Crawling

Why is it, when there is ABSOLUTELY nothing happening at work, the day slows down to a crawl?  But those last 15 minutes seem to fly by in the blink of an eye?

I feel like i have seen everything on the internet, twice today.  All of my work was done and I am in a holding pattern until I can start the next project.  So today was all about what I could find online to entertain myself.  I did come away with this little gem:
When looking for items on Craigslist, search the term "moving".  It will sort out a lot of good deals as people tend to sell good stuff cheaper when they need to skedaddle out of their current residence.

Like this super sweet shuffleboard table.  Apparently, they don't have room in their new place for it.  Weird. hahahah!

Hello my name is SIMON...

 

And I like to do drawerings!




Add to the list of the things I am trying out, I am going to a weekly drawing gathering. Actually I have no idea what to call it. I go to a pub on Sundays where they bring in a live model. We sit, we draw, we a have a pint. This sounds like the best hobby I have picked up yet!




I used to draw for fun years ago. Then life and work, well, mostly work, got int he way and I hadn't picked up a pencil to draw in over 10 years. My friend is hosting a drink and draw night and I went to my first one. UGH it was fun. That's an "ugh" for it being fun and easy and therefore a reason to get off my couch to go be social.

Time keeps on slippin slippin.....

And another huge block of time between posts.  What can I say?  Life happens.  It's more like work happens.  I barely took any photos, but I did however, have myself a great little time this past weekend!  After the horror story of having to step in and cover a sound gig for Husbunny (not my lack of skill, their piss poor attitudes), I was rewarded by a friend with a ticket to San Diego Comic Con!  SQUEEE!

Or so I thought.  I am completely appreciative of the pass.  I was totally disappointed with the con.  The toys were not new, or interesting, and I could buy them online!  The comics were few and far between.  It was all just very MEH.  I will not be missing it if I never go again.  Sad really.  I had such fun 7 years ago when I went!

If you are debating whether or not you need to go to Comic Con in San Diego,  don't bother.  You can come and enjoy all of the stuff they have outside, that you don't need a badge for, for free. Otherwise, don't bother with the ticket stress.

After Comic Con, I joined a friend for her weekly Drink and Draw event at bar in our 'hood.  I haven't sat down and purposefully drawn anything in 10 years.  I really enjoyed it!  It was so freeing to not need to please anyone, help anyone with a problem, fix anything, or be done by a certain time.  I had a pint, a pencil, and a pad of paper and just sketched the figure model they had come in.  I will definitely try to do this more.  Its a Sunday night, but I will make it work.

Other than that I have just been working my buns off!  Boring I know.  I get bored with blog posts that have have no picture, so here is a totally unrelated one for your viewing pleasure.

We like the cars....

I was driving into work this morning when I realized a little quirk about me.  I mean its one a million quirks I have, but this one made me feel like a good person.  While driving in horrific traffic that takes me an entire hour to drive all of 15 miles (all freeway miles, mind you), I notice that when large box trucks or semis are constantly at a disadvantage to change lanes in the endless maze that is my morning commute.  I always slow down and flash my lights and let these poor guys overs.  They get stuck with people unwilling to give up those precious few seconds they would lose by allowing these drivers over.  These guys are stuck driving 55 mph even when it isn't slow out.

Yes, I know they are paid, but when you job pretty much bums out people stuck behind you (or next to you), then I think that me letting them over gives them a little "hey that rocked" moment in their days full of "ugh".

Is that silly?  Probably.  I really don't care, it makes me feel good.  I hope it makes them feel good.  I don't have any pictures of semis that I have taken myself, so here are some Google searched ones!

WWID Weekend: What I did

     Hold on to your hats, and be envious of my weekend spent totally cleaning my house.  Yup, that's all I did.  The Husbunny had to work and I was at a loss of things to do, so I cleaned.

     There is something very therapeutic about cleaning.  I also find I can only really do it if he is not at home.  Otherwise he, very sweetly, wants to help.  All that does is create more little stations of messes for me to clean up.  I find it to be almost zen like to be scrubbin on my floors listening to 80s and 90s hip hop.

    
Sorry for the short post, but that is literally all that happened!

Amazing things happen when I am bored

I could not gt motivated today.  I did what was expected, but it was really hard to go that extra mile.  I did no Wii Fit this morning.  I did the minimum required at work.  I may or may not have browsed the internet.  But HOLY CRAP am I glad I did!  Look at this sweet little number I found!