Put that in your brain

I wish myspace was a old sea salt with two peglegs and livejournal was a cantankerous toothless seal and we could watch them battle it out.

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I am so weird. This is the kind of thoughts that sleet through my mind.

And I love it.

“Ray, when someone askes if you’re a god, you say, ‘YES!’”

Has your boss’s boss ever randomly asked you where you see yourself going with the company? If you could see yourself in the position above you, or the one above that? Then made vague, hinting references to very specific possible future openings of “mucho positions” and said she asking. Did it totally give you that sneaking air-raid-siren/press-conference-on-every-channel suspicion that something is up?

Yeah, me too.

I've been busy

And I hate that I haven't had time to blog. Work and sleep and sleep and work.

**Wednesday was an intense day. The company owner and both district managers (or as I like to call them, the honchos) were in my store because we got one of our two yearly inspections dropped on us by international. As the guy put it it's really a "snapshot" of how your store's doing. I think he was surprised when I said I wasn't nervous. I know Steve was freaking out, calling the honchos in, running around crazy. Personally, I feel that panic is a poor use of your energy. If I need to freak out I will do it later, preferably in the comfort of my own home. Oh, and we ridiculously busy that night and understaffed in general and definitely understaffed for that quantity of business. However, my employees did a fantastic job. If I was a hugger there would have been hugs aplenty. And I did pretty well on the inspection. If my district manager is happy, then I'm happy. I feel good because this is kind of big deal and I didn't screw it up, sort a validation of how I'm doing and what I'm capable of handling. Makes me all warm and fuzzy.

**As I've said, I have a problem with things. Specifically getting rid of things. However, I have made a rather large pile of stuff I'm parting with. I have a list of larger items I'm looking for homes for, like my old PC. All this sorting of my possessions has lead me to ponder some deep questions: "how many bath towels does one person need?" and "How did I end up with four and half sets of measuring cups and four and a half sets of measurings spoons anyway?" also "Why did I think a glass cutting board was a good idea?"

**MissE has challenged me to a game of Scramble on Facebook. Which is exactly like Boggle, which I've always loved. I now have a new addiction. It's a bit tricksy if you're a bit dyslexic though.

Ooops

I accidently clicked "sort by name" in my favorites sidebar. Now my blog links are no longer in the order I read them. And it won't let me drag and drop them back the way I want. This is totally going to screw with my head.

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UPDATE: Nevermind, I figured out how to fix it.

Unseasonably Thunderous

I meant to go directly to bed when I came home last night. Instead I found myself making a trip to the store for some groceries, and then cooking a meal. As I was sitting, enjoying my piping hot ravioli my apartment was suddenly filled with the sound of thunder. I was surprised, it is February after all. I was unable to drag myself off to bed as the thunder proved not to be isolated, but a whole storm of lightning. It's disconcerting really, the rain and thunder is far more like April then February. There's a bit of thunder and lightning playing up tonight as well, though not as much as last night.

Speaking of shopping, why is it that you never seem to run out of just one thing? For example, I never need just toothpaste. It will be more like toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, toleit paper all at once. I ask because I find myself needing to purchase more socks, t-shirts, underpants and maybe a pair of jeans. I've discovered this fact as I've been cleaning and clearing out my closets and such. I also have to ask, is 24 pairs of shoes too many? Five years ago I had probably a quarter as many, so I wonder if I might have gotten out of control since discovering the joys of cute shoes.

I've slowly been picking through my posessions trying to weed things out because of the moving this year. I'm trying to apply a critical eye to my hoard, but I think I may need to enlist someone as my personal sounding board/voice of reason. One of my major weaknesses is my books. I've managed to trim a few volumes (Grisham? I may read The Pelican Brief again, but the rest can go). I'm trying to pull out things I don't think I'll want to read again. Who will go? Who will stay? Your vote counts! Then, of course, there's the pile of stuff that I have yet to read...

Speaking of reading, I just mooched five Hiaasen books. I read Stormy Weather recently and liked it enough to come back for seconds. I think I should wait to start in on them until I finish a couple of the other books I'm reading. I try to keep it at no more than five at a time.



I know that a lot of people find talking about dreams boring. Still, I seem to be having really long dreams lately, like 2 or 3 hours long (I swear! They're very complicated!). Anybody else ever have this happen? Or am I just weird?