"look around, leaves are brown and the sky is a hazy shade of winter"--the bangles
well life gets more interesting everyday. i think this should be my motto...i feel like i need life mottos. i think this month i am adopting a few: 1. take chances, life is too short not to 2. it could always be worse (this has always been one of my mottos) 3. make the best of your situation 4. chill. out.
i say all these things with certain things in mind, but for once, i actually have interesting things to write about.
yesterday was a very interesting day, in fact, i was so out of it all day long, i'm not sure how much i got done, but the fact is, i think i had good reason to. i got a call early yesterday at work (which means 9.30am) from the big boss (aka the london boss, my boss's boss) telling me that my boss was in the hospital for i guess what was premature labor and she was having contractions and whatever else happens when that happens. the weird and somewhat scary thing is if she hadn't had her dr. appt on monday, they may not have realized this. i don't know. so all day i was dealing with, 'crap, i'm not ready for this responsibility.' i just am not, there are so many more things my boss needs to help me with, but finally this morning i was like, you know what, i just have to grin and bear it and figure it out. she didn't have much help when she started, and SHE did it...so why not me? besides, the big boss is pretty helpful, except that she's in london...eh. anyway, the verdict this morning is that my boss is still in the hospital and still having contractions and they are trying to stop them, but the good news is that she is fine and so is the baby and that's really all that matters...and i'm freakin out b/c i have to move an appointment? whatever.
the high point of yesterday was finding a few dogs that i am interested in. both could possibly be the future 'jones.' *heart* after i get back from vegas there isn't anything standing in my way of getting one, so i'm excited. :)
also, i got in touch with my old financial service representative from compass and told him all about my check fiasco and he assured me that they were in fact, shipped out. i sure hope so, i can't handle borrowing money from my mom because compass is too incompetant to order my checks.
doesn't it suck when you find out something that you really just had no idea about, and you're like, wow, you think you know someone...even if you really didn't know them that well, and you find out something really random about them. (no i am not specifying, like shawna says, "specifics are not for the blog") but just think about this question. perhaps it is rhetorical.
on the way home, i stopped by tj maxx and Ross to see if i could find any cute "vegas" shoes or cute tops. i tried on a few, one was really cute, but i couldn't figure out how to wear it...interesting. i was also reminded by the fact that i cannot wear gaucho pants "aka pirate pants".
so all of a sudden winter showed up and it is FREEZING (haha 60 degrees?)
i came home and thought it would be a good idea to eat pasta and mushroom sauce, it was the first time, the second time not so much, i'm pasta-ed out. so i started my laundry and then popped in season 3 of Friends that i had purchased on monday. ($19.99 at target, ALL SEASONS!) and was calmly eating, laundrying, folding, etc when my lights went out. then they flickered back on. at first, my mind, (as a girl) went into lifetime movie mode and i thought, oh no! someone's about to attack me! ...when the lights kept going on and off, that thought went out of my head, that or whoever was 'attacking me' didn't know how to turn off electricity. i KNOW i paid my bill and what an odd time to turn off the electricity? so i grabbed my phone and looked out the window. the whole street was dark, as well as everyone's houses. i really wish i had bought that flashlight, luckily i have that virgin de guadalupe candle in the kitchen (aka big mexican candle!) after a few phone calls and a few looks outside, [i saw some fiery smoke] and carosa tried to come over but couldn't get through to my neighborhood (ie b/c of the smoke and millions of cops/fire trucks--thanks for trying friend!) i finally put a bunch of tea candles on a tray and took it to my room...around 11.30, the lights came back on, bless them, i just hope whatever or whoever happened to cause it, is ok.
so my laundry is pretty much done, when i get home today i have to pack! and buy stuff for my casserole because tomorrow is my office's thanksgiving feast. i'm a little nervous mainly because i KNOW people will ask where my boss is and i don't think it's any of their business, i feel like that's something she needs to tell people on her own. i am thinking of just saying that she has been working from home (which was true yesterday..or would have been) i just don't think i'd want everyone to know i might be having my baby prematurely and then not, and come back and everyone's all delicate and weird around me. we JUST had a conversation about this on monday, so we'll see what i come up with. plus she hasn't called me and i don't think i should be calling her, b/c i don't want to be obnoxious.
anyways, needless to say this has been an interesting week, all in all and tomorrow night i'll be in vegas!! yay!
