And its Friday. Here’s a Friday Five to answer all the burning questions about me and my blog.
1. What’s new with you and where the heck have you been?
What’s new with you? I really hate that question. People ask it all the time. Nothing drastically changes in my life from day to day, I don’t think it really does in most people’s lives. Shocking as it may seem, I’ve been busy at work. Even stressed out about it. And I’ve taken a trip, and managed to damage my car and hurt my back a little. And I still hate this blog template and I haven’t had the time to change it, so I hate that you’re looking at it right now reading this.
2. You? Stressed at work? You’re joking, right? Everyone knows you don’t do anything at your job.
Screw you, buddy.
But seriously, yeah, stuff has been a lot of political crap as of late. Stress and deadlines and people looming about. Our wonderful IT department managed to crash our website, screw up our online store, and break our search engine, in the span of about a week. Fortunately, I was on vacation seeing Bonerama and Jeff in NY, when they crashed our whole web server. Unfortunately, I had to pick up the shattered pieces of our site and try and put stuff back together when I came home. I just have a lot of projects going on at work and while I realize most people have stuff going on at work, its just been a bit of a shock to my system since I usually don’t have stressful stuff, to the point that I very rarely even think about anything from work outside the office. But as of late, I haven’t just been thinking about work, I’ve been dreaming about it. I dream about looking at my computer screen and scrolling through pages of code. I’m not sure if that’s a nightmare or not. Though, last night I dreamt about Donald Trump. Thanks, Mark Burnett.
3. That kind of sucks, but hey, you went to New York, how was that?
Totally fabulous fun. Props to American Airlines for letting me get a flight for $10 even though I was 300 miles short of the 25K they require. I blogged about the beginning of my flight drama in a previous entry. The end of that tale is this: my luggage didn’t get to NYC when I did and I had to hang out in baggage claim at LGA for nearly 3 hours.
[and here's where I stopped writing on Friday, I'm finishing up the post in the extended entry if you want to keep reading]
The only redeeming thing about that time is that I saw Matt Damon. I took a little bit of stealthy across the way video with my camera. Just picking up his luggage off a flight from Miami with a female companion and her adorable daughter. I called Doogie and completely freaked him out. It was fun. My luggage finally showed up, then I sat on a bus with a nice sarcastic guy who shared his rasberry Milano cookies and we passed the time on the ride into the city by mocking the two guys in front of us. Got to Grand Central Station and then basically ran 10 blocks with my backpack and my suitcase to get to the hotel. I finally arrived at 8:15pm, over 4 hours after I had expected to arrive, and Lisa was waiting downstairs for me. Man, I was glad to see her! Quickly, went and changed my clothes and dusted on the glitter and out the door we went. Caught a cab to the venue, The Tribeca Rock Club, and by this time I was excited and exhausted at the same time. Met up with the rest of the kids that we knew and I was so happy to see Craig that I pretty much jumped down the stairs and hugged him like a total freak. But he’s a sweetie and he loves it. I won’t bore you with the rest of the details of the show; basically, the music was absolutely amazing, Stanton Moore totally kicked, and I took a lot of pictures (I think there might be pictures of people other than Mark and Craig on the third page). We got back to the hotel around 4am, slept a few hours, got up, wandered around the city, almost took a nap, washed, rinsed, and repeated the whole rock star concert experience for the second night.
Sunday, I headed out to Long Island to visit Jeff. The LIRR was kind to me this go around and I arrived with no problems and on time. Lobster bisque ensued. I was happy. Tired, but happy. Jeff did some car window shopping and we got some food to eat. The evening was comprised of dinner, The Simpsons, The Sopranos in HDTV, and good friends catching up on life. After we finally put down the Powerbooks, that is. It was pretty funny/pathetic that we were sitting in the same room on our separate laptops typing away even though we hadn’t seen each other in 6 months.
Monday, Jeff went to work in the morning while I enjoyed the joys of the hot tub and steam shower. Love that steam shower, gotta get me one of those.
We spent the afternoon shopping for various things: Mini Coopers *drool*, iPod minis *mmmm*, and
SPRƒTT. Only the spratt was purchased, but they’ve been a lot of fun in Christopher and my cubes and in Jeff’s freezer. In the evening, we kicked it with Jeff’s very nice landlords who fed us cheesecake, popcorn, and vodka and then gave Jeff the keys to their Volvo for the next day. It was a great trip. I love seeing friends and hearing music.
4. Anything else going on?
Actually, yes, but this post is getting long and a bit lame, so I’ll end it here.
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