Baby Finances

I'm about to flip my lid today. If the CS Manager doesn't quit asking me dumb questions, or getting all the dumb-asses who the CSR's either don't understand them with their accent, or ask me dumb ass questions of stuff that is already on our website. It's making me so angry. I can't wait to get to the gym after work today.

Saturday, slept in, went shopping for sheets for the bed Jess gave me (Thanks Jess!), took appart the old bed and moved it to the sun room. Set up the new futon frame. Clearly when I went shopping for sheets it takes me hours and I have to go to ten places. While shopping someone told me there was a 50% off sale at JCPenny, which was only like a block away. So I stopped there and got a nice pair of 450 count Egyption Cotton Sheets -- for $50 -- mad cheap for nice sheets. I always was looking for a screen -- not like a screen door, but a room dividor screen/privacy screen (and yes I like to pronounce it priv-a-cy not prI-va-cy). This is basically because I have a sun room (basically really huge windows from below your knee to above your head), which is attached to my bedroom. It's nice and fine during the winter when the bushes are covering it. But it's close to winter now. The leaves have started to fall -- off the bushes-- in front of the sun room... thus the priv-a-cy screen....

I hate weeks that are not payweeks. It's really annoying to work all week and see nothing for yoru effort. Speaking of effort, I've already started to notice positive changes in my endurance, speed, and my body in general from exercising. I've only been making an effort for a little over 2 weeks, and I can definately go faster and longer than when I first started. It's exciting in it's own way. I do feel a lot better after going to the gym; both because it helps me not be angry with the guy at work, and the endorphins. "Endorphins make you happy, and happy people just don't kill their husbands." It's nice that I'm seeing slight changes after only a few weeks, it helps me to stay motivated and keep going. The only complaint I have is the exercising is freaking boring! There's nothing to do while you're doing it. Your mind is blank and there's not much to think about. There are TV's to watch, radio to listen too, and if y...

I'm really trying to avoid this guy at work, b/c even seeing him down the hall bugs me. It bugs me how he got hired, his personality annoys me, his work style annoys me, his work ethic annoys me, just everything about him. If he comes in un-annouced, or reads stuff over my shoulder again I think I'm going to elbow him in the balls. The whole situation sucks. He sucks at his job, and I can't even say anything. This blows. On a happier note, I'm mad excited about today. I get to meet with my trainer! Yea! I'm excited. I hope it will help me to spice up my workout a bit. Then I wont' be as bored as normal. To stem the borem lately I've been working on on machines located so that I can watch the people in the pool. Watching pool classes go on like "water walking" and "water yoga" are really hilarious. It amuses me to no end. If I didn't have TV's/Radio and watching the pool I would be bored out of my mine. It sucks that ...

This guy at work.... I really hate him. I don't want him to talk to me. I don't like him. I think he does a really bad job at work. I also think he's kinda dumb. He can't figure out how to look stuff up. He's completely uninterested in learning anything new. He covers up anything he doesn't know with a bunch of jargon. He talks a lot, but never says anything. It makes me so angry. Oh and while you're at it, my cube is not your office, you don't own it, please do not treat it like your property. Let me know when you are approaching, do not approach until I acknowledge your presense. AND DO NOT TALK TO ME OR ASK ME QUESTIONS WHILE I AM ON THE PHONE. AND FOR GOD'S SAKE DO NOT MAKE FUN/INSULT OTHER EMPOLYEES IN FRONT OF ME. It's disgusting and unprofessional. Almost as unprofessional as your emails to customers are. Me being so angry with him, was reading an email, I hear him approach, do not turn to talk to him immediately b/c I was in...

So I blew out the bathroom curcuit in my appartment on Monday morning (how you blow out a curcuit with a blow dryer? I don't know.) And I immediately called my landlord to ask him to have the maintance guy flip the switch on the breaker. Clearly I go home on Monday night, and the switch has not been flipped. How difficult is it to flip a switch? So that just chapped my cheeks. So of course I call immediately and leave another message to the effect of "I am just calling to remind you that the breaker switch in my appartment has still not been turned on. I know that it is difficult to flip a switch, and I would put in the time and effort to do it, if I had access to the breaker box. Unfortunately I do not, thus I must rely on your effort, and I know it is a lot of effort to flip a switch. So again, for the second time, I need the curcuit breaker switch filpped. Thanks!" How ridiculous is that? I really hate this landlord. I hate working. What I hate more than wor...

I think I should glue the phone to my ear. That's what it seems like I've been doing all day. Though I did talk to a guy in DC that sounded really cute. I'd fuck him. Other than a crazy work life nothing much has been happening. One of my cousins just scored higher than his brother on the LSAT, GO JEFF GO!. I was happy. I'm glad he did better than his poster-child brother. I think the whole family was rooting for him to do better. Yea for Jeff! I got my Goetzfeast list today, and I got the worst person in the world b/c everything was gifts that included some personal choice. Like I want a sweatshirt, or I want a book about this subject.... well can you tell me the title of teh book you want? Or send me a link of the sweatshirt? Can't you pick out a movie or something like the rest of us? It's Goetzfest it's not supposted to be difficult or take a lot of time, it's just supposed to be fun to get and give stuff. And getting a difficult list doe...

My butt muscles hurt -- litterally. I guess they've been underworked. Though it's always kinda nice to have muscles ache, because then you know that you have been working them, and they are trying to get better, but they are just weak. Yea for butt muscles aching! The garbage truck didn't wake me up today. It was late, or early, or I slept through it. It was very sad. I'm so used to it waking me up I was confused and thought that it wasn't friday. I'm sad that I'm not going home this weekend. Stupid customers. I don't like them.

I can't figure out why one of the management team keeps coming to me to ask me for answers. It's really annoying. It seems like everytime he doesn't know what to do with something, or doesn't understand something -- even when it's not something I'm supposed to do -- stuff I should not even be dealing with, aka non-technical questions. I'm not your boss, I'm not your manager. Why are you asking me? It really just drives me nuts. You've been here for like a month -- over a month -- over a month and a half ago. I don't think I should be telling him how to do things. The other thing that bugs me is that he doesn't think things through, or even attempt to see things from different angle. This always results in an over simplification. Then when he fully figures out the full situation he's always like "oh, this is more complicated than I thought, I'll have to think about this." Don't you think that with the huge numbers...

I hate the last hour of the day. It's the worst when you really don't want to be at work. All I want to do is gone home and do something fun. Anything but actual work today. Maybe I'll stop by Michael's on the way home and try to find some new fun craft. Though I still need to work on my Christmas stocking some more, maybe that is what I will do tonight. It's sad that I'm tired of work already, but it's true. There hasn't been that much challenge in my job lately, and everyone has been really busy and not able to teach me more stuff :-( Now I've been teaching other people stuff, and I have little to no patience for that type of stuff. I'm not a teacher. Other than that today has not been very exciting. Maybe tomorrow my post will be better.

Dear Mr. Heavy Breather Man, I really thought at first that someone had passed gas, so I blew it off. Then I thought there was something wrong with my headphones or the TV signal. But then, then you did it again, right next to me, and I figured you out. You Mr. Heavy Breather Man, would not breath like a normal person at a normal pace. You Mr. Heavy Breather Man would hold your breath in until you looked like you were about to pop with your puffy red face. You would let it out like a dam breaking beneath the heavy water pressure. I started contemplating moving machines because it was so distracting. I never thought someone could breath that loud, but it was almost like an all out yell it was so loud. I couldn't even hear the TV on the especially long ones. Just as I was about to move machines, you got off. It was amazing. It was like you could read my mind. Next time Mr. Heavy Breather Man, feel free to do your three minute and fourty six second work-out next to me. I ...

I really like going to the gym, it's kind of addicting in a weird sort of way. It's almost like having a new boyfriend, but w/0 the good stuff. I obsess about it all day, go after work, and really like it. Then once I leave, I just keep thinking about it, and what I get to do tomorrow. Mmmm gym. I love being able to watch TV or listen to the radio while working out (kudos for new gyms with the plug in equipment, where you just need headphones.) It's nice to be able to watch the news and still get something done. The only bad part is that it takes up time, but I guess I have a lot of time on my hands, and going to the gym is at least useful. I was very sleepy yesterday and went to bed at like 10pm, but I guess that is not that late when you consider that I get up at 6:00am. That's only like 8 hours, not ridiculous. But what is ridiculous is that I sleep 8 hours and am still tired. The only time I am not tired is when I sleep in for a long time on the weekends....

Sunday was an interesting day. Got up, got a paper, read it, worked out, took a shower, came home, at dinner/watched TV. Jess and Scott got here at like midnightish. Yeah for a bigger bed! I'm so sleepy this morning. Work is so frusterating sometimes. There are definately too many cooks in the kitchen. If you ask to many questions you're told "you should take more ownership, and make these decisions". Then you do that and someone else says "well you didn't think about this and this, and lalala". It makes me so mad that there is not a good system in place where you don't have to go to five people to get one thing answered. You shouldn't have to, most of this stuff should be documented. I'm sleepy today. I want to sleep. Hopefully the day will go pretty fast, I'll go to the gym, and life will be good.

Today was great! I joined the YMCA by work, and did a really great workout, and scheduled a personal training session (in two weeks b/c the trainer seems to be mad busy, everyone else must be watching "The Biggest Loser" as well). Then I went to get my haircut. I'm still undecided about if I like the cut or not. Though I will not be revisiting that Salon. It was cheap, but the stylist didn't even finish blow drying my hair, it was still damp when I left the Salon. Not my idea of a good experience, espeically when it's 50 degrees out and I've only got a light sweater thingy on. He did this really weird razor cut, where he basically added layers in with a razor, but the problem with it is that when using the razor I think he cut up too much. Which makes my hair look like an upside down triangle from the front (though it looks really cute from the back. I think it will look better once it grows out a bit. I tried to explain that I wanted some length off,...

I have don't nothing today since I got here. And I'm avoiding doing anything of use today (unless you count cleaning up my desk). I've only answered 2 emails. It's been amazing. I think I might join the YMCA by work this weekend. I really need some motivation to go exercise, and going to a group class, along with paying for it, not to mention trying to get a personl trainer, might be really good motivation. I think a personal trainer could really help keep me motivated to go (since I'd have appointments, I'd have to go, and it would keep me accountable, otherwise I last like 3 or 4 weeks and then punk out -- I haven't been able to make it a habbit yet). I also started cleaning up my appartment last night. After I started I realized how much of a mess it was. I still have quite a bit more cleaning, but it's not that bad, it's just not as nice as it could be. I don't really know what else I'm going to do this weekend. Jess and Scott as su...

So yesterday when driving home my gas light went on... utt ohhh better get gas. So I went to an unfamilar gas station because it was close. Unknowingly I had chosen a station that did not have "Pay-at-the-Pump". This was really confusing because how do you pay for stuff without a credit-card. I never carry any cash. And of course you had to "Pay first". So the conversation went as follow (in a heavy Indian accent). Me: Hi, I'd like to pay with a credit card, I have the black car Him: What do you want. Me: Gas... Him: How much money? Me: I haven't pumped yet. Him: How much you want? Me: Ummm enough to fill the tank Him: How much you spend? Me: However much it costs to fill the tank Him (clearly exasperated with me): Just go pump, then come back. Me (run outside in drizzle and pump gas, run back in): Okay I'm done. Sorry I was really confused I don't remember how to do it without pay at the pump. Him: I remember you, next time you just pump first. ...

My morning routine consists of the following: 1. Alarm rings 2. Hit sooze 3. Alarm goes off again (this time a little louder) 4. Hit sooze. 5. Alarm goes off again (even louder) 6. Hit snooze, decide I should turn on bedside lamp to help wake me up. 7. Alarm/snooze again 8. Alarm/snooze again 9. Glance at clock realize it's almost 7am, and I really need to get up. 10. Snooze 11. Finally decide to get out of bed and take a shower 12. Shower 13. Breakfast while watching news 14. Oh shit, I'm going to be late 15. Rush around to get dressed and get everything together for day 16. Forget making lunch, there's no lunch meat anyways 17. Contemplate getting something to drink, but realize there's no milk left 18. Remember that everything is wrong with the appartment and need to call landlord 19. Turn off lights and leave 20. Promptly forget everything as you get in car 21. Drive to work Rinse and repeat daily until Saturday. Then when you get to #1, you push reset instead of ...

The absolute worst part of work is when you feel stupid. I definately took about 2 hours today to try to figure out how to convert something. It was extremely pathetic. But in my own defense, it was not as simplistic as converting from inches to feet or something dumb. It actually was kinda involved and involved more knowledge than I previously posessed. It was really frusterating. Other than that it was a pretty typical day. It's sad that my work friend had to go home, I liked having a work friend. Oh, and the board meeting was today. Rumor has it that they always fire someone the wednesday after the board meeting. Hope it's not me! It's always interesting to see what they come up with. Though they don't have my job up on the website or anywhere else phew! My tummy has been bothering me less. Which is good. I need to decide if I'm going to take any time off to go home for SFS Homecoming, it would be a good time to catch up and see people again. Especiall...

Well this weekend was unequivacally boring, and I did nothing of real use. On friday I went to go pick up some pizza for dinner, and some kid rear ended me. He was only going about 5 mph at the time, so no damage was done to me or the car, but it was still annoying because it made me late to pick up my pizza. That basically threw me off on Saturday, all I did was try to get further on my afgan. Then I had to run to Michael's to pick up more yarn since I ran out.... it made me sad. But I did finish it on Sunday. I was going to do my laundry, but decided against it because I was feeling really lazy. On Sunday I woke up really late - around 11:30, I went and picked up a paper (because for some reason it costs less to pick up a paper at the corner store every week than to actually get it delivered on Sundays), then watched a little football. Then I decided that I wanted to go and pick up Cinderella, because it just came out on DVD. So I went to Target to look at stuff, and to get...

I'm trying to avoid doing any real work today. I figure I should always make it at least seem like I'm really busy. As it is everyone keeps telling me how they have more stuff for me to do. So if I do have a free moment I take it and run with it, and screw around, because I know that if I don't I'll never get a free moment, and I'll always be working until 7-8pm every day, and I don't want that. So I'm trying to plan now to have a happy work life in the future. I don't think it's good to work too much. It makes your brain dumb and you sleepy and exhausted, and then it's not much fun anymore. Today is a sad day because my work friend is leaving to go back home. Poor me. No one to play with anymore. Though it will make me eat better, and spend less because I won't go out to lunch so often. It's been one of those kinda crappy days today. I'm just waiting for the clock to strike 5. This morning was filled with an hour of workin...

I can't believe that it's already October, time for Halloween. I have to say Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. The fact that it's not uber commericalized, people don't take it too seriously, and it's just plain fun to dress up. I think this year will be the first year ever to hand out candy, every other year since I was old enough to not go trick-or-treating anymore I've gone to parties. I guess that means I should buy some candy to pass out, but I don't want to buy it too soon in fears that I will eat it all. At the end of school I kept thinking about the fact that everyone else seemed to be continuing in school, and I started thinking that I should too. But I have to admitt it is really nice to not be tied to that type of schedule, and poorness. My nights are my own, I'm not studying all weekend... it's nice. Though I have been thinking of maybe going for my MBA. I've realized how little I know about business or how business pro...

Last night after going out for dinner with one of the women I work with I realized that more than ever I need a life in Rochester. It's hard to start considering living here for a while without putting down any type of roots. I guess I need to start putting down roots, exploring, and stop feeling like a long time tourist but that I live here. I think the first step was accomplished last nigth with this realization, along with finding a cute neighboorhood that I like that has a cute spa that I definately need to make an appointment to. Of course there were restaurants with tables and chairs littering the sidewalks that were very popular (of course the asian food was not as popular as the american pub food and italian food ... *Sigh* poor people in Rochester just dont' know any better). I heard about/been facebooked by a lot of people from high school, it's still really suprising to me how many people are still in Toledo. I guess I never thought of Toledo as a great place or ...

Work kinda sucks sometimes. Namely today where I didn't end up leaving until about 6:30. This of course after having gotten to work at 8am, and only taking about an hour lunch. I left for work at like 7:45, and left work at like 6:30 -- that's a long freaking time at work, something like 10.5 hours. Is anyone else working this much? The problem comes in when I take any time away from my primary responsibilities, to like, try to learn something to help me do my job better, I end up getting hosed in the end. Then to top everything off I went to the grocery store after work, this of course took more time and now it' slike 7:30, 12 hours after I basically left my house this morning. Then tomorrow I get to wake up and repeat. What really sucks about Monday's is that there is nothing on TV. At least on Tuesdays there's the Biggest Loser -- which I don't know how I'm going to go do my laundry and watch that tomorrow and go exercise.... Too much in one day. A...

Having a car absolutely blows. Dont' do it. It's not worth it. At all. If public transportation in the middle of suburban America was to at least a useable level I would definately be taking that. But since it's suburban America that's just not possible, because people are not dense enough to make a minimum of routes that are highly traveled. Since everyone is so spread out here the number of routes increases expoentially, even though there are less people. So less people travel a further distance. Meaning more resources are needed to cart a fewer number of people around. This in turn makes it blow. A lot. Cars are just all around expensive. Expensive to buy, expensive to fix, expensive to fill the gas tank, and expensive to insure. I feel like every extra penny that I get just automatically ends up some how being eaten by my car. And by eaten I mean cusumed by the gas burning hell hole it is. *Sigh* maybe one day cars won't take up such a large percentag...