cold as ice

bored out of my skull today at work. i really don't know how much clearer i can be - i've told both of my bosses on several occasions that i need more work. the work they give me to do is never enough to satiate my apparent thirst for busy work. i'm such a dweeb. who asks for more work? sigh.
 
i have the feeling that my area of the building is completely empty. i can't hear anyone around me typing or talking and it's only 4:30. people just tend to scram when there's snow... but at least they showed up, i guess. i considered calling off today, but let's face it, it's WAY cooler to call off when it's sunny and warm. especially when you call off because of bad weather when it's 90 degrees outside. :)
 
my group just took a little field trip to a conference room with windows to look outside (for those of you who don't work with me, a good part of our building is window-less). me, justin and olga all trooped upstairs and sat on the steps outside the mezz. it was a good group bonding experience. we decided that we should all take off the entire week next week as a superbowl celebration/get out of work vacation. it was agreed that we'll be heading down to tampa for the week instead of staying in snowy, slushy pittsburgh. ahh, if only...
 
desperately seeking avocados is the name of today's game. i want just 1 avocado, not 4. tj's only sells avocados in bags of 4 so i didn't get any last night. and tonight all the roads are supposedly a thick sheet of ice, so grocery shopping probably isn't in my best interest. but oh! how i yearn for avocado sushi! i've been craving avocado sushi for a few weeks now and i never remember it when it's time to make dinner. besides that, i rarely buy avocados, so i never have all the necessary ingredients. but i was going to get some tonight... i'm still up in the air about it. if i get really desperate, maybe i'll trek down to kuhn's on foot. i think it's about a mile away from my house... it could be a good gym alternative. we'll see.
 
i had a bunch of things planned for tonight, including wii fit, making sushi, downloading some songs, requesting some library books online, grocery shopping, possibly baking bread or bagels, paying bills, cleaning the kitchen and getting a bath. however, given the crappy state of the weather, it seems like a good night to stay at home and do nothing. i think my revised plan may be to make some sort of dinner (sushi if i'm ambitious enough to walk 2 miles in the snow, rain, sleet, hail and ice), take a bath and read some more twilight. i don't plan on doing much more than that, and i think maybe that's a good plan for tonight.
 
have a warm evening, folks!