Baby Finances

I have to say that I have had very few accomplishments since I graduated college -- much less ANY great accomplishments. Every once and a while I come up with an "okay" idea -- but nothing that's cutting edge or even close to patentable. It's kind of sad to look back on the past year and realize how little I have accomplished. I have worked for a year now and I've been able to buy some furniture, join a gym, meet some people, and basically work a lot. I hope that I can accomplish more in the next year -- because this last year has been pretty pathetic. Now let's get to the real topic of the day. Why Coke is better than Pepsi. You say that they are the same? Oh no my friend. There is a huge difference. Pepsi is vastly inferior to Coke for a variety of reasons. 1) Pepsi is only for the young. I work at a real job -- so I'm not allowed to like it. 2) Pepsi has to sponsor everything in order for people to drink it -- Coke is cool enough on its own th...

Paris was a lot of fun. It was amazing how much there was to do and see. You can see pictures here: I think the funniest moment was in a restaurant and an American guy at the table behind us said that two different french people had told him how excellent his accent was and how he sounded french. This was shortly followed by a "MERCY BEAU-COO." Yeah -- a couple french waiters told me I sounded french too -- they were screwing with us though. It was also amazing how rude some Americans were -- both the adults and the high school students. The complete lack of respect for others (IE you shouldn't shout to each other across the train when your on a subway -- in any city -- America included) and the expectation that everyone else should know english. You're in FRANCE! French people speak -- well -- french. Brussels had to be one of the most interesting on the trip. Not so much because of the sights and foods (which were tasty) but more because of the strange mix of a var...

At work I live in, what we un-affectionately refer to as, "the Trailer park." This basically consists of a lot of small cubes which lots of people around you -- so you can NEVER concentrate on anything. Rather you are stuck listening to eveyone in every office which surronds the "Park" and everyone else talking in the "Park." Along with all the other random work noises. It is litterally the worst lay out that I have EVER seen. I have given up on doing any work today -- because it's been so loud. I can't even hear myself think. Much less be able to do anything useful that takes any brain power. And they wonder why company morale is so low.

Planning a vacation is suprisingly difficult... well I guess not so suprising if you knew me very well. It would not be difficult for someone who plans things out regularly and has a schedule ... you know, "normal people." I, on the other hand, and not one of those. My idea of planning is putting on my shoes to go to the store, or googling directions to somewhere I want to go. Once I get there I'm never really sure what to do next. I don't write out grocery lists and I rarely look up the hours of which the stores are actually open. Which I'm sure would really piss off some people who are planners. You know the kind of people who always get up at the same time every morning, eat the same thing for breakfast, take a shit at the same time every day. The Planners . I'm sure this lack of planning -- or rather lack of liking to plan has been the downfall of at least one of the romantic relationships in my life. I guess it's for the best though. I can a...

Nothing much exciting has happened today at work. An annoying number of phone calls came in that could have been answered by ANYONE else in the company -- but the dumbasses at the bottom of the tree don't want to deal with things so they just pass the buck. Which annoys the crap out of me every day. It must be nice to just pass on anything you don't want to deal with. And they wonder why they don't get paid much -- because they never have to make the difficult decisions or calls or tell someone what they don't want to hear. I'm just about done cleaning everything up -- which has been really amazing. I love having things done and organized. I finally feel as if my feet are back on the ground. I've been purposefully avoiding the CSR's at work lately. The bitching has increased dramatically -- but I kind of feel like I'm an adult trying to break my child of a bad habit. I figure if I ignore it long enough and walk away whenever they start -- and bas...

I won't delude myself to think that people actually care about me not updating my blog in a long time. But I do have good excuses (yes -- excuses.) Work has FINALLY started into the August slow down. I've actually been able to catch up on all the stuff I should have been doing the last 5 months -- but hasn't been critical/"on fire" so it hasn't gotten done. It's nice to be able to clean up stuff and finally get it finished. I'm starting to not hate work again. When the stress decreases by spades it so much easier to like going to work. On one hand it's really nice to have a few slower days -- but I hope it doesn't continue for long. It's hard for me to try to accomplish anything when you're so used to only dealing with fires. When nothing is on fire I don't do anything -- including the stuff that's there -- but just not critical yet. Yesterday was also an earmarked? day -- I've now been working for a full year; both...