Yesterday, wow

Genealogy is a trippy thing. A friend of mine once told me I'm some kind of fricken United States royalty. Just like King Henry VIII in that Showtime series "The Tudors" I'm so engrossed in, I wish sometimes I was just so I could relieve this world of certain select individuals such as rapists, molesters, murders and the like. Only just beheadings would occur in my kingdom, but I digress. Many of my relatives came from England.

Lots of people I meet seem like shadows of the people they were, could be or should have been, including myself. I feel hiding away allows me to avoid their disappointment I feel when trying to relate on some kind of personal level. But I'm no better or worse than anyone. I'm just a collection of life's experiences, whatever they may be.

Yesterday, I found out I'm related to the father of our country... the first U.S. president General George Washington himself. Ironic that my son has had this intense craving for cherries from a young age, ehy? LOL

I woke up

I woke up this morning remembering flashes of one of those vivid color dreams I sometimes have bouncing around in my head.

I was in a tall office building and I think I was coordinating a group of people that all performed the same job, but for different companies.

The desks were arranged into a geometric pattern each desk was standing separate without cubicle walls, two halves facing each other creating one long walking path-hall between them. Connecting them on one end another hall to an elevator area and
I walked into another corner of the room where HR or a high ranking manager was seated and their desk was positioned with the back next to a glass wall and had two panel cubicle dividing wall surrounding the guest seating area. This blonde lady that I already knew but did not recognize said she worked with me years before and was talking about process and procedure.

I have no idea where this will be leading me - whether or not it's just a random thing or a premonition of things to come in my life. Something is pulling me to the east coast. I think it's going to happen within 14 months.

Free Angel's Tix

I'm a subscriber to angelsbaseball.com and they emailed me a survey to complete about the Best Angels Team. After you fill this out and hit submit, it gives you the option to send the same survey to mercury.com for an insurance quote AND a free ticket to an Angel's game. Free is free and free is good, right?

Isn't funny...

Isn't it funny how after a good bm, you feel so much better?

I woke up feeling bloated and slightly backed up. I imagine lots of overweight people have this sensation all the time, but are in denial about it and call it 'acid reflux'. No peoples, this is a serious poop back-up when your digestive tract is so full that it now begins the acid breakdown (which usually occurs inside your stomach) now has relocated itself to the bottom of your throat. Stop eating and drink something like coffee, beer, apple cider or any other thing that makes you go number two. Trust me, you won't die not eating for a day or two when you're overweight.

The gas went away and I felt a craving for tacos coming on by lunchtime. Yeah, tacos.

Eyes

Part 1
The deer in the headlights look:

I don't understand that deer in the headlights look that I see many people get for no apparent reason. Some people just get it because it's how they are. Some people get it as a reaction before inserting their foot deep into their mouth. I'm sure others obtain it as a part of the "shock & awe" they feel getting caught doing something they probably aren't supposed to be doing. But the one's that give you that kind of look all the time? Those people are kind of unsettling to me. I wonder what is going on in their head sometimes.

Part 2
My left eyelid keeps twitching:

I'm sure that the level of stress I'm dealing with being a manager on this contract job is the primary cause of my left eyelid twitching like it does. It's not a hard job my any means, but I've come to find out over the years, I really don't like management or supervisory jobs all that much. I'm glad to work with the people I do because they all know their jobs well, get along, and at the end of the day, we all want to do a good job and go home on time. That's really all I can ask for and I'm glad for that. I think I need to take more breaks and leave the office for lunch to stave off the funky eyelid thing.

Part 3
When there is something else going on:

I met one of my co-workers son's today at lunchtime. He previously told me that his son has autism, so I had a certain expectation of what was in store if I ever met him in person. Beautiful boy, but his mind was clearly concentrating on something else... in this case, it was the noise the contractors were making in order to continue the installation of the shelving in the expansion area. His eyes trailed off immediately to the noise and we couldn't bring him back to the conversation that was going on in front of him. Kids are resilient and I hope to hear one day of more of his little successes in life.

Email!

How many email accounts does one person need, really? It's getting kind of ridiculous.

1) annazzz1966@Yahoo
2) annazzz@roadrunner
3) cats
4) personal
5) gmail
6) hotmail for job communications
7) work
8) myspace
9) LinkedIn

...what am I missing here?

oh yeah...
10) the one connected to my cell phone I do not use.

Too much!

What the ?

Yesterday, there was an uncomfortable situation I had to deal with which was not pretty. You see, we had contractors come in to build out the new space for the loan vault expansion and the two main workers were talking rather loudly all day. One of the ladies from the cert team asked them to quiet down in the AM, which I did not witness. But what was the clincher was when I heard expletives and sexist/racist comments all the way across the room at my location at the back of the office. Not nice, not good, not tolerated. We have zero tolerance for that kind of ignorance at work. I had to call another manager to get it to stop and have them removed. Eww.

I left at 4PM and got home at 6pm. Fell asleep on the couch right after eating dinner I'm sure due to the stress of it all and slept my requisite 6 hours. I woke up at 12:30AM raring to go, but could not do a damn thing about it. So I laid in my bed for another 30 minutes or so and watched Conan complain about being preempted because of the hockey game on Monday.

It's Monday once more

So the drive to Simi Valley wasn't so bad this morning, so I went to Albertson's before going to the office for some breakfast stuffs because I'm almost certain eating a cinnamon and apple muffin from the corporate cafeteria each morning is the culprit contributing to my ever expanding waist line, and it's gotta stop.

I located some mini blueberry bagels and compared their calorie content to the regular sized ones and if I eat two mini ones as compared to one large one, and *good news* I save 40 calories. So I placed a bag into the basket and realized that now I need to go to the bathroom. Oh yes, I do. Now, I'm not one of those girls that has a phobia about public restrooms or going #2. I don't care where or when, if I have to go, I'm going to go no matter what - get out of my f*cking way. I locate the bathroom at the back of the store between two cold cases in the hall that goes into the storage area. Do my business and am on my way. While paying for my bagels, I made sure to get cash for lunch this week.

I went to Sharky's Woodfired Mexican Grill for lunch and wrote about it in Yelp!
I also txt msged my hairdresser to see what his schedule was like for next weekend because I want to get a decent haircut before he traipses off to Thailand for the next three months. He's psyched and I'm happy for him, but that's a hell of a long way to travel to get your movie career rolling, dude. I wish you only good luck on this project, Chuckie.

I came back to witness more of the same silliness with the contractors putting the shelving together for my new vault space. I hear them go through these moments of giggles and then they talk some more. I wonder who's the comedian. I wonder how long they are going to take.

Sunday With The Tudors: June 1, 2008

The Season Finale: :45 minutes of waiting, and waiting and more waiting with the tension building up until the release and banishment of Anne's father, the declaration of Elizabeth as a bastard, and the beheading of Anne.

What I think:O.K., what a disappointment as compared to the previous episode. And to top it off, they are going to begin the new season NEXT YEAR. Ug. I think it's time to cancel my subscription to Showtime.

Yeah June!

Today is the first day of June. June is my favorite month. Not because I was born in June, but because I like summer the most of all of the seasons and June is the official start of summer.