison ivy, although it's a low grade deal. For some reason when I get it these days, its as if its not at the full itch potential. Somehow my body is becoming tolerant of it...well done, why then am I still allergic to dust?

What I did complete today, (although...not to the delight of my boss, I am sure) is I strawed the parkway in all middle lanes. I even covered up a huge natural area where we have been putting the leaves from the winter drop. It looks a billion times better than before!!! The photos are of Daniel strawing in the open area and the second is the crew. Jesus, Cholo, Fermin y Daniel. I still can't get that guy to turn his hat around.

So what is it I do? Like any obsessive compulsive can understand...I make things even and neat and look the same, so your eye doesn't stop...so things in nature look their best. Cut it, edge it, string trim it, blow it, clean it and make sure it looks pretty!

It's Sunday so just pretend your asleep.

Yep, not much to report from Saturday or thus far today. I did some shopping yesterday at Crabtree, looking for work pants...yet, none to the finding. Blogging at times is boring unless you do exciting things...I need more exciting things to do. Here are some photos...

I took a photo of my Jasmine setting seed in front of my apartment. It flowered in the spring for about a month, then wept on in the shade through the summer, and gave me oblong seed pods that I showed off proudly when anyone stopped by, and then...as I was picking pansies, I tried to clean off what I thought was trash or something, and noticed it was the seed pods. The feather like apparatus attached gives the seed lift and float time to spread far and wide.

Speaking of pansies, ugh...pansies, pansies, pansies...it seems like this time of year, we fight and fight to keep them looking presentable, yet...time and time again, they fail my hopes and peter out until the warm weather hits. Today was a nice day...the crew did the cleaning of the lots and I have did the beds, except where the snow was covering it all up. My flowers are not in the best of shape, but we soldier on and hope for miracles.

When I made it home, I found water leaking from my ceiling in two places. The maintenance folks have found their way here and want to chat now. I took a photo of my Jasmine as it sets seed...it looks interesting, the feathers make it fly.

Thursday, January 22 2009

Today thus far has been a bore, a real bore. And one would think that someone with as much free time and ability to travel would find some adventure to get into, but no...it is instead 2:40 here and I am drying my laundry, sipping some coffee and watching Bonnie Hunt. Although, yes...it was historic, yes...times they are 'a changin'...but please, stop with the ball dresses and Obama bobble heads...I don't need to know if he liked his first breakfast in office. Not to hate here, but let the man do his thing...let his family enjoy it, let the marching bands go home. Where's Britiney...should we be more focused on her by now?

Here is the photo of the moment...my 'Java Love'. I'm trying to warm up since I have been out in the snow and cold for the past three days now as an arctic icefighter. They give us powerful trucks and put plows on the front and tell us to 'plow boys'...and thats what we did, we plowed, and shoveled and salted and slipped and slid around in parking lots driving 40,000 dollar trucks with the sides reading our name...hoping for that call to go home from the cell. We got 7 inches of snow Tuesday and didn't have temps reach above freezing till 10am today.

Tomorrow, we go in for another 10 hours. Hope the snow is melted and we run the gauntlet of jobs scanning and fitting all into one afternoon. Next week we compress strawing and try to get ahead of the schedule.

We soldier on. I think of the quote from 'Jarhead'...

'Because I love this job, I thank God for every fucking day he gives me in the Corps, ooorah.'