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Killin’ Time…

Thursday, November 1st, 2012

I’m in the process of wrapping up another client, and the overwhelming feeling of “Finally!!!” has hit me.  It’s been an ongoing account, well over 40 total hours of work to complete and I just can’t wait to be done with it.  The problem now? Doing a full back-up from the testing server and then uploading everything to theirs.  When you’re lucky enough have a client that doesn’t believe in Cpanel it takes its toll on your internet connection because everything is being handled by FTP and Sequel Pro (SQL manager).  I’m downloading over 2,000 files to my computer (as we speak) and I’m now doing a back-up of their database via Sequel so I can begin pushing it on to their side.  I just hope that things don’t get all screwy when the database hits their side because it’s the last thing I want to deal with right now.

So now that everything is taken care of there I have a few options for my ‘next step’.  I can start cooking dinner so that my stomach shuts up, I can ignore my stomach and continue to surf the internet in hopes to gain some graphics inspiration being as I have 5 sites that require a complete overhaul.  I’m absolutely sick of the one here, the one on acidgloss.net needs to go, and the one on agndesigns.net is so unprofessional I want to just shut the site down until I can come up with something better.

I think the only thing that I’ve done graphically, that isn’t totally horrible, is the two new fanlistings I opened this past week.  I’ve created a fanlisting for Halestorm and In This Moment, two of my current favorite bands strictly because I’m into chicks rocking for a change.  It’s the exact same theme with different images but it works considering the context and that’s what matters.

I guess I’ll take the “Cook Dinner” route while the 2,000 files are uploading, lord knows that always seems to take longer.

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Can’t concentrate for shit…

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

Even though I’ve already put in 5 hours (on ONE damn site) today, I still feel like I haven’t accomplished ANYTHING.  I still have an urge to put in another 3 hours but it’s after 2:30am and all I want to do is go to sleep.  I’m not sure why I’m having trouble concentrating, I just keep getting this feeling like I need to be doing something else.  Typically “pay the bills” is on the back of my mind.  Today, however, it’s been “I feel the urge to Google random shit, just ’cause”.  It’s not even anything good.  Hell, someone posted on Facebook about how they have a random itch (down there) and can’t figure out what it is.  I, for some reason, spent a half hour researching it while over a PM with her.   What the hell is wrong with me?  Her oonie should be none of my concern, but she posted it on FB and it was a distraction for me so I veered off course.

I know that up to this point I’ve accomplished everything I’ve set out to do today.  I got another 10 or so pages completed on the eCommerce backend, the kitchen’s clean and the chicken was taken out of the freezer to thaw for tomorrows dinner.  I watched my Monday night shows, and spent some quality time with a very fidgety dog who’s terrified from the one crack of thunder we experienced with the random storm that passed through Delmarva this evening.  There’s really nothing left to do, my To-Do list is empty.  So why do I feel like I haven’t completed a damn thing?

On the home front things are OK. Karen’s having some post-surgery issues that we’re working on fixing.  It’s my hope that we can fix everything with over-the-counter based products before it turns into a trip to a specialist, but we’ll see where things stand on Wednesday morning and go from there.  I don’t want to venture over to Maryland but for the sake of her health we’ve got no choice. I don’t trust a single damn doctor in Delaware and if I need to cross state lines to get in with someone who actually knows what they’re doing… so be it.

I decided, this past weekend, that Comcast/Xfinity is the absolute worst company in the world (and I’m an Optimum/Cablevision hater too).  With the move to my new “office”, Sean went out and picked up a cable box from Comcast that was supposed to have been activated within an hour of getting off the phone with tech support.  Of course after four phone calls and constantly being told “wait another hour” (over the course of three days), I decided to take out my frustration on Twitter with a #comcastsucks hashtag, PLUS tagging with @comcast to prove my point.  I get a message from a Comcast employee offering to assist me and within 10 minutes of providing him with my account # and the serial number on the box in question – everything was fixed.  I still don’t understand how it was possible for him to fix something in a matter of minutes via Twitter when FOUR phone calls did absolutely nothing!  There was only ONE phone call that showed any level of being “productive” and that’s when they somehow conned Sean into signing up for a triple-play when we have absolutely no need or use for a home phone. We’re not getting any kind of an upgrade with channels, we’re only getting Encore for six months free.  Who the hell watches Encore? At least offer Showtime so I can watch Shameless in January for crying out loud!  It did wind up costing us like $25 less than we were set to pay, but the point is we didn’t call to alter the plan – we called for the damn box to work so I’m not sitting here in silence when I’m not in the mood for music.

I have found that my concentration level goes up with a TV in the background, mainly because I find TV to be so boring that I’d rather be in Dreamweaver.  That’s not even working for me though.  I’m extremely sound sensitive and wanting to just fly far far away and get away from it all.  I’m halfway tempted to head down to the beach since the storm is now off shore and I’m sure the surf on the Atlantic’s gone up quite a bit.

In any event… gonna try to knock out another hour and go to bed.  My major goals for tomorrow are to get some clothes folded, put in at least 6 hours and hopefully remember to watch “Extreme Cheapskates” on TLC because the show just looks that interesting.  Not to mention the fact that after NCIS (the original, fuck LA) there’s really nothing on TV accept the news.j

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Still kickin’….

Monday, August 27th, 2012

I’ve wanted to sit down and blog for quite some time now, but things have been so hectic I just haven’t been able to get around to it. I remember there was a time when I’d be logged into WordPress all day just to post whatever popped into my head, this is probably why I was able to reach my max of over 150 posts in one month. Times have definetly changed, real live has trumped internet ‘life’ ten fold.

We’re still in Delaware. It’s been confirmed that Karen does have lung cancer, and it’s a very rare type of cancer that isn’t smoking based. She’s been back and forth to Baltimore (John’s Hopkins) to discuss every aspect of treatment. She was told, before all tests were final, that she’d need a lower lobectabmy in order to remove the tumor. She was hoping to be able to have a wedge taken out so that there was no major surgery involved, but she was informed today that she’s going to need the full lower lobectamy which means that a little more than a quarter of her lung will actually be removed. The way they’re going to do it is with a “VATS” type of surgery, instead of having to open up her chest and bend/cut her ribs they’ll go in through three small incisions on her side and slice the lower lobe, corterize the bleed and after deflating the lung they can bring it out through the holes. This means it’s invasive, but not as invasive as the alternative PLUS there will be less of a recovery time on her part as well. They claim she’ll only be in the hospital for 3 days and from there they want her up and moving around right after to begin rebuilding her lung function. So it’s going to be a long road ahead, but essentially the tumor should be completely removed and she will need no further treatments with Kemo or Radiation so that’s the upside.

As far as Work is concerned, things have been absolutely crazy. I don’t like having to constantly complain about it, but there hasn’t really been a day where I can say that there wasn’t a stack of things to complete. Right now I’m working on a major family farm/orchard located on Long Island, and I’ve unfortunately had to put a few clients on the backburner – which is nothing I enjoy doing because I hate to prolong things for longer than they need to. There’s some unhappy people and I’m stretched so thin I can’t even cater to it. Absolutely horrible in the business sense, let me tell you.

On top of everything else going on, my back is still completely shot. I’ve had a few days where it was OK, but from there things have just been a downward spiral. Every morning I’m waking up with more pain than the day before, and no matter what I do to try to ease the pain, things just get worse. I’ve found that the only way to maintain any ounce of comfort is to lay down for 15 minute intervals throughout the course of the day, some days its more frequently than others. Right now I’m fighting through the pain just to get this entry written, the sheer act of sitting in an upright position is putting so much pressure onto my sciatic nerve that I don’t even know how I’m not crying in pain. Sean just ran out to pick up dinner so I’m going to continue fighting through it until I can shift to the bedroom with the laptop and hopefully be able to get things done before the 10am deadline.

My sleep schedule is still completely fucked up. There have been some days when I’ve been up and going around 9am, and other days where I’m unconcious until 6pm. The biggest issue is the fact that I can’t get a restful sleep, I’m constantly moving and having random instances of a shooting pain going down my leg that feels as though I’m being struck by lightening. I know it has to do with the sciatic nerve, but would really like to know why the nerve is acting up so much to begin with.

I’m assuming, to a degree, that the bed we’re sleeping in has something to do with it. It was given to Karen by a friend who was redoing their home and it’s obviously just a guest bed but we’ve turned it into ‘our bed’ based soley on how long we’ve been here (2 months as of 8/29). We are heading home at some point in the next week to pick up some warmer clothes, the computers and Bella. I think we’re staying for a few days just to get everything in order, but then we’re back down here for the surgery, and from there we’re not sure as to how long we’re staying. The biggest point is to just be prepared.

It hasn’t been ‘work work work’ the entire time… Sean and I have taken a liking to heading down to Cape Henlopen Park at night to go fishing. We’ve gone just about once a week, got our licenses for down here so we can pretty much go whenever we please. We bought some poles and have a little tackle box and we just head down there with our chairs and if we catch something – great – if not oh well. We’re there for the ability to just clear our heads for a little while, and there are so many stars in the sky you can’t help but relax. No major ambient lights messing with the view, everything is peaceful and calm.

In any event, Sean just walked in the door. I’m starving, and in more pain than I really need to be. I think I’m going to eat some food and head to the bedroom so I can get some work done.

Gonna be a long night.

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Whoopsie!

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

My back is finally starting to feel better.  I’m able to get around a bit more, and standing up isn’t as much of a chore as it’s been for the past few weeks.  There are still a few instances of where I step wrong and feel a twinge but I’m able to breath through it and keep moving.  So that gets one issue out of my way.  I figure it’s going to take a few more days before I’m 100%, but I’m on definitely on track!

As far as work is concerned, things have been completely off the fucking wall.  Emails coming in and out all day long – which is typical – but the rise in clients means I need to stay on top of things that much more.  On top of working for my own clients, I still have a standing contract with a design firm in Manhattan that’s been bringing in a lot of work for Sean and I over the course of the past few months.  I feel that this month has blown up to the point that my head is spinning.  I think I’ve worked on 4 major wordpress sites in the past week and all of them, somehow, got done.  There’s one left that I need to PSD->HTML and then wait on client approval, after that it’s going into WooCommerce, which is one if the biggest pains in the ass I’ve ever had to code for.  There aren’t enough tutorials to get me through but I do have a copy of one of their premium themes for the script that a client provided to me to edit to their liking and I’m referring back to it so I can figure out what template files handle what – this way everything runs seamlessly with their main theme.

I was completely surprised this past week when I received a notification from Sponsored Reviews saying that there was a pending advertiser looking for a post on krissy.nu, I almost instantly accepted and saw that I had a few days to complete the write-up so I pushed it aside to finish up more pressing matters and then completely forgot about it, like a moron I lost out on a $200 post ($400 sponsor – I get 50%).  So I’ll cut my losses there, and hope that something else comes through.  I did want to get back into sponsored posts because there was a time when I was earning over $3500 a month through all of the different sources – but those sources have since expired (minus a few) and it doesn’t really seem to be worth it anymore.  Unless I can get myself a position as a content writer somewhere, I’ll worry about it some other time.

So it’s creeping up on Independance Day and thankfully Sean and I will be down in Delaware for a much needed vacation.  I’m looking forward to seeing the fireworks, and need to figure out if we’re going via Trolly or driving down earlier in the day in hopes to get a parking space.  After that we’re hoping to hit up the beach, and spend a day in Maryland (both Ocean City AND Salisbury), maybe even head over to Assateague Beach to take a look at the wild horses everyones always raving about.  Basically the stuff we never really did while we actually LIVED in DE, heh.  I know we’re heading up to Dover for a day to get in some light shopping at Best Buy (gotta love tax free!) and then hopefully hitting up Dover Downs cause I’m itching to get into a Casino.  I do know that on the 9th we’re possibly heading to Baltimore with Sean’s mom cause she has things to take care of there and I’ve never been to Baltimore before so I’m looking forward to that too.

Before heading down there’s a lot to take care of.  I still have one site to completely code, and a PSD to start. I also need to pack and go through our toiletries bag to double check for what we do and don’t have prior to heading down. PLUS it’s the 29th so that means it’s my sisters birthday. I promised I’d take her out to do some shopping because I know how much she needs clothes but with the way my back has been feeling I haven’t been able to get up and round to do it. Plus with the overload of work that hasn’t really helped my productivity out of the house either – proof is on the bare shelves of the kitchen.   So at some point tomorrow (well… today after i wake up), I’ll be heading out to do some minor shopping for basically everything so there’s food in the house for while we’re gone, a bag of treats for my sister, two weeks (at least) worth of Dog Food so Bella doesn’t starve to death and whatever else I need to get us down to DE with no problems.  On top of that I believe Muir is coming over with her hubby so he can get the new fixtures up in our main bathroom so the shower is usable and we can stop using my dads. I’m not 100% on that though, I’m sure I’ll wake up to a text message telling me yay or nay heh.

We’re hoping to leave early on Saturday morning in hopes to beat the excessive traffic heading down to the beaches but we’ll have to see how that goes.  We’re planning on taking the parkway down to Cape May so we can take the ferry into Lewes and cut down on an hour and a half of driving time but we’ll have to see how that goes, we don’t even know when we’re leaving.  I wanted to leave about 3am tomorrow night (saturday morning) but now I think we’re waiting until early Sunday morning.  The actual day is up in the air but we know for sure that we’re leaving this weekend.

I just can’t wait to get out of here.

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UGH ALREADY!

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

The word HECTIC doesn’t even begin to describe the last couple of days. Not only am I still dealing with my back issues but I’m so overloaded with numerous different accounts that I can’t get ahead to save my life. I finished three tasks today but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what’s left to be done – and based on conversations there’s a lot more coming.

Sean and I were out all afternoon yesterday, and later on into the evening so we wound up being at least 7 hours behind on everything. We had a lunch meeting and then had some things to take care of at Microcenter that didn’t pan out too well, we wound up heading over to Best Buy to have the same result. The issue is, a lot more graphics heavy work is coming in and I’m going to be spending more time in Photoshop than I’d personally prefer – based on this I wanted to see if I can get financing for a Macbook Pro being as I’m pretty much stuck in bed and I really need the Mac power behind me to keep things moving. The only other option would be to figure out how to mount my iMac on the wall underneath the TV that’s already mounted (and too big for the room), being as that isn’t an option I went for the Macbook.

The reason for the rush, however, is due to the fact that Mac announced they are no longer making the MacBook Pro 17″ laptops. Knowing that there are only a few left on the shelves I figured it was time to get my hands on one before they’re gone. Upon applying for financing I was really upset with the amount that I was approved for as it didn’t even cover 50%. I made a few phone calls, and looked into things and was basically told that my credit has taken too many hits over the past few months and I absolutely will not be approved for anything until everything is paid down by at least 30%. This isn’t really possible considering the two heavy hits are 5-year auto loans – there’s no way to pay off 30% of those anytime soon.

The way around it would be to cut my credit cards down by 50%, which is actually 100% possible if people would pay Sean and I the money that we’re owed from past accounts. When going through all of our unpaid invoices and factoring in other things, we’re owed upwards of $10,000 right now. A single client is in the $3,500 range and he’s been dodging us for a year claiming he’s bankrupt. Yea well that still doesn’t stop you from using your fucking website every day – doesn’t it buddy?

The only upside to yesterday was the fact that we stopped at Staples on the way home and I picked up a new desk chair in hopes to have something comfortable to work in, instead of the other chair that really doesn’t offer any kind of support whatsoever. I originally thought that the guy gave us the wrong chair, after Sean put it together, but after looking into it and trying to remember all of the 100000 chairs I sat in before I found this one – I think it was actually the right one and it’s now sitting at my desk. I’m not.

I’m exhausted, in pain, and just fricken annoyed. The days keep moving, the work keeps piling up, and now I’m actually laying in bed with the laptop hooked up with the HDMI port to my TV just so I can lay flat to try to take some of the pressure off my back. It’s worked pretty well today but the issue now is the fact that my eyes are totally fucked because the text doesn’t generate quite the same way on the big screen as it does on my laptop. I’ve found that my eyes have crossed more times because of the TV than they ever have on the laptop/iMac before. I’ll fight through it though – I usually do.

It’s about 2:30am now, I know there’s at least another 4 hours to knock out before I can get some sleep. I was doing so well with getting back on track and waking up before 5:30 in the afternoon but now it’s just not happening. Gotta keep moving.

The saving grace for today was when Sean looked at me and told me that they only temporarily discontinued the 17″ Macbook because of the fact that they can’t do the retina display on that size monitor yet. They’re so anal about uniformity that they pulled it from the shelves until they could figure it out. I just don’t understand why they can still offer the 15″ without the retina display but pulled the 17″, you don’t always need to have two options for every size – the size alone is an option itself damn it! Hopefully within the next 2 years they’ll actually get the 17″ back on the shelves. For now, however, I’ll be completely wiping my laptop and installing Mac OSX on it to remove myself from Windows completely. I’m sick of booting this thing up every day and having another fucking security update to figure out. Maybe if Windows wasn’t such a piece of shit there wouldn’t be so many security flaws – duh?

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Well…this sucks.

Friday, May 25th, 2012

The past week has been absolute torture for me, and probably everyone around me.  I’m not sure what I did, or even how I did it but I’ve managed to completely throw my back out to a level that I’ve never experienced before.  I’ve always dealt with Sciatica so it’s no surprise to me if I feel a random twinge here and there, but the flare ups have always been the issue that I can’t seem to avoid, no matter what I do.  This past weekend was probably the worst of the worst, even getting up to get myself a glass of water is a half hour event due to the fact that walking is more painful than breathing.

I noticed the twinge on Saturday and figured “Ehh, Rain’s coming – I’m used to this happening”, but waking up on Sunday I was instantly hit with the feeling of “Oh shit, can I even get out of bed?” After a half hour of working on it I was finally able to, but since then things have just been beyond painful.   Standing up straight isn’t possible, I’ve been leaning to cater to the pain, which has sent my entire back and legs out of wack.  As I said, breathing isn’t easy either – especially if I’m laying down cause the pressure on my back is excruciating.  Sleeping isn’t working out too well either as I’m a stomach sleeper and turning onto my stomach is more effort than its worth so I’ve been sleeping flat on my back for the bulk of the week and I feel that’s making things worse.  It’s just too painful to roll over in order to attempt to get comfortable.

Sitting at my desk hasn’t been much of an option either, I’ve got a small laptop table for the bedroom that I’ve been using, and laying in bed while working is the only way to go at this point.  I’m about a week behind on EVERYTHING because I wasn’t even able to bring WORK into the equation until last night.  There are clients waiting (very patiently) for me to get things done, and I feel like a complete asshole for not being able to sit down long enough to do it before I break down in tears cause I moved my foot and sent a shooting pain straight up to my shoulder blades.

Last night I was able to knock out about 8 hours of work, but that wasn’t even a ‘catch up’, kind of thing.  There’s much, much more to be completed today and I’m hoping I’ll be able to sit down and knock everything out.  I would say “Thank goodness for Memorial Day weekend” but all of my clients are located overseas at the moment so that doesn’t even help me out in the long run.  It would be nice to sit down for three straight days to catch up on everything and hopefully I’ll be able to do it.

I feel bad that I can’t just get up and go, especially since the annual fireworks are going on in Sea Cliff this weekend.  I really would like to go, but the only way to get anywhere near there would be to park at Muir’s house and walk down and that’s a downhill climb that I can’t even think of accomplishing. I’m lucky I’ve made  it to the sidewalk of my own house to bring the dog out to pee.  To make things worse, I’ve been (somehow) getting to my Aunt’s every day for the past week to throw some food down for her cat as she’s in Myrtle Beach until Saturday and then going out east to spend a long Memorial Day weekend with her friends.  So regardless I’m stuck on the North Shore for this holiday weekend (again) anyway.

Sean was really helping me get around for the past week, like a trooper, but over the last few days we’ve noticed his foot has swelled up to at least 3 times the size and he’s having trouble moving around.  He thinks he stepped wrong, I personally don’t know where or when, but he’s hobbling along much slower than I am.  The two of us look like we should be walking into a hospital when you actually see us outside.  It’s to the point of being comical.

So yea, today’s agenda includes knocking out as much as humanly possible – which will be the theme for the entire weekend.  The only addition that I would like to hold off (but really can’t) is wiping this laptop completely and reinstalling Windows.  I don’t know what the hell happened to this thing but it’s slower than shit and random errors keep popping up.  Figure I’ve had it for about two years, and we all know Laptops under $1,200 can be considered disposable  – especially after two years of Photoshop constantly running.  It wouldn’t be such a big deal considering I have that massive 27-inch iMac on my desk but SITTING at my desk hasn’t been a possibility in almost a week so of course I can’t really count on that just yet.  So I’ll complete what I can, from bed, and then hopefully I can spend some of Monday getting this thing back to where it’s supposed to be – proper working condition.

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I’m right on top of that Rose!

Monday, April 30th, 2012

I wish life would slow the fuck down.   I’ve been meaning to jump on here for well over a week now but haven’t been able to.  The white board next to me is filled with “To-Do’s” and my inbox reflects everything that won’t fit on the damn board.  The option is to either turn things away or go out and purchase a larger board to work with.

I’m up to 8 different sites and I feel horrible that I’m not able to get everything done in the timely manor that it requires.  On top of everything I’ve got Muir working on AGn Designs to get the SEO to the highest it can possibly be so that holds the potential for bringing in even more work.   I’m ten seconds from ripping my hair out, which is in desperate need of a dye job because the grey has over run my entire face and needs to be covered up ASAP.  Is there time for that? Not really.

Today was one of those extremely productive days where I accomplished everything I’d set out to do, but absolutely none of that list was work related.  I took a drive out to Lowes and Home Depot to pick up tile, grout and everything else someone would need to complete a bathroom.  After 10 years I’ve basically said “enough is enough, I want my own shower again” and flat out told my father that I’m paying the bill and having Muir’s awesome husband come in and do all of the plumbing and tile work for me.  Originally I wanted to go with a tan/beige feel like you’d find in some 5 star hotel, but when going through Home Depot a case of mosaic tile really stood out for me and I couldn’t pass it up.  So, I’m going with a 12″x12″ white tile in the shower, with the blue/grey mosaic inlay which is not only pleasing to the eye, but matches the existing tile on the floor giving me some time before I need to worry about upgrading that.

The shower itself is not an upgrade, it was a complete tear down 10 years ago that was never put back together so we’ve been using the shower in my dads room for as long as I can remember. I’m sick of doing it and due to a near future schedule change for him, I’ll have to shower at 2am in order to not be disturbing anyone – while managing to disturb myself at the same time because I do NOT like going to sleep with wet hair.

So, at some point next weekend Muir, munchkin and hubby will be coming over bright and early. I’ll be in the living room putting Muir to work on whatever’s going on with AGn and hubby will be in the bathroom all day helping to give me my champagne-taste-on-rainwater-budget bathroom.  I honestly was really, really surprised with how much the cashier told me the total was when she was done ringing us up.  Cement board, grout, five cases of large tile, case of inlay tile, case of bullnose/trim tile, corner tile, tile adhesive, sponges, caulk and spacers, plus two soda’s (cause that shit was just heavy to lift and I was dying of thirst) was only $300.  Figure if I’d gone to a contractor he’d charge me $3500 at least to take care of the bathroom and wouldn’t even pull a permit because people suck like that (Thanks to Holmes on Homes [HGTV] I’m learning things!).  To top everything off the work is being done for free, I just needed supplies.  I’m just so over excited and can’t wait to just sit down in the tub and soak for a few hours.

When I got back to the house after my 6 hour shopping spree, we all wound up heading out for dinner cause I was running completely on coffee and a breath mint for a good 12 hours today.  Now we’re all pretty much comatose in the living room.  All I know is I have to put in at least 5 hours tonight, and then wake up bright and early for my usual daily visit from Muir and munchkin.

Time to crack the whip on myself and get movin.

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Almost missed it…

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Thank goodness I had to log into my namecheap reseller for a client today, I almost missed the renewal of krissy.nu.  I, thankfully, had everything I needed in Paypal today so a quick ‘add funds, renew now’ knocked that out.

I haven’t had much going on other than work which is the reason for the lack of updates for the past few days, I was doing really well with updating as frequently as possible (typically once a day) but the work load just hasn’t allowed for that.  It’s a lot harder balancing 10 clients at once than I thought it would be.  I feel that no matter how much effort I put into all of them, it seems I’m putting some on the back burner more frequently.

There have also been some issues with my email which has a lot to do with the fact that things aren’t being knocked out as quickly as they should be.  For some reason IMAP isn’t reading right into Thunderbird OR my phone and with that I’ve missed quite a few emails OR my emails aren’t even making it TO the client.  It drives me crazy because that’s a hit on my income when that happens because it seems like I’ve abandoned the project when I really haven’t.

Either way there’s quite a bit on my “to do” list for today.  Muir is over for her usual daily visit, the baby’s been a little cranky today so it’s been tough sitting down and getting everything done. On the upside, for her, I don’t have a lot for her to handle today other than a phone call and whatever is currently on the task manager that Sean’s been throwing work into.

For now I’ll get myself back into photoshop and start knocking things out.

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Absolutely Fricken Fantastic!

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

I woke up in a mood today.  There’s a few things going on around the house that are slowly beginning to take their toll on me and I had a moment this morning where I completely blew up and just couldn’t handle things anymore.  I called Muir and basically said “Get your ass over here, NOW!”.   She showed up, I got to talk things out and we then got everything setup outside so we could work outside for the remainder of the day.  We hung a few tarps up around the gazebo to block out the excess sunlight so the glare on the laptops was almost non existent, it definitely did the charm – that’s for sure.

She got a lot done out of her task manager, the big one was getting Dreamweaver setup on her MacBook.  After 40 minutes of transferring it to her off our in-house server and then installing it – we found that it wasn’t acting right.  Sean did a quick assessment of it and came to the conclusion that her hard drive is corrupt.  We thought of the numerous different ways that this could happen and settled on the diaper bag.  There’s a magnet on the front pocket and we think that the laptop may have gotten to close to it and now we need to work on fixing everything.  From there we also were able to figure out why her cellphone is so screwed up – magnet strikes again.

Needless to say, minus the fact that Sean, Muir and I enjoyed our time working today – when you include my morning bull shit and her laptop – it’s just absolutely fricken fantastic.

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Finally!

Monday, April 16th, 2012

So after knocking out a few mockups, Sean and I finally left the house to seal the deal on the sense of accomplishment.

We wound up hitting up Big Lots first.  While it was a somewhat successful shopping experience, I was extremely annoyed by a few of the employee’s as one in particular was going up and down the isles saying “All these people with carts need to know we’re fucking closing soon, I ain’t waiting around.”  Meanwhile, it was like 8pm, and they close at 9.  So instantly I thought “Kiss my fat ass”.  We finally make our way up to the register and spent $70 on I-have-no-idea-what.  It took a good 15 minutes to check out considering the same asshole with the mouth has made her way to the front to bull shit with the cashier about some fucking outfit she’s wearing NEXT WEEKEND to the club.  (Do people SERIOUSLY pick shit out the week before? Come on now!). 

We load up the car and then attempt to knock out our second ‘to-do’ – Dinner.  We were both starving and the usual same old shit just wasn’t going to cut it.  We wound up going to this place in Garden City called the Tin Alley Grill. I’d always driven past but NEVER went into it for some reason or another and decided tonight that I didn’t want the Texas Roadhouse or Bertucci’s.  I want something DIFFERENT.  You can imagine my surprise when I actually can say that I ENJOYED my dinner, something that doesn’t happen very often.  I picked up the grilled chicken caesar wrap and upgraded to the sweet potato fries and it goes without saying but I was definitely in heaven.

After our little dinner trip we took a ride over to Pathmark to finally get grocery shopping off of my ‘to-do’ list. $300 later…Sean’s in a mood cause we spent so much and I’m going through my internal list for the week trying to figure out what I’m cooking on what night to keep things moving.

We get home and unload everything from the car, which admittedly took quite a bit longer than anticipated but when you factor in the Big Lots shopping, plus Pathmark AND the stuff that I didn’t take out of the trunk from last weeks Home Depot adventure, the six to seven trips up the stairs (each) was kicking our asses.  And to any of you whom have been to my house, you know those stairs are a bitch – worse with packages that’s for damn sure.

So we’re unpacking everything and I’m trying to figure out how to play Tetris with the freezer (you know we all do it) and then a looser version of Tetris in the fridge.  I got to the point that I was so completely fucking frustrated that I said “Fuck this” and wound up cleaning the damn thing out anyway.  There was really nothing more that I could do other than that, honestly.

Upon unpacking everything we realized that we’re missing a bag and had to retrace our steps to figure out what the hell happened.  Originally we thought it was going to be in the car and just wedged under the seat, then it turned into check the porch cause we were dumping bags there.  Then we realized that the TWO things we went to Big Lots for (in the fricken first place) weren’t even there!  So tomorrow Sean or I are going to give them a call and ask if they have the bag that we left behind.  Considering the attitude of the cashier – I don’t count on that one happening.

So things are calming down, and after spending a good hour outside just to enjoy the cool breeze (since the house is boiling), I’m sitting down at the computer going through email and all I hear is “Psst, get down here quick”.  I head to the bedroom, Sean points to his new desktop and says “smell that”. I hesitated thinking it was a cruel “I farted HAHA” move, but it wasn’t.  It smelled of burning plastic and he’s like “Yea, I turned it on and then something flashed and now it doesn’t work anymore”.  He can’t even turn it on for the initial boot so who knows what happened.  He’s thinking power supply, I’m thinking it’s a kill switch because a power supply doesn’t randomly blow up after 2 weeks of use!  So that’s going to turn into a second phone call for the day.

So when you factor in work, shopping and dinner – my Sunday was as productive as my Saturday was supposed to be. Though, I probably should be exhausted being it’s 3am, but I guess my random two-part 12 hours of sleep has got me all wired up.

Thinking I’ll check on my Words with Friends to see how badly my one girlfriend is kicking my ass right now lol.

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Absolutely Beautiful!

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

I don’t know what happened last night, but even though it was no where near a productive day…I wound up crashing at like 9:30 while watching TV in the bedroom.  I woke up around 12, and then got back to sleep somewhere around 5am, then sleeping until about 1:30.  I don’t know what happened, how it happened, or why it happened. I wasn’t even tired when I went to lay down so I can say that my entire evening was completely fucked.

It was my goal yesterday to finally go grocery shopping, and get some cleaning done around the house.  Needless to say, due to freakishly long nap I took – none of it was accomplished.

Today I’m trying to do everything on overload.  I blew through all of my emails, I’m sitting in Photoshop to get a few mock-ups knocked out and hopefully will be able to clean up the bedroom AND go grocery shopping today. Thank God Pathmark is 24 hours, I don’t see that happening until much, much later this evening at the rate that everything else needs to be taken care of.

On the upside – it’s an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day outside.  It’s in the upper 70’s but there’s a nice enough breeze to keep it comfortable.  When I woke up today I made it a point to roll up my sleeves outside to hopefully remove this horrible case of farmer arm that I’ve been dealing with.  While I greatly appreciated the lack of a winter, and love that it got very warm much earlier than usual – I’m still an outdoor person regardless OF the weather at hand. So of course if it’s March and 80*F you’re going to make it a point to be outside as much as possible – even if its more so than usual.  With the heat came UV, and since it was technically “Winter”, I don’t exactly have tank tops at easy access so I went with T-shirts.  Due to this, my lower arms are to the point of making me look like I’ve been on a cruise ship for a month, but my upper arms are my true Irish side shining through.  So I’m making it a point to load up on the sun stop giving me the ability to NOT tan anymore and then bumped up the darkener on the are that’s in desperate need of some color.

Hopefully by the time it truly IS Summer, everything will have evened itself out.

In any event, time to get moving.  Lots to do and almost no time to do it.  If the darn roof was on the Gazebo I’d probably be outside working in Photoshop but you can’t see anything with the massive glare that the suns giving off right now. :hmph:

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Hi Saturday! I’ve waited for you all week!

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

I’m always excited for Saturday, even if I really don’t have anything planned. It’s by no means a ‘day of rest’ for me, but I’m happy when email slows down and I get the chance to sit down and close things up for the week.  This is one of the benefits to working with clients overseas, considering in some cases it’s already Sunday for them, and who wants to work on Sunday?

I’ll admit to getting a very, very late start today.  Last night we had our friend Colin over to hang out for a bit and we all spent quite a few hours playing Words with Friends on our phones (our newest addiction) so we wound up ending the night around 4am, and with some other issues going on around the house I didn’t actually get to sleep until about 5:30, so waking up around 1-ish really wasn’t much of a surprise to me.  Thankfully the dog wasn’t pawing at us to get out the door.  Upon finally realizing I was awake she did her usual “pounce on Mommy cause her eyes are open” morning routine.  So of course it was time to walk her while my coffee brewed and then sit down and relax outside with a cig to soak up the sun, that vitamin B really does help to wake you up – that’s for sure.

It’s in the low 70’s today which is surprising considering it was in the low 40’s when I went to sleep this morning.  Tomorrow’s going to be even warmer, and possibly over 80 on Monday so my only issue is trying to figure out how to get some cool air to my little corner of the living room so I don’t wind up shooting myself based on the heat coming off of the Mac AND the overall heat in the house. I don’t know if it’s the size of the screen or just iMac’s in general but if anyone else has the 27″ iMac and wonders why they’re sweating their ass off – know that you’re NOT alone by any means LOL.

So as I said, it’s time to clear things out for the week.  I’ll be in Photoshop for the next couple of hours but may wind up completing scratching that idea until later tonight because I really, really need to go grocery shopping.  We’re down to almost no food in the house, and even the leftovers are almost completely gone.  And I don’t know about you but when an Italian house hold has bare shelves – something is seriously wrong. LOL

I guess I’ll finish going through email so I can finish listing to the new Halestorm release and then get my butt in gear to get to the store.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

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Whew! I did it!

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

I was able to get the bulk of my list accomplished yesterday.  There’s still a lot to be done, but at least the heavy hitting was completed.  I still have a slew of emails to get to, and that can take upwards of an hour depending on how many require an immediate response.  I almost feel like I’m back at the appraisal office.  The only thing I really took away from that job was to follow up on things as soon as they come in.  It’s a little annoying when I have to actually wait on things as far as the other end is concerned, but I’ll continue to crank things out as quickly as possible to keep it moving.

Muir just left, if you notice she posted earlier today about Rodan + Fields.  She’ll be posting more often here, as well as on acidgloss.net about her life and the products.  I’ve mentioned before but we brought her on as a Lead Consultant for AGn Designs as well.  Things have been so hectic lately, plus she has a strong background with project management considering everything she’s got going on, so of course we thought she’d be a perfect fit for the AGn team.

In any event, time to change into some more comfy clothing and sit down for the rest of the night with my iPod and a buttload of work.

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Slow Down!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

So I was able to accomplish quite a bit yesterday, the bulk of the rush-client was completed, the rest will be completed in a few hours, so I’ll get that wrapped up today.  Then of course every single email I sent out over the past few weeks was finally responded to yesterday so that list is just way too long to wrap my head around right now.  I’m going down the line and doing everything that needs to be done, it’s just one of those really overwhelming situations.  I just keep telling myself that the bills are paid and keep pushing through it.

The Shameless marathon yesterday was eventful, I really – really like the show so I’m hoping the American version stays on for quite some time.  I haven’t watched the British version, I figure I’ll watch it on Netflix at some point just to keep myself busy but either way I enjoyed myself.  We still have one disc left to watch, I figured we’d look into that later today or this evening during some downtime.  Right now we’re both kind of on edge because we need to get everything done in such a short period of time.  I really just hope it’s not going to blow up in our faces…there’s so much that we’d like to accomplish over the next few months and the sense of urgency really just can’t die down right now.

So I’ve got my notebook ready, Billings is waiting for me to click the “Play” button so I can get back on the clock and hopefully today is just as productive as yesterday.

:crosses fingers:

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Hittin the fan!

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

So far things have been relatively productive today, I’ve gone through all of my email, drew up about five mock-ups and now I’m sitting here with a huge list of things to do beside me.  Sean and I are both in the living room this afternoon because we’re watching season 1 of “Shameless”.  It’s one of our newest addictions and unfortunately we were only able to watch it from the beginning of Season 2 on Showtime.  So since there are numerous questions that needed answers, we’re going to watch everything from the beginning so we can catch ourselves up.  By the time we’re in the mood to move forward we can watch Season 2 all over again, in anticipation for Season 3 (which they’ll be filming soon anyway).

Anyhoo… you’ll notice on the sidebar that Muir’s widget has been added to the blog pages, she’ll be posting here soon, so for now her link obviously goes to a dead page, but it’ll be active soon enough.  She just left here a little while ago, the little munchkin was fussy this afternoon but after a nice half hour nap on the couch, and a ten minute doze on auntie Krissy’s shoulder – it mellowed out quite a bit.

Dinner went very well last night.  The lamb tasted pretty good, my only complaint was the fact that I can’t – for the life of me – get the garlic smell off of my hands, no matter how hard I try. I’ve watched my hands constantly with numerous different variations of soaps and wives-tale tricks but nothings really worked.  I’m hoping within the next few days it just goes away naturally.  I can honestly say that the reason us Italians talk with our hands is nothing to do with a social tick, it’s children watching their grandparents constantly try to air out their hands.

So I’m looking over my list and there’s at least 15 tasks to complete (or at least put a dent in today).  Guess the next few hours are gonna be busy as hell.

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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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