I haven’t been around for awhile, as in, I haven’t been online in awhile.  Quite a bit was going on over the last week…therefore, I have a bit of catching up to do.

Princess

Princess is our new kitten and I am totally smitten with her.  She’s adorable, playful and affectionate.  I’ve not had much experience with kittens but I’m tempted to say that she’s the sweetest kitten in the world.  Sadly, she was sick when we first got her.  She had worms.  But she’s doing much better now thanks to medication and TLC.  She is becoming very good company to me when I’m home alone.

New Jersey

Last Wednesday I went down to NJ to visit the family.  The twins were graduating from high school on Thursday so I had to be there for the big event.  The graduation was…interesting to say the least.  I think the event will go down as the most embarrassing moment in the high school’s history, thanks  to the behavior of the valedictorian and salutatorian.  Both of them showed up with their immaturity and ignorance in full force and I’m surprised that they made it through the night without getting jumped in the parking lot.

Luckily the remaining trip was nice.  I took a trip up to Rutgers University with my sister and my Mom so my sister could begin the process of choosing her classes.  I knew that Rutgers was a big school, but until I actually drove through New Brunswick and realized that pretty much the entire city was Rutgers campus…I didn’t realize what a big school it was.

My Birthday

My birthday was pretty nice.  I went out to breakfast with my coworker then when I got out of work I was surprised to find that my roommate, her boyfriend and her friend were busy cooking dinner for me, complete with a cake.  I was pretty floored.  It was a very nice birthday overall.

Work

Work started out very badly this week.  I was very close to quitting both Monday and Tuesday but thankfully everything calmed down and started smoothing down.  Still, I’m keeping my eyes open for another job (that’s a joke though, seriously) and just today requested information from a local college that has a journalism course.  Hopefully it’s a program I can do as a non traditional student-though, even if they don’t have anything set up perhaps I can talk to the head of the department and see if there’s anything I can do.

A New Addition

My roommate is getting a kitten tomorrow.  Sadly, I will be working overtime so I probably will not be around for the big homecoming.  I will also be going out of town on Wednesday and won’t return until Sunday evening.  Therefore, I probably will not get any bonding time with the kitten until next week.

Although I am definitely a dog person, and kind of prefer them over cats, I am looking forward to having an animal in the house.  There definitely is a loneliness here when I’m the only one home, and having a pet around will help with that.  I grew very fond of my friend’s cats when we were living at her parents.  They definitely seemed to enjoy my company.

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No more coffee?

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I love coffee.  If you’ve known me for any amount of time you’d know that.  My best friend jokes around that my veins are filled with coffee laced with blood.  On a typical day I have at least two cups of coffee, usually more.  On a weekend?  If given the resources I could safely go through an entire pot of coffee.

Until now that is.  I’m not sure if its because my sinus infection has totally thrown off my taste of everything (except evidentially chocolate pudding and pizza) and coffee just doesn’t taste right to me, or perhaps I had a really bad cup of coffee and I’m suffering from PTSD from the experience….

But seriously?  I have totally lost my craving for the stuff.  I went to the bookstore today and was tempted to buy a cup of my addiction…only to get up to the counter and order a lemonade strawberry smoothy thingy (which was still really good).  I then met my best friend for dinner and we ordered a pot of coffee…and could barely choke down a single cup of the stuff.

I’m totally lost now.  What the hell am I suppose to do without my coffee?  I miss it, yet, I only miss the concept.  I honestly can say that I don’t miss the actual physical beaverage.  And that makes me very sad.

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Sinus infection

With all the drama going on in my life right now, I really wanted a little break from reality.  Just a day or two where I could totally space out and ignore my responsibilities and be in my own little world.

Surprisingly, I got my wish.

However, it wasn’t quite what I was hoping for.  I got my break in the form of a raging sinus infection.  I started feeling sick late Monday, by 5pm Tuesday afternoon I felt bad enough to drag myself down to the doctor.  I thought that I was dying of the flu or something.  I felt really bad.  I hurt everywhere.  I had a slight fever and I just wanted to go to sleep and never wake up.

So I went to the doctor.  Got tested for the flu (negative) and left with a diagnosis of sinus infection, a script for $200 worth of medications and an order to stay out of work for a few days because I looked and felt so miserable.

So, I got my break.  I spend a good part of yesterday in bed feeling completely miserable, close to tears all day because my head hurt so badly.  Today, I’m feeling better.  Not well enough to be back at work, but I will go back tomorrow.

Nevermind

Nirvana via last.fm

At the beginning of the year, my friend and I went to check out a Nirvana tribute band called Nevermind.  We had a lot of fun there, and when we discovered that they were planning another show in the spring, we made sure we’d be there.

Last night was the show and after a late start, we made it to the venue.  As Nevermind wasn’t coming onstage until later in the evening, we decided to head over to a nearby pub to grab a burger and kill some time.  In the past we’ve made the mistake of getting there too early, then having to deal with subpar opening acts, and we were really hoping to avoid that this time around.

We still had to sit (or stand) through a set and a half from other bands that were no interest to us.  Finally though, Nevermind took the stage and all was good in the world.  In fact, the band was even better.  The set list was similar, but with a few changes-adding and subtracting a few songs.   Towards the end of their set a friend of their’s came on stage to sing (and was pretty good, if you could ignore the mullet) and the band switched places to perform what I doubt was a Nirvana song (being that I’ve heard almost every one recorded at least once).

It was a fun night out and one that was needed quite a bit after the hell I went through last weekend.  It was good to just relax, laugh and sing on top of my lungs instead of constantly worrying about unimportant things.
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Now playing: R.E.M. – I Took Your Name
via FoxyTunes

McGuyver

While at work yesterday I noticed that the copier needed new toner.  I didn’t want to mess with it, and I was still able to print out the few copies I needed so I left it.

Today I needed to use the copier again and now it was completely out of toner.  I had never attempted to change the toner, I didn’t even know where it was suppose to go but I couldn’t do without my copies so I carefully began searching the machine for some kind of direction.

After a good ten minutes or so I figured the thing out (no thanks to the directions which made absoulutely no sense).  I installed the new toner and the machine came back to life.

A while later my boss comes in and makes her way to the copier and realizes that someone finally changed the toner.  She asks me if I had changed it and I told her that I had indeed changed it.

“Oh, your McGuyver!” she exclaimed…a bit TOO excited.  Then she proceeded to beg me to show her exactly how it was done.

I really wonder sometimes what would happen to that place if I wasn’t there…

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