I'm K-I-T! Kit!! I'm keeping it together now!

I have been really laughing at myself lately on just how long it takes me to get started with doing actual work.  It is quite embarrassing… well no not really that’s just how I am.  So here goes.  My goal is to leave my house between 7:30-7:45 from my house to get to work about 8 – 8:15(ish).  It’s a good day if I start my coffee by 7:45, take my meds, eat, and walk out by 8.  Usually I can get the coffee and meds done without hassle, but eating is always a little tricky.  Do I eat oatmeal?  Do I stop at Mickey D’s?  Or Chick-fil-a which is in the opposite direction and I’m already running late so maybe I’ll just get a bagel at the cafeteria at work.  Man I wish there was a little café on the way to work which I think that one place across from Windsor Inn is but no one is ever in there and it looks a lil suspect.  Get to work usually by 8:30 or so, sit at my desk turn on computer and check email.  ALL email, work, and personal and OH someone mentioned me on the Facebook so let’s click on and see what they said. Stay on there for longer than I will admit.  WAIT I’m still hungry!!  SO I go to the caf and hope there is no line at the bagel station.  There usually is not.  Eat and then see if my team lead is in the office.  GREAT he’s not and didn’t bother to tell me so let me see what I’ma do today.  Check emails again.  I need to get my water, sit back down.  NOW I have to go to the bathroom which I probably coulda did when I went to get the water but that would’ve been too much like right.  Oh now my co-worker comes in so we have to chat about whatever! Did I plug my iPod in?  If not I need to do that because it does not hold much charge and I need a good song to get my day started.  Ok... cue up the house music and let’s go!!

I just got a new phone.  Which is not technically my first smartphone, but since the last 2 I had didn’t do anything without any great effort I called them dumb phones, so now I have a SMART phone and I don’t see what all the hoopla is about.  I mean I get it, but do I really need to be this connected to just EVERYTHING?!? The short answer is NO!!  It is a nice distraction, but distraction is exactly what it is.  I signed up for Instagram and within seconds, not minutes SECONDS I had people following me.  I still don’t know why because I haven’t posted a thing. There are a few hair and make-up bloggers that I wanted to follow but I didn’t realize you could just follow folks all willy nilly and in turn they can follow you. It’s a little unsettling.  I signed up for Yelp because I like food and I like to see what people have to say about it.  I added facebook.  And some kinda way because everything is Google based, it synced (syanc?) everything from my Google profile.  So that means I have contacts/emails in my phone that I have no desire to have in my phone like BillCENSUS!  He was a dude I worked with back in 2010 when I worked on the Census.  Am I ever gonna call or email him again, NO!!!  I don’t know how to undo it.  And then when I started adding my contacts it wants to attach to people that are already in the phone that did the sync already.  I know this is a learning curve but I feel a little vulnerable now.  And I downloaded Viber to chat with my bff all the way on the other side of the world.  So those are the dets on the phone.

Sometimes I want to yell to people JUST LISTEN!!  Don’t talk, don’t have a comeback (witty or otherwise) just listen!  By the time I get around to posting this the conference I am preparing for hopefully will have been successfully over.  Some of these planning meeting have been a hoot.  So a person from 1 committee says there will be 2 screens at the venue SO WHY do hands go up after she is finished to ask how many damn screens there will be?!?!? If you just listened… **loud sigh** Another, good rule is FOLLOW DIRECTIONS!! It’s just usually a good general rule of thumb.

I don’t know whose bright idea it was to only have microwaves on the bottom floor.  Probably the same person who didn’t bother to put very many closets in the building. And probably the SAME man who did not provide me ample space in the rest room, except for the handicap stall, because he is a man, I’m sure of it, and he didn’t think about the toilet paper holder touching my leg when I have to go.  This is supposed to be a green building, but there is so much wasted space that I could freaking scream.  For starters, does food smell that bad that I can’t have a microwave on my floor?  If it is a well vented area, what is the problem? And does every area have to hide the trash cans and supplies that it takes me all morning to find a spoon?  Every day I think I am going to find the hidden closets because I am still convinced that they are there an no one is clueing me in on the secret because how else do you explain rows and rows of cubicles with nowhere for people to put their coats?  It is getting chilly I need a space to put my coat and since you gave me a short ass cubicle I can’t hang my coat here.  And the one over in that other department has supplies in it so please tell me what I am to do?!?  AND THE BATHROOM!!!  Why must all doors except for the handicap door swing in?  Is there some bathroom law that says they have to swing in instead of out? And I am not no little chick so me and the girls need ample space to get in and out of the space.  There are very few public bathrooms that work well because they all seem to have poor placement of the toilet paper holder(s), the sanitary napkin bin, and then seat liner if they are provided at all.  I need to find the rest room association and join it to help change the design of bathrooms everywhere to make them work better for me and then in turn everyone else!  I’m sure it is male dominated and I am sick of it!!!

This is for my natural chicks… and ALL WOMEN… calm down ladies!!  It’s just hair!!  So I have been seeing a lot of rants lately about how people feel their hair is being perceived and maybe it just hasn’t happened to me (yet) so I’m not tripping.  One of the bloggers I watch pretty regularly had an issue with one of her male (and gay) co-workers saying another natural co-workers hair was ‘wild and crazy’.  She went OFF!  Like straight off the deep end and I sat there and watched the video and thought really girl?!?!  Another woman does protective styles because she doesn’t know how her mostly white women co-workers will say.  What I have to say to that is most days my hair IS wild and crazy and FABULOUS!! It just is!!  And I’m not really concerned what folks say or think, and that probably is the difference.  I think initially I was very defensive and ready for a fight if someone said something crazy.  But after I came in the office and I got so many compliments after I cut it all off, whatever tensions I had were eased.  My selfie steam is intact!! But I guess I’ll speak on it if and when it happens to me.

I don’t know what the age is and if it should just apply to everyone, but what you need to do is put the phone down and stop driving in slow motion!!  We are on the beltway ma’am sir and calling whomever can really wait!!