A Strange (but lucky) Occurrence

Recently my younger brother and I were talking about how we wonder how many family members on our dad's side are out there that we don't even know about. See, our deadbeat dad left when we were really little and we haven't seen him since, so we know zilch about that side of the family. A few years ago I had done a google search of our last name and found the name and email address of a relative in texas who was a teacher, Jill, but I'd never contacted her. How was I sure that she was related, you ask? Well, when the last name is Wolosonovich, there's a pretty good chance that all of us are related :-D

I told Josh this, and he looked her up and actually contacted her. She turned out to be the ex-wife of one of my dad's brothers, and she has 2 sons that live in Texas also, Eric and Scott. Turns out they grew up the same way as us, with no father around taking care of his responsibilities. Josh inspired me to do my own search and see who I could locate, and to my surprise I found the work phone number of a Wolosonovich right here in Tempe! I called and left a voicemail with my name, phone number, and email address, and soon thereafter received an email from what turned out to be my Uncle Mark! He is not close to the rest of his family and has kept his distance by choice.

So last Friday I met his wife, my Aunt Joy, for lunch here in Mesa, and we really hit it off and had a great time. This led to an invitation to their home yesterday to meet Mark, which was a great experience :-D

We are going over again next Sunday for brunch and just more general getting-to-know-each-other activities.

In effect, I just think it is really amazing that something inspired me and Josh to dig up a little information, and I am glad that we got such positive results so far. I think it will be great for all of us to get to know eachother and discover that there is some good in this family, despite the past injustices we have all had to deal with.

wowzers

Got this in an email from a friend...

National Geographic Magazine:
An archeological team, digging in Texas, has uncovered old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be an early member of the Bush tribe.

LOVE IT!!!!!

Good Ol' Funcie!

sooooooooooo...i was a bit surprised, albeit disturbed, to find mention of this show floating around the net. I spent 4 fun years in Muncie whilst attending Ball State. Muncie is great, but why in god's name would anyone give a shit about how the police department operates? what thought process led to some producer saying "By jove, I've got it! Let's put a bunch of lame-o 'celebrities' in Muncie Indiana to tag along with the police on the many meth busts! Smashing!!"
If they had really been thinking, they could have focused on the campus police giving hundreds of parking tickets, busting frat parties...maybe even another cold blooded murder of a drunken college student on his way home from the village. Now that would have generated some ratings!

Well, it's already gotten the axe after a whopping 4 episodes. That's some great TV I'm sure, although I've not had the excrutiating pleasure of watching it.

Wouldn't it be Loverly...

I think all us poor administrative/corporate saps should be able to opt to work 4 10-hour days with 3 days off rather than 5 excrutiating 8 hour days that make the week last FOREVER! Who's with me????? Lets take it to the streets, people!!!!!!!!!

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In other, extremely interesting news from the black abyss of my life, I created a culinary masterpiece this weekend that I like to call Janna's Pretend Buckeyes. And according to my poor, lowly guinea pig tasters, they were yummy-O! It really wasn't that hard, but if I give any more details I might lose my edge....

A Stroke of Good Luck

So yesterday I contemplated ditching work for the day to help Andrew and Biff (wink wink) move furniture into our new condo. Well, good worker that I am, I decided to go anyway. When I got to work, the power was out in my building and the network was down. In layman's terms, no network = no workie. They tortured us for about 1.5 hours by trapping us in the freezing cold office before they let us leave with a jolly "Good Day!"
So, I was rewarded for fighting the temptation to skip work with a free paid vacation day! Can't get any better than that, eh?

House Guest

This week I have a very special visitor. She is Maggie, a beautiful black and orange tortie belonging to two of my many mini friends, Brian and Genelle. When they brought her over last night the start was promising enough. She confidently walked right out of her carrier and proceeded to check the place out, which was surprising to all. Chi Chi and Camille were instantly curious, and while a little cautious, they seemed friendly enough towards her, and she towards them also. Isabel, the (big booming voice) QUEEN OF THE DOMICILE, stayed atop her perch and seemed completely uninterested. Usually she is the first one to hiss and spit in someone's face since she has the most to lose, being the queen and all...so far so good

Well, 2:30 a.m. was a completely different story. I had been telling Isabel for days that her friend Maggie was coming to visit for a week, and she raised no objections, so as far as I knew, the arrangement was kosher (shout out to DEETOURDEE! CHOLLAH!!!)

"Not so!" she yelled as she chased poor Maggie all through the downstairs part of the house, making sure to wake all human occupants. Long story short, poor Isabel got to sleep by herself in a room for the rest of the night.

And so, the moral of the story is that when it comes to cats, ESPECIALLY the queen, nothing is really ok with them unless you get it in writing.

And yes, she can write.

She speaks Spanish too.

Exciting!

My life is so exciting, that here is the big happening as of late....i get home from work last night, and I find a card from the post office stating that I have a package. This is not just any package, but one that is insured and requires my signature to pick up.
Inconvenient, yet intriguing...more later when I pick it up :-)