Random short notes again....

This is sadly turning into a weekly posting.

Had 2 nights of back-to-back Harry Potter movies episodes 1-4 to watch during the weekdays.
Obviously, I was late for work the next day.

Took an hour plus to iron my new blouse and suit.
Seems like the effort will not be repeated very often.
There was even some burnt markings on the blouse because I set the iron too high.

Am currently waiting for some hidrocloric asid to work it's magic into my bathroom floor.
Last minute floor-scrubbing.
It sure stinks.

Heck, I've just been summoned this late at night to take out some blown-out  light bulbs.

Can't wait for the holidays to begin!
Happy CNY!

One more Big Bird flying away

Icky little sadness swept in as one of my US seniors is officially announced to be leaving our team tonight.
I know it was coming, but still the official announcement hit a nerve.

I'm gonna miss the lameness that none of my colleagues here understands.
Miss that I can't whine and whine and whine because they were originally his stuff, his people, passed on to me.
His being my first set of enablements when I started in Sept 2008.
My first call to US, to a total stranger at that point,
freaking terrified I wouldn't understand what he had to say yet excited and ready at everything new back then.

The online arguments that would infuriate me or vice versa that we somehow always move on from.
Although there was one that took a whole week and a half for us to cool down. Haha.
And how strangely as time progresses they grow fewer.

How often, he's right about my behavior and advising how I should react to things.
And funny enough, my English teacher where ain't is a crime for being a redneck word.

This little bird feels like all the big birds have left the nest.

And left her with no one to lean on.

No big birds that is.

Random short notes..

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Had a good laugh at Clinic Cafe when the stringe not only splashed out chilli sauce in gusto once, but twice.
Was just not bothered to complain due to banana-ness.
Surprised to find myself able to cope with 10 years younger 10cm taller age/height gap.
Yes, I'm that old.


Bought a suit and blouse on Saturday.
Can't wait to wear them despite the slight opposition in the house.
I'm old enough to have my own opinion.


Funny how you know you are over that teenage crush you had years ago when you can have a decent talk with him without turning gibberish or jelly inside.
And to find some close up weirdness as well, which would never had been realized looking from afar in the past.
I'm so much older now.

How time has flown.

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Made chips cookies today.
Weird but fun.
And that's all that matters.

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The days of staying up til 3am this long weekend has finally catch up on me.
I'm gonna have to sleep early to be 'normal' again.
If I can stay away from Clara and log off soon, that is.

Thankful No. 65

I am thankful that despite how crazy busy this weekend has been,
I've managed to successfully have dinner with my dad tonight.

Successful being no emails, calls or pages disturbing us in that dinner time span.

I'm thankful that he wasn't upset to wait until 9pm for me to finally escape from work.
And also for enduring another 40minutes wait for the food at our usual eating store.

It is well with my soul to have gone through a weekend like this,

 with the important things in life preserved.

Poop-ed

This is the first of 4 on-calls for the year.
Silly me only slept at 4am, hence when the pager wouldn't stop ringing early in the morning while I was in bed.....my sleep was doomed.
It's rare that we have 9 pages in a row, rare-er still at such an hour and there I was wishing really really hard that my colleague would just resolve them ASAP before he went home without me getting out of bed before my weekend officially begin.
He did just that but in the end there was a wrong number a little later and I had to get up.
In between lunch and answering emails was trying to have a nap but it didn't really work out.

Sleep deprived me had to make due with a critical issue in the evening right before practice starts.
Which was annoying because I had intended, to go about borrowing another keyboard for practice although I'm not playing. And furthermore the critical issue had to be taken care of with the fullest attention to details.

Thankfully, somebody else brought us a substitute keyboard when I called for help.
Keyboard is just for now before Cody's successor comes in. It isn't easy to figure it out, because it didn't come borrowed with a manual. I suppose we are thankful for the keyboard in the meantime however.
But that meant I was also stuck in church after I resolved the critical issue, studying the user manual I find online and printing only the necessary parts.

Being busy and sleep deprived.
It's no wonder I've been speaking gibberish all day, I'm amazed there's people that can understand me.
Heck, I'm amazed if this post make sense when I am myself again.

I can only hope tomorrow is a quieter day than this one. And oh! for a good night sleep tonight when I'm done with the rest of the darn emails.