Random Thoughts

I haven't blogged in a while and instead of blogging about how much fun the weekend was (ie housewarming party and JJO girls nite out) I decided I would just blog about what's been going on this week and some thoughts I have on it!

First up, I bought a ceiling fan on Monday that is STILL sitting in its million pieces in my living room. Now good ole Kevin is coming over tonight and hopefully by the end of the night, I will have a nice new working ceiling fan in my bedroom. Very exciting and now I can cross "purchase ceiling fan" off my list

Next, last night I got the itch to do some document shredding! Now I LOVE shredding paper in my shredder at home! Weird? Maybe, but it's a lot of fun. I tend to do this periodically and shred all my purchases or receipts, my bank statements which I hate receiving paper copies of, and most of my online payment receipts. I kept the ones for 2008 but got rid of everything else. Love it!

Yesterday I also stayed late at work to attend my employee appreciation reception, which by the way made me stay 2.5 hours longer at work than I normally am here since I come in at 6am! Ya wasn't worth it! Now my work has NEVER done this before so I was curious to know what it would be like. I knew there was going to be a gift since I was asked to provide a list of names from everyone that works in the lab. So of course I had to stay and figure out what it was. I thought I could just grab the gift and go....NO OF COURSE NOT.

We had to mingle and talk (like I don't see these people enough during the week) and snack on refreshments which included fruit and chocolate cake! I had neither! THEN, they wanted to do a group picture. AH, are you serious?! So we had to all squish together, all 100 of us and the guy took a bunch of pictures from the second floor of the atrium. Totally lame. Then FINALLY I got my gift and I basically ran out of there at about 5pm! The gift was a company logo engraved metal water thingy, pictured below. Not bad, worth an 11 hour day and a lamo photo? Probably not....can't wait until next year :)

And also, I wanted to include this picture of this flower that Arick and Brooke gave me for my housewarming. Now anyone that knows me well would know NOT to get me any kind of flower or plant because it will never survive. Its a death wish for the living thing! Heather came over on Monday and saw the flower and just started laughing because two days into having it, it looked terrible. BUT, I decided I was going to try and revive it. So I watered it (for the first time since I had gotten it) and put it on my table where I knew it would get sun. I am HAPPY to report the flower has come alive again and it looking wonderful! Any bets on how long before I actually kill it??