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Showing posts with label Life is wonderful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life is wonderful. Show all posts
Today was a good day in tech class. Our lab was to identify and fix the problem with a computer that our teacher had "broke". Of the 3 symptoms/fixes, I identified 2 of them. I own my class. Yeah, I said it! lol
I'm in a classroom tonight and I'm working on my English paper and this guy comes in and goes "are you tech?" and I said "yup" and he was like "I'm beginning to tell who the tech guys are". LOL it's his first term and that made me feel so good. It's true though, there is a camaraderie with us tech guys. I never felt that connection with gay men but I'm grateful for the tech guys in my class. The guy tonight, he's not part of my class but I'm there for him if he needs help. During our convo he said "I need to hang out with you more experienced tech guys", I loved it! LOL I used to be the new guy (still am in a way) and I look up to the tech guys before me. Now I'm kinda that guy for someone.
My mom called to tell me that unemployment benefits got extended. Nothing on the CA unemployment website yet, but fingers crossed!
Thanks to Eyre for turning me on to this site, One Hello World. You can call this guy and leave him a voicemail and he will write music to your story, and it's genius and it's beautiful...and it's real!
Ya know, I don't know, maybe it's school, or the fact I have to once again look for a place to live in a little over a month or that since I'm new to this city I don't really know anybody and I'm lonely...but listening to the music and the stories on this website, I just bawled. <- (major run on sentence, my English teacher would be so disappointed) It was very cathartic for me, I feel so much better, maybe not so much optimistic, but definitely better. Please check out the website and for those of you freaks who just come to my blog for the hot guys, pause, and take a moment, you will be glad you did. I've posted some of my faves below:
I read a book (yes a whole book), I watched a movie, I took a walk, I surfed the 'net, I did some laundry, I did everything BUT homework or study today. :D And I was okay with that. Tomorrow will be devoted to school and then back to the grind on Monday. This evening I got back to my cousin's place (apartment sitting) and I just sat down with my book and put the laundry in and it was just so...normal. I didn't turn on the TV but of course the laptop was on, but only to Twitter! *grin* I honestly don't remember when I just sat and read in silence (minus clothes cleaning appliances). For the past couple of years it's been about looking for work, moving from one temp job to another and where will I be sleeping tonight? Whose couch, which hotel and for how long. It felt so good to just, be. I know it's not my place but it's familiar here at my cousin's, I spent many a night on this couch, and it just felt so good to...I don't know, not worry. I just got to concentrate on my book and get lost in another world. Was nice. A multitude of emotions today, all positive though...gratefulness, pride, joy, . :) So since my day was quite random and nice, thought I would share. Enjoy! ;) peace
So here at the house, we had the exterminators in yesterday, so that meant an early day getting up and moving everything out of the kitchen, covering up furniture, moving stuff out of my bedroom. Then wait four hours and come back and attempt to put everything back, hmm...didn't work because we had to rewash all the dishes, the linen covering the furniture and of course our bedding, even though it was covered. Wipe everything down, keep the baby from licking anything and of course Chris had to leave at 9:30 pm last night for work and so it was basically just me finishing up putting the house back together. Woke up today and started more dishes, and was going to start more laundry but washing machine was down. So in short, I got up and did dishes, registered for school (yeah! I'm in!) come back do more dishes, run errands for my cousin, change the baby's dressing (burned foot from walking on hot cement, long story),fix the baby's table because Jodi broke it on accident, fix the washer, get gorilla glue on my hands, wash hands for like an hour...glue still there, do more laundry and I know this is the longest run on sentence EVER! Exhausted. Okay, living in my hotel room was very simple, just me and that's about that. Now it's different and with Chris being gone so much, I basically run the house, take care of Jodi and the baby and fix shit. LOL not as sexy as I used to be, well in my head anyways. I like it though, I do. So now that Jodi is in bed, baby is finally asleep and I'm halfway through laundry and 3/4's way though dishes, I can take a break and just chill. Searched the web for how to get this frickin gorilla glue off my hands...can't. Deal with my chemical OCD/Anxiety and realize, I'll be OKAY. Once again, in my head, I always thought my blog was "kinda" sexy but now it's kind of going a different way...kind of okay with that too. Don't get me wrong, hot pics to follow, but now I actually feel I have a "life" to blog about, rather than just me in a hotel room. Okay, time for some hot pics, today I did not feel hot at all but I did have the guy at the smoke shop (errand for my cousin)flirt with me, so uh hotness?! lol Enjoy! ;) peace
So no more living in a hotel for me. :) I have a friend who has a 32 yr old niece (Jodi) who is mentally disabled and is probably mentally at the 13 yr old level. She has a 17 month old little girl (Katherine) and he is a truck driver who does the long hauls. Well he had to fire his former caregiver (drugs) and he asked me if I wanted to take over. I can still work a full time job, she's very independent and takes care of her baby. He would just feel more comfortable with someone being there in the evenings. Free room and board and I get a free gym membership! Everything fell into place as he made the offer the day I found out there were no more unemployment extensions. He lives within walking distance of the school I want to go and that I had spent time researching as far as IT programs (how serendipitous is that!) , Target (my favorite store), Boston Market (do you know how rare those are?!) and bunch of other places I can apply or shop at. So, I've been here a week now and it's working out pretty good. Whenever I say something positive like that, I tend to jinx it so, on the negative note (to be fair) they have a dog named Billy who is a mess! lol I adore him but he's a big dog and he tracks mud in and he eats people food, off your plate if you're not careful! So when Chris is here (a day here a day there) Billy eats well. When Chris isn't here, he eats dog food or nothing at all and he knows better than to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking or begging if we're eating!
Oh and I'm not looking for a full time job, because I signed up for school to go full time. :) Hoping to get an AA (to start with) in IT and yes, it's at the school within walking distance. So I'm looking for something part time until classes start in August and then just work part time until I'm done with my first year. So fingers crossed I'll hear confirmation from my school this week that I'm in.
So yeah, as usual even when it seems it's not, life is Wonderful. ;) peace
p.s. This is Sir, he rules the backyard! I think there are 6 tortoises but he's the biggest. ;)
I was so excited when I had my Palm Centro and they announced the Palm Pre, I may even have some old blog posts about it. Then the Palm Pre came out and it was hell of expensive and I didn't have the $$ at the time, later I ended up getting my BlackBerry and all was Wonderful in my World. I love my BlackBerry, I'm on it constantly and it's great. My brother and I are competitive (as most brothers are) and I had given him my old Centro when I got my BB. He fell in love with Palm while I fell for BB. I'm trying to convince him to get one, he's trying to convince me to get the Pre (which he already knew he was going to get) and so back and forth.
Well yesterday I spent with my nephew who is 13, I've called him precious since my sister brought him home from the hospital...and he still lets me call him that. ;) Well I feel for him because he lives out in the middle of nowhere, in a trailer, his dad is a tweaker his step mom is a tweaker and his real mom is a tweaker/alkie and he has two baby half brothers who are monsters. He's such a good kid, sweet, smart and...my precious. Well like most kids his age he wants a cell phone and it's the ONLY thing he's wanted forever. Being so rural it would give him a chance to connect with his friends, access the internet (they have no computer) and...well...be able to TALK to people, they have no home phone. He wants a BlackBerry and he wanted to know if I would test my BlackBerry where he lives to see if he gets service because his paternal grandma was thinking of getting him one on Sprint, which is my carrier. She later said no, it's too expensive and blah blah blah...they can afford it, he gets a disability check (see below) and they are in charge of it.
He has retinitis pigmentosa (which makes him even more precious to me) and he lives up a lil bit from the river and he's always down there walking around with his dog Lucky. I haven't been to his place in years and when I took him back yesterday from visiting both sets of grandparents, I was shocked at how deplorable his living conditions really are. The trailer was a mess, there is junk all over the yard, and it really is like a redneck lifestyle. So as we're walking around testing my phone, I can tell he REALLY does not want me and my mom to leave. His dad is tweaking on a motorcycle (and then takes off because he knows I don't like his sorry loser ass), the two monster babies are destroying things and the step mom is moving stuff around the yard. I swear I'm in Arkansas (oh yeah, I went there) so he says "Uncle let's try the phone down by the river because I go down there a lot with Lucky". So we go and I'm so nervous because the trail down is strewn with logs and large rocks and the path is sometimes covered with branches from fallen trees and I'm thinking wtf? He's legally blind and he comes down here, a lot? So we get to the river, of my course my BB and Sprint work (kudos) and we head back up and he surprisingly does very well back up the trail. I guess he does spend some time going down to the river. So we race back up the last part of the trail (he wins because LUCKY gets in front of me and goes super slow, I know he did that on purpose! Lucky has his back) and as we're walking back to the trailer I'm thinking, this kid needs a phone. Sometimes he's home alone, he's down at the river (alone), he has no one to talk to because his parents are off doing their own thing and he can't really have that much in common with a 4 year old and 2 year old who are wild children. No home phone, no computer, no cable, wow. We say our goodbyes and as I'm driving away towards the gate to the road I wanted to cry at the scene I was looking at, step mom lugging junk in a wagon (tweaking, I'm sure), two little boys throwing crap all over, dad is gone and my precious goes and sits on a bench next to the abandoned house in front of their trailer and kind of looks around like...now what to do? Whew! That was tough for me. Fuck it, I'm "technically" homeless, I'm unemployed, on unemployment and live in hotels while I look for work...my precious needs a phone. So I got him one yesterday when we got back to where my parents live, I couldn't afford to get him the BlackBerry but I got him what I could and I added him to my plan and talked to my bro (who is also on my plan) and we'll pay his monthly bill. He doesn't know any of this and I figured I'd drive out there today and surprise him.
So my brother starts texting me about the Palm Pre this morning, RadioShack (where I bought my nephew's phone) is having a special on the Pre and I had texted my bro last night about it. So this morning, he makes his move...he'll buy my Palm Pre (along with his) and we can return the cheap phone I got for my nephew and give him my BlackBerry. LOL, bastard! He knows I would do anything for my precious (as would he) AND he wins because I caved and will get the Pre. I'm now excited about it because he keeps telling me all the stuff the Palm Pre can do, all in all it's a win win.
My mom and I took my nephew his phone today and he was so excited and grateful, and EVEN more excited when I told him it was just a temporary phone and he was getting my BlackBerry. LOL, he's been texting me all night and calling me asking questions about the BlackBerry and apps. I told him I can reset the phone to factory conditions but he doesn't want that, he wants to sit down with me and go over the apps I already have and decide which ones to keep/delete. I think my brother is stoked because we'll have the same phone and can learn about it together.
I think people would look at my situation and feel sorry or bad for me, I look at my life...and just think, it's Wonderful. ;) peace UPDATE: Just a few minutes after I posted this I got a text from my nephew "Luv u nite". LOL who just teared up? UPDATE: I went back to my BlackBerry, my nephew kept the BlackBerry Curve and I upgraded to the BlackBerry Tour! ;) peace
It's finally a gorgeous day here in Oregon and I took some video that I'll post later of the wonderful weather. When I woke up this morning and looked outside and saw the blue skies, I got so excited! Now normally I would throw on cargo shorts on a day like today but I thought of my favorite jeans hanging in the closet and knew I wanted to wear those. Yes, I have too much time on my hands, yes I am a dork to be blogging my fave jeans and even more of a dork for lamely trying to video me in my favorite jeans! Well, I had just woken up and was thankful for the nice day and well, hell, the video was made so I might as well post it. There are so many things that make life wonderful that even an article of clothing can make your day. I guess that's the message I was trying to convey here, but in reviewing the video later...um...not sure what the message coming across is. Enjoy your day! ;) peace
A good job, a well paying job, a job that puts me back in project management, and more importantly I get to leave the COMPANY FROM HELL! I am still sooo blogging about them, but until then, what do I do when I have great news? It's all about my baby Joseph Sayers...he is my boyfriend and my husband is Gavin Newsom. ;) peace
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