Tuesday, June 30, 2009
June’s over. Year’s half over. I opened the gas bill and it was much higher than usual, but then again, it was chilly during the period (5/21-6/23) and I know we kept our furnace going for a while. Sigh. Today is cool and cloudy. I don’t really mind it for a day or two.
It’s payday. It’s month end. It’s quarter end. I have some quarterly reporting to do this week. Thankfully, the reporting was reduced, so it shouldn’t take me long.
Nothing much to report. Yesterday went okay at work. Lunch was Wendy’s, crispy chicken sandwich, baked potato w/ some “buttery spread” and a small chocolate Frosty. I made an appointment with the podiatrist for Thursday afternoon to have an impression of my foot taken and have a custom orthotic made.
Dinner was a bowl of soup, and also a laughing cow wedge w/ rf wheat thins. Before I left the house, I did a load of laundry. The movie last night was “The Proposal”. It was okay, some laughs, some unfunny stuff. There was a very cute dog in the movie. Not sure I’d really recommend it. Movie snack was Junior Mints.
Believe it or not, I was still hungry after the movie, so I had a cheese french bread pizza. Not a good eating day.
Not much more to report. I’m grumpy. Generally unthrilled and unsatisfied about life in general. Over the weekend bf and I were recalling some hand-me-down household items I’d gotten long ago from a work friend during my very first job out of college. I got to thinking about this person who I haven’t been in contact with since I left that job. I remembered her name, and I ended up looking her up online. According to a networking site, she stayed at that firm until last year and now has a job on the west coast. Good job, or at least a fancy title. It depressed me. She was one of the few nice people I started there with - the others had this overconfidence bordering on arrogance… I totally didn’t fit in. I’ve always been insecure. Anyway, I was laid off from that job during a big merger. I hated that job, so it wasn’t exactly the most horrible thing that could happen to me, but while I was there, it was a difficult time in my life. I ultimately left that field a couple jobs later, and I still feel disappointed in myself about that. I wasn’t really going towards the new field but rather fleeing the old one. For someone to stay where she was so long, she must have been good at her job and relatively happy and fulfilled. And I guess that’s why that depressed me.
I also was depressed because I have a bunch of vacation I want to schedule and I don’t know what I’ll do when I take it. No plans to go anywhere. Can’t take an expensive vacation every year, and last year was our cruise, and we also spent a large sum of money on home improvements. I guess a “staycation” is it.
Tonight should be the gym and another load of laundry. Tomorrow after work is drinks/dinner with a friend. Thursday the office closes a couple hours early, and I leave about an hour earlier than that for my foot doc appointment. Less than 3 days ’til the long weekend.