Gather Ye Rosebuds

Training has been good this week. It has been slow, but thorough. Weird thing happening though is that our badges have not been working consistently since yesterday, so periodically we get locked out of the training areas, and sometimes we can get in. Luckily there are security guards near the doors that can badge us in again. Not sure how many other people or what other doors it is affecting.

Had a strange dream last night. Included:

-the creepy guy we saw at Popeye's last night
-Maggie from/because of the yet to be heard story of Jimmy and Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
-parking lot/road by the main and back doors at Convergys near the training department
-Thriftko from mention in Leslie's post recently read
-my bedroom, specifically the dresser
-die cast model car we saw at the grocery store last night

Hah. At least I know where the elements of the dream came from. Not sure if there was a coincidence or hidden meaning.

Gotta go back to training. Break is over.

I was hoping it was not true yesterday, but today I am nearly convinced that I am getting sick again. Great timing. Yesterday afternoon my throat was really dry and scratchy and it did not matter how much liquid my mouth took in. Plus, I was sneezing a lot. It is still scratchy and my nose is running though I did take a lot of vitamins and sinus/allergy stuff this morning. Hopefully this will be a quick bout of allergies so I will not be miserable in training the whole 3 weeks or take time off to go to the doctor. Good thing for me that I found a girl to carpool with too.

Well, I must try to catch up on mail and posts. then to the theater for me.

When I got home yesterday, there were a few surprises in store for me. Our friend Doug, the artist whose show we were at Friday night, was sitting on the floor of our office/guest room. Chas was burning a copy of the cd that Doug was playing at the mobile installation for me, and a spare copy for the store owner who put on the show since we both liked it. He also brought over our mobile! We'll try to get a picture of it when it is up and post it. And Chas bought me a bar of Toblerone. Mmmm. He gets a reward for that. :p

Well, not much more to tell. I am learning of more and more people who will be in my Charter training class Monday. Lots of people who aren't going are saying things like "the grass isn't *always* greener on the other side" and "it may be just as bad on Charter" and other similar things. Pessimists. Maybe or maybe not, but I'd like to *think* that maybe it will be better up there; try to think possitively, though with my head somewhat rooted in reality. I realize it may not be great, but there is no way to find out other than to go there. The people up there that I know seem to be happy, so that ought to be a start. Right?

Oh yeah, update with the hair seems ok. I think the dye essentially did what I wanted it to do in the first place. ( If you want to know the boring details... )

Mmm. Tuscan Chicken and Beans and Italian Herb with Cheese Focaccia. More cooking. More happy me. :)

So tired. Want to go back home to bed. :(

WARNING!

I hate those hoax warnings, but this one is important! Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list.

If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey and asks you to take your clothes off, do not do it!!! This is a scam; they only want to see you naked. I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid and cheap now.....












:)

The following is a direct c&p from an email I got today, minus the picture. Might be able to add that when I get right clicking ability at home.

( Until then... )

Yesterday Chas and I spent spent practically every waking moment together and we had such a great day! We started out by getting up early-ish and going to his credit union to look into me getting an account. We did everything in time and headed over to OSC (the Orlando Science Center), which was a few minutes away from the credit union, for Chas' FLMUG (Florida Macintosh User Group) Bored Meeting, but first, we stopped at RD&S (Renew, Donate, & Support) also in the science center to help the guys out. I have no technical skill so I couldn't really help out fixing the old machines, but I watched a guy change a battery on one of the machines. After that, most of the guys up there were board members so they all left to go with Chas to find meeting space. I joined them, having my bag o' amusements to keep me occupied! Despite the fact I had my Game Boy, and was deep in Tetris concentration, I was able to hear what was being said and was able to offer a few suggestions which everyone liked. Well, they all like me anyways because I'm a cute, sweet, young girl! I'm the first lady of the club since Chas is now acting president. After the meeting got out, Chas and I went to check out an event we were interested in, but realized it was still a week away, but at the same time we saw the schedule for the CineDome (IMAX theater) and it was the last day for the "Ring of Fire" showing and I wanted to see it...volcanos intrigue me. So Chas bought the tickets and we inquired about coming back later to go to the observatory. The guy gave us free armbands to use when we came back later the observatory between 6-9pm! The CineDome show was about 45 minutes later, so we ate lunch and then went to the show. That theater was 8 stories high!

( After leaving OSC... )

The hold music for our 2wire department is this 15 second piece of generic piano, playing over and over and over and over agin. Even the clip is the same bit of piano being repeated! Want to tear my ears off my head now!