one of those days

This is the sort of day that makes me really want to quit my job. If it weren't for the need of a steady paycheck, I'd be tempted to clock out and never return.

I love the look of this

I found these listed on FUNFURDE. These very organic lights look like jellyfish.

clairvoyant

The Irritant has instructed me to change the corporate colors used for one client to something no appearing on any of the previous files from them, citing previous job numbers that the billing is based on. These are numbers that often are remnants from completely different jobs that someone plucks from the system as a shortcut to billing.
However, the previous published graphics and logo files are irrelevant to him.

That and the fact that he insisted on my logging into the network from my machine while he watched my hands, not the screen, have been the top annoyance today, beating out having only three working jobs to occupy my time for about five minutes each.

cold cereal for lunch

There is nothing to do here and I refuse to clock out early today, as I am not a part time employee or an independent contractor who is free to pursue several clients at once. No lunch budget either for a while because I have spent way too much on my car and condo recently. Choosing to cut corners on the things that give me the least pleasure. It's not all gloom, though. My mother and sister-in-law are taking me out to a girls-night of theatre later in the week and there's a birthday party this weekend.

Found this on Apartment Therapy.

Egg-less Caesar Dressing

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 corn oil, or other mild oil such as canola or safflower
1/4 cup lemon juice
7 anchovy filets
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper

In a blender, puree all ingredients until emulsified and refrigerate. Toss liberally with romaine lettuce, croutons and additional Parmesan.

disappearing WO's

So Friday, I left a group of papers to be proofread so I could send them on to clients. It's noon and I've not seen any of those proofs back yet. There is one job with no instructions sitting on my shelf and I'm sitting here with nothing on the first day of Boss#1's vacation. I hope this isn't how the rest of the week is going to work out.

The tomatoes are ready

Castleberry Hills Art Stroll

We went with the Hatchers to Castleberry Hills for the art stroll. Saw some great things as well as mediocre while walking through all of the galleries and studios there.

Finally, we got the shower repaired, the pipe was snapped inside of the showerhead as if someone had tried to support themselves with it (maybe slipping in the shower?) but it wasn't easy. The renter was out of town and no one would answer the door. Monster opened the door with the key to let the plumbers in and stayed them until they could determine what was needed in materials, which he fetched from Home Depot with my credit card. He got back and both of the plumbers were sitting outside waiting on him. There was a woman sleeping in the kitchen who came out and told them to leave because she wanted to sleep. Monster told her that they were staying and fixing the shower. We had no idea who this person was. Turns out it was the mother of a friend of our renter who was also staying there while he was out of town.

I made an angry phone call to my next door neighbor, who the renter was traveling with.

After Monster's return and dealing with the woman, the guys finished the job, which I hope was the source of the leak and will put everything to rest.

I want to remove this renter, repair, clean up, and remodel the condo, and find a better quality renter for the place. I'm over having bachelors in my place. I'd love to have a nice, professional single woman living there.

unresolved

The water issues at the condo are still unresolved today, despite having set an appointment for a "leak expert" to come out this morning. Seems we were not the first on the list of calls and got bumped off schedule by an earlier longer-than-expected job. Monster is trying to handle this for me, rescheduling for another day while I'm at work.

In other news, this made me smile.

tickets

We got tickets to the Tabernacle show, but just barely, and lousy seats. After having to log in and go through the entire purchase process TWICE for good floor level seats, Ticketmaster.com would not process my order from the PC or the Mac. So now I have the secret to share:

1. all tickets on the website must be purchased for will-call delivery only. You don't have the actually delivery options they list, like USPS or UPS,etc.

2. they charge $9.00 for a parking pass, but having to pick up the tickets and pass at will-call makes the pass useless.

3. there is no place to choose United States as your country of origin. We had to choose the outlying islands as your location.

tied in knots

The good news:
We got the new toilet installed. yeah!
And now we have the old gray toilet sitting on our patio, probably becoming a mosquito nursery until we figure out how to get rid of it. I think I'm going to put biocide pellets in it tomorrow.
Went to see the new Pirates movie tonight. Great fun. I needed some escape.
Tom Waits tickets go on sale at 10:00 AM!


The bad news:
It's been a very rough week for me. Now I'm having a glass of red wine trying to encourage sleep to come and my gut to unknot. There's more trouble in my condo with water and nasty downstairs neighbors and useless management companies.... the usual. That and my job desintegrating into nothing as they seem to be letting the business die off - I've only been working half days lately. And my car needs new struts. The back end is bottoming out, so there's another big expense coming at me.