Sunday, February 11, 2007

Mark told me he talked to my sister Janice yesterday. She does my taxes every year, because she thinks math is fun, while I think that math is annoying. lol I'm sure she also does it because she loves me, but that's another story. lol Anyways, for the last few years I've gotten next to nothing back, because I'd set them up so that I would get the majority of my money with every paycheck - because when I first started at my job, Mark was unemployed, and we needed as much money as possible. We changed that less than a year ago, but it's already made a difference. In the last few years I've owed so much money, that I almost ended up gettting nothing. This year I'm getting $300.00 dollars back, which isn't a fortune, but it's like a great bonus.

I really don't make very good money where I work. I don't work for the cash though; I work there because I mostly enjoy it. I say mostly, because there are times when I don't want to be there, but I imagine that everyone feels that way about their job, sometimes at least. But I love a lot of the customers, and all my coworkers, except 1 who I don't dislike; we just haven't connected yet. I even love our District Manager. I love some of the managers at other stores too, so it can be a lot of fun. Add to that, the wacky movie knowledge that's stuffed into my brain, and it's pretty good mix.

I felt kind of out of it yesterday, and I didn't accomplish anything that I thought I would. Mark said that was ok, because it was Saturday, and I should be allowed to have days like that, and I guess I'm just going to have to accept that. Today I feel like I have far more energy. I don't know why that is...but I'm enjoying it.

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   Saturday, February 17, 2007

This week has mostly sucked.

My grandparents were in horrible car accident on Monday. She's fine. Everyone is fine. But their car was wrecked, by what appears to have been a drunk driver, who fled the scene. Horrible. My grandparents were driving north on 23, when a truck driving south on 23 drive through the ditch between the directions and rammed into the back of my grandparents car! They actually flipped around several times, colliding 3 times! Then the guy, who had a friend with him, said he didn't have his insurance papers (but claimed to have insurance), gave my grandmother his name & # (maybe), and said he called the cops on his cell. A driver stopped to see if anyone needed help, and the guy said he needed to get his wife, so the driver took the guy and his friend from the scene of the crime - then it turned out he hadn't even called the cops. When the police were told, and arrived, they found open alcohol in the truck, and no papers of any kind - the truck was registered to a woman. Ugh. This sucks. But I'm glad everyone was ok.

I didn't find out about the accident right away. But when I did I kind of freaked out, though I was exhausted. I've been really odd concerning sleep lately. I've been sleeping, but having really odd, disturbing kind of dreams; I guess they're nightmares. I've not had nightmares in...a very long time, so it's strange. And I think I may have had a mild fever this morning.

Work has been mostly normal this week. Stuff to do, but not overly busy. It's good to see my coworkers, and 'work'. My job mostly doesn't feel like work, which is maybe good, or maybe bad. I really don't know anymore.

With the nightmares, and some acid problems that are completely my fault, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, so I went to sleep less than 30mins after getting home. It's Friday night, or Saturday morning now, and a small part of me would like to be out, but the rest of me is just happy to be home.

I started re-reading the Harry Potter books tonight. I've never read the first 2 books a 2nd time. The first one seems so short, with so much of it portrayed in the film, that it seemed pointless. And I hated the 2nd book when I read it. Only Mollie's enthusiasm for the 3rd book got me to finish the 2nd and continue on. And yet I loved the 2nd movie. Maybe things will change with the reading this time. I'm already rather shocked by all the details in the first book that I didn't remember. I tried reading the first book again about a year ago, but got sidetracked, so I knew that Sirius Black was mentioned at an appropriate time in the book (which was a surprise at the time), but I didn't expect anything more than that this time. Only I was delighted to find mentions of Mrs. Figg & Cornelius Fudge. I had no memory of them being in the book at all. Neat. I'm reading the books now of course, to warm up for the final volume in July. I hope to have the first 6 read through this 2nd time by June; then I'll see the 5th movie sometime in the week before the final book (or not - it depends) - and finish the final book within 48 hours of it arriving at my door, so to avoid spoilers. I've actually read the 3rd, 4th & 5th books twice already, but I've never read them all like this before. I can't believe I've rambled about this for so long.

I've been chatting with this guy who wants to hang out sometime soon. We've actually chatted a few times over the years, and our story is kind of interesting already. I don't feel like typing it right now, but maybe later, if things progress at all.

I'm downloading episodes of "The War At Home". The show featured a gay story arc over the last few weeks, and I saw an episode of it, so I'm going to fill in the gaps. The show never appealed to me before that. I've really been amazed by some of the fantastic gay storylines on television of late. It's about time.

I'm going to read some more.

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