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Happy weekend! I hope everyone's had a great day. I decided to have a date weekend with myself. And boy, did I need it.
On Friday evening, I had dinner at Los Tios in Del Ray. I strapped on my Sketchers Shape Ups, hooked up Rikku, and walked on up the street. There was a perfect table open, next to the wall, on the end of the patio area, where I could put Rikku on the other side of the fence and know that she wouldn't get in anyone's way. It was, as always, very yummy (although not quite as yummy as Mi Casita, but those are big tacos to fill). A very large white Sangria and two cheese one beef enchiladas later, it was time to get the home part of the weekend started.
On Saturday, I didn't do a whole lot. Rikku and I were able to sleep in, play with some friends outside, take a nap, do some cleaning, watch some netflix, and finish a sock for my mommy. She's getting the Lizzy socks for her birthday. I thought about going to Baileys to watch the Yankees game, but decided against it when I figured out that I just wanted to hang out.
Today (Sunday) I really stepped up the date weekend. I took myself to lunch at Chilis, I went and saw The Other Guys, then went grocery shopping. I'm home now to just chillax with the puppy dog and my knitting.
The Other Guys was really funny. I loved when they described Derek Jeter as the "biracial angel." So true. I also loved how Derek Jeter called Mark Wahlberg a dick. LOL. Will Farrell was awesome as always. If I ever met him, I don't think I'd be able to tell if he's being funny or serious. Everyone in the movie had great comedic timing. I am going to have to get the DVD when it comes out, because I know they cut out at least one of Derek Jeter's scenes (pic on the right). He got all dressed up as a homeless guy, and they didn't show it. What they did show during the credits were all the statistics about the big bailed-out firms and their performance over the past 10 years. Incredible. I think my dad will like that part.
Back to work tomorrow. Weekends are always too short. Hopefully we'll get some real work done this week. It's my last full week, then I work three days the next then I'm on vacation! Hooray OBX! 12-South, baby!
Been a while. Things have been kind of crazy at work and I've not been doing much except for sleeping and knitting in the evenings. The sad thing is, we've been doing a lot of busy work, so it's not like we have any real sense of accomplishment for all of the hours we've been putting in. Hopefully that will change soon - we've actually got a legitimate schedule that we can plan to...FINALLY! We've got realistic milestones! thanks mostly to our newest teammate, an adorable Brit name Damon. I'm especially glad he's working on the schedule, because that means I get to hear him say "shhed-ule" all the time. Adorable.
In knitting news, I finished a great pair of pink socks for my friend Abbe. They turned out beautifully. I think they're my best yet. I put them in the mail to her today. I hope she enjoys them.
I've got two more pairs of socks queued up. One is a pair of navy blue ones for my mom in a pattern called "Lizzy." It's got a diamond pattern going around the top, near the cuff, then ridges running down the length with more diamond patterns across the foot. I saw my friend, Rosemary, making a pair a couple weeks ago and I knew my mom would love them.
The other pair is going to be my first attempt at "toe-up." It's got some funky techniques to it, such as short rows and stitch wrapping, so I'll need support. Good thing I'm attending the fibre space "Sock-in" tomorrow evening! It's a lock-in from 7pm to 1am with sales on sock yarns, instruction/help on patterns, and the Indiana Jones movies. I'm excited.
Tomorrow during the day is my company's summer celebration. We're having a picnic at the marinas on Washington Island. I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to set up a table where the kids can paint dog bowls and bandannas for the Search Dog Foundation dogs. We're going to have a beautiful day, too!
Upon my arrival to work this morning, I remembered what the biggest facepalm of last week was:
So, I'm in that meeting, where I accidentally hang up the conference phone. While I'm in there, my client leaves something at my desk. I come out of the meeting to find on my desk chair:
A printout.
A printout of an email.
A printout of an email she had just sent.
A printout of an email she had just sent on which I was included.
A printout of an email she had just sent on which I was included with a post-it saying "Please go on sharepoint and double-check my work."
And she is "trying to go paperless." *facepalm!* I'm just surprised it hadn't been stamped five times.
I can totally visualize how it went down, too. She probably walked up to my desk, ready to ask me to go online. When she saw I wasn't there, she walked all the way back to her desk (she would've had to have exited my cube area and badged herself back in across the hall), printed off the email, stapled the pages together - oh yes, it was a 2 page email a one page with 5 lines on the second page email, NOT printed front/back - wrote out the sticky, walked back to my desk (badging herself in again), and left the email just-so on my chair.
And, as a reminder, we're on the "Transformation" program, where we're trying to turn the paper immigration process into an electronic one. I mentioned in a meeting one time that we should start transforming within the Transformation program and almost got boo-ed out of the room by gov't folks. *facepalm*
And I wonder why I have an eye-twitch.
