no....i didn't die...i didn't lose internet service...i wasn't too busy......I WAS JUST TOO LAZY TO POST!

maybe i'll have lots to post when i get back from LAS VEGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

going to Las Vegas for the weekend to celebrate my friend Laura's 30th BIRTHDAY!!

woo hoo!

*grin*
posted by voodoolady 9:24 AM

So, I'm still SO busy in my NEW job! :) I LOVE IT! I'm getting things arranged and ordering stuff...it's fun. :) My ears are STILL messed up from the strep I had...isn't that interesting...but i still feel a whole lot better...

I saw STOMP last Saturday with Tim, Laura, Ave & Diane for Diane's brithday and I had so MUCH fun...and the show was great too! ;) I have always wanted to see STOMP!

ooh!! I almost forgot...I bought a Palm Pilot today...hehe....I really plan to get a lot of use out of it...we'll see...i'll keep you posted..

So...if I hadn't told you already...i work in the wonderful world of Technical Support. Not only do I have one Tech job...I have TWO! One at a local University and one at a local Internet Service Provider. The job at the ISP is a doosy. I get so many crazy calls. For example: right now I am talking to this lady (yeah right now..yeah, don't worry...i'm listening to her...SURE)..well she's talking to me...she can't send e-mail...she says that she in the mail program reads me the error...i tell her to click on Tools and then accounts...she says i don't have accounts...i ask her to read me what options she does have and it turns out she's in Microsoft Word...WELL NO WONDER YOU CAN SEND MAIL LADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe

People are great....
posted by voodoolady 9:10 PM

So...I'm in my NEW office...me likey! :)

Tim and I just bought our vacation package for LAS VEGAS!!! woo hoo! We are going to celebrate our friend Laura's 30th birthday...but also my birthday which is just a couple days before...and some other peoples' birthdays.. :) SO Exciting! We got the tickets and such a couple days ago! Woo Hoo!

hmm..what else is happening in my life? i'm such a boring person.....hmm..Oh..I am just getting over a horrible cold...today is the 10th day of my strep throat & ear infection in both ears! grrr....I haven't been this sick since I was in High School......and I had forgotten how bad it actually is...um..yeah..of course I got this cold a couple days after I cancelled my health insurance..waiting for the school's health insurance to kick in....just my luck....this is ridiculous! ;)

welp...i guess that's it for now...
posted by voodoolady 10:42 AM

Wow! The Holidays are over....was there really a holiday? It didn't feel like the holiday season at all....and New Year's Eve REALLY didn't feel like New Year's Eve. It definately must have been this CrAzY weather that we have been having. heeyeah :)

Meanwhile..on the work front....I got promoted! WOO HOO! :) Yep...you are now officially reading the writings of a bonafied State Employee...full benefits, etc...woo hoo! yippee! Unfortunately, it is because one of my good friends is moving to HOT-Lanta, so i'm getting her position...but it'll be okay.

*sigh*
posted by voodoolady 2:50 PM

yeah...i can't help it...tis the season for not wanting to do anything...but i'm gonna try to jump back on this crazy train and get to a regular schedule again...mmmm hmm.

so, as i was trying to say in my last post, MY LIFE HAS BEEN VERY EVENTFUL the past few months! At first I was thinking that i was gonna apply for another job...after much fretting about the possibility of leaving my current job I decided that I was gonna do it......then i got an interview.....i freaked out...ended up realizing that a new job was not what i was in need of after all...i called to withdraw my application and was offered the job...

offered the job?!?!?!?!?!....hmmm...now...i'm sure that if my life depended on getting the job i would have been turned down...that's just how things go in the game of life. so, i didn't take the job...why? you say...because i decided to withdraw........did you not get that memo? come on people...step up to the pace.....and then you make that face of confusion, cock your head to the side and scratch it......and then you say WHY? again....just because...can't a girl just decide she doesn't want something and then that be then end of it....why must every life changing thing i do be questioned by almost EVERYONE? don't ya know that people get tired of having to explain themselves over and over...yeah, you know me...i love to give long drawn out explanations for things, but it does wear me out...after about 3 people..I'M POOPED! ...i feel bad not explaining to everyone on this damn planet...but GEEZE....cut me some slack...

well...that's all over now....just thought that i'd get that out of my system ONE LAST TIME.....

meanwhile, i've had some real personal stresses in my life and i'm managing to get things worked out....i think that things are on the up and up 8) ....and just in time for the holidays too...but WAIT!! I almost forgot to tell you about Lucy and Tim (you know, my husband and my dog)....

hehe...well...this past sunday, my highly intelligent husband decided that playtime with the dog was gonna be on the couch.....lying on his back....need i say more?

...well anyway....as usual, she ran to him with the knotted rope to play tug...naturally, like most people do, Tim decided that he would lay down and play. within about 1 minute he realized why most people, who decide to play a vicious game of tug-o-war with their crazy puppies, do not play while laying down.....they started off tug, tug, tugging away...and then he got it from her...lifted the rope above his head...and said "now what are ya gonna do?" hmm..lemme think...what would you do if you were a puppy? umm..well...she lunged for it..yep! jumped right up and she got it all right....right before she landed on his face...slicing his eyelid from corner to corner...yep yep...it was a real beaut! (yeah..you're thinking "she's evil"..laughing at her husband in pain like that...hehe...well, i'm laughing now, but i sure was scared as hell and upset at the time)...besides he's okay now...i insisted that he goto the doctor, but being the doctor-phobe man that he is, he maintained that she did not get his eye..and that he would be fine....(of course i didn't stop pestering him, but he never went)...he is healing now...and he's lookin' a lot better!! :)

I hope this tides you over for a bit...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
posted by voodoolady 4:17 PM

i give up...i just typed a long entry and my browser locked up and i lost it all...DAMN IT, DAMN IT!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

no..i haven't died...sorry for the lack of updating...in my deleted blog i went on and on teliing you all about what has been going on in my life that has kept me from updating in about a MONTH!!

sorry...but I can't type it all again...til I'm over my anger and frustration at my computer...

Have a GREAT THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hiss*
posted by voodoolady 6:39 PM

So, I got the new David Gray album and the new Tori Amos album...and I guess when I say I "got" them I mean I downloaded them on mp3...at WORK...since that's what we have this great internet connection at work for, right? hehe...well, most people would argue against that...but hey! it's there, so I'm gonna use it! 8o)

I figure that I'm never going to live down my reputation as the "download queen" so I might as well take advantage of my title and download, download, & download some more. Since some of you may not know, about a year ago this month...I think..I, along with many other people in IT, was downloading mp3's. But this ONE day, unfortuantely, I decided to download a movie or 2. hehe *grin* Not knowing that we actually had NO kind of cap on the amount of bandwidth we could use up. I went and got the program Morpheus, and started downloading 2 movies...and wouldn't it just figure..that was the very same day that the network administrators decided to check out who was using the bandwidth up and what for...hehe....wouldn't you know..I WAS # 1 and using the program that they always watch for! hehe....My boss was freaking out, wanting to catch whoever it was..blah blah blah...he was SO mad...fortunately, once he figured it was me, he calmed down a little bit..and then gave me that "I'm so disappointed in you" look and then went to his office. I got punished only with the embarassment of everyone in my department knowing and was only on his shit list for a couple months.. :) The funny thing is...I was only #1 or even in the top 20 list that ONE hour that they decided to look at the bandwidth hogs. ONE hour......ONE hour......Everytime bandwidth comes up in an IT meeting the network administrator looks at me like "you know what I'm talking about"...hehe....*lip quiver*

So, needless to say, for about 6 months I had NO mp3s on my computer and no downloading programs...(yeah..only 6 months...I went through withdraw *grin*). but then after talking to one of the administrators I was put at ease that it's fine, just keep it to a minimum..k..that's cool...so...i've kept it easy...it's been a year...and people still talk about it like I take up 60% of the bandwidth everyday (heeyeah..I left that part out...hehe 60%)..hehe *grin* So, the last month or two...I started downloading more...you see...it's a prime example of the self fulfilling prophecy... 8) I'm still only downloading a little, compared to others...but now I proudly wear my title!

-smile 8)
posted by voodoolady 1:48 PM