Domestic Geek

Current mood: energetic
Wow, I'm actually in the mood to do housework today. That rarely happens. Unfortunatley, I have to leave for school in a hour (although today is the first day of Unix 4 and I'm REALLY looking forward to it). I'm sure the housework mood will be gone by 4 p.m. when I get home, but at least I got more done this morning than I have in weeks.

I feel pretty good this morning. It's amazing how much not having to go to that crap job does for my psyche. I'm also not having any kind of allergy attacks right now (knock on wood). As I figured, nobody bothered to get me any flour for yesterday. The manager claims he'll catch up the dough since it was his fault he didn't order enough flour. We'll see. If he doesn't, I don't really care at this point. I'll make them up when I'm damn good and ready. If that's the end of the week, so be it. If the pizzas taste like crap because the dough isn't proofed enough, who cares?

Dang Broncos lost again. The San Diego Chargers won 27-10. Oh, well. I'm trying not to be a fair weather fan, but I'm just not excited about the season this year. I didn't watch or listen to any of the game yesterday. In fact, I totaly forgot that they were playing until about 5:45 p.m. Maybe it's because my favorite player is hurt and I don't really know enough about any of the rest of the players.

I know, I know. I haven't gone to bed yet. 4 a.m. is going to suck ass.

I was noticing today what a beautiful fall we're having for once. Usually, around here, we have a couple of hard freezes, the leaves turn dull, yucky, dead colors and hit the ground all at once. Fall is usually so short it's hardly noticeable. It's warm one day, cold the next. This year, there are amazing colors all over the place. The leaves are falling a little here, a little there. It's been really neat. Today I was sitting at a traffic light at 104th and Sheridan looking off to the Northwest. A breeze had blown all the brown cloud away from in front of the mountains and they were so clear and beautiful. Longs Peak in the distance had snow on it. In front of that was all the beautiful fall foliage. It was a breathtaking sight. Too bad I didn't have my camera with me.

Current mood: amused
I changed to these devil mood icons for the rest of October. They fit the theme a little better. Cool, huh?

I just read the funniest joke at The Breathing Room. ROFLMAO Also, check out the virtual bubble wrap as found through Pithy Place. Ha, I loved this. I'm one of those people who has to pop all the bubbles on that stuff before I throw it out.

Now I know the owner of the stores is a dork. He leaves a note today for one of the managers that there will be a 200 pie order on Tuesday to be split between the two stores. Does he bother putting the size (12, 14, or 16 inch) so I know which one to up the amount on? NOOOO! Of course, I find out about this after I had already left the other store. Dough is supposed to be made four days in advance to give it time to rise properly. I get to make up the extra there tomorrow IF they find me some more flour. The manager at that store didn't order enough. I was already going to be three batches short as it was and there is no extra flour at the other store. The manager was like, "Well, I'll try to find some. We'll probably be all right if I can't." Oh, they joy of it all. All I've got to say is, if they don't get me more flour, somebody better be making some dough on Monday (my day off) or pizzas about Wednesday are going to start tasting like crap. Once upon a time, I would've come in on my day off in a situation like this. Man, I'm glad I wised up.

Well, off to bed. Gotta get up at 4 a.m. to make the dough. Yippee.

Current mood: sleepy
I need more sleep. I have absolutely no motivation today. I'm going to be a couch potato and then off to bed when Marcus gets home from work.

Current mood: lazy
Man, I intended to get up and go to work two hours ago, but here I am. Marcus has already left for work, even. I didn't even get out of bed until 7. I'm so not feeling like working today. I can't wait to find a place to work that offers paid days off. That's what truly sucks about this job I have now. If I don't work, I don't get paid. It's six days a week and if I do call in, I get stuck making up for it the next day because there is nobody else that will take the responsibility of doing some of the work that I missed (as they are lazier than I am feeling now and alot of times don't even get the work done that they're supposed to do). Of course, I am going to miss the fact that I can work whenever I want as long as I get stuff done before the dinner rush hits.

Damn, my laziness is causing me to have to actually deal with people at work today. It wouldn't be so bad if they were actually working as hard as I, then they wouldn't have time to stand around talking to me. I'm just hoping the driver that the one head manager has a crush on isn't working today, since he's opening. He always gets there early on her days to do her prep, then he bathes in about a gallon (OK, I'm exaggerating, slightly) of this cheesy cologne that I'm totally allergic to and then I have to watch him act like a total dork fawning all over her. He's older than I, she has a boyfriend, and it makes me want to puke. A couple of weeks ago, he got there way early to decorate the store for her birthday. Since the ventillation fans were messing up the decorations, he turned them off and it got really hot in there (500 degree ovens running and no fans), then when she showed up and he lit the candles on her cake, he turned the oven's exhaust fan off (which takes the gas fumes out). I didn't realize he had done this until I started smelling gas and couldn't breathe. I'm so glad he's willing to kill us all just to try to impress this stupid chick. I think what really makes me mad about the whole thing is she plays it to the hilt. I could never take advantage of anybody like that. It all makes me ill.

I can't wait for this Unix 4 class. I am so looking forward to this. I hope I'm not disappointed.

Finally got my Halloween layout finished. It's not quite what I had in mind, but it will do for now.

Ok, stop goofing around and get your ass to work!