Spills

I am constantly spilling liquids on myself, on furniture, on other people...I could go on and on.

So I am going to log all of the spills I have made.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Spill (S) 1: tea on table @GroundCentral. Small.
S2: tea on sweater @GroundCentral. Small.
S3: Coke Zero at work. Travel mug top loose. Small.
S4: Coke Zero at work. Travel mug top still loose. Small.

Pikachu dance

GIRLLADYFRIEND

A messy mind

This explains why I eat crap but am very creative :) Your Messy Room Might be the Sign of a Brilliant Mind

Secret Agent Ham, Secret Agent Ham...

Invisible girl

I tried not being on Facebook and turn my focus on my blog, http://girlladyfriend.blogspot.com/, with links on Twitter and Facebook. I was getting wrapped up in the "news" (some real, some about cute pets) people were sharing and not paying attention to the outside world and my thoughts.

I lasted about three weeks. Not bad, I think.

I am still not on Facebook a lot.

However, I've been watching a lot of crime dramas, especially ones where there are cyber crimes (e.g., CSI: Cyber [horrible, but I'll watch anything], Scorpion). And FB is watching. So is Google. Everyone really is watching. It's impossible not to be followed. I have become a bit paranoid about it all because I was one of the people in the Anthem hack (I feel like everyone I know was on the Anthem list). I also know someone whose SSN was used and the hackers/thieves submitted a tax return in their name. 

First, that's horrible. Second, why submit a return? Like they are going to get THAT much money back? I just do not understand it.

So, now I am trying to mellow out about Big Brother watching. It's inevitable. 

That being said, if you don't hear from me on FB, don't feel ignored. It's because I am hiding in my post-war bunker.

WORLD SLEEP DAY?

World Sleep Day?! And I missed it? (I like the frog pose. Now THAT's a way to sleep)

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/what-am-i-seeing-april-10/24/

Yay - More "name" Coca Cola bottles!

The Coke bottles with names are coming back and they are adding more names, which I learned from Ad Age. This is one brilliant campaign. I definitely increased my soda intake (which was non-existent) just because my name or someone else's was on the bottle. I am so influenced by advertising. It's a good thing I don't have cable.

bark for me

From Frannie who found it on cuteoverload.com, adorable barking. Seriously.

Click here for the Cuteoverload.com post.

On my way home

Happy Birthday, Tour Eiffel!

Floriane Marchix—Google

Happy Birthday, Tour Eiffel!

Can't "Share"

from _DJ_

I am taking a break from Facebook because I find it hard to keep up. And I feel that I've lost the ability to write and read. Seriously. Unless it's a Terry Pratchett book (miss Terry already), I haven't read a book in at least two years. Yes. Two years.

Also, I feel out of touch with what's going on in the world. My daily news sources were Facebook and anything related to reproductive health in the world. Now I am going to try to actually read news on my own and not use "share" to get news.

"Share" is a great tool because I have learned a lot about different topics I would otherwise not know about. But most of my shares have been about cute animals. Cute animals are awesome, but every day? (OK, every day is awesome and must be shared)

My mind is actually having a hard time writing this. I keep moving between verb tenses. Aggravating.

My brain hurts.

Watching the Detectives...

I don't watch reality TV. I can't stand it. And it's not because I am being above it all, feeling superior to the raging idiots who want to be on reality TV. I know that there are some great reality shows out there with really great consequences for the people on the shows. I love Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson; and Nene Leakes turned out to be pretty damn funny as a comedic actress (granted she is just playing herself). But the other shows make me angry. I know there are a million actresses out there who want to make their mark, but is being on The Bachelor going to get you to the next step?

The real reason I don't watch reality TV is it makes me really nervous/crazy to watch those shows. I mean, the Amazing Race and Project Runway give me heart palpitations. Just thinking about them make me overwhelmed with stress. American Idol/Dancing with the Stars/The Voice take too damn long to get to the point. Dance or sing and then judge. Stop it with the bios and sad stories in between, and what's with the two days to get around to kicking people off the show? That just makes me want to throw things at the TV. Which would be bad because then I couldn't watch what I really do like: criminal dramas.

I am a crime show addict. If there is blood, people standing around waving neon lights to show traces of blood, or chasing serial killers and their minions around a dark maze of a bunker, I am there. I don't watch all of them and some come and go, e.g., Law and Order and its clones. But they are the bloody meat and potatoes of my TV watching. But I do realize the flaws in these shows. All of them are not conducted like real cases. I mean, no detective in her right mind would wear 5" heels and designer clothes running after perps like Beckett on the show "Castle" and why don't these people where booties when they enter a house where a murder took place. And why are they always touching things without gloves on?

Of course it's TV and not reality. Which is why I like it. Give me a good story. Let me suspend belief and reality for a while. There is one thing about these shows that I can't ignore. These police procedurals make it seem as if there are millions of serial killers out there. According to some stats I looked up (which probably alerted the Feds) there are possibly a couple of thousand worldwide. Of course, there are probably many who haven't crossed anyone's radar. But not the impossible number which Criminal Minds have identified and caught each episode. But of course, it's TV. Suspended belief. Except for the Following - that show seriously creeps me out.

Second office move

So when I first started working at my job I had an office by myself with a window. And I was told early on I would be moving to cubical land. But then I got into this office which I shared with a very funny lady.

And we had a window. But hierarchy being hierarchy we got moved to cubicle land.

So now I sit at at D. Sigh. I think I need to print a giant window for this corner. 

In my neighborhood, in my neighhhhhbooorhoood!

In your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
Say, who are the people in your neighborhood?
The people that you meet each day...

...who put this awesome sticker on the back window of their car.

The Frat Boy Diet

Because of my work schedule this week, I have been just grabbing whatever food is around, if there is time to eat. So mini candy bars, bagels have been staples. I've also been attending lots of luncheons where it seems that there is a giant factory in NYC making fancy greens salads with grilled chicken and round, single serve desserts. Yesterday, I gave my ticket away to someone senior, and the group hosting were generous and said I could sit wherever I wanted. However I had work to do so I didn't have the salad with chicken and round red velvet cake. So instead, after the luncheon, I had chocolate chip ice cream for lunch.

Today I gave my ticket away but I got to sit and have the salad with chicken and the round, ridiculously thick cheesecake. (I only ate most of the chicken, the tomatoes and some of the greens. I am not a fan of frisée.) And lots of water.

Oddly, this diet has made me lose weight. But it is also making me very tired. I wonder why? (rhetorical question)

I can't wait for tomorrow's luncheon. I wonder what round dessert I will get this time. I know what the entree will be.

Why I'm not religious

When I first saw this awning, I thought it said Starbucks is open

What happened to the waitress on the Supertramp album cover?

I was wondering who the waitress on the cover of the Supertramp album, Breakfast in America, and what happened to her. 

Cover by Haggerty/Doud

Well there seems to be a website called Sleevage that is a library of album art. So I found from that site:

http://sleevage.com/supertramp-breakfast-in-america/

"If Doud had the vision and ambition, cover designer Mike Haggerty had the chops to pull it off. He assembled the cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery, eggboxes, vinegar, ketchup and mustard bottles and spray painted them all white. Haggerty’s original instinct was to cast a busty young stunner as the waitress but the band preferred Kate Murtagh, whose bingo-wings and manic smile contribute so much to the cover.

It’s the first time I’ve thought about what an important American archetype the diner waitress is, almost as ubiquitous as the cowboy, the cheerleader and the policeman. Sometimes she’s beautiful and sometimes she’s motherly – but she’s always street smart and careworn."

So who is Kate Murtagh and what's she up to?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murtagh

From Wikipedia:

"Kate Murtagh (born October 29, 1920) is an American actress who has acted in such films as The Night Strangler (1973), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), The Car (1977), and Doctor Detroit (1983).

Her television appearances were on Daniel Boone, My Three Sons, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone andHighway to Heaven.

Murtagh is pictured on the front and back covers of the English rock groupSupertramp's 1979 multi-platinum recording,Breakfast In America. She is portrayed on the front cover as a waitress named "Libby," holding a tall glass of orange juice, in place of the Statue of Liberty in an illustrated depiction of New York City.^[1]

She is a native of Los Angeles, California."

Photo from the Aller Willis Museum of Kitsch 

http://www.awmok.com/2010/03/24/26329/