My interest was piqued by Ysabet’s mention of a ‘colors-of-love code’ on this entry in her Livejournal. When I went a-googling, I was thinking of something a little different than the resulting find (which I’ve read about before, and can’t remember the terminology I found it under), but this was one entry I found on Wikipedia that was apparently related to “colors of love.” It’s intereting to me in the same way the Kinsey Scale is.

Love Styles on Wikipedia.

…er…or is that the other way around?

So over the weekend, we had some purple-dreaded-halfling-ninja fun, along with kinda miserable loneliness, with a face-rending toothache chaser.

And by “face-rending,” I mean I had a root canal yesterday. My dental insurance only covered about 1/6 the cost, and it was not cheap. I wasn’t sure what I thought would give me more nightmares last night, the sound and sensation of having my face drilled at for five hours, or the bills that are going to be following me for the next twelve months.

But seriously, being near 28 years old, and fillings the most complicated dental work I’ve ever had done before…I was a little terrified. I still kinda am. I have a fucking fake tooth in my head for cryin’ out loud! I’ve gotta go back in three weeks to have the permanent crown put on. Hopefully it’s more comfortable than the temp, and seated a little differently. I’m not sure how anyone manages to have a normal bite again after something like this, when you can’t feel your face when they ask you if it feels right. Probably the scariest part is feeling like I’m going to have this pain for the rest of my life. I know it’s probably just the root and gums and all that healing, but it’s kinda hard to really grok that when it takes half an hour to eat one (normal, made-at-home) sammich.

Oh yeah, and did I mention I may have to have another root canal in the future? Yeah, good times. *sighs* That’s all I guess. Imma go try and be useful at work. Ha! Tylenol + codeine, I love you! ;p

Well there goes my financial cushion. To groceries and insanely high gas and cell bills.

And I was doing so well over the last two or three months.

Poo.

I’d love to know when I’ll be getting paid for doing three people’s jobs — that being my own, plus my coworker’s who runs the printers with me, and that of our graphic designer, who, it’s apparently been decided, I get to stand in for whenever he’s out.

I can’t really gripe at our design guy being out since he’s down with a bad flu, but the other girl…it just seems like the moment anything starts “going around” she catches it and skips work. Generally speaking, she’s ok — she’s actually pretty cool to work with — but this is not the first time I’ve been left in this situation, and it probaly won’t be the last. She didn’t even bother calling this morning (and that’s not a first either). She was out yesterday too, so she must have just figured we’d assume she wasn’t coming in. It makes me want to call her and say, “So…you’re sick, huh?”

It’s good that I can help out with the design stuff when I *need* to, but the stuff that’s been coming in since our designer’s been out is way outside the realm of simple typesetting.

*sighs*

I know it’s not that they don’t appreciate the work I’m doing now, or the stuff I’ve done in the past. Hell, I got a $200 bonus check a few months back when I stood in for the designer during a week-long cruise with his family. I think it’s just the fact that it’s expected, and nobody bothered to ask what I thought about it. And it doesn’t help that I want to take a day off on Monday (for some Bacchanal festivities! :D) and my supervisor/Production Manager is hemming and hawing over it because “we’re so busy” — which isn’t exactly true, and is a direct result of the fact that I’VE BEEN DOING THREE PEOPLE’S JOBS FOR TWO DAYS.

DX *explodes*

Ok. That’s all. I’m done. I just needed to get it out of my system. It’s not gone, but I can move on to other things now ;p

Guess who got a $1/hour raise yesterday! Nono, go ahead, I’ll wait *plays Jeopardy music* January was apparently our best month on record, so I’m not incredibly surprised that the raise came now. I’ve been here for almost a year and a half, and other than the occasional nerve-wrecking period, it’s been fantastic. Hopefully the rest of this year is great too. It’d be nice to end up with a big Christmas bonus to match my shiny new paycheck :D

Eddy and I had planned to start using the fitness center at my complex yesterday, but because of some incredibly dumb decision making, the only access to the gym is inside the “clubhouse,” which is only accessible through the leasing office. So the “brand new fitness center” they’re touting as one of the great reasons to move into the complex is only open 8am-5pm each day. Granted, we could still go use it on the weekends, but honestly? Who the hell wants to work out on the weekends, and only the weekends? Anyone who’s got a regular job (yanno, to pay that pesky rent) won’t be able to use the gym. It must be nice for them, that they never have to go in and clean anything, since nobody can use it. This makes me want to put on my shit-kicker boots and go stomp some sense into these people DX The complex itself is not bad. It’s not fantastic, but it’s not bad, and I really do like my place. But some of the policies and decisions make me wonder if the management has any clue what they’re doing, outside of taking our money.

So, in an attempt to start up some sort of exercise routine, I’m hunting Craigslist Atlanta, and various places online for a recumbent bike. Kelly has been getting great results from hers, and while, granted, I won’t be able to have the same awesome setup as she does (spinning and computer gaming at the same time!) I’ll be able to work out at home, while I’m watching tv or reading. Sounds great to me! I may go out and run a couple miles every now and then once I get back into the groove, but I don’t see that happening often. But I bought the first new pair of tennis shoes I’ve had in like…five or six years, I think? Yeah. I’ve been wearing the ones I had since about a year before I sep’d. I used to do unit runs in these things for cripes’ sake! :p It’s amazing how happy my feet are now now that they have nice springy new kicks. New insoles and everything *bouncybouncy* And New Balance still rocks the casbah. I’ve loved their shoes since I was issued my first pair on boot camp.

FridaySaturday is gaming with the boys (DJ Weasel and Metalepsis) & co. for the first time since December. I definitely think I’m way overdue for some purple-dreadlocked-halfling-ninja goodness, and it’ll be a nice change of pace from the usual Friday “come home from work and veg out on the computer” gig. Went and hung out with them for a bit last Friday. Watched the two Grindhouse movies On Demand. They were…weird. But very fun. Kinda makes me wish I’d gone and seen the double feature when it was in theaters.

And that’s pretty much it. Tweaking is mostly done on the website, though I think I may actually add static info pages for the handful of characters that I mention occasionally *shrugs* It’s my blog, right? Might as well have some junk up here that’s pretty much solely for me :)