Skip and Go Naked

I'm sick. Blah! It's just sinus congestion that has plugged up my right ear. I was hoping it would just go away, but it has been three days, so I broke down and bought some decongestant. I hope that works, I really don't want to have to go to the doctor.

Anyway, this upcoming long, holiday weekend is indeed going to be very long. Sarah and I are headed to East lansing Saturday night ot hang out with Danielle. Then we will be up at the crack of dawn to have a breakfast tailgate for the first MSU home game of the season. Game time is 12:00. After the game, I'm hopping in the car and driving all the way to Buffalo. That will take about 5 hours from Lansing. I really hope Sarah comes with me, because the drive sucks alone, but she has to work on Sunday and all her co-workers suck and never switch for her. Instead the just egg our house!! (See Sarah's blog for details.) Once I/we get to Buffalo we will probably go out Saturday night and sleep all day on Sunday. Anna's other friends, Jacque and Sandra, will also be there, but they are leaving on Sunday, I think. I/we will not drive home until Monday though. Even though it's going to be a tiring weekend, I'm looking forward to visiting Buffalo again. I will not be able to go there for at least 4 months because of school, and by then Anna may not even be in Buffalo anymore (she had a job interview in Milwaukee and she will move if she get the job offer.)

As for tonight, I'm going to family dinner for my grandpa's 87th birthday. Then I'm coming home to do some packing for the weekend and of course watch the MTV VMAs because Justin is going to perform. I'm so excited!! :-)

Gloomy Day

Today is one of those cloudy days, the sky is gray and it makes me tired. I am bored at work. Although, if it rains, I now have a window seat, so I can enjoy watching the peaceful rain drops. I do have meetings later today. We have one of our company's executive leaders visiting today. And he will be here on Monday also, with another higher-level executive. So everyone was running around this week, nervous and such. I'm like, whatever. If I even meet him while he's here, he won't remember me. One lady even asked me what I was going to wear!! I held back my laughter. Anyway, things are slow now that I no longer support L. I still have two things to turnover, but the daily activities are over. Ding, dong the witch is in Texas with a new person to bark at!

Well, this weekend will be nice. Anna is coming home and she will be staying at our house. Tonight will be dinner (I'm actually going to cook) and drinks and season finale episodes of Monk and Psych. Tomorrow Anna and I are going to a concert at Ford Field. Get ready to laugh...it's a country concert. Our friend, Beckii, asked us and it sounded fun. I don't mind country music, I just don't listen to it regularly. Luke, aka mini-wink, is also supposed to go as well as Whatshisface. Beckii was the one person who wanted to go the most, but she is now in Japan for work :( On Sunday, the Winklers are having a party in Lansing for their grandma's 90th birthday.

Back to work. Happy Friday everyone.

Let's Light Up

I recall watching Tom and Jerry as a child and I remember laughing. I do not remember the urge to light up because Tom (a cartoon cat) was smoking a cigar (a cartoon cigar). Maybe that's because I received an education as well. I understood that a cartoon of a smoking cat was not real and in no way was telling me I should smoke. Maybe that's because I had parents that contributed to my education and explained to me the smoking was bad and cartoon were not real. I get angered when I read articles like this because in this day in age, no body takes responsibility for their children. They point fingers and blame cartoons and music and movie for their children's behavior. Maybe if they got of their keysters and spent time with their kids, we could enjoy all forms of entertainment, even classic, silly cartoons...

Easy Mac

So, the orthodontist told me I'm looking at $6,000 worth of work to straighten my teeth. And the $6,000 is the price if I don't need surgery... HA! yeah, right. No thanks, I'll live with crooked teeth. He said my jaw should have been stretched wider when I was younger to make room for my teeth, so just getting braces isn't the solution. I'm going to get a second opinion.

Last night I had a date with Whatshisface. It was good. PF Changs for dinner, yum! Then back to my place to watch Dodgeball, which he had never seen. I love that movie, I laugh every time. Anyway, it was a good date. He's still holding back, quite shy. I think he's just afraid he's going to mess it up so he's nervous about everything. I'm hoping after another date or two, he'll loosen up and relax a little and be more himself. I'm optimistic, but if he doesn't relax it won't last very long...

Tonight I'm coming home to spend time with the pups. It's the finale of So You Think You Can Dance. I hope Benji wins. It is also Project Runway night.

Also, on the work front, I have been successfully pushing off work for L. I'm just not doing it anymore. I think she's mad, but oh well. She did get mad when she saw I changed managers. She told me she would have never let me go in that case. Even though she was the one who told me to find a new job...! She's very hard to understand. I turned over some work to another admin who is in Texas. L doesn't want her to be the one, but I don't care who it is as long as it's not me. The last thing to dump is the financials. We have a meeting on Friday, I think it's going to get ugly, but I'm tired of being walked all over. Time she learns how to do a few things for herself.

Lunch time! Well, not quite, but I'm hungry. Have a nice day.

Bananas and Rumbutans

My porch calendar has a very pretty picture this month. The caption explains that the porch is in Bali , and a "bamboo roof provides shelter and bananas and rumbatans are the snack of choice." I wish that was my porch.

Anyway, drinks with Whatshisface on Friday went well. We had good conversation. We talked for about 2 hours over a couple drinks. Then I headed to Julon's to watch Psych with Mike and Jessica. I love that show. James Roday is super cute, even though he vaguely reminds me of Joe (old friend from GM Card days). We also watched House. I have recently started watching that show. It's very good, in my opinion. On Saturday, I cleaned up the house a little bit. Then I was lazy. Napped on the couch with the Tiger game on the TV. They lost, again. They on a 5-game losing streak...yikes. Hope they snap out of it. Then Saturday evening Jessica and I car-pooled to Jay and Eric's. I concur with Mike, it was a very nice condo. I want a nice, shiny, new place like that. I was also in love with the strawberries and chocloate dip, and the Hostess tray of goodness. On Sunday, I did nothing. I mean, I went to my parents' house as usual, but I did no work. No cleaning or laundry or dishes or anything. I should do more of that.

Well, it's Monday. And I'm at work. And I want to be home. But I have an orthodontist evaluation at 6:00. I have a feeling it's going to be very expensive. :(

Drop It Like It's Hot

3:00 on Friday afternoon. The only better time of the week is 5:00 on Friday afternoon. I'm just hanging out, waiting for an ok time to leave. I finally finished the horrendous financial reports. They were two days late because I procrastinated too much, but hey, they're finished, right? They ended up not being as bad as I expected, but still time consuming. 6 hours yesterday and 4 hours today. Yuck.

So, I had lunch yesterday with Whatshisface from work. It was ok. He is very nice, and also very shy. We did have good conversation though, so at least there wasn't any awkward silence. I think we are going to meet for drinks later. I have a date with Jessica to watch Monk and Psych with her at Julon's, so it won't be an all night date. (but Jessica, if you read this, I might be a little late for Monk...) It should be interesting. I totally forgot how awkward it is trying to date. Not really knowing the person, trying to learn things about each other but still not really knowing someone. Hoping there will be good chemistry, afraid there won't be.

Can't Make Me Do It

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really do not want to deal with these financial reports! I have no desire to even look at them. I just want to go home, walk my puppy, sit on the couch and eat a yummy greek salad. I have to do laundry tonight also. How exciting is my life??

Lazy Days

While some of our friends went to Canada for the weekend, I was stuck in Warren. I had to finish my house and dog sitting obligation. Although it went well, I was bummed I missed the cottage once again. Instead, I went home on Friday after work to let our pups out, fell asleep on the couch, woke up and went to the other house, watched Monk and Psych on USA and went to bed. Saturday I went home to spend time with our pups, fell asleep on the couch, woke up and went back to the other house, watched the Tiger game and SNL Justin Timberlake and went to bed. I was up at 6:30am Sunday to let the dogs out. Then the homeowners cam home around 8am. Which was ok because I had to go home to meet my brother. He came over to help Sarah and I clean up out yard. He trimmed our trees and helped rid us of the jungle on the side of our driveway. He also trimmed behind our garage and sprayed round-up along our fence line. It looks so much better now. We still have some spraying to do to the lawn to kill the weeds, but we are happy. We also still have clean-up to do bagging up the stuff from behind the garage (Sarah, I totally forgot about that). Then we took a nap and went to my parents' house for bbq. It was a nice lazy weekend, but I feel old when I don't do anything on the weekends.

Anyway, I find it interesting the NBC has such a poor line-up that they are taking hit shows from other channels now. Both Project Runway (Bravo) and Psych (USA) have been shown on NBC for ratings. Now I know they are probably brother/sister channels and what not, but it's still interesting to me.

Also, did I say how much I love Justin Timberlake? He's so awesome. I was a little surprised by his new song, but I'm now hooked and listen for it on the radio every second I get. I need to get it loaded into my MP3. His album comes out late August or early September. I'm excited. I hope that means he's going to tour again. I heard fro the radio people today that he has a few good songs on his album. JT 4-ever!!:)

And last, I am kind of talking to a guy at work. He's a shy guy, so it's interesting. Not someone I probably would pick out for myself, but he's a nice guy, with his act together. I need to stop searching out the losers just because they have 6-pack abs, ya know? I think we are going to have lunch one day this week. Maybe I should email him now to confirm. He's never had Jimmy John's - oh the tragedy :)

Crazy Talk

Well, today I had my follow-up conversation with my new boss. I told him I was offended that he made it sound like it did a poor job. He apologized, saying that there were a couple performance things that he did not mean to make it sound that way. I still think he did, but whatever. So, I told him I decided to move over and support two leaders that will report to him (so one level down). He tried to emphasize that he didn't want me to make that decision because I feel I'm being pushed to, but I saw through it and know it's what he wanted me to do. He also said that he felt I made the "mature decision". What the $@#! does that mean? If I decided to stay where I'm at then I'm immature??? I'm still taken aback by the whole thing, but whatever. I'll get over it. My new, new boss seems very cool. He's even more laid back and funny actually. I'll also be supporting another manager, a woman, who ironically, will be working very closely with my old group. It's a small, small world.

This week I have been house and dog sitting for a lady at work. I brought Louie over to hang out and play with her two dogs. They love to run and play, but it's been too hot out to let them have run of the backyard for a long time, so they have been a little crazy from the cabin fever. I think Sarah is going to take Louie home tonight after PR. I don't know if I can sleep in a tiny bed with three dogs for another three nights!

Anyway, I'm excited for Project Runway tonight. Very controversial episode. Someone will be asked to leave. Who?? I don't know. Why?? I don't know. Have to watch to find out!!!

As for crazy talk - my mom and brother are concocting this insane plan. They're talking about buying land and building a house for all of us to live together in. My brother and wife and 3 kids, my mom and dad, and me too. It's so funny. It drives my dad nuts when they talk about it. They even have a floor plan and price for the house. It's a 6-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, 2-car garage house before the modifications. They want to add a bathroom between what would be my mom and dad's bedrooms (yes, my parents have their own rooms because they sleep in separate rooms in their current house. they have for years and years. we make fun of them). Anyway, they also need to add-on to make it a 3-car garage and put an apartment in the basement for me. Yep, I'd get my own apartment. I told them I'd be game only because if I have internships for school and can't work full time in a year or so, Sarah and I need to sell the house and I'd need a place to live! BUT - I don't ever see this becoming reality, even though they have been talking about it for over a week now. They are crazy.

Well, I should get some work done before I decide to skip out early :) Later gaters.

Hey, just realized today is the one-year anniversary of my blog. Happy Anniversary to me!! :)