Domestic Geek

Current mood: jinxed
I've got the touch, baby! The car-breaking touch, that is. First, my car is out of commission. The mechanic didn't have time to get to it yesterday. Then, after borrowing Marcus' truck to get to work this weekend, it's transmission has decided to start acting up. Then, poor Dad calls me this morning. After chauffering me around yesterday, his car took a dump. Why me? If the mechanic isn't finished, Marcus is supposed to come pick me up on his lunch break to take me to work, unless I can find another sucker to dare driving me around in his/her vehicle. *sigh*

I'm sitting here watching a mini-marathon of "Amazing Stories" on the SciFi channel. That was a cool show.

Now that I'm to the part I really wanted to do at school, I'm feeling totally uncreative. The old self-doubt is creeping back in and I'm thinking that I'll never make a living doing this and I'm going to be stuck working pizza forever. How lame is that? I'm sure I'll snap out of it. I go through these from time to time. Oh, well. I'm sure part of it is just that I'm extremely tired. I need a vacation.

Current mood: aggravated
I'm caught up on my bills after that horrible illness thanks to my tax refund. Now what happens? My car dies. So, not only do I have to use the money I'd finally saved up to get my annual exam and get back on my birth control pills, I can't get to work to make any additional money. *sigh* And.....why is it that my car always dies on the weekend?! It won't have problems on a Tuesday or anything so that I can get it into the shop right away. No, it always takes a dump on Friday or Saturday. The last time it died on a Friday AND right before my mechanic went on a vacation. Well, I'm going to look on the bright side: 1) it died at home, 2) at least it's not a timing belt that snapped like the car of my poor friend at school, 3) I didn't feel like driving tonight anyway, and 4) I'll get some work done on my portfolio this evening and do some housework that I've been letting slide (there's a desk under there somewhere!).

On a happier note, school is going well. Today we were playing with Macromedia Fireworks. It's a program (similar to Photoshop/Illustrator) mainly used for creating web graphics to import into Dreamweaver. I am so going to redesign my whole site (and update the content) when I have a chance. I have got to save some money (if things will stop going wrong) so I can get the software I need before I graduate. I can get the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 for $189.95 as a student. It's selling for $899.95 right now at Apple's web site. If I'm going to be a professional web designer, I'm going to have to get Flash. I'm also going to need the Adobe Creative Suite. I can get it for $379.95 and it retails for $1,229.95 on Apple's site.

Current mood: busy
Man, I haven’t posted all week. I've been a busy little bee around here. Since it seems that my manager at work has lifted whatever grudge he had against me and is actually giving me some hours, I’ve been trying to take advantage.

I just had to share my latest eBay acquisition. She’s so darned cute, I just could not resist (plus it only cost $3.00 and I got my tax return so I figured I’d splurge just a little). It’s a little figurine entitled “Quilting Bee”. I got her for my craft room figurine collection. I also love bees. I absolutely love her cute little thimble on her thumb and how she's sitting in the middle of a flower. Too cool.

Speaking of eBay, I had to buy some black ink for my printer to print stuff for my portfolio. The ink came on Thursday, with $1.87 POSTAGE DUE! I was so mad. He charged me $3.00 for shipping, used a priority mail box (free box) turned inside out to ship it, and then only paid $1.98 towards shipping. I emailed him last night about my displeasure and he refunded me $1.00. Yeah, won’t be buying ink from that guy again. If he had sent me the whole amount that I had to pay to get my package from the post office, I probably would have left positive feedback for him. Just goes to show you can’t totally trust the eBay feedback system. This guy had 100% positives and over 400 sales. Oh, well.

I’m in the middle of packing up my Christmas decorations. Yes, it is March and they’re still up. I have had absolutely no motivation to pack them up. I did manage to get the tree down earlier, though. At least I didn’t have that still in my house (being real and all). Between that bout with strep and the whole portfolio fiasco, the decorations weren’t exactly on the top of my priority list. Since it felt so spring-like today, it was time to get them down. Marcus can hopefully help me get them all to storage tomorrow.

Well, Mike and Nina are coming over in a bit, so I’d better grab myself some dinner before they get here. Maybe I can get a little sanding on my portfolio case in before they get here, too.

Marcus embarrasses way too easily (and he wasn't even there). I drank all his Pepsis, so I promised him I'd get him some more. Since Pepsi and Apple are doing this iTunes giveaway, I figure I might as well replace them with ones that will get us some free tunes. Thanks to a tip from Mike, it turns out Pepsi goofed and you can see whether the bottles are winners or not just by looking. So I refuse to buy a Pepsi that doesn't have a winning cap. When I presented Marcus with his Pepsi last night, he got all flustered because I told him that I was standing in the store tilting the bottles to look for winners. It's not like that's a crime. Oh, well, he'll get over it when he's redeeming those caps!

Current mood: sore
After getting a major paper cut on one finger and stabbing one of my thumbs with an extremely sharp X-acto knife, I need to take a break from working on my portfolio. OW!!! The last thing I need is blood all over it.

After the big push I had trying to finish the damned portfolio on time and not making it, the last couple of days have been a big let down. Part of the problem is not having the money I need to buy stuff for this thing. I need to get this done ASAP so that I don't put it off until the weekend before I'm due to present again. I also am having trouble getting my printer to print purple. It's weird. I'll have to run up to school tomorrow and see if any of my teachers know what's going on.

It was a beautiful day today. It was in the 60s. Too bad it is supposed to snow again tomorrow. Booooooo!

I hope they catch the fucker that has been burning dogs on the West side of town. They should duct tape his legs together and set him on fire.

I can hardly wait until next week. I'm finally getting to take my web classes. WhooHoo!!!!

Well, since I can't type worth crap with band-aids on my fingers, I'm going to bed.