work ethic

What do you do when the people with whom you work fairly closely have a different work ethic than you?

How do you manage not to get stressed out and freak when people do things differently?

How do you not become taken advantage of? Or make sure everyone is treated fairly and equally?

Grrrr....

health stuff update

So I lost about 7 lbs apparently! Go me! It's working!!!

lol

health stuff

Things are going OK in that area...but not 100% yet. On a positive note, my changed eating habits have shown some results in the weight department. My wedding band/engagement ring are looser, and my stomach is smaller. DH has even noticed.

So I'm making some kind of progress...gotta keep up the good work.

Our microwave is possessed!

The other night, as we sat down for dinner, our microwave turned on. No joke. It looked like someone was pushing the "beverage reheat" button. I got up and pushed the "stop" button. It went back on, doing the same thing...DH and I looked at each other, thinking WTF???? So then I went back to the microwave and opened the door, thinking that maybe it would stop the madness. Nope, the same thing kept going on--the buttons were being pushed by "something." Finally, DH got up and ripped the plug out of the wall.

Now we need a new microwave. This upset me since our microwave is only 6 years old. My parents have had the same one since I was 10 or 12! I guess they don't make things like they used to, lol.

Tomorrow we have to go buy a new one. This should be interesting.

Facebook

I'm on it now, yaaaayyy!

Now I've got to find everyone. Whoa.

John Edwards, wtf?

I don't think I've blogged about politics before...

Let me just say that I'm a Democrat by voter affiliation, but I have voted for Republicans and Independents and I don't always follow the "party line." I'm my own person, I only claimed Democrat b/c I wanted to vote in the primary a few years ago.

So that being said...WTF WERE YOU THINKING MR. EDWARDS????

He always looked a little too perfect, too polished for me. Too Bobby Kennedy. I'm never surprised when a politician says they had an affair (must come with the territory) but to do it while your wife is seriously ill????

WTF??? That just disgusts me. There are no words.

And I'll also cast some disgust over to Senator McCain. Who left his first wife after she was in a bad accident to marry Cindy the Stepford Alien Wife. Please. That disgusts me too.

Divorce is rarely ever good. Infidelity isn't great either. But to do either of those while your partner is sick/injured???? Talk about kicking someone when they are already down enough. Have some respect for them and yourself.

We have cable again!

Well, we always had cable...now we have BETTER cable!!!!

When we first moved in, I had had the service transferred from my old apartment to this place. I had "basic cable" at the old place--up to channel 30, I think? Roughly $13 a month...pretty basic, indeed. The landlords who lived here right before we moved in, had expanded basic, which is up to channel 100 or so.

Silly Comcast must have messed things up b/c for the longest time (like over a year) we had the landlord's cable at our price, haha. Then they came to do some work or something at the poll and we no longer had this sweet deal. Right around the time DH got laid off. So we decided not to get the cable "fixed" and just deal with limited channels.

But DH missed Versus and Food Network, and I missed HGTV and TLC...so we looked at the budget and figured we could afford to get it back. Yesterday I called and the woman at Comcast said that they had a guy out in our area today so we could get it right away.

Sure enough, the man called at 11 am and we are back in business! DH is watching some fishing show, happy as can be.

Just some thoughts at midnight...

I'm a bit annoyed...but I don't know what about exactly. I realized that many of blogs are sorta, I don't know, rambly and a little wistful? Not necessarily negative, but they could be seen that way.

I'm going through a rough patch, in regards to my physical health (and my mental health is probably being affected by this somewhat). I don't want to get into it right now, because it's long and sort of stupid. Maybe I'll post more about what's been going on, eventually. I'm not dying and I'll be okay...it's just not great for right now.

I don't know what else to blog about right now. I just feel so boring at times.

When it comes to work, I feel like that kid in school that no one really wants to talk to or get to know. I'm fine as a sounding board about the boss or to ask an opinion about layout or something...but I'm not included with the "group" for lunches or breaks or anything like that. I don't get it. People DO like me, people have liked me...just not at this job. I spend a lot of time on my own, doing my own thing...which is fine, but it gets old at times. I can't make people want to hang out with me. I've been told that perhaps I'm better off NOT being included because this group could be "dangerous." I just thought that work was one way to meet people...apparently not.

I'm really tired of looking at the dingy walls in this apartment. I wish we could paint. It looks so depressing to see that white/beige color that is standard in all places, apparently. We've been here almost 2 years and it probably should have been painted before we moved in, but oh well. It wasn't too bad then, but it is now. And the linoleum in kitchen? Always looks dirty, even after we scrub it. I want to brighten things up around here, but there's no way.

My tomatoes are finally turning orange and red so we've been picking them. I ate one at lunch today and it was really good. DH picked a few today and there should be some more coming in over the weekend (they are just a faint orange now).

I'm supposed to have coffee with a friend tomorrow and I don't want to go. It feels...I don't know...not organic anymore? It's just like we're two people in similar situations and we've known each other for a long time, so why not get together? But honestly, we're pretty different...and I get more intellectual/comical/whatever stimulation from people on message boards. Sad but true. It's like she doesn't have much personality or something. I almost feel guilty typing all of this out, because she's a very nice person and would never do anything to hurt anyone.

But I'll still go...because I haven't been out for coffee in forever.

This is ironic...

DH and I go to a diner close to our house quite a bit.

Last night, we ran out at 10 for a late dinner. At the counter, there was a box of candy (like ones you get for fundraisers). The sign says something about supporting JUVENILE DIABETES.

WTF?

Made me chuckle, in an effed up way.


In other news, a TON of stuff at work has been blocked. Blogger is one of them--I found that out when trying to look up a reviewer who blogs. So I had to have IT unblock all of my legit sites. We'll see if ALL of Blogger is unblocked or just THOSE sites. Greaaaaat. And I do my work! Someone probably ruined it for the rest of us. Damn those "bad apples."