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Me (leather is awesome)
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Thanks to Jenny
That’s what it’s going to feel like here tonight. Farenheit. OMG.
Monday, the regular air temperature will be zero.
So much for global warming. At least, in Nebraska.
For some silly reason, someone at work thought it would be a good idea just to toss out names of people who were skinny and people who were slightly overweight. I made the “slightly overweight list”. This was coming from the 350+ pound man.
I personally have nothing against weight. I think some things are better left unsaid, though, like judging a coworker’s weight…. out loud.
I spent the rest of the day trying to excuse that. I mean, people say dumb stuff all the time that could hurt people’s feelings.
Like the lady who said, the night of our all-night upgrade, “Now you’ll know what it’s like to not have a weekend.” Ok. We’re not overnight workers most of the time, but our network admin works plenty of weekends upgrading servers when no one is around. Plenty of IT people already have a good idea of what it’s like to not have a weekend.
What’s a dumb thing you’ve heard someone say lately?
So I didn’t get the job I interviewed for at the big trucking firm. It’s funny, because the first two days after the interview, I was very much for the cushy corporate job. Well, not so cushy, because it was just another tech job, but it was in a fancy huge office with wooden walls and a horse fountain inside.
By day 3, I was thinking, “Do I really WANT a corporate job again?” I mean, all the rules… all the little nitpicking, being watched all day… having to go back into a call center… NAW!
By day 3, I began to appreciate the little frills my job offers, even though the pay is not quite what I would like it to be (or what I’ve been accustomed to, but we’ve been able to manage so far). Most of all, my coworkers are actually acting like they like me, so it’s becoming comfortable.
And, hey, our office will never win any beauty prize. Some time ago, the carpet was replaced, but only in the hallways… not under the cubicles (or within them, for that matter) or anything. Half the space is hot; half is cold. Sometimes the workers upstairs cave in our ceiling, but what the heck.. it’s home.
And there’s not too much killing everyone to make a buck or rip people off, like the old insurance business was. The mission is respectable. People are helped, even when they can’t afford the help. It’s a good thing.
So, no corporate job for me, and I can’t say that I’m too terribly sad about it. 🙂
My brother and my niece, who is 3, built these cool snow people.
I’m not sure I love the snow enough to build snow people.
Of course, I had to plow it, and then when sledding was done, I’d had it with cold weather.
When you go outside, it feels like you’re in the back of an incredibly cold freezer.
Last night, after being outside for 5 minutes, it felt like my jeans were frozen.
Seriously.
I need some warm air.
Yesterday, we got our electricity bill. Keep in mind we have a gas furnace. But our electric bill was what it normally is when it’s the dead of summer and we’ve been running the air conditioner all day.
The culprit? The darned electric heater running downstairs all the time. It’s darn cold down here, only because our clothes dryer is letting in TONS of cold air.
The fixit thing we need to get:
The Dryer Vent Seal
This video gets me, everytime I watch it. Go ahead..
She can’t sleep. Did I mention that hamsters are nocturnal? It’s 9:30am and this one is still awake; getting used to her new home, I imagine.
So far, she’s let out a few shrill screeches, which I didn’t know hamsters did. I built her a little cardboard house (see it?) so she can hide, if she wants.
She is doing well, though, scampering around, chewing on fruitwood sticks, munching up hamster food, and getting all of her exercise on the wheel.
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