special favors come in 31 flavors
So my birthday was Monday. Good day! I like these in my 30's birthdays...they got SO much better than my 20's birthdays. Those always sucked the life out of me. So we had family dinner on Sunday and my grandparents are adorable, D. and I went to dinner last night but he wants to go to Atlantic Fish Co. sometime soon. BFF gave me a lovely ring, Donna took me out to lunch and gave me a $20 bill which I thought was really adorable for some reason, tlace sent me some goodies, as did sweet_ali so that was totally awesome. Then the interesting mystery happened.
I got some flowers - some is sort of not accurate as they were 2 dozen yellow roses - and I will say that I had no idea who they were from. My boss was convinced they were from D. because men don't remember age (the card said 33rd year, not 32nd) so I called him to prove that he knew how I old I am and he said yes but he didn't send them but now he's "concernced" (ha!), it wasn't my granparents, it wasn't Tee (I seriously thought of everyone here, people) and then it was up to 3: my mom - who doesn't have a dime to her name, my ex - which huh? and my dad - wtf? I had to actually call 1-800-Flowers to find out stuff after my mom said it wasn't her. I thought then it could be Michael and not my father because Steven doesn't have a clue. And I was correct. Huh. So then it was just a question of why and I really thought he was doing it just to fuck with me again. He emailed me and explained, I was bitchy in return, he was not surprised, I was over it and decided you know what? I don't want to be angry anymore or bitter about him or anything, really. I want to actually handle this thing with some sort of maturity. I mean, I did grow up with him, despite whatever happened, there was half of my life that I spent with him. So we did a little catching up and it went fine and now that's done and I hope he finds whatever he's looking for out there. He's always been an enigma. I couldn't ever figure it out but there has to be someone out there that can...maybe.
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Then tonight my mother calls me and tells me that Rick has come home and told her she can no longer LIVE IN THE HOUSE SHE FUCKING PAID FOR and that he doesn't love her anymore and that it's over. He's "DONE". I told her I would come up there and get her but she doesn't want to leave and I am SO in the mood to beat a fucker down right now. The both of them screwed up the house and their finances. The both of them refused to quit smoking after I gave them the 3 months of mortgage, they didn't quit the pot, they didn't stop coming down here to get it. They have literally been wasting at least $1,000 in SHIT for forever but I don't care about years ago, I care about the present and the things they could have done to rectify this situation. I thought I helped by giving them the $3500 but apparently, I just gave them more time to get high. I'm over the whole god damn thing. I'm not the mediator for their marriage and he better watch his ass because I'm about to cut a bitch.
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The good news? I don't have to work tomorrow. Score. And see the icon? Makes me happy and now I might watch some HIMYM because can I even tell you how happy it makes me that Lily and Marshall's song is by the Violent Femmes? And that it's "Good Feeling"? Which, okay, I may have complained in the past about the Ex and I think he thinks I don't think he's ever done anything for me but that? Introducing me to that group when I was 16 and he was going to camp the day after my birthday and it was all so EPIC and you know, TEEN ROMANCE, and I listened to it all summer, waiting for him to come back. The Femmes, dude. It was one of the greatest things he's ever done for me. Because on my own, I probably would have no idea of who they are other than that group that sings "Blister in the Sun" and that's weak. WEAK. I think they've had a wee bit of a resurgence, which is cool. On HIMYM, of course, Gnarls Barkley did a cover of "Gone Daddy Gone", Troy sings a version of "Add It Up" to Lelana in "Reality Bites" (but that's old now) AND there's an entire chapter in The Time Traveler's Wife in which they're at a Femmes show and it is brilliant.
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Sorry I haven't been around. Went to Minnie to visit Tee and family and that was beyond cool and as you can tell by her journal, she is currently eating, breathing, eating HIMYM! Yay! We had a fantastic time and I can't wait to go back out there and take D. with me. Or for them to come out here. And really? Her son is the most adorable boy in the world and if I could be guaranteed a child that cute and well behaved, I might consider my whole "Eek! Kids! Run!" stance.
Then there was the Celtics. Tee can tell you how out of control that was. Poor girl had to hear about it in emails for WEEKS. It wasn't pretty but you know what is? My basketball boyfriend:
Do you see those arms? Those are some nice arms to have.
Happy belated birthday, tiggz, lostt1, jenahville! And happy birthday, jennidarockstar! I hope you all had/have a great day :)
I posted some icons - HIMYM, Pacey/Joey (Josh is back and it's resurrecting all my old P/J feelings!), TO and 90210.
Work has been very busy. I've just finished my 3rd class last night and I won a pen last week for my speech on a business or personal breakthrough - I did it on when my old GM and manager told me everyone hated me and I needed to seek professional help or find a new job and how that, even though it sucked, prompted me to really examine my life and the way I was leading it and treating people and it really turned things around both personally and professionally. I turned a negative into a positive and killed them with kindness and both those people are gone and I'm still there. And now I have pen to prove that I can actually speak in front of people, I just don't like speaking in front of my boss.
Two good things have happened on the work front, though. The promo work - logos, flyers, mailer - for the golf tournament is going to be used which is nice because I spent hours putting all that together and coming up with a concept because we're moving it to the fall and we needed to do something different. And the idea I presented at staff a few weeks ago - an e-newsletter with actual news and info - was approved by the board and everyone is excited about it. It's the only time I actually would have liked to have been in the meeting because I would like to know if I got any credit for it at all. I doubt it. Whatever. I'm not going to be negative. The important thing is that I'm getting the experience and the opportunity.
And because I need a good laugh and this always helps me, I share it with you, even though I think everyone in the world has experienced the sheer joy of it:
I got some flowers - some is sort of not accurate as they were 2 dozen yellow roses - and I will say that I had no idea who they were from. My boss was convinced they were from D. because men don't remember age (the card said 33rd year, not 32nd) so I called him to prove that he knew how I old I am and he said yes but he didn't send them but now he's "concernced" (ha!), it wasn't my granparents, it wasn't Tee (I seriously thought of everyone here, people) and then it was up to 3: my mom - who doesn't have a dime to her name, my ex - which huh? and my dad - wtf? I had to actually call 1-800-Flowers to find out stuff after my mom said it wasn't her. I thought then it could be Michael and not my father because Steven doesn't have a clue. And I was correct. Huh. So then it was just a question of why and I really thought he was doing it just to fuck with me again. He emailed me and explained, I was bitchy in return, he was not surprised, I was over it and decided you know what? I don't want to be angry anymore or bitter about him or anything, really. I want to actually handle this thing with some sort of maturity. I mean, I did grow up with him, despite whatever happened, there was half of my life that I spent with him. So we did a little catching up and it went fine and now that's done and I hope he finds whatever he's looking for out there. He's always been an enigma. I couldn't ever figure it out but there has to be someone out there that can...maybe.
.....
Then tonight my mother calls me and tells me that Rick has come home and told her she can no longer LIVE IN THE HOUSE SHE FUCKING PAID FOR and that he doesn't love her anymore and that it's over. He's "DONE". I told her I would come up there and get her but she doesn't want to leave and I am SO in the mood to beat a fucker down right now. The both of them screwed up the house and their finances. The both of them refused to quit smoking after I gave them the 3 months of mortgage, they didn't quit the pot, they didn't stop coming down here to get it. They have literally been wasting at least $1,000 in SHIT for forever but I don't care about years ago, I care about the present and the things they could have done to rectify this situation. I thought I helped by giving them the $3500 but apparently, I just gave them more time to get high. I'm over the whole god damn thing. I'm not the mediator for their marriage and he better watch his ass because I'm about to cut a bitch.
.....
The good news? I don't have to work tomorrow. Score. And see the icon? Makes me happy and now I might watch some HIMYM because can I even tell you how happy it makes me that Lily and Marshall's song is by the Violent Femmes? And that it's "Good Feeling"? Which, okay, I may have complained in the past about the Ex and I think he thinks I don't think he's ever done anything for me but that? Introducing me to that group when I was 16 and he was going to camp the day after my birthday and it was all so EPIC and you know, TEEN ROMANCE, and I listened to it all summer, waiting for him to come back. The Femmes, dude. It was one of the greatest things he's ever done for me. Because on my own, I probably would have no idea of who they are other than that group that sings "Blister in the Sun" and that's weak. WEAK. I think they've had a wee bit of a resurgence, which is cool. On HIMYM, of course, Gnarls Barkley did a cover of "Gone Daddy Gone", Troy sings a version of "Add It Up" to Lelana in "Reality Bites" (but that's old now) AND there's an entire chapter in The Time Traveler's Wife in which they're at a Femmes show and it is brilliant.
.....
Sorry I haven't been around. Went to Minnie to visit Tee and family and that was beyond cool and as you can tell by her journal, she is currently eating, breathing, eating HIMYM! Yay! We had a fantastic time and I can't wait to go back out there and take D. with me. Or for them to come out here. And really? Her son is the most adorable boy in the world and if I could be guaranteed a child that cute and well behaved, I might consider my whole "Eek! Kids! Run!" stance.
Then there was the Celtics. Tee can tell you how out of control that was. Poor girl had to hear about it in emails for WEEKS. It wasn't pretty but you know what is? My basketball boyfriend:
Do you see those arms? Those are some nice arms to have.
Happy belated birthday, tiggz, lostt1, jenahville! And happy birthday, jennidarockstar! I hope you all had/have a great day :)
I posted some icons - HIMYM, Pacey/Joey (Josh is back and it's resurrecting all my old P/J feelings!), TO and 90210.
Work has been very busy. I've just finished my 3rd class last night and I won a pen last week for my speech on a business or personal breakthrough - I did it on when my old GM and manager told me everyone hated me and I needed to seek professional help or find a new job and how that, even though it sucked, prompted me to really examine my life and the way I was leading it and treating people and it really turned things around both personally and professionally. I turned a negative into a positive and killed them with kindness and both those people are gone and I'm still there. And now I have pen to prove that I can actually speak in front of people, I just don't like speaking in front of my boss.
Two good things have happened on the work front, though. The promo work - logos, flyers, mailer - for the golf tournament is going to be used which is nice because I spent hours putting all that together and coming up with a concept because we're moving it to the fall and we needed to do something different. And the idea I presented at staff a few weeks ago - an e-newsletter with actual news and info - was approved by the board and everyone is excited about it. It's the only time I actually would have liked to have been in the meeting because I would like to know if I got any credit for it at all. I doubt it. Whatever. I'm not going to be negative. The important thing is that I'm getting the experience and the opportunity.
And because I need a good laugh and this always helps me, I share it with you, even though I think everyone in the world has experienced the sheer joy of it:
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