happenings in my boring life
how long has it been since i've updated? ehh...who the hell knows!
- myself and amy got a hampster last week! her name is winky phil. winky from hp, and phil because we got her on groundhogs day. she is brownish-black with big cute eyes. she is so far friendly (we are slowly trying to hand tame her) and very mischeievous! she climbs on things attempting to get out of the cage - so much so we have put her food and a harry potter book (aptly) on top of the cage to prevent her from popping open the wire top and making a run for it! i promise i will post pictures soon - she squeaked tonight! :)
- i don't think i've posted since amy got a job. so yeah, amy got a job [g] it's stressing her out a bit as she is getting used to the wonderful rat race and getting up early, but it had to happen some time ;) i am hoping by the end of the month, we'll have enough money so a) we don't have to freak out every time a bill is due b) we can start paying down the mountain of debt (me: credit cards, amy: student loans) we've acquired and c) we can actually do things like leave the house and be social and buy non generic groceries on occasion.
- i had jury duty last thursday. i'm all for doing my civic duty, but what a pain in the ass. at least this time i was at the civil court downtown, and not the criminal court in the scary neighborhood. oddly enough, that jury room had more comfortable chairs. i didn't get picked (again), so i spent the day sitting. whee. after lunch i was nodding off listening to my ipod, when i was awoken by an announcement that we would be having a fire drill. i have never heard so many adults groan in my life! luckily we only had to walk down one floor (we were on the 17th). they let us out early at 3.30 since all the cases that day were settled. so i picked up my whopping $17.20 check (i don't think that covered lunch and public transport...bastards) and got out of there. aside from trying not to die of boredom, i noticed a rather sad social happening while in the jury room. there was a cluster of middle aged white folk chatting together, then several african american ladies talking, and even a couple of hispanic folks talking away. so why do people instinctively talk to only members of their own race or social class when people are grouped together who don't know anyone? certainly people can talk to whomever they want, but it made me kind of sad that even though we have supposedly come so far concerning civil rights, when it comes down to it, we're all really still segregated. for the record, i wasn't talking to anyone as i am anti social and was enjoying the "jury duty blues" playlist i made for my ipod.
- now that amy has a job, i need to find a new one. retail is killing me - both with dealing with ignorant and rude customers, and deterioration of a company i once defended falling further and further into a fortune500 company that only cares about the stock price and their investors, while fucking their employees in the ass. we're not the walmart of bookstores, but give it 2 years at this pace at they'll be pretty damn close. the problem is i'm not sure quite what i want to do. i know don't want to do retail anymore, and i want something that pays a living wage (which eliminates retail anyway). so for the moment, i'm stuck peddling the latest nora roberts and listening to customers tell me that oprah sold out james frey. i mean really, we have a war in iraq, the largest deficit ever, a president that continues to shit on our bill of rights and a supreme court that will probably inter a feminist liberal dyke like myself, and this is what the general populace cares about. if i wasn't taking anti depressants already, i think i'd start.
- i'm getting back 1K on my taxes. w00t! i plan on buying exciting things such as 2 new tires and a city sticker for my car. i think i'll manage to buy a couple of fun things for myself and amy. like maybe sims 2 for my computer (damn you demiurgician!)
- i will be 30 in 22 days. i am on grey hair watch ;) i'm not really freaked out about it too much. more sad than anything - i feel like i wasted too much time in my 20s not doing something worthwhile. and i amassed way too much debt on useless crap. bleh!
ok, i'll try not to wait a month before i update again. really! :)
- myself and amy got a hampster last week! her name is winky phil. winky from hp, and phil because we got her on groundhogs day. she is brownish-black with big cute eyes. she is so far friendly (we are slowly trying to hand tame her) and very mischeievous! she climbs on things attempting to get out of the cage - so much so we have put her food and a harry potter book (aptly) on top of the cage to prevent her from popping open the wire top and making a run for it! i promise i will post pictures soon - she squeaked tonight! :)
- i don't think i've posted since amy got a job. so yeah, amy got a job [g] it's stressing her out a bit as she is getting used to the wonderful rat race and getting up early, but it had to happen some time ;) i am hoping by the end of the month, we'll have enough money so a) we don't have to freak out every time a bill is due b) we can start paying down the mountain of debt (me: credit cards, amy: student loans) we've acquired and c) we can actually do things like leave the house and be social and buy non generic groceries on occasion.
- i had jury duty last thursday. i'm all for doing my civic duty, but what a pain in the ass. at least this time i was at the civil court downtown, and not the criminal court in the scary neighborhood. oddly enough, that jury room had more comfortable chairs. i didn't get picked (again), so i spent the day sitting. whee. after lunch i was nodding off listening to my ipod, when i was awoken by an announcement that we would be having a fire drill. i have never heard so many adults groan in my life! luckily we only had to walk down one floor (we were on the 17th). they let us out early at 3.30 since all the cases that day were settled. so i picked up my whopping $17.20 check (i don't think that covered lunch and public transport...bastards) and got out of there. aside from trying not to die of boredom, i noticed a rather sad social happening while in the jury room. there was a cluster of middle aged white folk chatting together, then several african american ladies talking, and even a couple of hispanic folks talking away. so why do people instinctively talk to only members of their own race or social class when people are grouped together who don't know anyone? certainly people can talk to whomever they want, but it made me kind of sad that even though we have supposedly come so far concerning civil rights, when it comes down to it, we're all really still segregated. for the record, i wasn't talking to anyone as i am anti social and was enjoying the "jury duty blues" playlist i made for my ipod.
- now that amy has a job, i need to find a new one. retail is killing me - both with dealing with ignorant and rude customers, and deterioration of a company i once defended falling further and further into a fortune500 company that only cares about the stock price and their investors, while fucking their employees in the ass. we're not the walmart of bookstores, but give it 2 years at this pace at they'll be pretty damn close. the problem is i'm not sure quite what i want to do. i know don't want to do retail anymore, and i want something that pays a living wage (which eliminates retail anyway). so for the moment, i'm stuck peddling the latest nora roberts and listening to customers tell me that oprah sold out james frey. i mean really, we have a war in iraq, the largest deficit ever, a president that continues to shit on our bill of rights and a supreme court that will probably inter a feminist liberal dyke like myself, and this is what the general populace cares about. if i wasn't taking anti depressants already, i think i'd start.
- i'm getting back 1K on my taxes. w00t! i plan on buying exciting things such as 2 new tires and a city sticker for my car. i think i'll manage to buy a couple of fun things for myself and amy. like maybe sims 2 for my computer (damn you demiurgician!)
- i will be 30 in 22 days. i am on grey hair watch ;) i'm not really freaked out about it too much. more sad than anything - i feel like i wasted too much time in my 20s not doing something worthwhile. and i amassed way too much debt on useless crap. bleh!
ok, i'll try not to wait a month before i update again. really! :)