Monthly Archives: February 2011

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Blank Slate

It’s been almost a month since I wrote anything here.  I’m just not that good anymore at updating my blog.  I suppose that’s because not much worth writing about has happened or is happening.

Well…I guess that’s not exactly true, but a lot of things are a bit too personal to post online, if you don’t mind.

Let’s see.  I’m still working the dreaded temp job.  Things haven’t changed much there, other than we are down to just two temps, myself and one other girl, and because it is so slow, it’s not bad or too hard on us.  I sit most of the day doing absolutely nothing–or at least not much that’s work related.  Sure, there’s some work, but it’s only enough to fill a couple of hours out of that eight hour shift and the rest of the time I spend doing word puzzles or looking at the internet on my phone.  Not exactly productive.  And I still don’t like the way I’m treated by the supervisors and some of the full-time folks, but there isn’t much I can do about that, other than ignore it.

Our neighbors downstairs are a real pain in the ass lately.  Back in December, we had to call the cops on them because they woke us up about midnight one night during the week.  After the police visited and we complained to the apartment office (for the second time), things quieted down a bit, but they’re back to their old tricks again.  This past Saturday night, they had a party and were up till 3:15am, playing music and were so loud I could hear them in their living room while I was lying in my bed.  It’s just getting old.  We’ve put up with so much from them, especially all last summer with their continuous partying and keeping us up, and now it’s like “here we go again” with the bullshit partying…and now they’ve started doing something, we can’t figure out what, but it sounds like they’re throwing a ball or something up against the wall and bowling in one of the bedrooms.  The first time I heard it, I thought they were moving furniture and banging it up against the walls, but it kept happening over and over again, like a repetitive noise, so I knew it couldn’t be moving furniture.  I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with these people, and neither the girlfriend nor I like confrontation, so this is a real pain in the ass.

I can’t wait for spring.  Today it was sunny, so that was nice.  I just can’t wait for warmth AND sunshine.  And for the snow to go away.  😉

I am doing okay.  A bit happier than I was a little while ago…though there are still things in my life that bother me.  I know I’m the only one who has the power to change them, though, and I need to get over my bad habit of procrastination and change them so I am happier. 

A little over a week ago, the girlfriend and I saw Lee Ann Womack, Reba McEntire, and George Strait in concert.  We were there to see King George of course, but the other two were good too.  😉  I knew more Lee Ann Womack songs than I thought, which was a nice surprise.  Here’s one of them:

How will I ever know what you’re feelin’
How will I ever know what to do
If you simply refuse to tell me
What’s goin’ on inside of you
Have a little faith in me
Baby, can’t you see
You’ve got to talk to me

How can I even know how to help you
How can I ever know what to say
If every time your heart is hurtin’
You turn from me and walk away
Have a little faith in me
Baby, can’t you see
You’ve got to talk to me

No, you don’t have to lie
Look into my eyes
There’s nothin’ here but love for you
You don’t have to feel alone
Let me share the load
There’s nothin’ more I’d rather do

I’m the one you can always turn to
I’m the one who will stand by your side
My love for you is forever
You don’t ever have to run away and hide
Have a little faith in me
Baby, can’t you see
You’ve got to talk to me

I didn’t watch much of the Oscars last night, for a couple of reasons.  One, I was tired and needed to get to bed.  The biggest reason, however, was I am very tired of celebrities and watching celebrities congratulate themselves and fawn all over each other is not exactly how I want to spend a perfectly good evening.  Guess I’m turning into that crabby old lady after all, eh?

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Starry Night

Actions speak louder than words.

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Yesterday was supposed to be a decent day weather-wise, so we planned on going to the art museum.  The girlfriend has an assignment for her class where she has to do a project involving different art pieces, so off we went.  We’d been there a couple of hours, enjoying the art–Detroit has a really great art museum, better than St. Louis’s, at least from what I can remember, and that’s saying a lot–and we looked out the window and saw it was snowing.  By the roads it had been snowing for a while, too.  We’d only made it through a floor and a half of the whole museum but there was no way we wanted to stay and risk getting caught in a storm, so we decided to leave.

Good thing we did, too, because the roads were terrible.  I was driving and it took us over an hour to get back home.  We were going to eat at IHOP after we left the museum but decided not to, for two reasons.  One, the roads were so bad neither of us felt like being out any longer than we had to, and two, we were still both stuffed from lunch.  We’d eaten lunch at the museum and gotten a ton of food.  It was actually a good deal for the price–we got a beef burrito and a side for $8.99 and the burrito was HUGE.  And it was good.

So alas, no IHOP.  We have these coupons that are good until the end of the month, though, so I’m sure we’ll try again soon.

The day wasn’t a total bust or anything; the museum has a lot of great pieces, including some Cezanne, a Monet, and the best part, Van Gogh’s self-portrait, as well as two other pieces of his.  I’m a big Van Gogh fan, have been ever since I saw the movie Lust for Life back in high school.  That poor man.  You can see his suffering in every brush stroke.  I suppose since I’ve struggled with depression often in my life, I understand where he lived, in that black hole of despair every depressed person knows intimately.

Anyway, on the work front, we are down two temps now.  We had four, but the bank decided to let two go because things had slowed down so much.  So it will just be me and one other person.  I’m glad I wasn’t one of the people let go, and I feel bad for the ones who left.  I hope they find something soon; it’s rough out there.   It will be interesting to see what happens now though, with only two of us.  I will not have any need for my puzzle books anymore.  (It’s been so slow I’ve been doing puzzles at work; there was just nothing else for me to do.  Not bad, eh?  Getting paid to sit and do puzzles most of the day.)

Other than that, not much is going on.  Oh–Snowmageddon was supposed to hit here Wednesday, as they were predicting 18 inches of snow, then they changed the forecast to a foot of snow, but it only ended up snowing around 7 inches.  They gave us temps Wednesday off, which was nice, but the girlfriend went to work.  I had the place to myself for the day and enjoyed that.  And I got my Keurig coffee maker Thursday night.  Called Mom to let her know it arrived.  I was supposed to discuss payment then with her, but when I first opened the envelope that was on the outside of the box in which the coffee maker was delivered, I noticed a card that said (in little letters at the bottom) “HAPPY BIRTHDAY     MOM.”  So I asked her about that on the phone, and sure enough, it’s my birthday present.  About four and a half months early, but YAY!  Nice present.  So obviously I don’t have to pay her back for the Keurig after all.

Mom also told me on the phone that my Grandma is in the hospital.  She’s not doing very well at all.  😦  Last year the girlfriend and I lost three people (my grandfather, her grandfather, and her beloved dog that yes, I count as a person).  I do not want to lose anyone in 2011.  😦

Oh, and Friday I went to Archiver’s and got some stuff to make a scrapbook with pictures from my Grandpa’s memorial service from October, when I went to Little Rock.  Got some American flag type paper, some Marine stickers and other odds and ends.  Looking forward to working on that.

Nothing planned for today, so I will probably bond with the Wii some more and watch Netflix.  I love having those movies streamed through the Wii.  😉

I will try to do better about posting here.  I’ve just been having a rough time of it lately, for various reasons.