Ambitious?

So here is the self impsed list of things to do at work yesterday.

6:30am Begin logging footage for video project
9:00am Watch past client video in preparation for meeting
10:00am Complete departmental timesheets
Noon: FInd stock footage for video project
1:00pm Lunch
1:30pm Take cab to client's office
2:00pm Meeting with client
3:00pm Continue logging footage for video project
5:00pm Watch poetry video for promo project

And here's what actually happened:

6:00am - 6:30am - Search for a place with current to log footage since we had a power outage on Sunday
6:30am - 7:00am Begin logging footage for video project
7:00am - Power goes off just as I am about to log the last shot on the first of 4 window burn dvds
7:15am - Begin relocation to my desk - at least I can type up the notes I have so far
7:30am - Run into panicked co-worker in the hall in an attempt to send a fax (that didn't work); in addition, I run into other co-workers who are attempting to resolve the power outage issues.
8:00am - Wait for computer to re-boot; Begin typing up notes
8:30am - Informed that power would be going out again in my area; save work
8:50am - Heck, might as well go to Starbucks
8:55am - listen to abysmally long story of colleague's weekend as he shamelessly tries to flirt with me
9:00am - jonesing for my caffeine fix;so encourage colleague to wrap up story; go to Starbucks - get caffeine and then go to CVS to purchase fantasy football magazine; they are out of stock.
9:05am - Return back to work; re-boot computer
9:10am - Send out email to remind department to turnin timesheets and paperwork from the previous week
9:15am - Realizing that I won't receive all the timesheets anytime soon, go set up to watch client video
9:30am - Watch and take notes on client video
10:00am - Start calling the same folk who never turn in their timesheets on time to remind them to turn them in; make pre-mature lunch plans with co-worker at noon
11:00am - Continue processing timesheets; get annoyed that as with every week I still don't have them all even though they are due on Friday
Noon - Continue checking timesheets and crosschecking them with paperwork; still annoyed that I don't have all of them yet.
12:30pm - Finally receive all timesheets - start doing weekly summaries
1:00pm - Still doing timesheets - anxiously devour a few handfuls of trail mix to keep from passing out
1:15pm - Make copies of all timesheets (phew the copier didn't jam this time); turn in timesheets
1:30pm - Take cab to client's office
2:00pm - Meeting with client
3:30pm - Realize that I have no chance of completing a lot of the items on the list above; so I warm up my lunch
4:00pm - Complete lunch; go to accounting to discuss billing issues; run into friend in hallway
4:15pm - Friend has one of her friends with her and asks to print something from my computer
4:30pm - Friend + 1 go to my desk and friend begins surfing the net for whatever she needed to print out. +1 begins an animated discussion on her cell phone
4:34pm - Go downstairs to log that last shot on the dvd from this morning
4:45pm - Go back to desk - friend +1 are still there; hmmm - try to re-send fax from earlier this morning
5:00pm- Fax finally successful - but friend +1 are still at desk; realize that the list is hopeless at this point and decide to chat with friend +1 for a few minutes in between returning emails and phone calls
5:30pm - Wish friend +1 would leave so I can have a minute of coherent thought; begin a futile attempt at trying to find office supplies; take the scenic route back to my desk in order to avoid annoyed co-worker in the hall
6:00pm - Friend +1 finally leave and I finish composing emails that require a little thought.
6:30pm - Wait fo train to Pentagon;
6:43pm - Train finally comes
6:50pm- Train arrives at Pentagon; run like mad woman to catch bus; bus pull off without me; drop a loud f-bomb at the thought of having to wait another 20 minutes for bus; apologize for f-bomb; only to realize that attendant made bus driver stop for a couple other people too; run like a banshee towards bus (in heels and a skirt)
6:51pm - Secretly wish I could punch bus driver for pulling off without me; calm down and try to enjoy the ipod tunes
7:15pm - Walk home
7:23pm - Fall asleep while watching Young and the Restless
8:15pm - Wake up to check the score of the Yankee/Detroit game; pleased that the Yanks are losing - calculate that they will be seven game back in the AL East; talk fantasy football with roomie
8:30pm - 11:00am - flip back and forth between baseball and football; play mindless video game; go to sleep
3:00am - Wake up to clip nails
3:30 - Begin typing this blog and preparing for another productive day
4:05am - Attempt to go back to sleep.

More Than I Bargained For

So lately, because my job is unstable and mostly sucks, I have been focusing a lot of energy on extracurricular activities. So in addition to the company fantasy football league, I joined a money league. I also joined two fall softballl leagues and the good thing about that is that they are both close to home and I will get to meet move VA people. I have been trying to get out a lot more just to take my mind off of....everything work related. It helps sometimes but apparently yesterday after almost waking up from a nap, I was slurring about how I didn't want to go to work and that I was gonna be late and then I went back to sleep. So it must still be there in the back of my mind.

Things at church have been ramping up and I am not sure that I want to give them the level of committment that I think it would take to accomplish everything they want particularly without a substantial pay increase.

I am still trying to get used to my new size - it's weird being able to fit size 4s and extra smalls. It's more weird to think that just 6 mos ago I was wearing larges and double digit sizes.

My friend is coming back in town for a conference this week. She is always like a breath of fresh air. She always inspires me to do what I love, which reminds me - I have a treatment to write.

Punked by a Pigeon Part III

So I am having a nice evening with two of my favorite people dining outside. We are caught up in conversation, sipping mango margaritas. I happen to look down as I am slurping and there is a fresh dropping of bird poop in my drink. Is this a sign? What is it with me and these freaking birds? I can't stand them. Our scare owl is on the way so we can put it on the balcony. Maybe then I can have plants. A friend told me that they (I am guessing they may be "the man")are going to give pigeons birth control so that they won't reproduce. Normally, I am not in favor of man interfering with nature's processes but in this case - I say get rid of 'em. Did I mention that I think pigeons suck....

I did get a new drink which helped ease the pain a little.

Big-Eyed Fish

That's what I think I am sometimes. Destined to live in the sea, but dreaming of soaring the sky. Perhaps my dreams are not meant to come true. Maybe I fail to comprehend the potential of the sea. I am in no position right now to grasp the beauty of the sea. I can only obsess about the sky and how I can get there. It is a long way from the bottom of the ocean. The thing about coming to the surface is that you get a glance of the earth and sky. So then you realize what you are missing or at least dream of what you want. The thing about fish though...is that they have to live in the water to survive. They can only come out of the water momentarily....I know what I want, but I don't know how to get it.

Perhaps I am like Icarus and my wings are melting.

Perhaps I am PMSing....ok the pity party is officially over - almost.