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when giant red spiders attack 2006-10-21 20:34:01 I’m in a pissy mood.
Why am I in such a pissy mood?
I'm off work all weekend. Last night I got the rat cage I saw and wanted for my 3 rats (plus hopefully 2 more). We got a new vacuum, which works, and our carpet is CLEAN for the first time in weeks. I got to sleep until I woke up on my own the morning, and my husband asked me to mop and vacuum instead of ORDERING me to.
Then why am I in such a pissy mood?
I don't know.
I'm feeling bored and sort of aching inside. I'm full of a WANTING but I don't know what I want.
Anyway, like I said, we got a new rat cage last night. I've been wanting one for a while, and now with my bump to full time and the raise I got, we had enough money to buy one. However, the one we ended up getting was more than we had budgeted for.
So, I gave up my extras for this month. I gave up going to see the Texas Chainsaw movie. I gave up buying Kings new book that's coming out this month. In fact, there's probably not any extra m Read more:giant
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Thankful Thursday 2006-10-20 03:31:58 1. That I have this weekend off.
2. That someone at work, who always tells it like it is and never says nice things just to humor people, chastised me when I said that what I do is "crafts" not "art" She said "I've seen some of the things you've made and that is art" It actually made me feel like CREATING again, so I bought some colorful yarns and plan on working on some rat hammocs to actually try and SELL this time instead of just giving to my girls.
3. For the Grim and Courage hour on Cartoon network every night at 8. I Love both the cartoons shown "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" and "Courage the cowardly dog" and I'm more than happy to loose myself into an hour of mindless programing.
4. Coffee. More so now that is getting to be "coffee weather" again.
5. That (as of right now) the Christmas things we're putting out at work are making me smile when I look at them.
6. I'm thankful for good music. Right now Its "Werew Read more:Thankful
, Thursday
Soundtrack of My Life 2006-10-19 00:11:04 Utopia had this over at her place a couple of days ago. I’m slow to actually READ things anymore, but I saw it, and then I had to do it. Its just the lemming in me.
The what: Create a soundtrack to your life.
The how: Open your music player, shuffle your playlist, and insert the songs, in the order they appear in the playlist, as the soundrack to the following secenes in the movie of your life.
Click any of the songs I’ve listed to read their lyrics (stole that one from Utopia too.)
Wake
"The Greatest" - Cat Power
First Day of School
"Heal Over" - KT Tunstall
Playtime/Childhood
"I put a spell on you" - Marilyn Manson
Falling in Love
"Monster, Monster" - Lordi
Fight Song
"Bye Bye Miss American Pie"- Don Maclean
Break-Up Song
"Suddenly I see" - KT Tunstall
Prom
"Couch Potato" - Weird Al
Life’s Okay
"Girl Next Door" - Saving Jane
Mental Breakdown
"White and Nerdy" - Weird Al
Driving
"Birdhouse In Your Soul" - They Might Be Gian Read more:Soundtrack
nanowri…what? 2006-10-16 06:23:40 I'm gearing up (mentally) for NaNoWriMo again this year.
I'm thinking if I actually finish the whole 50k I might try and find some poor soul to act as editor for it and then offer it up for sale via lulu.com.
Problem is that I don't know what I'm going to write about yet.
It could be the gay romance novel I've got brewing. (Stop looking at me like that please.)
It could be the werewolf novel idea that was inspired by some horrid menstral cramps earlier this month.
It could be the life story of Sari, Gabe and Antony (three best friends who have been showing up in my short stories since high school)
It could be my vampire novel idea, featuring Vincent, Vastod and Sterling (who have also shown up in repeated short stories since high school)
Or, it could be the young adult fantasy novel, fearturing anternate dimensions and talking rats.
So, I can't really say what kind of novel I'll be working on for NaNo.
Of course, I could hit some sort of freaky creative gold mine and fi
Want an update? 2006-10-15 05:18:33 Have a gazoo.
Thats about as good as I can do tonight.
Still trying to not complain 2006-10-10 03:55:06 My aunt sent me a box full of goodies for making ATCs with, including a stamp to stamp the back of it with and then fill in with your info. It made me happy and squealy with excitement.
I've got 4 ATCs ready to send her, just gotta get them off my desk and into the mailbox.
I went to a baby shower Sunday night. It was the first party of any kind I've ever been invited to, not counting family events.
I was more nervous than I should have been considering that 1) I'm a 25 year old woman, not a child or a teenager and 2) Everyone there were the same people I'm friendly with at work.
I was afraid my gift wasn't good enough, and that I'd do or say something wrong.
I ended up having a wonderful time, playing the shower games (I had to eat baby food…YECK!)
I also drank a glass of wine, which served to remind me why I don't drink anything alcoholic except with the singular intent to get as drunk as possible as fast as possible and stay that way as long as possible.
Toda Read more:complain
have you writhed lately? 2006-10-01 16:15:30 I'm trying this new thing where I don't complain so much.
As you can see, its not really working for me, what with everything coming out of my mouth being a complaint, and thus no blogging.
The lack of blogging sucks.
Yesterday I started my period, which came with cramps so agonizing I begged the closing manager to let me come home early, which she did after giving me one final task to complete. Then, at home, as I was laying in bed writing in agony (yes, there was actual writing involved) an idea for a novel came to me.
Yep, when I've written it and it becomes the #1 best seller of its genre, and someone asks me "Where do you get your ideas," I can tell them that my muse was menstrual cramps.
I'll probably put off the actual writing until next month though, when I can fail at writing it in my usual yearly NaNoWriMo candle flame of glory.
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i have no witty title 2006-09-22 17:18:26 The husband has been off work this week, and so I’ve been spending a tad bit of time with him. A tad bit meaning most of my time when I’m not at work. I’m being internet deprived!
This week I’ve climbed up (and back down) 178 steps of a lighthouse. And various other stairs in a couple of forts.
The highlight was the live alligator I got to see in the moat of one of the forts.
I’ve got some pitcutres. Actually, a lot of pictures. Eventually I’ll be putting them on some sort of web page, so that my aunt can see my many pictures (and I dont want to put them all in my flickr) and I’ll probably share that link here for anyone who wants to see a lighthouse and a fort or two.
Meanwhile, I’m working closing shifts for the rest of the week (the rest of the week consisting of today and tomorrow) and boy, how I hate closing shifts. Of course, I dont have a big love for opening shifts either.
And what sucks more is that the assistant manage Read more:witty
Bed now. Please. 2006-09-16 18:02:01 I want a nap. Yes, a nap would be good. Never mind that I've only been up about 45 minutes, a nap would still be good.
I woke up this morning feeling nice and calm and relaxed. I streched, and my dog came and lay down beside me and I was laying there, petting him and feeling good. Then it hit me……I had to go to work today.
-sigh-
Our vacuum broke….AGAIN…this morning. We just a couple of weeks ago had a new belt put it in. We need to just buy a new vacuum, which my hubby keeps saying but never doing.
The lawnmower, which hasn't worked properly in years, tore up too. The combination of the two has Robert on the war path. I'm just trying to stay neutral and not snark back at him so maybe it'll blow over faster.
I have to go to work at 2 and will be in there till 10 or later, as usual now for closing. It sucks. The store closes at 9, and we have to stay in till 10 cleaning up after customers who are either too lazy or too stupid to put th Read more:Please
Cheese Sammitchy Goodness 2006-09-09 18:16:07 I’m sitting here eating a grilled cheese sammitch.
I like grilled cheese sammitches.
I have a huge cup of coffee. One that equals 4 regular cups of coffee (according to the side of my coffee pot which went from 12 cups down to 8 cups when I poured it)
Life is good.
…
Or, at least, procrastination is good.
I’m really not wanting to get started on all the house cleaning my hubby has planned for today.
-sigh-
Now I’m going to go feed some eggs to my rats.
Procrastination can be fun.
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Punkin Carving 2006-10-28 00:21:40 How does a rat lover decorate for Halloween?
I didn’t carve it myself. The class coordinator at work carved it for a demo on our carvabel pumpkins. After talking with one of the managers, they decided that it NEEDED to come home with me. -grin-
Contrary to popular belief, I do still exist. 2006-11-13 05:29:55 Why haven't I been blogging?
Work has me in a zombie like state. The holiday shoping season started at Michaels on Labor Day and hasn't slowed down since.
My favorite manager ever announced that he was quitting. It was like a punch in the gut to me. I'm sure everyone else wanted to cheer though. I was the only one who liked the guy. I feel like he was harassed out of the store because all of my co-workers were always riding his ass about something, starting fights with him just to get him angry enough to yell, and then reporting him to HR.
Anyway…he's gone now. He left before I got there on his last day, but came back the next day to get his check, shook my hand, told me it was good working with me, then gave me a bear hug.
I worked side by side with him in the seasonal department for about a year.
God, I'm going to miss him.
The manager that replaced him is a nice enough guy, but he's not nearly as much fun. I don't see a friendship there.
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London Hardware 2006-11-16 01:19:28 Okay, I'm reading a bad horror novel. There's no big surprise in that. If you've read my blog for any time you know that the two most important things in my life (after the internet) are rats, and bad horror.
This particular novel is called "Spawn of Hell"Â The title in itself is priceless.
The content, however, leaves something to be desired.
Not that the storyline is bad.
Well, it IS bad, but it's a good bad. It's a kind of bad that I like.
However, I keep finding MISTAKES. Grammatical errors. Seeing as how my own grammar is far from textbook perfect, my finding mistakes is a good sign that they are HUGE mistakes.
The biggest mistake, however, is one that any good editor should have picked out. Even a sub-standard editor should have picked it out.
In the start of Chapter Five its pointed out that Harry London owns a lucrative sporting goods store. It talks about how people come from other states because his store had become "THE place to go for sports Read more:Hardware
Plugging Along on NaNo 2006-11-20 05:45:49 So, I don’t know if I mentioned or not, but I decided on the werewolf novel for my NaNo novel. The title is Moon Time and its about two sisters, a mysterious town with one remaining occupant, and a young girl running from someone/something.
Currently at only a little over 7k words I dont think I’ll be making the 50k goal by the end of the month, but I think I might keep writing this one anyway.
If you want to read some of it I’ve posted my mostly unedited Chapter Two at My Writers Notebook. I would post it here too, except its pretty long, plus I dont want to drive all the click exchange surfers nuts with the same content in every one of my blogs. -grin-
Look, there's a moose 2006-11-23 04:06:03 Am I the only person out there in love with the moose in Garmin commercial. I go around singing "There's a moose again" I'm just trying to figure out a way to work that into my daily vocabulary
I SURVIVED!! 2006-11-26 05:10:27 I survived Black Friday….not as a shopper but as an employee.
I also survived Dark Grey Saturday, and if I can make it through Light Grey Sunday tomorrow, then maybe I'll be able to live through the rest of Christmas Season.
On Friday I smiled my biggest smile and dropped so many loads of happy shit on my unsuspecting customers that one lady told me, "Honey, in my book you win the "most pleasant cashier of the day' award!"
How's that for some shit?
I even have a bit of Christmas Cheer building up in me. Last year I had an insane urge to burn my Christmas Tree to the ground, and this year I actually want to decorate it. The sight of all of our Christmas things in the living room out of the attic didn't send me screaming from the house.
At the moment Robert is watching The Doors, and I'm about to go clean the kitchen and go to bed, get ready for another day in hell tomorrow.
Movie Quote Monday 2006-11-27 22:04:28 KatKat’s been doing it for a while. I’ve decided to play. At least once anyway.
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Hint #1:
"Ugh. Dirt"
"Nice footwear"
"Yeah, perfect for spelunking"
Hint #2:
"Give me some forceps. I might be able to catch it in his colon"
"How you going in?"
"Rectally"
"I'll get the lubricant"
"There's no time for lubricant"
"THERE'S ALWAYS TIME FOR LUBRICANT!"
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Meanwhile, if you have no clue, you can have a gazoo anyway. I’m feeling giving.
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So, its wednesday again 2006-11-29 22:47:59 When Robert went to work at 3 today, I suddenly felt very alone and lonely. The house was too quiet, too empty.
So, I got up and turned on the radio, and that didn't really help. I'm still all alone in the house. Not counting, of course, the dogs, and rats.
I'm currently sitting here trying to not eat out of sheer boredom, as I so often will, but there's really not much to entertain me anymore.
We watched Clerks 2 last night, and I laughed my ass off, proving once again that I'm easily amused.
I'm currently reading Stephen King's "Firestarter". I've only read it once, long ago when I was in High School. I remember hating the novel, but not why I hated it, and I didn't remember anything about the novel itself, so its almost like reading an all new book.
This time I'm liking it.
I've not been to the library in a while, so I need to go back and check out some books.
I want to check out some books on bookbinding. Different styles.
I made a journal the
So Very Tired 2006-12-05 18:38:02 That pretty much sums me up right now.
I’ve been sick since the Friday after Thanksgiving. Nauseated, diarrhea, headaches.
Work has been slamming. I’m not getting my 15 minute breaks and am spending most of each day on the register where we can’t have drinks, so I’m pretty sure that when you add my diarrhea to my lack of fluids I’m getting dehydrated.
I’ve been working 9 or even 10 hour work days. Not getting out of work until around midnight on the days I close, and haveing to stay 30 minutes to an hour after I’m supposed to get off when I work during the days.
Tonight is a closing night. I go in at 2, so if this is another day where we don't get to go home until near midnight, then it will be yet another 10 hour work day.
And holiday shoppers are just getting weird.
Yesterday morning, before it got packed and I got put on register, I was putting up some stock (t-shirts) and a woman comes up behind me and is just STANDING there stari
What do you buy the man… 2006-12-08 04:22:49 Who has everything he wants?
My husband is THE hardest to shop for. Its not because I don't know what he wants, but because whenever there is something he wants, he buys it. So everything he wants, he has.
Mostly what he wants is DVDs because he never does anything except work and watch TV.
Well, occasionally he plays board games. Recently he told me he wanted wheel of fortune and Jeopardy as board games. I thought, Oh good, that's what I'll get him for Christmas. Then he went out and bought them.
So by this point the only things I can think of to get him are gift cards, which are crappy gifts in my opinion if they are the ONLY thing you get, and a Godzilla hallmark ornament he wants.
BUT…we wont have any extra money now until NEXT weekend, and by then they'll probably be out of them, if they have any left as it is.
Which leaves me back at square one.
I wish he had more interests, then I could just get him random gifts.
My MIL likes to sew, she likes to garden,
Its a small world. 2006-12-16 07:15:22 I got a comment on my Writers Blog today on how maybe it could end up being and evil shrink in one of my stories. (”Swan Dive”)
I followed the link to his blog to find that he had linked to this blog with the words “rude clerk” linking to my post below titled “so very tired” about the customer who got all weird on me, and the lady who got mad cause I stopped to wipe blood off of my arm.
Then I checked my comments on my most recent post and he had some gift suggestions for my hard to shop for hubby.
The long and short of it is…aside from the fact that he used big words that made me look in at Dictionary.com (and I’m still trying to figure out what math has to do with anything) he seems to like my writing, and he seems to like my blog, therefore I forgive him for calling me rude and thank him for giving me an idea on how to further a story.
Now, everyone go give Metro a cookie!
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I’ll have a better blog tomorrow. Maybe. Its
Can it really be… 2006-12-22 19:11:06 Only 3 days left till Christmas, and I'll be working 9 and 10 hour CLOSING days up until then.
Well, I don't know about Sunday yet, but I'm closing tonight, and tomorrow night at least. Today I'll check the schedule and see if I'm closing Sunday night too.
-insert big sigh here-
I told Robert by the time Christmas finally got here I'd be too tired to enjoy it.
"Get up and open presents? You've GOT to be kidding me! Its lunch time? I'm too tired to eat! Try waking me up sometime around June. Maybe I'll be rested by then"
Metro, in one of your subject lines you used the word Runcible, which I had no clue what it meant. I went to dictionary.com (because I'm too lazy to get up and pick up a real dictionary) and it told me that Runcible was "Early system for mathematics on IBM 650″. And thats where the math came from.
Merry Tuesday After Christmas 2006-12-27 18:50:22 It seems strange, the way Christmas
builds and builds and builds, until the day before it seems like a massive thing.
And then, the day after, its suddenly gone, as if it never existed at all. A thing past, hardly talked about.
Or maybe its just me.
Our Christmas was nice, despite my father-in-law who seemed bound to ruin it. He just sat crankily in front of the television ALL day. Ate in front of the TV and even insisted that he open his presents in front of the TV.
One of those presents (A couple of movies my mother-in-law had gotten him) he opened, grunted at and tossed aside saying, "I could have done without that"
So, when he opened my present I left the room. If he hated it, I didn't want to HEAR that he hated it.
In the end I gave Robert an old Rin-tin-tin movie, a DVD with a few episodes of "The Lucy Show" on it, the movie "The Brothers Grim" and a book called "Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days"
I gave his mother a large decorative storage bo Read more:Merry
, Tuesday
Now Its 2007 2007-01-02 00:59:27 A new look for the new year. I only spent 3 hours working on it today. My eyes are all crossed.
Our new years started off badly. I was cranky from not going out to do anything, plus PMS. And sometime around 3am this morning my mother in law passed out and Robert took her to the emergency room.
Turned out her new blood pressure medicine wasn't working well for her. The ER docs told her to not take any more and go to her doc and get the prescription changed ASAP.
I slept until 1pm today, then got up with a sinus headache, and the red river started flowing shortly thereafter.
Urg I say, urg for sure.
Today is the last day of a 3 day weekend, and I have to go back to work tomorrow.
Saturday we went to see "Night at the Museum" then for the rest of Saturday and pretty much all of Sunday I was in the bedroom playing Final Fantasy X while Robert was in the living room playing Lego Star Wars.
Now, hubby is cooking supper (pizza and french fries) and we'll settle down to watch
Yes 2007-01-18 06:41:56 Yes, I’m still alive.
I think.
I pinched myself and it hurt, so that must mean I’m still alive.
I have nothing to talk about though, so that makes me alive and boring.
Of course, thats per-usual right.
Um…seeing I lack anything to say, I’m not going to say anythign else right now. I just wanted my 4 or 5 readers to know that I’m here, and I do plan on blogging again soon. Hopefully once again on a daily basis.
Want something with a little more content, check out Lusus Naturae at my Writers Notebook.
Insert your "i hate work" blog entry here 2007-01-20 20:04:09 I'm less than 30 minutes from leaving for work, and as every day I dread walking in through those doors.
I remember when I didn't mind going to work because everyone there was nice, more like a family of friends than a store full of coworkers.
Now most of the people I liked are gone, and have been replaced by insolent, bitchy, mean people. There's no joy left, no enjoyment.
Once upon a time I took much pride in my job. I think I even wrote about it one, how I might not be changing the world, but how working on something all day and seeing the change I've made in it gave me a sense of pride.
Now that I've been moved out of the seasonal department it doesn't matter how hard I work, I never seem to accomplish anything. You can't look at what I've done all day and see a difference.
And when I close, like tonight, I'm even lower than a retail employee. I become a maid, cleaning up after the filthy pigs who shop there and ding all the work for the the lazy pigs who
Sunday…. 2007-01-21 17:09:56 CRYSTAL! I know you're out there! I know you want me to e-mail you, but I have like 3 dozen (okay, not quite that many) e-mails for you and I don't know which one works anymore!
My feets are cold, and my socks are wet and still in the dryer. For that matter so are my jeans, my shirt, and pretty much anything else I could put on to warm up.
And coffee, while yummy, is doing nothing to warm up my feet.
Well, I suppose if it poured it ON my feet, then it would warm my feet, but that would be a waste of a cup of coffee for sure.
Gotta go back to work today in less than an hour. Gotta work a closing shift again. Blech. And then I have to be there at 7am Monday morning, which doesn't work well with a closing Sunday
night shift at all.
I need a nap just thinking about it.
And my feet are still cold.
I wonder if my clothes are dry yet.
Compliment a Retail Worker Day 2007-01-22 05:39:23 I propose we start a movement.
I think Feb. 1 should be "Compliment
a RetailWorker
Day"
I'm serious.
Customer are quick to demand to see a manager if they are the least itsy-bitsy unsatisfied with the service, and quick to complain about what they feel are rude employees. (I once had a customer officially complain because I didn't smile when I helped her. I didn't do anything else wrong, I just didn't smile. She told my supervisor that I was "The unhappiest person she'd ever met" so her way of fixing my unhappiness was to try and get me in trouble with the boss. Now I’m sure I’ve done a couple of things that deserved complaint because I am by no means the most perfect person in the retail world, but not smiling is not one of them.)
Yet when people get good service they hardly ever ask to see the manager to tell them how helpful so-and-so was. Not once in my entire time working retail has anyone of myco-workers been complimented.
Last night I wa
No Whale Sharks for YummY! 2007-01-28 22:37:57 Currently Reading: "Phantoms" by Dean Koontz
Currently Listening To: "Everything" by Buckcherry
Its Sunday again, my weekend off. Surprisingly, once again, I'm sitting at home doing nothing but being on the computer or watching movies with my husband, only this time a weekend full of nothing is even more disappointing than usual.
This past Wednesday (the 24th) was my 5th wedding anniversary. We didn't do anything to celebrate that day because he had to work (worked till 1am that morning because of some stupid little shitty magazine they have to put out ever Wednesday) and also because we were planning to go to Atlanta this weekend, to the Georgia Aquarium.
Friday night Robert leaned too hard on the towel rod, which tore out of the wall, and he fell, smashing his chest on the bathroom sink. He said that they towel rod didn't have long enough screws to hold it to the wall. I pointed out that it was built to hold up towels, not men.
He's perfectly fine, nothing bro Read more:Whale
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I Beated It All On My Own 2007-01-31 06:21:05 That's right. Okami is now my bitch!
After 60 some hours of play time, I beat the lord of darkness and was swept away toward the Celestial Plains where it seemed the game creator meant to make a second Okami game. Since Clover Studios is no more, that probably won't happen, which sucks, cause Okami kicked ass.
Now I need to get the players guide so I can go through it a second time and get EVERYTHING, cause I don't think I'll ever find everything without a players guide.
And that's really all the news I have since my last post.
I'm still seething from not getting to go to the aquarium. A seething that is even more seethy since the husband, who hurt to bad to walk around and look at fish, felt fine enough to go to work Monday. (Monday was the actual day that we had planned to go to the aquarium)
I'm off tomorrow. I'm trying to convince my hubby to take me to a store in town called Exotic Underworlds. I wanna buy a new betta. Its been a long time since I've had a
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