…and I don’t mean that in a good way. Very off day today, not bad experiences with customers or employees or anything like that. Just one of those off your game days. On the bright side it was a calm start to the week and I’m hoping it stays that way.
After work, a nice run through the park with a way too energetic dog cleared my noggin for a wind down to the day. Now for the rest of the night it’s all about my ass in my favorite chair with a kitty purring happily. And now that I have you thinking about my ass, I’ll be back tomorrow.
Callie is a hella-cute adorable energetic fun deep-dark-eyed adjective-friendly dog who lives a couple doors down from me. She was dropped off after it was discovered a child was allergic. (although my cynical self is not sure I totally buy that). So the parents (neighbors) got custody of her from the daughter even though they really did not want a pet. But being parents and not wanting to say no to their daughter they took her in.
Callie on my porch:
Callie was spending all her time in the small fenced in back yard, the neighbors not being able to walk or play with such a young energetic dog. Then she figured out how to get my attention whenever I came home. She caught my eye and ears by standing up with her paws on the fence top and making sounds that to any animal lover translate to “hi, please pay attention to me, I just want to be around people and have so much love to give.”
This is her laughing at one of my jokes:
The 1/3 part:
I say I adopted one-third of a dog because it truly is a team effort with my neighbors and friend Jeff. The neighbors provide Callie shelter and a backyard with the freedom to go in and out of the house as she pleases. Jeff and I regulalry walk Callie and between the two of us she has been getting at least one good walk and play time each day, taking her around the neighborhood and to the park. We never even really say anything to the neighbors, we just open up the fence and take her, and that’s fine with them. On the weekends we both try to do more. Callie also gets to come in my yard and play with Thunder. Callie is fascinated by my cat Finnigan as she puts her paws up on the window sill and looks in while Finny is in the window. Finny gives him a look that says he is the boss if she dares ever step even one paw inside the house. Callie also gets fed food and treats on a regular basis while visiting. Jeff uses Thunder to teach Callie how to be a more calm dog, learning to walk properly, ect. And Callie being smart as well as good looking emulates Thunder, it’s actually pretty cute to watch.
One of these days soon I’m going to ask the neighbor if I can try to find someone who would adopt her, she deserves a real permanent home with people who would enjoy the perfect dog she is.
Brunch @ Kaya
Skyping with family in Michigan
And more jellybeans and peanut butter eggs
Happy Spring too!
From my brain to your eyes:
My eye has been twitching the last couple days, I only need a straight jacket and large bloody cleaver to complete the look.
Looking forward to the predicted 80 degree weather this weekend, but still waiting for that last winter blast.
Softball season is officially under way, games start in May.
Scraped my car wheel on a too-high squared off curve on the North side yesterday—G-D IT.
It’s time for another casino night, gotta gather the gambling challenged folks this weekend.
Looking forward to Easter Brunch
Spiced jelly beans should not be in packaging that looks like regular beans. I mistakenly buy at least one bag of this grossness every year…and bitch about it every year. Doh!
How does one become an authority on cheese? The guys at Whole Foods have me addicted, trying different exoctic goodness each time I shop. I can’t pass up a good gouda.
My watch broke today, that makes me and my wrist sad.
Warm spring-like day
Lunch with Alison
Day off work
Catching up on sleep
Hiking in the park
Shopping
Evening cocktails with friends
To sum up: content relaxation….ahhhhhh
So, the place is a little dusty but otherwise in good shape and just as I left it. I didn’t neglect my little piece of web real estate too long (but let’s face it, you have to go back a bit back in the archive to see the WOB in its heyday) and let it languish too much that it became a crack site with boarded up links and a virtual pit bull in the top banner. Sorry, the attempts at humor will get better as I move back in and tweek some things here and there.
Anyhooooo…lame excuses for the absence go like this:
- Been busy visiting other parts of the world wide interwebs (there are a lot of LOL cats).
- Being consumed by Facebook.
-Working part time online which creates anywhere from one to three more hours a day on the computer, thus sucking any recreational computing energies out of me.
- Quit full time job wanted new line of work, unemployment, new job same old line of work.
But largely, I just seemed to lose interest in a lot of things. The reasons could be many including disatisfaction with employment(shocking right!), mild case of depression (self diagnosed of course, because I’m totally qualified to do so), feeling like I’m in a rut, etc etc, the list could go on. Not too much has changed in these aspects but you could say I’m dealing better now.
Further, as a consequence of ignoring my little online home, I was not keeping up with other sites that I enjoyed and were part of my routine.
So I just said to myself, “self, suck it up and quit yer bitchin, start doing things you like doing, and don’t forget to get milk on the way home.”
And here I am, suck it up and enjoy. Be back real soon…srsly!
New key chain
And Squeeze…
I may be too easily amused!
“Employees don’t quit companies, they quit people” — I was the 7th person to leave over a three week period, and just today I found out #8 turned in his notice. And yet the “people” in this quote still don’t get it.
Buh-Bye evil corporation. Adios to being thrown under the bus. So long to unprofessional ass hats with no people skills. Kiss my ass all the angry self righteous bitchy customers. To the nice people I dealt with over the years: thanks for making up for the aformentioned crappy ones for so long.
Two weeks ago I quit my job. Yes in this economy and job market, I vouluntarily walked out of my job. Yeah, it just got that bad. My regret? — that I didn’t do it three years ago. I won’t bore you with the details, I think anyone who knows me either personally or just from reading my (seriously neglected) online home here, knows the day to day trials and tribulations I had with my job. Not that there were not good aspects over the years, but there just came a point where the negatives just totally took over all aspects of daily work life. Stomache aches, headaches, and daily dread became normal. It was actually odd to have a good day and that’s just fucked up. Life’s too short and frankly I think I deserve better.
So after taking it easy for a couple weeks, but still doing my part time job from home, I am going to get my resume and face out to the greater Pittsburgh area. Doing what? Not sure yet. I’m still pondering that. I’m trying to reflect on what I like in life and how I can make that work for me. Maybe it means doing any kind of work while training for something new in a new field. Who knows? Not me……..yet.
It’s the start of another week. Weekends go way too fast. How did it come that work weeks would be five days and weekends only two?
The job hunt is on again. I got a letter telling me I must be insane for applying at this company and to go suck it and never bother them again. Ok, actually it was a very nicely worded letter informing me the position has been filled and good luck with my future endeavors. But when you first read it, it reads like I first described. But I am glad to at least get some kind of notice rather than waiting and wondering, as is often the case after interviewing.
Interviewing is the worst thing in the world. Seriously I would rather have tooth surgery than answer “and what would Brent bring to abc company?” “tell us about yourself” and the all time favorites “what would you change about yourself / name a weakness.”
How about naming a strength, like sitting through these questions without my head exploding.
Is it Tuesday yet?
Fun weekend, but as usual it went by too fast. I had to work on Saturday then had two softball games. My team was victorious in both games. Much beer was consumed in the hours following with team mates and other team players. I have not had a late night out like that in a while, so getting up Sunday morning was a bit more difficult than usual. But after finally rolling out of bed, Jeff and I went to Big Jim’s for a late and greasy but extremely yummy breakfast. And it was there I was able to snap today’s “Mary” pic for onlyinpgh.com. I then went back home, rolled back into bed and with Finnigan curled up next to me, took a nice long nap.
Also yesterday was a Mexican dinner for Paul’s upcoming birthday. It was very festive and the food was quite frankly a fiesta in my mouth.
I also was able to find time to get some resumes sent out so everyone send good vibes for me getting a better job and escaping the soul-sucking madness that now makes up my days.
Before turning in a bit early last night I was able to catch the Survivor finale and watch my favorite player win. And as much as I hate anyone but me getting a million dollars, he did deserve to win. Next I have to watch the final Amazing Race which I recorded.
Tonight I must do house cleaning and laundry, two tasks that were ignored this weekend amongst everything else going on.
Adios
Me...Day to Day | Brent | 
April 19, 2010 6:33 pm | 
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