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i pulled something in my back yesterday getting in the car at the dog park after work. it hurts to inhale all the way. i tried kneading it out but now it just feels like a big bruise. i brought my theracane to work to try to loosen up the muscles... prognosis: painful.
i did some outdoor stuff yesterday... since i didn't have online solitaire to occupy my time (the native windows one sux0rs), so i finally mowed the lawn... and composted what i could from the garden.
i have to say, i was much more excited about the beginning of the garden process than the middle and end; that's almost exactly the opposite of how i approach work and road trips. i'd much prefer to be catapulted to the final result than sit in a car for two to four hours.
so, i won't be canning any beefsteak tomatoes this year.
not having the internet makes me feel weird. i've been without it since thursday.
i have 474 unread articles in googlereader and 28 pages of tweets to catch up on.
and i have a lot of work to do today.
now we're not going.
kurt missed a couple days of work this week, and i got behind on some bills somehow (like, they never came in the mail?). so, we're broke(ish). and can't afford the lavish milwaukee lifestyle to which we've become accustomed.
it'll still be a nice 4-day weekend for me. i hope.
people are irritating the piss out of me today.
ok, so now we're going to stay one night and at a hotel closer to the airport (where they're half what they are downtown).
i know you were on the edge of your seat with wonder.
so, at some point, the travel industry decided that a crappy room with crappy carpeting and a crappy bed with some crappy pressed particle board furniture was worth at least $200 a night. everywhere.
we won't be staying in milwaukee.
i even checked the concourse, just to see "what if we wanted to stay downtown in madison?" nope. not that weekend.
trying. to. plan.
we're gunna stay a couple nights in milwaukee and the hotel that Kurt wants to stay in doesn't appear to exist anymore?
and we're going to try to get together with my cousin to at least grab a bite, if not check out her home.
i'll try to remember to take pics.
taking fridays off is almost my favorite thing. and i have four more between now and the end of the year (not including the ones they already have scheduled).
the willy street fair was exceptionally warm and claustrophobic. we went down, walked to the other end, got a falafel, ate, and walked back to ingersoll and left.
now, i've got a case of the mondays.
i didn't sleep very well last night.. i woke up around 3:45 and thought, "that's ok. i don't have to be up for three hours..." and i tossed and turned until about 5:20 when i started having really weird dreams which kept waking me up until the alarm went off.
i also appear to have contracted The Office Cold™. i've been sneezing all morning and the right side of my throat just started getting itchy before lunch. i'm hoping it's just the chilly nights/mornings and nothing more.
tonight's dinner was good. not great, but good. the whole main room was filled with 5 tables of 10 who appeared to work together and were very loud. i, wrongly, picked the table in the room shoved over in the corner where i had to tippy-toe past four chairs (scoot the eff in!) just to pee. the entree was meh... the appetizers were really good, though. we got three oysters on the half shell and a seared salmon fillet. i had the ahi tuna and kurt had the diablo steak.
perhaps we've just been too impressed in the past. it just wasn't that awesome.
there's always next year. :)
we're going out to dinner at the magnus to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary.
apparently the traditional gift is candy. color me disinterested.
my mom told us, last weekend, about the erehwon outlet at the bottom of monona drive.. i got a new columbia coat and a pair of keens for half off. it was still spendy (damn brand-loyalty) but i couldn't pass up 50% off!
i just got rid of the home phone. i've been paying $30 a month for however long just to get telemarketing calls from some collection agency looking for the person we bought the house from, the volunteer firefighters association, and "UNKNOWN CALLER". seems kinda silly. so, the phone number i've had since 1997 is no longer my phone number. take that.
woke up panicking again... we're taking a short trip to milwaukee today to meet with a vendor, so i opted to stay home this morning and just meet at the park and ride. i hope my boss isn't too upset, but there's no effing way i was going to be functional this morning. i'm still pretty shakey, but not freaking out as bad.
wondering if i should bring along a book or if car sickness will be a factor. that's all i need. to puke in a car today, too.
hopefully we'll get back sometime around 5:30. kurt's mad that we have to travel to a different city "in this day and age". i think that's funny coming from someone who didn't know how to google 5 years ago. :)
i found a new tshirt search engine. good thing today is pay day.
i fergot to tell you guys... this apathy thing may just be paying off. i gave a presentation to some people from outside the company (a vendor) yesterday, and it went without a hitch. i wasn't the least bit nervous or anxious.
always finds the silver lining,
b
just so no one gets alarmed.. i'm just going through the low end of a sine wave of workdom. little is motivating and that makes me antsy and bored. that's all.
in other news: i found my next new project. knitty is celebrating 6 years and they just came out with a new issue.
i wonder if it would look as cool if the colors weren't striped, but all mixed up?
i just totally forgot how to spell discretion. on the same day that i get forwarded an article about misspelling faster on the iphone. i wonder if it's making me dumber?
a friend of mine said he's sick of reading my depressing posts about work... i think he's referring to the tweets on the sidebar over there cuz i don't usually blog about work unless i get permission, or if something good happens.
i will be very honest with you, reader, in an attempt to get it all off my chest at once: i hate work right now. i hate how long it takes me to get here, and how much gas i consume because of it. i hate the color of my cube walls. i hate the disorganization of bureaucratic bulljazz. i hate how it's taken over THREE months to change TWO words on the website because of "requirements" and "resources". i hate making wire frames for projects that are vaguely defined. i hate that i count down the minutes til 5pm and the days til friday. i hate that people say "circle back" and "at the end of the day" and "from a user experience perspective" and "we don't have the bandwidth" and "scrub the budget". and i hate a few other things that i can't say in the event that i may be dooced.
i also hate vendor meetings; one of which i have today.
one more thing, i just found this experience design manifesto and i think that it exemplifies what's missing from the attitudes in this organization.
my back has been really bothering me... i can't sit still cuz i get pangs in the upper left side and lower right side and my left cheek gets cold like it's falling sleep and now my wrist hurts.
maybe i need to get this microphone for joy... the process is a little tedious right now. i have to record using the italk, import the audio file into itunes, convert to mp3, import into audacity, and edit the file. with a lappy mic, i'd be able to record directly into audacity.
before someone decided to (incorrectly) flag my strictly platonic craigslist post as inappropriate, someone claiming to be the guy sent an email. we've corresponded back and forth, very platonically, and he seems nice. i've now achieved closure.
and eff you to whomever decided my post was inappropriate, cuz it was fine.
i'm a terrible gardener. i haven't watered in two weeks, the tomatoes are going out of control, the cukes are probably gross from being dry... :/
maybe it'll become a perennial garden next year.
another solicitation came this morning. i really want to show you the pic that was sent to me, but i feel that would be a violation of his rights... needless to say, scottneedsagirlfriend.com is also available. and he even sent his phone number? wtf?
i posted my craigslist ad in strictly platonic for a reason.. i've received two email replies, neither of them from the bikeguy. i want to respond to one of them to apologize for not wanting to respond to him. i'm no dummy. he's looking for someone to go kayaking with and outdoorsy stuff and someone not into "the bar scene".
i don't think he'd like me. :)
my partner-in-humor at work and i have decided i should buy trentneedsagirlfriend.com, post his picture and email address and let him know that, even though i hate water and like bars, i'm more than willing to help a brother out.
i got home last night to find that the internet wasn't working... "wtf?" i said. the router was flashing the lights that indicate something was wrong. i decided to check the phone. no dial tone.
20 minutes of a phone call later, a tds tech has to make sure it's okay with at&t that they come out and see what's wrong cuz the line-test "strongly indicated the problem is outside the home".
in other news: i've gotten two responses to my craigslist post, neither of them the guy in question. i also did not see him yesterday on the same walk at the same time.
was feeling panicky again today after lunch. i drove to qdoba on university to meet kurt, and the drive back was hectic. the root cause? going to bed too late.
i was walking the dags around last night after work. heading up milwaukee street toward fair oaks, i see this guy on a bicycle; no one else is around. as soon as he gets out of my peripheral vision, i hear what sounds like a bike colliding with a parked car.
i looked.
it was him. he ran into a parked car because he was staring at me. i'd like to think it's cuz i'm hott, but i think he was just reading my shirt.
i also publicly shared my feeling bad for him on craigslist.
head hurts. need caffeine, work is out of starbucks iced coffee :( and it's too friggin hot out to drink more regular coffee.
in other news: did i tell you guys how awesome my new earbuds are? eargasmick!
for some reason today, i can hear every single conversation going on right now. it sounds as if the whole second floor is standing behind me, talking. i have hyper-hearing.
this weekend went by much too quickly; i slept in a lot and played a surprising amount of card games.
i also made it to work and 30 minutes into it with my fly down. :?