Domestic Geek

This one time, at band camp...no, seriously, I did go to band camp and was even a counselor for a few summers. One of the things that I used to love about our camp was the recreation building that had several Table Tennis and pool tables. Everybody wanted to use them and we would wait in line for our turn. It always amazed me how competitive you could get with someone else over paddles and a small plastic ball. Even the camp director couldn't resist squaring off against some of the campers! I had gotten to a point where I was actually quite good at it. Growing up, our family couldn't afford to get a real table. We tried to make one on our dining room table when I was in high school (mom bought a cheap kit), but it wasn't the same as playing on a regulation table.

It had totally slipped my mind how much I enjoyed playing and how I had promised myself that when I was an adult I would get myself a table until I saw Weird Al playing Table Tennis in his "White and Nerdy" video. Marcus and I had planned on getting a pool table once we get this house on a basement foundation, but I'm thinking we should get a Table Tennis table, too.

The art show last night was ok. It was good seeing people I hadn't seen in awhile. It's kind of sad seeing less art and more nursing school stuff. I wonder how long it will be before the graphic desgin program is totally gone. I'll be really surprised if there even is an art show next year. I guess we'll see.

Dad and I went out to the cemetary this morning to visit mom's grave. I spaced that they would be doing stuff out there at Fort Logan commemorating Veterans Day today. We stopped at BeauJo's for lunch on the way back. Those stuffed mushrooms I love so much were on a happy hour appetizer special of only $2.00, I got an order of them all to myself. YUM! I want to know how to make those. I can't quite recreate them. *sigh*

My neck is jacked up. I don't know what I did to it, but I was in so much pain this afternoon that I felt like I would puke everytime I stood up. It hasn't hurt this bad in a long time. I spent the afternoon on a heating pad watching X-Men 3: The Last Stand. I really wanted to do some cross stitch right now, but my neck hurts too bad to hold my head up right to work on it.

The weekend manager at my new job can use my help on her shifts, so I'm going to go in tomorrow to get a few extra hours. Yay for some more hours and some more experience. That will help since I'm not making squat with paid blogging right now.

With Christmas a mere six weeks away, I'm going to have to find some sort of part time retail or something to do in the evenings. I need to get my car fixed and registered so that I can quit using Marcus' other vehicle. I need to pay Marcus back the money I've borrowed. I need to get my bills caught up. My student loan that I put into forbearance will kick in again soon. *sigh*

I still can't find that template that I wanted to use for my wordpress installation. I went through all of my history and didn't come across it. I must have seen it more than a week before I started looking for it. Dang, there are a lot of wordpress template sites out there and most the designs SUCK!

OK, I'm gonna finish watching the episode of 24 (season 3) that I'm in the middle of and head to bed.

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I'm usually really good at remembering holidays and special events. This year, totally missed Marcus' and my 14th anniversary. Yep, we celebrate our "anniversary" on October 28th. It was the date in 1992 that Marcus and I officially became a couple (even though we had been seeing each other for almost 3 months). With everything else that has been going on recently, the date slipped my mind. In fact, all of October is kind of a blur. Anyway, I just wanted to say how lucky I am to have found him and also say:

I got an email this afternoon from a company I interviewed with waaaay back before I even lost my last job:

Hello LaDonna,
You interviewed with me here at XXXXXX XXXXXXXX a few months back and I wanted to check with you to see if you found a Graphics position or not. We will have an opening soon and I thought would inquire to see if you were available or still had an interest in doing Trade Show large format graphic design.

Dammit! This was slightly amusing yesterday what I got that phone message, but this is downright infuriating! So now that I've actually now have, all my past interviews are going to come out of the woodwork with offers of employment? Grrrrrrrr!