paypal

Yesterday, in my hotmail in box, there was a message from PayPal telling me that they needed me to update my account info or they would close it. I was suspicious because I have heard that there have been bogus emails sent to steal peoples info.
so, I went to PayPal.com and decided to look into it before filling out the email
request. With Chris's help, I found a section to email them possible fraudulant emails. I sent the one I got to them and got a response back like less than 10 minutes later saying that it was not from them and not to respond to it. I can't even imagine how many people few victim to that email. It was asking for debit card number, checking account number & routing number, address and a whole page of other stuff. It's a good thing I am aware of the scams.

peace, y'all

Actual verse from King James Version:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.

the little things...

neat surprise in my lunch... potato salad. hooray.
i love the little surprises that i get in my lunch once and awhile.
head still hurting though. on my second round of drugs for the day. and the coke i drank didn't help AT ALL! damn head.

cute new beanie I bought yesterday

wednesday blues

woke up with a headache
tried to eat a biscuit left over from last night to curb the nausea
went to work
heard about some family drama

and it's only 7:45am...

tonight: going to the parents for to see the grandma & aunt & uncle

just want to be in bed...

odd that

sometimes even the cutest boys can look, well... need I say?

So, tomorrow is his (John Mayer - for the not so obsessed) birthday. I hope that when I turn 27, I am as famous as he is and have toured the world. Note: as you can see, I am in complete denial that my birthday is actually 18 days after his and I will, in fact be turning the same age. And might I also mention that on the message boards, when they are talking about his birthday tomorrow, they are all saying that 27 is really old. That's not helping. *tear*

Anyway, I haven't been blogging this week because of two reasons. One is that on, I think Tuesday, I did write a really long entry and then my computer when nuts and I lost the entry before it uploaded. So, I avoided it out of protest. The other reason is because I have been really tired after coming home each night this past week. This week was the week that I was helping out the new hires. Each day this past week I spent walking around and answering questions from the new hires while they were taking calls for the first time. It went well. We were all pretty nervous about them taking calls because of how they had done in class, but the majority of them are doing much better now. Remember how I had said that I was one of two people chosen to do this; on-boarding is what they call it? Well, that turns out to not really be true. For some reason 2 other people from my team ending up doing it too. One person was only supposed to do it when another person was gonna be off, but ended up doing it all week. The other person, don't ask me how she snaked her way in. Just know that she is one of the people that I knew would be mad that she wasn't chosen. Apparently she raised enough stink that they let her do it. This all took away from my specialness. I should change the title to I'm not so special IV. And yes, I am bitter about it. But whatever. They all can bite me.

The last debate was this week and it was here. Well, in Tempe. Funny thing is, the news people were apparently not briefed on how we actually pronounce Tempe. They were all saying Tem-pay. It's really Tem-pee. Chris said that we should just spell it that way (Tempee) so that people say it right. My response was, "Why should we have to spell everything phonetically just so people can pronounce things correctly?" That was not nearly as funny until W announced to the country that his wife speaks better english than he does. AND THIS IS WHO SOME CRAZY PEOPLE WANT BEING THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY? DID YOU NOT JUST HEAR THAT TOO? HE ADMITTED HE'S AN IDIOT. Then said, "please vote for me?" AUGH!
Another funny thing about the debate...I was watching Hardball with Chris Matthews after the debate and they were outside broadcasting live. Someone in the crowd behind them had a sign that said Weapons of Mass-turbation. All I can say is, that's what they get for having the debate at one of the biggest party schools in the country. What do you expect? Hehe.
This is something also very interesting... found it on azcentral.com:
While tomorrow's domestic debate won't touch much on Iraq, the circular auditorium where it will take place has a notable link to the war-torn country. Frank Lloyd Wright based its design on one he had done for an opera house he planned for Baghdad after a visit there. But when King Faisal II, who had commissioned the work, was assassinated in 1958, those plans were scrapped.
Love that.

Alright. I need to get back to life. Back to reality. Back to the here and now, oh yeah...
an oldy, but a goody

Gold Canyon Caramel Apple candle rocks my world.

gee, that was easy

For only $2.00, I changed my flowers from summer to fall:


I just bought a stem of leaves and cut them up and put them in and then added the little scarecrow. I like it.
I busted out all my halloween decorations today. Put the pumpkins outside. Put the Halloween Welcome sign on the door. Put Halloween candle holders in the living room and bathroom. Put Halloween deco towels in the bathroom. I love to decorate for the holidays. I just wish I had more rooms to really decorate. I do the best I can with what I've got. I was told to do something good for myself today and so I decorated my house. Now I look around and smile at all the pumpkins and fall stuff. Now if it would only cool off..

we're all a lot safer now...

Thank goodness that Martha is now in prison. I can now go roam the streets
and not fear good things.

hehe. I'm so funny.

the back story about the psycho neighbor

the following is an entry from my old web journal about what caused us to not park in our covered parking spot:

12/03/03 - 8:41 pm
Well, I realized that I have forgotten to mention the lovely thing that happened on Thanksgiving. When I got home from my parents, I parked in the wrong parking spot. So, I had to back up and re-park. As I was backing up, I ACCIDENTLY hit this trailer. There is this guy who lives in my building and he uses a wheel chair (one of those electric ones). He can walk, but uses the wheel chair for some reason. He has no job and never leaves the apartment. He has this big boat car and has this trailer that is attached to the back. He parks it crooked in front of his apartment and it sticks way out in the parking lot. Anyway. I hit the damn thing ok. It was an accident and I regret it now more than anything. I parked the car and gathered up my stuff. I was walking over to the stupid trailer and was checking it for damage. The dude came out on his wheelchair, with his cane on his lap, and started to yell at me. I could write everything that the bastard said to me, but that might take all night. He berated me for almost 10 minutes. He accused me of being drunk, which I resent to no end. My friend was killed by a drunk driver for christ sake. He then said that I should not be able to drive. He also accused me of hitting it before. It just went on and on and I had to stop myself from crying right there. I just apologized over and over and then finally just had to walk away. I was so upset that I hardly slept. I felt so bad and I know that is what he was trying to do. He just a sad man who has nothing better to do than yell at people. But I did not deserve the treatment that I got. He acted as though I did it on purpose. This just upset me so much. We have decided that we are going to just avoid him at all costs. We talked with the apartment people and they are letting us use a different parking spot so that we don’t even have to walk by his apartment and we are definitely not parking anywhere near him again. I don’t know if that is the best solution but it makes me feel better and I don’t have to worry about any more interaction with him.

psycho neighbor

HE strikes again.
but this time, we strike back!

woo hoo!

here's the story... on Saturday, the maintenance guy comes to our door and asks us if we have this one kind of car. No. It's not our car. He was asking because they needed it to be moved, because they were gonna paint new handicapped spots. And you know who they were painting those for... Well, we went out to our car to go shopping a little later and noticed that HE (aka psycho neighbor) has parked his car in our covered parking spot. You see, we haven't parked in our covered spot in almost a year, because of HIM. Yet, he decided to park in our spot. It stayed there all Saturday and Sunday. Then I decided that if it was still there when we came home yesterday, I was going to the office to report it. HE knew what HE was doing. HE knew that was our spot. See, HE has his own covered parking spot, but HE has another car parked there. HE has at least 3 cars and that damn trailer! So, it was still there at 5:45pm yesterday and I marched my butt into the office. I was so glad to see the girl that knows all about our problems with HIM, working in the office. She said that she noticed that HE had parked there too. She knew (and so did we) that HE moved it there because of the spots being painted. But they had moved the cones on Sunday, meaning it was ok to move HIS damn car back. She said that she would leave a note for them to contact HIM today and tell HIM to move it. I LOVE IT! HE is gonna know that it was us that was complaining and making HIM move it. And there is nothing HE can do about it. We are in the right here. We can't park there. You can't either ass hole! I told her in the office that it was more the principle of the thing. And she understood. She knows most of our history with him. There is much more that she does not know, but we just don't complain as much as we should. Anyway. We shall see if it is gone when we get home. It better be. Or we are calling the tow truck. SWEET.

to Steve Ellersick!

THEY WON ! !

The Cardinals won their first game of the season and the Diamondbacks
won their last game of the season.

whataweekend

Friday:
Chris took the day off the deal with the following...
- the car has been shaking (I'd say bad, but he'd say not that bad) and I remembered that when the Escort shook real bad it was because the tires are worn out. So, I asked Chris if we could get new tires. But he wanted to take the car to the dealership to have them look at it to see if there is anything under warranty that is wrong with it. So, he got up early and drove the car to the dealership and they brought him home. Then within an hour, they called and told him that there really isn't much they can do for the shaking other than put new tires on. Yeah, tires that cost over $400. I think not. They also told him all the stuff that needs to be done at the 45000 mile check-up, which will be soon. So, at least we know now how much we are gonna have to drop. They kept telling Chris that they would come back and pick him up, but he had to go to the dentist at noon and had to be back in time to do that. What ended up happening is that he told them just to not bother picking him up and he took the bus there after his dentist appointment. He then dropped the car off at Discount Tire and we got new tires for $300 instead. Neat. I haven't driven it since the new tires, so I can't say if it makes a difference yet. But Chris says it does.
- dentist. Chris had a hole where he had the root canal a few months ago and it was freaking him out. Understandably. But at least since there was no root, it wasn't hurting. The dentist being the cool dude that he is, handled it and didn't charge him a dime. We love our dentist.

And what did I do Friday? aaaahhh. I stressed about the car, did laundry, cleaned up the kitchen and watched the first disc of Angels in America. My day was dramatically less eventful then Chris's. But then, on Friday night, we went to Streets of New York for dinner. It is right on our corner and we have never been. It was really cool. Sort of expensive, but we did splurge and had (well, Chris did) beer and (both of us) dessert.

Saturday:
Starting at 11am, we went to the following stores:
Lazy Boy
The Room Store
Denmarket
Copenhagen
and... I can't remember that last furniture store. All I can remember about it is that it looks like the aunts threw up in there.
then we went to The Home Depot Expo Design store. It was not all that great.
then we went to lunch at Red Robin
then we went to... Babies R Us. No, I am not making that up. And yes, I said WE went there. I just suggested it, thinking he would reject it and he agreed after a little pushing. We looked at strollers and cribs. And then he just started getting upset because everything is so frilly and fluffy. Yikes. But I was just dipping his foot in and at least he let me. It's a step in the right direction.
Then last night, I watched the 2nd disc of Angels in America.
My review...it was great. There were things that I think were overdone. But overall it was great. I kept watching it and thinking how the scenes might have been in the play. I wish I had seen they plays.
Anyway, we are so slow today. We have only one hour left and we have taken less than half of the normal calls that we take on a not so busy day. Cool, I guess.
Also cool... at least as of right now, the Cardinals are winning. It'll be their first win of the season. Hooray!

it's all in how you say it...

Kids waiting for candy killed by Iraq bombs

this was a headline on cnn.com

made me laugh because... was the candy killed by the bomb and the kids are now waiting for it? or the kids waiting for the candy then killed?

I'm special - part III

Today, my boss calls me over to her desk and tells me that I (and one other person from my team) have been chosen to do "onboarding" with the new training class. That means that I will be helping them when they are taking their simulation calls and then when they go live (start taking real calls) I get to walk around and help them. It does mean that I will be working from 9:15 to 6:00 on Wednesday of this week and then a few days the second week of October. But that's ok. It's a big deal to have been chosen. My boss said that her boss was the one that made the decision of who gets to d this. Yeah for me.

OTHER THINGS...
- Article : Suspects in standoff mentally ill, suicidal, relative says
This is scary. This is not all that far from where we used to live. It has been going on for almost 24 hours now. I hope it ends peacefully. I heard on the radio that people who live in the area are not being allowed back into their homes and they are staying at a high school gym. Suck.
- full moon tonight. neat.
- strange that even though I go weeks without seeing my mom, knowing that she is all the way across the country makes me miss her real bad. I did call my dad last night to check on him and make sure he hasn't gone into diabetic shock. He said he keeps thinking that my mom is gonna come home at any minute, but then he realizes she's not just at work. That's cute. He misses her.

fall tv

Monday: have yet to watch LAX. I always seem to find other shit to do on Monday nights.

Tuesday: I don't know what I'll watch now that BB5 & Amazing Race are over. Plus Nip/Tuck is winding down for the season. I'll have to wait til next week to see what's on.

Wednesday: I guess I'm gonna have to flip between Lost and America's Next Top Model. Lost was very strange. Pilot in the tree=nasty. It deserves a second week of viewing, but we'll see after that. CSI:NY was alright. Gary Sinese's voice is really obnoxious and I could do without it. But I'll watch it again.

Thursday: Joey is cute, but I doubt it will last. CSI - the orginal = awesome!. ER, eh. I'm just so used to watching it that I can't not.

Not really impressed with any new show this year...

Damn, I just realized I missed the season finale of Six Feet Under. CRAP.

I'm special - part II

my boss brought me into her office ...er, cube... later this afternoon and she wanted to tell me that she reviewed some of my calls and found no opportunities. what that means is there was nothing she could find that I need to do better. Plus, she told me that I have the second highest percentage of network referrals. I'm not gonna go into what all that means, just know that the only person better than me as far as that goes is a guy who has been doing the job for over a year. It surprised the hell out of me, because I thought I was doing terrible on those. She said she wanted to have people sit with me who are struggling. That's the total opposite of my last job. My boss also asked me if I had considered advancement. I told her I really want to be a coach. (this is funny...I accidentally typed couch, but then fixed it.) She said that every one says that, but there might be opportunities next year. And she told me to think about going to another department where I would have to be licensed, but I would make more money. So, we shall see. She just kept saying that was doing such a good job. Yeah for me. I love that I have found a job where I can be successful. That is what I hated most about my last job.

tomorrow's agenda...
dentist
toes
bank
Avondale for lunch and watch mom pack (hooray)

I'm special

my coach just told me that my boss "raves" about me.
cool.

yer growns up & yer growns up & yer growns up

I think I sense a trend. My post titles are movie lines... Neat.
I am so proud. I said that line to Chris tonight and he knew what it was from. I told him that I don't know if I've ever been prouder of him.

FIRST DAY OF FALL! thank God!

couple-a-things:
- I keep forgetting to mention that I found out that some random chic I work with has a second job...as a stripper. Isn't that special? It wouldn't be so bad if she was half decent looking. But she's not. She has no boobs either. I am afeard (yes, afeard) of the place that she strip's. Must be a real classy establishment. YIKES is an understatement.

- I took a claim today from a dude who plays for a pro football team. Here's what happened... He called to report that he rear-ended another vehicle. He said that he played football and I started to wonder if it was pro or maybe just for fun or something. He was driving an big nice car and then I started wondering more that he might be pro. Then he said was from one state, but was living now in the state of the team he plays for. After I took the claim, my curiosity got the best of me and I googled his name. And yup, that's him. Living in the state of the team he plays for, plays football, from that other state. Totally him. Then I googled his passenger and found out it's another player. Crazy. I like taking claims from pro football players. Rookies or not.
please note...this was changed to conceal the identities. I made a judgement error and posted who the dude really was. oops.

- Why is it that I put my feelings off on other people? What do I mean by that? I mean that I feel a certain way about something, but instead of dealing with it myself, I tell other people and then feel as though they are making me feel that way. I'm not explaining it right. But does that sorta make sense? Am I the only one who does that? Like I am freaked out and uncertain about...lets say getting a house...and I discuss this with...lets say my mom...and then suddenly I feel like my mom is the one that is uncertain about it and is making me feel like I am uncertain. Then I am mad at her for making me feel that way, instead of dealing with the fact that I am uncertain myself. I am sorry mom for doing that. I probably do that more than just in this case. But I am realized that I did it this time. I guess that's a step. Not that I am getting 100% support about the house thing, but I need to not do what I am doing any more.

- Today was my boss's birthday and it's a good thing that someone told me the day before. I busted out a candle that I keep in stock at my house and wrapped it up nice. I was one of the few people who gave her gifts. I think that only one other person did (the person who told me it was her birthday.) My boss thanked me more than once. I try not to be a kiss ass and let my work speak for me, but if I ever want to be a coach, I do need to stand out somehow. Also, since it was her birthday, we had cupcakes. Well, the team had cupcakes. But not me. I did not eat one and I am really proud of myself. I am not bringing change to work so that I can't get anything out of the vending machine either. I have not officially started a diet, but I am working towards it and after my will power today, I feel like I am on the right track. I just need to sign up for the gym now and really start a diet.
Not having a cupcake might not be a big deal to some people, but to me, that's huge.