observations

a couple of observations from today...

since when can't you ship alcohol to people? i got shot down by usps & ups. what in the world. now i have to unwrap katie's christmas present and redo everything. argh.

flat rate shipping makes no sense. i paid less to send 4 or 5 satchets in a flat rate box than to send 2 in a regular box. riddle me that one batman.

i appreciate people who can get my hidden message without winking to say "yes, i got your hidden message" or otherwise being stupid about it. maybe i should say: God bless maturity.

i am growing up. to explain: i had to listen to an a 23 going on 14 year old coworker prattle on about who knows what and it didn't bother me like it normally does. normally in my head i am yelling "oh grow up!". but instead, i treated her kind of like my 7 year old niece: i waited until she was done with her drama, i said "thats cool", and i immediately forgot about it. (until of course i had to come up with a list of things to write about for this).

i have to be honest, the shirt i am wearing is too big. while in goodwill i made a dozen back and forth arguments with myself for buying vs not buying it. buying it obviously won. today, i realize, yes, it IS too big. but, i definately think i'll wear it again. its soft and comfortable, and it buttons at the right spot (normally buttons are either too high and i look like a school marm, or too low and i look like i'm trying too hard).

i hate drunk drivers. a friend/coworker was hit by a drunk driver on monday night. shes fine, but dealing with the headaches of insurance companies etc. but yeah, i really hate drunk drivers. i hate them more because of my line of work. i find it ironic that someone who was reported as dui later hit a dispatcher head-on. every one ever caught DUI needs to sit on a victims panel. every single one of them need to take 911 calls with people literally dying in the background because they were hit by a drunk driver. chaps my hide is what it does.

i joke a lot about how washingtonians need as many words for rain as eskimos do for snow. todays rain would have described a cold and moderately heavy rain. brrr..... i tried to take a video of the sound of the rain on the tin roofs outside (that we park our cars under), but i couldn't send the file to myself (from phone to computer) because it was too big. i could post it to youtube and somehow get it that way, but thats over my head. so, because i can't share it, i'll describe it: it was a nice, sleepy sound. made me want to go to bed. and because i couldn't share the video, i'll share a picture of atticus after walking for 30 minutes in the rain:

not the best picture, considering what i had to work with, but there you have it. plus you can see part of my totally awesome winter welcome mat. attie is sitting on the snowman part.

i love burger king's zesty sauce. it is absolutely delicious. i love dipping french fries into it. thats my newest craving....burger king zesty sauce and french fries. weird.

today a friend described me to another person as "super, non-felon, non-hippie, and although she really likes extra pickles with her cheeseburgers, hes never found it to be a disability of any sort." i need to figure out a place to post that other than this blog. it made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

i have been in washington too long when twice in one week i run into non-work people i know while running errands. i didn't think i knew people other than from work?!? well, apparently i do. and they inhabit the post office and the grocery store.

my brain has finally started to shift to a lower gear. it only took 90 minutes after i got off work for it to stop running full speed. now its time for sleep.

"i suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless." ~ john steinbeck