Well I left work feeling a little upset. Ok, a lot upset. Just because of a stupid reference call. I don’t know why this gets passed on to me, they know I hate making phone calls. HATE HATE HATE it. As the admin, I’m supposed to take phone calls. “I’m sorry, Mad Scientist is off-site at a meeting, can I offer you his voice mail?” I’m not the intended recipient of the calls either, I just pass them off. And they already know that cold-calling or other types of out-calling freaks me right out and gives me major anxiety, no matter how much Paxil I take. So now I have to make reference calls for managerial position candidates. I so suck at them, and not only that, the account exec who wants me to make the dang calls has the absolute suckiest question sheet. I can’t wait until everyone else is back from vacation except me. I need a vacation, especially since I never take one because I can’t afford it.

So as I arrived home tonite and was trying to calm myself down, I got a nice soothing catalog in the mail tonight. Purty stuff! And I love catalogs too, so that made me happy. Of course, as soon as I turned the tv on a mini-rant came on. I really hate it when the cable company switches channels on me. I love watching Discovery Health channel, and now it’s on channel 60 instead of 72. There are a few other changes too, so I’ll have to learn the channel lineup all over again. Why can’t they just leave well enough alone? And btw, Seconds From Disaster is not on tonite for some reason, so I’m stuck watching medical shows on Discovery Health. Not that I don’t enjoy them, but I really wanted to watch 2nds.

I’m looking more and more forward to my trip home, mostly because I really need a fricking vacation. Officer Friend is taking me to Vinny T’s. I love that place, it’s some of the best Italian food I’ve ever had. The first time I ever ate there, I had the alfredo, one of my favorite dishes. It was so fresh I could have sworn they were milking cows in the kitchen! Perfect al dente pasta and the freshest, most flavorful alfredo sauce I’ve ever had – non of this pseudo Cheez-Whiz crap that I’ve had in other places. No, Vinny’s makes it fresh, and I’m gonna have some when I’m back in Beantown.

I tried a new template that I found online for my blog, but after making the changes in notepad and previewing it in a browser, I really didn’t like the way it came out. So I’m still looking for ideas, and also how to change the background without changing anything else on my template. I like the rounded corners on the different fields and don’t want to change that – only the plain old background color. I just want something with a little bit of texture to it, that’s all. But my meager and extremely limited knowledge of the codes used here aren’t cutting it for me, so again I appeal to all of you for the knowledge. Macoosh would appreciate this too, so once I know how to do it I can share the love. I did change where my counter is located – I think it looks better in the sidebar instead of waaaaayyy down at the bottom of the page.

One more thing – spending update. Yesterday I spent $7.26 on lunch, which includes my lunch and a small portion of Time-Flying Dudette’s lunch, since I owed her for a snack a couple days ago when I didn’t have any cash. Plus, I think I can return a couple things to get extra cash. One thing is something I bought at the crap store that I know I won’t use, and another is the t-shirt I bought for my now former foster sister. As much as my mom wanted to help her, she can only take so much, so she called up the case worker today and told them to come get her. Now she just has Boo, but he’s just a little one and doesn’t have the attitude that a 14-yr-old has. So the t-shirt goes back, as soon as I dig out the receipts and tags (I kept my debit card receipt, but that doesn’t show the individual purchase price of the item). But hey, more money for me.

So that’s it for now. Time to do some forensic searching through my trash for the tiny tag from that shirt, then I’ve got to eat chocolate and stare blankly at the tv.