horoscopes: fact or fiction

i read my horoscope. i am a leo. how much i believe this informs who i am as a person - i don't know. but i read it none the less.

work has been a bit rough. i don't have a boss right now, so my peer and i are trying to do our jobs and cover for a boss we don't have. as part of my morning ritual i read the headlines on yahoo and then peak my horoscope, log in to my gmail and get down to the details of the day.
today my horoscope read:

Change requires patience. Nothing important can happen overnight, so keep waiting.

this is almost the very thing a friend said to me this week. and the advice i was given today. so it got me thinking - were there other horoscopes today that fit my life...
so here you go...

Aquarius (1/20-2/18)

Your brilliance will always shine through, so why are you getting nervous? Relax.

this could be true of me any day of the week. brilliance? yup, that's me.

Gemini (5/21-6/21)

There is no point in sharing your deep thoughts unless you share every one of them.

i always share my thoughts even when i don't want to... i would make a crap spy. so this one could also apply.

Cancer (6/22-7/22)

Don't skip the gym but do devote yourself to intellectual pursuits. They're healthy.

are they watching me?? i'm not usually so paranoid - but really this is ridiculous... it is as if they knew i'd read them all!

*insert twilight zone music*

OG time...

tonight i am enjoying a pleasant evening surrounded by favorite companions... me, myself and i!

oh and a glass of wine. can't forget the wine.

so yes... an evening of me time.

i learned (so did my college friends) that i need 'OG time' - time for me to decompress, be alone, read, watch tv; you know - let down the OG curls...

i realize that the older i get - the more 'me' time i need. it can be hard to balance the need for time to be alone with wanting to be social - but yesterday was among the most frustrating days at work yet... mostly because i couldn't actually get work done. my new work laptop arrived last week and technology support was supposed to take my laptop for 2-4 hours and create my new one... and viola... new exciting laptop. alas, as an optimist i can be seen as delusional at times - but alas - technology support was flat out insane. i handed over my laptop at 9am - got my old one back at 330pm - and then at 445pm - was told my new one wasn't ready.
i did have a few meetings that i could do while the tech refresh was happening - but unfortunately - not much else. i did get a nice 40 min work out in at the gym... but other than that. not much else.
a little frustrating to say the least.

so after a day like that - being told by tech support that the email outlined that the process would be long - and me having to say, yes, i accept that it isn't instant, but when you said 2-4 hours, i thought you meant, 2-4 hours! not ALL DAY!

well wednesday afternoon will be more of the same. as they have to finish what they started and i will finally get my new laptop. very excited.

at lest my day wasn't a complete wash. i was able to work out - and i knew i needed that OG time - so i'm getting that...

hopefully tomorrow i can actually get work done!

shoe p0rn

so on saturday night i went to a poker party... and i met the most fabulous pair of shoes. and a fun friend who wore them.

so it began with Fluevog shoes in my life. oh the shoes are unconventional - and fun, and sexy.

oh wait - i'm describing myself.

but fluevog shoes are definitely interesting... they have an unusual design. they definitely fall into the shoe p0rn category!

http://www.fluevog.com/

enjoy!!

phrase of the week

so, i actually had someone accept my offer of borrowing my obscene number of Top Gear disks/episodes... Motoproponent (see his blog - link on the right). So he's completely geeked out on Top Gear. it sounds like he's done it almost obsessively. well, it's nice to have someone else to share the hilarity of the show with... so in honor of Moto's obsessive-need to watch Top Gear - here's the phrase of the week. Please work it into a sentence.

flappy paddle gear box...

here's an example:
i wish i had the new (insert fabulously expensive and beautiful car that i will never own as it is more expensive than the OG doctorate cost, name here) with the flappy paddle gear box.

work it into a sentence this week.

UPDATE: the optimist spidergirl

apparently the spider wasn't radioactive... no webslinging... no spidey sense. the alert is over...
no cause for concern.
nothing to see here...

keep on moving...

perhaps i'm from another planet and i'll get my golden bracelets and lasso... maybe i'm really wonder optimist woman!

watch out bad guys!!

pairing off at a dance

watching the news lately has been like watching kids at a high school dance pair off... it's almost like a day-time soap opera... which bank is going to go out with whom next. ... and the funniest thing to watch is citi whining that wells stole it's partner... wachovia...

will the drama never end?

the optimist spidergirl

i was bitten by a spider at some point in the last 24 hours. i think if the spider was radioactive that within the next 24 hours, i'll turn into a spidergirl. i can use my spiddey (sp?) senses to sense where people aren't optimistic and i can help them see the bright side.
so... just in case that happens - you know why. i blame the spider bite.

btw - for those of you who live in SF - could you please keep my new secret, secret identity secret?

thanks.

i'll be swinging by ya!