My life...or something like it

I Got IT!!!

Well, it looks like I'll be moving soon.  We haven't exchange rent/deposit or keys yet, so I guess I could still back out.

I'm excited but still apprehensive.  I'm worried that Jonah and Finn will behave badly and my new roommie will want me out as fast as I move in!

This morning I couldn't get back to sleep after I got up to feed the kitties stressing over this and wondering how exactly I'm going to move myself.  I think I'll probably have to rent a truck from UHaul or somewhere.  Damn the boy for being in Hawaii and getting out of moving me!!  It's a good thing that I really don't have a whole lot of stuff. I could do it with one other strong person and a truck easy.

2nd Place

Well, last night I got an email from the guy who's room I am interested in renting.  I"m in second place.  Which means if his first place guy passes on it - then I get to take it.  On one hand, I'm really excited about the possibility of finally being able to move out.  On the other hand - I'm really scared.  What if we don't get along?  What if he hates my cats too?  What if they knock his stuff over and break things and chew through wires and he wants me to move out as fast as I moved in?  What if my stuff doesn't fit in my room the right way?

I guess I just need to think about the positives.  Heat.  Hardwood floors.  Sharing a bathroom with just one person (instead of 3).

Yes, the boy thinks I worry too much.  I guess he's right.  I mean I'm worrying about something that might not even happen.

New Receptionist Mantra

(and this could probably work for any customer service type position).

They don't pay me enough to care

The Calm and the Storm

So far it's the calm.  But two out of three (and yes, I'm the third) of the front desk staff are out sick today.  So it's just me trying to do everything (and I think I'm managing pretty well, thank you!).  So I'm expecting the storm any minute now.  That and it's a little lonely by myself.  I'm not sure what they're going to do about me and lunch.  But I'm getting hungary.  I will need to eat at some point.  Maybe they'll have leftover pizza from the attorney's lunch.  (Yes, that I ordered).

Much like last weekend, this weekend I spent a lot of time playing World of Warcraft - or discussing Warcraft with the boy.  My computer also has viruses.  Nice.  We've been working on it - thank god for PC Anywhere! - but that too, has its limitations.

I did get out to see Ocean's 12.  I really enjoyed Ocean's 11.  (In fact, it's one of the movies I own) But Ocean's 12 wasn't nearly as good as the first.  In fact, at times it was just plain boring.  It did not have all the cleverness and wittiness that the first one did.

I also went and checked out a new room/housemate situation.  And even though it doesn't fit my ideal criteria, it did fit enough that I said I was interested.  But he's got about 10 other people to interview as well - so who knows if he'll end up choosing me.  But it is this very cute house.  Tastefully decorated inside.  One other roommate (male) who travels a lot and so is hardley ever home.  Very close to the freeway and work.  (I could still come home for lunch).  What I'd be sacrificing is a larger room (it's about the same size as the room I have now) and my own bathroom.  But I love the house.  My
room has this huge window that looks out to the front garden.  Hardwood floors.  Lots of storage space.  Washer/dryer.  And he's ok with having the kitties.  So I'm crossing my fingers that he likes me best.  But I do not have my hopes up at all.

Thoughts of the Day

Today is just draggin' along - 1.5 hours left.

So I finally was able to see a doctor today!  Yay - well, actually, it was an NP - but that's pretty much all the same in my book.  So anyway, I haven't received my health plan card yet and they were fine with that, they didn't even ask me for a co-payment or anything (which as I was leaving, I thought it odd).  I wonder now if I'm going to get a huge bill in the mail now?  But I was thinking (if I had known in advance) how easy it would be to put false information on the documents and had myself a free doctors visit.

This is the first time I've ever seen a doctor that wasn't at Kaiser.  The whole process seems kind of weird to me.  And I definitely like the doctor (or was it NP?) I had at Kaiser much better.  This woman was just all poke poke, prod prod and your done, here's your prescription, see you next year.  My Kaiser doctor actually made an effort to get to know me, laid down some doctorly advice "now be sure to take Folic Acid - even though you're not thinking about children, it's still a very good thing for women in
child-bearing years to take".  And this new one, I kind of felt like it was get 'em, get 'em out, move onto the next one.  (Which is what you'd typically feel at Kaiser).  But I have my prescription, and really, that's all I wanted.  But now I want to know - how am I supposed to get my prescription when I don't have my health plan card?  I guess it's good that she did give me a sample.  So that gives me like a month to get it all sorted out.

On my way back from my appointment, I stopped off at Wendys and had a Jr. Bacon Cheesburger and a frosty.  It's a real good thing that I do not live near any fast food type places, cause it was very yummy, and if I had those things close by, I'm afraid I could make a very bad habit out of it.

And I want to give a personal shout-out to tea.  I'm really enjoying my daily tea.  It gives me that nice caffeine high/alertness type thing that I guess you'd expect out of coffee, but it tastes ok.  It's not great or anything.  But since I've been trying to at least be healthier in what I drink tea works out good, because I won't put any sugar in it.  (Coffee is only tolerable with a lot of cream and some sugar!) So far my favorites tea wise has been Tazo's "Awake".  An Orange Spice was also pretty good, as was the Passionfruit I just polished off.

I have a new housing potential.  Hopefully it will work out for me to check out the place on Saturday.  I saw a place last Thursday, and it was absolutely perfect, except for the room size.  The room was actually smaller than what I have now - and as my room is currently too small, that just wouldn't have worked.  But the location was good.  Price was good.  The house had a TON of storage (big big garage and nice bonus/sun/laundry room). Massive backyard (and I thought the backyard I have now is huge!)  And the potential housemate just seemed like a really nice, cool guy.  In fact, had he been single (I had no idea of his dating status), I would have tried to hook my friend Dre up with him!!  I was really bummed when the room turned out to be too small.  But maybe this new place will have good potential.  The guy who's renting says he's out of town on business alot.  That in itself almost sounds like reason enough to me!!

I'm trying to decide if I should make myself go to the grocery store. I know I've blogged before about how much I hate running any errands after work!  It wouldn't be as bad if these places were actually on my way home.  But nothing is on my way home.  Work to home is a 6-8 minute straight shot.  But I'm also in need of some kitty litter - but I'm trying to tell myself that I could hold out until the weekend.

And that's my day.  How's yours?

A little of this, a little of that

and a whole lotta Warcraft!

The title of the post pretty much sums everything up.  I've been playing a lot of Warcraft.  But really, I don't have a lot else that I can/should be doing.  It's not like I have a lot of social contacts to call.  But I have made an attempt, actually.  I posted to Craigslist last week in search of some like-minded friends.  There were two "meet-worthy" replies - and we did meet.  One was for dinner at Plutos.  The other was for breakfast at Stacks.  Good conversations, nice guys.  Both in relationships - so it's fun to talk about relationships from another perspective.  But I have a feeling there won't be anything beyond that.

And now I just got back from lunch - so I totally lost my train of thought for this post.  Let's see if I can catch it someplace else.

Last night I went out to dinner with my mom.  It was good - we went to the Cheesecake factory and a little shopping afterwards.  Early Christmas presents are the best.  (she bought me a skirt from The Gap).  Though my mom actually asked if she should take it home and wrap it for me for Christmas.  And I said, if you want to, but I was actually planning on wearing it tomorrow.  And so she let me take it home.  It's actually a different color of a skirt I got a couple months ago.  But now, of course, it's on uber-sale.  I saw some shirts and sweaters I liked at Eddie Bauer but I just know that in a couple weeks (right after Christmas) they too, would be on uber-sale.  So I didn't get anything else.

I went to the company Christmas party Saturday night.  Attendance was pretty low - but you've got to expect that when they give you a week notice.  I managed to locate an old dress from High School in the back of my closet that was half-way decent.  But probably not formal enough.  Although when I got there, one of the partners (and his wife) were wearing red sweaters with reindeer on him.  (My mind immediately flashed to Bridget Jones uber-tacky "jumper").  I sat at a table with the office manager, her husband, her son (who actually is working for us temporarily as "file/gopher boy") and his friend.  It was interesting to note the division between lawyer and "support" staff.  And it was just as horribly boring as I thought it would be.  Besides the office manager's son - I'm the youngest and the only person who isn't currently married/divorced/has kids in the office.  So yeah, I have a whole lot to talk about with my co-workers.  I didn't have partake of enough alcohol to even get me a little buzzed - which is good (although I might have enjoyed it a bit more if I had been a little buzzed) because there's nothing worse than getting sloppy drunk at an office party and then having to face your co-workers (and superiorors) the next day.  Thank god one of my front desk cohorts felt my pain at around 9:30 and rescued me and discreetly walked me out the back.

And other than that - it's been all Warcraft all the time!  Living, eating, breathing, dreaming Warcraft!

Receptionist Strip Tease

... or too much time on my hands. 

So anyways, yesterday I finally got a headset at work.  It's the kind that goes over your ear (instead of over your head) and it's a pain to get it to stay on my ear.  So because of this, even if I leave my desk, I won't take it off my ear, l just unclip it from the phone, and I have this long cord dangling from me.  Well yesterday, in my caffeine induced state of mind I was being rather silly.  Tired of sitting at my desk, I stood up for a stretch, unclipped myself and started swinging the cord in my hand.  Laughing at myself a little too loudly, my front desk cohorts raised their eyebrows and so I said,
still swinging the cord, "Hey, I could use this as part of a receptionist's strip tease"

(why do I have this premonition that I'm now going to have a whole bunch of google hits for "strip tease"?)

Oh, Wonderful Caffeine

I'm not really a coffee drinker.  Really, I'd like to like it.  I like the smell.  But it's just a bit too bitter for me.  Now mocha (especially white chocolate mocha) are a whole other story.  So this morning, I tried something different.  We have this whole variety of teas in our kitchen area.  So I decided to have some "Earl Grey".  I'll say not bad.  It probably could have used some sugar, but I didn't want to add any.  And then about half way into it, it got this lovely little high.  Ooohh...caffeine high.  I now know the feeling. And it is good.

Weekend Wrap Up

So yay, only 2 more hours to go.  I am so tempted to ditch bible study tonight.  I'm really tired.  I didn't get enough sleep last night.  Of course it didn't help that I was talking Warcraft with the boy until 1am.  And I think I'm starting to come down with something.  I always get premonitions of forthcoming colds.  I can tell in the way that I
sneeze from time to time.  Or there's this tingly sensation in my nose.  Yeah, I can feel it coming.  Plus, I was bad and didn't do any of my homework this week.

So speaking of the weekend, the boy and Warcraft.  I tried like 5 different places trying to find him a copy to send to him.  But everywhere is out of stock.  Why oh why didn't I just buy a copy when it was on sale for $10 less because of day after Thanksgiving sales (when I bought my copy) AND there were actually copies in stock! Sometimes I'm really good about thinking ahead with things like that... and sometimes, I'm just not.  I guess because I wasn't sure if I was actually going to like it enough that we'd both play it.  He didn't want to get himself involved in an addicting game (he's easily addicted to games) without having me be involved.  (Otherwise, that could cause serious trauma for our relationship - and our relationship is already traumatic enough due to the distance!)

So this weekend, I searched for Warcraft.  I played Warcraft.  I discussed Warcraft with the boy.  It's very much been a Warcraft weekend.  But I did get around to some other things as well.  I watched a Netflix, The Last Castle.  I was suprised to see that Mark
Ruffalo was in this.  He is such a cutie.  And it's so weird that I find him in all these different random roles.  He was really kind of a slime-ball in that one movie with Meg Ryan.  But I find him adorable anyway.  Especially in 13 Going on 30.  Oh, and he was
adorable in My Life Without Me as well.  I enjoyed The Last Castle up until the ending.  What a crappy ending.  I hate it when a movie is great up until the ending and then it just leaves you with this bad taste in your mouth.  It makes everything you just watched up to that point sour.  And Sunday was "date day" with Dre.  We saw Closer and were both very much disappointed.  Afterwards we had dinner at this
burger joint.  I ended up spilling the 2nd part of my Vanilla Milkshake (you know how the good places will give you the extra in the metal container?) all over the table.  I was very sad.  It was a good milkshake.  But in the end, I guess I didn't need to have the whole thing anyway.

So our company Christmas party is on Saturday.  They just told us on Friday.  It totally sucks, how am I supposed to come up with a "date" over the weekend?  And now I have to go by myself which will suck.  I loved it the one year when I was working at the bookstore, and instead of going all out for a party, they just gave all the employees a $50 American Express gift card.  They figured the employees would much rather have the gift card than the party.  I couldn't agree more.  Why do you want to spend a Saturday evening with co-workers who you spend the week with anyway?  My time off is my time off  man.  Plus I'm going to have to find something dressy to wear.
And I don't even get to be all dressy for a date!  Just my co-workers.  ("Bitter, party for 1" - right here!!)

A Receptionist's Rant

Ok people, when you call on the phone and ask to speak with "so and so" and I tell you "so and so" can't come to the phone (is on another call, in a meeting, away from desk - what have you) but I ask if you want "so and so's" voicemail, please don't procede to tell me "But I need to speak with 'so and so'" and then go on into what you need to
speak with "so and so" about.  First of all, I don't care. Second of all, even if I did  care, it doesn't matter because 1) I am not so and so and I know absolutely nothing about your case; furthermore, I don't know anything about anything else anyway.
Ok people?  I just answer the phones.  Here's what I can tell you.  Our fax number.  I got that one down.  Directions.  I'm really good at giving you directions to our place.  I can even tell ya where to park!  And...that's about it.  So take the voicemail or call back later ... don't hmmm and haaaahhh about anything else.  I can't help you.