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I can't tell him off

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:26:00 -0400

cause apparently he’s lost his phone.

Doesn't feel like morning at all!

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:23:50 -0400

My new job has different hours and I woke up really freakin early and I’ve had time to do some laundry, eat some breakfast and tumblr a little in my PJs before getting ready to head out the door.

It’s weird.

Normally my morning usually is snooze, snooze, snooze, snooze, snooze, rush around, brush teeth, say screw it and put hair in a ponytail, throw on a dress and run out the door in time to be just a few mins late to my desk.

It feels wrong.
Must stay up later from now on.

Yup. Same dude. Moral of this story is that when you go out...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:14:00 -0400

Yup. Same dude.

Moral of this story is that when you go out w/a guy who confuses you; ask tumblr. My tumblr people called that as it was right out of the box.

Personally, I think he invested way too much time in me for a guy who was working on a side-project. Getting to know me, hanging out in public with me, compromising with me, spending time with me… made me believe he was for real… but at the same time the signs were there now that I look back. And I did spot most of them as red flags and take notice. I just didn’t run for the hills like I probably should have.

I had a lot going on in the stress department and I loved having the attention of a new attractive man to take me away from all that.

Oh well. Easy come, easy go.
My next boyfriend won’t be a jerk.
I decided.

Photo

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:55:59 -0400

Is Tom there?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:28:00 -0400

This whole episode reminded me of the time I once got a phone call in the middle of the night… back when people had land lines and no caller ID… woke me up…. you generally answered the phone back then when it rang even tho you didn’t know who was calling…

This woman says, “Is Tom there?” and I’m all half-asleep in my bed quite alone and I’m like, “Sorry, you’ve got the wrong number.”

She says in a quiet and sad voice, “Look, I know he’s there. This is his wife. I’m not mad, I know he’s there. I just need to talk to him right now cause it’s an emergency. Just please put him on the phone.”

I’m like, “ummm sorry but I swear to you I don’t even know a guy by that name.”

She carried on talking to me awhile trying to convince me it wasn’t a trick and she really had an important reason he needed to come home right away and she knows her marriage is dead and her husband is cheating and shes known it a long time but this is a real emergency.

I really had no clue who he was for real and he most certainly isn’t at my house. Did my best to convince her of this but she didn’t seem to believe me.

Never heard back from her.
Always wondered what happened after that.

Because I am sarcastic by nature

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:15:44 -0400

it was really hard for me not to say hilarious things just to fuck with this girlfriend person txting me rude and accusatory statements. I know better than to make it any more melodramatic for this poor girl who’s obviously hurt. But boy the more things she accused me of, the harder it was not to just say.. oh yeah? well…. and make up a bunch of scandalous stuff that would make her flip out.

Lucky for him, I’m not like that.
Well I am like that.
Lucky for him I held myself back.

If she had any sense, she wouldn’t waste her time telling me off. I’m not her problem.

Me? I’m already outta there.
No clue if he knows or not.
Doesn’t really matter.

I was gonna do a post about my new job

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:47:39 -0400

which I started today. But it got upstaged by all the angry txt msgs.

My new job is kinda awesome. They don’t have a clue in this department all the complication, confusion and lack of direction I just came from. They sat me down at a desk with an actual trainer who gave me specific instruction. It’s a real luxury.

I’m working unconventional hours, but I’m unconventional so it may not be a problem. Frankly I’m relieved to not have to fight traffic and to have some business hours to get some things done.

The positives are that my job is the kind of work that I like to do. In a beautiful building and a good department with very little turnover. The only negative is that the schedule is weird.

And if I stayed where I was at, I’d be spending all my free time trying to figure out how to manage my stress in what few hours off I had since they’re about to institute mandatory overtime at a minimum of 8 hrs per week. Which means I’d be working all the hours I used to work and all my new weird hours too.

And probably heading for the looney bin inside of a few weeks for spending all that time not being able to sort out people’s problems while they yell at me for not being able to sort them out.

Oh yeah and my commute is actually shorter by almost 10 min.

The work seems straightforward and I think I’ll do it well. And work 40 hrs a week and leave work at my desk and go on to have a life outside of work.

That’s the plan anyway.

Well that was fun while it lasted.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:30:07 -0400

My boyfriend who’s not my boyfriend who’s a big jerk was just getting to this place where I started to believe he might actually be a decent fellow afterall when I get txtd today by some angry person using his phone claiming to be his girlfriend. :-/

Me, being me, and since he was not actually my boyfriend at any part in this story…. reply to this person with “Sorry, didn’t know… backing off, im out, nothing to worry about from me, tell him i said bye. I only like single guys. see ya”

She said some colorful and not-very-nice things back to me. I just kept on reiterating that now that I know he’s got a girlfriend I’ll just move right along on my merry way. Nothing to see here. Sorry to have bothered you. Bye.

I enjoyed his company while I had it. Truth is he did make me look at myself in a different way and I think that was a positive experience. Which is why I stuck around at all. Cause I knew he was a jerk all along. Everyone on the internet knew I knew he was a jerk all along ;)

Girls are attracted to men who are jerks. It’s a universal truth. I think we all think jerkyness is hot maybe… but today I’m pretty sure the real reason girls dig jerks is because when its time for it to be over… you can’t feel that bad about it. Cause let’s face it… You knew he was a jerk from the beginning.

Let September Begin!

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:02:50 -0400

Used my unexpected day off in-between jobs to book some trips to see all my fave bands and rock stars who will be criss-crossing this great nation of ours starting sometime next week.

Playing Hookey!

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:55:27 -0400

The best part of having today off was that I did not intend to have today off. So I have no plans, nowhere to be, nothing that needs to be done.

I have spent the early part of my day seeing all the things my cats get up to when I’m not home that I didn’t know about.

Lucy apparently knows how to get up in the bedroom window, and Oreo hangs out in rooms and places I’ve never seen her go in before.

scottcolumbus: now this is touring…

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:47:16 -0400

scottcolumbus:

now this is touring…

I dig fruity beer.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:02:35 -0400

I dig fruity beer.

Finished my last day of that dreadful job!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:49:29 -0400

I had a job I liked and they freakin’ shipped it to San Diego and assigned me a new terrible job I would never want, researching escalated issues that angry people have, which wouldn’t have been so bad if I didn’t have to call them and talk to them and try and get the problem sorted out.

Figuring out what went wrong was interesting and challenging to me. Discussing it with them, was not. In fact, I knew deep in my soul from the very first moment they told us of our new positions (they changed my whole department into an entirely different department that most of us were neither qualified for or interested in doing) that I was never actually going to be doing that job.

That meant I had to find another one.

Frankly, I didn’t expect that to be easy. And I didn’t expect it to be with the same company. In fact I figured I’d quit and regret it because I was going to end up unemployed for a long time. But that was still better than doing this job and letting these people, who’ve been jerked around a lot, yell at me for things I not only didn’t do, but mostly likely couldn’t fix.

The people in my department who’d worked customer service or collections jobs before tell me I need to toughen up.

I decided I’d rather be out of work than toughen up.

I mean I’ve been out of work and there’s always ways to bring in some money, and there’s always school to go back to, and I guess I’ve been lucky because there have always been jobs for me to fall into just be being in the right place at the right time. Staying scared me more than leaving.

But I got lucky and got a new position with the same company in a better building. I don’t lose any benefits I’ve earned by being with the company awhile, my money stays the same, my commute gets shorter, my hours change but I think I might like the new ones better, and my work gets much less stressful as I’m back to reviewing documents like I was put on this earth to do.

Accepting the job offer was like a weight off my shoulders.
Walking out the door today never to return was just pure bliss.

I’m actually looking forward to starting my new job on Wednesday!

Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom: THE PARTY STARTS NOW! (via...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:27:23 -0400

Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom: THE PARTY STARTS NOW! (via thunderbell92)

The original. The 1989 Metal incarnation of The Dictators. Ross looks the same now. Maybe a little older and a littler larger but otherwise exactly the same.

After one album the band decided to be The Dictators again. I still don’t know what the difference is.

Ross told me “Top 10’s not in Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom” but the Dictators do MWK songs, MWK did Dictators songs and I’m sure there’s been Dictators shows without Top 10. So I still don’t know how they know which band they’re being when, but they seem to know.

I had no idea that Turbonegro did a cover of “The Party...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:19:00 -0400

I had no idea that Turbonegro did a cover of “The Party Starts Now” (via Krahntes)

Everyone’s a Ross The Boss fan. Just some people don’t know it.

Ross The Boss Reviews and Interviews from Bloodstock

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:59:28 -0400

Ross The Boss Reviews and Interviews from Bloodstock

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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:44:03 -0400

"Prior to hitting the stage band members and roadies stand around a non compliant keyboard looking at..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:39:58 -0400

“Prior to hitting the stage band members and roadies stand around a non compliant keyboard looking at it like they don’t know what it is …understandable given they’re so metal!”

- Review of Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2010 (this bit came from the Ross The Boss part)

Festive last day in this department cookies!!!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:09:01 -0400

Festive last day in this department cookies!!!

Dawn Owar (@DawnOwar) has shared a Tweet with you: “valientthorr: Spin article confused...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:49:11 -0400

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