Domestic Geek

A teaser for this week's episode of The Office [via Freakgirl]:

Is it wrong that I just visited the web site of the place I was let go from last July and am just a little happy that I discovered that they're producing even less magazines than they were at the time I left? I've even noticed that at least two franchisees are totally gone and those remaining have not built up any new areas (and a couple have even lost ground). The owner was all talk about how within a year he was going to have all these new franchises and x number of magazines and there would be double the design staff so that they would have to move into a bigger office. With all the similar publications I see come through where I work now, I knew they couldn't be faring that well, but I had no idea they were losing ground. I know the Karma police are going to get me for this, but I'm giddy with glee. I can just imagine how they're all still at each other's throats with so little to do. The process sucked at the time, but I am so glad I no longer work down there.

Hey all! Sorry I've been MIA for a bit. Since I wrote my confessional last week, I've been really taking a good long hard look at my habits and why I'm doing them. When I catch myself doing something undesirable, I try to put something more productive in its place. One thing I must rid myself of is the mindless Internet surfing I've been doing. Since this all really got started back when I lost my job, it's been easy to tell myself that I need to stay online to find that job opening. Then I started doing paid blogging and I had to stay online to find the next good opp. Well, I have a full time job and I haven't had but 7 opps in the past 30 days, so I can't use those for justifications for my actions anymore. So in it's place I put the excuse that I had to help get everyone's alexa scores up. Here I go, justifying again. I never gave hoot about PR, alexa or technorati scores before, why now? It certainly isn't that have decent scores already in those areas has brought me more money making opportunities. So, the solution has been to not spend so much of my precious time in front of this computer or if I do, I go to sites for tutorials and stuff so I'm actually increasing knowledge instead of just wasting time.

Saturday was a bad night here in the old mobile home park. When I got home from work on Friday, a whole bunch of people were at the neighbors (whom I detest) helping them move! I was so happy. I had been getting clues that they would be leaving, but no real proof. These people have been a thorn in my side since the day they moved in — loud Mexican polka music, neglecting their dog, kids screaming on trampolines, no respect for anyone, etc. I think the woman was also running an illegal day care. Well, except for a little bit on Saturday to get some more stuff, I thought I had seen the last of them. Well, when I went to go to bed about 12:30 Sat/Sun, it sounded like a party going on over there. Loud music, tons of people, a dozen or so cars in the street, some of them drag racing. Wow, I was not happy. Marcus looked out the door and said he thought they were moving the last of their stuff. Then it got ugly: hooting, screaming, yelling, windows breaking, general mayhem. I got afraid and called the cops. By the time I had hung up with the 911 dispatcher, everyone there had jumped in cars and took off, leaving every light on in the place and the front door open. The next morning, there were definitely broken out windows. When the people looking after the park in the owner's absence came by, they told us the neighbors had been evicted and when they looked in the front door, they place was totally trashed. Like I said, no respect. Since the owners were suing these people for back payments and now he can't resell this one right away, I'm waiting for him to take it out on the residents by upping our lot rents.

One final thing and then I have to get ready for work. My allergies are kicking my butt this year. I've felt so shitty the last two days. Once again, NyQuil could've been my friends had it still a decongestant as an ingredient. The runny nose is so bad it made my nose bleed overnight. Eww. This is not cool.

As I've been soul searching today trying to figure out where my life got so off track, I got to thinking about high school and the people I knew then. I wrote before about how I have such a hard time keeping relationships with anybody going. I don't know why it's so hard for me to connect and stay connected with people. I no longer have contact with anybody I went to school with and haven't for many years. That's really sad with a graduating class of over 600 people and I still live in the town I grew up in.

Anyway, I started looking for the links to the old reunion sites that were up for our 2004 20-year reunion and found out the reunion committee made a site in anticipation of our 25th reunion in July of 2009. I think I'm going to attend that one. I noticed that a handful of classmates are already deceased. If I don't go this time, I may regret it later. I'm not going to set the reunion as a goal for getting my shit together, because those kind of things never work. That being said, however, I do want the person that goes to that reunion to be happy and on the right track. I've made some small steps over the last couple of days. Fessing up was the biggest. It made me pull my head out of the sand and start taking a good, hard look at my behavior and what it's doing to me.

Thank God It's Payday Friday! $$$

It's been an amazingly long and exhausting week. I haven't looked forward to Friday this much in a long time. I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow!

That said, I need to get off my butt and drag my carcass to work. I've been late every. single. day. this. week. Yesterday was especially bad due to an accident on I-225 that was ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY! Danged rubberneckers. Have a good Friday, everybody and I'll check in later when I get home.