now a grey’s anatomy girl

I always liked Patrick Dempsey when he was young and nerdy, and he has definitely improved with age. Started watching Grey’s anatomy last week, and it is fun. More soap opera than medical drama, but better than what ER has been for years.

Other shows and current TV crushes:
Ali Larter in Heroes

Nathan Fillion in Firefly

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"we’re not special. We’re Japanese!"

Ha! We watched the premiere of this cool new show last night, called Heroes. It is an x-men rip off, but it is interesting. That quote was one of the lines from the show, and I just loved it 🙂

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the most reliable alarm clock

I don’t know how she does it, but Myra manages to wake up at the same EXACT time every day…6:53. Granted, this is better than 6 a.m. But still, every day, same time. Wag wag, lick lick. At least she is a friendly, cuddly alarm clock.

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Stolen from mik

IF YOU’RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST,
I want to know 28 things about you. I don’t care if we’ve never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don’t. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am friends!

Part I
1.Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

Part II
1. Do we know each other outside of Blog?
2. Whats your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I’m sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I’m a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I’m attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if i asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you

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I just applied at adidas!!

I have a great feeling about this. The timing is right. It is exactly the job environment I have been putting out into the universe that I want. I really like my cover letter, and it was really easy to show how my skills can relate to an hr position.

Fingers crossed, this would be GREAT. It was listed as the number one best place to work in Portland, according to Portland monthly magazine.

New mantra:

I am ready to find my perfect new job, where the employees like their jobs, enjoy coming to work, where the company supports and encourages their growth, where there is good pay and good benefits, where the work is fun and interesting and challenging, where there is a good culture. I am ready to find my perfect new job.

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cleanliness is next to godliness

Or so proclaims the natural multi-purpose cleaner I bought today from Trader Joe’s. I have to say, I really like this cleaning product. I’m not one to normally rave about cleaning stuff, but this stuff made everything look good, all without the nasty chemical smell.

Sometimes I wish I was one of those people who always has a clean house, who cleans up every day, because I really love when the house is spotless. But having Myra means there is always hair on everything, and I just never take the time to vaccuum every day. And after dinner, I just never feel like cleaning up the kitchen, so I wake up in the morning, and the kitchen still looks like a mess, and blah blah blah. But for today, the house looks spotless. Washed everything down, used the floor vaccuum, dry swiffered, wet swiffered, put away all the laundry, scoured the bathroom. And it usually lasts for a day or two, where I clean up all the time, and then…it just goes away.

Oh well.

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lame pirate festival but it got my mind off work

So, I had planned to go to the Pirate festival with Lisa and Tim this weekend, but Lisa had a friend in town and didn’t know when she could get to the pirate festival. So Tim and I went and planned to meet them there.

It was disappointing, and definitely not worth the $15 admission. There were only three food vendors, an ice cream place, a hot dog place or salvador molly’s, the local restaurant that offers “pirate cuisine.” I was very glad I had lunch before we went over ther.

It was hot, and since it was on the river, it was fairly muggy and very buggy. We’ve had a couple days of rain in the past week, and the ground was soggy. The music was ok at first, but very much geared to kids. There were only a few vendors, and they all had really cheesy stuff. We actually called Lisa and said she shouldn’t bother going, because there wasn’t much to do.

I think part of the problem is that these dress-up festivals are really only fun for people who like to dress up in these kind of costumes (I’m sure there was some crossover from the fairy festival) and believe in these pretend lives. And that’s not me, and I just have to remember that for future festivals. In general, they aren’t as much as we think they will be.

But it got my mind off work, and my general frustration there. After we left, we stopped at a running store, and Tim talked to them about the pain he has in his achilles tendons when he runs. They were great there, they knew exactly what he needed, they had him try a pair on and watched him run, and then knew what he needed to try on for a different pair. They said he might still need custom orthotics but think these will correct his pronation and make it so his feet and tendons don’t hurt. Then we wandered around Rejuvenation Hardware, a great store with tons of cool light fixtures, and bathroom fixtures and such, and it was just fun to think about things we would want in our house.

Then home to watch gilmore girls. So, a decent Saturday. 🙂 Yarr.

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work made me cry again

I’ve worked at jobs that were stressful, where my bosses lied to me or about me. But this job. I’ve come home on numerous times in tears, or so angry that I had to just go for a run, run the anger and hurt out, run it out in sweat and pushing my body hard.

But yesterday. I felt attacked in front of the head of the hospital, in front of service line business directors, my team. For stuff beyond my control. For taking on work that wasn’t mine to help the department out, to help my boss out, but in turn that work kept me from doing what I was hired to do. One of the service line directors sat there in this meeting and said he was unhappy with his Web site and how he doesn’t feel it’s ready for the public. When the marketing person in our group who manages his stuff asked him what his problem with the site was, he said there weren’t as many conditions and treatments up on the site as he wanted. He said he gave that content to ME and Kathleen and it seems like we don’t have enough resources to do all the work.

That’s true. We don’t have the resources we need to do all the work. And we don’t have the technical skills to fix our Web site, because we’ve lost our Web manager, and I’ve been filling that role as best as I can, and trying to manage our Web consultant to get Web content up. But you fucking :asshat:, how do you think it makes me look when you say in a meeting with the head of the hospital that you gave me content and it’s never gone up on the Web site? When the head of the hospital doesn’t know me, doens’t know how many directions I’ve been pulled in? It just makes me look like I’m not doing my job. :rant:

And why did you deliberately not mention that it’s only four items you are waiting for, and that your site went live when you fucking told us you wanted it live, and you already have more content than our other service line’s web site that we built out. :complain:

I kept it together till I was back in my office, then lost it with my coworkers. Kathleen was trying to say that Mark was attacking her, was trying to attack Trish (boss who is leaving), that he was just trying to show that we do need more resources, because he wants to make a power play now that our boss is leaving. But I told Kathleen it didn’t feel like that when Mark is saying he gave the content to me and it’s not up. Kathleen called Mark to tell him how upset I was, and he tried to get on the phone with me to explain. I walked out of the room, I couldnt’ talk to him.

Mark comes running over, and when he saw me in tears, you could tell he felt like a total fucking worm. He tried to say that he knows I’m doing the best I can, that he knows I’m pulled in five million directions. Oh really Mark? I tell him all the stuff I’m working on, and how bad it makes me feel to hear someone say I’m not delivering what I’m supposed to, because I know I have stuff on my to do list that I’m just not getting to.

I’m done. It is NOT acceptable for my job to make me cry. It is NOT acceptable to go into a meeting told ahead of time that things could get nasty. It is NOT acceptable and I’m done with it.

I’ve been looking for jobs, somewhat casually, I’ve applied to a few jobs here and there, but because I didn’t want to job hop, I haven’t been looking as hard as I could. But this is affecting me and Tim, because he has to see me come home in tears, or pick me up late, or have me come home so angry I can’t do anythign but run. And none of that is ok. So now…job searching is my new part time job. I’m going to look into freelancing, I’m going to contact the agencies we work with, and I’m going to just apply for everything, because I need to get out.

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hooray, I will be helping a woman with a children’s book!

I’m going to be getting a visit from Rufus and Lucy

http://www.rufusandlucy.com/blog.html

http://www.rufusandlucy.com/us_tour.html

It sounds like such a fun project! I’ll take pictures of them around Portland, and maybe we could take them on a trip to the coast or to the waterfalls or Mt. Hood, one of the last fall trips we do.

And it is also cool that I get to help another children’s book writer 🙂

When Rufus and Lucy arrive, I will post their adventures here.

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hm. interesting

tim and i started talking about career stuff last night. The conversation started because Tim said what do you really want to do? And the answer is write children’s books. But since I’ve been writing every work day for more than seven years, it doesn’t leave me a lot of desire to do more writing when I get home, other than journalling, which is very different from writing something I would want to get published. So, Tim and I sat down to figure out other jobs I have skills for, that would not be as a writer.

One of the things that kept surfacing is how good I am at interviewing people, and how I ask people questions others don’t. In fact, this was a skill highlighted on my performance review, because I pretty much led the interviews for the graphic designer, and I always got more information from the candidates than the others in the group did.

So, now I’m thinking of looking into recruiting or possibly working at a college helping kids figure out what they want to do after school, something else I’m good at. I have to admit, I’m really intrigued by the idea of a non-writing job, because I never really thought about anyting in a different field. And I really think that if I’m not writing all day, every day during work, it will be a lot easier to come home and write what I really want to be writing.

And also, the competition for writing jobs here is intense, I’ve applied for stuff that I pretty much AM the job description and never got even a call for an interview. I think if I go in a different direction, I might have more luck.

hmmm.

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