So what the HELL was that??

As the day went on yesterday, my cold got better. All of a sudden! I don't get it. What was it?! I am now left with the little remnants of a slight chest cold...what I like to call lung butter. Every now and again I'll cough a little buttery cough. Mmmmmm. Tasty. All right, I'll stop being gross. Really. I simply love discussing bodily functions!

Anyway, work is calming down a bit. Obviously...as I have a bit more time to stop by here to spill my thoughts. Everything is much more organized, like it was when I started here. It's so great to know what's going on! I know what we have, what we don't have and what we will be getting. Most importantly, I know the correct pricing! The owner will be going back to Poland to get things done at her company (well, more her husbands company) for a short time . She is leaving next Friday and will be gone for about two weeks. Something I am very used to...being left alone at the office! Hopefully we will not have any more fiascos while she is gone! At least the lil' 'ol shipping lady will be here to talk my ear off. I've found that it's better than being all alone. Sometimes. Heh.

Time to work again. I have to finish this tedious art project...fixing up our logo. It's giving me a headache! Later...

Okay then...

This isn't a pretend cold like I thought it was yesterday. No, this is the real thing. Shit came crashing down around 2:30 yesterday afternoon. *cough* *cough* *SNEEEEEEEEEZE**cough*!!!! I've been getting sick way too much lately. This has got to stop. I feel okay right now, but early evening is when I usually start to feel really icky nasty. I'll make it through the day.

Today marks one month exactly until the wedding. ONE. MORE. MONTH. I cannot wait. I've started to have several wedding dreams. The one last night was hilarious...I had to pee and I was wearing my dress. I run to a public restroom right before the ceremony. Looking for a toilet that's halfway clean, dragging my dress around on the dirty tile floor... Find a potty, pee and I still gotta go! Keep going back and forth from the ceremony to the bathroom! AAAAAA!!!! Then I wake up and realize I really do have to pee. BADLY. I hate those dreams. It's a good thing I didn't really pee...that hasn't happened in a very very long time.

I had another wedding dream a few weeks ago that was very disturbing...I was up at the altar with my EX! All the while I'm thinking, "What's HE doing here?? Where's Ron??? I wanna marry RON! NnNnnnnNnnnnnOOOOOooooOooOOooooo!!!!!" I suppose this is normal.

Anyway, back to work. Busy busy. Blah blah.

Oh what a beautiful moorr-*HACK*

It's springtime here in Cali and that means the weather can't decide just what the fuck it wants to do. Actually, that seems to have been the theme so far this year. HOT cold HOT HOT cold HOT (in January, HUH?) cold cold HOT HOT HOT cold HOT cold... So here I am with another of what I call the semi-cold. I'm not sure if it's allergies or what. It started out with a scratchy throat so I think it's more of a cold. Or maybe it's just an allergy-cold hybrid. Lil' mister new kind of virus. I don't know, but all it's given me are the drippies and the hackies. No head-in-the-clouds, tired feeling, no headache... Just gunk in the throat and sinuses. Yummy!

So I was going to talk about the lovely bridal shower given by my wonderful friends Melanie and Lisa... But before I do that, I must clarify something that I mentioned in this entry a little while back. First of all, I apologize for being a Mike Patton obsessed IDIOT. I'm obviously so obsessed with Mike that I don't know DICK about some of the very talented people that he works/has worked with. That guy with the stupid glasses in the black and white picture? That's guitarist Trey Spruance (AKA Preston Lea Spruance III) who Mike grew up with in Eureka, CA. Together they formed the wonderful brainchild, Mr. Bungle, my favorite of the Patton endeavors. Fuck. I'm so ashamed! With the internet and all of its information it took me THIS long to check that out. Mike Patton fan indeed! Trey is a lovely instrumentalist (one of my favorite forms of music) and is now working with Secret Cheifs 3. A fan made a video, Aged Spazz Dance, featured on YouTube of course. It's fucking hilarious!!!

Okay. Now you know. I have done my duty and can now move on...

My beautiful friends threw my bridal shower on Sunday, March 11th. All I can say is that they totally outdid themselves and made me feel like a queen. Both of them have known me since childhood and that was special in itself. Well they made sure to bring out all the warm and fuzzies that day. Oh yea, and that day was HOT. It was fine though because it was perfect weather for the occasion. Let me list the hilights:

~There were very special people there, Lisa's mom Peira, her aunt and cousins, her sister, all people who are like family to me. Then there was Tyra, a newer friend I met through Melanie. The three of us have hung out quite a bit over the past few years. Only one of the Cathies could make it, Cathy with "Y" was celebrating a very special birthday that day. Melanie and Lisa had moved the event to the 11th, thinking her birthday was on the 10th. My dumb ass didn't realize this 'til the last minute. Oh well, I'll see you at the bachelorette party, Cathy-poop!

~The minute I walked into the house I was adorned with a sash that said "Bride to Be"....heehehe! Then they whisked me into the livingroom where they took my picture with a polariod to add to the scrapbook they were working on at the table! I didn't get to take the book home, as it is a work in progress. People took pics with me throughout the day. Everyone is making a page for me and it's going to include the bachelorette party as well.

~Melanie and Lisa spent the entire day before preparing, the decorations were simply adorable. Melanie had even made special plates for me! Since they've both known me from childhood, they each had pictures from birthday parties, trips to Disneyland, etc. Melanie put colored paper with pictures of me at all ages, including pics of Ron and I, on the bottoms of clear plastic plates. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen! And they made me a special chair! They prepared all of my favorite goodies, including crab cakes, panini sandwiches, all sorts of cheese and crackers, a wonderful salad and...and I forget what that drink is with all the fruit in it? It's a sort of wine cooler mix and and and I can't think of the name of it right now but it's SO GOOOD... Uhhh...

~THERE WAS A CHOCOLATE FONDUE FOUNTAIN. WITH FRUIT AND PREZELS TO DIP. OH. MY. GAWD!!!!

~They had a video camera and filmed parts of the day, too! They told me of the disasters during preparations the day before and said they actual filmed that, too! They're putting together a DVD for me as well.

~Speaking of the DVD...the biggest highlight of the day was one of the games. First of all, we played three games. They were fun and cute and not cheesy at ALL. The best game was the biggest surprise of the day. It was sort of Newlywed Game style. They had met up with Ron at my house earlier in the week and filmed him answering questions about our relationship. They'd ask things like, "What is your favorite thing to wear to bed?" or "What is the song that you hate the most?" So they filmed all of his answers and played it back at the shower. Each time they'd ask Ron a question, they'd pause it and ask me the same question. Of course they filmed my answers. Then they'd play back what Ron answered to see if I got it right! I got six out of ten! Hahaha! It was great! I couldn't believe how sweet it was of them to do that...and how adorable Ron was in the video! At the end Lisa prompted Ron to talk about our first date. Of course he has to tell the "dirt surfing" story... That's for another entry though! So they're gonna splice it all together with the day before preps and the bachelorette party...I can't wait to see it!

Okay, that's it for now. I have a feeling I'm forgetting something though. But now it's time to devote my FULL attention to fixing this logo of ours. Me and my write a little, work a little, write a little... I'm being bad. Must concentrate now. Bye bye!

I need a reminder? I'm losing it...

I should SO be working right now. Remind me to tell you about the wonderful wedding shower my friends gave me this past Sunday. I almost forgot to write about it! I can't right now though. So I'll just squirt out a bullshit entry. *squirt* *squirt*

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BULLSHIT.

Later...

You think you know a guy...

I know I shouldn't talk too much about work on here, but I just have to right now. Remember how my old boss just up and resigned at the end of January? Well, as the owner and I are cleaning up the mess he left, we have found out why he left in such a hurry. I don't want to list details, but the situation is very disappointing to say the least. Neither of us thought that he had the audacity to do what he has done. As we uncover things, however, it has all begun to make sense. All the little clues left over the years. I am hurt, insulted and appalled. The owner is all those things times 100. I can't believe he would do this to her.

Now, before I sound like a total brown nosing kiss ass, I will admit that I have thought and said some nasty things about the owner. I have admittedly been jealous of her riches and have recently told her so. But overall, I have always had a huge amount of respect for her in that she has accomplished so much in her life. She EARNED all that she has by herself! How many wealthy people can honestly say that?

So we are handling this the best that we can. Things are coming together. The owner has made me feel like I have been a great asset to this company, something that my old boss never did. Sure, he'd compliment the way I'd improved so much since I'd screwed up during my first year, but he never asked for help, never told me what was going on, never really COMMUNICATED with me. I've come to find that I really don't know what he thought of me. Oh well. Who cares now. I know what I think of him after all this...

Oh yea, one more thing. My biggest clue about his character? The one that made me think, "Hmmmm, there's something about this guy..." He doesn't like animals. Every time I'd bring up my birds or cat or whatever, he'd make a disgusted face. Sure, he had pets for his kids, but he didn't seem to respect them. The way he'd talk about animals I could tell, he had no respect for them.

Okay, that is all. I must order lunch now.

How does it feel?

Like my brain is drizzling out my ear. Life changes are SO FUN! I tell you! I can't remember where I put my toast. Where's my pen? How many peices of toilet paper are left? There's sludge in my head now. I've got pieces of April, too.

GROAN.

Picture entry!

Some fun pictures I found on my camera... The dirty Stan and Praying Mantis were taken on the same day. Stan destroyed the poor Mantis about 30 minutes after the picture was taken... We should have hid her when we let him out. Poor thing.

I must say I'm loving this busy at work thing. I'm getting SO much done! It feels great. I'm off to pack orders now, one of the last times I'm going to have to do that...for a while I hope. The packing lady is coming back on Monday.

Later!