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Biz-E!

Friday, October 6th, 2006

On Tuesday morning I woke up and was instantly bored out of my mind. My sister wasn’t around all day and by the time I got to the point of wanting to verbally deal with someone my father was on his way out the door for work. I spent the day wandering around the house looking for things to do. I cleaned, I did some cooking, I did some more cleaning and then I wound up in bed with a book. It didn’t really do much for me though.

I took a walk down to the store where my sister’s currently working and bothered her for a little bit. I wandered around the store and then I headed up to Petco with the thought of purchasing a Beta but I decided that it wouldn’t be fun to walk home (in the heat) with a fish tank and a new toy for Bella to bark at excessively because it won’t play with her. So…to keep my spirits up I went and got myself a coloring book. I know you’re sitting there like “WTF Krissy? W T F?” but that’s my way of keeping myself entertained long enough without having to smoke. Lately I’ve cut back quite a bit and that’s because I’ve been keeping my hands busy doing things other than smoking or typing. I’m taking up knitting next, I just need to wait until a gash on my hand clears up first (long story).

On Tuesday night I was on Skype with the boyfriend and then my aunt called. She asked me if I would be interested in going to the Mets game on Wednesday. Now, I’m not a baseball fan because I personally think it’s a useless game with pampered pretty boys but I decided “Hey, free tickets and I get out of the house” so I went. We took the train in, so that was interesting. The ride to Jamaica was ok because we basically sat there the whole time. The train from Jamaica to Woodbury was PACKED SOLID so we wound up standing at the doors, same thing from Woodbury to Shea Stadium. On the way to Shea I met a guy who was already plastered but he was showing off his Mets pride with a shirt and a beer so he was content with life. He didn’t even mind that I stumbled a bit when we went over a rough section, I think he was happy to feel a set of tits on him anyway, mine were extra perky yesterday for some reason LOL. The walk to our seats wasn’t fun but it was worth it. We were on the third baseline, surrounded by fans that were both amusing and offensive and after all of the cheering, clapping, and of course the alcohol, I got into the game. Mets won 6-4 and by the time we changed over all of the trains and then got back on the Oyster Bay line, we got home around 10 last night. All in all I have to say it was a good night. After the game let out I was amused to see FSNY filming in the parking lot. The two reporters were surrounded by a few hundred Mets fans screaming “Yankee’s Suck! Yankee’s Suck!”. I laughed, lit up a cig and went on my merry way.

I got home with a pretty bad headache though, between the screaming, beer and the fact that I had only eaten a slice of bread yesterday (literally) my head was throbbing like holy hell. I would have eaten at the park but I’m completely against ball park food pricing so I avoided the situation entirely. A bottle of water was $4.00, it cost me like $11.75 for a round of beers (mind you they were only the 8-10oz cans btw). So by the time the hot dog guy came around, I decided “No thanks” and my aunt and uncle had theirs, two hot dogs, $15.00…can someone say HIGHWAY ROBBERY!? I understand they’re spending a butt load of money paying the players and building the new stadium (which is why there was no parking and more than half of the stadium took the train) but $7.50 for a Nathans hot dog on some Wonder Bread rolls? Puh-lease!

After a quick phone call to the boyfriend, I knocked out last night around 1:30. My alarm was set for 9:30 this morning because I knew UPS would be here with my camera. Unfortunately UPS wasn’t on their regular schedule. They didn’t show up to my house until about 4:00 and since I was dozing all day but kept waking up every time I heard a truck pull up, I just wasn’t a happy camper. My camera did show up though. It a little bigger than I thought it was going to be, but it’s still a really small camera just the same. Since I was so beat today I didn’t really take many pictures. I do have two to share though.

#1 – This is the cam itself: View Image #1, View Image #2

#2 – This is a quick snap shot of the packaging, note that no flash was used: View Image

#3 – This is one that I took on the porch outside, obviously the flash was used: View Image

Note that both those pictures are saved a 50% JPG quality but there is absolutely no difference from the original. I’ll have plenty more pictures as time progresses, for now I’m just not in the mood to really do much, I figure four is enough to get the point across heh. I’ll continue to admit that Freepay is a legit company, I still would not recommend them to anyone considering how drastically they’ve gone downhill over the last six months.

I’m sure I’ll have more of a ‘life’ update as the days go on. For now it’s a little after midnight and my heads starting to bother me again so I think it’s time I get myself to sleep…night all!

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Boring Monday

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

It’s been a fairly interesting couple of days. I don’t know if interesting is in a good way or a bad way, but interesting just the same.

For the past two nights I’ve made the mistake of eating before I went to bed. I don’t eat much during the day so come 3-4 in the morning I’m starving. I’ve been having some really freaky dreams because of it. It’s the same dream two days in a row and either way it makes no damn sense.

There’s this bird-slash-human thing lingering around my window. It’s the size of maybe a 6’2 human but the bottom half is bird legs. It lingers around my window and follows me from room to room, never coming in the house. My only ‘relief’ from it was hiding in the closet with an equally scared boogey man. Then I went on to have some weird dream about Joe that I’m still trying to make sense of and I’m sure I will once I’m able to sit down and think about it.

I spent the bulk of my Sunday working on a few things. I’m still in the process of working on one account and I did a quick greymatter thing last night, either way I’ve got money coming in so it doesn’t matter.

Now for the excellent news!

Freepay FINALLY shipped my camera! It will be here on the 5th and I can’t wait. It’s coming with me on my vacation and it’s also coming with me to the casino. :: giddy :: Considering the weird night I had, I’d like to think that things are starting to look up…heh.

This can only mean that something is going to go terribly wrong because unfortunately that’s just how things are in my world. I guess I’ll know eventually…eh?

Time to head off for a little while, I need to defrag because this thing is lagging like all holy hell lately. It’s my own fault though, I’ve been running Adobe for the last few hours and a few hours a day for the past week so things are just starting to slow down a bit. Once I get my desktop back things should be easier. I’m going to be picking up the HD enclosure soon so I can unload a good 30 gigs of files that’ll definitely help me out…heh.

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Happy October!

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

If you didn’t already notice, there’s a new theme up on k.nu. The white swirley things at the top were based on a desktop I got off deviantart.com the rest was Photoshop. The ‘hill’ type layers were completely ripped off of Jackie but that’s because I envy her graphic work. I wanted to do a three column theme for a little while now, I just wasn’t sure how I was going to go about playing it out…I’m happy with it though, I guess that’s all that matters.

I had a fairly busy day. I took my AC out of the window, did a small rearrange with my room, organized my desk (again) and then cleaned up the rest of the house so that there wasn’t just one room that was uber clean. I typed up a scholarship essay that I hand-wrote over the week and sent that in and now I just finished up putting the final touches on this theme so yea, I guess I can say I did some shit heh.

For now I’m watching Law & Order: CI on USA and when this gets beyond boring I think I’m just going to call up the boyfriend and yap with him for a few hours.

I have some work coming my way so I’ll be able to reach my tuition goal a lot quicker. It’s my main goal to save up about $8,000 to get every purchase I want to make out of the way but for now the goal has dropped to $900 so that I can enroll in Penn Foster, that will cover the first semester so we’ll see how quick I can save that up.

My birthday is coming up in a few weeks, I’m going to take a week vacation with the boyfriend and then at the end of the month I’m going up to Mohegan Sun with Dad (and maybe my aunt) for a day. I’m only bringing like $300 up with me. Some people go crazy and save up like $1500-$2000 just to go to a casino. I’m sorry but I see no point in setting aside $1500 that you may not even come home with. Even if I had like $20,000 in the bank, $1,500 is still a big enough chunk for me to say “Nuh uh”. I figure $300-$350 is fine. It’s already saved up and put away so I guess that’s all that matters. I should be bringing in about $1400 profit this month and that’s always a good thing. That’s what…$350 a week? Not too bad considering I’ve changed my hours around. I’m only doing about 10 hours a day instead of my previous 18-20, I’ve been catching up on sleep lol.

In any event, if you can read this it’s officially 12AM here on Long Island and I’m most likely on the phone with the boyfriend.

Night all!

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Corporate America

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

It’s been a busy week, I’ve been working on a lot of scholarship essays. I’ve had a client or two come in to pick up business. I’m waiting, almost too patiently, for a few clients to pay up. It’s to the point now of being beyond absurd. One client used to contact me 3 times a day for the last 4 months of working on their project. The minute I send the bill he’s magically MIA. I believe this is the same thing going on with another girl but I’m not too sure on that yet it’s only been a week since I’ve last heard from her. Either way it’s a headache, I have bills to pay too, ya know?

My sister recently applied for a job at a local pharmacy, they called her back and now she just has to take a drug test and then she’s got the job. The problem I have with this company – already – is the fact that when she applied two months ago and listed herself as a Caucasian, she wasn’t called back. She listed herself as a Hispanic and they called her back. I personally see it as a lawsuit, she just sees it as an excuse for benefits. The problem is the fact that I based on what I already know about this store, they won’t honor her benefits anyway. A friend of mine has been there for six months. The first three months he was doing a solid 40 hour week and then magically, the week before he was going to apply for benefits, they dropped his hours and didn’t honor the past 3 months worth of work. But I guess that’s corporate America for you.

She told me to apply for their photo department because they need a day shift, and thanks to my CVS employment I’m certified in Osha so that should be an easy job for me. I just refuse to take it. I shouldn’t have to list myself as anything other than Caucasian just to get a dead end job.

In other news….the PayPerPost team recently stormed “The Today Show” with an absolutely fantastic display of Guerilla Marketing. Unfortunately I didn’t see the show but watching the footage of the show was enough for me to absolutely love these guys even more. I swear other than Newegg this is the only company that I’ll fully support until the day I/it dies! They’re the kind of company that knows exactly what needs to be done in order to get their names out there. If a trip to NY is what it takes to gain exposure, then they’re doing exactly the right thing. In agreement with a comment posted on the entry…yes all the PPP girls are hot, I don’t swing that way but get me drunk enough and I just might. And a note to the boyfriend…you can stop drooling now, if it ever did happen you couldn’t be in the room :nudge:

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Anal Rententive Much??

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Anyone who knows me in person, or even through regular conversation, know that I’m anal retentive about dishes being in the sink. Even if I’m in someone else’s home I have to sit on my hands to stop myself from doing the dishes. I knew this was a pretty bad trait (well…not totally) but I also didn’t know that there’s a huge chance of it getting WORSE with time.

Today I found myself getting really excited when I opened up a package of new sponges. I looked for an excuse to do some dishes, even though there weren’t any in the sink. While unloading the dishwasher, I noticed a few plates with streaks and I went out of my way to hand-wash them until they sparkled.

I really need a hobby. This one is even starting to sound stupid as hell to me!

I did a lot of cleaning today. I’m waiting (almost too patiently) on responses from a few clients so since I had nothing else to do I decided that while I was taking a break from searching for scholarships, I was going to just clean house. I vacuumed, I dusted, I did the laundry and I even gave Bella a bath, even though she didn’t need one. I was just ITCHING to find something to do.

I could always work on ‘personal site’ based shit, but it’s really not worth it. I’m going to be reopening AGn Listings in a few weeks, I’m considering bringing the cam portals back but I honestly don’t think those are ‘the thing’ anymore, who knows. I’m also considering bringing back the review site but I don’t think that one is actually going to happen, too much time involved and there weren’t ever really any sites worth reviewing. Sure there were a few good ones but the rest were over-the-top teeny bopper ones that got annoying. The Mobile Meme has been dead since July but I think I’m going to redo it and make it a little more ‘interactive’. Maybe instead of topic ideas for posts I’ll just come up with a question a week or something like that…I don’t know.

It’s a little after midnight. The boyfriend is asleep because he has work in the morning, Bella’s knocked out and as usual there’s nothing on TV. I think I’m going to float around through my bookmarks and do a quick clean out of the links that aren’t of any use to me anymore. I have like 300+ bookmarks and I don’t think I’ve visited ANY of them since they were originally bookmarked.

I guess the cleaning just never ends for me, huh?

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Blockparty!

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Right now I’m waiting on a phone call and then hopping in the shower. I’m going to my mothers block party tonight. I know you’re sitting there like “mother? what?” but I’m really going for the rest of the family that will be there. I haven’t seen my aunt since Christmas (she’s also my god mother). And I barely speak to my grandmother anymore. She’s getting up in her years and now is dealing with some nasty arthritis so I’m basically trying to get involved as much as I can over time, you know?

This is probably the reason that’s going to delay my moving out of NY as I’d originally planned. First I was staying for my father because I don’t want to be HOURS away from ‘home’ in case something, god forbid, ever happened to him. The same thing goes for my grandparents right now because they’re really the only ones I’ve ever had. My dad’s mother died when I was 8 and I wasn’t very close to her, and I never met his father because he died when my father was 17.

In any event, I’m going to grab the phone and head outside for a quick cig. Later all!

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Yea……sooo….

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I know it took me an extra day but I’ve been kind of busy. I put up the August theme. Now, I don’t like it but I was getting sick of the July theme so I figured I’d do something to fix that. So here’s my POS and maybe I’ll come up with something different when I have some free time.

I’ve been working a lot for the last few weeks. Quite a few clients have come in now that I’ve slashed 50% off my pricing. I’ve also won a few bids on GAF so that’s helping out quite a bit. Something to be happy about of course. Bills are basically paid and things are beginning to look up. I’ll bring in around $800 after bills this month. This should all be good for the next few weeks until school gets back in session – that’s when places around here will begin hiring again. Most of them are booked because of their “overstock of employee’s” as one manager said. Starting in September, the bulk of the kids will be going back to school so positions will open up and tootles to the ‘net for me. Yea, I’ll still do templates and the hosting but I just won’t have it full time anymore.

I’ve been thinking about it for a while so it was bound to happen at some point. My life offline has changed drastically over the last 5 months and it’s just time to start picking up and moving on. So far it’s working, it can only get better from here so I guess that’s all that matters.

My desktop is basically dead, and since I haven’t been using it anyway…I gave it away and just took out the hard drive. It’s basically being scrapped for parts right now, and that’s honestly all it’s worth at this point. There’s an external hard drive enclosure that I can buy for like $30 at Microcenter. I plug my internal hard drive into it, and hook it up to the laptop via USB and I can regain access to all of my files. I have a few databases on there for clients and I have other things on there that I need to get my hands on because of work and what not, so it’s definitely worth the $30 investment considering it’s a business expense. It’s cheaper than going out and buying a new desktop. And this way I can basically just have EVERYTHING with me no matter where I go, so that’s all that matters.

The heat wave hitting the Northeast right now has really had me in a bad mood – all day long. Temperatures soared around the 110° (43°C) mark when humidity and everything else was factored in. Tomorrow it’s going to basically be the same way. My air conditioner has been acting up so I spent the last few days in the living room. I wound up sleeping out here last night because I just couldn’t take it anymore. I have no intent of buying a new AC though. It does the job, just not to the degree that I’d prefer.

I’m in love with cold weather. Anything under 35°F (1°C) makes me a happy girl. I basically wear shorts during the winter. Thing is, as long as my feet are warm, I’m fine. So in the summer when we get into the high marks it really bothers the shit out of me. My AC usually runs the room around 65°-70°F (18°-21°C) which makes me very happy. I can just curl up in bed and I’m completely comfortable. Right now the AC isn’t even getting me under the 90° (32°C) mark in my room so it’s driving me crazy, I’ve basically moved into the living room just to have some ounce of comfort. Which is probably why I’ve been so short with people lately. Then again, thanks to a recent idiot talking shit about things that don’t concern him – I’m obviously agitated for a reason.

I’m going to head off though. I have to get my pillow so I can lay down and crash. I’ve been looking at this screen for 12 hours and if I sit here any longer my eyes are going to pop out of my head.

Later gators.

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It’s rather hot in here…

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I know I haven’t been around very much lately – this is because I’ve been busy with work. I’ve also recently had some very special company spend a few days with me so I’ve been working on that as well. I don’t wish to go to details there because unlike some people I don’t need to have my personal life hung out there like laundry drying on a line. All I’m going to say is I’m falling for him, and that’s that.

I spent today with my mom – freaky right? It wasn’t too bad though. Her inlaws (I guess that would make them my step-grand parents) went away for a few weeks and she invited my sister and I over to their house to hang out in the pool. Now, I haven’t swam since I was 12; so this is going on 10 years without any floating time.

I hopped right in when I got there, I couldn’t wait. I didn’t have a bathing suit so I just went in with shorts and a tshirt. No big deal – I enjoyed myself either way. I do have a bathing suit but my sister had already stole it from me. Originally I wasn’t going to go and then I looked at the little pool I bought the other day and realized it just wasn’t cutting it. I needed to float in the water – not just sit in it.

My back – thankfully – is feeling great right now. I propped myself up in front of one of the jets and it just felt amazing on my shoulder (where most of my problems are). I’m so relaxed right now it’s unreal.

I got a little bit of color, but I’ve been working outside for the last few days in the sun so I’ve been able to pick up a bit here and there. My legs are still not tanning well though. I can literally stand outside for an hour in direct sunlight and not burn. I can’t burn and I can’t tan so it’s really getting to be annoying. My legs are getting SOME color to them but not enough for me to be content with it. My arms are getting kind of dark, as is my face, but that’s about it. It sucks but nothing I can do about it.

In any event, I’m going to head off – later gators.

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Oh the heat!

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

An extreme heat wave has hit the tri-state area. Temperatures lingering around the 105°F mark (40.5°C) during the day have had me stuck indoors and very uncomfortable. I’m only blogging right now because I don’t know if I’ll have power for much longer. There was a blackout warning sent out to all hospitals on Long Island (to my knowledge) until 10:30PM this evening. It makes perfect sense though.

Right now it’s around 6:30PM, for the past hour (and next few hours) people will be coming home from work, turning on their air conditioners and overloading power plants in the area. With how unstable LIPA has proven to be for the last few weeks, it’s only natural that something will randomly just blow up and I’ll be left without power.

Down with the sickness…
This doesn’t help me very much though. I haven’t really been feeling well lately. I’m still battling my cold and the heat doesn’t help either, it just makes me feel worse so I’m very easily agitated lately. It also doesn’t help that I have two very bad tooth aches and no real pain-killers to help me out. I take Aleve, because it’s the only thing that works, I’m immune to everything else. I send my sister to the store to pick some up for me and she comes back with Advil. Why? Because it said “toothache” on the box, as though that would actually fucking help me. It’s not a toothache anymore, it’s a full on infection and since I have no insurance, I have to deal with the pain until the nerve finally dies.

Business woe’s….
I’ve been lurking around the ‘net bidding on every possible job I can find. I have a few leads that may work to my advantage, but nothing set in stone as of right now. I got a few emails about the $30 deal, which I have to reply to tonight (I’m aware of the fact that I’m taking a while, again – I haven’t been feeling well). I’m going back to my search for grants, and working on a few ideas for future job ventures that hopefully will work to my advantage.

Wrapping it up…
In any event, I think I’m going to head off. I’m downloading some programs. A few of the leads are company outsource based and they require that I have either Dreamweaver, FrontPage or both. I don’t totally see the point in using this programs since I code everything by hand, but if I have to suck it up and deal with it in order to get the job, then so be it.

I know I’m behind on my comments, I’ll make those up in a little while when my bandwidth is back to the proper speed.

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Sick=SUCKS!

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

I’ve been meaning to blog for a few days but I just haven’t had the energy to do it. I never went to sleep on Saturday night, I finally crashed for like 4 hours on Sunday afternoon. I woke up and realized that my day was shot. This didn’t stop me from staying awake until 6am Monday morning. So my schedule is totally shot to hell.

On Sunday, my throat was bothering me. By Monday morning, it was a cough and by Monday afternoon it was a full blown cold like nobody’s business. I made a promise to myself the last time I got sick that I would not blow my nose no matter how much it was bothering me. So I have no idea as to why I blew my nose yesterday because it’s been non-stop ever since. It’s driving me crazy.

If I’m not coughing, I’m sneezing. If I’m not sneezing I’m blowing my nose, and if I’m not blowing my nose I’m sniffling. So no matter what I do I’m basically making as much noise as humanly possible. I know it’s driving Bella crazy because she hasn’t been sleeping in bed with me like she usually does. Which I guess I don’t mind because the last thing I need when I’m sick is someone touching me. My sister poked me this afternoon and I wanted to rip her face off.

Purple fades…
My toe is slowly beginning to heal, it’s still purple but not AS purple as it was. I’m not sure if it was a ‘break’ though, I’m convinced it’s more of a hefty sprain because it still hurts to put pressure on it, even a week after it happened. I went to Payless this afternoon and got myself a new pair of mules. The swelling went down enough that I could fit my foot into the shoe without wincing in pain so I figured that was as good a time as any to go out and buy a new pair. They only cost me like $11, which kind of peeved me because the website said $7.99 but I really could care less at this point. I got myself some socks too, didn’t spend over $15 (which was the original budget anyway) so I’m not overly concerned about it. I know you’re sitting there like “Damn, cheap much?” but that’s really not the case. I use the slip-ons for house hold things like walking the dog, taking out the garbage, etc. They wouldn’t really leave the general area of my house so what’s the point of dropping anything more than like $10-$15 on something that is used only for ‘slip-on and go’ kind of stuff…you know?

To tan…or not to tan…
I went to Walgreen?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s, picked up what I needed for this weekend. I’m going to be at my aunts house. I’ll have my laptop with me so I’ll have something to do. It’s my goal to be outside soaking up as much sun as possible. She has a very private yard so I don’t have to worry about a child or pet midget popping up out of no where. It’ll be nice to sit back and relax without a care in the world. I’ll be able to sleep without a dog between my legs. I’ll have 600 channels to flip through and not be able to find anything to watch. I’ll have Figgy to keep me company when I’m really bored, and a deli right down the street for when I’m in the mood for my typical Sunday breakfast of yogurt and a croissant, whenever I’m at her house.

Sitely…
It took me a lot longer than expected but I’m finally on top of all of my listings as far as member approvals go. I still have a few hate listings to move over to new addresses and to upgrade them to Enthusiast as well. The database for Enthusiast is a bit more secure than the ones are for PHP Fanbase. I know that issue has been around for about a year now but either way it’s one I’m slowly working on correcting. I was considering just leaving it and writing in an image verification for the submit forms but I’m really not in the mood to fuck around with someone else?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s code so I’ll just stick to Enthusiast and not care too much about it.

I did write an image verification for one of my cliques. It was being run with acidCLIQUE and I’m now working on moving it over to a new setup. There are only about 300 members but even still, I don’t want to lose that database anytime soon. I’m reconfiguring it for mass-editing as well as image verification. I didn’t think it was as insecure as it is but apparently I was wrong. It gets more spam than PHP Fanbase ever did. So much for thinking I was doing the right thing by creating my own script for it…eh?

And yea…
In any event. I just got the shit scared out of me by one of my sisters friends who jogged up the stairs out of absolutely no where. He’s a very dark kid to begin with so wearing black clothes in an area that’s damn near pitch-black did not work out well at all. I almost shit myself until I realized who it was. I don’t like the bastard, but at least I know him by name, which is more than I can say about any of her other friends. They all have some kind of stupid nickname that makes no sense to the rest of humanity so at least he’s a step up from them, still an ignorant bastard either way though LOL.

I’m signing off for the night. I’ll poke around from time to time to see what’s going on. I’ll also be checking in on my despair, xposure and other rotations as the days go by.

Later all.

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Happy July!

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

As you can probably already tell, there’s a new theme here on k.nu. I change them around once a month so this one will obviously be around until the end of July. Something about how the colors mixed well together gave me enough of an excuse to call it a summer theme. And, this is something I’m happy about. I put a quite a bit of work into it as far as coloring and everything else goes, so I’m happy with it. If you happen to run it through a style sheet, you’ll see that unlike those on the ‘net who swear their ‘elite’ I actually have valid CSS2 code to back it up. Jealous are we? I think so too.

Work related
Work has been kind of slow for the last few days. It’s mainly a wordpress theme here, validation there, nothing major. No big jobs have come in, as of yet. I’ve put in a bid for a few jobs that are in the $3k range, but who knows what will happen there. I spent today putting the final touches on this theme and plugging RSS feeds into Trillian. So now I basically don’t even have to go to websites anymore, I can just read the feed and decide whether or not I want to see the rest of the entry.

Feed me!
Someone brought Feedburner to my attention this week. They saw it on someone’s site and thought I’d be interested. I played around with it a little but no one subscribes to my feeds so it’s really not worth it. I know that Stacey does through her LiveJournal account, but that’s just about it, as far as I know. It’s no big deal though.

Dreams = Money
Mega million drawings are tonight, like every Tuesday and Friday evening. I spent $10 on tickets, nothing too extreme. The pot is up to $12mil. If I would have won on Tuesday, instead of someone in Ohio, it would have been $26mil. It got me to thinking though. At this point, living in NY with $12mil won’t get you very far. Sure, it’ll get you a decent sized house but taxes around here are beyond extreme and it’s just not worth wasting the money. So, I’m thinking about Maine. I’ve seen listings up there where you can get 8 acres of land for like $120k. On Long Island there isn’t 8 acres to spare, and if there is it’d run a couple million…at least. So in my little dream world, since I have nothing else to do. I’ve been thinking about everything I’ve always wanted when it comes to owning my own home.

A huge kitchen with lots of space, an indoor pool because in Maine the highest average for summer temperatures is like 79°, a big master bedroom, a ‘game room’ with pool table, dart board and of course…a bar. I’ve been looking around Google for pictures and what not and I’ve come across some really nice setups that I would absolutely LOVE to have, so I saved them to keep in my ‘dream’ folder in case something like this is actually a reality some day. The house itself wouldn’t have to be huge, I’m not looking for something like that. Everything I want can fit into something that’s like 2000-2500 sqft. Which may seem large, but when you break it down that the whole back end of the house is going to be a pool/jacuzzi and patio area, it really isn’t that large.

Back to reality…
I’m still waiting on Freepay to process my order for the digital camera. They said 7-10 business days so I’m sure by next Wednesday I’ll actually know what’s going on there. I’m excited either way, I can’t wait to go back to taking pictures again. Right now, since my digital doesn’t have a working flash, I’ve had to have pictures either taken outside during the day, or every light on in the room just to make sure it’s bright enough….which is very annoying so the change will be nice.

I thought my aunts trip was going to be longer than it actually is. I’ll only be at her house from Friday the 7th, to Tuesday the 11th. It’s still not too bad though, I get to relax in a nice quiet house for a few days without having to listen to all of the idiots who linger around on my block during the day. I can sit outside in the back yard and soak up the sun. I don’t have to worry about waking up to walk the dog so I can sit back and relax.

Purple isn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t pretty
I’ve been nursing a broken/sprained toe since Tuesday night. We have a block up in front of Dad’s door to keep the dog out of there. A baby gate you can call it (even though it’s just a folding chair). I went in his room on Tuesday night to turn his AC on so that when he got back from Atlantic City he wasn’t walking into a sauna. On my way out the door, I hooked my pinkie toe on the chair and I felt it pop. The chair itself then dropped on my foot in the process. Right now it’s a gorgeous shade of purple and walking is just not something I’m happy about.

When I walk the dog in the morning, I usually just slip on the mules and head down stairs. The mistake I’ve made is when you’re wearing shoes that are slip-ons, you tend to grip with your toes to keep them on. I realized this after I was waddling half way down the stairs the following morning. Bella, as usual, wanted to take off and run but I couldn’t bounce like that, so she damn near hung her self because she took off like a shot while I was still taking my time getting down stairs. Needless to say, I’ve had everyone else walking the dog just so I don’t have to deal with the pain. I’m sure my foot will heal up at some point, but right now I just wish the pain would go away.

OMG…seriously?
I’ve cut back on smoking, quite a bit. I used to go to about a pack a day (20 cigs) and now I’m down to 5. Considering how much I smoke, this is a HUGE deal. It’s my goal to completely quit by the end of July. It’s not going to be pretty but I really just don’t want to smoke anymore. Quitting cold turkey is impossible for me, I’ve tried it before. I’ve found that the method that works is cutting back one cig each day. So, by the time July 20th rolls around, I should be good on just one cig a day. Then I’ll break it down to one cig every other day, and so on and so forth until they’re completely gone. This will mean an extra $30 in my pocket every week to use on more important things. Like…I don’t know….strippers and prostitutes lol.

In any event, I’m going to head off. I’m going to have my last cig for the day, curl up in bed and watch some TV.

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Hiatus = OVER!

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

So I finally have my laptop back. It’s so much easier to get things done now. I’m not stuck in the living room, I don’t have to listen to the dog running up and down the hall, and I don’t have to listen to the little bastard spawn of Satan in the end apartment bouncing off the walls.

I almost didn’t have this tonight though. The FedEx shipping information told me that the estimated arrival time would be 3pm. So, I figured I could sleep in a little bit and wake up at 9 instead of 7. Well…that was my mistake. FedEx showed up at 8:30 this morning, left the note on my door and scuttled off. The ticket said that I could pick it up after 6:15 from the FedEx facility in Hicksville, so I talked my sister into a little 20 minute road trip and now I’m home with my baby :pets:

Everything is running smoothly. HP updated the BIOS for me as well so I thought that was nice of them. I was surprised to see that I still had 100% battery life considering it hasn’t been plugged in for 6 days. Then again, I took it right off the charger and popped the battery out before I put it into the box so I guess that had something to do with it. The only thing I’m having trouble with is getting used to the keyboard again. My wrist is cramping up but I think that’s just based on the fact that I haven’t really typed in a few days.

I have about 10 proposals to go through and another three to write up. I need to get back to a few clients about things because it’s been a few days since they’ve heard from me. I DID email them letting them know that I was going to be MIA so that should all be taken care of now. I’m writing up one for a big job and it should bring in an easy $2500 so that will be more than enough for me to get a new desktop and definitely a new printer. I want to get an all-in-one that’s connected through the router so that everyone’s computers can finally have a printer instead of them using mine. I figure I can just throw it in the living room and hook it up directly through that line, and then everything else is wireless.

My sister wants a computer, and I told her that with the way business is going that as a birthday gift to her I’ll go 50/50 on one. She doesn’t care what it is as long as she can sit comfortably in bed and still be able to watch TV so I can either get her a desktop with wireless setup or I’m just going to get her a cheap laptop. She insists on a DVD burner though. She’ll never be able to tap into any resources to burn movies, and doesn’t know enough about computers in order to even find said resources so that one is an ‘iffy’ if she wants one that bad she can get an external one and hook it up herself.

In any event, I have some work to do and need a quick cig in order to get me back into concentration mode. I’ve started to return comments but haven’t gotten around to everyone. I will soon though, I promise.

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Yippie!

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Since everyone else is asleep I figured it would be a good time to pop online and check my email. Based on the one I received from HP, my laptop is on it’s way back to me! Thankfully, by this afternoon, I’ll be back into the swing of things.

I can finally get some work done. I have a lot of proposals to look through, a couple to write up and a few hosting accounts to setup that I couldn’t do from this computer. It’s hard to setup reseller accounts when you don’t have access to the right programs. I like to see proposals building up, it’s a good feeling knowing that I’ve got a heap of work coming my way.

It’s my goal in a few months to get a new desktop. I’m not going to go crazy on the modifications because it would really only be used as a back up. So I have no intent of getting anything more than a gig of ram, fairly new processor, 80gig hard drive and only a 128mb video card. I can get a system like that for under $500 so I’m definitely not complaining. Hell, I was even considering an E-Machine just for kicks, but I won’t stoop to that level, I’ll stick to HP/Compaq.

I’m still waiting for FreePay to process my digital camera form. It’s been two weeks so I’m to a point now of just being annoyed by it. I’m going to give it until Friday and then if nothing changes I’m going to email them and ask what the hold-up is about. After talking to Jackie (the only REAL photographer in the personal site world, not the point-n-shoot cam shit that everyone does) I’m going to get the Olympus, it’s more like an SLR which is exactly what I was looking for, the stats on it are also a lot better than I’d originally thought. It’s the 8 mega pixel, the Fuji is the 9 mega pixel but considering the bulk of the images will never be larger than 1024×768 – I really don’t think there’s going to be a difference. So I’m certainly anticipating this one. I know that Alicia wanted professional looking engagement images so hopefully this cam gets here before they get married in November 2007, yea…that’s just how long FreePay seems to take these days heh.

In any event, it’s about 1am and I know that I need to be up in 7 hours so I’m going to head off and get some sleep. I guess the ‘hiatus’ message just wasn’t needed at all, I honestly didn’t think I’d have any time out here where I’m not dealing with the rest of the family breathing down my neck. I’m definitely on hiatus from WORK but thankfully that will change after FedEx gets here tomorrow afternoon – yay!

Night all.

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Busy Bee

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

I’ve been waiting very patiently for Freepay to process my approval form for the Digital Camera, my status (as of Friday) has been updated to “We’re currently processing your form” but considering it’s been a few days that something would change. It’s my hope that I’ll know what’s going on by Friday, so that’s all that matters.

I’m still 8 people away from my $1800 offer. I’m hoping those referrals start to pick up again soon. I’m sure I could just cash out at the $1050 but I’d prefer to hold out for the $1800 so I can put that towards some much needed bathroom repairs. I’m to a point now of being beyond annoyed with having to use dad’s bathroom to take a shower and I would LOVE to have my bath tub back. So if you’re at all interested in helping someone regain their private bathroom, then please sign up and complete an offer. The AOL one is free, clears in 3 days and you can cancel on day 4, no money charged and you get to poke around AOL for a month. You don’t even have to download the program, just create a screen name (that you get to keep as an AIM name anyway).

I’m slowly getting around to writing up my Mobile Meme for this week, I just haven’t had the chance to sit outside yet. It’s been kind of hazy today so I’m waiting for the sun to come back out before I sit myself down under a tree. I have to add the link for it to my navigation I just haven’t felt like booting up my FTP program yet. I’ll get to it later though, I’m sure I’ll be bored enough to do some kind of site work later on anyway. So far there are two entries for Mobile Meme, that’s certainly something to be happy about. I’d like to see some more posters though, so if you’re at all interested please head over to krissy.nu/mobile and check it out…k?

It’s 6.6.06 today and there are a lot of news stations up in arms about it. It’s a damn superstition for crying out loud. I don’t believe in superstitions, I’ve stepped on, laid down on and jump roped onto every crack I could find and my mothers back isn’t broken. The Omen opened in theaters today, that’s certainly a movie I’m uninterested in seeing. It looks stupid as hell. I was totally amused by the little kid in the clip they showed on TV though. The mother is just hanging there saying “Help me, help me” and the little twerp just looks up and waves “bye bye”. I laughed my ass off. Thriller/Horror movies have always had that effect on me.

I’m going to plug Euphoric because things are slowing down there because of the regular posters having finals and what not. So if you’re interested in joining a semi-new board with plenty of interesting topics, please sign up for Euphoric and meet some new interesting people while you’re at it.

In any event, I have a pile of paperwork sitting next to me that’s about a mile high so I’m going to get back to work. I’m sure I’ll have my Mobile Meme posted by Wednesday so check back for that.

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Heaven

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

I’m in total heaven right now. There’s a huge storm pulling in. The lightening has been flashing excessively for the last half hour and it’s booming like no tomorrow. Based on the weather reports it’s going to be pretty nasty for the next couple of hours. I’m pumped because I usually LOVE storms like this. I was outside in the rain for a little while. I’m seriously just a big kid at heart lol. I love looking over and seeing the sky light up. The cloud must be right over my house because it booms almost instantly.

I’m also happy because I’ve FINALLY gotten a new banner program up for the 468×60 rotation. I’m really not sure why but the old one wasn’t going through the links correctly. Thankfully this one is now. I had to use an iFrame though, because the javascript file wouldn’t load properly but I really don’t care at this point as long as it loads that’s all I care about. My site still validates so that’s all that matters. I got a few emails from advertisers wondering why their links weren’t showing up properly. I’ve emailed them all back though. I went through about 200 scripts before I could get Ledads to work properly. :whew: Third time is definitely a charm!

I’m totally abusing my wireless capabilities right now. The minute any small bit of a storm is rolling through I instantly shut down all computers in the house. My desktop is already fully unplugged from the wall and I skuttled in here quick to unplug the living room computer as well. I was hooked up to the ac-adapter all day so I can afford to be unplugged for a little while. We still have lights in the house but the surges are a pain in the ass because of the faulty wiring in the building so if anything I’ll lose my router in a little while. It doesn’t matter too much though because I’m almost done with this entry anyway.

I’ve got a big busy week ahead of me. I picked up a few clients so that’ll bring in a quick $400 for me by next week. That will go into savings and cover a few birthday gifts. My dad’s birthday is on the 26th, my sisters is on the 29th, so at the end of the month…cash will be tight. I’m not going all out like I usually do, I’m just not in the mood for that this year. I figure a $80 limit is more than resonable. My sister is turning 20 and Dad’s only going to be 57 so it’s not like it’s any ‘turn of the century’ kind of birthdays.

In any event, I’m gonna head off. Bella’s trying very hard to curl up in my lap because she’s scared of the storm and there’s a fairly interesting episode of Law & Order: CI on TV right now so I guess I’ll watch it.

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Melting

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

I’m going to say “melting” is the only literal statement as to how I feel right now. It’s been so hot for the last few days that my whole body is rejecting the heat. My back is bothering me because I can’t sleep in a comfortable position, my leg is acting up for some strange reason because of my bad circulation in my left leg and I’m so close to shaving my head it’s unreal.

I live in a brick building so anyone who knows anything about heat, you’d know that brick usually absorbs sun light and slowly lets it go all night long. In the winter it’s nice because it warms up the house so the heating bill isn’t that high. The problem is it does the same thing in the summer so when it’s 85° outside it’s more or less 90°-95° in the house. When my sister got home from work last night, I had her put my AC in. I was able to sleep comfortably for the first time in a few days. The damage to my back was already done though – I’m sure it will cool down over time.

I’m having a really hard time cracking my back the way I used to. Twisting doesn’t seem to do it anymore. I used to just be able to sit down, twist to the left than the right, and pop everything. Now I’m lucky to get a little pop out of it. Joe used to really do some good there. He would bear hug me, pick me up and shake quick and it would pop everything I needed it to pop. Since that hasn’t been done in over 3 months you can imagine how tense I am.

Digitalcameras.freepay.com
I’m still waiting for the camera site to process my approval form. They said it would take up to four weeks. If my status hasn’t changed by June 1st, I’ll send in another approval form. This time I’ll put tracking information with it so I can assure that they get it. It took me a long time to get all of those referrals together, and now it’s taken even longer for them to approve it. The changes Freepay has made to their network really suck though. I still don’t understand the point in sending them an approval form via snailmail, only to have them process everything on the internet anyway. Computer based is usually much easier, and faster for that matter. I’m sure I’ll actually get it, I just hope it doesn’t take much longer than it already has.

Moving around
I’m outside right now enjoying a semi-cool breeze and a cig. I felt cramped sitting in my room. The point of mobility is to actually move around. I spent the bulk of yesterday moving over the last bits and pieces from my desktop. All of my fonts, adobe/jasc brushes and other items that were important to have with me. I’m refusing to use Outlook for the time being because I’m unable to network it properly. I know it can be done, I just haven’t figured it out yet. The network itself is up and running though. I can easily access the two other computers in the house so it’s easier to move files around. The one thing I keep forgetting to do is get the Limewire download link from my desktop. I’ve been using Limewire pro for quite some time so using anything else is really annoying.

Graphics Block
I’m in the process of working on a WordPress template for someone and I’m having a really shitty experience with it. In my head – the image is absolutely perfect. Trying to draw it out in Adobe is a completely different story. I’m sure I’ll actually get it done but for now it’s proving to be the most annoying thing in the world.

Looking for work
I’ve decided to find myself a part time job off the ‘net. I’m only bringing in about 15k a year and since I’d like to have a car and be moved out of here before 2007, I’m going to have to step it up a notch. It’s my goal to have about 10k saved up before the end of the year and the only way to do that would be to work in an environment where I have a constant flow of having something to do. The ‘net is great, but retail is looking much better right now. I don’t think I’d ever go back to CVS but I’m consideyring Eckerd or FYE. It absolutely has to be something local.

Alicia suggested that I send my resume in to the security company where she’s currently working. It’s $9 an hour and she says it’s a fairly easy job. I’m considering it, but I just have no way of getting to Oyster Bay every day. I know that if her and I worked the same hours she wouldn’t mind bringing me, but the days that she couldn’t would mean waking up my father. This is why I absolutely have to get my own car, so that’s why I need the money. I don’t know, I’m sure I’ll work something out over time.

In any event. I’m going to finish my cig then go lay down in my room. It’s much cooler in there than it is anywhere else and that’s just where I’d like to be right now.

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