Long-Ass Update
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lumy12I'm just going to babble about various topics.
-I'm not going to rant about anything work-related like I said I might last week. Things are really peachy for me now. As my workload is growing in one area, it's diminishing in another area thanks to my AWESOME BOSS who is pushing to have my HR duties be done by *gasp!* HR. Imagine that! So my least favorite task might be going away soon. I don't want to jinx it, though, so I should just shut up about that.
The HR manager is leaving at the end of the year, though. That saddens me. He's been there for 17 years! He helped start the company back when it was a mom'n'pop business with 10 employees. But now every time I ask him something he's like "Suuuure, you just do whatever you want, I don't care, la la la!" I could get used to that ^_^
I'm wearing a new peach-colored shirt that I got from some visitors we had last week. Three different people told me how great the color looks on me. Three! I NEVER wear peach because I think it clashes with my red hair, but they insisted it looks good. Come to think of it, I do wear peachy-toned make-up colors a lot, because they look good on my skin. So maybe there's something to that.
Yesterday, the reason for my "loved" mood was the fact that when I got to work in the morning, there was a big basket on my desk full of soda and chocolate, along with a thank you card. It was from the office that caused me the most stress and overtime last payroll. Aww! I'm well aware that they're also bribing me to be patient with them THIS payroll (which is one of the tightest of the year), but hey, bribes are great. I love bribes. Bring 'em on. My patience can be bought!
Then today I received MORE chocolate, from a far-away office! And they're one of the easy ones to deal with. But the sender says it's to make up for "the quality of her work slipping" - meaning, she makes one or two mistakes every so often instead of being OMGPERFECT. Hehe, I love her!
Oh, this leads nicely into my next topic.
-I pretty much fail at either dieting or exercising consistently. It's hard to stay motivated this time of month when I already feel fat and bloated and icky. >.> Plus Thanksgiving next week, plus the above sweet people sending me goodies, plus plus plus, yeah, always excuses. Too tired to exercise, too lazy. What's the point, I'm not making any progress anyway. (I know that's a bad attitude, and I'll work on fixing that at some point, but not while I'm feeling blechy) I miss being skinny. I'm not obese, but I'm definitely not as thin as I could be, and it bothers me. I should just get rid of my skinny clothes and buy "fat" clothes but I can't quite give it up so completely yet. And I DO want to be healthier; perhaps my eating habits will never be wonderful, but they can be a little better, and exercising is DEFINITELY good for me even if I can't see immediate results.
-It's official: I'm a Crazy Cat Lady. I worry about the outdoor kitties when they don't show up at mealtimes. I still haven't given them names, because OMG that would make them MINE, or something... but I admit I'm kinda attached to them now. Kitten #1 is the friendliest, he comes inside every time I open the door. He plops himself down somewhere and purrs up a storm. He is not perturbed by Anakin's glaring.
Kitten #2 lets me pet him sometimes, but not very often. I think he has to be really starving to allow me the honor of petting him while he's stuffing his face. He likes to nibble on my fingers. It's adorable!
Kitten #3 is the most skittish, and also the one with the most innocent-looking wide-eyed kittenish face. I did get him to swat at my hand in play the other day. Awww cute!
Mama Kitty refuses to come inside. I think she must have had bad indoor experiences before because it seems odd to me that she'd be this way; she's very friendly and was obviously someone's pet at one point. Maybe she feels trapped inside? She doesn't even stick her head in the door like the curious kittens do.
-Wednesday afternoon I went to the bank (for work) and when I came back and parked and got out of my car, I heard this hissssssssss! What a horrible sound. I pinpointed the source to my left rear tire. It had this huge gash in it. The air was just gushing out. I was quite annoyed. I called AAA and waited for them to send someone out to put my donut on. Unfortunately, the guy didn't show up until half an hour after I got off work. So I kept working but I wasn't allowed overtime this week so I figured I'd make up for it by slacking the next day (thus, "Name That Tune" was posted). Ha! He pointed out a nail in the tire. I don't know how the nail made the side start falling apart, though.
I called the customer I was supposed to deliver to and she was cool with me coming by after my Discount Tire adventure. I just knew they were going to talk me into getting four new tires. No, I didn't want this to be a weekly occurrence, yes, I know my tires are old. I knew it had been at least 5 years since I got a new set. (since 8/31/02, as it turns out) The guy that helped me was really cute, too >.> We went out to my car and I said something about "yeah, you're gonna yell at me..." cuz I knew my tires were old and worn out. A coworker of his overheard it and kept teasing the guy later about what a jerk he was for yelling at customers. Hee, it was cute.
My new tires are pretty and shiny! And they cost $80 more than the set I got back in 2002. If you're wondering how I know this off the top of my head, I don't - I have a spreadsheet that I log my car expenses on. So I just looked it up when I got home that night. Heh. Anyway, they have this pleasant new tire smell that fills my garage. I like it. I'm strange.
-I love this time of year. Even if it IS still too hot. (upper 80s) But this year... I'm debating proposing to my family that we stop doing lists, that we maybe don't even exchange gifts, perhaps just get together and eat or something. My mom hates shopping, my dad doesn't mind it but he doesn't have much free time these days, and my brother couldn't care less about any of it, I don't think. Now that my parents are divorced maybe it's time to quit with the whole big Christmas thing that may be largely for MY benefit, because I'm the one who loves it so much. Yes, I like to pretend I'm a big kid, because in some ways I am. But maybe it's time to let my family off the hook. Things change. And there's nothing I would put on that list that I wouldn't just go buy for myself. I think all three of us can say that.
I don't know, maybe this is going too much the OTHER way. I don't mean to be a Scrooge. I haven't even ordered the usual stuff I get from Swiss Colony because I'm just... bleh, I don't know. Uncertain.
This weekend I need to figure out what little gifts I'm giving to which customers and figure out what's left to order still. It's funny, most of them don't even acknowledge that I gave them anything. And I think, hell, next year I won't do this, no one cares... but there's always a few that are WAY more appreciative than they need to be. (these are generally small no-big-deal things; a few people get nicer things)
I already got K a present because usually I find things for her throughout the year. Oh hey, topic change...
-I've seen K only once in the past 2 months and that was very brief. I feel a little guilty about this, but... the more annoyed she sounds when she leaves me a message, the less I want to call her back. She wanted me to come over on Halloween. She did not ask me until Halloween morning. I politely declined, because I had bought my own candy and wanted to hand it out to my own kids and I pretty much had things mentally planned out for the night already. We phone-tagged this conversation, I didn't actually talk to her. I did offer to get together with her over the weekend if she wanted. She didn't call back. She did call the next week, but didn't leave a message, so I didn't call back.
A couple days ago I thought it would be nice to get together with her this weekend and catch up. But I didn't call her because I was also afraid I might have to work this weekend (but I don't). Now I'm feeling BLEH so I still don't feel like calling. I fail at RL friendships.
T is busy enough now that she doesn't call me very much, and I find that a relief, to be honest. I hope she makes more friends that have more in common with her. It's her birthday next weekend so I'll probably go see her for a bit then.
I guess I should put Aaron in this category - but I can't talk about his news, that's what his own LJ is for, except he never posts in it! He's a MySpace whore. How lame. I suppose I've been bitchy to him lately. I think I've been perfectly charming and nice at all times, but whatev. Ha!
-Heyyyy I can't talk about that here, wrong journal! Well, maybe just a little. I admire all you NaNo freaks who are sticking with it. I haven't seen anyone on my FL quit yet. Go you guys! (did some of you drop out and not mention it?) Even if you don't make it to 50k you're doing a good thing for yourselves, nurturing your creativity. Maybe next year I'll sign up for the mini one on LJ. By the time I heard about it this year it was one day too late to sign up. Doh!
Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
senatorsfan I found some other little writing projects to keep my inner geek happy, and I started my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
jedi_mistletoe fic finally, woo! Granted, "started" means I wrote like, 100 words. Heh. I started it while waiting for my tires the other day, actually. And it's just this random part in the middle, I couldn't start at the beginning. *sigh* I'm going to have trouble with this, methinks.
I think this post is quite long enough now. If I've forgotten anything, I'm sure it'll keep. Now watch, the Laws of LJ say that I will hardly get any comments on this post, compared to a 3-sentence "nothing" post that takes a minute to write. tl;dr
-I'm not going to rant about anything work-related like I said I might last week. Things are really peachy for me now. As my workload is growing in one area, it's diminishing in another area thanks to my AWESOME BOSS who is pushing to have my HR duties be done by *gasp!* HR. Imagine that! So my least favorite task might be going away soon. I don't want to jinx it, though, so I should just shut up about that.
The HR manager is leaving at the end of the year, though. That saddens me. He's been there for 17 years! He helped start the company back when it was a mom'n'pop business with 10 employees. But now every time I ask him something he's like "Suuuure, you just do whatever you want, I don't care, la la la!" I could get used to that ^_^
I'm wearing a new peach-colored shirt that I got from some visitors we had last week. Three different people told me how great the color looks on me. Three! I NEVER wear peach because I think it clashes with my red hair, but they insisted it looks good. Come to think of it, I do wear peachy-toned make-up colors a lot, because they look good on my skin. So maybe there's something to that.
Yesterday, the reason for my "loved" mood was the fact that when I got to work in the morning, there was a big basket on my desk full of soda and chocolate, along with a thank you card. It was from the office that caused me the most stress and overtime last payroll. Aww! I'm well aware that they're also bribing me to be patient with them THIS payroll (which is one of the tightest of the year), but hey, bribes are great. I love bribes. Bring 'em on. My patience can be bought!
Then today I received MORE chocolate, from a far-away office! And they're one of the easy ones to deal with. But the sender says it's to make up for "the quality of her work slipping" - meaning, she makes one or two mistakes every so often instead of being OMGPERFECT. Hehe, I love her!
Oh, this leads nicely into my next topic.
-I pretty much fail at either dieting or exercising consistently. It's hard to stay motivated this time of month when I already feel fat and bloated and icky. >.> Plus Thanksgiving next week, plus the above sweet people sending me goodies, plus plus plus, yeah, always excuses. Too tired to exercise, too lazy. What's the point, I'm not making any progress anyway. (I know that's a bad attitude, and I'll work on fixing that at some point, but not while I'm feeling blechy) I miss being skinny. I'm not obese, but I'm definitely not as thin as I could be, and it bothers me. I should just get rid of my skinny clothes and buy "fat" clothes but I can't quite give it up so completely yet. And I DO want to be healthier; perhaps my eating habits will never be wonderful, but they can be a little better, and exercising is DEFINITELY good for me even if I can't see immediate results.
-It's official: I'm a Crazy Cat Lady. I worry about the outdoor kitties when they don't show up at mealtimes. I still haven't given them names, because OMG that would make them MINE, or something... but I admit I'm kinda attached to them now. Kitten #1 is the friendliest, he comes inside every time I open the door. He plops himself down somewhere and purrs up a storm. He is not perturbed by Anakin's glaring.
Kitten #2 lets me pet him sometimes, but not very often. I think he has to be really starving to allow me the honor of petting him while he's stuffing his face. He likes to nibble on my fingers. It's adorable!
Kitten #3 is the most skittish, and also the one with the most innocent-looking wide-eyed kittenish face. I did get him to swat at my hand in play the other day. Awww cute!
Mama Kitty refuses to come inside. I think she must have had bad indoor experiences before because it seems odd to me that she'd be this way; she's very friendly and was obviously someone's pet at one point. Maybe she feels trapped inside? She doesn't even stick her head in the door like the curious kittens do.
-Wednesday afternoon I went to the bank (for work) and when I came back and parked and got out of my car, I heard this hissssssssss! What a horrible sound. I pinpointed the source to my left rear tire. It had this huge gash in it. The air was just gushing out. I was quite annoyed. I called AAA and waited for them to send someone out to put my donut on. Unfortunately, the guy didn't show up until half an hour after I got off work. So I kept working but I wasn't allowed overtime this week so I figured I'd make up for it by slacking the next day (thus, "Name That Tune" was posted). Ha! He pointed out a nail in the tire. I don't know how the nail made the side start falling apart, though.
I called the customer I was supposed to deliver to and she was cool with me coming by after my Discount Tire adventure. I just knew they were going to talk me into getting four new tires. No, I didn't want this to be a weekly occurrence, yes, I know my tires are old. I knew it had been at least 5 years since I got a new set. (since 8/31/02, as it turns out) The guy that helped me was really cute, too >.> We went out to my car and I said something about "yeah, you're gonna yell at me..." cuz I knew my tires were old and worn out. A coworker of his overheard it and kept teasing the guy later about what a jerk he was for yelling at customers. Hee, it was cute.
My new tires are pretty and shiny! And they cost $80 more than the set I got back in 2002. If you're wondering how I know this off the top of my head, I don't - I have a spreadsheet that I log my car expenses on. So I just looked it up when I got home that night. Heh. Anyway, they have this pleasant new tire smell that fills my garage. I like it. I'm strange.
-I love this time of year. Even if it IS still too hot. (upper 80s) But this year... I'm debating proposing to my family that we stop doing lists, that we maybe don't even exchange gifts, perhaps just get together and eat or something. My mom hates shopping, my dad doesn't mind it but he doesn't have much free time these days, and my brother couldn't care less about any of it, I don't think. Now that my parents are divorced maybe it's time to quit with the whole big Christmas thing that may be largely for MY benefit, because I'm the one who loves it so much. Yes, I like to pretend I'm a big kid, because in some ways I am. But maybe it's time to let my family off the hook. Things change. And there's nothing I would put on that list that I wouldn't just go buy for myself. I think all three of us can say that.
I don't know, maybe this is going too much the OTHER way. I don't mean to be a Scrooge. I haven't even ordered the usual stuff I get from Swiss Colony because I'm just... bleh, I don't know. Uncertain.
This weekend I need to figure out what little gifts I'm giving to which customers and figure out what's left to order still. It's funny, most of them don't even acknowledge that I gave them anything. And I think, hell, next year I won't do this, no one cares... but there's always a few that are WAY more appreciative than they need to be. (these are generally small no-big-deal things; a few people get nicer things)
I already got K a present because usually I find things for her throughout the year. Oh hey, topic change...
-I've seen K only once in the past 2 months and that was very brief. I feel a little guilty about this, but... the more annoyed she sounds when she leaves me a message, the less I want to call her back. She wanted me to come over on Halloween. She did not ask me until Halloween morning. I politely declined, because I had bought my own candy and wanted to hand it out to my own kids and I pretty much had things mentally planned out for the night already. We phone-tagged this conversation, I didn't actually talk to her. I did offer to get together with her over the weekend if she wanted. She didn't call back. She did call the next week, but didn't leave a message, so I didn't call back.
A couple days ago I thought it would be nice to get together with her this weekend and catch up. But I didn't call her because I was also afraid I might have to work this weekend (but I don't). Now I'm feeling BLEH so I still don't feel like calling. I fail at RL friendships.
T is busy enough now that she doesn't call me very much, and I find that a relief, to be honest. I hope she makes more friends that have more in common with her. It's her birthday next weekend so I'll probably go see her for a bit then.
I guess I should put Aaron in this category - but I can't talk about his news, that's what his own LJ is for, except he never posts in it! He's a MySpace whore. How lame. I suppose I've been bitchy to him lately. I think I've been perfectly charming and nice at all times, but whatev. Ha!
-Heyyyy I can't talk about that here, wrong journal! Well, maybe just a little. I admire all you NaNo freaks who are sticking with it. I haven't seen anyone on my FL quit yet. Go you guys! (did some of you drop out and not mention it?) Even if you don't make it to 50k you're doing a good thing for yourselves, nurturing your creativity. Maybe next year I'll sign up for the mini one on LJ. By the time I heard about it this year it was one day too late to sign up. Doh!
Thanks to
senatorsfan I found some other little writing projects to keep my inner geek happy, and I started my jedi_mistletoe fic finally, woo! Granted, "started" means I wrote like, 100 words. Heh. I started it while waiting for my tires the other day, actually. And it's just this random part in the middle, I couldn't start at the beginning. *sigh* I'm going to have trouble with this, methinks.I think this post is quite long enough now. If I've forgotten anything, I'm sure it'll keep. Now watch, the Laws of LJ say that I will hardly get any comments on this post, compared to a 3-sentence "nothing" post that takes a minute to write. tl;dr
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Date: 2007-11-17 02:00 am (UTC)So um... yeah. I don't call people now either.
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Date: 2007-11-17 02:02 am (UTC)Antisocialness ftw!
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Date: 2007-11-17 02:54 am (UTC)if it wasn't for you mentioning it i wouldn't have looked it up. the person who initially commented to my original comment on your lj about how i come to curse you for this would be correct.
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nah.. i wont curse you. I'm having fun. and my story is getting me all excited. 21,500K words right now. I never in a million years thought i could write something that long.
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Date: 2007-11-17 03:13 am (UTC)That's awesome! Even if you don't finish it this month look at what you've done and be proud! You're nearly halfway, though. Keep going!
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Date: 2007-11-17 05:07 am (UTC)When something happens, I will happily entertain my ones upon ones of fans. If it makes you feel any better, I'm not writing anything on my MySpace either (www.myspace.com/tworeallybiginchesfilledwithlovesauce) so don't feel neglecterednessed.
Peace out, homey.
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Date: 2007-11-17 03:39 pm (UTC)Hey, I could. I have your password. *ponders*
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Date: 2007-11-17 03:42 pm (UTC)I'm not listening to it 24/7, it's mostly a work thing for me. I only leave it on in the car if it's one of my favorite songs.
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Date: 2007-11-17 04:07 pm (UTC)*whiiiiiiiiiiine* You pay more attention to those stupid strays than to your own cats!
~Ani
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Date: 2007-11-18 07:15 am (UTC)ETA: Your last comment is both hilarious and true. It's so freaking WEIRD how some entries that I think are pointless shit (see: Emo cupcakes) get like a thousand replies and entries I actually think are somewhat witty/interesting are resoundly ignored.
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Date: 2007-11-23 01:16 pm (UTC)And no, I wouldn't get shots for the sake of the cat. I dreamt about it last night. It was attacking me. I also dreamt about Jedi Vs Sith on Facebook. I'm a geek.
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Date: 2007-11-19 06:48 pm (UTC)Until you have more than 10, you are not a crazy cat lady.
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Date: 2007-11-21 04:13 am (UTC)eightfour.