Mermaxolotl

My friend Tony 

 (who has a fun blog about the car-free life) 

asked me (on Formspring) what I would 

come back as in another life. 

My answer: 

A mermaid.

Or an Axolotl.

What about you? 

What would you come back as?

**mermaid photo from WEHEARTIT

Music Monday

Tell Me Why

Why do people say commentator instead of commenter. 

Why do people say historical instead of just historic? 

I think we should eliminate unnecessary syllables from the English language. 

And the French language, for that matter (why not?). 

But not from the Spanish language, because when there are extra Spanish syllables it makes the word more fun and exotic sounding. 

**photo courtesy www.weheartit.com

The Work Report

The new job is going well! 

First day stats: 

Outfit: 

Black Pants

Blue top 

black ballet flats

zebra dooney and bourke purse

Makeup:

Soft makeup

Grey eyeshadow

MAC politely pink lipstick

Slice of Heaven gloss

Hair:

Poof pony with a black flower 

Coworkers: 

Super nice and helpful

Boss: 

Awesome

Break room: 

Pretty good! They have a lot of coffee and tea and a flat screen, so that's cool. 

Cubicle: 

It's hard going from an office with a nice view to a cube, but my cube at least has a window, so that is good. 

things I miss about funemployment: 

Wearing flip flops and yoga pants Every. Single. Day. It was fun while it lasted.

Sleeping in.

Watching Oprah and Jeopardy every day. I miss you, Oprah. 

Hard Working Dog

Do you guys remember this video from

when we were kids and our job was to watch 

sesame street and eat cheerios and go to swim lessons?

I start my NEW JOB today and I am so very excited.

This has been a nice planned funemployment period...

....but.....

....honestly?....

I do SO much better with a routine.

I need structure

and rules

and lists

and emails

and meetings

and a PAYCHECK

{I am bad at thrifty living}

and office supplies.

Especially office supplies.

I heart pens and post its.

Anyway, wish me luck tomorrow.

This shall be my motto,

but I will not wear my hair like CoCo O'Brien.

Don't you worry.

Music Monday

Form Spring

Yo, blog buds?

Are any of you on Form Spring??

I think it's a really neat site that facilitates writing/potential blog posts.

Here's the deal;

You sign up

You tell people your form spring address

They follow you...

But you have no idea who is following you and who isn't....

Then you ask people questions....

Either anonymously or using your formspring account.....

No one sees the questions you're asked until you answer them.

Then they become published on your formspring page.

Pretty nifty, right? 

If you have an account, let me know what your username is!

Mine is TotallyTay

I'm hiding I'm hiding

I am hiding today. 

I decided this week that I need to have

 my condo sprayed for bugs. 

The weather is going to be 

warming up here in Phoenix soon

 and I am a strong believer in 

bug preventive maintenance. 

My condo has a bug man 

who comes every Friday, 

and you just have to add

 your name to the list of 

condos if you want a visit from him. 

Allow me to digress; I have issues with people being in my home if it's not perfectly clean. I've even banned family members and friends from entering at times if it is not meeting my standards (sorry Bee, mom and Julie. They have all been victims of my clean floors neurosis). It's not about THEM, I know they don't care if I have dishes in the sink, it's about ME. I feel like I fail as an adult if someone sees my home when it is less than stellar.

Anyway, I went to a Buzzcation 

{Look up the word 'buzzcation' 

on Urban Dictionary. 

I know the person who 

invented the phrase. 

It's very clever. :)} 

last night to socialize 

and put together care 

packages for Haitians. 

I got home at 8 fully intending

 to clean my floors 

(the last of my tasks before 

my house was 'stranger ready')

 but arrived home and saw that

 Roomie was already asleep. 

I didn't want to be rude and 

wake her up with my floor scrubbing, 

so I decided to do the 

floors first thing in the morning

 before bug man arrived. 

Then I started watching Lost online. 

Until 3 am. 

Because that's what you do

 when you don't have to work the next day. 

Duh. 

I woke up this morning 

(ok, this afternoon)

 to the bug man 

pounding on my door. 

I just pretended I wasn't home. 

Because that is what

 responsible adults do.

 But NOW I am kind of stuck

 here because the management

 company's office is right across 

from my condo and if I leave my

 condo the management person will be all,

 "Hey biznitch! 

Why did you pretend 

to be asleep when bug man

 knocked on your door? 

Was it because you have 

DUSTY FLOORS?!?!?!? 

I know it is you 

BAD GROWN UP 

who didn't wake up

 early this morning 

to do the floors!" 

So that is why I am hiding. 

At least until I work up 

the courage to leave the condo

 so that I can go to yoga at 4:15. 

Wish me luck. 

If no one sees me this weekend 

know that I've gone completely off

 the deep end and am 

probably hiding in my 

closet, rocking back and forth

 eating uncooked ramen noodles. 

Or something. 

I'm going to watch Oprah now. 

She does not hide, I bet.

So Sweet

The other day I went to 

Smeeks

to pick up some delicious treats. 

I bought 

FAT PIG 

chocolate.

the directions say;

so I did

oink

oink

oink

oink

Music Monday

Music Monday!

..............and, I'm back. Sorry for my sloth like blog behavior. :) I've been taking some much needed down time. Sleeping till noon, watching Oprah, staying up late, et cera. But, I've MISSED you all in blogland! It's good to be back.