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I am so excited that I still have one more day off work.   One of the best parts about working from home 2x a week is that when we have long weekends like this I don’t even have to go back into the office on Tuesday as that’s a work from home day for me.

Arizona always seems to be in the news for the dumbest things. Evan Mecham, Fife Symington ( are you people old enough to remember how their antics were ‘answers’ on Jeopardy?’  We have a crazy sheriff, there’s SB 1070, you can now carry a concealed weapon without a permit…….  I mean politically Arizona is, how can i say this delicately…. weird.

This week our governor managed to make a fool of herself like 3 days in a row.  Keep in mind she’s not the one we elected into the position.  Obama took Janet Napolitano to be his Homeland Security secretary and that pushed Brewer into the governors seat.  In the past week the entire country has been talking about her and her latest TV appearances.  If Saturday Night Live had started a new season, guaranteed they’d be doing a skit of this.

generally I do not like to talk politics at all.   unless it’s with my husband.  I am in the minority where I live.   I believe what I believe and don’t feel the need to push it down anyone’s throat.

The Cardinals let Matt Leinart go, the guy who was supposed to be our star Quarterback.    He was supposed to be the starting QB on our team and was until he got hurt and then Kurt Warner took over and just blew Leinart out of the water.   Warner retired and in pre season games it appears Leinart couldn’t cut it, was let go and is being replaced by rookies.   ROOKIES.

Speaking of Kurt Warner, he’s on Dancing with the Stars this season and I bet you right now he gets talked to about his posture.   He’s kind of a huncher.

Still speaking of DWTS, I cannot believe Bristol Palin is on the show.

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one year ago this week I started working from home.

that was the first day when I went to take a picture of my work station and Voo ran by.

my house has been a sick house since last year.   Icey came down with bronchitis and then just when I thought i’d escaped it, I came down with something.  I don’t have bronchitis (so says the dr who gave me a prescription for antibiotics ‘just in case’) I just have a cold or something x 10.  It’s just enough to keep me at home on the couch feeling slightly miserable and full of snot.   So i’ve been home sick for two days and will probably spend the entire long weekend still sick on the couch.  can someone come clean my kitchen please?

Work from home went permanent as of last week, so now I know for sure that I get to keep working from home a couple of days per week.   I’ve already started asking to switch my days to  M-W-F, but so far they aren’t biting.    I should be happy with what i’ve already got (and i am) but it never hurts to ask for more.   Now I don’t have to quit my job because i swear to jeebus I was going to if they took away work from home.  You can’t let someone do that for 6 months and then go, ‘oh it’s not working out, come back to the office full time’.     no way, no how.

We did decide to stay in town for our anniversary next month.   Icey had a great idea to just stay one night at a luxury resort.   So instead of a spa suite in vegas we’re getting one here.  In the end it’s going to be about 1/3 of the cost of going to Vegas.   It’s not nearly as fancy but close.  the selling point was the steam shower, we LOVE steam showers.    And since it’s the middle of summer in AZ, the rates are great.   So we’ll spend the night there, have a fancy (hopefully room serviced) dinner (and breakfast) and maybe i’ll book a massage or something, who knows!  you only get one first anniversary, unless you get married again to someone else.  or get divorced and then remarry each other later.

Then just one month later we’re going up to the cabin!  I’m hoping there are some horses up at the ranch that weekend because I think it would be awesome to see how the dogs react.  

now just need to get that all booked…….

my at home vacation was great.  i took walks most mornings, i took a bath every day.  I watched a lot of movies and found some new TV shows on Netflix and Hulu to watch.  I am so addicted to TV it’s not even funny.

the spa was good too.   The massage wasn’t weird like i thought it was going to be, the facial and pedicure were more weird.   I would definitely go again.   I’m thinking about getting a membership to massage envy, my work offers us a discount because it’s considered ‘healthy’.  My company went on a health kick last year and raised the amount you have to pay for benefits unless you participate in some kind of health and wellness thing. i read it as blackmail.  mostly because that whole thing was obviously aimed at a certain type of person.   i felt i should have gotten a discount based upon my lifestyle.  but then I married icey and took his insurance instead.  

Icey planted our 2nd round of stuff in the garden last week, i think this time it’s more carrots, habaneros, peas, green beans and maybe jalapenos, i’m sure i’m missing something else.  We might be able to pick the artichokes this weekend and then that’ll free up another bed.   I wish we could grow cake.  or bacon.    The citrus trees are doing really well and I think that at the end of the year they will all have a ton of fruit on them.  

I was re-enrolled in the work from home thing, so it seems as if i’ve been approved to do this permanently.  I think.   The pilot is up in June and I never heard any rumblings about it going away after that, so i’m pretty confident that i’ll get to keep doing this.

Yesterday when I got home, Icey had a nice surprise for me.   Of course I didn’t notice at first and had to be prompted, but he went out after work and bought me a brand new office chair.    I was stealing his during the day because mine was old and uncomfortable and probably over 10 years old.     It’s an Aeron chair, just like his but a little smaller.   I love it, it doesn’t make your butt fall asleep and you don’t feel all stiff and achy after sitting in it for hours.

working from home = love.   I may have only done it two times, but in those two days I got more work done than I normally get done at work in a week.  It’s nice to be able to work consistently for more than 10 minutes at a time. I’m constantly interrupted at work, to the point that I have days where I don’t do any work at all.