Archive for April, 2009

The family failure

There are two children in our family – my sister and me. One of us is a success and one of us is a failure. One of us has a house, is getting married, has a well paying position doing our dream job, is planning on raising a family, is a regular church goer, is being baptized soon, has no debt (other than the house), travels regularly, has maintained her weight, and is loved and adored by just about everyone she meets. The other is thousands of dollars in debt, renting, has a failed engagement, is being paid peanuts, dropped out of college, has cost her mother thousands of dollars, has gained 80lbs, and generally has no plans for the future. My sister would be the first and I would be the second. When it comes to the major things in life I can’t do anything right.

  

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Another suvery stolen from FB – A survey for Grown ups

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
Credit Card. Just pick one.

2. Do you miss being a child?
Overall, no

3. Chore you hate the most?
Cleaning the kitty litter

4. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
Romantic dinner? At home. Candlelight, he cooked, talked for hours – *sigh*

5. If you could go back and change one thing what would it be?
My debt :(

6. Name of your first grade teacher?
Mrs. Moore. She wanted to hold me back. Good thing she didn’t get her way – I was an honor’s student!

7.What do you really want to be doing right now?
Cuddling with Tom

8. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A librarian

9. How many colleges did you attend?
Just one

10.Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
It was clean.

11. What are your thoughts on gas prices?
*sigh* I miss lower gas prices.

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
My alarm didn’t go off this morning. :D

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
I honestly don’t remember. Something about having clean sheets.

14. What famous person would you like to have dinner with?
Norah Roberts

15. Have you ever crashed your vehicle?
Crashed it? I think so.

16. If you didn’t have to work, would you volunteer?
Yes

17. Get up early or sleep in?
Get up early, though I would love to sleep in.

18. What is your favorite cartoon character?
Gadget from Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers

19. Favorite thing to do at night with a guy/girl?
Snuggle on the couch watching a movie.

20. When did you first start feeling old?
A long time ago

21. Favorite lunch meat?
Honey Ham

22. What do you get every time you go into Wal-Mart?
Um…food.

23. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
No- in fact I don’t think we take it seriously enough in our culture.

24. Favorite movie you wouldn’t want anyone to find out about?
Umm…If I didn’t want anyone to find out about it why would I publish it here?

25. What’s your favorite drink?
Frozen Coke

26. Whom from high school would you like to run in to?
Mrs. Leonardo

27. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
I don’t listen to the radio in my car, but it would be Y108.

28. Sopranos or Desperate Housewives?
I’ve not seen either of them.

29. Do you like the person that sits directly across from you at work?
Umm…I don’t have a permanent seat and people only sit behind me or next to me. It’s never the same.

30. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purposes?
No

31. Last book you finished reading?
*blush* I honestly don’t remember. I listen more than read these days.

32. Do you have a teddy bear?
Yes – Wilbur, the bear Tom got me to keep me company.

33. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth?
Elementary school office

34. How old are you?
29

35. Thing you hate about Facebook?
speedate!!!

  

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Thursday 13 – edition 5

Thirteen Things WordPress Plugins I use.

1. Akismet – spam killer
2. commentluv – shows last post of person who is commenting
3. Flickr Photo Album – allows you to chose photos from Flickr to put in posts
4. Post Avatar – allows you to use icons with your post
5. Sociable – allows people to link your post to various social networking sites
6. Subscribe to Comments – allows people to subscribe to comments so that they can get any replies you post
7. StatPress – shows realtime stats for your blog
8. Weather Postin – shows snippets of weather info from when you posted
9. WordPress popular posts – shows the most popular posts you have
10. Follow Me – allows people to link to your profiles on several social media sites
11. Google XML sitemaps – automatically does site maps to be linked to Google and other search engines
12. myMoosMus – shows mood, music, and tv at time of posting
13. Official StatCounter plugin – adds StatCounter tracking code to your blog

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Laundry love . . . and hate

Ah – there’s nothing like fresh, clean clothes. The yummy smell, the soft feel – it’s wonderful. Unfortunately, it requires us to do laundry. Laundry is something that I do not like to do. It takes forever (well, hours at least) and is very boring. You have to babysit it if you are like me and are having problems getting a laundry room key. I requested one on Saturday. You know, four days ago. How much time and effort does it take to copy a key? You grab the key, drive on down to Home Depot or your local hardware store, have it made, and drive back. Less than a half hour right? They’re charging me $20 for the stupid key so you’d think they would have had it done by Monday or Tuesday. I expected to get a call on one of those days. Did I? No. Of course not. Why? Well, when I checked today I was told that they were out of blanks and waiting for supplies to come in. *sigh* So I packed up all of my laundry and headed to Mom’s. There’s definitely part of me that just wants to stay here until it is all done tonight, but that’s not going to happen. I’m too tired. So I get to come back tomorrow. Lovely. Two days ruined by this mess. I’m just hoping to get it all done early tomorrow and be back to the apartment in enough time to get some sleep. I don’t want to be up late when I have to work the next morning. Does someone want to do this laundry for me? I sure as heck don’t want to do it. I guess I won’t be letting it pile up as much anymore. I need to do it more often. I’d go home now, but I need to let the sheets dry. *sigh* I’m off to transfer clothes from Mom’s clothes basket to mine for the trip home. Sound like fun? It’s not. And it’s supposed to rain tomorrow. Yippee. Why can’t clothes clean themselves?

  

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Wordless Wednesday

Jack

  

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Monday and Tuesday

Good afternoon everyone! Its been a while since I’ve done an actual update and for that I apologize. I keep trying to get going on Blog 365, but failing. Monday and Tuesday sucked. Read the rest of this entry »

  
Feeling : hungry

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Weekly Plans 4/27 – 5/3

Monday, April 27, 2009

  • Mail bills
  • Work
  • Grocery & clothes shopping
  • Eat dinner
  • Play with Kit
  • Talk to Tom
  • Take pills
  • Nag people about reading my story
  • Go to sleep

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Weekly Winners 4/12-4/25

Sleeping Kit
Kit disturbed
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Thursday 13 – edition 4

Thirteen Things I dislike about my job

1. The damn stairs
2. Having to take a shuttle to the parking lot
3. Being put on singles after being on multiples or duals
4. Waking up at 4 (or 3 if I work on Saturday) am to get to work on time
5. Quality meetings
6. I get lonely on breaks when I can’t call Tom
7. Union dues
8. Inkers
9. The fluctuating temperature
10. Having to work 50 hours in 7 seven days
11. The ice machine is always out of ice when I go to get some after lunch
12. Not really fitting in
13. Getting nasty notes about a one day drop in production

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Feeling badly

Well I got up early this morning and went to work. I had tons of problems and only stayed for about two hours. I can home and slept for most of the day. I’m about to go back to sleep right now. I hate being sick. Anyone want to come and do it for me?

  

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