Sweet Catastrophe

Whooooo talk about grumpy! I’m so, so, so tired of work this week…and I still have 4 more shifts before I get a day off…

I ended up begging to leave early today. I was supposed to stay until 7 but I just couldn’t take it. I’m just mentally spent. My mood was jumping back and forth and I was just screaming inside…

It’s not a good idea for me to work like this…I bottle it all up and next thing you know, I’ll snap and take a Red Ryder to work and start popping people in the forehead with it when they annoy me! It only stings for a little while, I promise! And I won’t shoot anyone’s eye out!!

*sigh* I just don’t know. It’d be funnier to get a tazer but they don’t have any on sale right now. I might just have to settle for a Laser Pointer and tell them I’m frying their brains with it. I know a lot of these folks are seriously dumb enough to believe that.

I need another vacation (or, ya know, a job I don’t hate….)

Honestly, I think this will probably be the best video I’ll see all year. Cats on a treadmill.

Yesterday was day 1 of what will be 9 straight days at Lowe’s. Next day off is Wednesday, March 4th.

Had the longest lasting panic attack I’ve ever had this morning. 21 minutes of your heart beating like a hummingbird’s wings is just terrifying shit.

Finally got an offer from the insurance lady. Being banged up, inconvenienced out the ass and car-less for four months is apparently worth $1500. Bringing my total to $6500 to replace my car. Can you replace a like-new 2005 Corolla for $6500? I can’t. Gotta wait until next week to talk to a lawyer though.

Can’t seem to set up any of the appointments I need.

Just… I don’t know. Not happy with things right now. Or people. In general. I pretend a lot. And ignore a lot….just not feelin’ that right now.

I’ve been an Alltel customer all my life. It’s who we had our landline through back home and who we got our cell phones with eventually. I know a lot of people have had problems with them, but I’ve never had any issues with them! If there’s been something questionable on our bill, it’s been taken care of immediately. Being in the deep south, there are a few areas where I don’t get the best service, but no other wireless company does any better in these areas. In all my years, I can probably still count on two hands how many calls I’ve ‘dropped.’

So I’m a little sad to see it go. I haven’t really seen anything publicly about it, but we got a letter in the mail this week letting us know that Verizon Wireless has purchased Alltel. Right now I’m only seeing the good things to come with this. For one, that just combined the Alltel and Verizon networks so there’s greater coverage and more people that count as mobile-to-mobile (meaning the calls don’t count toward your minutes). Also, better phone choices! Alltel has never been the best for actual phones, I mean, I’ve never had a problem getting one I liked, but there’ve always been phones I liked better on other networks.

Also, Lowe’s employees get a 30% discount with Verizon, so I need to find out when I’ll be able to start taking advantage of that!

You may have seen some proof of this merge in the form of the new Verizon commercial where they’re offering “Friends and Family” which is essentially Alltel’s My Circle where you pick 10 people who your calls are free to.

So right now nothing is changing for us except that we have a bigger, better network, but I’m researching Verizon’s different plans now just so we’ll have an idea of what it’ll be like when the merge is complete and they start changing our billing/plans.

Are any of you on Verizon? What do you think of them?

I’m sorry, I’ve been sitting on that lame misspelling for a while now. It had to be released.

Anyway, I’m really loving my Wii Fit! I have to confess, I took a little hiatus (okay a big one) right after my vacation. I just couldn’t get motivated with all the foot pain, but that’s better now so we’re friends again!

I love the Yoga exercises. I’ve chosen the male trainer and named him Jeff, just so I can call him Jeffe (heff-ay). He loves me. He says I have great posture and balance. He’s a good kid.

The Balance Games are tons of fun as well! Right now I’m struggling with a game where you’re in a bubble trying to race through this little course. If you hit anything, you pop. I can’t make it to the freakin end yet! I know I’m past 20 tries now… I just need to slow down!

The Aerobics games are fun as well, but I haven’t really done any of the strength training games yet….I have no idea why!

I love that it lets you password protect your profile so everyone isn’t seeing your weight and bmi, etc, but it made my mii look squat and round and I don’t appreciate that :-P I’m not skinny but dammit wii fit, my weight is so not distributed that way!

As a fitness game I’d really like to see an option to see how many calories you’re burning with the exercises. That used to be pretty standard with an exercise game, ya know?

I’d also really, really, really like an option to create a playlist of sorts. You spend way too much time navigating through the menus when each exercise or game lasts about 2 minutes on average. I’d love to be able to just set a list of which ones I want to play in what order and go to it. Hear that Nintendo? Get on that for the next one!

I’m trying to keep an eye out for other Wii balance board games on sale. I’d like to check out the Rayman Raving Rabbids game for the balance board. Other than that one, I think I’d want to rent some others just to check them out.

Ideally I’d like to get the Dreamgear 5-in-1 Fitness Bundle. I’ve already got a protective sleeve on order, but other than that, I have to get a mat. I’m working out on a hard tile floor so there’s a lot of exercises in the Strength Training area that would have me off the board, so I really need a mat or I’ll just continue avoiding them altogether.

I want a case to be able to safely put it away because I’m not playing around with this thing. I don’t want it damaged in any way, ya know?

Logically rechargeable batteries will come in handy if I stick with my desired schedule, so really, the 5-in-1 makes the most sense. I’m thinking about picking it up next week. Come on Federal refund!

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, do a quick search, there’s tons about it, but essentially Facebook changed their Terms of Agreement and people flipped. The way it was worded made it sound like Facebook owned everything you upload, but that’s really not the case. They issued a statement and reverted to the old ToS until they can get it worded correctly, but essentially the deal was this: if you deleted your account, messages to friends and pictures and stuff you shared with them, would still be there. I, for one, am absolutely okay with that. I HATE that I’ve got messages and comments on Myspace that now just have some generic ‘deleted’ message there because I’ve had past friends who’ve deleted their accounts or been locked out and deactivated, etc. I saved those messages for a reason, and now they’re gone with nothing behind to remind me what those messages said. I’m glad that Facebook doesn’t do the same thing.

It annoys the hell out of me that people flipped so quickly and are STILL flipping out and threatening to delete their Facebook accounts. Sure, if Facebook had shown any indication that they wanted to sell our images and such, I could understand, but I saw the ToS and it was obvious that it had just been over-lawyered.

O.M.G. the world is ending kiddos. Let’s all just be as paranoid as we possibly can.

Enjoy “The Office Musical”

I’ve had a pretty full weekend with work, visitors, shopping, and going out to dinner with Ryan.

Work has been hellish, but at least I finally picked up some inserts for my shoes so maybe those will at least help out. Friday night I got a visit from Angry Guy (remember, from the Epic battle of Good vs Evil) and one of my Lumber guys had to call up front and tell them I needed rescuing so they came down and told me Peggy needed to talk to me up front. Again, it’s not that I have anything against what the guy has to say, but it’s just inappropriate to stand and talk to a cashier you don’t know for an extended period of time, pushing the conversation through other customers’ transactions. Inappropriate, and awkward as hell for the cashier! But again I lived to tell the tale.

Today I was able to pick up a lot of other things we’ve been needing around here and just doing without– some simply for convenience like a basic spice rack and a drawer cart for all the cooking accessories. I just have to be organized!

I’m actually feeling pretty icky at the moment. My stomach just feels shredded. I’m hoping it’s the culmination of all the grease I’ve ingested in the past few days and forgetting my vitamins and not that awful virus in circulation I keep hearing about. I downed some Pepto (not my preference, but it seems to be all we have around at the moment) and I think I’m going to call it a night. This will be the earliest I’ve gone to bed in a very long time– no infomercials and repetitive mesothelioma lawsuit commercials for me tonight!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Sooo I’m getting a pretty sweet tax return this year. I never pay attention to what other people get, I only have my old returns to go by and this is the first year my dad isn’t claiming me as a dependent so I’m getting like 8x what I’m used to getting. I think you could probably hear my jaw drop when I got to the part where it totaled up my return. So yeah, essentially my dad has been screwing me over with that….reducing my return and killing my eligibility for certain financial aid programs. And I won’t say he hasn’t helped me out, but if you go strictly monetarily, what he’s done for me most years he’s claimed me has not equaled the money I’d have had otherwise. So basically if he didn’t claim me I wouldn’t have needed his help anyway. So he got a huge tax break for claiming me and my tuition.

But anyway, I’m trying to get over that.

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been thinking about frivolous things I could spend some money on. I like stuff. I can’t deny that. And it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to indulge without feeling overly guilty about it.

I’m being responsible with it though. I’m having my cavity (or whatever it is) taken care of with the money since that’s something that will be completely without insurance. I’ve already made arrangements for my wisdom teeth, I’ve just got to wait until some time in March for that. My return wouldn’t be enough to cover that anyway. I’ll have to use the money to go to the gyno and have a pap uninsured as well so that’s another chunk.

I AM going to get a bunch of books though. I’m sorry. I hit a little spurt where I did nothing but read and it was just great. I want to get back to that! And I’ve got a whole separate wishlist full of Amazon books and a Word document with links to different series’ I want to look into as well.

Again, I can’t lie, I’ve seriously considered splurging on either the Kindle or Kindle 2, or an Xbox 360….but they’d both be purchases that would just lead to more money to spend….but my god it’s so tempting.

I think I may decide on one and put back a chunk of money for it now, and then when I get my tax rebate (which I’m supposed to get this year because I didn’t qualify last year because I was claimed) I could get one of them.

When did I gain this bad habit of feeling guilty when I spend money on something other than groceries or bills? I don’t like it one bit!

or more accurately, drunk on otc sleeping pills! I’ll use an otc sleep aid about once every two months or so. Last night I was bored out of my mind but not tired enough to sleep yet so I popped two pills. Oops! I only meant to take one, that’s the dosage– but I was out like a light!!

I probably would’ve been great if Willow hadn’t come into the room and started attacking a potato chip bag. I woke up and I have never felt so drunk and simultaneously coherent at the same time; It was a nutty feeling! I don’t think even the strongest, best diet pills on the market could’ve affected me the way these things did!

I crawled back into bed and for what felt like an hour (but was really only about 10 minutes) I tossed and turned and my eyes just kept popping open on their own! I’m surprised I didn’t wake Ryan up with my whiny, drunken pleading, “I just want to sleeeeeep!” “Why won’t my eyes stay shuuuuuuut??” Even at the time I knew in the back of my mind that it was a pretty hilarious situation. I mean, something in the pills, I guess whatever was making me feel so drunk, was pushing me to get up and the rest was pushing me to sleep. Epic battle, I tell ya!