The Bad News is: I don't blog anymore. It's true. I'm sorry. I miss it.
The Good News is: I'm working! (errr...or is that the bad news?) Actually this is very good. I'm serving a purpose in this world, YEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!! Yes, the purpose is to market FEAR to the world in hopes that they will purchase liability insurance from my company, but nevertheless, it's helping people realize their fears (even if we created them) and sheesh...that's practically community service! (hmmm...maybe I should put that on my resume) I'm such a giver. ;)
This time you get the Good News first: I like my job! I'm making good money and the commute only sucks a little and not a lot. I used to work with this guy who would drive like 2 and a half hours to get to work from the Eastern shore. And that was to work at that shithole place i was employed by before this. He was a little off-kilter I think though. So I suppose it could be worse. I certainly have gotten a bit of reading in. I'm reading two things at once now depending on my moods (that swing rapidly): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (yes...I'm in training for November 18th!) and a "You're dysfunctional and you're never going to change, but read this book and maybe you will suck a little less and people might like you one day" by Dr. Fixyerself. ;) That's not the real name of the book, but you get the general point...I'm in a constant state of either crisis or recovery, and this is the treatment of my choice. Amazon.com probably has a coexisting file with the FBI that's tagged me on their "watch list" for strange combination purchases: self help books, true crime and sorcerer's magic. ;) Cuckoo!
The Bad News: Not all my transportation issues are so peachy. On a more "Lauraish" note...I want to strangle everyone at Erie Insurance. Two weeks ago, some jackass creamed my car and mashed and tore the entire back end and then did what any good American would do: RAN. I wasn't in the car, I came home to find it like that at 12:30am, and I actually didn't think it was my car, I was in such disbelief. I said, "Is that my car? That's not MY car. Wow that sucks." Wellllllll it was. Who does that? Who destroys your vehicle and runs except drunks and punks? Ugh. So the police had to come and give me a report (I doubt they will be putting the crime scene team on this case) and then dropped it off at Honda the next day because Erie requests that you drop it off right away with the body shop if its undriveable. It probably was not legal to drive it like that, the back end was peeled out and sticking out about a foot from the car. So I drop it off for an estimate. Erie is SUPPOSED to arrange for me to have a rental car, but they ask me to do it myself (by the way, there is no discount for this 'self-service' plan). So I go two days with no car and go to pick up the rental at Enterprise in Glen Burnie, and Erie had changed the reservation to Crofton and didn't tell me. So Enterprise had no car for me. In desperation for a VEHICLE, I took a cherry red Jeep Liberty they did have. The estimator finally went to Honda on Monday the 17th (mind you, the accident happened on the 12th) and estimated 5 days for repair and no more. Erie would cover the cost of the rental for 5 days from the 18th. That's today (25th), and not a day longer. After that it was the repair shop's liability to cover the rental. SO...$60 in gasoline later (and I take public transit to and from work!) I am hating this Jeep and wanting my car back. It slides all over the road...I am going to die...I am a terrible driver. So I call Honda, thinking, SURELY they are done, they have had the car for almost 2 weeks, and they are not done. I tell them I need a loaner car. They say, take it up with your insurance company, we don't do that. I said, but the adjuster estimated 5 days and Honda man said, he INCORRECTLY estimated 5 days in LABOR hours and didn't count time to order parts and dry time, etc, so too bad, so sad sweetie. I call the estimator and tell him I need an extension and that my car wont be ready until Friday (this is a lot of calls isn't it?). He leaves me a message this morning saying, tough shit, they had enough time, take it up with them, have that car back today or pay for it yourself. Here's the cherry on top of this sundae...the rental place closes at 6pm. I don't even leave DC until 6pm and I cant take off of work. So I have to drop everything in the after hours drop box. I call Enterprise to see what I can do about turning in the car and will I owe, or will Erie cover the cost since they changed the reservation on me? They tell me that Erie is not covering the $5 a day extra, and I have to pay that over the phone before I return the vehicle. I call the estimator again to say, WTF?! and he says: That was your decision to upgrade, you should have left GB and gone to Crofton where we changed your reservation to {without asking you...and even though they are only open for, I SWEAR it must be, 15 minutes a day and they don't tell you which 15 mins... and it takes that long to even get to Crofton!}. I said: I HATE YOU! YOU'RE UGLY! and hung up. Just kiddin, I didn't say that but I do hate him and I imagine he is unattractive. He lives in Glen Burnie ;)
Ok rant over...whew...I had to get that out. So yeah, tonight I'm returning the car after hours and I won't have a vehicle for at least 3 more days. I'm gonna be out there thumbin for rides. Hopefully, the dickhead who hit my car will pick me up and then I can force him to crash his car, while I, knowing this is going to happen, throw myself from the vehicle and roll like Starsky n' Hutch...to my safety...sustaining NO road rash :) They have training for that you see, but it doesn't look that hard. I will also get into the car through the passenger's side window like on Dukes of Hazard, just to throw him off. I hate him too by the way. And I KNOW he's ugly. On the inside.
The Bad News is: I just got this office-wide email: "It is now that time of year and due to the drop in exterior temperature it is necessary that we turn the heat on in the building. We will be activating both the duct heaters and baseboard heaters located in the perimeter offices. We ask that everything be removed immediately from the top and surrounding area of the baseboard heaters. You may also consider relocating any live plants in close proximity to these heaters. It is not unusual for the activation of the heaters to be accompanied by an odor caused from dust burning off the coils. This will probably happen for the first couple of days the heaters are running."
The Good news is: I'm a sweater and I LOVE strange odors! Mmmm can't wait. Can I borrow a fan and some Frebreeze anyone?
The Bad News is: I am broken out and I feel really ugly today. I'm such a woman.
The Good News is: I have a big bottle of Premsyn PMS, a heating pad, and a ginormous chocolate chip cookie in my desk drawer. I think I hear it calling to me...
Ok that's about all I got for ya bloggies. Booooriiiiing, I know. :) Wanted to touch base in here though with my loyal savants...whoops, I mean servants. I'll leave you with some good lyrics...
Better Together
Jack Johnson
There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? and where do we go?
And how come we're so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing its always better when we're together
MMM its always better when we're together
Look at the stars when we're together
Its always better when we're together
Yeah, its always better when we're together
And all of these moments
Just might find there way into my dreams tonight
But I know that theyll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
But tomorrow night you see
That theyll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find there way
Into my day to day scene
Ill be under the impression
I was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree
Its always better when we're together
Somewhere in between together
Its always better when we're together
Yeah, its always better when we're together
MMmmmm MMMmmmm Mmmmmm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is no time,
And there is no song I could sing
And there is no, combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together.
The Good News is: I'm working! (errr...or is that the bad news?) Actually this is very good. I'm serving a purpose in this world, YEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!! Yes, the purpose is to market FEAR to the world in hopes that they will purchase liability insurance from my company, but nevertheless, it's helping people realize their fears (even if we created them) and sheesh...that's practically community service! (hmmm...maybe I should put that on my resume) I'm such a giver. ;)
This time you get the Good News first: I like my job! I'm making good money and the commute only sucks a little and not a lot. I used to work with this guy who would drive like 2 and a half hours to get to work from the Eastern shore. And that was to work at that shithole place i was employed by before this. He was a little off-kilter I think though. So I suppose it could be worse. I certainly have gotten a bit of reading in. I'm reading two things at once now depending on my moods (that swing rapidly): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (yes...I'm in training for November 18th!) and a "You're dysfunctional and you're never going to change, but read this book and maybe you will suck a little less and people might like you one day" by Dr. Fixyerself. ;) That's not the real name of the book, but you get the general point...I'm in a constant state of either crisis or recovery, and this is the treatment of my choice. Amazon.com probably has a coexisting file with the FBI that's tagged me on their "watch list" for strange combination purchases: self help books, true crime and sorcerer's magic. ;) Cuckoo!
The Bad News: Not all my transportation issues are so peachy. On a more "Lauraish" note...I want to strangle everyone at Erie Insurance. Two weeks ago, some jackass creamed my car and mashed and tore the entire back end and then did what any good American would do: RAN. I wasn't in the car, I came home to find it like that at 12:30am, and I actually didn't think it was my car, I was in such disbelief. I said, "Is that my car? That's not MY car. Wow that sucks." Wellllllll it was. Who does that? Who destroys your vehicle and runs except drunks and punks? Ugh. So the police had to come and give me a report (I doubt they will be putting the crime scene team on this case) and then dropped it off at Honda the next day because Erie requests that you drop it off right away with the body shop if its undriveable. It probably was not legal to drive it like that, the back end was peeled out and sticking out about a foot from the car. So I drop it off for an estimate. Erie is SUPPOSED to arrange for me to have a rental car, but they ask me to do it myself (by the way, there is no discount for this 'self-service' plan). So I go two days with no car and go to pick up the rental at Enterprise in Glen Burnie, and Erie had changed the reservation to Crofton and didn't tell me. So Enterprise had no car for me. In desperation for a VEHICLE, I took a cherry red Jeep Liberty they did have. The estimator finally went to Honda on Monday the 17th (mind you, the accident happened on the 12th) and estimated 5 days for repair and no more. Erie would cover the cost of the rental for 5 days from the 18th. That's today (25th), and not a day longer. After that it was the repair shop's liability to cover the rental. SO...$60 in gasoline later (and I take public transit to and from work!) I am hating this Jeep and wanting my car back. It slides all over the road...I am going to die...I am a terrible driver. So I call Honda, thinking, SURELY they are done, they have had the car for almost 2 weeks, and they are not done. I tell them I need a loaner car. They say, take it up with your insurance company, we don't do that. I said, but the adjuster estimated 5 days and Honda man said, he INCORRECTLY estimated 5 days in LABOR hours and didn't count time to order parts and dry time, etc, so too bad, so sad sweetie. I call the estimator and tell him I need an extension and that my car wont be ready until Friday (this is a lot of calls isn't it?). He leaves me a message this morning saying, tough shit, they had enough time, take it up with them, have that car back today or pay for it yourself. Here's the cherry on top of this sundae...the rental place closes at 6pm. I don't even leave DC until 6pm and I cant take off of work. So I have to drop everything in the after hours drop box. I call Enterprise to see what I can do about turning in the car and will I owe, or will Erie cover the cost since they changed the reservation on me? They tell me that Erie is not covering the $5 a day extra, and I have to pay that over the phone before I return the vehicle. I call the estimator again to say, WTF?! and he says: That was your decision to upgrade, you should have left GB and gone to Crofton where we changed your reservation to {without asking you...and even though they are only open for, I SWEAR it must be, 15 minutes a day and they don't tell you which 15 mins... and it takes that long to even get to Crofton!}. I said: I HATE YOU! YOU'RE UGLY! and hung up. Just kiddin, I didn't say that but I do hate him and I imagine he is unattractive. He lives in Glen Burnie ;)
Ok rant over...whew...I had to get that out. So yeah, tonight I'm returning the car after hours and I won't have a vehicle for at least 3 more days. I'm gonna be out there thumbin for rides. Hopefully, the dickhead who hit my car will pick me up and then I can force him to crash his car, while I, knowing this is going to happen, throw myself from the vehicle and roll like Starsky n' Hutch...to my safety...sustaining NO road rash :) They have training for that you see, but it doesn't look that hard. I will also get into the car through the passenger's side window like on Dukes of Hazard, just to throw him off. I hate him too by the way. And I KNOW he's ugly. On the inside.
The Bad News is: I just got this office-wide email: "It is now that time of year and due to the drop in exterior temperature it is necessary that we turn the heat on in the building. We will be activating both the duct heaters and baseboard heaters located in the perimeter offices. We ask that everything be removed immediately from the top and surrounding area of the baseboard heaters. You may also consider relocating any live plants in close proximity to these heaters. It is not unusual for the activation of the heaters to be accompanied by an odor caused from dust burning off the coils. This will probably happen for the first couple of days the heaters are running."
The Good news is: I'm a sweater and I LOVE strange odors! Mmmm can't wait. Can I borrow a fan and some Frebreeze anyone?
The Bad News is: I am broken out and I feel really ugly today. I'm such a woman.
The Good News is: I have a big bottle of Premsyn PMS, a heating pad, and a ginormous chocolate chip cookie in my desk drawer. I think I hear it calling to me...
Ok that's about all I got for ya bloggies. Booooriiiiing, I know. :) Wanted to touch base in here though with my loyal savants...whoops, I mean servants. I'll leave you with some good lyrics...
Better Together
Jack Johnson
There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? and where do we go?
And how come we're so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing its always better when we're together
MMM its always better when we're together
Look at the stars when we're together
Its always better when we're together
Yeah, its always better when we're together
And all of these moments
Just might find there way into my dreams tonight
But I know that theyll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
But tomorrow night you see
That theyll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find there way
Into my day to day scene
Ill be under the impression
I was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree
Its always better when we're together
Somewhere in between together
Its always better when we're together
Yeah, its always better when we're together
MMmmmm MMMmmmm Mmmmmm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is no time,
And there is no song I could sing
And there is no, combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together.
4 Comments:
Just don't stop blogging completely. I would say I'm back again, but every time I do a hurricane comes by and knocks out my internet so I'll just whisper "I'm back."
You poor damn thing....I wish I could put Erie insurance and Honda employees on a firing range for you right now!!! If you need an extension to that one loan you got going, let me know...you know it wouldn't be a problem. love ya
Damn. I got hit with a big rental charge a couple years ago when my RAV got totaled. Insurance companies are ridiculous! I think the most ridiculous part is that it is required. by law, to have insurance on your car! What a scam.
I miss your blogging! Yours is always one of the first stops on the tour of blogs I make seemingly too often. I have too much time on my hands though. You should do one minute posts. "I have been _____. Life is _____ .I went to _____ yesterday and did _____ Hope all of you are well. Go to www.lyricsfreak.com and pic out some lyrics to look at." That way people could make up their own M.W.A.B.O.H.T. posts in their minds.It would be like blogging mad libs.
i miss you.
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