Up and Running...

Hooray! I have finally found something entertaining and mindful to do while at work!

I be will posting about anything worthwhile that I come across or comes across my mind during my routinely uneventful day - things that you probably missed because you were doing more interesting and fruitful labors during your day. Please, don't envy me.

So anyway, today has been relatively busy, until now.

I decided that when I get my review and bonus this year, which will occur in February of 2006, I am going to take the plunge and ask for a raise. From the advice that I found on-line, it appears that I need to take with me the reasons why I think I deserve a raise and in addition legitimate and recent materials that show the average/median salary for people in my position.

From my research, I found that in the City of Chicago people at the lowest level of an administrative/executive assistant position ON AVERAGE make nearly $3,000 more a year than I do at base level! And technically I am not at the lowest level as I directly support multiple managing directors. Soooo, pair this with the fact that I will have over a year of service and more responsibility, I am expecting to be offered a raise without my encouragment.

We'll see what happens.

And for the fun of it, I want to see if I can write 10 highlights of my day yesterday (Sunday) because 'The Casual Friday' blog is so hilarious!

1. Woke up at 2pm
2. Discovered that the movie 'Cellular' is worth watching.
3. Discovered that Kim Basinger can still act, and plays a damned good MILF (for a guy).
4. Realized that I do not like the Cheesy Twisted Crust Pizza from Pizza Hut...the sausage sucks too. Oh, and the crust wasn't twisted.
5. I CAN live without my cell phone.
6. Broke my previous record for hours sitting in the same spot on a couch.
7. Realized that staying in the clothes that I wore the night before the entire next day saves me a load of laundry a week.
8. Ate a passion fruit italian ice, which was delicous, from a place that I did not know existed.
9. Watched an excellent episode of both Entourage and Ali G, laughed my ass off. Bop Bop!!
10. Realized that I am the laziest person on earth, besides my friend Willy Wonka who has a Sunday nearly everyday :).