Mortgaging My Soul, Once Again

So, yea, it's been a few days since I've blogged.  Bad me.  It sounds like I need to put that on my "New Years Resolutions" list...it just keeps on getting longer as the days go by :(  So much to improve, so lil' time *grins*.

Christmas went well this year.  Some of my presents were like "wtf", but other then that, it was pretty decent.  No family drama to speak of *wooohoo*.

I do have to say that I am planning on a beating party for one of our clients here at work.  Below is the vent that I did on an online group that I'm on, just because I'm just too damned irritated to type it all again.

So, yea, I'm pretty pissed :p.  But, sooner or later I'll get over it....or it'll fester until I start screaming at him like I have mental problems.  Either way, it'll be resolved *grins*

So, I'm at the agency alone today.  I'm so freaking BOOOORRRREEEDD!!!  We've had, literally, 8 calls today, and it's almost 3.  And two people came in to pay their premiums.  That's about it....*cries*.  If I didn't have the Internet to amuse me....I don't know what I would do!

So now I'm blogging to widdle away the time...I already have the banking cocked, locked, and ready to rock...

I got Prince of Persia:  Two Thrones and Doom 3 for Christmas from Mike.  Those were in my "stocking" as "stocking stuffers".  Holy freaking crap!  But, the Prince of Persia game totally kicks ass all over the place.  The Doom 3 game blows.  I mean, the graphics are pretty cool.  I just don't like games where you have to aim in the air wildly and shoot people.  Plus the game is so freaking dark, I can hardly see anything that's infront of my face anyways!!!  I mean, the default gun has this lil' light on it.  And, when I say lil', I'm talking pen light here.  And, that's supposed to help you look around in almost complete darkness.

Thanks, huge help.

Yes, Yes I did.  Mike got home around 3ish last night.  And then this morning he had to go to a meeting, so I didn't see him until late this afternoon.  And, he complained that he was tired and didn't wanna have sex...somehow I convinced him otherwise *muses*.  It was damned good.  Speaking of which, I was very good this week, didn't get myself into trouble at all :)

I got Narelle's present shipped on Wednesday.  Mike at the post office said that it should be 10 business days before Narelle gets the present.  Not too bad for being shipped half way around the world, literally!

Tonight we're going to be going out to supper with Melissa as her Christmas present to Mike.  I'm sure that he'll enjoy it.  He picked Arnie's in Decatur, IN, which is a 50's diner about 30 minutes from us.  He's always wanted to eat there, the only time that we were there was several months ago when mom, dad, Travis, and Jess and the two of us went to Fort Wayne and stopped there for their shakes.  Mine wasn't very good, but I think that I picked an icky flavor (i have no idea what it was...I think this time around I'll pick peanut butter *drools*  Hard to screw that up).  Tonight also Melissa and I will be exchanging our christmas presents to eachother.  I picked mine out *ahem* but she doesn't know yet that I got her the new Ratchet and Clank PS2 game.  She should be very excited about it, she freaking *LOVES* those video games :)

Nothing really exiciting happened this week.  I scheduled Zoie's nail trimming and bath for next Thursday right before my hair cut at 12:00.  Figured I could just kill two birds with one stone.  I also got a massage yesterday as well...was to *die* for.  Vicki does such a lovely job on my back.  I have to remember to go there more often, I do love being pampered.

I've also been looking at wedding invitations online and have found these really cute ones from India and also this place in Indiana that makes the wedding invitations out of recycled paper.  Both are really cute.  I'll have to look at the place in Indiana and see if it's in driving distance and maybe head over there on a Saturday or during the week sometime when I'm supposed to be working and see what that's all about.

For some reason I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately.  Let me rephrase that.  I've "felt" that I haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately.  I've actually been sleeping pretty good, but for some reason I'm tiring out a lote earlier then what I normally do.  Maybe it's me growing up...I just think it's full of shit :p.  I shouldn't be tired by 10pm :(

Got jewed over at work today, nothing really new about that.

Went to the library this morning and worked on one of the computers that I help service.  She was concerned about the speed of the computer.  Well, it's more then 5 years old sweety :)  Maybe you should look into replacing it.  hehe.  Not much spyware and the such on it.  I just think that it needs to be replaced.  *shrugs*.  But, whatever they wanna do.  She forgot to download the latest version of deep freeze 5.7 for me to upgrade the computers.  Not a big deal, can come in later and upgrade the computers, will only take 30 minutes tops.  The bill won't be too big *grins*.

I tried shipping Narelle's christmas present today at the post office and they didn't have a box big enough.  hrrmm.  So, I have to make the attempt tomorrow by unwrapping my fabulous gift and just tossing it into a shipping box so that I can, at the very least, get this bad boy shipped *before* Christmas.  That would really be nice :p.

Mike is leaving tomorrow early morning and won't get back until Friday around 4amish.  So, I'm gonna be left to my own devices yet again.  Maybe this week I can get myself into some well deserved trouble :)  We shall see....

Just a quick update...

I have a sore throat today, have had it for the past few days.  Last night it got pretty bad, I went to bed at 10am and woke up around 9 this morning.  Felt better after eating some chicken noodle soup (Mrs Grass soup with the Golden Egg...the best stuff in the entire world!!)

Last night we went out with Chad and Melissa and their two kids to go "Christmas Shopping."  They wanted to go to Value City.  I thought to myself "why in the hell you go to Value City, that place is nasty!".  So, we went...spent an hour in there...and they got a picture frame.  *sighs*.  So, then we went out to eat.  Since their budget is a lot more limited then Mike and I's, I let them pick.  They wanted to go to Red Lobster.  I just blinked and was like "ok"  I mean...they don't have a lot of money, and they were trying not to spend a lot on Christmas, but you shell out around 60+ dollars for a meal.  I was like "wtf", but who am I, right?  But, all and all, we had a really good time.  The crab legs were to die for *yum*.   However, we spent 2 hours there *sighs*.  It took freaking forever to get our food and what not.  But, it was still a good time.  I just felt utterly exhausted afterwords, I think mostly because of me being sick and also had 1.5 top shelf margaritias.  Needless to say, Mike drove home *grins*.  And, as soon as we got home, Mike took Zoie outside and I just chucked off my clothes and fell into bed and fell directly asleep.  'Twas kick ass *grins*.

So, today we haven't done that much.  Watched two movies that Mike rented yesterday and that's been pretty much it.

Yea, my life isn't really that exciting.

Yes, everyone has suspected it....but, it's official now.  I'm awaiting my Certificate of Retardation...should be here any day now.

I got to work yesterday, was taking off my coat, and I realized that I forgot to put a shirt on.  I mean, I had a white undershirt on...but no actual shirt.  I felt like a complete moron.  So, my brother gave me his shirt off of his back (quite literally) and went home to get a shirt since he lives closer.

Some days...I just don't know about myself.

Jess still hasn't started to spot bleed or anything like that....so hopefully she's pregnant this month around!

Let's see...any other interesting gossip.  Mike is coming home today, he should get back around 7 or 8 this evening.  I'll try to con him into grabbing supper in Van Wert before coming home.  Chinese or Mexican sounds lovely.

Dad suggested a neat idea to increase our production.  We should offer free 10 dollar gas cards to anyone that will let us quote them.  I thought it sounded like a killer idea...he has an agent in Cincy that started doing it and is writting a crap load of new business.  I mean, hey, I'd call someone for a no-obligation quote for a 10 dollar gas card :p.  Sure, it'll buy me less then 5 gallons of gas, but it's something!  So, dad thinks of good things every once in awhile :)

Damn...nothing else going on...

Ohhh...My brother Travis and a few guys are going to be buying this building and fixing up the upstairs into basically a huge studio apartment...it'll be 1,000 - 1,500 sq feet.  So I'm gonna talk to Mike and see if we would possibly look into renting from them and selling our house (our trial and error purchase :)  ).  So, I'll see what he has to say about the idea.  We'll have to fix up a few things though, get new windows, electrical box done, replace the fron tdoor, and put in new carpet in the living room since Zoie ripped a small hole in it (and currently covered by an area rug *ahem*.).  Also I'd like to completly redo the bathroom as well.  Would like to repaint the walls and also replace the flooring that we have on there.   We shall see....

Just an update on the MSN Toolbar and the Phishing add-in for the toolbar.

The Phishing portion ofthe software seriously needs work.  When you have one tab open, it works fine.  When you have two tabs open, it works fine.  If you have two tabs open *and* going to two different web pages at once, the Phishing add-in freaks out and locks out IE.

So, since I have wicked multi-tabbing ways, I had to uninstall the add-in.  Which doesn't really bother me 'cause I'm not stupid and I don't get tricked to giving out my personal info.  I'm just not retarded enough for it I guess.

Today is the day of my massage.  Yea!  I'm so excited.  Zoie woke me up at 7am and I didn't wanna go back to sleep 'cause I was so excited about it.  Kinda sad really...but, whatever gets me outa bed in the morning :)

Nothing super wonderful has happened yet today, it's been pretty boring here at work.  Just same ol' stuff, different day.

Mike was saying today that they got about 5 inches of snow in Wisconsin and expecting 10 inches by tomorrow morning :p.  That certainly does blow...

Zoie woke me up at 5am this morning to go outside.  So, after taking her outside, I put her cage and her out in the living room so that I could sleep in.  I got to sleep in until around 9, was nice :).

I had this one insured email me yesterday, saying how she was so glad that her son talked her into switching to us, that our service is so wonderful.  I thought that was kick ass.  I pay a lot of attention to her and her son...not really sure why.  I think it's because they're one of the few insureds that exclusively emails us for information, stuff like that.  So whenever I need to communicate with them, or just to let them know a lil' something, I just fire them off a quick email.  I thought that the email really kicked ass though.  Should have framed it :)

Our board here at work is full of Christmas cards.  Not sure if I can fit one more on there!

I also downloaded MSN search bar today because I use Life Favorites all the time to get access to some of the blogs that I view at home.  And, it's so freaking kick ass...it gives explorer the ability to do tabbed browsing (which i LOVE!!), phishing filter, form filling for addresses and credit card info, direct access to my hotmail, etc etc.  It's just a fabulous piece of technology...and everyone that knows me knows that I LOVE technology!

Ugh...

My family disgusts me sometimes.  Go to a family event, they trash talk people that aren't there, then go to another family event and people trash talk the people that were trashing them in the first place.  Won't really go into details here, because it's all a jumbled mess and it doesn't really matter.  It just fucking makes me sick.  I mean, seriously...you people are brothers and sisters, my aunts and uncles, and you fucking people are acting like children.  Seriously, I couldn't imagine having a horriable relationship with my brother and sister-in-law.  And, to think otherwise...I couldn't really imagine it.  *sighs*.  I think that the position I'm going to take for now on when I hear that shit is to just tell the people "I don't wanna hear it, you all are children." and shut up about the whole thing and not let them speak like that in front of me.  I just WILL NOT tolerate it anymore, i find it revolting.  No more drama for me.  NONE.

So anyways, now that that's done, this past weekend was kinda interesting.  Mike and I were looking at bedrooms suites this saturday to kind of get a feel for what we would want.  I found this kick ass bed and dresser set for a lil' over 500 and it was super cute.  However they want to rake you over the coals for mattresses...most are well over 1,000.  Damn :p.  You would think that wood/metal bed would be more expensive then some fabric sown together, but what do I know.

So, we also visited Brenda (our neighbor) in the hospital again.  She went back in the hospital earlier this week.  She was having severe pains and was taking Percecet like no body's business.  She went through 100 in one week.  The dr freaked out, I guess that taking too many can damage your liver, however there isn't any damage that they can tell.  But, she has a lot of pain throughout her body, they're giving her morphine shots every few hours.  I guess there's more blood clots in her body...there's one that's pretty big...I think it's around her stomach region...not really sure, she just pointed to it.  But, she said that it's in an inoperable place so they're trying to figure out another way to get it out.  *sighs*.  I really hope that she pulls through, Mike will be devestated.  I mean, she's like his best friend, really his only "friend" since he moved up here 4 years ago.  It just seems that she's almost given up on the whole thing, she's been fighting it for so long and in so much pain...only so much that someone can bare I guess.  Tammy, her girlfriend, is busy with Brenda's parents, liquiding Brenda's assets so that she can go on Social Security to help pay the medical bills and what not.  So, hopefully they'll be able to square that stuff away as soon as possible...damn I hope everything is all right :(

Saturday night I went over to a party about an hour away from here.  Was not a smart move, to say the least.  It's normally an hour drive, and 3/4 of the way there the roads got really shitty with all of the snow.  So, it took me about 2 hours to get there.  So, I stayed there for about 2 hours, had some fun with the guys, and then went back home.  It took me three fucking hours to get home.  I was so psychologically exhausted from the screaming and worrying all of that time.  There was one point where I almost passed out on the road.  There was this semi going really fast behind me 'cause he's a moron.  And, he actually managed to stop before hitting me.  He got so close, I started to get dizzy and I kinda felt myself slipping under...I was thinking to myself "wow, this is what it feels like to pass out."  But, I managed to pull myself together and so did the driver of the semi :p .  But, he then passed me...fucking moron.  Needless to say, I did a wee dance when I got home.  Then went straight to bed, I was so damned tired :p.  I told Mike I would be home around 9:30, and didn't end up getting home until around 1:30.  Communists, all of them.

A lot of claims have been turning up the past few days in regards to the weather.  It amazes me that these people thought that it was ok to drive 50 on these really bad roads *sighs*.  Stupid, stupid people I tell you.  Well, that and a few deer claims, but not much you can do about those, shit happens.

But, Mike is gone again this week for training for his new job.  I went over to Melissa Moeller's house to drop off a check and ended up staying for supper since no one was at home to love me aka feed me.  So, we had this kick ass chicken dinner with fried potatos and corn.  And, for desert....*drools*  we had chocolate cake with brown sugar icing.  I told them that I wasn't sure about staying for supper 'cause I still have to take Zoie outside and what not and feed her.  Then they told me about the desert and, well, I cared for Zoie no longer *ahem*.  It's so wrong that I can be bought out so easily *chuckles*.

Mike spoke with the guy from Chase again today in regards to getting my name added to the deed.  Mike was pretty nasty with the guy since it was the 4th time talking with them.  So, Mike had to turn around and do something *different* to get my name added.  *sighs*.  Then Mike was going off to me that the guy works from the Phillipines and said that was freaking stupid.  So I had to enlighten him and tell him that a lot of jobs are doing that (ie tech support) because it's so much cheaper.  Silly boy.  So, I told Mike to call them tomorrow to see if everything is straightened out so that we don't have to wait a week to hear from Chase that I plan on buying Mike out of his loan.  Fucking retards, adding a name to a deed isn't really that hard :p.  Chase Home Mortgage, you people are complete fuck ups and you should be shot.  Period.

So, Mike is supposed to be coming home tonight.  Hopefully he doesn't have a hard time with the roads.  It snowed quite a bit last night.  I was worried about getting outa the driveway.  But when I went outside to let Zoie out, the driveway was plowed.  Sweet Billy.  But it still took me a bit to get to work *ahem*.  I don't think I got there until 10:45 *ahem*.  But it's all good.

And, Melissa is getting her car tomorrow!  She got a call this morning from the dealership saying that the car is there from the factory, so she'll be able to pick up on this Saturday.  So she got all of the loan approved (going through People's), I emailed the inforance application over to her today at work so she can look it over and all of that.  So I'm gonna meet her tonight to get everything signed and what not so that we can get the ball rolling on that.  I asked Bob the Banker if he wanted a binder for the auto insurance and he said that it wasn't necessary because they self-insure, so even when they get the statements stating that the insured has insurance, blah blah, they just generally throw them away.  I thought that was kinda odd, but ok :)

It was funny today with all of the snow.  Zoie was trying to go pee and she was running through snow drifts almost as tall as her.  I could just see her lil' head sticking up through a snow drift as she was peeing.  I was amused.... *grins*

I got an email inviting me to the website where Melissa's friends had their wedding photos posted.  I'll have to see if i can download them and post a few on this blog to see how nice of a wedding it was.  And the chocolate fondu fountain *drools*

Hottness...

So, I was talking with mom last night after supper and she made a comment about getting a new coat and what I thought about leather coats and if she would look good in them.  Sweet.  So, I told mom that she would look really good in a leather coat and that her, Jess, and I will go shopping after Christmas and get a leather coat with her.  That and also pick up a few outfits for her 'cause, well, she needs them.

It's starting to snow pretty bad here this afternoon.  Just hopefully the roads don't get too shitty, don't wawnt a bunch of big accidents :p.  Our insurance companies would just love that, hehe.

Mike should be coming home tomorrow, happy about that.  A few days was nice to be alone, but now I'm starting to get...deprived?  I dunno, it'll just be nice to have him back home, even if it is for a few days.

I bought Narelle's presents yesterday, I was very excited with them, I hope that she really likes them.  It's kind of an impractical gift, but I think that she'll get a lot of joy from them *grins*.

An insured just came in and said that the roads were getting pretty bad.  Good thing I only have about 20 minutes before I can go home!

Well, I need to get the banking finished up and get ready to shut down the place....