Irrepressible Perserverence

I say, again, I hate insomnia so much.  And the weird dreams that I get when I finally do fall asleep at 5 am.

Now to force my way through morning Baltimore traffic to get to the conference - it looks like I'm really going to enjoy myself in the next two days.  Alsoalso, I have a date on Friday night so once I get done with the conference, I'll be off to that.  He'll get to see me in work clothes but at least I picked the cute work clothes.

...yeah, I'm about to head out with no details on that because I'm a MEANIE. :D

First, I wanted to thank everyone for their support and wishes over the last two weeks.  Life kind of sucked for a bit but you guys always come through.  And I got my mommy. :D  Thanks for the comments and emails - y'all rock.

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My subconscious needs to go jump off a cliff.  I've been having pretty disturbing dreams and nightmares the last few nights.  Normally when I have nightmares, they're things that play off my weird brain issues.  I mean, I had those as well (I dreamt I was at my birthday dinner with half family and half friends and I got frustrated with not being able to order what I want and by the time I did, I was in tears and everyone left ...yeah.) but the others?  Damn.

One night I dreamt that I was a cop but I was carting around the soul of a serial killer - it was hotly debated about how I got it.  Either he attempted to kill me - and I saw that.  Nothing like watching someone gut me.  Or I killed him so I could then become a killer as well.  The gutting scenes, TWO of them, were very visiual and it only got worse.  When my personality switched over to his, it was a very physical reaction.  Bones breaking, muscles ripping, blood everywhere...

And I wish I could write as well as I want to because I don't have the words to say how freaky that actually was.

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Work is apparently attempting to kill me.  This should surprise no one.

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I seem to be still pretty stretched thin and I'm not quite sure how to unthin myself.

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I have a giant monkey, my mom is visiting soon, my roommates are great, my friends are awesome and I'm the maid of honor in a good friends wedding.  Things could be much worse.

I'll be down in the Hampton Roads area this weekend since I didn't see my sister over Thanksgiving.  Since I came in late today, due to insomnia last night, I'm working until 7 and then leaving to go straight down there.  At least work will be quiet for the last two hours that I'm here.

Nothing like circling the parking lot because there are no spots to make one late to work.  I decided to cut my losses, go back home for 20 minutes, and then grab one of the reserved spots that pop open at 10.  There were an unusual number of parking police circling the lots as well or else I would have grabbed one before hand.

But in better news, guess what?  They elected Peter Petrelli as President!

...oh, wait, hang on - wrong universe.  ;)  Seriously, I'm incredibly excited that the person I voted for is now president elect.  He's not a perfect man and I certainly don't agree with all of his views and stances.  I don't expect miracles - the country has been on a downhill slide for a few years in terms of economy, etc. and it's going to take some hard work to get us back to where we were at.

But it's a new day and yesterday was a historical one at that.  And I thought McCain's speech was very gracious and I'm incredibly pleased that he didn't pull out the lawyers - stepping back around 10 pm instead of waiting until the very last minute made me happy since I found out before I went to bed.  Despite Florida's apparently best efforts at still trying to confuse their voters (connect the dots?  What?)...

It's going to be an interesting four years and my hat is off to the Redskins for losing and making this all possible.  ;)

In the meantime, Petrelli/Palmer 2012!

We're trying out a new coffee/tea vendor at work and all I have to say is YES, PLEASE, KEEP.  For one thing, I'm highly amused at the whole one serving, do it yourself thing.  For the other, it actually makes a decently good cup of tea.  ...and I'm amused by the little one packet things you get to play with.

Currently we're using these awful, huge coffee makers with a hot water spout for tea.  This one is much faster (and cuter looking!  Well, it is.) and better tasting, as a whole, than what came out of those horrid machines.

...I should, however, refrain from having a lot of tea just because it's there.  It still has caffeine in it and on Wednesday, I'd had so much I thought I was going to vibrate through space and time itself.

Quick, easy steps on how to make a Jen have a near hissy fit at work.

Step one, take your Jen out of the wilds of the modern work place and put her to work doing the tedious task of member cards.  Now, best take care because member cards are wily and hate being in order - but, of course as any well trained Jen and member card hunter knows, they have to be in order.

Step two, trick her into thinking this process of doing over 1000 cards has gone smoothly.  See the Jen dance, dance, Jen, dance.

Step three, consider your trick complete when you watch the Jen box up the cards for delivery.  Well done, you.

Step four, have the Jen wander back to the printer and, to her horror, discover that during the printing process someone decided to be "helpful" and moved a stack of those cards from the printer to some hidey hole next to it.  Step far, far away from the Jen at this point because things could get nasty.  If necessary, remember there is no shame in running as long as you run fast.

Step five, watch with wonder as the Jen is forced to open the box like some crazed animal and then flip through the labels and over a thousand cards in order to figure out exactly.  Where.  It.  Goes.

Step six, have her realize she has to be at her desk until 6 because she was doing the late shift tonight.  Laugh at the Jen when she realizes she will be stuck for much longer than anticipated at work, probably well until 6:30 or longer.

(Disclaimer: Messing with the Jen in this way has some safety issues.  We are not responsible for loss of life, limb or naughty bits while in the process of the taunting.  If injured, seek immediate medical attention at the doctor of your choice.  Proceed with caution and if the Jen turns on you, the only things that we can legally offer you are our condolences.)

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!