Seven Words

Ommegang Abbey is a wonderfully tasty beer.

Fajitas!

Someone make me get off my ass and make fajitas. I was lazy and bought preseasoned, presliced chicken, precut peppers, no onions because I was too lazy to back track to the produce section to grab one, and white rice. I just have to throw the rice in the rice cooker, cook the chicken, and then throw the peppers in for a bit. So easy. But I'm too lazy...

By the way, I've had free lunch 5 days out of the last 7 working days. Seriously. The free lunches are quite possibly the best part of my job... Well, that and when good beer goes on sale for $6 a case. Yes. $6 for 24 bottles of beer. That equals 25 cents per bottle... Well, those two things and the guy who sells stew and donates everything to charity. It's seriously good stew... Well, those three things and the fact that I can wear jeans to work... Well, I'm sounding like the tenth Doctor Who now, so I'll STFU and cook my damned fajitas.

Is it over yet?

I made the mistake of starting a new job during the busiest time of the year for the business. So not only did I have to learn how to do my new job, but I also had to do double the work of the person I replaced. FUN! I've been working all day, evenings after work, and at least one day of every weekend for the last month. I've been there for two months and I already need a vacation. I've been told that things will start getting slower around the middle of February. Hopefully they won't fire me before then because I'm so far behind. It doesn't help that every other company owned by the Big Corporation has two of me working full time, plus another part time person doing the pricing portion of my job. In other words, I'm doing the work of three people plus some miscellaneous stuff for the office manager. Isn't that just special? But it pays the bills. That's all I can ask for right now... Well, health insurance would be good, but that should be happening in the next week or so. Then I get to choose the first thing to get fixed! Should I get my knee fixed (it hurts worse and worse every year), get my sudden inability to process things checked (I never had this problem until about two years ago), find a fix for my being colder and more tired than usual (new thing this past year), get my ears checked (my left ear has been hurting off and on for almost a year now), or try for some BC to lighten my massively heavy periods (that are actually much lighter than they used to be since I started using a menstrual cup instead of tampons)?

On the knitting front, I am almost finished knitting a sweater vest (my first v neck item!), am 1/3 of the way done with another Jayne hat, and am nearly done with sock #1 of the zombie socks. I haven't had much time to knit with all of the hours I've been putting in at work, but the sweater vest has been fucking flying off the needles. It would be a 1-2 week project if I had more time to work on it. I go through about 1.5 50g balls of yarn every time I work on the thing, and I am just about the worlds slowest knitter when it comes to worsted weight yarn. Needles between US 5 and US 8 just kill my hands for some reason...

I am so addicted to Torchwood right now, it's not even funny. I ran out of Doctor Who episodes yesterday (I almost started sobbing during Journey's End...), and am thisclose to preordering the complete specials dvd coming out next month that has the unveiling of the new Doctor. *sniff* The ninth doctor was my first, but the tenth is my favorite... Anyway, Torchwood sucked me in. It's like a sexy Doctor Who meets X-Files meets CSI. I love it.

Cooking! I've been cooking lately! Now that I can afford the ingredients, I've been making us eat healthier. Well, healthier compared to what we've been eating... Besides our usual spaghetti, baked chicken, and fish, I've made lasagna, bacon wrapped meatloaf, and two berry cobblers from scratch (including any sauces!). This doesn't sound like much, but it is amazing when compared to my usual level of cooking. I'm trying to put together a plan for next week and the week after, but I have zero motivation right now.

Current beers: Harpoon Octoberfest and Four+ Brewing Rype. Octoberfest isn't too bad. I'm not a huge fan of Octoberfest beers though. I didn't like Rype the first time I drank a bottle, but it's growing on me. The orange flavor makes it rather tasty... I had a bottle of Three Floyds Dogfish Head Popskull earlier this week. It wasn't half bad. Lots of coffee and chocolate flavor. Not something I'd drink regularly, but still pretty tasty.

Mmm... Beer...

I think I'm going to like my new job a lot.

• I get to wear jeans to work.
• It's a desk job.
• I actually have to use my brain.
• I deal with beer.
• I get a discount on beer.
• The people I work with are nice, helpful, and are ok with me asking a million questions.
• I'm salaried, so I won't ever get yelled at for going into OT.
• I actually get to use my degree occasionally. 
• The office manager says "fuck" every other sentence, so I don't have to censor my language anymore.
• I end up getting about a month of training in the office and out at corporate, so I may actually have an idea of what I'm doing by the time January rolls around.
• I do something different all the time, so I probably won't be bored ever.
• The hours are perfect. 
• I have weekends off.
• I can actually pay my bills, eat, and have money left over on my current salary, which is a very good number for an entry-level position. Plus, I'm up for a raise after 6 months and 12 months, and then yearly after that.
  

Prepare yourselves. I'll be a beer snob by the end of the year.

The only things I'm not too happy about are the drive and the spiders. OMG THE SPIDERS! There are spiders all over the friggin' office! The drive isn't that bad since I'm going the opposite direction of the heavy traffic, but my car just doesn't get good enough gas mileage to be driving 41 miles round trip every day. Good excuse to get a new car next year!

I GOT THE JOB!

'Nuff said.

INTERVIEW!

I like caps lock this week.

Remember how I said on Wednesday that I would know whether or not I got a second interview by next week? Well, they gave me a second interview Thursday morning. Seriously. Less than 24 hours after the phone interview, I had an email wanting to set up an in-person interview with the owners. They must really like me, which is good because I want this job more than any of the jobs I've applied for. It's perfect. The interview is Monday morning.

I went out and bought new dress pants for the interview since the one pair of good pants that I can actually zip are two sizes too big and have to be safety pinned at the waist. The other dress pants I own are two sizes too small. J is going to kill me, but that's ok.

Speaking of pants, I really appreciate how clothing companies are finally starting to realize that tall women exist and are making more pants in tall sizes. Now they need to figure out that those women who have to buy tall pants also have to buy shirts, skirts, and dresses with longer measurements. I'm sick of only being able to wear t-shirts and men's sweaters because those are the only things long enough. I want to wear cute shirts and blouses. I want to wear the cute sweaters in the women's section. I want to wear dresses again. I've not worn a dress since I was 17 because that's the last time I was short enough to wear a dress off the rack. Yeah, I could buy a new sewing machine and make my own dresses, but I really don't have the time for it.

WOOHOO!

Funny how fast things go sometimes... Right after I posted my last post on Monday night, I applied for a job. Just one. It was the only new posting that I hadn't applied for or at least looked at yet. I heard from HR Tuesday afternoon, and just had a phone interview about an hour ago. Woo! I'll know next week whether or not I get a second interview in person or not. This would be a excellent opportunity for me since they promote from within, have benefits, are actually hiring instead of firing right now, and the company is growing and obviously doing well since they just bought and moved into a larger building two months ago.

Cross your fingers for me! I wouldn't even have to move if I got this job!