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It's another stupid moment with Arkie

I locked myself out of the house this morning.

Work issues

Am I expecting too much? Is that the problem? I have unreasonable expectations of people? If you send an email on the 26th, reminding everyone of the report that has to be done Each.And.Every.Fucking.Quarter, and letting them know that you absolutely have to have it by the 20th of the following month because You.Won't.Be.There. at the end of the month, and then you send a reminder. AGAIN. on the 13th to those who haven't sent it in already, is it too much to ask that they SEND THE FUCKING THING IN BY THE 20TH????? IS.THAT.TOO.MUCH.TO.ASK? That they do their fucking jobs for once? Meet the dogdamn fucking deadline! OH! If it was up to me, I would fucking fire them. Because it's the same damn ones who miss the damn deadline every fucking quarter. 41 other people were able to do this. Why are these 2 unable to do what the others do???? One had put it in regular mail Monday. Well, it takes just a little bit long to get mail from Houston to Nashville. But they do this every time. And the other??? Had not even sent it. Calls me to say she will be sending it FedEx TODAY. The day I needed to have it in my hands.

In other moods, I'm sad about something at work. The only other person in our department besides me (and our boss) that isn't either fucking crazy or fucking stupid is leaving. She's going back to work at a facility in Arkansas. I understand why, but I don't like it. I don't talk to the other people in our department about anything other than work. I'm friends with this lady. It just makes me want to cry.

Stupid travel-related question

I was just checking the Nashville Airport's website, to get the parking rates. Short-term would run me $20/day. Long-term's maximum is $8/day and Economy is $6/day. Shuttle service is offered for all parking areas, so why would I not park in Economy?

On my first flight, which was business related, my boss advised me to park in long-term as opposed to short-term, even though I was only going to be out of town overnight. I'm trying to remember if there was a reason given as to why I would not want to park in Economy instead.

Any advice/suggestions?

Some Rules to Consider

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.

3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.

4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

8. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention! It never fails.)

9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.

20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.

24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

25. It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat.

26. If you had to identify, in 1 word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, & never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

27. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

29. You should not confuse your career with your life.

30. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

31. Never lick a steak knife.

32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

35. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

36. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

37. Your friends love you anyway.

38. Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

39: How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

*snort*

My cat hates you

I hope this link works. Made me think of Carey. *grin* If the link doesn't work, click the link to the side, and check out October's gallery, pic #15.

and #32

Breast Cancer Awareness

As we all know, October is breast cancer awareness. Please, do the monthly self breast exams. Once you're 40, get a mammagram once a year. And if you ever find a lump that concerns you, for the love of God, go to the doctor. I just found out that another one of my aunts has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She knew she had it, but decided to treat it herself at home with Vicks and turpentine??????? What the hell was she thinking??????? She finally went to the doctor when her back started bothering her and she was afraid it had moved to her spine. Her daughter told my mother that she really doesn't think her mother will make longer than a year now.

Cancer is so common in my family. Maternal grandmother: breast cancer, skin cancer. Paternal grandmother: lung cancer, pancreas cancer. Paternal grandfather: skin cancer, "spots on the lung and brain". Paternal aunts: breast cancer. Maternal aunts: breast cancer, cancer on the brain.

*fans self*

Can I just say, the guy who mows my yard is such a hottie??!!?? I swear, if I was 20 years younger, I would so be trying to do him. Hell, maybe even if I was only 10 years younger.

Today's "stupid arkie moment"

So, I'm sitting at the computer, and I keep smelling something. I keep thinking what the hell is that??? In the trash was some stuff from Chinese takeout the other day that I had left in the kitchen instead of carrying outside. I decide that it is probably what I'm smelling. Instead of just taking it out and putting it in the garbage, I lift it up and sniff it to make sure that it's what I'm smelling. It was. *puke*

The young Arkie

These are the only pics I have of me as a young child. I will have to scrounge around next time I'm at my parents' and get some more.

I'm so vain, I have this pic hanging on my wall:


This is the picture I used in one of my sig pics:


Guess what I'm drinking?

It was not safe to leave a beer unattended around me. *shrugs*

So. Have you ever done something, or said you were going to do something, just on the spur of the moment, and really didn't think it through? I do this all the time. Now that I'm starting to really think about it, I'm not sure it can be done. Or should be done. Or maybe just not right now. Later would be better. Or am I trying to put it off just because I'm scared, and doing this takes me WAAAAAY out of my comfort zone? *sigh*

I'm thisclose to cancelling my trip. The more I think about it, the more I think maybe this is just not a good idea. I'm just getting a bad vibe about the whole thing. So, I've bought the plane tickets and I have a place to stay, but then what? What am I going to do that whole week? How am I going to get around? What the hell was I thinking???? What do I pack? How do I need to dress? I don't do checked luggage, so I limit myself to what can go in the carryon. Is that feasible for a week though???? Shit. I'm making myself crazy here. I have to have a plan. Not having a plan is stressing me out. Who the fuck goes on vacation without having some concept of what they are going to do???? (Besides insane people like myself??) This is stupid.

This dream was beyond bizarre

I had the strangest dream last night. I'm not going to go into all the details, because parts of it are just too nasty to share.

I'm at work, checking my email. For some reason, I'm getting a lot of SPAM, but these spam mails are somehow replys (is it still "change the y to an i, and add es" when you are using the word reply as a noun instead of a verb? It looks wrong either way to me.) to emails that I've sent to some inter-company email addys. I'm discussing the issue with my friend and one of the IT guys. We discover that the IT guy is to blame. So, I decide to open up these emails and read them. The first one or two are commenting on my original email. The next 2 are pornographic animation, that is scrolling across my monitor. The next one after that is also a pornographic animation, involving Andy Dick and a sheep. When the animation stops, there is a voice saying "time has run out for the sheep. But it's not too late for you. Vote for... (and I don't remember what I was being told to vote for)".

Seriously, could it get any more bizarre than a political ad that uses Andy Dick and a sheep to scare you into voting for something???

Waffle

What a fun word. And a really great breakfast food. Waffle, waffle, waffle, here I go waffling. *grin*

Your challenge, should you choose to accept, is to guess what arkie is thinking.

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This is beautiful, but would you do this? Would you go up and hug a perfect stranger? I would probably walk on by.

Well, that was a bizarre dream

I’m riding with my ex MIL to take my son to school. XMIL gives rides to other kids (but they’re not all in the same neighborhood or even go to the same school). We pick up and drop off several kids, and on the last one, she has her mini-van in the people’s house, turning it around in the kitchen and dining room. Then it changes to we’re sitting on some bleachers and to the right of us is a wooded area that has a small clearing in part of it. It’s me, arkieboy, XMIL, a young child (girl, maybe 2 or 3 yrs old) that’s not related to any of us, I think the XMIL must be babysitting, and Glow. The weather is kind of drizzly. I look off to the clearing area and see a herd of deer, a puppy, and a wolf pup. I say to my son, look at the wolf cub! XMIL says who cares about that in a real snotty tone. I wish I could take a picture of it, but don’t bother reaching for my camera, because the deer will all be gone before I could get it ready. Suddenly, the deer are all gone, and it’s a bunch of wolves. They come up to where we are sitting, and I’m able to pet 3 or 4 of them. They’re wet, of course, because of the drizzle. Glow reaches for the camera, but knocks it off the bleacher instead. The lens pops off and the battery falls out. Glow’s saying she’s sorry, and I say it’s alright. I pick up the 3 items, pop the lens back on, but before putting the battery in, I notice there’s a lot of water inside the camera. So I’m holding the camera upside down, turning it this way and that way, to drain it. For some reason, Glow has my printer/scanner, which is also full of water. She’s doing it the same way I’m doing the camera, to drain it. I say something about how the camera and printer always do this. Glow says she’s not a PC expert, but she fakes it enough at work.

Then I woke up, concerned about whether I had turned my alarm back on (I have it off on the weekends) because I didn't want to be late for work. Then after sitting up for a minute or two, I realized something. It doesn't matter, because it's not Monday yet!