Well...

Things are going better for me, in a way. I'm not exhausted after work, due to this diet mix I put in my drinks (lot of energy boost). I think I've trim slightly, I don't own a scale nor do I care to, I try to judge visually. I got an nagging notion that I'll win during the McD monopoly thing so I have been eating McD for a while now (and the weight continues to decrease...I think) Mainly, I keep to my 2 sure-fire secrets to stop weight gain: don't eat 4 hours before bed, and no pop/soda. And if I'm droppin weight while eating McD then I'm a little afraid to think how fast I'd lost it if I were eating healthy. Anyway, I have energy to fix up my room and living condition; in addition to fixin up the house for the party...and plan a Mordheim game,...and make up characters for Chuckles' game. I've pretty much severed the link between me and the new girl. If she isn't willing to even attempt to hang out then why the effort. If she wants to, she'll call and then we'll go from there, but as much as I've said I'm done, I mean it this time and I feel better about it. I have a lot of shows and movies to catch up on, not mention games, so much so that I am beginning to hate season premiers and just want my shows to end so that I have time. Oh well...

The future of T

So, I had a lot of things going on and I'm doing absolutely none of them. The annual Halloween party is coming up. Unfortunately, it is on the 24th, a day that just about everyone I have spoken with has made other plans for. I tried my best to swing the 17th but no go. One of my roommates had been telling everyone he invited that it would be on the 24th, this was before we had a house meeting on the topic of date. So, since he invite like 50-some people, and he doesn't want to re-notify them all that he screwed up, I'm stuck with maybe 5 of the 20 or so I asked to come. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that whomever could make it is going to, but there is another bump in this issue that I haven't gotten to. The other reason I didn't want the 24th is because I'm on-call that whole weekend. Yup, on the night of festivities I am limited to only 2 drinks; thanks responsibility. Thing is, is that I can't change it. Robin specifically didn't want on-call that weekend and my boss is going to her husbands office party that night so I'm stuck with it. Granted, odds that I'll be called anytime after 11pm are astronomically unlikely, basically because anything that comes up that late at night can most defiantly be handled in the morning. But still, I have to go easy for the whole night; no drinking games, no chatting up people because when I'm not drunk I really don't want you to talk to me all night, and no drunk sex (which is probably a blessing with this crowd).

On to the update, I'm still not really moved in, sort of. I sleep on the floor (which is actually quite comfortable, I really like it). My room is like a cluster bomb explosion. The biggest problem is the kitchen; this quite possible the most horribly put together kitchen ever. Aside from glasses, plates, and bowls; everything else is just thrown into drawers, cabinets, and pantries with no rhyme or reason. I can't even be in there. I can feel how dis-organized it is. Makes my skin crawl. Which means that I'm gonna have to fix it. I least I put a stop to the nagging, well, JoeJoe's nagging anyway. This house is crowded though. It is difficult. One of my roommates was gone for like 5 days, and it was prefect. Tonight is a massive fix though. I was waiting for some stuff to arrive before I really put the shit together, and although it isn't all here yet, enough of it is.

This entier weekend is filled with wedding stuff. Its cool but sucks also; I have almost no time to relax and catch up on stuff. We'll see how it goes.

200th post

Yeah, so it is my 200th post. And I have some news to spill. I AM MOVED. After nearly 2 months of squabble; rearranging deadlines; going from having a place to move to, to having nowhere to move to, to having 5 offers for temporary moving, to back to a place to move to in a matter of mins; the snail pace with 2 broken legs progression of moving; being overweight and having to take a fat man break for every 15 mins of moving; to being much healthier and stronger due to doing it all myself; to bad scheduling conflicts to help me move; cleaning everything once it was moved so that I can start my living in a dust free/dander free/cat fur free environment; from losing 4 close friends to gaining 4 (5 on the weekends) roommates; from having no phone, to having a phone number but no device to call out with, to breaking down and getting a cell phone (more on that later); to being unbelievably angry and pissed that all I could do was to sit and fume, to being completely defused when I get a phone call from someone who I didn't think had that much of an affect on me... ... ...in short (too late) it has been hell for my calm. But everything is settling, I didn't blow up once at anybody, I vented and vented. I pushed up my sleeves and did my work...I did call in sick once for a mental break, though. But I feel good, look better than I did a few weeks ago, got a complete handle on the finances (hopefully a way to break it down even quicker regardless of future job or retention) and am slowing beginning to not hate EVERYTHING. The 4 friends are the 3 cats and I was sad to hear that Tipper has left us as well, for 4. I don't miss my cat very much but I do miss Mep (Vega). She would want to sleep in which ever room I was was presently in. She would meow at everything. Mercury would just pay attention to me when there was no one else to pay attention to her. Not my cup of tea. And Jasper, ...in the end he liked me, or more liked having me around. Add when I came by the apartment after the move I did get the 'your back' attention. But he and I weren't really friends. We were roommates. He'll be better off staying with his friends. Breaking up the cat trio didn't seem right. And as soon as one becomes available...I'm getting a Wii. The PS3 will follow shortly, few months. And some good news that turned back into bad news. I bought an Xbox, my boycott was lifted from the Xbox since Microsoft is making virtually no money on it anymore but it remains on the Xbox 360, and finally got to play Fable...loved it. Good news, I didn't want to buy the Xbox 360 just to play Dead Rising, wicked awesome zombie game, well now I don't have to since it will be available on the Wii shortly; bad news, Fable 2 will be coming out on the Xbox 360. I'm exhausted. I will call all of those I have numbers for to give my own number to but I need to not worry about that and be in a better mood right now. Probably the weekend since weekends are free minutes.

Yay for events

Not much to report. I paid off one card. The last one will be a bitch, though. And still plugging away at that student loan. But the move is coming up next week and events before and during. Melting Pot (ladies night), Birthday, Concert, Pirate Cruise (after move), Graduation Party, and another Concert. It will be the last week of August by the time all that is over...busy month.

I'm still trying to convince my new landlord that I need a house phone since I will be On-Call for the reminder I am employed at my current position.

As always I am dining into many-a-movie via Netflix. I recently saw Lost Boys 2...yeah. The Corey's were back in this one and it may lead to a final third film. Probably not, though. See, Feldman was in the film. Haim had a bit part after the credits. Apparently, the Frog Brothers are broken up since one is turned to a vampire and Haim was also turned. The end of the film is the Corey's going head to head. Cool nostalgia moment. But their were alternates endings involving Haim trying to recruit Feldman because another Vampire Leader (the other Frog brother) is coming. For a sequel of a 80's film, it did rather well.

Films: Harry Potter trailer in front of Mummy 3 (that is probably the only really good thing about Mummy 3)

X-Files blows chunks

Journey to the Center of the Earth (3D) was kind of fun. The 3D really warps your vision when you leave the theater. It was weird driving home.

Paper, paper, everywhere and not a shred bin in sight

Well, it is almost vacation time. Starting tomorrow I won't have to come to work for 4 days. I say tomorrow because I'm on call til Midnight tonight. Absolutely no progress on the packing, but there is some progress on restructuring my life some. I also got notice that I might not be getting fired. The plan is still going down as usual but they might want me to stay on as a Manager/Supervisor for the new records department they want to establish (we haven't had a records 'department' in 10 years). Question is, do I get my retention bonus. I am looking forward to that as a way out of credit card debt, but then again, a new fancy job would help too.

News; the girl I'm kinda into is being deployed in November, minimum of a year. I haven't really asked her out so at the moment we are just hanging out. And since we are hanging out she mentioned that while she is deployed, she might be deployed with her ex, and if that happens, then she is pretty certain she won't be able to not slip up...something about bedroom magic. sigh.

I finally saw Batman. It was as good as I expected in some parts and better in others. The movie really is a great film. I loved the transition of the characters. Not all fantastic like the comics or shows, but a lot more realism. Really made you feel like you were a part of the film. Good stuff.

Well...

Well, moving has been postponed for a month-ish. What is nice is that I get more time to pack, which I like. I hate packing in a hurry. Plans are still the same overall just a small delay, and an adjustment to vacation days. I decided to keep 2 for next week, cause I need a vacation. And then I'm pumpin' more into the pirate weekend and make that my big move as well. So, mid-August is the move.

No current progress with the girl.

I'll be seeing Dark Knight this weekend (with or without her) at the Imax. "Its gonna be TITS!!!" (exaggerating some form of gang signature) I kinda binged last night on some junk food. I went on-call for the first time and sure enough had a situation that wasn't easy (by criteria standards). I don't know, I think I'm just glad it is the weekend. Not because I don't have to work, but because my life seems to be going back to normal; like, I got a lot done and now I can relax. I will be playing Pirates of the Caribbean Online a-plenty. Yes, I did join another MMO. But this one isn't nearly as addictive; either that or I've kicked my addiction. I played the hell out of the Wii recently; I was house sitting. I cranked out Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil 4, Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. All of them kicked major ass. Res 4 is always good but very difficult on the Wii. Umbrella Chronicles was way awesome and gets hard real fast. DAH has plenty of innuendos and is real fun; again weird controls. And Metroid 3 was the best; ingenious control scheme and hard.

Well, I'm done for the day. Check out the post before this one if you're a Joss Whedon fan or a fan of: Buffy, Angel, Firefly, The Guild web series, Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH, or cheesy musicals.

... ...the hammer is my penis... ...

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Ring-a-ding-ding bitches

So I finally have a cell phone... ...ha, gotcha. I have a work cell phone. I am finally trusted enough to be put on-call. I unfortunately share the cell with my co-worker, my red-breasted friend. Basically, we each have a week on-call and I am finally put into rotation. I'm a little nervous about my first off hours call. Beauty part is that for every hour I'm scheduled to be on-call, I get a buck. And if I ever have to come in for something, during off hours, it is an automatic 2 hours pay even if I am here for 5 mins. I've been waiting for this for a while. Yay cell phone. Its a crap little thing and my crap-hole of a co-worker forgot the charger, so I'm stuck with the car charger only. For those not-in-the-know I do not live out of my car like some people (menacing glare at red-breasts).