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December 17th, 2009
08:30 pm - Happy Birthday Self!
My bday is on saturday and I have soooo much stuff to do this weekend, it's crazy. Tomorrow night I need to make snacks for my party on saturday, saturday is jam packed with family and friends. I also have to make 4 dozen cookies for the cookie exchange at work monday, finish christmas shopping, finish the cookbook for people who can't cook and have no money (which is a gift for my friend), wrap all my presents, shop for the stuff I need to make pies for christmas... The list is never ending, and I'm no where near done with the cookbook yet. Part of that is to price out all the ingredients called for at our local grocery stores, which itself will take a while. No rest for the birthday girl this year, but it's gonna be a good weekend!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/mood/lierre/twinkles/working.gif) busy
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December 5th, 2009
10:19 am - Baking
Today will be a day full of baking. I am trying my hand at making pie crust from scratch today because (1) I've always wanted to try and (2) my friend's favorite dessert is pecan pie and I thought I'd make him one for his bday in January. Since I've never made any kind of pie before, I thought a trial run would be a good idea.
Also, I have to make some cookies for my sister's bday on Tuesday. We're having friends over to play rock band! I also just bought the reprint of the Nestle Cookie Cookbook, and told her she could pick one thing for me to make. She promptly requested 2. Since it is her bday, I said ok.
Finally, it is the last day of my job on Monday and we are having a major food day as a leaving party. Work is providing fried chicken and some sides, and it is a giant potluck otherwise. So since I'm baking anyway, I need to make something for work as well. The pie might be brought too; it just depends on how it turns out.
Current Mood: busy
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October 15th, 2009
11:47 pm - And the blows just keep on coming...
Good news: I am employee of the third quarter at work.
Bad news: My job ends December 8 because the project I work on got canceled.
I am scare to death because this could mean I would: (1) have to go back to doing collections, which made me miserable and physically sick, OR (2) not have a job period because we have to re-interview and get the position "if we are a good fit" and the entire world knows how much I hated collections.
My only hope is that they magically find some other project to take our current one's place so I don't have to face either of the above. I can't believe that I am right back to where I was last year in October, with the uncertain job security and future. I've already looked into what the 2 major companies in the area, 2 universities and 2 community colleges have available in the way of jobs. The answer was "NOTHING". Not a single job available that I could do. The only things available were faculty positions where you need a Phd or college intern positions. I don't know what I'm going to do. I really don't.
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September 20th, 2009
11:22 pm
Had a lovely weekend! Went to the Pumpkin Festival in a nearby town and did some carnival rides and had a corndog for lunch. We also saw the parade and gathered some candy. Apparently the trick to getting people in the parade to throw candy at you is to have the world's cutest 2 and 4 year old boys jump up and down and scream "Candy!!!!" Guaranteed to get a handful coming your way.
And I tried a lovely cookie recipe today for Lemonade Cookies. Yummo! They got very enthusiastic thumbs up from both my roommates and the roommate's bf. I also created a recipe for Spicy butter green beans which I love and want to make all the time now. My roommates, who refuses to eat green beans, declared them decent enough to convince her to have a little whenever I make them, according to her. High praise indeed! Here's hoping the week goes well!!!
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August 25th, 2009
09:31 pm
So, apparently I have mortally offended the universe in some unknown way because I've had a week and a half of having the universe dump on me in every way conceivable. I've apologized profusely, but the universe is a pro at holding a grudge. Spiteful bitch. If things don't turn around soon, I expect that next I will be setting myself on fire with the microwave or drowning in my bathroom sink or something else equally absurd.
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July 25th, 2009
01:32 am
Sooooo, my kitchen flooded after the monsoon we had this evening. Apparently not even the weekend can save me from the suck-fest of the week. Make it stop. Please and thank you.
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July 23rd, 2009
12:18 am - Decisions, decisions
Today sucked and was expensive. I spent over $1800 (yes, just under two thousand), close to half of which was for brand new brakes for my car. The guy actually gave me a choice: "Would you like to pay X amt for new brake pads and rotors?" And then the unspoken other option being "or would you like to live with the excitement of never knowing when your brakes will fail and cause horrific pain, most likely your own?" I decided I have enough excitement in my life and went with getting the new brakes. The rest was going towards rent, utilities, credit card bills and traffic school fees. In other words, nothing fun. Upside: no horrible crash caused by brake failure at the wrong time. Downside: I can officially not afford to take my trip to Italy this year. Suck suck suckity suck.
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June 29th, 2009
07:54 am - I'm Back!
Made it back from camping alright yesterday. It was a very eventful 4 days... Now it's back to work this morning. But as a reminder to me about all the happenings, here's a quick list of the high points from the trip. If anyone is interested in the full story for any of these, let me know.
1) Flashlight vigil for MJ
2) Fabric flame trap and the fiery cocoon of death
3) Team Capsize and the watery grave of doom
4) I don't use public bathrooms. I'm going to Arby's!
5) Sex education via campfire song
6) We fought the river, and the river won...again
7) I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be subtle...turn the frickin' lantern OFF!
8) Racoon turf war
9) Vampiric bat moth
Needless to say, this trip was quite memorable. And I can't wait til next year!
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June 25th, 2009
12:21 am
Off for 4 days of camping with no 'puter or internet. Pray for no rain for us. Also, try not to break the internet while I'm gone. It would just confuse me when I come back. Let me know if I miss anything important! See ya all Sunday night!
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June 20th, 2009
03:46 pm - Indoor Camping
So, it rained. A lot. Thereby ruining our plans to go camping at the lake this weekend. Boo! But since we couldn't go camping at the lake, we decided to go camping in our living room instead. Which, as it turns out, is almost as fun as regular camping.
We made a tent out of a blanket and the kitchen chairs in the living room. Then we went hunting and fishing, while still in our tent (target practice and fishing on Wii Play). After that we did some offroading and road dirt bikes (used the Tiny Titan and Standard Bike on Mariokart for the Wii). We also roasted marshmallows and made s'mores over our campfire (an electric oven burner and used a grill fork to hold the mallows). There were some harrowing and dangerous experiences on this camping trip too. We had to endure gail force winds (the ceiling fan was on high) and a wild animal attacked our tent and knocked it over (my cat jumped on the blanket and made it collapse). I slept al fresco (outside the tent and on the couch cuz 4 adults cannot fit in a blanket tent) and was mauled by the same wild animal that attacked our tent earlier in the evening (my cat laid on my chest and demanded attention at 7:30 this morning).
It was so much fun, we decided to do it again tonight. :D And yes, I really am 28 years old. Why do you ask?
p.s. There might have been some alcohol and drinking games involved too.
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June 18th, 2009
11:22 pm
Woot! I've lost 7 pounds total so far on WW. I'm doing well so far, I just need to keep up my activity level. Here's to a great week 3!
I've actually been really busy lately. Mondays are sand volleyball, Wednesdays we have people over to play Rock Band, Thursdays are softball, Fridays are devoted to some type of activity, like more vball or some such. This weekend we are going camping! Just me, my bff, and 3 of our guy friends. Pray for no rain for us! And I'm super stoked b/c next weekend is my annual camping trip to Turkey Run! That will be 4 days camping with a group of about 15 women and NO boys. We hike, canoe, go tubing, cook over the fire... I can't wait!
Hope everyone else is having as much fun as I am!
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June 14th, 2009
10:51 pm - Oh, how the memory fades...
Had my 10 year high school reunion on Saturday. It was...kinda crappy, actually. First off, none of my friends that I hung out with all the time in high school were there. Second, it was held at a bar. A bar college students frequent. For 3 hours.only. So naturally, no one came. Further, if the montage video of high school years is anything to go by, I apparently didn't exist in high school. Either that, or speech team, softball team, tennis team, and being in just about every play done in the 4 years I was there aren't important enough to count.
Only 3 things made it worth going:
(1) I found a new favorite drink...Dragonberry Tsunami. YUM!
(2) Watching friend S feel up friend K several times. She kept commenting how she couldn't see around his guns, and just wanted to feel his pecs. So she did. In fairness, he looks like Tyson Beckfort only with bigger muscles. So I don't blame her.
(3) Unfortunately, not PC enough for posting here. Let's just say that large amounts of alcohol along with the fading memory of people known in high school leads to some hilarious comments.
So that was my weekend. Hope everyone else's was good too!
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June 11th, 2009
10:58 pm
I LOST 4.4 POUNDS THIS WEEK! YES!!!! Let's keep it goin...
Have my 10 year high school reunion this weekend. It's at a bar. Woo. Freakin. Hoo. Reunions would be cool if it was longer than 3 hours and held somewhere other than a bar that is so small not even a third of my class will fit there. *sigh*
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June 6th, 2009
11:02 pm
Started WW again this week. I'm going to the meeting at work, so it should be nice having all my coworkers for support. I forgot how great the food is when I'm on program. Everything tastes so good and fresh! Plus, I still got to have pizza for dinner tonight. I've started eating something other than fast food though, so I already feel better. So far, I'm eating cinnamon applesauce, light yogurt, AMAZING 5 lettuce salad with southwestern grilled chicken sweet grape tomates and light caesar dressing, tuna salad stuffed into mini sweet peppers... the list goes on. Not to mention grapes and strawberries. Yummy! Hopefully my first weigh in Wednesday goes well.
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May 20th, 2009
10:21 pm - WTF?
I am so angry and hurt I could scream. I'm actually shaking. Why is it that people feel the need to publicly air their problems with me to the general public instead of just saying something directly to me in private? Is that too much to ask? That people who are adults conduct themselves as adults? Apparently so. For the love of god, I didn't even know I had done something wrong.
I so desperately want to confront them about their pettiness, but I just know that would make the situation worse. How am I supposed to deal with them in the future without this clouding my perception of them? Do they just enjoy making people feel stupid or like they are an inch tall? What makes it worse is I really respected them until now. Not to mention I have to continue interacting with them.
I am not tech savvy. I can't just figure out how things work without instructions and assistance. Telling me how to do something once in a tangent to something else, doesn't mean I will remember exactly what to do next time. Especially when I only do it once in a blue moon anyways. I haven't even been trained yet dammit. I can only do what I've picked up on my own, which I'll admit isn't much when compared to everyone else.
All I want is some consideration for my feelings and my situation. Is that too much to ask? Please? Tomorrow is going to be so awkward. Wish me strength to handle it all.
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08:32 pm - American Idol Slash
Did anyone else notice that Kris Allen and Keith Urban were totally making googly eyes at each other during the entire song they sang together? Kris didn't take his eyes off Keith Urban during the song, and he gave him a come hither look when he sang the lyrics "oh my baby." And at the end of the song they totally got in each other's personal bubbles. They are such a cute couple. I thought it was totally hilarious that they were singing about wanting to kiss a girl when they so totally wanted to snog each other. LOL!
I think I may read too much slash when I see it on AI.
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May 16th, 2009
10:59 pm - Mafia Wars
So I finally broke down and got a Facebook. Why? Because my roommate started talking about Mafia Wars and how fun it was. And you need Facebook to play. So I did it. And now I am addicted to Mafia Wars. I need a bigger mafia though! People keep fighting me and taking all my money. The bastards.
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May 3rd, 2009
10:39 pm
So I had to buy a new laptop today. The old one started freezing and freaking out every time I leaned my wrist on the part of the laptop where your wrist is supposed to rest. After 4 such episodes this week alone, where each time it took at least 3 hard resets before both the keyboard and mouse would work at the same time, I decided enough was enough. There goes $650 I wasn't planning on spending. What's worse, my roommate and I are trying to plan a trip to Italy this fall, so expenses like that are felt acutely. I need money for my trip! *sigh*
I'm also kinda sad because Snarry-a-thon finished posting today. I liked having two new stories to read every single day, plus a pretty picture to look at. I want more Snarry!
I'm looking forward to this week, what with sand volleyball tomorrow night and softball on Thursday. I still love my new job and things are going pretty well. And yay for cinco de mayo and margaritas on Tuesday!
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April 19th, 2009
05:17 pm - Yet Another Update
I FINALLY got my transfer to a different job! Hooray! I'm doing customer service once again, which I am much happier with. I still have to do a little collecting, but now I am just telling people who want service again that they have to pay for the service they used before in order to get hooked back up. I don't have a problem with that because, frankly, it makes sense. Why give you new service when you didn't pay for the service you had before? Ya know? Also, I'm doing such a good job that I'm getting promoted to working corporate accounts, which is exciting. It also means more time off the phone, which is nice. You haven't encountered the depths of human stupidity until you've worked in a call center. People will say things over the phone that they wouldn't dream of saying to a person's face.
Also, I'll be playing sand volleyball and softball this summer! I'm really excited. A bunch of friends and I decided to do volleyball, and we got team shirts with our nicknames and numbers on the back and everything. We don't plan to win, we just want to have fun. Let's put it this way, the logo for our team is a guy getting hit in the head with a volleyball. I'm playing on the softball team from work. This will be interesting b/c it's a bunch of higher ups in the company and me. I'm the only one on the team mailing list that doesn't have a work email address. I'm just glad to be playing again!
My sister is just getting over pneumonia. She has missed a week and a half of school as a TA. No hospital treatment required, just medicine and lots of rest. I text her every night before I leave work to see what she wants for dinner, and then I go to the store/restaurant to pick it up and make it for her. It sucked that she was sick, but the bright side was she finally felt bad enough to go to the doctor. She has literally had a cough for 10 months (I really wish I was exagerating) and had gone to the doctor exactly twice. Hopefully now she'll get completely better, instead of better but with the hacking cough she's had for so long. Maybe she'll even listen to big sis sooner, since I told her she was going to get pneumonia if she didn't do something about the cough. She gave me permission to say "I told you so", but I told her that was one instance I really wish I hadn't been right.
I am also trying to comment more on IJ. I tend to lurk, even among my flist. You would never guess by the frequency of my comments, but I read each and every posting that comes up on my flist, be they about real life or fic (as long as it is Snarry). Main reason being I have nothing relevant or constructive to say. But I'm trying, even if I am very repetitive.
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February 16th, 2009
12:06 am
It was a good weekend. I did really well at work on Friday, which put me farther ahead of pace for my monthly goal. Thank goodness. The amount I need to collect this month went up $10,000 from last month, which really puts the pressure on. And I've already been told it will go up ANOTHER $10,000 next month. The quicker I hit goal this month, the sooner I can start pushing payments back to March so I can start getting ahead for that month. Cause if I don't hit my goal, I don't have a job.
Saturday was very nice as well. Did my taxes and I'm getting a huge refund. Yay! Then I went out to dinner with my Dad at this great Chinese restaurant downtown. These 2 little old ladies came in together and sat next to us. They gossiped non-stop, and when their food came they were each picking out the stuff they wanted from the dish, and when they got something the other really liked they just spooned it over from their plate to the other's. Then one lady had trouble scooping up something so they both went at it together with their spoons and carried it over to her plate together. It was the cutest thing, and made me think that that will be me and my best friend in 60 years.
Then my dad and I saw Jeff Dunham! It was a great show with a lot of classic material, but also a ton of new stuff. Guitar Guy was hilarious as an opener. Then Jeff did some material, followed by bits with Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Peanut, Jose Jalapeno on a Stick and Bubba Jay. The show was great and spending all evening with my dad was nice too.
Today I FINALLY beat Resident Evil 4 on professional! Go me! I love that game. And I saw Friday the 13th tonight, which was really good. I thought it was supposed to be a remake, but it was more like an alternate version of events which was nice. It made me jump a lot and all in all was more enjoyable than the other Friday the 13th movies I've seen. I also saw a preview for the new Transformers (yay!), but the most exciting preview was for a new Witch Mountain movie. I loved Escape to Witch Mountain and Return to Witch Mountain when I was little. Now they are making a new one called Race to Witch Mountain, punched up for 2009 and starring the girl from Bridge to Tarabithia and the boy from The Seeker. I am totally seeing that when it comes out in March.
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