Category: Ramblings

Don't worry, be happy now

The coworker has been amusing me with her antics since back. True to her old form, on her first day back from a FIVE WEEK vacation, she showed up 2 hours late, took an hour and half lunch, AND still left at her normal time. Even though we’ve got TONS of work to do. She took at least 4 hours to do one of the most basic tasks that shouldn’t have taken more than a fourth of that. When we were discussing the fact that she would have to do overtime because of the workload, she tried to imply that I could come in on this Saturday and work. Um. Hi, no. My vacation starts at 4:30pm on Friday. She’s been off for 5 weeks, SHE can damn well do the work & overtime.

Every day, the topic of her working overtime has come up. “I can’t stay late because I have to pick up the kids at school” Fine. You can work Saturday or Sunday. Or you can do like I did all last week, and just not take a lunch break. That way you work an extra hour, but you’re not here any later. “Oh no, I can’t do that! How can I not take a lunch?!” Oh, it’s really easy. And please remember that lunch breaks are only 1 hour, not your normal prior 1+ hours! She even said yesterday “I don’t do overtime.” I just flat out laughed in her face when she said that, and responded with “It’s not a matter of ‘want-to’ anymore. It’s a ‘have-to’ to get the work done”. She just doesn’t get it.

To top all that off, she keeps whining that she doesn’t know how she’s going to do all the work with me gone. Um. Hi. I did it all by my damn self for a MONTH while she was on vacation. If I can do it, she damn well can too. She keeps trying to say that other people can do parts for her. Um – 1 of those people just broke her elbow and can’t do the check runs. EVERYBODY is already overworked pulling their own weight and then some. They can’t add her load to their own too, just because she doesn’t want to work. She’s going to be in for a really rude awakening. At least I did get the satisfaction of her saying that she can’t do it all because “she’s not me”. Damn straight she ain’t, and at least she recognizes the fact that I’m damn good at what I do. Hell, even if I did a lot less, I’d still be better than she is, since she avoids work all day.

I’m doing my best to take it easy this week. I’m not forcing myself, I’m just doing what I can without busting my ass. She’s back, she can help with the workload. I certainly hope she doesn’t think I’m going to keep doing it all so she can sit back and talk on the phone all day, like she used to. Today I even woke up relaxed and happy – something that hasn’t happened in a few weeks. Everything is amusing to me today, making me giggle. I’m having fun. I refuse to let her, or the work, stress me out anymore. The count down is on: 2.5 more work days, then it’s vacation time!!

I have more to ramble about .. but I think I’ll do all that in a separate entry. My lunch break is over anyway.

I’ve been footin’ the bill for some time

This morning, I put my final car payment in the mail. Soon, I’ll be getting the title in the mail, and that baby will be all mine. I’ve paid it off about 6 months early, which is even nicer. Last time I paid off a car, I had a car accident 3 days after mailing the check, and totaled the car. I’ve been knocking on wood that it won’t happen again. I’ve had enough car accidents in my life, I don’t need more. And I really like this car and want to keep it as long as possible.

I started to get annoyed with the Snap Preview thing, so I semi-turned it off. It’s set now that it will display only on links when I add extra code (IF I remember to add it). That way I can have it in the body of my posts, but not in the sidebar, etc. I also decided that, for now, I’m going to move over to the new domain, and use the crossposter to post to my old livejournal. I’m not sure how that’s going to work, though. I attempted to set it up at work today, and it gave me an error message saying it wasn’t able to access the journal. That didn’t surprise me, since work bans lj. But it also worries me, since I don’t know if it was just a set-up thing, or if it’s going to error on me every time I try to post from work and crosspost to lj. If it does, I’ll have to figure out a way around it.

Rumor is that Disney is going to make an announcement during the Super Bowl. I’ve heard some murmurs that they’re going to announce a new theme park – right here in the DFW area. That… would be very interesting, if it’s true. It would take a lot of getting used to, having something like that around here. I half wonder where they would put something like that around here. They could probably buy out and tear down our old Six Flags over Texas and use that property. But, I’m just speculating on something that is only a rumor. We’ll see what happens.
Edit: I actually did a little research this morning, and it seems that this rumor has been going around for years. It just got new legs again, and was being discussed on radio, etc. Oh well. I should’ve researched first.

I have a desperate urge to ramble tonight, yet I don’t really have anything to ramble about. I do have some health stuff going on that I’ve been debating writing about, but I don’t know if I’m ready to yet. I’ve got an appointment on Thursday, relating to it, and we’ll see how that goes. Maybe after the appointment — or after I get the results — I’ll decide to write about it.

When this world makes you crazy

I have my new cell phone. I can’t use it yet, but I have it. I tried to get an unlock code, and the guy couldn’t find one. He referred me to someone else, so I tried them .. and they couldn’t find my code either. Sigh. The world is out to get me, it seems. One of the guys told me to try to call Cingular directly to get that code. So, I guess that’s my next shot. If I can’t do that — then it’s back to eBay, this time for me to sell the phone. I hope I don’t have to though, because I do like it.

Apparently, in this lifetime, I’m supposed to learn how to be a bitch. At least, that’s the way it feels, when life keeps trying to teach me the same lesson over and over again. I just can’t seem to learn it though. I’m too nice. I know this, yet it’s not going to change. Almost every time I do nice things for people, or am just nice in general, it always comes back to bite me in the ass. Twice this week at work alone, this has happened to me. Go out of my way to be nice, make things easier for people … and I end up getting screwed over. This is a repeated pattern over my whole life – I can’t even begin to count how many times people have burned me, taken advantage of my niceness, and then treated me like shit once they’ve gotten what they want. But, instead of learning to be bitchier, I just get more sad and jaded; yet I’m still way too nice for my own good. And I know this paragraph doesn’t really flow well or make sense — I can tell that as I’m writing it — but I don’t really care right now.

I bought myself a new domain name on Tuesday, for a grand total of 14 domains. Two of those technically belong to other people, but they’re still registered in my name. 😉 But, yes. I own a new domain – puzzleiam.com – and I absolutely love it. I adore the domain so much, I’m actually tempted to move to it away from here. Don’t get me wrong, I love having my own name as my domain – but I like that one more, maybe? Ha. We’ll see if I move or not.

Speaking of blogs, I added Snap Preview to this one. If you hover over any external link, you’ll get a little pop-up with a preview of the site. I think that’s just too cool. haha. If it’s too freaky, you can just click the little “options” button in the top corner of the pop-up, and set it so they don’t come up anymore. Hee. I already find myself hovering over links on other sites, and getting sad when there’s no pop-up preview.

I started upgrading the wordpress installations on my domain this morning, beginning with my lyric blog. Yeah. That didn’t go too well. Trying to update the databases after the update was installed gave me a fatal error, and now it doesn’t work. Luckily all the data is still there in my mySql databases, so nothing is “really” lost, but I submitted a ticket to tech support to see how to get this fixed. I’m a bit nervous to update this blog now, so I’m waiting until things get sorted out with the lyric blog first.

I actually knocked off one of the items on my 43things list (and one of my New Year’s Resolutions) over last weekend. I applied for my passport! One of the post offices in town sent out a flyer, stating they were having a Passport Fair. I stopped procrastinating, and went out to apply. It took me about 2 hours to get through all the lines, but I did it! My passport should be arriving in 6-8 weeks.