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Exciting Stuff in Lumyland!
Jun. 13th, 2007 06:52 amOr... not so exciting, unless you're me and you're easily excited.
In chronological-ish order:
1) New cell phone! Free upgrade! Yay! I've had it a week now but have not yet read the book or put all my contacts in it. I did, however, figure out how to get it to play what my bro and I call "Diehard music" as the ringtone (it's some symphony, I don't recall which... because I'm uncultured like that), and I did figure out how to TEXT on it. Yay texting! My old phone didn't even have that capability.
But I've learned from Ian McDiarmid that it's rude to text during a live performance. Okay, well, I already knew that, but it's a HUGE pet peeve of his and... I just like listening to his voice >.>
2) It's a great feeling to be able to cash out 200 hours of PTO, and STILL have 80 hours left to use. Plus I keep earning 8 hours per pay cycle. Awesome!
3) The cracky dreams continue. Every.Single.Night. From turning down marriage proposals.... to sharks that are sentient enough to want to feel up girls' shirts (?!? not mine, at least)... to helping a disabled guy eat corn on the cob... huh? What goes on in that brain of mine?
ETA: 3.5) Got another fun postcard from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karinablack, who is one of the coolest people on the planet ^_^
4) This is mynow Friday! Yay 4-day weekend. I'm off tomorrow for the annual Avon luncheon for people who sell at least $10,100 worth in the fiscal year. I barely made it this year. (there are other benefits to being in the Club besides this lunch - but it's a big deal, it's at a swanky hotel and there are lots of prizes and stuff) Last year I won my laptop luggage thing, and I didn't even own a laptop yet. Nor was I really thinking about getting one. Ha! I luuuuurve my laptop now.
5) And I'm off Friday for my Star Wars marathon! First time it will include the Clone Wars cartoons in between Eps 2 and 3. I thought maybe I'd have to cancel it because yesterday our parent company planned a conference call I'm supposed to be in, but my boss is AWESOME and told me not to worry about it. Jeez, can they give any more notice? Could they like, you know, ask the attendees if they're going to be in the office that day?
I'll repost my rules probably tomorrow :)
6) Okay, this one really IS exciting: I'm going to visitelledwen THIS year, not next! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love my boss, she's totally cool with me taking a big chunk of time off, even though it means lots more work for her. Getting my passport done today (she's in the UK, I'm in the USA). I'm paying for expedited service (see #2 - yeah, I can totally afford all this now) so I should have it in 3-6 weeks. Yeah, that's expedited. It's supposed to be 2 weeks, but they're behind. I can't wait the normal 8-10 weeks which is now actually 12 weeks due to their behindness, because I'm planning to go in September and that's just too close for comfort.
I should be able to swing this whole trip on that 200 hours of cashed out goodness. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
In chronological-ish order:
1) New cell phone! Free upgrade! Yay! I've had it a week now but have not yet read the book or put all my contacts in it. I did, however, figure out how to get it to play what my bro and I call "Diehard music" as the ringtone (it's some symphony, I don't recall which... because I'm uncultured like that), and I did figure out how to TEXT on it. Yay texting! My old phone didn't even have that capability.
But I've learned from Ian McDiarmid that it's rude to text during a live performance. Okay, well, I already knew that, but it's a HUGE pet peeve of his and... I just like listening to his voice >.>
2) It's a great feeling to be able to cash out 200 hours of PTO, and STILL have 80 hours left to use. Plus I keep earning 8 hours per pay cycle. Awesome!
3) The cracky dreams continue. Every.Single.Night. From turning down marriage proposals.... to sharks that are sentient enough to want to feel up girls' shirts (?!? not mine, at least)... to helping a disabled guy eat corn on the cob... huh? What goes on in that brain of mine?
ETA: 3.5) Got another fun postcard from
karinablack, who is one of the coolest people on the planet ^_^4) This is my
5) And I'm off Friday for my Star Wars marathon! First time it will include the Clone Wars cartoons in between Eps 2 and 3. I thought maybe I'd have to cancel it because yesterday our parent company planned a conference call I'm supposed to be in, but my boss is AWESOME and told me not to worry about it. Jeez, can they give any more notice? Could they like, you know, ask the attendees if they're going to be in the office that day?
I'll repost my rules probably tomorrow :)
6) Okay, this one really IS exciting: I'm going to visit
elledwen THIS year, not next! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I love my boss, she's totally cool with me taking a big chunk of time off, even though it means lots more work for her. Getting my passport done today (she's in the UK, I'm in the USA). I'm paying for expedited service (see #2 - yeah, I can totally afford all this now) so I should have it in 3-6 weeks. Yeah, that's expedited. It's supposed to be 2 weeks, but they're behind. I can't wait the normal 8-10 weeks which is now actually 12 weeks due to their behindness, because I'm planning to go in September and that's just too close for comfort.I should be able to swing this whole trip on that 200 hours of cashed out goodness. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
