16 posts tagged “things on tuesday”

Things I Loathe:

• Stress leading to anxiety leading to insomnia leading to the need to medicate.
• Clients standing me up aka not showing up to meetings.
• Clients being complete bitches over the phone when you clearly did nothing wrong.
• My co-workers screwing things up for me leading me needing to clean up the mess.
• Street repaving and more leading to unnecessary traffic jams.
• Totally being unable to read anything... nothing can keep my attention.

Things I Love:

• Friendly clients pleased with the progress of their program.
• Reading crazy news like Tom Cruise considering a sequel to Top Gun.
• Having good food with my cousin.
• Loving the fact that my supervisor is going away as of tomorrow and won't be back until the first week of August.
• My muse actually being away and being able to write with AngelFish.
• Bought a pair of cute silver ballet flats. Got them at Payless Shoes for cheap. They were American Eagles. I've been wearing them to work and they're kinda tight, but I'm sure the fabric will loosen up.

Things I Loathe:

• Being really hungry.
• Not being able to start my Slim-Fast/Veg diet because I didn't have time to go to the store to pick up some Slim-Fast & Veggies.
• Going to Costco and not being able to buy bocconcini because the box was too big for me to eat by myself and no one else eats it at home, so I'm stuck!
• Clients forgetting to call, assuming they called, and then dropping off their kids at my doorstep.

Things I Love:

• Coffee!
• Having dinner with my grandmother, uncle & cousin almost nightly. Makes for great conversation and a wider variety of food.
• Sleeping in on the weekend.
• Family friend visited on Sunday - dinner and a birthday celebration!
• Being able to leave work early yesterday! Thank you supervisor!

Things I Loathe:

• My [old] laptop dying. Poor thing, the HD malfunctioned.
• Saying goodbye to family members.
• Dealing with bad customer service.
• A stressed out boss causing me more stress.
• Idiotic clients/parents.
• Being woken up early on a Saturday & Sunday to clean the house.
• Unexpectedly spending $1000.
• Working a Monday for the first time in 2 years.

Things I Love:

• My new laptop.
• New furniature in my bedroom. A better haven than before but not perfect yet.
• Having dinner with my grandma regularly.
• Shorter work hours.
• Having 24GB of my [old] HD recovered. Better than nothing.
• Getting more sleep.

So, I took a month off to recharge, both physically and mentally. I'm back now... with my first return post to "Things On Tuesday". Hopefully, I'll be able to post more regularly, and talk about my trip & time off.

Things I Loathe:

• My parents bothering me when it's a long weekend.
• Idiots jumping off a bridge, disprupting traffic.
• Stupid people.
• Work calling on my day off.
• Getting screwed by the boss.
• Saying goodbye to family members.
• Rising gas prices.

Things I Love:

• The long weekend, with two days off from work!
• Lots of good food & chatter w/ my family.
• Purchasing and watching both seasons of Bones.
• Being able to veg in front of the TV with old tv shows on DVD (Kitchen Confidential).
• Finally having my bedroom turned into a semi-sanctuary. It's not quite all there yet but I'm working on it.
• Searching for a new car and found something I like (never mind that the sales guy was young and cute)!
• Blogging again!

Things I Loathe:

• Not having time to blog.
• Being swamped at work.
• Over eating.
• Hunger Pains.
• The awful NCIS season finale - the very last moments.
• Thunder early this morning leading me to be woken up super early.

Things I Love:

• Being invited to Paris.
• Visiting family that don't suck.
• Lots of Season Finales to watch (Bones, House, CSI: Miami).
• Coffee!
• Nice summer weather over the weekend.

Things I Loathe:

• Continued soaring gas prices.
• Back pain.
• Crazy family in town.
• Crying babies.
• Stuffing envelopes at work.
• Bad coffee (I was not impressed by Second Cup).
• Whiny employees.

Things I Love:

• Great episodes of my favorite tv shows (Bones, CSI, Criminal Minds, etc).
• Being able to write again.
• Good food.
• Getting to sleep in.
• Long weekend last weekend - had Friday off!

Things I Loathe:

• Doing a computer software upgrade at work with a 30GB hard-drive.
• Nearly crashing the work system twice because of the upgrade.
• Breaking in new heels - painful!
• Spending so much money to get pretty.
• Constantly having to deal with parents who negotiate the hell out of everything.

Things I Love:

• Getting enough sleep.
• Feeling pretty.
• Coffee!
• Finally being able to watch a new episode of Bones.
• Being gifted a homemade pie by a parent/client.

Things I Loathe:

• Extremely immature children w/ high pitched voices. Think baby-talk.
• Hunger Pains
• Acne! Arg! They're back.
• Lower back pain.
• Becoming the "handy-man" at work.
• Soaring Gas Prices

Things I Love:

• Vox Mobile Blogging. It works!
• Finally getting my brows waxed.
• People actually thinking I weigh 105lbs. Hahah! I haven't seen that number in years!
• New shoes! Yes, I bought a new pair of shoes.
• Spring Flowers. It's finally spring!

Things I Loathe:

• Getting screwed by my co-worker (again) for not thinking ahead and leaving me work to do... on a Sunday!
• Still not feeling my best.
• Being used as an example at "work" by the person who cuts my paycheck.
• Doing my laundry.
• Stressing about money.
• Snow in late April (unbelievable - I will have pictures up fairly soon).

Things I Love:

• Knowing that Sarah Connor Chronicles is being renewed for Season 2.
• Having time to persue my writing again (even if it's just for fun).
• Getting my nails done again! (This time, it's in a shiny pink-red colour).
• Actually getting decent sleep.
• No work this Friday!
• Having someone asked me if I lost weight (in which I haven't but it was sweet that he/she thought so).

Things I loathe:

• Being sick... yes, I'm sick, hence why the lack of posting this past week. So sorry everyone.
• Having to pick up the slack on a co-worker who decided to take a last minute vacation. So much work, so little time.
• Computers at work going haywire and then needing to fix it.
• Completely swamped at work - Murphy's Law - when you're alone, that's when everyone appears to need you!
• Not being able to watch Bones because FOX switched it to 8PM Mondays (I'm still at work).
• Nail polish chipping because I'm typing all the time.

Things I love:

• Coffee! Yes, I'm in dire need.
• Benylin - my saving grace. Two days after taking it, I was much better. Still have some headaches, but overall, great!
• Getting to sleep in on Monday!
• Having successful teacher meetings (just had a great one today!)
• Getting my nails done (even if it was done by me... just feel prettier).
• New clothes!