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PICK THAT UP!

Monday, April 30th, 2007

After I vacuum, I get very bitchy about what can and can’t be on the floor. It annoys the hell out of me if someone comes walking through the living room dropping crumbs on the floor after I’d just spent a half hour cleaning the rugs. I know it sounds kind of stupid but I’m just agitated at the moment. We obviously haven’t left the house yet to bring Bella for a walk but that’s irrelevant right now because I just spent ten minutes picking up tiny little pieces of paper. Both Bella and Princess had a field day with a toilet paper roll and now there’s paper all over the living room. Thank god the roll was empty but I can’t wait until I do the final run through the house and dump all the garbage to be picked up tomorrow. If the bathroom were just a little bit bigger, I’d seriously consider getting a larger garbage pale.

Time to go bother baby and get all of this garbage out of here before we walk the dog. There’s no reason to keep coming back in and out of the house if we can just do it all in one swift move and get out of here for our walk. I need to get my shoes on anyway.

Walk the dog!

Monday, April 30th, 2007

The internet seems to be back to where it’s supposed to be. It’s still a little sluggish but at least it’s not moving slower than dial-up. They say the average person spends no more than 30 seconds at a page if it doesn’t load right away. I don’t even think I wait that long. I know that if my default website doesn’t boot instantly with Firefox that I have no real reason to even stay on the page at all.

The amusing thing is, now that the ‘net is back up and running, we’re heading out for a little while to take Bella on a long walk. We didn’t get to do our usual two miles last night because she wasn’t feeling well and neither was I considering how strangely I was sitting in the chair all day so my hip was completely out of whack. We’re going to walk around the complex and hopefully it’ll be easier for Bella now that she won’t have everything caked onto her butt. I can’t wait to get her to the groomer, it’s pretty sad that she requires more upkeep than I do sometimes…lol.

Time to get my shoes on, I’m putting the AC on so when we get back to the house I’m not dying anymore. It’s really warm in here for some reason and rather uncomfortable. I have to take a shower before I go to bed anyway, I feel icky. I guess tonight’s going to drag on longer than originally planned…heh.

Oops! My Bad

Monday, April 30th, 2007

My internet connection is really lagging at the moment, to the point of being abnormally strange. I can barely load Google and since there’s nothing on the page, that should typically be an instant load…that’s why so many people use it, you know? I’m trying to go through email but it’s kind of difficult to do when nothing loads.

I attempted to groom Bella myself, it didn’t work out too well. I’m going to have to make an appointment for sometime this week to get her hair done. Hopefully my Paypal card gets here soon because there’s over $500 in the account and I don’t want to have to transfer everything to Wamu just to use my card because I have no other way of withdrawing the money and most groomers are a cash-only business, at least that’s the way it is in New York, who knows what it’s like down here. I did clean up her face a bit, and her butt – so at least she can’t get anything stuck to her. It’s just everything in between that really needs a trim. Her hair is very uneven at the moment and I’m kind of happy that she doesn’t really go past the porch until after dark because she looks HORRIBLE right now. I feel so bad for doing that to her. It was my idea to try to save some money but I just didn’t have the right kind of materials for it. This is one job that I’m going to leave up to the professionals.

Go figure, I can cut my own hair with no problems but I can’t get a 17 pound dog to look good when I groom her. Baby tried to help with his buzzer but it wouldn’t even go through her hair, I think it actually dulled the blade to be honest, so yea – I’m going to have to come up with about $60 and get her done. I just need to get my ass in gear on some more work. I just didn’t want to dip into my Atlantic City fund for her, I was going to wait until afterwards – I just have no choice in the matter I guess.

Back to work I go.

Winding Down

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

I was keeping up a really good pace with blogging over the course of the last week and for some reason, yesterday, it seemed to all catch up with me. I wound up having absolutely nothing to say so that’s where my lack of posting went for yesterday.

I did get a lot of work done though. I’m about 80% done with the template I made for Ranee, I’m almost done with two other client templates, I’m also converting a previous clients site over to a new extension so it’s just been a hassle.

Baby and I were at the beach on Saturday morning, it was foggy as a bitch and you couldn’t see anything past 30 feet in front of you along the boardwalk so that made it a fairly interesting morning. The sun kind of appeared out of no where, not really much of a ‘rise’. That didn’t matter too much though because even with the sun you couldn’t really see anything anyway – it only made it worse with how it bounced off the clouds. Got home around 8AM and then knocked out until about 1. Last night we both went to sleep around 6am and now he’s still sleeping and I’ve been up for a few hours doing some work.

I just have a busy couple of weeks ahead of me. I have clients who don’t care to answer their emails – which is typical when you’ve got pending bills that total over $600. Hopefully those will be coming in soon or it’s really going to fuck up my vacation. I can’t be bothered with email because I’m going out to have fun, not be concerned with whether or not clients are going to finally pay up for something…it’s absurd.

In any event, guess I should get some more work done before I take my next cig break.

Dying

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

It may only be about 60?Ǭ? but it’s humid as a bitch outside right now. We’ve got the air conditioner on in hopes to cool the place down a bit. :: crosses fingers ::

Baby and I just got back from walking Bella. Thanks to all of the rainfall over the last 24 hours, everything is flooded so she’s soaked to the bone. I really do need to get her to the groomer as soon as possible. I held her down tonight to trim around her eyes so you could actually see her face again. Unfortunately she still looks rather scruffy so it’s about time I get her shaved for the summer. I figured if I could find someone down here that wouldn’t mess her up, the way many groomers have in the past, I’ll get her done every couple of months so that she doesn’t have to go a long period of time with a lot of hair on her. It’ll also help with upkeep considering she hasn’t been feeling well lately and it’s a hassle to wipe her butt down every time she goes outside to poop.

While I did accomplish a lot today, I didn’t get to complete everything I set out to do. I’m actually going to be turning in for the night because I’m exhausted and Baby and I are going to the beach around 5:30. So I’m going to take a quick 2 hour cat-nap just to give myself some energy, then once I get home from the beach…I’m just going to go to bed for the rest of the morning. I don’t particularly like doing that but for the sake of a sun-rise or just a massive high tide (since the storm is over the Atlantic Ocean right now) I figure that’s going to be worth it in the end anyway.

I’m going to finish up a quick email check and then head off.

Night all.

Pampering

Friday, April 27th, 2007

My toes have finally dried so I just sealed them with a top-coat to help keep them from chipping too quickly. Later on I’m going to blow my hair out so I can see exactly how my hair turned out. I dyed it last week but I haven’t done anything but keep it in a pony tail, as long as the gray is gone – it really didn’t matter too much to me. It’s air drying at the moment to cut down on my time in the bathroom. There aren’t any windows in there so having the hair-dryer running can get really hot, even with the overhead exhaust on. It’ll be worth it in the end…I hope :heh:

Baby and I haven’t really done anything, together, in a little while. We’ve gone out and walked on the beach and all but it’s been a while since we’ve had a date night since we’re so eager to save our money up for the casino. With a few extra payments coming in for both of us, we’ve decided that tonight we’re going to go out for dinner and then tomorrow morning, around 5AM or so, we’re going to head to the beach. The storm will be moved over to the Atlantic Ocean by then and I’m sure there’s going to be a high surf advisory sometime in the near future because of it. Beach Erosion, as bad as it may sound, if you’re standing there watching the waves crash in – it’s both chaotic and relaxing. It’s hard to describe, but it’s a peaceful experience all the same.

The sky is turning black and the rumble of thunder over-head is telling me that I’ll have two scared dogs at my feet within the next few minutes. I’m going to unplug my laptop and probably disable the internet because I really need to get my ass in gear with that template for Ranee. I threw some things together last night, I just need to finalize the top 3 and send them off to her. I use less battery when my network is disabled so I think that’s the route I’m going to take.

Ut…big boom – time to go.

Slow start

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I didn’t wake up until after 12pm, but considering I got a decent amount of sleep I guess that doesn’t matter too much. I’ve been productive in my three hours though. I took a nice long shower, updated my toe nails because it’s been about two weeks and for some god-forsaken reason, when one nail chips they all follow. I think it’s because I’ve been wearing sandals so often so maybe the air is getting to them, I don’t know – I’m trying to find any excuse for why it’s happening but whatever.

I haven’t started any work yet, I know (SLACKER!) but I’ll get to it soon. I have some email to go through before I can open up Photoshop anyway. I’m going to have to reinstall Windows over the course of the next couple of days. I’ve been trying to avoid it but I can’t open a program without something stalling so I think it’s about time. I’m in the process of transferring everything over to my external hard drive so I can easily shift things around after the reinstall. The big issue is the fact that according to “My Computer”, I only have 15GB of disk-space left. I had Baby look at it and it makes no sense to him either consider the folders that normally contain the larger files are only really using about 20gb of space. There’s a 70gb hard drive in here (the 10gb is the backup/windows drive) so I hope I’ll be able to figure things out.

I’m still working on getting my graphics card, this is why you’ve seen so many paid posts out of me for the last couple of days. The card I want is about $120 and I really have no choice in the matter as far as performance goes. In the future I’m going to have a dual monitor setup so I’ll need something that can handle that. The mother board only handles PCI-Express so that’s another factor. In the end, however, I’m getting a 512 card and if I had over $1500 I’d shoot for the one gig card. There’s no real point in that though, for $1500 I can get myself an iMac and then use that for all of my heavier graphics needs.

In any event, back to work I go.

Miles

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Baby and I are doing fairly well on our diet. We’re doing 4 miles, on average, every night. When we can’t get to the beach to walk the boardwalk we just take Bella on very long walks around the complex. I’ve noticed my pants getting larger and I seem to have a lot more energy, I hope this actually does some good.

My sleep schedule has changed to the point of being obnoxious. I’m up all night long and sleeping for most of the morning. I hate doing that because I feel so unproductive but I’m bringing in some good money these days so I guess that counts for something – right?

I need to go back to bidding on some projects, head on over to Jenny’s new site, she changes domains so frequently it’s hard to keep up with her sometimes…heh.

HGTV Rules

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Instead of killing myself in the dining room, I’ve kind of shifted to the couch in the living room. I don’t typically like working off my battery but that’s because I no longer have bright view when I’m not plugged in. Considering how bright it is in the room, I’m not overly concerned.

Once I sat on the couch, Princess decided that she was lonely on the other end and waddled her way over here. She’s now on my lap and the two of us are watching HGTV. There’s a show where they basically remodel a room for little to no money at all. I can’t think of the name, but I think it’s pretty cool. They look for items around your house to bring into the room so you can pull it all together. I can walk around the house right now and instantly come across ideas for how to make the living room it’s own ‘unique’ area, other than just two chairs and a couch facing the TV.

They just pulled a huge painting out of this womens attic that’s gorgeous. I wish I brought all of my paint supplies down here, I have a pretty nifty idea for art work in the bedroom after we get everything remodeled. He’s got some wizard on the wall, and Yoda, sorry but those don’t fly well with me – they can be moved to the office.. :heh:

Storms, Boyfriend, Vacations, etc.

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

A pretty nasty storm came through here last night. In the mid-west there were a series of tornadoes touching down and part of that storm made it’s way over to the east coast and basically flooded the community. There aren’t any real drainage systems and since all of the roads in this complex are fucked up, it just leaves massive puddles everywhere.

I went outside long enough to watch the drenching rain and the lightening shoot off like fireworks. It kept me entertained for a while and baby reassured me that since we’re right on the water, storms like this are frequent in the summer. Being as I’m a nut for any and everything STORM based, this made me very giddy and content with my choice to stay down here perminantly.

Our 10-month was on Saturday, we didn’t do anything special for it considering we’re saving up for our trip but that’s not too big of a deal considering we spend every single day together, to the point that we get on eachothers nerves if we don’t separate. I can’t wait until this vacation thing is over so I can go back to working outside of the house to getting bills paid. It’d be stupid to get an outside job when I’d already have to request for time off in two weeks, it’s not worth it. So I’ll do what I have to do after we get back from Atlantic City and then go from there.

For now, I guess I should get back to work so I actually have the money for the casino, eh? LOL

Updating…somewhat

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I’m in the process of moving categories and entries around so if things happen to look messed up sometime over the next few hours, don’t contact me about it, I’m most likely working on it.

I’m working on setting up Category based template files because I’m involved with so many different Paid-to-Blog programs that it’s kind of unfair to have all of the PPP footers linked for the other sites. Nothing wrong with PPP, I’m making a butt-load of money off them, I just don’t think it’s fair to keep a static image there for a sponsored post that I’m not being paid for through them.

Things with Baby have calmed down a bit, we talked it out and I let him know that if he keeps the bull-shit to the level it’s been for the last couple of days, I’m packing. I don’t like giving ultimatums but I also don’t like living in an angry environment. While I’m a highly confrontational person, I don’t blow up for no reason at all.

I’m still in the dining room, I have been all day. A massive storm came through here tonight which stopped me from finishing up work I’d started this afternoon. It was a fairly fruitful day. I pulled in about $120 which isn’t bad for a 6 hour day. I’m bringing in about $400 tomorrow. Plus I think there’s still like $200 worth of PPP’s coming in sometime over the next two weeks so it’s safe to say I’ll have met my goal for Atlantic City alot sooner than I’d planned. Considering I’m going up on May 12th, I guess it worked out perfectly.

I’m still waiting on my Paypal Debit Card to show up because you can’t take more than $500 out of the bank each day (ATM wise) and since I don’t have a bank account down here yet, I can’t exactly take $1000 out on my WAMU account. So I’m splitting it up and doing the double withdrawals. Makes life easy.

In any event, it’s after 5AM and I really need to get myself to bed. My back is KILLING ME from sitting here. I can’t wait until my new chair shows up. ::swoons::

I just don’t understand.

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

For the past few weeks, things have really been up and down. I know the move is taking a lot out of me (emotionally) but I also know that before anything was official, I was here for almost four months to at least attempt to work the kinks out.

Today was a pretty bad day, and I honestly don’t know what I can do to help fix it. I fell asleep around 5:30 this morning, I was up by noon and that’s pretty typical for me considering I work from home so I can make my own hours. Baby didn’t wake up until after 3:30. I don’t know if he’s not feeling good, or what, but he was just in a bad mood today. Asking him to do something that would have taken him not even five minutes of time turned into an hour long argument about how he doesn’t have time for shit because he has to work. Fine…whatever.

I go into his office about 10:30 tonight and told him that high tide is around 2AM and I’d like to go. I figured this would give him PLENTY of time to get some work done and then on his next break we can go watch the waves and come home so he could finish whatever he had on his to-do list for the day. He, yet again, went on a rant about how he needed to get shit done. Not even a half hour later, he’s asleep. He’s been asleep since 11, it’s now 2am.

He’s complaining that he’s exhausted, sick of doing everything – blah blah blah. All I can really say is grow the fuck up and quit bitching about it. He’s depressed, but won’t admit to it. He doesn’t like going out during the day so that’s why he’s either sleeping or in his office. While I’m not too keen of the sun either, I at least make the effort. Sure, I don’t get much further than the garden sometimes but at least I’m breathing in some kind of fresh air, something he isn’t. His idea of fresh air is opening the window. Meanwhile, today being as hot as it was, his complaint was that it was too warm in the office for him to concentrate. Hrm…here’s an idea – shut your computer down for more than a quick reboot and MAYBE it wouldn’t be so hot in there. The heat builds up overnight to a room that’s constantly closed off. He’ll sit in there all day while all this heat is soaked into the walls and he just won’t make the connection. “It uses less energy to run the computer than it does to boot it” okay, to some degree that may possibly be true, but when it’s running 24/7 it’s obviously going to use quite a bit of power considering it’s connected to two CRT monitors (not even LCD – CRT, those give off their own heat).

The office is trashed, that also adds to the frustration because you can’t find anything and since everything is so stacked up in there it’s going to seem like the room is smaller – which then makes you feel like you’re in a box. The bedroom is trashed but that’s because there’s only one vent in the room and the chair that Bella loves to sit on is under the window. The vent is under the window so the chair had to be moved in order to even get air in there. The sheets are all off the bed because of how hot it got last night. The whole living situation is just agitating to the both of us to some degree, and I still don’t understand why.

He could care less about the rooms being clean, that’s my department. I’m anal retentive about things. I like to sleep in a clean room and I’d prefer (more than anything in the world) to be working in a clean office. He asks why I don’t sit in the office and all I can say is “I’m uncomfortable” because while the chair is extremely uncomfortable, so is being in the room itself. There’s a lot of dust, he slams on the keys when he types and I really can’t stand hearing his music blaring out of his ears. He then wonders why he has trouble hearing sometimes, and it just amuses me. Hmm…maybe because you’re destroying your ear drums?

He just can’t handle someone asking him a question or showing him something because it’s going to eventually fuck up his entire day. I don’t know, at this point, I can scream at him until I’m blue in the face but that won’t get anywhere. I don’t typically like airing laundry out like this but if I didn’t write everything down somewhere I was going to pop. I’m going to surf through some other sites, maybe if I keep my mind of shit I’ll be able to sleep tonight without wanting to kick him in the face. He’s already on the floor anyway…wouldn’t be much of a hard target. :ugh:

MmMmm Coffee…

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Considering it’s after 10, that’s usually when things around the house are being wrapped up and prepared for tomorrow. Now, while I know for sure that I’ll be up pretty late tonight, the smell of tomorrow mornings coffee is effecting me already. I just threw some in the brewer, set the timer, and now the coffee grinds have sent this wonderful aroma around the house to the point that I’m drooling over it.

There’s a way around this though, don’t get me wrong. High tide is around 2AM this morning, I just informed baby of this because I’d like to go. We didn’t go out last night because I know he had a lot of work to do, yesterday morning we didn’t get home until around 10AM because we watched the sun rise and then spent some time on the beach and eventually having dinner at a mom and pop shop on the boardwalk, so it was a fairly productive morning – that’s for sure.

We’ve been doing A LOT of walking lately. My legs still hurt from three days ago but we still manage to get in at least two miles a night when we go to the beach (the boardwalk is exactly one mile, end to end). Last night we took about a mile and a half around the complex since Bella had to be brought out for her nightly walk anyway. All -in- All we’ve been keeping ourselves at a good pace and hopefully something good can come of it over time.

I’m sure we’ll burn off a bit more over the course of the next couple weeks. It’s getting so warm down here that you sweat just lifting your arms up. I have no doubt in my mind that just walking in the weather will really cut a lot down as well.

It’s pushing 10:30, I think I’m going to go bother him now. It’s been 20 minutes 🙂

Charcoal

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

So it’s a few hours after sun-down so it’s beginning to grow a bit cooler here in Delmarva. The wind has picked up a little bit so it’s actually a lot more livable now than it was this afternoon. Dinner turned out a tad-bit burnt but that’s OK because I understand why. Baby got distracted with other things and completely forgot about flipping the burgers. It was pretty interesting to have a half charcoal half pink burger, but I still love him. I enjoyed my hot dogs more anyway, to be honest.

The dishwasher is running and now I’m just sitting here going through some things. I spent some time surfing around the ‘net looking for new and interesting things to keep me entertained but I haven’t really come up with anything other than a new program and a headache from finding a very gaudy website that was obviously designed by someone who was color blind. I don’t mind if you’re using a yellow and red combination but it really depends on the TONE of the colors you’re using. A bright neon yellow background plus the typical #FF000 hex code really does NOTHING for anyone. Try looking less like a hot-dog cart and more like a website.. :ugh:

I have some comments to catch up on, I think I’ll get my butt in gear with those now.

Abscent

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

It’s been a pretty busy couple of days, which of course would explain my absence. I just spent the last hour going through email, commenting back on sites and putting some final touches on my May template before I actually start coding it for WordPress. It’ll look a bit different than what I usually do. Visitors will notice the lack in banner ads because I shifted things around a bit. It’s not like you won’t be able to see them, but they won’t be so prominent on the page.

Right now I’m waiting for Baby to get back from the store, it reached about 90°F (32°C) today and since it was as warm as it was we decided a BBQ would probably be the best way to go. So the burgers are ready but I’m waiting on him to bring home some buns, cheese and hot dogs. I’m not a huge fan of burgers, I only really eat them when I’m in the mood for them. I don’t think tonight is going to be any different.

We’ve got the air conditioner on because there really was no other way to go about the rest of the day. It’s just too warm to even be comfortable sitting alone, let alone surrounded by heavy furniture that holds heat very well. Even now I’ve got my laptop propped up on the table so I don’t have to feel the fan on my legs, it’s pretty shitty but that’s going to change within the next few days. There’s supposed to be some big storm coming this way on Thursday so I guess we’ll find out just how much cooler it’s going to be. The weather report even says some shower activity tomorrow, but more lightening/thunder than anything – who knows.

For now I need to get back to what I was doing, I figured I’d update to get rid of that dumb A+ Certification post considering it’s been sitting up for so long.

It’s Gorgeous!

Friday, April 20th, 2007

It’s a beautiful day here in Delmarva. It’s around 65?Ǭ?F (18?Ǭ?C). I know it may not seem that high to many people but I find anything over 70?Ǭ?F (21?Ǭ?C) to be offensive. The sun’s shining and as baby put it, this is ‘no pants wearing weather’. He’s dumb about it because anytime it’s warm he goes out of his way to say that his pants are coming off. When he first started saying it I thought it was kind of absurd until I realized he’d be changing to shorts. Hopefully he’ll change to shorts more often because he’s a little too pale for his own good. I fully intend to have a beautiful tan this summer and he won’t be spared of the sun light as long as I’m around.

Last night was spent at the beach – surprise, surprise – but it was different this time. There was a high warning for beach erosion and when I’d first heard that, I didn’t really take it seriously. Little did I know that when we got there, the beach would be under water. The waves that normally broke about 80 feet away from the boardwalk, were now not even 10 feet away from the boardwalk. I think the smallest wave was like 12 feet high, so you can imagine how much fun that was to watch. I’m twisted, I admit to it. I like big storms. I like when Mother Nature just throws herself out there with full force, makes for a lot of fun if you’re into Weather changes the way I am.

I’ve got a fairly busy day of work ahead of me, I guess I should get on that.