Exes and Oh’s (…and Oops!)

It’s been three years in the making but it’s finally published.  A collection of poems I had started at the age of 17 and meant to publish in 2003.  Now finally available for the general public. 

I’ve been so excited.  I haven’t even gotten a chance to tell anyone besides Ray, and he’s already planning on retiring.  Poor guy =P  I forgot to tell him that I wasn’t trying to get published to become rich and famous and probably won’t, I just wanted to have my own book.  Simple dreams I guess.

Either way it is published and can be ordered at print format or downloaded as a pdf file at Lulu.com.  If you want to however bypass the registration process and the shipping costs you can just email me directly and I will send you a link to my paypal account so I can order it myself and send it to you.  This might slow down the whole process however, and of course, might piss off the publisher.  Hmmm…more thinking will need to be done, maybe I will bug Ray and borrow some of his brain cells later.  Either way, even if you only choose to download the pdf file itself, I would love to get some feedback from everyone.

BTW, this is pretty old, it’s been sitting in my zip disk for awhile, and sorta autobiographical so some people in my past have been included/mentioned or may even have poems named after them.  I apologize in advance for anyone that might get offended.  That said I hope everyone enjoys it.

Oh, and the dedication was to Logan, but I’d also like to say that this book would have never gotten out of my dusty zip disk if Ray wasn’t there to support me and even push me a little.  I am a lucky girl surrounded by my precious boys.

Good Morning

I’ve been awake since 6:44am.  Weird dreams about work.  I dreamt I was back at CLC with a new accounting project fairly similar to what I was working on before.  Ray’s alarm clock kept turning off so I thought he was way late going to work, but my dream kept interrupting me from waking him up.  Anyway, he wasn’t late.

My phone’s dead this morning, I barely use it anymore so I only charge it every three days.  I’m trying to sum up the energy to get up and get the charger from my car.  I wanted to check my email, see if they got my Java book in stock and such before I got all the way awake.  I also found a solitaire I can live with since everyone was so against my “gauddy” ring.  Seriously, my main logic – I’ve already had a solitaire engagement ring, I want something new and different.  Besides my ring should be how I want it.  Ah, I’m being a brat.  Ray say’s solitaires have more value and he wants to buy a diamond that’s “an investment.”  Hmmm…whatever.  As long as it’s twice the size of the last one I guess.

Anyway, I started my weekend Thrusday and took Logan to the World Museum of Treasures.  It was really fun doing the scavenger hunt with him, and almost adorable how he was too scared to pose with the mummies.  After that we stopped by Ray’s work and chatted with him for a bit.  Of course, back at Lala’s house he was stuck in front of the TV again.  LOL!  Friday night Ray and I went and ate at Kobe’s and went to the Loft with Eric and Sherri.  I won a game of pool against Eric, my biggest story for that night.  I will never let him live that down.  Saturday morning Ray and I ate breakfast at The Good Egg, which is becomming a tradition but I think soon I might have to request a brunch at Legend’s because it’s been awhile.  We went shopping and I got another new outfit.  (Ray buys me entire outfits usually when he’s recently been in trouble =P)  The shirt he bought me was so absolutely hot I even took it over to Mom’s yesterday and told her she will have to borrow and wear it soon. Oh, and we watched a matinee screening of Talladega Nights.  It was hilarious.  There were so many lines in that movie I can see people using all year and maybe even putting on t-shirts.  But I digress, after the running around we took a quick nap before our big night out.  We had been eating so much all weekend we decided to just go to OC for appetizers before heading to Liquid for the night.  Sunday was our day to relax and Ray started his work-out routine for the week (he always takes weekend breaks mostly to spend time with me.)  Sunday night was dinner at Ray’s parent’s as usual.  I showed them Logan’s website and our most recent pics from the museum. 

That about brings us up to date.  So I guess I’ll be off to start the day, but I leave you with pics of my gorgeous little boy.  Enjoy!