2.28.2004
It's not supposed to be a Disney movie. He was tortured and torture isn't very pretty. Get over it.

The comments of people coming out of the movie theatres that are shown on the nightly news are quite amusing. I do look forward to viewing the film, not from all the talk about it, but because I respect Mel Gibson as an actor, artist and person.

My sleep is screwed up again. This time it's pretty bad. I'm wired as hell after like three days of crap sleep or no sleep. I took a half day yesterday and got a couple hours of sleep, then headed into work around 1 pm. I was so out of it and had a difficult time focusing on my work. I got it done and did a good job as usual and left around 7:45 pm.

After tossing my work clothes in the hamper, I curled up under a blanket in my pj's and watched "While You Were Out" on TLC. I'm now addicted to these shows. It doesn't help that the guy from Nigeria on the show is dead sexy too...

I then watched "Pieces of April" once I was done watching TLC and really enjoyed the movie. Cricket watched a bit of it as well. It's cute to see her sitting on the floor and watching tv.

I stayed in bed a couple hours before giving up on sleep and had a piece of toast and a small glass of milk. My stomach was growling a bit too much. It's been doing that a lot as of late. I haven't eaten much since I didn't have money for over a week. I've dropped 14 pounds since the doctor visit last Tuesday. My jeans are hanging on my hips and are quite annoying. I don't have a belt or smaller jeans that fit. grr.

Sitting around people that eat food that is seriously bad for them makes it easier for me to eat better food and avoid the bad stuff. I drink lots of water at work and do a lot of walking there as well. The work I'm doing isn't hard and I enjoy it, so it's less stressful for me with that part at least. The manager is not bothering me so much, mostly because I suspect my supervisor told him to back off. I didn't have to take Xanax during the week, so that's definitely a great improvement.

I finished the puzzle from hell this morning. I was afraid it wasn't going to fit on my kitchen table. It's quite beautiful and definitely a keeper. I've never glued a puzzle after doing it, so this will be my first time. The thing is huge and was really hard to do as well, which I enjoyed greatly. It still was the puzzle from hell, even though I liked it. heh

One of the things I actually miss about working on the phones is that I can't read books or work on puzzles while I work. I used to go through so many books each week *and* complete a 1000 piece puzzle as well. I had very few phone calls when I first started working on the phones at capital one and had tons of free time. Now it's nothing but work. I even keep busy when someone stops to chat with me.

I just have so much mail to sort and research the new mail and faxes. The best thing is that I don't have to work the mail, just pull out the stuff that we don't work and send it off to where it belongs. I enter the metrics on the spreadsheets in excel and hand out the daily work. It's a cake job. I do it well because I read very fast and am very organized. So I got the job. I brought the mail turnaround time from 5 days of work on hand to only 2 days of work last week. No more creating and working files! Yay! I hated that part so much.

I really hate making mistakes. We work the files and then close them. The QA people then pick our files at random and check them. If we make a mistake, it goes against us. I hate making mistakes. I had great QA scores, so a mistake or two wouldn't hurt me, but it bothered me a great deal when I failed. Now I don't worry about that.

Cricket is greatly bothered by my messed up sleeping pattern. She is used to my normal sleep times and when I am not in bed when she says I'm supposed to be there, she will sit in stare at me, like she is now. She bugged me so much last night while I was awake. She would meow at me and rub against me every few minutes for hours and hours. She finally gave up and went to sleep on the couch. So now I'm up again and writing nonsense and whatnot and she's giving me dirty looks because I'm not in bed.

I wish it would snow.



babbled by me @ 4:09 AM

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