I tell people that lately I've been on an unpaid vacation. And This wednesday it ends. I finally go back to my job. Yesterday I received my final batch of paperwork from the HR Office. You know, the I-9, State form, direct deposit form, and the confidentiality agreement. The 22nd is the first day on the new  project. And I have to admit, I am happy about this. I found the building already. And I am even more curious about the other employees. The only other person I  kwow of that's called back to our job is Leticia. She and I have both been making guesses as to who is going to be there also.

I had another blog in the Google Blogger, but just deleted it. Nobody reads it, or posts replies on it. And it had a cute background template too!

Yesterday I took my friend and co-worker Leticia to drop her car off at my oh-so-wonderful mechanic's shop. (I have no idea why the font just changed). She needed lots of repairs done on her car. She jokingly calls him my "husband". So the car  was left overnight there, and after, she and I took a fun day to go to the Costo right over here on the corner. I had no idea that their food cafe area was even there. And that it's so cheap to eat there! And I had a big hotdog. The hotdogs are good too!

we then did the tour of inside the store. As we neared the jewelry section (and their jewelry is beautiful) I heard Leticia kind of yelling and pointing at something inside the case. I realized that her words  were "here's your wedding ring!" I could not even imagine seeing the kind of beautiful rings and everything else that Costco has. She was pointing at a gorgeous diamond set in silver. So for the rest of the day and today, she and I referred to my mechanic as my "husband". She sugested that I call him and tell him that I "just found my ring". But I didn't.

 I received the strangest letter in my mailbox yesterday. It's a complaint letter from the Air Quality Management District. An "anonymous person" called them to complain that my car was seen on the block near my school, "emitting excessive smoke" at 1 o'clock A.M. And in it they sent a form for me to fill out. This supposedly happened on February 6th. So at the bottom of the form I replied that at that time of the morning I am sleeping, and my car too. The letter also states that this does not affect my DMV driving record. 

I took that letter to my mechanic's today, showed it to him. First he just commented on some people having nothing better to do. And then he said that now they are going to be looking to see if my car passes it's smog check this year. He winked at me as he said that. I said to him "that doesn't mean that you get to charge me a lot for smogging it again".

My cat Nala has a hernia. Yes, that is  what I said, a hernia. She's had this pink growth on her belly, almost right in the middle. For a couple of years I thought it as a large nipple. I touch it and move it around and she doesn't even notice it. But Friday it looked like it had grown a lot. I took a few pictures of it with my cell camera, and took a trip across the street to the veterinarian. The 2 ladies in the front office told me it's a hernia. I made an appointment for her to have it looked at.

I've been doing a lot of reading. A. Lot. Of. Reading.  Instead of posting a book every time I read one, I'll just make my Library Thing list here.

I also made another site. A-Little-Nutcake  or the Sundance Dollhouse.

And I actually managed to make a few sketches.

I had fun sketching these.