Other Badasses Born On Dec. 31

Here's some other folks of note born on December 31, the momentous day I rocked the world with my presence.

Henri Matisse, 1869
Elizabeth Arden, 1878
Anthony Hopkins, 1937
John Denver, 1943
Ben Kingsley, 1943
Diane Von Furstenberg, 1945
Donna Summer, 1948
George Thorogood, 1951
Val Kilmer, 1959
Heather McCartney, 1962 (Pretending I didn't see this one.)
Nicholas Sparks, 1965
Donald Trump Jr., 1977 (Son of Comb-over and Ivana)

Sadly, Ricky Nelson died on my exact birthdate in 1985. Here's some further morbidity of who's stuck it out till the very last day of the year:

Hank Williams, 1952
Brandon Teena, 1993 (The transexual on which the movie Boys Don't Cry was based. I included this on the list because I was coincidentally watching the movie while looking at the list of those who'd died on December 31st...eerie!)

Oh Noes

Too adorable.Yesterday was our 1 year anniversary...yes, the honeymoon is officially over.

Source: I Can Haz Cheezburger

Flies in the Vasoline we are...

So I'm fully obsessed with Rock Band. It's gone from possibly unhealthy to definitely detrimental, since the game has led me to end more than one evening with a sore throat and less than 4 hours of sleep.

I'm doing vocals (if the sore throat comment didn't tip you off) with my husband in our band Poodles For Hire. Yes, Poodles For Hire PERIOD. My favorite songs right now are Enter Sandman and Tom Sawyer. Our friend Chris is rockin' out on the drums; he's pretty damn good. He's an actual musician, so he pretty much kicks ass at the whole game automatically, which I don't consider to be fair. Who said real musical types were allowed to play? It should be limited to off-key losers like myself.

In other poodle-related news, our toy poodle Holly is home! She's still quite hairy, since her grandmother is taking out her anger about my sister-in-law attending college on Holly's stylishness. She is having a birthday on July 13, so send her a present! (A gift certificate to Petsmart for some grooming would be nice. We're poor.)

Accent Quiz

Take this one:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html
I only got 64% Dixie, which is upsetting to me. The test did an excellent job at detecting the weird quirks of my accent that people have pointed out to me before.

I'm clearly an electrician.

Just to clarify - I'm a 22 year old who's still in college and technically employed as an office assistant at a corporate law firm. I make terrible money, despite multiple pleas for more and ridiculously non-office assistant responsibilities, including creating the company website, redlining documents and running personal errands. We are moving to a new office space shortly and will require a number of things to be done, all of which I am responsible for.

Recently one of my three attorney bosses D. asked me to write up a "work scope" for our electricians. Obviously, I don't know how to fucking do that, so I dodged it and did other things...until now.

My main boss A drags in these giant drawings from our contractors and tells me i need to contact "whoever 'Hoobie' at [big client] recommended to D" and tell him what we need to have done. Because I obviously know all about phone jacks and shit. She sits here at my desk and fishes through the drawings showing me these markings and going, "Now I think the open triangles mean an existing thing they'll have to pull...but wait then what do the half filled ones mean? Maybe those are new units...oh well there's no key, call P. and figure out what these symbols mean and then get all this info to the wiring guy and get a bid."

Okay then. I'll just do that. I'll just figure out what all of these drawings mean and call the contractor who's going to do the work and tell him what to do without sounding like an asshole. Yeah, let me just get right on that. WTF?

Envelopes for teh lose.

here's a conversation with my boss from this morning.

A (from file room): Don't we have any regular envelopes?

me (from desk): Do you mean #10s?
A: Just like regular normal envelopes
me: (walks in conference room, grabs #10s): like these?

A: No, like bigger...
me: (points at manila 8x10s we use EVERY MONTH to mail a large client's invoices): Like these?
A: no, those are trash, I don't know why we even have those

A: Like just a bigger normal like regular oversized envelope
me: (goes in drawer, fishes out $1/envelope giant 9x13 tyveks) like these?
A: (sigh) yeah that'll work

that's not REGULAR.

Color Personality Quiz

According to ColorQuiz.com, I am this type of personality:

Needs peace and quiet. Desires a close and faithful partner from whom to demand special consideration and unquestioning affection. If these requirements are not met, is liable to turn away and withdraw altogether.

I sound like a needy brat, don't I?