well maybe i'm a little bit slow...
Even though I am on a STRICT no-spending spiel (starting today)...I am quite frustrated with a rebate issue. I bought Six Feet Under Season Three online from
a retailer offering a $10 rebate. I have yet to receive that rebate. I can not track it on the stupid, crappy site listed on the rebate form. The thing is, I need to buy
Season Four, and they have the same sort of deal...but I don't want to buy it from them if their rebate people can't get their shit together. You know? I'd rather buy it
elsewhere without a rebate then waste a stamp and THINK I'm getting $10 back. After I buy SFU Season 4 (which came out today so this is crap that I don't have it this
very second)...I am DONE with spending. FOR MONTHS.
Wish I wasn't going on Pearl Jam; it's gonna cost me money! I hope gas is cheapier in Canadia than it is here. I hope the posters are very ugly and go with nothing in my place...
then I don't have to buy them.
Today was a HELL day. I was sooooooo frazzled. I had three different conference calls scheduled today (there was actually a fourth that we decided to cancel yesterday afternoon).
During my last one of the day, I totally could not focus. I was paying attention; I was listening...I just wasn't getting any of it.
I thought I was going to be totally screwed today and be at work until midnight (exaggeration). 9 minutes to 5, I discovered if I wanted to leave at 5ish, I could! And I did! I went to
Jazzercise. I needed to since I only went once last week.
Can't believe tomorrow is Wednesday! Which is good! I need this week to be OVER. After this week, I'm free to start taking some time off. I hope I can take next Friday off as a
total mental health holiday. Woo...and that would give me a four day weekend. Yeah, I like that.
Oh yeah. The worst part about Jazzercise is one of the new songs is that dumb Rob Thomas single. The routine hurts me (way too much squating, my muscles cry) and the song hurts my ears.
Rob Thomas is a total "ew", by the way.
Am I lame if I don't like Detroit referred to as "The D?" I think "The D" is the lamest, trashiest way to refer to Detroit. Yeah, I know: Detroit is kinda trashy, so why should that matter?
Detroit may be trashy, but it's not white trashy. There's a difference.
I have a friend that refers to Detroit as a "cruel mistress." And it's so true; there are times when I am utterly disgusted
at what is going on in Detroit (particularly with preservation of historic buildings or monopolies) and at other times, I can't help but be so proud of how far the city has come. There
are times when I'll be downtown and I'll have a flashback to my freshmen year of college...standing in the same place...and even if I'm standing in front of a building that stood 6 years ago...
everything around it has changed. And it's amazing. Detroit hasn't done a complete 180, but the downtown's landscape sure as fuck has changed in 6 years.
I remember standing across the street from the National Theater my very first trip downtown
for Vis Comm...and I think there were some abandoned buildings and vacant properties across from it. Now, there's a fucking huge parking structure for the Compuware World Headquarters. Who would've
thought...a Hard Rock Cafe would be up the block 6 years later? LOL and yet, the National Theater still sits vacant...
I totally need to catch up with my e-mails. I just haven't had the time. Or the mental capacity. I am amazed I could write this much right now...though most of this
is bitching anyway. Or totally random, straying thoughts. Beggars can't be choosers...
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