Thursday Thirteen

Okie dokie – I am gonna try my hand at this Thursday Thirteen thing!!! LOL (suggestions for future additions will be greatly appreciated)

Thirteen places that I have visited

1. Pennsylvania = that’s the furthest away from my home that I have been. I have family in Lancaster and in Alexandria, VA. I love the history of Pennsylvania and I am hoping to be able to take my hubby and son back there someday!!!
2. Washington D.C. = I enjoyed DC too – sooo much to do!!! The Air and Space museum is amazing and all the monuments – I just love it!!!

3. Cheyenne, WY = I guess it was more than a visit – I lived there for a short period of time but we do go back to visit now and again!

4. Denver, CO = We have been a couple times. Once to go to an amusement park and again to see a Reba concert! Course – we drive thru it on our way to Cheyenne too!!! We want to go back – this time to see the Bass Pro Shop – is that too redneck – lmao!!!

5. Glenwood, CO = I love it there!!! It is fun!!! There is a little bar by the hot springs pool that we go and have an amazing prime rib dinner – really!!! Haven’t been in the pool tho – no one needs to see me in a bathing suit – lol

6. Ouray, CO = soooooooooo cute!!! I wanna go back to it! They call it “The Switzerland of the US” – it is small but it is fun!!! Box Spring Falls is so pretty and you can hike up to the top and feed the squirrels – it is fun!!!

7. Deadwood, SD = we did that this past summer! How fun! An old time gambling town where Wild Bill was shot and killed. Full of western history – it is cool! I would like to go back again sometime!

8. Laguna Beach, CA = we used to go there when we were kids! I loved that! We would go to “Hotel Laguna” and sit on the patio, eat and watch the sun set! Very cool memories from there!

9. Los Angeles, CA = I have been there a few times for Disneyland – does that count?

10. Tijuana, Mexico = what an experience that was – lmao!!! Bartering and watching your back – what could be better!!! I did have fun tho!!!

11. Beaver, UT – lmao – I really wouldn’t say that I visit there on purpose – but I have been there. We tend to stop there for gas everytime we go to Vegas.

12. Phoenix, AZ = I haven’t been there in years but I would go when I was in school – I think the last time I was there was for a Phantom of the Opera concert!

13. Las Vegas, NV = I go there at least once a year – but not for what a lot of people visit for! We go for 4 to 5 days in March to camp at the track and watch as many fast cars as humanly possible!!! NASCAR weekend in Vegas – I love it!!! (plus I get to visit with my bestest bud – it’s GREAT)!!!!

Earplugs!!!

Can I tell you that I just love my bestest bud in Vegas. I have known her since elementary school. We have always been there for each other and for that I am forever thankful! She has helped me thru a lot (whether she knows it or not) and she always makes me smile.

That leads me to this post! A week or so ago – I went on a rampage (well on MSN messenger – but still) about the dumb ass smacktard I work with. Come to find out – the twat is pregnant. I do not necessarily agree with her decision – she is 20, unable to support herself as she went and applied for food stamps and her boyfriend is unable to maintain a job. But the best part (yes – that is sarcasm) has become listening to her dumb ass on the phone – telling people her joyous news and explaining what she puked this morning and what it tasted like (I am not joking). I went off – I was so ready to jam a pen in my ear.

Fast forward to yesterday. I get a phone call from my hubby telling me that I have a package from Vegas. I was so excited! When I finally got home last nite and opened my package – I just died laughing! Inside this manila envelope were several little packages of - - - - - any guesses????? EARPLUGS!!! LMAO – it was so freakin funny!!! I poured them on the table and my hubby is standing there with this look like “why in the hell are earplugs so funny” on his face. I explained my ‘issue” at work and he just shook his head – the part he found funny was that we call her a smacktard. LOL!!!

Thank you my bud – you made my day!!!! I love ya girl!!!

Mondays

Ok ya'll - this is in response to my bestest friend's recent post on how much she enjoys Monday (yes that is sarcasm you note) - lol
You can check out her blog at Crazy Lady in Vegas

This is exactly how I look at most Mondays - lmao!!!

Kinda says it all doesn't it?????

Defining moments

Ever have a defining moment? I just did.

I am sure now, more than ever, that I completely hate my job and will step up efforts to find another one.

I am supposed to be doing insurance billing. I was originally hired to do phones on a couple days a week and help clean up insurance issues on the other days. Then I was moved to the front desk to check-in patients for a couple months and then finally into what I thought was to concentrate on cleaning up the outstanding claims that are on the system and deal with insurance companies. I have yet to be able to spend an entire day doing that. Instead, I end up answering the telephone 80% of my work days and on Tuesdays - I get the inexplicable joy of spending 3+ hours at check-out. Add to that - the total feeling that they are doing me a favor and the lack of respect and I am just fed up. HELL - The dumb twit I call "Smacktard" gets more respect and gets to f**k off all day without getting in trouble - what does that say?

Along with that - I have offered, on many occasions, to spend a couple hours on the weekends matching insurance vouchers to copies of claims so that we can weed out our claim drawer for what is truly outstanding. I have been repeatedly told no - we will find another way and that I don't need to be spending my weekend doing that. (translation = we don't want to pay you for that) All the while it is piling sky freakin high.

The defining moments:

1 - I walked thru the office to get a phone call to someone else and when I was walking back to my desk (and hearing the phone ring off the hook) - I watched several people (including my boss) ignore the f'ing thing. Oh hell no - if I have to answer the damn thing - so do they.

2 - One of the ladies here (who I really do love to pieces) - is taking home patient statements this weekend to fold them and stuff them into envelopes to mail out on Monday. UMMMMM - I thought that was a big fat no no.

And then add an increasing irritation with smacktard. She talks on the phone with personal calls more than she does her job. She sits at the desk on the other side of a wall from me and hums along with her music (therefore making my ears hurt and me want to jam something in them). Yes - I think I have several issues with this one - I will be the first to admit it. But it totally erks me that this 20 year old, never held an office job in her life, twat can come in late and not call to let them know, can talk endlessly on the phone to whomever she feels like bitching about her boyfriend to and no matter how many times someone says something - she still does it and to top it off - she walks around here like she is the top f'ing shit. I got news for the dumb ass - she is far, far from top shit.

Anyway you all - I have had my defining moments and am now going to surf the local paper online for job opportunities! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

I'm in a mood

Ok folks – I am gonna use my blog for what I originally started it for – just spilling my thoughts. Bare with me or find another blog to read – whatever works for you.

I haven’t been feeling myself lately and by lately – I mean over a year now. Some days are better than others and today is one of those days that I would like to crawl under a rock and disappear. I don’t know if it is exhaustion or depression – but I don’t like it.

Here are some of the things happening in my life – you decide.

A year ago now – my husband and I were having the worse time in our marriage. I had been lying about our finances, making him think things were peachy when they were far from it. I thought I was headed toward divorce. We have since worked through that and are stronger than ever before. But that is where I think this deep seeded feeling of nothing being right started.
Lately – it is much worse. Now I can still put on a happy face around my family and make it seem that I am happy and enjoying life. I can not seem to do that anywhere else and the times I am putting on that damn face are getting harder and harder. I used to have so much fun at work – now it is all I can do to make it through 8 hours without hurting someone or making a comment to get me fired. What the hell???
I am stuck in a mood I suppose. There are a lot of things on my mind lately and maybe this is all stress – hell, I was in a horrible stress situation a year ago too. Things on my mind range from the divorce my sister-in-law is going through to my son’s performance at school. The biggest thing on my mind lately is the fact that my husband hasn’t been feeling well for over two weeks. Now usually this isn’t a problem – we all get sick – right? But for some reason – this feels different. He has had this pain right under his breastbone – it isn’t a pain like you touch it and scream – it is more like an annoyance that isn’t going away. Now he thinks his abdomen is swollen on the right side. He actually called me at work the other day and had me make him a doctor’s appointment. This from a man who, well like most men, refuses to admit he needs a doctor. He has an appointment on Tuesday, unless this gets worse and then I will be calling the doctor and calling it whatever they need me to in order to get him in asap.

I don’t know you all – I really don’t. I can tell you that I am not PMS’ing – that was a week+ ago. I am sure that if I can ever get some sleep – that I will feel better – right? I do have an appointment for a check-up next month. That is an appointment I have put off for probably three years now but that is a whole other story.

**sigh** I guess I just needed to vent. Thanks for “listening”.

I am gonna jam something in my ear

OMG you all! I have had it.

Now - maybe it is because I am on the rag - who knows - but I am pissy beyond pissy today. My day starts with a commute full of people that I am not at all sure should be allowed behind the wheel of a vehicle. The best one this morning? This guy in a beat up pickup. I am driving behind him and he slows WWWWAAAAAYYYYY down in the school zone we are passing thru. I'm thinking "good for him - he's paying attention". That gets shot to pieces when we finish the school zone and he picks up speed on his way to the approaching yellow light. What does he do when it changes to red? Does he stop? HELL NO - why would you do that? It was red when he hit it and he continued right thru it. What a dumb ass. I truly think most of the town I live in needs a reality check and should have to pass their drivers ed classes again.

Anyway - I brush that off and continue to work. Today is Friday and our early release day! I am expecting the last of my couches to be delivered today. (that is a totally different story - long story short? purchased these couches at the beginning of July - just now getting the last of them - well *fingers crossed* we are).

I get to work and the first thing that happens is that I am hit with the worse cramps I have had in a long ass time. They are the kind that feel like someone has taken my uterus and twisted it like you would a drenched towel to remove the water from it. I am doubled over you all - and ready to cry. So I am sitting at my desk and keeping to myself.

Wellllll - what happens next? Smacktard comes to work. (For the full story on her - check for my previous post called "Words to Live By"). She is getting on my nerves more and more every freaking day. Today (again - on my period here people and not in the mood) - she comes to work, talks up the boss lady (and btw gets more respect from the boss then I do and I DO NOT understand that). After talking with the boss for a good deal of time - she comes over to the desk on the other side of the wall from me and jumps of the f'ing phone. Evidentally there is a wedding this weekend of one of her little friends and she has to coordinate the drinking and such. She is giggling and laughing and planning and generally making my ears hurt. So what do I do? I crank up my radio cuz I don't want to hear her dumb ass. Well - she gets louder. So - in the interest of keeping my job - I bite my tongue and start typing this blog. It is the only thing keeping me from going over there and bitch slapping her.

(((SIGH))) It is almost over --- right? And it is a holiday weekend - so that is a plus! (I'm trying to look at the positives here)