that rosebud girl

what a threesome.

i finally got my pictures from orlando…actually, more like i got around to actually taking a look at them.

here’s one…from the start of our day….rizza and i and pluto…pluto is awesome!

not bad for a crappy disposable camera!

being poor sucks.

5 reasons i feel bitchy today:

1. i have no money. and i want a new car. badly.
2. ed left for florida. *sigh*
3. i tried to microwave a chicken pot pie at work today and it didn’t turn out quite right. i think it wasn’t meant to be microwaved. blah.
4. work drives me nuts.
5. i am dead in my tourney pool. stupid stanford. stupid kentucky. oh well. at least i can enjoy watching all the upsets now that i’ve lost my $10.

so my new thing is trying to get a new car. i really want one. i’ve been wanting one for the last two years or so. i really wanted a passat. then i realized that i quite honestly can’t afford one. then i got on this SUV kick. i used to think i wouldn’t drive anything but a sedan because i can’t really drive big things. i tried driving my mom’s van once when i was on guam and it was a minor disaster. parking it was terrible. but i think i parked next to a compact SUV one day and realized it wasn’t much longer than my car. so now i think i could drive one. i could get used to being up a little high. i did used to drive a pickup once. so maybe i can do it. i have my sights set on a Hyundai Santa Fe. that i’ve even considered buying a hyundai is wild. i never would have thought that in a billion years.

of course the problem is $$$$. i thought about leasing a new car because payments are smaller and i don’t need as much cash for down payment. but i did some calculations and monthly payments for a 24-month lease are not much smaller than monthly payments for a 5-year car loan. *sigh* i don’t know what to do. i hate being poor.

on the upside, rizza called me today and i think she’s serious about living with me for a few months. yay. it’ll be nice to have some company at the house. she might come sometime after july and come back with me for the wedding. we’ll work on the details later. but i’m excited and i hope she comes through. it would be awesome to have someone help me make stuff for the wedding. and to have someone to drink with. ha. but i can’t hang on a dance floor with her. she’s just out of my league. and she would probably laugh her ass off.

(note to self: must call pete and hang out. that is, if he’s not working an East Regional game somewhere….)

so that is the story of my life. work. bitch about money. feel tired. blah, blah, blah. i have to go and refinish our bathtub tomorrow. oh, joy. and there’s a lot of work that still needs to be done house-wise. like removing the dying trees in front of the house. and installing bathroom fixtures. and raking the yard. but some of this requires $$$. and i don’t have it right now. it’s like one vicious cycle.

can i rob a bank? or win the lottery? grrrr….

my soccer league is also starting up again. i still need to call one of my kids to tell him there’s practice tuesday. but my practice schedule is all jacked up. all because we’re shorthanded at work and can’t hire someone. grrrr. stupid economic issues. (this all comes back to money, doesn’t it?) but i hope that running around with those kids and kicking a soccer ball helps me blow off steam.

okay, enough ranting and raving. i need to work. i need to earn my tiny paycheck. i probably could use a punching bag, too, but i’d have to buy that. blah.

fun with animals.

so sunday was fun…i was so happy to see rizza again. i haven’t seen her in a while. she still looks the same. hahaha.

we didn’t do a whole lot, but it was still tiring. we went to animal kingdom, where rizza works. we watched a lion king show (cool), did a safari tour, and wandered around. rizza usually works the safaris and drives this big 40-foot thing. it was awesome. we were supposed to get a vip safari, but because they were short staffed, they told us to get in an empty truck, turn on the flashers, and someone would drive us around all by ourselves. pretty cool. so rizza gave me the laid-back version of the spiel she usually gives….i got some good pictures (i hope) despite using a disposable camera…and it was a good time. i even met this chick who went to UD…what a small world…

we really didn’t get to go to the other theme parks because i didn’t really have the time…but that didn’t really matter to me anyway. it was still a trip, though, considering i haven’t been to disney world in about 12 years…and animal kingdom didn’t even exist then!

afterwards, we went to bennigan’s and got really really really really shitty service….but had fun chit-chatting about all sorts of stuff anyway.

so…tired…but a fun day….i didn’t get back to clearwater until 11:30 and i was pooped…

now i need to get my pictures developed…and i hope they turned out okay….i still can’t believe i forgot my digital camera!!!!

chillin’ in florida.

wasting away down in margaritaville….

well, okay, not quite wasting away. but i did sleep until 3 p.m.! heeheehee.

after a week straight of working (exhausting), waking up early and what not, i’m here in tampa. and it’s about 75. i’m thawing out. pretty sweet. getting here, though, was pretty tiring…my flight was at 6:15 this morning, and i had to get up at 4. i came home from work at 12:30 and didn’t get a lot of sleep…but i slept a little bit on the plane and also when i got here to tampa.

i’m just happy i don’t have to work for four days! whee…

i don’t know what we’re doing tonight….i know there i see dinner in my future….seafood-y maybe? crab? flounder? grouper? mmmm….fish is making me hungry. and there’s nothing to eat in this apartment! only my thin mint girl scout cookies that i brought for ed.

i’m also looking forward to driving up to orlando this sunday to see rizza….although i’m bummed i totally forgot my camera. and i was so proud of myself when i left the house that i didn’t forget anything. argh. or so i thought. oh well.

i think i’ll just sit here on the couch and think about dinner….mmmm….i love mini-vacations.

finally!

i am writing this entry using high-speed internet. super sweet.

there’s really nothing else to say, at least right now…..

stupid dsl (again).

so dsl has been a fiasco so far…verizon crapped out on me…but i think my days of yearning for high-speed internet are finally over…

i broke down and went with comcast. i should have done that all along, i guess because i knew for sure i’d get service with them. me and my hard head. i just didn’t want to deal with the hassle of having to put in a friggin’ cable jack in my room and having someone come in here and run cable, blah blah blah. but i guess i have no other choice. stupid dsl. i hate all telephone companies right now.

so comcast is supposed to come in tomorrow between 8 and 11 a.m. ed had to set up the appointment because i called comcast and they said, “well, you’re name isn’t on the bill and it’s not here to say you’re authorized to do anything.” bastards. most people let that slide when i say i’m his fiancee. comcast sucks. blah. but anyway, they couldn’t come today, so he scheduled it for tomorrow morning. unfortunately, i’m always busy on wednesday. but i guess this just means i can’t go to skating (unless the guy comes exactly at 8 a.m. and leaves before 9:30). but i guess this is worth all my bitching and whining if i can finally go on the internet and not have to wait 20 minutes for pages to load. *sigh*

stupid dsl.

my dsl saga continues…but hopefully it will be resolved soon….*crossing fingers*

i called earthlink this afternoon and almost yelled at them. i know i sounded firm and sort of mad. i tried to demand an explanation as to why my dsl order was cancelled and yet i am still getting a message from earthlink sales and verizon saying dsl was already active on my line. i didn’t get it. but basically i was told i lived too far away from the CO and that the physical distance between me and the central office didn’t matter, it was a matter of how the phone lines were routed. as the lady put it, “your line could have been routed around one whole block in a circle before it got connected to the CO and the actual measurement of how much line was used is the measurement we used.” uh, okay. whatever. i was sort of losing my patience already. at the end of the conversation, i asked the lady, “does that mean i will never, ever, ever, ever, get dsl?” i mean, i assume i can’t change how long or short my telephone line is — it’s underground and all. she said that verizon might be able to better help me since they were my telephone provider. fair enough.

so i get on the phone with verizon and the woman there is totally helpful and friendly. i told her my whole saga with earthlink and sure enough, she also got a message saying dsl was active on my line. but she tried a few other things, including checking the old telephone number and looking at whether dsl was available for my neighbors. it was. so she said that service should be available in my area. she put in an order for the equipment and whatnot and told me that if there were any technical problems, i would get an email or a call from verizon. but i should have the equipment within a week. yay. hopefully it all works. supposedly verizon still has to check my line to see if this is all feasible. i hope it is.

*sigh* can’t something go right for once? please???

i’m not giving up hope yet, but i just want my high-speed internet!!!!!