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Life with a puppy is super busy. Let's see.

Saturday, we took Maggie and Noname to the vet. Noname needed some bloodwork done before I could start her on heartworm prevention meds. We have an INSANE number of mosquitoes in our yard and I was worried noname would catch something. Maggie needed her next booster shot and a general checkup.

Everyone at the vet thought maggie was the cutest thing in the whole world. Poor noname was ignored. But I gave her a squeeze. And ben took her to poop outside. So I don't think she was too upset.

Both dogs got a clean bill of health and medicine for fleas and heartworm. Maggie will be super happy when all her fleas are dead. (Most are actually already dead as of today.)

On sunday, ben took me out to buy parts for a new computer. My computer is starting to die. I was hoping it could hold out until giftmas, but it's nearly unusable right now. Sad...

Monday I returned to work after my lovely vacation. Of course everything I left to be done was not done and I spent the day scrambling to get things in. *sigh* I don't know what to do. What are they going to do once I finally find a new job?

Things got worse when I got home. We had locked maggie up in the kitchen because I felt my hours were too long to keep her in a cage. She escaped. And pooped on the floor. And then roomba started his monday afternoon cleaning routine...

Everywhere.

It was awful. I mopped the floors twice. And threw out a floor carpet. And hosed the other carpet down outside. I don't know what to do with roomba. Poop is caked into everything. It's horrible.

After that, I was pretty tired and annoyed, so I thought I would knit. But somewhere along my commute, I lost my knitting needles! I had to order a new set to finish the sweater. So annoying.

The rest of the evening was spent playing with maggie. She's still biting, but she's getting better. Slightly. I brought her up on the couch with me and she sat on my shoulder like a parrot. It was super cute. Too bad she won't stay little forever.

It is probably bad that when I heard Palin's church burned down, my first thought was "I guess she felt the media wasn't paying enough attention to her lately..."

My dog needs a walk but it is very cold out. When I am rich, I will pay someone to walk my dog on weekends. At least the mornings.

The cold displeases me. It also makes me really hungry all the time. My body must think the next ice age is coming. Obviously I can't eat all the time without becoming very overweight, so I have turned to salad. It satisfies that need to consume food all the time in a healthy way. The only real problem is the dressing, but I use only a tiny bit of that, so I think I'm good.

Ben bought one of those fancy tablets for drawing, but once I sat down to play with it, I couldn't think of anything to draw. Sad. Maybe I'll just draw lots of circles for now just to get the hang of it. At the disney animation academy thing we went to, they had us draw circles for most of the class. I wish I could remember how to draw mickey. Maybe I can find directions online.

My disney video continues to delight me. It's silly.

I just read an article about how in places like iran, men throw acid in women's faces if they reject the man's marriage proposal. Sad! And now one of those women is getting her revenge by having acid poured into her attacker's eyes. Not sure what I think about that. Part of me feels like that's a good punishment for disfiguring someone and blinding them. But the other part of me questions the effectiveness of it all.

*sigh* I guess I need to get dressed and walk this dog. She's so annoying. She keeps poking at my fingers while I type. My next dog is going to be trained to use the toilet.

Current Mood: cold

Let's see. So the day before halloween we carved our pumpkin at work. I was unimpressed by it but the others were happy so that's good. It wasn't much of a challenge for me though.

When I got home I got to play with SCIENCE! by baking window cookies. I needed to experiment in order to find the correct baking time to ensure tasty cookies and clear candy windows. the correct formula was the full baking time minus 3 minutes for the cookies alone, and then add the crushed candy for the final 3 minutes. Yay science!

Halloween day, I wore my grim reaper costume. I think I looked fantastic. However, while on my way to work, I thought I had the wrong day. I didn't see anyone else with a costume! People are so boring. I got lots of compliments on my costume though.

Despite looking great, I only got 2nd place in the costume contest. (And we only got honorable mention in the pumpkin carving contest, but that was to be expected.) Marge Simpson won, which I guess makes sense because people will be more inclined to vote for the funny and familiar over um, death. I'm going to enter the costume in a few online contests, so maybe I'll win something there. (Which reminds me, I need to upload those pictures so I can enter before the deadline.)

( A cut was needed )

Current Mood: cold

I woke up feeling like I was going to fall apart today. My nose is runny, my eyes are watery, I have a cough and a sore throat, my lungs feel wet, I'm tired, and my back is sore. I'm probably getting sick, but I hope not. I don't have time to be sick.

I thought about staying home, but I had an important meeting today.

I wish I could say I was going to rest when I got home, but I need to stain my scythe again and then run to the store for dog food. And then I need to call my mother because she keeps sending me whiny emails because I didn't call her last night. (Sorry mom, I was in bed choking on my own spit and mucus last night...)

On a completely random tangent, last night ben woke me up and asked me if he could have the hard drive from my laptop. I wasn't completely awake and stupidly assumed he was asking for the hard drive from my old laptop. Later in the night, ben wakes me again and thanks me and tells me he put a different hard drive in my laptop. Somehow it comes up that it was my new laptop! Sadness! So now I have to find a laptop-friendly linux to use since I have a completely blank hard drive. :(

Current Mood: sick

I was a little disappointed by Pan's Labyrinth. From the trailers, I
had expected there to be more horror-fantasy. I'm not a fan of serious
real life stuff. I wouldn't have minded a little real life stuff, but
I was expecting about 60-75% fantasy.

Did I mention we got webcams last night? I think I did. Well, they
work and all is good in the world. (Except for ben going away to
texas....)

It was free ride day on the bus this morning. So that was neat. But
the smelly person on the train countered any good feelings this
morning. And it was cold and rainy. Ick. I hope it warms up soon.

I need to go to the bank this weekend. I have THREE checks that I need
to deposit. No wonder I feel so horribly broke. Once I put those in
the bank though, I can have a brief feeling of wealth before it all
gets taken out again for bills. *sigh*

Had to work late again. Didn't get everything in, but I realized that the vendors were probably closed so it didn't matter if I waited until the morning anyway.

My bus got lost on the way home. I felt so horribly sick.

Now I'm horribly cranky because I started setting up my new laptop. I don't normally use language like this but I'm making an exception: Vista is a giant steaming pile of shit. :( It's slow, bloated, and overprotective. It's completely counter-intuitive too. I am a cranky melissa.

It has been nearly 2 hours and ben and I are STILL trying to get it set up. Ben took the laptop away from me to do stuff which is making me crazy because I want to start figuring out how to turn off all the fancy junk. Like the start up music. Do I really need my laptop to do a little song and dance for me every time I turn it on?

I still need to go shopping tonight too. Bleh.

Current Mood: cranky

I had to stay late today to make sure something got done. Pooo! Well, at least I won't have to feel guilty. The art was sent to the people it needed to go to and there's nothing for me to worry about.

It was weird taking the train late. It was empty! There were seats! Normally we have to squish up like sardines. It was nice to be able to breathe.

Ben picked me up at the train station and then we went to pick up my laptop together. It's still in the box right now. :P I'm too tired to try it out.

After that, we went out to dinner. The waiter had a little trouble hearing us. It was kinda funny. Ben asked for water and the guy said, "milk?" and ben had to correct him, "no, water." :P They sound nothing alike. It's a good thing he didn't bring ben milk or I would have laughed too loud. (And looking this over, this looks like one of those you had to be there moments.)

When we got home, I caught a bad case of hiccups. Ben couldn't stop me so he locked himself in the bedroom. So mean! They're stopped now at least.

Ben is asleep. I think I might join him soon. I'm so full, it makes it hard to stay awake. I don't want to go to bed too early though. :(

Current Mood: full

Apparently I have a new laptop. Ben has suggested I name it the Pride.
(Jean Lafitte's ship.) He's been pushing this laptop on me for weeks.
Finally I gave in because I knew he'd never be happy until he bought
it for me. He's a weird silly boy.

Also, I had a meeting today with the VP of Membership (my boss) and
she said that I'm catching on amazingly fast. Yay! I was worried that
I was making too many mistakes. And she says as I go along, I should
let her know what sort of stuff I'm interested in so she can steer me
in those directions. That way I can do the things I want to do later
on. Yay!

I think I'm getting the hang of this secret ninja posting. But I think
I'll need to go back and tag all those entries later. What a bother.

Last night I forced myself to stop being lazy. I actually got myself
up to sew a little. However, I was so tired, I kept making mistakes.
It made me very grumpy.

Also last night I installed a new video card on my computer. Now my
new monitor works. Other guys buy their girls flowers and jewelery. My
boy buys me electronics. I think I win here.

I'm a lot less grumpy today. I got to sleep an extra half hour thanks
to figuring out the bus schedule a little more. And ben did the dishes
after I went to bed. Plus I figured out more of what I should be doing
at work. Hopefully I won't screw anything up today. I'll try really
hard!

So I finally found a picture I like and made it into an icon, but I want to add text to it. The problem is that none of the art programs I have understand kanji. (Or hiragana and katakana for that matter.) I hope my home computer can. :( I want pretty pictures!

Current Mood: cold

How do two video cards die in my computer in a 6 month period?

Current Mood: annoyed

It's really really nice out. I wish I was outside rather than here at work. It's friday which means the day will drag.

My computer is being worked on right now, which means I can't get any work done. Very annoying. Plus this laptop is terrible. I wish I could get away with playing video games right now. It's not like there's any work for me to do. I think it's unreasonable to have my time wasted like this.

Current Mood: bored

My computer at work is being stupid. It's not sending a signal to the monitor. I checked that everything was plugged in right, so that's not the problem. And I know it's not the monitor because it works with the server. So it must be my horrible evil computer that has been stupid since the day they gave it to me. *sigh* Now I'm stuck on a very slow laptop with a tiny keyboard. Bah.

But in happier news, I think my dog is feeling much better. ( Again with the puppy tmi )

Current Mood: groggy

I finished Howl's Moving Castle because I couldn't sleep last night. It's definitely another case of the book being better than the movie. Sophie is a much stronger character in the book. She's much more in charge of her fate. (Which is kinda funny because she keeps telling herself throughout the book that she can't fight her destiny when actually she does at every turn.)

By 3 I still wasn't asleep. Ben called and asked me to pick him up. He finished the maintenance window super early this month!

We had our late night/early morning breakfast at amphora and then came home. I was finally tired, but ben wasn't. I curled up on the couch to sleep while he picked out parts for my new computer.

I've decided I'm going to install ubuntu on it. All by myself. I'm going with a linux computer because I'm tired of microsoft and their super accusatory validation programs they keep trying to force on me. And I'm going to try to install it myself so I don't feel so helpless. In the past when ben installed linux for me, he never really explained how things worked. I felt like I had no control over my computer. I don't like that because it makes me afraid to use my computer. So I'm hoping that by doing everything myself, I'll have more confidence when I use my computer.

Anyway, went to bed after that and slept until about noon. Woke up to feed my dog. Got grumpy at my stupid laptop. Told ben I needed to get out today or I'd go crazy. Was asked to play video games with him. Got angry at zelda. Am now crazy and grumpy from sitting in the house and want to go scream and cry. :(

Current Mood: grumpy

Typing from ben's computer right now. He's trying to get my stupid laptop to show image on the new monitor he bought for me. Not only did the keyboard die, but the monitor was also quickly on its way out. I had 14 dead lines going down my screen, last I counted. So when ben was buying me a new keyboard, he picked up a monitor too.

But in happy news, I got my tired fixed. The place around the block from me was able to repair it. And it didn't cost much either! So yay! To celebrate, I bought smoothies.

It looks like he's giving up on the laptop. T_T He's asking me what I want in a new one.

Current Mood: okay

So I came into work today and the email server thingie was down. I didn't know how to fix this problem (I didn't even know where that server was!) so I called my boss and asked what I should do. He told me to restart it.

I didn't have permissions to restart the server the proper way, so I just pressed the reset button. It's a windows machine, it should be fine, right?

Restarting the server didn't work. So my boss calls the tech guy and tells him there's a problem. The tech guy calls me and asks what's wrong. I was a good girl and told him more than, "It doesn't work!" I made sure to tell him what specifically doesn't work, what I did, and all the error messages along the way.

And the tech guy yells at me. Tells me that I did a dumb thing and that I should have never restarted the server because now I've corrupted the data. I just went, "Oh..." on the phone and started to cry a little. I hate getting yelled at. Especially when I didn't know I was doing something wrong.

If it was a bad thing to restart the server, he should have put a sign there. Or at least told someone. Especially considering it has a restart button on it. Maybe put a little note over the button saying, "Don't restart!"

Ben says I didn't do anything wrong and that I shouldn't get upset. I trust ben's computer knowledge over this guy's. But I really hate being yelled at.

[EDIT] Ben was right, of course. I didn't break anything. The tech guy have come and gone and everything is working fine now.

Current Mood: distressed

This morning while walking my dog, I noticed a squirrel trying very hard to carry something round and orange up a tree. I thought maybe it was an orange, but couldn't figure out where it would get it. My dog saw the squirrel then and chased after it, forcing the poor thing to drop its treat. As the orange thing fell, I saw it wasn't an orange after all. It was an easter egg! Then as I looked around I saw that there were at least 5 or 6 easter eggs in the area, stuck in trees and next to rocks and stuff. I guess someone hid them outside for their kids. Good thing my dog stopped that squirrel from stealing one.

Everything is closed today for Easter. Probably for fear of zombies. It's like the entire state shut down. So weird! I don't know what to do today. I guess finish up my book.

The new usb cord solved all my printing woes at least. That was probably why my other printer didn't work either. Bah. Well, this new printer is much better than my old one. I still need to get rid of my old printer. Maybe post it on craigslist or something. I don't know if it works though, so I'm not sure I can sell it. Even if the cable was the problem, ben had such a frustrating time getting drivers and stuff for my printer. (Yay old technology.) Maybe I'll just give it away to anyone who can pick it up.

Current Mood: tired

Grrr! I am trying to map a drive so I can access the client photo files. But it has some sort of stupid protection on it or something because I cannot even find the place I want to map! *gnaw* Sometimes I just really REALLY hate computers. They should just do what I tell them to.

Current Mood: aggravated

I'm sure everyone knows about this already. :P

Sony installs malware on your computer which makes it vulnerable to attacks.

Even military and government computers have been infected.

Current Mood: hungry

So, my computer at work has been broken for a while. My boss called tech support who said it was the video card and promised to send a new one. (Along with usb ports, because the ones they sent were wired backwards and blowing stuff up.) Never arrived.

So my boss called again. They said he never called the first time, but would send a card this time. It finally arrived today and my boss popped it into the computer. Froze up. Also, they sent the wrong usb ports. (Looks like they were used and broken too.)

So he called tech support again. They hung up on him for complaining. :P And wouldn't answer his call after that. He has to use a different phone to get to the manager.

Now the computer needs to be sent away to be fixed. I bet it'll come back broken. I started reading forums (Grain of salt, the only people who write about companies are the people who are REALLY angry at the company) and they are filled with horror stories. It seems that this company has a habit of sending computers back broken again and again until the warranty runs out. Then they refuse to help.

I'm interested to see how this progresses. Just from what I'm observing though, I wouldn't recommend ibuypower to anyone. They seem pretty incompetent.

Current Mood: interested

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