I have learned today that picking wedgies is soooo much easier than trying to pull up underwear that is forever trying to slide off of my butt. Damn you new underwear!!

Today after work I went over to Mike's and we watched his roommate, Chris, play Kingdom Hearts on the PS2 for a while. He was on a section that included almost all the characters from the Hundred Acre Woods (Winnie the Poo characters for those of you not in the know). Somehow we got on the subject that each character could represent one of the 7 deadly sins. Here is our list (explanations for our thoughts in parenthesis where its not so obvious):
Pride - Tigger
Envy - Roo (he is always following and imitating Tigger, he is the wannabe Tigger)
Greed - Rabbit
Gluttony - Winnie the Poo
Sloth - Eeyore
Lust - Kanga (she's an unmarried whore of a mom)
Wrath - Christopher Robin (you know he is going to have serious issues with this kind of imaginary world and no IRL friends)

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room Silly Thoughts

Reach for the lasers with Antic's Sims-ulator!

Tracy drew me a picture while I was at work this past Monday, click here to view it.

I just created my own hell! Check it out:

Scientologists
Circle I Limbo

Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

General asshats
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Rednecks
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Republicans
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

George Bush
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

NAMBLA Members
Circle VII Burning Sands

Osama bin Laden
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Saddam Hussein
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

I awoke this morning to my alarm...the odd thing was that Lilith, my kitten, was sitting on my stomach and I was petting her and giving her driving directions to Thirteenth St. and Mill.

The wedding was fun, saw some people I hadn't seen in a few years and completely cleaned up on the candy...oh I stuffed a lot of candy into my pockets. During the toast, Richard made me stand up and said that the wedding and everything wouldn't have been possible without me. I was so shocked that he was acknowloging me, I think I was almost on the verge of tears it was so sweet.

I got much farther in SSX3, I try to get in at least an hour of play everynight, but it doesn't always happen. Finding all the collectables and doing the Big Challenges takes a helluvalotta time. I also started my new job yesterday. Its going good, there's a lot of stuff to learn but I'm getting it. Kelly, the current manager, says I'm learning and catching on super fast, so that is really good. Mike is excited for me because now I can afford to buy him a lot of candy and be his sugar mamma. In an email he wrote me today, he said "I am very happy you've gotten such a perfect job. Soon I will have all the candy!" That made me laugh.

I went shopping with Tracy last Saturday night for new work clothes. My vast collection of black T-shirts with white lettering isn't "new-work worthy." I recruited her because she likes to shop and I hate to shop, I figured she would make the experience tolerable and we could have hang-out time. We were in "The Mall" for about 3.5 hours, I think that is a record for me. It was actually fun, I still hated the whole trying on the clothes, seeing what they look like on me, and putting them in the reject pile, but I'd have to say that I had a good time. And Tracy is amazing at finding deals. Only she could help me find 6 work shirts and 5 pairs of underwear for $63. We will also never forget the most God-awful ugly sweater that looked like someone had barfed sequens and sparkly glitter things on it...no matter how hard we try. This shirt was on the clearance rack for way more than it was worth (ie. about 13 and a half cents) and we pulled up the mark down stickers only to learn that it was originally priced at $128. This is why I hate malls and expensive clothes stores. Because they have these so-called "designer" clothes (which generally cover progressively less surface area of your body than normal priced clothes) that they jack up the price on, even though if you wore this ugly piece of crap, you probably look like a cleaned-up homeless person. To make matters worse, just trying to get to the over-priced clothes, you have to dodge all the really annoying commission-based sales people in the jewelry and make-up sections that try to entice you in with their horrible smelling liquid crap in a bottle which is now on sale for only $49.99 with the purchase of items totaling at least $199 and, as always, your soul.

Update to my 1st Rant - Published on Thu Feb 12:
Two Tuesdays ago, as in, a week before yesterday I was at work, like usual. I had been staying behind the front desk because I didn't want to get written up again for stupid shit I didn't do. Carl (very nice and courtious supervisor) asked everyone at the main desk if they wanted to go over to the Mac Help Desk. They all said no, as did I and we stated our reasons. Carl was shocked when I told him about the guy I didn't help and said that he would at least hear me out on the matter if it were to happen again. I said that I wanted an unconditional guarantee that I wouldn't get written up for things I didn't do if I went to the Mac desk. He said that he couldn't do that but that he would be more fair than the other staff. I agreed but said that if he wrote me up for stupid shit to expect sugar in his gas tank by the next day and he said ok. So I'm at the Mac desk now, not even really paying attention to the email I'm writing (does this sound familiar yet??). I am looking up and turning my head around a lot cause I don't have eyes in the back of my head...but you already new that from the first blog that I wrote, you are smart like that. Lo and behold there is a guy struggling with swiping his card in the print release station (getting more familiar??)...and you are not going to believe this...it was the same fucking guy that got me wrote up in the first place!!! Of all the fucking ironies!!! I swear he must have my work schedule and only have to print when I'm at the damn desk. So in the interest of not getting fucked by the man again, I went over to him and asked if he needed help. He says "no." Hmmm, that is the same thing I told Aaron the week before when he wrote me up. So I asked the guy what the problem was. He politely, though obviously irritated at his card not reading, told me that these stations are the only place his card won't read and he doesn't want to pay the stupid $25 for a new one, and that it will work eventually. I didn't really believe that it would work eventually but allowed him to continue to swipe the card furiously. He proved me wrong, it did eventually work and he got his printouts. So, I was right and Corporate Power was wrong, nah na nah na nah nah. He didn't want my help and got it to work himself [flips the bird to Central IT at ASU]. I would appeal this and get the guy's signature, because he was a nice guy, but I know I'd loose. Just like I've lost other appeals to write-ups that I didn't do. "Steve's door is always open" my ass!

New happy thought. I was reading Brady's LiveJournal and saw that he had a new way of expressing his mood. And since I'm an avid The Sims player, I thought it would be very appropriate to add this to my blog entries as I go along.

Hunger Comfort Hygiene Energy Fun Social Bladder Room New Job

Reach for the lasers with Antic's Sims-ulator!

Click here to see a pic of my bad-ass biker pig.

V-Day weekend is now officially over and I gotta say, this has prolly been the best Valentine's Day ever in my life. Friday night Mike gave me 3 beautiful roses and then we went out to Applebees. We stayed at my house. In the morning he made me a secret breakfast which turned out to be the yummiest breakfast burrito ever. Then he gave me a box of Sees Chocolates that he picked himself - I've never had Sees and have always wanted to try them....mmmm yummy. Miguel's parents came over in the afternoon but I didn't get a chance to meet them. That night me and Mike played some SSX3 and went out to Joe's Crab Shack and saw "50 First Dates." That movie is hilarious - go see it...now! Sunday Mike had driving school to get out of his ticket and I went to do some private Windows tutoring for a guy I've been helping for over a year. Then I went to Build-a-Bear and bought some clothes for my Pig that a friend from work gave me for my birthday. He is now a bad-ass biker Pig. That store is really neat but freakishly expensive. Afterwards Mike met me at my house for our usual Sunday night studying. I decided not to study and to play more SSX3 - got almost all the gold medals on Peak 1 now, much progress from last week. For those not in the know about SSX and Tricky (my only PS2 games at the moment) check this link out: http://www.easportsbig.com/games/ssx3/home.jsp I feel bad about not reading at all and interfering with Miguel's studying. In between his lab writing, Mike played a bit of SSX3 and got pretty far. He also finished his lab, so the night wasn't a complete waste of time. I will read some of my psych chapters tomorrow.

It sucks that I have to work tomorrow after such a nice, wonderful weekend. Oh well, that's life I guess. We can't all be rich millionaires and sit on our butts all the time playing games - but wouldn't that be nice?

Mike, if you are reading this, don't forget about the wedding this Tuesday night.

So apparently I've had a blog account for several years without making an actual post page and then forgot about it. I tried to create a username and it said what I wanted was already taken. For those of you who know it, my username is extremely unique, so I took a stab at a random password I may have used in the past and it let me in to create this blog! Whee!!!

This blog has several purposes:
1) Many people have asked, begged, and/or continuously rammed their heads into the wall in order for me to finally give in and create one.
2) I've realized that there are many many things that go on during the day that make me want to ram my head into the wall repeatedly and so, instead, I will just complain... nay... bitch about all the stupid people that I encounter during my daily routine.
3) To look back into the past (once I'm in the future that is) and say "what the hell was I on when I wrote that?"

So without further adieu...my first rant:

I was at work on Tuesday and there were too many of us at the main desk so I decided to be the good little dubie and go do my training and check my email over at the PC help desk, not in that order. On the fly I changed the plan to writing a letter to my younger cousin whom I haven't talked to in about 9 years - since I moved to Arizona. So, of course, this took a little thought and a semi-decent amount of time. While writing I was still keeping my head up looking for customers and the email was not my absolute entire focus in life at that moment. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Aaron (one of my many bosses) coming around the desk so I turned to him. He had a pink slip of paper in his hand - the paper used for disciplinary points. 100 points in 4 months = termination. Apparently there was a guy who was "obviously having trouble" who was not in my peripheral vision (a whopping 180 degrees of eyesight here!) nor did he ask or give any indication of needing help. So yes, I got 15 points for not helping someone who didn't ask for help and who I couldn't see because (AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS) I do not have eyes in the back of my head. If you didn't think that is bad enough, I tried to argue that this was unfair and that I only came out to the help desk so that there weren't so many of us CA's at the main desk (a common complaint by our supervisors) and that I was just about to start my training. Aaron says quote "well you shouldn't do that." Meaning that coming out to the desk was the wrong solution. I dunno about you but..... eh??? I don't blame Aaron, he's just doing what the higher powers told him to do. I blame the hypocritical system that signs my paychecks with a stamper. Welcome to the wonderful world of Corporate Power.

Good News #1: I got a new job. I start part-time as a manager of a psychologist's office on the 24th. It will go full time in May with super good benefits, yay!! I am both excited and nervous.

Good News #2: My friend Richard from high school is getting married this Tuesday. I am happy for him and at the same time jealous because Rebecca wouldn't have met him if it weren't for me. I embellish a little, but I definitely had a role in the blossoming of this relationship.

Good News #3: Valentine's day is this Saturday and I am looking forward to spending a long, cuddly day with my Mike. We haven't made any definite plans yet, but I know it will be fun. He can't stay up too late though cause of driving school on Sunday, ew.

I know there is a whole lot more to say, but my brain is mush and my jaw hurts from the cavity that was drilled and filled earlier today. I'll put down the virtual pen for now and maybe do some homework.