Not well. I started working on it yesterday but could not concentrate so eventually ended up joining friends at the school pub. Captain Cheekbones, our resident Brit, had a friend visiting him who was really cute. Too bad he lives in NJ.
That Guy and I had a bit of a talk last night, but nothing got resolved. AGAIN. :smack: I am such a weak person, I swear. When he’s not in front of me, it’s so easy to tell myself that this twisted relationship is going to stop - but when we’re together, everything goes out the window. However conflicted he may be feeling at this point, I’m almost sure that in the end he’s not going to be breaking up with his girlfriend.
Have you seen the movie Unfaithful, where the woman runs into a hot French guy on a windy day and ends up going to his apartment because the wind is too strong and she can’t catch a cab? And then she ends up having a torrid affair with him that ends really badly? Towards the end of the movie she replays in her head the memory of being unable to catch a cab, which led to her going to his house, and then she imagines that she HAD caught the a cab and never saw him again. And there’s this incredible sense of regret - if ONLY that one little thing hadn’t happened, things would be so different now. Not to be melodramatic, but that’s how I feel about that night in February when this all started. We could have kept on being friends if only he hadn’t kissed me on our way home. I feel like that one kiss has ruined everything. (Although he says that it was inevitable, and that it would have happened eventually even if it hadn’t happened that night. I suppose he may be right - the tension between us might have exploded before it fizzled out.)
Sigh. Anyway. I have an interview today, so I should go get dressed and put my face on.
Yes, it’s Friday. Yes, I didn’t post yesterday. This is what happens when I’m on break: I have no work to do, so I become disorganized about what little responsibilities remain, like checking in with the MMP. :o Here, have some puns.
I saw 300 yesterday. Oh My. That movie was fantastic. I’m going to have to see it again, and I’m definitely buying the DVD - FOR SPARTAAAAA!!! Today I go visit my grandparents, and later I pick up my brother from school. In between I may treat myself to lunch at Subway.
double-oh-swampus, I’m glad things are working out with your uncle. rosie, the blog looks good. (I’ve added you to my friends’ list.) Hank, good luck with the interview!
I will not be telling The Princess[sup]TM[/sup] that it’s two to one in favor of the cap sleeve dress. She will choose for herself anyway.
rosie, best wishes for former director and director’s sis. So sad.
spats, NO WHY’RE HANGERS IN THIS HOUSE!!! (I just wanted to say that for swampy.)
It’s dead here and I have mucho vacation days left over, some of which must be taken before my anniversary date at the end of the month. So, Imma gonna take the afternoon off and go shopping.
Hi Y’all! I’m home and all caught up. I’ve been sorta skimmin’ the MMP cause of the sllllllloooooowwwwww dialup at mom’s.
Ok, both mom and I are on unc’s accounts now. He was reluctant to do so but finally realizes he needs somebody in case he’s incapacitated in anyway. It wasn’t so much me that persuaded him as it is he’s afraid of mom. Shes mean. She had to be. You don’t raise five younguns, four of 'em boys, without a healthy dose of the mean. Next week is Power of Attorney time. He still needs to find some place better to live, but that will come in time. I think enough has happened for one week for anybody.
Rosie sorry about your friends. Prayers and good thoughts headed out from south Georgia.
Assorted appropriate noises and grunts directed at the rest of you.
Yesterday was all day in Scottsdale and Mesa with mom, the gals and the cubbie game. Found out my mom is also capable of being lost there.
Just chillin around here right now, off to the Big Game (Cubs/Sox) this afternoon, then back here for a last dip in the pool and dinner here. Some packing tonight, some more in the morning, then in the morning back to the airport for the trip home.
I am glad you pointed that out or I have a feeling she would never be back. Yes, I forgot again last night to sign her up. Well, I actually remembered several times, but only when we were driving or at dinner, never in front of a computer. But as of five minutes ago she is in fact subscribed! If she is not reading this at the moment she won’t know about it until about 3:00 pm (she has a class at 2:00 pm that she needed to do some reading for, and I don’t want to distract her with her renewed posting abilities).
I am about at the end of my patience with the IT around here. My main machine went down on Feb 1[sup]st[/sup] and they have not fixed it yet. My backup machine is missing a good three months of data that could really come in handy, at least 100 hundred pages of documentation that is proving difficult to replace, and it does not have a C++ compiler, which means all of my side projects are now on hold. It could be fixed in about 15 minutes, about three weeks ago (three weeks after I submitted the request for it to be fixed) they called me to say that they were begninning the paperwork to start the process to get approval for my machine to be fixed… sometimes I just love the government.
00Swampy I cannot imagine how you have managed to survive this long on dial-up. I can spend a day at my parents house (and on certain holidays even spend a night there) with their ssslllloooooowwww dial-up (never connects above 28.8 kbps) but any longer than that and I can feel my life force being sapped. I have heard rumors that the world existed before the internet, but frankly I am dubious. Seriously, how could people have survived?
A bit of silliness in our staff meeting today. We have a couple new people on the team, so it was thought that a videoconference would be a nice way to introduce everyone. So, we trundle on down to the video meeting room, and my cohorts in other states didn’t recognize me thanks to the beard. One of them, remembering that I do Ren Faire, asked if it was part of my costume. I tugged at it and said “No, it’s part of ME!”
Speaking of Faire, we’re doing a live TV gig tomorrow on a local PBS station, anwering phones during Pledge Week. They love us because we’re a rather, ahhh, dynamic bunch and distinctively costumed, rather than the usual gaggle of meek people all wearing the same T-shirt. DH is one of the Faire’s PR people, so there’s a good chance he’ll have some on-camera Q&A.
I’ve been doing a whole lotta nuthin’ today on my day off. Although I did drop the clothes off at the dry cleaners’. I started to take the pups to the dog park, but it was flooded! :eek: It’s been raining a lot lately, and not unusual. I guess we’ll have to wait until next weekend. Poor babies were very disappointed.
Yesterday my husband was listening to a talk radio show and they were discussing American Idol, and the fact that the worst people continue to stay on. In the Idol thread, a lot of people mention a website called VFTW - vote for the worst. I told my hubby about it, and he got on the talk show and mentioned VFTW and The Straight Dope! Too cool.
But last night was very sobering. We found out that Mr. Rebo’s sister J has breast cancer. She has a very large lump on her left breast, and it seems it has already spread to the other one. She has always been afraid of doctors, and didn’t tell anybody, or go see a doctor until last week. Damn it! So she will start chemo very soon, two weeks I think. Next week they will put in a port. So good thoughts and prayers are welcome for J. She lives in Florida, too, so it makes it harder to help her, but she has two sons and a (pretty worthless) brother there to help some.
Well, I had a great time at my first post-hospital group physical therapy session today – the guy who had beat me in the hospital is part of the group, but this time instead of him having the best flexion, I beat him by a good 10 degrees. Ha! I’m not competitive at all, of course. Plus my former therapist who’s working at that clinic now could not believe how much better I’m walking with my new knee – she told everyone else that she thinks I’m walking better now than she’s ever seen me walk, and she’s known me for a couple of years now. So that was fun. I like to be an over-achiever if it means I can go back to living a normal life again soon!
Yay for payday and for a raise starting this week. Woohoo!
One of my coworkers came over for dinner last night and we spent the whole time gossiping about work and coworkers and stuff. (There are 2 hush-hush relationships here, one of which is pretty well hidden, the other of which everyone knows about but no one talks about. The second of those two involve my boss so it’s quite interesting.) Poor KeithT had to listen to us go on and on about work stuff. But he and her boyfriend have stuff in common so sometime we’ll all get together and they can talk about their stuff and we can talk work. It’s cool that we might be starting to make friends here! Woo!
I’m suddenly realizing that I may not be able to call myself shy or quiet any more. It’s come as a bit of a shock. I mean really, up until… well, I don’t know when… the first thing most people would say about me is “She’s really quiet.” But… well, someone pointed out to me that I’m actually pretty outgoing. And I’ve welcomed some newcomers recently, both at work and at church. And that made me realize that I really like talking to new people. And that I like talking to people in general. And that I actually get kind of down if I don’t get out of the apartment and do stuff with people. And that kind of led to the conclusion that… well, I must not really be shy any more. Hmm… that’s kinda weird.
I was inventory-ing the chest freezer while making next week’s menu and grocery list - and quite a bit of stuff was partially thawed! :eek: I jiggled the plug and the freezer came back on. Very weird. We think the plug got bumped by a plastic tote located near it. I saved most everything. That could have been bad. I probably have about $150 worth of meat in there. But I’m pooped! I’m really too short to reach the bottom of the freezer, and had to stretch and strain to empty it and clean it out real well. So I’m taking a break, and then I’ll replace everything that I emptied out into a cooler.
That’ll teach me to goof off!
In preview:
Yay for making friends Taxi! And yay for new knees, Rigs!
There’s a difference between being shy/quiet and being outgoing/sociable. Papa Tigs is essentially a quiet person, yet he’s infinitely more sociable than I am. I’m quite content with, at most, an hour or so socializing at a gathering, whereas he can hang out yakking with people for hours. On the other hand, I’m better than he is at small talk with strangers. So it works out interestingly. I can visit better for a short time with strangers, whereas he can visit better for a long time with people we know. So because I tend to do the visiting first with strangers, people think I’m more outgoing; but based on how much time we actually spend socializing, he’s got me beat 10/1.
I don’t get a cold very often, but when I do, I’m dead for a week. That was last week - a Nyquil coma. It’s a good thing we didn’t go to the M-16 range like we planned; fuzzy-headed-ness plus weapon equals lots of paperwork.
We had a brigade mandatory-fun day which just reminded me how much I don’t care about sports. On the bright side, I finally read Catcher in the Rye through in one sitting. It was the first time I read it since high school. I really liked it this time. The rambling storytelling, the contradictory statements, the need for people and the inability to be around them. I didn’t really understand it or connect with it until I read it this time.
Home from work and Wally World. My back only hurts when I’m not taking drugs, so I guess it’s doing better. I am going out for fish and beerverages tonight at another Knights council. A friend of mine belongs to it(His wife works at the hockey arena, if I could mix in the Dope, I’d have all my world colliding).
gt, i couldn’t catch up with Cecil, but it’s nice to know he like the Hurricanes. There is also someone with a jersey that reads “Goesto 11”
swampy, dial-up? :dubious: Even my mom has DSL now.
{{Rebo}} I’ll keep J in my prayers.
MetalDuck, glad the coma is over.Here are a couple of extra rules next time you’re at the range:
52. Not allowed to yell “Take that Cobra” at the rifle range.
Not allowed to quote “Full Metal Jacket “ at the rifle range.
Back from the interview, which I think went quite well. They said they’d give me a call next week. I just woke up from a nap and some pretty weird dreams, and now I feel a bit disoriented. Naps always throw me off.
Upon whom shall I heap the blame for this ferschlunkineh weather we’re having? It can’t make up it’s mind whether to snow, or rain, or hail. It’s been doing all 3 since about 6 this morning, and the roads are a mess. My usual 15 minute trip home took over an hour. At least I don’t have to go anywhere tomorrow.
We’re getting slammed and this is penalty for the easy December and January we had.
Crap. I forgot to bring my garage door remote in with me. So now I have to go downstairs anyway to let the repair guy in (I was hoping to avoid that.)
I am going to tweak my LiveJournal so feel free to visit often. I’ll keep it as up to date as possible.
My Classic Rock station is playing Irish Folk tunes that have been recorded by rock bands. Very cool.
Tigs - I forgot to answer your question, I’m sorry
They are going to put me on the passive machine immediately, but I will eventually (about a week or so after the 2nd surgery) transfer down to the rehab unit, where I will be doing “real” exercises, one of which is
sit in the wheelchair
flip the leg rests out of the way
“walk” up and down the corridor a few times
another one involves a stepper, but from a seated position. I will also be doing real stairs, and leg lifts, and regular standing and walking. They will not discharge me until they see I am able to manage on my own.
Happy Friday evening everyone! Managed to miss the fish fry again. This time I just got distracted.
I got all excited reading the newspaper this morning because I found out that the men’s basketball Salukis are playing here in the NCAA regionals (**MBG ** and Nava are fans). They’re not playing till tonight. Downtown was filled with people today because of the basketball as well as the auto show. Managed to avoid the traffic on the way home, though.
Glad to hear the recuperation is going so well, BioTigs! It’ll be interesting to hear about rosie’s experience since it sounds like it’ll be quite different.
The weather has been weird, hasn’t it? Seems like the warm air moved through everywhere (except maybe Arizona ::glares at MBG :: ) and was immediately followed by a little puff of winter.
What kind of interview was it, Hank?
Howdy, MetalDuck! Nice to meetcha. You’ll want to send FCM chocolates.
Sorry to hear about SIL, Rebo. Good thoughts and prayers heading her way.
Yay for Meli being signed up!
Lots of clean-up to do tonight (it’s driving me nuts). Also, I need to go to Target to pick up a birthday card and gift card for my little brother. Guess I’ll go do that now and then get back to cleaning.
Too bad he lives in NJ.
Today I go visit my grandparents, and later I pick up my brother from school. In between I may treat myself to lunch at Subway.
