Work Rant, Shopping, kidney stones

2003-09-22 - 8:17 a.m.

Well, let's see. Thursday, I went to the company's benefit and health fair with my coworkers. We carpooled. Why did I agree to it? We could only spend an hour or less because of Amy's schedule. Grrrr. I didn't get to do much this year b/c of it. I spoke with a few people I know that I only see at the health fair, and got my picture taken, but I didn't get my fortune read or anything else done. It was a circus theme this year. We get paid to go and stay as long as we want. Pout.

Friday, Mom brought fried chicken (lousy chicken anyway), macaroni salad (yummy), and Hawaiian sweet bread (yummy) home. Didn't eat much of the chicken, ate the macaroni salad, and 2 rolls of the bread, and gained 3 pounds the next day! Yikes!

Saturday got up and ran some errands. Went to Walmart, forgot the returns, picked up the pictures of my house in various stages of remodeling and me in my Harry Potter costume from last year, picked up a few items, spilled fabric softener in one of the aisles. Was embarrassed. Nosy customer went off to find an employee to clean up the mess before I could. Went to the eyeglass place to get my glasses fixed. Said "What the fuck is taking so long?" as I waited to be waited on. Guy heard me. Was so very embarrassed. Glasses repaired. Is good. Not having a good day. Should've eaten breakfast before I left that day, as hunger/low blood sugar makes me very bitchy. So then I went to Arby's to get something to eat, ordered, waited, waited, and waited some more. There were 2 cars in front of me. For 15 minutes I waited, car in front of me gave up, and I gave up, left w/o my food. Was on my way home, get a call from Walmart saying I forgot to pick up my pictures. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Went back to Walmart, got the pictures, went him. Having hissy trying to find food at home to eat for breakfast. Ate. Mowed my yard and mom's yard. Forgot I was supposed to go to Uncle's to pick up brisket for mom. Uncle is smoking brisket to raise money for his grandchild to participate in going to Florida for Disney World (land?), MGM, Cocoa Beach. He's in the band, and they're marching at DisneyWorld next year. Did my Disco Sweat video. Showered. Went to Uncle's along with Mom. Mom almost backed into a car leaving her driveway. Said she was hoping my bad luck had worn off by now.

Went home. Ate brisket. Love brisket, be nice if it loved me back (heartburn).

Sunday: Got up, helped mom edge our yards, cleaned my house, did Disco Sweat, took bath, had kidney stone attack. Very painful. Managed to find some old pain pills from the last time it happened. Funsies. Not.

Monday: Holding breath waiting for pain to come back. I know it will. I feel "tender" there still. Will have pain until I pass the stone. Sniffles. Why me? This makes it my--what--sixth attack? I'm so sick of it. The pain is such that if a mugger said your money or your life: response: Here's my money if you take my life....

My vcr screwed up and didn't take the Yugioh ep with Yuugi dealing Bakura. The second part, the ending of the duel. Major grrr there--I've been looking forward to that ep for a very long time. Sigh. Got it straightened out now though.

 

Edit: My boss said last night she'd had a dream/nightmare about me quitting here and going to work for Tech Services. As if! Tech Services is worse than here! Talk about unpleasant people--Tech Service has a bad rep out here for not responding to calls and having an attitude when they do. And dealing with bitchy people 'cause they're comps are screwing up? Forget it.

Weight as of this morning: 157 I think. Old-fashioned, non-digital scale with hard to read hash marks. Whee! Though. Feel so lazy. Very, very sleepy. Don't wanna do my Disco Sweat--but I will though. Promised myself I'd do it everyday. If I don't then it's easy to talk myself out of it. Not gonna happen. I want my other tapes to come. I'm bored with DS every day--but it's working. Heh. Need to add weight training though--that's what increases your metabolism and makes you burn more calories all day.

President Bush the Asshole

2003-09-22 - 10:37 a.m.

This might be funny if it weren't true

 

RESUME: GEORGE W. BUSH

The White House USA

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

I ran for congress and lost.

I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went

bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took

land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago

White Sox.

With my father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

I changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the

most polluted state in the Union.

I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in

America.

I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions

in borrowed money.

I set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.

I became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes,

with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

I attacked two countries.

I spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

I shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.

I set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month

period.

I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock

market.

I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal

record.

In the first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on

vacation by any president in US history. After taking the entire month of

August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US

history. I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any

other president in US history.

In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.

I cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any

president in US history.

I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than

any president in US history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to

intervene when corruption was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to

use the national reserves as past presidents have.

I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously

take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the

record

for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I dissolved more international treaties than any president in

US history.

Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US

history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron

oil

tanker named after her).

I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military

occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the

United Nations and the world community.

I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of

the United States .

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases,

more than any president in US history.

I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove

the US from the human rights commission.

I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove

the US from the elections monitoring board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of

congressional oversight of any presidential administration in US history.

I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the

World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners

of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election

inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate

campaign donations. My biggest lifetime campaign contributor, who is also

one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate

bankruptcy

frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

I, with a policy of disengagement, created the most hostile

Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people

of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace

and stability.

I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea

more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea .

I failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.

I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other

president in US history.

In a little over two years I created the most divided country in decades,

possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.

I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less

than two years turned every single economic category heading straight

down.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine ( Texas driving

record has been erased and is not available).

I was AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of

war.

I refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to

my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt

companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board

are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding

public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public

review.

For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker

(They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group which has been

accused of war-profiteering.)

President Bush the Asshole

2003-09-22 - 12:45 p.m.

Enjoy! Not!

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/international/africa/22DIPL.html?th

U.S. Resists Entreaties to Send Peacekeepers to Liberia

(even after the U.S. embassy was attacked!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/international/asia/22JAPA.html?th

The idea of nuclear armament as a self-defense strategy for

Japan is being considered as a solution to a growing sense

of regional insecurity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/international/asia/22PREX.html?th

President Bush appeared to shrug off evidence that North

Korea may have begun producing plutonium at a second,

hidden nuclear facility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/technology/22JOBS.html?th

I.B.M. Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas (And they're not the only ones.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/opinion/22KRUG.html?th

By cooking intelligence to promote a war that wasn't

urgent, the administration has squandered our military

strength.

I stole the links from a livejournal (talya fyredancer's) and posted them here to help spread them around. Scary subjects, ne? *looks pointedly at her staunch Republican Bush loving friends*

Quiz Results

2003-09-22 - 1:20 p.m.

http://societyhappens.com/sushi/various/signals.jpg

Oh, my god. Just way, way, too funny. ROTFLMAO.

If you're homophobic, don't bother visiting it though. Nothing graphic.

Your Name: Alex M.
Your Date of Birth: 02/18/1971
Your Question or Information: career path

Past Raido - Safe travel, movement, obtaining justice in an issue, used to keep a situation from stagnating.

Present Isa - Cessation of energy, freezing an issue where it stands, cooling relationships, separation, division.

Future Lagaz - Intuition, imagination, success in studies, creativity, vitality and passion (especially for women).

Cast the runes here:
Rune Caster

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	High
Schizoid:	Moderate
Schizotypal:	High
Antisocial:	Moderate
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	Low
Narcissistic:	Moderate
Avoidant:	Very High
Dependent:	Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive:	High
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! --

Don't really agree with a few of the results, but it's kinda fun to take. So there. Is it really Paranoia when you know for a fact your coworkers talk negatively about you behind your back b/c another coworker has told you so?