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Hopefully looking up…

Friday, January 10th, 2014

After waiting for useful information for over a week, we finally heard back from our broker.  We’re switching loan types and have the quotes from the contractors ready to go. We’re going to need to borrow about $10,000 on top of the loan. With this, however, we’re going to counter because the owners of the home clearly are uninterested in fixing ANYTHING prior to closing. With this, we’re pretty much stuck.  Now, if we’re able to save up the $10,000 over the next few months (which is possible with both our incomes) we should be able to off-set the increase on the loan if they aren’t willing to budge on the contract price.

The way additional funding works would be to have the money put into an escrow account after the sale, and then for every tradesman that comes in we pay them and then are reimbursed. With that, it’s a good idea to have the money saved up based on the fact that we’re going to need it anyway. So when everything is fixed up, we’ll have that money back in our pocket. We’ll either use it to furnish the house OR to just pay $10k off of the overall mortgage and hopefully be able to get a little bit ahead.

We’ll have to see how everything goes either way, but for now we at least have the ball rolling. Since the owners aren’t fixing anything the closing date is no longer Jan 25th. Now we’re looking at a 60 day close so we’ll more than likely be getting into the house sometime in March if everything goes well. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, we’re both in love with this house and I’ve already decorated my office in my mind so of course I’m itching to just get in there and start making changes.

Since the house was built in the late 70’s/early 80’s I’m hoping (with fingers crossed) that there’s hardwood floor under the ugly carpets. If there is, I’m ripping up the carpets and refinishing the hardwood. As ‘warm’ as carpeting can make a home, it’s just another place for smells to linger and allergies to fester. So a few low-pile area rugs and we’re good to go.

wooddesk I’m going with a very muted/modern tone for the office.  A pale grey on the walls, and I’m going to be on the look out for scrap wood so I can build a new desk for myself that suits my immediate needs. I need a wide desk to accommodate the two computers.  I found this desk on Pintrest, and absolutely love it. I think it would work out perfectly because I’ll be able to build it in a way that gives me plenty of work-space without looking like a BS desk out of a big-box store. I have a very, very nice desk at the moment but I’m not overly thrilled about it, and it’s just not big enough. It’s also a weird brown particle board and really just not what I want in a desk. So with the wood planks I can make the desk as wide and as deep as I want and with proper reinforcements I can have plenty of room for a Mac station (two monitors) and my windows station (one monitor). In the middle, to double for support and storage, I’ll get a nice looking filing cabinet and go from there. I’ll leave the outer corners with the saw horses because I think it’s just an awesome effect. Then, hopefully, I’ll figure out a way to repulser my office chair and BOOM – work area done. Now, this is just for the desk itself… I do still have ideas for the walls.

chairrailI’ve always loved the idea of a chair-rail, but never really could figure out how to go about making it work for me. I think going with a two-tone gray (instead of the blues shown in the picture), I can then position the desk so that it’s looking out into the room instead of being up against a wall. This will make me feel like I’m not in a cave, and that’s a big plus for me.  I figure I can get a nice comfy chair for one side of the room and then have the TV in the other corner so I’m all hooked up and ready to go. I think a nice area rug as an accent so I don’t destroy the floors and I’ll be good to go. And of course, this takes care of the general feel of the room but it doesn’t complete everything.

multicanvasI figure the room itself will be fairly pale so I’m going to want a pop of color, for that I’ve found a few paintings on Google Images that I’m interested in, but can’t seem to find anywhere to actually PURCHASE them for a reasonable price. I do like the multi-canvas paintings that have multiple sizes as well. I found one that I really like but I can’t seem to find it in the color tones that I like. Instead of the red/black, I’m hoping to find some type of a purple/white. Of course, I’m not 100% set on this particular image and in reality I could always go out and pick up some canvas and paint something for myself (which I may wind up doing if I can’t find what I’m looking for), but I do know that the creative juices are flowing like all holy hell… I just need to get in there to make everything a reality.

In any event, it’s knocking on 6am and I’m hoping to actually wake up at a some-what reasonable hour (being as I’ve been waking up after 7pm for the past few days). With the cold weather I’ve been staying awake so that the Cat isn’t bothering everyone when he’s looking to head outside. That and the fact that the house is fairly quiet at night so it’s easier to get work done as well.  It’s just a schedule that I’m no longer interested in staying on so :: fingers crossed:: I’ll be able to change it soon.

:: fingers double crossed :: for everything going well with this house too!

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50 Shades of Fucked Up (My Review)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

OK, so I finally jumped on the bandwagon and read “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James. My only reason for doing it was not for some ‘sexual interest’ it was based solely on the fact that I wanted to know what the hell everyone has been talking about for the past six months.  I took the time to sit down and read all three of the books, each was just as disturbing as the last.   Let me just tell you that in any ‘real world’ situation this guy (Christian Grey) would have been castrated faster than he knew what hit him.  The demanding and overbearing personality wouldn’t fly right with me, and the sheer stupidity of Anna Steele blows my mind. How can someone be so well read, yet so dumb at the same time?

The book is fan-fiction for “Twilight” another fucked up phenomenon where someone in Hollywood decided to take it upon themselves to rip a book out of someones hand and make them watch the movie version instead. (They’re doing this with 50 Shades, by the way).  The characters are pretty much the same between both series of books, the only differences is more or less that the names were changed.  The best review that I’ve read on this series, and the movie, was handled by The Atlantic, you can read the article here: The ’50 Shades of Grey’ Film Will Be Better Than the Book (but Still Bad) – Noah Berlatsky – The Atlantic.

Very well said Noah, very well said.

Now, when you strip everything down it converts into a super kinky romance novel – or at least we’re to believe that’s the intent of the author.  In my humble opinion, anyone who finds nipple clamps and flogging to be even remotely “romantic” needs to suck on the exhaust pipe of a big-rig and not their husband.  Numerous “50 Shade Babies” are popping up all over the world. This is porn for soccer moms, period – point blank.

The rating of the movie is going to be NC-17, obviously the Adult industry has already begun cranking out movie after movie and while everyone is wondering if Mila Kunis is actually going to be standing around with nipple clamps on the set of “50 Shades” you can bet your ass that the actual book itself can only really be seen in the Adult movie store because that is the only industry that’s capable of getting away with horrible acting and writing and the excessive amounts of “kinky fuckery” (as coined by Anna Steele).

For those of you whom are only on the first book.  Let me help you out:

Her boss at the publishing agency hits on her, Christian fires him because he bought the company to protect her anyway. The same character (Hyde) attempts to kill Christian (and his assistant) by messing with the engine of his plane. An old sub shows up and holds Anna at gunpoint, and when Hyde (and Anna’s boss) appear in the 3rd book it’s to kidnap his Sister for the sum of 5 million dollars based solely on the fact that Hyde and Christian were actually together in the same orphanage and the Grey’s chose Christian before they looked at Jack.  Anna and Christian get married, and have a baby – the series finalizes with her being pregnant with baby #2.

So yea – when you strip it down like this – the remaining 700 pages in the series are Anna’s internal dialoge about how much she loves his bare feet, whips and cuffs and has no problem walking around government and business officials while hiding balls in her twat sheerly for his arousal.

UCK!

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In Honor of HUMP day

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

So here’s the thing, I dont like to complain and I don’t think I ask too much……I just want five freakin minutes of peace!!

I have been battling this new crazy schedule of cranky baby in the day, getting absolutely nothing accomplished except making baba and finding the binkie (pacafier) my son loves to throw under the couch all day. Once my husband gets home from work all I can think is WHERE DO I START! Not only do I have my work that I get paid for to catch up on, before anyone figures out I haven’t completed it all day…..but my house is a freakin disaster. I finally got to the dishes and laundry yesterday. The livingroom and bedroom were glowing on Monday. What goes on in this house that I can not keep it clean for one freakin full day?

So today, my husband was kind enough to remind me that he couldn’t remember the last time I took a shower. I of course thanked him, cause REALLY, I can’t figure out that I stink, duh!! Anywho, I decide I am going to clean tub and take a bubble bath and read my book (maybe even finish it)……Lets see how this went down.

Wash the tub – check

Sweep the floor so its nice when I step out – check

Run HOT water – check

Find stopper – check

Find a old favorite bath salt – check

Hot water is nice and hot, bath salts have been poured in, book ready to be read. I undress, take first step into bath and wonder why there is a weird smell….combination of moth balls and amonia.  Whatever, it will go away, I just need to relax. I get all comfy in the water, reading my book by page two the tub is half empty…..seriously! No worries, I can work with it….I notice the door start to open, here comes the eefing cat. She needs to see what I am doing and use her litter box. Now, I don’t know if anyone elses cat does this, but she goes in there and scratches at all the walls, wtf. So I yell at her to get out…..and in comes the weird smell again, so the combination was that freakin cats toilet and my bath salts that were way too old to enjoy ever again. But the bottle is pretty so I might keep for bathroom prop.

Then my water gets even lower, the cat left door open so draft is making room perfectly chilly. The cat is now in the bedroom, scratching on everything, and knocking stuff over. All I here is “scratch, scratch, crash” I yell at her to get out, and she defiantly meow’s back at me! It just keeps going, finally four pages into my book, a qaurter filled cold bubble bath and amonia/moth ball filled room later, I get out of tub, kick cat out of room. Put on same old house pants I started with, and will go make dinner.

I just want five freakin minutes! I guess when I take my SHOWER, after dinner I can count it as a rest from my house.

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Dear Food Stealers

Monday, April 9th, 2012

I posted this on my FB a few days ago, but it’s still getting a vast amount of comments, and I just had to share it here.

To the food stealers,

It has been about a month now since my brownies started disappearing randomly. Even though my name was on the tub. My husband helped my 9yo daughter bake them for me, so I hope you enjoyed them as much as I couldn’t. My previous fridge notes fell on deaf ears, so I decided to take more direction action.

So I made an anonymous report to HR. Something about culture of drug use and the potential liability to the company blah blah. That is why we all had to do a random drug screen yesterday.

And did I forget to mention that for the last two weeks I’ve been spiking the brownies with marijuana? Not much, not enough to give you a buzz. Just enough to show up on a drug screen.

CHECKMATE.

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Tricking a Nun

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

A hippie gets onto a bus and sits next to a nun in the front seat. The hippie looks over and asks the nun if she would have sex with him.

The nun, surprised by the question, politely declines and gets off at the next stop. When the bus starts again, the bus driver says to the hippie, “If you want, I can tell you how you can get that nun to have sex with you.”

The hippie of course says that he’d love to know, so the bus driver tells him that every Tuesday evening at midnight the nun goes to the cemetery to pray to the lord. “If you went dressed in robes and some glowing powder,” says the bus driver, “You could tell her you were God and command her to have sex with you.”

The hippie decides to try this out. That Tuesday, he goes to the cemetery and waits for the nun. Right on schedule, the nun shows up. While she’s in the middle of praying, the hippie walks out from hiding, in robes and glowing with a mask of god. “I am God, I have heard your prayers and I will answer them but you must have sex with me first,” he says.

The nun agrees but asks for anal sex so she might keep her virginity. The hippie agrees to this and quickly sets about having sex with the nun.

After the hippie finishes, he rips off his mask and shouts out, “Ha ha, I’m the hippie! ”

The nun replies by whipping off her mask and shouting, “Ha ha, I’m the bus driver!”

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Slowly but surely….

Friday, May 13th, 2011

In just a few weeks I will be closing the book on a major part of the past 3 years of my life. Today I sat down with my manager and informed him that I will be leaving the company. I’m no longer capable of working for a company where having a conscience is considered a handicap, where employees and vendors are used up and then spit out. I’ve been blessed with friendships that I hope will last for years to come, but I can no longer physically have anything to do with the company. The corporate office can go fuck themselves as far as I care, the ladies in the east coast office… I’ll miss them deeply.

So where do I go from here? This should really be titled “Guess Who’s Back?” I’m going full force back into the world that I left so abruptly. There will be no begging for money, no bull shit internet dramas. I will be solidly working in the code/design world and am spending the evening, and the next few weeks getting myself back into the swing of things. Unfortunately the position I was previously in required the ability for me to retain as much information as humanly possible. With this, I’ve lost a lot of the key skills to be successful elsewhere. I’m doing everything I possibly can to get back into things and hope that with just a few weeks of a refresher course, and a lot of reading (HTML 5?) I’ll be able to get myself back into it with absolutely no problems at all.

This will not just be a personal domain, I will be working with sponsors and frequently updating for just about everything. Twitter will more than likely overload, projects are in the works (in my head) that have yet to be put on paper (err… Photoshop). I purchased a new laptop in September that I haven’t used more than twice. It’s fully loaded and capable of handling everything I could possibly need. I just need to get my hands on a copy of Microsoft Office Outlook. I’ve been using it for the past three years and the functionality really fits where I’m looking to go in reference to mailing lists, contact storage, calendar dates, etc. If there are two things that I picked up in the past few years it’s my love of Outlook and the ability to bite my tongue.

Obviously with my personality the ‘bite my tongue’ will go out the window the second I punch out for the last time. Thankfully I will be leaving on good terms with just about everyone, if there’s a big ‘ol fuck you coming out of my mouth it’s primarily targeted to the corporate office.

In any event, it’s going to be a few weeks but a new template is coming up (well, recycled old one that I was in love with) that will be compliant for whatever standard is the norm these days. Alternate sites (AGN Designs, Health Blog and other stuff in the works) will be popping up as well. I’ve got a lot of space just sitting here and little time to fill it up, but bet your ass I’ll get it done.

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New Toys

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Ok, so I’m blogging from my new HP Netbook and I have to say it’s proving to be a little bit more difficult than I thought it would. See, I’m used to having larger keypads and while the screen size is actually pretty decent for me, it’s going to take a little while to get used to the keyboard. While it’s a standard full-sized keyboard, for me it feels a little ultra small so once I’ve retrained myself, I think I’ll do pretty well.

I picked it up from Microcenter, it was $299 and with the $175 worth of gift certificates that I had to work with, it really didn’t cost me very much at all. Of course I picked up a few extra things being as we made a few changes in the house. We signed up for Optimum voice so we could get rid of our Verizon land line, considering the phone was hardly ever used there was really no point in spending $60 a month on a phone that only had unlimited local and long distance. The biggest issue was the fact that we had absolutely nothing else other than caller ID. With Optimum we get just about everything but we also wanted to clean things up in the house as well so we just purchased a new phone system where we have the main base in the living room with the router and the expansions in other areas of the house. There’s finally a phone in my bedroom again and while I don’t really need it, it’s good to have.

Sean was able to figure out that there is an intercom system with the phone, and Maureen was able to figure out that the phone had a spoken caller ID option as well. When we called the new phone line with our old phone line it clearly noted my fathers name after two rings and then his name also popped up on every single TV in the house (as is offered by Optimum voice). So essentially it was a major upgrade day for just about everyone in the house.

With the laptop I even picked up a cute little mouse to have for when I don’t feel like doing anything. Unfortunately I think it’s going to be too small as it’s about the size of a mouse you’d give a cat, for the sake of travel it will certainly get the job done and I think that’s all that matters.

In a few days I’m going to head over to CVS and pick up a side table for my bed. It’s one of those carts that you’d see in a hospital that you can pull right up to you. It’s only like $25 and it’s specifically for laptop usage. You can adjust the table top to different angles depending on how you feel c omfortable and a small section off to the side will stay flat so you can put your mouse there. I figure that since I’m going to be purchasing a larger bed soon and I’m going to have to downsize things a bit, I can’t afford to lose the ability to be comfortable when attempting to do homework so I’m going to make it a point to pick that up as soon as possible.

I didn’t even realize that it was WAY past my bedtime. Usually I’m asleep by midnight (at the latest) on Saturdays, being as it’s about 2am I think it’s safe to say it’s time for bed for me! I figure sometime over the course of the next few days I’ll take a picture of all the new toys. Not to mention the mouse, it’s smaller than the palm of my hand.  Overtime it’ll probably just be a mistake on my part but for the time being I’m 100% happy with everything.  So for now I’m going to head to bed but I’m going to experiment with the camera thing that’s on here first… haven’t figured out which program to boot that up with yet.

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I’m so addicted to….

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Restaurant City I typically hate Facebook, and to be honest with you I’m not really a fan of social networks in general.  I was very turned off by Myspace when that Mafia Wars thing started up, and even more turned off of Facebook when it launched there as well.  Now, however, I’ve found myself playing Restaurant City on a daily basis.  You basically start your own little hole in the wall and over time (and expense) you can make things bigger and better until you have a fancy high end 5-star kind of a restaurant.  Right now I’m about 300 points away from a level 8 which means I get another employee and I’m going to have to put in a bathroom because it needs to cater to the extra flow of people.

I currently have 12 tables, two chefs and two waiters.  When things get a busy I setup one of the waiters as a chef and then keep switching people out so that things can keep moving.  Eventually I’d like to have one of the restaurants on Gourmet Street.  I know it’s just a stupid goal but if it’ll give me any ounce of downtime when I can just zone out and do something mindless, why not?

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Ugh @ Saturday

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

So it’s Saturday and I’m stuck at work.  This is a common thing for me, and will continue to be until I’m lucky enough to find a better job where I’m just paid more hourly and don’t care to pick up the extra hours on the weekends to get by.  There’s a lot of crap to do but at the moment I needed some kind of a mental break from assigning the claims and making phone calls so of course I figure this would be one of the good chances for me to throw up a post being as I’m sure I won’t be able to do it over the course of the rest of the weekend.

I feel productive today and I’m really not sure why being as I’ve been relatively lazy.  I cleaned up the main hallway at the house because it was driving me crazy.  I did a little laundry and now I’m knocking out some claims at work and making some phone calls.  While I know that it’s more than most people do on Saturday afternoons… it still feels as though I really haven’t done enough.  Being as I’m going to be here for a while I think I’m going to have Sean and I do some grocery shopping tonight after I get home.  By the time we make it out to Pathmark it should be late enough where the store is pretty much ours for the taking.  So that’ll be a quick hundred bucks that goes out the window.  But I’ve managed to get things down to about $120 a week … reasonable considering I’m shopping for four people and 7 days worth of food.  Right?

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Close to losing it…

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I’m to a point in my life where nothing really matters.  I’m sick of how my life is going but I’m in the “Just Do It” state of mind because there are more important factors involved.  I hate my job but I do it because I have bills to pay and a dog to take care of.  I hate my living situation but I deal with it because I know that at some point in time it’s going to improve and I’ll be able to afford to just finally be out on my own and not have to worry about anything but making sure I can clear the Rent that month.

I don’t like the fact that just about everyone I know is off doing their own thing so I never get to see them anymore and I hate that there are people in my past that my mind can not stop thinking about even though I let go of them a few years ago.  Ever since I moved back up here I’ve felt as though my past is catching up to me and I just can’t seem to drop it.  It’s as though any unfinished business from 10+ years ago is on the verge of busting out unless I do something about it.

I had a dear friend in high school that one day just kind of walked away – for no real reason.  And based on how close we were it’s always confused me as to how the Jock Strap way of life was more important than someone who truly cared about you and visa-versa.  I never quite understood it, and it’s really beginning to bug me because there are so many markers in my life that trigger thoughts of this person and I just can not seem to get them out of my head.

I work with a guy who I went to school with and the two of them were friends.  He recently saw him and brought my name up and this guy was like “Oh yea, I haven’t seen her in years I should get in touch with her!”  The thing that bothers me about him saying that is the fact that he was so quick to walk away and now he’s interested in reconnecting.  Maybe I’m just looking into things too deeply but it bothers me to no end and I really don’t understand why.  How could you completely disregard someone’s existance even though you saw them every single day and then 6 years later feel as though it would be a fantastic idea to just pick up where things were left?  Would you not expect there to be a lot of questions involved in that? Mainly – “What could I have possibly done in the first place?”  Either way I’m going to make every effort in the world to avoid the situation.  It just baffles me to no end.

Considering I’m working a 10 hour shift tomarrow I think it’s time to head to bed.  I need to finish catching up on some text messages first.  I’m way behind on those – heh.  Thank god for a QWERTY keyboard and unlimited in network messaging haha.

Side Note – I received an email tonight that was really kind of strange.  But just to be a brat I’m going to answer it here.  FYI – Sean and I are still together, we live together, I just don’t update my website often enough to talk about him and he’s too busy working for 4 different people to really have the time to throw his personal life online as well.  So instead of coming to the conclusion that we broke up please ask before you make assumptions.  Kthnx.

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Still Kicking

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

I know I haven’t been around in a while, but knowing how the internet works I’m sure no one really gives a shit anyway.  Work is taking it’s toll on me so I don’t even have the time to check my email anymore.  I’m home early enough with nothing to do so I can finally sit down and at least update to let you (those who do actually care) know that I’m alive, I’m just too damn busy.

I have no drive for just about anything anymore, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing ’cause I’m out of the house all day and making some pretty decent money.  I’m enrolling in school with the next pay check so I really won’t be around to do much of anything when that happens.  I’m finally getting my Bachelors so I can find a job that pays a bit more in a field that I used to, at one point, enjoy very much.

I’m permanently living in New York, Sean and I are working hard at getting our own place so we’re no longer a burden on anyone, even though we pay our own way around here and for others as well.  Hopefully with a degree under my belt and all of the work that Sean’s been doing lately we’ll be able to get something nice and cozy just for us and Bella (of course).

On the animal front – Bella’s been doing OK but she’s got this horrible growth on her stomach that’s cause for concern.  It’s gotten much larger as we’ve been up here and right now it looks as though there’s a ball (a little larger than a golf ball) stuck under her skin on her stomach and it’s just kind of hanging there.  I’m pulling money together so I can have it removed.  It’s uncomfortable for her, and everyone can see that.  She isn’t as active as she once was and her appetite has gone out the window.  She can’t sit or lay down properly because it gets in the way so it’s certainly time to get rid of it completely.  I originally wanted to get it taken care of a few months ago but bills are very tight and it’s just not something that I can afford since the VET isn’t willing to work out any kind of payment arrangements.

Dad’s doing well, no sign of cancer thanks to his treatments.  My mother, on the other hand, it’s been pretty much up and down for her for the past few months.  She’s been pretty weak, and it’s been hard for her to get around so my sister’s over there a lot helping her out.  I would be if I wasn’t always at the office.

I don’t think I ever mentioned anything about this job since I started there – it’s been about five months since my start date.  I love the environment, can’t stand a few people, and have bumped heads a few times but that’s my personality.  I’m working with two absolutely wonderful ladies and I’ve spent a lot of time with one of them outside of work because she’s one of the coolest people in the world.

In any event, my 10 minutes online has certainly stretched a bit further than I would have liked it to.  I would like to update more often but I don’t have the ability to do it at work during any downtime and by the time I get home at night the only thing I’m looking to do is keep my head on a pillow until the following morning.  I have been able to check my email more often though so anyone still floating around feel free to drop a line (krissyville @ gmail.com)  let me know your new web addresses too – I haven’t kept my list updated in quite some time.  You can even comment with it, I have them all on moderate anyway.

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