Birthday Fun and Fluffiness

Saturday night a big group of us crazies celebrated John's birthday. I've lost track of just how old he is, but trust me when I say he's over the hill. But that didn't stop him from acting like a frat boy, what with beer and chics and super pink fluffiness.



And since there was pink fluffiness, I figured it was only fair to add some grey fluffiness, too.



Other than the fluffiness and debauchery of the weekend, I've spent the last few days at home sick. While I can't say I really want to go back to work, I suppose I don't have much choice... plus, I'm kinda bored.

Coffee at the beach

SP and I are chillin out at Java Beach having JUMBO lattes and treats. We stayed up late - even went to the Krispy Kreme at, like, 11:30. Then we just drove around. I was reminded of my early driving days when we would just cruise aimlessly. In fact, I think last night I may have regressed to about 17. Where is a White Castle when you need one?

Blogging on the go...

One must always be prepared to blog.

A Chill 4th

I had a pretty nice and chill 4th of July this year. While the usual suspects were enjoying the great outdoors up at Lake Siskiyou, I stayed in the city just in case anything happened during our data/voice cutover. Nothing happened - went smooth as can be, I'm relieved to say (good job, team!), and I didn't have to put my feet on campus once over the weekend (at least as of now).

And for your viewing pleasure, John at the Lake Siskiyou camp ground in 2005 -- just a taste of what I missed out on this year...


Suie sure has a charmer in that John... :-)

On the 4th, Mojo, K and I went to the Park Chalet for a mid-afternoon meal with fun conversation and cocktails. I hadn't seen K in a long time and the three of us had some fun chats -- like, what would you be willing to change if you were in a relationship? Yikes. I won't go there again and the replies are safe with me, for now. We then went to see Hancock, which was fun, until the end, which was a bit too much. We ended the day at K's loft in the C of O. Mark Z came over and the 4 of us went to Jack London Square to watch the fireworks -- sweet -- and then spent the next 3.5 hours playing word games. That was actually a lot of fun. Mark Z has the vocab down -- seriously.

Today I spent with the Slacker just chillin before heading over to G's place for dinner.

All in all, a nice weekend so far.

Oh, and I was introduced to The Wire by the Slacker and now want to watch the whole first season back to back. Sigh. The tiny obsessive bit of nature rearing its ugly head.

Insomnia is for the birds!

I worked too many long days this week. Yesterday I was swamped off and on all day dealing with an issue related to how we select people for different roles in our environment -- which controls what kinds of resources they can access. And then at the end of the day we had a Director's Meeting where I was presenting some of the Project Management changes we are starting to move towards to give the Director's a chance to provide some feedback. As a result, all day my attention level was exceedingly high.

When I finally got home for work, I ended up doing more work because I hadn't had a chance to get to some of the tasks I had wanted to get to during the day. By the time I went to bed, I was pretty tired, but wound up. I managed to fall asleep without too much difficulty, but then woke up at, like, 4:00 a.m.! Of course I just could not fall back to sleep. Instead, my head was full of horrible work things, like Home Org vs Ck Distribution Org vs Timesheet Org! How horrible is that? I finally gave up trying to sleep and just snuggled in my covers and complained at the cats for not being willing to cuddle with me. They are such traitors!

Today I worked at home in the a.m. -- very productive. Cats were once again traitors and stayed in the living room all morning! Lazy beasts. Now I'm in an Office 2007 Pilot Training Class. I quite like the new version, despite my desire not to.

Tonight I shall attempt to clean the house a bit in prep for the Quasar of Rage's birthday festivities. I do not want to face the wrath of QOR.

Just the general news...

Not much going on right now. This week has been a busy one at work. I'm starting to get new projects assigned to me and the VPIT and I are trying to work out some initial PMO frameworks to use to attack at least our current and FY08 pending projects. So, the challenge is managing these new tasks with my current Project BOB tasks. I also want to find a viable web-based project management system that incorporates project portfolio management, too. Since I have no budget for this, it will be a challenge.

On the social side of life, a few of us girls will be getting together on Sunday to celebrate the Quasar of Rage's birthday (QOR). While I look forward to this, I do not look forward to cleaning the apartment -- thus, my efforts shall be the bare minimum.

And that's really all I have to report at this point.

Stop all that TEXT!

I decided there was too much text on this blog and not enough pictures. So here's Keiko, appreciating Major's birthday present -- an original print by our friend, Mark Z. Though a tough critic, Keiko ultimately gives it a paws up.