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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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9:40 am - *FLAIL*
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Ok, is there a FULL MOON? Is that what is going on here? I mentioned at the end of my last post that my my closing was scheduled for yesterday.
To be technical, it was scheduled for 6:30 at night. ( Stories by swnbc )
So with all of that stress and potential upcoming stress, today was a Starbucks day. Some things are destiny.
May today be better than yesterday and may all your days be glorious.
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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9:21 am - When vinegar attacks
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Good morning, darlings! I am hanging in there, despite the rising temperatures (we hit 100 degrees on Tuesday, with a heat index of like 108), but trying to wrap up a lot of stuff.
I have been so good this week about packing a lunch and bringing it into the office. SO good. Until today. Today I packed a lunch (my style, which is that it's pretty much whatever I have available, in this case a hot dog, some rosemary-olive oil bread and a tomato and onion salad with a little spice, baslamic vinegar and olive oil). It sounded delicious and, more importantly, it was both A) fast and B) used up some of my CSA vegetables, because I have to be careful or they attack.
( A litany of disasters )
But it's not even 9 am and I've already had 4 spills. My coworkers are already trying to send me home.
( Nephbo story )
And finally - I am finally supposed to sign the paperwork to close on my refi tonight. Cross your fingers that diasters don't strike THERE!!
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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9:38 am - Why, hey there!
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We'll start things off on the wrong foot - LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: It’s NOT true that nice guys finish last... Nice guys finish before the game gets started!
Really? That's about the worst thought for the day EVER. I mean, I can't even decide what it's trying to actually *say* and if it's a compliment or an insult and no matter what happens, it sounds vaguely porny. And by vaguely I mean extremely, but sad.
But that's just the tip of the "REALLY?!" iceberg. I was browsing the Goodreads advance reader copy giveaways and this month there are THREE freaking versions of Pride and Predjudice being released.
A Little Bit Psychic: Pride and Prejudice with a modern twist by Aimée Avery
Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard
Prawn and Prejudice by Belinda Roberts
PRAWN AND PREJUDICE? REALLY? (also, the more I type Prejudice, the worse it looks as a word). And it's probably *not* about pr0n. No, it's about a regatta. And I have no respect for it. I mean, the teaser reads: IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a yacht must be in want of a female crew. And then says "bikinis replace ballroom gowns" And sucking replaces awesome?
I don't respect A Little Bit Psychic, either, though, because they didn't have the guts to go for it with the name, instead they just tagged it on in the most unoriginal manner possible. Actually, it is pure AU fanfic. Take a humorous journey with post-graduate student Elizabeth Bennet as she travels to London to study for her PhD. Will her strange dreams of princesses and knights hold her back or will being just "A Little Bit Psychic" aid her in discovering that William Darcy is the love of her life?
I could ALMOST respect Prada and Prejudice because the main character is 15. And that makes it more likeable. But it's also time travel. Fifteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of real Prada pumps to impress the cool crowd on a school trip to London. Goodbye, Callie the clumsy geek-girl, hello popularity! But before she knows what’s hit her, Callie wobbles, trips, conks her head… and wakes up in the year 1815!
Kill.Me.Now. I am not sure which is worse. *cry*
Maybe it's time for me to get in on this action. Pride and Swmbo is going to be sold at a store near you!
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| Monday, June 8th, 2009
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9:08 am - WOOT
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Wooo!
The power is out at LuthorCorp! Oh, how the mighty has FALLEN!
We had what I thought were apocalyptic-style thunderstorms last night, but were apparently the forces of good striking at the heart of evil. Thus, power out at work. So they sent everybody home until noon, at which point there will be a phone tree to let us know if it's 'come back to work' or 'just keep staying home'.
It'll probably be 'come back to work' because apparently the power and light truck was just pulling in about 20 minutes ago but still - bonus morning off!
So I went home and made myself a leisurely breakfast and confused the heck out of swmkit, who was like 'you just left - I didn't even have time for my nap yet!' Combine that with being off half of Friday and he's probably pretty sick of me.
But this works out brilliantly, because the AC people are supposed to come out at noonish today to do a routine checkup so that this year I don't have it go out in the middle of the hottest weekend of the year (see, last year.) So instead of running home right before noon and crossing my fingers, I'll just wait around until they're here and done and then head into work if that's the story of the day.
BEAUTIFUL DAY.
Now I am going to drink more coffee and read and contemplate the glory of life. May your days be equally as grand.
(And hey, if you want to cross your fingers that power is still out at noon...feel free! Might as well dream big!)
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| Friday, June 5th, 2009
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9:08 am - Trials and tribulations of swmville
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So...
I am in the process of trying to refinance my house. This has been a Very Long Process, since I began it in JANUARY with my mortgage provider. And at the initial call it was GREAT. Lower rate, possibility of dropping PMI and the most important thing - NO APPRAISAL NEEDED. Just me signing paperwork. and sending it in.
( I shake my fist at mortgage companies )
So anyway, my appraisal is TODAY at 5, so keep your fingers crossed.
In part 2, the fact that my appraisal is today at five meant that I decided that gah, I should probably try to make the house look presentable.
So knowing that I wouldn't actually do anything except *maybe* mow on the weekend, I decided to take Tuesday and Wednesday off work for a mini-vacation and clean.
So, Tuesday and Wednesday come around and ...
( cleaning and swmbo do not mix )
Still, I get to leave work early for the first Flex-Friday of the summer season! So maybe things will work out in the end - wish me luck! AND CROSS YOUR FINGERS ON MY APPRAISAL!!
I'm celebrating (or mourning) the results on Saturday with some coworkers who are all coming over for a Buffy-watching party and sangria and margaritas.
current mood: bouncy
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| Monday, June 1st, 2009
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9:05 am - What I lack in content, I make up in...heart?
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Long time, no see!
I have no excuse, none whatsoever. Sometimes I just am a big slacker. Today is another one of those days!
Except, look! LuthorCorp Thought for the Day:
Change and goal attainment only happen when you’re ready to break the status quo and truly want something better in life.
But...what if the status quo IS my goal? Why all the knocking on the status quo?! There are worse things in this life!
I'll try to have some sorta adventure today! I promise!
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| Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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9:15 am - I renounce you, Wednesday!
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*cry*
I call for a do-over. I guess I pulled into my driveway funny last night, because I was at an odd angle when I was backing out this morning. Which I didn't realize UNTIL I SCRAPED MY CAR DOOR. On a the brick half wall, structure thing that is built around the steps going up to my front door. And now I have like a 6-8 inch scrape straight across my left passenger door *cry*. My beautiful little car is permanently scarred!
AND I forgot to take the trash out. And I have a headache the size of mount rushmore.
AND I CAN NOT STOP WHINING. *scowl scowl scowl*
Not even hot coffee can save me today. Not even a walk around the pond will make things better. Well, unless the goslings are out, maybe that would help.
Anyway, today's post is brought to you by the letter s: swmbo doing something incredibly stupid and feeling sullen about scarring her car with a scrape. SULK.
LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: The difference between an ordinary player and a champion is in the way they think.
So lets start the brain dissections! I offer mine up as the first subject.
current mood:  cranky
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| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
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9:20 am - Happy Tuesday!
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The LuthorCorp Thought for the Day - and the resulting fist-shaking - has brought me back into the fold:
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
REALLY?! Because I am pretty sure that 'seure' and 'fraught with action' do NOT work together.
CoWorker A brought in salsa today for us all and he just said "Last night I made the salsa, ate some of it and then went to bed and had nightmares." Thanks for bringing us Nightmare Salsa! Of course, that dream was then followed by one where he and Tina Fey on a ship traveling to a foreign country and she was very afraid. Now *I* am very afraid.
MY CSA STARTED YESTERDAY! The excitement is absolute. I made marinara sauce with the tomatoes and basil (and onion and garlic that I already had on hand) and it was delicious and it makes me happy to have CSA time again. Mmmm, fresh veggies. Speaking of which, the vegetarian club at LuthorCorp (of which I am an honorary member, because while I eat meat, I'll cook vegetarian meals) is having sweet potato burritos today. I am intrigued.
I'm super excited that Dollhouse has been renewed.
Also, it is so freaking beautiful outside that every particle of me is yearning to go outside for a walk. Or to sit and read but it's a tad cold for actual reading quite yet - but give it time, give it time.
Mombo is trying to talk me into getting one of those mowers that don't have an engine, just blades. I really like the idea, except for the fear of blades and losing limbs. *fret*
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| Monday, May 11th, 2009
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8:57 am - Goood morning, sunshines!
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LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: Today’s OAK is yesterdays nut who stood his ground!!
Complete with double exclamation points and confused punctuation!!
Oh, LUTHORCORP.
I'm hyped up on donuts because i brought a dozen in to my team - this MAY have been a mistake as I can feel the sugar coursing through my veins and short-circuiting my brain. Mmm, sugar.
So I sent mombo a card this weekend, because, of course, it was Mother's Day and I'm not THAT bad of a kid. And she emailed me the following:
I love the card, it is simply adorable. Thank you Sweetheart. Wish I could stay home today and have all of you over. The house is all clean, I have a lilac scented candle burning; I got the trimmings and not the players.
Have a Happy Day,
Love & Hugs,
MoM
Is...is my mombo attempting to be a gangster? Because that is the only way I can read it. A lilac-scented house gangster.
I didn't mow the lawn this weekend. It is crippling guilt. So is the momunmental amount of work I need to do RIGHT NOW. Curse my procrastinating soul! Lets see if I can do the work of 3 days in the space of 1. GO ME GO.
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| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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9:16 am - My head is a GIANT pumpkin!
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I don't know if it's allergies (which, ok, I think it probably is) or the several glasses of sangrias I had last night when I went out for sangrias and tapas with coworkers but my head is a GIANT PUMPKIN. I feel like Willow. This morning swmkit woke me up and I was like "ok, swmkit? lets be honest here, I am a broken, exhausted woman. So here's the deal. I give you food now. You let me sleep another hour."
And swmkit debated but finally gave in so I fed him and then went back to bed and then had to race through the morning, trying to find a shirt with a neck opening big enough to fit my enormous, gigantic pumpkin head and making the important decision of shoes versus sandals. I opted for sandals, because I think in the end that the rain will NOT arrive today.
Although we have our All Company Meeting on Friday - it's the big meeting where they sum up the fiscal year and every department gives a report, but it usually has skits and sometimes sumo wrestling, only this year it's kinda cheap and the 'fun' part is just hanging around a picnic area, probably in the rain. No, I'm not bitter at ALL.
Hahah, this is the grumpiest LJ post you'll probably read all day, sorry! I will attempt to remedy. We'll blame my bleary eyes.
I am reading Elantris by Brandon Sanderson and it's REALLY good, particularly for a first fantasy novel. So that is making me really happy - I'm about halfway through it. And I just LAST NIGHT discovered that there is a third season of Dexter! Man, my loop is totally frayed.
( Meanderings about NBC, some pilots, some sadness )
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Um, I do believe that LuthorCorp is finally being honest about its desires to turn us all into con artists and thieves! WOOT!
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| Monday, May 4th, 2009
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9:29 am - Happy Monday!
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Oh man, this weekend it did NOT rain! And Sunday was gorgeous! Sunny skies and a nice breeze and I *did not even mind mowing my lawn*!! Yes, Stoney, I left the grass clippings just drift about to mulch and fertilize since the lawn wasn't 6 foot high this time.
And I also baked cookies for the neighbors that had helped out with my previous lawn shenigans, so that's off my conscience :)
( Cut for length and meanderings! )
Apparently my entire world is completely food centric. It's all the fresh veggies! Spring is AWESOME.
Today we have clients in the office and I have to wear a SUIT. A suit. It's ridiculous. Jeans + T-shirt, that's what I belong in. Grrr.
Ok, the CSA I signed up for at Hen House is the same one I did last year. And every time they give you a couple of cloth bags and a cookbook when you sign up, and fortunately it's a different cookbook than last year. EXCEPT it strikes a note of wrongness in my heart because it's supposedly this Amish cookbook and yet some of the recipes call for things like "Velveeta" which does NOT scream DOWNHOME AMISH COOKING! So you know what? Your little family tree of five thousand people named things like Ruth and Jeremiah and Esther and Caleb and Samuel? TOTALLY negated by the fact that some of your 'treasured recipes' and 'memories of bygone ages' include Velveeta. I have spoken and I have judged, THE END.
Today's LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Oooook. Well. I think that the advocation of numbness has really inspired me! Thanks, LuthorCorp!
Although check this out. I have been so busy running around this morning I have NOT HAD A SINGLE CUP OF COFFEE. That's right. Chew on that, world.
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| Friday, May 1st, 2009
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9:07 am - HAPPY MAY DAY!
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HAPPY MAY DAY, Darlings!
I hope your days are filled with sunshine and flowers, unless you're allergic and then maybe your day can be filled with sunshine and ferns or really interesting origami figures.
Today is May Day Float day, too, so at 3 this afternoon my little subsection of LuthorCorp will be celebrating our traditional way, with various ice creams and even more various and sundry soda types. I brought in Italian Lemonade Soda for my contribution and I want to crack the bottle up and drink it RIGHT NOW.
But that might be too much sugar for this early, particularly because we have a bunch of people running for Student Council "Culture Club" which is basically where we elect representatives of LuthorCorp to be the Fun Patrol and organize events. And it's a cut-throat competition involving bribery and smear campaigns. In the last three days there's been carts with Kool-Aid (which I did not drink), Cookies, More Cookies, Sour Twizzlers and Chocolate galore. Sadly what I really want is breakfast - where's my cart of oatmeal and oranges, hmm?
Voting for that is today, so the bribes are coming fast and furious. The irony is the rumor is that there are eight positions available and only nine people running. How harsh is THAT? But I know who I am NOT going to vote for - the guy that put a picture of his pouting 3 year old daughter up with slogans that say "Vote for Daddy or you have no soul" because 1) I have no soul and 2) he put them up (or had them put up) in the bathrooms INSIDE THE STALLS on the door so they STARE at me and it's very uncomfortable and awkward. NO VOTE FROM SWMBO.
It's been raining for days and days now and apparently it's supposed to continue for another 40 days and nights. I'm having swmkit build an ark.
LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous, you get knocked down by traffic coming from both sides.
Um, thanks? Except unless I'm INVISIBLE, I don't think that's strictly true! Also, after you've been knocked down by the FIRST car from either side, are you really going to just keep getting back up and getting hit by cars *over and over* again? What is this, videogame standing?
CoWorker A says it's a rip-off of Karate Kid.
PS. Even though I am not planning on an actual switch, I hedge my bets so I have a Dreamwidth account now so if anybody else does ... you know the drill. Or we can make it up. It should go GO SWMBO GO GO GO
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| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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9:37 am - Holy Broken swmbo
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You know, one of these years my lawn is NOT going to be an entire neighborhood project. This is not that year.
Now, one of my neighbors had mowed the front lawn near his house, but this was *my* first mowing of the year. Yes, yes, I'm a slacker and should have done it a week ago - in my defense, weekends have been INCREDIBLY rainy and ucky and the nice days were during the week and I *suck* at post-work mowing.
But yesterday was the only sunny day sandwiched between rain in the past and the forecast of rain the rest of this week and through Sunday - with a *chance* of it being clear on Saturday. And my lawn is tall enough that there may be small colonies of aliens being established, I don't know! So out came the mower and off I went to work.
( Epic Lawn Adventures! )
On the other hand, today is the LAST DAY that the curbside recycling is going to take glass! They're adding cardboard and paper in its place, that's a plus, but it means I need to find a new recycling plan for my glass. I'm not always good about hauling the bin to the curb, though, sometimes it sits in my garage for a few weeks. So I made an actual special effort today. Of course, the thing contained almost nothing but wine bottles - that's probably giving the recyclers a great impression of my house!
Plus today my back is SORE from hauling grass clippings and lawnmowers and the weight of the world. It's all plastered up with a heat patch, though, so it's gonna be fine :) I might try a judicious application of chocolate later, too.
I'm in full on reading orgy mode right now - I started Little Bee and there's a list of books coming out that I'm super excited about and all I really want to do is curl up with books and read and read and read. And drink coffee.
Also, omg, the geese at the lakepond near work had BABY GOSLINGS and we saw them on our afternoon walk around the lakepond and there are six of them and they are so adorable and fuzzy and cute I just wanna pick 'em up and squeeze 'em but the adult geese would NOT be having any of that. But they were on the shore and then a little gosling water parade and SO CUTE.
Plus: The LuthorCorp Thought for the Day!
LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: While pursuing your goals in life, if you fail, take that as a sign that your plans aren't sound. Regroup, revise and set sail again!
I take that as a note that LuthorCorp is officially encouraging me to sail the seven seas in search of pirate booty. Arrr!
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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8:55 am - I wish I was frolicking in the meadow - and by frolicking, I mean reading
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LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: For the best harvest, go against the grain.
What the HELL? Um, NO, LuthorCorp, Just NO. I am pretty sure for the best harvest you wanna avoid molesting the grain altogether - you're harvesting it, not stroking it! (NOBODY MAKE THAT DIRTY, I AM LOOKING AT YOU)
Seriously. How is that a helpful thought at ALL?
What *is* helpful is the fact that there is SUNSHINE outside! A giant ball of fire staring down at me anthromorphically!
I'm really excited because we're making our plans for our Annual May Day Floats on my department. Every year (ok, this is only the Second Annual, but if we do it this year, it's Honored Tradition) my team (of six) bring in several varieties of ice cream and different kinds of soda (I am bringing in soda again, because then I can get the kind that doesn't have corn syrup!) and we make ice cream floats of various kinds. Chocolate and orange soda? Delicious. Berry lemonade soda and vanilla? Fantastic. A suicide that includes chocolate peanutbutter chunk, vanilla, strawberry, chocolate ice cream with lemonade, rootbeer, cola, grape and orange soda? FREAKY SCARY. I did not eat that. We made CoWorker J do it.
What's up for this year's combos? Only Friday knows! But it's an awesome day and particularly great when you get really excited about it to new people and just tell them we have to make preparations for the May Day Floats and they think there's gonna be a parade. Which maybe there SHOULD be!
I deliberately overslept this morning because I was Just.That.Tired when swmkit woke me up. Which meant I barely had time for coffee when I dashed out of the house. So now I'm off to forage for the nectar of the gods. Have yourself a fantabulous day :)
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| Monday, April 27th, 2009
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9:12 am - Happy Monday, kids!
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LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
It's not how hard you try, it's how hard you lie to yourself about how happy you are after.
Too cynical? Not to me!
People at work are already really grumpy today. Nobody's making the best of *anything*! Except me. Because a new donut shop opened up on my way to work and I decided to stop by on the way into work and get a donut. And I got this cinnamon swirl donut that is the size of my head. No, it's probably BIGGER than my head, because I have an unusually small head. I haven't actually held it up to measure it, though, because I don't want donut in my hair. Call me crazy.
Also, the donut shop was put in RIGHT next to a Weight Watchers and both are all open glass. The receptionist person was watching me as I walked in. I'm pretty sure she was judging me. Yeah, whatever, WW woman! You will never trap me in a world of cardboard box meals! Also, overall, I can't decide if these two things next to each other are genius or villany.
This weekend was ALL WIND, ALL THE TIME. Between the howling, the moaning and the general feel that I was going to blow away, it was intense. Saturday was spent huddled on my sofa watching last week's television. I don't know if anybody out there is watching The Unusuals (and ABC is being difficult, naturally, so I don't know how easy it is to find) but that show is AWESOME. Like awesome to the nth degree. Probably the best cop show I've seen in a gazillion years. I really like Southland, too, which is filmed really neat - like a reality COPS show, visually, but just overall well done. And it's about beat cops rather than detectives, which makes it definitely a stand-out. But The Unusuals is one of those shows that has it all - a dark, bitter humor, secrets, good stories, quirky personalities, the whole nine yards. Maybe even TEN yards.
Then Sunday I played WoW and did the Noble Garden event, the most boring and painful and annoying event EVER DESIGNED and yet I need it if I want to get a proto-drake mount in the future. And I do. I really, really do. But pretty much it was all eggs, all the painful freaking time.
And then I read. And that was my weekend. And it was good. And I want it back. Even the boring egg-clicking! Still, I have a donut the size of my head and hot coffee. I think I'll manage. Happy Monday, kids!
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009
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8:58 am - Good news, bad news day!
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Bad news: Nephbo does *indeed* have a broken elbow, poor widget! He has a bright red cast making his right arm an L. On the bright side, he apparently has the pain threshold of a superhero (or awesome villain!) so he's really not in any pain. BFF, Nephbo and I went out to dinner (Greek food, mmm) last night and he mostly wanted to dance and sing. And we walked around the stores and there was a dance class in one with like 10-12 year old girls and he was dancing in the doorway and they were laughing and flirting with him. The little show-off :)
Good news: I am getting a software upgrade at work! No longer should it take FIVE THOUSAND HOURS to open some of the 2007 docs sent to me, driving me to the brink of insanity. Of course, this means I'm going to drive others to the brink, but I tend to do that anwyay.
Bad news: It's going to hit 87 degrees today! IN APRIL. That is ridiculously hot, sheesh. I don't know how I will cope. Oh wait, yes I do. By staying inside work most of the day and hoping for lovely breezes by the time I leave work because I am NOT turning on the air conditioning in April. It will not happen. I try to avoid it in MAY!
Good news: I am going to a class on tax-favored investing that's one of the bonus things we do at work sometimes (we bring in guest speakers on different kinds of topics, like health, or nutrition or, in this case, MONEY! and then like 15-20 people can sign up, it's kinda cool). I am super excited because it means an hour of thinking and talking about money and investing! I LOVE doing that. So awesome.
Bad news: I am wearing the crappiest shoes today and I didn't realize how awful they are until I was already at work. I am going to have to give in and get new shoes, I think. I hate buying practical things!!1!eleventy-one!
Good news: IT IS FRIDAY!! WOOT!!
LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: If you consider your reputation important, then the way you treat people is fundamental
I would like a reputation for fair but absolute tyranny. With a dash of caprice, just to keep people off their toes and prevent them from plotting against me. Let it be so.
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| Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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9:32 am - Ack, Thursday!
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Apparently my karmic balance is being readjusted because eventually people *stopped spoiling me*
Today things have gone backwards! Beginning with a huge thunderstorm that hit about 4 am, which I was not expecting and thus my windows were open. Or so I thought. I ran around closing them and went downstairs and I was like 'huh. This window is closed. I remember opening it, but not closing it. Does this mean somebody has broken into my house and closed windows and later will murder me in my bed?"
It did not, at least on the latter part, because I was not murdered. But I still do not know the mystery of the closed window. Maybe Swmkit jumped up on it and hung on until it slid closed. I would not put it past him.
But I went back to bed and was almost back asleep when lightning struck SO CLOSE to my house that I actually felt the whole thing shake. EEK. But I did not die. Again.
Then this morning I tried to put in my right contact and instead I put FIRE AND PAIN AND AGONY into my eye. OUCH. I had to take it right back out and blink and cry a little bit and then was like " I am apparently so not doing that today" and then went to find my glasses. That was a hunt and a half and took like 10 minutes.
Also, I finished reading the second book in Robin Hobb's Soldier's Son series (fantasy) and I just - I am SO ANNOYED WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER I WANT TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE. Twice. Gah. And now I have to read the third for closure but part of me hopes *he* just gets hit by lightning and we can go on to one of the more interesting secondary characters.
And all of my glasses hunting delayed me enough that I didn't pack my lunch. (I am trying to be SO GOOD about lunches, too!) So later today I will venture into the rain and see what is scrounge-uppable. I am crossing fingers and toes.
But that is NOT the most horrific thing of all! NO! Brace yourself. MY nephbo may have a broken elbow!! We don't know yet, poor munchkin, and actually we're really thinking it's a sprain because he says not in any pain now that he's in a cast/sling, but he and his x-rays are going to a specialist today. He's my favorite though, he told me solemnly that he could "only hug you with one arm because of the sling, but I will" and he did. Aww. Also, his aunt got back from a SF vacation and was showing us pictures and he was looking and goes "That is gorgeous." and I do not know *WHY* a 4 year old saying "That is gorgeous" is about the funniest thing I've ever heard but it is.
Cross your fingers that the stars align and take us back to the better side of life. And also that it is just a sprain for my nephbo, because he is annoyed he can not ride his bike with just one arm.
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| Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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9:12 am - *flex powers*
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Last night, my neighbor mowed my lawn.
This morning, BFF told me her sister wants to do cook dinner tonight, so I don't have to.
When I got into work, my boss had brought in fresh fruit for everyone.
Just now, I got an email from Coworker S to say she'd made me a cookie.
This is an excellent and positive trend and I endorse it's continuance. Which of you wants to spoil me NEXT?!
(On the other hand, swmkit woke me up at 6 to say the food in his bowl was not adequately covering the bottom and he didn't want to eat from the edges and refused to let me sleep until I fixed it. Apparently in the hierarchy of things, swmkit still comes out on top.)
This time the lawn wasn't even BFF, who it normally is, it was a different neighbor, the one next to me! He was mowing his own and asked his wife "Do you think [swmbo] will mind if I keep going?" and she apparently laughed and was like "Mind? She might not even *notice* for a while". Hrmf. So I have a bit of a reputation for obliviousness! But I DID notice, RIGHT away. Then BFF was over and was like "did you see your lawn is mowed! What do you say?" and I was like "I HAVE ALREADY SAID THANK YOU! WHY DO YOU THINK I HAVE NO MANNERS?!" heh. SO much mocking in my life. But if it means I only have to mow half my lawn this weekend, it's *worth* it.
LuthorCorp Thought for the Day: If you want to be listened to, you should put time in listening.
Ok, ok, FINE, LuthorCorp! I am LISTENING. And there's only a 50-50 chance anything you guys tell me will get back to LuthorCorp and be used against you when the revolution comes.
current mood:  excited
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| Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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9:22 am - Gooood morning!
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The kettle is on and I am boiling water and soon there will be tea! But do not worry - I've already had two cups of coffee this morning, it's not that I'm forsaking my beloved beverage. Variety is the spice of life is all.
My chair is tilting sideways. I am constantly feeling like I'm going to fall out of it. Except it LOOKS fine, which leads me to believe that maybe *I* am tilted sideways. It's completely disorienting me. I am pretty sure before the day is done I'm going to be on the floor and people are going to think that I am drunk.
Ohhhh! Speaking of falling, in SUPER exciting news, NEPHBO CAN RIDE WITHOUT TRAINING WHEELS!! He learned this weekend! There was a special trip to show me on Sunday, when he was all wobbly and falling every 3-4 paces but super proud. He was all 'look what I can do!' And so I applauded and cheered but was like 'man, that's a lot of falling'.
But apparently it was Falling For a Day, because when I got home from work last night, he was cycling around like mad and then he was like "Look!" and he went up the bump into the driveway and he was like "I can ride up the bump because I am REALLY BRAVE". Hahahaha. Yes, yes you are my munchkin. Very brave indeed. He's gonna totally be doing jumps off obstacles within 6 months, isn't he? I am going to get grey hairs.
Also, last week I was over at their house and BFFH was mocking me in the way that he does and my Nephbo goes "[swmbo], I think you are adorable." Hahah. Right back atcha, kiddo. That is a happiness-making kid.
That concludes your random "I am still totally enamored of my nephbo" update. I can not believe he is 4 and a HALF.
Happy Sweet-tooth Tuesday! May the candy cart be loaded with goodies.
ETA: I forgot the LuthorCorp Thought For the Day! And it's a doozy:
You’ll never walk tall by forcing others to their knees.
Um, obviously. Because if you're standing there forcing somebody to their knees, you're not walking at all. But that's ok, because if you crush enough souls, you can ride.
current mood: chipper
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| Monday, April 20th, 2009
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8:52 am - Ack, Monday!
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Hi darlings!
Last week I was out-for-the-count - I came down with a sore throat on Tuesday and then on Wednesday I was basically *dead* - I stayed home from work and between the hours of 8 and 5, I slept 8 of them. I was up for 1. I was *hardcore*, baby! It helped and I somehow struggled through work the rest of the week, helped by naps after work every night and naps this weekend. I think maybe I'm ok today. I felt great yesterday but today I'm feeling iffy again. But i somehow think that might just be Monday doldrums and the secret guilt that I didn't dress up today even though we have clients in the office, oops!
Ohh! During my week of hibernation, I *did* manage to get some reading done - I read The Cellist of Sarajevo and The Guensey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society (thanks for the recs, flist!) and I loved both of them in completely different ways. But I rec them both to anybody.
I've also watched a few of the new shows! I think I love The Unusuals - I watched two eps and I just - it fits me. Southland definitely has it's moments and I love the way it's shot - I am going to keep with it for a while. I hated and loathed the pilot of Harper's Island with a deep and abiding passion rivaled only by my feelings by, um, Point Pleasant. True story!
And I *forgot* about Kings switching so I haven't seen the most recent! Shame, swmbo, shame.
Sorry I have no entertaining stories to relate to you today - I am still struggling with the deep and abiding desire to SLEEP. But I can share with you the LuthorCorp Thought for the Day:
The best way to stand out from your crowd is to lead it, not follow it.
Which is contrary to my own opinion that the best way to stand out from the crowd is to not be a part of it. Crazy!
Happy Monday, kids. Stay strong, stay smart, stay sane. Well, maybe not the latter.
current mood: chipper
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