I emailed a breeder about this puppy last night. I hope I hear back from him. I want him so bad!
The Dark Knight (soooooo good!)
I saw this movie Thursday night and wasn’t all that excited about it. I wasn’t expecting much and I thought most all of the hype is because of Heath Ledger’s death. I’m sure to an extent that is true, but it was so good! The entire cast was really good…Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhall and, of course, Heath Ledger. I’ve liked Christian Bale ever since he did Little Women and I’ve never really paid attention to Maggie Gyllenhall. I’ve know Heath Ledger since he did 10 Thing I Hate About You. He has evolved so much since that movie though. His performance was amazing. He managed to be creepy and funny in one. He will get nods at the awards and I (very much a skeptic) believe that his performance merits them. Go see it when you can, the movie was amazing. I’m going to see it in IMAX Wednesday.
Scrunchi sighting
The other day I was in the subway on my way home when it happened. I spotted the elusive New York scrunchi. If you have not seen the episode of Sex and the City centered around Berger’s book and the woman in it who wears a scrunchi, watch it, it’s funny. It’s even more funny when you actually do spot a Manhattan woman (one who lives here) in a nice outfit who looks like she has a nice job wearing a scrunchi that doesn’t match. The entire train ride I couldn’t help but watch her. She was doing work on the train and looked so sophisticated and refined. I couldn’t help but smirk most of the way home.
Caring
So everyone knows my brother and I don’t get along particularly well. We are two COMPLETELY different people. We don’t talk or keep in touch much, but every time I hear about a soldier dying in Afghanistan or a fight or some event there I wonder if it is him. I know he’s been shot at and in “combat.” We may not be close, but I think about him a lot. I wish we weren’t so different…or that our differences didn’t keep us so far apart…but I also wish he’d grow up and think thing all the way through…I guess that statement right there tells a lot about our relationship.
Earlier this year I passed something on the someone high up that brother had sent me about their platoon trying to raise money for decent internet since it’s hard to talk to family or anyone becuase they can’t stay online. The higher up said he wasn’t sure about just sending money. He didn’t like the idea, but suggested we try to do some sort of care package thing. I totally forgot about this and assumed it wasn’t going to happen. Then, yesterday he asked me to come to his office and I was basically asking myself, “what did I do? Am I fired?” He said he’d talked to our CEO, our HR gal and someone in finance and they all agreed that we should send packages. So, this weekend I’ve been charged with finding out how to do that and finding out what they need. It makes me smile.
Zig Zag knit Scarf
This is a summer scarf that I am knitting. I found the pattern in the yarn store I go to. Pretty! 
I stayed until after 10 and came back in at 8
I have recently joined a new team at work, as did another girl on my team. Since we’ve moved on 2 people have moved off. One of those people was difficult to work with and constantly complained about my someone on the team. We assumed these complaints were warranted and true until we had to start to work with him. We have since found out that yes, she may be difficult, but he is his own set of problems.
I was working on a project for 2 days that essentially consumed all my time and kept me from completing 3 very important other tasks simultaneously. I then asked him (I’m supposed to be training him to learn my job) to help. He complained about the time at which I gave him the project and started it 30 minutes later. Between his huffing and puffing and “OMFG”s and phone calls complaining to his friends that he might be late to meet them at the bar at 9 he asked me question after stupid question. He kept complaining that I asked him to help at 4:30 (we had meeting from 2:30 until 4:30 and then complaing he’d been working on the project for 4 hours (at 7:45). It should have taken him about 30 minutes, I’d only asked him to double check my numbers. Instead through his complaining and huffing and puffing, he didn’t check them and managed to stay for 3 hours doing nothing to help “the team” that he claims he so badly wants to be a part of.
This co-worker is the kind of person who knows it’s good to ask what he can help with, but really hopes that the answer is always…oh, I’m ok right now. Finally when he was on the phone asking a question that I was trying to answer I heard him say, “I’m going to take a cab.” I said, “ok,” because he had said before he was going to take one when he left. He said, “I’m not talking to you,” and continued his other conversation on his cell phone with his friend. I asked him to look over the June numbers and he literally slammed the phone down. Shortly thereafter he waallked out and said (very flustered), I’ve gotta go. He sure did. He had to go to the bar to watch his friend’s band play. Wow. Priorities. Work ethic. Team player. Awesome.
The next day he stormed into our bosses office while another team member was in there told her there were 2 sides to every story and that the night before was “just Erin* and Misslissa trying to screw him over.” She apparently rolled her eyes, didn’t even look at him and told him she didn’t have time for that right now. Then when he left her office she said she needs to talk to HR about him. He hasn’t been working during the day, he’s been talking lunches, yet coming in after 9 and leaving at 5 (sometimes before). He also takes multiple “smoke breaks” that last at least 10 minutes. We figured it and he probably works a total of 5 and a half hours a day, not the 8 that make a 40 hour work week.
So frustrating. He definitely did not make my life easier and help me out like he constantly is saying he wants to do. I attribute this to him being 30, having a masters (which he always brings up, but is in no way related to my job - our boss and I also have a masters and we’re not constantly bringing it up), and having been “in the industry for 5 years” although 2 of them were billing and 3 of them were research. None of the 5 were actual media planning. We’ll see how things go.
Almost
I have been neglectful, I just can’t seem to get back into practice of blogging. Work keeps me busy and when I’m not busy, I’m sort of afraid to post anything for fear of who reads it and what trouble it might cause me. Right now I’m toying with the idea of deleting my blog. We’ll see.
Lonely
I really miss my friends from home. I’ve been out here for over a year now and I have no close girl friends. No one to call up and just hang with on Friday night if I want to go get a glass of wine or watch a movie. I have a plethora of “friends” who I don’t hang out with regularly and who can tend to be flakey. My boyfriend is my best friend (and he’s awesome), as I suppose it should be, but say for whatever reason (as so frequently happens in relationships) things don’t work out. Then where am I left? I have no plans for the 4th, when I go out during the week it’s with work and on the weekends I don’t typically do much…if I do do something it’s with the bf, his sister and her husband.
Last Sat was a friend’s birthday and I emailed her last week to see what she was doing and I got no answer. Then I texted her Friday and got no answer. Then I texted her happy birthday on Saturday and have still heard nothing. I’m clearly not a valued friend and I’m not going to waste my time on that. Another friend just straight ignores me when I IM or text her. I’m over that too. I just feel like everyone out here is so flakey and it seems so difficult to find real friends. I’m just over it. I miss my friends from school.
The beach
I went to the beach this weekend and it was so much fun! We woke up early and took the train out. We laid out, took a walk, read magazines, played in the waves…it was perfect. There was an entire section of beach just for surfing. They were so much fun just to watch. In the late afternoon as the tide came in we were watching the waves slowly come up and we were a safe distance from where the water was breaking that the impeding waves weren’t a threat to us…but this one really big wave came up over the hill the corrosion has caused and once it got over the hump it came back down to where we were since we were down. I just sat there watching it and thinking, “oh, shit.” It ruined all my magazines. So sad. Good thing they were at least free…but still, I didn’t get to read them. So when storm clouds rolled in we left. I got home and immediately realized I was pretty badly burned. Someone I was with offered sun screen when we got there and I put it in the places where the normally burn (which is not many), but this time I burned preddy badly on my legs, butt and hips. I’m blaming the reflection from the water. It’s getting better though and it was definitely worth it! Can’t wait to go back.
I’ve been neglectful
I blame moving and summer. I’ve been pretty busy lately. Last Thursday night we went on a sail boat cruise on the Hudson after work. I drank red wine and enjoyed the beauty of this city I call home. After, I went with friends to a lounge for food and more drinks. Some of the things I get to do are so amazing. Friday I had the day off and packed up my apartment. Saturday I got up, took 3 bags to Salvation Army and headed to UHaul. I waited in line for an hour and fifteen minutes and proceeded “home” to load my belongings in a 10×10 truck. It fit nicely with room to spare. It took about an hour and a half with breaks to load the truck and we headed to my new place. Unloading was much faster because we were using carts and elevators. We got the truck all unloaded in about a half an hour. We also picked up the couch a colleague sold me and then returned the truck after dropping it off. Since then I haven’t had internet, I’ve been unpacking, and I’ve been busy. Hopefully I’ll be better about writing now, but I always say that, right?
So I’m living alone until my roommie moves here on Saturday. Hopefully we live together well. The person who introduced me to her thinks we’ll get along well. We seem to so far…except that sometimes she has no idea about anything. Haha. We’ll see how it goes. Can’t be worse than my last roommate.
