adventures in babysitting

tuesday night we babysat for saul and giulietta, it was cecelia's birthday and so it was date night.

saul was excited and impatient thinking that the pool was going to close soon. so as soon as he came over he and zac headed off to the pool. in the meantime i had giulietta. she pretty much entertained herself walking back and forth between the living room and the kitchen.

in this picture she is so proud of herself for getting the cheerios box off the shelf.

both were good and fun to have for a few hours. we were both really tired afterwards, took us another day to recooperate...that's what happens when you aren't around kids a whole lot.

ready for not summer!

it's hot outside! and although i love having a swamp cooler...you really can't beat the ac right now especially with all the humidity. most of our weekends are spent me dying inside the house and zac dying at work. even daisy, our little water hater, has been going into the doggy pool all on her own to cool off. at night we've been sleeping in the studio. it has a nice little ac wall unit. i think ac just hit priority for next year. the worst part is that we haven't even gotten any good rains this summer. every afternoon there looks to be a threat but it's always on the horizon....somewhere else. no fun storms that carry off cars into washes and strands/kills people. maybe next time.

this past month we celebrated alot of birthdays. we didn't do much for zac's birthday. we went to dinner a few times, saw harry potter and bruno, went to the desert musuem at night, and i got him his own nintendo ds. my way of saying...stop playing with mine.

work has been great. i really like work right now because of the ac. the new building is starting to feel normal. one good thing is that i'm a lot closer to other people i know on other teams. i'm almost finished with my big "volunteer"project so this week might end well or very badly. who knows what will happen but i'm glad this 7 month volunteer project might be at its end! who knew inputting upc's into the system would be so time consuming at least i learned something new to put on my resume. professional upc putter inner.

time for bed.

i wonder....

what management cares about more...spilling drinks and eating at your desk or people dozing off in the middle of the morning!

a guy that sits across the aisle from me was head back eyes closed sleeping! my coworker and i took turns checking up on him...maybe he was just resting his eyes but i think he was asleep!

he's probably sleeping because he didn't want to get up from his desk to eat his breakfast.

sapo verde zacarias!!

Estas son las mañanitas, que cantaba el Rey David,
Hoy por ser día de tu santo, te las cantamos a ti,

Despierta, mi bien, despierta, mira que ya amaneció,
Ya los pajarillos cantan, la luna ya se metió.

Que linda está la mañana en que vengo a saludarte,
Venimos todos con gusto y placer a felicitarte,
Ya viene amaneciendo, ya la luz del día nos dio,
Levántate de mañana, mira que ya amaneció.

Happy Birthday! Since I can't give you any facebook birthday wishes this will have to do...of course there is always saying happy birthday face to face but that is so last year.

a case of the mondays....

this morning was bad. so bad i wanted to rip off a lady's head. i didn't.

it wasn't even that bad...i was just sleepy and grumpy.

the joy of moving offices is over

finally this week has come to an end.

the only thing i'm still missing is my garbage can.

random things about the moving process:

-one of the girls found a pube in her filing cabinet

-only one bathroom on this floor and i sit down the hall from it. i get to see everyone go in and out.

-not being connected to a copy machine sucks

-no telephones is nice

-certain people don't like to flush...supposedly saving water....I don't care about saving water if that means I don't have to see your poo or pee.

-my cubicle is right outside the vp's office....no bueno

-one little breakroom and the annoying people want to always talk to you

-we aren't supposed to eat at our desks...rule broken..everyone snacks but no one is brave enough to eat lunch at their desk yet!

-a cardinal keeps trying to break the window to get in to our office

-i've met a lot of people that i've worked with for the past 3 years.

the big office move

we've been ready for this big move for a while. we knew it was coming. we still weren't prepared.

the past week we have been packing. the moving company provided us with totes. we thought we were on a roll. this morning we started off our morning like any other normal morning. we knew we had one last day to pack and so we'd try to get as much done before packing up the last few things and taking apart our computers. while im browsing through various reports and emails our VP is frantically trying to pack up whatever she can in our area.

then 8am hits and about 10-15 guys come strolling into our area checking out our stacks of totes to be moved. someone says the guys are going to take what we have already packed. oh....ok thats cool. 5 minutes later i hear....the guys are taking everything in shoes, we were bumped up a day! the IT guy will be coming around to unplug computers. take the computers in your cars.

oh shit.

i still have to pack my files, catalogs and computer stuff. my cube mate the assistant had to finish packing her cube as well as her buyers cube since the buyer was in training all day. so as i was rushing to finish my cube the totes ran out and we had to go find boxes. once my stuff was packed i started helping my cubemate. she had a ton of shoes that needed to be packed into boxes since the movers wouldn't take totes without tops. so we had an assembly line of people making boxes while lucy and I went up and down to the sample room grabbing the leftover shoes and bringing them back downstairs while others packed the shoes and taped and labeled. even with air conditioning we were drenched in sweat. then we had to pack all the cars with more totes and computers. in 2 hours we pretty much had everything packed and ready to go. we were then told to head over to the new building and unpack our computers and get them ready for IT to connect again. So we get to the new building and there is only one tiny elevator so we had to lug our stuff up the stairs to our new cubicles. not fun when the totes are packed to the brim. again we were all drenched in sweat.

finally, once we had unpacked all the cars we had to wait for our totes to be delivered. so slowly we spent the next two hours unpacking and finding out we need more room for all our crap!

by noon we were all pretty much unpacked and starving! so glad its over!