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[07 Jan 2003|11:51pm] [ mood | depressed ] It's supposed to snow tonight/tomorrow morning. Again. Still. I hate snow. *temper tantrum* post comment

The price of entertainment [06 Jan 2003|06:17am] [ mood | annoyed ] We just got notification in the mail that the cable rates are going up again. This means that, after taxes, we'll be paying close to $65 for digital cable. I don't know about anyone else, but that's ridiculous to me. So, I called to find out if we could go back down to normal expanded basic service without any fees. And it turns out, to get expanded basic you need to pay for basic service, too. Total, expanded basic comes to $55 a month, because they require you to buy the basic package first, and the expanded package if you want more. Why can't they just have two rates? $14 something for basic, period. $39 for expanded, which should include those 5 channels in the basic package in that price. It's totally insane. I'm considering just droping cable totally. It's stupid. I remember when you used to be able to just plug in the TV and get the basic channels, and if you wanted anything above the 10 or so you got in with normal reception, you paid for it. 2 comments|post comment

*giggle* [05 Jan 2003|05:05pm] [ mood | amused ] As most computer people know, your sleeping patterns can get really screwed up. Yesterday, I went to bed at 8am, which is a big issue if we wanted to get any banking done (yes, our bank is open from 11am to 4pm on Sundays). So, Will wanted to go to Home Depot with his father in some manly bonding thing, so I suggested while he was out, he could do the banking himself and pick up a couple of things from the store. We're one of those copules that are disgusting and hardly do anything alone, so he's never shopped for groceries for us by himself before. Apparently our normal grocery store was packed, so they went to a different one. I don't know if anyone else is like me, and picky with the brands and types of items they buy, but he got all the items on the list and substited brands and the usual stuff we get just fine. The only questionable item was a frozen meatloaf dinner that he brought, but...that's another story. Anyway, the point is he did a good job of it, and he came home all proud of himself. He kept explaning the sales he looked into and why he selected what he did, instead of just coming home and saying it was done. It made me giggle as I put it all away. 1 comment|post comment

[05 Jan 2003|06:10am] [ mood | bouncy ] A big giant HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO asciident!!!!!!!!!!! 1 comment|post comment

Stuff and rambles [04 Jan 2003|01:02pm] [ mood | bored ] Will's aunt is moving back here from where she previously lived. She moved out of her parent's home at 17 to go to college, got married and eventually ended up divorced at 35 or so. Apparently it's really messy battle because he's choosing to do things the hard way, so she's coming up here to take a new job with her daughter. But, she's been away for so long his other aunt says the family doesn't really know her really well. We're all excited, though. She's a really nice lady, and her daughter (5 years old) is really sweet. I offered to watch her if Will's aunt doesn't get ouf of work in time to get her off the bus after school some days. I'm kind of looking forward to it, she's a great kid and is always willing to learn new things. We cleaned the house today in a major way. We removed all of the paper crap that's sitting around on surfaces that we haven't looked at in weeks. We did all the spaces where we shove junk and then never look at it again. I rearranged my computer desk, and except for the fact my laptop isn't woking, it looks pretty good. I think I'm going to sell some computer stuff, but I don't know where or how. I don't know nearly enough about E-Bay to know what I'm doing regarding selling things. I've got two scanners and a printer I can get rid of, and my husband has a set of car speakers that he doesn't want anymore. I might possibly have an extra 13 inch monitor, but I'm not sure I want to part with it on the chance this one goes. I could put them in the paper, but the papers here are totally expensive with ads. They used to be free in one particular publication, but when they realised how much money they were losing, they stopped. We sold one of Will's guitars that way. Guess we'll see what happens. ;) post comment

[03 Jan 2003|08:44am] [ mood | refreshed ] Will went to work today! Now, we have to hope the winter storm coming tonight doesn't make him lose work tomorrow. And...stuff. Life is boring. Boring = Not bad, because that means nothing difficult and wave making is going on. *dance* post comment

[02 Jan 2003|12:23pm] [ mood | pissed off ] I hereby declare: NO MORE GOD DAMNED SNOW OR FREEZING RAIN! KTHNX!!!!111 (My husband doesn't work on days it snows or rains. He missed Tuesday to weather, today to the holiday and it looks like he'll lose tomorrow, too.) post comment

[01 Jan 2003|04:39pm] [ mood | blah ] Felt like crap all day. I played Literati on yahoo with Melissa and Karl and then went to take a bath. I ended up falling asleep in the tub, and only my snores from my stuffy nose woke me up. I'm not even sure how long I was out. We treated ourselves to a Hawaiian pizza and greek salad today, from our favorite place. I'm considering heating up the only two pieces left. *ponder* Anyway, my brand-spankin'-new icon fits this post. I'm achey. 1 comment|post comment

[31 Dec 2002|03:55pm] [ mood | sick ] I took my car in to get the engine checked. It wasn't acting odd, but the check engine light came on Christmas Day, so I figured it was better to be safe than sorry. They hooked it up, and at first it read that it was a vacuum hose leak...but when they looked at the actual vacuum hose, there were no problems with it. They ended up resetting the computer so the light would go off, and charged me for labor. Not that big a deal. Now I have to find a box and some padding to send asciident and supersat my laptop and see if they can fix it, or if they can replace the hard drive if need be. Surprisingly enough, it's only $10 with FedEx, including $1000 worth of insurance coverage incase anything happens to it on the way. I have a cold, though, and feel WAY to drained to go into a search for boxes at the present moment. More later. 8 comments|post comment

[30 Dec 2002|05:57pm] [ mood | annoyed ] The news. You expect a lot out of the news. Correctness. Integrity. Well, if I hear "drunk and driving" one more time when it should be "drunken driving", someone is going to be slapped. "Taxi companies have teamed up with the local police in order to stop drunk and driving this holiday season...." *snicker* 1 comment|post comment

[28 Dec 2002|11:51pm] [ mood | tired ] ( Quiz ) post comment

[27 Dec 2002|05:40am] [ mood | amused ] Me: *looks at the support board* *GASP* The customization faerie has visted us! Husband: Does he wear a little pink tutu and dance around? Me: *glances at bertho's user picture* Uh...I'll get back to you on that. Husband: No, really. Who is it? Does he go around waving a wand and going "Customize! Accesorize!"? 1 comment|post comment

[26 Dec 2002|01:37am] [ mood | discontent ] ( Christmas, cut for lenght. ) 8 comments|post comment

[25 Dec 2002|04:41am] [ mood | morose ] 4:40am on Christmas morning. No tree because of the asshole cat. No gifts because we have better things to spend our money on. And I can't sleep. We're supposed to get up around 10pm to head to my grandmother's house, but it's snowing really badly and they're predicting up to 30 inches in some areas of the state. I do not want to be on the highway during that. I'm so mind-numbingly bored right now, it's not even funny. *slams her head on the desk* Someone rescue me. post comment

Blah [24 Dec 2002|03:42pm] [ mood | anxious ] I need to remind myself that worrying about things doesn't change the outcome of situations. I find myself constantly getting worried about stuff, even though the it can't make things either better or worse. There's no point in getting worried, but for some reason, I can't convine myself of that enough to stop it. Note to self: Worrying doesn't change anything. Don't do it. Edit: Oh, any usually, it's about -stupid- stuff. Like...this morning, Will went out to catch his ride for work. And ten minutes later, the phone rang and it was a co-worker. So I informed him Will was waiting where he assumed he was supposed to get a ride and hung up. So I spent the next half hour worrying his ride was going to be late, and as a result he was going to assume he missed it and come back up to the house and then he'd REALLY miss it. Am I a mental case, or what? At least things like that are only mild worries, but I shouldn't even think about those things like that. Grr. 1 comment|post comment

[21 Dec 2002|05:06pm] [ mood | amused ] I had some crazy dream last night. I dreamed that I dyed my cat white and then my husband and I took her to visit bertho. He wasn't aware we were coming, but he was happily surprised when we got there. The entire dream was my head's version of what his house looked like, and playing around on his computer while my husband sat on his couch and watched TV. We were replacing the keys on his keyboard for some reason. And his girlfriend was in the dream, too, even though I've never talked to her or anything. Our cats played together, and eventually my cat started licking off her white dye and the black parts started to show through. Like...her entire body was white but she was licking her paws, so up to her elbows was black as normal. About halfway through, I realized we hadn't taken any steps before we left to figure out who was going to feed our other cat while we were gone, or how the cat with us was going to eat and use the litter box while we were there (like bertho's cats don't have food and litter box access, or something? I don't know what I was thinking). It was REALLY bizzare. 1 comment|post comment

Bah Humbug? [21 Dec 2002|01:16am] [ mood | nauseated ] <Greentea> Dude. The White House christmas tree comes from Whasington state. <Greentea> Er...Washington <Greentea> I'm glad my tax-payer dollars are going to having a 20 foot tree trucked in to DC. <asciident> They send a tree across the nation? What the fuck for? <Greentea> Christams. *pointed look* I know. It's retarted <Greentea> Apaprently the White House has 26 trees. <asciident> It would have to be *flown* in to stay fresh. Jesus fucking christ. <Greentea> Heh <asciident> ... Twenty-six trees? <Greentea> Yep. All decorated. And our money goes to the staff and the ornaments and all that shit. <asciident> Fucking ridiculous. Make Shrub live in a shack, let him feel how most of America feels. Rotten bastard. <Greentea> All for the damn trees <Greentea> lol <asciident> Does he fucking pay for 26 Washington State-grown evergreens to be in his own fucking house every Christmas? No? Why not? Oh.... that whole money issue. Yeah. GUESS HOW WE FEEL. Ass. <Greentea> rofl <Greentea> No. <Greentea> When you become president, your money gets frozen. <asciident> But I bet he didn't do it BEFORE!!!! <Greentea> *rofl* <asciident> Stupid presidents. <asciident> Ought to be smacked down to normal level. <Greentea> 40 decorators are hired for these trees, too <asciident> The fuck? <Greentea> I bet we could wipe out the national debt by getting rid of non-essential whitehouse staff <asciident> And the CIA's $600 toilet seats and $300 screws. <Greentea> Heheheh <Greentea> White House Chief Floralst Designer <Greentea> They have their pastry chef make a huge ginger bread house. That's imporant, too <Greentea> Can't defend the nation wihtout a huge candy house, let me tell you. <asciident> ... Who fucking approves this budget? <Greentea> No idea <Greentea> 56 additional trees are brought in, one for each state, territory and district and planted on the lawn for the holidays. <asciident> ... <asciident> Can I kill the White House accountant? Please? <Greentea> Absolutely. <Greentea> They took natural leaves, had them guilded in gold, cut to look like feathers and then made into a LIFE SIZE BALD EAGLE. <asciident> .......... * asciident stabs * asciident stab stab kills <Greentea> People are making statues of the president's dog, both as an adult and a puppy. <asciident> They're not being paid are they?? <Greentea> Yep. <asciident> OY. <Greentea> It's not jsut the dogs. It's every president's animals. * asciident weeps for our national debt. Home and Garden Television is doing an expose, not a quaint holiday program. 1 comment|post comment

[20 Dec 2002|06:13am] [ mood | pissed ] Lemme just say that if I had wanted to make sure other people's shit was taken care of, I would have had kids. Seriously. It pisses me off that my husband needs me to make sure his crap is taken care of, or everything falls apart. He didn't bother to find a ride to work for this morning, and now instead of going to sleep, I have to drive him 45 minutes to work. I'm seriously pissed . post comment

[20 Dec 2002|05:13am] [ mood | amused ] Its Christmas season. Blah. I'm really...just...not into the whole thing. Everyone is all about family and all that....my family has never been a "family" family. We were pushed to be self-sufficent. We don't keep in contact. Not because we hate each other, but because we don't need to be in contact. We go about our lives and never the twain shall meet until something important pops up. Before my mother passed away, it would be months before we talked on the phone, usually because one of us needed something from the other and by that point a phone call was nessesary. We never called just to talk or see how the other person was. I don't recall my parent's families calling to see what was going on when I was growing up, either. It's not a bad thing, don't get me wrong. It's just the way my family works and I don't particularly see any problem with it. Other families work differently, and that's fine, too. You're a kid and your parents/siblings are your world. You move out, you get married and your new family situation is your primary concern. Anyway, so my point is (before I go too far off on a tangent) is that because of the holidays, I've been around my gandmother more. She's old. And I'm not fond of old people. I just get so irritiated by the way she's stuck in whatever year it was she was in her 30s. It's like old people can't assimilate any new information after 60 and they're still in the era they were young in. It's almost 2003 and she's off in 1950. That makes it difficult to be a product of the current generation, because she find a problem with everything. She was horrified to find out that I have tattoos and she almost keeled over and died when she found out one of them was an 18th birthday present from my mother (and that my mother got her third with me at the same time). I hope I don't end up like that, I really don't. I want to be able to learn and understand that times change and nothing stays the way I remember it to be. Or at the very least keep my mouth shut and let other people live their lives. I have to keep reminding myself she's old and to just ignore it. Christmas will be spent at my grandmother's house in the morning and then Will's aunt's house in the afternoon. I'd much rather just stay at home than plaster on a fake smile and pretend I'm having fun being bored out of my mind. Christmas just isn't the same now that I'm older. It's just another day to me. post comment

[11 Dec 2002|11:16pm] [ mood | awake ] I'm back. I'm not going to die like I thought I was. Turns out Will's entire family got sick, too. Sunday nights, Will's family all gather at his grandparent's house for dinner. This past Sunday, his aunt mentioned that his cousin's 6 month old baby had diarreah so bad they day previous that it took two baths to clean him up. And wasn't it strange, since it was the only symptom that something was wrong and it was only one incident. Well, then two days later I got sick as a dog with both that and vomiting. And, it turns out that Will's counsin got sick at the same time. That night, his grandmother got sick. Then the rest of his aunt's family got sick. The only ones that were in the house Sunday and not ill were Will, his dad, and his grandfather. I spend Tuesday on the bathroom floor alternating between getting sick and sleeping. Since I had the illness both ways (*cough*), I dared not leave the bathroom. I bunched up my bathrobe to use as a pillow, spread down towels on the floor and huddled against the radiator while I waited for the next bouts of illness to come. Some time that day, a package of delicious gourmet chocolates were delivered to my door from a friend, and wouldn't it figure I couldn't eat any of them? I had one tonight, though and it was delicious. I'm saving them to pig out when I'm 100% positive I'm over this illness. Anyway, the cat got sick, too, only she had hair balls. She puked on my computer chair and three places on the floor. It was disgusting and not something you want to deal with when you're ill. It was gross. Tonight, I had soup from the chinese place down the street. If you're ever sick, chinese resturants make the best, cheapest chicken soup. About $2 for a quart, and their chicken isn't the tiny little cubes you get in normal soup. The place here makes either chicken and rice or chicken noodle soup and it was awesome. That's all I had to eat today, besides some ginger ale and that one piece of chocolate. *teehee* I think tomorrow I should be able to resume my normal daily routine, I've had to get to the bank for a while. Anyway, that's how my early week went. 2 comments|post comment

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