Such a boring life I lead
The plan for the day:
- make pancakes & bacon in about 20 mins
- fold laundry & put away
- go see the Bourne Identity for the early bird price of $4 each
- go to Home Depot to spend the $25 gift card I won at work for having a Quality Survey score of 90 in the 3rd Quarter of FY 07. That would be January through March, folks. I haven't done work that ties to a survey since like Jan 15th but somehow I still won the card.
Oh and on Friday we had a big celebration cuz we - as a region - did pretty well for the year. They brought in a mock casino company and we each got $500 of chips to gamble. Ray, my boss's boss, handed out his chips so I had $600 worth to start with. I decided I didn't want to gamble so I went outside to smoke then came back to my desk & surfed the internet. They said at 4:45 they'd do raffle drawings so at 4:30 I went into the lunch room & cashed in my $600 un-gambled chips for 6 raffle tickets. I put them all in the box for the PSP. I had no use for the $50 gift cards to Target or some sort of Jake's thing (I think it's like a mini-Dave & Busters). There were already an ass-load of raffle tickets in the iPod box and same for the $300 Frontier airlines voucher box.
So while I was hanging out at the back of the room, Brian (my old boss) walked up to me and handed me two more raffle tickets & walked away. Uhm, okay. So I put those in the PSP box too but by then the casino people had closed up the gaming area and something like 75 people descended upon the lunchroom to cash in their chips for tickets.
Casey had $1,900 so she had 19 tickets. James had 6 tickets. Gwen had like 20 tickets. It was insane. Casey really wanted the airline voucher. She didn't win anything. Guess who won the PSP? Yep, that would be ME!
I have no earthly use for the thing so I'm currently researching eBay to determine my selling strategy. The sticker on the unopened box says $169.99 and I'm seeing all sorts of conflicting prices on eBay. Some low in the $60s and a bunch in the $120-$145 range. I'm hoping for the higher part. Cuz that'd be nice to put toward our Vegas trip in October.
Oh yeah, we also got $50 Visa cards as part of the great-year-end-celebration thing. So with the $50 Visa and whatever I pull for the PSP off eBay, I'll be a happy girl.
The period thing finally started last night. I can't even begin to tell you how badly my lower back is aching. I think I may have to pop a Flexeril before heading to the theatre to sit for 115 mins!
Yesterday, we got our doggy gate put up finally. Well, in fairness, it didn't get delivered until Friday but we finally ordered it and then got it installed. We took away all the boxes & assorted other crap that was keeping the dogs from heading upstairs to the pristine carpet of the dining room & library/sun room.
I also got the sheers hung in the library. It's still pretty bright up there cuz they are, after all, sheers not drapes but it's a softer light and I can't see the neighbor's garage roofline or the fat pigeons that sit up there anymore so I'm happy.
Next step -- getting our 30 foot blue spruce pine tree cut down in the front yard. *sob*
Then, off to Vegas, baby!
Ooops - before those things, today, I'm gonna get a rod and some something to put over the very small (33" x 18") window in the guest bedroom in the basement. The bed's put together and the carpet's in. I've got four paintings I'm going to hang in there and once the window is dressed, the room will be officially DONE.
We've also started talking about moving the roll-top desk out of the kitchen and into the basement in case I want to work from home ever. And then in place of the desk upstairs, we're going to hang some canvas 'drapes' to block the view of the back of the beer fridge downstairs and put some racking up to hold our extra kitchen stuff -- large bowls, the mixer, etc.
Ah yes, the joys of home ownership. Nothing is ever really done, ya know? *sigh*
- make pancakes & bacon in about 20 mins
- fold laundry & put away
- go see the Bourne Identity for the early bird price of $4 each
- go to Home Depot to spend the $25 gift card I won at work for having a Quality Survey score of 90 in the 3rd Quarter of FY 07. That would be January through March, folks. I haven't done work that ties to a survey since like Jan 15th but somehow I still won the card.
Oh and on Friday we had a big celebration cuz we - as a region - did pretty well for the year. They brought in a mock casino company and we each got $500 of chips to gamble. Ray, my boss's boss, handed out his chips so I had $600 worth to start with. I decided I didn't want to gamble so I went outside to smoke then came back to my desk & surfed the internet. They said at 4:45 they'd do raffle drawings so at 4:30 I went into the lunch room & cashed in my $600 un-gambled chips for 6 raffle tickets. I put them all in the box for the PSP. I had no use for the $50 gift cards to Target or some sort of Jake's thing (I think it's like a mini-Dave & Busters). There were already an ass-load of raffle tickets in the iPod box and same for the $300 Frontier airlines voucher box.
So while I was hanging out at the back of the room, Brian (my old boss) walked up to me and handed me two more raffle tickets & walked away. Uhm, okay. So I put those in the PSP box too but by then the casino people had closed up the gaming area and something like 75 people descended upon the lunchroom to cash in their chips for tickets.
Casey had $1,900 so she had 19 tickets. James had 6 tickets. Gwen had like 20 tickets. It was insane. Casey really wanted the airline voucher. She didn't win anything. Guess who won the PSP? Yep, that would be ME!
I have no earthly use for the thing so I'm currently researching eBay to determine my selling strategy. The sticker on the unopened box says $169.99 and I'm seeing all sorts of conflicting prices on eBay. Some low in the $60s and a bunch in the $120-$145 range. I'm hoping for the higher part. Cuz that'd be nice to put toward our Vegas trip in October.
Oh yeah, we also got $50 Visa cards as part of the great-year-end-celebration thing. So with the $50 Visa and whatever I pull for the PSP off eBay, I'll be a happy girl.
The period thing finally started last night. I can't even begin to tell you how badly my lower back is aching. I think I may have to pop a Flexeril before heading to the theatre to sit for 115 mins!
Yesterday, we got our doggy gate put up finally. Well, in fairness, it didn't get delivered until Friday but we finally ordered it and then got it installed. We took away all the boxes & assorted other crap that was keeping the dogs from heading upstairs to the pristine carpet of the dining room & library/sun room.
I also got the sheers hung in the library. It's still pretty bright up there cuz they are, after all, sheers not drapes but it's a softer light and I can't see the neighbor's garage roofline or the fat pigeons that sit up there anymore so I'm happy.
Next step -- getting our 30 foot blue spruce pine tree cut down in the front yard. *sob*
Then, off to Vegas, baby!
Ooops - before those things, today, I'm gonna get a rod and some something to put over the very small (33" x 18") window in the guest bedroom in the basement. The bed's put together and the carpet's in. I've got four paintings I'm going to hang in there and once the window is dressed, the room will be officially DONE.
We've also started talking about moving the roll-top desk out of the kitchen and into the basement in case I want to work from home ever. And then in place of the desk upstairs, we're going to hang some canvas 'drapes' to block the view of the back of the beer fridge downstairs and put some racking up to hold our extra kitchen stuff -- large bowls, the mixer, etc.
Ah yes, the joys of home ownership. Nothing is ever really done, ya know? *sigh*