Domestic Geek

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!

Current mood: indescribable
Sorry about the lack of real posts the last two weeks. I've been in one of my funks. Anyway, I just finished writing five essays today for my class this evening. I don't think I've been so happy to be done with something I didn't want to do in a really long time. I didn't get much out of this class. It's my own fault, not the teacher's. I just have not been in a school frame of mind. I didn't do most of the workbook homework and my essays are not my best writing. I actually had a quiz a couple of weeks ago where I got several answers wrong. That's just not me. I'll be lucky if I pull a B out of this one, I think. That'll be the first B I've had in ages. Oh, well. Thankfully, tonight is the last night of this class.

I've been working on my Expression Engine template, so that should go live this weekend sometime. I finally had to close comments on all my old posts here because the spam was so out of control.

We're going to go get our Christmas tree on Saturday. I had really hoped to be working by then, but I'm such a loser that nobody'll hire me for even a cashier job. *sigh* I'll be posting more of my stuff on eBay tomorrow. There are rumors at work that there might not be bonuses this year. I hope they're false, or nobody's getting presents this year.

Anyway, I've got to get off to school.