ebay

ok I bought something from ebay for the FIRST TIME last week. I make a good deal of money now and I never spend it on anything except rent, so I thought I would treat myself to something. So I got a sweater from ebay. I got it from someone called "leewinter" and I had been in email contact with this person and I just have to share the email correspondence because it is just bizarre to me. So she emailed me innocently enought o say that my sweater had shipped and I emailed back "I will let you know when it gets here, thanks so much!" (I use a lot of exclamation points in my emails). And this is the email I got back:

"Thanks Katie. Give it a bit of time, well you are you paid with e-check that's time right there.
You sound like me??REALLY nice? I have a few more items to list? I do NOT do this. I'm a buyer!!
I'm trying to raise funds for my dog . He has cancer, 2 year old beagle. I'm not doing to bad.Vet
bills are 3,000-up!! He seems to be doing well. BUT your a nice buyer like me? I already had 1 girl email me yesterday, wheres by package,bla,bla,??? OMG!!!.It was sent over the weekend,I'm not responsible for the postal delays??I worked there I know!! PLEASE keep that in mind its holiday Monday. All Gov offices are closed? Think I will stick to buying. You got a deal on that sweater paid 60 for it. No returns. I had no choice. Thanks for being YOU, Your Friend, Lee"

Ok I literally copied and pasted that email from my account. So then I waited a few days and got the sweater no problem, it's very cute and it still had the price tag on it ($57) and I only paid $25. pretty good deal! So I emailed her back and said thanks, it got here fine. She had also included a thank-you card in the package, which I also thanked her for. And I got this email back:

" Your so VERY WELCOME!! You are the only buyer that emailed me back?? That's important to me? Your one hellof a girl!! Thanks so much, Hope you like it,I LOVE IT!! You got one hell of a deal!! Love Always, Lee".

Ok I don't know what it is, but there is a trend with using question marks in place of what should be exclamation points, and use of bad grammar. It just bugged me to even read it. But she seems very nice, although a little weird.

My job

So my boss is being a jerk. I have worked here for almost four months with no days off, I come in no later than 9 every day and leave no earlier than 4. He shows up whenever he wants, and that's usually around 11 or noon, and leaves about the same time I do. He also leaves on vacation for weeks at a time and he has done this several times since I've worked here and I don't know about his vacations until a few days before he leaves. But that isn't what bothers me.
This is what bothers me:
Like I said, I haven't taken ONE day off since I've worked here, I work full 7-8 hour days and I don't ever call in sick, I take over his projects when he's gone and I have to deal with stuff I haven't been trained in, like politics.
So I wanted to take a long weekend this weekend to go to Seattle and just get out of town. Leave on friday and come back monday, no big deal, I made sure I would get everything done before I left and I would be back tuesday to pick right back up again, and I told my boss this about a month ago before I booked my ticket.
So yesterday he comes into my office and says "what is it you have going on this weekend? did you have something going on?" and I replied calmly "yeah, I am going to Seattle, I told you a month ago I would be gone Friday and Monday"
"friday AND monday?! are you sure you have enough vacation time saved up for that?" he asked me with a raised brow and a heavy condescending tone.
"Well, yeah, I think i can start taking vacation after three months and I've been here for four without taking any days off"
long pause, looking at me with his judging eyes "hmmmm".
I rolled my eyes when he couldn't see me and figured that he was just being stupid and it would be fine. so our boss in phoenix calls me and I come to find out that my boss here had called him and told him that I shouldn't be given the time because we had a lot of stuff going on and I should be here to take care of it.
WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!!!!
So looks like I need to call our Phoenix boss today and explain to him that I do deserve the time off because I work really hard and deserve two days off out of the almost 120 I've worked here. Oh yeah, that includes weekends because I definitely have to work weekends a lot of the time.
this is such CRAP.

words I don't like.

So a lot of you know that I don't like the traditional gross words like "moist" or "lube" and a recent dislike is "quasi". But I must share my newest word-dislike: "pwned". What the hell is "pwned"?! I looked it up on wikipedia and they said that it most likely came from a misspelling of "owned" on the computer and people stuck with it. WHY?! Why in the world would you "stick with" an awful, awkward word like "pwned". How are you even supposed to pronounce it?! I will NEVER EVER use the word "pwned" to decribe someone being dominated. You know why? because it's STUPID and I can actually pronounce the word "owned". It is now on facebook, so people can "pwn" each other. Please no one pwn me, because I will delete it immediately then never speak to you again because I am not friends with people who use that word.
Ugh.

Closure

ok, I need to share this. So I went on a date with a guy in high school who I thought was SUPERcool, and all he did was insult me the whole time. He will remain nameless. So he just joined Facebook and I looked him up and his email address is wutangkid4life@... Holy shit, I almost lost it. Who's supercool now, huh, jerk?! NOT YOU!
wow, it feels good to have closure.

Nervous

Okay so tomorrow is the biggest deal of my life so far and I am super nervous. If not all of you know, I just started as the Regional Conservation Organizer for the Sierra Club in Boulder. When I got hired, I had just started hearing about this Live Earth event that Al Gore started (www.liveearth.org) and I thought it would be a cool idea to have our own local music event on the same day as sort of a "mini" Live Earth. So I started going through the motions and I am finally finishing it all today. Thank goodness since it starts at noon tomorrow!
I didn't know that all these things were necessary to rent a venue for the day in Boulder. I was WRONG. I finalized the porto-potties yesterday and today I have to make dinner for all the band members of all five bands that are going to be performing. If you want more info about this, go to www.myspace.com/bouldereconcert. It's gonna be a good one, and I am speaking three times at it. scary. I may actually pee my pants instead of a false alarm (see yesterday's post)

Ok, enough about that, I need to tell you about the guy I saw on the bus today. I fell in love immediately. He was about 6'2", brown hair, HUGE glasses with thick black rims, and he was wearing an entirely red outfit. and I mean RED red. I felt so STUPID that I didn't have my camera on me. He was wearing a red and orange hawaiian shirt, and there were no white spots or anything, it was all red and orange. then he had on these red pants that were too short, but I am glad they were too short because they showed off his red socks, and he finished the ensemble with a pair of shiny red shoes. I wouldn't be surprised if he was wearing some tight red briefs or some snazzy red silk boxers. I'm getting hot just thinking about it. He also had somewhat of a comb-over and a little bit of a creepy old guy feel about him. But I loved him just the same.

Why me?

So this is my first blog, but I am not going to introduce myself because I am assuming all of you know who I am if you are visiting, and even if you don't know me, you should just look at my profile or "about me" section or whatever.
Anyways, I want to share a little unfortunate news. I smell like pee today. I have no idea why or how, because I have not peed on myself *yet* today and I have no pets. I was at home, then I was at work then I went out on the town and I kept smelling pee. It took me little time to realize that I am the common variable here and it must be me. My friend Chris told me that it might be my nose mistaking another scent for that of pee. Which was nice, but come on. What else smells like pee besides pee? me, that's what. And I don't know why. Maybe one of my roommates has a vendetta.
I'll keep you posted.