I'd sat down at the computer this evening fully intent on writing a post about a very good person that I know who's going through a very rough time right now. He just got the news this afternoon that more than likely he's going to be dead in a few weeks...or if he's REALLY lucky, he MIGHT survive the summer. So that's it. At 51 years old, his life is all but over. It's not a huge shock...he's been dealing with stage 4 cancer for the last three years, but it's still news that hits like a cinder block to the gut.

So that's about all that I can muster up to say right now. I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully in a much better frame of mind.

Ok, first of all, it's HOT down here! I'm calling on all of my dear friends up North to send us some cooler air ASAP!!

I'm a fan of summer as much as anyone else, but this is ridiculous! You could literally SEE the air here today!

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In another area of disgusting....
It's been a while since the roomie and I have done any grocery shopping. QUITE a while. So long, in fact, that I had to create a concoction for dinner this evening.

It started out innocently enough....I took a box of macaroni and cheese, then browned some hamburger and combined the two. I also added a little bit of pepper, seasoned salt, and just a dash of garlic salt.

The results were less than appetizing.

In fact, it was downright nasty.

I've been banned from creating my masterpieces ever again!

Oh well...at least the roomie is now motivated to do some grocery shopping tomorrow!

I really do hate to impose, but could all of you out there please check around your blogs and see if you've got an extra weekend laying around?
I seem to have lost mine. The last time I saw it was over at Bella's place...it wasn't all that big, so it could have easily been misplaced somewhere between here and there. It's about two days long, filled with nothing in particular to do, and well, it really means a lot to me, so I'd like to have it back. Yes, I know that I'll have another one at the end of the coming week, but it's just that I really hate having any of them go to waste...they're not as plentiful as they used to be!


*sigh...
It seems that I've become so absent minded these days. First I lose a weekend...what's it going to be next? A small child??!! *gulp Um, has anyone seen my nephew? heh heh


Ok, well that's enough of the silliness for today. I've been busy working on some projects around the house which is why I haven't been around much the past couple of days. Ugh. It's back to the grindstone tomorrow. Oh well...at least it's not the customer service desk!

Well, here it is...Friday already! Actually, that's a good thing...the week was beginning to show signs of dragging! I've only got three more days left in training class at work...and then it's back to 15 minute breaks and 1 hour lunches.

Oh well....
At least I have had a little time this week to get my desk at work in order...it's starting to actually look like someone works there! Now, if I can just figure out how to make it look that way when I'm actually NOT working!! I did have a bit of a scare today when I got home though...I have to enter my time for the week online, and when I tried to log in to the program, it wouldn't let me in!! It said I didn't exist!! So, I sent the "forgot my password" thing, and it sends the reset password to the chick who set me up with the job instead of ME!! I was livid to say the least.
As it turns out, I'd been putting in the wrong password.
But in my defense, it still shouldn't have sent my new password to anyone but ME damnit!!

>>>In other news:

----> It appears that I only have 3 days to live. I opened a message from a friend of mine on my MySpace page, and it was one of those stupid ass chain letters that says if I don't forward it to at least 5 people then I'd die in three days. Of course, it also said that if I didn't send it to 10 people I'd have 2 months of bad luck. So I'm assuming that for the first two months that I'm strumming on my harp at the pearly gates, I'd have a broken string on it? I would slap the person who sent me that stupid shit, but she unfortunately lives on the other side of town from me, so I'll have to be satisfied with the curse that I put on her!

---->For the first time in God only knows how long, I've actually got all the bills that I NEEDED to have paid taken care of!!! Yay!! That means that I can breathe a little bit now!!

---->I stopped in to visit my girls from the Customer Service Desk from Hell yesterday. It felt good to hear that I'm missed! Not good enough for me to ever consider going back, but good nonetheless! I've been told that they're having a hard time replacing me...apparently they can't find anyone that's quite as big of a smart ass as me! *sigh..It just warms the cockles of my heart, I tell ya!

Well, that's it for tonight! I need to go do some LONG overdue stalking! It's been ages since I've peeked into Bella's windows!!

After I got off of work today, I had a serious craving for some Chinese food, so I ventured down to my favorite Chinese buffet restaurant. These people make the most AMAZING curry chicken!! Anyway, so I go in and get my eat on....eventually the check comes, complete with a fortune cookie.

Now, while I realize these fortune cookies are just stamped out on some production line in China, I still get a kick out of reading them...hey, you never know...one day I may get one that says, "you will win a million dollars today" or something along those lines.

So I open my fortune cookie, anxious to see what my future holds for me...and what do I find written on the little piece of paper in the cookie?

"If your cookie is still in one piece, buy a lotto ticket."



My first reaction was a very strong desire to hop a plane over to China and smack someone in the face, but since a trip to China is pretty expensive, not to mention a long drawn out process to even get admitted to the country, I decided against that course. Besides, for all I know, I'd go over to China and look for this person, lay a smack down on the person and then end up in jail. Jail in China I hear isn't a very nice place.

>>>In other news:

-------> I saw on the news today the webcam images of that bridge collapsing in Minnesota...how horrible was THAT??? I have a huge fear of driving over bridges for this very reason...I've always been afraid that it would collapse and I'd end up doing the backstroke out of my car...or worse yet, DYING in my car!!

--------> My aunt from Charleston SC called me today and told me the most freaky story about something that had happened to her: she and her husband just sold a condo they own in Myrtle Beach and they made a $22,000 profit off of it....so the day they got the check, they paid off all of their bills...a pretty normal thing to assume someone is going to do when they get a nice chunk of money in their pocket. So anyway, she gets a call from the attorney's office that handled the closing and was told that the closing costs hadn't been paid and they wanted my aunt to send them $4,250 tomorrow!! So auntie tells them, "sorry, I've already spent the money....." Naturally, the paralegal on the phone was quite upset because it was HER fault that the money hadn't been withheld from the check, and there's nothing in the contract that stated WHO would pay closing costs. Yeah, a big screw up on this paralegal's part. So now, the attorney is going to have to cover the missing closing costs...!!!

Well, that's about it for this evening! Tomorrow is FRIDAY!! YAY!!!