RIP Mr. Fish

May 2006-December 22, 2006

Christmas Early

The baby is doing well. He bit my Mom, and enjoyed eating wrapping paper. He's way heavy, and is very alert. I'll post photos at my Yahoo account.

For Christmas, I was gifted with a $50 Target gift card, and a bag of Bath and Body Works stuff. I was going to buy a new jacket with the gift card, but I didn't like how the jackets fit. So, I used the gift card on the second best thing; sock monkey stuff! I bought the slippers and the pants. I would have purchased the sheets too, but they were sold out of Queen size. The sheets were only $19 in the store! The pants were $17 and the slippers were $13. Expensive, but cute and I had a gift card.

I'm sick and it sucks.

Bed.

Access Denied

I'm still unable to switch to the new version of Blogger. It's really pissing me off. Way back when, I subscribed to Blogger's Blog*Spot Plus feature. It was less than $5/mo, and enabled me to upload images and stuff via FTP. I also had "priority" access to techs for questions, etc. Well now, it's biting me in the ass. Short of deleting my first blog, with almost 2000 posts, I'm stuck with the old version of Blogger. Additionally, no one will reply to my inquires on how to update my old blog. I keep receiving an error message saying the password is incorrect (I know it isn't.) Grrrrrrrrrr.

It's so touching when someone I don't even know takes stuff from my site, and uses it as their own. Even if it's part of the public domain, do your own searches. Don't rely on other people to find cool stuff, then use it on your own page. And without even emailing them to say "thanks for finding cool stuff because I'm too lazy to do it on my own." It would only be better if they hadn't changed the URL and it was still pointing to my site.

I'm up this early because I went to bed before 9PM yesterday, and I have to be at work at 8:30AM. I woke up at 4:30AM, and figured I'd get up. At least I can get all of the clean clothes hung up, check on Mr. Fish, give him his medicine and have a Pop Tart (Mint Chocolate Chip, bitches!) for breakfast.

Speaking of Mr. Fish, he seems to be recovering from his illness. He swimming around more, and swims to the top of the bowl now. I need to get different food, though. I don't think he appreciates his new food (Petco doesn't carry the kind I bought when I got Mr. Fish) and he needs to eat so he gets better. It means I have to go to Wal-Mart, though, and I hate Wal-Mart. I decided to stop shopping there, but they are the only place I can find that brand/type of blood worm. Once he's healthy again maybe I can get him to eat the new stuff. Either that, or I'll buy a couple jars of the food while I'm there. It's less than $3 a jar, and one jar lasted him since April or May. Yeah, one Betta doesn't eat very much.

I rented Silent Hill and The Zodiac Killer yesterday, and Hallow's End arrived in the mail yesterday as well. We can watch two tomorrow, and one tonight. Saturday we're going to Mansfield to see the baby, so that'll be our entertainment for the weekend.

I need food.

Sneeze

I swear, I have mono. I've never had mono before, but it has to be the reason why I'm so tired all of the time. Like, can't find the energy to put away clean clothes tired. I have no idea how I'm going to drive to my Mom's house tomorrow to take her Christmas shopping. It isn't that I don't want to take her; I don't know how I'm going to take her.

On top of being tired beyond words, I'm constantly sneezing. I love it.

I did manage to get out to the PO Box early this afternoon. Man, was it nice outside. Supposed to be even warmer tomorrow and Tuesday. Woo!

New photo of me with new hair and eyebrows.

Back to bed.

Hot Diggity Damn

Mr. Fish is now home. We think he's sick, though, so hopefully we can nurse him back to health. He barely swims, I don't think he's eating and when he does swim, it's sideways. We're going to the pet store today and buying special Mr. Fish water, new rocks, some water conditioner and new food. Hopefully he'll be his cheery Mr. Fish self in no-time.

In other news, we've watched so many movies the past three weeks, it isn't even funny. My month's free trial of Blockbuster Online is almost expired, and I'm definitely renewing the membership. Since signing up for the trial on November 17th we've rented/watched the following movies:
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 2
Marilyn Manson's Guns, Gods and Government Tour DVD
Rammstein Industrial Angels Tour DVD
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Remake)
Cabin Fever
Black Cadillac
MST3K Disc 4 Season 5
MST3K Disc 5 Season 5
MST3K Monster A Go Go
The Last House on the Left
Donnie Darko
Superman Returns
House Season One Disc 3
House Season Two Disc 1
House Season Two Disc 2
The Devil's Rejects
House of 1000 Corpses
Daughters of Darkness
Forever Knight Season 1 Disc 1
Forever Knight Season 1 Disc 2
Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
That's a lot of movies for FREE. I figured out why I didn't rent from Blockbuster under normal circumstances; movies are $3.50 each!! But yeah, if any of you are even remotely interested in online movie rental programs, I highly recommend the Blockbuster program. We have the 3 movies out at a time deal, and those movies don't count against in-store rentals either. Earlier in the week we had a stack of 7 DVD's to watch. Bloodsucking Pharaohs, Cabin Fever and TCSM were so bad we couldn't make it through, so that helped cut down on DVD viewing time. Still, who cares if some were duds? They were FREE!!

Shit, I just remembered our car insurance is due tomorrow. I should probably pay the bill so our policies aren't canceled. Not having car insurance is bad, since it's required in Ohio.

Morgan needs to get his ass out of bed soon if he plans on visiting Ducky today (hopefully she's still around.)

We wound up not attending the NEOCC Christmas party yesterday. When I told Morgan it was $22 he thought I meant per membership. No, it was $22 per person. He decided it wasn't worth the $44, plus an hour's drive (each way) in possibly snowy weather. I cooked dinner instead, and we watched DVD's (huge surprise, I know.)

Gah, I should check my PO Box. It's probably crammed full of crap, but maybe our magazines have arrived as well (I have 4 free magazine subscriptions through erewards.com. Free stuff rules.)

Must pee.

Ow

Holy shit, my head hurts so bad right now. I think my brains are going to pop out of my ears or something. Migraines can eat my ass, along with upper respiratory infections. This shit always happens when I get a new job; I swear I'm cursed.

I forgot to include two movies in the list. I also watched Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2. Great documentaries, I highly recommend them. They really make you think, especially people who are "different" and live in a small town.

If you'll excuse me, I'm going to die now.

Gah

Gah, when I sign in to Blogger I get a notification of being able to switch to the new version. When I try switching, I receive an error message saying I'm not eligible. BAH! I really want to use the new version as changing the template is much easier, and way more user-friendly. Grrrrrrr.

Today I had my eyebrows waxed, and my bangs trimmed. Then, since I was on such a grooming kick, I painted my nails. Yes, that's right, I painted my fingernails. They're Gargantuan Green Grape (OPI) with a black kitty cat sticker on my left hand's middle finger. Yeah, so it's the OPI Halloween kit, too bad. The green goes with the holiday season, and besides, I think they're cute.

Apparently I'm able to function on 3 hours of sleep? I went to bed at 11:30PM, and woke up at 3:20AM. I absolutely can't get back to sleep, which annoys the shit out of me.

I got a job today! It's another student assistant position, but this one's behind the scenes. I'll be a PC Tech, with two other people. During winter break I'll work 8AM-4:30PM, Monday-Friday. When Spring session begins January 16th, I'll work 20 hours a week. It only pays $6.85/hr, but it's a job. Besides, I won't have to deal with people, other than when the Governor is visiting, or the Rolls Royce people are in town. My office is even in the back of the building, where I'm out of the way. Plus, both of my bosses seem really cool, and I can wear jeans (when there aren't any "important" people around, which is most of the time.) I begin Thursday at 8:30AM, and I'm only working until 12:30PM Thursday and Friday. I even get paid in two weeks! Woo me! Of course, now that I've accepted the position, 2 people called about my resume. One of the positions is as a file clerk. I'll interview for shits and giggles, but unless it pays a minimum of $8/hr, I won't quit the student assistant position.

I can't believe it's almost tax season again already! I'll only have two W-2's this year (Summit Racing and the first student assistant position), and Morgan'll just have one. He still has 3 or 4 days of vacation he needs to take before the end of the year, and the end of the year is pretty damn close. I told him to see if he can take the Friday before Christmas, and the 2 or 3 days after Christmas. They probably won't let him, though, since he's the only detailer at the dealership. He needs to hurry up, though, since he only has 3 weeks to take his days.

Mmmm, Firebird:

Jumping Jehosaphat

Hee, my title means absolutely nothing. But, since I haven't slept more than 2 hours at a time since Saturday, I'm allowed to be weird. Yes, the insomnia is at its worst since I was pregnant. I took 4 sleeping pills at 11PM last night. It's now 6AM, and I slept maybe an hour. I even laid down and tried to sleep for 3 hours; no luck. I am so far past pissed off it isn't even funny.

In other news, I scheduled my Spring semester classes. Lucky me, all 4 of my courses are online! I have an interview at 3:30 this afternoon for a work study position. If I'm hired, I'll only be on campus for work. If I'm not hired, I won't have to go near the school until June (summer classes.) The only exception will be to buy books, which I dread. My classes are Graphic Design, Microsoft Access Database, Help Desk and one other class that's slipping my mind at the moment. Suffice to say it'll be an easy semester.

Allegedly there were 3 inches of snow when Morgan came home from getting Dew around midnight. He has a tendency to exaggerate, though, so there was probably only an inch, if that.

His work Christmas party was OK. The food was the same as last year, only the desserts weren't as good. This year they had a magician, who pretty much sucked. But, Morgan did win a $25 gift card for Target, and we were out of there by 9PM. We went to the Massillon Target, which seems to be the nicest one around here, and he bought a new Logitech game pad for his computer. I picked up a few things out of the dollar bin (wrapping paper, lights for the mini-tree, etc) and some beverages. I freaking love Target!

Over the weekend we watched quite a few movies. I have a membership to Blockbuster Online, and it's fabulous. For $18 a month (the first month is free) I get unlimited online rentals, with a limit of 3 out at any time. Additionally, for every online rental I return in-store I get a free in-store rental! I can also return them via the prepaid mailers, but why would I mail them back when I get free in-store rentals? Anyway, this weekend we watched Superman Returns, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Black Cadillac and I started watching Cabin Fever. I didn't really pay attention to Superman Returns, but the Rob Zombie films were actually very good. I was shocked, and I'm now optimistic about him being involved with Halloween 9. Hopefully he'll do a good job. He may be a no-talent ass clown when it comes to music, but his films are worth watching. Black Cadillac is a good movie, and, so far, Cabin Fever has sucked. But I can't complain, they were free! I still have to watch The Last House on the Left and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake. They're not due back until Saturday, though, so I'm sure I'll have time to watch them.

Finally, decent photos (Razr camera phone) of all the penguin stuff I'd like to have from Wal-Mart.



Hella cute, I know.

The NEOCC Christmas party is Saturday. It should be a good time, and the beer's free. Wooooo!

Eh, I should do something constructive instead of blogging.