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Tuesday, December 10th, 2002
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3:51 pm - Argh
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I'm really tired right now and I feel slightly feverish. But it's probably just some weird immune system thing and not related to an actual cold. Which is good.
Sometimes I feel like a total fuckup at work, and I realize that I'm not but my boss makes me feel that way. And no matter what I do to try to make it right, it generally makes it worse. I don't know why things have disinegrated to this degree, but they really have. I would vastly prefer to be away from here by my 30th birthday, but who knows.
current mood:  annoyed
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| Wednesday, December 4th, 2002
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9:51 am - A cheaper Chri$tma$
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This holiday season, I have no fucking money. Where did my money go? A trip to Disneyland. Lots of new clothes. A couple hundred dollars of dental work. All kinds of crap. I'm not really great at managing my finances anyway, and this year has been particularly dismal. So I was thinking of trying to reduce the amount of money I spend on holiday gifts. The first is that I'm asking people if they are buying me a gift. If they aren't buying me a gift, I'm not going to get them one. It's that simple. I usually buy all my friends nice gifts, and some of them buy me cheap gifts or nothing at all. Screw you friends, no gifts for you. Next, I've decided that for the people who I will get gifts for, I'm going to get them things out of the office supply catalog at work. Yup, I'm not getting a Christmas bonus, but I can get all sorts of cool supplies for free. So, what do you want? Colorful post-its? A stapler? A stamp with your name on it (well, that will be harder to explain to the admin assistant, but I'm sure I can manage)? I'm sure my mom will love a bunch of pens. And who wouldn't want a box of recordable CDs? If all else fails, I can do what my grandmother generally does and get some free samples to give everyone and pretend it is a real gift
current mood:  working
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| Friday, November 22nd, 2002
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1:19 pm - Post Pot Luck
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Well, the pot luck was good. Though I have to say that some of the food was really weird. People don't get my personal pot luck philosophy which is make something that everyone will want to eat, so you won't have to bring a bunch of crap home. Some woman made something that was sort of like a beet slaw, but flavorless. Also, stuff should be visually appealing. Some of that stuff was weird, seriously. My fruit salad is probably mostly gone. Can you believe you can find ripe pineapple in California in the middle of fall? And people seemed to like the mint. I just have to say that all that food has made me exceedingly sleepy. To a point of being unable to keep my eyes open. Thankfully I'm leaving to go to the dentist in a little while. Now that's a sentence you don't hear every day, "thankfully I'm going to the dentist."
current mood:  sleepy
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10:38 am - Pot Luck
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Yeah I would be lucky if I had some pot. Though in all seriousness, we are having this pot luck here today at lunch. I find myself pretty hungry today so I am looking forward to it. I myself made some fruit salad with cantaloupe, pineapple, orange, and banana. Sort of tropical, all sunshine colored. I'm a fruit salad artiste. I even sprinkled some fresh mint on top. Isn't that special?
current mood:  hungry
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| Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
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9:21 am - Ugh
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So my first call of the day sucked rocks. I hate it when that happens. The person was tearing into me. As usual, when I have to deal with crap at work, it's primarily crap that is totally out of my control. At least the caller didn't badmouth me to my boss when I transferred her.
Also, my other journals on Blogger don't seem to be updating. Well, there have been some system problems there and their stupid server lost one of my fascinating posts yesterday. Oh well. It will all work out in the end. In Hell. Haha
current mood: irritated
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| Tuesday, November 19th, 2002
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4:36 pm - Rolling Along
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It's strange, a Tuesday with a staff meeting, and nothing really bad happened today. I only had a few annoying callers, and they weren't even that annoying. Is the universe finally deciding to give me a break? Doubtful. At least there are one or two aspects of my life going right at this point, better than nothing.
current mood:  amused
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8:50 am - Slackmaster General
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Yeah, I haven't written anything in here in a few days and I don't have anything to say at the moment. This message has no message. Leave your own message at the beep.
Oh why oh why hasn't my coffee kicked in yet?
current mood:  blank
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| Thursday, November 14th, 2002
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4:41 pm - I'm an adult now
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This day is finally over, thankfully. I was more tired than usual today. I guess some of that is not really sleeping that well last night. Well, I was fine going to sleep but too hot this morning and my bed didn't seem big enough for me and my boyfriend both. He's a total space heater, and the closer I moved to him in bed, the hotter I was getting. (Not in a sexual way either.) But then I had these weird cold spots on my body, like I'd been microwaved and not turned around midway through the cycle. I would say that sleeping together is better for us on the weekends since we don't really need to get up early or anything like that. Well, since he's unemployed, he never really needs to get up early. But I do. "I could sleep until noon every day, but it's not like I do. When you're an adult, you gotta get up and take on the world. It's no cliche, it's the truth." Something like that, this song they used to play on KROQ when I was in high school. Long ago. Can you believe that it's been 11 years since I graduated
current mood:  drained
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10:02 am - Brrr
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Why is my office so fucking cold right now? Oh well. I'm drinking this "cappuccino" from the machine outside my building. It's actually quite good, for sixty-five cents. In fact, it's on par with some caffeinated beverages I've had that cost 3 times that. I was going to make a second espresso for myself this morning but didn't have enough time. Alas.
current mood:  contemplative
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| Wednesday, November 13th, 2002
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10:43 am - Middle of the week
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Yay, it's the middle of the week. I'm so looking forward to the weekend, if only to catch up on my sleep. Well that and spending some time with my boyfriend. I may not have a lot of money, but I have love. Love and a full tank of gas. And a closet full of cute clothes. That's pretty good.
current mood:  cheerful
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9:04 am - Check it out
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| Tuesday, November 12th, 2002
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2:47 pm - Slinking through the day
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I had this dental thing this afternoon which got me out of work for a few hours, but it still seems like I've been here too damn long. Yeah, there's probably stuff I could do, but I just feel like eating candy. Bad me. I feel like I've been eating too much lately. I don't know if it's because of that birth control shot, or not having weighed in for a while, or just being with Robin. I need to make sure that I at least maintain my current weight. At the very least, I need to have clothes that fit. But I also got really tired of driving myself crazy over it all.
current mood:  blah
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9:18 am - Not enough sleep
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Yes, I did go to bed at a reasonable hour last night. And I feel reasonably well-rested. But I also feel that if I slept for about 48 more hours, I'd feel even more well-rested. I don't know why I feel like I haven't really gotten enough sleep since college. Has it really been that long? I guess I'm just ready for vacation. Going to Tahoe for Thanksgiving, so we'll probably sleep a lot there. That's my plan anyway.
current mood: listless
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| Monday, November 11th, 2002
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9:14 am - Back from the land of Mickey
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I'm back from Disneyland. Where I ate too much, spent way too much money, and spent too much time trudging around in the rain. Yeah, it was hella fun, other than the rain. I am thinking seriously about burning this one pair of socks that got wet too many times. I actually ended up wearing just about everything I brought because stuff kept getting wet and needed to be taken off and dried out. Crappy weather, but less lines than there would have been otherwise.
I have to say that when people say that Vegas is like Disneyland for adults, I sort of understand what they are talking about. Sure, I'd rather go to Vegas, but it was still fun. That California Adventure thing was kind of lame because it was primarily rained out and everything was closed, but it looked like it could be cool. Space Mountain is still the best ride. There were few lines because of the rain so we ended up riding a bunch of rides many times, like 3 times on the Pirates of the Carribbean (Robin's favorite), twice on Indiana Jones, etc. The cars at Autopia are very cool now; they look like Porsches. But I didn't find that as fun as I did as a kid. I highly recommend staying at the Disneyland Hotel or one of their other hotels within California Adventure, since it's so convenient. The Downtown Disney "district" is pretty cool. One night we ate dinner at the N'Awlins place and that was great. Also, Hook's Pointe at the Disneyland Hotel makes incredible chocolate souffle.
Good to be home, but it sucks to be back at work. And I'm so tired
current mood: tired
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| Wednesday, November 6th, 2002
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9:14 am - Finally, Wednesday
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Yay. It always feels good to have a short week at work. Or to know that I only have a mere 7-8 hours left of work until I'm going home and not coming back for a while. This going to Disneyland is totally gravy on top of that. Even if work sucks today, it still seems finite to me. Yeah sure, I'll have to be back on Monday, but that's a universe away.
current mood: excited
current music: something loud
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| Tuesday, November 5th, 2002
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9:49 am - Sure Happy It's Tuesday
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You'd think I'd be all cheery today since I'm going on vacation on Thursday. But as time goes on, my boss makes it more and more of a pain in the ass for me to take vacation. Listen, I'm the only person here who doesn't fucking call in sick all the time, and you're giving me a hard time for asking for vacation ahead of time. I could just call in sick and say screw you. Seriously, I am wondering if she's trying to get me to quit. It would be suicide in this economy, with an out of work boyfriend, and no lottery winnings in sight. She has this friend who used to work here who wants to move back to the area. Maybe that's it. Or my boss is just intimidated by what little ambition that I have. Or she's really just the Wicked Witch of the West with cooler shoes.
That and my friend Jen waking me up at 6 AM because she had a bad experience with a guy. Yeah, like that's earth-shattering. Haven't you figured it out yet my friend? There are a lot of shitty people out there (men AND women) who will use you up and spit you out like a piece of Dentyne Ice. You just gotta roll with the punches. Or blast a cap in that motherfucker's ass and keep on moving
current mood: irritated
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9:46 am - What Office Space character I am
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| Monday, November 4th, 2002
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1:57 pm - I'm going to Disneyland!
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No, really. I am. This is this whole crazy thing. My boyfriend is quite disorganized, so he had mentioned something over a month ago that his sister was going and my invitation was implied but not directly stated. I asked him to clarify and he didn't really. But then this weekend, his sister phoned and wanted to check on if I was going too. Also, we didn't go to his nephew's party since we slept through it. But I guess a lot of people also didn't go because they were sick.
So, I'm thinking, well, can I do a last minute trip? Why the hell not? I have vacation time at work. And then my boss did her usual pain in the ass thing about it. She acts sometimes like she's Zeus or Hera and can throw lightening bolts at will. I'm not going to argue with her about my rights as an employee, but it sure seems to me that my vacation time is mine. It's reasonable for me to request using it on occasion. Particularly since I don't call in sick all the time like my "colleagues." Well, I got it straightened out, finally, and I'm going to Disneyland.
Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm going to see any friends and family while I'm down in LA, which makes me feel a bit crappy, but I will be at the happiest place in earth. Also I'll be at the happiest hotel on earth, fucking my boyfriend. That makes up for a lot of things!
current mood: chipper
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| Sunday, November 3rd, 2002
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1:39 pm - Sickness, etc.
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So, we've had a really quiet weekend since my boyfriend isn't feeling well at all. All we've really done is sleep and watch movies. Unless I'm sick too, I can't really sleep that much. Also sleeping past noon kind of screws me up for waking up at my normal time tomorrow. We're supposed to go to his nephew's birthday party but I'm sort of doubting at this point that we'll make it, since he's not even awake yet. Poor thing.
I actually contrast this to my last relationship a lot. If you recall, we ended up breaking up because he was sick and didn't want to spend time with me. I remember quite clearly saying something about coming up to see him, babying him or making him some chicken soup. And then, he started making fun of me for saying that. To me, if you don't want someone to do something, you just say no thanks. He was a total prick about that. In contrast, R is just subdued now but very happy to be here with me and spend time with me. And the ex, he'll just spend his days in a hell of his own making, haha.a
current mood:  awake
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| Friday, November 1st, 2002
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10:08 am - Handing Out Candy
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So, I think handing out candy is more fun than eating it. Or, I just want to think that so I won't eat candy. It's kind of crazy how much junk there is out there. You should have seen my boyfriend's nephew last night. He was all cheery until he got a bunch of candy and then he became a total spaz. Running around, bumping into things .... it reminded me of an epileptic seizure. But handing out candy was interesting, seeing all those weird costumes. Some of the "kids" were obviously in high school. It's sort of presumptuous of them, but there was candy for all
current mood:  mellow
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