We have reached yet another Friday!
Today on the way to work Collin and I had a discussion about why people were driving slow. Collin said he had three reasons; I said I had three as well. Mine were the following:
#1 Because people are stupid.
#2 Because people are stupid.
#3 Because people are stupid.
Collin must have had a little more faith in humanity this morning because he said yes but for other reasons too. His are next:
#1 Because people are stupid. (I love my husband; we agree on a lot!)
#2 Because it's Friday and no one really wants to go to work. (Okay, good point)
#3 Because some of the stupid people think there may be ice and doing just under the posted speed limit will surely save their lives... (AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!)
I love Fridays here because they are fairly relaxed so to speak. The downside? It can be excruciatingly slow, with sporadic bursts of activity... I mean, it hasn't been going by that slowly really, I am almost halfway through the day (three hours in at least) and once I get past lunch it's just a four hour downhill slide to the weekend.
I am hoping that the important dude visiting Intel today doesn't eff up the traffic too much when I get off at 3:30... Tonight Collin and I are doing one last "Big Grocery" shop before we move. Then at the end of March when we are almost out of everything, I am going to take stock of whatever is left and shop for (as close to) three weeks of food; two weeks for while we still live in Salem and the third week is for the first week we live up here. I know we won't want to go grocery shopping the weekend we move except for bare essentials (bread, milk, eggs, etc.).
After much thought put into this we have agreed on a plan of attack for moving our insanely neurotic cat; affectionately known as Spaz. We have a sedative that her vet prescribed for the move since she suffers from anxiety and motion sickness (so an hour long car ride would be hell). We originally planned on moving everything in the morning and then coming back for her when we come get our 2nd car and the TV that afternoon. The problem with this plan is that we would have to sit and wait for about an hour to see how well the sedative works and whether she will need the 2nd half of the pill before we go. Plus, we plan to have pizza and beer with our "movers" (a few of our friends), so yea...
The new and approved plan is that we will drug her up that morning while we finish loading the u-haul (which I plan for us to just need to load the bed and her kitty tree the morning of the move), and then move her with everything (she will ride in the car with Collin... What kind of mommy would I be if I put her in the u-haul? Sheesh...). This way she can be confined to the second bedroom while we unload everything and get stuff situated, AND we won't have to go back for the second car until Sunday when we hope to schedule the walk thru with our maintenance dude. The sedative is supposed to keep her fairly zonked for six to eight hours. We plan to set her up in the second bedroom with food, water, her box, kitty tree and this handy dandy plug in called Feliaway. The Feliaway is like a Glade plug in that emits cat pheromones and is supposed to help keep her calm and mellow.
We shall see, we plan to get some soon so we can keep her kind of mellow as we slowly pack up the house...
It's weird. It seems to me that there is AND isn't that much stuff to pack for the move... We have a bunch of boxes and I can EASILY get a bunch more as we need them but I don't know if we will really need more boxes... I'm sure we will, and we will have to cross that bridge when we get there. Honestly, most everything we don't use REGULARLY will probably be packed up by the first weekend of March which will give us more than enough time if we end up needing more boxes...
Oh, sad moment this morning. Collin got me this really pretty stainless steel water bottle for part of my Valentine's Day gift, and I freaking dropped it this morning in the parking lot as I got it out of the back seat. It hit the pavement just wrong that it dented the bottom edge making it uneven and all wobbly. It also chipped the "paint." I am going to try and get the dent out this weekend and put some sort of clear coat over the chipping paint so that it doesn't mess up all of it.
***This is being added a few hours later*** Oh, back to the thing about Fridays here. While me and a few other crucial people MUST be here the whole regular eight hour shift (7am-3:30pm), the production crew is on a flex schedule of sorts. So, typically, by about 2 to 2:30 on Fridays the "factory" is deserted! It can be difficult seeing everyone gone but us, but oh well. It's almost 2pm so I have less than two hours until I am off for THE WEEKEND!! There is typically forty five to fifty people clocked in on a normal day; in the last hour or two of a Friday there is twenty or less... Yea. But it makes it easy to get out of the parking lot at the end of my day.
Thankfully, the last two hours zipped by because about half a dozen people across the country decided, "Hey, before I go home for the weekend I need to return/order/exchange this equipment..." I thank those random procrastinators for giving me some busy work. Now to just kill an hour and forty some odd minutes... I know filing.
I think this is where I will leave off for the post.
TGIFF! (You figure it out... I put the extra F in on purpose)
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