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5th July, 2008. 11:03 am. Greetings from Middle Franistan!
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Yes that's right, in anticipation of my family descending on our apartment today, my office is now set up. Kevin and I have this running joke about what to call my office, as I will not be doing any work in it per se. We came up with the idea its MY room and from it I will be plotting the take over of the rest of the apartment. Thus my country's name is, Greater Franistan. However, it's not Greater Franistan yet, there are some modifications needed. A sanitation dept must be created as well as a national archive and endowment for the arts.
And yes I plan on taking this joke about my office about as far as I can. I think it's funny.
Anyway, I have two hours before the family gets here. So I best get cooking. Meanwhile if you did not get the formal invite to the open house, come on over today. You know how to find me if you don't know where I moved to.
(I need a "good" despot icon. Yeah I know there are no good despots, maybe I just need an Evita one.)
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2nd July, 2008. 9:09 pm. Remember that good feeling?
I would like it back now. Today was just another LONG day. Someone a while ago posted that short weeks really aren't short, you just do five days of work in four. This week is like that.
Sigh, without my running buddy it's just too damned easy to say I'll run tomorrow. Now, at least my new pilates class is tomorrow. Oh, I didn't tell you about that? Okay, backing up.
A month ago I had had it with my flabby body. No, not true, TWO months ago I had had it with my flabby body. Six weeks ago I found an unpretentious pilates studio in Allston (near Sunset, oh the irony right?) four weeks ago I finally got the guts to go. It is right up my alley. My instructor has a full tattooed sleeve down one arm, is a woman wrestler, and oh yeah, is about four months pregnant. She's lovely. The classes are much faster than my previous ones. Still and hour long we're moving our bodies faster. Which is good and bad at the same time.
SO - that's my Thrusday. I leave work, hike over to the student ghetto and then hop the bus get home at about 7:30 and realize just how hard I worked out. Seriously the stairs are hard for me.
Wednesdays have been running with Jen for about a month too. We've gotten the 3 mile loop from Watertown Square to Brighton and back down to about 30 mins give or take. And we added Sundays to combat the 'I don't wanna go to work' blues. I am seeing a difference. My not so much on the scale, although it is going down too, but more in my pants. Thank goodness too, the only way I am going to go out and buy more pants is if they are in a smaller size.
But back to my now problem. Jen is laid up a bit for a time, and as much as she misses running I NEED her to run. Okay I don't need her, but Jen knocking on my door at 5:30 makes me go way more than getting home at 6:30 knowing Kevin's right behind me and we need 12 million things at the store is a really good excuse not to go. But I've got to go. It's the only thing that works and let's me feel how I want to rather than how I do now.
I would like to figure out how to stop the excuses and get my buttocks in gear with or without my running buddy, who obviously I miss terribly.
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1st July, 2008. 9:49 pm. The gods keep giving you the same message...
...until you get it.
I apparently don't suck as much as I thought I do. Several opportunities have fallen in my lap in the last week, reminding me that people like working with me and that I am not as bad at things as I perhaps think.
It's hard to put into words. I know now, I have some work to do, in several areas in my life.
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28th June, 2008. 12:23 pm. A simple conversation at home
Kevin: Ugh, my bald spot is getting bigger.
Fran: So what! You know so is my ass. Look, they're both behind us so we can't see them!
For once in my life I had my husband in stitches.
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28th June, 2008. 10:50 am. Am I the only one?
Seen the New Six Flags commercials? The ones with the obviously Asian guy yelling "More Flags! More Fun!". Am I the only one who finds these commercials offensive? Granted they are better than the chick dressed up as the dancing old guy. But still.
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26th June, 2008. 9:54 pm. What's a madda Colonel Sanders? CHICKEN!?!?!?
I don't like when things go wrong at work. These days it can be prevented. By me.
Thing is if I don't let other people make these mistakes they are not going to learn.
This is frustration beyond belief for me. Letting someone fall on their face and then saying, "So, what'd you learn?" is almost impossible for me to do when what they are making mistakes on are things that are formerly my responsibility. My instinct is to walk around saying Did you do this yet? How about this? What about this? I am totally a mother hen. And it's got to stop.
However sitting on my hands is not a talent I have. As such, I am going to Fanueil Hall tomorrow during my lunch purse hunting. Or maybe dress shopping at Macy's. Not sure yet, we'll see how the day goes.
What it gets me away from my desk AND hopefully finds me something pretty.
P.S. Colonel is a BITCH to spell. I had to google army ranks to copy and paste it above.
P.P.S. - NPH on million dollar password - awesome!
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24th June, 2008. 8:59 pm. Oh and another thing
Gloucester pregnancy pact or not, there seems to be a lot of finger pointing at the girls and the school. Um, what about the parents and the boys of the supposed conservative close knit Catholic town? Are they partly to blame? Or perhaps could have helped prevent the issue. Huh, huh, huh?
Also, the FNG who is gone this week, will be back next week. Why God? Why? He's not there now, we're doing just fine, we don't NEED him. And I know after 7 work days out from work FNG is not going to remember a damn thing and I sure as hell am not teaching him again. I am so upset about the fact he is coming back I already organized the back hallway, washed all the dishes (before I made dinner Kevin did the ones from dinner) and went grocery shopping. Need to feel in control me? Never.
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24th June, 2008. 8:13 pm. Not a fluke
I still hate the grocery store. It's so much better when going with someone else.
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