Monday, October 29, 2007
Video Game Junkie
I am a video game Junkie.
I didn’t use to be this way. If anything I shunned the very idea of playing video games for hours on end. Seriously – there are so many better ways to spend your time. This is what I ALWAYS thought, until now.
It all started with the Nintendo Wii. Damn those Nintendo geniuses who invented controllers that even the most inept person can use. Hubby and I have spent hours playing games together, getting new games and exploring them. Which is fine, playing games with someone is totally cool.
Then came the Sims.
Sims is this totally adorable, cute game. You play a character whose main goal is to rebuild a town and make people happy. You run around decorating, making people furniture, building people houses, planting trees and exploring the little world that gradually opens up to you. The characters are cartoons, the colors bright and the music sickeningly sweet.
I love every minute of it.
So far I have spent over thirty hours playing this game. I think about my characters when I am not playing. Things like, “I know, so and so needs a new couch!” pop into my head. I’m currently mulling over where to move some of the characters so they might be happier.
Now, I haven’t gone so far as to make a list of my characters and plot out where I would like to move them. I was thinking yesterday that it would be great to put together a plan of what I’d like to do next. When I had that urge, to put more into the game than I really should, I stopped playing. Didn’t hurt that Hubby wanted a turn…
Thursday, October 18, 2007
FOLKS!
Seen in a local fast food place. I needs me a folk!
Try, Try Again
Monday = no bump in pay.
Tuesday = ask the senior managers again.
Wednesday = pay increase was approved.
Come on – say it with me – WHOOT WHOOT!!
So far my new managers have been incredible. They’ve been calling me, emailing me, setting up meetings with me. They want to know what I am interested in doing and how I feel about things so far. It is such a change from where I have been for the last two years, it will take some time for me to get used to the attention. I’m so used to figuring things out on my own with no help from my manager – having direction given to me is a whole new thing!
In other news – I’m heading to Las Vegas for the weekend. I’ve got a friend who lives there and I think a little early fall break from the gray skies will be good. That, and it will give hubby a chance to have a “boys weekend” to do what ever he wants. I can see it now, hubby playing video games, drinking beer and eating pizza all weekend long. I just hope he remembers to feed the cats…
Monday, October 15, 2007
And, I’m Back!
Well, to you I never left. But to my workgroup I did. I had going away drinks, a going away lunch and got a going away present. I left early on Friday, feeling a little sad at the fact that I wasn’t going to be working with or around this group anymore.
This morning I went to my new cube and unpacked most of my stuff. I got everything settled and went to plug in my computer only to realize that the network jacks at my new cube had been turned off. This means no connection to anything work related.
So, after spending a good 90 minutes getting settled, I had to pack my laptop and a few belongings and trudge back to my old cube, with my old group, to get to work.
The return was not as painful as I thought it might be, but it still sucked to come back. What was even worse is the fact that the new bosses don’t have a clear plan on what I will be doing going forward. I’ll just have to sit tight and see.
By the way – the off cycle salary increase was declined. Here’s to hoping they can do something really nice for me at year end!
Thursday, October 11, 2007
A little sick, a little twisted
People in the office are dropping like flies with various illnesses this week. One lady is out with strep, another man with a cold, and so it goes. My body has decided it is also under the weather. I went home sick yesterday but decided to come to work today despite still not feeling great. Mostly because I have little to no interaction with people and little to no work to do. So it is almost like being at home, only without the comfy bed and warm snuggly kitties. Well, warm snuggly Cleo. Jager hasn’t figured out how to snuggle yet.
I’m getting bad mojo feelings about our apartment complex. (This is the twisted part.) A few weeks ago Hubby and I noticed that someone had broken into our storage area and stolen our bikes. Then we noticed that someone had broken into ALL the storage areas for our building and various people were robbed. We called the police, but they basically said, “Well that’s too bad, we can’t do anything for you” and left.
Then last night someone pulled a fire alarm in the garage. The entire building had to be evacuated. Since half the people in our building are really old men and ladies, the fire alarm was actually pretty frightening. Hubby and I looked at each other thinking, “Half of these people cannot make it down a fight of stairs, let alone 3.” We saw various faces looking down from their windows trying to decide if they needed to attempt to come outside.
Luckily, it was just a false alarm, so no one was hurt, nothing damaged. But I had to think to myself…first a robbery and then a pulled fire alarm? How many people in our building just left their apartments without locking them?
Like I said bad mojo feelings.
Hubby and I also realized that we have no evacuation plan. This is really ironic because I am head of my floor’s emergency response team at work. I have a plan with all kinds of evacuation stuff for work, but nothing at home. At one point Hubby looked at me and said, “we left the cats upstairs…” and the carrier for the cats is in the basement. Yep. We’ll be working on that this weekend. It was a bit of a wake up call for me.
As you wake in the morning
What do you feel?
Does a rush of happiness
wash over you when,
Suddenly, you realize you are alive?
