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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:12 GMT

Last night we went to Don's parents' house for dinner. God that place is so gross. And I know they're Italian, but dammit can they make something else besides watery unseasoned "sauce". And I don't consider it "sauce" when all they do is open a can of tomato sauce and add a bayleaf to it.

What pisses me off the most about them is that his father is always crying poverty. He said he didn't have any money to contribute to the wedding, but I can't believe that when he spends hundreds of dollars on his Civil War crap and has so many dvds covering every inch of the house that half of them are still in the original shrinkwrap. We were talking about the movie Sky High, I picked up the dvd he had laying on the floor of it and wanted to put it on the shelf, when what do I see but a second copy of the same movie. So I say to him " you know you have two copies of this right" and he answers "yeah, I got a great deal on the second one" What a fucking idiot!!!!

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:35:59 GMT

mmmmm girl scout cookies

updates

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:54:40 GMT

I knew I wouldn't post here every day :)

The convention was amazing, we had so much fun. We mostly bought only autographs this time. I need to start a binder with them until we move into a place that has sufficient wall space to hang them all up. We trying to scrape together the money to get the tickets for next year to keep our seats.

We are also going to Jumpcon in Boston in July. I've never been to a Jumpcon event before and I'm trying to find out how it's different from Creation cons. But the big deal there is that Edward James Olmos is comming!!!! And possible Mary McDonell!!!!!!

I might be leaving my office job in the near future. Don and I have been talking about us switching positions, him getting another job and me being at the store. I would actualy love it! I could sleep later and the store is pretty quiet until mid afternoon, it would give me time to work more on jewelry and try to sell it online. (Bellanut.etsy.com)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:23:09 GMT

Don drove me in to work today. Why? Because he will be picking me up from work and we are going strait to the hotel for the STAR TREK CONVENTION!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I'm a geek, what can I say? We're checking in a day early so we won't have to miss anything on Friday.

I made a uniform from myself but I don't love how it looks on me. I think it makes me look very wide in the shoulders and it makes my arms look huge. But I'll probably wear it anyway.

Pictures later

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:00:51 GMT

For some reason today I forgot to put my contacts in and went to work in my glasses. In two years that's never happened. I don't know why. I was in the car, halfway to work and I caught site of the edge of the frame in the corner of my eye and was like "ok....I still have my glasses on"

you know what....nobody has noticed. Just like nobody noticed when I cut or later died my hair LOL

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:52:49 GMT

Yesterday I had the interview for the higher position in my company. It would be going from assistant buyer to associate buyer, which aparently is skipping a step and a big leap for me. He didn't sound like he thought it was impossible for me, but I don't think he sounded too impressed. The only thing I can hope for, is the fact that I already work for the company and have been here for a while, holds a lot of weight. Plus I think that should a miracle occur and I do get this job that it would be a big pay bump.

I'm taking some money out of my money market today for a very good and useful purpose...conventions!!! Don and I want to got o Jumpcon in Boston. One ticket of the highest level gets both of us good seats, photos, autographs, food, and HOTEL. Plus it will be in the summer so Michael can mind the store. And the rest of the money will be held for the Secaucus con which is only like 3 weeks away!!!!!! I realy need to finish my uniform though

The cats are so spoiled

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:01:01 GMT

Last night was nice. On the way home from work I stopped at Wegmans and bought 2 trays of sushi rolls and I also got some of their sushi grade tuna (so expensive but so yummy). I was going to get some chocolate covered strawberries but they cost $2 each there. So I got some strawberries and some chocolate and made them myself. (I dipped them half in white chocolate and half in dark chocolate)

We had a sushi set we got last Christmas that I finaly used. I arranged all the sushi on it realy pretty. While I was cutting up the tuna, there was some that was not as nice, so I gave it to the cats. They didn't touch it the spoiled little brats.

Well, Don came home and he did very well. We agreed to exchange gifts before the con, but the good boy still came home with flowers and a big teddy bear. When we sat down to eat, and Bellatirx was meowing and being a little pain in the butt so I pulled out another chair and she hopped up onto it, and just sat there while we were eating. The little brat just wanted to sit at the table!

found goodies

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:30:07 GMT

We are going to a convention in three weeks. Before the last con, I made for Don three uniforms, the vest Picard wears in First Contact, the regular grey shoulder uniform, and a captain's white dress uniform. And I do think they came out pretty well for someone who never sewed before. I never got a chance to make myself any descent uniforms for that con and ended up wearing a trek tshirt. Well a few weeks ago I decided I was going to try to make for myself a uniform or two. We went to the fabric store on a rare day off together, but couldn't find the right fabric so I kind of gave up on the idea.

Well last night I was cleaning and I found this huge bag from the fabric store and inside was enough fabric to make myself the grey shoulder uniform and the dress uniform!!!! I don't realy remember buying it, but it must have been a while ago. So now I have three weeks to make myself two uniforms. Hopefully I can talk Don into closing the store a few extra nights this week so I actualy have time to make them. I know I'm going to need some new black pants though. The ones I wear to work won't work for the uniforms

Talk about rude behavior...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:50:12 GMT

We had a vendor bring us lunch today. YAY for free lunch. My bitch coworker always takes her lunch in some empty room by herself. But today when this vendor brought lunch, she walks over, picks up a sandwich, grabs her book and walks out and dissapears for half an hour. She doesn't say anything to anyone, doesn't say thank you to the vendor, NOTHING. After the vendor left we were all talking about how rude she was to him. She didn't even say thank you to the guy for buying lunch.

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:51:38 GMT

Ahhh Valentine's Day....I used to hate it but I'm not single anymore lol. Don and I are going to exchange presents not tonight, but the day before the convention since we've already booked the hotel for the extra night anywya. But tonight I do have something planned. It's not too much but I'm not going to go into detail until tomorrow in case Don happens to read this.

the only people that bitch about how Valentine's day is a corporate Hallmark holiday and all that other bullshit are single people.

Kitties get a new toy

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:00:00 GMT

The kitties got a new toy today

this thing was only $17 at Walmart. It is great. Of course the only way I could get the cats to go near it was to sprinkle some catnip and put some treats in it.

Bellatrix was the first to approach....

Peanut soon was brave enough to explore this new strange thing.....

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:18:31 GMT

I got an interview for that other position and I told my buyer that I was going for it. He was upset but thinks that it is a good move for me. After all I do have a college degree, and I can't be an assistant forever. Should a miracle occur and I do get offered the job, I realy would hope that it would be a significant pay increase. It would be a much harder job with a lot more responsibilites, and I would have to work a lot more hours. The extra hours don't bother me as long as I get more money. We realy need to get a new place, and I realy want to have kids in the near future.

There's also another Convention that we are getting tickets to. It's in Boston, and there are a lot of guests comming, Nichelle Nichols, Robert Picardo, Robert Beltran, Ronald Moore (Battlestar), Ellen Muth (Dead like Me) and about a dozen other people. It's looking to be pretty cheap too. For both of us, for premium seats, autographs and pictures from every guest, all meals, and even the hotel, the ticket will cost $750. Not bad at all. Especialy since that's probably what we paid for tickets alone for the March convnention

Speaking of the March convention, it's getting close!!!!!!!!! WOOOO!!!!!!

icons

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:56:21 GMT

Renaisance Man

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Q2

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hair cut

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:31:24 GMT

Saturday I got my hair cut. I had a lot cut off. It went from almost to my butt to this

Th hubby is mad, he loved it long. But he didn't have to put up with the pain-in-the-ass-ness of long hair

we also opened up one of our Rock Band bundles. Oh dear god that game is fun

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Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:35:14 GMT

Lineage
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Prophecy

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:15:01 GMT

I don't know if I want to go out for lunch. I'm hungry, but I don't know if I want to go up and down all those stairs to get to the car.......

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:37:22 GMT

Barge of the Dead

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:30:41 GMT

icons from Author Author

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The fun continues...

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:05:33 GMT

This woman at work is realy out to get me. I was just told about all the email she's been sending about me. This woman needs a life. Aparently she's been complaining that I don't take the orders off the fax machine quick enough.

sleepy

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:10:53 GMT

Geez, I'm so sleepy. I get up either 5:30 and 6:30 depending what day of the week it is for work. Today I got up at 5:30...well 5:15. I don't know why it's so hard on my, I'm so not a morning person. I wake up feeling just as tired as when I went to bed. And I don't go to bed late, I'm in bed the latest by 10:30. But in the morning I can barely keep my eyes open while I'm driving. I try not to drink coffee too much because of my blood pressure, but sometimes I have a big cup. But right now it's taking all I have to not pass out on my desk. All I can think about doing is going home and sleeping.

Feeling creative part deux

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:26:02 GMT

Homestead icons

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Feeling creative

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:37:35 GMT

Lately I've been having the urge to do something creative so I made some icons.

My eventual plan is to go through and make icons from every episode on Trekcore.com (god bless that site)

so here are the Endgame icons.

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Record Day

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:17:08 GMT

I gave hubby the day off from the store seeing how it's the superbowl today. Well since it is the superbowl today I figured the store would be dead. But today has been a record day today with over $700 in sales! So maybe we'll be alright after all

That damn cat

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:20:49 GMT

I put in for that job, we'll see what happens. I'm fully expecting them to tell me I don't have enough experience and leave it at that. but after 2 years in this company and no chance of getting out anytime soon, I guess it can't hurt to try to move up here.

My cat is in heat again. The problem is, in October we got her spayed. We payed over $400 for it and she's still going into heat. We called the vet and he insists that he "got everything out" and that there is no way she could be in heat. Well I've had that cat for 5 years and I know what it's like when she goes into heat. The trouble with her is that when she gets in the carrier she gets so scared that she doesn't do anything, she doesn't move or make a noise. In fact the vet had her for 2 whole days when she was spayed and he said in that time she was so scared she didn't eat, drink or even use the litterbox. (that might explain why when we picked her up she peed in the carier as soon as we got out of the vet's office)

Should I?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:02:21 GMT

By the time clock at work there is usualy a list of job openings in the company. Well there is an opening in the building next door for an Associate Buyer. I think that's a step between where I am now and a full buyer. And it's in non-perishable goods so that's easier to deal with. I'm thinking about persuing it. If I get it, it will mean becomming a salaried employee which means more money, and more vacation time. The only trouble is that it will mean probably more hours, including checking things from home in the evenings and on weekends.

I'm going to call and send them my resume. With my luck I'll never even be called in for an interview.