The Office: WTF?

OK, so I have mentioned before that I am obsessed with the office. And I don't mean 'obsessed' like "oh, I'm obsessed with my new shirt" or "I'm obsessed with Moe's queso." To quote Karen Walker, the word obsessed, used by me when referring to The Office is not "one of those touchy-feely words that people throw around that don't really mean anything... You know, like 'maternal' or 'addiction.'" I am like literally obsessed with it. Do you know how many hours I've spent at work this week surfing the internet for spoilers about the season finale? At least 3. 3 hours that I should have been working or, at a minimum, online shopping, that I spent reading about a TV show. I hope that this makes you understand how serious I am about this. (Yes, I am crazy and should probably seek professional help.)

So anyway, I have all three of the past seasons on DVD and have watched each episode an absolute minimum of 5-10 times a piece. Also, all of this season's episodes are online on NBC.com, which means that a lot of times at the office, I put my headphones on and pretend I'm listening to music when I'm really listening/watching The Office. So with the possible exception of last week's episode, which I have only seen 3 times because it's harder to fake-work when I'm at a client's office, I've seen each of this season's episodes probably 10 times a piece as well. And I can honestly say that the episode tonight was by far the worst one I have ever seen.

Usually, The Office is pretty good about making episodes that mostly exist with the purpose of moving the plot along, but are still funny. The plot-moving storylines are usually the B-plot and then there's other hilarious stuff going on in the A-plot. But tonight, I only laughed like twice. In the intro, which was really funny, and at the very end right before the credits. Maybe I'm expecting too much here? But from a show that has done three full seasons of super funny material I just feel a bit let down and disappointed. I look forward to watching The Office starting the Monday before it's on. It's like the highlight of my workweek. And this week, it was LAME. What a crappy thing to have looked forward to.

The last two episodes of this entirely-too-short season had better be amazing, or I'm going to be pissed. They could make it up to me by finding a way to keep Toby's character on the show even though the title for the season finale episode is "Goodbye Toby." I would forgive them if they could do that for me. Also, I'd like them to bring Jan back, if possible. I'm really into her specific brand of crazy. Don't disappoint me, writers.

Bad Blogger. Bad.

Sorry, I've been a bad blogger this week. I'm in Houston again and it's pretty boring. I think we did all of the fun stuff last week. Aside from a tasty Cheesecake Factory dinner, I've pretty much gone to the gym, worked, ate, watched tv, and went to bed every day this week. Today we're leaving early because I'm awesome and we're way ahead of schedule, so I'm going to throw in a second trip to the gym because my God, am I eating a lot. I should way 1000 pounds right now.

Next week I get to be back in Charlotte for the foreseeable future, so I can start eating healthy and working out on my normal schedule again on Monday. No more effing around. Like a hibernating bear or some kind of sea mammal, I need to shed my winter weight. I'm thinking about embracing protein shakes and making them my breakfast. I fear that to lose weight I'm going to have to do the unthinkable: cut my daily carbohydrate allotment down to what a normal human being would eat. It's going to be difficult. I heart bread. But those are the breaks.

Next week at work starts Flex Time, a.k.a. The Time That I Don't Constantly Want to Die at Work. I will get to leave at 4:30 daily when I'm in the office. Yay! It works out really well for my 6pm yoga classes, because I get to the gym early enough to do cardio beforehand. Woo! And I have no excuses to not make dinner every night when I get home earlier, so that should help the anti-fatty situation. As long as I restrict the amount of cheesy recipes from my Everyday Italian cookbook, I should be ok. I see a lot of "chicken breast with vegetables" type dinners in my future. Joy. Good thing I have about a dozen cookbooks dedicated to chicken, or I'd be in trouble.

Today I got my email from the Teeter about the weekly specials...they do this cool thing where they track what you buy by your VIC card and then every week they email you about what things you usually buy are on sale. And it's apparently corn on the cob season again! Yay! We love to grill corn for dinner. It's sad that I'm excited about this, but that's what happens when your boring like me. :)

That's about it for now. I'll hopefully have some better updates later this week or when I'm back home.

HATE.

So we're at work on Friday, and it's about an hour before we have to leave for the airport, and our flight gets canceled. Fabulous. And bonus: we can't fly back out until Saturday morning. And double bonus: we already have to go back to Houston on Sunday night, so it almost doesn't even make sense to go home. But we decide to go anyway. Horrible.

I made up for my anger by A. booking us all for the night at the JW Marriott that is across the street from the mall, B. going shopping again, and C. getting tore up drunk at the Cheesecake Factory while eating my favorite food. Consequently, I remembered Saturday why I never get tore up drunk anymore. I felt horrible. Thank god I was upgraded to first class for the flight, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to nap and my day would have been even worse. For the remainder of the day, I laid on the couch watching my saved DVR shows from the week. Good times. What a waste of a day.

And now I have to pack and go back to Houston. It's really not that bad there...but no way can the flight get cancelled again...my sister is coming into town Friday night and Blake's going to be pissed if he has to deal with her alone. I am cranky.

I did just chop some of my fresh herbs from my new herb garden and use them in an omelet, so that made things a bit better. Now I have to do a number of chores. Booooooo.

The Office

The Office was awesome again tonight. Last week it wasn't that great, but this one was just amazing. I definitely need to watch it 2-3 more times to catch everything that I surely missed because I was laughing so hard. Oh, how I heart The Office. It makes me way happier than a TV show should.

Favorite line of the night:

Ryan: Kelly, do you have a question?
Kelly: Yes, actually I have lots of questions. Number 1, how dare you?

Yay!

The Container Store

So today Susan and I checked off yet another of our goals that have been standing since we were in Houston last year: visit The Container Store. We have never seen one before, but we love containers and we love organization, so we figured we'd be all about it. Our only obstacle was convincing the boys that it was a good idea. But today, since we were not going out to dinner right after work, the boys decided to go directly to a sports bar at 5:30pm. So, to avoid the traffic, we figured our only option was to go to the Container Store. And it was glorious. There was so much that I wanted to buy! And although they did boast free shipping anywhere in the United States, I figured that Blake would frown upon it if I sent home an entire $1,500 closet organization system. Someday we shall meet again, Container Store. Someday.

And on that day, this is roughly what my closet will look like. Except with more shoe storage (obviously) and the fancy sliding pants-hanger thingies.

Fun in Houston

Just so that you all don't think I constantly bitch about everywhere I have to travel for work the way that I bitch about New Orleans, I thought I'd fill you in on our activities in Houston. First of all, I'm bound to be in a better mood here because the client is awesome. And second of all, there are lots of fun things to do.

As I mentioned in my last post, I went to a fancy mall on Monday night. Then last night, we went to see the Astros play the Padres. They won and I ate a hot dog and a soft pretzel and I drank beer, so I was happy. Tonight we went to one of the most fabulous restaurants ever, Truluck's. They have the most delicious cake in the history of time, and Susan and I have been dreaming of it ever since we had it last year. It has an oreo crust and it's chocolate espresso ice cream layered with coffee ice cream with chocolate sauce and walnuts on top. They also have tasty wine flights and the most gigantic lobster tail I have ever seen, which is now in my belly. I feel that I will now beach myself like a whale on my hotel room bed and pass out. We get one dinner a week that we get to run through, and I never argue with free lobster and wine, so I usually wind up wanting to vomit after these affairs.

Also, Carly just got voted off of Idol? WTF. I liked her. I don't care how much better Syesha did this week, something about her bothers me and I wish she had gone home instead. Boo. Now if only the 12 year olds would stop voting and we wouldn't have to hear Ballads Written for Forty Year Olds by David Archuleta every week, I'd be thrilled.

Houston

This weekend was pretty good, as evidenced by the posts below, but I did have to leave for Houston Sunday night which kind of sucked. I enjoy it in Houston though because the client is good and the people I'm traveling with are fun. And today was fabulous.

We basically have to go and eat dinner immediately after leaving the client's office otherwise we sit on the interstate for 2 hours trying to get back to the hotel. The interstate system in Texas is possibly the worst thing I've ever seen. It's just interstates on top of other interstates, running parallel and perpendicular to other interstates all over the place. And the traffic is unbelievable.

Sean wanted to watch a basketball game that was on at 6, so we were driving around looking for a sports bar to have dinner at and we found one at the Galleria, the most fabulous mall I've ever seen from the outside. Susan and I have been trying to come up with an excuse to make the boys bring us there since we were in Houston last year, and this worked out wonderfully. It is a beautiful mall with all sorts of fancy and wonderful stores, but much like the highway system, it was difficult to navigate. However, I had a 15% off BR coupon that went into effect today, so I was determined to find BR. And when I did, it was huge. It was two stories, and there was a totally separate Petites BR store. it was crazy. And when I paid, they said that because this was the first day of the coupon, I got 20% off instead of 15%! Woo!

I got this dress, but in blue polka dots instead of the pink...the pink was just a bit too bright, and it washed me out. I also got a belt I've had my eye on for a while, a beautiful purple and white silk skirt (I wanted to find the pic online but I couldn't find it...boo), and a green and white striped sheer sweater that would look good with either jeans or as a bathing suit cover up. I almost also bought a little green t-shirt dress I've had my eye on, but I didn't want to go overboard. I'm going to have my eye on that dress for when it goes on sale though, and I should have about $30 in gift cards saved up by then to use on it.

Seriously though, I have GOT to stop shopping and do something else for a while. Or I am going to be poor.