I don't really use Twitter all that much. Mostly because I just don't have anything to say. Today I posted a link to Al Franken's petition to keep bosses out of our healthcare. (I beg you to read his statement and sign the petition.) Well, of course that one Tweet was like political lawn signs and political bloggers or whatever flocked to follow me. I found that funny. One political Tweet out of 800-some posts and it makes me gain followers. That didn't happen when I was talking about cosmetics or corsets or anime. Only politics. Twitter really is funny.
Taxes suck
For my full time day job, I am a bookkeeper at a company that does continuing education for accountants. Of course, since it's tax season, this is our slowest time of the year. All of the raleigh nc cpa firms are spending hours upon hours muddling through all the tax laws. My taxes are fairly easy so I do them myself. I feel bad for anyone with harder taxes. There is just a ton of laws to know about. I'm always surprised that anyone can get through it. Oh yeah, don't forget - the tax due date is April 17 this year!
New glasses
I should probably get new prescription eyeglasses but I hate going to the eye doctor. It's been about 3 or 4 years since I last got new glasses. I tend to wear my contact lenses more often since I can teach my fitness classes in them. Luckily, I can order a couple of boxes of contacts and, since I take good care of them, they last quite awhile. Glasses aren't quite the same. Unfortunately, I bought cheapo glasses from a discount store online last time so the coating on the lenses is starting to peel off. I've never had that happen before. I guess I should get my butt in gear and get a good pair of glasses in case I really need them.
Fridays are so slow.
Fridays are the greatest and the worst days. They are great because, well, it's Friday and that is the end of the work week. Unfortunately, they also tend to be my slowest day until the height of our busy season. Most of my work needs to be finished by noon so a majority of my afternoon is spent googling raleigh business lawyers and stuff. It's awful. My brain has enough useless information in it, thank you very much. I don't need any more.
Halfway there!
I managed to finish the first half of Kamisama. I'm going to try really hard to watch the second half this weekend. All I need to do is focus and not get distracted by skidsteer websites or anything. Though, to be honest, the show is getting a bit better now. It was more difficult to watch when everything was so sad and depressing. I really hope that the second half of the series won't be as heavy as the first. (Considering the theme of the show, I'm not that optimistic about that.)
I'm really not lazy
Why does the week get away from me so much? I swore that I posted something earlier this week and, yet, nothing is here. I am still watching Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake. As predicted, it has been pretty sad so far. I'm hoping to power through some episodes tomorrow or this weekend and have the review ready by Monday. I need to get this done so I can move onto something happier. Like building military models. (OK, not really, but it still sounds better than getting depressed over a Japanese drama that is over a decade old.) Maybe I'll find some awesome videos to give you tomorrow. Just something to break up the monotony of me telling you that I'm still watching the show.
Super Bored
I am super-bored. There is still another 90 minutes left of my work day and I am utterly bored. Today is worse than most because a lot of the staff took a half day. I am the only one here in my section of the hallway. If I pop my head out of my office, I see nothing but dark offices all around me. It makes the place very lonely. So, I need some ideas of things to do because read Migraine drug free websites. Any streaming or social network sites are blocked. So I can't watch YouTube videos of kittens or anything. Any other ideas?
South Park
Our DirecTV DVR has been on the fritz lately. It frequently freezes the picture when you play back a recorded episode. My husband downloaded a fix for it but we're not sure it actually fixed anything. To test it out, we watched the latest episode of South Park that we recorded the other night. In case you didn't watch it, it was on those Cash 4 Gold places. While it was quite funny, it was a also a little sad. Stan's grandpa and other old people would spend thousands of dollars to buy gold jewelry from the home shopping networks. They would give the jewelry to loved ones who would then sell it at the Cash 4 Gold places. The show ripped into everyone involved in the whole scheme from beginning to end. But the sad part is that it showed how lonely the elderly are and that they really just want to spend some time with loved ones. Everyone should watch the episode and not just for the laughs.
Delightfully warm
Surprisingly, spring has sprung here in the Philadelphia area. For the past week or so, temperatures have been in the low 70s. Tomorrow it's supposed to hit 81! I guess that means it's time to put my electric blanket away. I can't really store it anywhere because my husband likes to turn the air conditioners to 'absolute freezing.' I'm probably one of the few people that has a use for an electric blanket in the summer. I am just super glad that it was a very mild winter and now it's over. I can bask in the warm sunshine for the next few months. It will be a delight.
Doritos Locos Tacos
My husband told me about the Doritos taco at Taco Bell the other day. He said it was pretty good. While I normally don't listen to him, I found myself wanting to try it. Today was the day. First off, let me say that I feel bad for the people that work "mcdonalds jobs." at fast food places. The Taco Bell I went to was at one of the local malls and they were slammed. Yet they still got my food out in a decent amount of time. Many props to those people. OK, the Dorito taco. I got the supreme version because I love me some sour cream. The best part of the taco was that the taco shell did not fall apart. Normally, I order soft tacos. I just can't handle taking a bite into a hard taco and having the whole damn thing fall apart. Since these only come in hard taco form, I didn't have a choice. Thankfully, the shell doesn't fall apart at all. I'm not sure how they managed it but win! The down side is that it's basically a big Dorito shaped like a taco shell. That means there is orange Dorito dust on the shell. It didn't make it untasty; it was just unexpected.
Would I recommend eating it? Yes, if you like Nacho Cheese flavored Doritos. Ooh, I wonder how it would taste if they used the ever-popular Cool Ranch flavor. Anyway, it was pretty awesome for a taco. Go eat one.