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Friday, 26 June 2009

  • I so desperately want to go outside and go for a walk right now.  I'm having some severe cabin fever.  But if I even think about going outside I start to sweat.  I can't even convince myself to go down to the pool because that would mean sunscreen and the walk down there (yeah the whole 500 feet...).  It hasn't gone below 85 degrees here for the last week.  The air conditioning has been running pretty much non stop for the last 2 weeks.  I can't wait to see that electric bill. 

    I went home at the end of last weekend for an ortho appointment but I had to come back to Iowa on Tuesday for work.  I didn't have time to do much when I was home since we stayed in La Crosse most of the day and when we did get home we went out to meet some of my mom's friends who wanted to see me.

    I'm trying to motivate myself to do some more wedding planning and some homework and obviously that plan is working FABULOUSLY at the moment...not.  I'm sooooo freaking bored when I have nothing to do but when I have tons to do I just can't motivate myself, how does this make sense?

    On another note, I'm already sick of all the Michael Jackson coverage.  Between his death and the Ed Thomas murder I wouldn't know if a nuclear bomb went off.  Ed Thomas was the Aplington-Parkersburg head football coach for like 37 years and Wednesday morning some guy walked into the school weight room and shot him.  Evidently he's had 4 players go into the NFL and he was a staple for the community.  He's the Michael Jackson of Iowa high school football (without the molestation accusations and financial issues).  So between all the news coverage of these two I would never know if something serious happened.

    I think tonight Steve and I will stay in and watch a movie since it's still way too hot to go outside (it got up to 99 at 3 this afternoon).  I should get off my butt and start dinner since he'll be home in about 15 minutes.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

  • The wedding cake gods have smiled upon me...

    I decided that my mission for the day would be to find a wedding cake person.  I'm taking this one day at a time because all the things that go along with planning a wedding are pretty overwhelming when you're also working and trying to go to school at the same time.  Anyway, our neighbor's aunt does cakes (she used to work at Linda's Bakery) so she was my first call.  Well, she was already booked for the weekend with 2 weddings (one of the brides wanted a cake on each table, that's why she couldn't take on more events for that weekend).  So, disappointed, I set out looking for a new person.  I first looked at someone the lady had recommended.  I couldn't get a hold of her and upon looking for information about her or pictures of her cakes I found that she's $12,000 delinquent in taxes.  So, no dice there.  Next I looked at the commercial bakeries.  The median price tended to be about $3.50/slice-$10/slice.  That's a lot considering your basic wedding cake is about $1.50/slice.  Yikes.  Then, in the midst of my fruitless search I get a phone call from the first lady I called.  Apparently a short time after I called her the lady who wanted a cake on each table had to cancel because of a conflict with the church they wanted to use.  So she called me back and I have an appointment on Monday to see pictures of what she's done and pick out what I want.  I'm excited!

    Other than that nothing much has been going on.  I work and go to school and plan the wedding and go to the doctor and that's about it.

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

  • Yay?

    I'm having surgery November 24th.  That's 2 days before Thanksgiving.  So I get to eat puree'd turkey for dinner I guess. 

    Someone next door is dropping things and pounding on the wall so hard my coffee table is shaking and the dog is freaking out.  I sooooo hope these people are moving out soon.  They burn food on a near nightly basis making for some nasty smells that waft over into our apartment.  Their vacuum makes this really obnoxious high pitched noise that sends the dog into a psychotic rage.  And they're overall just loud and annoying, constantly pounding on the walls or yelling at one another.  I think they're the ones that are supposed to be moving out.  We're supposed to be getting new neighbors sometime this summer.

    I guess that's all, I'm gonna go do some homework.  Yay for summer classes...

Tuesday, 09 June 2009

  • Mandy Moore's "band" looks like something you'd see on the kids' show The Wiggles.  I should really stop watching The View, but there's really nothing else on and I needed a break from studying. 

    The brand Marcaol is marketing these new paper towels and toilet paper that are made from 100% recycled paper "so it's not made from trees."  Ummm....where did that paper come from again?  Oh yeah, a tree!

    I have my surgical appointment at UIHC tomorrow, oy.

    And here's where I get cranky and over dramatic, so if you have other things to do, you shouldn't waste your time with this.


    There is a cake decorator at the bakery...duh (actually there are 2, and they both annoy me, but this is about one of them).  She thinks she's God's gift to cake decorating because Wal-Mart asked her to come there (she didn't apply, they came to her).  She evidently has several other jobs and was a manager at a bakery at a different grocery store at one point.  For some reason, unbeknownst to me, she has taken a severe disliking to me.  I absolutely cannot figure out what it is that I did or didn't do, but she just doesn't like me and she makes it known.  For the record, this isn't just me being sensitive, she apparently made it her mission to get our department manager (who is my age) to quit when he first started there.  Every Monday for the duration of the summer I work a packaging shift from 5am-2pm.  Everying Monday for the last 3 weeks it's been the same thing, "Where's Marianne?  I just love that woman, she's a mover..." (Marianne is the lady that packages the other 4 days out of the week and every other Saturday).  I have no idea where she gets this from.  Marianne is the slowest fucking person I've ever seen.  When I come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2 (when she's supposed to be done) there's still stuff sitting out that hasn't been packaged.  When she's in on Saturdays (which is when I bake) I still manage to get more racks packaged than she does despite the fact that I having baking and prep to get done.  She doesn't clean up after herself and she doesn't stock as she packages (which slows things down, but is also a lot more efficient than letting it all pile up).  When she's not being slow she's off chating with one person or another.  Gahhhhh!

    And yesterday I was joking around with our dept. manager who was doing everything in his power to be in my way.  I made a comment to the effect of that I was being slow because Matt was in my way.  And again, for the record, I am not slow, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't stop moving the entire 9 hours I'm there.  Well, this cake decorator made a comment about how it wasn't Matt's fault I was slow, I just was.  To which I replied that I had finished packaging by 9 that morning (which never happens).  She then decided to attribute my work to the baker, who had only packaged 3 racks, while I did the other 9. 

    And so I'm irritated.  This woman hates me for no other reason than that I'm young (near as I can figure).  She also seems to think that when I start up school again in the fall that I'll just leave (which also isn't true...hello, I have a wedding to pay for).  She's rude and apparently thinks that berating me in front of my co-workers and customers will encourage me to work faster (maybe?).  Well, I'm certainly not above my rebelliously teenaged methods of working at half speed just to piss her off more.  I am at my wits' end with this woman.  I can't even go to my assistant manager because she likes this woman.  Also, I'm pretty sure any complaint I made wouldn't be anonymous and I'd catch even more flak for that since I'm fairly certain her response would be that she's "joking."  Pretty sure my next project after this surgery will be to find a new job.




Wednesday, 03 June 2009

  • Soooooooooo...

    It's supposed to be my day off but I have ton of stuff to do.

    I finally got so fed up with Mayo that I decided to get an appointment at UHIC and talk to the insurance company.  I have a consultation June 10th and the insurance company said that since the surgery was already approved they'll just have to approve the surgeon.  Here's hoping for the best.

    That surgeon's assistant from Mayo finally called me back....after I filed a complaint with Patient Affairs.  Idiot.

    Mostly I've just been working.  40 hours a week.  Which is good because we need the money.  I'm also selling my body to science to pay for the wedding.  Steve is too...  Research studies pay well.

    Today I need to...

    Go to the bank
    Pay bills
    Call Dr. Bentz's office so they can call Mayo who forwarded one of my models, but not the rest or any of the radiographs or pictures they were supposed to send.  Once again...idiots.
    Schedule an appointment to take an exam for my online class
    Study for said exam
    Vacuum the house
    Clean our bedroom (from which the dog is now banned, I'll explain in a minute)
    Figure out where the nasty cheese/dirty socks smell is coming from (I suspect the garbage disposal)
    Take the smelly dog outside and brush another dog off of him
    Clean Dagget's cage and Frank's bowl
    Make dinner (baked spiced chicken with roasted garlic potatoes)

    I'm sure there's more, I just can't think of anything else.

    Yeah....Sunday afternoon I came home from work.  I was irate (about something that happened at work).  I walk into the bedroom to find the dog eating yet another pair of my underwear.  By now I've figured out that I need to aim for the laundry basket when I get undressed...duh.  Well, the dog has figured out how to get stuff out the laundry basket.  It's a deep basket and he's short and long, so this is not an easy task, but he manages.  So I scream "fucking dog!" and Steve comes running.  I yelled about the dog for a good five minutes.  Steve got mad at me because I banished the dog to his kennel while we were sleeping and while he was at work until I could get a baby gate to put up to keep the dog out.  If we shut the door to our room he'll paw at it and it gets really hot in there too.  Of course it had to storm that night and the stupid dog was barking and whining and carrying on.  So Steve got mad at me about that, while I was getting even more pissed at the dog because I had to work at 4am Monday morning.  Stupid ass dog.  He's not my favorite animal at the moment.

    I think that's all for now.  I'm gonna go get some breakfast, get showered, and get going for the day.

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