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it's a good movie anyhow. i keep a chart. please note that no one gets added unless i realize there's a connection between me and someone else that i know and i had no idea they knew each other. i've only been doing this for about a year, so it's small. also note that in madison, it's more like 3 degrees. you're not really supposed to be able to read the names. (img code missing)
i learned of someone's resignation here at work.. i told my boss cuz it kinda affects her. later on, that someone told her and she actually gasped, acted surprised, and opened her mouth really big. i have mixed feelings. i kinda think that was shitty of her to fake being surprised, and she wasn't very good at it... then i guess i understand that it's just easier to do that than to say, "yea, bekee told me. i hope everything goes well! bye!" whatevs. it's friday.
1. What do you most want to be remembered for?
my hair.
2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life?
life is /nothing/ like a box of chocolates.
3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past year?
being responsible.
4. What about the past ten years?
being a decent human.
5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would you say?
before you do stuff for other people, do something for yourself.
there's a gal at work that is somehow convinced that all my talk about knitting is just for show (she's actually just giving me grief), so i thought i'd digitally capture the water bottle holder that got such rave reviews at the last softball game. here it is: (image code missing)
the weather, the phase, or the pure fact that i hate coming home to sit in front of another computer after being at one for 9+ hours. am i getting jaded? have i lost interest in blogging? i wonder how long one can go without blogging something of interest before people just stop checking. unfortunately, i haven't quit my day job and opened a yarn store. but that prospect is lookin' mighty fine. i guess it would require saving up some moola, though. an upnote: tomorrow is friday, so the friday five will be in full effect.
i simply have no interest in sitting in front of a computer while i'm on vacation. :)
again and again.
1. What brand of toothpaste do you use?
i try to mix it up a bit, otherwise my teeth and gums get used to one form of tartar fighting action. currently, arm&hammer brilliant sparkle.
2. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer?
i prefer the soft squishy kind, but kurt hates the dust-factor. we use scott tissue.
3. What brand(s) of shoes do you wear?
asics
4. What brand of soda do you drink?
i don't care for soda; but if it's free, i'd like a sprite.
5. What brand of gum do you chew?
i have too much crap in my mouth to make room for gum.
we'll just pretend it's any other day.
1. Large or small family?
small
2. Potato chips or pretzels?
pretzels. more salt, less fat.
3. House or apartment?
apartment. someone else has to mow.
4. Zebras or giraffes?
giraffes. i've heard zebras are ornery.
5. Candles or potpourri?
neither.
6. Flowers or trees?
trees.
7. Right or left-handed?
right. but i've often wished i were the "other" way.
8. Model trains or dolls/stuffed animals?
depends on which one is paying the bills.
9. Comedy or drama?
comedy.
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: The city of Boston has recently banned smoking in all restaurants and bars. Would you want to see such a law passed in your city/town/country, or not?
nope.
you see, when today's work is done, i will have no doll factory responsibilities until may 28th.
this week at work has been almost impossibly busy. I've been in meetings and trainings and working with a new employee and my eyes hurt and my head hurts. I just want to knit!
We lost, 11-13. Wasn't a horrible defeat cuz we were tied after an hour and had to play "overtime". Funny.
the game will probably be cancelled.. which sucks, since everyone had a great time practicing yesterday.. but is only good because of the fact that a 6:00 game is the hardest one to organize for since it's the first scheduled game of the evening and it's immediately after most people get done with work. Hopefully the weather will start cooperating. There's also no game on the 26th (next Monday) since it's the observed Memorial Day. Hope these kids don't forget how to catch a ball! :)
someone asked if i'm hap hap hap lee married because kurt's garlic toast didn't turn out well. the answer is an obvious yes, and i hope it didn't come across to anyone else that i might think garlic toast is the basis of a hap hap hap ee marriage. :)
ain't no thang but a chicken wing on a string.
1. What drinking water do you prefer -- tap, bottle, purifier, etc.?
this is vaguely like the this-or-that. i wish we had a culligan-like water service at work.
2. What are your favourite flavor of chips?
dill pickle. jalapeño is a close second.
3. Of all the things you can cook, what dish do you like the most?
a grilled cheese.
4. How do you have your eggs?
poached.
5. Who was the last person who cooked you a meal? How did it turn out?
kurt made spaghetti a little while ago, but the garlic toast didn't turn out so well.
there is no blog. without blog, there is no fame. so i'll just steal some again: this-or-that tuesday's potpurri edition brought to you on a thursday.
1. Packrat or minimalist?
i'm a minimalist packrat. i save a bunch of stuff and then every 6 months or so, i go through it and toss, shred, or deliver to svdp.
2. Computer: desktop or laptop?
desktop. i could never get over the cost of a laptop and the cost of the parts that i would want to put into it.
3. Seashore or mountains?
somewhere in the middle.
4. Carpeting or bare floors?
hmm.. i like carpeting in the winter, but bare floors look a lot nicer and you can swiffer them.
5. Drinking water: bottled or tap?
bottled, until the bottle is emptied by drinking, then tap.
6. Shopping websites: eBay or Amazon?
no one should stick with one or the other on this. you have to research to get a good deal on eBay, and you have to want something in two days on Amazon.
7. Cute little kitties or big scary tigers?
kitties.
8. Front door or back door?
[ahem], i don't think that's anyone's business.
9. Lots of jewelry, or little/none?
i guess i have lots.
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: At the last minute, you obtain tickets to an event you're dying to attend. However, you have to work that day! Do you ask the boss for the time off, or just call in sick?
call in! i don't get sick time just so i can go to the dr.!
So, I keep a little Excel spreadsheet that looks like a check register which simply helps me add and subtract. It's the only reason I use duplicate checks. Anyhow, I'm having trouble figuring out where I've subtracted a generous amount of money that the bank seems to think I still have. Believe you me, I'd mind a lot more if it were the other way around, but it still makes me feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I mean, I even found a significant deposit that I neglected to record. What's the point of keeping track if I can't even keep track?
Actually, I can't take any credit for it.. My friend-turned-back-to-cali from work referred to my lunch habits as "al desko". So, since she's now westward bound, I'm back to al desko lunching. It's not as depressing as most people would assume. I'm not saying that I really /enjoy/ it, but it beats sitting at a round table with the 8 people that you work with every single day; that's what everyone here does, you know. However, I'd /much/ rather work 2 blocks from the Weary Traveler and have their West of the Andes sandwich every single day of my life.. but, that's just me.
I didn't see you at the game! Final score was 15-6, Mickey's losing to the Beavers. Though this score looks painful, it's not nearly as bad as one of the losses last season (32-3 or something like that). My knitted water bottle holder got rave reviews!
Well, it looks like the weather will hold out for Mickey's Softball tonight. It's at 7p, at Warner #2. Join us!
with the crazy weather? Hope everyone's having a happy mom's day.
for the last couple days I was wondering to myself, how hard would it be to revert to someone who is not interested in computers. Like, I'd just quit my job, open a yarn store on Willy St. and knit all day. I'd pay someone else to do all the paperwork, and someone else to do the taxes. I wouldn't have email, or a website, or a blog. I wouldn't know exactly what to do when my computer tells me I have a virus and I wouldn't feel comfortable editing my registry. I'm not sure I would like it, but it'd be fun to try for a week.
it's friday.
1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?
yes. there's a place for everything and everything in its place.
2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?
recommended by a friend, i have a franklin covey planner for work-related events; a monthly calendar for big deadlines; and two monthly wall calendars for glancing at depending on which direction i'm facing.
3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?
yep. little piles of to-do's.
4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?
i used to, but now my cds and books are organized by genre.
5. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to organize?
a non-traditional wedding, wedding celebration, and honeymoon. good thing it was mostly a team effort. :)
i'm not so crazy afterall.
Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate
be friends? Go here and fill out all the stuff and then find me, bekee, to be your friend. There aren't enough wiscoreps yet. c'mon!
i finally peeled off the faded plastic sticker that indicates when the next oil change is needed. i breathed a sigh of relief at the mileage; 31,000.. but gasped at the date! 10/21/02! now it has to be a priority.. the oil is probably all old and separated and drippy. i go to woodman's for my oil changes.
okay, we'll do a this-or-that tuesday. The Media Edition
1. TV or radio?
tv, it's easier to mute the commercials
2. On the radio: talk or music station?
talk
3. Actual books or books-on-tape (or e-books)?
actual, for real, paper and ink books. i've never seen an e-book... ?
4. Actual newspaper, or web version?
web version, unless i feel like doing the crossword.
5. Wall Street Journal or National Enquirer?
neither.
6. TV news...news channel such as CNN, or your local broadcast news?
CNN, they stutter less.
7. A movie you've been looking forward to seeing gets bad reviews all around. See it anyway, or pass?
wait til it comes out on video.
8. See movies when they first come out, or wait a few weeks for the lines at the theater to get shorter?
wait a few weeks. i dislike crowds and fuller theaters tend to be louder and more obnoxious.
9. TV: cable, satellite dish, or just plain old antenna?
cable.. there's little worth watching on the basic free channels.
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: If you had to choose only one form of media to come into your home, which would you choose...print (newspapers, magazines) or electronic (TV, internet)? Why?
internet. because i can pick the information that i want to be inundated with (for the most part) and i'd never run out of stuff to learn.
we drove to visit kurt's mom yesterday.. apparently she's tired of knitting and gave me a ton of yarn and almost all of her knitting needles. i have enough yarn for 2 afghans, but i think i might try my hand at a cardigan for work. it gets chilly in the summer what with all the air conditioning.
think of something fancy to say for my 200th entry.. except no one knows it's my 200th entry but me. currently knitting: a water bottle holder.
bank, rent, dmv, lunch, bank, groceries. please note that the dmv lasted for 1.5 hours. the plus side of the dmv trip is that i got some knitting done. :)
to decide if i should call in sick tomorrow. kurt and i have a lot to get done and ... i just told my boss that i'm calling in sick tomorrow. :) i just changed my mind though.. well.. maybe not. we'll see.