hello, lovely

Well, the lady finally, FINALLY called me back. Apparently the original person we were dealing with had held the place for us anyway with the understanding that I’d go back that evening. It didn’t work out that way thanks to transportation issues & my cube like, exploding with work while I was gone to lunch.

I took in my application & the hold check after work yesterday, thanks to TC dropping me off on her way (sort of-ish) to get Alex. Now we’re just waiting on Joe, who’s been super busy w/ work meetings and interviews and all kinds of other crap, to get his application faxed in to them.

I SOOOOOOOOO want this freaking apartment. SOOOOO so so so so so SOOOOOOOOO bad.

I haven’t had a weekend To-Do list in a while, so let’s post one.

To-Do List for 3/25-3/26
+ Laundry. MUST!!
+ Grocery shopping (MUST!!)
+ Possibly go to JoAnn’s, or do an online order for some Secret Pal goodies (in-store better, I have my 40% off coupon to use)
+ Search for PodSafe Music
+ Record & post Episode 2 of my Podcast. (It’s about Knitting. I say “Um” a lot, and I yawn in the first episode. I think I know how to edit it now, but I’ll leave it there for posterity.)
+ Driving Lessons (Probably on Sunday)
+ Clean out the Fridge
+ Start going through all my JUNK and tossing or packing, or at least organizing.
+ Go through other bins of Yarn Stash for things to sell or knit.
+ Finish at least 1 Knitting Project this weekend
+ Watch Netflix movies (1 more to go - Domino).
+ Sleep
+ Go to bank & have them switch to the new free checking stuff.

Okay, that was SO WEIRD.
Someone just drove through the parking lot blasting Gloria by Laura Branigan.

Who BLASTS Laura Branigan? *lol* My MOM didn’t even BLAST Laura Branigan when I was a kid & that’s almost all we listened to in the car!! *lol*

What in the hell makes someone blast their music/bass? I don’t get it… if it’s THAT loud, it doesn’t SOUND good because you can’t EFFING HEAR IT! I mean, yeah, you hear NOISE. but how in the hell do you hear what the music SOUNDS LIKE?! or even the WORDS?!

And why do you decide to start BLASTING IT AT 10pm LOUD ENOUGH THAT EVERYONE IN THE BUILDING CAN FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL IT?!?!

GOOOOOOOOOOOD. I hate my neighbors.

Sorry about the lack of updates, everyone.
It’s been crazy busy at work trying to get stuff done and get used to doing my job, while helping K with her new job. It’s been kind of crazy because I didn’t really get to sit and train her like Bossman#1 wanted, because I was taking care of Bossman#2’s stuff while J was getting stuff done for HIS new position.

So I pretty much just tossed her in without being able to sit down with her and show her stuff.

I had time to type up a cheat-sheet for the system we use to look stuff up in, and she’s had a lot of practice with that for the AEs, so she’s getting used to that. But all the other stuff… well, it might take a little while. We’ll see.

PANDORA!! I found it a while ago, and just re-discovered it from another blog. Pandora is awesome.. I wonder if it works at work. I’ll have to try it. But you pick an artist or song or something, and it plays the song or a song by the artist, then goes about finding other songs/bands you might like based on that first song and tones and inflections and sounds and other stuff. It’s pretty cool.

Apparently, Pandora thinks I should listen to Train and BBMak. I’ve never been a big fan of Train.. maybe it was the overplaying of Meet Virginia or something, but I already found one song I might have to download.. When I Look in the Sky. I really like that song.And I’ve always had a softness for BBMak, thanks to my sister and her boyband phase. And I might have to check out The Stereo. I’m sure there will be more that I’ll have to check out. *lol*

I’m going shopping for new clothes today. I’m so excited. Since I got my surprise paycheck last week, and I just got paid yesterday (and my tax return showing up in a week or two!), even after rent has been paid, I have quite a nice chunk of cash. The pants I wore the other day lost their button, while I was at work. Talk about embarrassing. Thankfully it happened when I was in the restroom, unbottoning my pants to go. The button just fell off in my hand, along w/ the thread that held it there, so there’s a hole where a button should be. I only have 2 pairs of pants that I can really wear at work, excluding the jeans I can wear on Fridays, so it’s time to get new ones. Maybe another skirt or something.. and I definitely need shirts. I have a coupon for Lane Bryant, and I think I’d like to see what they have at Old Navy. I also need some shoes (dressy brown ones, specifically).

I think Jenny and I are going to go later today. So that’ll be fun.

OH! I also have to make copies of my apt key. I locked myself out of the apt night before last (left my keys up at work. lol. Oops), and if I want to get in next time I do that (thankfully, I’ve only done it twice.), someone nearby needs to have a key that isn’t the office who wants to charge me a ton of money to UNLOCK A DOOR! I understand it’s after hours and all that, but it’s like $25-$35 or something like that. Not even for an hr of work, cuz the guy lives in the complex!!! Oh well.

I love it when things get screwed up in my favor. I ordered my groceries online because I needed a lot of heavy stuff (case of water, sodas were on sale, etc. etc. etc.), and one of the things I ordered was a quart of milk. I don’t drink milk by itself, and since my cooking as of late has been essentially non-existant, I haven’t really cooked much with it either, but I always get at least a quart, just in case. Well, this quart of milk was $1.49! And when I got my groceries?! I’d received a whole GALLON! I’ll be eating lots of macaroni & cheese this week, as well as doing a lot of baking with recipes that require milk. *lol* I’d hate to toss it.

So yeah.. now I’m all excited about a gallon of milk.

I’ve been busy knitting & watching movies. I watched the last two DVDs of Alias, Season 1. YAY. And Assault on Precinct 13. Blockbuster’s being retarded and saying they didn’t get my other two movies, so I’ve had to report them as missing. Yay. THey sent one of them (some animated cat movie..not Aristocats, but something else. I forget the name.. but it looked cute, and I’m in a cartoony sort of mood.), but I haven’t received it yet, so I”ll be watching the original Yours, Mine & Ours because I’ve never seen it before, and everyone seems to think that’s the greatest sin that ever occured, so i’m absolving myself today. It’s Sunday after all. *LOL* Perfect time for an oldie. And some knitting.

It’s only 3pm? Geezus.
Today’s never going to end.

In other news - I think my neighbor kicked her boyfriend out.
The parking lot is wet, so I guess it rained.

Also, there’s a gray cat wandering the complex. I see it all the time, and I decide I’m going to go upstairs, grab some tuna that I have every intention of eating but never do, and when I come back out of the apartment, even if I’m only in it for 3.2 seconds, the damn cat is nowhere to be found. It looks like it got into a fight or something. It’s tail’s all messed up.

Okay, I should be cleaning, but I just folded/hung up all my laundry, so I’m taking a break to watch some Gilmore Girls. Because I can.

I’ve been doing laundry since 8am… I went down about half an hour ago to get my last two loads out of the dryer, and one of the dryers I was using was .. in use. It should have been finished, because the one next to it was done, and I started that one afterwards. I opened it & found someone else’s clothes in the dryer, with one of my socks. Okay, weird. I used that dryer earlier, too, and maybe I just left a sock in it.

So I take my clothes out of the second dryer and come back to the apartment. I’m 99% sure that I used 2 dryers for the last time. I just went down to check all the dryers to make sure my stuff was still there (I discovered I was missing a pink towel I like to use when I get out of the shower + a couple of shirts I KNOW I washed). My clothes were there, but shoved in another dryer with the door shut.

What the fuck?
Who just grabs someone else’s clothes & shoves them into another dryer so they can use the top dyer?? It takes less time to just throw your stuff in the bottom dryer. I know who the guy was too, because he was in there when I went this time AND the last time. I know it was him. What a jerk.

I’d never touch anybody else’s clothes… what gives them the right to touch mine?? I mean, if the other four dryers were in use and they needed a dryer, I guess I can understand that SORT OF, but MY stuff was the only stuff in the laundry room, so he purposely moved my crap so he didn’t have to bend down, which is STUPID because he had to to SHOVE MY STUFF in the bottom dryer!!!!!!!

Ugh. I’m thankful I’ve had very good luck with the laundry rooms in my complex. I know others have many horror stories, but seriously. Show some respect, even if the stuff isn’t yours, y’know?? Grr.

EDITED: 1:11pm
Been Up Since: 6am
Amt of Cleaning Done: half the intended stuff! if I clean the closet.. i get bonus point.
# of Trash Bags Taken Out: 6 + 1 box.
# of Times Apt Left for Non-Cleaning Related Endeavors: 3 (store to pick up 1yr+ old pics & get quarters for laundry, get pkgs and mailbox key, was given wrong new mailbox key!)
# of Rooms Clean (5 possible, including closet): 2 (bathroom + livingroom. still need to do bedroom & kitchen.)
# of Times Distracted by Online-ness: 3
# of times distracted by Knitting: 1
# of times Stopped to watch a movie & knit: 1

Basically, I woke up at 6am … tossed some papers in a trashbag left over from the last time I started cleaning, put some pizza boxes (yes, plural. I’m terrible) in a bag, took those out & went to the store to get some of April’s wedding pictures, cat pictures, and pictures from my first trip to Joe’s neck of the woods. *lol* I also had to get quarters for laundry, because I only had enough for 1 wash&dry and 1 wash. lol. I’m back now, and at some point today I need to run up to the office & pick up my new mailbox key & any packages that might be there. Yay!

Hopefully I’ll get to leave the apartment for more fun things later, but we’ll see how today’s cleaning frenzy goes. Back to work!!

PS: I have some spiffy news, but I can’t post about it until next weekend. So um, live in suspense until then!

long time no post, kind of.

i wish I had stuff to post about, but I really don’t.
i’m sorry for that. not that i think anybody keeps checking to see if i’ve posted (ok, maybe tc.. ), but still.

um, what’s going on?
not much. my birthday is in *counts* 13 days. my boyfriend will be here in 12 days. so far it looks like i’m getting quite a few people at my birthday party. i feel kind of bad, though, because there are a couple things going on next weekend, and i don’t know yet if i can go to either one of them. :/ (fair warning to those of you who are throwing things.)

i’ve started organizing the knitting stuff. really, the only thing worth posting about is the knitting, adn that all goes on on the knitting site. lots of yarn and books have been coming in. i’m knitting up a storm on an afghan that seems like it’ll never be done & a mysterious project for my LSSK group & just all kinds of things.

i’ve been watching movies today like nobody’s business. and i need to clean. i need to take the trash out and at least do a load of laundry. i’ve started moving the knitting books off my bookshelf in the living room & storing them in my closet. I have more “book shelf” space in there, and then it’s not cluttering up the living room. not that *I* mind when I’m here–easier access, but i’m not sure my impending guest will have the same philosophy. in fact, i’m certain he wont.

some mini-movie reviews:
Mr. 3000: Okay. Not the greatest movie ever, but entertaining.
King Arthur: Suck.
The OC: Man I love this show. If I ever remember that it’s on Fox on Thursday, I might actually watch it on tv instead of on DVD.

Time to start cleaning and stuff. Yay fun.

Well, I’m feeling much better than I did yesterday. Too bad the party wasn’t today. Since I was pretty much out of commission yesterday (I started feeling better, but not until the evening, and then I stayed up & knitted while chatting with Mellypie & Dibbie), nothing got done.

Today I am doing all the stuff I was hoping to get done yesterday.
Sunday’s To-Do List
+ laundry *in progress*
+ felt felted bags *in progress*
+ watch Anne of Green Gables, Go, and Be Cool *halfway through Be Cool*
+ Switch Netflix to be tv-only, and make Blockbuster the movie Queue. 3 TV show DVDs and 3 Movie DVDs
+ work on all of my knitting projects.
+ clean. or at least make an attempt *attempted*
+ figure out what to make for dinner. preferrably involving chicken or pork chops.
+ type up yarn stash list. (alternative: take it to work this week & do it there when slow)