April 2009
The weekend starts in 42 minutes!
I swear I didn't pull 42 out of my ass because it's my favorite number. I just looked at the clock and there is in fact 42 minutes left before the start of my weekend. (But by the time I finish writing this and finish being interrupted by work - how dare they! :P - It will be less than 42.)
I took the afternoon off to hang out with Guylaine, whose birthday is Sunday. It's the first time that she has a boyfriend to spend her birthday with, so I reserved today hehe. At noon I'm going to go over to her place, reheat my soup and have lunch. After that we're going to go for a nice walk on the marsh trail, and then we're going shopping. Well she's going shopping and I'm going to accompany her. I'm on a mission to spend less. I'm tired of stressing over money.
Tomorrow my mom and aunt are coming to town, and they want me to spend the day with them... shopping! Is the universe trying to sabotage my spending-less efforts or what? I plan to buy absolutely nothing today and tomorrow. I'll let you know how I did after the weekend hehe.
Oh yeah, when I announced to my coworkers that I had taken this afternoon off, they all went "oh.. we were planning to take you out to lunch for AP week." I'm happy that they did plan something, but we rescheduled for next week. I hate surprises by the way. I love surprises when they're a surprise to everyone (like a surprise beautiful day or something.) But I hate a surprise being kept from me. I'm a big baby like that.
Spring forgot to sprung this year!
It was snowing last week, and now they're calling for freakishly excellent weather this weekend - 26C (78.8) on Sunday!! Wow.. I just converted that in google, and it made me realize that Mindy's 100F's must be painful! The hotter it ever gets here, like two days a year is about 32C (89.6F) and that's too hot for my taste. Unless I'm at the beach or at the pool or something. But it's too hot to do anything productive. But I'm NOT going to say the words 'too hot' again in this blog entry, because I'm too ecstatic about the weekend weather! I want to do something totally summery, since we'll have the summer weather. Like go to the beach or something hehe. (I wouldn't get in the water though, brrr, I think it still has chunks of ice in it.) And cook a meal on the BBQ maybe.
I'm still dreaming of turning 30 in front of the Bellagio fountain, in Las Vegas. When my parents were in town Tuesday, mom and I went to Michaels and I saw all the Las Vegas themed scrapbooking stuff and it made me sad. So mom bought me 3-4 NYC related scrapbooking things, so that I can work on a NYC scrapbook. Aww. The bus is going again on Aug 28... and yes I can't push that tidbit of information out of my head either. I don't know what's wrong with me, causing me to always want to be somewhere other than here.
It's ridiculously quiet in the office right now. I'm alone and cold. My little heater kicked the bucket.
I uploaded a video on Youtube last night. It's from the Bob Marley tour in Jamaica. I'm trying to edit some videos from the cruise, but my computer is being an ass. It drives me nuts that the minute you buy a new computer, the requirements to run programs and play games increase accordingly. It's a conspiracy!
I wish I was special, so f*cking special
But I'm not a creep. (Ignore that if you're not a Radiohead fan.)
- But seriously, I wish I was special. A good special. Not short bus special. Just... special in any way.
- I've never dyed easter eggs, or any other type of eggs, ever.
- I hate secretaries day.
Random things I read online today, in reference to "Administrative Professionals" day :
1a)"True—in my mind, I should be the boss. And I resent being reminded of my slow progress up the chain of command every year.* Those of us who yearn to be professionals, not administrative professionals, tend to bristle at the idea that we're just boosters for the big boys and girls."
1b)That sentence sums up her entire article. She wants to be an executive, but unwilling to do what it takes, so she gets angry at those who remind her of her own failure to work towards her dreams. She can pretend all she wants that a secretarial position is the stepping stone into higher positions, but it only leads to the head secretarial position -- office manager.
and also :
2a)As I said to random people in the elevator yesterday: "Isn't saying 'Administrative Assistant' a lot like saying 'Sanitation Engineer?'"
2b)Wow! I had the EXACT same conversation with my co-workers yesterday.
Suddenly too much K.D. Lang in my life.
Yesterday while buying my AC/DC tickets (more about that later), I noticed on the tickets website that K.D. Lang is coming to Moncton. Then I noticed that she was actually coming last night! Wow, I had no idea. I told my coworker Sonia and we laughed about it. I wondered how popular this show was, so I pretended to buy tickets on the website to see how many tickets were left... I could have gotten a 3rd row seat hehe.
When we got home after work, there was a message from V on my phone : Hey Nancy and Steph, T and I have tickets for KD Lang tonight and we can't go after all, I'll give them to you if you want them. Call me. LOL How freaking random is that!!
Then, I'm not kidding, I was laughing about this and telling J about the funny coincidence, I was watching Heroes at the same time and there's a scene where they're in a restaurant and KD Lang is singing Cry-ah-ah-ah-ying over youuuu. GAH!!!! KD Lang, get out of my life!!
(No offence to KD Lang fans!)
Sunny Saturday!
It's minus 1 with the windchill, but at least it's sunny! It looks so beautiful outside, I want to go walking with the dogs. Last night I dreamed that my coworkers all had diahrrea... I know, I have weird dreams hehe. But I woke up today and I think it was contagious in my dream... Hopefully my insides calm down before sunset, because they're calling for flurries tonight that will only end in the morning. Oh joy.
Yesterday I watched Oprah, and they were talking about Twitter. I decided to go check my forgotten twitter, and I decided to follow Oprah, and Ashton Kutcher (because of his CNN challenge thing), and Ellen Degeneres. Since then, I've received notifications that some people that I don't even know are following me. What's the point of that? Why would 42 year old Ron from N.C. want to know the mundane details of my life?
Spring cleaning in my bloglines!
I did it! I 'quit' almost a third of the blogs I followed. But to be honest, about 10 of those were 'dead blogs' that I kept in the 'almost dead' folder, just in case they decided to resurrect their blogs hehe.
Before & After :
Voila :
My first weekly ritual idea is a go!
Remember how the otherday, I said that I've realized that I'm comforted by rituals? Some of you suggested that I create my own rituals, which I think is a fabulous idea! So the other night I had a great idea for a weekly friend/healthy ritual, and after tweaking it a little bit, I now have a ritual that I'm looking forward to! (We're only going to start April 30th because of prior commitments.) It's going to be great having that weekly 'date' without having to worry about the strenght of my willpower that particular day, because this is a fun but cheat-proof activity hehe.
Guylaine recently joined Nubody's gym, and Sophie and I are already members, so we can take the fitness classes for free. There's a location on Main st., and all three of us work downtown. So Thursday evenings at 5h15pm we'll take the yoga class at Nubody's, and after that we're going to bring our packed suppers to Bore Park, Victoria Park, Aberdeen Park, or any other nice picnic place. On rainy days, we might go eat something healthy but easy on the budget downtown, or even go cook something at Guylaine's who lives within walking distance of Main.
I think that it's going to be awesome! :)
Blog Overload!
That's it! I can't keep up anymore! I seem to always read the blogs with RSS feeds first, because I have a big fat red notification in my face, and the OCD in me MUST clear those red notifications... But then I forget to check the private blogs and I end up having to read like 2-3 weeks worth at a time, and then it seems silly to give input on stuff that's already been dealt with anyway. But I'm not satisfied with reading the latest, oh no, I have to read every single word that's ever been written on your blogs!
But now, especially since Summer is coming, I feel the urge to 'quit' some blogs. But how do you do that? It's almost like cutting people off your wedding guest list. Plus, my degree of enjoyment of a particular blog really has less to do with how well I know the person, but more to do with how entertaining their blog is, how well written it is, and what I can learn from it. Maybe also I like blogs that I can somewhat relate to in some aspects.
Right now I'm following :
- 91 blogs in bloglines (my RSS feeder)
- 12 private blogs, which I thought my list was complete, but yesterday I realized that I had forgotten to add one of my best friends blogs, which I hadn't read in like, weeks, and didn't even really notice because 1- we talk every day and 2 - I was on blog overload.
I need to cut down somewhere and not feel so obligated to read and comment on all these blogs, as fun as it is, I don't want it to become less fun, which it kinda has. But you know me... I can never say no! If someone starts reading my blog I often start reading theirs, or if I start reading one and commenting on one I feel like I must continue (if it's interesting at least). But the highly sensitive me is scared to hurt someone's feelings by quitting their blog! Which, by the way, if you think I've quit your blog I haven't... I haven't quit any blogs yet, but like I said... I suck at keeping track of the private blogs. I just noticed that I'm missing Amanda's... GAH!
Why the hell hasn't someone invented a private blog super secre rss feed ?
My big head
Since I'm able to access and view my blog with all its pictures and everything now, I'm finding that on my regular sized (17in) screen here at work, my heads are pretty huge on top of the page. Sorry 'bout that! It looked more proportional I guess on my widescreen at home. I'll put that on my to do list ;)