YAY!!

Yay! What a great day I had, considering I had to work and all =-p. Today was that one day a year where it is supposed to be all about you......(and the zillions of other people around the world born on this day).....and it was just really nice =-). I treated myself to driving to work, an expensive treat when even the cheap lots are like $7.50, but way worth it for my birthday - a gift to avoid public transit and the crazy people that ride on it!! I also treated myself to doing very little on the productive side at work (oooops, hehe), and to answering my cell. And I got sooooooo many Happy Birthday, well-wishes calls =-)! Thank you so much to all of the people who remembered with e-mails, and e-cards, and phone calls! More people took the time to acknowledge me than I thought would even remember =-). Including an e-mail from someone who I would never expect to remember even though I have had birthday bashes at his house (Aubrey), and calls from people like my best friend from high school who was tremendously sick (and sounded so on the phone =-(), and from my friend Laura all the way from Paris! Plus, I had delivered to me the totally awesome and adorable specially-made card that was sent to my house (thanks Sam and Jon!!). I got to have dinner with my parents and my Lou-Dawg, and a couple of my coworker friends at work took me out to lunch.......yay for a great birthday! Thank you to everyone who helped make it special for me.....even the run in my pantyhose didn't ruin things =-). And no rain! That was really cool too ;-)!

Loads has happened since my last post. Moved in a few days later to my new sublet that is closer to work (since there is no flexibility on working elsewhere as there was on my last team). I don't mind as I prefer the area I am living in now to where I was living before....but this place IS SO FREAKING COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!! I am wearing fingertipless gloves as I type this. It's 56 right now according to the thermometer that I bought after I started freezing here. It is usually 48 in the morning.

Anyway, the person I am living with seems pretty nice. A self-professed workaholic, so I don't necessarily see him so much. Plus, the place he works is open 24 hours, so he often covers shifts that start at all hours. But the place is freaking cold and the heat is only downstairs and it doesn't really work all the time. Plus he is very frugal. So life is COLD!!!!

As for the new position...........well.........ugh!!! The irony is my boss seems so nice every time you talk to her. I mean, really nice.....but she is evidently a bit of a Hitler when it comes to her rigid interpretation of the rules (as compared to all of the other teams). This includes a black out on taking time off when we are actively positioned in a location. To the tune of like 3 months at a time! NOT COOL!!!! And not the way anyone else does it either =-(. I'm just going to try to stick in there until I make it to my one-year mark, but even that is going to be a challenge. And people on this new team are kinda lame!! Not all, but many! UGH!!! Counting......down.....the.....days!

Anyhow, I still have a lot of faith that 2007 is going to be a groovy year =-)! Let's hope that rings true =-).

Note to self...

....Just because you find it oddly humorous that during one of the most critical shopping days of the year (the day after Christmas), as you were in the wake of the DEMON illness that traveled the ranks of most of your extended family, and you just HAD to catch those day-after sales, only to end up spewing in the bushes outside of a major department store....doesn't mean that when your brand-new boss asks everyone on the team to share something funny that happened over the break, that you should share that when introducing yourself for the first time. Because, oddly enough, not everyone finds holiday spewing humorous. Hmmmmm. Will remember that next time =-p!

It wasn't that dreadful, but I do find certain humor in things that others do not. This fell into that general category, but I recovered nicely enough ;-p!

Ringing in the New Year with a Busted Zipper

HAPPY 2007 EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!

I have good feelings about this year -

I think it will be a groovy one =-)!

Let's hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spent my New Year's Eve with one of my Lovely Pals and we headed out in search of something fun to do in a city that could never mistakenly be called "happening," haha. So we found a place and did our thing there, but, as is usually the case, it seems, when attempts are made to attend events on notable occasions, the festivities were just so-so. I was with a good friend though, which is always a stellar way to say goodbye to one year as you welcome the next, and we were dancing away as the countdown neared. About 10 minutes before 2006 said farewell I decided to take my final pee of the year......I completed the task and was about to be off to join my pal on the dance floor when - CRAP!!!!! My zipper was busted!@!#!*! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I didn't really think this sort of thing would seriously happen - especially not 10 minutes before 2007 danced into our lives!!! But it did, and I just couldn't fix it =-(! So I decided that I had no choice but to go with it! I was a bit upset with my zipper, because it's not like it had given me ANY warning that this would happen =-/!! But hey, whatever, it certainly makes things more memorable! So I met up again with my pal on the dance floor and I got my self-conscious groove on as I tried to make sure that no one could see my shiny gold busted zipper against my black pants. Lordy, Lordy!!!! But, I'm curious what sort of message was being sent my way by the various Gods-That-Be with my closing out one year and starting the next with my Busted Zipper! It could be the Gods of, "Girl-You-Gotta-Lose-Some-Weight!" but I prefer to think it is some more entertaining Gods that are giving me a shout-out through my busted zipper =-p! We shall see!!

2007 is already starting out with new things in store for me, I'll be renting a place closer to work and that will make my commute muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhh more manageable!!! Thank goodness for that!!! Sharing the place with someone I don't know, but the person seems pretty nice. I think it will be good! And I officially had my first (token) day in the new position, but won't really get a flavor for that until this week.

So goodbye 2006!!! You know what though? 2006 was actually pretty good to me when all was said and done, and no one in my life died! And sadly that's not always something you can count on being the case =-(. So thank you 2006, you were pretty good to me. BUT YAY FOR 2007!!! I have hopes that we will be GREAT friends!!!!!!!

I wish all of you (my dear 2 or 3 readers ;-p), a wonderful and fabulous 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!