so i had to make cookies last night to bring into work today. i made peanut blossoms (those rocking little peanut butter cookies with hershey kisses in the middle) and they turned out awesome!! They're so good. I rule. I used the hershey kisses with the almonds in them. I hope there are some left at the end of the day so i can take some hom, but i kinda doubt there will be (dammit). anyway, so yeah, i'm an oustanding baker :) (and i'm really modest).

soyeah. then when i got in here our computer system kept going down. so i got to waste an hour and a half chatting while we waited for it to get fixed. rock :) yeah... and now it's up and i'm still wasting time... i just have so little actual work that i really have to stretch it out to look busy... beh. i hope the day goes quickly...

i'm going to see Lord of the Rings tonight with Beck and Alex. I told Beck to tell her brother to come early, and I hope he does, because I don't want to wait in line alone. It's kinda a dorky movie to see, and i don't want to be standing there alone... also, if i get seats alone, i don't know how i'd be able to save the seats and at the same time somehow get their tickets to them... so far it doesn't look like the shows are selling out, but i guess it's still too early to tell. maybe the 630 show that we're going to won't sell out because it's so early... anyway, i can't wait! :)

so yesterday i went Christmas shopping and I've got pretty much everyone done. I still have to buy something for my dad and my stepfather though. men are hard to buy for. I may have a few ideas though...

I used my $15 dollar gift certificate to Best Buy that I got at the office Christmas party to get a little pair of speakers that I can plug into my MiniDisc player (well, I used $11 dollars of it) so I can listen to my music at work. Rock. I'm so happy that I can sit here and listen to good music. I've got HOTD playing now (but that's not a surprise to anyone, is it?). They rock.

I'm so bored at work today. Everyone in my department is apparently really swamped, but I've got nothing to do. This is because I'm the new girl and they're only throwing the simple claims at me right now. And, since they have no time to teach me what I need to know to start handling the more difficult claims, I'm not sure when this boredom will end... My supervisor is going to be out next Thurs and Fri, and I'm thinking those are going to be really boring days for me. I'm probably just going to sit here. Ugh. But, I know that this lack of crap to do isn't going to last very long, and I'm going to be overwhelmed soon, so I guess I should just enjoy it while it lasts.

beh. bored. i took an online typing test at typingtest.com and my best time so far is 68 wpm with 98% accuracy. rock. I'm going to try some more and up my score... wow, i'm hella bored. but at least all of management just went out to lunch so i can sit here and do nothing and goof off and not feel so bad...

i got a treat today at work! a vendor sent insulated lunch bags with a pen (a nice one with a cushy grip) a notepad (sticky notes) and a bag of lindt dark chocolates inside for everyone in the claims department. yay! very exciting. Right around Christmas time is a great time to start a new job! :)

just so everyone knows, it's Lord of the Rings day! Yay! :) I just finished the first book last night, and now i get to start on the second. I wanted to finish it before I go see the movie on Friday, but I don't think that's going to happen... ah well. i can't wait to see the movie friday :)

so i haven't finished my shopping or sent a single Christmas card and the big day's only a week away. I suck. I'm going shopping tonight, and hopefully I'll get a lot done. Beh. I wonder if it's just too late to send out cards. If I get them tonight... beh. not worth it. I'll have no time to write them out... they won't get written out till like saturday or something and then won't go in the mail till monday... i dunno. perhaps i'll still do them..

so i'm at work and my bosses are all in a meeting and i've really got no work to do right now, so i'll just sit here and goof off and post to the blog. i'm wrestling with a decision: my mom and stepfather are going to be in pottsville with the family from the Christmas eve until that friday (the 28th). i don't have any time off, 'cause i just started this job (I work a half day Christmas eve, and then have Christmas day off of course, but i have to be back at work that thursday and friday). anyway. so i wouldn't be able to travel down to pottsville until that saturday morning, and then i'd have to leave early afternoon sunday to get back here and get rested for work monday. mom said that she might be able to change her plans and stay that weekend. but i'm not sure... it's just a lot of travelling to do in one weekend. it takes 5.5 hours to get down there. i'd love to see my family (and especially my mom) for Christmas, but i don't have any money this month and all that travelling... ugh. but i'll feel like a giant turd if i don't go see my mom around Christmas. ugh. holidays suck.

so i can't believe how tired working makes me. i suck. 8 hour days completely wipe me out. as i'm typing this, all i can think is "oh my god it's 1030, i should really go to bed" and i'm actually tired... wow. i'm such an old woman.

so i went to the advent penance service today. my soul is now free and clear of sin. so if i die now, it'll be in a state of grace. but really, that's probably not going to last too long. if i wasn't such a wimp and didn't want to have to sit there and list to the priest my sins in the little confessional room i'd go to confession once a week. but i mean, come on. at my church he sits there and sees you before/after you confess but during it he sits behind a screen. he knows who he's talking to. i can't imagine sitting there and being like, "bless me father, for i have sinned..." and then telling him everything i've done. of course, what that really means is that i should abstain from my evil ways, then i wouldn't have to worry about it. but... yeah, Father addressed the sin of sloth at the service. Sloth is when you know that you're doing something bad, but you don't change your ways. So that's what I am. A sloth.

beh. own it.