Monday, July 17, 2006

   Enough with the heat already!!!

Yep. It's still hotternell here. I don't like it one bit. And people that tell me they'd rather have hot weather than cold need to be smacked upside the head with a slushie! You see, it's like this: when it's cold outside, you can always put on more clothes. But when it's hot outside, you can't take off too much clothes or you'll be arrested for indecent exposure! Plus, no matter how much clothes you take off, you're still gonna be hot!!!!

Anyhoo... now that I've gotten that off my chest, how's things with you? Work was all right last night. I was tired and didn't feel all that great, so I didn't have much fun. Tonight will be a pain in the butt. Mondays are always busy and I gotta work with the psycho again. Hopefully, there will be a lot of van runs to keep him occupied. I wonder if we have a lifeguard yet.... since the one girl quit and another quit right after her, we're down to one lifeguard for the pool. And she's been on vacation for the past week or two! The boss is still there. Somehow the owner convinced her to stay. I still don't know what is going on, so I just try to ignore it all and do my own job.

Well, time to finish email.

Laters!

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Additional: I just read my horoscope over in one of my Yahoo accounts. This is what it said:

Overview: You know that old saying about a healthy mind in a healthy body? Add 'home' to that list while you're at it. Clean closets, toss rotten food from the fridge and get a little air and light into your living quarters.

Are they nuts?!?! "get a little air" into my living quarters? I'm not opening any doors or windows on a day like this!!!

Sheesh...

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Ritz Crackers and Coca-Cola

That was lunch. I'm just not hungry right now. I will be later on when I'm at work.

Tonight is one of two nights that I have to work with the psychotic little man. Yay. I'm tired right now and can just imagine the way I'll feel when work rolls around in about 3 hours. Hopefully, I'll find enough busy work to keep him out of my hair... and out of danger. Danger from me smacking the crap out of him.

Last night was pretty dull for a Saturday. There actually was no wedding reception in the building. Wow. But we still had a softball team or two (there may have been three teams there Friday night) and the family reunions and the high school reunions.

The high school reunions were for the classes of 1954 and 1956 from South Sioux City, Nebraska. That's so cool. In a couple years it will be the 25th year reunion for my class. I don't know if I'll attend. I've not been to any of the others that have been held, so why break tradition? I will, however, send another unusual picture of myself if they make a book like they did for the 10 and 20 year reunions. For the 10 year reunion, I sent a picture of me sitting at the base of one of the fake trees in the Jungle at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. For the 20 year reunion, I sent a picture of me in my green Renaissance dress. Everyone else sends nice family portrait type pictures or family snapshots. I enjoy being a little different than my classmates.

Well, I think I better go finish email now. I don't have as much time to kill on the computer today. Gotta be to work an hour earlier than usual. At least I'll get to be home an hour earlier than usual, too!

Laters!

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Saturday, July 15, 2006

   Jerry's a doorknob!

Hey...it's Saturday afternoon. I've been awake for approximately 2 hours and 9 minutes. I really should stop staying up until 3 am!!!

Work last night was pretty normal for a Friday night. Lots of people checking in. Not a lot of van runs. Let's see... there's two high school reunions, two softball teams, at least two family reunions and a wedding party in the motel this weekend. Then add on the usual railroaders and truckers that have contract rooms with us and it gets really interesting. I feel sorry for the normal vacationer looking for a place to stay.... sometimes.

I gotta work again tonight. Whoopee. It's so frickin' hot outside right now that I really don't want to leave the house. The a/c at work in the lobby just can't quite handle the heat, so it's quite uncomfortable in there if we don't find a fan to get the air moving behind the desk.

Well, that's about it. I will leave you with this sage advice: Automatic updates on the computer are such a pain in the arse.

Laters!

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Friday, July 14, 2006

   I wear my lab glasses at night....

Thursday. Whee. I had today off. Did laundry. I did walk downtown to go to the bank and felt like I needed gills to be able to breathe through all the humidity. It was nasty. Then the storm hit and the temperature got to be bearable. Yay.

I played with the digital camera during the storm. The results are below. The shaking of the camera at the one part is a result of the porch shaking to the thunder. Yeah... it was that loud.



Now I'm sitting here and playing around with stuff. Nothing too exciting going on now. I did visit all that updated on the 13th. w00t!

Laters!

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

   Scary stuff!!!!

Well, Wednesday has gone by and now it's not quite 2:00 am on Thursday. I really should stop staying up after work. In a few weeks, I'll be having to stop this bad habit (and a couple others), as my parents will be returning from Maryland.

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Work Wednesday was pretty boring. We were sold out again. Really weird for the middle of the week. Most of the van runs were in the last two hours of my shift. Go figure. I did get a $2.50 tip from the hotel owner for picking up his dinner order from Chili's. Whee! At least I have tomorrow off. But then I work six days in a row.... complete with one night working with the psychotic little man that returned to work there. I hope I don't have to listen to him talk all night. He's very annoying.

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All right... time for an explanation of the subject line. I was looking for a bookmark this afternoon. I have a ceramic police callbox (aka TARDIS) that I keep my bookmarks in. I pulled them all out and found a strip of photos from one of those photo-booth thingies. A strip of photos from 1986 or 1987!!!!!! Yes, this is a picture of me when I was about 21 or 22 years old. It's an 80s flashback. I know it's either of those two years because of the shirt I'm wearing. It's a shirt for the "band" I was in back then. I was the guitar player because I already knew how to play keyboards. Our drummer was the one with no rhythm. And the keyboard player was the one taking intro-level piano lessons. So... feel free to click on the picture. Then feel free to giggle to your heart's content. I won't be hurt. I actually laughed at it myself.



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Well, it's now about 2:30 am. I should be seriously considering sleep. I seriously doubt it will be happening too soon. Hahaha!

Laters!

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

   Better.... better get a bucket.

Well, Tuesday went past without too much crap like Monday. I'm still a little pissed off at the lady for snapping at my brother and still think she owes us an apology for it. Stupid heifer...

As for work...the owner showed up. I don't know what I was expecting the guy to look like, but he was totally not what I expected. He's a lot younger than I thought he'd be. Hmm.... I've also decided that I don't really want to know what's going on. I've heard different things as to what happened and don't know what is true. If any of it is true. So, I've decided I'm just going to smile and nod a lot. Get that little vacant stare going and I'll be just fine....

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Well, there's another story part down below for those that read it. If you're wondering what happened to the link up above for the story site, I turned it off for now. I was nosing around that site and found that it got messed up somewhere along the line. So...the link is turned off for now, but the site is actually still there. I just have to figure out what I'm going to do to it. I may start to play with Dreamweaver!! Ohh....

Well, 'tis about 1:15 am and I should either go nose around in Dreamweaver or go to bed. I just can't decide which I want to do. Well, whichever it is that I do, it will have to wait until I restart the computer. Windows Update just told me I have to restart. *sigh*

Laters!

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Waiting

After the doctor had left, Hikaru went to sit at Samantha’s side. Takeda explained as best as he could to Midori about why Hikaru had been silver. At first Midori was concerned, but her fears faded as she recalled how Samantha had always spoken of the silver boy she needed to help. “It’s all right, Takeda-san,” she said. “I understand. Sam-chan always spoke of Hikaru-kun before we met you.”

“I had forgotten about that as well. Sam-chan is a rather unusual young lady, isn’t she?” Takeda said with a yawn. “Pardon me. It’s gotten rather late now. I think it’s time to get some…” He stopped talking as he remembered Sam and Midori shared a room. “Excuse me a moment,” he added and went to talk to Hikaru. He came out a moment later. “He’s not going to leave her side, so you’ll have to use his room tonight. I better go clean it up for you.” He hurried off to Hikaru’s room to survey the mess.

Midori smiled to herself as Takeda hurried off, then went to her room to get some fresh clothes for morning. Hikaru didn’t look up as she entered the room. She met Takeda in the hall as he came out of Hikaru’s room. He was carrying some wet clothes.

“It’s clean now,” he said. “Good night, Midori-san.”

“Good night.”

Three days had passed since that night and Samantha had yet to awaken. She had broken an ankle in the fall, but a fever had set in the next day, and Hikaru would not leave her side. Takeda and Midori both offered to watch in his place, but he would just shake his head and refuse to move. Even when the doctor came by to check on Sam, Hikaru would not leave her side.

Takeda sighed as he returned to the sitting room after another attempt to get Hikaru to move. “I don’t know what to do, Midori-san,” he said.

Midori looked up from her mending. “He still won’t move?”

Takeda shook his head. “It’s been three days and he won’t leave her side. Not even to eat. I took the hibachi in to him, but I don’t know if the fire went out on its own or if he did it. You’ve seen how he gets if he doesn’t eat.”

Midori set aside her sewing and looked at Takeda. She could see the concern in his eyes and understood his feelings, but the tired look on his face worried her. “Takeda-san, would you like some tea?” she asked. “You’ve been working so hard.”

He smiled at her and said, “Yes, I would like that very much. Thank you.” He sat down by the table and watched Midori as she went to the kitchen. He was glad she was there, but his thoughts turned to Hikaru. Something needed to be done about him. Demonic heritage or not, it was bad for the boy’s health, both physical and mental, to stay by Sam’s side for three days. Takeda knew that Hikaru didn’t sleep like normal people, but he could see signs of exhaustion on his face. Something was bothering Hikaru, but he wouldn’t say a word about it.

Midori came from the kitchen carrying a tray with three cups of tea and some biscuits. She set two of the teacups on the table near Takeda along with a plate of biscuits. “I made some for Hikaru-kun. I hope he’ll have it.”

Takeda reached for a biscuit, but said nothing.

Midori took the tray back to Hikaru. She set it next to him and said, “I brought you some tea. Please have some.” She held the cup of tea out to him.

Hikaru didn’t respond.

Midori insisted, “Please, have some tea. It’s fine tea and is good for you.”

“I don’t want it,” Hikaru whispered. “Leave me alone.”

“No, I won’t leave you alone. You’ve neither eaten nor slept for three days. You’ve not moved from this spot. It’s not good for you.”

“I don’t want it,” he repeated.

Midori set the cup down. “All right,” she said quietly. “I know that normal food doesn’t satisfy you, and I know that you don’t sleep like normal people. But I also know this: you’ve been sitting here for three days. Takeda-san and I are just as worried about Sam-chan as you are, but we’re not starving ourselves. You’re just making things harder for Takeda-san by sitting here, and I don’t think Sam-chan would be very happy to see you making yourself ill on her account.”

Midori’s last words stung the hardest, and Hikaru held his breath. When he let it out and spoke, there was a slight sob to his voice. “I’m sorry,” he said. “This is all my fault. She got hurt because of me.”

“Oh, Hikaru-kun, is that what’s been bothering you all this time?” Midori asked. “I’m sure she doesn’t blame you for anything. And I’m sure she wouldn’t want you making yourself sick worrying about her.”

Hikaru held back the tears, but his voice still betrayed his feelings. “I’m so sorry, Midori-san. I don’t mean to make you worry, but I want to apologize to her as soon as she wakes up. I can’t leave until I apologize.”

“All right, I have an idea. You can stay here, but you have to eat something and try to get some sleep. Can you do that?”

Hikaru nodded.

“Is there anything in particular you’d like, aside from the fire?”

“No, this is fine. I’ll drink the tea you brought. I do like the flavor.”

Midori smiled as she got up to leave. “Thank you, Hikaru-kun. I’ll be sure to light the hibachi for you. Be sure to have some fire. You need to keep up your strength. For Sam-chan as much as anything.”

Takeda looked up as Midori came in. He was relieved to see her smiling. “So, did you get him to drink the tea?”

“Yes, and he wants the hibachi lit” She sat at the table to drink her own cup of tea. “I found out what is bothering him, too,” she continued.

“Oh, what is it?”

“He blames himself for Sam-chan’s accident. He won’t leave until she wakes up and he can apologize to her. I tried to tell him she won’t blame him for anything, but I don’t know if he accepts that or not.”

Takeda smiled. “He really cares for her. More than he realizes, I think. Well, I’ll go light the hibachi for him. I hope she wakes up soon. I’m getting too old for all this worrying.”

Hikaru finished the tea Midori had brought in. She was right, it was good, and the warmth spread through him, making him feel more relaxed. He closed his eyes and soon fell asleep. He did not hear Takeda come in and light the hibachi, nor did he notice when Sam opened her eyes and looked about the room. She reached over and took his hand and went back to sleep.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

   Ever have one of those days...

....where you want to tell the entire world where to stick it? Well, Monday was one of them.

WARNING: SERIOUS RANTING AHEAD!!!! Strong language is involved.
(Note: "Today" means Monday. "Tomorrow" means Tuesday. It's after 1:00 am. I just got home from work and I'm too wound up to sleep yet.)

The day started out innocently enough with me being awoken from a rather nifty dream by noises outside the house. Guys were here to take out a bush and a treestump. Okay...nothing too horrible, except they were supposed to be here 2 weeks ago to do that stuff. Things went sort of downhill from there. Not only did they take out the bush at the front of the house, they took out our white lilac bush at the back of the house. I was told that only the unidentified bush at the front was going to go. Needless to say, I was a little upset by the sudden departure of a 12 foot tall lilac bush. Then they went at the maple tree at the side of the house and trimmed about half the branches off of it. I would have raised hell if they had kept going and took the entire tree out. It didn't end there... A year or three ago, a honeysuckle bush was taken out from the back of the house. The people that took it down, ripped the crap out of the lawn there and NEVER did anything about the huge chunk of grass that was missing. Well, today, something was finally going to be done about it. After I was at work, my brother called up and asked "Who the hell is that lady ripping the hell out of our lawn?" As I was at work and not at home, I couldn't tell him. She was rather rude to my brother about the whole thing and said if I had a problem with it, I was supposed to take it up with her. Well, two things: 1. I was at work; and 2. I didn't know who the hell was in our yard chewing out my brother for asking what she was doing. I do have an idea of who it was, and I told my brother that she is a fat bitch that can go fuck herself for all I care. She has no right to treat us like we don't have an opinion. She is not the person that is in charge of things when it comes to the property. I am going to call the man that is the one that is in charge of things tomorrow and let him know what happened with that lady and my brother. I'm also going to tell him that she owes us an apology for the way she acted. She's always been one to bitch about something if it isn't the way she thinks it should look. She also hasn't had the right to bitch like that for quite some time. She's no longer in charge of things. I did find out later that the roots of the lilac bush had grown into the foundation of the house. I can understand why it had to go. But still, I was told that only the bush at the front of the house was going to be removed.

Work wasn't much better. I think that for the entire first hour and a half that I was there, the other girl I was working with was at the desk maybe 30 minutes. The rest of the time was spent away from the desk smoking, talking on her cell phone, talking to her mother, or talking to the boss. She spends more time on that damn cell phone. I usually end up wanting to cram the thing up her arse. Of course while she was gone, the phone rang constantly and there was always at least three people at the counter wanting something. I have come to the conclusion that a telepathic signal goes out that makes everyone call at the same time and people walk in at the same time. What makes it worse is that the other girl gets this "I do absolutely everything around here" attitude on me. I go out on van runs. That's part of my job. If the phone rings or people need to check in while I'm out of the building, I sure as hell can't take care of it!

It's getting so I don't know what the hell is going on at work. I hate that place so much. The only time I enjoy my job is when I get to go out with the van. The news today is that the boss quit. The owner will be there tomorrow. I guess I better wear shoes and not my sandals tomorrow. Great. I'll be really miserable and uncomfortable. I hate having to wear shoes in the first place. I think it goes back to a previous life... I must have been Japanese or something. But that's another story... anyhoo... the owner is coming in. I've never met the guy, but have talked to him a few times long enough to transfer his phone calls to the boss. The reason I heard that she quit seems a little odd to me, but I don't know exactly what happened. Nor do I know what is going to happen. I hate that place so much.

Well... this sure turned out to be a long, drawn out rant. I apologize for that, peoples. It's just that I had quite the day and needed to vent. Thanks for putting up with me. Now I think I'll go hit the magic "Add Post" button and wait for it to submit. I'm up on the old WinME beasty upstairs. I want to do some typing in Word and this is the computer that has the fully functional version of MS Office on it.

Laters!

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Monday, July 10, 2006

   Argh.... my brain....

The time: 11:11 pm
The day: Sunday, July 9, 2006
The mood: trying to find my brain cell after sneezing it out.

Oh man... I hate this. I think I may have a sinus infection. No!!!!! Don't want one!!!!

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Well, it was a day off today. My brother and I went to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It rocks!! It's better than Superman Returns. It also leaves you hanging at the end!!!! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!! How can they do that to me? Must go find out when the third movie is due out.... Hmm... brother said around the holidays, but IMDB says 2007. Whichever of them is right, it's still too long to wait!

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Well, not to be a wet blanket, but I think I may actually wander off here. My attention span with the computer has been pretty short lately. I've been like this for a little over a week now. Hmm....

Laters!

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Saturday, July 8, 2006

   Gomen nasai!!!!

I'm so sorry!!! I said I'd visit sites last night, but I didn't! I got involved with a RPG with my brother and at midnight we quit. I then went upstairs and watched one of my FMA DVDs then went to bed.

Now it's Saturday. I have to work tonight. I slightly feel like crap. My sinuses on the right side of my head hurt so bad my upper teeth ache.

Well, time to finish email. Laters!

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