So, Thursday was a crappy day. I'm not going to get into the details because it involves someone else's personal life. Let's just leave it at there was a moment on Thursday when I wasn't sure if I should curse someone out, laugh in their face or slap them. Yeah, it was that fun.
After that, we went and saw Paycheck. It wasn't too bad actually. It wasn't the best movie ever, but I thought it went along well enough and kept you interested and it had some solid action and a good story. I liked it.
Friday now was funny. See, both my Love and I had to go back into work on Friday. Though my Love forgot I needed to because my schedule's been so up-in-the-air these past two weeks, and didn't wake me up in the morning. Our normal morning goes something like this: 7am - he gets up and gets ready and I doze back off. 7:25am - he wakes me back up and I get dressed and drive him to work 8:10am - I get home from driving him to work and I get ready 8:45am - I leave for work. Well, on Friday it went: 7am - he gets up and gets ready for work. And that's it. *lol* He thought he was being a sweetie by making sure not to wake me up and to let me sleep in. Aw, ain't that cute? :) Of course, when I did wake up (at 10am), I realized aw, crap, I was supposed to be at work an hour ago! So I call them and get the damned voice mail. I don't know if they were even there on Friday after all that! Damn people can't ever stick to a schedule. I didn't get my paycheck yesterday and I have no idea if I'm supposed to be showing up for work on Monday or not. (At the interview - the only time we've talked about this - it was said that he wanted someone through the end of the month and then perhaps a little longer or maybe perm, but he wasn't sure and we'd see what happens. Just like everything since, he was vauge even then!) So, we're at the end of December and on into January. Am I still temping? I don't know, they're not telling me. I figure I'll just show up on Monday and see what happens. At the very least, I need to get my paycheck, drop off my timesheet and grap my keyboard, so might as well just go in and make some more money until they tell me to stop showing up! *laughs*
Last night we had a bit of fiasco trying to repair Mika's scratching post. (All the carpet's been destroyed on it and we thought we could just re-carpet the center tubes that she scratches without having to buy a whole new one.) Oy. We managed to put it back together temporarily with some rope instead of the carpet on the one damaged tube, and then half carpet and half rope on the other. It's not a long-term fix, but it'll do for now.
After that, I started coughing really bad and I had been sneezing all day. My throat felt like it was closing and I was loosing my voice. My Love made me take some Benedryl and it made me sleepy so I went to bed. Exciting end to my Friday night, hu? *laughs*
Alrighty, well I think that's the sum for now so I think I'll close.
I have more of a post to do later, but I had to share how absolutely hysterical this portion of a letter is. See, I had a bunch of credit cards when I was 18. I was stupid (aren't we all at that age?) and ended up charging more then I could pay, plus I had health issues, was out of work and all that jazz. Typical story. So anyway, about six years ago now, I stopped paying on several of the cards. One of them was a JCPenny one. There's only like $200 or so I owe them, but at this point, it will be falling off later this year. If I pay it now, then it will show up for another seven because the date will change to now. So I'm just letting it go away.
Well, the collection companies know this. So they try to send you letters acting like your friend and try to get you to pay them. This one though takes the cake:
Don't let this opprotunity pass you by. Imagine the relief you will feel after taking the first step to resolve this matter
Relief? MWAHAHAHAHA! I've never felt much in any way towards it and I've certainly never thought to myself, oh, self, if only I could feel relief after taking the first step towards resolving the matter with JCPenny!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Oh me oh my, what a laugh. These people will stoop to every, dirty, nasty low. Cracks me up.
New Year's Eve didn't go exactly as planned. Me, my Love, my friend Rand and his cousin from Holland were going to go to Busch Gardens since it's free for people who have the anual pass and the three of us (excluding his cousin of course) have them. So we get there, put our names on a 2-hour waiting list for dinner (because there's some special, one-night-only magic show going on and if you are a passholder and you eat at that resturant, you get a reserved seat for the show) and meander over to get a snack. I have some chocolate cake, my Love a cookie, Rand a muffin and his cousin some coffee. The guys want to get in a coaster before dinner so they head over to Montu. I keep my feet firmly on Terra Firma - believing anyone going on that thing is fucking nuts - and wait for them. By this time, over an hour has gone by, so we head back over to the resturant to see where we are in line. Getting close, so we go sit on the patio to wait. About now is when my Love's getting sick. He starts sweating and feeling really ill. We get seated about 15 minutes later (now about 7:20pm) and they take our order. We wait for another hour to get our food during which time my Love goes and gets sick. The food arrives, we all eat to varrying degrees (I simply was not hungry in the slightest after the cake, so I just picked at my dinner which was good but just too much when I was already full). My Love promptly gets ill again. Yeah, you can see where this is going.
Problem is that we all came in the same car - Rand's. And our car is a good 20-30 minutes away. Bah. So Rand's cousin goes and buys a shirt he wanted, we spend another half-hour trying to find a family of four that wanted our ultra-exclusive magic show tickets and then head on out. My Love felt awful that everyone had to leave early - two and a half hours before the fireworks - but he was really ill and no one was mad at him for it. We get to where our car is (Rand's mother's house) and then drive another 20 minutes from there back home. By now it's about 10:30pm and he's been sick since about 7:30. He gets ill one more time (third time's the charm) and we settle in on the couch to watch some tv. Brought in the New Year with Dick Clark (does that guy EVER age??) and the traditional ball drop in NYC. My Love promises that next year we'll do something, though I'm not holding my breath since I know he said the same thing last year as we sat and watched the same Dick Clark New Year show.
So....not the best of new year's, but you can't fault a guy for a stomach flu. Hope everyone had a safe and happy night.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ lang syne!
For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne, We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet For auld lang syne!
We all sing it in big groups, not really knowing what the words are or anything, but it's part of the New Year tradition nonetheless. Why do we sing it though? Well, first off, it's an old Scottish song, first penned in 1788/9 (depending on your sources). The wording is a little archaic, but pretty easily understood with a bit of thought. Auld means old. Lang means long. Syne means since. So literally it means "old long since." A time long ago. So, it's about times long ago and those who've been in our lives in our past. Should we forget our old friends and never think on them again? the song asks. No, we'll remember and cheer them instead. This, on the eve of the new, we should both cherish the past and look forward to the future.
It's a good reminder that we should hold to not just this one day of the year, but all days of our lives. It may be sappy and often sung by those who've partaken of too many spirits for the night, but it still carries a good meaning. Don't forget the past. Don't forget those who've touched our lives and those who've come before. All those past days and people we've known have shaped us and made us who we are. Celebrate them and carry it with you in your days to come.
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet For auld lang syne!
*laughs* I tell you, these people just don't know if they're coming or going. My "normal" schedule at my temp job is 9am-1pm, M-F. Pretty simple and straight-forward. Well, last Monday (the 22nd) was the office xmas party. The owner told me they were closing for the rest of the week and to come back for Monday (today, the 29th) and Tuesday (tomorrow the 30th) and that he'd figure out the rest of the week's schedule after that. So, of course, I show up at 9am like I'm supposed to. I'm answering both phones (like normal) and on one of them I take messages and give to the other department. Well I go to take my message back there and there's no one there. I ask the boss if I'm supposed to be taking messages and he's all surprised like, oh yeah, they're closed. Let it go to voicemail. (nice of him to let me know, right? after taking messages that now will not get answered.) When I ask him about the rest of the week, he's confused again. Like it hadn't even occurred to him to give it any thought. It's like pulling teeth with him, you have to ask very specific questions or you get the most broad and helpless answer. He tells me to ask the others if they're here on New Year's Eve. If so, then I can go ahead and come in. If not, then don't. (I then have to specifically clarify what should be obvious, but isn't because he won't answer a question like, "what is the schedule this week?" that the office is in fact closed on the first. Ok, yes it is. What about the 2nd? No? Ok, fine. And is the other side closed all week as well? Yes. Sheesh!)
The the boss promptly leaves at about 9:20am. Then one of the mortgage guys leaves at about 10:45am. The second one leaves at about 11:15am. This leaves me and one other person in the building. He finally goes to pack up around noon. He's moving to walk out the door and is saying goodbye, when I comment to him about who's going to be locking up the building if no one is left? He kind of blinks at me like oh yeah.... and then says, "Well, you can go home obviously." Yeah, it was so obvious that you didn't realize you were leaving the building empty besides me until I said it. Dumbass. So then I hurry up and pack up my things. He locks the front door and we go out the back. He then says to me that I wasn't even supposed to be here today. *blink* Um, hello? The boss told me to come in Monday and Tuesday. This was news to him. I then tell him that I don't even know what's going on for next week seeing as the boss originally said that it was temp through the end of the month and then we'd play it by ear. So....do I show up next week also or not? And I'm still going on what the boss said and I'll be there tomorrow (who knows for how long) and I guess Friday though now that seems hazy as well.
These people just don't have their acts together at all and it's really annoying to just drift so much with when they do and do not want me to be there. Like there wasn't a reason in the world for me to be there today. There was zip to do. And tomorrow I'm sure will be the same. Hell, I don't even know if they'll be anyone there tomorrow morning to let me in! It would be comical if it wasn't such a pain in my ass. (I have to get up at 7am, take my Love into work for 8am, come home, get ready and then get myself in, not to mention having to pick him back up at 5pm. It's kinda a big deal and so it'd be nice to know for sure what my schedule is!)
Bah. My stomach's mad at me today. For no reason that I know of, just one of those things. I get really sick of never knowing when it's going to bother me. It's fickle like you wouldn't believe. And it's frustrating when you can just wake up all kinds of sick to your stomach and there's nothing you can do about it and you didn't know it was coming. Makes life hard to plan for when it's just so random.
*shrugs*
So morning came too early today. ;) The alarm went off and I was instantly sad. Hate when I have to leave the warm comfort of bed before I want to. Especially when the alarm's the thing waking me up at 7am. Blarg. But, I had to come back in after my week off. I'm here today and tomorrow. The boss left this morning about 9:20am for the day. I think he's pretty much going to be out for the week. I asked him how the schedule was going to be for the week and he said to ask the other guys in the mortgage side (the credit side is closed completely). They all said they weren't going to be here on New Year's Eve so I don't have to be either. I'll have Wednesday and Thursday off then and back in on Friday. Originally, the temp job was supposed to run through the end of December, but I've not heard either way if that is still the case. He's pretty wishy-washy on details for things in general. Hard to pin him down for actual answers. So I may or may not still be here next week and if I am still doing this next week, I don't know for how long. I definately don't want to go up to full time, so if he wants that, I'll just find another part-time job. No biggie. If he wants to keep going for the time being, even though I hate the mornings, I'll do it. It's not that hard and we can certainly use the extra money. Help get us caught up on some old bills and maybe even do things like fix my Love's car so we can have two working ones again and put a little money in the bank. (It's hell not having ANY savings and no credit cards to fall back on. Emergencies are that much worse when you don't have anything extra.)
So....it's quite. Only two other people are here in the office besides myself at the momet. Tomorrow will probably be the same. It's funny when there's nothing to do because it's like why am I here exactly? *lol* I wish I would have known the boss was leaving, I would have brought my book in. I guess I could normally anyway, but I always feel weird about that kind of thing. But really, what are you supposed to do when you're only a warm body answering a phone that doesn't often ring? They say that it gets really crazy, hectic and busy around here when it's not the holidays. I don't know that I'd like that any better. Sure I like to keep busy (helps the time pass quicker), but being stressed out with two ringing-off-the-hook phones (six lines in total) doesn't sound like my idea of fun.
Speaking of fun, I had a good time at Pleasure Island on Saturday. The one club is just really cool and I forgot how nice it can be just to let the music and the beat thrum through your body. Just feel it and let it move you. I end up half-closing my eyes because I'm just channeling the music. It's really cool when you can just let loose a little. It's like when I'm singing and I really get into it. I always end up closing my eyes because I'm so intent on the notes and the passion and the emotion in the song that it's like a distraction to have them open. I don't even realize it until I'm done. *chuckles* I love music. I love how it speaks to me and how it's such a bridge.
Alrighty, well I'm babbling enough for now I think. Ta for now. :)
Christmas Eve, December 24th - My friend Rand came over in the afternoon and we exchanged gifts. He got me the Autumn Foxfire limited edition 18x28 signed print. It's awesome. I was also able to exchange the earrings that my mom gave me a couple days early for xmas. (They're pretty white gold dangles and one of them broke the second time I went to wear it.)
Jef came over in the evening and he got me a Charles DeLint book and then we watched It's a Wonderful Life on tv. He and my Love played a little bit of hockey on his PS2 and then called it a night. It was a good day.
Christmas Day, December 25th - My Love and I got up, opened our gifts (I got a pair of rollerblades from my Love!) then hurried up and drove down to his aunt's house for xmas breakfast. We exchanged gifts with his family, hung out for a bit then had to get going. Came back to the apartment, rested for a few, then headed north to my mom's house for xmas dinner. Turkey, ham and all the rest. I helped my mom clean up, then we exchanged presents and had a bit of pie. By this point it was going on 9pm and we were beat. My Love and I ended up crashing out for sleep at about 11:20pm - which is psychotically early for us! *lol* But, the early morning, all the driving, the food - just a long day and we were beat.
Friday, December 26th - We hit the mall over by Rand so we could pick up another pack of the only-available-at-xmas Godiva Candy Cane Truffles that my Love enjoys so much for 50% off. We went to Michael's to see about framing and I picked out what exactly I liked for my Autumn Foxfire image, but it was going to be like $288 and we said we'd hold off for now. *eep!* She said when they have another one of the 50% total order thingies that it would be right around $200 but holy shit, that's still a lot. I want to get it framed so much though so I can see and enjoy it! :)
Saturday, December 27th - Ran to payless, picked up two cute pairs of shoes (buy one, get one 1/2 off) and then met up with Rand. His family is in town from Holland for the holidays and his cousin wanted to go out one night. We were going to take him over to Ybor but it's scuzzy and dangerous and none of us like it. So we ended up driving out to Orlando instead and went to Pleasure Island. Since we're passholders, the tickets were only $15.95 to get in and that's unlimited for all the clubs. Most of the places over in Ybor want $12 a person and that's just for the one club. Anyway, we had a good time and I have to say the coolest club by far there is the Mannequins place because they have AWESOME lighting and the dance floor rotates. It's a good mix of different techno types. Once the place got busy (we got there too early), it was a lot of fun. They even have hyper cooled fog that they blow out onto the dance floor to cool you off every now and then. Very neat and very helpful because it sure got hot out there! By the time we got home last night it was like 3am and we were beat. Collapsed to sleep.
Sunday, December 28th - Just got up a little while ago, checked on the net, read my emails and now I'm going to go shower and try to be a smidge more human. Just wanted to get something of an entry up though since it's been so many days. I have work tomorrow and Tuesday and I'm not sure about the rest of the week. He didn't know what the schedule was going to be yet because it's dependant on how busy things are. He closed the office all this past week because there was just no need to have it open. No idea what's up today, but I do know the apartment is a disaster and we need to clean that up a bit. (Paper, boxes, stuff just everywhere!) Anyway, that's it for now so ta.
