Chapter 238: Indian Summer

Okay, so I am thinking of perhaps making it my new thing to write the daily blog a little earlier in the evening. It is currently 7:21pm. It’s right around the same time I wrote it yesterday. It is also right around the same time that I updated with my video blog on Tuesday. It is really nice having it finished earlier in the day and having the time before bed for other things. One thing, in particular, that I have every intention of using that time for is piano practice. Why? Because, damn it, I have to make that a major focus in my life and the best way for me to make something a major focus in my life is to make it a part of a routine. So, writing my daily blog in the time after I get off work but before my Mom gets off work makes the most sense. I think in general, I would prefer to start a bit earlier than I did today but I don’t intend to write too much today, so starting a bit later seemed like it would be alright. I don’t really have a lot to say about today. It wasn’t really an exceptional day in any way. To start off with, I woke up late. I woke up once at 6:45am, but managed to fall back to sleep until 7am. Then I got up and did my best to convince myself there was no need to rush. After all, I haven’t been working out and I have basically been filling the time I would normally work out with useless crap, like dicking around online. So, I figured that was a good hour of my time that I could just cut out and everything would be fine. I was right, too. I got out of bed, did my morning skincare routine, brushed my teeth and had coffee, cigarettes and breakfast, all while sitting on the couch and watching one of the past few episodes of “Chelsea Lately” that I had missed. I was in the bathroom doing hair and makeup by 7:30am, finished just after 8am and everything was on schedule as usual. When I arrived at work, I was greeted by really friendly faces and spent most of the day chatting with my co-workers and people from the other account that sits right by us. I also finished the third book in the “Gossip Girl” series. That’s as far as I’ve gotten, so I’m kind of excited to start reading the ones that I haven’t already read before, though. Unfortunately, I am afraid I may be derailed from the “Gossip Girl” train yet again, because two of my co-workers have recently brought in books that they want me to read. I have them both sitting on my desk right now. I should probably read them and return them before I move on to more of the “Gossip Girl” series.

There is a random thing that my supervisors do every month where we have a “game” for each of the teams at work where whoever gets the most sales or the most whatever else gets some sort of prize. I normally don’t put too much thought into these games because they are silly but somehow, without even realizing it, I have managed to be one of the final two in this month’s game. All that’s left is to figure out the scores from yesterday to determine the winner. This is the first time I have ever come this close to winning so I am kind of excited about it. The other person at the end with is my dear friend who sits right next to me. I honestly am pretty sure that she wound up winning but I don’t know yet. It would be pretty cool if I did manage to win but I’m pretty certain that I didn’t. I mean, I don’t really care – it’s not like the prize is every anything all that interesting, but it’s still nice to be able to say that you won something. Either way. I am also really excited about the fact that tomorrow is Friday and once we get Friday over with it will be a four-day weekend. I mean, it will be a three-day weekend for everybody else but for me it will be four. I couldn’t be happier with having Tuesday as my day off for this reason. I am actually taking another four-day weekend a few weeks from now because I requested my birthday off and it happens to be on a Monday. I am using the last of my vacation days for the year on my birthday. I was initially going to try to save a couple of vacation days for later in the year but I decided to say, “fuck it,” and just go ahead and use them all up during the summer. After all, I want my summer to be fun and working less definitely ups the chances of that happening. Also, I am kind of banking on the fact that we will be in a better financial situation later in the year so it won’t be as shocking a blow to take an unpaid holiday then as it would be now. Plus, I just want to take some time off right now and see no reason not to take advantage of the opportunity I have with having Tuesdays off to take four-day weekends. So, I am and I have enjoyed the ones I have had already and am REALLY looking forward to this one that is beginning tomorrow. I also got my first QC, (quality control, where they grade one of your calls,) for this month and it was much improved from last month, which was kind of a dismal month for me. So, that was pretty exciting. Hopefully this will become a trend for the rest of the month. One thing I am not excited about, though, is the fact that I have to go into work at 8am tomorrow morning. Sure, I normally go in at 8:30am so it’s not a major difference, but I am going to be alone there for 30 minutes and I find that annoying. It will be okay, though. It means that I get an extra break tomorrow and that is definitely a plus for me. I don’t know why but the world feels better when I have an extra break.

Now work is over, dinner is cooking and I really need to take a shower. I mentioned to my Mom that I was thinking of taking a shower as soon as I got home because I just felt funky after work and she text messaged me a while later asking if I had. I don’t know why. It’s not like I’m smelling funky or anything. Now she expects to come home and find me extra clean and such. I really want to get extra clean, anyway, so I think I will go ahead and go take one. It’s for the best, I suppose. Before I do end this blog, I did want to make mention of my most recent Netflix arrival – “The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie.” It is the straight-to-DVD feature length spin-off from the show “Drawn Together,” which is by far my favorite of the “adult” animation series that have sprung up in the past decade or so. I loved that show. The humor was all really fucked up and racial and sexual and just generally hilarious. It was a super fun show and the movie did not disappoint, either. They came up with the most clever concept for the film ever – the cast somehow figured out that the show had been cancelled and had to deal with the fact that they were all just knock-offs of real cartoon characters. Then, they go on a giant quest to try to get their show back on the air. The best part of the movie, though, was a new character – the show that took their show’s timeslot, “The Suck My Taint Show” starring the Suck My Taint girl, who was a little girl who sings songs about her taint. It was fucking hilarious and led to all kinds of fun jokes about the taint, (“I don’t know whether I should call you a pussy or an asshole!”) It is well worth checking out if you are a fan of “adult” animation or really horrible, offensive humor. It was an awesome show and an awesome movie! Alright, time for me to go take a shower! Goodnight for now!