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11 January 2010

Monday Good/Bad update →[More:]
Good : My expensive framed backpack which I thought I might have driven off and left in a car park was under my desk all the time.

Bad : Our bins haven't been emptied since before Christmas because of the snow. I am running out of space in my wheelie bin.

Good/Bad : One of my trainees handed in her resignation today. This is good because she is a complete airhead and was failing on all counts. But it's bad because it means I'll get another newbie to train from scratch.

Good : I just had roast chicken, broccoli, carrots and mashed potato for dinner. It was absolutely delicious. I made gravy with the stock from the chicken and have saved the schmaltz to cook chicken fried rice tomorrow.

Bad : I have a crush on Bobby Flay.

post by: essexjan at: 13:58 | 34 comments

Good: I went to the doctor today and apparently I have a perfectly normal uterus and ovaries.

Bad: I had to be weighed at the doctor's office and it was quite a nasty wake-up call.

posted by amro 11 January | 14:06

GOOD: Just finished my last conference call for the day, so now I can actually work rest of the day.

BAD: I have to work rest of the day.

GOOD: Just loaded both albums by the Jags into Windows Media Player to listen to while working.

BAD: Damn - there really is a LOT of work to day this afternoon.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 11 January | 14:10

Bad: My doctor canceled on me for a minor procedure last Friday.

Good: She called me today, answered all my questions, and we've got it rescheduled for Thursday.

Good: My house stays warm and my pipes haven't frozen.

Bad: My furnace is still messed up, and the home warranty company had me on hold for 40 minutes.

Good: The warranty company is covering the problem and I don't have to pay another service fee. I have an appointment scheduled for this Friday for the HVAC people to come out (again).

Bad: After replacing the radiator, thermostat and a couple of other related things in my car, I still have the same problem with it. The heat goes cold when I'm at stoplights.

Good: My mechanic is on top of things. I'll drop the car off tomorrow morning and they'll will once again give me a loaner car.

Bad: I have a lot to do at work and my energy is flagging.

Good: I got a lot done on it this morning, at least.

Good: I cleaned a bunch this weekend at home.

posted by Stewriffic 11 January | 14:10

Bad: I have to go crawling back to my old job today while I wait for next Fall when I can retake a class I failed.

Good: I have a job I can go back to!

posted by serazin 11 January | 14:24

Good: I have lost 7 lb since I started trying to lose weight.

Bad: that was down from an embarrassing all-time high (preg. excluded).

Good: work going well.

Bad: Boss diagnosed with terminal cancer last week. 1-2 months. Last saw her in November (I work from home, for National Library of Medicine -- boss based in DC) and she was seemingly full of health.

Good: Had a lovely Saturday catching up with friends.

Bad: (deep breath) Friday - Broken toe worries (not broken as it happens, but still fucking painful). Saturday - put on a cardigan and walked outside. Felt intense bites down arm. Arm itching within two minutes. Take off cardigan, have huge histamine wheals forming. 15 bites! My arm (for I am allergic to anything that bites or stings, pretty much) is a giant red mess right now. Sunday - completely fine, watching football. Stood up. Knee could not hold weight. Can't straighten leg, knee swollen to half-again size. Can not walk. Still like that today. WTF, body?

posted by gaspode 11 January | 14:27

Good: I sorted 5 boxes today. There are 26 left (and the woman running this project is coming down on Wednesday.

Bad: My mother is being an asshole.

Good: It's lunchtime.

Bad: My lunch has no cake in it. (whole wheat noodles with sauce, Italian dressing marinated chicken, cinnamon carrots, and an orange)

posted by sperose 11 January | 14:38

Good: The furnace guy showed up this morning! I wasn't there but my friend/handyman/contractor was, so okay. I should have heat in a couple of days! Whoo!
Bad: Now I will have to give furnace guy huge sums of moneys. Huge, huge.

Good: My son and I found a car we can agree on!
Bad: Now I will have to give car seller & tax & tag office & mechanic huge sums of moneys. Huge, huge.

Good: My downstairs guest room is being rehabbed into an awesome little stand alone studio apartment so my daughter can move into it now and in future it will be much needed income.
Bad: I have been giving & must continue to give my friend/handyman/contractor huge sums of moneys. Huge, huge.

Bad: Work is giving me headaches. Stupid grar grar database, stupid blah blah blah, I need another job. I need to win the lottery. I need something, anything, to get the hell out of here.
Good: At least I have a job. Sigh.

posted by mygothlaundry 11 January | 14:51

Good: I did laundry and grocery-shopping yesterday, so I have food AND clean clothes.

Bad: I missed therapy (AGAIN!) today.

Good: My mom is coming over tomorrow and making me a mess of Korean food.

Bad: I also missed my psychiatrist appointment on Friday.

Good: I washed some dishes today, which is something I almost never do any more.

Bad: I got a parking ticket this morning because I overslept and didn't move my car for opposite-side-of-the-street.

Good: MetaChat is nice. I like MetaChat.

Bad: I'm so anxious that the worms in my brain have migrated to the rest of my body. (These would be metaphorical brainworms.)

Bad: It's hard for me to think of much that's good, because there is so much bad.

posted by brina 11 January | 15:32

Good: No immediate-area coworkers today!

Bad: Didn't get as much done as I had wanted.

posted by initapplette 11 January | 15:41

bad: I bought Westmalle Tripel when I thought I was buying Westmalle Dubbel.

good: it's still Westmalle but just stronger.

bad: I weighed myself at the gym and I'm 194 pounds.

good: I'm weightlifting and such to get heavier. My BMI is 22.5 and I'm getting quite toned. Yay, I'm 194 pounds.

posted by jouke 11 January | 15:46

This is a good exercise: forcing me to remember what's good, in addition to what's bad.

Good: got nice compliments about my work from boss.

Bad: Back on diet after the holidays. Walking by co-workers eating pizza at a seminar is physically painful.

Good: Having lunch with dear old friend next week; turns out her husband's friend is a co-worker of mine.

Bad: dear friends leaving church after 30+ years because they don't like the new rector's way of doing things (don't care for it myself). My tribe is disbanding.

Good: Have kicked caffeine cold turkey, and the symptoms have gone away.

Bad: Owe some money to the IRS, not too much but gotta scrape the bottom of the barrel to pay it off.

posted by Melismata 11 January | 15:57

Good- was called into a meeting with important new business people who will own us

Bad- Still no word on the job that I am hoping will hire me away from this place, they are still stuck in legal stuff before they can even post the job

Good- I might meet the dream job people informally for drinks later this week since they are in town

Bad- My neck still hurts all the time and I was too busy today to go check out a massage place that my friend says is good near work

Good- I have almost all my supplies for my fondue dinner party tomorrow, one person RSVPed late so she will have to eat with a regular fork since I only have a few of the real fondue forks

Good- My sister is home from a long vacation in Argentina and I can't wait to see her tonight and hear about it

Good- I had a great day Sunday with my high school friend who was in town for the day

posted by rmless2 11 January | 16:01

Bad: annual company offsite meeting coming up tomorrow, featuring many powerpoints, a surfeit of muffins, and the dreaded teambuilding exercise.

Good: upon looking for something to wear this morning, found a beautiful charcoal cableknit sweater I'd forgotten I owned.

posted by tangerine 11 January | 16:30

How can a surfeit of muffins ever be bad?

posted by essexjan 11 January | 16:51

Good: having an obscenely good time being a forum moderator. Company sent an even more obscenely good "care package" as thanks for the work we mods have done.

Bad: still want to kill n00bs.

posted by deborah 11 January | 17:46

Bad: Vendor messed up project but good

Good: they're fixing it.

Bad: they're 8 hours ahead of us, so every communication except early in the morning is delayed 24 hours

Good: the local users are cool with the sitch.

Bad: still down a bunch of staff and have lost two students

Good: made it through Monday.

posted by lysdexic 11 January | 17:57

Good: Teaching some friends to play mah jongg tonight!

Bad: I have a headache that I can't seem to shake.

Good: I'm cautiously optimistic that my kid might be responding well to some new medication he's on.

Bad: It's snowy and very cold here, as might be expected in Chicago in January. Springtime seems very far off.

Good: I have some really wonderful friends, one of whom has a new baby and I got to hold him for an hour this afternoon and he fell asleep in my arms. MMMMMM very good!

posted by Kangaroo 11 January | 19:03

Good: risotto risottoed. Well fed and happy.

Bad: glass of wine used to deglaze pan, plus glass of wine used to wash down risotto, acting as stimulant (!) and keeping me up when I need to hit the hay.

posted by mdonley 11 January | 19:41

Bad: After replacing the radiator, thermostat and a couple of other related things in my car, I still have the same problem with it. The heat goes cold when I'm at stoplights.

Stewriffic- Is it, by chance, a Ford? If so I bet it's the water pump.

posted by Doohickie 11 January | 20:15

Bad: I ride my bike to work, and my office has been moved to 17 miles from home (from only 7).

Good: Lots of miles on the bike = weight loss.

posted by Doohickie 11 January | 20:17

Good: the doctor today told me that there's nothing wrong with me that diet and exercise can't fix.

Bad: Diet and exercise.

Good: After much delay and procrastination and hand-wringing I finally got mom's tax situation squared away.

Bad: HOLY SHIT is it expensive.

Good: My cat is awesome.

Bad: There are people out there right now walking around ignorant about how awesome my cat is.

posted by BitterOldPunk 11 January | 20:46

Good: Poster art and press release finished and printed for the LT/Miko co-produced spoken-word series, A Winter's Tale.

Bad: It was expensive to make happen.

Gooder: I got cast for Playback Theater.

Baddish: After auditioning three times previously in other companies.

Goodiest: Everything I said I'd do in 2010 is being done, and some big dreams are coming to fruition. This is going to be an amazing, wondrous year.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 11 January | 20:51

Bad: I have to bring my car into the shop to get the last of the damage fixed from when some idiots smashed my rear windshield.

Good: Because I have to bring my car into the shop, I did a bunch of errands this weekend and therefore do not have to fill every available moment of time this week running errands.

Even better: Because I did not have to run any errands after work, I walked to work, and home, and the sunset this evening was spectacularly beautiful. And the walk gave me time to process work things so that I think I properly transitioned out of Work Mode before walking in my door.

Even even better: I spent an hour this morning preparing a pot roast for the new (Christmas gift from ikkyu2!) slow cooker, and I walked into a house this evening that smelled wonderfully of dinner. I just need to throw some polenta together and it's like a dinner I didn't even have to cook!

posted by occhiblu 11 January | 20:53

oh, p.s:
Any chance I can get an mp3 of Essexjan saying the phrase, "I am running out of space in my wheelie bin."

I need it for a music project I'm starting next month.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 11 January | 20:53

Bad: I live in a studio apartment with my bf, and the bf has invited a visiting friend of his to stay at our place. It is a work night for me, and I had a very stressful day today.

Bad: Visiting friend could only afford a one-way ticket out here, so who knows how long he'll stay?

Bad: Checked the groceries bank account today and it was -$.16.

Good: Have checked off all the things in my "This is why my life is crappy" list except for one. It's a big one that's left, but at least there's only one.

posted by Twiggy 11 January | 20:54

Stewriffic- Is it, by chance, a Ford? If so I bet it's the water pump.

2003 Honda Civic.

Bad: 13 hour work day.

posted by Stewriffic 11 January | 21:10

Bad: Business made a small loss this year

Bad: I cannot support myself and must continue to sponge off hardworking husband who is stressed out of his brain by his job.

Bad: I have to go and find a part-time job and I'm already having panic-attacks and self-esteem issues at the thought

Bad: Health issues continue to dog me.

Bad: So damn depressed.

Good: I have a cat.

posted by ninazer0 11 January | 21:52

ninazer0, are we twins?

posted by brina 11 January | 22:34

Bad: Slow volunteer shift last night.

Good: Spent it with someone I adore, so it was actually ok, even if we didn't do anything.

Bad: I had to be at work today

Good: Spending the next two days away from the paying job to participate in interviews with new police recruits

posted by Gorgik 12 January | 01:18

Bad: I'm starting to stress out about the amount of classwork I have to do, which is ridiculous, because it's only the second week of school.

Good: I recognize the negative thought patterns and hopefully am better-equipped to deal with them than I have been in the past.

Bad: I have to find a part-time job.

Good: I actually found a couple that don't look so bad.

Bad: What if I don't get one of them?

Good: Recognizing negative thought patterns!

Bad: My feet hurt from wearing the wrong shoes to stand in for three hours.

Good: Those three hours were pretty fun.

posted by unsurprising 12 January | 02:38

Bad: Car almost overheated on the way to the mechanic's.

Good: It didn't.

Bad: The car is in the shop, and it's likely the thermostat, which I JUST had replaced.

Good: My mechanic rocks, has loaned me a car, and if it is the thermostat, will be replacing it for free.

Good: A local natural foods store is donating tons of merchandise for our organization. We'll have free healthy refreshments, etc. for our programs.

posted by Stewriffic 12 January | 09:08

Bad: My engine light is still on, and my mechanic hasn't gotten back to me.

Good: The main piece of machinery I work on was fixed! Less stress on my back and arms.

Bad: I haven't hit the lottery yet.

Good: I have Saturday off this week!

posted by redvixen 12 January | 14:59

Bad: My head gasket is blown. $1600.

posted by Stewriffic 12 January | 15:43

Bad: My roommate told me that Dr Strangelove is due for a remake because ¨they could add so many awesome special effects now¨ and that Mike Myers could take the place of Peter Sellers because they both play a lot of roles in the same movie. (This is, surprisingly, not the dumbest thing I´ve heard him say)

Good: In about 2 weeks, I won´t be living with him anymore.

Good: Got sent to Food Bank for ¨volunteer¨ work by my boss (beats the usual cleaning assignment).

Bad: Had to listen to whiny, entitled officer program acceptee cry and complain all day because we were sorting spoiled potatoes from good ones (I guess he was expecting to handle cans).

posted by concrete 12 January | 18:38

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