Domestic Geek

I was hoping for extra work at my job and it is finally materializing. I pulled a 13 hour shift at work today. So far that's about 16 extra hours total for this pay period. WooHoo for over time! I also put myself on the Thanksgiving Day schedule. Since I'm full time, I'll get a day of holiday pay plus time and a half for the hours I work that day. There was also a note posted that the company is providing a meal at noon for those employees that work. I'll try not to eat too much since I'll be fixing my own feast here at home for Marcus and dad.

I'm hoping that this kind of work keeps up and that my supervisor keeps allowing me to stay extra (preferably without putting those hours in on the weekends where I'd have to drive across town an extra day or two). Since I'm learning more every day and being able to complete lots of the odd tasks that come up, it seems that will be the case.

One thing I am going to purchase with my next paycheck is a new set of headphones. I was using mine today to drown out the girl I sit next to when mine broke. Man, they were cheap, flimsy plastic. When I tried to take them off, the cracked plastic got all stuck up and tangled in my hair. I wish I could get a nice pair of noise canceling ones, but unfortunately I still need to be able to hear when my supervisor calls out my name.

Speaking of being late at work, it's 10:30 and Marcus still isn't home yet. The hard drive in the computer of the owner's best friend and longest client took a dump today, taking all of the projects he and his wife were working on. Marcus is trying to recover as much of their data as he can. I know he hates this kind of stuff, especially when someone is running a business without an adequate backup scheme. Hopefully, he doesn't get stuck there too much longer.

OK, with that I'm off to bed. I'm exhausted.

TransSiberian Orchestra is going to be in Denver on December 6th. Check out ticket prices online when I get home.

I want the soundtrack for The Mission.

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I really don't know what possessed me to do it. Maybe it was the stressful work day I had today. Maybe it's that urge I get to go shopping when I'm feeling blue. Whatever it was, I stopped in at a quilting store on my way home from work. Just to see what new fabrics were out. I was just going to look since I hadn't been in a while. I then gave in and I bought a pattern and a few fat quarters thinking I'll whip up a new table runner before Thanksgiving dinner in a little over a week. On my way home, the buyer's remorse set in. What the hell was I thinking? I don't have time to get my fall theme for my blog finished and I think I'm going to "whip up" a table runner. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Whew, Ok, I'm feeling a bit better having got that out. But, seriously? What was I thinking?

As I was watching television this evening (I missed The Big Bang Theory, though, *sob*), I caught one of the new Apple Mac ads. They've released three new ones. The main focus now is the miserable failure of Vista and the release of Leopard. They're hilarious!

I will say that I'm not a fan of the new iMacs, though. There's too much glare on the screen and those new keyboards just feel yucky.

They finally released some Mythbusters on iTunes and Marcus purchased some. Yay! I'm watching one as I type here. It's one of the few shows I've really missed since we got rid of all but the most basic of stations on our Dish.

It's really hard to get in a holiday season frame of mind when the temps are in the upper 60s. It's supposed to be relatively nice all week, too. I'll have to make a trip to K-Mart to find my stuffing mix sometime this week. They seem to be the only ones that carry it.

I had a fairly productive day today. Got some housework done, finally found all four hidden cameras on the iStockphoto Hunt page so that I could get 5 free credits, went to dinner at Hops to celebrate my dad's birthday and found a graphic that I want to use for my new blog template. Edit: Wish I knew about this page sooner. I'd have suffered way less brain damage.

I totally spaced the Broncos game today. Whoops! They even won, too, darn it!

I watched I Now Pronounced You Chuck & Larry last night. It was a cute story. I like most of the movies that Adam Sandler stars in, though.

So, that was my weekend. Exciting, huh?