i won't tell your secrets...

it is 3:20am and i am wide awake. i do not wish to be so, but i am. i had a rather nice april fools day and went to bed 5 hours ago in a good mood. now that i am not sleeping, this good mood is quickly disappearing.

i haven't had a rental car all week because they weren't available at reasonable prices (the normal budget office did not have any available because of spring break and the airport had them for $45 / day - NOT good. normally, i get it for less than $30 / day). so my coworker has been picking me up. he picked me up early on thursday morning because we had an early meeting. got to work and started getting a bit of stuff done on this massive project i'm not liking so much. i spent part of wednesday night doing the project by hand and i also watched some netflixes. then i went to a cool restaurant with my coworker and his gf for lunch. i had a burger. it really hit the spot.

the office was kind of dead, which i enjoyed. since wednesday was a holiday at the office and friday (today) is a furlough, a lot of people took thursday off, as well. after lunch, i worked on my project a bit more and then my coworker took me to get my rental car (@ $28/day, thank you very much). my coworker is SUPER NICE - like, almost unrationally so. he and his gf are going out of town this weekend and so he gave me his parking pass for monday so i can park in his spot and not pay for street parking (which is like $10/day) AND he's giving me his key so i can go over to his place and do my laundry while they're away. how nice is that?? he also let me use his car the other night when i didn't have one and had a hair appointment. and he kept offering all week to let me use his car. so sweet.

anyway, at the budget office, the girl told me that they didn't have any "compact" or "economy" cars available (which is what i always reserve because i dont need the car for anything other than getting to work and getting groceries). she comes back and says "we don't have your size available, so i'm going to upgrade you for free." i said "oh, thank you." and she glances up at me as she says "it's a nissan altima." i kind of looked at her blankly until i realized she wanted me to be impressed. finally, i said, "oh, i know nothing about cars, so i'm not sure what kind of car that is, but if you tell me it's nice, thank you!" she kind of chuckled. i really had NO IDEA if that was a good car or not. i'm still stuck in high school thinking that this one guy's dodge neon was a cool car. whatever happened to those, btw?? it wasn't until she pulls the car up that i see, it IS a pretty nice car. THEN i get inside. it's a keyless car! like seriously, there is no key. it's just a button that you push to start the car! how COOL is that?? i have to put the clicky thingy in this little compartment so it charges, but other than that i do nothing! its REALLY NICE. and i have it for 3 weeks!! i'm quite pleased with myself for gaming the system like that. :)

so i drove back to work quite happy because i was talking to a friend who had good news. (hands free, of course!) i get back to work after 5pm and of course i dont feel like working anymore. i bummed around for 10 minutes trying to decide if i should stay. i couldnt really think of anything i needed to do at home, so i finally put on dwts from monday night that i missed and buckled down. i got a lot done and left the office at 730 to head to pf changs to get dinner before heading home by 8pm in time to watch bones, which, of course, was awesome. i love awesome tv shows. oh, and the guy at pf changs gave me a free drink to go! another fun thing.

i watched some podcasts and got tricked by TWO of them! one wine podcast gave an announcement that he was retiring, which kind of surprised me, then at the end it said "april fools!" and i was like "bra-vo! i did NOT see that coming." then i watched this other podcast called economy bites where they cook a cheap meal that lasts all week. she went to the store and bought some tv dinners and i thought "holy crap! this is TOTALLY CRAPPY." then, of course, "april fools!" i'm such a fool! it made me chuckle.

oh, i forgot the best part. my friend kj and i are about the blow this whole story out of the water. we have stumbled upon a discovery in our collective minds (well really she figured it out, but i'm making sure we don't get erased by posting on this blog as a whistle-blower). i can't go into all the details just yet, until we've figured out the conspiracy, so i'll give you a few clues....

1) take the guy in the middle...
2) now, take this guy in the middle...

3) put them together. eh? eh? EH?

just think about it. you'll get it.

... anyway, put all that together and i had a pretty decent day. oh wait. except now i have no job. i mean, technically, i never REALLY had a job, but i had a potential job in boston (did i tell you, btw, that i AM moving there?? yeah, i'm moving in with higgi in the morning in his FAB-U-LOUS apartment on tremont street effective may 1, but i won't get there until mid-may or so). so now i need to find a job in boston. to pay my rent. any suggestions? oh, and to be clear, i'll be here in sac until about may 14. i'll fly home to fargo but then the question is... do i spend my birthday in fargo or boston (or somewhere else)? and do i fly directly to boston? or do i drive my stuff out there? or do i wait until august when my mom has a week off to get my stuff to boston? (not "wait" as in wait in fargo - i'd fly to boston and then fly back to drive my stuff out. OR is that the way to do it??) i have no idea what to do. i need to make some decisions.

now its 3:52am. i'm not sure if i'll be able to go back to sleep but i have my trainer coming in less than 3 hours. bleh. i'm more excited to finish this project at work than i am to work out. just not loving it these days. i need to rollerblade again. i haven't done it in a while. and i'd like to figure out something to do this weekend. i'm sure i'll be sufficiently bored to pay my taxes and update quicken. oh, and apply for jobs which i had stopped doing. BUT i DID finish my resume, for the most part. so THERE.

oh, finally, then i really DO need to go to bed... re: this no-pop thing. i looked up tonic and it is considered a soda. do we consider energy drinks as soda pop, too? like monster or red bull. ah crap. i just looked up "energy drink" in wiki and it says its a "soft drink advertised as boosting energy." i guess that answers that. no more sugar free red bull for me. i just might miss that even though i drink it once a month or so. what about bubbling flavored water e.g. pellegrino. that's just water, right? not soda?

["i won't tell... your secrets... are safe with me..." is a line from alicia keys' song diary. i can't get these lines out of my head - it seems i woke up and i was thinking them. i wonder why...]