Domestic Geek

I hope everyone had a relaxing and happy day of thanksgiving. I've got so much to be thankful for lately and with a little bit of work on my part, I will have so much more. I'm working on a Thursday Thirteen post about the things I'm thankful for, but I'll probably not get that posted until tomorrow. I was just reading the posts I did about Thanksgiving from last year and from 2005 and my life is changing so dramatically since those years. I'm definitely growing and making forward progress.

I did decide that I'm never offering to work my entire normal shift on Thanksgiving again. We didn't end up eating until after 6 pm and I hate eating a big meal that late. The cool thing about working today was the lack of traffic. I sure wish I could get to work that easily every morning.

It probably goes without saying, but the table runner didn't get finished. In fact, I didn't dig out most of my Thanksgiving decorations, either. It's been such a crazy, busy time. I did vow that I'm going to have it for next year, though, so I'm not going to pack it away and will get it done soon.

OK, I'm off to watch the CSI I recorded this evening and then I'll be off to bed.

Heh, I totally did what I said I wasn't going to do yesterday. I racked up almost 5 hours of OT today. I had a project that was kicking my ass and I wanted to see it through to completion. Partially because I love a challenge and didn't want it to beat me and partially because it was a real learning experience. What sucks is the files that were submitted shouldn't have been allowed. They were everything that a PDF for print shouldn't be (RGB, missing fonts, low resolution images), but we were told to make it work. Frustrating.

I did make it to the liquor store to get the orange liqueur I needed for my cranberry recipe. I also splurged and got myself a six pack of Michelob.

I've baked my pumpkin pies and am in the middle of a cheesecake. Marcus is going to put the turkey in the oven for me while I'm at work. I'm not sure if I'll put in my full shift tomorrow. Turns out the supervisor working is not one of my favorites. We'll see how busy we are and how crazy she makes me.

I need to get to bed so I get up on time tomorrow morning. It's supposed to snow a couple of inches overnight and be really cold in the morning. Yucky. I hate cleaning off the car in the morning. Guess I'd better dig out my heavy coat.

I did finally go this evening to get new wiper blades. I figured I had better take care of that before we get a lot of snow. I actually needed new ones last winter and kept putting it off. I'm such a slacker. AutoZone was having some kind of sale, so I got a set of winter blades for less than $10 when I was expecting to have to pay over $20. w00t! I'm glad I decided to drive that little extra distance rather than stopping at the Advance that is closest to home. I actually used to work at that AutoZone a few years ago, but it's been quite a while since I set foot in it. I didn't recognize a single employee in there and the store didn't even really look the same. That was a little weird.

I had to stay late again at work this evening. We have so much work to do this week. Lots of clients were promised proofs before Thanksgiving and I'm not sure they're all going to get done. I can't stay late tomorrow, though. I've got pumpkin pies to bake and food to prep for Thursday. Besides, my whole shift on Thursday will be OT, so it'll be good if I don't stay. I wonder which supervisor is covering that day — I totally forgot to ask. I may regret agreeing to work depending on who it is.

Have you ever had a hair (pet or human) in your sock and it worked into the skin of your foot? It happened often around here with Ursa's coarse hair about. Well, I could tell that there was something in my foot the last two days, but I couldn't see anything. I figured maybe I had stepped on a burr or something and the point was down deep. Last night I couldn't take it anymore, grabbed a pin and the magnifying glass and took a look. I ended up pulling out a pretty good sized hair that looked like it belonged to Marcus' goatee. How weird is that? I must've picked it up in the bathroom at one point and it spent the day in my shoe boring into my foot.

There's this girl at work who loves to forward emails. Drives me crazy. The most recent was this one with all sorts of cookie recipes in it. I noticed all the the URLs when to the same site, so I checked it out. The site is NorthPole.com and it's actually a kid-friendly Christmas site with lots of stuff. The cookie recipes are part of Mrs. Claus' Kitchen where there are lots of recipes and stories. I'm going to waste a lot of time on that site, I can tell already.

It's looking like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert is already sold out. Damn it! If it was on a weekend, I could probably get him to take me to the show down in Colorado Springs, but unfortunately it falls during the week. I wish someone around here would give away tickets to the TSO show! I also see that Mannheim Steamroller is coming December 17th to do a Christmas show. I don't think I could get Marcus to go to that one (if there are tickets left - haven't checked yet).