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March 6th, 2009
06:56 am - What is a Niece
From a card:
A niece is someone special who is always in your heart
So even though life's busy time may keep you far apart,
She's close to you in loving thoughts, in family memories too...
And in wishes on this special day for all her dreams come true.
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July 5th, 2007
10:54 pm - Where I've been today
Today was in Cleveland -> Kansas City -> St. Louis -> Cleveland
It was a long day!
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April 3rd, 2007
07:01 pm - Accident
I was in a car accident yesterday. A car hit the front passenger side of my car while he was going the wrong way on a one way road. My husband and I banged heads but otherwise we are ok.
His insurance called today and want to meet us tomorrow, we think to settle the claim or start talking about what we would want. I dont know what we should ask for. Here are the details.
Its a 1998 Contour 4 cylindar - this car was my aunts first and she was the orginial owner so we know the entire history of the car. We also found car repair bills totaling 1500 from right about 2 years ago till now. (suspension, brakes, tires, etc)
Both my husband and I missed yesterday at work, to go visit the doctor and get checked out. The doctor gave me muscle relaxors and suggested I might want physical theropy for my neck.
We've been with out a car because my husbands car needed repairs, its in the shop now, with a $1200 repair bill. (I realize the accident isn't going to pay to repair the other car, I'm just explaining the situation)
We have not asked for a rental car.
Assuming as we are that the car is totaled, what amount would you ask to settle for everything (including the medical).
Thanks in advance for all the advice.
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February 11th, 2007
12:39 am - Valentines Day - Early
Jim got me this wonderful necklace for V-day. I'm such a lucky girl.
BTW, I got him a new mmorpg that he wanted to try out.
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December 24th, 2006
08:38 am - Christmas Eve
At the begining of the year I was sure I didn't want to work downtown, I really didn't want to work full time and the idea of driving on the highway was horrible. I would rather have driven an hour out of the way then get on the highway.
I feel like in the last year I have finially completely become an adult. Mostly in good ways, and maybe in one or two bad ones.
Work has been consuming 90% of my time. Its been crazy, with this one really big project. This project touches almost every aspect of the company, and has been in progress by one persons account for 4 years. And last week we encountered a set back that may have caused it not to launch on schedule(I should say the current schedule because it has been delayed before), which luckly was solved. Hopefully when this project dies down work won't be so crazy.
Jims work is even crazier with the HR portal he wrote. He's maxed out at 240 hours of comp time, plus he has 5+ weeks of vacation. He tried to take some of it of to help get ready for Christmas, but ended up having to work from home. I worry he's becoming a work-a-holic. I don't mind the long or crazy hours but I do mind when it interfers with our life. (The perfect example being our anniversery this year, it was on Thursday, I went to work on Thursday but took Friday off. We did dinner Thursday night and were going to spend the weekend together. We did spend Friday together, but Jim had to work Sat and Sunday because he didn't work Friday. I don't want to have to sacrifice a weekend to get a special day with Jim.)(Note: Jim's been told we're doing something week long this year for our 5th anniversery)(Yes I told him, please don't comment someone has to make certain decisions, plus I'm trying to get him to plan it. We need a vacaction even if its a week in the woods.)
I'm currently freaking out about the credit card bill for December. It was higher then I wanted it to be, by alot. Jim looked over the bill and tells me its really not that bad, the dentist visit is on the cc bill as well as some other big expenses we expected.
My brain is of two halfs on our finiances. One the one had we are fine! At the current rate (assuming no raises), including three huge home improvements (new garage, driveway, and roof) we'll pay off the house when we are 40. One the other had I know we could be better if we pinched more pennies. Thats why Jim handles the money in our house, I'd hold it so tight we'd never have any fun.
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08:32 am - Merry Christmas!
I just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.
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December 10th, 2006
10:36 pm - New Years
If anyone is looking for something to do on New Year's Eve, Jim and I are planning on staying in and having friends over. No real details, we'll have some liquor but if your picky bring your own. I'll likely make dinner but nothing heavy, like tacos or something. We're flexable so if you want to invite some along thats fine, just let us know for head count. If your reading this your invited!
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November 5th, 2006
03:06 pm - Instead of grippng about whats not done..
Instead of sitting around gripping about what needs to get done, here is what I am doing today:
Cooked General Tso Chicken for lunch
Cleanned up lunch and last nights dinner
ReInstalling my sister in laws computer
Blogging
Researching speakers for my mother in law to buy
Doing several (2 so far) load of laundry.
Straightening up the Basement
Other misc cleaning
Studying for a Help Desk Analyst Certification Test
and possibly coupon clipping and grocery shoppping
Also I have to go to bed early tonight because I have to be at work by 6:30 tomorrow.
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November 3rd, 2006
07:14 am - Yes I'm still around
I know I haven't posted in a while so here a new entry.
I've been mostly busy with work, I know working a from 8:00-4:45 shouldn't consume my whole day, but it mostly ends up doing so. I still need to get my personal life in order. The house is a mess, though it has days of being passibly clean. The longer I'm at my job the more I realize at some point I'm going to have to go back and get my degree, but I don't know how people do it.
I bought an exercise bike to try and shed a few pounds and gain some energy. Jim and I are getting the chimney fixed today and we preordered a wii. We also helped Jims mom out with some money towards a new computer. So while for the most part these aren't bad uses of money I'm starting to feel like we're bleeding money. I saw the checking account the other day and it was dangerously low (of course this is also because we moved a huge chuck from checking to savings earlier this year).
I keep reading these boards about budgeting money, but we do most of the things they tell you already. Every board tells you to get rid of high interest rate credit, and thats great advise, but what do you do when your savings account rate is higher then your student loan rate, and the only other loan you have is a mortgage? I know the answer is spend less, and the truth is we're doing fine but I still panic sometimes.
And worse then budgeting money is budgeting time. But no one really talks about that. Jims been wrapped up in a HUGE project at work, that unfortunately just got a whole lot huger (is that a word?). The good news is they have a deadline now, 12 days. I really need to set a schedule for house work and stay to it, but its so easy to put it off to the weekend and then never get to it. I really wanted a house when we bought this one, but I wonder if an condo wouldn't have been better for us.
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August 20th, 2006
09:19 am - Two completely random unrealated thoughts
The guy that likely killed Jonbenet is headline news on Cnn for a week. You'd think it was a slow news time, you know with there being no war going on or anything.
Other thought:
Leftist Christians don't care if the Bible is true, don't care who Jesus was. (From a Ohio minister supporting blackwell).
Um, personally, I really don't. Because even if it isn't true it doesn't mean that it cann't be Truth. I mean even IF Jesus didn't walk the earth, "Treat others as you would like to be treated" and "Turn the other check" is still, you know, good advice. And for all the fundamentalist who need to find a single line in the old testment to defend what ever their bigoted view is, need to remember that the New Testment is full of Jesus saying, please ignore that it was for a different time, heres whats really important.
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July 30th, 2006
10:33 am - Random Thoughts
Yesterday I was shopping with my Aunt. She made a comment that she had to get home to go to Mass, because some people in the family still do that. That and a conversation with my one friend about taking shit jobs got me thinking about the time in my life I wasn't very together. I've been meaning to write about it for awhile, and I'm not even sure what I want to say about it.
The last time I really remember going to church regularly was right before my grandmother died. It was freshman year of college. I used to walk over to the chapel and go to mass. I remember the night I found out she was really sick and had cancer, I walked all over the campus (at night by myself) and one of the places I ended up was out side the chapel. I don't remember if I prayed or not, but I went there. The next day my uncle came with Rich in a police car and got me. My grandmother had taken a sudden turn for the worse (she lapsed into a comma and never woke up. I never got to speak to her after I found out she was sick. In the hospital she lasted for about a week, it was less but I don't remember how much less, my aunt would stay with her at night, and Katie stayed too. I had asked if I could stay one night, but Katie begged to be able to stay, so I said she could. At the time I knew Katie had problems but I didn't know how bad they were, but I knew enough to not want to be the person who didn't let Katie stay and then have her do something stupid. I don't think I knew she was sucicidal then. I remember we went up to Nate's (a deli) for breakfast. Everyone just sat there. We had tickets to the baseball game, I think it was the home opener between when she died and the funeral. We went to the game, I don't think I smiled or cheered once.
The summer was hell, my uncle feel at work (long story) and broke 7 ribs (on one side). Katie ended up hospitalized for most of the summer. My dad wasn't doing very well either. My dads father had surgery for I think a tumor (I don't remember). I know there was other bad stuff that happened I just don't remember it all.
Well fast foward to christmas break. My father died. I remember going back to school the right after the funeral. My uncle took me.
Life went on, and while I never put the effort forth into school I should have I spent two more years in school, taking classes and working at the same time. I got back together with Jim and moved out of Yvonne's house into an apartment. I had been floundering for a while, not really doing well. It was Septemeber, I got up to check my mail and surf the web. I was going to start working out today. Shannon and I were going to water aerobics, I already had my bathing suit on. I logged onto Cnn. They had the article about a plane hitting a building. I thought Cnn.com has been hacked. I turned on the TV to see if I could find a story about Cnn being hacked, but instead I found a story about a plane hitting a building.
It was about this time I just shut down. It wasn't because of september 11th, it just happened around that time, but the two are also linked in my mind. I don't have an explination, it just is. I stopped working, I stopped going to class. We moved into one apartment to save on bills. I planned a wedding. I got married. But mostly I was a bum.
I don't know if its just something everyone goes thru. If it was some time I need to decompress after my first few years of college that I hadn't taken. I don't know what it was, but for two years I really didn't do much meaningful with my life. It wasn't a good influence on Jim either. He quit really trying at school. If I hadn't broken down, Jim might have actually used that time to write his masters instead of playing everquest.
I made some half hearted attempts at finding a job. I'd send my resume out, but not here anything, I went to a temp agency who set me up on a couple of interviews that really didn't fit my skills. They called to set up an interview with a job I actually might get, and I didn't bother to call them back. I knew it was bad that we didn't have health insurance. I applied to work at a grocery store so that we could get some. I lasted a day at the job. I just couldn't do it. I know I should have, I know we really needed me to do it, but I didn't.
I got a call back about a resume I had sent out half heartedly. It was for a job at an answering service. I job I thought completely beneth me. I took it. I had so little ambition even for that job, that while it was 20 mintues away from home, when the weather was bad I would have Jim drive me to work. But I was starting to get myself back together. I was working and bringing in money and not being a bum. I started the job in Sept and it lasted till March when my boss decided to stop paying me (the company was out of money).
Jim got a full time job in April and we were planning to buy a house. I packed up our stuff that summer and we moved in August. I spent a few months getting the house set up. Jims brother passed away that Oct. I was glad I hadn't started a job so that I was able to go to Flordia with him for almost two weeks (Jim's job was very understanding about him taking the time off). Soon after we got back I got a job at a website company.
The rest of this feels like a different post. So I'll leave it for another time.
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July 29th, 2006
12:09 am - A good night
I had a good night I didn't even know I needed, but boy did I.
I feel like I've already have a full weekend and its only midnight. Jims running around cleaning up and I'm sitting on my laptop watching Two Towers, slightly drunk. :)
Its a good weekend.
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July 27th, 2006
06:07 pm - Playing with Webcams
New user pic of me at work.
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July 22nd, 2006
08:57 pm - Monthly Update
Ok, I haven't posted in a while.
My computer toasted itself. Its really just a chip on the motherboard that the connection to the motherboard broke on (because the laptop was poorly designed and a part was rubbing on it), but it means the whole motherboard would have had to be replaced. So I got a brand new laptop. And its got a few awsome upgrades. It gets 6 hours of battery life and can burn dual layer dvds. It's super nice.
It arrived Wednesday but I barely got to turn it on Wednesday night before I had to go to bed. Thursday I stopped up at the meetup at I'm game, I left early to come home and play with my new toy, but ended up going to bed at 9, I don't know why I was so tired. Friday my aunt stopped over, and I got to show it off but not really use it. I haven't even really gotten to play with it today. I spent the morning doing laundry and cleaning up the basement. I was going to head out to sams club around 11 but got delayed. I found out my friend Quentin is now a dad to a bouncing baby boy named Corvin. I chatted with him for a bit and saw picturns and such. He's so tiny. His moms thinking of taking him to Pensic the first week in August, and I think she's crazy.
Well after that I did end up going to sams club and buying a ton of food. I can home and thru out all the unedible food in our fridge and put the new stuff away. Changed the laundry around and took a nap. I was going to make the General Tso chicken I got at sams club for dinner, but it servers 8, anyone want to come for dinner some time next week and eat up some of the chicken?
I really wanted to go camping this weekend, but there is no way we could have. I know I'll get everything under control one of these days, and I am starting to see progress. I honestly don't know how people do it. Have a job, a house, kids, cook at home, do yardwork, keep the house clean and still have time for hobbies. I know part of it is they stay on top of things and don't let them get as bad as the house was for a while. I also know the more I do the more I am able to do, when I sit around moaning about all the needs done, I'd be better off just doing it.
I am so glad I got a full time job. Working part time and having the freedom to do all the extra stuff I wanted was nice for a while, but long term I think I would rather have the things the extra money can buy, like nice vactions and new laptops, and more importantly pay off the house sooner. I slept in late too many mornings and did nothing with my day, maybe a more structure job would have fixed that, but I think I'm almost doing as much extra stuff now as I was when I was working part time.
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June 25th, 2006
05:52 pm - Amusement Parks
Thanks to dilated eyes Jim and I got to go to Geagua Lake today (Thanks again for the tickets!). I had a good time and enjoyed myself, but I think I've decided I'm amusement parked out.
Ironicly earlier this weekend I was considering planning a two day excursion to cedar point, and before that I was thinking of getting a season pass to Geagua Lake. But now I'm thinking it might be a few years before I go again. I know a large part of the problem is I don't do any of the big rides (anything that goes upside down or goes more then two stories high).
I was sitting at a table discussing with dilatedeyes that the park just doesn't feel the same. And its really hard to pin down because its had three owners recently. First it was just Geagua Lake, then Six Flag bought it, then they bought Seaworld right next to it and merged the two, then finally Cedar Fair bought it and renamed it Geauga Lake, but tore down the last remains of Seaworld and put in a water park.
The thing is I don't think its completely the parks fault, as much as maybe I'm too old, which makes me sad.
I guess its like the lunch we had, yes amusement park food is always overpriced, but it used to be good in a greasy indulgent way, the food I had today was just bland and average at best.
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June 17th, 2006
09:43 pm - I spoke to soon
The laptop is still foobared.
Here's a newpaper article about it:
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/10/23/consumer.htm
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05:35 pm - My Laptop is BACK!
I came home Friday from work, my laptop wouldn't boot.
Well Jim and I looked at it. Turns out my model has a design flaw that causes these two plastic tabs to press on the motherboard.
So Jim took my laptop entirely apart today - it had to be the absolute hardest point to get to soldered for about a minute and then had to put the whole thing back together.
And it worked ! :) The offending plastic tabs have been removed to avoid a repeat problem.
I had called dell this morning to see if I could get them to fix it because it was a design flaw, those tabs shouldn't have been rubbing on the motherboard, and several ppl with the same problem where considering a class action lawsuit. Dell's answer was its out of warrenty its not our problem, you'll need to buy a new motherboard ($400).
I am so glad Jim was able to fix it. :)
*Bounce*
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May 9th, 2006
April 30th, 2006
03:48 pm - I'm Livid
I am THIS CLOSE to telling my sister I don't want to be in her wedding.
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April 23rd, 2006
11:52 pm - Warcraft - Canceled
To bad I just paid for 6 months one month ago. I guess I have time to change my mind.
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