Just things

Ok, I wasn't able to get to my blog for about 2 days or so due to some certain 'bad filer' maintenance issue they had. Well, I guess I had the issue too considering I was locked out. I just had visions of finally getting back to it and having it say it was deleted or something. Most of this blog is just things I blurt out, uncensored, but it's still mine and I'd have been pissed to find it smashed to bits.

What can I tell you that's new? Oh, well I finally got out and about and went on a little journey here in Pittsburgh! Alright, not so much a journey as a trip to the dentist. But the dentist is new and not located along my way to work, the grocery store, or the library, so it was kind of like a pathetic little adventure of sorts. That is so sad...lol. Interestingly, I found that I liked driving faster than 17 miles per hour like I do here right in the heart of it all. I think I got the whole way up to 50 mph or so! Could've fooled me; felt like Mach 2!

I've also made friends! Ok, again, another embellishment on facts as they are. There is a guy across the street that is staying with his sister temporarily and is looking for an apartment and was asking about the one above me. (Theirs is the house that good ol' crunk mouf visits but thankfully, it's not the same guy.) Anyway, we had a couple very brief chats about the rental and talked today for about 15-20 minutes. No, we aren't really friends; even I'm not that delusional, but for a short period I was interacting with another human... just like the stories other people tell. I think, oh, what's the term they use? Yes... 'having a conversation' or some such thing.

On my exciting Saturday afternoon outing at the grocery store (ahem) I managed to most likely make a name for myself there as 'stinky girl'. Yours truly felt compelled to buy, wait, let me count, ten - count 'em...10! - various types of air fresheners. Table tops, sprays, plug ins... all of it. These people must think my house literally smells like shit! Of course I had to try them all out so now my house does in fact stink. Kind of like The Great Perfumery Rebellion of 2006. My nose burns from the smell; perhaps I should smoke a cigarette to cover it up? =)

I learned that sometime in the near future I will be having a review at work. I thought it was at six months but apparently it's sooner. Oh yippee. Did I make my excitement clear there? I don't even know what I want to hear to be honest. On another front, I'll be training a new person this coming week and yet another one starting the following week. My excitement is nearly uncontainable. Should be interesting to say the least considering we have been operating with fewer people than are necessary. Probably at about a 60% staffing level. But hey, I'm not bitter. After all, I did get a teeny locker with a preprinted label that bears my name - all is well with the universe. Wonder what they'd think if I peeled the label off.... hmmm?

Just because I'm the giving, loving, sharing sort of person that I am (cough) I've placed a link in the sidebar to a band called Evans Blue. The link opens it right up and the song it opens with is the one that caught my interest. It's not maniacal sounding so don't be frightened. Yes, I actually put those music links there for you, not for my personal fun and enjoyment. Then again, with things as they are, that is just about the most fun I've had lately.

For now, I'm going to live it up and watch TV. No, seriously - I average about an hour of TV per week and that is mostly thanks to The Weather Channel. This makes me wonder why I pay $65/mo for cable. Maybe luck will be with me and something worthwhile will be on. If not, I can always go test the air fresheners again.