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There are people on
the net that
have nothing better to do with their time then be nasty
to other
people online. They post rude comments, spend hours a
day talking
about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend
hours a day
talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and
posters for
their opinions and their right to free speech. They
expect everyone
to fit into their narrow-minded little world view or
else they throw
a temper tantrum.
To these people I say
grow up.
Here's a bit of info
people...the
web is a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here,
or who I am,
or what I do, or talk about, or what I look like, or
the color of my
hair, or whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go
somewhere else.
It's really, really easy. Honest. You just click the
little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending,
big, mean and
nasty site has disappeared.
I pay for this site.
It's mine.
That means I can use it for whatever the hell I want
to. Don't like
it if I'm bitching about something in my life? Oh
fucking well. Go
somewhere else. Think I'm stupid for expressing my
thoughts? Too
fucking bad, don't read them. Somewhere along the line,
someone
forgot this simple fact: Live and let live Don't
like me,
cool, fine, whatever, I don't care. This journal
is NOT for
you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or fame
or anything
stupid like that. I write it because I need to write
and express
myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read
or don't, it
doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours)
bitching about
it.
*gets off soapbox*
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I Have A Tendency To Wear My Mind On My Sleeve (I have a history of losing my shirt)
Heard the song (Barenaked Ladies "One Week") today for the first time in a long while and it made me chuckle, so I thought if I wrote a post, I'd make that my title for the entry. It's Friday and I'm at the temp job as promised. Terrible bout of nausea this morning. For no known reason. I mean, bad enough that when I got out the car, I sat there for a moment, debating if I needed to go back into the apartment and get sick. (I didn't and made it in, drank some peppermint tea and it helped settle my stomach.) The only thing I can think of is that my stomach might have reacted badly to taking a claritin? Maybe because it was an empty stomach? I'm not sure. Mornings are hell on my allergies, but normally I sleep through them so it's not a problem. If I'm up during them, I need to take something or I can't breathe. There's no reason I should have felt so ill which is why I'm grasping at straws to figure out a reason.
It's a super quiet day today. Not only is kwsapphire out (obviously since I'm covering for her) but K. as well. So it's just me, the phone and the empty "penalty box" of the lobby. (They built a wall last year to make the entrance secure which makes the front boxed off into a little room that's isolated from the rest of the building. I always joke and call it the penalty box.) When K. is in, there's at least someone near me as her office is right off of the penalty box and there's a little glass window connecting her office to the font room. It's very quiet up here though and I don't have my iPod with me (I didn't feel like lugging my speakers and Love uses my smaller one at his work.) I did however, manage to get through the 100+ pending member applications on the forum, so hey, bonus to me. Captive audience prompts me to get things done that I normally put off. Sadly, I can't get my PhoenixFire Designs update done here because I don't have the software I need here on this pc.
How hum. I think I'm just babbling for the sake of passing time. Which never makes for the most exciting of entries. T-13 days until Love's Gallery Opening and T-26 days until M's Birthday Of Doom. :) May is going to be a busy month! I think I'm going to buzz out for lunch for a few since I couldn't eat anything this morning which means I'll bring this to a close.
Another Day, Another Dollar Tomorrow, I'll be in at the temp job covering for kwsapphire's day off. Which, hey, yeah! Extra cashola. Always a needed commodity. It just means that I actually need to try to get to sleep at a decent hour tonight. Oh and of course, manage to haul myself out of bed in the morning. Which is always difficult on good days and sadly, my fatigue levels have been through the roof lately. I sleep fine - in fact, I sleep too much and too deep. My whole night is full of dreams so vivid they actually wear me out, leaving me feeling more tired than when I started. It's weird too because I'll wake up but I won't be able to keep a hold of consciousness and sleep will drag me right back down and POOF I'm immediately back into a dream. It's so strange. It shouldn't work that way.
I'm waiting on someone to pay for an invoice. She ordered a necklace and earring set and if she likes it, will order two more of each to give to her bridesmaids. I sent her the invoice, but... Nothing so far. I hope she comes through with it soon since I'm going to need the cash. (Tomorrow's temp job hours will get processed on their next invoice week which should be next Friday.) I even had to do something I absolutely panic and loathe and speak to her on the phone to answer some questions (and thus by virtue of caller id doing something else I hate which is allowing someone to have my home phone number) so I know she's 100% committed to the order. Which is all the more reason I'm anxious to get the notification of payment received. I don't, by the way, mean that I didn't want to talk to my customer specifically, just that I have a terrible anxiety over talking on the phone to strangers. I mean, full on, irrational panic. I never used to have the problem, but these days? Oy. It's awful. In three years, I've never had anyone want to speak to me on the phone about orders before, so I tell you, I was really thrown by it yesterday. I mean....call some stranger? From the internet? Eek. I wanted the sale though so I did and I don't think I came across as a blubbering idiot. She did, afterall, confirm that she wanted the order. And yet, I'm all panicky that she changed her mind or something since I sent the invoice yesterday and haven't seen a reply yet.
Bah. I hate the pre-order tension. When it's lingering and pending and a probability but not quite a done deal, you know? And I have a ton of new stuff to get up on the site but I just haven't had time. Today, I borrowed Rand's Jeep and ran some errands since I'm at the temp job tomorrow. Other days I have other projects to do, housework to catch up on, or just too fatigued to grind out the tedious process of uploading images, resizing images, writing up pages and descriptions of the products, getting the paypal code, updating the main category pages and then publishing the whole thing. It takes an inordinately long time. But there's a lot of pretty new earrings and some nice new necklaces as well. It'll be great when I finally get around to finishing the update! (I am hoping perhaps that a few people might want some items for Mother's Day.)
Anyway, just a bit of a frazzled update. Pending on what they've got for me to do tomorrow, I might be around a little on-and-off then as well.
Thanks! I had a lovely surprise in my mailbox. There was a box from Amazon. Which confused me since I know I didn't order anything. Turns out it was an early birthday present. Lego Star Wars II for the PS2 from my wishlist! *squee*
Thank you so much, the game is fanastically fun and adorable. It really made my day.
Flutterby Butterfly On Sunday, we decided to make a last-minute trip out to Walt Disney World. Our passes are only good through May 20th and we're not going to have the cash to renew so I want to take advantage of it as much as possible. Besides, I had to pick up something for a friend AND wanted to grab something for my Full Moon Swaps package. Oh and you know, it's Disney so I always want to go.
Epcot has an annual event called the Flower and Garden Festival. They set up all these cool topiaries, flowers all over the place, plants and exhibits. They also have a butterfly garden. It's a lovely festival and Epcot is so pretty and colorful during it. Well, Saturday night we went to bed with warnings about the weather Sunday AM. Severe weather warnings - thunderstorms, tornado watches, high wind advisories. It wasn't a pretty forecast. And when we woke up, it was quite nasty out there. We left here around 11am and headed out to Orlando. As we drove, the sky got darker and it even drizzled a little.
As we arrived, there was no rain, but it was overcast and very breezy. In fact, it was gusts to 45mph all day long. Still, an overcast day at Disney is better than a sunny one at home. Turns out, it was a beautiful day. By around 2pm or so, the sun came out, the sky turned blue and though the breeze remained, the temperature was wonderfully cool. It was only a high of 77F (25C) with low humidity. (To put it into perspective, the day before? It was 90F (32C) with a lot of humidity and no wind.) And the best part was, that the fear of the terrible weather in the morning must have scared away much of the crowd because it was very uncrowded - especially for this time of year.
Which brings us to the title of the post. I was able to get some fantastic butterfly photos this year. Last year, I couldn't get any, but this year they were very docile, still and in good quantity for nice photographic opportunities.
(If you'd like any of them for personal use only as your desktop wallpaper, feel free to give me your screen size and I'll be happy to make one up for you. I really like how they came out.)
After Epcot, we went over to the Magic Kingdom. It got quite chilly after the sun went down and poor Love was in a tee and shorts. But it too was pretty empty crowd-wise so we hit some rides, caught a bite to eat and headed home around 9pm or so. It wound up being a lovely day.
More On The Gallery Opening I have a lot of miscellaneous topics to discuss, so look for several throughout the day. Right now, I wanted to comment on the cool newsletter and flyer we picked up for Love's gallery opening. They library has a newsletter that goes out to 27 branches and he's got a feature in the up-coming issue. They also printed up flyers for the opening.
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