ICON mania!

I just wanted a new profile icon, but dammit, they're all so good...

dumbasses all around

Little Bean, my niece, is very sick right now. She has a fever between 102 and 104, which we can occasionally control with meds (fevers over 103 can cause seizures and brain damage). She was doing ok at first, keeping the temps down and all, but then she spent a day with her father and his parents. They didn't give her any meds on the grounds that "fevers are good for you." We just spent half the night in the hospital because of that. The doctor was furious with him. I was just relieved when she said that she could tell that Little Bean was well adjusted, bright, and had a lot of love and good things in her life. Otherwise we'd probably have been talking to DHS.

Got a call from the landlady today. Crazy ex-roomie wants her security deposit back, and refuses to pay any more rent. Mostly, I want to say "fine, fuck you, I will be happier if I never see your ugly face again." But I don't wanna get financially fucked over. Sometimes I guess what I "mostly" want is to take her to the field out back of her house and kick the shit out of her. But I try not to be violent like that anymore. :)

Top it all off, my dental issues are worse than ever. My teeth are soft, because I had to take a lot of medications as a child. Their crumbling is practically inevitable. I've been dealing with the large chip nearly halving my front teeth for years, but now i have dental insurance, and can get it fixed, and get my wisdom teeth removed. They're pretty bad too. Just one problem: I'm terrified of the dentist. and stitches, gonna make it hard to get the teeth removed. So I put off calling to make an appointment. Then a chunk of one of my wisdom teeth. Dammit. Now I've gotta call.

LOL

I try to keep my political opinions to myself around here, but this was just too much for me. :D

experience project

check it out, new links ( psst, they're on the right.)

"Dance, Fucker, Dance"

For those who don't know, I love the new Offspring song, hence this post's title.
Second order of business, I type like crap all of a sudden. Please forgive any weird typos.

Lastly, HEY, I'M BACK!

Let's tell this story in a nice, chronologically linear manner, shall we?

I got a new job a couple weeks ago, full time stock person at American Eagle. Sweet job, sweet discount, great co-workers (my manager is a gorgeous, intelligent, funny, smart rich man who drives my favorite car. Obviously this means he is gay AND married.)
A few days after I get this job, I find out that my friend and roommate Mesa is a crazy person. I mean, damn. I'm known this girl for 8 years, I knew she had her issues, I knew she told stupid little lies all the time. But this was downright phenomenal. She's been telling us and everyone else who will listen, for 2 years now, about her fiance, Jay. I discover, she and Jay broke up 3 YEARS AGO. Like that isn't enough, she's been signing her emails to him as if they were from out other roommate Bean or from her cousin, emails about how she was in the hospital, how she broke her arm, how everyone was so bad to her and her parents abused her and so on. Not a word of it true. This girls been going as far as to buy herself and my niece gifts saying they were from him. The real hell broke loose when I told Jay what was going on (he lives several hours away). She had moved out withing three days of that.

Next thing I know, she's telling me that she's gonna take me to court for money I owe her, and for going through her room, and for opening her mail. The next day, her brother's screaming and swearing at me that they're gonna sue us for her deposit because she paid the whole thing, and that they're taking the water filter (they took the doorknob to her room and the curtain rod that wasn't even hers). To put those statements into perspective, I owed her no money, she may still owe me money; I caught her going through my room, but never went through hers; I did not open her mail, and even if I had I was secondary on the account she was referring to and therefore had a legal right to it to my understanding; sue me all you want, I have the bank records to prove that I paid her back for anything beyond her share of the deposit, and I can probably prove the damn water filter is ours too, you useless bastard.
I actually had to call my father to oversee the move, because it was that and hope it shut her brother up that he was there, or call the cops and have him removed. I will not be threatened and insulted in my own home thank you, and my defenses are my father, police, or lead pipe and pepper spray (girl's gotta know how to fend for herself), take your pick.

Well, with the way the whole thing's gone down, we've decided not to let her out of the lease. She remains responsible for a third of the remaining lease, and has actually agreed to pay it. I have not been sued, either. Good thing, considering I can prove she was using my name and birthday to open 'rewards' and 'points' type accounts. Hint, dumbass: that's identity theft, and illegal.
Now we just need to get her to pay her damn share of the rent.

THEN MY COMPUTER BROKE.
BECAUSE I REALLY NEEDED THAT ONE MORE THING

ok, I'm better.
Happy belated birthday to me.

migraines = everything sucks

At least tonight I can take my meds for it.
Speaking of, I'm back on my lexapro. It feels like a defeat, but I know it's really a victory because I saw what was happening and took care of myself before it got out of control.
Or something like that.

So, I'm having a bit of a time finding pictures for the Local Adventure that I'm planning, so I figured in the mean time, I'll supply you (you know who you are ;) ) with pics from previous local adventures (More on my flickr account, see link at right, look under sets 3/6 and beachy) -






If you do swing by my flickr account, just be warned that nature isn't the only 'local beauty' (apparently I feel witty tonight) featured on there...
I may be the only one on there to never appear in my underwear or swimsuit...

The internet....

always comes back to Dr. Who and Harry Potter.
frequently Joss Whedon, occasionally some popular anime.
But ALWAYS HP and DW.

Icon examples to follow. LOTS and LOTS and BUNCHES of icons.
Just a sample of my nerd-icon collection.
Squee.

PS - bonus points if you can identify (1)the icon that's only related to this subject in my head, (2) The crossover icons

"In all fairness, we got you first."

So, Tomorrow I was scheduled for clashing mandatory shifts at both my jobs.
Crap, huh?

I was discussing it with a boss at the job with what is usually the most flexible schedule, and she wasn't backing down (I'd rather be there anyway). See the quote in my title.

I did manage to convince my other boss that she needed to change my shift because, well, they had me first.

And despite Boss #2's bad attitude, I FEEL SO LOVED ;)

no, I actually feel like kicking Boss#2 for repeatedly changing my schedule without notice.




On a different note, I was driving Bean home from work tonight, and LITTLE BABY RACCOONS ran out in front of my car. THEY ALMOST DIED. I was very upset, I think I was screaming "oh my god little babies" or something of the sort.
But they were ok.