Monday, December 22, 2008

pretty/nice

i see you mccormick-rankin.

some friends are easy to be around. yesterday i got a call from beckie, she was on the road from ottawa on her way to whitby. the roads were bad so she was going to pull off and come see me for a bit. as i waited for her i threw together some cookies and had them baked and ready by the time she arrived. we sat on my couch. i've missed her a lot. whenever i see her it feels like no time has past at all.

the days before christmas are my most favourite work days of the year. no one else is there, except for a few suckers who forgot to save vacation days or contract employees. in my building there was me and one other guy (and finance, but they don't count because we don't associate with them....) it was a glorious day. i wore jeans, i plugged away on a few projects i'd set aside for myself, i dance in my cube to my new tunes. i feel like i'm on vacation already, it's great.

it reminds me of rod stewart a little bit.

i have to admit, i'm getting a little snooty. i feel disgruntled when the snow is so deep in my driveway that even my little suv can't drive over it.

i love that his constructive criticism included "you leave your mouth open when you think sometimes". i shouldn't laugh because he was trying to be helpful, but it's hard to take that kind of input seriously. however, i'll take heed his advice and try to shut my trap when concentrating.

i'm almost looking forward to going to work tomorrow!

why don't you kiss me
and tell me that you want it?

6 comments:

Aphra said...

you know someone who works at mccormick rankin? i don't even know what that is.

yelsel said...

yes i do. but he doesn't realize that i know that he reads my blog.

it's at the corner of princess and bath, near the quickie mart.

Aphra said...

Well, he's kind of been outed now!

Are they a competitor of BB?

yelsel said...

no, we don't really have any competitors within canada.

he's a friend of a friend. except, he hasn't been back, so my busting him might have been pointless. he's been visiting on and off for 6 mos or so.

Aphra said...

Is embraer a competitor of BB? My boss was excited because some of embraer came to our conference in october. i can't remember now if he said they were a competitor of BB or boeing. I get names mixed up when they start with the same letter!

yelsel said...

boeing and airbus make much larger capacity planes than we do. embraer is our main competitor – they're a brazilian company.

we're the number 3 plane manufacturer in the world (after boeing and airbus). but we're the number 1 train manufacturer. siemens and alstom are our biggest rivals in the transportation division.