Baby Finances

Why is it that communication is the biggest barrier in life? Be it communicating with a company in terms of placing an order, communicating with people at work to give/get necessary information in order to get my job done, or a partner in terms of what turns you on in bed. I am able to communicate in a ton of ways, verbally, non verbally, writing, etc. I have a hard time communicating with some people who are supposed to possess these same skills. I can't even image what it would be like not having all of these skills in my arsonal, much less if both me and the person I was trying to communicate didn't have these skills. I'm having an extremely hard time at work communicating with the new guy who is supposed to be my boss. We definniately do not think on the same wavelength - and I can rarely guess which way he is thinking. So often we work at cross purposes making life more difficult for the both of us because we are not communicating well together. I guess I just n...

I'm going to have to find something different because this is definately not working out for me right now. Guess it's back to the drawing board. It's just not going to be able to live up to my minimum expectations. That's not good. Better move on before I'm unhappy for a long long time. I guess it's better to learn it now than later. I like to think of it as dating. I've had a few dates, given the boy a chance, and I know that we're just too different and we really just two different people and this relationship is just really never going to go anywhere. I guess I'll just have to find someone else. Cette la vie. Yoga is going pretty well. I went again last night and it was much easier than the baby yoga class last week. The mix of people was much less experienced than last week, and so the instructor made this one more on par with the average of what the class could do. I like the fact that they adjust the class based on the how good the ...

I'm not sure if it's because I'm female or because of my age - or perhaps the combination of female + engineer; but I'm really not happy with working. A lot of me says "this is it?" Because I was raised with working class midwest values that said that if you worked hard you would get ahead. Which is totally not true in the real world. Work is just really not that fufilling. It makes me stressed out and I don't feel like I get much back from it. I felt more useful at the last place, but that's mostly because I'm not super useful at the new place yet. Part of it is the work at the new place, it's not been all that was promise or that it was cracked up to be. I think a lot of it is that work really just is not that interesting. My work is helping people who have cancer for god's sake - why am I not happy with it? This is getting a little ridiculous. I have to say the move has been good. Living here has been much better than Rocheste...

In Rochester I got totally hooked on this Jamacian place that served awesome Jerk Chicken and cabbage which was, yet again, awesome. With that awesome jerk chicken in mind I ordered Jerk Chicken from this BBQ place, RedBones, in Davis Square. Let me tell you, it was the worst thing I've ever eaten. It's was crazy spicy without having any flavor. The chicken was a little dry - which is saying something b/c your mouth was so numb from the horrible spicy sauce. I thought that Jerk Chicken was supposed to be marinated not be like mole sauce. The horrible jerk sauce was really similar to crazy horrible mole sauce. It was just burning with no flavor. I'm especially bitter because the damn thing gave me heartburn. I never get heartburn from food. My stomach is not happy with me at all. Blah! We saw 10,000 BC today. Funniest movie I've seen in a long time. The Raptors were super cool. RAPTOR! We named my car tonight too. Troodon!!!

So we have these special boxes at work - that are just small enough to fit inside of your backseat. One of my co-workers and I went to CA a few weeks ago and brought 4 back with us. He took them to his house and has not brought them into work yet (it was like a month ago.) I keep asking him about them and he's been a weirdly evasive about them. We still have a few of these special boxes in the office so I didn't really think much off the random stealing of the special boxes. Not until today. Today, he had to go visit a customer and take some boxes with him. That's fine and all. Did he just take the boxes from his house? No, he drove into the office and took the three remaining boxes that we had. Usually this wouldn't be a problem, but I need one of the damn boxes to take with me to CT tomorrow. Everything was set last Friday for me to take everything. He unpacked all the shit that we packed up last week, and took my damn box. He's got to drive probably 1....

I was driving home last week and it was extremely cold outside, so I had the heat turned up high in the car. Once I reached highway speed I heard a bit of a crack. I looked up at the windshield and literally watched the small crack in my windshield grow larger (I got a crack back in Rochester when a stone got kicked up by a truck and made a small crack.) Then someone in front of me had to slow down and my car shimmied to a halt , I thought to myself, I don't really think that this car is very safe anymore. I wouldn't want one of my friends or family to take it further than about the corner store. It was then that I decided that Mufasa really needed to be put down. He's old, worn (135K miles), and battle scared. So I got quotes for insurance for the car I was interested in and went and bought a Honda Civic yesterday. I think that I got a pretty good deal out of it. $200 under invoice for the car and I got $500 for Mufasa (the blue book is only like $550). There ar...

Simba is unhappy with me this week. I didn't do anything to Simba to make him angry - he's just grouchy. I didn't do much this week. I was in the office all week which is never any fun. I went to yoga again today with Jess. It was way not as cool as the Wednesday night class that we went at a true yoga studio. Today's class was just at the gym that Jess belongs to. It's was like ghetto yoga. I just didn't feel like the instructor really knew how to teach it - only how to do it. For everyone out there who thinks that yoga is just stretching and is an easy workout. Let me just tell you how wrong you are. Trying standing really still in an uncomfortable unstable position using lots of muscles you don't normally use in a really hot room while trying to breath in and out really deeply. It's definitely a workout. Well I've got to go to bed early - I've got a butt ass early flight tomorrow.