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you are the cute but psycho happy bunny. You’re
adorable, but a little out there. It’s alright,
you might not have it all, but there are worse off

which happy bunny are you?
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And completely appropriate depending on who you ask…

For whatever messed up reason, I thought of my ex-h today and something he used to tell me - which was that I was “needy & high maintenance”.

Now, even several years later - it still pisses me off. You see - the reason I was described as such was that I wanted him to actually hold up his half of the relationship. I spent pretty much all of the relationship catering to his needs, and it was too much work for him to reciprocate - and since he felt himself completely without fault or flaw, I must be the one that was high maintenance.

I wasn’t asking for expensive gifts, a closetful of shoes, a bigger house, a better car. Nothing particularly tangible. No, what I needed was a hand around the house, an occasional dinner made by someone other than me, a spontaneous kind word, someone to ask “How was your day?”, and then actually listen.

Some may say I still have unresolved issues, but I’d say they’re quite resolved - he was a complete loser, and I’m glad he left.

I do have to wonder, if I was needy and high maintenance, dear lord, his new wife must be a complete robot.

I am totally jonesin’ for a trip to Adams Morgan to go bar hopping this weekend…..

Must be the hair.

And/Or the upcoming Blue Moon.

And/Or the Outkast on iTunes.

No matter. Girlie needs to get her groove on…

Tomorrow night we will have a blue moon. A blue moon is when you have 2 full moons in 1 month.

So, given that it’s a blue moon….go do something you would normally only do once in a blue moon. :)

More on blue moons:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/07jul_bluemoon.htm

Happy Birthday unknown_progrmr!!!!!

It’s amazing how it really is the little things that just make my day. I got into to work this morning and the first person I saw was my buddy Ed (he who saves me from all things relating to purchasing and manufacturing and stuff on our software) and the first words out of his mouth were,

“Wow!! What did you do to your hair?!! It looks cool!”

So, apparently it shows up a lot more red in the right light. There were some requests for pics, so here they are - it is very weird to try and take pictures of yourself - they are both rather cheesy views (and a touch blurry, seems the autofocus was more interested in something behind me), but these two show the “red” the best - not that there’s much of it.

The one above, I really was blinking, but I kinda like the whole “Carmen Diaz Charlie’s Angels Hair Flip” that it came out with, LOL. This one I think I was talking to one of the cats.

…while I’m still on my “my hair changed a fraction of a shade” high…

I really would have thought that it would have come out with a higher percentage…

Continuing with tonight’s girly theme - ladies, do you know of anyone that has ever managed to use an entire can of DeMert’s Nail Enamel Drying Spray? I still have the bottle I bought when I moved out of my parents house 11 years ago. I mentioned this to my mother, and she’s pretty sure that the bottle she has is one that belonged to my grandmother… I can only guess they stay in business from nail salons and folks that lose the can and have to replace it.

Well, I went ahead and dried my hair. It actually is a different color than when I started!!!

It’s darker now than it ever was before and has a bit of a very dark reddish (possibly even purple-ish depending on the light) tinge to it. BUT IT’S FINALLY DIFFERENT!!!!!!

It’s also quite shiny cause of the heavy duty conditioner that comes with it, and I actually kinda like it.

I guess if I ever want to go a shade or two lighter, I’m just going to have to suck it up and get it done at the salon.

MUCH calmer day today.

Got totally busted checking out the guy in the car behind me on the way home. Then heard a voice in my head that said, “You’re looking at something that is illegal in 37 states and he’d likely address you as ma’am anyway.” (They did NOT build them like that when I was in high school, that’s for sure.)

This may have been what caused me to take a detour on the way home and pick up the necessities to try yet again to color my hair. Jury’s still out right now as it’s still wet, so I don’t even know if it did anything or not - all the other tries have been failures - same hair color after as before. So, we shall see.

I’ve got the beeper this weekend so I don’t have to be until 11 tomorrow which means SLEEPING IN! WOOHOO!! And time for more girliness tonight - gonna do my nails, too. :)

To give you an idea…
Fully staffed = 10 people
Average calls/day this month = 79

Today:
4 people actually working, and 116 calls.

By the end of the day, I was out of nice, out of smart and lucky I was able to find my way home cause I had no functioning brain cells left.

I’ve always been a believer that people can change, in both positive and negative ways.

The only difference seems to be that negative changes seem to happen 100 times faster than positive ones.

I wonder how many people in our lives have managed positive changes and we just gave up on them because it didn’t happen fast enough?

Me: “How long have transactions been going through this project?”
Client: “Since it started.”

It’s nasty and grey and depressing out there. I also didn’t sleep for shit last night, which is going to make for a loooooooooong day. Fortunately I’ve still got a few minutes I can sit here and finish my coffee and try and wake up a little bit before I head into work.

I am loving Get Fuzzy this week:

Be nice to me, or I’ll put your ass on eternal hold. :) (We do have problems when we have to move calls to another queue - we’ll plainly state, “Your call is going elsewhere and someone from that group will call you back. Clients then bitch, “They said they were gonna transfer me and then hung up on me!”)

Given that I was up too late last night and feel like crap for it this evening, going to bed is probably a good idea…

Niters.

I guess I’ll have to post something. I think I managed to find a microwave today, so I at least feel like I accomplished something.

Had a client blatantly lie to me because she didn’t feel like doing her own work. She’s on “the list” now.

Other than that, really not anything going on.

Good morning campers. I’ve gotten my coffee and am slowly starting to wake up.

I actually had some foresight last evening and put my clothes out on my nightstand, which helped immensely when I chose to keep hitting the snooze button this morning rather than getting out of bed.

I think I may have found a better way to get to work.

Things may possibly be looking up. :)

I need something to go really, really right for a change.

Turns out the phone number for the kitty rescue group I’d been so pleased to get hold of says to email unless it’s an emergency, so that turned out to be completely useless. Guess I should have just tackled one of the folks working at the show.

I think I have may have somehow picked up some poison ivy or something similar. Even if it isn’t what it is, I’m still itching everywhere at the thought of it, and my arm looks icky. I also made the brilliant move of taking a shower, carefully washing off my arm, patting dry to not irritate it further - and then proceeded to use the same towel everywhere else. I’ll be lucky if I’m not covered head to foot by morning. For now, I have covered the offending area with gauze, so now I look like I likely had some unfortunate incident in the kitchen trying to cut limes for Coronas…

I was sure that I had some extra velcro dots in my sewing box so I could fix something - wrong.

When I took the last soda out of the fridge yesterday, I forgot to put any new ones in.

Finding a replacement microwave should be stupid easy. That hasn’t been the case so far.

I got a nifty hair thing in my stocking at Christmas that I’d forgotten about. I just managed to break it trying to get it separated from the packaging.

So, I’ve hit the point where I’m kind of afraid to touch anything for fear of breaking it, or talk to anyone for fear of saying something that results in my being completely banished from society…

You give them the new catnip toys FIRST…

Originally, the gold one was for Snoopy and the red one for Target, but the gold one was too small, so we had to swap them out. The gold does look nice with Target’s beige & brown.

Yes, the little junkie is attacking the cardboard container the toys came in

Cat show was fun, I got the cats the new catnip toys, Mom got the bandannas - she just couldn’t resist the idea. :) I’m shocked that they’re still on. They’ll no doubt kill me in my sleep tonight. (They just have little velcro tabs on the end, so no worries about them getting hung up on something as they’ll pop right off.)

- the Little Buddies group was there, too - I didn’t have an opportunity to talk w/anyone, as they were quite busy trying not to let kittens get away, but I grabbed one of their handouts as it has a phone # on it - they’re quite active and I am sure they’ll be able to assist w/your underdeck family…

Oh the kittens. TONS of kittens. Purebred kittens for sale, and then two adoption groups with kittens. They also had a couple breeders w/Japanese Bobtails, but dang, none of them have the pretty coloring our bobtail had - I think there just isn’t enough breeding stock in the US. It was fun to watch them in the ring - as soon as they put the ribbons on the cage, these two kittens were swatting them off onto the floor. There were two other kittens that discovered there was *something* on other side of the cage wall and were going after each others paws.

I love my cats, but they were so cute when they were kittens - I wish that could last longer.

I have to say, I don’t think I will ever understand people. 32 years on this planet, and still don’t have the tiniest inkling of why people do or say 99% of anything…

Tried to replace my microwave yesterday, three stores, still empty handed. Found one I really, really liked, but it was also $800, which is just a tad steep, especially considering that it’s a built in and I wouldn’t even get to take it with me if I ever sell this place!

Off to the cat show. Cats, I get. :)

Well, shopping was a near complete & utter bust - all I have to show for 3 hours of being out & about is a carton of milk and some coffee.

…the 5 year reconstruction of my entire house. :-D

Things are going to get kicked off in the kitchen, because appliances KNOW when you come into money. No sooner did we get our bonuses for the quarter than a piece of my microwave actually fell off. I still can’t determine where the piece came from… Hasn’t stopped me from using it, but I don’t stand right next to the door, LOL!

So, I’ve taken measurements and I’ve got my list from Consumer Reports and I’m ready to find a new microwave!! (This time I’ll have one with a turntable in it and everything!)

It does kinda kill me to replace it since it’s not completely dead yet, but it is exceptionally old and there are things falling off, which really can’t be good…

I also have measured out the space for the fridge too - the previous owners bought the cheapest POS model they could find when they put the house on the market and that is already showing signs of age…

So, time to shop.

Note to self: Alarm clocks work better when you turn them on.

Note to internal help desk: Please don’t close my ticket with a note of “it’s working now” when you didn’t bother to even call or email me to actually confirm that it’s “working” - if you had, you would have known that it is STILL NOT WORKING.

My brother emailed me today w/that question and my automatic response was

Cut if you haven’t answered the post here

“Don’t You Forget About Me” from The Breakfast Club.

The question was at http://imdb.com/poll/ and it was his immediate thought before he even saw the possible answers, and it is well ahead of anything else. He was wondering just how widespread the thought really was.

Apparently given the plethora of different answers, we’re just uncreative. :)

Perused the latest Pottery Barn catalogue while having dinner tonight. I think I finally found a replacement light for my dining room:

or possibly

I’ve been looking for what seems like forever.

“You have that look that says, ‘Get a gun, I have a plan!’”

So yes, I have this house thing that I own, so I can do stuff to it. To be honest, I am not necessarily the handiest person on the planet, however I also don’t have the kind of cash to contract everything out that I’d like to contract out. (Because that would be EVERYTHING.)

The one thing I will have to contract out is the master bath shower. My ex tried to re-do it, (I wanted a contractor from the get-go on that one) didn’t finish it (thanks, jackass) and I have taken a good, long, hard look at it, and there is just no way I can finish it properly, nor do I really want to attempt it as I am afraid I will still end up with an unusable shower. (, can you send me the name of your shower guy?)

But other than that, I don’t think there really is anything here that I can’t do. It’s just a matter of not trying to do it all at once, right? Small steps and all that, correct?

I’ve estimated up down and sideways what it will take for the entire house. We’re talking a project that could easily span 3 to 5 years if I don’t want to go into debt for any of it, which I don’t, cause it’s kind of an assload of money to shell out all at once. (2 years if I just stopped eating, but I’m kinda hooked on that.)

SO, in theory… If I started with the smallest room in the house, which is my office, I could get that all fixed up the way I wanted with a minimum of pain and then slowly move on, right?

Edit: I would promise to post before & after pics of anything I do, even if it results in the after pic being of a burned out room. ;)

Edit 2: Nor would I attempt anything I am obviously completely unqualified for that would likely result in a room end up being burned out, such as rewiring everything.