Wandering Aimlessly

I was sitting here, filling out piles of paperwork, and I thought "I should turn on the radio. Maybe JC's on." Just... randomly. So I did. And he was! Right at the beginning, too. Made me giggle. Partially because I'd been sitting here for an hour, without the radio on, and just out of the blue, decided to check. <.g>

Yesterday I went in to my grandparents'. To help them finish putting up the border in their kitchen. I had (wrongly) assumed that, since most of the border was already up, they'd paid attention the first time and knew how to put up a border. They didn't. So here we were, three of us with a box full of wallpaper tools, and not a clue how to do it. We called my uncle, who was not home, their neighbor, who was not home, my grandma's sister, who was not home... I finally called my dad at work, and he told me how. Whew. It looks really nice, now. It was kind of difficult, but we made it, and it's done. Their kitchen is now bordered in sunflowers all the way arround, instead of ending above the door. <.g>

My grandma loves it. She called today to tell me how much she loves it, and to sing a song to me about it. She sang something about daisies. Because she calls them daisies. They're sunflowers. She has a boquet of dried sunflowers (smallish ones) in her bathroom, she has a picture of a sunflower in her dining room, and lots of little sunflower-y things in her kitchen. And she calls them all daisies. I suppose there are daisies that look kind of like sunflowers, but these aren't them. These are definitely sunflowers. Oh well. She's cute. <.giggle>

Then we went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I can't remember if this is time five or six for me, but I love that movie so much. My grandma has been trying to see it FOREVER, and finally made it. Last time they tried, about a week ago, it was sold out. At a 1:30 showing. On a Thursday That boggled their minds, and mine, too. It's been out since MAY. May. Of 2002. And it's still selling out? I suppose that was during Christmas break, but still. Yesterday, also at 1:30, about half the theatre was full. And it wasn't during break, and it was a Wednesday, and still. I think that's cool.

Today, I made a trial run to Oak Park, just to see how long it'll take me to get there on Tuesday. 52 minutes there, 27 back. Because coming back at 9:00, there's no traffic. But going in at 8, there's traffic. Lots of it. I was actually impressed that I moved for so long. It wasn't until I got about ten miles out of the city that we came to a standstill. Stop and go. The street the bank is on is the dividing line between Oak Park and the city of Chicago. So. Traffic into the city sucks. Traffic out of the city also sucks. Traffic, in general, sucks. I hope that I only spend my first day in Oak Park, and get to do my training in Naperville. Not that it'll be much better there, because I'm guessing it'll be about 45 minutes (which I may "practice" tomorrow morning), and it'll be on a toll road, which slows things down considerably, but at least I'll be clear of the city. And pleasepleaseplease don't let it snow. Or rain. Because if either of those things happen, you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be adding an extra 20-30 minutes to my commute. Blue skies and sunshine only, please. Thankssomuch.

So today, my only plans are to finish filling out the mounds of paperwork sent to me to bring along on my first day. I did what I could, but the rest is scary. Insurance stuff, and W4 forms, and I don't want to touch it with a pen until my dad is here. Which, I'm an adult and shouldn't rely on my father to help me through stuff like this, but I really don't want to do it wrong. I've never had insurance, I've never not been a dependent on tax forms, and those are two things I'd rather not mess up. Eeep.