A huge congratulations go out to Julia and Joe who got engaged this weekend! YAY!

my fresh mozzarella tastes like clams. now how on Earth did that happen?

While standing on line at Dunkin' Donuts, I sometimes can't help but be judgmental about some people based upon their choice of coffee. I liken the people who order hazelnut or french vanilla coffees to the type who would drink white zinfandel -- yuk. trashy.

Hey! I just discovered that Blogger added a spell-check function. What a relief! I really need this. Doh!

Making good progress on my new application, so I'm pretty happy. I even look forward to coming to work these days. Go figure. Wish it could always be like that.

In a bizarre twist of fate, my evil ex-supervisor (the one I had the nightmare about the other night) was "let go" from the Company yesterday. If only my dreams had such power. Scratch that, I have too many nightmares about tornados.

I'm surprisingly creeped out about 9/11 this year. I don't remember feeling this way last year. Maybe it's because today is a day exactly like 9/11/2001. Beautiful, clear, slightly crisp. Not a cloud in the sky.

I'm very proud of myself. There have been open boxes of Girl Scout cookies in our server room all week and I have not had any of them. Not one. And I've glimpsed the telltale green box of Thin Mints too. I'll bet they're all gone by now...

oh... fecketty feck. I have a demo to give this afternoon.

ugh. I hate diet pepsi! -- bllleeaarrrgghh!

All I've eaten today is a bagel. I'm literally shaking. Can you say, "low blood sugar"?

Making some soup now...

When is the lottery again? Oh yeah, Wednesday.

I'm having such a frustrating week so far. Between work and the money thing... I was actually looking forward to work this week (believe it or not). Sunday night I was not depressed about coming to work on Monday morning. For a change. I've actually been enjoying work a bit, since I really like what I'm currently working on. It's tough and frustrating though and I hit more than my share of roadblocks, but I ended last week more or less on a good note, so I was ready to dig in again on Monday. And then on Sunday night I had all kinds of evil dreams about work. The most significant piece of the dream involved this horrible and evil manager I used to have here. She was the type to resent other women who might have half a brain. You could get far with her by sitting in her office for most of the day and gossiping and sucking up to her. If you wanted to work and try to get somewhere, you were on her shit list. And if she didn't like you, she found plenty of ways to A) let you know, B) undermine you, and C) let the "Big" Boss know that you sucked. It took me a couple of years, but I got out of that department (she is still in this company and still pulling the same shit with unsuspecting people years later). Anyway, I dreamt that all of a sudden I had to work for her again, only in addition to all the current managers and project managers I work for. I dreamt that I was working hard on my current project, but that she kept popping up demanding my time on stupid and inconsequential work (like making copies of fax cover sheets for her and other inane tasks) and in the meantime, complaining to my other managers etc. that I was dropping projects, had a bad attitude. And then because so much of my time was spent dealing with her and her crap, all of my real projects were slipping too. It was a horrible dream. That was Sunday night. In the meantime I've reached another roadblock with the application I'm currently working on. This happens and is to be expected, but it makes the work frustrating. And what makes it worse is that I've broken something that I actually had working, in the course of trying to solve my current problem. And I'm not exactly sure what I've done. So I'm frustrated. Broke and frustrated.

And you thought it was all just fun & games on my blog.

So, I moved to Queens because I just couldn't justify the cost of living in Manhattan anymore. Especially since I really wasn't going out or to restaurants or anything else much, to really take advantage of living there. So I purchased a relatively inexpensive apartment in Queens (that's another thing, I was never going to be able to afford to buy something in Manhattan). So here I am, about a year and a half later, and all of a sudden I'm more broke than I was living in Manhattan! I know a big part of it is I've taken some vacations (real vacations where I actually go somewhere) and have bought stuff for the apartment and I've just generally not been so careful with money. Living in Manhattan I lived very simply and spent little money because that's the way I had to live to survive. I think I've gone a little crazy in Queens. Well, the good side of this is, this is a bad month. Things should get better. My monthly apartment payment is still pretty low. But right now things are fairly dreadful and depressing. TG for Chrissy who is going to lend me some money. I just don't know where it's all gone, I even got a nice tax refund this year. As if my job wasn't stressful enough! GRRAAAAGGGHHH!

just where does my money go??? graaaahhhhh!

Haven't had time to blog -- busy!

Anyway, a relatively pleasant weekend. The weather here was/is PERFECT! Low to mid 70s, low humidity, sunny. As my friend Paul said on Saturday, "Top 10 Day". Hung out with Carolina & Janos on Friday night and watched "Identity" and drank wine. Not too scary, but generally a pretty good movie as far as that kind of thing goes. Kept you thinking just about until the end. Saturday Carolina, Janos, Paul, Luminita and I all went to lunch at a local pub. Sat outside and ate (did not have beer -- hhhmmmppfff) and then we went over to see Carolina & Janos's new apartment. It's huge! But does it ever need a lot of work -- yikes. That evening we all had a picnic in the backyard of our building. Jerry, Kathy & Claudine were also out there along with Jake, Lola's friend. So the two dogs had a lot of fun chasing each other around. Later that night, Carolina & Janos and I went upstairs and watched "Old School". I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, expected it to be incredibly stupid and sophmoric, but we really laughed the entire way through it. I originally just rented it because Vince Vaughn is in it, but it ended up being enjoyable beyond that. "Frank the Tank" -- heh. Sunday I did a little cleaning and then brought Lola to the park for a long walk/run combo. It was so nice, especially off the roads on the trails and bridle paths. It just amazes me how few people really use this area of the park. We saw hardly anyone. Although, at one point I passed two women walking and was treated to a cloud of perfume, bleargh. At least they were drawing all the mosquitos away from everyone else with the stench. YUK. Speaking of stench, cleaning lady just invaded my cube -- ugh!

So Michelle has her co-op interview (for my building) this Saturday. She's nervous, but I would think by now they must know whether she qualifies. They wouldn't waste a Saturday morning if they weren't pretty sure they were going to accept her. Of course I was one of her references so that could have completely blown her chances.

I have such a headache! I think I need a cocktail or something. It's Friday after all...

V. restless today. Why won't someone talk to me??? Nobody is emailing me. My friends on IM are not IMing. Nobody has any gossip! GAH!

so glad it's friday, so glad it's friday, so glad it's friday...

But, really. This week has flown. Guess that's what happens when you're busy. And it's pretty much been the good kind of busy too. At least the work part. My social life currently leaves a lot to be desired. Have to get back to the gym, etc. at the very least. At least it's cooled off a lot here in the North East. At least for now. Some park time may be in order for this weekend.

so tired... feel like crap... must go to bed early tonight... argh! still at work!