Song

I love this song - although it doesn't seem to be optimistic, I think it is!

I Hate Everything

He was sittin’ there beside me throwin’ doubles down
When he ordered up his third one, he looked around
Then he looked at me, and said, “I do believe
I’ll have one more.”
He said, “I hate this bar, and I hate to drink
But on second thought tonight I think I hate everything.”

Then he opened up his billfold and threw a twenty down
And a faded photograph fell out and hit the ground
And I picked it up, he said, “Thank you, bud.”
I put it in his hand
He said, “I probably ought to throw this one away
‘Cause she’s the reason I feel this way
Why I hate everything.”

CHORUS:
Why I hate my job, and I hate my life
And if it weren’t for my two kids, I’d hate my ex-wife
I know I should move on and try to start again
But I just can’t get over her leaving me for him
Then he shook his head and looked down at his ring
And said, “I have everything.”

He said, “That one bedroom apartment where I get my mail
Is really not a home, it’s more like a jail
With a swimming pool and a parking lot view
Man, it’s just great.
I hate summer, winter, fall and spring
Red and yellow, purple, blue and green
I hate everything.”

REPEAT CHORUS

So I pulled out my phone, and I called my house
I said, “Babe, I’m coming home, we’re gonna
Work this out.”
I paid for his drinks, and I told him “Thanks.”
Thanks for everything

--George Strait

Chinese Bowling

Today was a fairly good day at work. I don't say that too often. Usually I was say it was tiring, and today was tiring, but I had a few good laughs. A co-worker of mine, George, works two doors down the hall from me. He buzzes me, now all he has to do is talk and I can hear him because he is so loud, anyway - he buzzes me to ask a work related question about some guy that will be at our upcoming show. I answer, then he replied "how was bowling last night?" and I informed him that bowling ended. Then he went on to ask, "what about the guy?" and I said that too. He immediatly went on to tell me that this guy he was asking me about is Chinese bowler, and he is single. I about died of laughter. To George, that is a good slam. So the rest of the afternoon he went on convincing other people in our office that we are going to have a Chinese Bowling Exhibition and Conference, and I will be the principle bowler, and of course I had to play along and show people the correct Chinese bowling stance. It made for rather humorous afternoon.

When I left work, I was back in my work-focus mode. So the security guard informed me that he thinks I need to date. I was shocked by this statement. Yes, he sees me every day, but he barely knows me. For all he knows, I could have a boyfriend. But I don't - so I was dumb founded, what do you say to that??? My co-workers Matthew and Derek were behind me and got a big kick out of that one. THANKS EDDY! (the security guard)

Oh and Willy - I thought of you the other day. While rotating my tires, I thought of the night we were changing your flat tire at our old apt! Ahhh, the good ol' days. :)

Radomness Part 2

Everyone honks their horns here. It is driving me nuts. The light turns green, and you have 3 miliseconds to hit your gas pedal - or you get honked at. Today, I am following this guy, and at every light he honked at the person. It got to the point I even wanted to yell at him. It is so inconsiderate. I understand if you are really holding people up, but seriously, have some patience.

When I got home, this lady had the front window of her car covered in beanie babies. Now that is a little too much, don't you think. Who would want to ask out a girl whose car is covered in that crap. Thank goodness I never did get into them. I feel bad I have a monkey fetish, but at least I am not crazy about it. I have monkey's here and there, but not EVERYwhere.

You know what I hate. All day, you remember that one thing you have to get at the store. Then on your drive home, you remember you need to stop, but for what - you don't know. So you don't stop. Now tomorrow at work, I will be going along with my normal routine - getting nothing done until about 4:30, and while you are doing what ever it is you are doing, you remember. You might think to write it down, but you will write it on a paper that just happens to be in front of you, so when you go home, again you don't know where you wrote it or what you needed. All well, as long as I have what I need, I guess I will be okay.

Another thing...so I am at a red light, again, driving home today and there is this homeless person asking for money. Now I am doing good paying my bills and getting by with everything going on this year. And there is this guy smoking a cigerette begging for money. And then it hit me...this jerk had enough money to buy a cigerette - something that will eventually kill him - but can't afford food. And he wants us to give him money. Get a job jerk! Haven't they heard of gas stations, McDonald's, etc.

Okay, well I am off to put one of my fly friends into an envelope and mail him to an exterminator to see what they are. I do feel bad, me and my fly friends are becoming such good friends. We eat together, sleep together, watch tv together, hey - we even shower together!! But it has been long enough, it is time to say good-bye!

Home Sweet Home!

Today was a long day, but not a bad one. I got up this morning to meet up with a co-worker WAY before the sun came up to catch our flight to NYC. The whole drive to Dulles airport we were dreaming about coffee, it was too early to talk or keep our eyes open. We get to our concourse and find a place to grab two coffees and two muffins. While we were sitting there, I noticed three couples having a grand ol' time drinking malibu pinapples and bloody mary's (yes, at about 6am). So I opened my eyes a bit more to see they are all in festive shirts, shorts and sun glasses - then to find out these poopers are on their way to Cancun. Barb and I were dying, we wanted to go!! Gee, let me think...NYC for work or Cancun?! So off to NYC we went!

The day went fairly well. We talked the whole flight there, forgetting we had yet to do our homework before getting to the show, so we winged it. We got to the Javits Center and walked around meeting people, and chatting whenever possible. It is interesting how many men were there compared to girls. For the most part, I would have to say Barb and I were the only girls there. As we were walking, I noticed all these guys had mini basketballs - I wanted one! I stopped one guy and asked where he got it, and off we went. We got to the booth, and you were given three chances to make a basket, if you make it you get a basketball. Now this sounds easy, right? Yea, try it in heels and a skirt - not so easy. It was amazing how much a suit jacket and heels can throw you off, but don't you worry, we both made it in two shots and got our balls! Once we did that, we were done with the expo and still had about three hours to kill before we needed to head back to the airport. We had a late flight - just incase it took longer to walk the show floor.

So shopping it was. We walked down 34th street, and we got plenty of funny looks, but I don't blame them - I would have to say we did look fairly odd walking down the street all business like then carrying our cool basketballs. Back to the shopping. I have to say, I am very dissapointed with the fall look this year. I am going to have to stay with my jeans and sweatshirts, not that I really ever strayed from that to begin with, but this 70's look coming back, yea I am not really digging it. Although, we did stop in Ann Taylor Loft, and there were some great sales. If I had any money, I would have bought some really cute sweaters. But I was content with my basketball.

The flight home was rather humorous. Barb and I had dinner before we got on the flight. Dinner included a beer, and since we were already extremely tired, that beer just added to our fun. We got on the plane - still getting weird looks, and it was like a sauna in there. We were dying of heat. So Barb starts fanning her face with the barf bag, then proceeds to read it. I am sorry, but I am never thought "hey, I should read the barf bag" while I am sitting on the plane. Yea, sounds odd, but it was funny at the time.

All in all, it was an extremely long day, but a funny one as well. Now I am home and the heels are off, yes my feet hurt like no other, but at least they are finally off, and I am off to bed!

G'night all!

Randomness

Today, I would have to say, I have been is a pretty cheery mood. Not sure what has gotten into me, but I need to snap out of it. I don’t want people to start thinking I am nice! I am completely overloaded at work, yet I am sitting here smiling about it, and taking the time to write this.

A co-worker just told me I am dressed dainty today, he said I looked like I was about to go out on a coffee date. Not sure how to take that given I have never been out on a coffee date, and if I ever did have a coffee date, I wouldn’t wear this. I would probably be in my jeans and a tee. Who wears a skirt and heels on a coffee date?? I have done coffee with friends, and the best I have worn was khaki’s. When he said that I just said thank you and kept on walking – then when I got into the hall, I laughed. Not sure why, but at the time it was funny.

Tomorrow I head to NYC for the day with a co-worker. I am looking forward to the flight there, eating lunch, eating dinner and the flight home. Not really looking forward to the show. I have no clue as to what I am doing. I thought I was just going to see what a show actually looks like, but now it sounds like I have to have verbage with me about our upcoming shows, and I don’t know what to say. I can tell them about the conference end, but booth sales – not so much. So I have lots to learn on the flight there.

Okay, so last night I get home from work, and I decided my place needs cleaning. I haven’t been home much, so it is messy. I cleaned for maybe five minutes until I decided I need to take a break!! All this traveling, and with work being so overwhelming, I have just been so out of it. So I crashed. I crashed hard. I think I was sleeping by 10:05!! This weekend is a low weekend. I am going to clean some more and not travel!! I will save my next road trip for next weekend.

Have you all read enough random thoughts?? I can keep going, but you are lucky, I need to get back to work.

Nice hat K! 

Friends together again! 

Kari and I had to get a pic with Kyle. Man, I can't tell you the last time the three of us were together last. 

Home sweet Home

Friday after work, I headed to Rochester. Even though Rochester is my "home" I was ready to come back to the DC area by Saturday afternoon. Lately, it just feels like I am never here, over the next couple months, I will be back and forth much more.

I can't really complain though. I do get to see my friends, friends that mean a lot to me. Although, on saturday I called Christine to find out she is back at her home and not in Rochester - you still suck for that by the way! This weekends trip was for my friend Kari's bridal shower. I haven't seen her in about a year and a half. We both moved out of Rochester on the same day, how odd is that. Any who, so I spent saturday with her. We had fun. At night we went line dancing at the Roost! I haven't been there in years, obviously, but it was great to be out there dancing again. We, Kari and I, made complete fools out of ourselves, but we had a blast doing so. We got there, dressed more prep and not in the typical linedancing apparel (jeans, boots, and a tee), so we had couple looks. But then the guys found us to be fun loving girls, out to have fun just like the rest of them. Well there was this guy that just would not stop staring at me, so I clung onto Kari. Finally, after an hour he came up to me and asked me to dance, I said no and thanked him for the offer - the last thing he needed was for me to step all over his feet trying to figure out the steps! There were twin guys behind us that laughed at my answer, and we stuck by them the rest of the night. When they went out to dance - we went and tried our best. I would have to say we did the best when we did the couples dances, I was the guy and Kar was the girl. yea - we sucked, but we are positive we will be receiving a call any day now asking us to go on a dancing tour!!!

Finally

Hopfully this will end with a dream come true...

http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=29519&rnews_story_type=18

Men and Haircuts

ROADTRIP! Yay – or so we thought. We were scheduled to leave at 12. But thanks to our Prima Donna, we left shortly after 1. Now this hour delay had nothing to do with work – which would have been acceptable – no he had to get his hair cut. HELLO YOU HAD ALL WEEKEND! And he thought we were inconsiderate because when he returned our computers were off and we were ready to walk out the door. He is one that will never apologize for making us wait. To me, that is the rudest thing, make three people wait on your behalf because you can not plan accordingly and act like we are the jerks because we are a little annoyed that we had to wait over an hour because you can’t plan ahead. So needless to say, we were not all happy when we got in the car. I was lucky; I was in the back of the van, spread out and just dove into listening to the music. We got to the hotel in just enough time to clean up and go again. The whole time we were at the conference, it was awkward with our little Prima Donna. But we made it through. Us girls left yesterday, after day 1 of the conference, and rolled in at 11pm last night. Now we all feel like crap – I think we are all getting colds – but it is off to work I go. I have lots of traveling ahead of me, so I just need to keep my head up and truck on.

All my guy friends, even the few girl friends I have, please don’t hold up a group of people like that. It is very inconsiderate and inappropriate.

Okay, I have to go to work now.

My friend Vicky. 

Blast from the Past

Yesterday I was able to see a friend I haven't seen in about 10 years. Vicky, the girl from the picture above, and I went to school together when I lived in Colorado. She was one of my closest friends there, and yesterday I got to see her all grown up. All in all, she hasn't changed at all. Well, except for the fact that she is married, and lives on the east coast, but when it comes down to her personality – nothing changed there. She was always the girl that is very caring, sweet, and outgoing. I was excited to see her after all these years, but a bit nervous - what would we talk about, where would we go, and would it be awkward. I would have to say, we had lots to talk about, we grabbed a beer, and three hours flew by fast. I told her about my life in DC, she brought me up to date on her married life, we did the "how is the family" bit, and of course we had to talk about old friends - the best part. So we decided that we need to try to get the gang back together again. So many of my friends are married now, and I want to see them and hear about what they are doing. I have some digging to do! But it will be fun, and I want to see if it is still the same. Morgan - drama girl and loves boys, Kirsten - shy, Claudia - goofy, Katie - loud and carefree, Vicky - sweet and carefree, then there was me - quiet and willing to go along with any dumb thing we did. Man, I miss the good ol' days when we let Morgan talk us into spying on the guys, and ducking out of study hall to go watch the guys play soccer in PE (skins and shirts). Needless to say, Morgan would AWAYS root for the skins team. Then I would always root for Jeremy - the guy that never knew I was alive, in a class size of 24. Sad, I know. Well I think it is time to try to get out class back together, a class I haven't seen since 1996.

Vicky, thank you for the fun afternoon. I hope you trip home was safe, and I can't wait to see you again!

One Business Trip - 3 Kids

On monday I am heading to Philly for a conference management conference. Yes, a conference on how to manage a conference. Sounds odd, but I am very excited to learn all this new information that I can bring back, and kick butt with! Although, there are three kids going. Barb, Shane, and I. Yes, I am still a kid.

On tuesday, Barb and I went slipper shopping during lunch. Our office is extremely cold, and that my friends, make you feet VERY cold - so slippers was the answer. Now we were being good, looking for classic, black slippers. We went to hects and could not find comfortable, decent slippers, then I turned the corner and found our new slippers. There were four different styles to choose from! I love a choice in comfortable slippers. There were monkey's, duckies, cats, and poodles. Now these slippers had hands and feet that hung off to the sides and big heads with poofie hair - it took us a good 5 minutes to stop laughing and only 30 seconds to decide we HAD to have a pair. So we bought three pair, one for her, one for me, and one for our friend T back at the office. So we go back to work all gitty, and as soon as we stepped foot into the office - bam - professional. (You never know who is going to be there when you walk in!) So we make it back to our desks, throw on ours and run to T's desk to surprise her with her pair. Again, we laughed. I went back to work, but then I hear this quacking - I was like T, what the hell is that noise? She goes wizzing by me to barb's office and her face is beat red in laughter. I ran in after to learn that our highly professional slippers make noises! The duckies quack, the cats meow, and then there were my slippers - the monkies - oh my gosh, they let of the most obnoxious monkey cry that lasts at least 10 seconds. I was on the floor crying I was laughing so hard. Just imagine three girls, dressed in business apparel with these loud slippers - it makes our stressful, beyond hectic days fun.

Now, of course in the office we are professional, but outside the office, that is a different story! Shane is just loud and funny, and when you put Barb and I together when we are ready to have fun, we are like to 5 year olds and these slippers are going with us on our roadtrip to Philly, and Shane will be bringing his Taz slippers to fit it. Granted we will be on our game when we need to be, but we can not wait to have a little fun being kids together! It will be like giving three kids each their own hotel room for a night - with no curfew, and lots of soda and candy! ROADTRIP!

New Start

Well I am officially a Maryland Resident now. I know, very exciting. It really can't get much better than that. This all happened Monday morning. I got up and hit the MVA. Maryland likes to be different, they don't call it a DMV here like most states - no it is the MVA. That is Maryland for you, high class.

So all in all, the past three months have been interesting - getting used to new job, move to a new state, and now, back to the single life. All of my friends are either in New York or Virginia - so I have my work cut out for me. Virginia, it was easy to meet people - I worked with people my age. Maryland is a different story. I enjoy the people I work with - but no one is really my age to see out side of work. They all have their families to go home and care to - but I do enjoy all the stories I hear through out the day. Anywho - new changes bring interesting times. So now is my time to soak it up and make the best of it. This means - off to meet people, but where? Not at the bars, because then you just get the creeps? Ah, Virginia! Back to see all my friends who live 45 minutes away. Oh yea, and don't forget all the lovely weddings I have "back home" - I have my friends to catch up with there, and that is always a good time.

Well that is enough for me. I am off to be a professional again for another 9 or so hours, then back to being a kid!

Sean (5-6 years ago) after I found him, cleaned him up, and put him on a bed - THEN I told the entire extended family where to fine Sean looking his best for a good photo! 

Sean - last night lookin his best! 

Sean, my dear friend Sean

Over the years, you might think one would change - try new things. Well, Sean has proven this theory wrong! Sean, you know I love ya. You have been apart of my life for many years - and you know I hold you close to my heart. But Sean, what is this I am seeing? 5-6 years ago you came over to a family get together at my parents house to having a few cosmos, a few too many, tell dirty jokes only to fall asleep in the middle of telling them. From that point on, my whole family loves you and will never forget who Sean is. Now 5-6 years later, I am gettings photos of you that are very similar from the cosmo night at my parents house way back when. All I have to say, I am glad you haven't changed!

AHHHH

Things have been really good on my end, and I can't complain. Yea, we all have our days were things get you down. But I like my job, I am surrounded by friends and family, and I have a great place to live. I am still trying to finish up all the crap of moving, but tomorrow I should be all done - or so I hope. Tomorrow I register my car in Maryland. I can't wait to see how much this is going to cost me. These past two years have been big money years, and it is amazing how money can really bring you down. Last year I went from paying $335/month to paying $770 month, and buying a car to this year$1000 a month. Not only that, but then there is all the moving costs, and now this year - weddings. Usually moving is stressful enough, but now I have to add weddings to the list. Now don't get me wrong, I am thrilled my friends are getting married, and they have asked me to take part in it or attend their special day - but either way, it is freakin expensive. For the weddings that I am in, there is the dresss, then the shoes, then the hairstyle - oh don't forget about the bridal shower and bachelorette parties. All this adds up to A L O T. For the weddings I am attending, there is travel costs (none of the weddings this year are where I live, they are at least 300 miles away), then there is the gift, can't show up with out one of those or you look like a chump. I love my friends and my family - and I am so happy to see so many of them get married this year. Just right now, it is really wearing on me.

sorry guys.