Sweet Sound of Silence

Two weeks ago I came back to work from my weekend only to find a giant 7 foot frosty the snowman sitting next to my desk. Now, I wouldn't normally complain about a 7 foot snowman by my desk except for two reasons.

1. It was well before Thanksgiving that they set up the monstrosity, violating my strict rule of one holiday at a time. (Please do not ask about this rule or you will be subjected to an hour long rant....just ask Jeff)

2. Since it was a blow up snowman it required a fan going inside of it 24/7 to keep it upright. This noise is very loud and very annoying driving me slightly crazy....kind of like the drip from a faucet.

So, said snowman was making me a very angry crazy person. But today I got the approval to move the horrible loud snowman to outside the office. Now, I get sweet sweet peace and quiet. I no longer have a constant hum in my ears. I can hear people when they talk to me. Its a wonderful new world that I can now enjoy!!!

Damn it!!

Oh I forgot to mention. I managed to put my sleeve of my white sweater in nice and sticky, brownish caramel sauce. It wouldn't be so bad except its dry clean only and its the first time wearing it since it was last dry cleaned....damn it!!!

Pass the turkey with a side of hate and spite!!

Dear Lord! Thanksgiving was a treat this year. We slaved over hot stoves and ovens with love and care to end up having a big family wide fight at the dinner table over plans for Christmas. Then it became a blaming game over who was more spoiled than whom or who needs to grow up...etc. I found things to do to avoid getting involved. I cleared the table, cut the desserts, etc..and my sweetie called just in time to save me from the brunt of the screams and yells. Jeff and I were in the middle of a convo when my aunt bursts outside in tears and walks down the street....oops.

A few minutes later my mom opens the door and walks down the driveway in tears as well. Supposedly at that point all hell broke loose in my house. I end the conversation and try to calm my mom and find my aunt. We decide that taking a walk around the block will calm the nerves and give people time to cool down. So me, my stepdad, my aunt, and the dogs go for a stroll to work off the turkey, stuffing, cakes, pies and glasses of wine and some of the anger. We come back in the house and things seemed to have calmed down and things went back to semi normalcy.

Now that half the family has left for the evening, the other half is sitting talking about them and what is wrong with them. I'm sitting in the dining room typing to F and listening in to them and chiming in whenever I miss a particularly juicy part. Ahhh...my family...I love them so, every disfunctional member.

I curse you!

Do you ever feel like you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Under sheer boredom and pure insanity I took it upon myself to create a new poster/flyer project. Yes dear friends, I do remember last weeks flyer woes but I have nothing better to do. Maybe I'll learn one day.....

Anyway, I'm sure my boss will tell me that it isn't along the theme that he would like to create in our "poster/flyer campaign" but I can tell you that I don't care b/c I don't see anyone else doing it. Nope, so he is just gonna have to accept it!

Rescue Me!

...or rather my food! My food is being held captive by a 2-hour meeting. I'm hungry. I need someone to rescue my food. Maybe I'll just go upstairs and eat and save my food for dinner....hmm....what should I do? Devise an escape plan or claim my food as a loss?

Hola Mr. Fireman

The stupid fire alarm has gone off about a hundred times today at work and each time it scares the living day lights out of me. This is very annoying. Its especially annoying b/c the alarm is not followed by hot fire fighters....now thats tragic!

Rush Hour

I got a 1/2 of a mile away from my apartment this morning before realizing that I had forgotten my purse inside. So I had to turn around and get it making me even more late...oops. On a positive note, however, since it is Veteran's Day there was barely any traffic and I just zoomed down the highway and Lamar. Yea for holidays!

I brought a book today to work to keep me occupied while awaiting out "open house" that no one is going to attend....I realized I had already read the book...darn. So, I decided to do the NY Times Crossword Puzzle...I realized I'm an idiot. So, now I'm trying to keep myself busy and staring at a plate of 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies that seem to be calling my name. Why must the cookies taunt me so?

Back to School

On a wild hair I decided to apply to the Pratt Institute for the Spring semester. It doesn't require a GRE score but I'll still study for the GRE so that just in case I don't get in I'll be able to apply to Columbia, UT and Chicago Art Institute for the fall. I need to get references for application. I hope my profs still remember me...eeps. What do you think? Am I ready for grad school? Am I ready for New York?? We shall see where the winds of fate will take me.

What time is it?

I have spent the last 2 hours creating a flyer because the other 3 flyers I created last week were not good enough. Now, I'm being told...

"Just create one with no pictures...we need to get these flyers out today!"

....Excuse me?!? Why don't we just use the stupid flyers I created last week which have cute pictures, sayings and give all the correct information? Ahhhh I give up...plus I was using adobe photoshop and I have no clue how to use the stupid functions. I'm going cross-eyed from staring at the damn computer screen so long. Then to top it off. The computer's time was wrong so I got so excited when I saw that it was 3:30pm...but in reality it was only 2:30pm :( . I don't know if I can handle working until 7pm.

At least I know the managers will not be here for the rest of the week so I can do nothing...wait thats my problem right now! Oh well.

On a totally different subject, I went on ACC's website and checked out the courses I need to get into Columbia's M.S. Architecture program and its going to cost me at least a grand. Jeez...why does education have to be so expensive. Do you think my parents would help me out a bit with the cost? Yeah, I didn't think so either. Also, I need to take the GRE and I've been putting that off big time. I need to do that ASAP.

Well...back to work or at least the lack there of! Oh what is everyone's status on their novel for Nat'l. Novel writing month? I have a premise and main characters and about a page of text and that is it.

(The Sounds of Hair Being Pulled Out)

Bumper to bumper traffic, 2 popped balloons in my face and already a unplanned meeting....wow! My Monday is going to be a real winner.

Four Weddings & a Funeral

Nahh...just one wedding and hopefully no funerals. Friday night I went to my friend Rachel's wedding. It was way out in the middle of no where. It was so weird seeing my friend from high school who is my age getting married. We are the same age and there is no way that I feel old enough to get married. It was just surreal...it seemed like pretend but a very expensive sort of make believe. It was beautiful though. I have to give her props on the location, decorations, dresses, food, music, etc. For a 22 yr old arranging her first wedding with out any major help, she did an excellent job. Kudos to you Rachel if you read this and a huge congratulations!

Halloween weekend was very lokey for me. Jeff had been invited to several parties on Friday and I had been invited to one too but after the wedding we just went home b/c we were both tired and I had to be at work at 7am on Sat. (stupid work!).

Saturday I worked the Longhorn Saturday and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it might be, especially since I had to do it all by my lonesome self. The rest of the day was just lazy. We went and had drinks with some of Jeff's friends that evening, took a nap, went to an extremely small and fairly boring apartment party, went and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then went downtown to watch all the crazies. I think this was the first Halloween that I haven't dressed up... (Sidenote: Jeff and I think that the girl Alex brought with him downtown was hitting on me...which isn't too much of a surprise since she is bi). We stayed an extra hour downtown since it was the time change this weekend and then ended up at Metro coffee house where I haven't been in at least 4 yrs. Hey for anyone that is interested...it is now a non-smoking facility. (That had always been my big complaint about Metro and my reason for not going to drink there)

Sunday did the work thing once again. Not too bad of a day. I made Jeff and me our last fatty dinner since we both have decided to eat healthy from now on. I made NY strip steak with bernaise sauce, roasted rosemary potatoes, and asparagus. For appetizers I had prosciutto on melba toasts and fresh mozzarella and grape tomatoes. Sooooo yummmmyyyy!!!! Cooking one big time consuming meal, however, gets cooking into my blood and I decided to keep on cooking after dinner and made meringues with the leftover egg whites and then I made muffins for breakfast. My apartment smells like a bakery. I enjoyed it. For awhile I had forgotten how much I enjoyed cooking b/c it gets boring cooking just for yourself.

Anyway, here it is Monday and I'm at work trying to avoid doing any work. Its another week of drudgery and balloon blowing.

PS. Its National Novel Writing Month and Flaminia and Jeff are trying to convince me to try and write a novel since they are writing one. I might but it has to be 50,000 words...thats kinda scary to think about. What would I write a novel about...hmmmmm.....