Damn you cold germs

Don't you hate it when people come into work and cough and splutter all over you? Who wants to bet that the tight asses are saving up their sick leave so they can use it when they're 'sick' rather than when they're really sick? Anyway, last week, there were quite a few people at my work sick and spreading their germs around. Sharing is caring, isn't that what they say? Some of these germs must have hitched a ride home with me because I spent the weekend feeling a little under the weather. I did try oh so valiantly to fight it off but alas, this morning, I woke up with a sore throat and runny nose. So I figured I'd go into work and share the love... I am such a hypocrite hey? I did have some work that needed to be finished today though so I have an excuse. Although, now that I'm feeling worse than I was this morning, I might have to take tomorrow off...

Driving fail

So, today I managed to scrape under the front bumper of our car coming out of a driveway and also get beeped for turning in front of oncoming traffic at the traffic lights. All within the space of 5 minutes. Lucky I was only a couple more minutes away from home otherwise, who knows how much more trouble I could have gotten myself into. The scrape was me coming out of a driveway I've been in and out of many times before, all with no problems. So I have no idea how I managed to do it at such an angle and I could bump the front of the car on the road. I blame the car for being so damn low to the ground in the first place. Bah.

Not giving way at the lights though, that was just me not paying attention and also forgetting the rules of the road because I don't drive enough. How on earth did I get my license again?? This is why we should be retested every time we have to renew our licenses. At least that way, I'd have a reason to get out and practice driving more often so I don't forget important things like who gives way when, how to reverse park, why stalling at the traffic lights is bad when you're at the front of the extremely long queue and how not to react when everyone is beeping at you and cursing in your general direction...

Sigh. Must find a way to make a crap ton of money so I can just pay someone to drive me around. That way, I can get my menace self off the roads and someone else gets paid to be my chauffeur. It's a win-win for all involved!

Zzzzzz

Have you ever been so tired you've managed to fall asleep without realising that you've done so? That happened to me the other day at work. One minute, I was sitting there trying to figure out how to fix something and the next I was dreaming that I was still working but really, I had nodded off and was sitting there with my eyes closed and possibly slack jawed and drooling. Cause I'm classy like that. I have no idea how long I stayed there like that because I was dreaming about being awake and staring at my computer screen. What brought me back to the land of the living was someone coming up to me and asked me some random question. Then I had to mentally scramble around, trying to answer the question in a way that didn't make it too obvious that I'd just been dozing off at my desk and wasn't quite with it just yet. Though I'm pretty sure that since my work mate has eyes, he could see what I'd been doing.

I so totally need to start getting to bed earlier. Or maybe I just need to invest in a couple of pairs of those Homer Simpson glasses with the eyes painted on so I can have a snooze behind them...

Mischievous peanut

Since my cheeky little peanut has worked out how to crawl and pull himself up using coffee tables, entertainment units, chairs, cabinets, well you get the picture, life has been getting a lot more complicated. For one thing, we've had to slowly baby proof this place to keep him from getting into things he shouldn't be touching. And it's not just the safety stuff either (power points, cables, etc), anything that we don't want to get drooled on, puked on, thrown onto the floor (that's right, you keep far away from my camera and laptop now, you hear??), or beaten into a pulp by pudgy little food/drool covered baby hands needs to be moved out of reach. Heaven forbid if I want to use my laptop on my lap. As soon as he sees me on the couch with my laptop, he makes a beeline for me.

Peanut: Oh mummy, I see you're using my favourite toy in the whole wide world!!

Quin: Ahhhh!! Peanut attack!!11!11ONE!!

Peanut: Om nom nom nom nom, these ports on the side sure are tasty! Let me add some regurgitated milk for that extra special flavour! *drools/pukes*

Quin: *mad scramble to finish what she's doing and pack up the laptop*

Peanut: But you can't be done yet! I've still got some playing to do! Here, let me help you with what you were doing! *sfdknvvs smzdz.dclmfdm;,vxcz sdl;lmda;,xcz*

Laptop: Unknown USB device. Pukey baby drool is not a recognised device. Please reinstall your drivers and try again.

Quin: *Sigh*

So, anyone want to buy a laptop? Slightly used. USB port might or might not be functional. Anyone? Anyone??

So very tired...

Damn, weekends are tiring. Friday night comes and seeing as I don't have to get up early the next day, I figure I can stay up a little bit later and get a few more things done. And by getting things done, I mean I catch up on Farmville (yes, it's very sad that I'm still playing this), surf the web, read blogs and otherwise waste time on things that I don't get to do during the day while I'm at work. Sure could do with a few more extra hours in the day. But then, I'd probably waste those anyway. Maybe I could take up Guild Wars again. Yeah, because going backwards and revisiting old addictions is such a good idea... Faarrrkkk... So very tired and not making much sense. Gonna go get ready for bed methinks.

Hello world!

Well, it looks like I'm a little late to this blogging game. Had to try so many URLs before I got one that wasn't taken. Damn you, procrastination! Anyway, I've been thinking about doing this for awhile but signing up just seemed too hard. I used to keep a diary as a kid and it's been most amusing to go back and see all the odd things that used to go through my mind when I was younger. It's been years though since I've done any sort of writing and I figured it was time I started again. For one thing, if I don't write things down, I tend to forget them after awhile. That's right. Not even thirty yet and I'm already going senile. Go me.

So. Here we are. You know, this is a lot harder than I remember. I think I'm a bit out of practice when it comes to getting my thoughts out in a coherent form. Yeah, don't ask me how the hell I get by at work. I just do my best to avoid anything that involves writing or editing documentation. As a computer nerd, it's not hard to do that most of the time since I'm usually neck deep in (buggy) java code or tangled up in some big ass SQL statements. But occasionally, I have to review requirements (fun stuff) so that I know what the hell I'm meant to be building. Or even worse, I have to document what I've done (oh, the horror). I think working in IT has just about sucked out all the passion I ever had for anything computer related. Funny how getting paid to do something you thought you loved can show you just how much you can hate it isn't it?

Anyway, it's Friday today. Hooray! A whole weekend of freedom! Well, as much freedom as you can have with a 9 month old who's starting to get into everything. Ugh. Why can't babies stay immobile until they have enough sense to not chew on power cords or forget that since they needed the coffee table to pull themselves up, they need to bloody well keep HOLDING ON once they get to standing position?? Sigh. Meanwhile, we've had to baby proof our apartment as much as possible. Moving cables and power cords to places that can't be reached by little baby arms, tidying up piles of junk so they don't get nommed on, etc etc, blah blah blah, baby proofing, blah. This place has never been neater. Well, not since we moved in anyway. But in spite of the relative neatness, I think our interior decorating leaves much to be desired. Oh well. Can't see myself having enough time to do anything about it in the near future...