Sweetness

I think these people who responded to my resume are really interested in me...she asked when I could interview and when could I start?

It will be pure sweetness to be able to calmly place my resume on Steve's desk and say:

BUH-BYE!!!!!!

Overkill

Okay, there is such a thing as overkill...

Yesterday, I slept throught the alarm and woke up at 9:15am....when I'm supposed to be at work at 10:00am and it takes about 35 minutes to get there... However, I refuse to leave the house without a shower so I walked into work around 10:30...and no one said anything. That scares me.

So the "overkill" part of the story is that my brain decides to get me up at 6:15 this morning. Just to be sure I wasn't late for work, I guess.

I have gotten a second response to the latest resume I sent out...could this possibly be a new job in my future?!?!? Let's hope so...

Booooooooooooooored.......

They're building a bank next to my office building, and it feels like I've been in a minor earthquake ALL DAY LONG. My whole desk has been shaking all day. And I'm bored because I have nothing to do, and so don't have anything to distract me from the shaking. Why doesn't this day move faster? I still have 2 1/2 hours left.............

Brain Freeze

I know I haven't written anything in the past few days - it's like I have writer's block. Some novelist I have turned out to be. And before you ask, no, I haven't written any more for my book in the last few weeks.

On the work front - the sales girls and I have banded together in our mutual hatred of the new employee. We were a united front before, but it's even stronger now. We don't like her. At all. And it was not my intention for this to be a hate-fest on my blog, but you know how some people just exude this aura of "I'm better than you, I will always be better than you, and you can't do anything about it!!"? That's her. Grrrrrrr.....

Oh, and I got run of the road on the way to work yesterday. Completely ended up in the gravel on the side of the road - left tire tracks and everything. Way to go me with my reflexes, though, my car was fine; although if I had had to swerve any further, my car would have quickly become a tree cozy. Dork guy from A Advantage. Grrrrrrr again.

Tornado

So apparently a tornado was either near or in Centreville today...and I missed it. I was driving to Matt's from work from Great Falls to Centreville, and I did not see any funnels, although I got calls from both my mom and my brother (in FREDERICKSBURG) telling me to drive safely and/or get underground. A little paranoid, my family. I will say I would trust my mom, though; after all, she grew up in Kansas.

Other than a rather boring day at work where almost no work got done due to the fact that the server was down most of the day (thanks, I'm sure, to Tim), I had a rather pleasant evening with Matt in which we discovered that when Papa John's shuts down for severe weather, we are in serious trouble. I mean, we could actually starve to death; we're both so not into cooking food. Neither of us has food in our house, and I think we may have actually started to panic when we discovered there would be no pizza delivered to the door... But we pulled ourselves together and ended up at Taco Bell, seeing as we had covered the other 3 food groups (McDonalds, Chinese, and fried chicken) throughout the day, and couldn't possibly imagine eating the same kind of food twice in a day. We're so pathetic.

In closing, I have to give props to Maggie for her amazing eloquence in her latest post regarding the much anticipated upcoming fall season and cooler weather; I couldn't have said it better myself.

And the Winner Is....

MAGGIE!!!

Congratulations for winning the "see how long it takes Danni's friends to see she's smoking again" contest!!! And you win.....NOTHING! Sorry to disappoint you - used all my bingo money paying bills. I will say this - my mom actually is okay with it; on one condition: I have to quit again when I find another job. Fair enough. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.

So apparently people besides my friends look at my blog - which I find kinda scary considering I seem to spend an awful lot of time writing about crickets....

I had to have a conversation with godzirra this afternoon about having too many "bosses." The part-timer who's been working there for 4 friggin days decides she can tell me how to do my job. Needless to say, being a 5 year veteran of the company and the only one who knows what the hell I'm doing I was a bit....perturbed. I stood my ground, though, dangit! And at least got him to SAY he was going to talk to others...not that I believe him.

"Yeah, what's this I hear about your TPS reports? Didn't you get that memo?"

As Matt says, "I would've got the memo if someone hadn't stolen my stapler..."

ANARCHY!!!

Not really.

But the girls and I bonded at lunch today with our mutual hatred of our company. It was nice. I've discovered that Michelle and I must have been sisters in another life or something, because we are so alike. She actually told me she feels like she's known me for 20 years already and we've only been working together for 4 weeks.

And just because I have a feeling no one reads this but me, I'm going to tell everyone something and see how long it takes for someone to read about it and yell at me.

I started smoking again today.

And the countdown starts.....NOW!

Intoxicating conversation with Matt....

TermiteDanni: you doin' okay?
MatthewZurowski: on my second Captain Pepper and tryin' to understand Thomas Aquinas at the same time...
MatthewZurowski: not easy
TermiteDanni: um....I'm on my second beer...
TermiteDanni: don't think I'm gonna be of much help
MatthewZurowski: right - I may be late getting my study questions emailed to my cohorts in Christian Anthropology...
TermiteDanni: d'oh
TermiteDanni: well....
TermiteDanni: I may be late getting into work tomorrow
TermiteDanni: dude - it's like we're the same person...but NOT
MatthewZurowski: ooooOOOOWEEEE you good lookin' - ya hot!
TermiteDanni: tha's right I'm hot
TermiteDanni: now I just gotta find a guy that thinks that, too
TermiteDanni: maybe he'll propose to me at the top of the Eiffel Tower
TermiteDanni: NOT
MatthewZurowski: Now, it evidently follows that God produces His effects according to His wisdom.
TermiteDanni: does this have anything to do with the mustard seed?
MatthewZurowski: both God and the mustard seed exist you know
TermiteDanni: they do, I've heard
TermiteDanni: do I exist?
TermiteDanni: do you exist?
TermiteDanni: what is existence?
MatthewZurowski: and your guy will propose to you on a pier in Maine with a lightouse in the backgroud - I have spoken.

The super-cricket has relatives.

Dammit.

Drivin' Music

Does anyone else dread getting up in the morning, because they can't stand that they have to spend eight hours a day, five days a week in a place they HATE?

On the upside, I found some really great driving music on iTunes... If you're not the only one who has watched the Lincoln Navigator commercials and said, "I LOVE that song!!!" I will save you hours of fruitless searching; it's called "Get a Move On" by Mr. Scruff and Sneaky and is featured on my new kick ass iMix, "Just DRIVE," available on iTunes!!! Unfortunately, I couldn't put all 35 tracks on it, as not all of them are available on iTunes; but if you ever catch me online when I'm at home, you are more than welcome to peruse my extensive music library and take whatever you like (right click on my name in your Buddy List (AIM) window and choose "get file").

Return of the Super Cricket

Okay, I don't know what sort of super powers crickets are getting these days, but the one in my kitchen sink that I washed down the drain 2 days ago returned this morning. How the hell does a cricket manage to survive something like that? I found it in my kitchen sink again this morning, chirping so loud I could hear it from my bedroom. Well, this time I didn't trust soap and water alone; super cricket met super garbage disposal and is no longer with us. If it comes back again, I'm REALLY going to be scared...

Never prepared...

So I had my first phone interview this morning. (At work, it's pronounced "family emergency.") I deliberately set my alarm for 6:30am so that I would be ready to go and out of the shower so I wouldn't be rushed on my way to work. So when do I wake up? 8:20 when the phone rings.

Of course it's the interviewer, and I have one ring to wake myself up and prepare. Amazingly enough, I do pretty well, except for the stupid question they always ask - "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Now I KNOW that they really don't care where I am in 5 years and that this is a question that will give them some other information, but for the life of me, I go completely blank. I mean, I literally could not think of one word to say. She kind of chuckled and said, "It's early, isn't it?" I had to agree. So besides that question, I think I did okay - I don't think I'm right for the position though, so at least it was good interview practice. Not good practice, but practice nevertheless...they could use it for instructional videos, "now this is how you do NOT want an interview to go..."

I AM going to find another job.
I AM going to find another job.
I AM going to find another job....

Crickets, Caterpillars, and BINGO

So the super-cricket I saw in my kitchen a few days ago was back last night. In the sink. Ewwww. Needless to say, super-cricket met super-water faucet and has since come to a watery end.

So after the super-cricket invaded my kitchen yet again, I was playing bingo...again...but this time I must say it paid off. Those of you who are my closest friends know how much I won, but in the interests of keeping strange "long-lost relatives" from knocking on my door asking for handouts, I won't put the dollar amount down here. It's not like I won the super jackpot lottery or anything, just enough to make paying off the credit card a little easier.

And then, when I thought everything was going great, I find a dead caterpillar in my salad at lunch today. Ewwww again. I don't think I'll ever be able to eat salad again. That has to be the nastiest thing I've seen in a long time. I probably shouldn't say the name of the establishment I got the salad from, but I'll give you a hint: it starts with "safe" and ends in "way." Avoid the salads....

This is what happens when you talk to Jared at 1am:

TermiteDanni: Beef. It's what's for dinner.
Tandom44: ah
Tandom44: yummy
TermiteDanni: Sorry - couldn't resist. I'm listening to Aaron Copland right now
Tandom44: ah
TermiteDanni: Did you know that the music they use for the beef commercials is actually a ballet called Rodeo?
TermiteDanni: Written by Aaron Copland
Tandom44: did not know it
TermiteDanni: see? you learn something new every day
Tandom44: yup yupo
TermiteDanni: sorry for interrupting - I can see you were in the middle of typing when I so rudely interrupted you
Tandom44: no worries
TermiteDanni: I'll go back to my random musings
Tandom44: about to go to bed
Tandom44: lo
Tandom44: l
TermiteDanni: yeah, you seem tired
Tandom44: i am actually
TermiteDanni: can't even get lol out without yawning in the middle
Tandom44: yeah, saw the wailers tonight in concert
TermiteDanni: can't say I know who they are
TermiteDanni: unless they used to be with Bob Marley
TermiteDanni: Those are the only wailers I know
Tandom44: same
TermiteDanni: ah - see? I'm not as stupid as I look, huh?
Tandom44: bob couldn't make it
TermiteDanni: You know, he's been missing a lot of gigs lately
TermiteDanni: someone should say something...
Tandom44: loser
Tandom44: lol
TermiteDanni: a'ight - now that you've had your daily interruption from the speed-meister, you can go to bed.
Tandom44: lol
TermiteDanni: (a.k.a. Speedy)
Tandom44: sorry, just tired
Tandom44: and i know it's you
TermiteDanni: I know that, silly - I was trying to be funny
TermiteDanni: not working, obviously....
TermiteDanni: don't worry, I won't quit my day job......yet
Tandom44: yet
Tandom44: yet yet yet
Tandom44: when
Tandom44: ellis?
Tandom44: when
TermiteDanni: whenever I can find another friggin job, Gruber
Tandom44: then get on it
TermiteDanni: not as easy as it looks
Tandom44: quit that shit
Tandom44: still
TermiteDanni: hey, now
Tandom44: DO et
Tandom44: DO et
TermiteDanni: no need to get nasty
Tandom44: grrr
TermiteDanni: cryin out loud - whose life is this, anyways?!?!?
TermiteDanni: I'll get a job when I'm good and ready!!!!
Tandom44: then now is good
Tandom44: ;-)
TermiteDanni: I'll be the judge of that
Tandom44: oh judge THIS!!
TermiteDanni: lol
TermiteDanni: okay, I can see you get nasty when you're tired, so I'm going to go now
Tandom44: haha
Tandom44: wimp
TermiteDanni: before you insult me some more
Tandom44: i'll kick yer ass
Tandom44: lol
TermiteDanni: I'll kick YER ass
Tandom44: that's so not the point
TermiteDanni: I outweigh, you Gruber
TermiteDanni: HA
Tandom44: outweigh THIS
TermiteDanni: so there
TermiteDanni: it's called gravity
Tandom44: yes ms newton
TermiteDanni: And I'm going to go back to being intellectual and listen to The Barber of Seville
TermiteDanni: Quite a wonderful overture, if I may say so
Tandom44: ok, bed for me
TermiteDanni: yeah, bed THIS
Tandom44: wha...?
Tandom44: doh
TermiteDanni: oh, wait...
TermiteDanni: that didn't come out right, did it?
TermiteDanni: um....
TermiteDanni: YES I'M AWESOME
TermiteDanni: night
Tandom44: ha, night ellis
TermiteDanni: night gruber

Roscoe, who used to eat super crickets. Well, he probably still does, just not in my house.

Pictures continued

Just felt like posting some pictures - my blog was beginning to look too.....wordy.

My nephew Joshua 

My second niece Rachel 

My oldest niece Hannah, after her very first ballet recital 

Megan; also from vacation 

My favorite picture of Maggie from vacation; right before she spilled red wine all over herself... 

Super Cricket

There was a cricket in my kitchen a couple of days ago...I don't know that it qualifies me to be anywhere in the league Megan's in for "creatures in a specific room;" that sounds like an award...

And the winner for "Most household pests in one room in a given week" goes to....

I told Matt that the cricket in my kitchen was too big to kill, and he speculated that the cricket had caught the shoe and thrown it back at me... When I said that wasn't it, he decided that the cricket must have feinted to one side and then thrown the refrigerator on top of me. Of course, I didn't call in to work, because someone probably would have come over to free me from said refrigerator and then I would've had to go to work. Well, neither case is true, the truth is that it was on the windowsill ledge and somehow the idea of trying to kill a cricket that was on my own eye level was just too much for me. I did spray it with the water spray bottle I use for my baby palm tree; at least that got it to go behind the blinds where I couldn't see it anymore. The next morning, there was no sign of it.

It could be anywhere.....

Should have killed it when I had the chance....

Dammit, I'm such a girl sometimes....

Cake

Julene just knocked a cake on the floor. It was covered at the time, so it just fell in its own tray, although it probably would have been funnier if it had fallen straight on the carpet. Ah, well - it was funny anyway.

Rainbows

I saw a rainbow on my way home from work yesterday and was SO pissed off I didn't have my camera with me. :( I've decided that I'm going to have to start taking it everywhere.

Dreams

I must have slept for over 10 hours last night (and was still late to work - imagine that), and had the most vivid dreams I've had in a long time.

The first one: I can't remember how it started, but I ended up holding a baby that was brought to wherever it is we were by the guy who was in That Thing You Do! and Riding in Cars With Boys - the blonde guy - can't remember his name. Anyways, I was holding this baby and he asked if he could have her back because he was getting ready to leave, but someone had whispered to me that it wasn't his, so I made some excuse about saying good-bye to someone and took the baby with me - turns out that he had kidnapped the baby! So I called the mother who was crying hysterically on the other end of the phone...

The second one: I had gone over to Jared's house to give him his paycheck; for some reason there were like 10 other roommates there, even though I know he only has 1 now. Somehow, we morphed from his living room to somewhere in DC; then we were at some sort of award show, where we saw Ben Affleck, and one of Jared's roommates started talking to him, and he eventually started talking to all of us, but decided to find somewhere to sit with me, so we go down toward the front of the auditorium and there's Jennifer Lopez screaming at him about something; so we decide to go somewhere else to eat or something and end up parking in some underground parking lot where you had to pay for dinner before you left your car, and they needed some sort of playing cards to identify you when you came back to get your car... He got sidetracked by someone and we got split up, but he told me he'd meet me where we were going, so I went up in the elevator to this restaurant that's like on the 40th floor which takes up an entire floor, and has huge windows EVERYWHERE. And there's my "family," at least they were supposed to be my family, but I didn't know anyone except Maggie was there briefly and ran up to me and gave me a huge hug, and then disappeared. We were there because it was some sort of family reunion, and I told someone, "I actually brought a date with me, you'll never guess who it is!!!" And then he never showed up. So I spent the "reunion" searching this big restaurant for him and getting more and more depressed; and at one point I sat down with a table of my "family members" who incidentally all were guys, and some waiter came up and said he had a delivery for me, and gave me like 2 dozen rose....STEMS. The flowers had been ripped off or something, so they were just stems. And then the waiter brought other bundles for the other guys at the table, and they were all INTACT bunches of sweetheart roses in all different colors. So I start crying silently and get up from the table and go to the lobby and just look out the window at the skyline and just stand there for the longest time...

It's just weird because I didn't convey it very well above, but we were so HAPPY together, and I was absolutely devestated when he didn't show up, and just had this overwhelming feeling of being deserted and lonely and heartbroken. Which is also weird, because I didn't wake up in a particularly bad mood - I was tired, but not unhappy.

What does it all mean????

Good-Byes

So I just drove Ellen and Scott to the airport - so they can leave for Paris, Amsterdam and London on a two-week vacation. I almost stowed away in their luggage, but I forgot to bring my passport with me. Damn. It seems like forever ago that I was on my own vacation; once you get back, all the days seem to blur together in this never-ending crap-a-thon they call work... I need to plan my next getaway!!!