Baby Finances

I could really use a haircut, but it's hard to find someone you like to cut your hair. It took me like 2.5-3 years to find someone I really liked in Boston, I don't want to go through that whole process again, thus I've just been letting my hair grow. It's now at that weird length where it will look really cute if it's a little longer, or if it was a little shorter. So I'm debating if I should try to grow it longer or just cut it. I guess the only reason why I haven't cut it is because I'm lazy and don't want to find a new person. *Sigh* my life is so difficult. What really sucks are the non payday weeks. They really tend to drag and there's not much to look forward to in the week. It's hard too at the end of the week not having anything to show for it. Not like the payday weeks are much better, all I have then is a little piece of paper that doesn't even stand for money. This week has really flown by, which is always nice. I don...

So at 4pm today I was semi-chatting with one of our semi-new employees. And the lady I've been really annoyed with at work, not because she's a bad person or anything, but because she's a little slow on the up-take, comes over to us and says "Goodbye." So I was like oh she's going home for the day "Goodbye X, I'll see you tomorrow." She looks me in the eye and is like "no, goodbye." uh-oh. Not really having it all sink in, I'm like, umm okay "Bye." So I kinda eye the semi-new employee like "ummmm I don't get it." A few minutes later "goodbye" lady's boss asks me and another empolyee to go into his office. Uh-ohhhh am I getting canned too? He promptly sits us down and tells us that there were some issues that made him "not trust her anymore." Uhhh okay. And that since she wasn't a full-time employee yet (she was a temp to begin with) he wasn't planning on offering her full...

This lady at work really annoys me. I don't know if it's because she just doesn't catch on that fast, or that she tries to get me to do everything for her. She doesn't like it when I try to make her do her job. But it really annoys me when she's trying to do it because she just whines at me. That just makes me think "um, hell's no I'm not doing anything of yours" it doesn't make me want to do her job or help her out. What annoys me even more is her poor filing of old emails -- she can never find anything, and I am forever re-replying to her emails -- of course I just forward the email I sent her a few days ago. Not because it is easier, but because it prooves that I already sent her the item. I've suggested multiple times that she "invest" in putting google desktop on her computer (quite handy I might add, I definately recommend it for all of those who get a ton of emails everyday) and by invest I mean take the 5 minutes to...

There's a million toys at Toys-R-Us that I can play with! I got to play with toys at work today. They were cool toys. Very expensive. I wish work involved playing with more toys more often. Maybe someday I'll get to make expensive toys too. Then I can try to explode them. Exploding things are cool, like Fireworks. Though it's not that much fun to play with Macromedia FireWorks. Though it is useful. I use it at work too. Yeah! I really need a hair cut.

My tummy (yes I know, when I'm sick I revert to speaking like a three-year old, but I'm sick, so leave me alone) hurts a lot lately. For no apparent reason. It doesn't matter what I've eaten, what time of day it is, or how stressed out I am. It just hurts. All the time. If it keeps hurting I'll have to go to the doctor and explain to him that the reason I am seeing him is because my tummy hurts. That's hard to face up to when you're no longer three and mom isn't giving you 7-up because you're sick. (BTW 7-up is way better than Sprite) Work has been boring lately, I've been attempting to screw around as much as possible until my supervisors figure me out. I'm pretty good at hiding my screwing around. I still need a little more practice -- or better hearing. You know, six of one half a dozen of the other. Monday's are crappy days in general though. For starters you actually have to get out of bed in the morning. This by definitio...

Today was kinda crappy and I wasted most of the day. I attempted to go and get my car inspected, but that prooved more difficult that anticipated. Apparently you either have to drop your car off, or make a really early morning appointment. Oh, you can drop your car off on Monday... yeah and then I'm supposed to get to work how? I think I'll try to make an appointment this week at lunch or after work or something. *Sigh* Getting the car drivable is way too much effort. After the failed attempt at getting the car inspected I went to the library and got a library card and check out some books. Then I went to DSW -- which was fun. I got a really cute pair of work shoes. I need to get some cute work shoes that cover my toes -- b/c it's gogn to be fall/winter soon and I have no shoes I can really wear to work. My plight is so horrible, I have to shop for shoes! I'm making scones again. I really liked them last time -- but they were a little too thick -- so I "r...

Could I be CEO Material? My boss told me today that I should think about becoming a CEO someday. Ummm.... I'm 22... I just want a house. Maybe someday if the right opportunity came along I would think about it, but that's a long way aways. And the right opportunity hasn't come along yet. Though I did get a call at work the other day from a recruiter.... Um Mr. Recruiter Man.... I don't want to change jobs yet. I just started this one. I don't want to move again either. How about we wait until I have at least a year under my belt before even thinking of moving on? I don't think I would fare very well in a huge company, I'd be bored, wouldn't understand why I'm doing anything, and just be generally frusterated and bored with the buracracy. I really do hope that they keep my job as what I'm doing now. That would be nice, I like how it's been working the past few days. Everything seems like it's starting to fall into place, and I...

I guess I'm too good at my "temporary" job. Because it seems that I may be a more premanant fixture in this position. As my boss told me, he was looking for someone who could "do at least as good a job as Colleen." Great... I guess I didn't screw around enough, or mess up enough, b/c now I'm stuck with this job -- which I think is actually more interesting than what I was supposed to be doing. But-- I'm only get paid for the job I was hired for, not the job I'm actually doing now. So if it is confirmed that I am doing this on a more permanant basis I think we're going to have a little discussion about my wages. hehehe. I like money. I really like what I'm doing, both because I get to do some technical stuff, but it's not so difficult, or so boring that I'm completely uninterested. Some of it is definately just blah blah blah, this is so boring stuff, but it has it's moments too. And I get to interface with a lot of di...

If anyone has ever tried to switch their licence/insurance/plates from any other state to NY you know how much of a pain in the ass it it. It's also mad expensive with all the additional "fees" they add on. $10 to apply for a licence, another $42 to get the thing. Then $10 to apply for NY plates, $15 for the actual plates, another $42 to register it, $0q97804875 to transfer the title, $21 to inspect it. By the selves the little fees aren't that much, but with their powers combined (EARTH, WIND, FIRE, WATER ..... HEART ----- Captain Planet he's our hero, gonna take polution down to zero!) it comes to something around $200. That's a lot of money, espeically on top of having to get insurance for both the car and renter's insurance -- at least I finished all of that today. Now I'm going to have to wait until at least Thursday (when I get my next paycheck) so that I can afford to register everything in NY. I knew I shouldn't have spent so much at...

In honor of National Talk like a Pirate Day, the rest of this directive will be in the tone (or attempting at the tone) of a pirate. This is the one sided conversation of my little brother to me in honor of this auspcious day. (AKA I left my IM on at home and now have only his half of the conversation.) Brother: yar, ya scurvey scoundrel, get ye to the poop deck! Brother: ye sent me the card Brother: I forgot Brother: hopefully people won't act weirder than usually at work when I talk pirate Brother: yes Brother: that is what we are suppose to do Brother: I will at work Brother: it will be awesome Brother: yargh, me pirates skills are low Brother: but most importantly, you need to be drunk Brother: yes they can Brother: the grog flows freely Brother: pillage while drunk Brother: yar Brother: I smell mutiny Brother: I've got me black mark Brother: the scoundral 'round here disrespect pirates Definately sounds like a drunk pirate ready to pillage and plunder for his lost go...

Note to self read recipe directions before starting to cook. Realizing that the recipe includes white wine (one of your favorites), then not realizing it wants you to let the stew simmer for over an hour -- meaning drinking the rest of the bottle of wine and not eating. mmm Got to love NY wine country!

How is it possible for just me, not a family of four, spend almost $100 at the grocery store. It seems like such a ridiculous amount. I'm still in the building up my little stockpile in case of nuclear disastor phase I guess. It just seems like a lot of stuff. Though the little things tend to be really expensive, like spices, vanilla, and all the yummy baking supplies. Last week I spent like $20, and now it was close to $100. Granted it probably all evens out in the end. But I didn't really buy that many expensive items (if you dont' count all the swiffer stuff I bought this week b/c i needed refills on everything.) Maybe it was the $15 worth of swiffer stuff, or maybe the $20 in baking stuff that I won't use very often (like shortning, vanilla extract, maple flavoring, measuring spoons, and maple syrup -- I'm making maple peacon scones that's why all the maple stuff). I guess it was only like $65 w/o all the baking and cleaning supplies. *Sigh, I wish...

I have a little tale, a tale of me and Papa John. So I'll start, Once upon a time, in a land far far away (from you), there was a girl who was longing for a yummy slice of pizza. With some forethought she found the pizza website, were there were a variety of options. She was not a very smart girl. Thinking that she might expidite the process, she decides that calling to order the pizza might be faster and more accurate (as in delivery time.) As I said, this girl was very very stupid. The phone rings and the girl hears "Hello, how can I help you" "I'd like a Chicken Club" "Oh you mean a Chicken Bacon Ranch" girl:"No, a Chicken Club, it has chicken, bacon, onions and tomato." "You mean a Chicken Bacon Ranch." girl:"Um, no. I mean a Chicken Club, it's on your website it just has chicken, bacon, onions and tomatos." pizzaplace:"I don't get it, we dont' have that." girl:" Okay, fine then. ...

I really have nothing to do with my life. I need a purpose of some sort other than work. School was so all consuming, and all inclusive. Work is not. Well, it is pretty much all consuming while you are there, but it's not your whole day. I really need something else to keep me occupied, espeically on the weekends. I've been doing a lot of shopping to keep me occupied, but really after a while it's not that much fun. Especially when all i really want is a house, and stuff to put in the house. But I don't really want stuff to put in my appartment that I have to move. I wish I could just afford a house now, but that would mean that I'd have to pay off all of my credit card bill. Which is slowly decreasing btw. Yeah for getting out of debt. Talking to one of the ladies at work, and she told me that she paid for her whole way through school, and it was so great that she was out of debt. All I could think about was how much she must have missed out on because ...

I guess I am really starting to struggle with what everyone else who just graduated and got a job is. What is really my purpose in life? I know work is not all of life, but what really is worth more? I think to an extent people who are still in school are widely shielded from this. In college they tell you to pick a major, and you pick one. Vicarious as my choice may have been it seemed sound, and like a clear career path at the time. Ignorance was bliss. Only upon the imanant(sic?) graduation day did the truth start to surface on the reflecting pool of life. It's just not as simple as I thought it was. There are hundreds of thousands of places to work, hundreds of positions within my field that I could chose from, or I could deviate from my field (which I did slightly -- well let's be realistic, A LOT). Then once you start working there are a lot of choices about how much personal responsibility you chose to take on, how you choose to conduct your self, how you deal with chall...

I've finally be granted a reprieve this week at work, no longer is everything building up on me, but I can actually do things in a timely manner and catch up on things that have been on my plate for more than a week. It's a nice feeling. Though I've found many people are dumb. They call me on like a Wednesday to ask about our products, then don't order them until the following Tuesday -- then don't understand why we can't just send their order out the door that day. Ummm if you wanted them faster why didn't you order them sooner? It seems like so many of my peers really do not like their jobs, they are either not appriciated, not busy, or just plain bored with what they are doing. I've found little of that in my position. Which makes me very thankful for both the company and the company culture that is nurtured here. I think though, as the company grows larger there will be more growing pains and less of the nurturing culture, with some added bura...

Why is it absolutely impossible for me to make a decision without knowing the full extent of my options? If I know that there are more options out there, even if I know for sure that they are inferior options, I still must fully examine them all, I can't leave any options out. This is actually very disibilitation. I can't make any decision without wasting all the time examining all the crappy choices. It really makes me lose large amounts of time, that I could be doing something a lot more useful. I'm wasting my life looking at choices I don't want. I really hate doing daily/weekly chores like laundry and cleaning. It's really annoying, and it's not really a waste of time, but rather a never ending chore that just wastes time. I hate doing anything that doesn't really accomplish anything, or that will have to be undone during some indeterminate amount of time. For example: I hate taking the time to put things in storage, since it's just going to ...

I think I really only get to talk to the dumb customers at work. It's really frusterating to talk to the middle man. If you want to talk to an engineer then talk to me. If you want to talk to customer service talk to our customer service rep. Why do I keep having to do CSR stuff? It's dumb and a monkey could do it. (Think the monkey with the little cymbols clapping its hands together.) GRRR WASTE OF MY TIME. I really could use a punching bag to practice on in the lunch room. I talked to my landlord again today about the dog situation to see if he had been able to talk to the realtor. He started out as kinda a dick, but then when I explained that I didn't blame him and I understood his position, but wanted to get all of my information straight before talking to the realtor he turned really nice and kinda appologized for being a dick. That was nice of him. I really do believe the relator was neglecent with his information and thus I've gotten the short end of t...

After further thought of my furniture expedition yesterday, I feel as if I need to examine my finances this week and take a trip down to Victor NY for some PotteryBarn shopping. I've come to realize that I'm so obsessed with PB that I won't be satisfied with anything else. I think that I should examine some more stores in Rochester before I spend that much money on gas to get down there. (BTW NY gass is mad expensive. It was 2.99 in Erie Penn. and it's around 3.30 at the cheapest places here.) I did get a really cute lamp yesterday at Lowe's for my bedside table/yaffa block. After using yaffa blocks and milkcrates for the last two months to minimize the piles of things on the floor I've come to realize that I really just need to go out and buy some furniture. Though quality furniture is difficult to find I've come to realize. Yet again solid wood is not lewan (sic?). I guess I really need to decide if I want to buy furniture or curtains first. I gues...

I never knew that furniture shopping was so difficult. This of course all has a longer story and bigger implications. So some background: Last night I go off to bed lalal, great. Turn off my bedside lamp and enjoy sleep. I do hear a slight pop, but not really knowing what it was, nor what it came from didn't really bother me in my extremely sleepy state. Wake up this morning and try to turn on my lamp -- doesn't want to turn on, flip the switch a couple of times. Okay that didn't work. Try to check the bulb -- it breaks appart in my hands like a cookie that went through air-mail. GREAT! Of course I try to take out the broken bulb bits but only intensify the situation -- now just the metal base is in there with the inside bulb parts that majorily stickout. Clearly I'm in need of a potato -- of which I rarely eat -- thus none are readily available. And do you think that I would go buy a potato to help save the lamp? No. It's better to just go buy a new la...

Driving really is a stressfull situation for me. For most people, it can be a little annoying, for me it's a full otu war against all the other stupid drivers. It's a battle to have people drive properly and be considerate. For the sake of arguement I'll define considerate as not cutting people off, not moving in front of faster moving traffic, and not having a car that eats as much gas as a 747 during take-off. (Granted the last one has nothing to do with actual driving habits, but rather personality and personal choice.) Given my strick definition of considerate most people on the road are major assholes. I don't think it's that much to ask to say that someone who is moving slower than me should not purposefully get into the lane in front of me if they can not pass the person they're trying to pass before my bumper is on their ass. Do I feel as if I need to take off the cruise-control from it's steadly 75mph just b/c you can't get your ass in gea...

Work sucks right now. I'm doing things a trained monkey could -- and one of my co-workers is trying to foist her work on me b/c "it would save a lot of time" -- yeah her time not mine. And which one of us is making more money? Oh I think it's me the 22 year old university grad -- not you the 35 year old doing the work of a trained monkey. And why am I doing the work of a trained monkey? Oh that's b/c they haven't hired all the people they need yet to have the company function well ... and it just keeps getting busier. Saying we're short staffed is an under statement. Where do all the jobs fall that everyone else is too busy to handle => ME. Where do most of the jobs of everyone who's left in the last month => ME. Who's begining to get frusterated by the fast paced crazyness => ME. At least two more people are going to be hired on in the next week. The most amusing part of this? I've only been there like a month! I can say that ...