Ch-Ch-Changes...

The weekend before last consisted of another do-nothing Friday night, a work-both-jobs Saturday, and another do-nothing Sunday. So bland. But last week things became interesting. I had a huge deadline on Monday that resulted in my working late on Saturday and Monday. Not only was there the incident with the guy; I also had to stand around for forty-five minutes in the freezing cold on Friday to wait for busses that were delayed by car wrecks. I looked like a lunatic standing there shivering and cussing nonstop. I caught this woman looking over at me from her heated car with concern and pity. I wanted to scream. But I knew that it was all going to change very quickly. And it did.
Around noon on Saturday - hours before I was expecting them - Michelle & David called and said they were bringing the car over. I got my new baby. The cutest baby I have ever had. I'm in love. First things first I took them home and filled out paperwork with them. I went to drop off my moody cell phone to be fixed. Then I loaded up the car for some future errands. Another nice thing about the car - it has a trunk. Hatchbacks are great for moving furniture, but it was so annoying to not have any private niche in the car. Now I have a trunk! Woohoo - it's the small things, I know. I'm like a kid in a candy store - I have a keychain remote control, power locks and windows, a car alarm, a sunroof, a functional radio station display with digital clock, and cruise control. My God, I've died and gone to car heaven. I absolutely love driving this car!
Sunday I ran some errands and got my hair cut and colored. Reddish brown. I'm trying to get used to it. If only it were a believable, human-looking pigment. I may just have to do what I never do. Go in and demand it be fixed. I want a natural-looking color. This red is for aliens I swear.
Monday night I called Chaunda and let her know I was in her neck of the woods. Dropped by a new bookstore that is the reincarnation of a now-closed bookstore I once worked at. Six of the people I worked with there either own, manage, or work at this new place. It's another adorable Cheers-of-the-bookstore-world. Tuesday night I went to comedy and then hung out at Beth's place for the first time. She has a cute house with two hyper dogs that would put any toddler with a sugar high to shame. There is no feeling quite like having a dog's tongue up your nose. I made up a song for the nose-digger to the tune of Barry Manilow's Copacabana, I was singing, "My name is Toby, the rat terrior. The cutest rat terrier on the planet." I started calling the little guys Ren and Stimpy. Though they both needed to be sedated, Toby is really stoic and dignified. Bear...well, Bear is just so ugly that he's cute.
Last night I went to a meeting and then watched an edited version of The Corporation that focused on the environment. My stomach was literally in knots. To think I didn't even see the entire film. I learned so many new things about RHGB's debilitating effects on cows, corporate patenting of genes, greedy traders' disregard of the tragedy of 9/11, conflicts over privatization of water supplies, and corporate complicity with Nazi Germany (I already knew about IBM but didn't know about Coke and some others). One of the main premises of the film is that if one were to evaluate corporations as if they were individuals, many would be diagnosed as psychopaths. Understandably so. It was nice to have a hero though. One CEO is trying to make his corporation sustainable by 2020. That's definitely a noble goal, one that I hope he can accomplish.
All in all, it's been a great few days!