What a week!

Oh good gravy! This was a long, loooooonnnnnngggggg week. I'm sure that it is due, in part, to it being the week after we came back from our trip to the ocean and fishing and all the delights that entails. The other factor, I'm sure, was just that several people were on vacation or out sick at work so it was psychotically hectic. I, of course, managed to have less than pleasant run-ins with all the clients that have mutually held feelings of dislike for me that only about half the time resulted in an incident report or a meeting with the program manager. I never received any variety of discipline or anything as I am pretty good at maintaining my professionalism at this point but it's always irritating that these stupid, childish outbursts end up in the manager's office every freaking time. I can always tell that while he is outwardly calm and concerned his is rolling his eyes on the inside and thinking "well hell, here we go AGAIN." Poor guy. All the crap lands on his desk. He has to settle such arguments as "She won't let me sit where I want to" and "I don't think I should have to clean up my work area like everyone else" and my perpetual favorite "she gave me a dirty look." If you ever wanted to know how much my job is like daycare, let this post clear that up for you. There are days where I think that I need to look for a new job and then I look at my benefits and pull my head out.

Gotta love benefits, and mine rock.

Beyond the work fun, my darling hubby went back to school this week. He only needs 3 more classes so he is taking one serious class per term for the next three terms and filling the rest of his school time with classes that he's wanted to take but hasn't had the time for. The downside to this is the serious class is Physics. Do you know how much homework is involved in a class like Physics? I didn't either, but I sure as spit do now! That homework is currently wrecking my plans for fishing this afternoon.

Damn it.

Oh. The fishing. Ohhhhh....

So, yes I am a fish-a-holic. Yes I live to fish. Yes I intend to bore the holy living crap outta all y'all with my stupid fishing pictures. Deal with it. We left at like 7 in the morning on a boat called the "Ilwaco Indian" with a captain whose name was Dale and a deckhand whose name I can't remember, but they were both very nice. I just want to point out that of all the people chumming (barfing their guts out) over the rail, I wasn't and B wasn't either. In fact, I was the only female on the boat and I didn't get remotely ill. I found that somewhat ironic in a giggle-worthy sort of way. Of course, my sympathy floweth over and blah blah.



I had just dropped my line on what is obviously a choice day to fish.



I believe this may be one of 3 times the sun actually emerged and by that point I was so obsessed that I was annoyed at it for making me take one hand off the pole to get my sunglasses. I was constantly looking at the water which was pretty dumb considering that my hooks were about 50 feet down.



This is the large ugly Lin Cod that I caught. They are really cool looking fish with big sharp teeth that are very efficient for biting the sucker who is stupid enough to go after that hook with his hand. Our deck hand wasn't that stupid and, thank God, neither am I. This particular beastie measured in at about 19 inches so it didn't meet the 24 inch size requirement that would render this a "keeper." That's fine with me, I still managed to catch the ill-tempered booger. Lin Cod fight like the dickens (was he a fighter?) so they are super fun to fish for although they are harder to get your hooks into than the Rock Bass were, hence the tub with like 18 bass and one cod.


Closing in on the end of the trip and this is what our catch bucket looked like. Without all the uneatable parts you are looking at about 30-35 lbs of fish. That's roughly 35 punds of filets! The Rock Bass are very fun to catch also and the bigger ones put up a decent fight. The cool part was that we had 3 hooks on every line and the bass would happily attatch themselves to two of them. Several people got a bite and reeled in only to discover that there were two fish on their line! We estimated that some of our bass came in at over 5 pounds each and 20 inches long! That's a big damn fish, in case you were wondering! 

Ah. Back at last...

Well, we've been busy. B has started school again and is both excited to be almost done and depressed that he's almost done. And they say women are complicated. Corb is back to pre-school and pretty darn excited about it and I'm still doing the same stuff I was doing before only now I get to do it without help some nights. Not an issue most of the time but when the kid decides to be difficult it's nice to have a backup that can yell louder than me if need be. He makes a pretty darn bad cop. Of course we switch off so he never knows who the good cop is going to be. Makes it harder for him to play us. Anyway, just got back from the coast where we did a little deep sea fishing and walked and ate and went to a movie in an Imax theater and shopped and had a fabulous time. I have photos but I'm still making sure that they are perfect and that they show that the fish I caught are by far superior to the fish everyone else caught.

In other words, you'll have some to look at soon.