I’m washing everyone’s towels. I’ve taken out more than 4 bags of trash. I cleaned out the fridge. I cleaned the toilet and put a not-so-happy little sign over the toilet reminding those penises I live with to return the seat to its proper position.
Do you think if I injected them with a little progesterone they’d care a little more?
I mean, don’t get me wrong, they’re grateful, and occasionally they express it, but I think for all I do for those two, they could express it a little more often….
And I’m gonna go postal about the toilet seat. For real. Don’t laugh, it’s not because I fall in or anything, it’s just that this is ‘my’ bathroom. The only thing I do in the upstairs bathroom is shower and blow dry my hair and that’s only because the downstairs lacks the proper equipment to do those things. The downstairs bathroom is mine. I keep it clean. Not just because I like it that way, but of course, that’s the bathroom guests use.
They can keep the upstairs bathroom as messy as they want–and I still clean it, but stay out of my friggin bathroom! Keep your shaving goop upstairs and keep my seat down dammit!!!!
I’m going to be fighting this fight for the rest of my life though, aren’t I?
In 2006, when I went to the eye doctor, going in, my contact lens prescription was -5.75 for both eyes. All my life, well, since I was 7, both eyes have been the same, and my eyes have gotten worse every year. In terms of contacts, I fell down another .25 every year.
I don’t remember what the first optometrist changed my prescription to, but I know it was wrong–so wrong that I went back to see a different one there the next week. After his appointment, I left with -5.75 in one eye and -5.50 in the other….. So after 13 years he decided one eye was getting better and they were finally different…bull.
Now, I should’ve gone back, I know that, but I got charged full price for both appointments and I wasn’t comfortable seeing either of those doctors again. I just didn’t like my options and ended up sticking with the off-prescription.
Last year was a broke and uninsured year so I didn’t have an appointment. This year, as you know, I decided I had to get new lenses. It was far past time, so I made a new appointment with a new doctor and today I went in.
I was much more comfortable with him and his methods of examining. I left with -6.50 in both eyes.
I’m even more confident than ever that my last appointment left me with the wrong prescription.
Based on the progression my eyes have followed my whole life, in 2006 I should’ve been at -6.00, in 2007, -6.25 and now, in 2008 -6.50, which is exactly where this doctor has me.
I’ve been wearing the wrong prescription for 2 years and it’s just gotten worse. No wonder I get headaches for weeks at a time.
I’m so relieved now though. While I was there, I got some pricing for glasses. I’m looking at about $160 + frames + tax. I looked at a few of the frame styles I’d be interested in and they all ran $75-$90 so I’m looking to scrape up another $300 to go in and do that. Hopefully if I can do it soon enough I won’t have to have another appointment. We’ll see.
I’m thinking maybe I can save up some to add to my tax return, or if I get that tax rebate, I can do it then.
Either way, I can see now, and you guys have no idea what a relief it is to me!
I certainly don’t have the details yet, but the gist of it goes a little something like this:
Ryan and I were having lunch at Pizza Hut when I got the following text message from Catie–
“Omfg what’s going on at VSU? Beka got a txt saying there are cops with guns telling ppl to lock their class doors in fine arts!”
Fine Arts is a building on campus. So Ryan called Rich, teacher and technical director in the Fine Arts building and Rich was clueless, but he opened his office door and a cop just outside told him to go back in and lock his door or leave the building. Hmm…frightening!
So text messages are flying, both trying to find out what’s going on and warn others not to go to the building when finally I have Ryan call Scroggs, someone I’m certain must be there. Mystery solved.
An idiotic theatre major was running around the building with a prop gun. Someone called the cops. The cops were there looking for him.
Now, I don’t like Drew (the idiotic theatre major), but I’m thinking whoever called the cops did a fairly stupid thing here….Now, don’t get me wrong, I know these are crazy times and it’s better safe than sorry, but you’re in the theatre building and no one else is freaking out over this kid, so why doesn’t your common sense kick in a little?
On the other hand, I almost hope someone called just to get him in trouble. Heh.
I’ll update if I get anymore specifics. We’re all hypothesizing that if he’s found, he’ll probably have to spend a night in jail–no more though.
EDIT: I just got a call from VSUs Campus Alert system that sends out calls to those who’ve added their number to be alerted of emergency situations on campus. The message is also on the home page and is as follows:
At approximately 12:25 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29, VSU Police received a call from a student who stated that he saw a man in the Fine Arts Building with what appeared to be a gun. VSU Police immediately responded to the building and began a lock-down of the Fine Arts Building, which included a room-by-room search. University Police have the suspect in custody and have recovered the alleged weapons, that are now confirmed to be stage props from the Theatre Department. The investigation is ongoing. VSU Police have determined the area safe.
I’m sitting in front of a list of things I was supposed to do last night and only one of them got completed. I went upstairs to watch television–maybe take a little nap, and ended up passing out.
I woke up for about two hours after Ryan crawled into bed and watched tv for a bit before falling back out. I guess I was pretty tired though…
I got up early this morning so I could study a little for my Spanish test today, but you see what I’m doing! I’m not expecting to do well on this one, but she’s allowing a retake later, so I’m not too worried, but I really do hate doing poorly on something.
You should see the mountain of stuff I have to get done between 12 and 3 today. I totally dropped the ball on homework this weekend! Oops!
My blogs have been in a bit of a slump lately, so I’ve been looking at my options for pulling back out. I’m proud of the work I’ve done here over the last year and I want to make sure it’s being seen.
I was given the idea to build a logo for myself and check out some matching business cards, so I gave it a shot!
I was apprehensive due to my lack of creative skills, but LogoYes has a super-easy logo design that had even me feeling confident about my final product.
[Click on each image for larger.]
On the homepage you’ll see a big icon that says “Try it free!” Clicking on this will allow you to go through the whole process. Once you’re in, you want to choose a base style for your company. This just helps you sort through the piles of icons they have to choose from.
You can choose High-Tech if your company is “innovative, fast-paced, and technically advanced;” Boldif your company is “experienced, stable, and trustworthy;” or Flairif your company is “creative, responsive, and customer-oriented.”
Next you want to choose from the huge variety of business categories they have. Whatever you’re about, they’ve got you covered–accounting, religion, animals, even yard care. I spent a ton of time looking through each of the categories! There’s even a search feature to the right if you’ve already got an idea of what you’re looking for. Keep in mind, if at any time you want to take a step back, just click on the corresponding number on the bottom of the screen.
I went into accounting and finance to find a computer. Once clicking on the initial computer logo, I was brought to a screen with EIGHTdifferent computers to choose from. After looking through these all, I can’t imagine anyone not finding what they want here.
Also in this step, once you’ve chosen an initial image, in the right column you can click to see the image selections for the other styles. High-Tech and Bold had 13 & 21 computer logos, respectively.
Next you add your text. This is pretty straightforward. The only trouble I had was decided which bit of text was most important to me. You’ve got two lines of optional text. I tested by typing in the alphabet repeatedly and it looks like you can fit 255 characters into each line. You’ve also got thirty-six different fonts to choose from in this step.
In the next step, you get to play with your design. You can format your placement and choose the colors for your design and text. I was thankful to see that if I want to use the same color for each section I didn’t have to search to match it up, it was saved in the box and ready with just a click.
You’ve got the options to rotate, flip, size, or zoom not just your logo, but your text as well. This gives you the option to do some creative things with your text, which made me really excited. (At the time of writing this, I’ve only created one logo/card for this review, but I’m making more as soon as I get all my thoughts down.)
On the next screen you’ll get a clear shot of your completed logo.
At the top of the page is where you’ll see the option to see your logo on a business card. After clicking this option, you’ll be taken to a screen where some design choices will cycle through for you to see on a larger scale. If you’d like to move on and choose one of these designs to create a business card, you just click the top of the screen where it says, “Click here to create your matching card in 2 easy steps.”
Almost done! “Two easy steps,” is absolutely right! You just click on the template of your choice, and then choose the final placement of your logo on your business card. Here you can input all of your contact information. They have suggestive placeholders there to help you think of everything you want to include, but of course you can put in whatever you’d like. For your contact text, you can choose between Arial and Times for a readable font, and you can also set the size and alignment.
That’s it! Now you’ve got yourself a top-notch logo that you created, with business cards to match!
Here’s what I came up with on my first try:
I left out any info I don’t normally share online, but you can get a good idea of how these look.
After going through the process, I’ve gotten really excited about the idea of using business cards to promote my blog. I actually think it’d be a great investment for me. If nothing else, friends could stop using the excuse of forgetting my url (for those who don’t have their own internet and thus, no bookmarking).
Hopefully I’ll be seeing a pretty nice tax refund, or maybe even that rebate I’ve been hearing about. I know I’ll be using part to renew my hosting, but I think I’ll use a chunk for promotion as well. If I do, these business cards are definitely on the list.
The screen shots don’t really do them justice, but here are the other two I made tonight:
I’m gonna try my hand at some more when I get out of work tomorrow.
Yeah, they’re airheads. There’s male stupidity all around me this week.
I have my roommate who, all week long, has been asking me the same questions in different forms. For instance–
Him: Did I get any mail?
Me: Nope
Him: Did I get a box?
Me: *blank stare*
I wish I could think of more examples but really, I repeat myself so often, it doesn’t even feel abnormal anymore so I’ve stopped noticing.
There’s some other male-dumbness I won’t discuss because I don’t know who reads this blog.
Then there’s my brother whose wife isn’t speaking to him right now because he hasn’t replaced teh methane gas detectors. They live with my grandmother who has a gas stove, gas heating, all of it. They’ve got two babies and my grandmother there and he can’t remember to replace the detectors? There are enough risks in that old house as is without him ignoring the little things he can do. Jeeze.
Then there’s my neighbor who waits in my apartment for 20 minutes while I’m on the phone, just to ask if he can borrow some butter. He had more than enough chances to ask while I was on the phone, rather than sitting and listening to my conversation and making me feel like I needed to rush to get off the phone. Ugh…
I have to go to work soon. I have a feeling I’ll have plenty more to add to the list when I get home…
Let’s start with the minor annoyance. We’ve got a crazy leak under the sidewalk in front of our apartment. After I told our landlord, it took 3 days for him to get someone out here to actually do any work. This annoys me because it’s just dumb. A leak under the sidewalk can be no big deal, or it can be a really bfd, ya know? There’s a good chance someone’s water bill is gonna skyrocket this month. It right outside our apt so I can hear everything that’s going on and I heard him announce that they know it’s not unit 1 or 2, and we’re 2, so I hope he’s right.
But the water is shut off. Today is my day off and I even started laundry before bed last night. I wanted to finish it. It’s only a minor annoyance, but PMS amplifies it a little. Also, by the sound of things, they’re having a pretty rough time out there, so there’s no telling how long this will take.
On the more pissy side of things–Ryan went to work this morning. I got a call about the time he should be getting into town letting me know that his car is dead. I guess he was on his way to a garage, but I dunno. Either he’s going to be driving home tonight with an almost dead car–which I’ll worry about for however long it takes him to drive it home–or I’ll be driving to Jacksonville to pick him up. That’s over 4 hours of driving for nothing. I hate that.
And let’s not forget this is the same car he spent over $500 on just a few weeks ago. I’m not happy. Today was supposed to just be ice cream and laundry. Instead, I’ll probably be getting lost trying to turn off in the right part of Jacksonville….
I was watching a video on YouTube one night, and in the video responses, I saw a video entitled “Rick Rolled.”
It was obvious this video had nothing to do with the one I was currently watching, but I was intrigued nonetheless.
What I found was something part of an apparent internet fad I somehow missed out on. Were you guys familiar with this?
“Rick Rolling” is linking a person to a video of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The trick is disguising the link so that the person doesn’t know that’s where it leads. The ‘rules’ are that you must watch the video in its entirety.
The more interesting version is a website that plays the video. Upon entering the site, your window dances around the screen before settling. If you try to navigate away, you’re greeted with information boxes containing the lyrics line by line. Ctrl+Alt+Del is your best method to get out. You can see it here, but remember, I warned you!
There are also a ton of variations and edits around YouTube if you just search for a minute. Some of them are pretty hilarious.
[Read: For friends of mine who might read into this and think I’m having problems, worry not. This entry has nothing to do with my current situation; it’s simply something that came across my mind.]
How can people be chronic cheaters? Obviously I’m talking relationships here. I just don’t really understand how someone can justify it.
Now, I can understand the one-time mistake. I can even understand the situational cheater (someone stuck in a relationship they don’t want to be in, finding someone new and not knowing how to handle it all). I don’t condone either, but I can understand the mental process.
What I don’t understand is the person in a serious relationship who consistently has one night stands and such with random people. I just can’t wrap my head around how someone can actually care about someone, and do something so hurtful to them repeatedly–something they know will eventually lead to the end of their relationship.
I’ll admit to being in that situation. I had a boyfriend who changed schools and didn’t have his license. He talked about setting up camping gear at my house just so he’d be able to spend time with me. (This was a big joke with us because my dad disliked him so much) After that last conversation, I didn’t hear from him for a week and then when I did, he was telling me all about the girls he’d been flirting with. WTF? I guess we’ll just call that the messiest relationship I ever had. He was an achilles heel. He was one of those that just wouldn’t go away.
Anyway, I’d like to know how these people function later in life. I don’t understand how that works–how you cheat consistently through your college years or after, and then one day end up married? Can you even have a happy, healthy marriage after being a cheater so long? How does that work? Is it just something that randomly changes in you? I dunno man…
I currently know this person, we’ll call her Jane. She has a fiance, ‘Kevin’ in another town–we’ll say Smithville. She left one night, announcing her date and of course we questioned it. To which we got a spiel about how much she loves Kevin and he loves her and they’ll be married and she’ll be so happy but he’s in Smithville and she’s in college and she needs to have fun.
What?!
Can you imagine being married for ten years and then being told by your spouse, “Oh honey I used to cheat on you so much in college.” What would you do?!
I know this is all random, I just got to thinking about the college kids in this town and their ways and it just got me curious about how this works later in life…
Any males reading this, consider yourself warned. This is a girl-topic-heavy rant.
In October, I requested a change in my pills. Also, at the time, due to major scheduling conflicts and a brain fart, I’d had to be pill-less for two weeks. The doc at the school gave me two sample packs of Lo-Estrin 24 and a prescription for 10 more after. This is the pill that shortens your period. You’ve got 24 pills with the hormones and only 4 without-as opposed to the 20/8 of normal pills.
I took those for two months and well, obviously after being off for two weeks and switching to not only new pills, but to a new type of cycle, things were totally off, but by the end of the second month, I was evening out and really liking the new pills, so I decided to stick with them and fill my prescription.
I got home the night I was to start the newest pack and discovered I was given Lo-Estrin 20…..which is the normal 20/8 pill pack. I don’t know if the doc wrote the wrong script, or if they goofed when they filled it, but either way, it was a new pill change again, and new cycle. Can I say, ‘yay’?
So that’s what finds me here, almost writhing in pain in this chair. Actually, I have a rather high pain tolerance or I’d truly be upstairs, in bed, crying. Instead, I’m soldiering on and walking to classes and such, all the while, my innards are catching up on two months of light, easy periods and really kicking my ass. And there’s not a Pamprin in sight!
I want ice cream. I want a back rub. And I don’t want to do this extensive homework that’s due at 3:30.
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