Domestic Geek

Gah, how did it get to be 9 pm Sunday already?

Of course, it didn't help that I actually slept until noon today! I think I went to bed around 11 pm last night and only got up for an hour this morning to take medicine and check the bounced email situation. Man, my body was apparently exhausted. Then we spent a good part of the day running errands since Marcus had to get a new firewall to keep me from doing what I did yesterday. The good news is I haven't had any bounced back emails in hours.

My face hurts today, but at least it's the pain of healing. It didn't help that I went to put a shirt on this morning and managed to punch myself right in the jaw. Only I could pull that off.

I (or those signed up under me) need to win some more iTunes certificates on either Winzy or Blingo. I'm getting dangerously low on credits, people!

I need to order something on Amazon and it only costs $10. I want to get the free shipping for orders over $25, but can't seem to find anything I really want around $15. Everything I want costs way more than that and I can't spend the money right now or it's preorder only and wouldn't work for this order. Hmph.

I've been updating my Stephen King missing books list. I found a cute little used bookstore on Broadway a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have my missing books list handy to see if any that they had were on my list. There is also a good one over at 80th and Wadsworth, but I don't get up that way often anymore. I don't mind splurging $3 here and there for used paperbacks, y'know? It's about time I did some pleasure reading and got caught up. I don't think I've read a Stephen King novel since 2002. I'm waaaay behind.

I somehow managed to miss an email from one of my domain hosts that one of my domains was expiring this first week in June. I had the same problem last year and let it lapse. I had intended to move it to my main registrar so that this didn't happen this year and almost forgot. Good thing I decided to finally clean out my mailbox. Those 1000+ unread messages in there were really annoying. I hope it gets transferred before it expires.

One last reminder to send out Police ticket winning vibes. I'm going to win some!

I downloaded a neat little extension for Firefox today that colors your tabs. I've read that other people use these and like them, but I wasn't thrilled before. I'm ready to give them a second chance, though. We'll see.

On that note, I guess I'd better close up here and head to bed.

I had a really weird moment of Zen last Thursday, I think it was. My old place of employment called Marcus because the designers are being allowed to work from home 3 days a week instead of having to make the drive to Larkspur every day and needed their computers set up to access the network from home. At first I was so incredibly angry when I heard about that, because I asked for that exact work situation before I was let go. Since one of my main problems was the amount of gas I was wasting driving there, I wanted the ability to work from home and I was flat out told no.

Then I took a deep breathe and felt totally at peace — a real moment of zen. I realized if I had gotten what I had wanted, I wouldn't be where I am now. I wouldn't be working at an established company only 17 miles from home, working with Marcus, working with a really nice set of people for the most part, getting some recognition for the good work I do, getting paid hourly so I actually get overtime pay for those extra hours I work and getting company-paid benefits. Instead I'd still be working at a floundering start-up where the personalities clash, people are mean and rude to each other, driving 100 miles a day round trip, no benefits whatsoever, having to deal with stupid clients and franchisees and generally feeling too much stress.

It was a sucky road getting here, but I am truly grateful for the position I have now. I'm grateful for the experiences I've had at all the different places I've worked because they have given me such a broad knowledge base of the various types of design skills needed and so far all have come into play in one way or another where I currently work. Even my technology skills have been useful.

I'm so glad I was so quickly able to look for the good and let go of those angry, ugly feelings I was having. It's a real breakthrough for me.

So, it was a little warm driving home from work today. I face was just throbbing and I was sick of being in traffic. I pulled off into a convenience store to get a beverage and decided I'd get an ice cream instead. Well, I set it on the table when I got home and used the restroom, got a drink and plumb forgot all about the poor ice cream. D'oh! I found it before it became a total puddle, so I threw it in the freezer and just now got to eat it. I wanted one last little treat since I don't know how long it will take the old mouth to heal after the surgery. Some days, I wonder where the old brain is hiding!

This test was posted in a forum to which I belong and wanted to share the result here. I just love Katherine Hepburn and I can only hope to be as classy as she.

Link: The Classic Dames Test written by gidgetgoes on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Because for the most part, they're freaking crooks. I had my consultation today. I knew things were going to go downhill when they said they needed an x-ray. Um, hello? I just had x-rays done last week by the dentist that referred me to you. Noooooo, you need your very own x-rays. Then, the dentist doesn't even look at my mouth and asks me the same dumb questions that were on the freaking form he had me fill out. You can't be bothered to take a second to look over the form? He also asked if the other dentist had prescribed something for the pain. I told him Vicodin and that it wasn't working. Would he prescribe something else? No, I guess not.

I was actually in his presence all of 5 minutes maybe and they had the gall to charge me $88. Then they can't fit me in until Friday afternoon and proceed to tell me that this little surgery is going to cost me $500 with my insurance. Holy shit, they had to be kidding me! When I heard the one chick at the reception desk giving numbers to the other, I thought they were procedure codes, not prices. I think I paid about that to have my wisdom teeth out without insurance.

I was so angry I cried the whole way home. I feel violated in a way. This isn't the first time I've been jacked over by a dentist and why I have such a huge mistrust of them in the first place. I can't go anyplace else because I have to go to the surgeon my dentist referred me to in order for any of it to be covered by insurance. I'm this close to learning to live with the pain rather than line some crook's pockets. Not rational, I know. I'm just so freaking pissed.

So, not sure how I'm going to come up with that much money in just a few short days. Marcus said he'd help, but I'm sure he wasn't counting on it being that much. Geez, this sucks.