Domestic Geek

Current mood: aggravated
The year 2004 is not going to leave me quietly, I'm afraid.

I was all excited at work today because there was no dough to do, so as soon as I cut the veggies I was going to be out of there to get Christmas shopping and decorating done today. *sigh* It was not to be. It was snowing when I got to work, so I started my dad's car (mine is still sitting in the lot where I left it a week and a half ago), got out to brush the snow off and realized I had accidentally locked the door just as I pushed it closed. DAMN! Of course I had locked the door at work and couldn't get back in and my keys were in the LOCKED RUNNING CAR! I went down to the cigarette store to use their phone. Dad didn't know anybody that could bring me the spare keys he has, Marcus' phone was apparently dead or off since he wasn't answering and all my phone numbers were in my cell phone in the LOCKED RUNNING CAR! Of course, being totally broke like I am, I couldn't call a locksmith. If the car hadn't been running, I would've walked to where Marcus worked and got his truck to go get the spares, but no--I couldn't leave the LOCKED RUNNING CAR!

When I left the cigarette store, butthole manager had showed at the workplace and was doing assisant manager's work for her (even though he is "off" all week, he's supposed to be with his kids today and yet he claims he is totally over her--um, sure he is). So, I go in and keep calling Marcus' work over and over and over until he finally answers. I explain what happened and he had the nerve to laugh at me. Butthead. I ask him for our friend Dave's cell number. He gives me some other David's number (which was freakishly similiar to our Dave's number). I call Marcus back to get the correct number and get poor Dave out of bed. He drove over to my dad's house, got the keys, then drove all the way over to where I work to rescue me. Then he took me to lunch at Great Scott's (good food!) and went shopping with me. *sniff* What a great friend. So, the poor car ran for about two hours before the keys came. At least it was nice and warm when I got in it. LOL

So, what else has 2004 got to throw at me in the 9 days it has left?

Current mood: confused
Why do people advertise that they need help and then don't hire you right away? I've been applying at places for over six weeks now, am I that bad? I know I'm over-educated for all of the posititons, but damn, I was looking for Christmas money, not a life-long career! What really irks me is that several of the places still have help wanted signs. Am I that big of a scumbag? Marcus tried to reassure me that the management at these places is probably imcompetent (like where I work) and he's probably right, but it still does wonders for my ego, y'know? I even applied at a scrapbooking store two weeks ago because I heard a thing on KOSI's job openings one morning. She called last week and said she'd set up interviews this week. Well, week's almost over and not a peep. Guess she doesn't need help that bad, huh? So much for finding a job for extra Christmas cash. Even if I found a job today, I doubt much that I would get a paycheck in time. *sigh* Oh, well. I tried.

So, now I'm going full time into the "real job" search. I've got ten weeks left of school and then I'm done. I'm concentrating my efforts on finding a job in the field. A friend of mine who has been interviewing extensively lately has been told my most of the companies that they're not actually hiring now, but will do so after the first of the year. Yay!!!! Since there are only 16 days left of this suck-ass year, I'm optimistic.

Speaking of school, I am definitely dropping out of the bachelor program. We made it official a couple of days ago. It was really refreshing for a school to hold my bests interests above their own. The only reason I really wanted to stay in school is to hide from the world and stay close to my friends. I'm just going to have to make the effort to not lose contact after I get out. So, after the winter break, just nine more weeks for me and I'm done.

Today is the day I'm going to decorate the tree we got last Saturday. How fun! I love getting all my cool ornaments out and reminiscing out how I acquired each one. So, I guess that means I better quit sitting here and get cracking!

Current mood: frustrated
OMG, what a day from hell this was! I should've known things were going to go awry when I got in my car this morning and it started right up. I didn't get all the dough done yesterday because of lack of trays, so I had to go in today. I was done in plenty of time to get home and shower before we had to leave for tree cutting. I try to start the car and nothing...won't start at all. I think the starter went. After 15 minutes of calling his cell over and over and over, Marcus finally answered the phone and came and got me. So, my poor car is still sitting out in front of work and I have absolutely no idea how in the hell I'm going to get it home or even pay to get it fixed. Sad thing is, once again, this is not the original problem and even if I can get a starter, it'll still have issues.

We got down to Woodland Park about an hour later than planned and my head and eyes hurt because I bawled all the way. The last thing I was really in the mood to do at the moment was get a tree. Anway, Marcus' truck has been having some transmission problems. Today is the day they decide to totally jack up. When his truck gets warm, he loses 2nd and 3rd gears. We found out that he also can't put it into 4-wheel drive, either. Of course it was all snowy and icy at the cutting area. *sigh* So, we had to leave and and pack into Mike's jeep. Oh, well. Marcus found us a nice tree and hopefully I'll get it up tomorrow. Dad lent me his car for work tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, I'll get my car home. Regardless, I'll post pics of the adventure tomorrow.

Allright, it's been a long, stupid day. I'm going to bed.

Current mood: accomplished
Allright!!! Operation lamp remplacement was successful without further paper wasp interference! Yaayyy!!!!!!

Wow, I actually slept almost 12 hours last night. I probably would've slept longer had Marcus' alarm not gone off. I thought maybe I had missed the iPod contest on KOSI, but I hadn't. I still didn't win it though. DAMN!

So, tomorrow is the big Christmas Tree Hunt. Should be fun. There are pictures of previous excursions here, here and here! The only bad part is that I have to do two days' worth of dough this afternoon so that I can go. Ugh! Not looking forward to that.

When Marcus and I put up the outside lights last weekend, he accidentally broke the light where I had some of them plugged in. I was looking at it a couple of days ago to see if it could be repaired. It can't because it's really cheap plastic. I had to leave it alone because there were tons of paper wasps hanging around and one even was trying to get into the fixture. I'm really beginning to find these types of wasps to be the bane of my existance. I knew I had to get it repaired so that I could turn my lights on, so yesterday I purchased a replacement light at Home Depost ($3, put it on my HD charge). It was rather cold and windy yesterday, so there were no wasps about. Now I know why. After finding the right breaker in the fuse box and taking the screw out that held the old fixture on, many wasps came pouring out from behind the fixture. I grabbed the wasp spray, but being allergic to wasp stings, I couldn't bring myself to get close enough to spray. So, I asked Marcus to do it before he left for work this morning. Luckily, they hadn't had time to actually build a nest in there yet, so I'm hoping more don't come back before I can get the new one up. That'll be on the agenda when it warms up a little.

OK, I'd better get going. Got to get the house cleaned up and get some of the Christmas stuff up so there'll be room to work on the tree tomorrow. Everybody have a great day!