finally, an update

Ok, so its been a little while since I updated last. Except for that last quick post of pictures of that little town in Austria with a funny name...

I am not really sure what has happened since I last posted, so I will try and summarize some things I think are slightly more important than other events in my life.

Piper, the horse I had been riding for the past three months was leased to a girl in Youngsville, NC. Now I will be bumming rides from other nice people out at Oakridge Farm. Primarily for the next few weeks I will be riding Internet, a huge, green (inexperienced, not actually the color green) Selle Francais. He will be quite a workout, he is extremely bouncy, uncoordinated and HUGE, it'll take a lot of getting used to before I actually feel comfortable riding that horse. Soon I may be trying to ride Salsa once a week again too, I love my old horsey soooo much! (I know, I sound like a 5 year old...)

This past Tuesday I met with the WTVD (ABC 11) reps and got all the insider info. on new shows coming out this fall. There are some damn good looking programs I will have to start watching. Look out for Commander-In-Chief with Geena Davis and The Evidence, a mid-season show that should start once football season is over. I also found out that the new season of Desperate Housewives begins September 25th. Woohoo!!! And got given a 2006 Desperate Housewives wall calendar, its pretty fancy. ;)

In other good news, also thanks to my ABC11 rep., I got tickets to the Jeopardy taping when it comes to Raleigh in October. Trav and I are going to see it, and possibly, may get a chance to go to a reception/meet and greet with Alex Trebek. Awesome! I do like me some Jeopardy.

Next Monday is Labor day and my birthday is Friday, which means a nice short week for Antonia. I will be taking a half-day for the 9th, so I guess I will work a total of 3.5 days next week. Haha, it'll make up for the stress I am enduring this week...

Talking about stress, fucking oil prices!!! I have no idea how I, or millions of other Americans who make even less than I do, will be able to afford that stuff. I am not a frivolous spender, but I am going to have to be a total penny pincher to be able to fill up my tank. I am sad, stressed and angry all at the same time. I am deeply saddened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I don't think there is much else to say about that right now, except that it is devastating, and my heart goes out to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by Katrina. I cannot even imagine how people are dealing with things on the Gulf Coast.

In my opinion, this would be a great time for Bush to save face, pull the troops out of Iraq and say they are needed back home in America. I have 100% faith in the fact that no such thing will happen, but it would be nice. Although, at this point, just pulling out is probably not really the thing to do, but the troops have got to leave someday (maybe it would have been a good time back when Bush declared the war "over" more than 2 years ago). The hypocrisy of it all....*sigh*

Ok, I have definitely wasted way too much of my workday writing this post. But it's Thursday, tomorrow is TGIF, and then the freakin' weekend kids!

CIAO!!!