notes from work: jury duty

so yesterday i had jury duty, meaning i didn't have to go in to the office, which was rad.

it was a pretty interesting day - sat in the jury waiting room for 2 hours, and then got called with a group to go into a courtroom. was one of the first ones called up to get interviewed as a potential juror, and as they told our group the specifics of the case, and named all the witnesses prosecution would call, they mentioned four long beach cops. being a cop wife myself, that was the moment i knew i would be cut. and when i had to tell them about myself, and what i do and what my husband does, i really knew i would be cut. and four hours later, i was, so no big fatty 4 day criminal trial for me this time suckas!

it's kinda too bad, i was really digging the inside scoop on people's court style procedures and would've liked to have seen the entire trial... but at least i could get back to work!


so this morning, i got to work and started checking emails.



i was all relaxed, had my proof of jury service certificate sitting there for my boss.



i hear her barge into the office (she's a bit overdramatic sometimes about mornings) - she comes right over to my desk and demands my jury service form.



"calm down pumpkin, it's right here", i told her and handed it over.



"you know this shit looks forged, right?" she said. "didn't you write your name in yourself? this is totally your handwriting. i know your handwriting. did you bring your fifty bucks?"



"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT" i yelled at her, "you guys are supposed to pay me, or not pay me for jury duty days it's not the other way around!"


"listen dude i don't make the rules," my boss says, "all the laws are different when you're self-employed."


"also, did you see that adorable cupcake hat on etsy? i'm totally gonna go buy one right now."


and then to add insult to injury she demanded that our secretary take a photo of her giving me back my jury form all official/graduation day style. my boss is a jerk.

BRR and GRR

lemme just say the one thing i hate about winter is i already get cold super-easy, i don't need help from mutha nature. so now it's the middle of december and it's getting pretty cold out (no seriously it's for reals cold, like 40 degrees and shit!) and i can't get warm to save my life.

i wonder if there's some kind of medical procedure i could undergo to make me have normal people body temperature and not constant chilliness. like i think it's unnatural how cold i get - today's little monster market was in a parking structure, and given it was not in the direct sun BUT i wore warmy-warm socks, long john pants and shirt, jeans, a shirt over the longjohn shirt, a hoodie over the shirt over the longjohn shirt and a wool coat over the whole thing AND gloves AND a winter hat that has little earflaps on it to cover the ears AND I WAS STILL MUTHAEFFING COLD ALL DAY!

can i declare shenanigans on my body temperature and how do i go about doing that?

don't believe everything you read on the internet...

contrary to what i read on the internets earlier today, the sun is not a preferable method of burning a screen for screenprinting. i had that screen sitting in the bright bright sun for 2.5 hours and it still hadn't finished burning all the way, and it was too late by the time i realized that.

i have 2 more screens to try with using the regular photoflood bulb method, i'm crossing my fingers they work cuz otherwise i'm hanging up my screenprinting hat forever! or at least til i get some more photo emulsion so i can get the hang of this thing. it's actually kind of cool having something kick my ass like this, i wanna beat it SO BAD. like a really hard level of tetris or something. GARRRRR!!!

shannon elizabeth stinks!!!

ok lemme just say shannon elizabeth better watch her back cuz if i see her we're gonna have words!

on my way home from work i usually listen to ye olde am radio, one of the news stations to kinda get caught up from never really watching the news on tv. the other night when i turned my car on the reporter was interviewing shannon elizabeth about a movie she filmed that's coming out soon. at the end of the conversation something comes up about the premiere, and how since it's a love story set in vegas the people putting on the premiere wanted to bring couples out to las vegas for a few days for free, and that the first 50 callers get to do this.

i'm dialing so fast smoke's comin from the phone, and pow! i was one of the first callers. they tell me the lines are jammed, but that they'll take my info and call me or josh back in like 20 minutes.

four days later they finally call josh and start getting all our information. then he got busy with something at work and asked em to call me to finish setting us up for this 4 day giveaway.

so a few hours later, they call me. and put me on hold for 30 minutes. and then when they came back on the line, they were trying to sell us timeshares. so i hung up on them mid-sentence. and they called back twice in the next 30 seconds. ol' gil's gotta make a sale!

booooooo to shannon elizabeth for tricking me into almost getting hornswaggled!!! nuts to you, squirrel!!!

they say that crazy is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

this has been the one thing i'm really working on the most with going to therapy; i wanna stop doing the things that i always do that end up hurting me, letting me down, whatever. since i started making some major changes in my life over the past 6 months, it's kinda opened the floodgates to all sorts of positive changes and opened my eyes to things that i. have. got. to. stop. doing.

i'm realizing i can't make plans with certain people. that over the past 2 months there's a couple of people very close to me that constantly forget they made plans with me and just flat stand me up or break the plans a couple hours prior. i'm tired of being made to feel expendable, so i'm just knocking that shit off and will start making plans with other people until the stander-uppers decide they wanna hang.

i don't think i'm being bitchy here - breaking plans once in a while cuz something came up, like a test you gotta study for, is completely understandable. but constantly forgetting or making plans you know you're not gonna do just sucks ass.

on that note, happy tuesday to you and i'm off to do some work!