On Monday night, after my post about money issues, I learn that now they're thinking of (maybe but probably) cutting my hours! I couldn't believe it. My jaw just about hit the floor. I'm getting full time hrs, but am not tech full time. Instead of just making me (and another co-worker that's in the same boat) full time, the managers are playing the ( Read more... )

I've never been one to really obsess about money. I've no glamourous plans to become a millionaire. I just would like enough to be comfortable - able to buy my favorite movie on dvd or some new clothes every once in awhile. These days I'm lucky if I can afford food, let alone clothes or movies or anything. It's really quite frustrating when I can ( Read more... )

Home for the weekend on the farm and my 7 yr old nephew is driving me bonkers. I don't know what happened. All of a sudden, he's in this bratty, naughty phase. He just goes around annoying everyone, causing trouble and thinking it's a blast. Whenever he gets in trouble, he's ready to say 'I'm sorry' if it means he gets out of punishment. If that ( Read more... )

Am reading a bio about Katherine of Aragon (I prefer katherine with a K, though it was supposed to be with a C) and one on Queen Isabella (the one married off to less-than kingly Edward II). Both were strong, willful women and probably would have been better off married to different men ( Read more... )

I can't believe it. A few years ago, I could send out fanfiction like there was no tomorrow. I wrote soooo many stories about the shows I was into - "Charmed", "Moonlight", etc, it's not even funny. And it didn't take me long either! I didn't have to think to hard about it and I made it possible. Now, I rarely can think of fanfiction. When I do, it ( Read more... )

Am more than a little in love with "the Great Gatsby" soundtrack and it hasn't even come out yet! Just the Jack White's "love is blindness" (which is way more awesome than anything on his last album IMO), Beyonce's "Back to Black", Jay-Z's song, Florence and the Machine's song, even Filter's song. Just a bitchin' soundtrack. I can't wait to see the ( Read more... )

Have suddenly become rather obsessed with the '20's. After watching the Ken Burns docu "Prohibition" like a million times, I've been really reading up on the decade. I've got a couple of books on prohibition and am re-reading books like THE GREAT GATSBY. It's crazy. We think politics is messed up now, just imagine how it was between wets and drys ( Read more... )

Maybe there's just no place around here for dreamers. I don't think I'm a bad person for keeping my head in the clouds. I just wish I could do something with that skill. Writing would be perfect, but that's not an instant job. Plus, unless it's fanfiction, it's hard for me to stick to writing anything real ( Read more... )

So very frustrating to try and find a job when everyone wants experience. You even need experience to waitress these days. I'm always looking for a new job - I've never been happy at Shopko. Yet, it pays the bills and I get through it. The other day I was cashering, which is never fun, but I was getting through it, when the big, fat jellyfisher of ( Read more... )

Currently snowed in at the homestead. It's not so much the snow that's the problem, it's the monster wind gusts that's the beast. It's causing drifting and bad visibility, etc. I'm trying to get my work schedule switched around so I can come in later tomorrow rather than at 6:45 am, but so far my manager hasn't bloody called me back. WTF. Really? ( Read more... )