38 posts tagged “tuesday”
Bits & pieces that I remember from morning dreams (note: the TV was off):
- I was standing in line to pay for food, maybe at the NBC commissary, with the cast of Friends... who were all my real life friends. The cashier was Guillermo, from Jimmy Kimmel Live. He kept making up names for the food - like a steak sandwich was a querradilissa (or something like that). I thought it was strange but everyone else acted like it was the normal names for the food. He was also overcharging.. my steak sandwich was $11. I just stood around watching & laughing to myself, thinking that maybe I (or someone in the area) was being punked.
- I was at an office that gave way to an art museum-type layout. That was the art studio of the person I was talking too, David Letterman. He invited me to see his current work. It took up an entire "room" (the walls didn't go all the way to the ceiling, more like space dividers). His artwork was in green. I remember a face - maybe he was painting a self portrait. I had to move out of the room space because other painters were working on the walls. Their stuff was all blue. I had to rush away from some reason and when I did, I discovered that David Letterman had stuffed a little yellow rubber ball on the top of my butt-crack (I was wearing really low pants). I didn't understand why he did it; he thought it was hysterical.
In other news:
I bought a ticket to Miss Kittys' NYE party (theme is: Electro Sex Circus....???). It's a free party but a $10 VIP (plus $3.75 processing) provides priority admission and guaranteed entry (or am I making that up?) - so it seemed worth it. When going through the purchase process, and thinking about the fact that it was cheap enough to also skip (if I don't feel like going), I had an eerie feeling of having done it before. Then I remembered that I had - 2 years ago, when I ended up in the hospital instead. That's the 3rd time I've repeated events last done immediately prior to the hospital stay - which is totally weirding me out. Hopefully, it doesn't mean a repeat - but, rather, that I'm going to finally have the night I hoped for the first time. Though I might get too wierded out to go.
Nothing to do at work again today. Most people left already. I'll probably bail in another 30 min or so.
I almost forgot... Things on Tuesday!!
Loathe:
- Hearing all kinds of strange noises outside my home and not being able to figure out what they are (I always assume it's something bad and that I'll find out later)
- Ear ringing, for no apparent reason
- Being paranoid that undefined bad things are going to happen
- That I can't stand the show "Mama's Boys" but end up watching it anyway cause I hate everything else even more and am too lazy to put in a movie or read a book.
- 2008 Resolution ('reduce") was an EPIC FAIL
- Realizing I've spent 2 yrs talking about some "to do" items that would take less than a day to actually DO
- Kitty snuggles; Waking up with Moshi using me as a backboard
- Allowing myself to be a slug during my holiday time off
- Still having money left from my last paycheck (aka: Resisting holiday sales)
- Partial days at the office (and nothing to do)
- Feeling comfortable and welcome in someone else's home
- Accepting the reality of expired friendships; no longer trying to salvage something that isn't there
- Watching an opposum climb up and down a tree, next to my bedroom window, at night
- Sleep; especially ridiculous amounts of it
- Having a fantasy concept for how I'd like my bedroom to look (if I decide to free a couple grand from my equity line, I can get the needed repairs and actually make this happen)
- People who keep their word
- Cranky seems to be having a good Bday
Fruitcake:
- Stupid!! Holiday!! Drivers!! Newsflash - there are other human beings on the road!!
- 4-lanes of freeway drivers pacing each other at 55mph when the limit is 65 (and the fast lane usually goes 80)
- I have ZERO experience of it being "the holidays". Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
- People will soon been taking down all of the purty lights.
- 2 days with nothing to do and most everything will be closed.
- Whatever the heck that loud noise was (I just heard it; it sounded scary)
- Trader Joe's Peppermint Jo-Jos = AWFUL....waaaaaaaaay too much mint!
- Bunbun in the office
- Office gossip
- Sitting in the living room this morning and watching Moshi wander around, across the street. He seemed to be having a lot of fun in one of the neighbor's bushes.
- I remembered to burn DVDs (but now I have to remember to mail them)
- No family/friends means no overspending on presents
- I remembered to bring gifts for the receptionists (Trader Joe's premium chocolate samplers)
- Bringing in LOTS of sugary treats for my coworkers
- Being able to leave early enough to go shopping for food & booze (and cat food - must remember to buy cat food today!!) and probably still be home before sundown
- The horrible music in stores will soon stop
- FIVE ~ DAYS ~ OFF!!
...Yeah, I have a big one.
TPS Reports:
- Yet another critical employee announced they're leaving. With the non-compete expiring, even more will be heading out the door for the startup founded by one of our founders.
- Bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark!!
- Couldn't get Moshi to come home before I left for work. He's gonna get rained on today.
- Being broke.
- Being insanely, perfectly, comfortable in bed but having to get up/out anyway to get ready for, and go to, work.
Red Staplers:
- Being insanely, perfectly, comfortable in bed and staying there for 2.5 hrs past the time I should have gotten up (yay for semi-flexible hours & quick showers/change).
- I found 3 of the color changing snowflake lights I've been searching for... only took 7 stores to find them (ugh!). I'm debating about how much I want to look for more (they aren't available online).
- VAN GOGH DOUBLE ESPRESSO VODKA
- Holiday flavor creamers (Pumpkin Spice (but only the Nestle version, the other brand SUCKS) and Peppermint Mocha)
- Potential to have REALLY good mojitos this Sat (at El Cid)
- 2-day week next week... then 5 days to SLEEEEEEPPP
Bads:
- Missing cats (none at the current moment - just remembering my weekend)
- Car chases on TV
- Almost all the way back to my largest size ever. NOT GOOD
- News making a big deal about small earthquakes (they're now doing picture in picture to show both the car chase & an earthquake map)
- The price of Chia Pets (I always want to give them as gag gifts - but not for $25/each!)
- Screwing up my pedicure less than 12 hrs after I got it
- My hair appt took just under 4 hrs. I wasn't expecting it to be so long.
- Finding/rescuing kitties - especially my own
- Taking the day off cause it was so late (almost 4p) by the time I got done with my hair appt
- Free professional haircoloring & blow dry (straight)
- Invite to be a hair model again... maybe if I decide to go back to blonde
- Finding out the chick who colored my hair (Valeska) will cut it for about 60% of what her boss (Kwanna, my usual stylist) charges
- When people's names don't match their anticipated ethnicity... Kwanna is white (from somewhere in the south) and Valeska is latin
- Pizza!! (could this possibly have anything to do with bad #3?!?)
- I've not been tempted by anything in the Woot Off
- My Jamilla, Art of Pole, Vol 3 4 & 5 dvds showed up (I haven't watched them yet)
- Wearing fuzzy slippers in public as a fashion statement
- AussieBum undies - and their commercials!! (see bottom of this post... mmmmmmm!!)(I bought the short black w/orange, shown at 3:09. Exchange rate made them a GREAT price. C loved that the were flattering and super soft. I loved how they looked on him. I could have nommed his bum all night!)
- It's MiamiShyner's Birthday!
No:
- Foreign language videos that translate 1 in 10 words, or a similar but different phrase, instead of what was actually said (the movie I was watching last night was leaving out tons of stuff).
- DVDs that don't play (have to get a replacement of The Proposition)
- Already lost my productivity mojo (I just want to sleep today)
- No big rainstorm today (the news was predicting one); in fact, it's sunshiney w/only a bit of hazy cloud floof
- I somehow, stupidly, made plans for every single day that I'm off. They're mostly fun things - but they're also obligations and obligations stress me out and this week was supposed to be about relaxing.
- Gael Garcia Bernal
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"Sex and Bacon" - I really really liked this book!! It's basically a collection of stories/essays on craving & consumption, of both food & sex. With some recipes thrown in. Surprisingly, it totally works.
- Boo sleeping under the covers this morning (another new thing for her)
- Seeing a cute opossum in the backyard (it was at eye level so it's nose looked stubby instead of all rat like)
- Having a week off
Not teh awsum:
- People forgetting to do "Things on Tuesday"
- "Random brakers" on the freeway (people who repeated tap their brakes for no apparent reason or because they see a police officer - even though the officer is busy giving someone else a ticket)
- Layoffs
- Coworkers not completing their share of the workload when that share is only 3.75 hrs of work per DAY
- Moshi's fur being knotted up like he was in another fight
- Time for holiday charity - but I feel cash poor
- Being tired ALL the time, regardless of any/all other circumstances
- "The King", staring Gael Garcia Bernal as a very bad man!
- So far, only reasonable options for Tday dinner are to order one (cooking? dishes?!?) or to have dinner at a gay bar (I'm leaning toward the gay bar).
- Completing almost a week's worth of my share of the workload in about 3.5 hrs yesterday and expecting to have more than a week's worth completed by EOD today (I think I should be allowed to take the rest of the week off!)
- "Winning" a free massage (turns out that anyone who submitted their contact info at our helath fair "won" - but people are saying the sample massage was really really good so what the heck?)
- Moshi going out at 7am and then coming right back in and to bed with me (he usually stays out for a couple hours)
- Waking up and realizing my kitties were all snuggled against me.
- Being oddly gung-ho about hiring a housekeeper and getting the carpet replaced (despite the fact that the 2nd item will require a ridiculous amount of furniture moving, which I will never do, and money, which I don't have.)
- Learning new pole tricks
- Bolt (from the movie) as a puppy
- Wildfires mostly under control; clear skies
- 9-day weekend coming up and I have only tentative, easily cancel-able, plans throughout
- I figured out how to utilize the strange space in my closet (shoe shelves!) and I think I can probably get Adrian to do the work for me
- Finding out we get Xmas Eve as a paid holiday
Booo, Hissssss!!
- The stupid Vox bug that craps out your post if you accidentally click on an embedded picture while creating/editing!!
- Layoffs are only a week away (or so we assume; could be the week after)
- It gets dark so early
- Freakin cold office
- 40 degrees one day; 90 the next (and huge drafts in my house so it's often colder indoors than out)
- It's time to pay for more workout classes: I don't know what I'm going to work out with Nicole - I can't afford privates any more. S Factor (4 wk) is also up for renewal. Siren should probably be starting again soon too. I'm still trying to organize a "plus size only" class in hopes of making privates classes into semi-privates (aka: cheaper).
- My hair is too long & frizzy for black to look good
- Thanks to internet news, I've (once again) convinced myself that my GI issues are probably Clostridium difficile
- I still haven't gotten my car damage (from 3 yrs ago) fixed (but on the bright side, I have a $1200 insurance check sitting around to cover the work!)
- Property Taxes are due (and there goes the check for the car repairs!)
- Remembering that I haven't been watching my Netflix movies because the DVD player on my home theater system is total CRAP and I don't want to attempt reading subtitles on my small TV, and I'm too cheap to buy a new home theater system (or even just a new DVD player)
- Christmas crap (gifts, music, decorations) are EVERYWHERE
- Waking up 1.5 hrs late cause, at some point (before Monday), I turned off my 2nd alarm. So now I'm stuck at work, pretty much by myself, while it's freezing and I can't concentrate to be productive.
- Olberman on Gay Marriage
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Coffee-Mate holiday creamers are in stores: Pumpkin Spice (my absolute fave), Peppermint Mocha (serious YUM), and Caramel Apple (which sounds gross for coffee but I thought the same about Pumpkin Spice, before I tried it)
- "It's A Wonderful Life" will be shown at the Seal Beach Bay Theatre on Nov 30, Dec 1, and Dec 3. Depending upon my schedule, I might go to all 3 showings.
- "The Warriors" is being shown at the same theater this weekend.
- 7:30am surprise booty call (and he looked sooo good!)
- I'm considering taking off the 3 days before Thanksgiving for a 9-day weekend
- Definitely have new neighbors across the street. Looked like a central air system was being installed today.
- Just enough work to keep me busy but not so much as to stress me out
- Seeing Madonna and TheWho (at least, Roger Daltry & Pete Townsend) LIVE, just 4 days apart
- Getting rid of my eWaste, including a perfectly good but never used CD player. I probably should have tossed in the home theater system too - but I couldn't bring myself to go that far.
- The super cool dripping lights at Nokia Plaza (despite the fact that they're xmas decorations). I want some for home!
- My heated mattress pad
- Cymbalta (I recently realized that it's completely eliminated my road rage/aggression)
- Coffee
- My kitties
Bad::
- 2p meeting - and having to be the note taker and send out the minutes (I really despise meetings)
- Worrying about layoffs (we think the actual pink slip day will be Nov 18 or 19)
- Feel I didn't get anything out of my Sun workout except a sore lower back
- Fear that Prop 8 will pass (and I'll spend another 17 yrs fighting for equal rights for my friends)
- The waiting, waiting, waaaiiiiitttttting for results - because exit polls can't be trusted
- THE END OF CAMPAIGN ADS!!
- Seeing Dave & MeowMeow kitty (see prior post)
- Voting for change (go Binack Banana!)
- Rain - lots & lots of rain
- Flu shot tomorrow
- Day off on Thurs
- Madonna concert on Thurs
- The Who concert on Sun
- Gay Brunch Bunch on Sun
- I have a good/supportive boss
- I might have found a 2nd person for a "plus size" pole class
- Having a comment to Ross cause both of us to be invited to submit to Someone Once Told Me
- Trying to figure out how to pose on an aerial hoop while holding a sign for Someone Once Told Me
Scary Spiders:
- The office A/C keeps shutting off around 1p and it’s ROASTING, with no air circulation.
- The newScript reading from last night (“Thomas Repair”). Everytime I start listing my negative critiques, the list gets longer. I can find very little that I didn’t hate. Short version: The movie Blue did the concept WAY better.
- Our stock went below $3/share today.
- Repeated warnings of “things are going to get worse before they get better”.
- I think I forgot to pack my inhaler in my workout bag.
- MORE fleas?? Are you serious? It’s not summer anymore!!
- I've was substantially outbid on the "Keep A Breast" piece by Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO). Damn! (it sold for $405. The Iggy Pop one sold for $610). I was also outbid on another piece that I didn't really care about.
- My hands are peeling. I’m not sure what I’ve got but I’m pretty sure it needs medicine.
Black Cats:
- Moshi has started sleeping in boxes – but only outdoors and it doesn’t appear to be an addiction (yet)
- The female lead in last night’s newScript reading, Angela Goethals. She was really good!!
- The male lead was played by Charlie Robinson, who was the Court Clerk on the TV show NightCourt (showing my age!!)
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All the theater seats had sponsor plaques on them. Most were the normal unknown people or businesses. But the one right next to me was “Captain & Tennille”.
- I'm still top bidder on a third "Keep A Breast" piece. (note: "Jugsy the Dog", which I'm not bidding on, is currently at $177.50)
- No layoffs at our office today – at least not yet.
- I think the AussieBum men’s undies that I ordered are going to be delivered today (now to find a model!!).
- My abs still sore, in the good way, from Sunday’s workout
- I’m trying a new workout tonight, despite my fear of epic fail.
- Possibility of rain this weekend (won’t happen but it’s nice to imagine)
Loathes:
- Office internet use under CONSTANT monitoring
- Allergic reaction to unknown source
- My "fat clothes" are fitting again
- Rumor of layoffs coming on Oct 28
- Finding out that my Equity Line of Credit (aka: My emergency fund) was put on hold in August (said my FICO dropped - but it's pretty good so I have to find out what they want it to be, plus finally get that stupid BS collection of $253 hospital bill, that I paid - to the hospital!, off of my report!)
- Adrian's new phone, with 2mp camera, takes better pictures than my 3mp camera (better optics?)
- Finding out that my phone is, once again, not receiving calls inside my house (I got a voicemail but never got the call that originated it).
- The gremlins still have not washed my dishes (lazy bassturds!).
- A japanese cell phone with 5mp camera & high end optics that I found online (too bad it's over $700)
- Pretty sure I'm going to sign up for the S Factor 1-hr weekend classes (though only for a single 4-wk session)
- Supposed to resume workout with Nicole this week. Trying to workout a long-term option with her (I can't afford any more privates)
- Obtaining a free online credit report & score, without enrolling in a bogus monitoring service
- Finding out that the software bug I reported on Friday, that 2 people said was just me making an error (when I knew it was not) is REAL.
- Heated mattress pad
- 16 days till Madonna concert
- Four places that I go to over and over: Work, Home, Walgreens, the nail salon
- Four people who e-mail me (regularly): Vox, spammers, ??? & ???
- Four of my favorite places to eat: Hof's Hut (convenient & diverse menu), Hamburger Mary's, Carl's Jr (convenient & cheap), Spago (I don't care that it isn't open anymore - it was the best food I've ever had)
- Four places I would rather be right now: Tahiti, Australia, Fiji, hanging out with Gael Garcia Bernal.
Four people I think will respond:- Four TV shows I watch: Boston Legal, Lost, 20/20, Conan O'Brien
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