Footprints on the Moon

What are you guys watching on TV this summer? There’s not a whole lot on, but I have managed to find a few things to watch that isn’t reruns…

Big Medicine, on TLC
Real Estate Pros (formerly the Real Deal) on TLC
Criss Angel’s Mindfreak on A&E
Rescue Me on FX
and I’m looking forward to Property Ladder on TLC.

Can you tell I like the house flipping shows? And TLC? I watch them a lot during the evenings… they are all reruns, but I haven’t seen quite a few of them yet. If I have, I just start flipping channels and looking for something else. The funny thing about all those shows I listed is that except for Real Estate Pros, which is on Saturday nights, I tape all of the rest of them because they are either after my bedtime, or I don’t want to stay up late enough to catch the end of them! Is that sad?

In answering the phones all day long, we get a lot of sales calls. We also get a lot of bogus sales/service calls. My personal favorite is “Hi this is Sarah with customer service on the copier. We just need someone to get the model number off the front of the machine.” And then they send you a case of toner cartridges and charge you out the behind for them. Hahaha, if you *were* customer service on the copier, you’d probably tell me what company you were with, and oh yeah, you’d be standing in front of me because our copiers/fax machines/etc are handled in-house by Xerox. And trust me, they bring their own toner with them.
Now, if they were calling with an offer on Dell inkjet cartridges, I might be slightly more interested (though I’d prefer to go through someone reputable), as I have a Dell printer at home. Actually pretty much all of the computers here are Dells, but my printer here is HP, and the copier/fax machine is Xerox. Figure that one out! LOL

The landscaping company is here today, and they are trimming the bushes and getting all the dead stuff out, mowing and all that good stuff. But they hacked up my poor trees! My desk faces a window, and there are two trees side by side right outside. They’d finally recovered from the late snow and frost we had this year, and were full and beautiful. The landscaping company just got done thinning them out, and they look so sad. They stripped off most of the leaves on the insides and thinned out the edges. Granted, now I can see the gate on the other side of them, and I couldn’t before, but that’s not the point. What do they think I am, a security guard? Visibility isn’t important for security, is it?

Several of my friends are either off on vacation or preparing to head out, so I know I’m not the only one who is in need of a good leisuretime promotion. Unfortunately, I can’t really take a vacation right now. I can’t afford it, and I’m saving my vacation time for a trip to Vegas in November. But that’s okay… leisure time doesn’t have to mean a vacation. I’ll take a day at the beach. Or even a nice and distracting hobby.
I do have a mini-break coming up… in just a couple of weeks, my friend Bethany from college is getting married. Since the area we went to school is almost 3 hours away, I’ve decided to spend that weekend in a hotel… with a pool and a hot tub. Heck yeah! My mom is going to come down with me, and I’m really looking forward to it! Just don’t remind me that I have nothing to wear to a wedding.

I haven’t really been writing over here much this week… that’s due mainly to my not having much to say besides whining. There’s been lots of drama at work lately, and since it’s about things I can’t change, and things I can’t really write about in public anyways, I kept my whining “behind closed doors,” so to speak. Though I feel sorry to my poor friends who have had to put up with my whining and complaining this week. Sorry, but they’ve just given me lots of things to complain about! When my boss and I were pow-wowing in his office I was getting upset (which of course freaks him out), and I said that I just felt like I was being attacked, and he said “Imagine how it is for me!” Which is true… so I’m trying to take deep breaths and not worry too much about things that are out of my control. Trying being the operative word.