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411 words into yuletide. this is much easier than last year. yeah i only started last night after reviewing the source material for the billionth time what of it. it's gonna be oh kay... (especially if i can stop writing the thing i'm not supposed to be writing.)
maintenance guy was supposed to be here... a long ass time ago to start tearing out the shower stall. needless to say, he is not here. i suppose i should call him because i know no one else will. [called. left a message. was hoping i could do that. would really like him to call back so i can know whether i can go back to bed or not.]
ate way too much at work yesterday. breakfast, fruit&veg plate (with holiday cookies replacing the usual fruit), in 'n' out for lunch, cake day for december birthdays. and cramps to top it all off. i probably would have been fine sans the cramps. the ibuprofen, it does nothing. also spent way longer in the break room than i probably should have, observing helping arrange the bowling teams for the holiday party. it was quite fun, actually. i enjoy my coworkers.
also yesterday, the IT guy's wife brought in their toddler son, who rolled a huge ball up and down the corridors. he could have fit inside it. it could have been his hamster ball. that would have been hilarious. but then i started talking to Ava about kids, and it was the sort of conversation that could have been extremely painful if a) Ava wasn't a total sweetheart and b) i were more easily ruffled. it was the whole "so when do you plan on having kids?" thing. not "do you plan," but "WHEN do you plan." because i am a female of child-bearing age, so of course i must want to squirt some out, right? i very calmly told her than i've known since i was 13 that i don't want kids. her mouth sort of dropped open. and then she was like "well, you'll meet someone and fall in LOVE and get MARRIED, and HE might want kids, and you'll want to make HIM happy," at which point i told her that i've known for just about as long that i don't want to get married either. (i feel like i should have taken issue with the "he/him" stuff as well, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms that i would rather just not open at the workplace THANKS.) so all in all, i think i shocked Ava a little yesterday. which is fine. i did say that if i ever decided that kids were the thing for me, i would adopt instead of bring more people onto this already overpopulated planet. she was cool enough to see the sense in that.
had fascinating dreams this morning. in the first one, i had lost my car in a snowy parking lot in the dark, and cordy was with me and very irritated and cold, but then she said something that was so fucking funny that i woke up laughing (silently!) so hard, there were tears. and then the cat demanded food so i got up and fed her and despaired of ever getting back to sleep. but obviously i did because the second dream had a guy who was recovering from an illness or surgery or something, and someone else was keeping him company and i was feeling all third-wheely, but then the other person had to go so i kept him company, and that was better. and he was hilarious and smart and shit, and then my alarm woke me up because i thought ed was coming. THANKS A LOT ED.
now i suppose i ought to yuletide it some more.
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maintenance guy was supposed to be here... a long ass time ago to start tearing out the shower stall. needless to say, he is not here. i suppose i should call him because i know no one else will. [called. left a message. was hoping i could do that. would really like him to call back so i can know whether i can go back to bed or not.]
ate way too much at work yesterday. breakfast, fruit&veg plate (with holiday cookies replacing the usual fruit), in 'n' out for lunch, cake day for december birthdays. and cramps to top it all off. i probably would have been fine sans the cramps. the ibuprofen, it does nothing. also spent way longer in the break room than i probably should have, observing helping arrange the bowling teams for the holiday party. it was quite fun, actually. i enjoy my coworkers.
also yesterday, the IT guy's wife brought in their toddler son, who rolled a huge ball up and down the corridors. he could have fit inside it. it could have been his hamster ball. that would have been hilarious. but then i started talking to Ava about kids, and it was the sort of conversation that could have been extremely painful if a) Ava wasn't a total sweetheart and b) i were more easily ruffled. it was the whole "so when do you plan on having kids?" thing. not "do you plan," but "WHEN do you plan." because i am a female of child-bearing age, so of course i must want to squirt some out, right? i very calmly told her than i've known since i was 13 that i don't want kids. her mouth sort of dropped open. and then she was like "well, you'll meet someone and fall in LOVE and get MARRIED, and HE might want kids, and you'll want to make HIM happy," at which point i told her that i've known for just about as long that i don't want to get married either. (i feel like i should have taken issue with the "he/him" stuff as well, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms that i would rather just not open at the workplace THANKS.) so all in all, i think i shocked Ava a little yesterday. which is fine. i did say that if i ever decided that kids were the thing for me, i would adopt instead of bring more people onto this already overpopulated planet. she was cool enough to see the sense in that.
had fascinating dreams this morning. in the first one, i had lost my car in a snowy parking lot in the dark, and cordy was with me and very irritated and cold, but then she said something that was so fucking funny that i woke up laughing (silently!) so hard, there were tears. and then the cat demanded food so i got up and fed her and despaired of ever getting back to sleep. but obviously i did because the second dream had a guy who was recovering from an illness or surgery or something, and someone else was keeping him company and i was feeling all third-wheely, but then the other person had to go so i kept him company, and that was better. and he was hilarious and smart and shit, and then my alarm woke me up because i thought ed was coming. THANKS A LOT ED.
now i suppose i ought to yuletide it some more.
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