Mierda Del Toro…Its A Fine Art

So, yesterday, I played hooky from work. Here’s a conversation with a co-worker of mine:

Co-worker: I saw you yesterday, briefly, where’d you go?
Me: I snapped. I had one of those “Fuck it, I’m leaving cause I’ve got too much shit to take care of and work is wasting my time” moments. So, I turned everything off and left.
Co-worker: Oh, I have those moments everyday around 4:30pm.
Me: It was 9:30am when I had that moment. I only came in at 9:00am.
Co-worker: Oh…I’m down with that!

That folks, is pretty much what happened. I had some brief conversations with some co-workers who were kind of in a bitchy mood already and I couldn’t deal with that and everything else that has been going on in my head…so I left. Mind you, I have no more paid time off for the year (I done fucked myself on PTO with the Honeymoon), so I’ll be paying for it the rest of the week with shoving 40 hours into 4 days, but the important thing is that I had a “Take back control of my life” day, yesterday.

I have desperately needed my PC to write my thesis on. I’m too cheap to buy Microsoft Office for Macs and NeoOffice, while great with most things, doesn’t handle advanced math equations well if converting from Word and Word can’t read NeoOffice’s advanced math equations. My thesis is primarily math that would make your head take several spins (aka exorcist style) if you looked at it. Mikey thought it was another language…I was like, “No honey, its the universal language of math. Its just that this math is a bit beyond most people’s comprehension.” So, you could see how much I needed something that was standard. My professor was having a shitty time reading my equations on his PC. Sucks for me, but whatever. So, I took a trip to my mom’s house right after I left work. I picked up my PC (she was using it for a while because my brother’s p0rn addiction killed hers and it had to be reimaged) and my Egg Mc Muffin Maker (I haven’t had one in months!).

Since I was in my old town and I was between the hours of 10am and 4:30pm, I decided to go down to the animal shelter that I adopted Miss BB at, so I could get her sterilization certificate, so I could finally get her licensed. I have been trying to get this thing for a while now and finally they said I could have it if I walked in. Well, I get there and they gave me something that should make the OC Animal Shelter happy, not the sterilization certificate (because SURPRISE! They didn’t do the sterilization, she came to them already sterilized and her previous owner didn’t leave the certificate with them.) So, I headed home with my little car stuffed with hardware.

Since I was on my way home and I had everything I needed, I decided to go down to the Animal Shelter in the OC to get Miss BB’s license. I lied to the guy behind the counter, flirted a little, told him I have been living here less than a month and I’m a newly wed…all that stuff. He bought my story and I only had to pay $21.00 for Miss BB’s license. If I hadn’t lied I would have had to pay $75.00 to get her licensed because I was late on getting it.

Then I went home, had some lunch and decided to go get my hair cut and my nails done. A few hours later, I got home and Mikey had just gotten home right before me. He liked my new do, its on the shorter side, shorter than I am used to, but its cute and she thinned out my crazy thick hair. I am generally pleased with it. The lady who did my nails did a crappy job, not as crappy as I have had it, but crappy. When I got home, I had to do some follow up work on them. I’m not impressed. I liked the girl who did them a few weeks ago, but this woman was clearly doing a rush job and not really paying any attention to my nails much less how I said I wanted them done. The whole time she was stressing me out because she kept getting up and rushing around the place. It wasn’t even THAT busy. So, next time I go there, if I don’t see the girl I like, I’ll just take a raincheck. How hard is it to do a fill or get a decent one these days?

So, after that I felt recharged, like I got some stuff done for once. I just realize that if I don’t relax and take some more control on how I’m being shoved around at work and in life (I really take some shit from people and I don’t say a word, because I don’t want to waste my breath on someone who doesn’t even realize they are being an idiot) I’m gonna die in the retirement home (aka work) before I’m 30 from a heart attack from too much stress. I internalize way too much and I just need to let go and find some more “me” time. Life’s too short.

Anyhow, thats a little story how I took a negative thing (Snapping) and turned it into a positive thing by taking back a little bit of control in my life.

Tomorrow night, I’ll do my post on my surgery stuff.