Friday, March 17, 2006

A bunch of random shit

My computer died last night, or at least the hard drive gave out. So tonight I'll take the fucking lemon of a computer back to Best Buy so they can send it away again for another couple weeks to replace the hard drive. I took pictures of the various blue screens but I didn't bring that camera to work so I could download them and post them here, even though I thought about it. I think I can put the memory card directly into my printer at home and if so, I'll print out a couple of the screens to give to the Best Buy Geek Squad guys. Cause at least one of the screens included some technical codes, so they should have those.

Here's the quote from yesterday's daily calendar:

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson, author, lecturer, and spiritual leader

I like it. It's going on my wall!

Yesterday and today I was absolutely fabulous in getting up and to work on time!!! Yesterday I got here at 9:20 and today at 9:15 - yay me!!!!!!!! And over the weekend I'll also make myself get up by 8 and, like last weekend, shower and all that shit right away, so as to not be lazy. I feel so happy at getting to work so early!

The last three days at work have been very odd-seeming, because most of the boss-people have been gone to a conference during the day. So it's very quiet, and not as much fun. I saw The Meat for a bit on Wednesday night before I left, and also last night for a bit, and he's been here since noon today, so this afternoon we've been talking quite a bit and hanging out. It's been nice after all the quietness this week.

The Meat has recently made it his mission to find me a husband, so I have brief man news!

Guy #1 - very cute and sweet, I've seen him around many times because he's on this floor often. And a couple of the clerks know that I think he's cute so they've told him a number of times, but we'd never actually met before. Last week I finally introduced myself, and after that The Meat got a hold of him and quizzed him and tried to set up a date between us for tonight. I called him on Tuesday at work, and we chatted for a little bit but he didn't ask for my number or anything like that. And I've seen him twice here this week and both times we've chatted briefly but one of us had to go. I know he thinks I'm cute as well and isn't at all opposed to going out or getting to know me better, but so far he hasn't taken much initiative. Still, he's very cute and from what I know of him, he is a very nice guy.

Guy #2 - I haven't actually met him or talked to him yet, but we've traded voice mail messages and a couple emails. He's an attorney in the firm where Wake Forest's boyfriend works, and The Meat had quizzed the boyfriend about available guys at the firm. I don't know who he is or what he looks like, but I guess he's seen me a couple times and is definitely interested in meeting me. He emailed me on Wednesday, I called him at work yesterday and left a message, he emailed back saying he was really busy at work and probably wouldn't be able to call me, but asked for my cell and said he'd call me last night, and then he didn't call. Which I actually wasn't too upset about because I was getting really tired at 9:00 and fell asleep on my couch at 9:30. But he called me today at noon (I didn't answer). He was at the airport; he had mentioned in his email that he was leaving for a little vacation to California today and coming back on Monday. He said in his voicemail that he'd be back at work on Tuesday so he'd give me a call then, and that he'd definitely like to meet me sometime next week. Also, Wake Forest's boyfriend reported that he ran into the guy in the bathroom yesterday and he was kind of "giddy" - and the guy told Wake Forest's boyfriend that he'd emailed me but worried that he might have sounded dorky in the email (which he didn't), and was excited about meeting me. The stats on him from Wake Forest's boyfriend: he's tall, 6'2" or 6'3", has dark hair, is I guess attractive or at least not bad, and he's 36. I don't know much else.

Guy #3 - I also haven't met him. He's a teacher and coach at The Meat's son's school, and The Meat has mentioned him in the past as a possible guy for me. The Meat thinks very highly of him and said he was really good to both of his sons. Last weekend The Meat saw him and asked whether he was single (yes) and told the guy that he had someone for him to meet. So today The Meat had me print out some pictures of myself and write down my phone number, and he's going to send a note along with the picts to the guy this weekend, delivered by his son. The Meat said he'd introduce us if that would be more comfortable, and then leave and let the guy take me home (or call him if I hate the guy). So we'll see if the guy calls me and how it goes. (The Meat just walked down here and showed me the note, it was very nice).

Also, about ten minutes ago I just got a call and I got an interview for that job I applied for a few weeks ago! It's not until April 4th, so I have a couple weeks to bone up on this area of law and get myself prepared!

I'm also trying to find someone to go to the John Prine concert with me on May 6th. I emailed Piano Man today and I'm waiting to hear back from him. I know he'd like it and he'd be fun to go with. And it's in Waukegan so I need someone who has a car! I'm sooooooooooooooooo excited about seeing John Prine! He's become my number one favorite guy to listen to recently. Seriously, he's almost always playing on my iPod, although I've also recently gotten into listening to Dylan, too. So anyway though, to hear him perform live will be just absolutely amazing!!!!

That's about all. I still need to figure out what I want to wear to my cousin's wedding next weekend, and if I want to shop and maybe get something new and pretty, which would be nice. And I'm really hoping that SP will be able to come over tomorrow morning for awhile. Tonight The German is stopping by. And I need to check out Lincoln Square sometime this weekend to see if I could actually see myself living there. Oh and I may be getting together with Violet tomorrow night. And I'm going to bring some work home this weekend - some stuff to read and prepare for on a humungous (sp?) case that's up on Wednesday. And I won't have internet access, which is going to be so terrible because I'm so used to having it and being on my computer so much at home!

And now I need to get some stuff done here and have everything all prepared for next week! The afternoon has gone by very, very quickly!

Have a good weekend!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Written by Caterpillar :: 3/17/2006 03:37:00 PM :: ::


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I'm a 30-year-old sometimes girl and sometimes woman living in Chicago. Over the past year I have faced my biggest demon and won, and as a result I have hope again for wonderful and fabulous things to happen! I'm still learning, growing and always trying to improve myself, but I absolutely love life and think I'm very close to becoming a real butterfly!!!
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♥ I think that the most beautiful women I've ever met are the ones that know who they are, have stories to tell, ideas to share, wisdom to impart and love the skin they're in. No one can love us as we love ourselves. No one can take away our beauty and our dignity when we own those things. To me confident=beautiful. :: CeeCi

♥ I'd been feeling a little blue (for no particular reason) when I began thinking about things like attention, age and body image. Suddenly, it washed over me. I see people looking at me and I see them reacting. I began thinking about the times I notice the attention and realized its the days I'm strutting, the days I'm open and holding my head up. This got me to thinking further. How I perceive myself is what I show to others...People don't realize it, but they show the world everything about themselves in the way they move and act, in the words they say and the way they say them. A little confidence can lead to a lot of confidence. :: CeeCi

♥ When we believe in ourselves the world is an entirely different place and our place in it feels right and happy and healthy. :: CeeCi

♥ Remember that something incredibly wonderful is always possible!

♥ There are moments that are wonderful, if you let them be.

♥ Being distrustful put me in a very lonely place, a place filled with doubt and hypervigilance. I'm grateful I've learned to trust again, because in learning to do it, I learned to trust myself. :: CeeCi

♥ We're all a work in progress. I believe we will be until the day our lives end. Why fight it? I love the changes I experience. Some are certainly easier and more enjoyable than others, yet I wouldn't stop the process for any thing in the world. :: CeeCi

♥ We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss the chance to see a rainbow on the way :: Gloria Gaither

♥ Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed :: Storm Jameson

♥ Love is everything. It is the reason we are here, and the wonder we take with us wherever we go.

♥ Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow :: Mary Anne Radmacher

♥ Just live in the moment, the moment you're in. Don't live two days from now. Don't live two hours in advance. Live now. And appreciate what you have now. Don't go any further. You have this moment. This second. Breathe it. Enjoy it. Live in it. :: Open Eyes

♥ Leap, and the net will appear.

♥ I've learnt that when we express our deepest feelings, even though we may stammer or be unable to find the right words, it always pays. It pays to be authentic.

♥ There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness :: Carl Jung

♥ I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, myth is more potent than history, dreams are more powerful than facts, hope always triumphs over experience, laughter is the cure for grief, love is stronger than death :: Robert Fulghum

♥ You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. :: Ethel Barrymore

♥ Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. :: Carl Jung

♥ I will try to be as honest as I can with myself. That is all that is required of me. I'll keep admitting and opening my hidden box of fears, hurts and insecurities, again and again, until I know each one of them by their first name. :: Anu

♥ It struck me that there is amazing beauty everywhere. Does it matter where you are or who we're encountering? There is magic all around us. The fact that we're alive, the fact that we're living in this place and time. The fact that we've met the people we've met, all of it, every bit of it, only contributes to the wonder that is life. :: CeeCi

♥ No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the starts, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. :: Helen Keller

♥ Half of doing anything is believing that you can.

♥ Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that he can subsequently open the door through which he wants us to go. :: Catherine Marshall

♥ Even if it burns a little low at times, the secret of life is to always keep the flame of hope alive.

♥ The three grand essentials of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

♥ Some people will say that you are going the wrong way, when it is simply a way of your own.

♥ Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. :: Martha Graham

♥ Life is a series of new beginnings, and in every ordinary moment there are a thousand miracles to behold.

♥ Don't let the approval of others determine your belief in yourself.

♥ When it's all said and done, when all the opinions have been uttered, preached, shouted, and shared, there is only one thing we can do: From this moment on...love.

♥ When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. :: Christina Baldwin

♥ You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

♥ Be the change you wish to see in the world... :: Gandhi

♥ Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

♥ We each have only a limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it - pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. Because we have only one chance, we have to make life seem longer than it really is. :: Viggo Mortensen

♥ Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. :: Cadet Maxim

♥ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!

♥ What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? :: Unknown

♥ To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. :: David Viscott, M.D

♥ Right now it feels like:...no dream will ever remain unfulfilled...no desire will ever remain unanswered...no tear goes unnoticed and no effort wasted...the hills are alive and so are we...each moment is fresh and waiting to happen...and there will be garbage like situations all around...but it is upto us to light mud lamps in it...and glow in our own acceptance and appreciations... :: Anu

♥ I struggle with not feeling like I'm good enough at times. Usually, its because I'm pushing it too hard and have depleted my reserve. Yet, I know without a shadow of a doubt that no matter how heavy or thin, how young or old I appear to others it's what I feel on the inside that glows through. If I could give every person on this planet just one gift it would be the unwavering knowledge that they are beautiful and worthy of every good thing the universe holds. :: CeeCi

♥ It's easier to buy into the negative things we conjure about ourselves than the positive things. Knowing that is the first step towards changing the thoughts that keep us unhappy. With time moving forward, why stay trapped in the past? All we have is right here and right now, I intend to make the most of it! :: CeeCi