Bean Counter

Since it's an ugly-rainy-breezy-cool Saturday, being stuck at work for 12 hours is a 'little' more bearable. We do a full physical inventory count once a quarter at our plant which is just under 100,000 square feet with 30,000 square feet of dedicated warehouse space (racks stacked 3 high)....this adds up to lots of inventory to count. I get the fun job of reconciling every last item counted and making all of the individual adjustments (between 600 & 1000 transactions manually entered and I wonder why my wrists bother me??). I just love these weekends, then again I'm the one who decided to become an accountant - guess 'bean counting' is technically part of my job :)

Holy Cow

Where has the time gone.....I haven't been able to get on blogger all week (too busy doing other things) and when I logged in a minute ago I have 598 posts in google reader to go through! Too bad we have inventory at work tomorrow, it'll take me an entire day to catch up on all the old posts.

Happy Birthday Tamar! Trust me 35 isn't that bad, 40 on the other hand - not looking forward to at all. But I guess it does beat the alternative.....
Congrats to Tammy and Mike who welcomed their son yesterday, Kyan James.

I'm starting to book up April thru October so if you need me to do something for you better let me know soon. I do still have some weekends open for pictures!

Cool Breeze

While I do love that it's warmed up some outside thus enabling me to again take outdoor pictures, tonight there's a cool breeze that recently started coming in my bedroom windows and rain showers moving into the area - those who know me know that I'm totally LOVING this evening. That being said, I'm outta here!

Proud to be IRISH

May the road rise to meet you

May the wind be always at your back

The sun shine warm upon your face

The rains fall soft upon your fields

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

For each petal on the shamrock

This brings a wish your way-

Good health, good luck, and happiness

For today and every day.

Three Options

I just looked at the clock on my desk and 'The Mouse' (Mickey that is) says it's 7:24.

One of three things is true.....

1.time is moving really, really slow since this is about what time I arrived at work today

2.time flew by and it's past time for me to leave

3.batteries are dead!

New Recipe

I was surfing blogland the other day and ran across The Pioneer Woman and instantly fell in love with her blog. You should really check it out. She's a photographer/home school teacher of four married to a rancher, aka "The Marlboro Man". In addition to photography and home schooling her children she loves to cook and has step-by-step directions on how to prepare the recipes she has listed - great site, check it out.

I printed out one of her recipes and fixed it last night - LOVED IT! It's an Asian Noodle Salad and you can view her step-by-step directions and print the recipe HERE. It tastes 20 times better than this picture represents.

The recipe makes a really, really large amount but I ate two plates full last night so I think the quantity is a little deceiving. I didn't mix it all together in one bowl either (I knew it wouldn't be eaten all at once since I was the only one eating last night!) - I put the vege's in one bowl, the noodles by themselves with a little oil and the dressing in a separate container. I also left the cilantro separate as I've been told that cilantro will cause food in the fridge to spoil quicker. Not sure why but I've heard it more than once from different people.

Anyway, the salad is made with cooked linguine, baby spinach, purple cabbage, bell peppers (I use red), scallions, cucumbers and lots of cilantro. The dressing is soy sauce, olive oil, sesame oil, brown sugar, garlic and fresh ginger. Hot peppers are optional!

It was delicious, like I said I ate two plates full! I wish I'd brought some for my lunch but I know I'll be having it for supper tonight.

FB

I'm finally on facebook! I always thought it was like myspace (which I don't like much and rarely log into) and therefore never joined. Boy was I wrong! In 24 hours I was able to talk to a ton of people I haven't seen in years. If you haven't signed up yet, just do it - trust me.

I went in for a trim yesterday and ended up having Tiffany cut several inches off my hair. I love it!! I may even take a picture of myself, or maybe not - but I do love the cut.

In other news....
1. Working on several wedding quotes, not at this exact moment since I'm at my ft job as I type. The only problem with working on quotes is that I don't want to wait months and months to decorate. I start researching and finding ideas/pictures and I want to make it happen - right now.
2. Have a meeting with a new bride tomorrow (black/white wedding with yellow accent - great color choices)!
3. Traveling with my Aunt to my cousin's house this weekend to do pregnancy/family pictures. Be sure to check out the photography blog early next week.
4. So ready for it to warm up just a tad bit so I can start doing outside pictures again - several seniors waiting for warm weather.
5. Dad's doing better but still has weeks upon weeks of recovery/therapy ahead.
6. Track starts Monday (Johnathon) - I'm soooo thrilled, I mean we had like one whole week of no sports!
7. Still working on the 1000+ basketball pictures, I'm about 1/2 the way done.

.....and that's about all I have to report at the moment.