Last night I was talking to my sponsor about how much it would rule if when Ani DiFranco is in town for her Chicago show she attended my home meeting (since I've totally convinced myself she's in Al-anon). Today I had an email from Righteous Babe Records saying she's adding an extra Chicago date to her tour. She was already playing Saturday, ( Read more... )

I had a dream I got a haircut. It's been a year since I cut it and it's getting long. I could use a trim since the ends feel a bit dead in places. I'd also like to get the layers cut out, but I don't want to lose any length. In my dream it was a perfect trim, whatever that means ( Read more... )

So far I've gone to the Y twice. First time I was scared of the workout room and it took me 3 tries to actually get myself in there. Plus I made this huge effort to get my old gym combination lock out and write the combo on my body twice (arm and belly) only to forget it at home. Doh! Luckily no one stole my shit. Second time I went was much ( Read more... )

Friday I ended up talking to Carson before I left work. While my fantasy of him firing the pothead and then offering me his job did not come to fruition, he did tell me what my raise is. My raise is $2,000! That's a little over a 7% raise! I'll still be totally broke, but now I have an extra $120 a month. About a third of that will be going to the ( Read more... )

iPod:
According to Scott, the harddrive crapped out. I have to call HP support to have them replace my month old iPod. Dammit.

Like annaramaFoley keeps giving me newspapers, newsletters, internet printouts, and magazines with names highlighted with a highlighter to add to the database. I had to tell him that it would be impossible for me to find ( Read more... )

I think my iPod is broke. I tried to do a hard restart and all that crap. It just makes harddrive noises. I think I'm going to swing by the Mac Store on the way home. It's an HP iPod, but I'm hoping they can help me anyway. If it broke in a month and they have to send it in I'll be so so sad ( Read more... )

Bad jokes aside, I'm thinking of joining the YMCA. The montly fee is $45, which is probably about what it would cost elsewhere. The benefit is that I don't have to sign a contract so I'm not bound to it if I decide it's not for me. Plus they're waiving the sign-up fee through the 31st ( Read more... )

I had a dream that my parents gave me $100,000 for graduating college. I'd been all bent out of shape that they couldn't help me buy a car and was pissed that they didn't get me anything. Then I looked at the card and out popped 2 checks. One was for $3,000 or so and the second was for $97,000. I felt really guilty for not finding the checks ( Read more... )

We have a 65 pound printer that needs to go out pre-paid UPS. UPS usually comes twice a day. There's usually a lady in the morning and a cool guy right around noon. The lady is cranky so I wouldn't even bother asking her to take the printer. The normal guy we have was willing to take it the other day but it wasn't ready to go. Today a ( Read more... )

Snow.
Yeah, there's a lot of it. I stayed inside all day Saturday. Sunday I waited forever for a bus. As I was waiting a team of CTA men came to dig out the Diversey el stop and the little bus hut I wanted to be standing in. Since I couldn't get to it I pretty much just waited in the street hoping the bus driver wouldn't pass me up.

Snow ( Read more... )