heavy on the Ox tail... and Fish heads! Lots of fish heads...

i have to pee.
work has been so good this week! I have been doing some really hot designs and getting major kudos to boot! it makes such a big difference when the day just flies by. i did some mock-ups for a high level brochure yesterday- and they were all very well received.. i SO hope they give me more of them to do. We have about 12 in all to produce, and I got a crack at designing the 1st one. Please god- give them ALL to me!

tonight i get my eyeballs checked by the eyeball doctor, then off to a new hair salon called Bauhaus to get mah hairs did!!!!! woot!! big night.

new 'do- and i will get to seeeeeeee better...

Partying is such sweet sorrow

some Robert Byrne quotes of the day:

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Getting caught is the mother of invention

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Partying is such sweet sorrow

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

He ain't never got no bigger....

me: Did you get that quote i sent you about the dog?

james: yes i did

james: i bet the people at siemens in germany speak better english than in vineland

me: lol, oh they do

james: and by better i mean MUCH better

james: like how we speak english much better than the cats

my life.

Overheard in the cube next to me:

[lady talking about her dog]
"He was about this big... He ain't never got no bigger"


Uughhhhh....... .

my cat is cuter than yours

After watching a CNN report on the abuse of Afghan women, i have not been so depressed in a long time. i am so distraught with what i saw i am just besides myself. .... please god- let something change in this world....

everything hurts in large amounts

Radiohead last night was GREAT... god i love that band... the new album ROCKS my friggin' LEGS off.
They played every song off In Rainbows and every song in between was just the best..
They sold Hoegaarden and Pappa Johns, so what more could i ask for?

My throat hurts from yelling and my entire body hurts because... that's just what it does.

I have to be in work early tomorrows to help supervise the photo shoot with the crazy Russian's son. YAY. the kid went to the 'Art Institute' and thinks he's god's gift to this earth. gag me.
i love complaining to the internet! it's awesommmmme...

Construction to the Left of me- Assholes on the Right

Stuck in the middle with me.

They are BUILDING 2 new offices one cube away from me....
and relocating the 3 guys who sit up against that wall right next to me...... where it used to be VACANT... e.g. QUIET....

I don't see any point in coming to work for the next 2 weeks. I honestly think I am going to ask to work from home. I don't deal well with dust, and screeching SAWS, and HAMMERS....
*Cries*
*Cries*
*Cries*

Because Every RAT is Worth Rescuing

Sponsor a Rat!

as the minutes drag....

my back hurts..
my eyes are twitching and watering....
yup, it's friday.

as soon as i got in the car this morning, my back started to hurt, so i pulled into CVS and bought a heating pad. Reached in my purse- and no wallet, luckily i had a lone credit card floating at the bottom so i could pay for it.
Got in my car and realized i left my coffee at home.
I said fuck it- and went back home to get my pot of coffee and find my wallet.
rolled into work an hour late... yay me!

i'm so tired now, i can't stand it, my eyes have been twitching for 3 days now from strain and fatigue. yay again.
can i go home now?

Barney called, and he wants his nail polish back.

MMMMM... Big honkin' purple nails! very not so pretty. nails fit for Grimace. They lasted for about 2 days and I painted over them. Uugghh.

I have my films ready to take to my urologist tomorrow morning. He will tell me the size of my stone and we'll take it from there i guess.... *cries*

I fell in love, in love with you suddenly.

When you are the one, the one that lies close to me.
Whispers "Hello, I’ve missed you quite terribly."
I fell in love, in love with you suddenly.
That there's no place else I could be but here in your arms.


When you are the one, the one that lies close to me.
Whispers "Hello, I´ve missed you, I've missed you."
I fell in love, in love with you suddenly.
That there's no place else I could be but here in your arms

Here in your arms
Here in your arms

I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you

i kissed a girl, and i LIKED it!

Off to get my CAT scan and my x-rays today.... whooo hoo!!!
(At what point should I start to care about how much radiation my lower half has had?)

Then off to go curtain shoppin! I have been in my new house for 2 months now and have not hung a single damn drape on any of the windows! Ekkk! which can be scary being the closet nudist that i am. ..
i really wanted to paint before i bought the curatins... but the In-Laws are coming over this weekend, so fuck it. drapes with white walls it is! {tacky}

scooters, vacation, fall

MMmmm.. nice weekend. ...Minus mild kidney stone attack friday afternoon that landed me on my stone ridden ass for a few hours. SUCKED. fuckin stones.. i hate you.

so i slept all friday cuz that kinda pain just really wipes any energy i have outta me for a few days. I know i'll be paying for this for the rest of the week.

Maybe i will take Cliff up on his offer to reach on up there and pull them outta me..
uummm.... no.

Wastewater happy dance

Monica is doing the happy happy joy joy wastewater dance!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to WEFTEC baby!!!!!!!!!!!! yayayayay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

81st Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference

Not only is this is the end-all-be- all show of anyboby who's anybody in the water and waste water business, but this is the show where my wastewater technology map will be displayed on an 8 x 11 foot wall!!! I missed the last show where my drinking water poster was displayed, and I thought i was going to miss WEFTEC too ...until now!!!!!!!!! Whheeee!!!!

This the graphic I did for the Atlanta show- This one is for potable water, next up is poop water!!!

"Yo, it was DIFFERENT, we KNEW better"

I just got a scary lecture from my42 year co-worker about how things 'were different' when she was in high school compared to current times.
"Blacks stayed on their side, we stayed on ours. We had separate lunch rooms and cafeterias. If they crossed over onto our side, Yo, things went DOWN, chairs would fly, tables would fly. We were separated in gym class too."

What I don't get is that there is only 8 years difference between us, and things were NOT like that at my high school. Granted I went to a private school and there were only a handful of black kids in each class, but we never ever had any such racial issues as she described.

The worst part was that after she described how the 2 sides would never intermingle, she said emphatically "We knew better".. that just fucked me up.