hope that i get old before i die…

i was working on the computer of one of the women in my office and she was kneeling down getting something out of her bag and i just happened to see the top of her g-string peeking out of her clothes. i know that i should probably not be seeing other’s underwear at the office, but this type of underwear has a tendency to make itself seen when other types do not. maybe that’s why so many women wear them? anyway, i find it very distracting when i’m trying to do my job and all i can see is g-string and hot chick. and now that i know it’s there, it’s hard not to associate it with her when i see her in the office. so, yeah, any women reading keep in mind that sexy clothes and business are a difficult match to pull off.

so i started a new job for a small company that i am still getting the hang of. meaning that reading their website gave me absolutely no clue what they did at all. in fact, i was more confused about their business *after* reading the website than i was before i saw it. but little by little i am getting the hang of what it is that they do. and that is very good, because this is one of those positions that you just want to make sure you don’t screw it up at all. the only drawback is getting paid only once a month, but for at least a little while i’ll be working weekends so that i have some money coming in for the bills due at the beginning of the month. which makes the next few weeks very intense but it’ll all be good in the long run.

well, it turns out the more i get to know this girl from my apartment complex, the more i think we’re not enough alike to do more than just talk for a few minutes every few days. physically, i think she’s very attractive, but i’m afraid we don’t have a whole lot to go on besides that. i don’t mean she’s just a nice body, she’s actually quite intelligent, but every thing i ask her to do she either hates or has a negative opinion of it. she won’t play pool cause she “hates it”, she thinks karaoke is only for people who can sing (no, people who can sing are usually out singing somewhere else), and she said she *never* walks around barefoot. the not having common interests thing i can work around, but i don’t think i could be with a girl who *never* goes barefoot. it just says to me that her personality is not as “free” as i would like to be around. i could be wrong though. but as a symbol of what i’m talking about, she told me today that the floral arrangement i gave to the office has been making her sneeze very violently for the last two days. oh well, these things happen i suppose. we may still find a way to make it work out, but for now i’ll just have to concentrate on other things i think…

so this is what i ended up with for fixing the computers at the flower shop. i got a single rose for the girl that i have been trying to go out with, hopefully she’s not reading this blog between now and tomorrow when she comes in to work. i’m not much on flowers but this arrangement has my apartment smelling pretty damn nice, if i do say so myself especially after i took the trash out today…

i guess it all started this past sunday when i signed the lease for my new apartment. the girl who works in the front office and basically runs the show for the office manager is a real hottie and we started off with a professional demeanor but ended up talking about our pets and other things and somehow got sidetracked from the paperwork that i was still in the process of filling out. and i found out that she broke up with her old boyfriend and inherited his cats, which is how we got started talking in the first place. and it seems the more i talk to her the more i really want to talk to her. and we kind of flirt a little bit, but not like serious flirting, just kind of a casual thing. i told her i found ants in my bathroom and she said “you didn’t find any uncles?” like i said, not the serious kind of flirting…

so i was in the apartment office the other day and the manager said i should get something for the girls in the office for valentine’s day. i started playing along and said “ok, sure whatever you want” and then she got all serious about it and made me feel like i probably *should* get them something for valentine’s day. she (the office manager — who is probably about 45-50) said they would get me something if i got them something, so i thought i would surprise them and see what they come up with while i’m at work. it just so happens that i’ve been working a side project at a flower shop and the owner said he would make something up for me when i asked him about it. i told him there were three girls in the office here and that i wanted something for all three and he pressed me a little bit and said he could make up two things if i thought i wanted more than one. now, i don’t think i should be giving valentine’s day gifts to a girl that i haven’t gone out with at least once before valentine’s day but he seemed to think that i might have a better chance if i gave the one girl her own gift in addition to the office gift. of course, it’s his business to sell lots of flowers and flower arrangements so i don’t think he’s being the most objective person about the whole thing. but it has got me thinking about it and i have *tried* to ask her out, she’s just been busy this weekend. so i’ve been deciding whether to take my chances with the gift or whether to just let it slide and try to get her to go out with me anyway. and since i know most of my readership are women, or at least most of my commenters are women, i figure that i might get some good advice about it assuming i get any comments here

so i found out today that i won’t be paid for another two weeks because they didn’t process my paperwork in time at the new job. i mean, it can’t be *that* hard to cut a check since they know how many hours i will have worked this week since i’m in training. so the only thing i can do is rely on the little i have left on my credit cards and hope that it will get me through these next two weeks since i won’t be able to do much of anything for awhile…

because otherwise i would have to wait a bit before posting here again. but thanks to the miracle (and low cost) of wireless routers that you can buy at just about any place that sells electronics these days, i have internet access for the time being. i haven’t tried to see if they changed the admin password yet, i figure why push my luck if i don’t need to? although it *would* be fun to change it and lock them out of their own internet… naahhh, i’m not that mean.

my old job is in the paper yet again, which means that when i start my new job tomorrow that i will have outlasted their search for a new person to take over my old position. and considering that i told them a couple times that i would come back no problem and they blew me off, i feel completely vindicated in saying “fuck them. they don’t deserve me”. and also considering that i have a couple other good prospects on the horizon that will pay me way better than they did, and i am willing to put this whole episode behind me and never look back now i just have to keep the job(s) i have and all will be well

so last night we got the first substantial rain in the area for months. and right around the building where i was working it hailed. but only right around our building. it was the only hail in the entire area, and when it was over, you’d have thought it had snowed. i got a couple pics of it with my phone, but you can only sort of see what i’m talking about here.

it was such an important event that THREE local news vans showed up to tell the story. but i didn’t get a chance to take a pic of them, it was too busy raining buckets for me to get out and get a good pic. but it’s still kind of sad that there is so little actual news going on that they have to send out a remote reporter to show people hail