i am absolutely terrible at recording my voicemail greeting. ugh. i have to change it every time i'm not in the office which has been daily lately, so when i get back to the office i have to change it back to say i'm IN the office and i ALWAYS MESS UP. and it's lovely that we sit in cubes so everyone can enjoy hearing me mess up and record over and over again. by the third re-do, i'm pretty embarrassed. =P

and i'm really irritable right now. i just deleted a bunch of ranting because i need to be in a better mood when i see eric tonight. everyone say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him!!!

now everyone say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to J!!!

it's official. this is the last season of buffy. =O!!! can'tmissanyepisodesmusttapetherestoftheseason.

for my die-hard buffy fans in the detroit area: 4pm saturday march 8. that's the next one. and it's new. and it's not on next tuesday cuz you're gonna be watching me and eric and chrissy and conehead at the pistons game. yes you are. =)

so my two full months of slacking are about to end....

now.

say hi to my away message.

it DUMPED snow today. oh yes. it did. eric and i drove through inches and inches and inches of snow from east lansing while complete PSYCHOS whizzed by us at speeds certain to bring some unfortunate yet completely (okay, maybe not completely, but definitely somewhat) preventable doom. no wonder why you find so many people in ditches when it snows. they're STUPID. okay, not all of them. of course road conditions make spin outs inevitable BUT!! there are precautionary measures that can be taken, aka DRIVING CAREFULLY and at speeds where you actually have control of your car. it scared me how many people were driving so fast....what if they're need to speed along in the snow ends up being the reason that someone DIES? it's too much of a chance for 15 mph faster to your destination. senseless. stupid. dumb dumb dumb. so drive safe, please. thanks.

i have to go to milwaukee on monday. what the heck is in milwaukee? someone? i feel that i know someone who lived in wisconsin....james? victor? someone in california, i feel. it's a half hour away from the slopes we visited when we went to visit porta...but i don't trust airport people with my snowboard. hmm. they make beer there, yes? except i don't drink beer normally. i hate going to places where i don't know people. i like it when people can just take me to places to eat and shop. no decisiveness necessary. i think i would have eaten mcdonald's twice in one day if ac didn't take me to old spaghetti factory in oakland. that would have been really gross to eat mcdonald's twice in one day. maybe i'll just look up places around milwaukee for the rest of the afternoon.....since, you know, i've been oh so productive this morning accomplishing absolutely nothing. =P i hate having to bill time. you can only do creative timesheets for so long before you have to start showing something for it....

i totally forgot. i don't have a links thingy anymore so i can't add....but AC has a blog. =D george and i got him to start using the one he started a while back. go see him.

today is one of those days where i am just really fast at peeling an orange. i tried to get the entire peel off in one piece like conehead and chrissy, but couldn't...but i was still fast. and i managed to get the stem part thingy out while still attached to the peel so it was easier to open the orange. and can someone explain the mini orange inside? am i supposed to eat that?

yOOOOO!

the countdown begins....vegas in ONE month exactly.

happy valentines day all!!!

i've never flown southwest before. i always thought of it as a substandard airline. (i don't know why...i have no basis for that conclusion.) but!! did you know that they have 6 sets of rows facing each other, like on a train? wouldn't that be the best if you're traveling with 5 of your friends? perhaps i speak too soon....because on the way from nashville pretty much the whole plane got off except for me and 6 other people and only 25 more people came on to continue on to oakland. ??!!!!!!!! YESSSS!!! *arm pump* we each had two whole rows each!!! how great is that on a long flight? of course, that's rare and will probably never ever happen to me again and for all i know every single subsequent southwest flight i take will be late or horribly crowded or will lose my luggage. but let's not think about that and think about how i got to sleep laying down all the way to california. makes up for the smelly guy that sat at the end of my row on the way to nashville and the guy that kept ripping farts after he drank 4 beers and ate a turkey sandwich. GROSS!!....why do i always get stuck next to stinky people?

are you neurotic? sometimes i feel like i'm neurotic cuz i tend to double and triple check things are done....but then i don't know if i'm neurotic or straight up memento. it starts with waking up. i NEVER hear my alarm. ever. and lately i've been setting four. yes. 4. all different. and yet..i wake up an hour and a half after the last alarm, never having heard it and, sure enough, all alarms have been manually turned off. and locking my car door. i don't ever remember doing it, but i always have to unlock it when i go to leave. everytime i step into a building: "did i lock my doors?" huh. maybe it's more second nature than forgetfulness. if it stopped with missed alarms and door locking, i wouldn't worry so much. but at work i forget if i've made phone calls or looked something up. (this is why post-its are your friend.) or maybe i just don't pay enough attention. when people give me information at work, it sticks for like a second...then woooooooo.....byebye. forgotten. again i go to ask the stupid question. and again..post-its are your friend. i don't know how i can remember all these stupid little facts and not remember stuff that just happened. seriously...it's like memento. is that a real disease??

i just walked by the men's bathroom and i heard people talking.

??!!??

do guys speak to each other while they pee? what is this? this is new to me. i would assume it would be pretty awkward....i know girls do it, but we have stalls...and anyway, i find it uncomfortable and awkward. you have to ask yourself...do you stop speaking when you start to pee or do you just go on talking like you aren't even doing it? hmm.

i'm doing everything possible to avoid work. for some reason it took me all morning to get my expense report finished. i'm exceptionally slow today. jet lagged, perhaps? yes. that will be my excuse. good news is that i'm finally gonna get reimbursed for that review course i took to pass the FE. woohoo!! it's funny how even though you spend your own money for work, you feel like you get extra free money in your paycheck when you get reimbursed. why is that?

oh and why do i want to be watching mscl right now? i think i need to purchase the dvd set.

weekend truths:

1. in nice weather it is essential to have a convertible.

2. the wings at hooters really are the reason why people go.

3. the first row behind first class is the best place to sit on the plane (unless you've got mad flow, then,of course, you'd be sitting in first class.)

4. working from home is the greatest concept ever created.

crazygoodtime in sd...you can look at jon's pictures and see...happy birthday nancy...thanks okb for sheltering me this week. =)