Time Zones & other fun things!

Hello all! I'm sitting here writing this blog while watching the Emmy's. Now let me say this, I am a pretty big fan of the award shows. I enjoy watching them and rooting them on. Yes, I know they cant hear me, but its still fun to yell at the TV when my favorite actor doesn't win. I thought being out here closer to the shows, we would get some good footage and be able to see it at a decent time. Yeah, not the way it happens. In fact its worse knowing that all of you know who won, who lost and got to see the funny parts (or the missed bleeps). I on the other hand have to watch a program that is "from a previously recorded show". Yes, we may be closer but we don't get to see anything live. We are the forgotten people. I turned on my computer to write this blog and went online, the first page I come to is the AOL page with pictures all over it saying winners! Kind of spoiled it for me. So i read the rest of the story and found out all the times things should have been bleeped and the flubs, of course they have taken care of those for us, so we get the edited version. Fun. Can you tell I'm bitter about it. Next time, I am going to call one of you and have you hold the phone up to the tv for the whole thing. This is ridiculous. lol. Anyway, lets see whats been going on.

Well, I was supposed to be done working at the office I got "farmed" out to, but I my co-workers asked (or rather begged) to keep me, and when my boss asked me what I wanted I asked to stay. So I get to stay there for a little more time. We had a staff meeting on Saturday and they invited me to it on Friday. Turns out it was a potluck breakfast meeting. I had just gone to the store on Thursday night and really didn't want to fight the Friday night after work traffic. So I came home and spent the next 2.5 hours online trying to find a recipe that only involved ingredients I had in my cupboard. Mind you, its a single persons cupboard so there wasn't much. Oh yeah, and I had to find a recipe that would WOW the people, (as I have baked for them before but only from a box). I did finally find one, a french toast casserole with a caramelized topping. It was good enough that I had a few who asked for the recipe. Only one problem, mom was the one who found it and I don't know where she got it from. lol. I'll have to figure that out.

On other fronts, Fritz had a run in with a neighbor dog. We were out for a nice walk when a dog from another apartment came running from across the street and down the sidewalk barking. Fritz defended me well and the other dog (a beagle mix about Fritz' size) was "yelling" at him. The kids at the house where the dog came from stood on the patio and yelled at the dog to come. lol. As if that would do it. I finally yelled to them to come & get your dog. The mom walked (yes, I said walked) over and continued to tell the dog to go home. lol. Finally she picked the dog up by the collar and drug her home. I have found a lot of people trust their dogs too much. I feel that you just never know when instinct is going to take over. When they are out in public they should be on a leash if not for others safety, then for their own. The dog that went after Fritz is lucky there wasn't a car on the street when she was focused on Fritz. So, Fritz and I have had to cut our walks short and I keep my eyes pealed for any loose dogs along the way. I do have pepper spray hooked to my least just in case. I thought about using it this last time, but they were not biting to hurt at that time. It was scary, though.

Other than that its been a very interesting week. I hope you all are having fun and enjoying Iowa. Take care and talk with you later!