Yesterday I got the weirdest email. Some guy emailed me through eBay and said he sent me $500 two weeks ago for an Xbox or something (aren't they cheaper than $500?) and that if I didn't send it to him he was going to contact the FBI. The FBI! HA HA! Like the FBI would get involved in a $500 eBay transaction. Anyway, I didn't respond because it feels like a trick or a virus or both, because the message isn't actually in my eBay account messages and I tried to look for the guys account on eBay and couldn't find it. Odd right? I considered sending a response that said, “Are you high?” But I didn’t think the FBI would think it was funny.
To top it off I'm so tired today because my loser ex boyfriend has text'd me in the middle of the night 2 nights in a row and it takes forever to fall back asleep (mainly because I am stewing over rude responses I should make). Earlier, around 11pm I had asked him to stop contacting me and he said he would (he always says that) then he sent me a text at 5am! I never did fall back to sleep this morning. I sent him a text when I got up calling him a very bad name. I called my cell phone provider today to see if I can block his number and they said they can't block his calls but for $4.99 a MONTH they will block his text messages. Seems a bit ridiculous doesn’t it?
Why can’t I just have normal problems like everyone else?
P.S. Dear Universe, that was not a request to receive more problems.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I never have time
I don’t have time anymore to read my favorite blogs, or flirt with the new guy on my floor, write blog posts or email my friends or anything. And when I’m not busy I can’t seem to focus on anything but being stressed or keeping busy and reading blogs does not qualify.
Yesterday we got a new email, one sent to the whole company telling us they are cutting 7,000 jobs. Why can’t they leave us little people alone and cut a few of the pompous big salary guys like my bosses?! Let the little people run amuck for awhile we couldn’t do much worse, and we wouldn’t spend a million dollars on renovating our offices.
I have dozens of blog posts started and no time to finish them and to make matters worse when I get home I’m exhausted and it’s freezing. First of all this coming in at 7:30 am stuff is for the birds, literally I think only birds get up before daylight. And second of all my apartment building has obviously “gone green” by conserving energy and not turning that silly little gas guzzler of a heater on, on a regular basis. When I complained to my scary Russian super he said that the heat is not on a timer but goes on automatically when the temperature drops in the building (drops to what 40?). I’d take this as gospel if I didn’t watch the clock, freezing every night until it magically clicks on at 8:10pm every single night. Surely it’s a mere coincidence that the temperature drops at the same time every night right? And do you have any idea how cold it gets in an apartment with no heat until 8:10pm when it’s below 20 outside? Well neither do I, but I’m guessing it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 20.
Now that I’m in full blown whine mode I may as well tell you about my recent blind date. A friend of mine in Atlanta was really excited to fix me up with a friend of hers that had moved here from LA. We’d had several missed phone calls and conversations and he seemed pretty nice. I was, if I daresay it, getting somewhat hopeful. That was until he walked in the door of the bar we met at and my first response was, “yuck!” So we had drinks and dinner and I tried to be cheery and make conversation and if I do say so myself I was utterly charming. At one point he said something to me like, “You look like a cat person”. What does that even mean? What was he trying to imply? Even though I’d written him off in the first 2 seconds he’d just handed me the final nail. I wanted to ask him about it but since we have a mutual friend that I rather like I decided to overlook it. We parted ways and I promised to call soon. Ahh yeah, neither one of us have done that.
And talk about disappointment I’d finally just bought my first and much anticipated Diane Von Furstenberg dress. I got it where else, but on Ebay of course! I had followed this dress for ages and finally got it at a pretty reasonable cost. When it was delivered yesterday I was so excited that I almost ripped it open and tried it on right there in the middle of the trading floor! But I did wait until I got home. The dress is called a “Bolero”, but I think they meant “Barrel”. Because that is what I looked like I had on under it. Explaining it can’t even come close to doing it justice, I could smuggle several things underneath it if I were looking for side work as a smuggler, 50 cats (I am a cat person after all), 3 large bird cages, maybe even a shopping cart. You wouldn’t believe my disappointment and now I have to try to resell it on Ebay when obviously everyone already knows there is a few yards too many added to the dress to make it remotely wearable, let alone sellable.
Yesterday we got a new email, one sent to the whole company telling us they are cutting 7,000 jobs. Why can’t they leave us little people alone and cut a few of the pompous big salary guys like my bosses?! Let the little people run amuck for awhile we couldn’t do much worse, and we wouldn’t spend a million dollars on renovating our offices.
I have dozens of blog posts started and no time to finish them and to make matters worse when I get home I’m exhausted and it’s freezing. First of all this coming in at 7:30 am stuff is for the birds, literally I think only birds get up before daylight. And second of all my apartment building has obviously “gone green” by conserving energy and not turning that silly little gas guzzler of a heater on, on a regular basis. When I complained to my scary Russian super he said that the heat is not on a timer but goes on automatically when the temperature drops in the building (drops to what 40?). I’d take this as gospel if I didn’t watch the clock, freezing every night until it magically clicks on at 8:10pm every single night. Surely it’s a mere coincidence that the temperature drops at the same time every night right? And do you have any idea how cold it gets in an apartment with no heat until 8:10pm when it’s below 20 outside? Well neither do I, but I’m guessing it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 20.
Now that I’m in full blown whine mode I may as well tell you about my recent blind date. A friend of mine in Atlanta was really excited to fix me up with a friend of hers that had moved here from LA. We’d had several missed phone calls and conversations and he seemed pretty nice. I was, if I daresay it, getting somewhat hopeful. That was until he walked in the door of the bar we met at and my first response was, “yuck!” So we had drinks and dinner and I tried to be cheery and make conversation and if I do say so myself I was utterly charming. At one point he said something to me like, “You look like a cat person”. What does that even mean? What was he trying to imply? Even though I’d written him off in the first 2 seconds he’d just handed me the final nail. I wanted to ask him about it but since we have a mutual friend that I rather like I decided to overlook it. We parted ways and I promised to call soon. Ahh yeah, neither one of us have done that.
And talk about disappointment I’d finally just bought my first and much anticipated Diane Von Furstenberg dress. I got it where else, but on Ebay of course! I had followed this dress for ages and finally got it at a pretty reasonable cost. When it was delivered yesterday I was so excited that I almost ripped it open and tried it on right there in the middle of the trading floor! But I did wait until I got home. The dress is called a “Bolero”, but I think they meant “Barrel”. Because that is what I looked like I had on under it. Explaining it can’t even come close to doing it justice, I could smuggle several things underneath it if I were looking for side work as a smuggler, 50 cats (I am a cat person after all), 3 large bird cages, maybe even a shopping cart. You wouldn’t believe my disappointment and now I have to try to resell it on Ebay when obviously everyone already knows there is a few yards too many added to the dress to make it remotely wearable, let alone sellable.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inauguration Day
I’m not going to talk about how amazing Inauguration Day was, or their clothes, or their adorable kids, or what a wonderful couple they are, or how excited I was to be able to watch it at work or how annoyed I was at the jackass that sits next to me that choose the moment of Obama’s being sworn in to call his daughter’s school (HELLLLOOOOO), mainly because we’ve all been on an Obama media overload for some time now.
I’m just going to say, it was so wonderful to watch and I’m so incredibly happy and hopeful about our future!
I’m just going to say, it was so wonderful to watch and I’m so incredibly happy and hopeful about our future!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Dilemma
I need your advice; I have a friend getting married on Valentines Day this year (lame, I know). Her wedding is in Sarasota FL so I have to buy a gift, a dress, an airline ticket, rent a car and pay for 2 nights in a hotel. I love my friend and wouldn’t think twice if her wedding was here but all of those things really add up and things at my office are so uncertain.
We recently received a memo that the US office was downsizing 750 people. One person from my group (one of my best buddies) was already let go and I’m sure more lay-offs are on the way. Also as much as I love her we probably see each other 2-3 times a year, and don’t talk, email or text on a regular basis.
I would be disappointed if my friends didn’t attend my wedding but I would understand if they thought that losing their job was inevitable. I mean you can’t really expect that everyone you invite would be willing and able to travel even if it is a long weekend right?
But the thing is that I don’t think this particular friend would understand if I don’t attend and if I don’t go I’d have to accept the fact that I probably wouldn’t hear from her again. I hate to lose her as a friend but I am also struggling with the idea of spending $1,000 or so to attend. What do you think I should do? Suck it up and go or send a nice gift and accept the reality of her not talking to me again?
We recently received a memo that the US office was downsizing 750 people. One person from my group (one of my best buddies) was already let go and I’m sure more lay-offs are on the way. Also as much as I love her we probably see each other 2-3 times a year, and don’t talk, email or text on a regular basis.
I would be disappointed if my friends didn’t attend my wedding but I would understand if they thought that losing their job was inevitable. I mean you can’t really expect that everyone you invite would be willing and able to travel even if it is a long weekend right?
But the thing is that I don’t think this particular friend would understand if I don’t attend and if I don’t go I’d have to accept the fact that I probably wouldn’t hear from her again. I hate to lose her as a friend but I am also struggling with the idea of spending $1,000 or so to attend. What do you think I should do? Suck it up and go or send a nice gift and accept the reality of her not talking to me again?
Monday, January 05, 2009
Proactive
It’s my word for 2009. I have a lot of things I haven’t focused on or done in 2008 that I want to do this year. 2008 was a difficult year for me, I lost my father, a large group of friends and my boyfriend. So I am determined to make this year one of personal growth and discovery. I spent a lot of 2008 being introspective, figuring out things about myself and trying to find reason in the bad relationships I’ve entered and how to avoid such things in the future. I spent a lot of last year cleaning out the bad stuff, licking my wounds and picking up the pieces. Now that I have swept almost all the bad things out of my life, I am starting 2009 more organized and determined than ever. I am not the same person I was January 1, 2008, and I’m damn proud of that and how far I’ve come.
Good riddance to 2008 I say!
I have a lot of thoughts and ideas about the direction I want this year to go in and I’m already starting 2009 off on the right foot! I started the Master Cleanse again. The last time I did it over a year ago I lost 13 pounds. I feel like starting 2009 out determined and thinner will be the kick I need to stay motivated. So instead of talking about things I want to do some day it’s time to DO THEM!
I have a lot of ideas, one of which is that every month I am going to pick one thing to focus on that will be personal growth related or will make me step outside of my comfort zone. Things like talking to strangers more, accepting dates from men I don’t deem as “my type”, attend more cultural events in the city (even if it means going alone), learn to eat healthier (less sweets), read more, take classes (writing, photography, cooking), exercise more (actually go to the gym I belong to, buy a bike, walk along the river, get off couch), Learn to speak German (going in June), become financially smarter, update my blog more and well have it be funny and interesting and of course find a new job (which I’ll focus more energy on than once a month).
So this month because it’s freezing out I am focusing on my home (tiny apartment). I spent some time on Friday night at Home Depot, looking at lights, gathering paint swatches, getting plastic to cover my windows and caulking for the bathroom! I already have 1 closet cleaned out and organized and donated three bags of clothes (even though I did that in time for it to count on my taxes). I’m excited about my home projects and even wrote out a big list of projects to accomplish (my very own Honey Do list). Once my apartment is in order I’d like to start having some dinner parties and wine tasting type of events to stay connected to my friends and meet new ones.
I’m hoping 2009 is a year of growth and happiness for me and for all my friends out there in cyberspace!
Good riddance to 2008 I say!
I have a lot of thoughts and ideas about the direction I want this year to go in and I’m already starting 2009 off on the right foot! I started the Master Cleanse again. The last time I did it over a year ago I lost 13 pounds. I feel like starting 2009 out determined and thinner will be the kick I need to stay motivated. So instead of talking about things I want to do some day it’s time to DO THEM!
I have a lot of ideas, one of which is that every month I am going to pick one thing to focus on that will be personal growth related or will make me step outside of my comfort zone. Things like talking to strangers more, accepting dates from men I don’t deem as “my type”, attend more cultural events in the city (even if it means going alone), learn to eat healthier (less sweets), read more, take classes (writing, photography, cooking), exercise more (actually go to the gym I belong to, buy a bike, walk along the river, get off couch), Learn to speak German (going in June), become financially smarter, update my blog more and well have it be funny and interesting and of course find a new job (which I’ll focus more energy on than once a month).
So this month because it’s freezing out I am focusing on my home (tiny apartment). I spent some time on Friday night at Home Depot, looking at lights, gathering paint swatches, getting plastic to cover my windows and caulking for the bathroom! I already have 1 closet cleaned out and organized and donated three bags of clothes (even though I did that in time for it to count on my taxes). I’m excited about my home projects and even wrote out a big list of projects to accomplish (my very own Honey Do list). Once my apartment is in order I’d like to start having some dinner parties and wine tasting type of events to stay connected to my friends and meet new ones.
I’m hoping 2009 is a year of growth and happiness for me and for all my friends out there in cyberspace!
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