A first for me Wordless Wicked Wednesday!

Monday Sucks

This pretty much sums up how I feel today. Monday is strangling the life right out of me. I got up and showered and then contemplated calling in and going back to bed. I contemplated this for oh about 40 minutes until I decided I should go in and then rushed around like a mad woman to finish getting ready and out the door in 10 minutes. MONDAY. SUCKS.

Then at the office, I'm still dragging. I am not busy today, this is a bad thing to be not busy when you are already tired and dragging. It's 2:43 and I have been watching the clock since 10am. MONDAY. SUCKS.

I do have a few personal errands to do - but they involve calling car dealers and trying to play them one off the other to see who will give me the best deal on a trade in. I don't want to do this because no matter what day of the week - IT SUCKS!

Today was to have been the day I started watching what I eat in addition to my gym visits to attempt to shrink my ass in some significant way before June 22nd. Good intentions and all I totally blew it today. No great surprise. One good thing I did today was purchase a bottle of GNC's Women's Ultra Mega Vitamins! :) Maybe they will help me get some more energy? The Diet Mt. Dew isn't working anymore. Or maybe I just have a case of the Monday's? MONDAY. SUCKS!

Manic Monday - my weekend discoveries....

So this was a relaxing laid back weekend and here are some things I discovered:

1. I rock at Wii tennis! Who knew since IRL I can't play tennis to save my life. Give me a Wii remote and I'm practically Anna Kournikova (okay so I look nothing like her but this is my fantasy right?)
   
   
2. Roasting whole cloves of garlic in olive oil in your oven makes your whole house smell like garlic. I still smell it in my coat this morning. It tasted great in the lasagna but damn the stench is too much.
   
   
3. Wii boxing is very hard - I suck at it! If it were real I'd be looking like my face was raw meat today. I don't think I'll try that again.
   
   
4. Four month old babies may just be the sweetest creatures on the planet. Playing with a cooing, giggling, sweet baby boy was a highlight of my Sunday. Conversely 4.5 year old boys with too much energy and not enough discipline are a fantastic form of birth control. I love him too but I don't want to snatch him up and take him home with me like I do with the 4 month old.
   
   
5. Wii bowling is great fun for the whole family (especially me since I am good at it! MUCH better than real bowling since there I usually end between 80 and 120 pins and in Wii bowling I hit 210 the other day). Saturday night a Wii bowling extravaganza with my mom, dad, me and hubby. I think we took turns winning and played until we were pooped then sat down at the table and played some good old fashioned board games.
   
   
6. Even Oscar Winners like Hilary Swank are not immune from making bad movies now and again - The Reaping - case in point. Hilary is the only redeeming thing about this very bad cult movie. Don't waste your time is my advice.
   
   
7. When the temperature goes from 38 degrees in the morning to 4 degrees by night time - I am probably going to get sick. Sure enough this morning a sore throat and a sinus headache are plaguing me. I hope it doesn't turn into the croupy cough mess I just finally got over.
   
   
8. Newly minted happy adoring hubby survived the weekend. Maybe he really is going to stick around? Here's hoping.

Happy Monday everyone (that part for VBC) and hoping that you don't have a case of the Monday's.

Thursday Thirteen

Picking up a new blogging tool - the Thursday 13. So what 13 things shall I share today? How about 13 pet peeves? In keeping with the whining nature of my blog most days I will share 13 things that annoy the hell out of me:

1. Being watched - i.e. by Rat Bastard Trainer - herein after known as RBT. We are all grown ups here right?

2. Sunday Afternoon Drivers on Monday Morning - nuff said!

3. Children screaming just to hear their own little screams - my nephew loves to do this at the top of his lungs primarily he does this at the dinner table whenever there is company - it's really annoying.

4. Perky people - in general perky people make me want to hurl. I have one perky friend, she can't help it really it's inbred in her nature. I forgive her for her perkiness but I mock her for it too, she's okay with that.

5. People who try to tell me what to do who have no business telling me what to do!

6. Computer things that don't work the way they are supposed to work. I am far from commuter illiterate but sometimes the damn things just don't work and it pisses me right off.

7. People who give my husband and I a dirty look when we park in the handicapped parking spots. I guess if you aren't in a wheelchair or using a cane you must not be handicapped? They don't stop to watch him trip and nearly fall cause his feet don't work right as he walks in, just see him get out of the car on his two long legs and assume we're scamming the system.

8. Beautiful shoes that are uncomfortable - I am a shoe nut - love shoes - I used to suffer for fashion but now I'm more and more into comfort and style. I hate shoes that trick you into thinking they'll be comfortable and then you try to wear them for a day and they cut your feet to shreds.

9. When my ipod battery goes dead first thing in the morning and I left my charger at home.

10. People who drive slow in the far left hand lane!

11. People who are afraid to merge so they stop at the end of the on ramp causing traffic to pile up behind them.

12. Waking up with a cold wet dog nose on my cheek and a fat cat on my chest - one has to pee - one wants to eat - what about what I want - SLEEP dammit!

13. Copiers and printers that say Paper Jam when there is no freaking paper jam! Bring on the baseball bat baby!

And that is all I have to say about that! I said this the other day in jest and my husband called me Forrest!

Rat-bastard trainer update

Not only did my slacker "trainer" talk to me about daring to walk to the cafeteria with "B" he also decided he would rat "B" out to one of the owners. He told said owner that processors were looking for "B" and no one knew where she was. She knows that this is an outright lie. Trainer and "B" have a long standing feud of sorts - he had to train her 2 years ago and has never liked her, and I think it irked him that I was spending too much time with her. I figure he must have seen us leave and this is what started all of this.

So "B"s boss called her in to tell her what was said, he was not angry with her in the least but wanted to know what had happened. Her boss is our division VP - he said he wasn't going to put up with this kindergarten tattle tale nonsense and that she shouldn't be concerned. At least I know where to go if this ends up affecting me in any way.

So now I am watching myself very carefully around rat-bastard. And today I kept watch of his time - he left for lunch at 12:30 and came back at 1:50 - hmmm seems like about 20 extra minutes to me? I know I'm a bitch - but well he started it.

Save the Condiments! Save the World!

Every workplace has at least one - they go by different names in different companies - some are Executive Secretaries, others are Senior Administrative Assistants, some are just plain Administrative Assistants on a power trip. These are the assistants who think that because the "assist" someone with a lot of power that they also have said power.

In my office she is known as the Office Manager - she is the Assistant to the President and takes her role very seriously. Most of the time her power trips have nothing to do with me and so I just ignore them. But today we all got this email from her:

The refrigerators will be cleaned Friday January 25, 2008.

Everything in the refrigerator and freezer will be thrown away. This includes water, soda, condiments etc.

Items need to be out of the refrigerator before 6:00

Someone made a sign that says "Save the Condiments, Save the World" and posted it on the fridge - she was FURIOUS - and we all laughed. But seriously - I understand that someone forgetting that left over chinese in the fridge for a month is a problem, but why throw away soda in cans? or bottled water? or my salad dressing? Really is that funky smell coming from the jar of raspberry jam I keep in the door? or from B's mustard? Really?

It's flat out tyranny in the office! Cubicle Dwellers Unite - well I better go rescue all my food items from the fridge so they don't get tossed when control freak starts her cleaning detail.

Save the Condiments - Save the World!

Office Politics and Cubicle Nonesense.

I am new here - started on October 15th so just over 3 months. I am out of the initial probation period and allowed to use vacation time now. I am taking on more responsibility and my trainer is having less and less to do with me (which I think is great).

I like the guy who is training me, he's kind of like a big, dopey, teddy bear who is good at math. He has the smallest work load of anyone I know because he is a master at delegating and spends a lot of his time surfing the net, instant messaging with his wife, or in some other guy's cube talking about football, hockey, soccer, softball, baseball, etc. To say he is a sports nut would be understating the situation. So in an average day Trainer Guy comes in around 8:45 (start time is 8:30) and spends a few minutes checking email - sometimes he has actual work he can't pawn off so he has to do it but most days he makes his first round looking for people to talk sports with. He gets his coffee, chats in the break room, comes back and chats with the guy across the cube wall. He may work 2-3 actual hours in an 8 hour day and this is on a busy day. He also takes his 1 hour lunch break at 12:00 and then goes for a 20 minute walk at 1:00 with some other people from the office almost every day.

So what am I leading up to? Well today a different co-worker asked if I would walk across the parking lot to the cafeteria with her so she could get some breakfast. I did - it was 20 minutes of my time. Apparently Trainer Guy was looking for me in those 20 minutes and couldn't find me. He sent me an email asking if I had a training class or something? So I said - no, I went to the cafe for 20 minutes with B. And he stops by my desk to tell me this...

Uhmmm, well you probably shouldn't have gone at 9:30 in the morning, people were looking for B and no one knew where she was (how is this my problem?) And since I'm your trainer it looks bad if I don't know where you are, so if you are going to go you should tell someone but really you just shouldn't do it.

Really? this from the guy that everyone else wonders WHAT DOES HE DO ALL DAY? The guy who comes in late, takes an hour and a half lunch and leaves on time 90% of the time? The guy who manages to get other people to do the bulk of his work?

Yep - THAT GUY - lectured me about taking a short break in the morning cause I might make him look bad.

Ugh - maybe this place isn't so different after all?

Yes I'm whining again...

I work hard at the office most days, I keep my nose down and do my work and only check sites when I am waiting on a process to run or taking a break. But every blessed time I decide to check the internet and am not staring at a UNIX command prompt as usual my boss just happens in my cube. Soon he is going to think I never work. *sigh* I may have to give up daytime dalliances online altogether. That would make me very sad.

It's one of the dangers of cubicle life. "Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day." Some days I miss my office - the tiny dark one on the back wall with no window - and it's DOOR!

Everything looks better at 5pm on Friday

It's dark outside, it's been raining all day but I have two whole glorious days ahead of me where I can sleep in, lay around in my PJ's and catch up on what my DVR has been recording for me this week. Hoping to have a nice weekend. Hubby's mood has been improving slowly although today he had some stressful situations that may have served as a setback - I'll find out when I get home I guess. But I'm heading out for the weekend. If anyone is reading - have a wonderful weekend too.

How did I get this old?

So I wake up one day and realize - I'm middle aged? How did this happen? It seems just yesterday I was 18 and heading off to college for the first time all fresh faced and innocent and ready to conquer the world. Now here I am 37 and a half - getting closer to 40 every day - and complaining of back pains and knee aches and being tired all the time. I drag myself out of bed, go to work, come home, feed everyone, do the dishes, maybe surf the net while watching TV for a bit and then go to bed at 10 to start it all over again the next day.

I guess I'm in a slump and need a boost - but I'm looking at another 20+ years of this same drudgery and it's not what I want. Any tips on winning the lottery? I really could use the dream.

Or maybe I just have a case of the Mondays?