Whew and yay, Dana!

I think I will pull weeds and mow in solidarity with msbelle tomorrow. Brunching on Sunday.

I had a very early morning house cleaning today--usually they come at 8AM, which is hella early anyway, but she showed up at 7:30AM! After my roommate and I last night both said "i'm tired, but I'll get up in the morning to do some pre-clean cleaning" (ie, putting shit away and doing the dishes)...we were just getting going on that when she showed up! I'm all for people not being late, and 5-10 minutes early is usually OK, but showing up at 7:30AM? No.

counter to the company rules of vendor management (which I didn't know even existed until just now)

This is TOTALLY what I fear will happen on my current project, where not only do *I* not know what the company standards are because I"m new and the project is awful, but several of the coworkers I could usually ask are ALSO new, and don't know. grr.

Weekend Plans people?

Go see Rio at Bi-Rite ice cream tomorrow while she's on her Rookie tour.

Oh, thank god, the Saints signed Drew Brees.

OMG you guys, I spent an obscene amount of money this morning on football tickets. I'm a little bit sick.

Jessica,

do you have some special allegiance to Canada?

::high-fives Dana and -t::

I loooooove Rookie. It's probably the site I read most after here and fb (and OKC). Please give her two big thumbs up from me, though we never really posted together here.

ita !, as an unrepentant work cryer, you have my sympathy and support. Sounds like a whole bunch of seriously unreasonable expectations to me.

Weekend: spectate at the Running of the Bulls tomorrow, put a new bulb in my headlight (not a euphemism), market and doggie play time as usual, and I hope see Beasts of the Southern Wild on Sunday.

I'm going to a climbing competition tonight! Which should be fun, even though I'm not in particularly good condition, so I don't expect to do very well. Pity they don't have a 47-and-older category for women...

The rest of the weekend is likely to involve lots of parental time. And possibly watching more of The Hollow Crown, the BBC Shakespeare series. Very pretty, with a great cast.

Do they have age categories, Consuela?

I am dancing as usual tonight, and a trainer session and date tomorrow (we'll see how that goes), Costco at some point, and a sewing class Sunday. Should be pretty good.

...of course, I really need to actually get some work done this afternoon, and I'm just not yet, but...

Holy crap I forgot about the Rookie tour. I would have brought her a muffin.

ita !, I don't understand - how many managers do you have to report to? I am sorry about the work shit and having to deal with chronic pain on top of it. It's a giant ball of suck.

Anne, I wanna see pics of the "after"!! I can't believe it's already done!

I thought Aimee and Em looked beautiful at the wedding. And people say dumb things to others all the time on Facebook and elsewhere and we have to just let them own their words and choose their battles. In other words, I wouldn't email your friend to tell her who it was who made the comment; it doesn't change the comment. And you're not responsible for it.

Come to think of it, something similar happened on my FB recently, where an acquaintance (I have met her f2f once - she's another client of my awesome dogwalker/friend) said a stupid thing on my page (on my book review of Suffering Succotash) and an actual dear friend of mine was really hurt. I didn't respond to the stupid comment, but I did let my actual dear friend know that she had every right to respond and go to town and that I wouldn't be upset at all.