Domestic Geek

I just got this photo from one of my co-workers that he took a couple of weeks ago. Aren't you jealous of my work environment?

I'm all for any software that allows you to free yourself from the evil giant, Microsoft. Another co-worker pointed me to Flip4Mac WMV, a component that allows .wmv files to be played through Quicktime.

So begins the perks of the new job:

I'm off today. For the whole day. WITH PAY!!! This doesn't even count as a sick day. How cool is that? My boss doesn't want his designers to burn out, so once every eight week cycle we're to take a day or two off to relieve the stress of getting the magazines to press. Each of us four designers is taking a different day this week. Mine was today. It's a good thing, too, after what happened yesterday.

When I let Skippy in from pottying when I got home from work yesterday, he proceeded to bleed all over my house. I panicked because I didn't know why he was bleeding. He wouldn't stop running because of the pain and I was freaking out thinking he was going to die from blood loss. I called Marcus to calm myself down because I was getting hysterical. I felt bad because I knew there was nothing he could do from work. I tried calling Dad as well, but he wasn't home. I finally cornered him back in the laundry room and held a towel around the foot I figured out was bleeding. I wasn't sure at first because all four paws were drenched in blood from running through it. I guess he lost a toenail, but I don't know where because I couldn't find it outside. Weird. At least he hadn't sliced it open. I was afraid we'd have to take him to the vet for stitches or something. After the bleeding let up, I went to the store to get Neosporin and bandages, but then he wouldn't let me wrap his foot. Dork. I spend an hour steam cleaning blood out of the carpets while Marcus mopped up what was on the linoleum.

Today I get to finish that task. I'm sure in the daylight I'll see blood that I missed, plus now my carpets have clean spots. I'd better get them all cleaned while the weather is mild.

First, though, I'm going to grab some breakfast and go read a couple of chapters in The Chronicles of Narnia. One and a half books left of the series left.

My co-worker (is that hyphenated?) asked my opinion of an ad on which he was working. I stood up, glanced out the window and what did I see?

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So, is it insane that I wouldn't go to bed last night until after 10:30 because if I never go to sleep, tomorrow never comes and I don't have to get up to make dough? Stupid move on my part. I was tired anyway, but for some reason, I could not make myself get in my jammies and get into bed. *sigh* Marcus finally made me go to bed. Of course, when the alarm was supposed to go off at 2:30, there was no way in hell I was going to get up. I think I set the alarm for around 3:30 and made it to work by 4:30. I'm slacking bad, too. I kept going outside to smell the smoke from the fire in Jefferson County. It sad that this dry winter is making the area so fire-prone, but burning pine is my favorite smell in the whole world. I paid dearly for my lack of sleep at the design job today. I couldn't concentrate at all. I did manage to finish an ad, but only one. Well, after a better night's sleep tonight, I should fare better tomorrow.

I was playing with my boss' dog today. She opens the door to the office somehow and comes tearing through the building almost on a daily basis. I chased her outside to go play with her and we ran smack into a grazing deer. Well, not into it exactly, but it was less than 3 feet away from me. That was so cool. I need to charge my camera batteries and get some pictures. There are some really cute black squirrels that run around there that I'd like pictures of, too. It's a good thing they gave me the desk that doesn't face the window, or I'd never get any work done! LOL

Damn, I'm doing it again. No more rambling...I'm off to bed.

One more week and I shall never work in pizza again. While that is terribly exciting, I am totally exhausted.

The walk-in didn't get fixed until almost 2pm on Saturday, so I worked from 2–5pm. I spent today doing catch up—15 batches and I'm still not done. Hopefully, I'll get caught up tomorrow. If I don't, I really don't care! Once again, a little routine maintenance of cleaning the flour dust and crap off and there wouldn't have been a problem. Morons. What's even more stupid is they noticed that the dough was proofing faster and nobody bothered to mention anything about it to me. They just assumed I had changed the way I was making dough. I always leave notes when I do anything out of the ordinary! Losers. Now the walk-in door isn't closing properly. Oh, well. Soon it won't be my problem anymore.

They've hired my replacement. The poor guy is only going to be making $8.50/hr (that's less than half of what I was making) and they're heaping ALL of the prep work, including cleaning, on him. They also expect him to be the 2nd insider during the day (he'll have to answer phones and make pizzas) and get all the prep done in 4 hours. HA! They are keeping it a 7-day-a-week job, as well. I don't know how they expect the poor guy to get two days' worth of dough done to take a day off when they're giving him all that extra crap to do. Oh, well—not my problem, right?

It'll be nice not to waste my weekends sleeping. That's what I did today—caught up my sleep. I had planned on going biking today, but the wind was blowing something fierce when I got off work. I will also get to cook dinner for Marcus every night. I miss cooking on a regular basis. I haven't made many meals in the last year because it was time to go to bed when Marcus got home from work. I'll be home an hour to and hour and a half before he gets home every night. Yay!!!!! Maybe I can keep up on my housework, too. I am so looking forward to having a "normal" schedule. It's been a really, really long time since I had only an 8–5 type of job. I know I plan on doing some freelance work to bring in some extra cash, but that won't be an everyday-have-to-do-it-now type of job.

Today I read the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia that I received for Christmas. I thought I had read those when I was in elementary school, but apparently not. I didn't remember the story at all. Maybe I saw a movie or something when I was younger. I want to finish the books before I see the movie. Since I'll wait until it comes out on DVD, I'll probably make it!

I put a CD up for sale on eBay and this Highlands Ranch bitch won my auction on December 31, but hasn't paid for it. I was worried when her feedback was only a 1 and she had a negative. Turns out she bought the same CD from somebody else before my auction even ended. She didn't have the class to retract her bid from my auction or even email me when I invoiced her that she had no intent to pay because she had bought one already. I sent another email explicitly asking her to inform me if she had no intent to pay so that I could relist then instead of waiting the 10 days I stipulated in my auction and she is totally ignoring me. I am so mad. Now I have to do the whole non-paying bidder, give her negative feedback and hope she doesn't retaliate and ruin my perfect 100% feedback score. I can't even do a 2nd chance offer to the other bidder, because he also bought the CD already. Why do some people have absolutely no class?

Did you guys see The Office on Thursday? I laughed my ass off when Dwight found his stuff in the vending machine. Then the alcoholic chick (Meredith?) had her shirt off AGAIN. Too funny. Man, I LOVE THAT SHOW.

I think Starting Over is new tomorrow. This season is not really growing on me. Allison is bugging the crap out of me. You'd think as long as she's been there, she'd have gotten it by now. I guess not. Oh, well. Supposedly she "graduates" tomorrow and maybe they'll get somebody on there that will make some progress. Thank goodness for PVRs or I'd have totally dumped that show this year.

Looks like the Denver Broncos will be playing the New England Patriots this Saturday for the first playoff game at Invesco Field. GO BRONCOS! I hope people order a lot of pizza and make my last paycheck respectable.

OK, I'm going to wrap this up and go watch an episode of the british The Office before heading off to bed. Since I probably won't have time to write, I hope everybody has an awesome week.