Alpha Oscar Kilo

I have decided that I am obsessed with military radio talk. I really am... I use some of it at work to make things lively when I have to communicate with security officers over the radio and I have to say it is super Foxtrot Uniform November! I have no idea why I love it though. Only a few people I know are in the service, and it isn't used around me at all other than in some TV shows and movies I watch like S.V.U., CSI, G.I. Jane, The General's Daughter, A Few Good Men... Go figure!

I had a good day at work today. My first round of interviews went well =D (fingers crossed, people!) and I didn't have too much work the rest of the day. Slept about 3 hours when I got home from work, so though I feel wide awake now, I will probably pass out as soon as my head hits the pillow. I need beauty sleep now because I have my next interview tomorrow (so exciting!!!). Oh, I am also conducting two more interviews tomorrow which for some reason makes me more nervous than being interviewed. yes, I'm weird! This is great to add to my resume though, I think I'm doing well and I'm learning a lot :). Let's see how it goes!

Interviews & Stuff

I conducted my first interview yesterday! It was a little intimidating and my stomach was clenched the entire time but man, oh man, was that exciting! I felt like such a grown up!!! It was like being able to call the shots for once, even though I really can't call any shots here yet, ha! It was great though. I have to interview 2 more people that I know of, but maybe there will be more, who knows?

I found it easy enough to stay on cue and not go into "friendly" territory and chat away, because the guy was a little stiff and serious like a perfectly pressed uniform. He was nice enough though, but again, I have NO say whatsoever, ha ha! All they want is my feedback, so that's what I'm giving them :)





Since that part of my morning was good, it was only normal that the other part would be completely demented. Ugh! Ask me why I found duplicates of everything I had already done, and none of what I needed my replacement to do? Yeah... I don't get it either. That's my work life! It's almost as if my aura attracts the least effective people possible and puts them on my path. Like, they have no choice but to be as lazy and as uncaring as they can possibly be. They don't even care that they DON'T CARE! Wow! My late friend LL would say "it's a Travesty!" in a very high-pitched voice with a strong Long Island, NY accent :) and it sure is!!! She loved laughing and loved those goofy non-motivational posters. So LL, here's to hoping I made you laugh wherever you are up there :)

Birthday

My birthday was Saturday after Thanksgiving and for once, some of my friends were in town and available to celebrate with me (since it didn't fall on the same day). We all went out for dinner and drinks, then a few of us had a night cap at another bar closer to home. I am now best friends with this amazing drink called Bikini-Tini (Cruzan Pineapple and Banana Rums, Pineapple Juice and Remy Red). It was SUPER delicious :)
I had a great time so thanks for coming out amigos!

I watched a bunch or random movies this weekend, all very different from each other and did enjoy that too. Maybe I should start a movie-review page of my own since I almost always completely disagree with movie critics... how does one become a movie critic? I wish I were one. Can you imagine? Getting PAID to watch movies? Hellz yaaa!!! I'd watch all mine at I-MAX! 

Anyway, now it's Monday again, and I have that "why did I come in to work" feeling because I was so wired I only slept 3 hours. Yikes is right!

Aaah, the sweet smell of Mac n' Cheese!

I made my first Thanksgiving dinner as a married woman today :) Wasn't much since there are only two of us, but I made everything from scratch. Seasoned backed chicken in vegetable oil, 3-cheese mac n' cheese and a medley of steamed vegetables. For dessert, I made a moist yellow cake served with diced pineapples and tangerines, with a little cool whip on top. Did I mention I made that from SCRATCH??? :D It was delicious! My hubby is passing out as I type, so my job here is done... ha!

I am exhausted but also very happy that I didn't burn anything or mess anything up :) After we've napped and rested our bellies, we're putting on our sneaks and going to attempt to grab some deals at Walmart and the outlet close-by. Neither of us have ever been for Black Friday, so if we have to get trampled, at least we were well fed before hand :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is always a bitter sweet time of year for me because I celebrate my birthday in the same week. It should be a culmination of happy events, right? WRONG! I hate sharing my birthday with anything, or anyone else in the world... If you know nothing about me, remember this: I LOVE MY BIRTHDAY! I was raised abroad, so when I relocated to the states in my mid-teens, it was a blow to have no one available to celebrate it with me because they were all traveling home for Thanksgiving weekend. Say what? You're not going to be in town? WTH??? Who is this turkey and what does he have that I don't? Sigh... I thought I'd get over it eventually... still waiting for that to kick in.

I don't exactly know when I turned into this psycho birthday-infatuated fruitcake, but at some point I realized I really enjoyed celebrating it and enjoying feeling wiser and older... well, mostly older :p. Most women don't, and they don't even acknowledge time passing and are 28 every year, but I don't mind the changes that come with age. The random aches and pains that come out of nowhere, taste buds changing, eardrums getting sensitive... all of which I think I am WAY too young to experience but what the hey... if you haven't lived, what's the point right? At least it finally gives me a reason to tell someone else the dreaded sentence my mom used to tell me "when I was your age..." HA! who's the smarty-pants now???

We're supposed to spend this Thanksgiving with family friends in Boston but it's our first one as a married couple. Yikes, I'm MARRIED! It still shocks me to hear it, say it, write it. I'm thinking we should have our own little one at home but who knows if I can muster the strength to cook all of that?!?! Oh, well. I mentally wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone I love & like in this world but if you forget my birthday this year, I will hunt you down and slash your tires =D

Coolest Gift

This week, I received the most unexpected surprise at work. I had helped another department for a large partner meeting a couple of weeks ago. KH from that department, thought to come down and say thank you with this amazing business card holder... how cool is that??? :)

The person who ran the meeting on the other hand, though her name is the same as mine, insists on calling me "front desk person" in her emails... yeah, lovely! Hahaha...

Thankfully, I had Friday off and was able to relax and hang out with friends. Went to a movie and had the most amazing time. We stayed up until 4 am, drinking and laughing. Those are my favorite times!

Today, I am finishing homework for one of my business classes, lazying around the house and maybe going to buy new work clothes in the evening. That is if I decided to get out of my pj's at all ;)

Two-Face

I'm starting to seriously wonder if I can read people as well as I thought... My boss, whom I had accepted as an over the top buddy, has started acting more like a boss lately. Hmmm...He is also all-caring about my feelings at work all of a sudden, asking how my days are going and if I'm still happy here. Weird... nice, but weird.


Yesterday, he said he wanted me to help him interview candidates for a position open in our department. Seriously? I've never been on the other side of an interview room before. I wonder what that will be like and if I'll let all that power go to my head? I can't actually believe he is considering this... that he's going to let me do this! Don't get me wrong, I'm psyched but half the time, he acts like I don't belong in the Security department because I'm a receptionist, even though I have access to all security files and that my title actually INCLUDES "security", but whatever. He usually spends half the time explaining to people why I'm not "really" security and mostly fall under the HR umbrella, then turns around and says to me "Of course, you're security. What do you mean?". The other half, he spends acting like he's ready to fire me... I guess things are about to change around here.

I should be happy. I did ask for more responsibility (what was I thinking?) and more things to do within the department (whyyy???). So, now he constantly calls to get my opinion on things and tries to "help" me do my job. Sighhh! I should have left it alone and coasted through like everyone else does around here. On the bright side, I don't have to do anything in a rush. Most of those projects will take months, so I can take my time and do a little bit everyday. So friend or foe? You never know which side of the coin you'll get. I still think I'll watch my step.

Sick

The worst part of living up north again is when fall and winter are fighting over who should show up first. Already had a first snow and ever since, the weather can't decide what it wants. It's super cold one day, then warm enough for my neighbor to crank up the grill and barbecue in shorts... all these changes are now making me sick somehow, which does not make me a happy girl!

I spent all of yesterday evening and last night in pain, laying on my couch under mountains of blankets. Finally fell asleep around 3 am, and woke up at 9:30 in pain again. My entire body feels like I was ran over by a truck or something and I could barely muster the strength to finish my Accounting homework. Hoping to have a better night sleep and hopefully a good start to the upcoming week!

Newbie

Someone suggested that I put my random thoughts "on paper" and start a blog. They apparently can't get enough of my foolishness. I tossed and turned about it for a few days, forgot about it, and then was reminded this week that I should get cranking on it, so here I am.

The issue really was figuring out what to write about. There is a whole lot of silliness in this big ol' head, and whenever I let it loose, one of my sisters says "You're SO random!". So it only makes sense that I would just pluck from that randomness and give you whatever comes out... you've been warned!

I always seem to be the last one to know or notice things around me. How did this happen? I used to be up on entertainment news, music, movies, TV shows and the likes. Now, I find out through Facebook that the feature I thought was an amazing new thing on my computer, has actually been available a whole operating system ago; that the posts I like and comment on are actually song lyrics from bands I've yet to hear of; and that all my high school friends up and grew up without me and become politically savvy...

Perhaps I should spend less time catching up on what's happened and focus on what's actually happening now.