90,000 Staples

Did you know that we have at least 90,000 staples at The Castilian Dormitory Leasing Office? Unfortunately, I now do!

We have had to spend the better part of today doing inventory on every piece of paper, office supply, etc. I just spent the last two hours compiling the list only to realize that I forgot someone's desk and half of the back office.

This is my life......

Back in School Again

Ok, so I am going to say it before anyone else gets to...I am a nerd.

I am so excited because I am taking this architecture class during my lunch hour Tuesdays and Thursdays. I am taking this class for fun. I do not get any credit for it. I will probably buy the books and do all the reading. I'm going to say it again....I'm a nerd.

No, I talked to a professor in the department that I want to go to gradschool in and he recommended that I take the class. Its an Origin of Architecture class. I thought I was going to be the oldest person in the class but it actually is a dual class. There are both undergrad and gradschool kids in the class making me feel very comfortable. Another cool thing about taking the class is that the professor said that when I apply, to let him know because he will help me along....whoop whoop!!!

I miss taking notes. I always enjoyed them when I was an undergrad. I miss school...Okay Okay!!! I AM A NERD!

Cocaine

So my boss comes into the office yesterday afternoon and says:

"I'll be leaving early today. If a police officer comes by the office after I leave, there is a small baggie covered by a paper towel lying on my desk in my office. We think its cocaine. Could you give it to him?"

Everyone in the office gave him a dumbfounded look and some asks, "Did you find that on a resident or in their room?"

He was like, "No, we found it lying in the stairwell so we called the police to confiscate it."

I should be drug dealer for the amount of narcotics that we confiscate in this building.

I'm Melting.....!!!!

OMG!!...It is soooooo f-ing hot in my damn office. We can't turn off the heat and so we've been dying. What the hell is this 80 degree weather in January!?!?! It is not supposed to be like this! I'm sweating behind my knees and I don't have any energy to do anything. My skirt is sticking to the back of my thighs.....OMG I need air!!!!

Happy Birthday to me!!!

I finally get my birthday present from my parents almost 4 months later! They are going to Houston to pick up my bedframe from IKEA today...I think...at least those were the plans yesterday.

On another note, this is the first New Year's Eve that I have not had concrete plans....I'm hoping that the outcome will be better than past "planned New Year's Eves" Let's take a recount of the past couple of years....

2000 - With my parents. My friend's parents were too scared to let them out on New Year's Eve 1999-2000 b/c what if the world ended. Nothing exciting...nothing memorable...oh well!

2001 - Spent it again with the 'rents. Friends came over and we had yummy gourmet food. One friend was asleep by 11pm...I have such exciting friends....oh well!

2002 - My single Uncle let me and my friends have run of his apartment and bought us a couple of bottles of booze (we weren't quite yet 21). Steph got extremely trashed, supposedly hit on best friend's boyfriend, and woke up not remembering a thing. Friend wouldn't talk to her for a month and the friendship hasn't been the same since....oh well!

2003 - Tried to break the Dallas trend and moved the partying to Austin. Co-hosted a party with Faye, drank too much of everything, walked around with my personal bottle of champagne, had minor breakdown that resulted in beating an ex-boyfriend with a jacket in the middle of the street. I was very sick the next day and barely made it back to Dallas alive....oh well!

2004 - Figured Austin was too much and decided to move the party back to Dallas again for New Years. Rented a hotel room in Downtown and partied on Greenville with my Dallas girls. We got drunk before going out (bottle of champagne each), partied on Greenville (very expensive drinks), came home and roamed the hotel for unsuspecting boys. We met some boys from Gainesville, FL, hung out in their room, met thier friend, made out with him all night, woke up next morning, realized that I had no idea what his name was, left the hotel with a hangover and a red face....not quite so bad as previous years but expensive and a bit embarrassing...oh well!

2005 - ?? Remains to be seen!!

Santa Baby!

Wow! Christmas was kind this year. I got my digital camera...so be expecting more posts with illustrations! I knew I was getting that but then my mom surpised me and my sister with ipods for each of us. It was totally awesome. Yes, it definitely was a good Christmas.

Another good thing...there were 3 family parties this weekend and no fights!!! Yea!! Unlike Thanksgiving, my extended family was able to put aside their differences and get along and at least act like they like each other. It made things so much more enjoyable.

Other stuff that was good this weekend...

Frois Gras 3 nights in a row
escargots
lots of chocolate
Seeing all the family
still being considered a kid by the family
shopping with my mom and sister (yes on Christmas eve...we're insane)
champagne 3 nights in a row
presents, presents, presents
seeing my new little cousin (he is so adorable)
watching my little bro competitively wrestle on video


Things I missed this weekend....

seeing all my Dallas friends (*tear*)
my boyfriend
my cozy apartment with my own bed & lots of clothes
creamed spinach (they promised at Thanksgiving that they would have it :( )
spending more time with my family


Well the goods out weigh the bads, so that means it definitely was a swell time in D-town. Now I look forward to a rockin' New Year's Eve.

Clowns on bikes and scary shoe polish guys

So I took some time off of work and Jeff and I decided to go to New Orleans for a little break. The drive wasn't so bad...8hrs...long but doable. After trying 3 different hotels, we finally found the one we were supposed to stay at....it kinda sucked. They were doing construction right in front of our hotel room. We walked Bourbon St. and within 30 seconds of walking we were accosted by a clown on a bike. He seemed friendly and made balloon hats for us and only charged us a "donation" of $10. So generous don't you think? We continued on our stroll and the first bar I dragged Jeff into happened to be a gay bar. (Hey I was just going towards the loudest music!) Jeff was immediately a hit and was asked to take off his clothes for money in their calendar contest. He wasn't really feelin' it so he politely declined..we downed our drink and went along our way. (I supposedly owe him big time and will now have to drug to a strip bar like Sugar's or something.) We got hammered and spent the evening at Pat O'Brien's drinking and eating popcorn.

The rest of the time was similar to the first day...people asking for money for "services" (Everyone wanted to polish Jeff's shoes...if I had to hear, "I know where you got your shoes" one more time I was gonna deck someone!) and drinking and taking pictures. Jeff got to use his new camera a lot and there are bijillion pictures of me, New Orleans, and various other things along the trip. Oh and Jeff won at Roulette so that was pretty cool....I just sat on the side lines and looked pretty.

So overall the trip to New Orleans was a success. I only got testy on Saturday for lack of food and the only options being junk food. On the way back I got to meet Jeff's family and they are wonderful. Super nice and sweet. His sibblings are so cute and adorable. They had pretend Christmas for me Sunday afternoon and gave me a gift. I wish I had something to give them too. His mom said that she liked me to my face...so I think its a pretty good sign that they approve.

It was definitely an action packed 4 days and now I'm back at work trying to stay busy and dreaming of Christmas.

Mr. Sketch Scented Markers

I just licked a scented marker to see if it tasted like it smelled...that is how incredibly bored I am. And, no it did not taste how it smells.

Anyway, had a fun weekend. Had Renee and Amy over Friday night for drinks and a movie....Jeff passed out and Amy and Renee held him down and put lipstick on him (haha teaches him to ever fall asleep in a room full of girls). Had he been a heavier sleeper, he would have ended up with his fingernails painted too.

Saturday, got up early and walked around Town Lake. It was nice and relaxing even though it was really crowded with morning joggers and walkers. Spent the day running around doing errands....Jeff bought a really, really, really nice and expensive camera. I bought clothes.

Went downtown Sat. night. Met up with Erin at Blind Pig. Drank some but stayed sober since I was DD. Boys drank too much and I had a sick boyfriend on my hands all Sunday.

Sunday, as always...worked.

Tonight I want to go view the meteor shower...I'm a nerd.

BANG!!!

A bird just flew into the window. I screamed then laughed....it fell into the bushes, got up, and then flew away. Happy Monday everyone!

Yea!....Doh!

Yesterday I got a good review from my boss. I haven't had one of those things since March (see Yea Me!). We have these things called shoppers and they rate us on our leasing ability. I got an A on my shopping report. I was really scared when I found out I had been shopped because last time, back in July, I got like a 50 out of 100...oops!

Anyway, my boss calls me into his office to tell me and it makes me super excited. So, being me and how I cannot hold any kind of emotion back, I do a little dance in the middle of the office provoking everyone to ask me why I was so happy. I proceeded to brag that I had gotten an A on my shopping report and I would now have the pleasure of getting a little bonus for my wonderful efforts (I'm not modest at all!). I immediately got called back into the big man's office and got in trouble for bragging and telling everyone how good I did...doh! But I think I had a right to let everyone know how much I rock!!

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.