Monday, March 20

I can't believe how fast work goes sometimes, especially when I have a project to work on. My objective for Monday was to find boxes and feathers as part of my media kit project. The feathers were tough to find because I didn't want to order them online..I wanted to see them and see what size they were and they had to be cheap enough. The boxes, I just left up to Kristen which ones we would order because I didn't know the price range..but I did the research. We picked some glossy red boxes. They'll be great! I just hoped they would get here by Wednesday so that we could get the kits out! (meh, I found out today that they won't be here until Friday! *smacking forehead*)
Monday was Dave's birthday! We celebrated with cake on Sunday night as a group, but Monday we went out to a spanish restaurant for supper. I ate a small plate of hamburger helper before I left so that I wouldn't have to spend more than a few bucks on something small at the restaurant. I wasn't hungry going in, which was a good sign. I was hoping to just get away with ordering a coffee and socializing with everyone....
sigh.
Well, when you go out as a group (there were 8 of us) and don't get individual bills, I have to remember that I will end up paying at least ten dollars, no matter what I order or even IF I order. I need to remember that. Someone ordered a 13 dollar pitcher of sangria...I didn't even want any. Then we all split the cost of Dave's meals, and I ordered a small dessert for $3.50 to put my total up to $10 plus tax and tip for our party of eight. I was shocked that I had to pay that much, and it put a damper on my evening.
I've decided that if I go out as a group again, I want a SEPARATE check. I don't care if it's a minor inconvenience to the server, that's their job. I'm too dutch to pay ten bucks for socializing.
So, because of my cold, I was in bed by 10:30 that night...now, that meant I had to cut something significant out of my evening....so I cut out my computer use. Not too bad, but I did forget that I was going to do some filing for work for about an hour. Oops.
I'm realizing that taking work home if you have no social life at night can be good because you can get ahead and impress people at work the next day. I'd rather do on-line filing than do homework for class anyway. Plus, sometimes I do homework research online during slow times at work anyway. It balances out.
Anyway, like I was saying, I was in bed early because I didn't go on my computer (so I forgot to do some work on the computer). Yah, that's the whole story. Sorry for the tangents. I slept really well that night!