01-SEP-2006
Friday, September 1
This is the nest that the mouse made in my desk drawer. When the guys came to help me clean the drawer out this morning, the mouse was still there. I'm kind of half expecting to have it scamper across my feet as I sit at my desk some day. Although they put a mouse bait box under my desk and directly under the drawer it was in. Supposedly the mouse will eat the bait and go off and die somewhere.
01-SEP-2006
Friday, September 1
This is my friend, Ann. She is starting her sabbatical on Tuesday, 9/5. She’s going to drive 10,000 miles across the country—visiting friends, relatives and acquaintances from coast to coast. What a cool trip!
01-SEP-2006
Saturday, September 2
This photo was taken in the outside rearview mirror of my car. And it was taken last night as I drove home so I'm kind of cheating putting it as an entry for Saturday. The sun was this glowing, red orb in a totally cloudless sky. Very beautiful.
04-SEP-2006
Monday, September 4
Today is Labor Day so we had the usual party class for Jazzercise. Party classes are really fun because everyone comes to that one class--we have eight instructors on stage and students from every class fill the hall. The energy level is over the top and it is just a lot of fun. So in this photo, Helen challenged all the instructors to stretch themselves and do push-ups instead of pec presses for that part of the routine. They all did pretty darn good.
I didn't have anything to report on yesterday as I didn't do much--stayed home and read my book (I'll finish tonight).
Tomorrow--back to work although I will be WFH.
05-SEP-2006
Tuesday, September 5
This is one nice glass of iced tea! Since I've discovered blueberry tea and the weather has been so warm, I had been thinking it might make a nice iced tea as well. Then, I was thinking that if I mixed the blueberry with ginger peach it might be really tasty. Well I did, and it is! YUM! I have a Mr Coffee iced tea maker and put 6 bags of blueberry and 2 bags of ginger peach tea in the brewing basket. This is what you get--6 quarts of delicious tasting iced tea.
Wednesday, September 6
Intel has been in the news for the last week it seems--fun things to think about over a long holiday weekend. Hopefully this daily reminder to everyone in Oregon that their jobs are in jeopardy will cease soon. And a guy down the row from us plasters the headlines on his wall for all to see. Our CIO spoke to us today and said we'd have to wait until the last week in September, first week in October to find out where we really stand. Oh joy--more waiting.
On a more positive note, there was the most awesome HUGE moon rising tonight as I drove home from work. I didn't catch a shot of it though because I couldn't get to a vantage point that would be good for photographing before it got too high in the sky. They said on the news that it was a "corn" moon. Next month would be the "harvest" moon (closest full moon to the autumnal equinox) and in November the "hunter's" moon. I wonder what the December full moon is called???
07-SEP-2006
Thursday, September 7
Tonight at body sculpting, Helen had us all go sit on the bench seats in the hall to do an upper arm routine. Boy we did a lot of upper arm stuff--except me since I was taking photos. I took several but this was the only one that I could salvage--too little light and too slow a shutter and not a steady enough hand to catch a better shot. I actually prefer doing this type of routine sitting on a chair to sitting on the floor.
08-SEP-2006
Friday, September 8
Today we had our ECAM quarterly at the Grand Lodge in Forest Grove. EUT had a total of three show up--me, Matt and Joe. But we had fun eating hamburgers, yakking with folks we normally don't see, meeting new people, playing frisbee golf and playing a couple teambuilding games. We also had drawings for prizes--with a slight gift stealing slant--but everybody walked away with a prize of some kind.
09-SEP-2006
Saturday, September 9
After Jazzercise this morning, I met Yachiyo and Joan at Coffee's On and we ran into a couple other Jazzercisers that I didn't know. I do now--Debbie, Frances and Paula--they are all elementary school teachers. Well Frances is actually retired but used to teach with Paula. Anyway, nice gals. While we were drinking our coffee and yakking, these young kids came in and got their coffee and went outside. A while later, we noticed that all the boys were sitting in the chairs and the girls on the cement sidewalk--I had to get a photo of that. I guess they don't teach manners any more, huh?
10-SEP-2006
Sunday, September 10
I had a surprise visit from my friend Nora. She was in the neighborhood dropping off her granddaughter Mary and had to use the restroom so came to my house. She convinced me to go with her to 7 Dee's Nursery to buy some plants for her new house. She bought a bunch and I fit them all into her car for the loooonnnggg ride home.
12-SEP-2006
Tuesday, September 12
Well my boss is here from Arizona for a few days this week so I didn't get to my regular Jazzercise class by 6pm. So instead, I came a bit early for the 7:15pm class and caught a photo of some of my classmates working out--something I never see since I'm usually in the front row. This was the last day of our nice sunny, warm summer weather as the weather since then has been cool and overcast.
15-SEP-2006
Friday, September 15
As I said in my previous post, summer is over and the rain has begun. It was almost spring-like as I was driving home Friday night: drenching showers, a little hail, a bit of thunder, many rainbows. Quite the weather spectrum. So in my outside rear-view mirror, I could see the sky glowing like it was on fire so after crossing the bridge to the east side, I pulled back around to face the west side so I could see the whole sky--gorgeous!
