gosh!

a memo in phone etiquette and how not to be rude to your underwriter needs to be sent out today. gosh! and all this on a day when we were supposed to be bowling instead of answering the phones.

tip of the day

it's a bad idea to have your laptop on the kitchen table while baking cookies.

okay really, do i have something stuck to my face today? is my hair sticking straight up in a fashion something similar to how alfalfa wore his hair in little rascals? seriously! people keep looking at me weird today. is there a big piece of my lunch wedged between my front teeth? somebody tell me please!

mmmmm...

i treated myself today to some gummy worms...
all that's missing is the pic-a-pop

bah! our computers here at work are bunk. i swear that they have amnesia or something. my previous post, from yesterday afternoon, still has not shown up. blogger says that it's there, but it's not. often a friend will send me an email telling me to check out her blog cuz she's posted some new photos, so i eagerly pull it up only to find that our ridiculous internet hasn't updated (or whatever it thinks it must do) and i can't see them. it's probably because i've had some error message pop up every morning when i log in for the last month or so. i've advised the people that handle these types of situations and they keep telling me that "they're aware of the situation and are looking into it". looking into it. for the past month! bah!

random ramblings

i called home last night and one of the first things my dad said to me was "loni, you're not a very good blogger". true enough. you know you've been slacking when your dad makes a comment regarding your lack of posts. so, i made up some excuse about actually having things to do at work now (which seems to be where i write most my posts. shame on me. double shame, cuz i'm at work right now) and that my last post was in fact only a week ago. it shouldn't matter that it only consisted of one sentence right?
when i entered into this blogging world only a few months ago i wondered how long i would actually keep it up. cuz really, what was i thinking? i hate writing! i hated english class all throughout school. i was the kid that convinced her friends to help her write any assignment involving a poem. i was the kids who couldn't pass a spelling test if her life depended on it. i was the kid that had no clue what was going on when forced to read romeo & juliet. the kid who would call her friend every evening and beg her to "please, pretty please help me with my shakespeare homework. i've read the last page five bazillion times and i have no idea what they're trying to say. please decode it... or i may loose my mind". (i don't think i actually understood what was happening in romeo & juliet until i watched the movie... thank you leonardo dicaprio for helping me pass grade 10 english) and as you can tell, i was also the kid who never really understood proper punctuation. (i think we can all thank mrs. sidall for that one) so with such a distaste for writing why the heck did i start a blog which consists of writing? i honestly don't know. i guess it just seemed like the thing to do.
for whatever reason, when i started this blog i decided that i didn't want it to be a "this is what i did on the weekend" kind of blog. don't get me wrong, those are great. i'll be honest that i check them daily and love reading about what's been happening with everybody. but i just didn't think that you'd all be interested in the fact that i painted my toes a pretty shade of pink last night. or that i spent most of yesterday in psycho-planner mode trying to organize and coordinate the remainder of my holidays for 2007. or that i started searching for a wedding gift that doesn't need to be purchased for another five months. on the other hand, maybe you would like to know those things. maybe you would like to know that my brain spends the majority of the day over analyzing and over organizing every thought that passes through it. but if i told you all that, then you would know for sure that i'm crazy and i'm just not ready for that.
honestly, it still amazes me that people actually read my random ramblings. so bear with my while i wait for something interesting to surface from the analyzing and organizing going on my brain... it sometimes takes a while.

sunburns and a frozen face...

... i had a brief encounter with the dentist today, and an even longer encounter with the sun over the weekend. peachy keen.

i am the pink blob

what is the pink blob you ask. well let's see, i have a long pink coat and a pink umbrella (and at one time i also had pink mittens) that are all surprisingly the exact same shade of pink so when you see me walking down the street i look like a pink blob. something needs to be done about this. i need a new umbrella. but not just any umbrella, and most definitely not a boring old black one (although a black umbrella would probably be better than being the pink blob). i need something funky. my theory is that if you have to deal with a rainy gloomy day, the least you can do is have a really great umbrella to cheer you up. right? so that being said, any suggestions where i can find myself a funky umbrella? a funky umbrella, that will match my pink coat, but not make me look like the pink blob.
(hmmm... do you get the impression that i like pink?)

ever have one of those days where...

you sleep in and end up running around like a chicken with it's head cut off while attempting to leave for work on time?
only to realize moments before leaving that the top you've decided to wear has some something funky on it and the tide pen you just tried didn't get rid of the funky-ness so you're forced to grab the first thing you see hanging in your closet? (which later causes you to ask, "why did i choose this?")
then in the final moments of mass chaos you realize that you can't find your wallet and search the entire house in a matter of seconds while thinking "of all mornings, why couldn't i loose my wallet on a day when i actually woke up when my alarm went off the first time"?
and when you finally dash out the door and back out of the garage you realize that you can't speed to make up some time because you're driving without a license and the way your luck has been going you'd probably get pulled over on the way to work and end up with a unaffordable ticket?
this all happened before 6:45am
can i start today over?

the sky is falling...