Archive for ◊ July, 2007 ◊
• Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
you make the 7:12 train from Providence, only to have it stop about two miles up the track. Ten minutes later, the conductor says that we’re going back to Providence station because the Pawtucket police are investigating a fatality on the track and have shut all tracks down.
And… the conductor urges us to find “a different way to get to our destinations.”
*blink*
When the MBTA is actually admitting to find another way in, everything is completely, utterly screwed. And that’s the indication that you know you’re going to have a morning.
Although not the MBTA’s fault today. Not remotely.
And on top of that, the irony is that I left the house a half hour earlier this morning than I did yesterday… and had debated driving to Quincy to take the red line today, rather than deal with the Providence parking situation (which translates to parking at Providence Place Mall, which is $17 for the day, with no way to get my car out of hock before 10 a.m. because there are no tellers at the payment windows until then).
*snort*
Officially? I was an hour late today, as I was scheduled to open the office – Erich had thankfully not yet left the house, swung by, picked me up, and drove me to Norwood (because I was not going to Route 128 today with everyone else on the entire Providence to Boston line to pick up the Stoughton train).
But according to my normal starting time at work (9:15), I was only 15 minutes late. So by sheer coincidence, I’ve found an emergency back-station (as opposed to back-route) to get to work relatively easily. This is good.
Category: Life, Work, and all the Rest, New England
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• Sunday, July 29th, 2007
All in all, it was quite productive. I got a lot of the email work I needed to finish completed – already have heard back from the caterer, and a few of the panic questions (i.e. we do have a tent reserved for the reception, right?!?) are now solved to my relief. I got caught up on a decent amount of housework. I leveled my character in World of Warcraft to 70. And I did some file cleaning on my computer. Not too shabby.
Oh, and with the help of my father, I’ve hopefully solved the poor timing of female systems during the wedding issue, with the help of Walgreens. Dad called in a resupply of my birth control pills to the Walgreens near me (gotta love that as long as it’s not a narcotic, he can call cross-country). I’ll be picking them up and starting them tomorrow, making sure to take no placebo pills at all to force my period to skip. And if all goes well, I’ll be requesting my own OB/GYN to please put me on the Seasonale that’s now on the market, which is essentially the same idea.
Didn’t get to my office as I’d hoped – but the pouring rain that was supposed to last all weekend and cool things off didn’t really happen. It poured for about a half-hour this afternoon, but I swear it’s muggier now than it was before. And so it’s just miserable upstairs. But I’ll get to it. It may be a midnight project next weekend, but I’ll get to it.
Tomorrow morning I’ll be getting up bright and early at five, driving into work (let’s hope the Jeep doesn’t break down like it did last time I did this… on Memorial Day weekend), and pushing a potentially very long day. But it will be a good thing. It’s for a large, complicated client, and working with one of the senior account managers and a principal of the company. And I definitely want to make good on putting a strong effort into my workload. Hopefully it all goes well.
It’ll be a short work week for me – I’m taking a half day on Friday because I pick up my dress from the alterations late Friday afternoon (eep!). By then I’m hoping to also have figured out the hair stylist issues and transportation for this shindig.
My god, it’s August already. Where the hell has this year gone?!?
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• Friday, July 27th, 2007
Random aside – day to day, I’ve been hanging out over on LJ a lot… as I’ve become pretty involved with the Doctor Who fan crowd there. So if you have a LJ account, pop on over and say hi. My screenname over there is measi, just as it is here. All of my journal entries are cross-posted, though.
I’d originally toyed with (and signed up for) the Blogathon for tomorrow, but hadn’t received an approved message by this morning. And honestly? I know better. I’m already running crazy, and I can’t afford to blow the day on it this year.
So I’ll do it next year. When I’m theoretically sane.
Instead, I’ll be working through a massive half-wedding, half-house chores list this weekend. Thankfully some of it is just email/computer related, so hopefully I can get a head start on it if I have some lulls in work today.
-Update RSVP list, email to Mom and Erich
- Email caterer
- Email DJ
- Email payment addresses to Mom
- Finish Lowes registry, double-check Linens & Things registry
- Update wedding webpage
- Laundry
- Dishes
- Scrub office
- Move bookshelves in office
- LoM files to iPod
- Backup all mp4s to DVD
- Whittle through “my docs” folder
- Time and Chips “Anywhere but Cardiff” fic… 1,000 words written
- Level Tennetty to 70
- Email girls list to Melinda
- Strip beds from last weekend, wash, remake
- Grocery shopping
- Beta reading
Seriously… with all of the crap I have to do… there’s absolutely no way I could do that Blogathon. I was stupid to even think of it.
But hey, I’ll find a way to get through the list. And I’ll multitask when possible to try to get stuff done faster. I’m a professional admin assistant. I can multitask quite well. 
And since the weekend’s supposed to be absolutely craptastic, it may help me to stay on task.
I can dream at least. Stop giving me those looks, Erich.
I do hope to have at least a couple hours of couch time this weekend. I bought copies of The Second Coming and Revengers Tragedy (both with Chris Eccleston) weeks ago and haven’t watched them yet – and since I can only watch them on the living room TV since they’re Region 2 discs, it limits my time a bit. Doctor Who was mostly to blame for that, of course. But maybe this weekend I can find a couple hours for one of them.
We’ll see.
Happy Friday, all!
Category: Life, Work, and all the Rest, Wedding, Writing
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• Friday, July 27th, 2007
So… the insanity continues in the wedding planning. Talked to Mom, who I think had a heart attack this morning over money. But so am I, so no worries there.
By process of elimination, we’ve picked our rings: ooh… shiny!
And then the email thread commenced on vows, since it relates to the ring…
I start the conversation off quietly – with vows I actually really like, either as-is, or with some modifications by us to personalize them:
I love you. You are my best friend.
Today I give myself to you in marriage.
I promise to encourage and inspire you, to laugh with you,
and to comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle.
I promise to love you in good times and in bad,
when life seems easy and when it seems hard,
when our love is simple, and when it is an effort.
I promise to cherish you, and to always hold you in highest regard
These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life.
As a joke, I also suggested that we could send my family into spasms by doing the ceremony this way: http://weddings.about.com/od/yourweddingceremony/a/SeussFunnyVows.htm
In response, Erich sends me the link to a google search… all on the word “Obey.”
Now… we’ve had a lot of discussion on that word – and my distaste about it. It won’t show up in my vows (whether Erich decides he wants to say he’ll obey me… well, hey… *wink*). But I can joke about it.
So then the next proposal for vows he gives is this:
I promise to put up with your family, pull your pigtails less, and obey the cats.
Followed by a quick revisement, with both sets of vows. Me = Erich, You = Me.
Me: I promise to pull your pigtails less, mow the lawn more often, and obey the petting needs cats always.
You: I promise to cook more (because I’m good at it), clean more (because my office is scary), and buy more coffee (because we both need more coffee).
That may have potential…
Category: Family & Friends, Geeky Stuff, Wedding
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• Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Category: Fanfic, Misc. Musings, Writing
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• Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Both other admins are late this morning for doctors’ appointments. How’d this work out? Well, no matter. It’s nice and quiet.
I’m highly annoyed, based on current events and some calculations, that I’m going to have my period during my wedding, thanks to my cycle deciding to do some timing switches and show up a week early. HIGHLY. ANNOYED. (seriously… on ALL OF THE DAYS… the one that I’m going to be wearing white on top of white on top of white. SERIOUSLY). Pissed. off.
Gathered all of our contracts for vendors to double-check final payment dates. Glad I did… ’cause our site payment in full was due Sunday. *sigh* Have already emailed them with a copy to my mom to get that resolved. *sigh* So the panic ensues again.
We have six RSVPs already returned to us. It’s very freaky. OMG people are coming to this thing. *runs* *hides*
I seriously need a haircut. And a recolor. And a clue as to what I’m going to do with my hair for aforementioned wedding, which frustrates me because I’m just NOT a hair person and don’t care about it like I really should be doing.
Thank Goddess for Indiebrides.com, which has a kickass repository of readings and vow ideas that others have used. Me thinks I may be diving into those threads on the Kvetch boards this weekend to get those vows written.
Speaking of writing – scribbled 300 words on my piece for “Anywhere but Cardiff.” Whether I finish or not, no can say. But I’ll give it a try.
Well, no… it will get finished. Whether before or after the wedding is the real question.
Shit, I still have lots of beta reading to do, too. Hmm…
Life on Mars is awesome. Just finished Episode 7 of Series 1 this morning.
I need more coffee.
I haven’t watched an episode of Who since Friday night. Scary.
No, I really need more coffee.
Shit, I hope we didn’t fuck everything up with our reception site by missing that deadline on Sunday. Fuck fuck fuck.
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Category: Life, Work, and all the Rest, Wedding
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