Craving baloney and movies

Grr. I meant to be done at 530 today. It is 7pm. Due to a snafu with the computer that is my life blood here at TP, I was unable to work for several hours today. Then, when the technician left, I only then discovered that a special map I had been building for several hours over the last few days had been completely taken off my computer. So now, here we are at 7-I should be at the movie 300 right now. And I feel like a baloney and cheese sandwich.

That is all. I am outta here.

wipes sweat off her brow

today at lunch i went to the gym. i walked on the treadmill (gotta lighten the workout on account of the fast) and listened to THE SECRET, my very first audio book. turns out it's a bit difficult to work out and listen closely to life-changing things at the same time.

i spent the morning calling turkey, france, portugal, ireland, czech republic and france again. yesterday i was all about mexico. so even though i don't get to travel to those places i still feel quite accomplished spending a couple hours every day saying-habla inglais? or parlez vous anglais? or just-speak english? to various individuals around the world. the fun part is when their english is only passable and i try to ask about things like injection molded plastic and they tell me their emails using non-english alphabets......i love my job.

i really do. and i really want to learn another language.

Lunchtime solutions

First of all, it's about 70 degrees out and people are definitely ice skating at Millenium Park. Awesome, why didn't I bring my skates? Imagine, lunch break ice skating in 70 degree weather

Second of all, I made an executive decision after being stranded on the South Side last night after having gotten on the wrong bus and needing to use the restroom with none in sight and not making it home for 2 and half hours instead of the usual 1 hour. I have decided to 'liquidate' my IRA. It's not a large sum, but it's at least 5 times as large as I am in the hole right now and I figure since I plan on living a good long life it would be much better suited to me now than then. Plus I will start a 401 here soon enough.

So they are putting the check in the mail and hopefully I will be able to get a manicure and few more bills paid soon enough....

Third, I found a temp agency for catering. I am sending my waiting tables resume and will soon be able to pick up a few extra dollars on the weekends WHEN I WISH. That is the key, the when I wish part, all I have to do is say-hey I want some more money! And then call in my availability and poof, I'm serving food at a fancy party for some extra change on a random, planless Saturday or Friday evening. And I have a few of those planless weekend nights in the future, you know?

Ok today I am running my first auction at work. woot. I'm a professional.