A Lotta Bull

There's a guy at work named Rakan. "Rock on" is how you pronounce it. You can imagine the struggle I have every time I need to get his attention. I am always right on the edge of giggling and saying his name like 10 times really fast and loud. I know, I need to grow up. Today he helped me find some of our company videos for promotions. It was REALLY hard not to say, "Rock on, Rakan!" So I'm writing it instead, to get it out of my system. It's really not as satisfying to write. Someone on my team is dating him and I swear, every time he walks over to say something to her, I find immense pleasure in saying, "Hey, Rock on!"

It's really key to distract myself especially this week as (a) I've been home sick two days and I get absurdly bored sitting on the couch, (b) we are in heavy negotiations with sellers of a house we want and they're not playing fair AT ALL (I'm not being childish), and (c) I get bored with the same old same old with work so slow. So please, PLEASE distract me in any way you can. I beg of you!

J pointed out to me last night that my big thing to say lately is "I call bullshit." With all the house negotiations lately, it is true, I seem to say it a lot. As we were getting ready for bed last night, he said, "Yanno, when you say it, are you actually planning to call Bullshit? Because you've been talking about him a lot lately and I'm not sure if I should be feeling weird about you calling someone else all the time when you're pissed." He's got a point. I have called Bullshit a LOT lately. But you know, it's not an infatuaton. It's more a compulsive obsessive need to establish my wisdom about house negotiations. Here's my wisdom in a nutshell: (a) I like the general look of a house (chuh-ching! That'll cost us 200k from the get-go), (b) I can/cannot cook in the kitchen as it is (value can fluctuate 15k either way), (c) hey, there's a small room that could be converted into a walk-in closet (score! +10k), (d) OMG - there are exposed pipes all over the house (LAME: +5k to hide them in columns and cases), and (e) (I'll spare you all of the other ridiculius crap I look at with a house - thank Buddha J looks at the important things like electricity and the foundation) the yard is green (+30k). That should make 245k right? Yeah, I WISH that is what it cost to buy a house around here. But we are having fun looking and dreaming. Just occasionally ringing dishrags with the negotiations.