Baby Finances

I have to say that Andy Samberg is absolutely hilarious and super talented. Who else can come up with classics like " Dick in a Box " and " Iran so far "? I love the fact that he can get celebrities to get involved by not making fun of them - but rather the situation. I want to be as good as my job as he is at his job. Absolutely amazing. I wonder what other things he's good at ... can he do a good weekend update? Or daily show type comedy? I hope song writing isn't his only talent and that we will see more of him in the future. Speaking of other stuff that was really funny - did anyone catch David Letterman grilling Paris Hilton about being in jail. It was awesome. I'm glad that he knows that she's not famous for anything other than having money. I'm sure she didn't think it was "fair" how he treated her - but it's how anyone else in the world would have been treated. It's not our fault that you were dumb and got...

I've got an early morning flight to DC tomorrow. I've got to work at a trade show on Thursday/Friday. Which means that basically I have nothing to do tomorrow and I can't even check into my hotel until 3pm. Party baby! I get in at 8am - and I've got about an hour's worth of work to do.... awesome! Anyone in DC wanna take a long lunch tomorrow? I've still got a couple errands to run tonight before I'm completely ready to go - but nothing major. I should do some other stuff - but I don't think it's all going to happen realistically. I'm way more interested in watching the Biggest Loser on TV than I am cleaning up my apartment. Hopefully it will be a fun day of screwing around and doing some touristy things. It's supposed to be warm tomorrow too. I've had to travel a lot lately - I expect that if I get this new position it would be around the same amount that I'm doing now. I don't feel like this is ridiculous - I can see ho...

Said one of the guys I interviewed with. Yeah! I should hear by the end of the week. I hate lying to everyone at work - but there's not much to help that. Meh . I've got the next day to pack and get ready to go to DC for the rest of the week for work. This month has been pretty busy. Not unmanageable - but just busy. I imagine it would be much like this in the position I just interviewed for. The exciting thing about DC is that not only is there Neuhaus and Chipotle - I basically have all of Wednesday to fuck around!!!!! Yeah for playing! I went to the dentist today- and apparently I'm not getting enough fluoride in my diet. When I think about it mainly I drink filtered water and bottled sugary goodness. IE no fluoride - and no dentist treatments like when you were a kid. They recommended that I use a fluoride mouthwash - which hopefully will help curb some of the softened enamel issues I've had in the last year or so.... easy enough fix... hopefully.

I called into work yesterday - and apparently my boss didn't listen to his messages or didn't diseminate the information until sometime during the afternoon - as I recieve a couple calls from co-workers on my cell phone asking "are you alive, are you sick, or did you die in an accident?" My boss emailed me at 6pm - so I'm thinking that's about the time he listened to his messages. *sigh* Definitely didn't pick up the phone. They can survive without me for a day. I think the interview went relatively well yesterday. There are not a lot of people that work there - and I only interviewed with 2... but with that small of a company I wasn't too surprised by the small number. I'll have to write out thank you notes. We'll see how everything goes. The ball is in their court now. I have to say that I love the people that live in Massachusettes. The speed-limit that is posted is 55mph. However, no one abides by a simple posting of the speed lim...

National Talk like a Pirate Day went well at work. Many scurry scoundrels participated in talking like a pirate. Though no one dressed up.... this year. Finally got some sleep yesterday - it was delicious. Tonight I'm packing up to drive to Boston tomorrow for my job interview on Friday. I feel a really bad migraine is going to be happening to my on Friday. I have an aura already... or maybe I'll have really bad cramps... one or the other. I'm a little mad that I missed the Biggest Loser yesterday though. I need something to watch and follow since LOST wont' be back until FEBRUARY!!!!! I always like watching fat people have to jump around and try to lose weight. It's pretty amazing the changes that they have to go through and the amount of exercise that they get. I would lose that kind of weight too with 4-6 hours of exercise a day and a very strict diet. I'm always surprised by the people who only lose like 2 lbs and are the most over weight. I'...

I just want to formally apologize to Josh for showing up at his apartment at 1:30am on a Wednesday night. I know that it's not so cool.... I'll try to make it up to you some how at some point. This last week has been uber crazy - we had guests at work that had to be entertained, then I had to go back to Toledo for Lauren's wedding - which was really a lot of fun, and was really beautiful. Then I had to try to see family and friends while in Toledo. Next friday I have a job interview in Boston. It seems like the company is a really good fit for me. We'll see if the people/job are really going to be a good fit for me personally. We'll see how it works out. I'm not counting on anything. Sorry I didn't call you back Jess! I got a call from the recruiter - then from my mom - then from my brother.... then I forgot...

So I basically spent all day preparing for the upcoming week. Really boring shit like household chores and getting through a little bit of work so that I have time to do all the random shit tomorrow. I had to go do laundry this afternoon (I have like one pair of clean underwear until I get to the granny panties - which I hate and only end up wearing when I actually have to go do laundry.) The granny panties are not very sexy - so they don't make you feel good - you feel like a 80 year old hooker on heroine. It's amazing how such a small amount of fabric can really color your day one way or another. Cute underwear makes your whole day better. Ugly gross underwear does not help anyone. It doesn't help "the girls," it doesn't make you feel better about yourself, and it makes you lack confidence. If you don't spend a lot of money on your wardrobe - spend the majority of your $$ on your underwear. It's what will do the most good for you.

Where are my slides?!?! Where are my slides!?!?! WHERE ARE MY SLIDES!!!! Hurry up everyone! I need my freaking slides so that I can finish up the whole project! This is the bad part about working with procrastinators (not like I'm not one.... but if they procrastinate it really puts the pressure on me to pull it out at the last minute - which by the way - I'm awesome at.) Michigan sucked it up again this weak. (Pun intended.) Apparently my ISP has some deal with ESPN - so that I can watch TV streaming... LIVE! And I get to pick which games I want to watch!!!!!! Why aren't other networks picking up on this? This is flipping amazing. It plays commercials like normal TV - but amazing that I can watch cable TV for free (well not free... I do have to pay for internet.) There's that phrase "there's no free lunch." Which I never really understood in college. There was always free lunch somewhere. Some club, or school event, or whatever always had food. ...

Well the reviews are in (at work) I'm an excellent employee with a bad attitude. I realized that I've been getting the same assessment my entire life. I had a bad attitude when the girl who sat next to me in first grade lost her purple crayon - and then stole mine instead. When I insisted that she had stolen my crayon and that she couldn't have it. The teacher told me I had a bad attitude and broke MY purple crayon in half. Shortly thereafter the girl "found" HER purple crayon and gave me the other half of mine back. And I had the bad attitude. I was the one with the bad attitude when my high school music teach - who had a horrible experience teaching at my school - left. But she couldn't just leave things in peace she wrote a letter to the new music teach. Telling the new music teach that I was "trouble." I was marked from the first class. And I was the one with a bad attitude all year and came in with the preconceived notions about her. ...

So I should be doing work right now. But I really am not in the mood. I had a kind of crappy week at work so far and I had a bad run tonight. Instead of running errands (for work) I'm not watching PBS with the most amazingly interesting and wacky show about growing giant pumpkins. That's right. Pumpkins. These people are CRAZY about pumpkins and trying to grown them super huge (like over 600kg!!!) This one guy made a "pumpkin hammock" which was two fold in strategy. He could not only make sure that the bottom was round (not flat from all the weight) but he could also track in real-time the grown rate. Now that is genius. If I was a pumpkin grower I would want to track the change in weight in real-time (read my obsession with the Ipod Sport kit...) These guys (they haven't shown any women yet...) literally sleep by their pumpkins at night. It's like Charlie Brown and the great pumpkin!!!! Then even put blankets on them to tuck them in. This is such ...

I don't understand why people think that patience is a virtue. I don't see anything virtuous about it. Self-deprivation is virtuous - if you live in colonial Boston with the freaking Pilgrims or are like a Mormon. But some Mormons do have lots of wives - watch "Big Love" - because TV dramas are always true to life. Patience sucks and is for the weak. The strong say "screw patience" I'll wield my mighty sword and get right now what you fools are being "patient" for. Fuck waiting.

I hate the stupid FancyFeast or whatever cat food commercials. Who the hell buys super expensive chef prepared food for your cat? Anyone note the fact that an actual chef does not actually prepare that food in the preprocessed super trash compacted gross smelling/looking container? I'm also annoyed by people who email you to give you minute by minute updates on their progress of something. I don't care when you are going to get to something. I don't care about your progress. I've got enough things to do I do not need a play by play. Just email me when you're done. Most people know this simple email etiquette. I always wonder if stuff like this is a test to my patience or if it's really how people are.... If you aren't going to get to an email right away - why not just wait until you get to it to answer it. If I haven't heard from you in like a week and a half and there's something I need - I might give you a call to chat and see if you got...

Long weekends were supposed to rock. This long weekend has been taken up by being lazy and doing work (like work work not home work.) Work work is crazy... nothing new or interesting happening - just more of the same stuff. I hate the Sept- December time frame - this one is going to be particularly bad. There's too much work and not enough people to do it all. My attempts at decreasing the items in my Inbox is failing miserably, and even the extra hours at night and on the weekend don't seem to be helping much. Anyone having any good tips on how to organize other than the urgency vs. importance? Like good tips for getting stuff off my plate? I'm trying to throw as much stuff over the wall as possible - but everyone else is just as swamped. We've gotten to the point of turning away business b/c we're not going to make enough money to bother to quote it. Even if we know we are going to win the business and it's good margins. We just don't have time ...

Ever hit a tipping point where it becomes very clear very quickly what you should be doing? Totally happened on Friday. The hard part is enacting it. *sigh* Why do so many milestones in life end up happening so quickly? It's a little odd to watch everyone who I grew up with having these life changing experiences. First, it's the marriages, now it's the begining of the babies. BABIES! It's oddly an emotional time for me. I don't know if it's because I don't understand why you would want to have a kid, if I feel like I'm being left behind in life, or is it that I'm jealous and want that life too? It's very confusing and I feel very mixed up. I feel like I"m mixed up in the same way that I felt mixed up at 16. It's odd how cyclic life is. The weirdest part is that the struggle doesn't change - but what you are struggling over does. First you learn to walk and talk, then the struggle is to learn to drive, then you struggle o...