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Sunday - Nov 16th - Yes, I do realize it is not Saturday morning but I slept late.   Actually, sitting here drinking my coffee I feel like I want to go back to sleep BUT, then I also feel like writing, and have to exercise my pony because I am losing weight and he is gaining.   SO, Monday, even though it is very expensive now for grass hay - he is getting grass hay rather then the mix we now use which is grass/alfalfa.   That is like going to lettuce without those tasty croutons!  BORING!   Does anyone realize the end of the year is about six weeks away!   For Xmas this year we are a tad broke BUT I remember when I was little we gave gifts we made,  I guess now that is seen as being cheap or broke and it seems unless it costs upward of $50 it is still considered cheap or that you are broke.  This year we are looking a tad at gifts in the $10-15 dollar range and consider $25 a damn expensive gift!  But even a gift card at Starbucks that only buys I think about 4 coffee's!!!   I don't buy coffee, I bring my own to work from home.   People ask me how I can afford horses, as they stand there with a cup of coffee, that buy one each day and at the end of the week would buy a bale of hay!    I think it is called "doing without!" and putting your priorities different places.   Anyway, for anyone that is in the financial valley of the broke, don't let the holidays get you more bummed out - I think we all have to go back to basics!   Just too caught up in the buzzing, techno, world - Reminds me of the book The Velveteen Rabbit!  So, the good news is Adult Story Corner is self sufficient and has been free since 1996 and will continue into 2009 FREEEEEEEE to read.   I know I can hear someone out there saying, "Jessika, please stop talking and go finish the next chapter!"  See you all Monday night!

Sat  - Nov 8th.  Darn, it is cold out today for sunny california!   Anyway, not working with the horses today but maybe later after I finish the story.   I rode Cody yesterday and he was bored SO I let him go over the jumps - but put them flat on the ground.  I do not ride where he can jump high over them  - I use a western saddle, but he enjoyed trotting over them.   Well so much for all my treadmill walking and leg work because I can't walk today!  And I mean I feel like I did about one million wide stance squats!  Oh damn that pony is rounder then I thought when posting over and over on those jumps -   Unless it is a very skinny horse I don't think I can swing onto the saddle today!!!    Other then that I have done very well this year on my diet and if things even stay on hold for the new year I will be an official 14 pounds less then last year!    No particular diet but during the day I don't eat junk at all!   Well, most days not at all.  Okay, off to write and soak in a nice hot tub!  Unfortunately it isn't for erotica reasons it is because my mind wrote checks that the old body could not cash!!!!  grin!

I finished correcting chapter 1 of Anthony written a year ago but chapter 2 will take longer then Sunday so I figure I may as well get it posted today since it is still cold and I still can't swing my leg to get on a horse!  

Sat - November 01 - Can you believe it is November!   It is 12:44 here in California and it is raining, which is nice.  I don't have to go outside and can sit here and go over a story that I will actually post Monday night.   And, although I did say I was sick of schedules - I have found I do so much better on a time line!  Actually, without one I find I tend to sit and can't think what I should do.  So, right now?  I am going to make a cup of coffee, tuna fish sandwich and finish going over a story I wrote in 1999!  

Sat - Oct 25th - Can you believe I am sick, again!  Crap!  I was heathier when I didn't lose 15 pounds!  Okay, so you want to see my Korea picture from the Engineering conference?  I had to crop out the other people, because somehow I don't think they intend to be on an adult site!  Okay, complete with gray hair coming in!!!  EGAD!  Now I have no idea why in one picture I have on glasses and my leather collar and in another I don't have on glasses and a necklace - OH could it be that during this SAME day I got pissed off at a certain man attending the conference, and turned into an alter personality???  HMMM?  - sub, dominatrix - gee, will the real LdyJ please stand up?  Okay, going home with this damn cold and will try and finish a story!  I did start one during a conference where Dr. D.B was giving a lecture, NOT that he was boring - just that it was a good opportunity to write!!!

Sat - Oct 18th - So, how did Korea go?  Not very well thank you, but business wise I guess we can say it was successful - if you are into Finite Element Analysis.   There was this man at dinner, of all days, my birthday dinner.  He was sitting on the other side of my boss and I was on the the side.  So this man is going on and on how he likes to go to this one restaurant, because he can get dog.  Yes, that was d-o-g like in eat dog.    Okay, I was really cool and not wanting to offend the China Man, I just smiled and didn't say anything - but on, and on, and on, and on he kept talking about eating dog.  SO, I very quietly said to him can we change the subject - NOT.  I think he enjoyed it.  SO, after many minutes of trying to be polite - OOPS!  Alter personality time, I guess!

I very quietly leaned in back of my boss and whispered to the man, "you keep talking and I'll rip your balls off."    Well, that shut him up, but it also got my boss just furious with me - I got this frigging lecture when we got back to the hotel.    Well, it isn't like I threatened to  shove them down the guys throat - I just wanted him to shut up about eating dog!!!!    So, you can see I am always a tad in trouble with my boss.

Sat - Sept 20th - Well, I was going to rant yesterday but it would have involved calling my boss a bad name, and I wanted to hit him on the nose with a newspaper yelling, "Bad boss, Bad, Bad, Bad" -  "Mean Boss, Rude, Rude, Rude!" 

  There, now I feel much better.   I was really, really trying to explain something to him but I can't explain fast enough -  then I try faster to really explain because he interjects something and I get thrown off.  SO I start over-explaining and then he just gets mad and yells at me to kind of G-Damit SHUT UP!  

I told my husband and, of course Don always is calm and has great advice.  Don suggested that my boss and I talk from different rooms using walkie talkies so we have to click and say "over" - that way  the other person knows when the other is done with a thought, and it is time for them to talk.  Also then my boss can just put the walkie talkie down on his desk, while I talk and he can do other work until I say "over" - So, that is my human resource top for the week.     The other is don't yell at me in the phone, because I tend to answer: "If you G-Damit one more time at me I'm going to hit you in the nose!"   That is not very mature thing to say as well as being  insubordination and I think threatening, even while crying.   So, it was not a very happy Friday at work - so I went shopping rather then sit there angry.  I was wise enough to send him and e-mail that I had a doctor's appointment.

  Bless the men and women in all countries for freedom Military, Police Force, Coast Guard and Fire Departments.  Never forget them. 

  Volume 1 - old but a good one anyway 

Passions of Ldyjessika