Phelps commerical

You know the commercial with the Phelps obsession?  That was kinda like me yesterday.  Oprah was filming her Welcome Back show for the medalists in Millennium Park across the street from my office and I missed it until they've dispersed.  Michael Phelps was on the sidewalk being interviewed.  Eh, oh well.....

I dropped Miko off at Doggie Day Camp today......hope she has fun and wears her out for a few days.  The bad weather and my lack of sleep has caused her to be indoors for the past few days so I hope this makes it up to her.

Are some guys forever fickle?  I have a guy friend who has a gf and yet look for others constantly cause he's bored with the one he has.  He broke up with her when he first moved to the city and then got back together with her two months ago.  A few days ago he met someone at a Cubs game and bonded, so he spent the day looking for her on facebook cause he didn't ask for her number after he walked her home.  How does he get bored in 2 months?!?!

WTF HAPPENED?!?!

How the fuck did China win two medals over US in gymnastics when they made mistakes (vault and uneven bars)?!?!?!  This just makes me question the validity of their judging in everything else.  At the vault, the Chinese girl landed on her KNEES!!! Are the judges BLIND?!?!?!  On the uneven bars the Chinese girl made major mistakes and crossed her legs when she landed!! 

I have nothing against the Chinese as I am one myself but HOW CAN THOSE CHINESE GIRLS POSSIBLY BE 16?!?!?!  I look young for my age but they're just stretching things!!! They look 12!!!!!  I have no doubt that they are underage.....if there's one thing I learned from working over there is that they are NOT known for following rules.  They can't even follow simple things such as getting in line and wait their turn in everyday life.  How would they follow a rule in something major like this when they feel it will put them at an advantage?   I once had an item ripped from my hands when shopping in a Gucci store because a visiting mainlander thought I might be holding the last one. 

I said I had nothing against the Chinese but I didn't say anything about agreeing with how they do things at times.

BTW, is the Austrian judge for the uneven bars final FUGGIN BLIND?!?!?!

Liukin should have won gold and Johnson should have won the bronze instead of Cheng Fei!!!!

There's so much to do in planning a wedding.....reception and ceremony sites, dresses, flowers, favors, colors, cakes.....AHHH!!!!  I don't know how people did it back then without internet . Mega dieting and exercising should begin....*sigh. 

Another friend is going to have a baby......I see her sick all the time at work and all day too! Where is the "morning" part of this morning sickness?  I makes me think twice before deciding to have at it.  It's not the only thing that's freaks me out......there were other details that were shared by the groom's mother at the recent wedding I went to.......things they don't tell you in all the bio/human anatomy and child development classes.

Existence on a board

We finally got a major project out the door, well.....ten drawings "pending" but out of 90, that's pretty good.  Especially when I had to draw a number of them from scratch and all had to be revised at least 10 times due to changes requested by the client.  We had a team meeting on Wednesday to see how things were going before the review (before stamping and sending out).  We wrote all the drawing numbers on the dry erase board and it ended up being 6 full columns.  "Wow.....my existence at _________is all on that board!"  I didn't realize how much I've done until I saw it all written out.  The project engineer jokingly told me I should take a picture of it for our company wide review in October.  The NE and I got major props in front of the important higher up management so we're hoping they're remember everything when our reviews come around in Oct.  

Disappointed not mad

I guess bffs are called that because they're the ones you can depend on when you really need help....no questions asked.  I had blown two tires and two rims (initially thought to be one tire only) on the way to STL last weekend.. Since my car has run-flats, a spare was not provided.  I had to tow it to Bloomington Normal and have the dealer there fix it.  I couldn't pick it up until Saturday because they close when I get off work on the weekdays.  I asked Yini to go with me and she immediately said she'd help.  She even helped me research cheaper car rentals.  Thanks Yini!  I know you got up earlier than the work week to help me out

*PREVIOUSLY*

I didn't want to trouble other friends for help as they have always come to my aid....so I thought to ask D and then treat her to dinner or something.  I needed someone to ride with me because I didn't have anyone to drive the rental from the dealership to the rental return.  She said she would like to but she promised another friend (S) she would go to the beach Sat. Since she was spending the night Friday at this friend's place so they could go to this party Saturday night (she's been looking forward to) she didn't want to piss this friend off. I'm fine with that, I guess I can't expect others to do what I would do.  What pissed me off was that she claimed she was in a lose-lose situation because if she went with me she would make S mad but if she turned me down, I'd be mad so she'd opt to not make S mad. 

1.) Don't go assuming that I'd be mad because you wouldn't help me out.

2.) Don't start naming my friends who could help me out

3.) Don't make it sound like it was a hard decision between going to the beach and going with me to Tim-buk-too.

4.) Thanks for rather "pissing" me off than someone who could hook you up with a party.

5.) I know you promised in advance and want to keep the promise.......and I provided late notice.  I would be more understanding of your principles if you weren't the type to flake out on me 99% of the time. 

If you don't want to help that's fine, don't accuse me of being pissed due to you turning me down....that in itself pisses me off.  I am disappointed, that's it.  What's really sad about all this is that I had coworkers (known for less than a month) who really wanted to help me out but couldn't because one needed to be in Northern Wisconsin for a wedding and another two had to work Saturday to meet a deadline that day.