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Printer Problems

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Come May, Baby and I are taking a trip to Atlantic City with his mom (K). We’re going to meet up with her sister (D) and whomever else happens to be going down with D. Knowing that I had unused points on my Total Rewards card, I surfed Harrah’s and found out that I have a FREE two-night stay at the Harrah’s Hotel. This is the same hotel I won the $6,500 at the last time I was in Atlantic City (the one and ONLY time thus far). I have to say that I’m a huge fan of the place so of course I jumped on the idea of being able to go there. So when the dates were set I grabbed my laptop, headed online and booked the room for Baby and I.

After going through everything my confirmation was complete and I was asked to print my reservation. A big red light put my printing to a halt. There was absolutely no ink left in the printer. We went through all the trouble of networking the printer so I could print my reservation and there was absolutely no ink in the machine. After heading to the store to pick some up I happily printed my reservation. Now the problem is making sure I have more than enough money in the account to enjoy my two night, three day stay in Atlantic City.

:: gets back to work ::

Baths, Work, Internet…OH MY!

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

I’ve been pretty busy today. I landed a client on GAF so that was a bit of quick money, I’m still working on it at the moment. I had to stop for a little while because Bella really needed a bath, badly. It’s been a couple of weeks and since the weather is changing so frequently and going from rain to sun so quickly, she started to get a bit musty. A quick drop in the tub, scrub-a-dub-dub and now she’s baby powder fresh!

I spent the entire day in the house, minus some time spend on the porch to enjoy the sunlight. Baby and I are taking a big trip soon so we’re trying to conserve money any and every way that we can. This means we’re no longer going to be going out as frequently as we’ve been in the last few weeks. I’m sure we’ll randomly take our trips to the beach considering how beautiful it is at night but time away from work is less money to be made so hopefully things will even themselves out. We each need to save up about $1,000 so hopefully I’ll be able to do it over the course of the next month. This is probably why I should get my ass in gear with this clients account so I can move on to the next one.

The internet has been kind of touch and go today though. I’m not really sure why it’s happening, kind of annoying actually. For the last couple of years I’ve been used to having my broadband supplied by Optimum Online, the best in the world…honestly. Living in Delmarva my broadband is now being supplied by Comcast and I have to tell you, I’m not digging it at all. They don’t really offer anything good as far as up-link is concerned. If baby is uploading something it dramatically slows down the Internet and since it’s a VOIP phone connection, the service cuts out whenever you’re on the phone and something is being uploaded, maybe even downloaded for that matter. I swear once things are settled I’m switching over to Verizon as my broadband provider.

Beautiful Day!

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Baby and I enjoyed our time at the beach. We got there around 4 when the tide was rolling in. There were a lot more people there than I would have thought for a Tuesday afternoon. Everyone was walking the boardwalk with their dogs, couples were slowly cruising the boardwalk barefoot and holding hands, the kind of romantic shit that will make anyone who isn’t in a relationship want to hurl.

We spent some time on the sand but with how my hip has been feeling lately, it wasn’t easy for me to walk. We moved to the boardwalk and just hung around for a few hours. We had a hot dog, shared a soda, watched the waves and just talked for a while. All-in-all it was a damn nice day.

I’ve been working my ass off for the last few hours on getting all of my billing up to date. There’s about $600 owed to me and in some cases I have no idea where it’s even coming from. I lost all of my early 2006 billing when my computer crashed last June so I have no idea where anything is. I’ve had to cross check all of the dates in my control panel with all of the dates in Paypal and then go through paperwork in order to even figure out the non-internet based payments. It’s such a bitch and I’m happy it’s over.

I’m very close to finishing my April theme. It took me quite some time to tweak everything correctly. Things would work great in Mozilla, Safari and IE6 but then loading them in IE7 a whole list of problems showed up. I’ve been able to correct them all and now I’m working on getting the content up and running. Hopefully I’ll have all of that done over the course of the next couple of days. The only big issue with the template, at this point, is the fact that my coloring looks great on my laptop but it looks like complete shit on baby’s desktop.

So this is when I ask you, the loverly guest of mine, to take a look at the color swatch above. Does it show up as a peachy color to you, or does it show up as a muted neon yellow. Comment and let me know, at this point it’s more than extremely important. The hex for the color is #FFFDB3, it shoud look like a pale peach…unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working that way for everyone…your input would be greatly appreciated. I’ll give you a cookie!

I’m off to get some more stuff done.

Sucker!

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

I don’t know if it’s the heat, the fact that he’s easy or even my low-cut shirt but I’ve managed to talk Baby into bringing me to the beach. High Tide hits at around 4:15 this afternoon so we’ll be leaving the house in less than an hour. I honestly can’t wait. The other night the beach didn’t look so great, I wanted to go back in the day light to see if the ocean really did remove half the beach. Considering it’s windy right now, one can only hope to see something good.

We’re most likely going to stop for dinner before we even bother to head home. There isn’t really much in the house so it’s not worth coming back here to eat pasta again. I made baked-ziti the other night so we’ve been eating it ever since. Yay for something different! Boardwalk FRIES ::drools::

Strange…

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I don’t normally get excited when it comes to working on new themes for k.nu. I guess it’s because I’m up before the sun today, who knows, but after doing some surfing on the ‘net, as well as some bidding on projects for some much needed cash…I found myself drooling over about 6 different templates for my April theme. If I merge them all just right it’s safe to say that it’ll be the kick-ass one I’ve been waiting on. Too bad my brain couldn’t come up with it sooner.

My reason for being up so early is because in about two hours I’m heading to Lewes, DE so the three of us (Baby and his mom) can hop on the ferry and head up to New Jersey for the day. His mom is buying a car and we’re kind of tagging along, should be a fun day. I don’t know how Bella is going to do being locked in a bed room for 12 hours but I’m sure she’ll manage. As long as she has some food and fresh water, plus a bone or two to chew on, I have no doubt in my mind that she’ll be able to handle it.

In any event, I need to get my ass in gear. Ive got that “just woke up frumpy” feeling that I need to kick. I really need to get some kind of work coming in so I can head over to like K-Mart or Wal-Mart or something and get some PJ’s, I’m getting kind of sick of wearing jeans to bed. Maybe I should go to NY to pick up my clothes…too much effort though – lol.

Enjoy your day all!

Leave me alone!

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

I was trying to keep quiet about this for as long as I could but it’s beyond annoying at this point. I don’t care that I was nominated for awards that I want nothing to do with. Please stop spamming my comments telling me that you either voted for me or I should be notified that my name is even listed, this is why all comments are moderated. I’ve already commented about it on the awards website and I’ve left it at that. Please leave me alone about it, vote for someone who actually deserves the awards they’re listed for, no matter what the category may be.

Moving along…

Baby and I went out to dinner tonight and then did some grocery shopping for the week. It’s raining pretty hard at the moment and we’re expecting around 2-3″ of rainfall from now until Friday evening. The car-shopping plans have changed to Monday. Unfortunately his mother gets out of work at 3PM and the dealership closes at 5PM. Considering the ferry is an hour and a half, then there’s about a two hour drive on top of that – it’s not worth going on Saturday to a closed dealer. Originally I thought it would be a waste to do all of the driving to New Jersey just to spend extra money on taxes but you pay the tax to where the car is registered, not where it’s purchased. This is pretty good to know, you learn something new every day.

I logged into my News12 Long Island account to see what was going on back in NY, I usually log in once a day so I can keep up to date on things. I see that there’s a massive storm warning for the island, quite a bit of snow in the forecast. Meanwhile, I’m sitting down in Delmarva enjoying the 70+?Ǭ?F(21?Ǭ?C) weather….what ever shall I do? ::ha!::

While it is raining outside, we’re planning to go down to the beach. Based on the news there’s an anticipated 9′-11′ waves because of the storm. I’d honestly love to see that. I need to find an umbrella so I don’t get totally washed away.

In any event, I need to get my butt in gear on some hosting forms. I’m about 6 hours behind on a few of them.

Later gators.

Romance isn’t dead…

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Baby and I have been spending a lot of time at the beach. While I’m not a huge fan of sand, I’ve found peace in listening to the waves roll in and smack against the shore. I never spent a lot of time at the beach growing up. My mother never really cared to go and by the time my father got out of work, there wasn’t really any sunlight left to enjoy it. Because of this…it’s been a while since I’ve really sat down on the beach and took it all in. I know that I could always just go to the beach by my house and pop-a-squat on the sand but the problem with living on the North Shore of Long Island, you’re dealing with an over polluted Long Island Sound. From where I’m living now…I have the entire Atlantic Ocean and it only takes me not even five minutes to get to. I can’t believe that there are people who take that for granted.

While things between Baby and I are going really well…for the last few weeks we’ve been in kind of a rough spot. Between Joe’s anniversary, the withdrawal of being out of New York for the last two and a half months, then everything else that he’s going through and little things here and there…it’s just been difficult for us to really sit down and talk to each other. With how secluded we were this morning, we were able to really just sit back and talk through everything that was getting to us. We just enjoyed each others company more than we have in a while. I think it’s honestly going to do a bit of good for our relationship.

We got to the beach around 3:30AM and didn’t leave until about 8:00AM. Part of me felt guilty for leaving Bella home by herself for those four and a half hours but it was something that we needed to do. There was no moon in the sky last night, it didn’t show up until around 5:00-5:30 and it didn’t even rise in the sky ( we don’t think ) it kind of just showed up in mid-air, it could have been behind clouds…who knows. But since it wasn’t bright enough to really be interesting, we waited on the sun and continued to sit on the benches and talk to each other between our walks on the beach. We headed into 7-11 to pick up some coffee so we could keep ourselves awake. On the way home from the beach we stopped and had breakfast. We planned on spending the entire day together without sleep so we could just crash tonight but unfortunately it didn’t work out that way. I wound up falling asleep and he followed. After we woke up we went back to the beach for a little while and picked up some pizza on the way home. All in all it was a nice day for us. Forget nice…it was gorgeous. It was like 72?Ǭ?F(22?Ǭ?C), bright and sunny day. While I love the cold…I don’t think today could have possibly gone any better.

It’s going to be an interesting weekend. Baby and I are heading to Lewes, DE with his mother to take the Cape May Ferry up to New Jersey for the day. She’s doing some car shopping and managed to find the one she wants in like Brick, NJ or something like that. I hope the water is warm enough where we get to see Dolphins or something floating around in the water. Baby was telling me about them, I hope I don’t have to wait until this summer to see all of that. I’m going to need to make a quick stop at CVS or something this week, I’m not sure how I’m going to do on the boat so I’ll have to pick up some stuff for a potential “just in case” scenario. It never hurt to be prepared…you know?

Right now, Lost is on TV so I guess I’ll go join Baby and watch some TV. Maybe I’ll get to go to the beach again tomorrow, there’s supposed to be a pretty strong storm coming this way for Thursday, maybe there’s going to be some big waves to watch. Yay for umbrellas…heh.

Date Night!

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Since baby is so busy working during the week, we have one night a week where we go out to dinner and just spend time together outside of the house. It keeps us pretty close so that we’re not pulling away from eachother in these difficult couple of weeks (for me mainly).

Last night we took a drive to Ocean City, MD and had some dinner then headed down to the boardwalk to do some walking around. We walked through Playland but they were in the process of closing so we didn’t do much. We hit up the pier but couldn’t get all the way down considering it’s blocked off seasonally. So we went up to another beach by the house and watched the waves for a while. I’m waiting on him to finish up with work so we can head back down there for the sunset. Unfortunately I won’t see much as far as colors go over the ocean but if we get towards the bay than it’ll be absolutely gorgeous. I think I’d prefer the beach though…I really just like looking at the waves.

It wasn’t that warm last night, unfortunately. But this isn’t anything to be too worried about. It’s supposed to be about 70 tomorrow and then 75 the following day. I only have one pair of shorts down here with me so I think I’m going to head over to Kmart and pick up another pair…no way in hell I’m going in pants for the next two days. I’m going to make it a point to be on the beach for the next few days…maybe even in the back yard to work on a little bit of a tan too…couldn’t hurt…right?

It’s time to go bug him, with how it looks outside all I can say is he isn’t working fast enough. Time to turn around…heh.

Furniture Shopping

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Since I’m in the process of moving in, Baby and I have been thinking about and window shopping for furniture to suit our needs. We’ve been looking at beds, dressers, and of course appliances because we’re actively working on getting a bigger TV and some monitors for the office. For me, the bedroom is the most important and since I’m anal retentive about things matching, I’d prefer to look into bedroom sets. Things HAVE to match for me, or I go nuts. If I’m going to spend the money to remodel something – it’s going to match.

The room is this blue grey color with a cream colored rug, now this isn’t exactly my main color choice but he doesn’t want to change it so I’m going to have to improvise. The pallet I picked out was a grey, black, white, punches of red…it would all match up if done right. The red is really like…accents. A few throw pillows and stuff like that, so hopefully that all works out the way it’s supposed to. It’s the financials that need to be worked out first.

There is a plus though, compared to the shopping we’ve been doing on foot, there’s quite a bit of great priced furniture online. While I’m unsure if the final purchase will be made online, I do know that it’s nice to be able to find a website or two where you can basically look at everything possible to build your room around it.

So much for paying a designer – eh?

It’s been a year…

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Hearts in Snow Today was the one year anniversary of Joe’s passing. While today wasn’t easy on me, it wasn’t overly difficult either. Joe has his ways of letting me know he’s still around. I strongly believe that the 5″ of snowfall that fell in Delmarva today was his doing. What I wasn’t expecting to see was later on in the evening when I went outside to have a cig.

I’d heard a plow go by about a half hour before to begin clearing up the roads (and they did a crap-ass job by the way). During the course of the day, since anything over an inch of snowfall around here is a “State of Emergency”, there weren’t many cars on the road after work let out. People were smart and basically went home and stayed there. After walking out the door, I looked at the street and saw a strange sign made in the middle of the road. Believe it or not, these were made with tires. I don’t believe they were truck tires, more like car ones (they were kind of thin) but close inspection (slippers are SOAKED because of it) I looked at the sign up close and saw it was definitely done by a tire.

Hearts…in the middle of the road. I’m unsure why they’re there, or even how they really got there. Part of me wants to believe that in some way shape or form Joe did it. This may sound crazy, I honestly wouldn’t doubt that it sounds crazy to someone outside of my daily life but I do believe he’s floating around me and a breeze or the random whiff of “Curve: For Men” out of no where are my tell-tale signs of knowing he’s around. I do believe in ghosts, there’s no doubt about that. I’m happy he’s my ghost. I could be crazy, I may have officially flipped my lid – trust me…it was bound to happen at some point. I just know that there’s no possible way that these were made by hand, there are no foot prints to support a hand-made snow pattern in the road that wasn’t there for the ENTIRE DAY OF SNOWFALL.

In other news, I need clients. Business is extremely slow and something tells me that I’m going to have to bring Bella to the vet sooner than expected. The change in altitude, and the wrong shampoo has caused her to be kind of itchy lately. With this itching comes excessive scratching and she managed to cut her head open and keeps continuing to scratch the same area to the point that the top of her head is no longer blonde, it’s pink. Her scalp is pink and the blood this sore has spurted out onto her little head has dyed her head. She’s also got some strange bumps on her back and I’m unsure where they came from. They feel kind of like…pimples. She’s always had a bump on her stomach, so I never really thought twice about it. Now that she’s got them all over, I’m beyond concerned about it. There’s a vet clinic down here that I can take her to but I seriously can’t afford anything.

This is also putting a damper on my moving plans. I’m finally going back to New York next week (I think?), I hope it’s to just cash a few checks and move within a few days. Sources (well…my gut feeling mainly) is telling me that it will take longer than I’d hoped. Either way there’s a lot of shit to be done and if things don’t begin to pick up soon then I guess I’ll be screwed. I haven’t seen my house in like two months. I’m sure Bella misses my father, she may even miss my sister – who knows. I just know it’s going to be an interesting couple of weeks.

I’ve been surfing careerbuilder.com and monster.com (actively) for jobs in the area so hopefully I’ll find something soon. I have rent and other shit to think about and the money being made from the web stuff won’t cut it anymore. I can live comfortably under my father’s roof because I’m only going half with things. This is full-throttle now, so I’m going to need more income and unfortunately the Internet just won’t be enough for me. Baby is doing really well with his stuff, but I refuse to live off his income. I guess it’s just the way I was raised.

In any event, it’s about 1am and I’m exhausted. I spent most of Monday being sick as a dog so now I’m slowly getting over whatever hit me this past weekend. My nose isn’t runny but I’ve been very dizzy and extremely nauseous so I have no idea what happened. Now I’m basically hacking up a phlegmy lung so I can’t wait until this shit is out of my system.

Night all.

Happy March!

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

I haven’t done anything in a ‘timely manor’ for the last couple of days so putting up the March theme on the 4th just doesn’t seem like such a big deal to me. I’ve been busy doing other things.

My foot is healing, but as a trade off I still can’t put it flat on the floor and I’m getting frequent migraines with my period (never happened before), so I’m basically falling apart.

I’m dreading going back to NY, I told my father I’d be home next weekend. I seriously don’t want to go back at all but if I’m going to move down here (completely) I’m going to have to go home to pick up my shit anyway. I just don’t want to be up there for more than a week, honestly. I’m done with the state and about 90% of the people in it. The important ones that are worthy of my keeping in touch with, family, close friends, etc obviously aren’t of much concern. There’s just a lot of bad memories and shitty people in my life that I’d like gone, so – this is my step in doing that.

According to my father, my diploma showed up on Tuesday so I’m officially done with Stratford and can now continue to move forward with other studies. I’m happy about it, and I guess that’s all that matters.

I’m still waiting on a few clients to pay me, I love how people disapear when the bill has been sent. Gotta love business these days.

Baby surprised me last night. We went to Wal-Mart to buy a BBQ because it’s getting warmer and anyone living in a beach community would know the importance of a gas grill. After we picked up a heafty grill and threw it into the cart, he decided to take his usual detour in the electronics department. He originally was looking for a game I saw on G4 the other day called “Bullet Witch”, It’s an XBox360 game and while I’m not a gamer, I’m getting used to the controller playing Hexic (for a few hours a day lately) so he was going to buy it for me (complete surprise!). They didn’t have it though, which is fine because I wasn’t dead set on getting it, I figured I’d buy it for myself a few weeks down the road. He then looked at the DS games and said “Pick One”, my eye went straight to Super Mario Brothers, but it was like $35 so I said, “Nope”. I then saw “Big Brain Academy” for $19, obviously this is the one I chose. I didn’t expect him to buy it for me, let alone BOTH of them. So my DS now has four games. I owe him big, just not sure how to go about it.

In any event, I have to finish email checks and send out some more bills.

I don’t know when I’ll be around again. The 7th is coming up pretty quickly and I’ve been kind of out of it. This year has gone by so fast. My entire life has literally done a complete 180?Ǭ? and I think my body is finally catching up to it so things have been really…blah…lately, if you know what I mean.

Throbbing Pain

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Sprained Ankle I’m not really that big on pictures but there are just some times when you have to give some kind of visual proof to what you’re about to say. This is my left ankle, this is what happens when you’re going down stairs and there’s uneven ground. It’s swollen to a little bit more than double the size and as you can tell, it’s a pretty shade of purple. I’m in an awful lot of pain and I’m surprised by this considering I normally have a high pain tolerance. Baby thinks that it’s gone past a bruise and is like ‘internal bleeding’…riiiight. This isn’t the first time I’ve done some major damage to my ankle though. I’m basically a sprained ankle junkie, freaky huh? I’ve broken both ankles, I’ve fallen down stairs (see a pattern here?) landing feet first and spraining both ankles at once. You can imagine my surprise when I landed on Tuesday and it was only the one ankle that was damaged. I felt it pop when I went down but figured I could walk it off. I can volunteerily crack both ankles by just twisting my foot a little so it didn’t phase me much.

A few hours later I noticed that it was getting hard for me to move around. At this point I’d been on the couch for a little while watching television so since I wasn’t standing up much, it didn’t phase me that my foot was still sore. I figured this was a given considering I’d fallen only a few hours prior. Once my foot touched the floor and flattened out I felt a shooting pain go clean up my leg…the likes of which I’ve never felt before. This scared me but I didn’t think much about it considering I’ve hurt myself before and have come through with flying colors. The next day before I went into the shower I looked at my foot and noticed it was a heavy shade of purple. Since then, I’ve been nursing and medicating the pain and hopefully my foot will go back to normal sometime over the course of the next couple of days.

Valentine’s Day
Baby and I went to Applebee’s last night and enjoyed ourselves at dinner. We watched a movie before we went to bed and I don’t know about him but I woke up feeling very refreshed. He got me a HUGE teddy bear and a box of chocolate. On Wednesday morning before we went to sleep (We don’t usually knock out until about 5:30AM) he put the bear in the bed with the candy and threw a blanket over it for me to find. I was pretty surprised, he was very sweet about it.

Closing time…
In any event, I think I’m going to head off for the night. My back is starting to bother me from sitting here too long. I think I’m going to hobble myself outside and have a cig.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

I told myself, and the boyfriend, that I’d be in bed by 4am so I needed to get my ass in gear on finalizing some things with a client. It’s now almost 5am and I’m still awake…typical.

Be My Valentine!
It’s Valentine’s Day and already I’ve been rather productive. Baby and I are basically going to spend the entire day together. I even conned him into setting up his laptop in the dining room so we can work together before we go out to dinner tonight. Originally we were going to head to Salisbury and go to The Olive Garden but unfortunately with the rain/snow in the area it’s easier for us to just stay south. So…we’re going to dinner at Applebee’s…it’s my new addiction. I’m a sucker for the Three Cheese Chicken Penne Pasta. He’s a sucker for their Buffalo Wings so everyone’s happy at dinner.

Sluggish
I’ve been meaning to update but it’s been a pretty ‘eh’ week for me. I spent the 7th in a daze because it’s been 11-months since Joe died and it hit me pretty hard. Who knows how I’m going to be on March 7th because that’s the one year marking of a very crazy year.

Relocating
Baby and I have discussed everything and I’m officially going to be moving out of New York once finances allow. I’m nervous about it because New York is all I’ve ever known but I believe this change in my life is going to be the best thing for me. I have to step out of my comfort zone and get into this ‘real world’ everyone seems to boast about. We’ve already got big plans as far as how the bedroom and office are going to look. It requires a bit of money in order to get everything where it needs to be. We’re two big people so there’s no way in hell we’re going to be sharing a full-sized bed anymore. It’s time to upgrade, and by upgrade I mean KING.

We went to a few stores this past week and we laid down in a Seely Posturepedic and I instantly fell in love. I know they’re a little bit pricey but I’m confident that we’ll have the money so there shouldn’t be anything to worry about there. It was extremely comfortable, my back felt GREAT in it, I can’t wait to buy one. It’s also nice to not be on top of eachother either, we can just roll to our designated corners and stay clear away from eachother. It’s not that I don’t want to cuddle up with baby it’s the fact that we both kick and steal blankets so it’ll be harder to hurt eachother when we’re on (basically) opposite ends of the room…you know? It should work out fine.

Ouchies!
In other news, I sprained my ankle. The front door has been acting kind of nutty (not closing properly) and I decided to just go out the side of the house and sit on the stairs while having my cigarette yesterday afternoon. I went down the stairs and didn’t realize that the grass was higher than it looked. I stepped in a dip and now my ankle is beyond messed up. It wasn’t a happy day for me…that’s all I have to say. I’m having trouble getting around and my new nickname, instead of “Baby” now seems to be “Limpy”. Not fun…not fun at all.

And I’m Spent!
I think I’m going to head to bed now. Baby’s mom just woke up for work and she’s looking at me like “Don’t you sleep?” She’s a little grouchy though, hasn’t had her coffee yet. After a cup or two she’ll be her usual goof-tastic self. So I’m going to go sneak in on Baby now and then maybe get some shut-eye so I can get some work done in a few hours and be rested for my uber-sweet day with Baby.

Happy V-Day Everyone!

Full Speed Ahead

Monday, February 5th, 2007

I probably should have posted on the 1st when the template went up but I honestly just wasn’t in the mood. It’s been a pretty busy couple of weeks. The boyfriend and I painted the kitchen as well as his bathroom, eventually we’ll be working on his moms bathroom as well. We’re currently talking about my officially moving in with him so I’m sure I’ll have an update on that sometime in the near future. It requires me to move away from everything I’ve ever known and that’s a big step for me but I also know that I’m moving to a place where I feel the most comfortable. Although I will always be a New Yorker at heart, Long Island just isn’t the place for me to be anymore.

Over the course of the next couple of days I’m going to be working on getting some clients knocked out, as well as picking some of them up. I figure I need around $1,000 in order to move so I’m going to have to get my ass in gear on things. I’ll be getting a job down here after I’ve gotten some of my things here. I figure the only important items to come with me are my TV, computer, Bella and my clothes. The rest are things that I truly don’t need so I’ll be home for a few weeks doing some cleaning out. It’s my goal to pack three boxes (total). If I load up on space bags I’m sure that will be completely possible.

Love
I believe for Valentines Day the boyfriend and I are going to be in Ocean City, MD. There isn’t much to do down there in the winter but we also know exactly how to go about having heaps of fun without spending a lot of money. We’ll most likely be going to an arcade, then dinner, and then probably a walk on the beach because the way the bay and the ocean meet up is nothing short of gorgeous in the moon light.

Pain
My abscess has come back. I wasn’t expecting this to happen considering I’ve had a root canal done on the tooth but I guess I can’t win ’em all. I do have antibiotics and pain killers so I’ll hopefully be able to fix this without a hospital visit this time. My back has really been acting up pretty bad lately, I’m convinced that the bed I’ve been sleeping on is out to kill me. I just think all of my nerves are out of wack because of the abscess. Someone told me that your mouth acting up can effect like every part of your body. Considering an abscess is a clear-cut sign of an infection, I think I’ve got that floating around. I’m also on my period so I’m feeling like crap on all ends of me, it sucks.

Work
I’m going to have to update my portfolio again (image wise) because I really need to get my recent work in there. The screen shots listed on acidgloss.net now are so out-of-date it’s unreal. Maybe if I update those I’ll have some more clients coming in. I need to get some money together for advertising too, I used to just depend on word-of-mouth but at this point that just isn’t enough anymore. If things don’t pick up I’ll cut back my hours and then pick up on a full-time job out of the house and just leave the internet stuff to part-time. It would make life a little easier, honestly. I get nice sized paychecks here and there for design work, don’t get me wrong. But I’m doing small $500 template work here and there. I’d rather just be making $500 a week. I’ve got to surf around monster.com and see if there are any secretarial jobs around here. There’s so many real estate companies here I’m sure there’s someone hiring somewhere, you know?

Lights Out!
In any event, it’s a little after 6am and I’m exhausted. The penicillin is kicking in and making me very, very sleepy. The hydrocodone doesn’t help much either…heh.

PS:
Arwen – I did get your email, I’ll respond to you as soon as I can. I promise.

Upgrade

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

It took me a little while but I’ve got myself setup with WordPress 2.1 now. I originally had WordPress installed manually so I had to install WP2.1 via Fantastico and then move the database over. It took about a half hour to get everything straight but now I’m content with where it all is now. If any of you reading this are on my server, Fantastico now has version 2.1 for WordPress…Tony upgraded this morning for me.

It’s been a busy day. Baby made me breakfast and while I was cleaning up the mess he made in the kitchen…he finally got around to hanging up all his clothes. In about an hour I’ll head into his office and make him clean the rest of his room so we can hang up his pictures and what not. I have to pack tonight because I’m going home tomorrow, it’ll be a LONG drive. I’ll be back here in two weeks. I think I’m going to wind up leaving some shit here…it makes for lighter packing the next trip down.

Bella’s been extra obnoxious the last couple of days. Her new thing now is climbing into the book case and chilling out. She’s also grown acustomed to hopping up on the dinning room table and sitting there so she’s semi eye-level with everyone. Kind of absurd but that’s Bella…right?

I have some work to do so I’m going to head off. If any comments were lost in the last hour, I apologize. They may have written to the old database and not the new one. I was tempted to just remove WordPress all together and then start fresh but after the last year I really didn’t want to lose those archives of Joe…you know?

I’m off…later gators.

Cleaning Binge!

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

I’m not quite sure why but whenever I’m at the boyfriends house (and I’m supposed to be relaxing) I always find myself wanting to clean house. There’s a lot of things that need to be done around here. The Christmas lights are still hanging outside, the living room could use some straightening up, same goes for the dining room, kitchen, his bedroom and the bathroom. He claims that I want to do too much but what he doesn’t realize is my drive to constantly keep moving is based entirely on the fact that it’s what I do (excessively) at home.

I’m waiting, patiently, for the boyfriend to get out of his room so we can start cleaning house. He left a note for his mom that he wanted to pick up shelving and what not from Home Depot today but I assume she wasn’t overly interested considering the note was erased and the pad was put back on the fridge. This doesn’t mean we can’t start everything else though. I should probably go and get on his butt about it. I know he just woke up but it’s easier to start working earlier on in the day so that by the end of the day everything is spic-n-span and then you can just sit back and relax…you know?

For the past few days I’ve been in the mood for Chinese Food. Now, this is coming from someone who isn’t a huge fan of it…mainly because it’s the reason that I needed the root canal considering the broccoli broke my tooth. Last night the boyfriend sweetly attempted to humor me and brought me to this place named Confucius. This, unfortunately, didn’t work out very well. I’m a typical American Chinese Food eater. I’m not really into duck and I’m deathly allergic to sea food. We first noticed how nice the place was, we were seated, ordered some soda and then opened up the menu. This, unfortunately, is something we should have done FIRST. The menu had NOTHING on it of interest to either one of us and we also noticed that the cheapest dish on there was $20. I’m sorry but there’s no way in hell dinner is going to cost over $40 for us if we’re not even happy with the food…you know?

We left there and headed over to the mall because there was this Chinese Buffet there it was like $8.50 a person, drinks included, they also had a lot more of a selection so of course this was a much better choice. This was until we opened the door to the place and I was almost knocked on my ass. The smell of fish wasn’t just located at the buffet, it was soaked into the walls and there was no way in hell that I was going to be able to sit there and eat. So I put my Chinese Food craving to rest and we headed over to the safety…Friendly’s. He enjoyed Chicken Fingers, I enjoyed a Turkey Supermelt and then we finished the meal off with a Reeses Pieces Sundae…a weakness for both of us. All in all I can say it was a fairly decent night.

We headed over to Wal-mart because I was in the mood to do some shopping. I picked up a new shirt, a purse, socks and a watch. I was looking to get a pair of pants and a new pair of sneakers but unfortunately there was nothing of interest there for me. I still managed to spend around $80 either way so I guess I can’t say the trip was a total loss. I bought the boyfriend a case for his iPod because I know it’ll get scratched at some point in time so this is more of an?¢‚Ǩ¬¶avoidance. I also got his mom a new remote for the living room TV because the one that came with the TV is so damn small it’s easily lost in the couch (or under a dog). It also works with the DVD player in here so at least that solves some lazyness issues with the boyfriend?¢‚Ǩ¬¶heh.

Towards the end of my shopping spree I came across the seasonal isle which contained quite a bit of Valentine’s Day Gifts. There were bears, candy, romantic games, hot sauces (for whatever people use those for). Heart shaped picture frames, squeeky toys that say random things. I know that the holiday was created mainly by the candy or toy companies but it’s still nice to receive a special Valentine’s Day Gifts from the one you love, you know? I made it a point to drag him down the isle and pointed out a few things that won’t fly with me if he was interested in giving them. He says he’s gonna plan something special so I guess we’ll see what’s going to happen there. It’s only a month away.

In any event…he finally came out of his room so I’m going to ride his ass to get him to start helping me to take shit down and clean up. I figure while he’s outside taking the lights down I can work on getting the living room started and by the time he’s done…all that’s left is the dining room and the kitchen…nifty, eh?