Well, we have new additions to the family. Three, to be exact. For several years previously, I owned rats. Lashanna and Llythande were our babies, and I really missed them after Lashanna passed away some years later. I had gotten a pair of rats about three years ago, but I have never before met a pair of such nasty-tempered little rodents in my life. It was under general consensus that I had been sold feeders instead of pet rats. They were quickly given a new home elsewhere.

But I still love 'em.

I now have three new lil babies. They're juvenile rats, not full grown. It was originally supposed to be two, but they were the only three in the cage and when we brought out the first two, the third kinda looked at me like "Dude. Not cool." So we have three.

They're all beige, one is solid with a white belly. One is a hooded rat with a stripe down her back, and the other is just hooded.

Their names are Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Thyme is a nifty one too... she has two different coloured eyes. One is black, the other pink. We're not sure if she's blind in that eye yet or not, but if she is, it doesn't seem to bother her. I've taken a couple pics this morning, but they're still settling so they're all over the cage. Thyme, especially is hard to snap a pic of.

But I will have images soon. :)

Current Mood:

bouncy

Call me ASAP. I'm home in the evenings. I need to find out if you've gotten any info about the hotels and such for the wedding. Also, Kelson will be with us, he's coming in mid-May. So if you need a kiddo in there anywhere, lemme know. :)

Happy New Year!

Hopefully, it's a bit smoother this go-around. Last year was just 'meh'.

I was sick enough during the spring that I burned all of my PTO before summer even hit. THAT sucked. Kelson got to spend two weeks with us at the beginning of summer, which was fecking AWESOME, and I just wished he could have stayed longer. However, I just couldn't get the time off work. Birthday was 'meh'. I can pretty much take it or leave it every year now.

What happened to my 20's? I miss them.

Autumn brought a bit more stress, with my kid being terrorized by his teacher during the hours he was at school. This was brought to a head, actually, in January when the bitch finally crossed one last line and had to deal with Hurricane Sasha in response. (GO SASHA! You rock my sox.)

Sasha is Kelson's stepmom, for those who don't know, and she's wonderful.

(Edit) My father died in September... which I didn't find out about for almost two weeks, and then dealt with the aftermath of that for almost a month total. The upnote to that was that it got me back in touch with my uncle whom I hadn't had a relationship with since I was 8, and I got to meeet his wonderful wife and stepdaughter. It's also given me the knowledge that I have a cousin in Erie that dresses up like Jack Sparrow (AND LOOKS THE PART PERFECTLY!).

Late autumn and winter brought about the normal blues that generally hit me during that time of year. Normally, I'm an anti-social wreck, but this year Kelson came home for Yule for the first time in a couple years. It was great! I didn't put up the tree til he got there, and he had fun decorating it. There weren't as many presents as I would have liked, but I enjoyed seeing his eyes light up with everything he DID get from us.

On the work front, last year was a good one. I made it off the phones in March and then made permanent E-share (where I wanted to be) in December. Even though I'd been a 'permanent fill-in' since May.

This year brings new possibilities. I may be moved to a different department here at work, which is just now in the planning stage. I can't say too much of it, but if I get it, I can pretty much work from wherever I want and I will get paid to write and draw.

I'm SO hoping for this.

Fanchild will be coming to visit again this summer, so I need to save up for that. Tax refund was about enough to put half a tank of gas in my car. *Snort*

All in all, this year looks to be shaping up to be much better for me. Here's hoping!

Welcome, the Year of the Rat!

Current Mood:

hopeful

But I will likely only be posting here to give information to my WoW guild.

Do you know what it is like to be treated like a punching bag for over a week straight, with no end in sight? I mean really. I do technical support. I fix computers and connection issues.

I am not a developer, nor am I an engineer. I have no access to our mail servers, and BELIEVE ME, Mr. Fed Up Customer, if I could wave my magic techie wand and make them work again, I WOULD.

Just so I wouldn't have to have 300+ of YOU in my chat, bitching at me like I'm the one that took a piss on the server to begin with and deprived you of your Email Vittles for a fecking week.

I didn't break it. An update to the servers did.

I can't fix it. I don't have the knowledge or the access.

And when I give a time frame for fixing, it's because that's what I was told. Can I guarantee that it'll be up then? No. Because I'm kept JUST as much of a mushroom as you are. I know what I'm told. Beyond that, I have no goddamned clue what's going on any more than you do.

All I can do is sit here on the front lines, taking flak from every single user who is pissed off, fed up, and screaming blue murder about the email being down. IT'S NOT EVEN DOWN!! The POP servers are, which means you have to go to webmail for the time being. Let go of the Outlook Leash for a few minutes, and you'd realise that it's working. For the love of fuck, at least TRY to work with me here, okay?

Am I really pissed at our customers? No, not really. They have every right to be pissed off. I'm pissed off at Synacor for the mouthfuls of smoke they keep blowing up our asses about this. They're not the ones dealing directly with the customers, and they have NO fucking clue what we're going through down here.

Morale is in the gutter. People are quitting left and right, regardless of whether they have another job lined up or not.

And I don't foresee it getting any better until this shit works.

I didn't hate my job until now.

Current Mood:

exhausted

Still, I have nothing to do, no where to be, and my only plan for later is cooking the shark steaks I bought last night for my birthday dinner. I'm weird... I'd rather cook for my birthday than go out to dinner.

Anywho. It's lovely out today, overcast with a bit of sun poking out here and there. I like overcast days, sunny days hurt my eyes. It's muggy as hell though, so I'll gratefully watch the pretty day from inside where it's air conditioned.

I got plenty of birthday wishes and thank each and every one of you for them. Hell, my mother forgot it was my birthday until last night. How do I know? She always sends a card. This year, she didn't and made a phone call here at 9pm. Yup, she forgot. My stepfather probably reminded her. ^_^

Current Mood:

relaxed

Days worked: 4 (still going on the 4th).
Days email was down: 3 1/2
Customers furious: All 200,000 that use our email.
Customers who used me as a punching bag during this: Every single one I talked to.
Glasses of rum imbibed upon getting home: 4 and counting.
Hours of PTO taken: The last 2 1/2 I had, yesterday.
Stress level: High.
Chance that you'll get your head bitten off: VERY high.
Chance that it's your fault: 0.

I am tired, stressed and in a generally pissy mood. Unless you're coming to me and offering to help me kill shit in WoW, I do not want to talk to you. I do not want comfort, I do not want pity. I want our fucking developers/engineers to get this problem FIXED. I am not paid enough to be a goddamned doormat.

After this, I am off for three days. Unless you want me to fly up your ass and explode, you will give me these three days to unwind and make myself human again.

That is all.

Current Mood:

pissed off

1. Make noodles (in the process)
2. Rearrange livingroom.
3. Rake up rooms.
4. Sweep and mop. (kinda done)
5. Confuse the shit out of the animals. (see #2 on list)

Current Mood:

accomplished

Holy fuck.

I will not be posting spoilers or anything else. I will only say two things.

1. I have never before been this absorbed in a book from start to finish.

2. I WAS FUCKING RIGHT!!!

That is all.

*Collapse*

Current Mood:

exhausted

I HAS HARRY POTTER!!

You will not be seeing much of me til I'm done. In a half an hour, I've gotten through the first four chapters. It's good to see this book sucking me in the way Book 5 did NOT. I'm not going to mention anything that's happened, but damn it's a good read so far.

Current Mood:

busy

EDIT: And you know your co-workers rock when someone lets you. THANKS ABE!!

Current Mood:

determined

You are not a mayfly. You do not have a lifespan of one day, and neither does your memory. You are not completely stupid or you wouldn't have gotten the job here. When you ask the same innane questions day in and day out, it makes those of us who deal with you want to hang you from the rafters and play Pinata with a cluebat until shit finally sinks in.

If you truly have that much trouble remembering things, WRITE THEM DOWN. If you really are that stupid, apply at Wal-Mart. I'm sure they could use someone with the accumulated IQ of a tomato patch to stock shelves at night, provided you don't have to ask which way the labels face 27 times in an evening.

No love,
Me

Current Mood:

annoyed

2. Get Shav to 60. (Halfway through 55 now, and runnin' strong!)

3. Run Kujaku through WC. (Tonight) Maybe get him to 20. (Days off)

4. Turn off General and Trade channels in WoW until Wednesday, because of the amount of HP spoilers that will be in them.

I also have a copy of the book that I will be able to read on Wednesday. One of my friends here at work is getting their copy tonight and will be bringing it to me after he's done reading it. WOOHOO!

Current Mood:

bouncy

I wish I'd brought my laptop, I could have done some rep grinding with Shaveri on lunch. I'm 1600 away from exalted with Orgrimmar, and my wolf mount.

I need to read Jan's ficlet... >.> Not at work. XD

I need to figure out what I'm doing for NaNo this year. I failed last year, I WILL write this year.

Kujaku needs a WC run, dammit.

And stupid people need to stay out of my chat, plzkthx.

We need a new alarm clock. Badly.

Current Mood:

blank

I very rarely mind spoilers. Hell, I knew what happened with the other books before I owned them. This one though, I don't want spoilers. I have my assumptions and hopes, and I'd like to read this one through without knowing what's going to happen.

Thank you.

Current Mood:

hopeful

We're all talking about Warcraft... and being junkies. I had SO much fun over the weekend. I managed to level up my priest a lil bit, got my shaman to 55 (THANK YOU KARMA), thanks to a pre-emptive Hellfire Peninsula run, where she tagged along behind our guild leader and leeched exp for a couple hours. I took lowbies through some of the low instances, had a blast one-shotting things, and went on a naked drunken spree through RFC at one point.

Falling in lava sucks when you're too blasted on Darkmoon Ale to care that your health bar is going down faster than a bargain bin hooker in Taiwan.

Still to do:

Get Kujaku DONE with WC so I don't have to go back in for a while.
Bribe Karma to take him through SFK for the Arugal stuff.
Get Shaveri to 60. (5 levels to go!)
Work on tradeskills for both.

I'd rather be playing WoW. ><;

Current Location:	Tom's Chair
Current Mood:	blah

Yesterday I did a bank run, went shopping, repotted my plants (the shamrock plant is perking back up nicely, it did NOT like being repotted), and came home with a betta fish.

Today, I am fixing Envy's computer (currently blown away the fucked up XP installation and am installing fresh), the real treat will come when I hook the other harddrive back up. ><;

I'm also going to be doing laundry. The computer is taking precedence, though, as I actually have a time limit on that. I want to be done with it when Envy gets home from work.

I'm also going to be marinating the chicken for dinner. I'm debating between corn on the cob (it's been fresh here lately from local growers, and it's been GOOD so we've been buying lots) and herb roasted potatoes. Any input?

Current Mood:

accomplished