Monthly Archives: December 2003

Another Day at Work

Posted by on December 30, 2003 No comments

Its another slow day at work. We have about 6 people on vacation. In an office numbering 20+ that’s a lot of people. Last night I got so engrossed learning about all the features of this blog that I didn’t even notice when it was time to go home. I looked at my computer clock flashing at me. Whoopeee! I slinked to the garage where I park and made sure the matronly attendant at the exit had gone home for the day before I could get in my car and drive off. It’s $10 a day parking at this garage and I’m cheap/broke. So far my luck has held for 3 mos. and I have been forced to pay only one time. That was last Tuesday.

We had gotten out of work early, I went with some of my co-workers to a bar for some drinks (I just had a Dos Equis). I tried to get the irritatingly perky waitress there to validate my parking stub but she said that they don’t validate after 2 pm. Fine, I went to the theatre across the garage to buy a movie ticket where they will validate after a ticket purchase. I figure $6 is better to pay than $10. I walked up to the booth.

Me:Do you validate a parking stub if i have a movie ticket?
Booth Lady: Yes.
(She picks up her stamp and hovers it over the stub I had pushed across our divide)
Booth Lady: You got a ticket?
Me (thinking quickly):Yes.

Booth Lady stamps my parking stub. Whoopee!

Smugly, I drive up to the exit booth and present my stamped parking ticket to the lady (not my usual matronly lady).

Unusual lady: It’ll still be $10. You parked too long here.

Shyet!

Okay, so back to last night. I untangled myself from the snare of the parking charge and drove twenty minutes home to my new apartment with boxes still scattered around. I promised myself I wouldn’t be lazy anymore once I moved into my new apartment. I wouldn’t want my husband to accuse me of being lazy again. So I cooked (warmed up some ready-to-eat stuff), I washed dishes (threw them in the dishwasher) took care of the rest of the boxes (hid them in a closet) and tidied around the house (supervised my brother tidying).

My brother is having separation anxiety. He’ll be moving back home next Monday. I am having separation anxiety because he does the laundry. And he’s damn good too.

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I have a dream. I have a dream that one day my weblog will look cool, with pics, and graphics, and that I’ll figure out how to create borders and highlights around my text. I have a dream that sidebars and borders will meet and hold hand in hand and that people will flock to witness this miracle. And when they flock, they can sign a guest book.

LOL!

Note to self: learn HTML programming or get someone else to program my weblog to look the way I want.

Self asks: When between work, between working toward your MCSE, keeping house, and reading your latest Dean Koontz book, will you have to read up on HTML programming?

Self answers: We will make time. The force is strong in us.

By they way, I highly recommend Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas. Link to Dean Koontz’s site to read more about it.

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My First Time…Blogging that is

Posted by on December 29, 2003 No comments

Hey! My very first time blogging. I saw someone’s blog on the internet and it was surprisingly interesting even if they’re not a celebrity or anything. Weird, ha! No history, just plunge right into what I’m doing:

I’m sitting at work, getting paid for doing nothing! Hah

It’s the 29th of December and people are still on vacation, we’re not getting any psychologists or technicians or students or teachers to call us with their problems. I’m Tech Support for a software company. Anyway, we had a five day weekend and then no calls at work…kinda nice….but– we (as in my husband and I) have a lot of work to do at home. We just moved to a new apartment. And man, it took three f$$$ing days to get 90% done. I didn’t mind the packing, its the moving and unpacking that bothered me. So, I offered to set up our bedroom and bathroom and lingered there until he had finished the living room (the boxes in the living room overwhelmed me–seriously, we had a fort going on there). and by setting up the bedroom I don’t mean putting together our bed. I mean, I put sheets on the bed, put up our clothes in the closet, put toilet paper roll on the bathroom toilet paper holder thingamagig.

And I think we blew our budget for this month on eating out…hey! you try finding time to cook on moving day…it’s impossible! We still have to clean out the old apartment or we’ll get charged up our butts…you better believe I’ll make like a Mister Clean and get that place spotless….La na akong pera (I have no more money)!

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