Tidbits

Ahoy hoy everyone! Just a quickie post today with little odds and ends that popped into my head during the day.

First and foremost welcome to Dawn! Thanks for following, my cult is growing nicely! Mwahahahaha

Also, Happy Saint-Patrick's everyone! Have some green beer or whatever is your poison of your choice today and have fun :)

Damn it's hot in the office, we seriously need better ventilation in here as it's stuffy and I'm in a t-shirt right now. It is not t-shirt weather yet.

Sleep has still been a bit hit or miss lately. Very tired at work, but when I get home, I don't wanna sleep. I think I'm dreading something, I just wish I knew what.

On a brighter note, I always like visiting this site for a pick me up and help restore my faith in humanity somewhat: http://www.givesmehope.com/

It's my goddaughters birthday (today and on the 20th). I've been channeling my inner 2-3yr old girl to find them gifts. I got one two sets of giant Dr. Seuss floor puzzle. Still looking for the a gift for the other one. Maybe a set of Mr. Potatoe head family (she's a big Toy Story fan and has a lot of the other characters already). Any advice is appreciated.

AAAnnnnnddd my final though for today:
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Post of a sleep deprived mind or why I think my MP3 player loves me

Ok erratic post from work. Erratic because well I'm at work, I'm tired and my brain is essentially at "remember to breathe mode". I just didn't want to leave my blog at my early morning rant. I swear I'm not always as doubt filled and pissed off as I've shown so far. These things just seem to lump together. Snowball effect I guess.

Anywho, this was something I wanted to write about. I might be doing it a disservice by having it as a work post, but eh, it'll help distract my mind.

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After that long intro, I swear there's a connection with the post. Now usually whenever I feel down, my mp3 player seems to realize it and actually plays music appropriate to the situation. Sometimes it takes a song or two for it to judge my mood, but once it's figured it out, it plays a long string of songs that help me out. This morning it was on the ball right away. After worrying (for mostly no good reason) the first song that cam on was Ain't Nothing Wrong With That by Robert Randolph. Specifically by the end where the song goes:

Ain't nothin' wrong with that

It don't matter
It don't matter
(Let it go)
It don't matter
(Let it go)
It don't matter
(Let it go)
It don't matter
(Let it go)

I would link to youtube, but work oh so graciously blocks it. Maybe when I get home.

After that it strung together some upbeat songs to try to lift my spirits. Now I have no special playlist. I just load up my MP3s and the thing is on random. Oh and in the middle of all that upbeat music, what does it play? Lean On Me. Now that's friendship!

This isn't the first case of it playing what I need to hear either. When I'm in absolutely no mood for upbeat, it'll stick with the sadder songs I have. Oh and it eerily plays Eye of the Tiger whenever I need to get pumped up.  

Anyone else find this happens to them or is it another check in the long list of Bo Bo is crazy list?

Can't sleep clown will eat me....

Went to bed at around 11PM and it's now about 4AM. I'm the type of person that needs a lot of sleep in order to function, so work will not be fun later. I'm not quite sure if it's daylights that's messing me up or not. Actually that's not quite true, for some reason, I've been feeling anxious since yesterday.

I hate this feeling because usually for the most part, it's unwarranted. It's crazy, but my brain seems to need me to worry about something at all all times, otherwise things must not be right. After a few days of feeling good, something inevitably comes up and starts messing with my nerves. Most of the time it's something compeltely useless and logically I shouldn't be stressing as much about it.

Current worry, money. I know, I know we all sort of worry about it. Thing is, I really don't have much to worry about. I'm on solid ground financially speaking, I'm not spending more then I can afford. I do have savings and my job is at least secure for the short/mid term. My brain however is yelling at me that something is wrong. I'm forgetting a big expense in my calculations or something and when I do sit down and crunch the numbers, even if it was what I was expecting I still feel disappointed on the outcome. And that's just an example.

And this is just the current worry. This will eventually pass... usually by finding something tha makes me feel like I accomplished something. Even if in reality it doesn't matter...

Ah well at least this time the worry is something "useful" as it'll help me budget out my finances eventually. I just wish I wouldn't be such a worywart in general and that the damn clown will let me sleep!

Happy Saturday!

Ahoy hoy everyone! I am back on the grid! No more living like a poor internet-less shlub for me, let the cyber-stalking continue!

First of all, I would like to say thanks to Sugar Free aka Heather for following my blog!
Here's hoping I can be entertaining enough to get more followers! (How many do I need before I can call it a cult?

Quickie post today, just to say that I think it's official, I have gone insane. Now some of you (namely Kat) will say I've always been a bit off, but today is proof positive that I've lost it. Not only did I wake up earlier then I do during the week to get ready for work, but I actually did all the chores I planned for the day before 1! Awwww yeah....

Nothing but loafing here on out. Gonna watch the Habs hopefully beat the Penguins, have a beer in hand and no plans for the rest of the day. I have a feeling today will be a good day.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Patience is a virtue....

... one which I do not have!

[best televangelist preaching/yelling voice]
It's Lent, and God has tested me yesterday!
[/best televangelist preaching/yelling voice]

So a tech was supposed to come over my place and fix my phone line between 8AM and Noon.

Finally. Now I didn't necessarily have to be there, but they say it's best in case the tech does have to check into your place. No problem, take a half day off. Wake up a bit earlier then usual. Get ready then decide to watch Transformers, because I wanted to have mindless entertainment.

Movie's done... still nothing, but it's around 10. Ok... well time to catch up on some video games I guess... Played a little old school Full Throttle (LucasArts back when they still did aweseome adventure games). Got stuck and need a walkthrough and to get that I need the net. Crap....

It's ok, lunchtime anyway... still no news... that's not good though. Ate, decided to call the company to make sure I wasn't screwed over and my appointment was lost. 40 minutes on hold..... then person on the other after some fiddling around says nope should be on his way, probably just running late, just hunker down.

Quick sidenote: my contract is actually with a 3rd company and they contact Bell to deal with this stuff cause it's Bell's network. So being pissed off at that guy would be yelling at the wrong company.

So I wasn't quite surprised that they were late. Weather was crappy and I have very low confidence level of Bell. Call work, tell em I won't be in the afternoon and try to think what should I do. And this is were my level of madness starts to show. I did my taxes. Both provincial and federal. I even called Revenue Quebec for some info. The due date for taxes is April 30th and I think I may still have some receipts to add to it, but I essentially finished it off. By this time it was almost 3pm. Now I was starting to get pissed.

If anyone only knows me through my blog, you might think so what, but in reality, it does take a bit to start getting me angry. So I called up tech support again. This one actually called Bell to double check. Well turns out somewhere between the two, someone messed up and Bell thought it was an "all-day" call, meaning they had between 8AM to 9PM to fix it. GODDAMMIT! I wasted a whole day, instead of making some arrangments like getting my sis in for half a day so I wouldn't waste a personal day. After pacing my place to let off steam... Then just to piss me off even further... I see a Bell van parked in the corner. Idle... no knock on the door or nothing, I have no idea if he's actually the tech that's supposed to check my place. I start pacing.... trying to keep myself from running out like a madman at him yelling to fix my phone.

I finally decide he's not here for me, sit and start playing Epic Mickey. It helps take my mind off of things, then I heard the most glorious sound I've heard in a while, my phone rang!!! THANK YOU LORD!!!

It was the tech guy just confirming that my line was back up! YES! I say thanks, hang up, go turn on my modem... then I see no DSL light, which means still no internet. SONUVABITCH!

I get another call, it's the tech guy again, saying that some configurations are still needed and I would have internet back either before 9PM or else it'll have to wait for sometime this morning.

Now loyal reader(s?) with my luck guess which option happened for the net. That's right, by the time I left work, still no net. This is getting bad, I'm about to surf for porn at work, I'm getting that desperate!

Day 2, I am slowly going crazy....

Alright, I may have been unhinged before, but this no internet thing is driving me nuts. No email, no stalking I mean facebooking or checking out blogger now that I'm getting more into it. GAH!

Thing is it's also messing up my sleep. Well I have other things on my mind too (that may be a blog for another time, but one I will definitely not write at work). But yeah, this is really pissing me off and my sleep is messed up because of it. What's more is that I asked the condo association for some help in the matter. They have the keys to an area I may need to access... but nothing. I bet the bastards would've taken care of everything if they had this problem already, but nooooo..... Not even a courtesy: "We received your email, but we don't want to deal with you now" email. So it pisses me off even more. At this point I'm about ready to gamble the 100$ that the problem is on the outside line, call for tech support and get it fixed. Of course if I'm wrong, then I'm out 100$ for calling tech for no reason and I still have to go through the !@$##%$ association to get access.

I think I may start a sucks donkey balls list of things that suck donkey balls.

Always want what you don't have or you won't miss something until it's gone

Welp, first of all, someone did find me and is actually following my blog. I always knew there was something off about Kat and this just proves it. Thanks for being my first ;p

As for my day, yesterday proved why Monday sucks donkey balls. I got home and decided to fire up Netflix while I have my supper. It gave me an error saying that it couldn't connect to the intertubes. Pffff no problem, been there done that tons of times. Go to my modem, switch it off. Wait a few seconds, then switch it on.

Problem solv..... why isn't the DSL light lighting up? That's not good. Pick up the phone receiver and a whole lotta nuttin. No dial tone, nuttin. SONUVA....

So called up my sis to go online and give me the number of tech support. Call up (using my cell of course) and I'm #15 waiting. Meh, whatever, I wait. Have supper, fold laundry, do dishes... numbers going down pretty quickly actually...until I reach #2. And then it dragged on foreeevvvvvveeeerrrrrr....... Every 5 minutes or so an automated message telling me I'm #2 and if I want I can press 1 to leave a message. Screw that, I didn't wait this long and go this far just to leave a message!

Finally I go through. Explain my situation. Person is pleasant enough, but from his tone I can tell that he's tired. Anyway, he mentions the usual if I checked different jacks/phones. I did. So he tells me if I tested the demarcation box. Well I explained that I can't really test it, since I live in a condo building and only the association has the key to access it (I think they do anyway). Well he says he can contact a tech to send out, but if it turns out the problem is due to internal wiring, they'll charge me 100$.

I'm fairly certain it's due to Bell's incompetence, but with my luck, I'm not ready to gamble. So I go to a neighbours, borrow their computer and send an email to the association to see if I can test it out there first. And now I play the waiting game.....

My sister called me up, asking for an update. Then jokingly says what're you gonna do without the internet? I shrug it off. I got a Wii, DS, DVD's. I won't be bored.

O M G.... I miss the Internet!!!!! I probably would've been bored after a while as usual, but I needz it! How can I surf for por.... I mean cyberstalk.... I mean chat with my friends without it?

And this was just one evening, I might have to go the week without it! GAH!

This sucks donkey balls!

P.S. Yes I know there are a ton of things that are worse than this. But this is my blog and I'll rant if I want to!