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.

ugghh

i shouldn't have eaten so much cheese and fudge for dinner.

play it again pamie

my fictional hero is liz lemon. my non fiction hero is pamela ribon. pamela ribon is probably as close to a real life lemon as you're going to get... as far as i can tell. pamela wrote 'why girls are weird' and keeps a blog at pamie.com. she is also a derby girl. if you know me at all or have spent much time with me you probably have heard me talk about my secret desire to join the derby. i don't know that it will ever actually happen but i would love if it did. ::sigh:: anyway pam hasn't been keep up on the blog and it makes me cry. what can you do? as a side note, pam was my hero first... for like the last 5 years. i haven't decided yet if i love lemon b/c she reminds of pam or if i just happen to want to be like both of them independent from each other.

in other news, it's almost the weekend. i honestly don't know where the time goes these days. two days ago was our 6 month anniversary... 6 months since the store opened. how is it possible that much time has passed?! at the beginning of this month i had my 4 year anniversary with dave & buster's (ps i know it's depressing that my anniversaries are with work... what can you do?). in the grand scheme of the world 4 years isn't a long time. however, in the life of a 25 year old who has only been working since she was 18, it's a very long time.

today ann & i were talking about when my contract would be up for this location. it's up in early march, i believe. though i don't have any plans for leaving virginia any time soon. i like it here. still. ha. surprising, i know. maybe i'm getting old or something.

the other night we watched 'it.' still not as scary as everybody thinks it is. i didn't even have any nightmares. shoot, even 'bones' gives me nightmares! however, i didn't remember how ridiculously long that movie is! it's 187 minutes, which is over three hours and not 2 hours and 20 minutes (people aren't good at math at midnight, i guess).

sylvie goes to a new home on monday. PLEASE, PLEASE if you love me or animals at all, please, do not allow me to ever get another pet besides a gold fish. if i ever ask you 'should i purchase a ::insert animal type here:: ?' say to me 'good gracious elaina get a grip on reality and drop the animal for the love of all that is good in the world!' it may also be appropriate to slap me at that point depending on how determined i look. please.

i want to go to ca this weekend but that's not going to happen. i don't think i will be in ca until january. my plan is to be there after baby boy stone is born. for the holidays i will probably sit on my couch drinking eggnog and eating pizza. or maybe i'll go to florida. it's hard to say at this point.

one last note: guys are confusing. hmmm.

get your h1n1 on

so i decided i was feeling less chipper than usual on friday and so it would probably be a good idea to hole up in the apartment all weekend. BEST DECISION EVER. i watched the complete first season of 30 rock and about half of the second season. that's a good 14 hours of 30 rock from friday night to saturday night. i love 30 rock. i feel a weird association to lemon. and usually after watching 30 rock i start to do weird things. i think the show messes with my mind. for starters, last night (for the second time in the last few months) i attempted to dye my hair to match the color of lemon's. once again it was a fail but not as tragically as last time. last time we had pink, this time it's a nondescript brown color that you would assume just naturally grows out of my head. joseph said i shouldn't dye it darker and i believed him but then brianna said why does it matter what joseph says and now i'm all confused. i'm going to take a few days and then figure out what i'm going to do.

so saturday afternoon i decided i needed some pizza for my 30 rock marathon. so i log on to papajohns b/c they let you order online without speaking to a person. but i forgot that the last time i ordered online i was at work. anyway about 30 minutes pass and i get a phone call from work saying hey people just tried to deliver pizza here but we sent it back. long story short the pizza man yelled at me and said he was canceling my order and i said ok and figured out something else for food. what a weekend!

we went to new york a couple weeks back. we took a bus in the middle of the night. the bus dropped us off in chinatown a 6 AM. chinatown at 6 AM after spending all night on the back of a bus is not some where you want to be. needless to say, i threw up 3 times within the first few blocks of being there. other highlights:
being lost on the subway for hours
-jim falling asleep on a bench in central park like a hobo
-seeing kaley which includes the coining of 'shark rape' and having the world's most delicious cupcakes
-fao schwartz has a build your muppet program
-having a sniper riffle full of fun

i could really go for one of those cupcakes right now.

i miss jack in the box. i'm watching the news right now b/c i'm pretending i'm hanging out with nate (hanging out with nate like this is reallllly boring... all he does he talk about the news) anyway there was just a commercial for some other fast food burger place and it made remember the cheesey meaty boys. they were the boy band that pitched the ultimate cheeseburger. cheese meat cheese cheese meat and that's it, baby you know it's hot and juicy! i loved that burger b/c there aren't any vegetables on it. screw vegetables!

so yesterday i bought this chocolate with bacon in it. not delicious. it was like the world's crappiest bacon. if they had used normal bacon it would have been great but instead it was terrible and made my head hurt.

"coach says we're a second half team" is that a compliment? i'm not totally sure it is. i just heard that on the news. hmm.