Post-Apocalyptic Post

Optimus-Prime-Approved™ baby hat.

D'awwww~

Now if only I could finish Esther's $%&#ing hat.

 

 It's again that time when I get totally cracked out on a video game. I give to you Assassin's Creed 3's protagonist: Connor Kenway. 

This dude's Mohawk name is Ratonhnhaké:ton, and screw that. It took me like twelve days to remember how to pronounce it.

Though when Vin and I first played we were pronouncing his name like this:

 Haha I make myself laugh.

 

I recently found out my boss Rich plays Assassin's Creed. He walks into my pseudo office and goes all serious... "Gina. I need help. I just talked to the Mohawk lady and now I can't figure out how to get to the Fort."

 Sass-ter Chief

After playing Assassin's Creed 3, next up was Halo 4. 

Awesome game!

 

Master Chief remains the most badass badass in the book of badassery.

This was my Halo 4 knitting project but I didn't get far :-(

Vin and Andrew vs Mom and I playing hangman at Chili's.

Office Party at Two Brothers' Roundhouse

There was about 80 people there, from our branches all over Illinois.

Berger is gonna disown me if he doesn't make my blog.

On the way home from the party it started snowing.

And the next day it was all over the damn place.

Obligatory Lu-dog

And I'm done with this post.

Autumnal

(Me) They look like Veneers.

(Vin) You’re a Veneer--

(Me) Thank you!

(Vin) --ial disease.

(Mom, watching men’s wrestling during the Olympics) This would be a lot better if they had baby oil all over themselves.

(Me) Or mud.

(Mom) Or Jello.

(Me) I think it’s time to hang up my Halo poster.

(Vin) I think it’s time to hang you.


(Diana) You know that jumper guy?
(Me) Felix? The Australian?
(Diana) Yeah, the guy who jumped from the balloon.
(Me) Yeah, what about him?
(Diana) He's frigging crazy.



Late night, avoiding the Presidential debate, watching The Planets on Science Channel. Copious amount of pictures and very little blog updating has got me feeling guilty again. I always take pictures and think "oh hey, yeah, I'll write about that" but it never happens. Blogger still has a crappy interface.



Just as soon as I got my own shiny new cubicle it was taken away from me by one of the many new people they have hired in the last few weeks.

My workstation.

Das Vending Machine in the break room decided to not give Diana her Reeses Pieces. Had to do some arm Origami to retrieve it.

Omar, one of our Loan Officers, likes to tell his clients that Diana and I are his assistants (PS not even kind of true) but he does it in jest. So he got us some Starbuckses to make up for it.

More catered lunches on Friday because we are so awesome. The president of the company sent me a nice email a few weeks back after I did the company QC for him:

"I just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work. It has been a great pleasure having you on the team!!"

I love everyone :-)

Mark (another Loan Officer) is one of my favorite people ever. This afternoon we were racing to remember who the third tenor was of The Three Tenors. 

Me: Domingo, Pavarotti, and the other one.

Mark: I think his name is The Other One.

He said NO GOOGLING, so I Wikipedia'd. 

I won. 

José Carreras.

Diana, Hani, and I at Venetian (Geneva Commons)

The most memorable thing about this was not the actual trip, but the numerous mentions of potential finger herpes from stabbed cuticles on Monday.

The same tree in our front yard, as the leaves changed <3

Our backyard.

I'm already over this blog post.

 Andrew and his "creeper" face taking me out to lunch.

Oh dear, I love this picture so much. My workplace is right near an iHop so it's very quick to go there for lunch. My brother has a mancrush on a co-worker Pedro (they love the same music and Vin will stop by just to give him USBs with trance music. And then take me out to lunch, cause you know, might as well since he's already driven this far.)

My brother <3

Three co-workers have commissioned "Original Rossi" knitwear. Carlos wanted a manly blue hat (night of knitting supplies pictured). Esme wants a blue and orange (Go Bears - the yarn just arrived for that today) baby cap for her newborn, and Esther wants a purple faux-cable slouchie hat made from Malabrigo yarn which I have to actually buy in person in St. Charles one weekend.

I will be working on a mohair shrug knit on the bias for myself that I'm really super excited about. The mohair arrived today with Esme's yarn and it looks scary as shit to knit with because it's so thin but PAIN IS THE PRICE OF BEAUTY, FOLKS. 

Excellent restaurant in Batavia whose name I can never remember.

Om nom nom.

Doctor Who season 7 has reached it's midseason finale (will be concluded in December) and the best episode was Cubed. Mostly because the Doctor was addicted to Wii tennis to the point where he asked the the evil invading aliens to wait because he was in the middle of a match.

And of course, my adorable Lumi <3


And that's it.

My life is basically A) working, B) sleeping, C) cooking things off Pinterest D) waiting for Skyfall.

Someone get me tickets to the midnight please.

I've been sitting here for an hour typing up a nice blog entry and I just accidentally closed the damn window so I have to start from scratch.

Nutella fondue with the fam and Andrew.

Finally saw Dark Knight Rises with Andrew then did Chili's afterwards.

Wii sports with Andrew and his brother. I killed them in puppy frisbee, Andrew murdered in bowling, and Mike was epic at archery.

One reason why the place I work for is awesome is the food. There is always food in the break room. Oberweis Dairy is right down the street and someone bought a crapload of ice cream pies and bought them in for us. Lunch is more often than not catered on Fridays from all sorts of places (Mexican, Pizza, Italian...) The first week I was here Ryan had made hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill outside. I've put on two pounds here.

I was promoted a few weeks ago but I couldn't start my new job full time until I had trained the new receptionist, Diana, who is awesome. Space is limited at the Aurora office and desks are a valued resource due to the sheer amount of people that work there. Because I wasn't going to be at the front desk any longer I had to find a new desk. Rich (the Operations Manager) had told me I was going to be stationed in the training Room for a while until they got some more desks, so I started putting my stuff around one of the computers there to "claim" it. I have three or four pens that I brought with me from FL and I didn't want to leave them there unattended so I left this note:

As it turns out I was given the empty cubicle between Georgann and Cindy. (Thank god, I really didn't want to be in the training room.) I'm still looking for ways to geek it up a little bit since it's kind of bland right now. Vin gave me a Starfleet pin a while back and I have that Tardis pin... I might use those as tacks.

Went to lunch with Raven to Buffalo Wild Wings

Raven's last day was Friday (sad sad)

I went to St. Charles the other day and walked around downtown for a bit. There was a little yarn store there I wanted to see.

More St. Charles.

Wool & Co. They are a certified carrier of Madelinetosh yarn. I bought two skeins of Madelinetosh's DK weight in the color "Curiosity" (a medium purple)

Knit a hat for Shannon's friend.

Mom and I discovered Aliano's Italian restaurant a few weeks ago while taking the dog for a walk. For a little tiny hole-in-the-wall place, we noticed there was a constant stream of people in and out so we decided to come back.

Started off with a nice Bruchette with "epic cheese". Lots of garlic though, goddamn.

I was predictable as hell, ordering the chicken alfredo. It was good and the portions are huge.

I was home alone one night, reading Robopocalypse and scaring the shit out of myself. Awesome book, highly recommended! It's one of those books where don't want to read anything else for a while because you're still "living" in the world of the previous book.
Spielberg has signed on to direct the Robopocalypse movie. I recently read that Chris Hemsworth (Thor from the Avengers) was his first pick to play Bright Boy Wallace (one of the the main characters) and I approve.
I wonder if the Freeborn androids from the novel will be CG or if actors will play the androids. If actors will play the androids, I totally want Chris Hemsworth to play Nine-Oh-Two Arbiter. Big crush on Nine-Oh-Two.

Doctor Who season 7 premiere was yesterday. I'm really sorry to say I disliked it. They completely wiped away 50 years of history between The Doctor and the show's greatest enemy, the Daleks, by having one of the character's delete him from the Dalek's computer memory. Grrr. I hope Moffat will retcon that somehow.

I did however, really enjoy the part where the Doctor lays down some backing vocals for some hip-hop artist. Ahaha.