Loser!

I am the world's biggest loser, because I haven't posted in a while. LOSER! My will to live has been sucked dry the last few days because I'm working the old job temporarily until the wo vacant posts are filled.

OH MY FRIGGIN' GOD, I knew I hated the job. I lived it for four years and the last two were just indescribably horrific. Hated the job with the passion of a thousand proverbial burning suns, if not more. OH MY GOD. I was so, so glad to be rid of it that I can't even describe it. In the year since I've had my fabulous new job, it was like stepping out of a cave into a meadow full of daisies, sunshine and kittens. Oh, did I mention that the cave was full of plague-ridden rats, blood-sucking flies and leather-clad freaks with spiked whips? Because, yeah. I left the job for a reason. I HATED IT.

I'll be filling in for about two months, and as of tomorrow, I'll have survived the first week. I've been pretty vocal about my displeasure and because I'm that kind of person, I kind of didn't really care who might have heard me. :-D BUT...I temper my whining with vast amounts of humor, so I'm not just a cow about it. The people I'm helping have enough to deal with without me making their lives more miserable. Are you allowed to say that you like yourself? Because I do, I freakin' *love* me, and I think I'd like to have me for a friend. If I didn't already have me for me, that is. Yeeeeeeeeeeeah, that makes...a modicum of sense, doesn't it?

So. I'm re-learning tasks and I'm bitching and kvetching but I'm also cracking jokes and getting reacquainted with this stuff double-plus quick, so I don't feel guilty about bitching at all, because, hey! I'm also taking care of what needs to be done and my co-workers are getting some laughs out of it as well. OH MY GOD, I hate that job. Thank goodness that I don't have to do all of the night, weekend and holiday stuff that goes along with it - the remaining members are covering most of that stuff, and the guy who's leaving is still doing his share of the out-of-office duties. Woohoo!

Because my own work is piling up (waaah! I love my real, current job!), I'll be going in on Saturday to get caught up. Much as I'd love to reduce my pile while I'm at work, the job I'm subbing for is a little unpredictable, and I might have to drop everything at a moment's notice and put out a million little fires. The old boss has been supersweet to me since I've been sucked back in the Black Hole of Doom and Despair otherwise known as the old job. OH MY GOD, I hate that job.

Other than that, I'm in a good mood. :-D

Put yer blades on!

Too bad this didn't turn up a few weeks ago when the Olympics were in full swing because dude, that would have set the mood perfectly.

If you like skating, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz, you're in for a treat. According to this article, Justin and Cam may be gliding their way to a theater near you.


Cameron and J-T put their skates on

Hollywood couple Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake are reportedly planning to appear together in a romantic comedy about a pair of love-struck ice-skaters.

According to sources close to the stars, Diaz will play the role of a figure-skater and Timberlake a speed-skater, although one wonders how they would master such techniques in order to make the film believable.

"The whole thing is set at the Olympic Games in the Olympic Village," said a source.

"Cameron and Justin have been working on a number of ideas together and this is one they are seriously considering taking it on themselves."


Cameron should be the speed skater, and Justin should *totally* be a snowboarder. TOTALLY. How much would *that* rock? Shaun White would have a cameo, of course, and we all know how cool hat would be. Actually, Camm'd make a good skier, too, or one off those luge chicks!

Thanks to timberho for the heads up on this one.

YIKES!

Holy JESUS, the winds are high tonight! Seriously, I haven't been this freaked out by high winds in a long, long time - and we live in tornado alley, so that's saying something. :-( Man, tornado season gets here a little earlier every year, it seems.

I can hear twigs and things from the neighbors' trees hitting the side of the house - the bedroom wall, naturally. Methinks I'll be camping out in the living room tonight. Gawd, I hate tornado season. :-( :-( :-(

::is skeered::

Eeeeeeeeeee, I hate this. All the little thumps and whaps and the trees whipping around and something just rolled across the deck. Waaaah!

::is even more skeered::

Wind: 20 mph/32 km/h from the SSW Wind Gust: 24 mph/39 km/h "Showers with a chance of thunderstorms. Windy with lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph."

Shit, now I hear something rolling across the roof. Waaaah! I love my house! I don't want to end up flying/riding it to Kansas!!!

See, I'm in the bedroom near three windows, so I can hear this stuff. Monkey!hubs is in the front of the house with a John Wayne movie blasting, so he can't hear it. He's like, "Really? I can't hear it!" when I jumped off the bed and ran in to tell him that our lives might be in mortal danger of being snuffed out by a falling tree. He blinked a couple of times and laughed at something on the screen. Husbands! I think he's confident that the tree overhanging the back of the house has been properly trimmed and pruned and so won't fall and cave in the roof. Go Hubs!

::is worried::

::is worried and skeered::

::doesn't want to fly to Kansas via domestic residence::