What a pain in the ass day this has been. The battery on my car was dead, again, and I missed a team meeting at the call center. Fred jumped to when he came home for lunch and put the cables in my trunk in case it happens again. I shouldn't be having these issues because the battery is less than 2 months old. I'm taking the Mazda to Muskogee on ( Read more... )

I'm really disappointed that so many of my friends no longer use LJ. I admit to being sporatic myself, but I really miss the updates and interchanges. Right now I'm going crazy embroidering a bunch of boring tshirts and I could really use a distraction. Not a Facebook distraction with memes and ads and lol cats. Those get boring pretty fast too ( Read more... )

I'm spending an extremely tedious Sunday embroidering the final shirts for the OKRF leadership team. Our 2 day retreat is next week end and the OKRF cast mixer is the following week end. Auditions for the part of Princess Elizabeth, who will become Queen Elizabeth within two years, will be held. At least four actresses are signed up to try out ( Read more... )

GRRM posted a new LJ update with a heading implying that he had posted a new exerpt from Winds of Winter. Turns out it is an exerpt from the work of another author who is part of the Wild Cards series of anthologies about a bunch of who cares super heros. It's like a bad role playing game that never ends and is taking up far too much time. I don ( Read more... )

My son Eric has a new girlfriend. He's been very gun shy since his first marriage was pretty much a disaster. He met her at a Naval training school in Virginia and they are both now stationed in Japan, but on different ships. I hope this works out for him. She is very cute with dark hair and dimples.

I bought the fabrics for Gossamer's new fairy godmother gown today. Spent just over $100 which is great. Now I have to raid my trim and bead stash for the decorations on the petals of the skirt. This is going to have a lot of hand work so I need to get going right away. I'd really like to have it wearable by the Cast Mixer for OKRF which is the ( Read more... )

I did some interesting math today. If I retire at the end of the year when I turn 63 I will earn less per month than if I wait for full retirement age of 70. But, if I live to 85 I will earn $35,000 more by retiring sooner. So, my current plan is to clean up a couple of small credit card accounts, practice living on reduced means, and plan my ( Read more... )

I really need to retire before this damned aggravating job kills me. We are going on the big trip to London in August so it can't be before then. My SS will only pay a bit over $700 a month which isn't much. I'm going to see how long I can get by on that amount and bank the rest. At the end of the year I ought to have a pretty good nest egg for ( Read more... )

So, we purchased a new car last month (a cute red 2013 Mazda 3) but the paperwork from the dealer never arrived. Turns out they missed having us sign one piece of paper out of dozens and that was holding everything up. I don't understand why they didn't call us sooner, especially since they haven't been paid by our bank because of this. Anyway, ( Read more... )

There's nothing like a customer service job, especially one that deals with the rich, to bring out the Bah Humbug in almost anyone. I have been working crazy overtime since Thanksgiving and I am about done with the human race. I have been screamed at about the most trivial of issues with their precious orders. Things like "Your email went to my ( Read more... )