3 posts tagged “work”

Another Monday is upon us.  One day I will figure out how to control the way time goes so fast one days off and weekends to use during the work week.  Sure, I'm terrible at science and avoided physics in high school like the plague, but not only would it serve me well to be able to speed up a Tuesday in the office, but it's a surefire money-maker.

At the very least, I would like to move Daylight Savings Time to a Tuesday afternoon.  So that one minute you leave for lunch at 1pm, still only take your hour allotted lunch, but return to the office and it's 3pm. That would be wonderful.  Much better than losing an hour sleep.

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I finished Rob Thurman's fourth book in the Cal Leandros series last week. 

 

 

After reading, I'm not sure if this is the last book in the series (at least for the time being), as this book managed to wrap a lot of the major plot points that began in the first book.  It's also the first book that has a split POV and gives us a look into Niko's mind unfiltered (as we've always just seen him through Cal). 

I really liked it.  Probably my favorite since the first one.  And selfishly, I hope it's not the last of Cal & Niko.  I love their relationship and the supernatural quandaries they find themselves in.  However, the writer part of me can understand why she might want to move onto new things.

I definitely recommend this series to people who like urban fantasies, but specifically if you like the show, Supernatural.  it has a lot of similar themes at work.

 

I'm now hoping to finish up City of Bones (i'm refraining judgement until I finish) before Claudia Gray's next book comes out.

 

I have survived our big annual work to-do today, including a guest speaker from Toyota to discuss all the developments with hybrids and such.  It's fitting since I work for a non-profit all about getting the single driver-high emission cars off the road.  Yes, there were Hummer jokes - but anyone who drives a Hummer deserves to be made fun of and the speaker mentioned that Hybrids are big in our area, but if you head South or Midwest, they make fun of them. Le sigh.

Anyway, I'm hoping things will calm down some at least on the work front now for awhile.  The two big things of my year - the audit and the member breakfast - are done.

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To celebrate my pending work successes, I went to Best Buy on my lunch yesterday and picked up:

 

 

Season two of Supernatural is out.  More Sammy and Dean fighting evil and being the best pair of brothers on television (Though Nathan & Peter Petrelli are a close second).  This show has banter, amazing characters, and occasionally interesting lore.  But really, it's all about Sam & Dean as characters and their relationship.  I love them a whole lot and I adore how much they love each other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've wanted to buy this for awhile, but my family & friends kept telling me that I wasn't allowed to buy things for myself close to my birthday.  But now my birthday has passed so I picked up season two from Best Buy!  I think this is the season where the show began to find its rhythm with the characters, relationships, and crime stories (though season four did seem to get off track a bit again) and I just love the characters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I couldn't resist picking up the collector's edition of Serenity.  Sure, it annoys me that I bought the dvd when it first came out and why couldn't they have taken care of their fans then...but I'm a sucker for the Firefly 'verse so what am I gonna do?

Really, next time I bitch as to why I'm poor, feel free to link to this post and say, "Because you buy shit you really don't need, just want."

But I love this movie.  I love the Firefly world.  I love Mal Reynolds.

 

 

 

 

 

So yes, more dvds for watching is always good.  And I highly recommend all of those that I purchased.  Especially Supernatural - though I'd start with season one - because it's wonderful stuff.

Work is currently insane.  I don't mind busy.  In fact, I like busy.  What I hate is running around trying to do four things at once because my manager has ADD. 

::takes deep breath::

I'm also not happy that I haven't gotten my Supernatural DVDs yet.  This is why I don't like ordering certain things that I want right away online.  Damn me and not being able to manage money.  If I knew how, I wouldn't have had to order them ahead of time.

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