booorrreeeddddddd....

hockey on the radio. hanging out. we tried a new thing for broadcasting the game tonight - doing it through the computer. i'm not sure exactly how it worked, but the engineer came in and helped me set it up. i have switched back to the phone line now (the computer thing was too fuzzy when he got loud or there was a lot of noise in the background). but before i switched it i started to hear funny things. i was on a commercial break, and i had the announcers mic on cue (so i can hear him, but it isn't on air). i started hearing sighing and breathing and whatever... i start looking around. and then i think, 'did he just sneeze?' so i do an extra commercial, and i can hear the announcers saying 'why are we doing 60 here?'. and right before i turn their mics back on, i hear 'i'm gonna kill you' in an attempted creepy sounding voice. i kind of look around - at the computer, back at the board. i put them on. i hear it again. and then i figure it out. rob, my old boss (from when i was 16 and worked here for 3 years) and the sports guy, is in the news booth, and trying to freak me out. it sent instant feelings of panic through my stomach as i thought it was something with the computer and it was going on air. but it wasn't. and it didn't. so no harm done. it was pretty funny actually. and then rob gave me a box of honey nut cheerios. cool beans.

i think i got a bit excited about the prospect of me getting a show prematurely. i don't know how good of a shot i have, or if i really have one at all. i shouldn't really say this just yet, as i haven't yet finished the mix to give patrick. i think he has an idea of something completely different than what i actually want to play.

yesterday during my monday afternoon shift i was OFF. SO OFF. i had no idea what i was saying. word vomit was coming out of my mouth, and things i was saying didn't make sense. i said 'news forecast'. wtf is a news FOREcast? what is GOING to happen in our community. agh. oh dear. i was BRUTAL. i kept pressing wrong buttons. patrick said i was probably under a great deal of stress, and to just chill and not worry about it. he said everyone makes operating mistakes, that he himself made one just the other day. OH WELL. i didn't do anything TOO major, in terms of operating. i did, however, sound like a complete twit when i was talking. i guess that happens sometimes too. also... right in the beginning of my shift... there was dead air because i was behind in time, and the news cue came early, and the news director wasn't there yet. and then they all told me i had to add a song. so i added feist, my moon my man (the only song we have in our library that i LOVE). as soon as the song starts, the music director comes barreling in asking 'WHY are we playing this right now?' and my meek, feeble response '... they told me i had to add a song because i was behind?' and she proceeded to tell me that the song was in our rest category, meaning we aren't actually supposed to play it.

oops?

i was all freaked out after that. shaken up. she was scary.

tyler and i have joined our bank accounts. we decided that it made more sense for saving for a house together to just have all our funds together. we pay for everything together anyway. all our bills, rent, insurance, groceries. whatever. when we go out and do stuff... we take turns paying for stuff... there isn't really 'my money' and 'your money' anyway. so we just joined it! and we made a budget. we should be able to pay off the money i owe, and save a good chunk every month to put away for a house.

i cleaned the entire house today. it was in dire need of a good cleaning. i have been so busy, and had so much going on, that it just wasn't really possible to do before now. i got all the laundry put away, our whole room cleaned. and i noticed some things about tyler (i was teasing him about it already... haha). he is a stasher. any corner of the house that there isn't anything in, or a surface that you could leave something on, or a hook to hang something on... he puts something there. i was walking around picking up jackets, taking pajamas and t-shirts off the hook on the back of the bathroom door, and all kinds of other random things and putting them where they ACTUALLY BELONG. also, when tyler changes, he just throws his clothes over the doors of his wardrobe. so there are big piles of stuff hanging over there. he loses track of so many things he owns, and totally forgets about them. i hung everything up. and organized his wardrobe. also, it killed me putting his laundry away in his dresser. he does the same thing that actually a lot of people i've known do. it's like horror for me. since i was little, the organization of one's dresser is KEY. everything must be folded, and put in drawers with like items in a specific place. my dresser is very well organized. in my younger days i would opt out of putting things away, out of laziness, and just put things on the floor. but i would never just shove things in my drawers. tyler takes the piles of laundry that i neatly fold for him, and just puts them in a drawer. again, totally losing things and forgetting he has them. so i took everything out and organized that too. it made me feel much better about putting everything away.

i also vacuumed, unloaded, loaded, and unloaded the dishwasher, washed what was left, tidied the house in general, and got all the recycling together to take in (hopefully tomorrow...). AND... i watched 6 episodes of mad men. haha. i'm on episode 9 of season 2. its so good. i think i'm just totally fascinated with the time period, and thats all it comes down to. tyler and i did a big grocery shop when he finished work, and before i came to work. tomorrow my task is making veggie burgers and oatmeal cookies. i also am planning on trying to take cinnamon buns (in my bread maker and toaster oven... haha). and later this week i've got chili and spring rolls on the menu. my plan is to make a bunch of stuff that we can freeze, and then tyler can heat up and eat when i'm not home. save money, eat healthier, everyone wins!

anyway... that is all...