A day (and some) in the life

Friday the13th, 2009…4:30am ~ Sat 930am

Wake up
Feel scared due to watching paranormal activity the previous night
Get over it
Take a shower
Cut self shaving
Stings
Eat a bagel
Put on moisturizer and make up
Fix hair
Get dressed
Brush teeth
Drive to midas
Sit in midas parking lot and finish makeup
Meet mike and dan and drive them to the regent mall
Meet liz there and drive to work
Can’t find my ipod headphones, luckily I bring spares.
Fall asleep in car
Wake up at security gate
Walk to trailer
Log on to computer
Check fb
Miss sisters
Check online banking
Go pee
Check work email
Start working on 3 excel spreadsheets
Listen to iPod
My immediate fav song Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Snap some photos of the trailer before people arrive and I get embarrassed
Eat a yogurt cup, raspberry
Eat a banana
End up not eating banana due to excessive bruising
Drink water from trailers water cooler
Fellow trailer workers begin to arrive
Talk to brendon, my work husband
Give brendon my white out
He wants it for keeps so I demand it back
He gives it back
Begin another spreadsheet
Get a call from brendon to go help him cut things out
Cut fiber wire diagrams out with brendon
Snap photos of him in his office
Chat with janitor who shares brendons trailer
Go to bathroom
Get back to work on sheet F3
Glance at colin while walking by
He grumpily ignores me
Listen to Bad Romance
Stomach rumbles
Check blog
Work through to lunch
Marc Pelt, desk buddy, shows up
I am happier now by his presence
Head to lunch trailer with marc
Eat lunch in lunch trailer, usual crowd
Lunch consists of subway, carrot sticks and more cooler water
Receive a text inviting me to friends camp
Decide to go
Have Daily15 meeting in lunch room
Return to desk
Check fb
Harass friend into joining me for the evenings camp adventure
Check blog for new posts
Die holding in laughter at Robrob’s post: “Best Music Video EVER” – so true
Make inappropriate noises in silent trailer full of co-workers while trying not to laugh
Attempt to work more: going is slow, tedious, frustrating
Ping marc with a hair elastic
Lose said hair elastic
Get hit in head with paper ball
Work work work work
Am free by 4:30pm
Get picked up by carpool
Watch 3 episodes of how I met your mother via my iBaby
Fall asleep 20 min away from fred
Arrive barely awake.
Drop guys off at midas
Speed home
Have 30 min to prepare for night before being picked up
Ready on time but driver stops in for impromptu subway
Gives me time to shove down some supper
Get picked up
Run into parents in the driveway
Dad tells me about passionfruit Malibu quart on sale for 7.99
I tell him to get me one, please
Drive off in friends car
End up having to wait for other cars
Stop at dq
Introduce myself to the visiting guy from Yorkshire sitting shotgun
Put on awesome highlighter hat
Drive to camp
Get lost on creepy dirt road
Call dibs on a bedroom (3 girls, 4 boys, 2 beds, 1 couch, no bf’s or gf’s = danger danger)
Start a fire
Choose a spot at the unsturdy kitchen table
Tow all booze to table to avoid people having to get up
Start drinking
Learn an English drinking game called 21’s.
No one is very good at it, other than Yorkshire Ray.
He is not pleased.
Get scared by large picture window behind me and trade seats.
Drink drink drink drink.
Lose one of the girls to a drunken crying fit
Lose one of the boys who goes to calm her
Have an adventure outside
Listen to the boys have a heart to heart
Go to bed
Wake up and peel out asap
Get to McDonalds in time for delicious hangover killing blt bagel
Arrive home to find two quarts of passionfruit Malibu rum on the cupboard
:)

Crazy Cat Lady

I was driving my fried M to her bfs the other night and what do we see as we're driving down Kitchen? This moppy white animal sniffing some leaves halfway down. First I thought, why is that poor cat outside in November? But then: O-M-G! Is that Toby???

IT WAS. Our friends doggy who also lives on that street. He had somehow got out of the house after they had just bathed him so he didn't even have his collar on. They had been looking and looking for him with no luck and our friend was in tears as we placed him in her arms, safe and sound! WELL, it's just lucky we are super awesome and have eyesight like Hawks! Cuz we also love Tobs and losing him would not be ok.



Tribute to my lovelies:

They don't give a fuck.


Mighty Liam.


Seriously on crack.

DAMMIT

ok, hot work guy is looking especially hot today. God DAMMIT!(said like CarrieB after Aiden's doggie chews her unworn shoe) And by especially i mean extremely: he's wearing this long sleeved plaid shirt that has a wicked color scheme (i think it is new) and his hair is all messy and crazy. we've ran into each other unexpectedly twice already today and all i could do was like smile stupidly and stare at the hotness.

efffffffff...just when i thought i was getting over him.
oh, he just burped really loud...why do i like this guy again?

FUCK SMOKING

I don't care what anybody says, smoking is one of the most discusting things on the planet. I don't even understand how it is allowed..why is it not illegal?
What good comes of it?

...

What bad comes of it?
Well let's get past the usual negatives, which are depicted in full color on each and every pack: death, cancer, heart attacks and strokes, heart disease, emphysema, second hand smoke, etc.

No biggy, really :|

They also stink, they make you stink, they make the people around you stink, they make your teeth gross, they cost a fortune and they are completely unnecessary. I'm probably missing about 50 other things, but you get my drift.

There are two smokers in my trailer at work. Probably 4 times a day they go outside to the designated smoking hut (which happens to be about 10 ft up wind of my window) for a smoke break. First of all, why do they get a break to go out and smoke? I don't get a non-smoking break. One day I'm going to follow them out and be like, "Oh I'm just taking my non-smoking break guys, no worries." And just start reading a book or something.
And don't get me wrong, there is nothing really bad about them as people. They both are nice, smart, sensible guys. But it pisses me off sooooo much and I don't understand what they are thinking! Every time they come back I cringe because the trailer will inevitably reek of cigarettes for at least 20 min after. It seriously makes me want to puke. And then all I can think of is that the smell is getting on me and what if someone smells it off my jacket or my clothes. I don't EVER want to smell like that! Gaaah!

And there are ways to get around smoking so excuses are running low. These days, you can buy a pack of gum that will give you the same nicotine rush or whatever, minus the majority of kill yourself side effects. Yeah, they might be expensive, but so are cigarettes and isn't your life worth it?

Smoking is fucking stupid and all my friends who are smokers should save their lives and just quit.

Remembrance Day and Tattoos

Today is Nov 11th, Remembrance Day
Love the idea of remembrance day and what it's all about. Also love the fact that it gets me the day off from ol'work!

Tats. Tattoos...have wanted to get a tattoo since I found out what they were, but have been extremely cautious. Its a delicate subject, so many people have strong opinions...SO HERE IS MINE! I think tattoo sleeves are really hot: Dallas Green, Tommy Lee, David Beckham, to name a few. Kat Von Dee rocks it as well, but I think it is a rare women who can pull it off. I find small, or symbolic tattoos very tasteful, but their location must be specific...I am anal about certain places. Beefs: shoulder, neck, ass. Not a fan, but for a few exceptions. I love the idea of a full back tattoo...if I was getting one today it would be a combination of japanese art and fantasy: a giant coy fish, multiple ocean waves, the sun and the moon, a mermaid lain across the bottom, stars, maybe some little birds, and anything else a tattoo artist could think to add to it.

I think the tattoo trend of the moment is the owl, which I actually really like, especially when done with a dead tree or sort of forest motif and pastel background colors. It's definitely dangerous to follow the trends tho, I mean we all remember the two cherries from high school. Nowadays....not so nice.

Someday the trio of biological sisters will be getting matching ones, to represent our individuality and our strange sisterly connection. And by strange I mean, spiritual or psychic or powerful or whatever...only ways to describe the phenomena that occur when we get together. Haha, B you know what I'm talking about!

For now, I don't see me getting one anytime in the near future..but someday, before I'm old and wrinkly. For everyone who's been brave enough to get a tattoo, kudos.

Silent laughter and good moods

5:45 am.

5:45 am was the first thing I looked at this morning. I have to leave my house at 5:50 am to drive to the regent mall, where I am picked up by my carpool at 6.

5:45 am.

Who made it to the carpool on time? I made it to the carpool on time.

Sporting the clothes thrown nearest to my bed, a bag of toiletries and a trusty headband of course. Today has actually turned out to be a good day. You gotta love a good day. I think it's all about your mood: today, even though I look like I'm ready for Day of Beauty, I feel really uninhibited. Just talking to everyone, being extra outgoing, chatting up the lunchroom, taking phone calls and constantly fighting down fits of silent laughter...it's all good.

Everyday I come to work, I'm really concentrating on whether I look good or not, because heaven forbid I wouldn't want to not have makeup on and be talking to my work crush. But what is the point of that?

There is none, other than that I have been possessed by this overpowering desire that subconsciously happens to every girl when you like someone. Guess I needed a 5-minute deadline to snap me out of it.

MY favorite costumes of 2009