Domestic Geek

I almost forgot to mention that Elizabeth Smart was found alive today (she was the Utah teenager kidnapped from her bed nine months ago). Yay, I'm sooooo happy for her and her family.

Now I remember why I used to prefer making dough in the middle of the night--I was oblivious to the crap that goes on in the store between the people that work there. I've found out so much stuff this last week that I really wish I was still clueless about (all of a sudden I'm everyone's confidante). It makes my head hurt thinking about it all. Some of it also pisses me off, but there's nothing I can do about any of it. As long as the players are the same, the same dance will go on. I can honestly say that I'm lost any inkling of respect for anyone there. No wonder I've lost all motivation to do a good job. I must do well in school so that I can get away from all of those nut jobs.

I didn't get my project done before the deadline today in class, though. I guess that's what I get for blowing school off on Monday. I need to get a small portable hard drive so that I can bring my projects home to work on them. That so sucks that there is no way to do that now. I could've finished if I'd been able to work on it here. Oh, well. I'm doing so well otherwise that the points I'm going to lose won't kill my grade that much. The worst part was I found typos after I turned it in. There's no way to get an "A" with misspellings. Shit happens. I guess I've got a major case of spring fever or something, because I so just don't care about stuff right now that I should be caring about. I hate it when I get like that.

When I came home tonight (after work), I sat down here to read my email on the new ViewSonic monitor that I purchased this afternoon. Skippy was in my dark craft room whining. When I went in there, he started running back and forth between me and the front window. I looked and listened and couldn't find anything odd, so I chased him out and figured while I was up I'd go into the other room and check on the bunnies. Lo and behold, the door is open and one of the rabbits is missing. Guess where? You got it. She was in the farthest corner behind all the cabinets I've yet to get put back. What a pain it was to get her out of there. Of course, she didn't cooperate, either. I guess Marcus left one of the doors open last night when he cleaned their cage. Yay Skippy for alerting me to the problem!

Well, my body hurts, so I'm going to go to bed. I might read for a bit, though. That reminds me: We got our mid-terms back today, and my teacher marked a question wrong that said (true/false) "A bit is the same as a byte." I put false. I said, "Aren't there 8 bits in a byte? (There are.) So, they're not the same thing." He jokingly (I hope) says that I fail for showing up the teacher. Ha! He also didn't seem to find my comment amusing that I wrote in the margin about another question. It was a multiple choice that asked who provided the hardware for Apple computers. The three choices were a) Motorola, b) Dell, or c) Apple. Well, obviously it was c, but I noted that a was also partially correct as Motorola provides the processor. When I queried him later as to whether he found my comment humorous, he said the question asked about the hardware. Well, the last time I checked, a processor was hardware. It certainly isn't software. *sigh*

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-Don Marquis

Yesterday totally sucked ass!

I woke up with a headache and thought about blowing off school, but we had just been given as assignment that was unclear and I wanted to make sure I understood it. Well, our teacher didn't show and the teacher that sat in for him couldn't offer any helpful insight into the expectations for the project. I sooooo wanted to leave. My head just wouldn't quit pounding. I got home from school and decided to start working on the taxes. Big mistake. I guess the owner never turned in the W-4 I filled out to have my deduction as 0. It looks like I'm might break even or end up owing (I'm still looking for paperwork that I need). If I wasn't getting an education credit, I'd owe like $800. So much for getting the money to pay Marcus back as I had hoped. I still hadn't gotten a W-2 from Mimi's yet, so I tried to call them and kept getting a busy signal. I drove up there and waited forever to talk to a manager. I finally got the corporate number and called them from work. It figures that they sent it to the street address in Byers instead of the PO box and it had been returned to them. The stupid woman said, "We sent it to the address that was supplied to payroll." Well, both addresses are on my last paycheck stub, so you had the correct address. Morons.

Work didn't go well either. First, I had to yell at that one dumbass guy that I hate so much. I hate it when he opens his mouth because he mumbles and I have to make him repeat everything because I can't understand him. Then what he says is usually a waste of my time, anyway. He wanted to know if I had more dough to do. Well, since I weigh out all the sugar/salt I need for the day and I had 7 bowls on the table, and I'm not scheduled to drive for another hour and a half: YES, I HAVE MORE DOUGH TO DO! Then he starts moving my stuff around. I told him to stop messing with stuff that's none of his concern and he says, "I'm just trying to help." That's when I snapped. "I don't need your f*cking help!" I yelled. It's becoming a real problem that insiders don't want to do what they're supposed to be doing, so they come back to "help" me. I told the head manager that I don't want or need their help. I get paid adequately to do my job and don't need them hiding back there and getting in my way. Driving sucked, too. I got so many $1.00 tips and stiffs (no tips) yesterday that I actually broke down and cried in front of a house. I got stuck delivering a free pizza to the edge of the delivery area. People got routed in front of me that shouldn't have with more deliveries than I got. It totally bit.

When I got home all I wanted to do was eat dinner, read my email and go to bed. I discover that my monitor is quickly dying. Yay!!!! The screen is dark and a beautiful shade of purple. *sigh* Oh, well.

Hopefully, today will be much better.

1. What was the last song you heard?
Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
It was the last song on the radio when I turned off the car.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
"Shanghai Knights" and "The Family Man"

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
A bag of Chex Mix from the school vending machine, a couple of bottles of Coke at 7-11 and some scrapbooking supplies.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
(1) Work
(2) Finish painting the craft room
(3) Taxes
(4) Clean off my desk

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Four coworkers and a customer.