Hello Tiffy!

I catch myself saying “Y’all” several times per day now. It is always embarrassing, even though most of the time the people don’t catch it or notice it, it rings in my head for a few seconds after it comes pouring out of my mouth! I have an interesting little dialect now, I sound like a Texafornian… “Dude! Y’all should hella come tonight, it will be fun!”……..

I sound like a freak, it is kinda cute, but kinda creepy, someone at work told me I am gaining a “twang” too, but I think he was just fucking with me.

Tonight we are going across the street to the Riata Bar & Grill - our local diner/bar to ring in the New Year. A couple friends from work that live close by will be there too. I am working tomorrow so I am not gonna get crazy, but I will enjoy my last junk food/beer for a little while as I start on my South Beach Diet adventure tomorrow. I will let “y’all” know how it goes.

I hope everyone (or is that ANYONE) reading this has an awesome party tonight and if not, I hope you get the best sleep of 2008.

Take care, Y’ALL!

Yes I made it home alive, thank goodness! On the first flight to Dallas on Dec 24th it was definitely my most frightening ride, I was white-knuckling it the whole time and tears were streaming out however it was such a short ride it was not that bad. Only 38 minutes in the air. It seemed like by the time we go in the air we were praparing for a landing.

On the 2nd flight, form Dallas to Kentucky I was not feeling good either, but I met this awesome flight attendant chick who literally sat there with me and was talking to me the whole time and we pretty much went through our relationships, our other life events and before I knew it 2.5 hours went by. She was so awesome. She also kicked me down a free beer to help me calm down, now THAT is customer service!

As for the stay in Kentucky it wasn’t something I would exactly call “fun”, we pretty much stayed in the house and enjoyed some awesome home made meals. I spent a lot of time playing Pool and Ping-Pong on the table that J’s parents had at the house in the rec room. We almost got our own little apartment on the ground level of the house so it was very private and definitely relaxing. We took our little dog Maysie and she seemed to thoroughly enjoy her self, especially as we gave her a little bit of every meal. She even let her grandma hold her a few times and gave her a kiss that was kind of a shock, as Maysie hates everyone but her parents….

We found a cute little bar/diner about 1 minute away so we went there twice during our stay and played some darts and drank a little. We met some locals and they were all super nice. Nothing like a little “southern hospitality” when you are away from home to make you feel comfortable.

We left at 4 AM on Sunday morning to catch our first flight so luckily I was so tired the anxierty wasn’t as prevalent as I expected. We arrived home around 11 AM and I crashed out for a few hours! Ah, I love being home.

Ok… Just kidding… Sometimes joking about death is not funny but seriously I am sooo scared about this flight on Wednesday! I just need to stop thinking about it…. well that was easier before I heard about this story which a place slipped off of the runway into a ball of flames! Ok, luckily no one was killed but that is sooo not the point.

In other news, we had snow here in Austin last week, it was freakin amazing. I have pictures to upload but they look just like white dots… still lots of fun and I was in awe and shock! Completely beautiful! Oh, it was like, flakes that melted before it hit the ground, so it was not like a winter wonderland here.. but it IS Austin, TX we are talking about. I think it deserves mucho recognition.. actually, I believe it was featured on CNN a few times the day after.

I got my hair done red last weekend, it is so cute… it took a few days to start liking it because it was such a big change! I also got a cute side part with some of those side wispy bangs. I am trendy ya know. Actually, I did this mostly because I am totally going gray! I will save that bitch session for another day.

Oh, I must tell you my new computer is keeping me warm at night…. I received an early Christmas present from Jay and it was the World of Warcraft expansion… how did he know? So I have been grinding and wasting away any free time that I get but unfortunately I will not get much free time for a while after the holiday. I do not get PTO at my job so I am missing 3 days of work and that means no money…. I am going to be doing a lot of Overtime when I get back to make up for the lack of money… which means less playtime.. boo. However I have felt like a lazy lazy lazy person lately, that is what being a geek does to you….

I am thinking about starting the South Beach Diet after the new year, a co-worker is starting it and I am like well why don’t I give it a try. I think it sounds decent, but no alcohol or sugar of any kind for the first two weeks. Also no bread I think, it is pretty restrictive. Meat and vegetables are good most of the time but you know the best part is the potato! Which I can not have.

So anyway, Weight Watchers really DOES work but I found my biggest strength from the diet came from within my close friend Angela and basically when I moved away I stopped being on track. My hope is if I do South Beach with my friend Mary then the fact that we are both on it will inspire me in the same way. So, I will let you know. In the meantime, I will drink beer!

I love it when this kind of thing happens and the sick perverts are finally caught…. That girl and her sister can have her first Merry Christmas in a long time…

I got my new computer yesterday and I am beside myself with excitement! I will blog about it this weekend, but here is a pic we took with the webcam. Really clear for having not the best light source. It’s a great cam, it is a Logitech 9000.

Sigh it has been far too long since I told you what was going on in Tiff Land.

Lets see… Oh, recently my upper left wisdom tooth decided it HATED me! Who can hate the tiffster? Well this tooth definitely does. It started on Tuesday, an extremely excruciating pain in the left side of my mouth. I just knew it was my wisdom tooth because I had been expecting it to turn on me for the longest time. I had felt that it was only half-grown in and I had been expecting any day now that it was going to hurt. I was in such pain it only took me 2 days to get to the dentist which says something right there. But anyway, i went to the dentist and they confirmed that the pain will not be going away until I get the thing pulled. So do you remember that discussion we had about a month and a half ago about my insurance and how it totally sucked? So it isn’t the worst dental coverage in the world or anything but it turns out that I am not eligible for oral surgery until I have been on the plan uninterupted for 3 months and of course I am only on 1.5 months at the moment. So I had the dental assistant price it all out for me and it will cost me $500 out of pocket before January 27th. On January 27th it will be my 3 month anniversary so to speak, and I will only have to pay $250. So I am now trying to decide how painful it really is. I discovered Anbesol and it has really helped. If I can stand rubbing numbing solution on my gums every hour for the next 6 weeks i can save $250. I am going to try it. Worst case, I just spend the money. It is certainly a disappointing time of year for my mouth to turn against me but what can ya do? That is life!

In other news, I just bought my dream gaming PC. The sad part of this is I decided to use credit through Alienware to get an ungodly expensive gaming PC because, at the time I had nothing else bothering me for money and I so wanted to treat myself to a new ridiculous treat I could not immediately afford. I flirted with the idea of buying it for months but I took the plunge on Monday and ordered the computer of my dreams, and of course on Tuesday was the day my tooth began to hate me. I have horrible guilt about splurging so much on the computer now and I was so damn close to cancelling the darn thing but you know what this will make me very happy and I just know it will prove to be a good investment. It is hard to treat myself sometimes but dammit I am going to WTF PWN every one with my uber Alienware… you better hope you don’t cross me in WoW or Warhammer online….bitches!