At work...

Had a great night last night. Went out for drinks with a few friends at Bambara... only a question came up. When you just go for drinks and have a credit card bill, how much do you tip? I've always done $1/drink and maybe a little extra. Some of the people did it that way, and then some were adament that it should be 20%.... I suppose I should look it up. The waiter, Jason, was very nice. He even seeked me out raspberries for the sparkling wine, which was very nice of him.

When I went to lunch there with Carolina (visiting me from D.C. a couple of weeks ago), Jason was also our server. He messed up our order, but he was very nice about it. Lunch was good too. It was the first time I'd been there...

I'm at work. I was thinking I shouldn't post here, but why not? I probably won't do it often. I was just interested in reading a friend's blog, and figured I may as well post something too. I feel like I remember Rob saying yes to my asking if he started a blog or not, but I was falling asleep at the time....

First Time

Having just read a friend's newly started blog, I figured why not start my own? I've been considering it for awhile, so I may as well just jump in........ only, what if I'm a bad blogger? I've never kept a journal, and I can easily see myself not posting very often at all, and then forgetting about my blog... thinking about forgetting about it makes me feel like that would be disrespectful to myself - like I don't care about myself.

I hate stream of conciousness, mainly because I hated James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. hmmm... I'm going to have to figure out how to underline this sometime. ctrl+u did not work and brought me to someplace scary - ok, just some code stuff, but certainly nothing I'm interested in playing around with at the moment. How can bold and italics be the only easy click options???

and now you see why I brought up the stream of conciousness comment... I kind of write in that style. hopefully this will not be too confusing for anyone reading... although I don't know that I plan on sharing this with anyone I know? How can I make honest comments about my day and those I know if they are going to read it? Isn't the point of a blog, kind of, to write out to the unknown and perhaps to no one? or it could be the parts of a diary you're willing to share with everyone, I suppose. There never really is a right way to do anything, of course... whatever you want works. Then again, writing stuff in here and having it found with my thinking it would never be found could be disastrous. then again, it's not like I have horrible stuff to write about people, do I?

I don't know... boy, do I ramble. I'm done... I know the real reason why I started the blog today and why this post is quite so long, when I was thinking of just starting with a "test..." I am procrastinating. I hate cleaning. Made some great progress this morning... but there is always plenty more to do. This is why I think I love Charmed (on the WB, with reruns on TNT)... I wish I could do magic. Just twiddle my fingers and everything is cleaned, exactly where I want it to be... how nice would that be?

Although I suppose this way I can appreciate the fruit of my labors... who am I kidding? magic would be WAY better... but here I go again. procrastinating. I have to get ready for work now anyhow... eat a quick (early) lunch, prepare a dinner to take in with me, and then get my butt on the bus. start another day... I won't be home until 9, which is so frustrating sometimes.

I can't remember the name of my blog... I'll figure it out. someone had taken the name I wanted... how annoying. Sheitoon, sorry babe, but I had to name it after myself in the end. :) I suppose that is better...

ok, back to the grind.