not liking people today

It seems like everyone is irritating me today. I am trying not to show it, but I just wanna go home. People who I've been talking to at work only have bad things to say (mostly "Here's one more thing for you to do because I don't want to do it."). And even people who aren't talking to me are being annoying. I overheard a manager say to one of his subordinates that he should check with him before he prints anything. Apparently, he thinks PRINTING is something worthy of micro-management. The guy sighed in frustration once the manager had left, and I FELT HIS PAIN!!

I swear, this job is getting to me. My gray hairs are OUT OF CONTROL!

I did, however, have a very nice weekend. Despite having to go into work on Friday, my day off, and not being able to complete either of the two things I went in specifically to do, the rest of the weekend was pretty fab. Some friends called me up on Saturday and we went out to see Superbad, which was hilarious! Then I went to a b-day party for a work friend. It was nice to catch up with people I hadn't seen in a while, and I learned that a friend had just gotten engaged!! Then on Sunday I got a call from another friend and we went to see the movie Once, which was fantastic! I need to buy that music, like NOW!! And then I went to some friends' apartment for a home cooked early birthday dinner for myself, which was also wonderful. At the end of the night, I totally kicked their butts playing the Scene-It Friends edition! Yeah!!

So it was a good weekend. Maybe I'm just bitter that it's Monday.

deja vu all over again

I have to just quickly share a bizarre case of deja vu I just had. I was sitting here at my desk at work, and I could hear a woman talking who sits a few cubes down from me. I thought to myself that she badly needed a lesson in humility. Suddenly, I "remembered" something that felt like maybe a dream I had had at one time. It involved apples, and Japan (or Japanese people/person), and a guy I went to high school with named Chris, and something about learning to be humble. And I think it was in an office setting. Then it disappeared just as quickly as it had come, and as familiar as it had felt just moments before, it now felt like something I had made up on the spot.

So fascinating, the intricacies of the human brain.

the weekend

I had a pretty productive weekend, so I guess I'm a little bit proud of myself. Though yesterday I was kinda lazy and mostly just watched bad weekend TV instead of going grocery shopping or cleaning my apartment. But hey, you can't be good all the time. Saturday I had to drive to Skokie to pick up my box o' medicine. It's weird, but sometimes FedEx will leave it in the lobby of the building, or even in front of my apartment door, and sometimes because of the nature of the package (perishable) they won't drop it off and want me to come get it. I ask for the same type of delivery every time (no signature needed), so maybe it just depends on which delivery guy I get. Dunno. Anyhow, I had to go pick it up, then drive out to the p's house to SELL MY CAR! It was such a weight off my shoulders to get rid of it. I think I got a good price, and I believe it is going to a good home. The man who bought it didn't speak English very well, so he brought a friend along (also because he needed to ride with someone so he could drive his new car back) who did most of the talking. My main concern was that I wanted it to go to someone who would fix it up and make it into a much cooler car than I ever bothered to do. And I think this guy will do that. We were both happy with the sale. Yay! So I hung out with my Dad a bit (Mom had just left for a Florida vacation with her lady friends) then drove back into the city before going out to meet 'Tatious and her hubby for an evening of Wedding Banned debauchery. We were joined by this guy and this girl, and then all hell broke loose. Okay, maybe not all hell, but a whole lotta heck broke loose! The show was a lot of fun, a highlight of which was a personal serenade by a guitarist, complete with leg up on a chair, directly in front of me.

And then we went to IHOP. The end.

new car and stuff

In case you didn't get my very excited text this weekend, I bought a new car! It's not new-new, but it's new to me. A 2005 Suzuki Reno hatchback, and it's orange. Yes, orange. I saw it on Carmax.com, fell in love, and went straight away to buy it. It's the only time in my life I haven't been waffly about buying a new car, so I decided I'd best jump on it and get it before I began to doubt myself. And so far, I'm glad I did. Aside from a few minor details (speakers are iffy; it's got buttons on the steering wheel to control the radio, which just get in my way; not sure about the gas mileage) I like it a lot. It's quiet. It's a manual and it handles pretty similar to my old Civic, so it's easy (for me) to drive. It's orange. It doesn't make funny noises. It has 4 doors. It's orange. The windshield wipers work properly without the lever being tied to my I-Pass (don't ask). It's got a CD player. It's orange. It has power steering, locks and windows. Did I mention it's orange? If you hadn't guessed, that's my favorite feature. I was insistent upon getting a car in a bright color because of a bad prior experience in a white car. I totalled my old Metro in 2001 when an enormous Caddy pulled out in front of me because he didn't see me. And I am convinced that he didn't see me because my car was white and blended in (relatively speaking) to the overcast white sky behind me. An orange car (or a red one, like my Civic) is a lot harder to miss.

So yeah. I like it.

Now I am thinking about all these other changes I want to make. I need to get my hair cut, and I am going to color it as well, to cover all the nasty grays that this job has given me. Hee. Any color suggestions? I'd consider purple if it weren't for the very conservative nature of my workplace. Also, when my lease is up, I don't think I'm going to renew. I like the neighborhood I'm in, but I have grown quite disillusioned with the apartment itself. The longer I live there, the more I feel like it's a crap hole. I don't want to live in a crap hole. Would you? Lastly (and this is slightly irrelevant, but I wanted to mention it anyway), I have joined Facebook after I received an invitation from a friend, and I'm kind of enjoying it! Maybe even more than MySpace! That may be in part due to the fact that it's not blocked at work, whereas MySpace is. I expected to find most of the same people who I've found on MySpace, since the people who are interested in those sorts of sites tend to overlap. But I have been pleasantly surprised to find a LOT of other different people! People who I am very happy to reconnect with. People who I wouldn't expect to be on Facebook, but I'm sure glad they are. And lastly (okay, the last "lastly" was a bit premature), I am really looking forward to my high school reunion.

That is all.

do you know me?

I got a late start this morning after sleeping like crap last night, so I called in to my boss (Pat) to tell her I'd be late. I wanted to ask her to tell Lisa I'd be late, too, so that word would spread and people wouldn't be left wondering. But apparently, my thoughts were a bit scrambled this morning, and after Pat's voicemail picked up, I started my message by saying, "Hi Lisa, it's Pat."

Nothing like a bit of amnesia to kick start your morning.