Yet another way to totally waste my work time. I found this game on Metafilter.

Today is day two of the lose a shit load of weight plan. My food intake has dropped a little, I think. And I actually did the weight work out I have at home. My 'muscle groups' are a little sore today, but not too bad. Tonight, I'm going to try to go for a long walk with the dog. Good times.

Best. Lip balm. Ever.
Maybe not the best ever, but pretty darn good. I went to some craft fair/crafty/foody thing on Saturday and got some Sugarhill Farm Citrus Lip Balm. It totally rocks. And given my lip balm addiction, I'm pretty picky about what goes on my lips. The only thing bad about it is that there is no sunscreen protection. I'm never out in the sun, so there is no problem there.

I'm going to Atlanta to see Episode II. Just got my tickets. I'm excited, but a little apprehensive. But more excited. :)

I ended up canceling the hair appointment on Friday. I'm going in on Thursday instead. I went to dinner with my brother at Mex instead. Their food rocked! We ended up hanging out after with some people I met a couple of weeks ago. It was a good time. It totally made up for the shitty phone call I had earlier. Maybe it wasn't shitty, but it got me a little worked up.

I had to call this guy and tell him I wasn't interested in dating him. Not a great phone call to do or get, but I was trying to be mature and adult, blah blah blah. So I called and told him what was going on and right in the middle of something I was saying, *click* The guy hung up on me! That's pretty rude on my Rudest Things in the World Scale. I guess my instincts were right about that one. Now if I run into him again, things will probably be awkward and shit. That is what I was trying to avoid by calling him to tell him what the deal was. So frustrating.

It's Friday and I have totally wasted the whole week. There was not really anything to do here. And I didn't really do anything at home. There's little annoying stuff to do here at work, but I just keep checking my email. 6 o clock is going to come sooooo slowly. I'm getting my hair cut at 7. Now there's some excitement. I always enjoy going into a salon and getting crap for coloring my own hair. Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored.

And I have to do my freaking time sheets. I hate them. They are such a pain in the ass. I remember the days when I didn't need to do them. And there's no categories for things like staring off into space, or daydreaming about my exciting imaginary life where I'm a rock star, or rearranging the items on my bulletin board, etc. Maybe it's a good thing there are no existing categories for those things.

Today is Take Our Daughters To Work Day. I have no daughters. Or sons. Or kids. But if I did, there would be so much wisdom I could bestow on my young offspring. If I had a little girl, her name would be Lola, and she would wear glasses like mine. I'd bring her with me to work and we'd wear the same outfit. And these are some of the things that I could teach my child:

I could show her all the great web sites that I spend most of the day persusing.

I could show Lola how to position a mirror (or reflective surface) on the top of her monitor so she could keep tabs on people outside her door so she wouldn't get busted looking at non-work related web sites.

I could teach her some "work speak" so when co-workers want to know how their projects are coming along, she will be able to spew some corporate speak to let them know things are moving along fine.

I could show Lola the nice looking man that goes out to smoke everyday at about 2:30. We could watch him from my window together.

I could show Lola how to order from Taco Bell and to teach her that Krispy Kreme donuts do not mix well with the Bell's Steak Quesadilla.

That is only the beginning of my wisdom. There are so many things to teach Lola. They all would never fit into the day. I'd need at least a day and a half.

Right now, I'd rather be anywhere else but here. Over 4 hours left in the day...

Sigh. Two of the blogs I like to read have ceased production. Bitchquick and Dooce. I'm bummed, but I guess I can understand the reasoning. They will be missed.

Getting the digital cable was the worst decision that I've ever made. I am so totally hooked on watching crap. It needs to be cancelled, but I don't have the willpower to do it. I go to bed late because I'm up watching reruns of Jackass. [the heavy metal alarm clock gets me everytime...] Then I end up sleeping late and not getting up early to work out like I'm supposed to. The very latest I can stay in bed is 7:45. But that takes out the trip to Brueggers and I have to be super efficient in getting ready. No puttering around. And then I'm still like 5 minutes late. This morning I seriously considered calling in sick, but since I don't get paid for day's I'm not here, I put the kibash on that brainstorm.

Normally I don't remember my dreams. But the other night I had one that I remembered. I was in a mall somewhere and I saw this little girl baby by herself. I walked over to her and she raised her arms to me and I picked her up. She was lost and I tried to find her parents for her. I felt the best most comfortable feeling while I was holding her. She was super cute and baby-like and I felt like she belonged to me. It seemed like I ended up having her for a week or so, but you know how dreams are weird like that time-wise. Eventually we found the dad and I had to give the baby back. Very strange.

The weather guy said there were going to be rain storms all day today. It's sunny, warm and clear. Perfect day for a Margarita Friday. Days like today I really miss my old company. A bunch of us went to lunch today. It was a totally dry lunch. We all stayed very sober. Sigh. Well, I guess I'd hate to come back from lunch too drunk to surf the web and post to message boards and look out of the window.

Today is a shitty mood kind of day. People seem to be letting me down left and right. And ones who aren't, well, nevermind. That's a bad road to go down.

I asked if I could hang white christmas lights up in the ceiling tile grid so I wouldn't have to have the awful flourescents on and I got the beat down for my brilliant decorating idea. Apparently, it's not 'professional' enough. Hrmph. As opposed to all the rest of my professional decor. Hrmph.

Social Distortion's Ball and Chain is my new favorite song of the moment. I never really heard them back in the day, but I got a bug about them in my head the other day and went out and got this CD. It's been in my CD player ever since. Totally loving it.

One o clock in the morning. And I can't get to sleep. A result of the warm weather? Maybe it's too muggy in here. Or maybe I'm just not freaking tired yet. I won't have that problem in the morning.

Today was so warm, I had to open my windows up to get a breeze. Spring is almost here. And that means the East End Fests are coming...

When I got home from work this evening, I discovered that I had ants in my kitchen. Big damn black freaking ants. There was no food out, no dirty dishes, why do I have ants??!!??? I thought moving back up North was going to solve my bug problems. Hrmph. Anyway, I don't want to use that bad nasty chemical shit, so I'm going to try this natural recipe that I found. Hope it works. I hate ants in my kitchen. They are so not welcome there.

Digital cable kicks ass. I haven't moved in 48 hours. But to be fair, 36 of those hours were dedicated to recovering from a massive hangover from Friday night's debauchery. Whew, I had a good time. I got absolutely nothing done that I had planned for the weekend, except for going to the happy hour.

I finally craved in to the pressure and called the cable company. I meant to just order the basic hook-up. ($7.50/month, for the 4 networks and probably Telemundo) According to Time-Warner cable there are 3 levels of cable. $7.50, $47.00 and $57.00. I felt that the jump from $7.50 to $47.00 was a little extreme. After telling the lady on the phone I had an offer in the mail for standard cable for $24.95/month, she said I could get that Digital cable shit for $10 more a month. And free installation. So I totally went for it. So as of Saturday morning, I'm going to have digital cable, baby. I foresee an orgy of tv watching this weekend.

Target had "Bring All of Your Annoying Screaming Kids to the Store Day" today. I was there at lunch and the sheer volume of screeching yelling kids was impressive. There was a bit of entertainment in watching their moms lose it and start swearing and freaking out. One of the women was a little over the top, I felt bad for her little girl, even she had that whiny spoiled brat tone to her screech. Some days I'm glad I don't belong to that club.

Wow. I'm pretty bored. And I have a wicked case of spring fever. I have a feeling it's only going to get worse. Friday is supposed to be in the 70s. :) There's some plans in the works for a happy hour. I was puching for the BugJar until Amy mentioned that it was going to be REALLY NICE outside and maybe we should find a place with a deck. Mex or maybe the Blue Room (which will always be the Crow Bar to me) possible Tonic. I haven't been to a happy hour in a while, I'm looking forward to it.

Daylight savings time is evil, evil, evil. It's Wednesday already and I'm still not adjusted to getting up an hour earlier. I've been trying to go to bed earlier, tried sleeping on the other side of the bed, nothing is working. Maybe if I started smoking again... After all, it's been almost 3 weeks since the last one, I've proved that I can quit.

Last night was a good time. I went to see the Devil's Backbone at the Little Theatre. I'm not used to seeing movies with subtitles. But it was no big deal. The movie was creepy. Wasn't that scary. I give it 4 (out of a possible 5) first dates. :)

Last night was a fun-hang out by myself-girly type of night. I colored my hair. And I did my nails. And I went all out. I'm talking filing, base coat, 2 coats of color and a top coat. Took forever. But they look really pretty today. I have this red polish that is the best red color I've ever seen. If only I could find hair color like that red...

My new furniture is here. And it is wonderful. It feels like a real office now. Now I can bring in all my crap and make this place mine... Braaawwww-ha-ha-ha-ha...

I love the Super Friends.

Oh gag. I am so fucking grossed out right now, I can't even deal. 16 pages of posts from nurses talking about the grossest things they have ever seen. They so don't get paid enough money.

I feel a cold coming on. My head hurts and I'm all stuffy. Grrrrr.... Normally a good half pack of smokes would knock that shit back. But now, I can't use that method. I'll just have to play through the pain.

But I get the new office furniture today. I have to go and pack up all the piles and move them out of my office. Another chapter in my exciting life.

[edited after futher evidence was presented...]

Odd Todd updated his site back on April 1. His April fool's cartoon was some funny shit. I love that man. There's also a new flash cartoon, It took a while to down load. (I freakin' hate dial up.) But totally worth the wait. It's like he's turning my life into his cartoons. (With some slight modifications...)

This week has been like an overload of information. And it's only Wednesday. Ugh.

My office furniture is getting here tomorrow morning. Finally. Now I will have places to put stuff, instead of just stacking everything in huge clumsy piles around my desk. And I can actually decorate now. Good times. I'm going to have the best office ever.

Today my brain has been debating the benefit of wearing a skirt and tights over wearing jeans. I love the skirt and tights that I'm wearing today, but my favorite jeans are bitchin too. I think I'm going to go with the skirt/tights combo. Then I can wear the big chunky platform loafers with them.

Wow. I am so glad I won't be raising any children in Cobb county. Add this to the list of reasons to not live in Atlanta. (for me)

There a guy that lives next door to me. We park next to each other most of the time. He has to be one of the most unfriendliest people I have ever come in contact with. Every morning I see him and say hi. Never get a response. Not even a nod. No acknowledgement at all. It's like I'm invisible or something. I still say or wave everytime I see him. I'm not sure why, it's kind of funny to me now. Someday, when I'm feeling especially outgoing, I'm going to say something to him about his uber-unfriendliness.

And I'm still not smoking. It's been over a week since I've had any nicotine. A drive to Ithaca will be the big test.

You know who else is on the krisobi rat bastard shit list? Webbox.com. I'm so pissed, I'm not even going to link to them. It seems like their shit is always down and I don't want to use yahoo to check my mail. And I actually pay for the webbox service. So I have a right to be annoyed. Yahoo is free shit, so I can't complain too loudly, I will, but I won't be justified.

I've decided not to use yahoo anymore for email. Well, maybe just for spam. They're on the krisobi rat bastard shit list because of their recent decisions. Grrrrr...

Happy April Fool's Day. I don't have any good jokes to play on anyone. Maybe I could play a joke on Phoebe, but that just seems mean, being that she wouldn't understand that it was a joke.