Arghlly

I'm so stressed out.

I had to get rid of another temp today. She would not stop with the personal phone calls ALL DAY LONG. I had to hear about her putting her dog to sleep, having her truck reposessed, and garnishing her ex-husband's paycheck for back child support. Those were just the highlights. This morning she started at 8:05 and literally made one call after another until I finally had enough around 10:30. I called HR and said GET RID OF HER TODAY.

Now I'm short one worker and I have to drive to freakin' New Jersey tomorrow. I so don't want to do that. Oh, and tonight my car completely died. I drove it to work today with no problems. Came home - everything was fine. Got in it an hour later to go to the gym, and it wouldn't start. At all. Ugh. So I'm renting a car to drive to New Jersey and even though I'm keeping it until Saturday you can bet your ass I'm expensing that shit.

Oh yeah, I colored my hair on Sunday night and I'm still not sure about the results. It came out a LOT redder than I had planned on. I think once the color "calms down" it will be very nice. Right now though it's kind of AAAAHHHHHHH!

The Tivo broke last week. It kept randomly rebooting itself. Luckily there are no new shows on right now or I'd be completely mental. Timmy took care of the problem. He's so smart.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

The Gym

So they had this fitness challenge at work. If you signed up you got to use a local gym for free for two months. I signed up and Timmy bought a 3 month membership so he could go with me. We went about 3 times a week all through June and July. I lost 9 pounds! And went from a size 12 to an 8!!!!!! I win!!!! When the challenge was over we decided to join a gym for real. We ended up joining a brand-new one that just opened up right by our house. We're still going about 3 times a week. I want to lose 10 more pounds this year.

I ended up putting a lot of metal on Tim's work out music mix (his request). Then I made one for myself that has a lot of techno. Just thought I'd share that.

We Joined a Gym

True story. I'm making Timmy a Work Out music mix right now. What songs should I put on it? Is "Nothing in this World" by Paris Hilton manly enough?

New Kitten in the HOUSE

On Wednesday night, Timmy took the dogs out for their nightly bathroom break. He came back in and said "Come out here. I hear a kitten." So we went out on the front porch and heard "meow meow meow meow meow." Timmy walked down to the road saying "here kitty kitty kitty" and the little thing ran right up to him. We brought it inside and took a look at it. It's a little boy cat, mostly black with white socks and a white belly. I'm guessing he's around 8 weeks old because he's so little. He's obviously used to people because of the way he came right up to Tim. And why was he out by himself at 10:30 at night?

So we decided to keep him in the house overnight til we could figure out what to do with him. We made him a little home in the bathroom. He has his own food dish and litter box and a couple of cat toys. The dogs were very interested in him at first but the kitten is completely unafraid of them.

It's been a few days since we've had the kitten in the house. None of the neighbors has put up a Missing Kitten sign and we haven't seen them out looking for any lost pets. I asked the people next door if they were missing a kitten and they said no. Honestly I'm reluctant to ask anyone else if this is their kitten. Why was it outside at night where it could walk into the street? Maybe they shouldn't have this kitten back? I figured we would find a good home for it. But Timmy's been saying things like "Three cats really isn't much more trouble than two cats." I think he wants to keep it.

We've started calling it Nathan. Nathan Scott Phillips. That's from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode when Meatwad wants a bunny rabbit for his birthday but Master Shake gives him a giant snake instead. Meatwad says "That ain't no damn bunny rabbit" then "I was gonna name him Nathan. Nathan Scott Phillips." I don't know....