MIA for two days

I won't be here for two days guys, I have all day training and I actually have to pay attention and learn while I'm there. :)

Have a good hump day and Thursday and I'll catch you guys on Friday!

Smooches!!!

Re-re, the biggest moron in the world

Honestly you guys, I can't make this shit up. I work with a man (it's really hard for me to be able to call him that because I have no respect for him) who has basically ruined my full time job for me. When I started with this company back in March 2006, I was extremely spirited and happy and ready for the challenge. I established myself here in the IT department, made a lot of friends, and discovered the ins and outs of how to work here, full time and still be happy. It was working!

And then in January of this year, we hired re-re. I shouldn't even say we because I did not want him. This person, who was to work closest with me, was forced upon me. Some of the higher ups wanted a body in here right away to help me with the help desk so they looked beyond his obvious quirks and the bad feeling I kept telling them I had about him. At first, I was worried that this guy would try to take my job. I had a lot of mixed feelings about bringing him on in that regard because he was coming to us with 7 years of help desk experience.

HA!

HA! I say!

Where do I begin on the horror that has become my existence here now? When he first started, my manager at the time told me I would be his supervisor (even though I made it clear I had never done that before). So I spent the first 6 months that he was here watching his every move. I wasn't told to do anything differently. I would critique answers he gave users. I would look at his responses to all emails that came in. And I found mistake after mistake after mistake. I was dumbfounded by his ineptitude. I still am to this day. And I don't know or understand how he still has a job here.

For months I corrected re-re on his mistakes. He has been known to make the SAME, exact mistake...ready? FIVE times in a span of two days. Are you kidding me? How hard is it? If you guys don't know, I'm not college-educated. I am a diligent worker who takes good notes and learns fast but there's nothing special about my skills here. Okay, so maybe I rock at customer service but that has nothing to do with my learning. And seriously, this piece of crap can't remember something I've corrected him on the first FOUR times? OMG, cut me now.

I complained to my manager about him and he told me to document all that was going on. I still have all this documentation. Did anything come out of the documentation? NO. Supposedly re-re got a bad review but the bitch is still here. Speaking of documentation, I made sure that re-re was taking notes on tasks that concern his job. There are a lot of little policies and procedures that make up what we do and do you know that I constantly have had to remind him to take notes? Why do I have to remind him to write down how to do his job? OMG!

I will never forget this...a few months ago I corrected him on something he had fucked up many-a-time and I lost my cool a bit and I blurted out, "Why am I having to teach you the same thing over and over?" And he got snarky at me and says, "If I'm making the mistake over and over, why don't you have me write it down?" (my heart rate is accelerating just reliving this retardation) I said, "You DID write it down! You even documented it as a procedure yet you STILL get it wrong!!!" Chest pains!

Forget the growing pains that most people experience their first month or three at a new company...this waste of space has been here 8, almost 9 months and I am STILL correcting him on a DAILY basis. And I don't even check up on him anymore! We got a new manager, about a month or so ago, and he told us both that it's a new day and a clean slate. Which means all that documenting I did was for nothing. I really had hoped that if I just bit my tongue and documented like a good little girl, someone would rescue me from this hell that I had bad vibes about from the beginning. No. Clean slate. Wow. Slap in the face. And I said in that meeting, a meeting between new boss, re-re and myself, I don't want to babysit him anymore. And I was told I don't have to. I was told it's not my problem, it's boss man's problem. So I washed my hands of it.

I no longer check all his email responses (the few that I have have blatant errors and I just bite my tongue). I don't say anything to the boss about re-re because he doesn't want to hear me whining and clearly they aren't going to get rid of him. I have my key friends in my department that find re-re just as annoying and awful as I do so we vent together. But that's all I have. I sit 3 feet away from this troll and I haven't even told you guys about his quirks. Never mind that he's a moron, his personality is...omg, its indescribable. I'll save that for another post.

Are you ready?

Tomorrow is another full moon.

Do you know what that means?

Some people believe that a full moon has a direct correlation to the following:

-the homicide rate
-traffic accidents
-crisis calls to police or fire stations
-domestic violence
-births of babies
-suicide
-major disasters
-casino payout rates
-assassinations
-kidnappings
-aggression by professional hockey players
-violence in prisons
-psychiatric admissions
-agitated behavior by nursing home residents
-assaults
-gunshot wounds
-stabbings
-emergency room admissions
-alcoholism
-sleep walking
-epilepsy

I don't know how much I believe in all of the above, but I have witnessed my own life go topsy-turvey at times and if I remember to look at a calendar during these struggles, sure enough, the full moon is either that day or a couple days before or after.

I loathe the full moon. I feel my emotions go haywire (and couple that with the PMS, do NOT let me near a gun) and the weirdest of the weird starts happening. The last full moon, which was July 30, don't even get me started. Work was a nightmare (anything and everything that could break, did). I fought with Matt (and we rarely fight). I was fighting with Chili's co-workers (which rarely happens as well). Nuts I tell you!!

But I really want to have a good week. I'm going to pretend like I know nothing about the moon and what chaos it brings because this week is BUSY. Tonight I am working out and going to my parent's house to visit (I don't do that enough). Tomorrow night is Chili's. Wednesday night is the Allman Brothers concert. Thursday night is the Bears game (pre-season but still fun!). And Friday night I'm sure I'm working at Chili's again. Then Saturday night we're seeing our friend and his band. Sunday we're going to the Museum of Science and Industry and Field Museum. And then Monday is Labor Day and sweet baby Jesus of the little cloth diaper, please let me be doing NOTHING!

Hope you all have a FANTASTIC Monday.

Friday! Hooray!

Is it just me, or did it take like 2 years for Friday to get here? Sheesh! What a week!

Who has seen Transformers? We saw it last night and all I can say is WOW! I thought it was a great movie. And seriously, they made that shit look so real I was afraid of our car when we got out of the theater. Seriously! How do they DO that? OMG, the movie scared me and entertained me at the same time. :) Loved it! And that little Megan Fox girl is beautiful! I want to look like her. :)

I started this post so happy but honestly you guys, I am just going to leave it at this. My job is seriously affecting the happy person I am and I need to go cry in the bathroom for a bit. I have never seen such hypocrisy and double-standards in all my life. I almost feel tortured.

Hey but at least I got laid last night right? :

It's only 9:20am but damn what a day

Yesterday after work, when I got out to my car, I noticed I had left my back window behind me all the way down. I cursed myself out because I don't trust anyone and anyone could have walked by and stolen my CDs or my stereo. And I said to myself, "I swear to God I rolled that bitch up!" WTF?

Turns out my window is broken. It won't roll up at all and it doesn't even do that trick where you can help it up again by pushing. Matt told me to bring my car in tomorrow morning (this morning) and they'd take care of me (at the dealership where he works). Well I go home, about 7pm I hear major thunder. Now it's been raining for about a month here but for some reason, I thought it wouldn't last night. Doesn't matter...I ran outside with Press N Seal and a flattened cardboard box and tried to jimmy rig something. So ghetto. But I had a tarp and put it over the car, securing it in the doors of the car and it stayed down all night. Great.

I wake up early this morning and it is still POURING outside. How on Earth am I going to get this bitch into the dealership? I can't drive with a tarp over my car. The ghetto rigging I did is NOT going to hold. So I decided to wait out the storm.

In the meantime, I went to the computer to email a few co-workers about my lateness. Ask me how tempted I was to just blow off this entire day? So I'm at the computer and there is evidence that Matt had some "Matt time" at the computer last night after I went to bed, and I was pissed.

I have told Matt, for 8 years, that if I am asleep and he wants sex, wake me up. I want it just as much as he does and I like being wanted, needed. Those are my own issues. LOL And last night before I went to bed, I reminded him that its been a while since we had sex. I told him that I know he's tired and it's late but still...and all he said was yeah. So I said goodnight and went to bed.

To wake up and find that he'd gone and taken care of himself, after I put myself out there pisses me off SO much. After I emailed work, I went back to lay down and I started crying. I didn't mean to but it hurt so bad and I didn't think he'd wake up but he did. He immediately threw his body over mine to comfort me and I told him to get off me. That woke him up. He asked me what's wrong, I told him he hurt my feelings, he asked what he did, and I told him thanks a lot for choosing his hand over me. He knew exactly what I meant and I further explained that it makes me feel rejected when I specifically brought this up last night, he agreed he was tired and it was late, and yet he took care of himself behind my back. He said that it was too late and I was asleep and he was NOT going to wake me up.

After 8 years of me telling him TO wake me up, he still won't. He said he's doing the "right thing" and letting me sleep because he knows I need it. And yeah, he's right, I do need sleep but you know what else I need? To get laid by my man! Christ! How do I argue with his logic and rational ways?

So here I am, at work 1 1/2 hours late, my car is in the shop, I ate out of stress and anger and ended up scarfing a 16 point breakfast sandwich, and I still haven't gotten laid. Happy frickin Thursday! Ba-low me.

Picture Pages!

Picture Pages, Picture Pages, time to get your Picture Pages, time to get your crayons and your pencils...You can play with Picture Pages, fill your day with Picture Pages, 'till Bill Cosby does another Picture Page with you!

I just feel like sharing pictures of things that are important to me. I hope y'all don't mind. I'm not writing about anything interesting today (or what I think is interesting lol) because I am SO tired (two days in a row of working 7am to 11pm) and I can barely keep my eyes open. And I just NOW have been able to get on blogger...server issues. Bah!!

So enjoy my pictures, I love seeing all of yours. :) And Happy Hump Day!!

Where's Shoo Shoo? If you didn't know, I actually do have kids. My two furry daughters. So I didn't birth them, so what? I love them as if they truly came out of my chottie.

OH BIDDLES!!! My little Starla, Daisy's sister, she is just so beautiful! We tell her all the time how pretty she is and she bats her eyes at us. I love them so much!!!

Me and Honey, yay! Is it wrong that I put pics of my cats up first? LOL! I love this man more than I can express and I miss him when we're not together. Some day, I hope he is my husband.

If you don't know who these ho's are, then you don't know me! This is my crew, this is how I roll...I roll ho tight! LMAO!! Seriously, best friends are few and far between and it is a bitch that I live so far from those that make me happiest. I LOVE YOU GIRLS!!!

I adore my parents. Yes, they piss me off sometimes (whose parents don't?) but Sharon and Larry rock. They are fun and caring and have given me every opportunity they never had. They are unbelievably unselfish. I love you guys! Get that baby out of your lap Dad, no crib lizards for me!

I love the environment. And glaciers like this one are melting, fast. Please don't have kids just because you CAN. Think about the impact every one of us has on our planet. We are losing and killing every day because of our behaviors but little things like recycling and not littering help in the smallest ways. :)

Another wedding dream

Sigh. I promised myself, about a month ago, that I won't mention marriage or weddings to Matt for a while. I'm not gonna never mention them again, but I'm cooling it because God-forbid he pull off the surprise of my lifetime and propose, I want it to be a surprise.

Last night's dream was really detailed. I remember my dress. I remember feeling gorgeous in my dress. I had my hair half up and half down and in loose curls. The dress was strapless and naturally, I was at the weight I want to be. Sigh. I remember being photographed and I distinctly remember the feeling of posing with my mom. I was crouching down next to her and at first we were going to make it a funny picture, her giving me my last spanking (I know that sounds weird but she spanked us a lot so it would be funny in our family) but it turned into us just smiling so wide next to each other. I'm teary. I can't wait for this day in my life.

I remember our kitties being there. I woke up wondering if I'd really have Daisy and Starla there but I think not. I don't want to be THAT girl and I'd only end up worrying about them the entire time. But in my dream we had a bunch of kitty guests LOL and Biddles and Shoo Shoo were running in together, kind of staying close to each other for comfort.

I do NOT remember Matt in the dream at all. This dream was all about me. I want to get married. I want to marry my best friend. If I could have designed the perfect man for me, there's not much Matt is lacking. We have so much in common and I am frequently overwhelmed by my adoration for him. He's not perfect (and starting to realize it, LMAO!) and I wouldn't want him any other way. And I want to be his wife. I want to take his name and be an official part of his family. And yes, I vainly want the party. I want to bring both our crazy families together with all of our phenomenal friends and celebrate what a lot of people have been waiting for for a long time.

But for now, only in my dreams. :)

Part-time job woes

I desperately want a new part-time job. For those that don't know, I am a waitress in addition to my office job and honestly, I am so sick of it. I'm sick of not knowing how much money I'll make a night, I'm sick of working with idiots and drama, and I'm frankly just sick of having to work two jobs! LMAO!

My ideal part-time job would be something I could do at home. I would love to do something computer-related, from home, and make like $300 a week doing it. I know that sounds like a fantasy but I bet there's crap like that out there. You see ads for doing certain things at home like medical transcriptions or stuffing envelopes or something but I don't trust them. Usually you have to pay something to do those and what is the point of that?

I'm not loving my full-time job either so maybe the solution is to find a new full time job, one that pays enough to make up for the part time job funds, and be merry and happy? I don't know.

Anyway, how was everyone's weekend? We mostly just lounged around and shopped for groceries and house stuff. Nothing spectacular. :)

Yes, I am weak

I stayed home from work yesterday because Wednesday night, we were partying a little too hard and late. And honestly, I didn't stay home because I had a hangover, because one normally needs to go to sleep to even see if one has a hangover. No no, I called in before I even got to bed, which was 5:30am. I was SO close to going to work on no sleep. I was just going to get in the shower after my friends left and go in. But almost the minute after they walked out the front door, my exhaustion hit and it was Good Night Larry! Okay that was a lie. I was exhausted before they left, then I got some lovin', and THEN it was good night larry. :)

So I called in and stayed home with Matt all day. We slept til about 12-12:30pm, did a few chores, watched TV, watched a movie, ordered food, more sex, and this time we went to bed at 1am. I'm only slightly more rested today.

What's the worst excuse you've ever used to call in to work? I have to say, mine yesterday was pretty pathetic but it was completely bought, hook, line and sinker. My baby sister happened to visit me at Chili's on Wednesday night and mentioned how yesterday she was going to have to take our dad to get an MRI while Mom was at work. So I used that excuse. Had to take Dad to get an MRI. Why this takes all day and why I called at 5am about it...well I'll just let them use their imagination. :)

Wednesday's night of partying was quite drama-filled. I got yelled at by one of our drunk regulars. My friend Lisa almost kicked the ass of our friend's ex-boyfriend. She then punched my mailbox at my house out of anger. Ummm, I got confronted for calling someone annoying behind their back (if they had been there I would have said it to her face! ppssshh!). And out of three girls at my house Wed. night (me included), I was the only one NOT crying. Shocker! LMAO!!

I just can't wait to go to Chili's tonight and start all over again. These people party too hard and too late and I don't know if I can keep up! LOL!

Have a great weekend everybody!! xoxoxo

A big ol meme

Stuff About Meeeeeeeee
fyi, I wrote this post out yesterday, while bored at work. Today I'm at home, with a hangover, didn't go to bed until 5:30am. :) laters

1. YOUR FULL NAME:

Beth "Roadie" I don't think so

2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?

Not that I've been told

3. DO YOU WISH ON A STAR?

Yep, sure do

4. WHICH FINGER IS YOUR FAVORITE?

I'm gonna have to say the middle one. I sure would like to use it at work.

5. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?

Hmmm, I usually cry all the time but I think last Friday when I came home from the debil dog house. :) So it was a good cry!

6. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?

I love roast beef and turkey, together, with mustard, little mayo, and swiss. But usually I just get turkey with mustard and lettuce because it's good for me. BAH!

7. ANY BAD HABITS?

I smoke more than I would like (but I'm still not a typical, core smoker) and I definitely eat more than I should.

8. WHAT'S IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW?

My boyfriend, Chris Cornell :)

9. DO YOU BELIEVE IN SOUL MATES?

I believe in them and have multiple ones. My best friends are my soul mates!

10. ARE YOU A DAREDEVIL?

It really depends on what it is and who it involves.

11. DO LOOKS MATTER?

To whom? About what? Mama needs details! If you're talking in an attraction sense like in my relationship, I'd say yeah, initally, how would I know if I'm interested in someone if I didn't like their looks and they didn't matter to me? But as far as if they equate to love, not at all.

12. HAVE YOU EVER MISUSED A WORD AND IT SOUNDED STUPID?

Probably but I can't remember one right now

13. DO YOU THINK THERE IS A POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW?

Okay, you know these questions are g2m

14. DO FISH HAVE FEELINGS?

As an animal lover I'd have to say yes. I think that all animals, all living creatures have feelings of some sort.

16. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?

I bitch to my friends, I cry, I sing in the car

17. WHERE ARE YOUR SECOND HOMES?

Okay first of all, if I had multiple homes, as in more than one, I wouldn't have second homeS, I'd have a second and third home. Second of all, my second home is my car. And my third home is a tent. :)

18. DO YOU TRUST OTHERS EASILY?

Unfortunately, yes. It has screwed me many a time too but I'm learning.

19. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?

My dogs. Although close second would have to be my Fisher Price record player. LOVED it!

20. WHAT CLASS IN SCHOOL DO YOU THINK IS TOTALLY USELESS?

Trig I hate math and I found nothing useful about Trig.

21. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL?

I've had them off and on most of my life but I'm famous for starting one and not using it after a few entries. Currently my blog is my journal.

22. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?

You could call me Sister Sarcasm :D

23. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A MOSH PIT?

Unfortunately, yes. And I'm claustrophobic and it was not cool

24. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A MAN OR WOMAN?

Kindness, understanding, honesty, loyalty, sense of humor, and some great arms!

25. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES?

Bethie, Roadie, Ho, Your Honess, Girl, Honey, Baby, and my mom calls me Bethers

26. WOULD YOU EVER BUNGEE JUMP?

Me thinks not...unless...I don't know. My gut reaction is no

27. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?

Chocolate with chunks of peanut butter. Oh I'm hungry!

28. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?

Purple (I used to have a purple car! loved it!)

29. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE FOOD?

ONIONS! Barf!

30. HOW MANY WISDOM TEETH DO YOU HAVE?

Three

31. WHO DO YOU MISS MOST RIGHT NOW?

My dirty whores!!!!!

32. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE YOU SENT THIS TO, TO SEND IT BACK?

Do what you want ho's, but I will be checking

33. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Jeans, red top, black hoodie, gym shoes

34. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?

The fuckwad I work with talking to customers

35. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?

Baked BBQ chips

36. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?

Purple

37. HOW IS THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW?

I think its low 80's right now, raining, yucky, hate the humidity

38. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?

Jorge, my co-worker

39. FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?

Teeth (I have issues with jacked up teeth) And no, if you are a friend of mine, I don't judge you based on your teeth, I just won't make out with you.

40. HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

Good, PAID, hungry

41. FAVORITE DRINK?

Dasani lemon water

42. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK?

Marga-frickin-ritas!! GIMMIE!

43. FAVORITE SPORT?

Football, sorry Cece. I understand the game almost 100%, I don't get watch NASCAR enough (thank you oh NASCAR gods for Jeff Gordon's failure last weekend!!!) and I like baseball but hate some of it's rules (like why can you get a strike when you foul tip the first two times but the last time you get a freebie? LAME!!)

44. EYE COLOR?

Blue

45. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?

No

46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MONTH?

February, I love my birfday

47. FAVORITE FOOD?

Mexican!! Oh wait, did you say favorite people or favorite food? Either way. LMAO!! :)

48. SIBLINGS?

I have a sister who is 5 years younger than me and another sister that is 9 years younger than me.

49. LAST MOVIES YOU WATCHED?

The Simpsons! Spider pig, spider pig...

50. SUMMER OR WINTER?

Winter. I love to ski, I love snuggling, I love fires, I LOVE blankets. I hate sweating and I hate that I don't look good in trampy clothes that appear during that time of year.

51. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?

February 11 baby, see question 46

52. HUGS OR KISSES?

Both! SAMOOCH!

53. RELATIONSHIP OR ONE NIGHT STAND?

Relationship

54. DO YOU WANT YOUR FRIENDS TO WRITE BACK?

Well I didn't do this shit for my health! Hoppy uppy people and get to postin!

55. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?

Your mom

56. WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?

Your mom

57. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?

End of the Cubs game (unreal), half of BB and this awesome show about adventure lodges in the USA (see yesterday's post)

59. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?

How many PTO days do I have left and can I call in??

60. WHAT ORIGINAL FLAVOR STARBURST IS YOUR FAVORITE?

Whatever the pink one is, strawberry? If only there was pineapple *sigh*

Success! Happy Hump Day!

Oh it is a GOOD day my friends. That's right! I got my money! It was mildly painless and I'm SO glad its all over.

She emailed me to meet her down by her office and naturally, that made me nervous as all get out but I went and she walked up with her checkbook so I knew that was a good sign. I don't know if I believe her or not but she claims that she has been just as sick with worry as I have been because she thought I was mad at her. She said she's lost sleep because she thought I thought she short-changed me...um, I was!!

She also asked, twice, if I was sure we agreed on $350 and I said, "Honestly, you are my friend and if you were anyone else and if I truly knew what I was getting into, I would have charged you double." She was shocked by that. I explained to her that she has raised her dogs to be how they are and that's fine, for her, but she has to realize it's not typical and it's a lot of work catering to them. When I said, "Not to mention the house-sitting part of it all," THAT is when she went, "oh okay." But really, I didn't have the balls to tell her how horrific the experience was. :) So it's all good in my hood and I have my money and I'm so relieved!

Last night we watched a show about adventure lodges in the United States. HELLO! My kinda show. Vacation + adventure = GOOD TIMES!! Naturally, there were a few we wrote down for future vacation ideas.

Camelot - Their website isn't working right now but here's a little blurb on them. What this doesn't tell you is that they have hiking to go see petroglyphs and the pictures just don't do it justice. I totally want to stay there for a few nights!


Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge - Oh I am SOOO doing this!! First of all... PUPPIES!! OMG, I want to kiss them all. And I want them drag me through the snow. And I want to bundle up and be on vacation and yeah! I love this. They have all levels of training and different kinds of trips...BRING IT! Winter camping...always wanted to try it!

What odd, fun, adventurous trips do YOU want to take?

The saga continues

This whole house/pet sitting thing has gotten out of hand. I have STILL not been paid. She came to my desk yesterday and when I saw her, I immediately reached for the garage door opener and her keys to give back to her. She saw this and said, "Oh I'm not here for that, I just came to see you and talk." Oooookay.

So we talked...for an HOUR! Sorry but I don't usually have time like that to bull shit, especially in front of Re-Re the Wondertard who listens to my every conversation. But I wasn't about to shoo her away when there was still a chance she had another check in her pocket for me. She told me all about her trip and how great it was and we talked about the damn dogs. Naturally I could not go into any detail about how truly horrific her pets were for me to watch because like her animals, my friend is high maintenance. She kept saying, "Don't they just have the best little personalities? Aren't they so similar to humans?" Yeah yeah, they sure are. You keep on telling yourself that. Ow! I just pulled a muscle rolling my eyes too hard.

After an hour, she was scooching away and I tried to hand her the keys and opener again. Again she waves them off. WTF? And she says, "I really didn't come by here for that, I was on my way to do something else. Will you just hang on to them until I pass by again?" Uh, sure, no problem. As long as you pass by and a check passes with you. She leaves and says NOTHING about the money.

And you might be wondering why I didn't bring it up. I am a chicken. I can talk a hell of a game and I get real surface angry, but underneath, I'm a nice person. I'm accommodating and non-confrontational and I have chest pains over the idea of having to stand up for myself in person.

The end of the day comes and I'm high-tailing it out of there to get home and change and go to job #2 when the receptionist stops me and says, "Oh Beth, Sharon told me that you have something of hers that I'm supposed to stop you and get from you before you leave." Oh HELL fucking no you didn't. First of all, I've already got all my shit with me, packed up, I'm literally half out the door. Second of all, you did NOT just have your employee (she is the receptionist's manager) do your dirty work and get your keys and opener from me so you don't have to deal with me? Third of all, why the fuck didn't you take your shit when I was going to hand it to you?

And I feel like the answer is because she knows. She knows she shorted me and she doesn't want to pay so her way of dealing with it is avoiding me. Yet how is she so confident to think that after talking with me for an hour, I wouldn't bring it up? I mean, I didn't, but how can she bank on that?

I'm furious. I had to go all the way back upstairs to my desk, unlock my desk, get the keys and opener and put them in an inner-office envelope, but not before writing a quick note telling her I hope she got my last email and that I need another check from her. And I do not know what to do if she completely ignores this note. I just don't know what to do. How dare this woman think that $250 is enough for everything I did? How dare she treat me, her friend, like this?

Terrible.

Why are the weeks slow but the weekends fly by?

So unfair. But what a great weekend it was! Many fun things happened this weekend and I feel pretty good so that's something to smile about, right? :) (can you tell I'm trying to convince myself? hee hee)

Saturday I got to sleep in and get over my traumatic house/pet sitting experience. I told you guys how she shorted me $100 right? I had to bring it up to her and she hasn't spoken to me since that. :( I still have her keys and garage door opener so she will have to speak to me eventually but I have this strange feeling I'm going to get a request to put it in the inner-office mail. Fine by me but there better be another check on its way to me. This is all so stupid and childish. Did she really think I was going to forget the amount she agreed to pay me?

Anyway, I got to sleep in and just BE in my house and kiss the kitties lots. They missed me, I can tell. Both of them are right back to sleeping on top of me every night so I'm sure Daddy couldn't have been that comfy. :) He just doesn't have the squishy hips like Mommy. :)

Saturday night we went to the drive-in! I LOVE IT!! We saw The Simpsons movie and it was hilarious. Who else has seen it? Spider pig! Spider pig! OMG, so funny. We parked Matt's truck backwards and had a blanket and a cooler and it was so great! Loved our date!

Sunday was "house" day and we are about to buy the furniture for our "bar." I put this in quotes because we are turning our dining room into a bar so we'll see how this turns out. We are buying a bar from Pottery Barn:

So this is the "lawyer's bar" we are getting. I'll get more pics but this is going to go on the right side of the window in our dining room.

On the other side of the window, we're putting this:

This is one section of what could be a huge bar:

Make sense? We have this huge ass window that doesn't allow us to put up a nice, big bar, like the one above so we are kind of customizing it for ourselves. :)

So both those pieces of lots of storage which is what we desperately need. Under the window, we're going to put this seat:

It's got storage (I love storage!) and it'll be this color, Moroccan Brown with the black legs/feet on it. I love it!

So okay, all this is on one wall (yes, I'll take pictures of before and after) and so across from all this is our living room with no wall...its just one big open room. Our couches, obviously, face the TV and we are going to put a table against the back of the one couch to complete the room.

This is the table we want for behind the couch:

I really hate how they have picture-inserting set up in blogger. So anyway, yeah, that's the plan. I'll have to get some pics of how the room looks before and after...I still need to set up a photo album of what the house looked like before we painted it.

It was a good weekend and I really hope this week flies by too. :)

FREEDOM!!!

I just want to take this opportunity right now to thank all of my wonderful friends for putting up with me bitching and moaning for the past 10 days about these dogs. I am free. I walked out of that house at 6:05am this morning and smiled as I drove away, turning around only once to flip the house off. I did my best to eliminate all traces of myself from the house (out of courtesy) but I didn't replace the margarita mix I drank the first week I was there. Honestly, they told me to help myself to everything in their house and I barely touched their food (hard core vegetarians, no tanks) so I drank some of their liquor! It was NEEDED!

So I am celebrating all day today, the return of my life. I can't wait to go home and kiss my kitties, lay in my bed, lounge on my couch, sex up my man, watch my TV, smoke up in my own house...ah freedom! HOORAY!!

This weekend is going to be luxurious. I am off today at 2pm (thank you summer hours!) and I will head home (HOME!) and laze around. I need to wrap some birthday presents for my bf here, and then I'm headed to her house around 4:30pm to do a belated celebration with her.

Saturday I'm going to the gym with my baby sister and then we'll eat out somewhere healthy. I need to tan too. :) I've actually been considering not doing the UV tanning anymore and trying and sticking with sunless tanning. Although I've worked at a tanning salon before and know how it all works, I'm still very wary of how the Mystic tan will look on my bod. We'll see. And then Matt is taking me to a drive-in! I can't wait! I haven't been to a drive-in movie since high school and before that, only one time. I can't wait!!

Sunday is sit on my ass and do not a GOT damn thing day. I can't wait. Do you know I'm actually happy to go home and do some chores? I bet Matt hasn't touched the dishes since I left and I will be HAPPY to do them. I will never take my home or my life for granted again. I don't usually but wow, I sure do appreciate everything a lot more. What's that lame song that I now can't get out of my head? "I'm free! To do what I want! Any old time..." Friday theme song baby!!

And on top of all this excitement, planning our March Vegas trip has me SO beyond excited. I miss my girls SO much. It is so unfair we live so far away from each other but the best part is that when we do get together, we have the best time. And FYI, no boys allowed on this trip. The only penises allowed are the ones that'll be shakin' at Thunder Down Under! Bowchickabowwow!

There is nothing that is going to bring this good mood down today...okay, well, Re-Re isn't here yet but...I'm gonna try not to let his dumb ass hurt my mood. I will laugh in the face of his stupidity! ha HA!

Have a great weekend friends!!!!

FINAL DAY!!

It's time to celebrate, okay wait, not time yet because I have one more night but my life is almost mine again! One last night with the debil dogs. Or as Christina says, dogs you can kick! LMAO! I never thought I would laugh at that kind of statement, being the animal lover I am, but she's right...I want to put my purple Croc right up their asses. Can't stand them. Do you know that one of them actually bit me last night for scolding it? Um, it jumped up ON TOP OF the coffee table, I said no and get down and it snapped at me and caught my finger. Unreal. I now know that my friends don't discipline these animals at all.

So! I won't be around much today because I have to cover the Help Desk all day. Normally this would have me a little upset because our users are idiots (I'm an idiot magnet) and they are bitchy idiots at that, but after yesterday with Re-Re, I will take bitchy idiots over that moron. He's in training and lord how he needs it! I've never met a bigger retard. And don't give me shit for using the un-PC word retard. I happen to have a mentally retarded cousin and while that doesn't give me permission to use the word, it allows me to use it and know I'm not using it as an insult to her. I have bras with higher IQ's than this idiot.

I leave you with this question: Do you wash your hair first and then your body? Or do you wash your body and then your hair? And do you have a method to this madness or is this just what it is, no reason attached? :)

Have a great day friends!!!

Randomocity

I have a need to babble and you, my sweet friends, are the lucky recipients of my verbal diarrhea.


Two more nights in the Debil Dog house. I am BEYOND excited. Matt is coming over tonight to see me and I cannot wait to go back to my phenomenal home and precious, sweet, LOW MAINTENANCE kitties.


Our cafeteria here at work is closing for three months while they expand upon it. Don't get me started on how much the heifers that work here do NOT need a "fry bar" or an ice cream bar, but the positive is that I won't be subjected to the tasty breakfast treats I have a hard time resisting and this will help me with my weight loss efforts.


My girls and I are planning a trip to Vegas in March and I am BEYOND excited. I'm a Vegas Virgin and that combined with how much I miss my friends (SOOOOOOO much)...March cannot come soon enough!! Look out Vegas!!


I have had more dental work done this year than ever in my life. It's a good, long story (not fit for Randomocity) but I just want to throw in there that I had to visit the dentist yet AGAIN last night and I'm really sick of going there.


Matt and I have two great vacations coming up in the fall so I am quite eager to have summer be over and done with. Not to mention this oven-like humidity is doing nothing for my demeanor. We are headed to New York (the city and the Hamptons) in September and in October we are going to the Smokies for a week. I can't wait!!


Speaking of the weather, or maybe I can blame this on the debil dogs...I have two very ouchie-like clogged pores (okay, they are pimples but I hate that word and don't like any other alternative word either) and they are right next to each other and dammit if I don't feel like putting a pillow over my head til they are gone!


If you had to guess, what percentage of people in just this country would you say truly LOVE their job? I mean, they are doing what they want and they are happy?


I hope you all have a great Wednesday. Does anyone still do Thursday Thirteen in blog world anymore? :)

Uncle Mike

On Mother's Day, my baby sister graduated from the University of Illinois and we celebrated with our family, the Dills, down in Champaign, Illinois. Mike and Sharon have lived in Champaign for a long, long time and sort of "took care" of Mary while she was down there at school. Sharon is my dad's first cousin and they have two sons, Adam and Vince. So we all celebrated Mary's great accomplishment and Mike gave a great speech about how he appreciates never having to bail Mary out of jail and other cute stuff like that. It was the last time I got to see Mike alive.

One month later, on June 14, my father called me and gave me the devestating news that Mike had been having terrible migraines and had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He was given 3-4 months to live. How could this be happening? I had just seen the man on Mother's Day! One month ago! Matt and I sat in tears in the car after we hung up with my dad. We held each other's hand and vowed to never take each other for granted. To not fight about the stupid stuff anymore because life can turn on a dime.

Mike and his family headed up to Mayo Clinic and they weren't there long when Mike started to deteriorate, rapidly. The tumor was very aggressive and they brought him home where he passed away on Monday, July 23, 2007.

To lose someone so young (he was only 57) was very hard. But imagine how his wife feels. Their 35 year anniversary was to be this past Saturday. She lost her twin sister less than 5 years ago. It's not fair. That's all we kept saying at the wake and funeral. It is so not fair. Mike's mother has lost her husband, her twin brother, and now her oldest son...all within 2 years. How do you not curl up in a ball and beg for mercy? I have learned strength from these women.

Adam, Mike's oldest, gave a wonderful eulogy and it's something I'll never forget. I'll also never forget the sight of my father, lingering at the cemetary after the priest was done talking, silently weeping over the loss of his best friend. I truly don't know what I will do when my parents go. I hope to have just as many amazing people around me as Sharon and Adam and Vince did during this hard time.

We miss you Mike. We miss you every day and wish you hadn't been taken from us so soon.

Kiss your family as often as possible. Tell them you love them and mean it. Don't leave the house or go to bed angry. You just never know what tomorrow brings.

(from upper left, my dad, Jerry, Mike, Sharon, Donna, my mom)

4 more days

4 more days until I don't have to house/pet sit anymore. Y'all know I am the BIGGEST animal lover. I love them all. Yet I don't think I'll be watching any one's pets any time soon. I am so exhausted from the past 7 days of pet/house sitting...I'm actually blown away by how tired I am. In the past, when I have watched people's animals, I have never had issues. Maybe little behavioral issues where the pet thinks its owner has abandoned it and so it mildly acts out, but I've never dealt with dogs that need so much, on a constant basis.

My friend is on an Alaskan cruise. She is gone for 10 days and the left last Tuesday. I thought staying with her two Jack Russells and one Chihuahua would be an easy thing. I knew they were a little high maintenance and I met them before and they seemed like sweet dogs. Well those sweet dogs turned into the debil once their mom and dad were gone.

These dogs run this house. S and D, their parents, cater to their every whim and I am not like that. I am all about treating your pets like they are members of the family. I love my girls more than anything and would do just about anything for them, and trust me, they are spoiled, but not like this. Nothing like this.

The JR's have their own bedroom. And each night, I have to tuck them into bed, give them their treats, and turn on the TV (to Animal Planet, always) and put the sleep timer on so they can fall asleep to it. One of the JR's will not eat unless Animal Planet is on. She literally won't eat. I have never seen anything like this. And she's non-stop once she sees animals on the TV. She bounces all over the furniture, barks, freaks out, throws herself at the dresser the TV sits on...it's insane. Sunday morning, the Jack Russells both shit all over the upstairs carpet because they are pissed about something. I'm figuring they just miss their mom and dad. They knew they were in trouble but the spazzy one actually growled at me when I yelled to get downstairs. I burst into tears because I am so exhausted by these animals. They are too high maintenance.

I appreciate my cats SO much more now. OMG, I will never have a terrier. I will never have any kind of animal who thinks its a human. I feel overwhelmed and exhausted and I will have to go to the store tonight to buy a replacement bottle of tequila and margarita mix because my friend's dogs drove me to drink.

A jacked up fairy tale

Once upon a time, in the Land of Fucking Morons, there lived a HUGE moron, named Re-Re. And Re-Re was the biggest of all morons and all the morons who lived in the Land of Fucking Morons looked up to him.

One day, Re-Re decided to venture out of the Land of Fucking Morons and get a job! He, being the fucking moron that he is, forgot that the lands surrounding the Land of Fucking Morons, didn't like his kind, nor did those lands want anyone from the Land of Fucking Morons to work with them. But being the fucking moron that he is, he forgot and went anyway.

He ventured into northeastern Illinois, to a company that needed a help desk analyst. He thought to himself, "I wonder if I could do this job! I know! I'll tell the people that interview me that I have SEVEN years of help desk experience! That'll work for sure!"

So off he went and miraculously, the King of IT bought Re-Re's story! But someone else did not buy this story. Princess Pout Face was on to Re-Re. She did NOT like him. She thought the IT group should keep looking for a more suitable moron to fill the help desk analyst position. But the King of IT and his court jester decided they didn't want to help with the HELP desk anymore and they needed a body and so Re-Re was hired.

Obviously Princess Pout Face had no say in the matter and decided to be a team player and train Re-Re and make the most out of the situation she was given. She welcomed Re-Re into the IT department and taught him everything she knew. She had built this IT Help Desk from rubble and was so proud of her accomplishments...and then came Re-Re.

Princess Pout Face had never dealt with anyone from the Land of Fucking Morons. She did not know what to expect. But it didn't take long for Re-Re to get comfortable at his new job, and start showing his true colors. And those colors are MORON COLORS!! He is a fucking moron!

Re-Re was taught many things that pertained to his job at the help desk. He took notes and even documented the procedures that he learned. Yet he constantly made mistakes. He would make the same mistakes five times in one week! He is a moron. And this weighed on Princess Pout Face's mind. She was proud of her help desk and didn't want this fucking moron screwing up all the hard work she put in or the reputation she built with her users.

So Princess Pout Face started double checking all of Re-Re's work. And oh my! did she find many mistakes. And she would email Re-Re to point out these mistakes. And Re-Re got mad. He was belligerent. He would say moronic things like, "If I'm making these mistakes, why don't you have me document them so I learn from them?" BECAUSE YOU ALREADY FUCKING DID DOCUMENT THEM!!! See, Re-Re is SUCH a moron, that he already documented these mistakes, yet he didn't use his own documentation.

And Princess Pout Face grew crow's feet and stress lines and she started smoking again and drinking more margaritas than her wide hips would allow.

BLAHDOW!!

Here I am! Back into Blog land! How did I get sucked back in? Oh, it's definitely all Cece's fault! LMAO!! I love bloggin but have a hard time finding time for it.

SO much has happened since I have last been around...so much that I'm not telling you any of it. LMAO!! I love how I assume ANYONE still checks in to see this blog. :) It's okay, I like just typing out my random thoughts. :)

Upcoming topics:

The dumb fucker I work with
My weight loss journey
My closest friends and the one that's pissing me off
My pets and animals in general (DER!)
My house/pet sitting experience
My family (we've had a death in our family and I'd like to discuss)
My waitressing job

But right now, I must leave you with these teasers and go back to some work.