so tired....
i woke up at the crack of dawn this morning. i mean, LITERALLY the crack of dawn. i woke up and it was still dark outside. when i picked up the paper before eating breakfast it was JUST getting light out. i got on the freeway and i looked in my review mirror to see the sun merely peaking out from behind the mountains. i haven't done this in ages. why did i do it? well, my job involves working with a number of off-shore companies, particularly in india. they seem to provide us with the best (i.e. cheapest) prices for project management and composition. we've been working with some of them for a while now. anyway, one of my textbooks is being managed by a lovely woman in india. we're starting to get the ball rolling on composition and she wanted to get in touch and go over the finalities of the text to make sure we get everything straight - that i'm doing what she needs me to do and she's doing what i've asked her to do. normally we just use email as the primary way of communicating, but she wanted to talk on the phone. i think that's great, except india is 12 hours ahead of us, which makes finding a time difficult. i have no idea what her work day is like and i don't think she knows about mine either. she sent me an email yesterday asking to put a call in at 8am this morning. i've NEVER been to work at 8; i've gotten here at 8:15 at the earliest, but never 8. seeing as how getting me up before 7 lately has been an arduous task, i needed to make a huge effort. surprising marshall to no end, i actually woke up BEFORE my alarm (due to a very stressful and emotional dream, which i'll describe later). it didn't surprise me, really, since there are times when i need to break from the routine and get up early, it sticks in my mind and body and my body's sense of time wakes me up right when i need to wake up. it's not reliable to use as a normal alarm clock, but you get the idea. so, i got up and did my normal thing and was out the door around 7:20am. i arrived at my desk 38 minutes later, 2 minutes to spare before the call meeting. i start up my computer and check my email. there's a message from my project manager, sent at 7:12am, saying that she's tried calling but i wasn't there. duh - because it wasn't 8am. well, technically it WAS. due to daylight savings, to her, when i got in this morning expecting a phone call, it was 9am, not 8am. so, she was correct and our silly energy saving technique screwed everything up (lousy farmers...). anyway, i replied letting her know that she was right and that i would be interested in getting together on the phone and talking about the project at a later time. i told her that i normally get in the office around 9 and that i would need plenty of notice if i need to get in at 8 or even, god forbid, 7 in the morning. so yeah, at least the good news is i get to leave work at 4pm this afternoon. yippee!
last night i attended my first sharks game ever. actually, it was my first HOCKEY game ever. i always found it difficult to follow on tv, so i never made an effort. however, i've been trying to find things to do locally for marshall and i and pumping up our social life. i thought going to a sporting event is always fun with a few people. lucky for me, i saw that my OSH receipt from a while back had a promotional offer for sharks tickets at the bottom: saving us $9 or $10 on tickets for 2 specific games this season. i thought it'd be great and marshall agreed. since it was a promotion for only 4 tickets, we thought we'd invite the newest couple in our social circle: nicole and jesse. we're trying to do our best to get them out of the house and take a breather from all the new-relationship romping they've been having. ;) they agreed to come along and last night was our game night. it was sharks vs. blackhawks. i'm always happy when a sporting event i attend, when i don't normally attend them (i.e. giants games, sharks games, etc), is an exciting one. last night was no exception. it was ALMOST a shut-out, but i guess the sharks felt bad for the blackhawks and let them have one. actually the only goal they allowed was this piddly little thing that sorta snuck into the net and everyone thought it was a bounce-out, cause it BARELY crossed the line. anyway, sharks scored 7 goals last night and it was really fun. my throat is slightly sore from all the yelling and cheering that i did. the one thing that i don't understand about hockey is the fights. why? the stuff that happens on the ice would easily get people thrown out of the BUILDING/STADIUM if done in basketball, baseball, soccer, football, etc. i mean, football is easily as much a contact sport as hockey, but if anyone tries to start something, there's strict penalties. plus, even with all the banging and hitting against each other that football players do, most of animosity is displayed verbally, rather than physically. i mean, they blackhawks were picking fights AFTER THE GAME WAS OVER!!! whatever happened to being a good sportsman? there were tons of little kids attending the game and to see that displayed teaches them that, if you lose, you have the right to pick a fight with the other team. in baseball and basketball, the opposing teams shake hands after each game. in basketball, i've noticed that even when the winning team is celebrating, all the players on the winning team hug and shake hands with the losing team. i mean, it's such a small world in sports, there's always a time when you're playing against someone who was your best teammate a while back. when i played sports, we were taught over and over again - no matter how brutal the game or how crappy you lost or even how great you won, you MUST thank the other team for playing and acknowledge that they played a good game, too. of course, you're going to be excited if you won and, of course, you're going to be down if you lost, but it's the camaraderie that makes you a good athlete. i just think it's unnecessary. i mean, you could see some of the other players that stayed away from the fighting and it seemed to me look on with disdain for that type of conduct. of course, this could be my own mind projecting this onto others. in any way, it was a great game and i'll surely be visiting a sharks game again.
on to my dream... so, my friend nicole and i were asked to babysit my niece and nephew, except it was my coworker lisa, who was the mom, and not my sister. anyway, she left to go on a date. things were going alright, and then things switched up and then i was with marshall. we weren't here in the real world, but we were in WoW running around an area kinda like western plaguelands or the graveyard in SM. i know that we were killing a lot of the scourge. we were going this for a while and then i got this alert that these two people were coming home earlier. it took me a while to realize that i needed to get back to the house because i was supposed to be babysitting. i ran and ran back to the house and came across these two people that were my age that were like brother and sister to my niece and nephew. i was really confused, but they were saying how pissed my mom was going to be when she got home; yeah, lisa changed into my mom. i was so freaked out about leaving carus and ian by themselves sleeping while i was running around outside. i felt horrible. so, nicole got there and she was apparently out with me, but the only person i noticed that was with me was marshall. anyway, these guys were trying to give me tips of how to lie to my mom and what i should say i was doing. my mom came home and i was chatting with her and asking how her date went. yes, it did cross my mind as odd in my dream why my mom would've been on a date and why my mom is my mom and not lisa. so, i start telling her the truth about what happened, when all the people and nicole came in from the family room signaling to me that i should shut-up and they had something to say. i didn't feel right lying, so i just told my mom that we left the kids alone while they were sleeping and that i know it was wrong and i'm not sure why i thought it was okay for me to leave. i remember feeling horrible in my dream: i was stressed out and sad. my mom acted as if she was in real life. she got quiet and told me that it was a really stupid thing what i did and did i realize what if anything were to happen to these kids while i was gone and how disappointed she is in my poor judgment and decision-making. it was really tense in my dream and all the "kids" were around the dining room table eating dinner and one of the guys said a joke and it lifted the tension. i got the impression that he never can say a good joke or say anything quite funny, because one of the girls said "he finally says something funny and his phone rings!" that's when i woke up. such a weird dream. i blame the cheap budweiser beer i had at the sharks game.
last night i attended my first sharks game ever. actually, it was my first HOCKEY game ever. i always found it difficult to follow on tv, so i never made an effort. however, i've been trying to find things to do locally for marshall and i and pumping up our social life. i thought going to a sporting event is always fun with a few people. lucky for me, i saw that my OSH receipt from a while back had a promotional offer for sharks tickets at the bottom: saving us $9 or $10 on tickets for 2 specific games this season. i thought it'd be great and marshall agreed. since it was a promotion for only 4 tickets, we thought we'd invite the newest couple in our social circle: nicole and jesse. we're trying to do our best to get them out of the house and take a breather from all the new-relationship romping they've been having. ;) they agreed to come along and last night was our game night. it was sharks vs. blackhawks. i'm always happy when a sporting event i attend, when i don't normally attend them (i.e. giants games, sharks games, etc), is an exciting one. last night was no exception. it was ALMOST a shut-out, but i guess the sharks felt bad for the blackhawks and let them have one. actually the only goal they allowed was this piddly little thing that sorta snuck into the net and everyone thought it was a bounce-out, cause it BARELY crossed the line. anyway, sharks scored 7 goals last night and it was really fun. my throat is slightly sore from all the yelling and cheering that i did. the one thing that i don't understand about hockey is the fights. why? the stuff that happens on the ice would easily get people thrown out of the BUILDING/STADIUM if done in basketball, baseball, soccer, football, etc. i mean, football is easily as much a contact sport as hockey, but if anyone tries to start something, there's strict penalties. plus, even with all the banging and hitting against each other that football players do, most of animosity is displayed verbally, rather than physically. i mean, they blackhawks were picking fights AFTER THE GAME WAS OVER!!! whatever happened to being a good sportsman? there were tons of little kids attending the game and to see that displayed teaches them that, if you lose, you have the right to pick a fight with the other team. in baseball and basketball, the opposing teams shake hands after each game. in basketball, i've noticed that even when the winning team is celebrating, all the players on the winning team hug and shake hands with the losing team. i mean, it's such a small world in sports, there's always a time when you're playing against someone who was your best teammate a while back. when i played sports, we were taught over and over again - no matter how brutal the game or how crappy you lost or even how great you won, you MUST thank the other team for playing and acknowledge that they played a good game, too. of course, you're going to be excited if you won and, of course, you're going to be down if you lost, but it's the camaraderie that makes you a good athlete. i just think it's unnecessary. i mean, you could see some of the other players that stayed away from the fighting and it seemed to me look on with disdain for that type of conduct. of course, this could be my own mind projecting this onto others. in any way, it was a great game and i'll surely be visiting a sharks game again.
on to my dream... so, my friend nicole and i were asked to babysit my niece and nephew, except it was my coworker lisa, who was the mom, and not my sister. anyway, she left to go on a date. things were going alright, and then things switched up and then i was with marshall. we weren't here in the real world, but we were in WoW running around an area kinda like western plaguelands or the graveyard in SM. i know that we were killing a lot of the scourge. we were going this for a while and then i got this alert that these two people were coming home earlier. it took me a while to realize that i needed to get back to the house because i was supposed to be babysitting. i ran and ran back to the house and came across these two people that were my age that were like brother and sister to my niece and nephew. i was really confused, but they were saying how pissed my mom was going to be when she got home; yeah, lisa changed into my mom. i was so freaked out about leaving carus and ian by themselves sleeping while i was running around outside. i felt horrible. so, nicole got there and she was apparently out with me, but the only person i noticed that was with me was marshall. anyway, these guys were trying to give me tips of how to lie to my mom and what i should say i was doing. my mom came home and i was chatting with her and asking how her date went. yes, it did cross my mind as odd in my dream why my mom would've been on a date and why my mom is my mom and not lisa. so, i start telling her the truth about what happened, when all the people and nicole came in from the family room signaling to me that i should shut-up and they had something to say. i didn't feel right lying, so i just told my mom that we left the kids alone while they were sleeping and that i know it was wrong and i'm not sure why i thought it was okay for me to leave. i remember feeling horrible in my dream: i was stressed out and sad. my mom acted as if she was in real life. she got quiet and told me that it was a really stupid thing what i did and did i realize what if anything were to happen to these kids while i was gone and how disappointed she is in my poor judgment and decision-making. it was really tense in my dream and all the "kids" were around the dining room table eating dinner and one of the guys said a joke and it lifted the tension. i got the impression that he never can say a good joke or say anything quite funny, because one of the girls said "he finally says something funny and his phone rings!" that's when i woke up. such a weird dream. i blame the cheap budweiser beer i had at the sharks game.