My Random Thoughts

Its been about 2-3 weeks and the apartment is pretty much set. We need more furniture (like a couch, a chair and a desk! I’m writing this from a bed tray on the queen size bed that gets smaller every night I sleep on it).

Jeff keeps giving me crap about not taking the more uppity apartment with the integrated garage, which was more money for less space! pbpbpbpbpbpbpb to him.

And now for the rant - I need to buy a house, fast! Faster than fast - yesterday! The first thing that makes me crazy is the dumb bitch who parks in the spot which is not a spot. Its the space to the right of the handicap space - you know the one they would use if they had a wheelchair to get into??!?!? yeah, she parks there. It’s also right infront of the ramp up to the sidewalk.  Perhaps I wouldn’t be so upset if it wasn’t CLEARLY MARKED that its not a space and that NONE of the other ones are parked in.  If I think about it while i’m going to/from the grocery store, I will stop in the office and give a word to the management company. JUST MAKES ME CRAZY!

And then there are the elephant children who live on the 3rd floor. It not just the regular walking around, or the occasional drop, it’s the running up and down the stairs and the squealing as they do it. Obviously it bothered more than just me, as the apartment complex sent out a note to everyone saying please be considerate of your neighbors and the breezeways are not the playground. You shouldn’t be congregating there. THANK GOODNESS!

Now the rants on poor Jeff……I brought up some ’stuff’ to decorate the apartment to give it a more homey touch. I dared to hang something on the wall - I thought he was going to have a fit. I used the 3M command adhesive strips. It was just a small little thing, and dude, they are keeping most of the security to repaint anyway, so who cares! it’s not like I was putting holes in the walls! GAWD!

I can’t wait to get my own home. I’m going to put holes in every surface i can find. I’m going to paint every surface i can find and i’m going to be happy about it!! I think I”m going to go home this weekend and paint a wall in my current house, just cuz I CAN! so there!

I should just admit I have an addictive personality, and all would be well. I won’t, so my life will continue down the path that it is.

I have 3 new addictions: Lost, fabric and yarn. I started crocheting in Feb. I’ve attempted knitting and I need to get my DVD back out and try again. I think I’m getting to the point where I would enjoy that. Anyway, that has spurred my love of yarn. I love the colors, I love the texture, I love the weight and I love making things that can be used! So far I’ve made placemats, cat beds and a shawl. I’m currently working on another shawl, and a baby blanket. I’m going to start on granny squares for my own blanket. Yeah, out of all of the stuff I’ve made so far - the only thing I’ve kept are the placemats, and the two cat beds that went wrong. I need to start making things for myself!

Fabric started quite by accident…..I was looking for material to line my cat bed. As it turned out, not lining it seems to be just as good. I was enthralled with the patterns, and the fabric types. Then I got the reusable shopping bags, then I started thinking, hey, I could make my own tote bags and then it started. now I’m going to be making a quilt for my bed because I can’t seem to find one that I think fits correctly. I’m going to make matching throw pillows or shams for it. That potentially could lead to more quilts and sewing projects. Scary, huh?

And Lost - well, I don’t know how I missed this one. I remember watching the first episode, but never again. I think it must have been opposite something else I was watching and I don’t have Tivo. The other issue was that it was on ABC. For whatever reason, I don’t watch ABC. I don’t understand it any better than you do (the reason I didn’t watch ABC, not Lost, not that I understand that either). I’m halfway through season 2 (thank goodness for ITunes) and I’m hooked. Now I need to catch up to where I need to be and get ready for the new season!

Oh, and I just remembered my other addiction - podcasts. I love listening to them. I love mocking the fact that anyone with a mic can now become a ‘radio’ star! And I’m amazed that they are so popular. I didn’t think talk radio was a popular thing, but podcasts essentially are talk radio. Once again, everything old is new again…..and is hooking another generation.

The positive side to these addictions - I don’t need help! I’m very happy with them.

I feel like I’ve worked a week in the last 2 days. It’s pretty sad when I have to ask people what day it is…..now that I know its Tuesday, I know it’s JERICHO day, of course, I hope I can manage to stay awake long enough to actually watch it tonight. I may have to catch it on the small screen on the web tomorrow morning.

Life is good. That may be quite the segue, but it’s true. I have a purring cat on my lap (ok, under my arm). I’ve been trying to switch their food to a ‘human grade’ better quality, no grain diet. I’d like to put them on a raw diet, but just small changes right now. Even with the small changes, I’ve seen some big changes in the girls. They all have more energy. Of course that’s not good at 2am, but overall, it’s good. The litterbox is better, and they seem happy and healthy. My research is telling me that its better to have a diet for them that is closer to their natural diet. Last week I was wondering if I was going to be able to do this. Champagne seemed to enjoy the food, but the other three walked away. This week, they all seem to be liking it. By next week, who knows what they’ll be liking.

My crochet habit is still going strong. I’ve completed placemat - and i’m half way through the 2nd. I wanted to make 4, but I don’t think i’ll have enough of the same type of yarn to do it. I may have to use a different color.

Ok, doesn’t feel like i’m going to make it beyond the next 10 minutes, time to make jeffy’s lunch and find the bed.

For being a short week with a holiday in the middle of it, it was a long hard week. I didn’t think Friday was EVER going to end. I still have work piled up that I’m going to get to shortly (or at some point today). Next week is going to be painfully long. I have to go to the client site. I’ll be traveling for the next 3 weeks. I’m really really getting over this travel stuff. The nice thing is that I made Silver Status, so I can start snagging the good seats and potentially getting upgrades. That will make the travel less painful. Now I’m remembering why I didn’t mind it as much when I was at ADP - with status, it’s almost bearable.

There is one thing I need to stop doing and that would be reading the comment after the articles on the Sun-Sentinel. If those people had to write letters to the editor, rather than being able to make anonymous comments that they could whip off in a few seconds, the would put more thought into what they were saying and not be so stupid. It saddens me to think that there are people out there who actually think the way they do.  The article from yesterday was on the ME’s office in Orlando getting bigger autopsy tables because the country is getting bigger. Yes, obesity is a problem - we get that.  So the comments were not on the story as much as they were personal attacks on anyone who might be carrying around extra weight. Comments to the effect of you’re fat because you want to be. Put the bon bons down and move. There should be a tax on twinkies. If you’d stop eating the country wouldn’t have this problem. Fat people should have to pay for 2 airline seats, etc etc etc.

As if everyone’s weight problem is due strictly to the fact that they are just sitting around eating, and thinking about their next meal. (that was the comment that really got me - yeah, I just sit here and worry about what I’m going to eat next). Where did all this negativity and nastiness come from?  Another article was on the first borns of 2008. You know, the nice little fluff about the first baby in the county, or the hospital after the new year.  Some of the comment on that article were. Great more crack babies and welfare mothers we are going to have to support.  HELLO? Where in the article did it say they were anything more than upstanding tax paying citizens?

I know, if it bothers me - stop reading the comments. I’m going to have to do that, but I just don’t understand why they would choose to use a public forum like that to just spout off and sound so ignorant. What about some thought out public debate on topics, what about some well wishes for these families? No, just negativity and stupidity. Sigh.

In other news. I had two cats stare me awake at 6:30am. Champange sat on my chest and stared, while Wootle, after getting no response from her stares took action, she started licking my nose. Who needs an alarm clock. I have cats.

I am tired today. I even got home early yesterday. I took a nap today, but everything still hurts. I don’t know what is up with that. I’m hope I feel better tomorrow. I have a lot of stuff I want to get finished!

It was a good week at work. I’m enjoying my job, but I need to figure out where I want to go next.

I have so many thoughts I want to write about, but when I sit down to actually write about them….they all fly out of my head. Maybe I need to get on them right away, huh? Yeah, might be a good idea.

I’m sitting at the O’Hare Airport, with three more hours to go before my flight boards. I hope it’s on-time. I want to get home!

It was an interesting week. I transitioned my old project and I’m working on my new one. I feel like I just got the boot. I wish I could have finished the project, rather than having to transition it. I feel icky about not finishing it and I feel goofy for having such emotion tied to it.  I want to have a heart-to-heart with my old manager, telling him that, but I think it’s time for me to move along. I guess I just want absolution that I don’t suck as an employee. I need to get over that. Some days I want a J-O-B rather than the career I’ve built, but at the end of the day, I’m pretty happy with the career I’ve built.

I do need to work on the work-a-holic part. I’m still logging 60-70 hours a week. That is just plain stupid. I need to get a life, get a hobby, workout, read, write, play solitare, take classes, something other than work! I finally understand a couple of friends that I have who have no hobbies other than work. I’m turning into one of them!

So, back to the so much to do. I have 4 more performance reviews to write, agendas to create for the week, a project charter to revise and 3 project plans to work on. I want to do none of them right now. I want to play, but being that I have 3 hours - why not kick some work out??!!?! I guess that’s the work first, play later part of me.

I had breakfast this morning with Tracy - I haven’t seen her in quite a while. It was nice to catch up with her. I miss people. I’m actually turning into a social person. I don’t understand what’s up with that. After 38 years I’m coming out of my shell? What’s up with that and why couldn’t I have done that 20 years ago? I guess I’m a late bloomer? Life constantly amazes me, as much as we’re pushing things down to the next generation, there are those of us who are still behind the curve. Guess that’s what makes us unique.

So, on that note, onto the next thing on my list of things I don’t really want to work on.

So I’m a geek and I enjoy Star Trek, but wow, there are some hard core crazy Star Trek fans. The History Channel showed the story behind the Christie’s auction. The prices some people were paying for a piece of pop culture. They were some impressive pieces, but they were still props.

I think what I found the most impressive was the amount of work Christie’s had to do to catalog the warehouse and prepare for the sale. They had to go through the warehouse, verify each and every piece and figure out value. Amazing.

My cold is slowly getting better. Why is it that it takes longer to get over this crap when you’re older?

I’ve had conference calls all week, but working from home made it much better. I was able to ‘leave’ early, although I started early anyway. I have work to catch up on this weekend, but since I actually don’t have to go into an office, I don’t mind (quite as much).

I had all three cats on my desk today at various times. Most of the time I don’t mind, but they have to come and jump up in the middle of conference calls. Silly girls. Margarita and Pheobe seem to be acclimating quite well. I told Jeff we should adopt another kitten. We can be the crazy cat people.

I ordered some candles and they came today. I need to put the center piece together and put it on the dining room table. I wonder if I trust the nuts not to knock it over. Hmmmm, need to think about that. I think I’ll put them together now.

While we were at Disney, Jeff and I were making fun of the ways some of the teens were talking and acting (it was fun). That aside, all over Pleasure Island are signs about needing to be 21 to get into any clubs and I was joking with Jeff about how nice it would be to get carded, but of course, I’m probably old enough to be the mother of the people checking the ID’s. The worst part is that it could be true - I am old enough to be the mother of many of the people I’m interacting with. I think that can’t be true since I still feel 21 myself. I just had to laugh when I said those words.

Saturday night after the show we watched as a couple was seated across from us. Jeff made a comment about them being so young. They were, but so cute. I don’t know where time has gone.

….was really hard to do this morning - 3 cups of coffee later, I finally feel a little more awake. Trying to catch up on everything is overwhelming to my little brain. I could use another week (or more) of vacation…..

Sheba was quite the lover this morning. She jumped on my desk a couple of times and demanded attention. That makes me happy, as long as she has life in her, I’m happy. Her eye is looking better, she’s keeping it open more than she was. I wonder what happened to it. Champagne is being champagne - FEED ME! Crazy cats. It is nice to have purrring company during stressful conference calls, except for when Sheba meow’s into my headset. I’m sure that made people wonder.

It’s certainly a cloudy day for South Florida. Makes me want to take a nap. I have a workout scheduled for tonight. I hope that helps my sleeping. Gotta keep up with those 2007 resolutions! Ah well, back to the grind. I hope the afternoon goes quickly and goes well!