HULK SMASH!!!

Yes...this is what I feel like doing today. Does anyone have a pair of these? I'd really like to borrow them!

The Big Tree...UPDATE

No one was hurt...that I know of. There was a class going on in one of the rooms where the tree hit and the teacher totally continued teaching class! (I guess to be fair, the semester does end in a week so I guess there is a lot of catching up to do!) Also my colleague had not come into the office yet so she remained unharmed. This is a good thing.

Anywho...my big news is...I was totally in the paper this morning. They totally misquoted me and made me sound like an idiot. (my quote literally has me saying the word building like 4 times) The online article didn't have pictures (damn) but I'll be going on a coffee run soon and hopefully the hard copy will have some pictures. You know I'll keep you updated :)


UPDATE: I FINALLY HAVE A PICTURE! Yay! :)

Tired...UPDATE

Today is not going well :(

First thing's first...it has been storming and the wind SUCKS. I hate having to grip onto the steering wheel for dear life.

Second...I have 8 million things to do today and my brain won't focus. I've had coffee, I've had a bagel but nothing is fueling the think tank.

Then I made a huge booboo. A while back there was a mandatory calendar service switch. We had to switch from something that worked wonderfully to something that quite frankly, stinks. Not only does this new service bite, but they didn't transport any of our scheduled events from the old service. So I had to go in and manually update every day. And of course I made a mistake...a big one. Regardless, I was on the phone trying to get it fixed and there was a big crash that literally shook the entire building. We opened a colleague's office and there was glass all over! A ginormous tree uprooted b/c of the storm and came crashing down on our building. I hope to update some pictures soon.

Needless to say, I'm freaking out...and I'm tired :(

UPDATE: A photographer from our local newspaper just came in to document the 'catastrophe' I'm going to be in the paper tomorrow y'all! :)

Cue Twilight Zone Music...

Ok, I woke up this morning and thought "Yay, Friday the Thirteenth!" Weird right? Well for those who don't know me...I LOVE Friday the Thirteenth. Mainly b/c I love horror movies and besides Halloween, Friday the Thirteenth is an excuse for me to curl up with some popcorn, turn off all the lights and pop in a horror flick! Fiance and I were planning on finishing the Sleepaway Camp movies but stupid blockbuster has sent us 1 and 3 but not 2 (I'm serious, 2 has been at the top of our list for a month, no wait, nothing but they WON'T send it to us...I'm going to have to call them and bitch) Anywho...that idea has been put off for a rainy day (aka whenever Blockbuster gets off their ass and sends us our requested horror movie) and Fiance has to work tonight so, oh well.

Well, this particular Friday the Thirteenth also happens to be payday for me! Yay, Payday! And this is what I love about being in a couple. Sure I love the cuddling and always having someone there for you when you need them (for example I had a horrible day at work yesterday and I called him crying...he's great, he cheered me right up) but what I really love and what makes me really feel like I'm in a relationship is the sharing of the bills (I KNOW, IT'S WEIRD!)

Well being the good fiance that I am I immediately came into work and started paying bills. I always pay both of our cell phone bills (I look forward to the day when we have a combined plan. February 2008 cannot come soon enough!) For some reason I thought that my checking information had been saved in his verizon account and I clicked all the necessary accept buttons and made my payment. After I pay something I go back to my online bank account to see if it's gone through (I love how quick things are nowadays) and it hadn't. I immediately started freaking out and went to check his bank account and what do I see? RED NUMBERS*. Oh no, oh shit oh shit oh shit. I have been at work a grand total of 40 minutes and my happy ass has to drive back home to give him a check to put in his bank account hoping against hope that he doesn't get an overdraft fee. (note to any bankers out there...you really shouldn't give a person an overdraft fee if that fee is larger than the amount you've over drafted...I'm just saying...$39 for -23 cents is STUPID! This has actually happened to me!) So I drove the 30 minutes into work this morning, 40 minutes later drove 30 minutes back to give him a check to cover the negative and drove 30 more minutes back to work. I'm not one who is normally superstitious and cautious on Friday the Thirteenth but you better believe I am now!

*my fiance is not a bum who has no money...we get paid on opposite weeks...and for now, being young as we are, we're living paycheck to paycheck...WOOHOO debt! yeah!

When's Friday?

I'm super exhausted. I'm not sure why, all I did last night was watch America's Next Top Model (they sent the last "plus-sized" model home in case anyone cares to knows) and catch up on my 7th Heaven (My DVR chooses to record anything and everything!)(ok, ok, it's totally a guilty pleasure and I'm secretly hoping that they'll pull the stunt they did last year and do a huge series finale and then bring it back b/c no one is watching the network).

Granted it's been a slow week, and slow weeks inevitably make me tired b/c of straight up boredom. I have been searching blogs and came across Something Catchier and her sister's blog A Margarita. These girls are great and I spent the majority of my day reading their life stories. They make me want to live in Minnesota or NYC...but I think I'll stick to my balmy North Carolina. Seriously go check them out...they're amazing!

But back to my exhaustion. Why is it that Thursday's are the longest days of my week? I used to think Monday's sucked but ever since I started leaving early on Wednesdays and Fridays...Thursdays are complete HELL. Luckily next week I get to take Thursday and Friday off for a girl's (aka my mom and sister) road trip to Ohio. Should be fun but it's no vacation. I may come back even more exhausted and grumpier than before...so watch out!

My current state of exhaustion and grumpiness reminds me of when I used to tell the kids at the kids camp I used worked at that when I was upset with their behavior I would get really quiet and if they didn't calm down that smoke would start to come out of my ears and if they still didn't calm down I would turn into pink polka dotted dragon and then they'd really be in trouble...

GET IT?*








HA!

Coincidentally one day there was a brush fire (controlled by our grounds keeper) in the woods behind the gazebo where I taught. The smoke wafted towards us just as my class became unruly...oh boy did it scare them!


*(If you're really that slow, or you just don't know me well enough to get the joke, that's Mad Madame Mim from Disney's The Sword and the Stone when she turned herself into a pink polka dotted dragon to win the wizard's duel (she totally cheated) and if you still don't get why that's funny...I mean seriously, come on, my name is MIM!)

DWTS Update

Leeza, you're 50. And you didn't "give love a bad name" you made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Thank goodness you were booted b/c I'm not sure I could have watched you for another week in another outfit like this.








My prediction for who will be axed next week?
This Guy:

Sorry Cliff...but you suck!

And the Winner is.....

Larry Birkhead


Congratulations. Now can we stop hearing about this insipid bullshit?


Thank You :)