After writing a blog entry, remember to actually publish it. Bit of a blonde moment there...
You've worn the finish off your coffee table.
All your kids are named Joe.
Chuck Yeager thinks you need to calm down.
Instant coffee takes too long.
Juan Valdez named his donkey after you.
People can test their batteries in your ears.
People get dizzy just watching you.
Starbucks owns the mortgage on your house.
The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse.
The only time you're standing still is during an earthquake.
The Taster's Choice couple wants to adopt you.
When someone asks 'how are you' you say, 'good to the last drop'.
You buy milk by the barrel.
You can jump-start your car without cables.
You can outlast the Energizer bunny.
You can take a picture of yourself from ten feet away without using the timer.
You can type sixty words per minute with your feet.
You can't even remember your second cup.
You channel surf faster without a remote.
You chew on other people's fingernails.
You don't even wait for the water to boil anymore.
You don't get mad, you get steamed.
You don't need a hammer to pound in nails.
You don't sweat, you percolate.
You don't tan, you roast.
You forget to unwrap candy bars before eating them.
You get a speeding ticket even when you're parked.
You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee.
You go to sleep just so you can wake up and smell the coffee.
You grind your coffee beans in your mouth.
You have a conniption over spilled milk.
You have a picture of your coffee mug on your coffee mug.
You have to watch videos in fast-forward.
You haven't blinked since the last lunar eclipse.
You help your dog chase its tail.
You introduce your spouse as your coffee mate.
You just completed another sweater and you don't know how to knit.
You lick your coffeepot clean.
You name your cats Cream and Sugar.
You short out motion detectors.
You ski uphill.
You sleep with your eyes open.
You soak your dentures in coffee overnight.
You speak perfect Arabic without ever taking a lesson.
You speed-walk in your sleep.
You spend every vacation visiting Maxwell House.
You think being called a drip is a compliment.
You think CPR stands for Coffee Provides Resuscitation.
You'd be willing to spend time in a Turkish prison.
Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an I.V. hookup.
Your coffee mug is insured by Lloyds of London.
Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.
Your life's goal is to amount to a hill of beans.
Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position.
Your nervous twitch registers on the Richter scale.
Your only source of nutrition comes from Sweet & Low.
Your taste buds are so numb; you could drink your lava lamp.
Your Thermos is on wheels.
You're so wired, you pick up AM radio.
You've built a miniature city out of little plastic stirrers.
You've worn out the handle on your favorite mug.
I finally gave up on my piece of crap laptop. It began acting up today, so instead of getting bent out of shape with it...I gave in and set up the desktop I bought before moving here...I was hoping to hold off on setting it up until we got our own apartment...but face it, I can live without a computer about as long as a junkie can live without his crack.
Now my bedroom is just a tad more crowded than it was to begin with...and I have to now go out and purchase some kind of low seat so I can use the computer somewhat comfortably...but it'll do for the time being.
I did have a little trouble setting up the internet initially...I let my roommate set the computer up and we could not get it to connect...but after a few minutes of frustration I decided to unplug the cable and plug it back in and that did the trick. I have to say, connecting the computer to cable internet is a whole hell of a lot simpler than wireless or DSL. Or dial up for that matter.
I am sure that no one even noticed that I was gone-considering I've been off line for less than 24 hours that's understandable-but I am here now and fingers crossed...I have finally put my computer issues behind me.
I'm very tempted to go on strike.
When I took and passed the CDL test back in October, I was suppose to be getting a nice little raise. I was quite looking forward to that raise as currently I was making less than what I was making at my old job-and working 110% harder. Frankly, I bust my ass every single day while I'm at work...I'm almost always willing to come in to work early or stay late. I do everything I'm asked to do, and usually more.
And yet...and yet I find myself at the mercy of the incompetent office staff who don't feel it's necessary to process a simple batch of paperwork which will allow me to get the pay that I deserve.
Hence the reason I'm tempted to just walk into work tomorrow (a holiday none the less) and announce that I will just be a body there-but I will not be performing my normal duties (namely driving), will arrive promptly at the start of my shift and leaving at precisely my ending time regardless of whether or not there is proper coverage or my work is complete.
But I won't do that. I am too desperate for a job and I also can't do something like that with a sound conscious. And so I will continue to do my job to the best of my ability and just hope that eventually the payroll department gets their shit together and give me the money that I have rightfully earned.
I'm feeling quite a bit better now...just bummed that the weekend flew by so quickly and come tomorrow morning it's back to work. But I will deal (and yes, I am working the Holiday-so no break for me).
Thursday didn't start out too well...not only did I realize that my paycheck was missing (which thankfully is safe and sound now)...but my car decided to breakdown. Luckily it gave me enough warning so that I was able to turn around and go home before I got stranded at the side of the road...so I had to borrow a car and was late to work. I was pretty bummed out and not quite looking forward to the weekend.
Things did start looking up though, thankfully. I was referred to a guy that works on cars by a coworker and he was able to look at my car Thursday night and fixed it on Friday. My lost check was returned by a honest and kind individual.
Friday wasn't a bad work day. After a week of almost constant stress it was a fairly stress free day and I actually had a bit of down time. Things got sort of interesting right before I left however when a coworker approached me with the news that a fellow coworker wanted to ask me out on a date-but he was too shy to ask me himself. Interesting. I had honestly never considered the thought, but I agreed to the date.
My mother arrived without any problems and we had a nice visit. The trip in the city to the Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall was a success and we all enjoyed the show immensely. The only downside was that it was FREEZING this weekend...much colder than the average temps for this time a year.
Today my mom and I went out to breakfast and she headed home. I came back here and not long after my phone rang...it was the coworker wanting to know if I wanted to do something today. EVen though I was kind of tired I agreed and we decided to go for lunch, and from there we went to go see Changeling which was very good, though, quite sad.
There was no sparks on the date, but I did enjoy his company and so I hope that if anything, we'll become friends.
November has not been kind to me. It has been busy and stressful and I'm more than ready to see the month come to an end.
I have been under a tremendous amount of stress lately...from work, from family, from my car, and my personal life. It feels as though every time I think that things are going to get a little better-I get thrown again. My depression is back.
But I don't feel like dwelling on that, at least for tonight. Tonight I had my faith in humanity restored. Last week I wasn't able to make it to the bank to deposit my latest paycheck. I had questions about it, so I didn't stop at the bank on Thursday (pay day) and Friday I drove home to NJ. Since this week was really hectic at work I completely forgot that I hadn't made it to the bank. I didn't think of it until today and so during a quiet moment at work I attempted to find the paycheck...only to find that the paycheck was nowhere in my bag...or at least that I could see. I came home and began a more through search. I still could not find it, and finally decided that perhaps I had either deposited it and subsequently forgot that I had deposited it...or worst case scenario...I dropped it somewhere....which obviously did not sit very well with me.
In the mail today, I found my paycheck. I have no idea who found it and sent it to me, but I am extremely grateful. I know that it was sent from Middletown, NY...but other than that, I am at a loss. I would really love to thank them though so hopefully one day I will have the opportunity.
(my mother is coming to visit this weekend, so I won't be back to blogging again until Sunday after she leaves).
I've been up since 5am. I don't have to be up until 6:30...but I woke up stressed out because of work. There's so much going on there-my boss is out with an illness and I'm struggling to get done all that needs to be done.
It doesn't help that the month of November is completely booked solid. I have very little leeway in reorganizing my schedule if the need arises. Actually tomorrow was the only day I had open-no medical appointments scheduled-but now, yep, it looks like once again I am booked solid.
Seriously? I am overwhelmed. I have virtually no one there I can depend on to help me-as I need people who can drive.
Sunday I spent a good part of the day copying and pasting my old blog entries into a Word Document. I hadn't finished, but in total I had about 200 pages worth of past entries. I saved the document and shut down the computer.
Tonight I decided to continue on with my project. I grabbed my laptop after dinner, plugged in my memory stick and attempted to open the document...to find that Microsoft decided to live up to it's reputation of being a piece of shit. It didn't matter what the hell I did, I could not get the document to open. All those hours of work on Sunday went straight to hell.
So now I am back at square one. I'm not willing to use Microsoft again as I suspect the same thing will wind up happening. Also, my M key fell off my keyboard for no reason at all. Did I ever mention how much I hate Dell? So while I can still type and use M it's driving me crazy.
On a more productive and positive note though, I did manage to make it down to the polls after work. I was expecting to be there all night, but I only had to wait about five minutes.
Last night I had the idea of taking all my past blogs/journals and combining them in a Word Document. It's been hell on my eyes, and I'm just in 2004 but I think that once it's all completed it'll be fun to read it back and see how I've changed over the last five years or so. I also think that on a creative level I might use all the material for something worthwhile but I will have to see how things go. I'm sure that when I'm reading everything back, I will be posting some of my favorite moments through the years. s
Growing up, Halloween was always a bit lame. Trick or Treating was during the day. There were no worthwhile parties. I'm not a big fan of candy (shocking I know)...an d I hate scary movies.
I wasn't really looking forward to Halloween. I did buy a costume as I had been planning on setting up for a Halloween Party-but thanks to miscommunication skills that did not work out.
Halloween night I was sitting at home, watching some stupid non scary movie on tv and waiting for my friend to come home from work. I figured that I would just wind up going to bed kind of early.
My friend called home after she was done with work and asked if I still wanted to go to a party that I can casually mentioned earlier in the week that I had heard advertised on the radio. I figured what the hell and told her that I was game.
She came home and we threw together a costume for her (biker chick) and I got into my costume. We left the house and drove down to the waterfront to the bar that the party was being held at.
We waited in line to get let in. We amused ourself by looking at the other costumes people had come up with...directly behind us were two guys dressed as sperm, a guy dressed as Michael Phelps.
We finally get into the party and try to make our way through the crowd of people-not an easy task. We're heading for the bar when a guy stops me and asks me where my drink was. I chatted with him for a minute and then he disappeared in the crowd of people.
We got our drinks and we headed outside in order to get some air and get away from all the other people. We were standing outside for a short time when a guy comes over to me and starts talking to me. He and my friend seem to hit it off pretty well and we end up hanging out with the new guy and his buddies. They were all pretty nice, and it ended up being a pretty fun night.
Yesterday my friend and I headed into the city...probably not a good idea after not getting home until after 3am. We didn't have much fun, and ended up coming home after a few hours but next time we go we'll have a better idea of what we want to do.
November is going to be a really busy month for me. Next weekend I'm working overtime on Friday night. There's a semi formal for our guys, and I'm driving them to and from where the formal is. The following weekend I'm going to head home to Jersey to spend the weekend with my parents and siblings...and then the following weekend my mother is driving up here on Friday and Saturday we're going to head into the city together to go see the Christmas show at Rockefeller Center (my birthday/Christmas present to her). She'll be leaving on Sunday.
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