I have seven work days left!

I spent all day today working on the two projects that I can work on without help from other people. From 8am-12pm I spent it working on my latest manual (two and a half work days later, it’s pretty much completed - I went for a minimalistic approach this time in terms of photography since it’s not quite the job you can follow a book for). From 12:30pm-4:30pm, I edited my manual (yay) and organized files for Michelle’s Great File Compiling Project of 2008. Yeah, that was exciting. I got sick of sitting in the room for so many hours that I ended up going out into production and sitting in the office talking to people while editing.

D and D had this conversation about me, right in front of me. Something about how all I ever do there is lie to them. And then (the nice) D was kept on hitting me in the side of the head with an empty plastic water bottle and kept on trying to say that Clay was the one doing it (since about 5 minutes before D started, Clay had thrown a stack of clean foam cups at my head). Seriously, my head got so much abuse today. I ended up snapping at both of them since they kept on doing things to me today. I actually, I pretty much snapped at D, D, K and Clay. Why? Well, K summed it all very nicely today: Michelle’s just a raging bitch. Thanks K, really, thank you very much. Bite me.

But for the sake of sanity and not kissing-and-telling altogether too much… Things did get better at around 4:20pm, just around ten minutes before I went home. And no, I not sharing what happened unless anyone really wants to know (in which case, ask me on msn). But yeah, it was nice.

Welcome to layout number seven of ImaginarySunshine.com. I’m your host, Michelle, and this is layout seven with ‘hot air balloons over the city at sunset’. I hope you all like it, I know that I do.

Work was okay today. I have fifteen pages for my lovely second-to-last manual that I’m writing for work. Yay for being accomplished! I got a lot of work done. However, I cannot touch eight of thirteen of my projects until next week when people involved get back. Yay for pushing everything back to the last possible moment…

I’m just going to go and fall over and sleep now. Or just rest my eyes a bit.

100 days ago on May 10th, sometime between 12:00am and 1:00am, I asked Clay out on a date. I know, exciting eh? 100 days later, we still haven’t gone out on a date. However, we’ve probably had over a dozen arguments over stupid, serious and/or silly things. Go figure. I can’t even think of how many bags of Skittles I could have possibly consumed between May 10th and today, I just can’t. I can’t remember how many hugs have been shared, how many late night conversations have occurred, how many times I’ve fallen asleep on him during a chat and how many text messages we’ve exchanged. I can’t remember how many times I have called him an asshole to his face, but it’s been quite a bit. I can’t remember all the silly little nicknames he’s come up for me over the last 100 days. I can’t even remember half of the ones I’ve come up with for him. But what I can remember most vividly is the first kiss that we shared. I was on my tiptoes, and he leaned down to close that distance. We were standing just inside of the first aid room at work because he claimed to not know where something is and I knew where it was, so obviously helpful little me got up to help (plus, I was reading a manual and it was boring as hell and I wanted a break). There was a hug, there was a kiss, and then it was back to work.

Oh, and it also happened today.

Work was awesome… Huge exaggeration. Considering I spent the day working on my new manual. Which was oh-so-exciting. I ended off the day with 10 full pages of text and no photos yet. I attended a meeting. I spent an hour talking to assorted people about whatever. So, nine more days of work and thirteen more projects to complete. While I’m looking forward to being done work and going back to school, I’m not looking forward to attempting to pull a horseshoe wrapped in four-leaf clovers out of my ass in a wild attempt to get this stuff done. It also doesn’t help that I’m forced to play musical computers and am constantly forced to move, despite the fact that they recognize that my work is “also very important”. Yeah, sure.

I found out today that my family is all jetting off to see the world and leaving me all by my little lonesome. The problem? Not all three of them are going to be gone at the same time. There is always going to be one person staying home with little Michelley who needs to attend classes. For one week in October, my mom and sister are going to the Grand Canyon.  For a month (beginning of October to late November), my dad is going to be gone. For two weeks in November, my mom’s going to be gone (and joining up with my dad).

Yes, that’s right, my dad booked a plane ticket for himself where he will be gone on my birthday. And I mentioned this. And he had this blank look on his face. Kind of like “What do you mean I’m not here for your birthday?” and then I saw the moment it dawned to him that he really wasn’t going to be here on my birthday and he just gave a little shrug and went ‘okay then’. So I’m just learning how important I really am to my dad. And the thing is, I’m really torn about this. Am I happy that he’s going to be out of my hair for a little over a month or am I’m upset over the fact that he forgot about my birthday? Or both? Do I get pissed over the fact that he forgot his own daughter’s birthday (actually, he technically forgot two of his daughters’ birthdays since I share my birthday with J)? What am I supposed to do with this? Do I get upset? Am I happy? Do I ask for something incredibly expensive and extravagant for my birthday? Because right now the most extravagant thing I can think of is my tuition and the pile of textbooks that I need to get my hands on sometime in September.

I have some new content today!

• Top 10 Gifts to Give to Your Ex
• Top 10 Inappropriate Gifts

I hope everyone has an awesome Sunday August 17th. I’m going to be going to the beach for a party later today at around 10:15-10:30am and then going to an awesome night market from 7-9pm. I hope everyone has a great day and the next time that I post will probably be tomorrow. Have a great day, everyone!