Domestic Geek

The contest was a nice diversion from this whole unemployment mess. I finally got a response to one of my many resumes out there, but once again, it's for a job that's a contract "as needed" basis. I need stability with a set minimum income. If I had known things had gotten this bad, I wouldn't have been so quick to tell my old place of employment that I wanted to leave. Granted, I don't see that company staying around for the long term, either, but at least I would've been employed while trying to figure out where to go next. *sigh*

It appears this is the future for graphic designers. These companies don't want to have full time employees that require benefits and taxes and such. I'm not working for $10/hour or less if I'm responsible for paying all of my own taxes out of it. I made more money as a pizza insider than that, never mind what I made as a driver. I'm so tired of it! I went to school and I've got skills—I deserve to be paid for the use of those skills. I've started looking into other fields, but I don't know what the hell I want to do.

I saw this video on the front page of Technorati yesterday. Obsessive compulsive much? Lol

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Not in a sports sense like Floyd Landis did that one day in the Tour de France, but I actually hit the wall of my bedroom. Anybody who has slept in a waterbed knows how you have to hoist yourself over the edge to get out of it. Well, that's how I've gotten out of bed for years. The new mattress sits up above the frame. It takes a little jump to get into bed. Well, when I got up yesterday, I gave myself that little hoist and sent myself flying into the wall. Whoops! I almost did it again this morning. This is going to take some getting used to!

Wow, my body is really sore. I know I'm out of shape if the kind of work I did today totally wore me out.

We filled up the dumpster with our old bed parts. It was kind of sad to see it all in there, but I won't have to deal with a leaking bed anymore. Hooray!

The big project today was getting all of our remaining crap out of the storage place. Ugh, the dust I inhaled while sweeping it out made my poor throat all raw. The manager of the place said he'd find a home for the 9 bags of concrete we had there. Yay! It seemed a shame to throw them out when there was absolutely nothing wrong with them and we couldn't find anybody else that had any need for them at the moment. Marcus was also not looking forward to lugging them all over here. So, we still need to find places to stash the stuff we brought back here today, but for the most part, that whole ordeal is over. Yay to us saving $110 a month, too! No more storage until we move again.

We went to Anthony's Pizza & Pasta for dinner. The one over on 40th and Airport has been open for a bit, so Marcus wanted to go try them. When you dine in and order an 18" pizza, they actually make you a 22" pie. Man, that thing was tasty! There was so much left over I have lunch and dinner for tomorrow. Their dinner salad was pretty yummy, too. It had pepperoni, olives, cheese, romaine letteruce (not that crappy iceburg stuff) and I can't remember what else. I'd go back for just that salad again. The woman running the place was really nice, too. Definitely on the repeat visit list.

I cut Marcus' hair this evening. I'm not really that good at it, but Marcus doesn't care because it saves him money and he's always wearing a hat. For once, I didn't cut the skin in between my index and middle finger. I always manage to draw my own blood when I cut his hair, but not this time! It actually came out pretty even and I didn't leave him with any weird little bald spots. My back really hurts when I do it, though. I don't see how hairdressers managae doing that all day. Of course, they have chairs that they can adjust up and down.

Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" video was on VH1's top 20 countdown this weekend, but they cut the end off. I wish iTunes would get it. I'd really love to have a high res version of it.

I had intended to work on the old blog template, but that didn't happen. I've been too busy checking PPP for new puzzle pieces that didn't materialize. Oh, well...I've got all day tomorrow.

OK, I'm gonna go spend the evening in my comfy bed. G'night.

Sorry, the new pink layout for Breast Cancer Awaresness month is going to be a little late. I think you'll like it, though, I do. I'm going to take the time to really fix my EE code. It's so jacked up. All I did was take an existing template and screw with it here and there and it's a mess. There's unnecessary css, old straggling bits of code, etc. I want to be able to skin this thing, so I'd better just get it fixed now.

OK, I'm tired and I'm off to try out the new bed. G'night!