Ok, I know I have been quiet over here lately (and I have already been lectured for that. Sorry ladies!) but things have been so chaotic at work that when I finally get home I am wiped out. That and I figured no one wanted to hear me complaining (God knows there is enough of that out there!) so I kept quiet. Well I have held my tongue long enough. Watch yourself:

Work has been insane. To keep from being “Dooced“, I try not to talk too much about work, but lately I feel like I am surrounded by morons. For the most part, I am not talking about anyone that works in my local office, but the Home Office. I swear they just stopped processing things, let alone on time! Jeez! And of course, I am the first one to deal with the clients when they realize their accounts are messed up. So I have been a tad on the annoyed side. Oh and if I hear, “We are working on it” one more time…

On top of that, we have started the expansion in our office and the doorway/hallway to the new area is right next to my desk. Like 6 inches away. So not only am I the first one to get nauseous from the chemical smells, the first one to jump out of my seat when they drop a metal beam, and the only one to get totally distracted from everyone in my office peaking into the new area and asking me if I know anything about it, but they took my desk neighbor away! I was all alone up here for a few months, but then I got a desk neighbor! And she was great! We talked and had a great time. We have tons in common and she actually gets me. Me! But now she is gone. They had to move her desk to cut through the wall and she was moved to the very back of the office. Sadness. I hope when all is complete they will allow her to come back and keep me company again.

On top of all that, (and being hormonal, blech!) my hair is being very weird today. For some reason one side insists on flipping out and the other side flips under. Can I have no consistency in my life? Ever?!? I happily look forward to the day that my hair will once again be able to be pulled back into a low ponytail. Ah the good ol’ days.

Ok, go back about your day now. The ranting has ceased. 🙂

Oh my goodness. How did it get to be November 9th already? Where did all the time go? I mean I know we had Halloween already and now its like everyone is skipping over Thanksgiving and going right to Christmas. At work we are even signing up for the Christmas party and everything (the date was picked ages ago, so don’t worry about that). But I am just in total shock how fast this year is going. I even catch myself from time to time almost writing the date as 2003! And here it is practically 2005!

Anyway, enough of my ranting. I apologize for not posting but I have been very busy these last few days. I picked Simeon up at the airport Friday night and we had some quality couch time to catch up on. Over the weekend we watched some of the shows I recorded for him while he was at his conference, viewed our latest DVD addition, and played the newly released Spyro video game. It was wonderful. Then we started back to work on Monday and fully planned to go to the gym after work, since my foot is (finally!) healed. But we were both so very tired yesterday we grabbed take-out and went to bed super early (Sim was snoring by 8:30pm and I followed awhile later). Tonight, however, I do plan to get my butt to the gym.

I guess we’ll see how that goes…

Since a few of you asked me to let you know how the movie was, I thought I’d do my own little movie review. But I have to warn you, I love movies. It takes a pretty horrible movie for me to not like it. That said, here it is:

I have to admit, I went into the movie yesterday expecting the worst. However, I was pleasantly surprised. I tend to lean toward the psychological thrillers, as opposed to cheesy gore/slasher flicks, when it comes to scary movies, and this one delivered. Without giving anything away in case you decide to watch it, it was well thought out and ended with a very unexpected twist. It wasn’t the make-you-jump kind of scary, but more like some-twisted person-actually-thought-of-this scary. Overall, I thought it was entertaining and worth the money (a matinee is six freaking bucks these days!) to see. Plus, I had to go home to an empty house (except my fur-babies) and I wasn’t the least bit scared. Oh and thanks for not calling me in the middle of the night to scary me, Lisa P!!

The lyrics to “All By Myself” have been playing in my head all day today, because that’s me for the next week. All by myself. (And for those of you who are wondering, it’s in a “Celine Dion” way and not in a “Green Day” way. Perv.) Simeon is in New Orleans til Friday night. He left rain and gloom early Sunday morning and headed for humid and heat. Silly man. He knows we don’t do well in humidity thats why we live in Oregon! You can read all about his adventures while he is away over on his blog. In the mean time, I’m going out with the ladies tonight. We are going to see Saw and then hit Olive Garden for dinner. Gonna get me some Ravioli di Portobello. Yum!

In the middle of the night, I often get thirsty, so I keep a glass of water beside my bed (I even have a bendy-straw in the cup so I can drink without having to lift my head…but that’s another story). Well last night (or early this morning, I’m not sure of the time only that it was still dark outside) I reached for the glass but instead of grabbing the glass, I knocked it over….right onto my sleeping dog. Poor Ellie! She jumped up and ran to the foot of the bed. I got out of bed and tried to console her, apologizing for dumping water all over her. I turned her bed over, so the wet side was down and tried to coax her back to her bed. She refused and snuck around to Sim’s side of the bed. I felt so bad.

But she must have forgiven me at some point in the night, because when I woke up this morning, she was back to sleeping on her bed again. Poor lil’ thing.

Ok gang. I’m heading outta town. I’ll have some drunken (slightly censored, I’m sure!) stories to report back after my weekend with the girls. Oh and photos! Can’t forget the photos! 🙂

Oh no. I just had a thought. What am I gonna do all weekend with no blogs to read? NO BLOGS!! Not even Internet!! Oh boy. I guess I am just gonna have to start drinking sooner than I thought.