It is so windy here. Today, leaves and trash were blowing all over downtown. I keep hearing the wind blowing the trees up against my outside walls. I hope that it doesn't keep me awake.

I have my conference this weekend. I hope we don't have a large cat fight. I talked to the president today and she was just saying things to get her way. Everything is going against her. I don't blame her for standing up for herself. She has had an eventful year. Too eventful. I hope that it does not carry over into my year.

I will be away from my computer and will not be able to blog. I hope that everyone has a good weekend. I'll check back in on Sunday.

What a day. I am the president-elect of a conference that oversees some organizations that are associated with Chambers of Commerce. The outgoing president has had a bad year. The treasurer flipped out and did not make any deposits for over a year. As a matter of fact, she lost them. Everything was recreated and the money is now in the account. Also, there is talk about dissolving the conference in the next couple of years. Today, the outgoing president said that she is going to hold her tongue until after I'm installed and then she is going to disassociate herself from the organization. I was looking to her for guidance. Maybe after it's over, she'll change her mind. She is one of these people who always has to be involved in something. I wish she would stick around until it is dissolved. Now, I have to be the bad guy and bring up the dissolution.

I don't have to go to work tomorrow. YAY!! I'm going to try to get up early and do a little housework. When I say little, I mean little. I'm going to give the place "a lick and a promise". After I finish my cleaning, I'm going to lay around and watch some of my favorite movies: Sex and the City, You've Got Mail, Mona Lisa Smile and that cheesy 80's movie, Making the Grade. If I don't get to watch all of them, there's always Wednesday night.

My mother is in San Antonio this week, so my sister helped me at the store last night. I was glad. It would have been boring without her. I didn't want to eat at the restaurant next door, so I stopped at Jim N' Nicks and got me a barbeque sandwich. I was going to eat it when I got here, but I couldn't wait. It was so good. It would have been better if I could have put some sauce on it, but I would not have been able to eat it and drive with the sauce dripping. It was good anyway.

I got on the scales this morning. I have lost 5 of the 7 pounds that I gained on vacation. Yay me! I want to lose the other 2 plus 2 more by Thanksgiving. I think that is just a dream. I have a conference next weekend and I will probably snack on junk a lot. Those women like to eat. After the conference, I may live on chef salads until I get the weight off. I worked so hard over the summer to lose weight. I don't want to ruin my good work.

I need to get back to work. The floor needs sweeping and I need a Diet Pepsi or Diet Dr. Pepper (I'm out of TaB's).

I hope everyone enjoys the remainder of their weekend.

There's a new woman on our floor. Actually, she's been there about 6 months. She is what most decent people refer to as "trailer trash". She has dyed blonde hair. She recently had her roots touched up. The dark roots were only 3 inches long. I have to say that she dresses worse than Queenie. I don't think Queenie knows any better. Trailer Trash dresses inappropriate on purpose. Today she had on an extremely low cut blouse with either a black lacy camisole or black lacy bra showing around the cleavage (I didn't get a good look, but others did). You could almost see her big fake boobs. She replaced a classy professional looking woman. Today there were executives having a meeting in her area. I'm sure they got an eyeful. The professional looking woman thinks she was replaced with her because Trailer Trash has bigger boobs. She could be right. Trailer Trash acts clueless. My bosses' wives probably like me because I'm flat-chested and wear turtlenecks and buttoned-up blouses.

Last night, instead of watching the election returns, I watched "Rear Window". I love that movie. I want to marry L. B. Jeffries. I wish for Grace Kelly's classic looks and poise. I also would like to live in the studio apartment where the composer lives (I know it's a Hollywood set).

I left work at 3:30 to go vote. The news kept showing my voting place all day, and there was always a long line. When I got to the polls, there were not many people there. There was no one in line in front of me for my particular letter of the alphabet. I told the workers, "I thought there would be a line." They said, "You're lucky." When I put my ballot in the machine, I noticed that over 3,200 had voted at our voting place. I am really nervous about this election. I don't think I am going to watch the Election returns. I recorded "Lipstick Jungle" and "To the Manor Born" this past weekend. I think I will watch those.

Saturday, after I got off work at the store, my mother and I went to Huntsville to do a little shopping. We went to Sam's, Dillard's, Belk's and Publix. The only thing that I bought was socks and tights at Belk's.

Sunday, I was lazy. My mother went to Huntsville with my sister and cousin to visit a church where a friend is the pastor. I didn't take any appropriate clothes so I stayed home. There was nothing on TV and everyone I knew was at church. I just sat around and channel surfed.

Today was rather quiet at work. Queenie was in a good mood. I know you want to know about her attire. She had on brown slacks, purple blouse and a black knit vest that zipped up the front. The vest looked like something you would buy at a sporting goods store. She has a large collection of black vests.

Don't forget to vote on Tuesday.

I take it that everyone had a safe and happy Halloween. I worked at the store. Business was fairly steady. We had a few trick or treaters, but not like in the past. Yes, we have children that trick or treat at the liquor store. Everyone always knew that my late father always had candy for the kids, and now we still hand out candy. I don't know why, but Halloween is worse than a full moon. We had all kinds of odd people that came in last night. I guess it brings out all the wierdos.

There have been several people at work who have received notice that their jobs are ending. Some have already gone. It's kind of scary. I'm not as busy as I used to be. If anyone asks me to do something, I'm there to help. My coworker said that I had enough odd jobs, that I may have a little job security, but I don't want to be too confident. Both of my boss's are busy all the time. They act like they don't care if I'm not busy, but I don't like to just sit. But, when they say "frog", I better start jumping. Next week, I am going to box up the last of my old files and send them to North Carolina. The reason I haven't done it yet is that I lost my ladder. I know that's lame, but the files are on the top shelf of a cabinet and I'm only 5'1". I can't reach them.

I hope everyone enjoys the remainder of the weekend.