I think I’ll remember my own LIFE

This week has been a week of complete and utter slackerness in some ways, while being insanely busy at the same time.  Because of the stupid presentation during a short week, the ONLY thing I was really able to work on all week was the presentation.  My boss had me working on it all day Tuesday, then probably another 3-4 hours on Wednesday, and then Thursday was about 3 hours FOR the presentation (there was more than just me giving it and I had to be there for everyone’s), and the rest of the day was spent putting together my review.  Then today…today was just a slacker heaven day.  Since so many people are retiring lately, there have been about 50 THOUSAND retirement celebrations going on.

Today we all went to Carraba’s for lunch to celebrate 3 retirements.  And when I say WE ALL went…I mean we all went.  They had to rent out the entire restaurant to make sure all 100 something people could go.  So…lunch went a good 3 hours.  Which means…again nothing got accomplished today.  So…while in some ways this has been a nice break from doing my actual work…I’m going to want to SHOOT myself next week when I realize I’m RIDICULOUSLY behind on this project.  (Ha!  And I said I actually do my work haha). 

Even more conducive for slacking…is the fact that NONE of the managers bothered to return after the lunch!  How badly do I just want to leave myself??? (Instead I am wasting time by posting…shut it).  Unfortunately I need to run today…and I REALLY am WAY too full to even attempt to do that now.  It’s entirely possible lunch would make a return visit.  ALTHOUGH…I was really good about what I ate.  I ate half a chicken breast, some broccoli (we will ignore the yummy garlic butter the broccoli was drenched in…soooo good), and a couple of bites of garlic mashed potatoes.  Oh…I LOVE me some garlic.  But still…it’s too soon after I ate to attempt to run in this heat.  Sigh…

Moving on…I need some advice.  I am wearing a super cute shirt today, but I can’t quite figure out what to do with the tie!

The girl has it tied in a bow.  However, I don’t think I’m a “bow” person…in fact it looks kind of ridiculous on me.  (her bow is all pretty and perky and perfect).  My bow is kind of limp and uneven and retarded looking.  It’s sad.   No matter how well I tie the bow…in about 5 minutes it’s back to looking sad.  So…can you think of another way to tie it to make it look better?

Last topic of the day.  Yet again…I stick my foot in my mouth.  ARGH!  I need to learn to just NOT talk. 

I worked with this guy about a year ago installing some equipment.  We’re friendly acquaintances and always say hi and talk to each other if we see each other (in other words…the complete opposite of my nemesis!).  So…he had originally intended to take the opt-out package from the company.  I heard last week he had changed his mind and decided to stay.  So…when I saw him at the lunch I went over to say hi and see if he really was staying.  He said yeah, plans changed.  So I started talking about his wife and what she thought about it and stuff like that.  Then, I was like, oh I thought you and your wife had decided to move to NC.  So…then he shows me his hand.  ARGH!  He’s not wearing a ring anymore.  Apparently they are divorcing which is why he’s staying here.  But ARGH, I swear I had to have talked about he and his for 5-10 minutes before realizing! 

So then I was like…SHIT!  What the hell do I say to that??? 

I realize it’s not really completely my fault since I didn’t know.  But still…talk about feeling AWKWARD and way to make me feel HORRIBLE!  I didn’t know what to say after that!  Stupid stupid! 

So…I just finished giving my presentation.  I would like to say I rocked it. 

I had three criticisms for the entire thing.  One, was that I used the word manager instead of leader.  (But I’m not changing that b/c manager is the word I want).  Two, when I answered one question I didn’t remember to talk about scheduling the two technicians in the pilot plant, however, the answer I gave was still fine even without it so it was more a suggestion than a criticism.  Three, the size of the font on one of my slides was too big.  Yes…the FONT SIZE was one of the criticisms.  Seriously, if that’s the worst I have to hear…I’ll take it.

I spoke a little quickly in certain parts…but that was more because I was worried I would forget the point I wanted to make.  And…as a personal record…I gave a 15 minute presentation…in 14 MINUTES!  I normally give them in 3!!!  So…everyone in the room was VERY impressed at how slow I talked.  I don’t know if talking slow should really be the part that impressed them…but whatevers…I take what I get.  :-) 

I also FINALLY managed to remember EVERY point I wanted to make.  Yesterday, as I was practicising…even my boss was beginning to think I was retarded b/c I couldn’t remember half the information on the one slide.  And I just sounded like an idiot when practicing.  But…it’s fine.  I gave the presentation, and everytime I remembered an important point my boss smiled and gave me the thumbs up sign which made me have to fight to keep from laughing.  But…whatever.  It’s done.  I’m finished. 

I would also like to state for the record that apparently I had all sorts of adrenaline running through me.  Because after I finished…I just became exhausted as all hell and now I just feel drained.  That may also have something to do with the fact I couldn’t sleep last night b/c I was so worried about forgetting everything…and I arrived in the office at 6:45.  Yes…6:45.  AND…I’m wearing a dress, and make-up and I straitened my hair (it’s actually down!  But I believe it will be going back up quite shortly).  But still got here by 6:45.  SO…no sleep on top of presenting…makes me very tired. 

I am now going to put together my mid-year review…and I am so going home by 3 today.  (Well…assuming I actually finish it by 3…). 

Tonight…there will be no working or running or anything.  I am going to go home, watch a movie, and either read a book or work on the cable socks that STILL are only at the half way point. 

S Rocks!

I can’t remember if I already quoted that before…or if I just thought about quoting it…either way…I don’t really care :-P.

Anyways, I’ve been having some bizarre ass dreams lately.  I had a dream that my best friend growing up became a bounty hunter.  But she was a bounty hunter that only went after the ones with the posters that said “Wanted…Dead or Alive” because she just liked shooting them.  Of the people that know S (girl that lived next door)…they will probably know that that is one of the LAST professions she would ever take.  She was much too “girlie” and “prissy-ish” for that.  And…I don’t mean for those adjectives to be derogatory in anyway…I just can’t think of any other way to word it that captures the true abhorence she would have for that job.

I had another dream last night where my parents wanted to build another bedroom and bathroom for the house, but they wanted it to be in the living room and they wanted me to design it for them.  However, my dad wouldn’t look at any of my ideas until I got them drawn professionally and figured out how to actually build them the way I wanted.  I kept trying to convince him that that would cost a lot of money if they didn’t like the first idea and I had to keep going back and getting new drawings/etc done…but he refused to listen.  I tried to sneak up on him with a pencil drawing and he got really mad and covered his ears and closed his eyes and starting singing Can’t Touch This by M.C. Hammer.  He was ADAMANT that it had to be drawn professionally. 

Then, my mom was looking at the pictures and saying that the bedroom, bathroom, and remaining area of the living room was going to be very tiny and I needed to figure out how to take all the furniture they have and shrink it down to scale so that it would all still fit in the room.  She refused to listen to me that I didn’t know how to shrink furniture.  I was getting so frustrated with them in the dream.  I started trying to learn magic chants that would shrink furniture.  It was awful.

I’ve had some other crazy dreams…but I can’t remember any of them.  Just know they were weird.

Edited: 

My dad has me all paranoid that my nemesis will figure out this blog post was about him (even though I can honestly say I don’t think he is even SLIGHTLY interested in anything I do)…so all mention of his role in yesterday’s rage is now gone.  If you really want to know about it and hadn’t read it…just email me.  I’ll be more than happy to bitch to you. 

I feel icky again today.  I’m not sure what’s wrong with me but my stomach has been feelin “icky” for the past few days.  Usually, I get like this when I’m really stressed out about something (or when I’m actually sick), but I don’t think I’m stressed out.  Unless I’m SO stressed out that I’ve just buried it super deep and am not acknowledging it, thus the icky feeling.  But I don’t think that’s the case.  I just want my stomach to stop feeling like this. 

I have to give a presentation today (and again on Thursday) but I really don’t think that’s what causing the icky feeling.  Usually, my first run sucks, I get ripped apart, I change it and I’m good to go by the second run.  It’s pretty much a ritual for me (which is why my bosses always insist I do a first run before the actual run).  Whatever, I’ve accepted this, and I don’t really mind so much anymore. 

I didn’t eat much this weekend due to the ickyness so finally by Monday I was thinking maybe I was just hungry.  But…eating just made me feel more icky.  So…whatever it is…please go away.

Other than the upset stomach, I had a good weekend.  I went to two barbecues, hung out with some friends I haven’t seen in a while, went to the park (I love the parks by me), and ran my own 5K  (as I talked about in my last post).  I also did lots of laundry, cleaned the hallway (yeah…I finally did it…it took like 5 minutes) AND the bathroom, and I sort of cleaned my bedroom (I just put away the books and laundry that was chilling on the floor in my room).  I had wanted to finish a pair of socks (or at least one sock) this weekend, but it wasn’t meant to be.  Now I just need to vacuum and clean the guest room (um…yeah…the guest room will probably NOT get done anytime soon…).

I’m making a beautiful pair of cabled socks (oh my god love love love the yarn…and the pattern isn’t bad) but they are sooooo s-l-o-w.  I’m only about half way finished the one sock…and I’ve been working on these for over a week.  I think.  It may be longer…I can’t remember when I started.  I was going to give these to either J or my mom…but I may actually keep them for myself.  The next pair I start will probably be the cashmere socks for J.  Oh…and I also started the ARRR-gyles for L…however…it’s very hard…and very slow (um…a big part of my problem is that I don’t really know how to do the color method needed for argyle socks…so I’m making it up as I go).  So these may take a while to actually finish.  But I will perservere until I figure it out.  :-P 

All in all…it was a good weekend and I wish I didn’t have to be back at work. 

Yeah…that quote was about all I could think of right now.  I’m too tired to be clever.

Anyways, I sort of redeemed myself for the lack of waking up this morning.  I actually went out and ran my OWN 5k this evening.  As in…I just went out and ran 3.1 miles and came back home.  So…even though I totally failed at group participation…at least I did something.  That has to sort of count…right?

AND…as an added bonus…I must have been releasing all sorts of pheromones tonight b/c I got hit on all over the place.  First there was the cute little 16 year old (I assume he was 16…he could drive…but looked like he was about 12…so I placed him at 16 haha) trying to pick me up as I was running.  I decided to be complimented at this since we all know 16 year old boys can be the meanest things ever.

Then, there was the 40 something year old guy with two kids that was trying to get me to agree to dinner with him. He was kind of cute…but the whole wedding ring tan-line kind of turned me off there…

THEN…there was the dorky guy (I place him anywhere from 20-26) at Barnes and Noble that was wearing an awesome shirt with a big Pi symbol on it.  He totally had me with that shirt.  Then he told me he was a devout Christian and started going on and on about how finding the LORD saved him.  I decided it was time to go home.  Do I look like a huge sinner that’s going to hell?  Because EVERY freaking Christian is attracted to me and feels the need to SAVE me.  I’m not lying.  I have complete strangers come up to me ALL THE FUCKING time telling me it’s not too late to be saved.  Maybe it’s the cursing…

Anyways, my run was fun even if a bit lonely.  I’m releasing all sorts of wild pheromones…so approach at your own risk :-P.  And…remember…it’s never too late to get saved!

OK…I am seriously awesome.  And by awesome…I mean I am a complete waste of space.  Go me.

I set my alarm for the ungodly hour of 6:30 to go run my race (I had to register and all the other fun stuff at the actual race…none of this fun day before registering).  Anyways, so my alarm is set, my clothes are all laid out, my power bar is ready to be eaten…and I don’t wake up.  In fact…not only do I sleep through the alarm and the race registration…I sleep through the start of the fucking race!  Who does that???  Apparently…I do.  

As punishment…I have done nothing today.  I have managed to leave my apartment for a grand total of 20 minutes…and that was just to go pick up my meds (that I need to start today…which is the ONLY reason I even bothered to get that) and to go pick up a book from the library.  I told you I was a waste of space.  I’m trying to work up the motivation to clean the front hallway.  That’s it.  JUST the hallway.  It’s not going too well.  

Although…Oscar DID just fart and it smells really badly.  I’m thinking I may have to get up just to get away from the smell (oh my god what do I feed him…and oh my god do I really think you care???).  I also have some clothes still in the washer that should probably be switched soon so that they don’t start to smell or anything.  But come on…the hallway.  It’s a freaking 4 x 4 foot square.  There’s really not that much to even clean up.  I have BIG plans for tomorrow…I plan to actually clean the bathroom!  (Again…it’s not that bad in there…I really just need to wipe down the counters and the shower…the rest is clean.  Again…I feel that I will NOT complete the tasks I have assigned myself).  I think I need to hire me a personal motivator…or something.  

Because seriously…could I get any lazier if I tried???  (Actually…yes I probably could…maybe I shouldn’t be tempting fate…)   Oh well…hope you are all enjoying a lazy weekend. 

Another Fun Fact Friday that isn’t really fun…

• I am registered to race in a 5k this weekend.  I’m trying to decide if it’s really worth me going.  I’ve noticed my running skills have gotten progressively worse as the months go by.  Is it really worth embarassing myself for a T-shirt? 
• I’m beginning to think I’m never going to be able to run the half marathon in August.
• I just found out I have to give a presentation on Tuesday.  This presentation has to hi-lite EVERYTHING I’ve done in the past 3 years here.  I’m not looking forward to this.
• I have found a new pair of socks I want to try.  They’re called ARRR-gyles.  (I am apparently obsessed with Pirates lately).  However, I will pick much prettier colors for the argyle pattern.
• I need a haircut really badly.  However, I’m worried if I cut it it will annoy me as I run (It’s basically JUST long enough for me to pull back without having any hairs falling out).  Should I just wait three months and THEN cut it?
• Unlike SOME people, I know what a coefficient is.  I secretly laugh at the ones who don’t.  (or…maybe not so secretly). 
• Most people reading this will wonder who doesn’t know what a coefficient is.  You can laugh as well if you would like.
• My boss almost ran me over yesterday.  He was trying to wave at me and accidentally jerked the car at me instead.  I don’t think it was really an accident.
• Oscar has learned the sit and leave it command.  However, he doesn’t seem to understand the take it command.  When I feed him, I make him sit and wit for me to say its ok to eat.  So, he sits and won’t touch his food.  Instead, he just stares at me like when will you let me eat the food?  I say take it and he still just sits and stares at me.  I think he’s retarded. 
• My new obsession is grilled cheese sandwiches.  I would eat these everyday if I could.

I also have a four day weekend coming up so no more posts for a while most likely

Whoever thought it would be funny to put sleeping meds in my drink…you totally suck.

Ok…I didn’t really accidentally (or purposely) ingest any sleeping meds (at least I’m pretty sure I haven’t)…but OH MY GOD I can’t stay awake!  I’m sitting here holding my head up with my hands and all I can think about is going home and curling up on the couch and falling asleep.  How heavenly THAT would be.  Even odder, the tiredness just hit me about 20 minutes ago.  To the point that attempting to hide under my desk in order to nap is starting to look like a REAL good idea.  And I have a pretty big desk…I could totally fit…and I don’t think anyone would really notice.  I’m trying to work up the motivation to go running after work.  I know I have to do it…I just REALLY don’t want to. 

And why is it that the shorter the week is…the LONGER it feels?  I swear I keep thinking today is Thursday and I don’t have to come in tomorrow…no…dipshit.  Today is WEDNESDAY…you had best show up for work tomorrow if you don’t want to get fired.  (Although my current boss is taking a vacation day…so maybe nobody would even notice….)

Um…yeah…I’m super boring again today.  I guess my boring days far outnumber my cool or exciting days.  Why do you even bother reading this? 

Maybe I’ll get some sleep tonight and will be well rested and witty tomorrow.  HAHAHA…you can hope

So today is MOSTLY happy day.  Only one or two bad things…and the rest is good

I won’t get into the bad since I’m sure most of you don’t want to hear me bitching about personal problems (um…not that I don’t always bitch…but I try not to bitch about THIS topic).  It’s just not something I think most people want to hear about.  And if you’re anything like me…you’re going to be spending the next 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell I’m talking about.  I’ll give you a hint.  I’m a girl and the surgery I had didn’t COMPLETELY help.  It still sucks the big one. 

Anyways, moving on. 

The other bad news, the meeting down in Wiliamsburg totally SUCKED yesterday.  I had to go down there and work out an estimate for some process installation I’m working on.  Up until now everything I’ve worked on has been pilot plant scale (um…hello…development engineer…not commercial engineer) but this project is randomly for one of our manufacturing plants.  OH MY GOD is this so annoying.  I don’t even WANT to think about all the freaking change control crap I have to do (anytime we make changes of any sort in a plant you have to track it all and update the drawings, etc…basically…LOTS of documents and legal papers to fill out).  But, that’s not even the big thing.  We spent the past two weeks coming up and finalizing a process.  I designed this process based on what the people in the different departments as well as the people that will be USING the process wanted. 

So…I drive down to this meeting with my information that I have…and they decided they no longer want to use THIS process and they want me to re-design it AND have a cost estimate for it put together by 2PM that day (keep in mind…it’s about 12PM at this point).  ARGH…I was SOOO angry.  The really irritating thing is that this is the ORIGINAL process I had suggested like a month ago but got shot down b/c NOBODY wanted it to be that way.  So I had to come up with all new drawings, scopes, and estimates (that I should apparently pull out of MY ASS?) in two hours.  (Ok…since I rock…I managed to do a sketch job in about 2 hours…and gave a padded guesstimate that looks like it may actually be correct as I’m redoing the numbers today).  But still.  2 fucking hours!  Come on now.

ARGH!  I still feel the rage! 

Now the GOOD news.

I got my new org announcement today and I’m SUPER DUPER happy.  I’m back under my old manager doing the same project I was doing before with him starting June 1.  (Birds singing in the background).  Unfortunately I have to finish up the projects I’m currently working on while transitioning.  I would like to take the moment to say that I learned to adapt to my current manager eventually and I actually don’t mind working for him.  Once we got used to each other it really wasn’t that bad. 

However, I still HATE his projects and I hated doing any work for them.  Oh they were just AWFUL.  But now I’m back on the projects I liked before AND I’m with the manager I liked.  Yay!  So this is super exciting.  Even nicer he acted all happy to have me back in his group.  I made some joke about he can’t seem to get away from me (EVERY time we did an org review until this last time the entire department would get all shook up and moved around…except I always would stay with him.  I was the ONLY person in the entire group that never got moved) and he only managed to get rid of me this time for about 6 months…and I’m back again.  So anyway, I was joking about it and he was like no!  I’m really glad you’re back in the group.  You’re a great worker and I enjoyed having you before.  So double yay!  Not only am I back in the group I like…I even got a compliment (even if he is just saying that b/c he thought it was the thing to say haha). 

So…yes birds are singing. 

THEN, I was supposed to have drive BACK down to Williamsburg AGAIN today for another freaking meeting, and instead we decided I could just give all the info to someone else in the group (they were also going to the meeting) and have THEM present it instead.  So…I just saved myself two hours on the road in shitty ass weather.  Woot woot!  (Hehe I really love typing that and I have NO idea why).

Oh…and I had completely forgot this week is a four day week.  Yay 4 day weekend!  And…I may even try to take a vacation day on Tuesday and have a 5 day weekend!  woohoo!

Everything’s coming up Milhouse!

OK.  Blah blah blah…rant rant rant.

That’s pretty much how I’m feeling today (I’m sure you’re all SUPER excited to hear it). 

I was sick all day Sunday (ugh…I don’t know what it was…but it SUCKED) so I didn’t get as much accomplished as I had hoped.  I DID manage to clean up the family room and kitchen and half the bedroom on Saturday.  (Clean up as in move around the clutter).  I still need to do the clothes in my bedroom and vacuum all the floors and clean the bathroom and other fun shit like that.  But at least…the main area of my apartment no longer looks like a disaster area (well…that’s a lie…the front hallway is still QUITE cluttered and messy.) But…once you get past THAT…it’s fine haha. 

I also read A LOT this weekend and played this stupid computer game pretty much all weekend.  Oh…and talked to L online since she was stuck in bed all weekend too!  I started a pirate sock for L and it looks SOOO cool…however, I’m pretty sure it will NEVER fit her foot as it is…and i’m not too keen on what’s going on INSIDE the sock.  I’m using a cotton yarn…and I think it’s just too heavy or something b/c there is no way you could ever fit this and your foot inside the shoe at the same time.  AND…since it’s cotton…there’s no stretch to the sock…so it’s like a heavy cotton tube wrapped around your foot.  Not fun.  Anyways, I’m still torn over whether to knit further and see if it will fit…or if I should just give up now and try a different way.  But seriously…the colors are freaking awesome! 

I also started another pair of regular socks.  These will be pretty blue/green color scheme (like sea colors) with fun cables all over them.  (Yes…I’m trying again with the cables…maybe it will work better this time).  I LOVE working with this yarn.  It’s crazy cheap, but it’s super soft and pretty colors so I’m happy. 

I don’t really have anything interesting to talk about.  I mean…I spent the weekend being sick.  I spent today down in Williamsburg at an all day meeting.  I have to completely redo my latest project (Ugh don’t even get me fucking started on that one).  And…that’s about it.  Blah!

Apparently…today I am not so awesome…in fact…I suck!