Goodbye 2008

and good riddance!! This year was a struggle at best. the one job I had didnt work out because of the terrible job market, I moved twice and the family isn't close like it should be, or at least like I want it. While I still wish for things in life, I'm blessed to have what I have. I realize it could be much worse for me. In my alone time, i spend it reading and praying. I'm far from being a bible thumper by miles, but keeping faith has certainly helped me thru some very trying times over the last year and a half.

My family really isnt close like we used to be. It's just so divided now, and it bothers me more than I thought it would. There's so many ways we can just come together on Sunday like we used to, if for nothing else just to hang out. Half of the family likes to go fishing, we'd always go bowling. Somebody has to step in and try to bring unity back to the family, I want to step up to the plate. I certainly have my work cut out for me.

Lastly, I'm still working on self. Some things I promised in years past still havent started, or at least started but not progressed. I have more to gain than to lose, and instead of waiting for the traditional "resolution" I've starting on some things long before now. If i don't stay with it, my health could be in real jeopardy....

I'm looking forward to 2009 for alot of reasons. I'm setting some new goals and the game plans are ready. I'm only looking up now.

Welcome President Obama

I'm so ready for the change....

Hello

I'm ashamed that I havent been here in OVER A YEAR. I'll try to be more disciplined from now on.

Attorney: Wal-Mart Collected On Deaths

Attorney: Wal-Mart Collected On Deaths

For this, walmart should burn in hell for all eternity. In the store I worked in, three associates died in the last year. I know for a fact all three of them were on the walmart health insurance, and I'm willing to bet my bank account they "insured" them. I've been anti-Walmart for a few months (meaning i shop there maybe once a month), I dont think I could go in there now without having a nasty attitude in the future.

Blackberry woes

I found this story rather amusing. A few days ago, there was a rather large Blackberry outage (that either didnt affect me or I didn't notice). Well this happened at the worst time for an unlucky lad. Apparently it caused his girlfriend to break up with him cause he didnt get her emails. I guess it was too much for her to use her cell phone as a cell phone and just dial the damn number and call him. What a way to break up with someone. I think she may have been sleeping with his brother or something and that was a perfect out for her.....

story here

Bill O'Reilly loses it

check it out!

Goodnite Aunt Pam

Today my aunt was remembered. She had a long (almost lifelong) battle with lung disease. It was so severe she had a double lung transplant May 2006. She did well under the circumstances, but fell ill lately. They were doing some sort of treatment on her, and some complications came up and went into cardiac arrest. My aunt was beautiful, inside and out and I looked up to her for that. She had many friends and it was a joy to have a chance to meet them today. It was nice to see family I havent seen in a while, I just hate it was under these circumstances.

She will be missed.

Fios gets better

They are giving free speed upgrades to customers. I was on the 15/2 package, now I'm on the 20/5 package :-P

WOO HOO I won an Ipod!!

So like I guess I'm supposed to be all excited and stuff since I really dont win anything. I decided to goto a nice little shindig employee banquet tonite for my job. A chance for me to be real spiffy and dress up. They had a "roaring 20's" theme that I didnt take part in, but it seems like it would have been fun to do. I'll be with the theme next year, I promise. So I get to meet alot of people that work in other offices thruout the county, had some drinks, etc. My dood couldnt get out of work, so I decided to take mom with me. One thing about these yearly banquets is that they give out some really cool prizes. I've heard about vacation packages to Disney they've given out in years past. Thru the night they give out alot of other cool prizes, AMEX and Best Buy gift cards, etc. I kinda wished I could have got one of the $100 gift cards.

In any case, the night winds down, and my mother is hard up for a smoke and neither of us had one (oops, i thought i quit) but I was like "lets just wait to see who wins the ipod". Well, a good part of the crowd had left, and some of us die hards were still there doing cha-cha slide and stuff (keep in mind, at this point we have some drunks on the dance floor, there was some hilarity there, albiet still fun). He called three names of suckers that were already gone. Too bad. So sad. I almost injured myself running to claim my ipod ;-)

I will admit, I'm thinking "I can care less about an ipod, I dont really care for an mp3 player right now" and I was thinking how much I could get on ebay, but I actually like it and wanna hang on to it (unless someone makes a great offer). They even gave me an iTunes card to download some stuff, pretty cool.

Arent I glad I left wallyworld? :-P

Meet Pearl!

Ohhhh I love pearl!!! I should have got this phone from the start, but I decided to get me a Blackberry Pearl recently, and they come in white now! I think it's safe to say that I will always have a Blackberry phone forever. I havent had a camera phone in a while, and this one takes some nice pics. I dont use it that much, just to identify my callers and all with the picture callerID. I got a microSD memory card, and don't know what to put on it :-

Hello 2007

This year has gotten off to a quick start. It feels like February already. 10 minutes after the ball dropped my granny got rushed to the hospital. Doctors say "she's fine" so she goes home on Wednesday, sits at home for two hours, has another seizure. I'm sorry, but she's not f*cking fine! She's ok, but in her 94 years, we will probably have more episodes in the future. I hope I didnt offend the nursing staff with my colorful concerns.

Life continues to go well for me. I'm in some secondary training for my new job. Been there for a while, this is I guess the second stage of training. There's alot to learn, and I'm having great fun in the process. I started early on my "life upgrade" for the year. My Buick was dying, so I get another car. Back in a Honda. I love my Hondas. Things were fine, but then, I became suspicous. Mainly because of where I got the car from. People were making comments like "you got a car from THERE?". I started digging a little. As pure luck would have it, me and mom are out and about, before ending the day, we went to the grocery store. It seems I see these Buicks all over town, and I pull up next to one that looks just like mine. What a minute. I had a scratch like that here. I had a dent here. My same blinker light was busted. Hold on, wtf. I have a burn mark in the back seat EXACTLY like.....hey! that's my old steering wheel cover!!! (I can identify the boxcutter marks I put in it) I do a quick VIN check and write it down, alot with the number under the "for sale" sign. I still had some of my papers. Well I'll be damned. It WAS my car! So I have a friend call up the number, and the shady snake of a sales manager answers. Tells all kinds of lies about the car. The kicker is that he declared the miles 20k lower than what I had when I gave them the car. Something is fucked up here. My Honda could be fucked up too. While I was digging and coming up empty, I goto a good friend of mine who has been a mechanic for over 20 years and has his own mechanic business. He points out many obvious signs of this car being in an accident. Some of my training at work on shady titles confirms this.

To make a long story short, I gave that piece of shit back, and have a nicer newer sportier car as of three days ago. (I pulled all kinds of reports and asked questions for a week) I'm moving on up. It matches me. It's cute and drives fast. In the last few months, and especially lately, friends have commented on how relaxed I seem, how I "look good". Well duh, no stress? I"ve even worked on upgrading my wardrobe. After working at wallyworld for 3 years, all I ever wore was dickies or other casual pants and tshirts. I have three drawers of tshirts. Huge deep drawers. The salvation army or even the local ministry can use them more than me now. Life has treated me well lately. I'm Blessed and I cant complain.

Oh BTW, dont eat at Burger King. My stomach and my exit-only back door has worked overtime in the past two days, and probably grossed out my cats in the process. I didnt have enough Pine Sol to keep my bathroom smelling fresh enough...

Goodbye 2006

With only 6 hours left in the year, I'll take a quick moment to reflect if I may. I havent posted in a while cause I've been busy changing some things in my life. After three long years, I finally left wallyworld for good. I took some time off to try a new job, and it's turned into something much more permanent, with good pay and great benefits. I just couldnt see myself going back. Me and the squiggly have broke up. Surprisingly enough, I havent shopped in there as much as I thought I would. I go there from time to time to see some of my friends and buy a couple of things, but not the 2~4 times a week like I normally would. I actually have spending money AFTER paying all the bills. Life is good. With the new job I still deal with the public, but these customers are totally different from wallyworld customers. I can handle them.

The year itself wasnt too bad. I saw some success in some of the things I was after, some things I still seek success that I've been after for many years. Instead of doing the traditional "resolution" I said the hell with waiting and started exercising. I'm not killing myself, but rather starting slow. My outlook on it is different from the past, so I think I may make it this time.

One thing I've struggled with for many many years is trust in people. I've been away from my exhusband for over 10 years, but the relationship was damaging, and I open up to people, but not at a deep level. That's something I want to change in 2007.

In the year 2006 I found my inner self changing. Things I had interests in have faded, I spend less and less time in front of my computer "piddling", and use it for basic day to day stuff. I've found new interests in things as well. Life is perceived a little different. Some of it I'm still trying to figure out. I think after realizing I'm getting older (and better) things mean something different to me now. And I like it. When I enjoy the outdoors, I enjoy it in a different light. My inner self feels good. The funny thing about that, a friend suggested I feel good cause I have much less stress that wallyworld brought. He's probably right.

While I'm thankful to bring in another year, I cant and wont forget what I went thru to get here. I've had better times, and Lord knows I've had worse times, but now as I take it day to day, I enjoy it like it's the best day of my life. Tonite I plan on getting with a few friends and enjoy some fireworks someplace in town. Just finished my hair, my clothes are ready, it's time to welcome 2007 with open arms!

RIP to a former colleague at wallyworld. God took her home on xmas day this year. She will be missed by many.

Hi!

Hello everybody! That is all. Just busy and enjoying life. I'll blog it later :-)

My foot again

I need to trade my feet in for new models. A routine visit to Groucho Marx, and I had to have a toenail removed again. For this, I'd like to thank Buttercup. She was getting into something as usual, and in my attempt to get at her, I stubbed my toe really hard on the corner of the couch. It hurt for a second, I shook it off and went along. A little later I noticed a big red spot on my bedroom shoe. I apparently split the nail all the way to the cuticle. By the time I got to see the foot doc (Groucho) it was infected. Before I could protest, he already had the needle ready. So now i'm limping around for a few weeks. The good thing is I dont have to limp around at wallyworld, i do it someplace else!!

Earthquake felt in Florida???????

Gulf of Mexico earthquake felt in Southeast US - Yahoo! News

I must admit I am perplexed at this. Reading all the stories and I realize I may have in fact felt it a little. I was cleaning up getting ready for a day of football (which ended up ugly). It's important to note that there is a train track directly behind my house and I hear/feel the rumble thru here sometimes a few times a day. I remember hearing a rumble, feeling the rumble as I normally do. Sometimes it rumbles real good if its a train full of freight. But now thinking back, I don't remember hearing the horn from the train. Usually the rumble from the train lasts many minutes. This was only about 10 seconds. While actively posting in my football threads, someone posted about a quake in the gulf and I was thinking "wtf this got to do with football, put down yer pipe dude.."

Natural phenomenon interests me to a certain degree, but quakes always scared me. Now I hope I wont have the opportunity to live thru one....

Good day

Today must be my lucky day. I got three separate phone calls today about jobs, one of them was actually an offer, which I readily accepted. Wallyworld is fun, but this grass is greener. Now to get this motormouth off the damn phone >:-|

Hurricane Ernesto

I can't say i'm liking this too much. Although maps have it coming just to the east of me (maybe Polk county), we still will feel this one pretty good. I dont have high hopes that it will take a quick turn like Charlie did a couple of years ago and spare us. If people are smart, wallyworld should be a circus right now. I think i'll be a smart one and go there RIGHT NOW. I need a flashlight....

apartments and condos

Lately I've noticed that apartment complexes are converting over to condos, on top of new condos being built. I'm not talking just a few sites. I'm talking EVERYWHERE. And even stranger, alot of them are around the USF campus. College kids arent really thinking of buying condos. A friend of mine stayed in an apartment that is probably 500 square feet. They were like "mini projects" to me. They kicked everyone out, and said basically "if you wanna move back in, i'll sell it to you for $90k. wtf?!?? There's an open lot across from the store I work at. Right in the middle of the hood. Crackheads. Homeless people. Constant police presence. At first the sign said "starting from the $140's". Then, just last week, it was changed "from the $200's". These condos must open the door for you when you drive up or something.

The other problem I have is this: when these "mini project" occupants are sent elsewhere, where are they gonna go? everywhere you go its a condo. Everyone cant afford to buy a condo or rent a house. I dunno, I just cant see "buying an apartment". some of the luxury apartments gone condo are nice, but I emphasize some. Next thing you know duplexes are going to turn townhouse.....

work work work sleep work work.....

I dont know if I'm a little insane to take on the office by myself. I guess the insanity goes away when I look at my paycheck :) 44 hours one week, 56 hours the next, holiday pay, premium Sunday pay, it's beautiful. I dont have to worry about but one lazy person working with me, and that will soon be a memory. I guess it feels good to have a very important role in the company, I guess I didnt expect me to be so tired at the end of the day.

I'm still alive and kicking tho ;)

More FIOS

For those of you that hate me for my FIOS internet, I'm getting FIOS TV today ;-)

that is all ;-)