Random Stuff

Quick quiz - will an earthquake destroy this city or will a fire? It's kinda crazy to live in a city where there's always a fire. Are the fire Gods trying to burn down southern CA? I think it's a sign.

Job update: NC never called back, so it must not have been Speed. Ugh.

Check out this website. Margaret and Helen are pretty humorous. I've read the latest couple entries and I was laughing out loud. And did you hear that Obama is advertising within video games? Pretty cool plan.

UGH!

I was going to blog about resuming my beach Friday policy today. I was also going to tell everyone that the NKOTB concert was beyond fun. I guess I'll blog more next week when I get the pics off my camera. I was also going to mention how the blogs are slow going because I really am spending every free moment looking/applying for jobs for the two of us. So far the record is 14 applied, 0 calls. :-(

All my good blogging intensions where quickly changed when I called my husband this afternoon. First of all, let me say that there's a chance I could be partially psychic. I had a huge feeling he was going to get a call from a job yesterday. Didn't happen (that's why I said partially psychic). It may have happened today though. But it might not have. Confused? Yeah, so are we.

Ok, so Ryan didn't have his cell on him for like 5 minutes today and during that time he got a call. But they didn't leave a message. The number on his cell was from out of state. He looks it up online and it's a cell phone from an hour outside of Charlotte. Charlotte, where he's applied for two jobs at Speed Channel. One other item to note: he never gets random calls on his cell phone from telemarketers, so this is very rare. What are the chances it's from so close to the job, but it's just a wrong number? Why would a job call and not leave a message? Most importantly, how can we not drive ourselves crazy all weekend wondering if it was a call from Speed?

Felons

We have lots of felons living close to us (shocker). Do you?

Out of Office

Isn't setting your out of office message at work the best feeling? It's like saying, "Screw you people, I'm not gonna be at this crappy job today." I wish I could write more out of office messages, but with only 10 vacation days a year, it can't happen too often.

I checked the Continental movies this month and going to CLE is some movie I've never heard of and coming back is Get Smart. I'll probably try to sleep as much as I can anyway. If I can't sleep, I'll have our DVD player with a season of The Office. I decided on season 3, which has my favorite episode: Beach Games. Remember that season finale where Michael took everyone to Lake Scranton? A thing of beauty. I love when Jim and Dwight are sumo wrestling. I also have our IPOD and the latest issues of Conde Nast and Domino magazines to keep me occupied.

Have a good weekend everyone. You know I will!

So Close

I've just been tortured. Our lights flickered a couple times this morning and then at 1:45 everything went dark*. We all just sat around chatting as the poor office manager was on the phone with the power company. He was on his way to our president's office to tell him the power would be off for an unknown amount of time (and we'd be sent home) when what happened? Yep, the power came back on. Damn.

I was envisioning a nap, some packing for CLE, eating dinner before 8:00 at night, watching GH and beating the horrible Wednesday night traffic (not in that order). But no. Now I have to sit here and try to look busy for the next 3 hours. At least the cable is back on.

On a related topic, doesn't time go by so slowly when you're at work? I mean really. I'm sure you've noticed how the hours suspiciously fly by on nights and weekends. I blame the government.

*When the power went out, I thought for a split second that it was the Big One. I hate living in a place where at any moment the big one could come and we could be crushed under tons of concrete.