that's not a bee! that's a bear in a bee costume!

sometimes in my mind i can't figure out the difference between bear and beer. weird.

last weekend i took a last minute trip to the big apple. friday i got to work and decided i needed a little get away. my first thought was to attempt a trip to orlando but after not finding any flights that fit the budget, i tried new york and found something that was perfect and allowed for maximum time in the city. anyway, i wound up having a lovely time the city. highlight was definitely the nbc studio tour at the 30 rock building.

this is my picture with alec baldwin. aka they put my face where tina fey's normal is. take that tina! i also got a 'that's a deal breaker, ladies' shirt. i love it and would wear it every day if that was ok with work.

other highlights: i was able to use public transportation to get from the airport to time square without getting lost. people on the street asked me for directions and i was able to tell them (luckily they were going to the same place as me). the rooftop restaurant where they give you a big cozy red robe to wear because it's cold. watching mythbusters in my swanky hotel room. having the freedom to do or not do whatever i want when ever i want (one of the perks of traveling alone... also there's no one to question your sense of direction or get angry at you when it turns out you've been walking the wrong direction for a while... however there is no one to help you when some random man on the street wants to give you his phone number. you win some, you lose some.).

i love love love mythbusters. mostly b/c i'm in love with grant. that guy is awesome. i love that mythbusters always seems to be on tv when i'm in a hotel. it's one of the reasons i love going on vacation.

yesterday i went up to dc with my favoritest boos. we went to the newseum. whenever i tell that to anyone they say 'oh, which museum?' and i have to say 'no the neeeewwwwwwseum.' it's a museum about the news. actually, it's more like THE museum about news. they had an amazing 9/11 exhibit. i don't know that amazing is the word... shocking, heart breaking, scary? they were showing footage from the attack that i'd either blocked from memory or had never seen before and the magnitude, the horrible loss, the tragedy... it all came back. it's odd to me b/c less than a week prior i had made the trip down to the site of the world trade center for the first time since the attack. with the image of the massive nothingness fresh in my mind, seeing the footage... it just was unreal... unreal to think of the horrible things that happened where i had been standing. horrific to think about how quickly we forget about what happened to us.

the museum also had a great exhibit about the berlin war. i don't know why i feel such a connection to the fall of the berlin wall. whenever it comes up it stops me. i suppose it scares me... the awful things we do to each other. it breaks my heart.

today, i read 'the hunger games.' nate had been telling me to read for a while so i picked it up yesterday while we were up in dc. i started it this morning and finished it this evening (with time to spare for church and baking cupcakes). it's one of those books that is engaging right away. definitely worth reading. i'm still upset about the ending... b/c it's not fair. also, in a way i relate to the main character and i hate it but need to know what happens at the same time. and i'm hooked.

as a side note, i finished 'the lost symbol' and it was a let down. don't bother with it. read 'the hunger games' instead.

now we can swim any day in november

i've been pretty depressed again lately. anyway, this has made me realize that i've always been very lucky in the people i have shared an office with... asia, rachele and, now, ann. these three women have been like angels in my life. wonderful, hard working, fabulous people who keep me sane (to the extent of sanity i'm capable of having). i realized this today after telling ann about why i'm actually depressed. i realized that the only people who have ever known what is going on in my life for the last 4 years have been the ones that have been locked in an office with me 8 hours a day. besides that i usually just deal with things myself and don't like to talk about whatever it is that is currently got me beat. but it's so wonderful to have those times when i can just unload all my crazy and not have them tell me i'm crazy.

i suppose my whole point in this is to say how thankful i am for these women and what they have done for me.

this past weekend i had a stay-cation at diane's house. i just adore diane's house. it's so cute! and i have my own bedroom there! with a ninja turtle blanket. saturday we went to ihop for breakfast. i can't even remember the last time i went to ihop. it was a fun breakfast. i had biscuits and gravy and felt like a real southern lady. ihope was PACKED. i've never seen so many people in one place and we all had to set really close together. it was insane. then we went to the mall and to costco where we had a sample adventure and also berry smoothies. saturday night we ordered pizza and watched the office. sunday we went to the smithsonian museum of natural history. i learned about the history of things that are natural. i like that museum because in the lobby they have a giant elephant. after that we went to the zoo. it was a very full day. they don't have any giraffes at the national zoo. when we got back to her house i took a nap and then drove home.

and now things are in full swing at work. so many parties, so little time. ::sigh:: i spend probably have the day resisting the urge to bang my head into the wall. the good news is that so far i've been successful. today ann told me i should punch the wall. i pretended to do it and it actually did make me feel better. ha. oh wall punching!

"i'm hiding under your porch because i love you" i heard that as i was walking through target today. it was little clip from up. i think i'm going to start saying it to people now. ha. maybe i will just randomly text it to everybody one day.

life or something like it

so this evening we discovered that sylvie died. i heard her running around this morning. and now she's dead. she used to climb to the top of the cage and drop. and once she bit me.

two nights ago i had a dream that i had a few hamsters and they started to reproduce and there were hundreds of them and i didn't know what to do. so i let them go at the mall. and i was walking through the mall and they were just sitting all over the place. just perched watching the people walk by. hundreds of hamsters. can you imagine?

i'm glad life isn't like tv. i'm glad things aren't so dramatic. we've been watching grey's anatomy. i'm glad life isn't like that. and i'm glad i'm not a doctor. i just couldn't take it. i mean, we realized the hamster was dead and i thought i was going to vomit. i'm just not cut out of dealing with drama. i need for things to not be complex. i don't know how some people do it. ::sigh::

as a side note, i will never understand the men folk. it's beyond my comprehension.

words meant just for you

so when i finally got into the office after my meeting this morning this is what greeted me and a nice 'i hope you're happier note' from adam. i thought that was very kind. i didn't eat it. how could you eat a cookie who is smiling at you like that? i'm not sure what i'm going to do with it. and if randy thinks my diet coke attracts bugs then this cookie with frosting smile and candy eyes will definitely draws crowds. none the less, it was a very nice gesture. it makes it really hard to get mad at these people when they do try to make me happy some times. ::hahaha:: if only my whole life was smiling oatmeal cookies.

the meeting this morning was pretty good. i didn't really get new information, i kind of just got some pumping up. and really, we all need that some times. i also realized i need a business mentor. now it's a matter of finding one. and an assistant. oh the never ending list of things to do in life.

the men at work have made me realize life is a lot easier when you're single. there's just too much yelling and fighting involved and i can't take it. work has been a war zone lately. i try to stay out of all of it as much as possible. you wouldn't know that if you've had to talk to me lately (sorry to anyone who has been subjected to one of my many 'this is why i hate that place today' stories... which usually involve saying 'effing' every other word). i just can't take it most days. i mean i'm all about open communication and addressing issues but the whole f-- you and slamming my office door thing isn't something i'm okie dokie with. though, in his defense, i was extremely sassy that day... and i had just been pretty nasty and condescending. i don't think i was f -- you sassy, but yeah. at any rate i just don't think i can deal with dudes and tempers and egos at this point in time. maybe if the work situation levels out i can start adding additional male ego into the mix. until then i'm stuck with the four crazies at work. ::sigh::

so target has a new line of jewelry that i LOVE. it's jewelry with little inspiration sayings on them. i'm not sure why i love that so much but i really, really do. i especially love the rings b/c they all have sayings on the outside and on the inside of the band. it's like a secret message that only i know about. i bought this ring yesterday... on the outside it says 'love the life you live' and on the inside of the band it says 'live the life you love.' i just think it's the most amazing thing ever. it was $20 which is cheaper than the other ring i wear every day that says 'it's not the the destination it's the journey' (mostly b/c i had to buy that ring twice... i lost the first one that i bought in the airport in seattle and i was so sad that i found it online and bought another one). i think those are both things i constantly need to remind myself. i love it. at any rate if you like that kind of stuff, go to target!

ok time for reading so i won't grow up to be a dummy!

remember me and you, i do

i had a real crap day today. i'm not totally sure why. i went to bed feeling ticked off and woke up in an even worse mood. all day long it took every thing to just not punch people. also i have been feeling home sick since yesterday afternoon so that just makes things worse.

funny story i remembered today while watching encino man... one time katie and i left our friend asleep on the couch with a pizza box on top of him and went and got slurpees and nerd ropes. the next morning he was just like why didn't you wake me up for slurpees?! awesome.

jessica's dog has this nervous twitch where he licks the air until his brain falls out. it really bothers me b/c i hate that sound. i'm sure everyone does. it's not as bad as the sound of sylvie running in her wheel. that's right, sylvie still lives at my house. ugggh. anyway jessica's dog likes to chase me in slow motion and act like it's going to lick me but it always stays just out of tongue's reach. jessica decided that he just likes to taste my aura. i think that's probably true. i told chubbs that we could be friend but he had to keep his tongue off me. that's generally the rules i set for all my friends. a person needs to have boundaries.

tonight i learned what a camel cricket is. if you've never seen one please look it up on google images. this is why places that get a lot of rain suck.

i've been thinking about getting a job in ca when my contract is up here. i've been thinking about it today. because i'm in a bad mood. but, still, i've been thinking about it. if i actually decide to move into the realm of job searching i'll let the world know. at this point i would love to move to san francisco. and i would love to get out of sales. ::sigh::

as a warning i hate my job every year from october - january. so yeah.

last night i did a search on google images for elaina davis and i got all the way to page 14 without ever seeing a picture of myself. but on page 4 was a picture of my sister. weird, huh?

i have an early morning meeting tomorrow and i'm dreading it. ::sigh:: i'm dreading it b/c it's in the morning and b/c i will have to be nice to people before 11 AM and b/c i have to see that man who never stops talking. there are so many reasons to not want to go to this meeting. ::sigh:: there had better be some danishes.

new hair

this is a picture of my new hair. so everyone out there will still recognize me as me. it's been a bit of an adjustment but i like it. i think it looks a little different in real life but eh what can you do?

here's a story about something that happened at work the other day. so ann and i were standing near the bar and a server girl came up and asked us if we had any ibuprofen and we told her no and i suggested that she check out the pain aid in the first aid kit. she said she didn't want to b/c it was generic and she hates generic medicine and walks away. then i told ann that the server girl was crazy b/c it's the same stuff even if it's generic and i use it all the time and it's great. we finish what we were doing at the bar (which was definitely not drinking alcohol... even though that would make work so much more awesome) and we walk through the kitchen and the girl is standing there with some little packets of medicine and telling the other server girls about how the medicine probably sucks at which point ann shouts 'no it doesn't elaina takes it ALL THE TIME!' as this is going on i notice what she is actually holding... the generic version of midol and i yell 'NO I DON'T!' and everybody just looked at me like i was crazy. it was awesome.

later i told the story to randy and he didn't think it was funny at all... he just said 'well they probably just figured that explained why you're happy all the time.' i'm still not sure if that was meant as an insult.

that reminds me... the other day a lady who was planning a party told me i was "so nice." i said thank you and in my head i was like yeah that's what they pay me to do. i think those thoughts alone make me not nice. side note: if you didn't know... i'm generally not very nice. i'm absurdly sarcastic and i like to make fun of people (even when they're not around). i'm trying to quit.

so yesterday was halloween and i decided to be a zombie cowboy. how did that happen you might be asking yourself. i'll tell you. thursday i was at work and towards the end of the day i was feeling a little puke-y and i was very pale. anyway i turn to ann and she says 'wow you don't look good... you look like a zombie!' at which point i yelled 'BRAINS.' ann got a kick of that and i decided being a zombie was something that was fun and i wanted to pursue it further mainly on halloween but sadly i had already purchased all the stuff i would need to be a cowboy, including a mustache (b/c all good cowboys have mustaches... it's the only time you can trust a man with facial hair). so i said to myself, 'self you would like the fun of being a zombie but you have already purchased the cowboy goods... what will you do?' and that's when lightening struck and i said ZOMBIE COWBOY. i asked everyone i ran into what was better cowboy or zombie cowboy and every male agreed the zombie cowboys were way more awesome (the females gave a mixed review... but what do girls know anyway?). and so that's what i did. i was surprised at how scary the makeup turned out. you can see a picture below.

in other news, on friday night i saw the michael jackson movie. that would have been an awesome concert if michael jackson hadn't died and i would have paid up to $75 to see it. i'm sure the tickets would have been way more than that though so it's a good thing they made a movie. it made me realize that my favorite michael jackson song is the way you make me feel. i enjoy it greatly. it makes me want to wear red shoes. i don't really know why.

i the opposite of want to go to work tomorrow.

braaaaaains

this is my zombie cowboy from last night. i didn't realize i was so scary until i saw pictures this morning.

that's all.