masthead
Blather
September 20, 2005
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I am having a hard time staying awake today.  But it’s a happy sleepy, and I may take a nap when I get home.  Or I may go run the errands that I’ve been meaning to do all week, but have just been hesitant to do.  Sadly, I have no money for bottled caffeine, so I’m just going to have to type to keep myself awake.  Welcome to Sarah’s stream of consciousness.. make yourself at home.

One of my government guys brought me a cactus late last week (as I mentioned in an earlier post), but as it turns out, it’s dead.  It was supposed to be a thank you, but now I’m wondering what in the hell I did to him to think I needed a dead plant.

Cute IT guy drives me crazy.  He’s got dimples.

I have my photo booth strip taped to the side of monitor so when my eyes wander, that’s what I see.  It makes me laugh everytime.  I thought, at first, that it was evil to put a photo booth on a timer so you can’t adequately pose for your shots, but the last three shots of my four are really "us" because we had no time to put on pretenses.

Someone has pissed off our cleaning lady.  She’s usually very nice, but today, she is walking around, pushing the garbage can a bit too forcefully, and grumbling to herself.

Remind me to call Jonathan tonight.  I don’t talk to him enough since he moved.

I hate lulls at work.  They make me feel useless.  Well, cause.. I am.  Very, very useless.  I’m here if anyone needs me, but.. today.. they don’t.

My sister is ill again.  They’ve put her back on some really fancy antibiotics that are costing a fortune.  They still don’t know where the infection is.  This is just compounding my hatred of the medical field.  There is nothing more frustrating than being sick and in pain, sitting in the waiting room with really scary infectious people, and then a doctor telling you they’re not really sure why you’re in pain and suffering.  Yay for the medical field.

There is a manager here who gives me a very hard time and I joked awhile back that I was going to start charging him.  That then evolved into him saying, before he even asked for what he needed, "And your money is in the mail."  Today, an envelope arrived for me in the company mail, filled with homemade monopoly money, with his face on it.  Sometimes people go too far to prove a point.

Well, I’ll be heading home soon enough.  This worked.  Thanks for reading.  Or not.
1:31 pm
Slow day
September 20, 2005
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I knew if I JUST hung in there long enough.. eventually, guys at work would start buying me stuff.  It has paid off.  This week alone, I have been blessed with several cactus, a box of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts (from HI), a boat-load of fruit-based soaps from the Marshall Islands.. it’s lovely to be loved.  Or just spoiled.  You don’t have to love me, but I do appreciate you buying me shit.

I will be the first to admit that I overdid it on the perfume this morning.  I have a headache from it.

Boss can be such a jerk sometimes.  For instance:

Boss: … something’s different about you.

Me: No, Boss, nothing’s different.

Boss:  Yeah, I think there is.  You’re.. I dunno.. glowing.

Me: .. no .. I’m not.

Boss:  Oh, my God, you’re pregnant, aren’t you?

Me:  Jesus, I don’t think so.. no, no, I’m not.

Boss (laughing hysterically):  Nah, I’m just kidding.  You’re not glowing.  I just like doing that to single women.

Which is not as funny as he’d like to think.

Moment of silence for Flip. .. .. .. Moment’s over.

We watched "Saw" last night, which was AWESOME.  Okay, so the acting sucked, but the camera work was good and the ending was friggin amazing.  It was almost worth the bad acting.  And it wasn’t nearly as gory as everyone said it was.  I’ve seen far worse.. and was hoping for something that would turn my stomach, but nothing.  One slight moment of gore.

Brad Travis teased me last night with a forecast of highs in the 70s last night.  He is just toying with my emotions, I’m sure.
9:59 am
Morning Dogs
September 20, 2005
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Mygoodlord, they were up at five.  O’clock.  In the morning.  They were insane.  Running, growling, and yodeling (deaf dogs are amazingly vocal.. and not at all normal dog noises, either) woke both of us up.  I had left the cap from my hairspray in a chair last night, and now they were playing floor hockey with it.. no lie.  It was so loud.

“Honey, the kids are up, and they want you to play with them,” I whispered.

He rolled over, away from me.  “They’re fine.  They’re having fun.  That’s why we have two.” he answered.

Why did we have to have morning dogs?

And, of course, they were sacked out by 7:00 a.m., the time that all of the humans are up.

So, last night was fun.  And weird.  But mostly fun.  Bryan took me on a scavenger hunt.  I got home around five, after stopping and loading up with food at the parental house (thanks, Mom!), and Bryan said he had an idea.  He wanted to have our picture taken. (Bryan and I have NO pictures of eachother.  None.)  So we ran to Parkway Place mall, but as it turns out, there is no damn photo booth in that mall. (Although there are some really cute clothes in Express and Wet Seal.)  So we went back to the car, dejected.  But he was not deterred.

So we trekked across the city, over to the other mall.  We found one photo booth immediately, but it was one of those crappy “sketched portrait” booths that “draw” your picture on some really cheap paper.  So then we trudged the mall and finally found a real photo booth.  It wasn’t on.  But he was not deterred.

He got down on his hands and knees and manually restarted the booth.  It sparked.  I was scared.  So we sat and waited.  When it finally booted up and deemed itself functional, he inserted his $5 (for a $3 pic).  And it spit it out.  So he reinserted it.  And it spit it out.  I said it wasn’t important, and let’s just go.  But he was not deterred.

He ran to the nearest store, a MasterCuts, and got change.  It took the ones.  So we finally did it.

 

7:23 am