home for lunch
Mood:  happy
Topic: Work
Yeah, I'm happy now, since I'm home and not at work, hehe. I reached my breaking point today. I started my entry while I was at work and have it saved in a word document. Figured that I'd post as long as I'm at home and have a few minutes. Eating my PB&J sandwich now. Needed comfort food, ya know.

Well, I'm IM'ing Krys and Finn right now and I have to leave in five minutes for work. :( I'll put my other post up when I get back, I hope.

Shame on me
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: Justin Timberlake (yes, I'm a dork)
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
Didn't vote yesterday. I felt that I shouldn't vote without knowing something about the candidates that are running. I'm thinking that I should change my party affiliation to independent, because I just don't belong in either party, really. I have the weirdest political opinions.

Pseudo-boss has walked by my desk about five times in the last half hour, he's driving me crazy. He drags his feet when he walks, too -- which is about to send me over the edge, I swear. Oh, big shocker, he just walked by again. AHHHH!!!! Ahh, now I hear him jumping out of his chair and the chair rolling into the bookcase. Ugh. Why can't he just sit still???

Hotels in Boston are really freaking expensive. Even the low-end ones are over $100 a night. Sheesh! I'm definitely using Priceline for this trip. As long as I'm going to pay that kind of money, I might as well get something good, right? I'm really excited about this trip... it will be fun exploring Boston with Kurtis. In my research today I also found out that the LOTR exhibit (that is currently in London I believe) is coming to their Museum of Science in August... so we're going to have to make another trip later this year, haha.

Pseudo-boss just came out to bother me. His white-out pen ran out, so he wanted to know if I had any. What do I look like, a freaking supply cabinet?!?! People don't seem to understand that the supply room is downstairs. What you see is what you get, you know?

What I wouldn't give for him to just sit at his desk quietly for one whole day. I bet that he couldn't do it. I would even let him have 5 trips past my desk a day. (oh look, there he goes again! that makes twice in five minutes!)

*sigh*

I'm going to wrap up for today. Honestly I haven't done much work...just can't seem to get into anything today.

I've done enough work today...
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Dave Matthews
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
Man am I ready for today to be over... I've been fixing the filing that my little so-called helper royally f'd up. Argh. I've made a lot of progress today at work, though, so I deserve a few minutes to screw around. ;-)

I believe that I've found a buyer for my car, but the guy lives in PA and I'm a little concerned over the titling. I'm trying to find out everything that I can, but PA's DMV site isn't very helpful. He seems like a nice guy and I don't want him to have problems once he goes to title it in his name.

I'm hoping to get some laundry done tonight, otherwise I may find myself with nothing to wear tomorrow. Kurt picked on me because I'm wearing the same colors as him... I really didn't plan on it, I swear!

Ugh, I want to go home... come on 5 o'clock!!!! I wonder what's for dinner, I don't think we have much in the fridge.

No 24 tonight, I don't know what I'm going to do at 9. I watched the American Idol special of the really bad people last night... it was pretty funny. Very sad though that even those people made it on TV and I didn't. I thought that I would at least be entertaining to watch even if they didn't like my voice. Stupid table #1 judge! He was evil. I wish I'd gotten table #2 like I was supposed to. Grrr.

I do think that I'm going to audition again this year. Yeah, I know I'm crazy... but this will be my last year to try. I wish that I'd auditioned the first two years -- I may have actually been selected then! It's gotten so big now that it's so freaking hard to get in. C'est la vie.

Well, I'm going to pretend to work. That's it for now.

Had enough
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: REO Speedwagon -- Take it on the run
Topic: Work
I've been here less than half a day and I am ready for the week to be over! My filing basket is overflowing and I really don't feel like looking at it. I've been catching up on some other stuff today and looking at that pile just tells me that as soon as I'm done one project, another one is already long overdue. Ugh.

My lovely pseudo-boss has his door shut and is on a conference call. Praise the LORD!

Come on FRIDAY! It's supposed to be pretty warm on Friday from what I understand. I hope that the weekend is nice, too... we talked about going to Easton to see the PRS exhibit and it would be great to have nice weather. I was thinking that we could see the exhibit, go to St. Michael's and wander around, have dinner somewhere nice and then go to Chez Lafitte afterwards for wine/dessert and to see my dad play.

I'm going hunting for chocolate now, I hope that my search is not in vain!

LOTR SWEEPS OSCARS!!
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Lord of the Rings
11 freaking Oscars! Wow, I'm sure glad that I was wrong on my count... I actually can't believe how many they won. They tied Titanic and Ben-Hurr (sp?) for most won of all time. I'm trying to get ready now to go to work... I have to open my big mouth two days ago and say that I hadn't gotten a migraine since that one after snowtubing. Oh well! Feeling better now, though.

More later if I get a chance.

quick post
Mood:  rushed
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
I guess I've been really busy, right? Well, I finally got pictures of my Jetta, thanks to Kurtis today... I took it to the car wash this morning... Pasadena car wash, btw who did a kickass job so I gave them a big tip. I felt really bad for those poor people, it was pretty dirty!

Time for the Academy Awards now -- I predict that LOTR ROTK will take home 7 Oscars!

lack of blogging
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
I've really slacked on my blogging this week, sorry! Work's been pretty busy and people have been annoying, so I haven't had much of a chance to write.

Roxy is out of the shop and fabulous as ever... switching from the EX back to her though is taking some adjustment! I actually stalled out at a traffic light on the way home, how embarrassing! I can't even remember the last time that I stalled out due to my lack of driving ability.

Work has been crappy as usual, I really need to start looking elsewhere for employment before I lose my mind. I guess the thing that concerns me most is health insurance...I finally have something halfway decent even though it costs a lot in premiums. I'm looking on monster.com right now, thank you so I'm taking the first step. ;-) I was talking to Kurt and Rich today at lunch -- they were talking about the PRS exhibit that's in Easton right now and I told them that I had applied for a position to be Paul Reed Smith's admin/personal assistant, but didn't get called for an interview. Probably because I had no admin training! But man would that be the perfect job. Hehe, how backwards would that be -- me going over the bridge to the eastern shore to work!!

Tomorrow is Friday and I couldn't be happier.

Well, I'm going to do some laundry and think about dinner. (if I just thought about it and didn't eat it, maybe I could lose some weight!)

Post for yesterday and weekend
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: Sports Junkies
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!

not a good week
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Weekend happenings
happy day now, though since it's 5pm friday!!!!!!!

Details tomorrow, hopefully....... it's been two crappy days... yesterday didn't end too great, i was at work until 6:20..

(I sent out $1.2 million in proposals today)

going to happy hour now, though... yay for DuClaw!!

The Chili Champ has fallen into shadow
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: Pink Floyd -- In the Flesh
Topic: Work
Results

1st place -- Kurt
2nd place -- Rich
3rd place -- Me

3rd is better than nothing, but I can't tell you how pissed I am that Taylor got second place.

I've gotten really stressed out in the last hour or so, two out of my top four annoying people have been harrassing me. Everyone needs something done and they all needed it yesterday.

No word from anyone at the dealer, I'm hoping that "no noose is good noose". Ugh. Please make today over with quickly!!!