Post for yesterday and weekend
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Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
I tried to post this yesterday, but tripod was acting weird and I couldn't put it up. Following is my post for the weekend and yesterday!


I apologize for my lack of posting the last few days... the weekend was incredibly busy and I feel like I didn't get any rest whatsoever!

First I'll briefly bring up to date the hellish work conditions that I had last week. Everyone needed everything at once and they all wanted it done immediately. Needless to say, I was not happy and neither was Brenda. All of the PM's overloaded Bonnie and myself on Friday, and Teddra was out which compounded our problems, since we were each stuck on the phone for half a day. I literally completed about two week's worth of work on Thursday and Friday. We also had Happy Hour scheduled for after work on Friday, but I got there late because I was stuck on phones until 5 and then I had to wrap up some of the stuff that I couldn't do on phones like process timesheets. I ended up getting to DuClaw at almost 6 o'clock! C'est la vie. Anyway, last week at work just plain sucked and I was pissed off at everyone. All pseudo-boss does is stare out the window... and when he isn't staring out the window, he's jumping out of his chair (which sends it rolling behind him and knocking into furniture) and speed walking back and forth past my desk. Oh, and how could I forget the sound effects!

On to the weekend... like I said, it was incredibly busy. Friday evening, we went to Happy Hour at DuClaw (Kurtis, Dan, Mike, Kamala, Kathy & me) and also ate while we were there. Around 7:30 or 8, we decided to go to Starbuck's...from there, our group split up (we had already lost Dan and Mike by that time) to Kurtis searching for an espresso machine and me, Kathy and Kamala went to Eddie Bauer, Liz Claiborne and the Gap. I bought some black socks, two tops and a cute reversible bag at Eddie Bauer (all for about $40) and I bought another bag at Liz Claiborne ($15). Kamala and I walked Kathy to her car and then I dropped Kamala off at her car... Mills becomes a little shady at night these days and none of us ever walk to our cars alone. I ended up getting home around 10 pm, pretty late!

Saturday morning I woke up around 8:30 or 9, checked my email for a response from Tiffer on what time she'd be coming over... I was thinking she'd be here around 2 at the earliest, but she said that she'd be here at noon. So Kurtis and I busted our asses getting the house clean, he vacuumed (which I am so grateful for, I hate vacuuming) while I cleaned my bathroom and straightened up the kitchen some. Around 11:30, I jumped in the shower and he continued cleaning. Tiffer was a little late getting here, but I was glad because I actually had time to get ready. :-P~ She and I went to Mills & got something to eat before we started our shopping spree. And a spree it certainly was! It started out a little slow, but towards the end we ended up buying a lot of stuff! Or at least I did. :-P~ But it was all stuff that I needed... jeans (mine have been getting preeeetty tight as of late), 3 pairs of work pants (got a pair of super-comfy grey slacks from Docker's, they feel like swear pants) and 2 cute blouses. By the time we left, I think that we'd walked about 2 miles and my arms felt like they were going to fall off because my bags were so freaking heavy!! I had a great time with her, though... she really knew all the good places to hit and we had fun trying on clothes. We got back to the house around 7 and watched a little tv (the ozbornes and til death do us part, more specifically). Then we got ready for the LC show... Kurt wasn't feeling well and I tried to convince him to stay home if he was sick - but he said that he wouldn't hear the end of it if he didn't go (hehe). So we stopped at Bella Napoli (Italian joint right next to our house) for dinner and then headed to Towson.

Driving past the Recher, we saw that there was a pretty long line out the front door...on the airwaves, it was mentioned that there was a possibility that the show would sell out, but I didn't think that there was any chance that would happen. Well, I was wrong - it did sell out. Fortunately for us, they sold out about 10 people behind us... we got there barely in time. They told the people behind us that they should go wait in the bar next door and if people left from the opening band (Voodoo Blue), they would let more people in. When we walked in, it was packed like I had never seen the Recher... it was hot, humid, and incredibly smoky. Just gross. Fortunately, it did clear out some after Voodoo blue... there was a lot less smoke, thank god... after leaving that night, I still felt like I'd smoked 3 packs of Marlboro reds!!! Anyway, as soon as we walked in, I saw Bonnie and Hallie... hadn't seen Hallie in close to 2 years and it had been about a year and a half since I'd seen Bonnie. After them, I saw Big Joe & Anne, Mel & her guy (Eric, I think?), Trishy & her new man, Ray, Steve and his sister (sara, I think), Marcus (JB's friend), George, Big Bob & Jen (she still acts nasty to me, I have no idea what I did to her), Donna (ran into her in the bathroom, she's getting married in less than a month), Meghan, Karen (who I was probably the most excited about seeing), Muff (minus the tigger suit), Pete & Cybil (who got married since the last time I saw them - they weren't even engaged!!), Patty (who I saw at DuClaw earlier in the day - she hasn't changed much), Amber (who I didn't talk to), Rob L. (aka Ween) and of course the band. I think that's everyone, I hope! It really felt like "coming home"... it was nice to see everyone again. I'm planning on going to more shows from now on, and I think that Kurt is more comfortable going now (and me going, for that matter) that he's met everyone he has a better understanding of why I love going to LC shows so much.

The drive home was thankfully uneventful and we arrived at around 2:00 a.m. (AHHH!!) I think that's the latest that I've been up in a loooooong time. Actually, come to think of it, that would have been during my trip to Atlanta and/or during the audition process.

Sunday I was exhausted, but Kurtis and Tiffany were up, so I had to get up, too. Tiff and I went out to breakfast - tried going down to Cookie's, but it was packed, so we decided to try IHOP, which was a big mistake. The atmosphere sucked, as did the food - not to mention they sat us in the family/kid section where we got all sorts of things thrown at us by a 2 year old. The kid was cute, but there comes a time when the parents should really control their child, you know? It was funny the first two or even three times that he did it, but it got old after a while. By the time we got home, we pretty much had to leave again. We were supposed to see a co-worker's band play at the Clipper which is closing next week. So we went down to Eastport and saw them play. The set-up was a bit of an inconvenience, they couldn't get the sound to work and some of the people there were really weird. I didn't really care for the first band that came on, but maybe I'm too critical. I think the woman's name was Deanna Dove...I thought that her voice was mediocre. After her, our coworker's band came on and they were pretty good! One of their vocalists was excellent... her name was Sonny (or Sunny?) and she was fantastic. The other female vocalist was our co-worker's girlfriend and she was okay, but nothing to write home about.

The food at the clipper was awful, so we drove down to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse... YUM! I wasn't sure if they were going to let us in since we were both wearing jeans, but they did and we had a very tasty meal - although our waitress tried to serve us someone else's food, lol! After the meal, Kurt wanted to stop at City Dock caf? for coffee. So I drove down to the docks and proceeded to almost get broadsided by some jerk in a caddy that was speeding through -- I mean, it was close, tires screeching and everything. Everything went in slow motion, too... I thought for sure that he was going to hit me. I was pretty freaked out and it pretty much ruined my night. Kurt told me to stop worrying about it, because everything was fine and we didn't get hit, but I was pretty shaky for the next half hour or so.

That's about it and I appear to be out of time...

Finale of My Big Fat obnoxious Fiance is tonight - I can't wait!