cake, anyone?

on august 22, the Mare will start its second year of life. who would have guessed this would have gone on so long? certainly not me. my attention span typically doesn't last more than 23 minutes. when i'm at work, tho, it's more like 45 seconds. seriously, i think i have some kind of adult attention deficit disorder. have you seen that commercial where the woman is sitting in a meeting thinking about what her kids are doing and where her husband is and a convo she had earlier that day and then someone calls on her? that's a lot like me. except without the kids. and the husband. and no one ever calls on me in meetings. until today! in a staff meeting, i was sitting next to my manager's manager and he turned to me with, "is there anything you'd like to add here?" wow! there really wasn't, but i went with it and said 1/30 of a minute worth of nothing. it was impressive, just ask neil.

also impressive is the CD i bought last week. it's full of wonderful angry music - very work appropriate. my new favorite song is called "out of control." it has a lot of yelling in it, especially at the end. it's totally going in the car on my next road trip. one of these days, i'm going to unplug my headphones and let the yelling and screaming and head banging fill the executive wing, which is where they moved me at the beginning of the month. they'll regret it by the end.

but no, i could never do that. i have a mortgage to pay and a dog to support. someone else might have to support her very shortly if she keeps getting up at 3 a.m. because she's hungry. the humane society maybe. or mom. i think mom would be happy with a dog. and even if she isn't, her landlord would love it. zoey could become the edinboro community's mascot. she could go to work with the hobb's boys where she'd find fame for being afraid of everything from the automatic door to the cash register to the forklifts. of course, if she lived with mandy, she could be afraid of ethan, and buster would finally have someone to boss around (besides brad when he visits).

anyway! so, yeah ... that anniversary is still a few days away.

a year of this, eh? and you're still around? wow.