Drawing

Just drew this at work.

Painting

I started painting that picture of the two deer that I saw in the woods the other day, but I decided to go with a different color scheme than the normal woodsy colors.  This is the beginning of the painting, I'll post updates as it progresses, but it may not be finished for a while considering how busy/gone I am about to be.

Happyyyyyyyy

So I have been having problems for years with a coworker who works the shift after mine.  The problem has always been that he is chronically late to work.  There is nothing more infuriating than having to stand somewhere for 8 hour daydreaming about going home and then waiting for the next person to come in...and waiting...and waiting...and it's almost midnight and you are tired and you are getting angrier by the minute.  And to have this happen day after day, month after month, year after year, and to have this person have no consequences for their actions...my anger, and not to mention the anger of my other coworkers who have to deal with this, has been building for what seems like an eternity.  He was always unapologetic, and not only that, but he was also just an awful, awful person.  He was the work snitch.  He would act like a manager even though he wasn't.  He would brown nose the general managers so hard it was disgusting.  He was just the biggest asshole I have ever known.  A few years ago I confronted him about it and wrote him this long nasty letter about how immature he was and how he needed to grow up and get here on time like the rest of us (among other things), and he improved for a while.  Lately he had been getting bad again and I have been daydreaming daily of my next move.  I had planned to do the unthinkable, actually talk to the general manager about how he was destroying team morale and causing everyone to be disgruntled and furious.  I was daydreaming about what I was going to say on the way to work today, imagining the exchange, feeling excited, nervous, and daring!
When I came in today, I found out that this morning he had QUIT!!!  This is a day that I have been waiting for and dreaming about for YEARS.  Thank God and good riddence! I seriously thought this day would never come.

Running!

Today I went for a run. It was REALLY, REALLY humid and disgusting and I am crazy for going but I just love it.  Of course I can only run in short bursts, the more humid the shorter the bursts, but I am slowly building up my stamina. I've been on a running haiatus because of my hip, but ever since my doctor gave me a cortisone shot I have been about to start up again!  I saw 3 deer in the woods behind my house and I stopped to take pictures.

So Saturday night I saw MGMT at Merriweather!  It was really fun.  Great weather, great friends, great music!  We were all dancing and jumping around in the lawn, EVEN SETH!  Seth said he had never danced at a concert before!  It was really fun to see him relax that much.

Strangely enough, today I was really bored at work and playing around on Facebook as usual and Jacob's ex wife facebook chatted me!  I was surprised to hear from her, as it has been years.  It definately made my night more interesting.  She is an interesting person, to say the least.  Very pretty but very misguided and weird. She and Jacob were in an "open-marriage" when I met them.  Yeah, that worked out reallllly great...  They got married but they are too stupid and irresponsable to figure out how to get divorced. Those people...guh.

Happy for Seth

Seth started his new job!  I am slightly sad that I won't see him at work anymore.  Whenever he would walk in the door I would get so excited!  But it's ok because I worked here for a long time before he came, so work will just go back to it's normal old ways.  On his last night I made the assistant GM take a picture of us together in our uniforms, to like, commemorate the end of an era.  That way we can show our kids what we looked like when we met, and where we worked together!
The picture is super cute.

So far Seth likes his new job a lot.  He gets to have meetings and discuss patients and things like that.  I know that he feels better about himself now that he has a job in his field, even if he is overquallified there.  It's such a huge step up from bartending and waiting tables at Holiday Inn!  Plus he gets to dress casually.  And when he gets home at night he doesn't smell like a restaurant. 

I recently had two days off.  On Tuesday Elise and I had fun at the fair!  We saw a sheep with 4 horns!  It's a rare breed called a Jacob's Sheep. 

I took some of my own pictures but this is a much nicer one from google images.  But it looked just like that!

The internet said they can have up to SIX horns! Where would the other horns even come out of?

We ate a bunch of gross fair food like pizza and soft serve and french fries.  Then we went on this spinning ride and these two guys got on with us, and they were spinning the thing around SO FAST and so not only was our unit spinning, but then the whole thing was spinning, and it was fun for about 30 seconds.  After that it was like a neverending nightmare!  Elise and I were both about to throw up we were so miserable!  Finally we got off and we were traumatized from rides for a while.  We decided that we might be too old for rides now, and so we went to the other side and played Bingo!  Which was SO fun.

It was a quarter per game, and if you won then you got a few dollars, but sadly we didn't win.

There we are getting hooked on Bingo.

After Bingo we felt better and went on some more rides.  Then at 8 we hurried over to the track to watch the pig and duck races!  It was really fun and we cheered for the pigs.  We bet a dollar on the pig we wanted to win and Elise's pig won so I had to give her a dollar.  The lady at the track explained why the pigs race.  It's because pigs LOVE oreo cookies so much, that they crumble one up and put it in the trough, and then the pigs know that the first one back in gets to eat most of the oreo cookie before the others get there!  How cute is that???

This is a picture from the duck race.  Blurry ducks running fast!

So then we went on another ride and I took this picture while we waited in line.

                       

                  It's a really cool picture I think, the sun setting at the fair.

Elise convinced me that we should get funnel cake so we got one, and then I kept telling her that we needed more powdered sugar! More! More!  So it was all powdered and delcious looking, and we were walking toward the seating area to sit and eat, and I was holding the funnel cake, and some guy accidentally pushed a stroller in my way and the funnel cake went RIGHT on my shirt and i was COVERED in powdered sugar!!! I was pretty mad for a minute, but then it was actually pretty funny.  I did save the cake from falling on the ground and we still ate it, while we watched a band play oldies.  They played Unchained Melody and all these old couples stood up and started dancing romantically! It was so cute.

                       

Check out the couple on the left...MATCHING OUTFITS! Wow.

Later, I was just thankful that we hadn't gotten hot fudge on our funnel cake.  It would have been harder to brush that off.  I told Elise, "You paid for the funnel cake...but it was ON ME!"  And we laughed! It was funny.

So that was my fun night at the fair!

Then Wednesday I went to the doctor and she told me it wasn't my back hurting, but the joint that connects my left leg to my hip.  So she gave me a cortisone shot!  It hurt worse after that, but I think in another day it will be all better.  I have hope, anyways.

That's enough posting for now!