warning: really long rant ahead...

this really hasn't been a good week...

so, after i got back from being with my family, i had hoped everything with my life here would stay calm for a while... well, at least not piss me off... but no... this week has sucked... the big one...

i'm about tired of animals... the pets at my mom's place are all furry... and they leave hair everywhere... the whole time i was there i just felt gross and itchy... it was probably mostly in my mind, because mom vacuums twice a day and would sweep many times in addition to the vacuuming... but just seeing how much hair she would suck up and sweep up made me feel like it was everywhere... *sigh*... and then i get back to my place in MD and the stupid cats won't leave me alone... the past 3 days they've been getting into everything... and want to be on/rubbin' up on me at all times... and when you push them away, they just start howling... it's waaaay loud for a cat, and sounds like a baby crying... no kidding... and it's wearing on my last nerve... and don't get me started on that litter box... for the first month i was okay with it, it wasn't ever stinky, and really until i heard it running, i didn't even know it was there... but the past few weeks the smell has been horrible... just because it's self cleaning doesn't mean you don't have to eventually empty the waste from it... i think it's about time my roommate and i have another talk (not that it will do much good since nothing really came of the last talk i had with her about the cats)... i really just need to go to home depot or somewhere and find something that will be a temporary door... not just a curtain, but something cats can't easily pass through, and will block some of the smell... *sigh* i just want a place to myself again...

and i thought work was going slow and was being boring... that was until i was nearly yelled at yesterday for not having a project completed (which was due last week while i was out, and i completed my part before i left)... i had gotten an email from our EE project lead, last week while away, stating that we needed to complete this one project we were working on by COB friday... well, since i didn't return till monday, i had assumed this had gotten done... and since no one said anything about it monday or even tuesday, i figured it was no longer in our hands... well the overall lead came around yesterday wanting to know where it was... since i was the only one at my desk, i took the brunt of it... so, i conveyed the message to my coworkers and the EE lead was like "oh yeah, i guess we need to work to get this finished..." and i was thinking "hell, you could have told me this on monday that way i didn't sit here for two days twiddling my thumbs and wasting time..." very grrr... i just really don't like having to take the fall for someone else who dropped the ball... in the workforce, nothing pisses me off more...

it's also been super cold in my office... the AC is on so high that it blows my hair around while i'm sitting at my desk... even if it's not warm outside... the building management says there's nothing they can do about it, and their thermostat shows that it's quite comfortable in my area... no shit, the thermostat is across the room from the vents, it is comfortable over there, but when you're directly under a vent, it's freakin' cold... so this morning i'd had all i could take of it... not even 55 degrees outside and the AC is on even higher than usual... so i decided to take some packaging paper and cover the vent... luckily, my boss was able to remove some ceiling tiles and found a way to redirect the air without totally covering it up... so at least i'm not sitting here freezing as i type this...

and the traffic around here has been super bad the past few days... yesterday, it took me over an hour and a half to drive home from work... that trip usually takes 45 min on a slow day... and this morning it took me just as long to get to work (usually 35 min)... i think that's why i was so pissed off over the temperature in here... after sitting in traffic for nearly 2 hours, the last thing i want to do is get to work and have to bundle up for winter before i can begin working... especially when it's late spring/early summer...

i think i just need a vacation... and not just some 3 day weekend... a real vacation... but it doesn't look like i'm going to get that anytime soon... *sigh*... life's a bitch...