Fun facts...

1. I was homeschooled for most of my life. Go ahead, ask all the questions you desire. There was really nothing exciting about it though. I woke up at noon, I generally never studied, and I finished when I was 17 by taking the GED (this is not the norm though, most homeschoolers do have a curriculum/schedule). Oh yeah, and no, I'm not weird, okay? I know that's what you were thinking. I do have friends, and I am able to successfully socialize.
2. I've lived in a car before.
Yes I did, we were poor. I lived in a car for 3 months when I was 7. Big deal. Needless to say I really appreciate having a roof over my head, and hotels creep me out. All of them do, even super-fancy ones.
3. I like hospitals. This is probably strange to most people. But, my mom is an x-ray tech, so I've been around them all my life. I like the smell of them.
...speaking of smells.
4. I love the smell of gasoline and car fumes and auto-shops. Don't know why...
5. I am average looking, I am 5'5, I have green eyes and brown hair. I am not particularly pretty or particularly ugly. People have called me really "cute" before, which makes me cringe, but in reality, if I don't have make-up on and my hair is not straightened, then I am borderline hideous. Honest. If you ask my boyfriend he will tell you I am drop-dead gorgeous, because that's how sweet he is (or how much of a liar he is, take your pick)...
6. I have a sugar addiction. No, I'm serious. It really is a BIG problem. Do they have rehab for sugar addicts?
7. Speaking of addictions...I don't seem to have an addictive personality for cigarettes, drugs, or alcohol. I have tried all of the above, and they do not provoke any addictive tendancies. They just don't appeal to me. Now I'll have a drink with the "girls from work" every once and a while, that's about it....isn't that a little odd?
8. I am excellent at grammar/english (yes, yes, I am tooting my own horn, sorry) and terrible at math. However, I'm making an A in pre-calculus right now, and I made B's in both my college English classes. What gives man?
9. My favorite thing in the whole entire world is a long, hot shower. I have a tankless water heater, so I can experience this wonderful luxury on a daily basis. yay for me!
10. Speaking of showers...I hate baths, I think it's disgusting to lay in your own filth and at least not take a shower afterwards. Yet I do not have a problem sitting in a hot tub. What a silly hypocrite I am...
That's all folks (for now...dun dun dun)

I wish...

That I had listened to my Dad about credit card debt. If I had, I would have an extra $1500 a month, AFTER all my bills. This is a lot of money to me, I'm not a baller okay, I make 40k a year, which is actually pretty good in my area as far as cost of living etc. But anyway, instead when I was 19, 20, and 21 I buried myself in credit card debt. I had gotten a lot of it paid down, then my house was flooded during a terrible storm (I'm talking the water got up to 4 feet in my house), and although I had flood insurance, we decided we wanted to make some upgrades. We thought they were reasonable and within our budget, however when you get screwed over three times in a row by contracters, suddenly, I'm in over my head and I'm just hoping to get it fixed enough to live there. So, unfortunately I relied on my credit cards. I've been beating myself over the head about this for a year and a half now. BUT, I'm also (reluctantly) excited because although I'm already tired of "cracking down" and budgeting (why has no one ever mentioned how mentally/emotionally exhausting this is?), I should have my credit cards paid off by end of next July. It's so close, yet so far. (that's 9k paid off in the next 7 months, whoo hoo!) And why am I reluctantly exited? Because I'm worried something major will go wrong, and I won't get to my goal. I don't think I'm generally a negative person, it's just a fact about my life, something will pop up at the absolute worst time and ruin any plans I've made (see bove about flood). So, mainly I'm really worried my dad is going to get fired from his job. You'd think I'd be more concerned about getting laid off from mine, I can't really explain what I do, but it'd be about like being a nurse and getting laid off, it's just the least likely position to be eliminated with our company, in fact, we've hired 4 people in the last 6 months. Anyway, so my Dad, he's a collections rep, and do you know how hard it is to collect on medical debt right now? No one gives a damn, they're trying to pay their utilities and feed their kids, and I really don't blame them. Except...if my dad gets fired, around where we live, the kind of job he can work is few and far between for an old man with major back problems (he can't stand for more than 30 minutes at a time, well there goes all the fast food joints and Wal-Mart!) and a very complicated work history (I don't want to go into detail) so I'll be paying his mortgage...and his utilities....and whatever else he needs. I know that this situation is certainly nothing out of the ordinary right now, with the economy (taking care of your parents I mean) and all. I know I'm not alone, but I also know I'm the minority. Why could I not have been born into a family with parents that could take care of themselves? Or at least learned from their obvious and atrocious mistakes? Jeez. Oh well, I'm trying to stay positive...At least I can take care of him if I have too...right?

Mini-rant

This is work-related, and I know many will not understand unless they work in the same exact environment as I do. But, I just have to vent. MY SUPERVISOR IS AN EVIL WITCH FROM HELL.

Although her job description is mysterious to most of us, as it seems she does nothing all day, we do know that one of her tasks is to audit various reports. However, she decides she only wants to do her job 3 weeks before the end of year, because her yearly bonus (rumored to be in the thousands, much more than we get in an entire year) is riding on how clean those reports are. So I'm sitting at my desk, trying to catch up on open/unworked accounts because our archaic system has been out of commission and/or running slow for 5 working days, and she's sending freaking e-mails to me about work that's already done and stuff that was updated less than two weeks ago! What the HELL, first of all, just so you know, we are only required to update our stuff every two weeks (but I will admit most of us do it much less often than that because we know our supervisor only audits at the beginning of a quarter, so hah), so her e-mails are ticking everyone off (I'm not just a raving lunatic with a nasty temper, trust me). Not only that, she's putting a flag on every single one of these accounts that is related to each email, which will affect our yearly review, and our yearly raise. So, the woman decides to do her job (only because HER supervisor is telling her to, because HER supervisor is going to get thousands in bonus too) once out of the whole entire year (for this particular report anyway), make everyone miserable and more behind, AND affect what measly raise we get for the year too (max of 3%, YES the MAX is 3%, LAME). Besides the fact that updating each account does ABSOLUTELY no good, because we are waiting for information from someone out in the sales field, who does not care, they'll get it in when they get it in. Period. In fact, harassing them just ticks them off and makes them even slower to respond, seriously, I've tried to do my job the proper way, but it just put a big-time damper on the admin-sales relationship.

SO basically, I'm pissed at my employer for creating such an idiotic protocol, and I'm really pissed at my supervisor because she follows the protocol whenever her lazy, alcoholic butt feels like she might be losing out on dinero, and also she is RUDE to boot. Does no one know how to send a professional, kind e-mail these days? This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Seriously, does it HAVE to be unfriendly, sarcastic or just straight-up rude? I'm in Texas okay, I know in other parts of the states/world e-mails are brisk, short and to the point, but damn it, where I live the people generally are courteous and usually super-nice, that's the way we treat people, and that's the treatment we expect in return (what's strange is my supervisor is from here as well, so I don't know what her damn problem is...) Just say please or thanks OKAY?! Not hard. Really it's not hard. You can fake it, I do it all the time...
UGH
Okay I'm done....so much for mini....

P.S. We're getting a new VP over our department effective 01/01, I am seriously contemplating writing an anonymous letter to him...anonymous because I don't want to get fired, and this is the kind of place that will fire you just for stirring up stuff...I'm just not sure, I think I'll wait until I'm not so pissed off.

About me....

Okay, so I've always heard of the intrigue and possibly addicting nature that is the blogging world. I've heard about it in the movies, magazines, articles ETC ETC. I've never really understood it's appeal or even what it meant until I came across the blog titled Fabulously Broke In The City. My eyes were opened. How fantastic! This was all because I googled "Single in the Suburbs" in order to find a new posting; I noticed a link to a site with a preview that appeared to be some sort of rant about Single in the Suburbs. This piqued my interest, since I had been following the article for a while. I guess I was really bored, who knows, I don't have cable, OK?Anywho, I started reading this woman's rant about how incredibly stupid the "character" (I guess it's a character, I always thought that was a real person..) is with her finances. Which, I cannot disagree with, that woman is a complete pushover (and she knows it) and unfortunately she seems to be rather financially retarded. Anyway, I progressed on to read other blogs, and I am completely fascinated. I don't think I have anything of interesting sustenance to write about, but what the hay, it can't hurt right?
First of all, I'm in my mid-twenties, I work in medical sales (but I am not an actual salesperson, I wish I made that much moolah), I am going to school part-time for Business Administration (I'll graduate in, oh, I don't know 2019?), and I have a boyfriend, who is a guy that seems to have just emerged from a romance novel. No exaggeration, he is fabulous. I'm kind of just waiting for him to disappoint me, isn't that pathetic? :-D We've been going out for over a year now, so it's all good so far.
I bought my first house when I was 20, I guess that's supposed to be an achievement (no help from parents or anything mind you) but I've found it's just weighed me down, because now I want to move closer to where I work (half-hour drive) but I'm stuck with this house, which of course I cannot sell right now. Great.
So, that's all the major details I guess. Until next time....