waltzing

around upstairs here, i came upon a woman who is sitting at her desk in her cube on a pilates ball. if i could get by with documenting that with a picture for you, believe me, i wouldn't hesitate. during some conversation with others i have found that she has been doing that for quite awhile now. she has broken the chains that bind us all to a chair and is now free. really? what could the benefit of that be? can i bring in a massaging recliner complete with drink holder? sister #4 had one pilates ball and the only use it ever got was niece #2 and me sitting on top of it while the other tried to kick the sitter off and suburbian "what's wrong with our neighbors" kick ball. hahaha i should see if she still has it and set up a game. which reminds me of the time that there was a killer storm about to break on us and we were all standing outside checking it out. a neighbor yelled out the window "get inside! it's not safe". hello!! we are from the country! a big storm coming through might be our highlight for the month. we are going to stand outside and enjoy it! it's hard to break a 20 year habit.

niece #2

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she is the daughter of sis #4 and the newest baby i have been able to view. i was in the 4th grade and got pulled out of a party to go to the hospital and watch the nurse change her dirty diaper. she's never been cuter.

does

there happen to be a saxophone in my car? why yes, there just happens to be. what am i going to do with it? nothing. why do i have it? just in case i want to try and play it sometime. do i remember how? no. am i going to relearn it? no. again, why do i have it? the case is a good height to put my feet up on while sitting on the couch. am i going to fall asleep at work? yes. any second now. would anyone notice? no. i believe it would not be detected. why don't i go for it? i feel like my next sleep is going to be a drooler and i don't want to short out my keyboard and ruin my activities during the waking hours. where is everyone today or the last few days for that matter? i have no effing idea. is this post going to bore the bored? yes, absolutely. do i feel the need to entertain everytime i post? uuummmm...that would be a no. is relearn a word? i don't think so, but neither is drooler, effing and i think everytime i suppose to be two words.

bulbs

nerdify me. i get to play with little ones at work. hmmm.....to give you a size reference, i can fit about 8 of them on a penny. they are so cute. i love trying to figure out what's wrong with them. no one else at work likes to mess with them, but i have a special relationship with them. we buy them from another company and then put them into our stuff. i get to look at them and figure them out before the people who make them get a chance to put in their opinion. i love using the microscope to take pictures of the problem area and draw on the board to communicate to everyone what i think is going on inside. hahahaha my drawings are horrible because i babble while i draw and i don't do separate pictures so by the end of drawn 5 pictures on top of one and it looks like a blob of marker. well, i just think that people need to pay closer attention while i draw. well, now i have to help make a proposal to phase out using bulbs and start using leds in everything. how can i do that? i love bulbs! leds are all cloudy and even smaller and they never have anything wrong with them except for being chipped and that's just plain boring. what will give me a bit of hope to do something for the day? good thing these changes take years. we should be all done by 2008. late 2008.

item

# 3 on my lost list, one glove, has been found in the girl's pants. heh. although a better story could be easily told with the previous information, it was just a laundry occurrence. so it seems that the bass has given in to the pressures and is going to have a president's day weekend party. that is if the pilot doesn't have to go to work at 4 in the morning. i wouldn't want to start a trend of drunk pilots. who votes for a costume party? after calculating all of the votes in my district, there is 1 vote for costumes and 0 votes for no costumes. there was also a write in vote for "coolest person to ever grace anyone's presence - andrea". i'm blushing.

the pilot

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the bass's roomie. she kind of gets what i get paid for to do at work. she loves waiting for a gate when her hours are close to her getting the next day off. she gets to hear cowboy over and over and over.

the bass

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hey! ho! ha! she teaches history the way it should be......truthful......without all the american hero cover ups. my brain does not have the capacity to store all of her one liners. or the will. snare, snare, snare, CRASH!

things

i have lost in the past week:
*my ski mask - now i can't dilly dally while outside and my funds are going to run low
*my devil horn stocking cap - one of my favorite accessories - damn
*one glove - i've been wearing the one i have while keeping my other hand in my pocket
*my right to talk shit on the court - the surfer stuffed my shot last night at practice
*my patience on the highway - attention drivers, the highway is clear of snow and ice
*january 2005 - i'm disputing that there was actually 31 days in there
*my cool at work - hello i can hear you talking about me over the cubicle wall bitches
*the will to wash my car - i'm sure there will be a nice rain sometime soon
*my comedy channel addiction - i've been listening to music, music, music!

things i have gained in the past week:
*a sore belly - the girl makes me laugh all the time
*a free mountain dew product - twist and win baby
*great music news - new sleater kinney album and tour! (the musician knows all)
*a skip in my step - due to the thought of big al and kimono visiting
*an idea for another gift - the big day is coming
*a lunch from my sister - i shall collect tomorrow
*a way to spend my vacation time - i'm going to have to pass on the aussie going home party though, i hope others can travel with
*an ego boost - i believe that shot was a swish
*$0.01 - a coworker threw it at me, i have no shame

the surfer

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we were both newbies on the spin basketball team last year. she let's me babysit her cats. she's obsessed with jordan. she knows how it feels to spend all day in wisconsin. you'll never be hungry or thirsty at her house.

oh

glorious day! i have just been notified that big al and kimono might be paying me a visit in the big city during president's day weekend!!!!!!! i've been pouting about not seeing them for awhile now. i saw them at christmas, but it's never enough and i missed out on new year's and the aberdeen visit with them and there's been a gap in my spirit ever since. it will be cool if they can make it and i will understand if they can't. my fingers are crossed. i actually got so home sick saturday morning when i woke up that i thought i was going to be upset and crying all day. i talked to my parents on the phone for an hour and that helped, but this, this will sooth me for a couple of months. it's weird to be away when i am here and it's weird to be away when i am there. i'm really lucky that people come up here to visit sometimes because it's hard to go back all of the time. plus, the friends must merge!!!! the band will play and the girls will rock the mic!!!! after they are done.......the band will be a faint memory. due to all of the alcohol consumption of course.

once

again i may be lucky. a conference call has been scheduled at 4:30. that happens to also be the time that i leave. i haven't been told yet that i have to attend, but i have a feeling that it will happen soon. what will i be doing during said call? well, i will be sitting there staring out at the melting snow thinking about how bad traffic is going to be by the time i get out of here and that i'll need to grab something to eat during the drive before basketball practice. this will go on in my head while two people argue about something instead of calling the person from a third company that has all of the answers. i'll never understand that. saturday little big man sent out an email to everyone here some questions that needed to be answered early in the morning. it seems simple enough, but the people who have all of the answers are in germany and are getting off of work when we come in. he told me to email them and then got mad when i told him that we won't get the answers till tomorrow. ummmmm? why didn't you email them on saturday? we go through all of these channels when you can go to the direct person? espescially when you need certain answers by a certain time because for the most part when i do this (send a list of questions - more questions are asked about the answers) so why don't you just call them because i don't know what you are going to ask and i'm not going to call them twenty times a day because soon they won't want to talk to me at all. so let's have a meeting today about the answers that we will be getting tomorrow. that won't be a waste of anyone's time.