This time there's not a messup in the paperwork at the DMV; I am allowed to drive! Finally!! Of course, now I have to take the car to the mechanic on Friday because it's doing that wonky overhating again, plus the turn signals refuse to shut themselves off after the corner has been made. Hopefully I won't go bankrupt paying for that! But it feels great to finally be able to drive again. Of course, finding parking on 2nd Ave. is a challenge...as well as parallel parking on the left hand side of the street, but I am okay with it. I am also relieved to not have to commute for 1.5 hours to work because there's not a convenient route to the VMC building. I know it will still be a longish commute, but I am hoping for between 45 minutes to an hour commute. That's bearable.
More good news: On Monday I definitely get to start working on Monday! Of course it's been nearly three weeks since I was supposed to start...
I bought my plan tickets to go home for "Christmas." I leave Seattle on the 19th of February and return on the 25th. I'm a little worried about leaving Mika for so long...I'm sure Tim will take good care of her. (tim, you will take care of her, right??)
As I sat down Monday afternoon to play around with learning PageMaker, I realized that here it is the last week of the month and I hadn't yet started doing anything for SLL. I began to panic, especially when I began to build the first week's calendar and there were so many events. Since at the time I didn't know when I'd be going back to work, I worried about getting it done before the turn of the month. However, the first two weeks were much more loaded than the subsequent weeks. I still have some tweaks to make and the full calendar to build, but otherwise, it's done. Even though all the events was a little exhausting, it just proves the point that Wendy had that there is a need for a site such as SLL. And that, is pretty exciting.
So usually weekends go by with very little, if anything, to entertain me. This weekend has been actionfilled. Thursday night, Liset and Keely came over so I could help Liset beef up her resume. We were up to all hours talking about their work problems. Then, Friday afternoon, Keely came over because she, too, didn't have to work. Last night, Keely, Liset, Judy, and Janice came over at about 10:30 pm and we watched three videos, baked cookies, and chilled until about 4 am. Tonight, Suganthi is picking me up and a bunch of us are going to a Thunderbirds hockey game. I just got a message from Keely, something about a Superbowl party tomorrow. Whew! That's a lot of activities? How will I ever recover? Good thing I'm between contracts right now! lol It is certainly contributing to my propensity to keep vampire hours, though.
Hopefully I will get to go to work this week. Hopefully, I will get my car back this week.
It's raining out. :(
I know, I have been delinquent in posting anything on here. It's not like there hasn't been stuff going on. Maybe it's because I was in the habit of posting at work, not at home, and since I've been home for a week, it's escaped my radar.
Yes, I have been home for a week; hopefully it won't be much longer. I was supposed to start as a vendor last Wednesday and I trekked the one and a half hours to the VMC building, which feels like is half way to Woodinville and has no convenient bus route. When I got there, I was told that because of some paperwork snafoo, I would start on Friday instead. When Friday rolled around, it was amended to Monday which was pushed back to Wednesday which now has been left open ended. Having worked at MS long enough, I am nervous. I worked in a group that when similar things happened meant something was going to fall through. When people stopped talking to you, trouble was afoot. I am assured that is not what's going on. I am dubious.
Today I went to the neurologist since it has been six months since the seizure and I need to get my doctor's okay in order to get my license back. The appointment, as difficult as it was to book, was just as I thought it would be- more like an interview than anything. It took all of ten minutes. Yet, they couldn't manage to squeez me in two weeks ago when the six months were up. Had they, I might be driving today and wouldn't have become sopping wet walking around today. Anyway. The form is faxed to the stupid DMV and hopefully driving will resume within two weeks. I can't wait. Probably the first place I will drive is to the autoshop since the car is doing that fun overheating thing again. Hopefully it's a cheap hose that needs to be replaced. Or, hopefully it is something that is covered by the extended warrantee. Do any of you know how to change hoses?? I have all these guy friends, but none of you seem adept at automotive repair. That's okay. :)
I took Mika to her first vet appointment this weekend and all is fine. I still need to get her fixed. First I have to have a job, a car, and some money. :) She did have a bad case of ear mites, though, so she has to endure three weeks of ear drops. She is handling it well enough.
I cut my hair. I mean it. I cut it. One night, while sitting on the couch, I simply stood up, walked to the bathroom, took my Fiskar scissors in hand, and started chopping. At first I was going to only trip it, but I decided that I wanted it different, so I might as well go for it. A quarter of the way in I said out loud, "What have you done?" But it looks pretty good. I have a picture, both of all the hair in the towel (which resembles a large rodent that I trapped either coming out from or escaping into my sink) and my new coif, which I will post at a later date. Who else needs a haircut? I don't charge that much and I have an excellent reference. :)
So it looks like as of next Wednesday, I will be a different breed of dashtrash; I will be a vendor instead of an agency worker. Not much will change since I will do the same work for the same group. I will be in a different building and that's about it. I will miss seeing my team, but I will still see them at meetings; I will have building access I think. I am just happy to still have a job. Drawing unemployment sucks.
This year is already looking up. I have a kick ass apartment, soon I will be off the old lease, I've had a date already, and now I get to keep my job. There's still plenty of room for improvement, but I am not complaining so far.
It's so nice today, lots of sun. A little chilly, but that's okay. Maybe I will walk to Overlake Transit Center.
Well, I finally finished A Prayer for Owen Meaney. It took awhile to get into it, but it ended up being a good book. Now I am reading A Widow for One Year, which Tim lent to me. It's starting out already to be a much more initially engrossing plot. Perhaps that is because all the characters appear to be, or appear that they will be, writers of some sort. Perhaps it's because it's in the different size paperback book. Anyway, I'm well on my way to fulfilling the two books per month quota I am resolved to accomplish.
Things look good for me at work to be converted from a- to v-, which I am very excited about. If it happens, I won't be working in building 5 any longer; I will work in the Volt Management Corporation building which is near the Willows Campus, but that's okay. Days and sometimes weeks can go by without seeing most of the members of my team, other than the weekly team meetings. As long as I am working, I am happy. Or, at least satisfied.
Mika seemed fine this morning. She was rip roaring hyper as usual. Hopefully this was her pre-heat warning and this weekend I can get her fixed. I read somewhere yesterday that some cats stay in heat perpetually until they either get it on with a male or are spayed. Yikes!!! There will be none of that.
I tried to rent Fellowship of the Ring last night, but I think that the video store was out. Thwarted once again!
I've decided this blog has been getting more and more too personal. Didn't I say that I wasn't going to let it get to that? Sorry to pull the plug on your semi-voyeuristic window into my life! :)
The weekend was good. I've got my apartment 95% finished. There are a few more pictures to hang and then I think I will declare victory. I realized that now that I don't have to have my desk and stuff in my room, it's pretty bare. But, that's okay. I don't spend all that much time in there anyway other than sleeping and reading right before I sleep. I kind of like the minimalism of it.
I think Mika is in heat. She's not yowling and being overly obnoxious, but she is definitely not herself. I know, I know. Get her fixed. I intend to, but I don't think I can do it while she's in the midst of it. I feel bad for her.
The Packers lost! What a sad game. And to lose to Atlanta?? And then, the 49ers won! Two kicks in the face!
Patrick came over yesterday.
I am failing abysmally at this 1,000 word/day resolution. I kept to it for all of one day. Here I have this awesome office and I am not utilizing it the way I'd envisioned. Shame on me.
As I washed dishes last night, the plate that I made at Paint the Town Red, when I came to Seattle for the first time almost four years ago, broke. Split in half. I had noticed that it was cracked for quite some time and figured that it would break eventually; I just didn't think it would be now. Now I wonder if this is some kind of ospicious omen. And if it's a good omen or a bad omen. Hopefully it's positive. Things seem to be brightening a bit here and there; my roommate has probably decided on a roommate, which means that I won't have to pay double rent like I feared, but was prepared to do. And even if that doesn't work out, there are three other people interested in the apartment as well so the chances of someone getting in there are good I would say. That would be a load off of my shoulders, that's for sure. And the roommate was nice on the phone last night even, not quite to business like. She even suggested that she still wanted to hang out after this is all done. That surprised me. I am amenable to that.
I might have a date on Sunday.
Next week I stop being a slacker and actually get up before 9 am so I can get to work before 10:30. This is just insane.
I write New Year's resolutions every year. Some are written on fancy sheets of stationery. The past few years I've written the lists in my Girl Power journal. Inevitably the list contains the perfunctory annual items like "lose weight" or "stop biting my nails." The past three years "be FTE somewhere!" has made it, too. Oh, and "get a boyfriend." But I try also to carefully consider my many shortcomings and list some things that could perhaps improve my situation as it is unique to that particular time. The following is the 2003 list (with both standard and new itmes):