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I am going to see Ted tonight. I am very excited about this film. I am a big fan of Marky Mark Wahlberg and think this will be a raunchy romp and full of laughs. I am going out to dinner at my favorite Mexican restaurant down in Emeryville, Casa Poblana and plan on having a nice big meal.

I took little Ms Thing (the boo cat) to get a feline manicure today. Her nails were terribly long and she was catching on everything. So I found a place that will cut her nails for 10.00 and even though she growls a bit - the guy there is so quick with the clippers - she gets one hiss out and she is like done. Zippety doo da. All done and back in the carrier. I wish I could do it that fast but I can't. Anyhoo. It is much better and she won't hurt me or catch herself on everything here. She has recovered from the trip in the car so that is good.

That is all I have. I posted graphics offers at enchantedrealms and juicy_grapes. Feel free to check those out.

Also - we are looking for graphics makers at enchantedrealms so if you lean that way and are interested in a fantasy-oriented kind of thing, leave me a note or check out that comm. It is a very relaxed place with great members. No stress, no fuss. Lots of fun. You can leave me a note if you know of someone too. I am looking for people who do icons, blinkies, siggies and stuff like that. Any of those is good.

Cheers to you all!

Nothing went right today. Horrible people, bad things happened. Just a horrible, nasty, brutish day all told. Like a Hobbesian state of nature and I don't mean Calvin and Hobbes. They are funny this was not. I was never so happy to leave the office as I was today.

List of occurences:

-Witchy caller who took all of her issues out on me. I had to tell her to watch her manners and tone which she did not. This person was disabled and I am more than sympathetic but that does not mean she gets to haze me over the phone when I am trying to help her. So meh.

-Bathroom explodes. We have a huge toilet overflow in the bathroom. I am the facility manager on our floor and have to take care of facilities things. I report these things to our facility coordinator downstairs. By the time I figured out that we should turn off the toilet it was too late and the whole hallway had flooded. This is a lot of damage and not to mention unsanitary. The plumber informs us that someone had stuffed the toilet full of papertowels. Not a few of them but basically crammed it full of them. He could not get the snake down there. Soooo....this leads one to believe it was not a staff member but an outsider causing mischief. Bathroom is staff only but unlocked so anyone can get in there. We are going to discuss locking that bathroom to the public. There are accessible, public bathrooms in the basement of this building.

-Conference agenda wig out. I am sending people to a conference this week and we are waiting for the agenda. Usually we would have gotten it last week so we can research and prep the agenda items so our people do not go there and say DUH. Well, I email the contact at U**** and the agenda is not ready. She says "no matter what" she will email me a draft copy by the end of the day. I check my email from home at the end of the day as I leave at 4pm and it was not there by then. No agenda. We were already going to have to scramble but now we are going to have to SCRAMBLE. FUCK.

-Someone decides that since our office door is closed (shop vac in the hall to get the flooded hallway cleaned) that they can have fun with the door bell. Most people will ring it once and wait. It does take time for a staff member to get the door. Well this woman rang it over and over and then just pressed it continually. We are a DEAN's OFFICE. I would not do that at someone's home so I certainly would never do that to an office. I got the door this time and I was understandably pissed off when I opened it. I said, "We usually hear the first ring..."

I think you will agree that this was a moanworthy day.


Thank you, laurahonest for the perfect blinkie of the moment.

We can have a bit of levity here. I am not going to post a diatribe about LJ or anything like that. Time for some eye candy here. Back to our regularly scheduled programming. Rly.

This guy is cute...

( From storm... )

This might make me shallow but I am a permanent member and I may post on other journal platforms but I am in for the long haul here. Not going anywhere.

So enjoy this.

Work is fun. I am planning some events and I have travel arrangements up the wazoo. Two conferences back to back in May so la la la la. The travel desk is my friend. I know the timetables by heart here.

Woo.


by ocean_soul13

I woke up at 6:30 am and rolled right over and went back to sleep. Bliss.

Then I got out of bed at the decadent hour of 9:00 am and made myself a vanilla latte. I had found the syrup stuff at my grocer and can now make my very own swanky vanilla lattes and not pay $3.60 each time I want one. I make a pretty good one ... not half bad really. I got a tip from my barista about how to steam the milk just right and it works pretty well. *nod* Most things you can do yourself if you just figure them out.

So I am taking a little break from RP writing. I want to work on some fiction. I have a first chapter I really want to get to and ideas floating in my brain. That is the dealio. The chapter is Chapter one that follows the prologue I posted earlier. Time to work on that.

In other news, I am going to a movie today. Night at the Museum. At the mall...before that I have some necessary errands to run. Cat supplies to get and sundries. Normal Saturday things.

Happy weekend to all of you.

Laundry report: All my socks matched up. I know you want to know.

So the power went out here in my neighborhood last night. It suddenly blipped out and the internet went down, my cordless phone went daid and the lights went ZING. Out. I was sitting in the dark going O.o. It seems the whole neighborhood was effected as I looked out the window and could not see lights on in anyone's house. The lamp posts were on and the lights in the field across the street were on but that was about it.

What to do?

Well, my neighbors lent me their camping lantern and I lit some candles and organized all my Christmas gifties. Did not wrap but I got them all set to be wrapped. I cooked dinner on the stove which is gas and then had some pumpkin pie. All in all it was not a bad night.

I finished all that at 9:00 pm and was tired and decided to kick it. I went to sleep early. The power came on at 10:20 but I just set my alarm clock and went back to sleep.

Not a bad night. Candle light is very nice.

Heh.

It is the Friday post here.

I woke up this morning convinced it was Wednesday. O.o

At least I had not convinced myself it was Saturday. That would have been bad. Some Saturdays I wake up thinking it is Friday and it takes me a while to orient myself. One time I actually called the telephone operator to figure out what day it was. Yes, pathetic. I knows this.

I have been roped into helping a friend of mine sell his worldly possessions tomorrow. I have to stay at his house all day while people come to look at things and buy them. He is selling his house and wants to get rid of a bunch of stuff. Why me? This so does not sound like fun. I think I get food out of the deal though. That would be good.

I am really quite snoring right now. I will keep you posted if anything develops.

So it is Sunday morning. I am having an uneventful weekend here in Bezerkeley, USA. It is frigging cold in my apartment and I have Enya on the stereo here.

I was going to go east for 4th of July but just figured out that I will not have enough vacation time accrued to cover the trip. I do not want to have to go on unpaid leave and lose pay so I will postpone the trip until September and go for Labor Day. September is a nice time of year to go to New England. I just have to cancel the leave I asked for at work and look a bit foolish. No worries there. The main purpose of the trip is to go see my parents so, they are just as happy to see me then as in July. I think I will get a better fare on the plane trip too. Soo...all is well. I will also be able to bring my niece her birthday gifties too. What fun.

What to do today? Car is busted so I either have to go within walking distance of the ponderosa or scam a ride off of a friend to do anything. Hmmm. Stares at phone.

I think more coffee is called for.

I got tagged on photobucket for TOS violation on one of my bunday icons. That pisses me off. Where can I post these things if not there? What *bleepin bleeps*. Does anyone know of a file hosting site that allows racy content? I mean a man's butt is not that bad, now is it?