Thank God for vacation.

Boss Lady is somewhat distracted by all the other things going on in her life that are not work related-kids, husband that won't 'accept' the divorce papers, the fact that she cannot do more than one thing at a time or she loses all hope of making it through the afternoon-Sheesh.

Task #1: There was BEYOND a mess of statements that needed to be organized, in numerial order, when I came into work this morning. Not hard. I mean, there were only 7000. No, i'm not fucking making that number up. It was maddening. Did I mention Boss Lady called in today, so Yours Truely and her trusty coworker had to organize them all. So, thank God I was relaxed from a week at the Beach, because that would have been enough to send me over the edge.

Questionable Task #2: So, being in charge of all graphics/production layouts, I print on a daily basis. If we're at the office, I will 90% of the time be printing SOMETHING, ANYTHING for someone. With that said. You would think Boss Lady would remember to shoot me an email, leave me a post-it, SOMETHING that says "Oh BTW, the IP Address for the printers have all changed. You'll need to change yours to you can print." NOPE. Pretty much stumbled onto this task by myself. I did send Boss Lady a text message, Me: "So, did the IP Address change?" BL: "Oh yeah. Call Tim. :)" Me: "Uh, no. I got it already." Geez....

Task #3: Because I print ALOT (usually on 11x17 sized paper) most of my coworkers also assume that I know all about paper, or, for that matter, all supplies. My favorite is "Do you know if we have more tissues?" No. Because I'm not in charge of supplies, or your snot, no. Use toilet paper. Paper Towel. Your sleeve. I don't care, that's not my department. Thanks. Nor do I know where your favorite pens/Sharpie/envelopes are. Again, not my job to keep up with all you loonies.

I guess it hasn't been that bad today. I'm probably so mellow from the sun I haven't really had a chance to let it all sink in that i'm annoyed yet. No raised blood pressure. No angry sweats. No hand in the air, head shake going on today.
Don't worry. There's always tomorrow.

Oy.

No. I'm not jewish. (But, sometimes, I would like to be.)

Work has been rough. You know it's time to move on when you can't stand to hear someone's voice. Everything about them envokes an eye-roll. Which only leds to you being pissy the rest of your day. Oy. OY. OOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

With all the oy's taken care of I've applied all over this city, and many others, looking for a replacement. When 800 people applied for 1 job though, it's kind of tough. Maybe I've used up all my job opportunities? Since graduation I've had.... 5 jobs. I've chosen to leave and find a better one most of the time-regardless of time spent there-because they sucked.

2006- IPI. Just kill me for ever even thinking that place was a healthy work environment. When your bosses are the owners too. Things ain't gonna fly too well. OH, and when they're Jehvah Witnesses who like to 'witness' to their employees during business hours, bad combo. Decided to keep on keepin' on when i was having anxiety attacks about them yelling, before it happened. I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. Harsh. True. Assholes.

mid 2006-2007- DL. Not a bad gig, just in Indiana and really REALLY boring. I was over qualified and needed a job so I took it. Which only landed me in debt, seeing as it felt like I was paid in Monopoly money. Credit Cards are NOT your friend when you are making below poverty. Just an FYI.

2007- GCJ. My dream job! (I thought) I was hired into my first Ad Agency and thought I was a rock star. Sadly, when they hire you and don't have any actual WORK for you do complete, things turn sour. And then you draw unemployment. (BUT NEVER wish you were in Indiana.)

mid 2007-2008- Oh Murrel. You've heard about Murrel. If you haven't ask me and I'll entertain you with unbelievable stories of racial jokes, sleeping in your office chair and making employees pay into the pety cash box when you feel like it. I guess when you're 79 years old the world owes you a favor or two. Designing for the first time in a long time, and although I had to put up with all of the above, I liked it. I liked the girls I worked with. I didn't like driving to Louisville everyday. Gas was killing me. Not to mention Murrell didn't seem to wanna die anytime soon. So I moved on...

early 2008-present- OY.

There's your quick employement history recap. So see, maybe i've used up all my job choices? I dunno. It's touch and go. With that said, I've applied for an Assistant Editor position at a magazine (no, not Cosmo, baby steps), a Graphic Design teacher position (ITT Tech, you know you want me. I want the $50k, you want me. Let's make this happen), and various other places just to get the heck outta dodge.

Until then, i'll be here sputtering off Jewish terms and talking to myself.

Woo Hoo!

So this calorie counting has paid off! This morning I lost 2.5 pounds this week! Hooray!!!

Rough day today: chick-fil-a chicken biscuit (450 cals), tomato basil soup (84 cals), french dip (350 cals) and chicken casserole tonight to which I didn't even calculate. Yipe! (and now, popcorn, oh well...) I'm going to the gym in the morning so I'll just attempt to burn it off in the morning. 

Tomorrow is the big UL/UK game. I'm not really into this year. I don't know why. Definitely cheering for Louisville in my heart, but don't really care to deal with it. Does that make sense? 

Watching E!news. Eclipse drama? Gasp?! OK, there wasn't any. Damn. What a bunch of crap. However, I had a strange dream last night about Rob Pattinson. Um, we're just sitting in a hotel watching TV... then suddenly walking down the sidewalk and he see my coworker McKenzie to which Rob says, "You're going into labor aren't you?" (She is pregnant and it's close to her due date.) and she replies, "Yep. I'm walking to the hospital now. See you guys later." I'm thinking this means I'll be doin' Rob soon. Ok, probably that McKenzie is going to pop soon, but whatver. I like to think it means I'll be humping Rob Pattinson. Zip it. 

I'm trying to kill time until The Office comes on Adult Swim at midnight. (it's the original, with Ricku Gervais-I'm excited.) It's the little things, I know...

bulls and bears

This post has nothing to do with the stock market. I just work at a Retirement Company all day and thought, "why the hell not?"

On my one and only financial point of the day:

I did a little math this evening regarding my car and the payments on it. According to Toyota, my loan matures in 8/2012. Which in my eyes isn't too far off. 2 years? A cake walk! (ok, maybe not that easy..) I've been wanting to get out of this payment for a couple months and this seems attainable to me. After a little more math, I figured out after 16 more months of payments, the car will be completely paid off! There's an even brighter light at the end of this tunnel! How freaking fantastic. The car will be pushing 6 years old by then, but it's a Toyota, so I'm thinking I should be good for a while. 

On a McFat note: 

I do so well until I get home at night! Ahh... 

I wasn't bad, but I wasn't great. Homemade nachos! 1/2 pound Laura's Lean ground beef. 1/2 pound reduced fat Jimmy Dean sausage, cumin, salt and red pepper to taste. Green pepper, Mild Banana Pepper and diced fresh tomato. Top with 1/8 Velveeta cheese, cubed and melted on top. Eaten with Blue Corn chips?!

Amazing. I highly recommend it. It wasn't so bad... Until I ate the entire concoction. (and then became too lazy to workout...) LOL. 

Totally hitting the gym in the morning. Believe it. 

Just call me McFat.

So many weight loss things to discuss. 

First and foremost:

An hour on the elliptical may burn my fat ass 919 calories. The chances of my actually lasting that long... Well I was about 40 short today. [wamp wamp wamp] So, ok, I didn't do an hour, but I did 20 on the treadmill at a moderate "brisk" walk (thanks, self.com) and 20 minutes on the elliptical. A grand total of: 413 calories burned. Which isn't too shabby my friends! (not for a fatty with a slightly gimp knee.)

Second:

I'm loving being registered on www.self.com. Loads of information. So I was playing around on the site and I found a calculator that shows you if you want to be a certain weight, exactly how many calories I should be eating... Um..  Bone to pick... Maybe I'm way off base, but I don't feel like a consume 3037.5 calories per day. I mean, I developed my own gravitational pull SOMEHOW, but I seriously don't believe I eat that much EVERYDAY. Sooo.. To lose the 100 pounds I need to I should only consume 2045.45 calories. Ok, I believe that. I probably intake that much now... but I don't weigh 100 pounds less... Something to think about. How many of those 3,000 calories am I actually in-taking and not realizing? I dunno. 

It's time to get my game face on.

Third:

At self.com you can also log all your workouts and food intake. Major plus. I consumed 1,506 calories today. I'm not planning on eating anything else tonight (unless I just can't deal with the hunger, duh. I'm fat.) So... If I'm eating 1,500 calories a day, shouldn't the pounds just fall off? 

You'd think. 

Hey McFatty!

For the first time since I signed up for DirectTV in February, my satellite lost service. (And as I'm typing this, the damn thing came back on... OOO-and just went back out. Crack me up.) Regardless I'm not upset about it, but as I was sitting here with Socks I decided I should use my blog as a calorie counter to keep track of my intake. I mean, I realize I have one follower (SHOUT OUT HOGGY!) but, seriously, why not. Perhaps I'll be more accountable this way. And maybe i'll end up blogging a little more too. I can also talk about these 'diet foods' I'm trying: 100 calorie packs, low cal yogurts and anything I concoct that is tasty and low cal. So here goes nothing':

Breakfast: 

Egg McMuffin - 300 calories/12g fat

Hashbrown - 150 calories/9g fat*

Medium Diet Coke - 0 calories (holla!)

*So i found a funny website: http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ and you can read really funny texts that you sent or a friend sent. It's very entertaining. However, I read this one and laughed my ass off for a good 10 minutes and when ordering my hash brown this morning it crossed my mind: 

(812): McDonalds has hash browns for only a quarter!....how many u want?
(1-812): All of them

Isn't that the damn truth! Ha. 

Lunch:

Maruchan Chicken Ramen (don't hate.) - 290 calories/12g fat

Snack:

Yoplait Lemon Parfait (um, delish!!) - 100 calories

Dinner:

TBD. 

I'll edit this post later when I eat dinner. 

FYI: I'm trying to stay between 1200-1500 calories and keep it low in fat. (I'm more concerned about the caloric in-take though.)

Summer Book Reads!

So I've decided that, since I'm uber important, I should also list for the world my Summer Reading List. I'm actually excited about it!

1. Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah (I wasn't actually wanting to read this (my friend Laura passed it off to me), but I started, and it's a pretty good little novel.) 

2. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max

3. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money Genius and Betrayal - Ben Mezrich

4. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - Michael J. Fox

I'll keep you posted!!