Today is supposed to be an auspicious day, but to be honest it's been the weirdest day so far. These are some of my thoughts from today:
- My bro is coming to visit again this weekend. He was just here a few weeks ago too. It is so nice to have people from my family around. I am constantly surrounded by Hubby's fam and I love them, but sometimes I really question what I got myself into. I've been around them for 10 years, but sometimes I wig out and scream in my head. Lately I've been saying Hubby and his brothers are feral - mostly when I'm describing their inability to clean food chunks off a fork when eating, their inability to use towel bars (only hooks. can't fold.) or foregoing the hook altogether and storing a wet towel on a closet floor for two months. I wind up muttering in the basement or over the dishwasher "raised by wolves! filthy! disgusting! basic living skills!" I'm kinda kidding except that most childhood pictures of them are naked in mud puddles. You be the judge.
- Oh yeah. My brother's coming. Exciting. I like chillin' on the couch with the dude watching food network. We're headed to a
NE RevolutionChicago Fire game on Saturday night. It's my first match. I hope I don't have too many pints and fall onto the pitch. - When did my colleagues decide that it was ok to stop helping people? We're a service unit. One cannot simply just say, "call so-and-so" and crisis averted. I had to clean up 2 other people's messes today because others were unwilling to help someone. I even had one of those people call me up and tell me that the '' 'customers' were completely incapable of helping themselves." Um. hi. That's what we get paid for. Recently, Hubby has been referring to my occupation as "the closer." When all else fails the call me in and *poof* it's done. Sounds like a need a cape, no? wand?
- I cast on both of my druid mittens last night and cruised halfway through the cuff of one on today's train ride. I really, really like knitting with fingering weight and tiny needles. I can whip stuff out of fingering weight. Why does something with worsted take me so dang long?
- My sis is getting married in November. I'm so excited for her. It took her a long time to be able to make wedding related decisions. I heard "I just don't know what I want" for a few months, but now she knows exactly what she wants. It's very enjoyable to hear her say "I'm doing this." Confident. Self-assured. The gurl knows what she wants, but never once is she all over-the-top I want crazy. She just knows. I like it.
- I work in an office where the general public occasionally come in to use services. I found out today that a mother was told to leave because she was breast feeding. She had her stuff covered, she just wasn't allowed to do it in our office. I don't know how I feel about that. I'm leaning towards not good.
- I have once again determined that orange chicken procured from the skanky, likely roach infested food court across the street will solve all problems. It is possibly the best orange chicken on the planet. Sweet, sour, crunchy, chewy, sticky and served HOT. Me loves it. I only allow it on really bad days. I had it yesterday too.
- While knitting on my druid mittens this morning I realized that I am completely undecided about what to knit for the knitting olympics. First I was going to work on WIP's, then when I had my druid explosion on Tuesday night at Butterfly Yarn I thought I'd do those. Then I cast on my druids yesterday. Before the opening ceremony. Duh. Oh well. I'm a cheater. OR can we call it a WIP? I'll work that angle and get back to you.
- My office bathroom has automatic on/off, flow restricting faucets. Hi-tech crap. Water doesn't get hot enough because the sensor shuts it off early. The flow is REE-diculous. In three years I don't think I've adequately washed my hands after the loo. Hello hand sanitizer. I saw a plumber cursing in the bathroom the other day trying to fix one of the POS's that had been running for 48 hours straight non-stop (figure the water savings on that!). Today, I went to the bathroom and discovered a normal faucet with a mixing valve that you could turn ON when you wanted water and OFF when you didn't. GENIUS! I emailed Chuck and thanked him. Seriously. I emailed one of the many plumbers at this joint with 10,000 ee's and said a very sincere thank you. And he wrote back "thank you for your thank you." Today's not that bad, I guess.
ETA:
- One of the people that I solved a problem for stopped by my office at 4:30 to give me these. Awesome.
- The other night at knit night we got to talking about how annoying it is when people talk to you about your knitting. Someone suggested that the next time someone asks you where you learned to knit, say you learned in prison. On the train ride home, I got my first opportunity. Some dude sat next to me and like 5 minutes in he says "What's that gonna be?" Luckily the druid (or green autumn, ugh!) mittens are on the cover of VK so I showed him the cover. He says, "Well you'll have lots of time to finish them." And I said, "I started this morning," and motioned to my complete cuff. "You're flying! Where'd you learn to do that?" ....here it comes..... "In prison." I wait a beat. "I'm just kidding. A friend told me to say that." He says, "I think I have to find a new seat now." End of convo. He didn't move, but I think he got the hint. A few minutes later he pulls out a magazine and proceeds to read an an article on RNA. Crap! I wasted my line on a smarty. Maybe he was a creepy smarty and it wasn't completely wasted.
