how many hours is a 24-hour day?

i've been working like a crazy lady and i just don't know where the hours go... i get up around 545-6am - get ready for work - jump on the bus and then walk to work... and by the time i get there around 7am, i work, work then work some more - some how i leave, walk then bus home... and suddenly it is 7 or 8 pm?! and i usually crawl into bed around 10pm so that i can be up at 5am again...

does all that really add up to 24 hours? is there a time black hole that is some how causing time to be dilated in that i don't actually have enough time?

i have a stack of books that i've ignored as i've not had enough time to actually read them and sleep. as i am a full fledged book addict - i have been known to read "just one more chapter" until 2am.

well if you find my missing hours let me know... hopefully they will be found while i'm on vacation?!?

top 5 things on your arm

so my friend was giving me a ride home after she cooked us dinner and she said 'oh i think i have some avocado on my arm, it's all sticky'. i retort - there are worse things you could have on your arm, which then degraded into us discussing the top 5 things to have on your arm and of course, the top 5 things you wouldn't want on your arm...

top 5 things on your arm...
5. avocado
4. apple sticky goo
3. ice cream
2. lotion
1. we didnt get this far - but i could say anything chocolate...

top 5 things you don't want on your arm...
5. spiders
4. tar
3. poo
2. chocolate in poo
1. scat (yes, i know this is covered by the previous 2 but i have always wanted to work this word into conversation - and though i think some people can sound as if they are full of scat - it just doesn't sound as good when you are really pissed off)

so go ahead and toss your top 5 things as my lists are kinda weak...

on the way to the forum

so today i went with a friend on her shopping adventures. i need to buy some outdoor furniture for the OG cave. Yes, the OG cave has a patio. well in usual fashion we did some bargain hunting... started a pier 1 - quite a few nice things, but more expensive than i wanted to pay. then we hit bed, bath and beyond and once again nice things - but this time with a great 50% discount. very nice. starting to get more reasonable in price. we then charged off to look for cost plus world market but apparently it has moved. so that was a bust. and then finally the holy of holies... target. we went to the target in the mall as my friend had to run 2 errands. and who am i to say no to the mall. really?
so we enter the mall. do purchase number 1 without me purchasing something frivolous that i don't need. and we then wander down the mall towards target. my friend needs to make purchase number 2 at a personal favorite store... and we go in... and i should just tell you now we entered, Victoria's Secret. nothing so secret going on in there - other than the fact that apparently the lack of lingerie choice in one style was due to the fact that people had stolen the entire collection... just stolen right off the counter. i don't need that much underwear. anyway, we didn't come out of the store without a few purchases. we then popped into hallmark where my friend bought a few cards and i found the funniest card... EVER!!! i didn't buy it. SHOCK! AMAZEMENT!! it was a hard one to resist... but i did somehow.

so this takes us FINALLY to Target... where on my way to the outdoor furniture - i found great pjs. my friend agreed they were a great buy and she herself found a t-shirt.
so this is where today's amuzing story comes to a head... we did find some great outdoor furniture at a great price. i didn't buy it. i have an online discount with target - so i'll buy it online and have it delivered.
so today the search was outdoor furniture - instead i was only successful in doing some pj/lingerie shopping! and anyone wonders why i can't go to the mall without a chaperon...

and great irony... i did have a chaperon and all we both came away with were lingerie!

Muni pass

Last week I bought my first MUNI pass... yes, i've lived in the bay area for 10 years and in SF for about 4 years.

happy, happy, joy, joy

i'm just dancing around today... so happy. don't know why - or not admitting why anyway... i am the happy girl of mystery!

*shaking my groove thing*

F1 mini-vans

so i was actually out on the road today - woah! and while i was driving Hwy 24 (between the WC and Lafayette) i saw many min-vans driving fast. and this is quite normal in my view but it was the way they were driving... i could have sworn that they were training for the next Formula 1 race...
why wasn't i invited?!?!
because i don't drive a mini-van?
whatever! i may not have a mini-van but i have the desire for competition and the taste of victory (which i think tastes like chicken).

i suppose i need to get in training now to be competitive. i don't think i can just have my little ford focus gain a few pounds to look like a mini-van. it is distinctly a 2-door hatchback. no multitude of children fitting in this driving machine. though she's not as small as she looks - i have put 4-adults in this car. i don't know if it was comfortable, as i was driving.

but that aside, i know that mini-vans have been mid-design rehaul for a while - but F1 car they are not. They are as much a Ferrari as my car is a porche...

viva italiana!

the return work..

well after much healing, i have finally returned to the day job. oh the joy. actually, it hasn't been too terrible. I only walked into about 200 emails and a few to-do's that i quite happily ignored as I'm sure someone else was forced to do them as i was out.

i know, i'm not very nice.

but in all fairness i was working my butt off up until i left so that i could really rest while i was out.

but i have returned to work realizing that i have great co-workers who really helped out while i was incapacitated. and this lead to a MAJOR realization, that i already know, that the company will not fall apart if i take a few days off for some vacation. nothing broke. the economy didn't fail (anymore than it was when i was working) and to be fair some people noticed that they hadn't heard from me in a while - but that they knew i was ok. :)

it's nice to be loved.

well, i've also realized while being at work, that it is over-rated. i do love my job. i enjoy doing it. i don't know what i would do if i weren't doing this bc i love it so (other than being a famous film star)! but for as much i love it, i really don't want to work any more... can i be independently wealthy already??

guess not.
perhaps next time.