:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 ::

halloween blues
I was blue... Blue dress, blue headpiece, blue belt. Later, I stole Estelle's wings, which were also blue. I might borrow them next year, too... Go as the Blue Fairy or something. That would be cool.

We had a good time, though. Just hanging out, Johnny's mom made more food than she needed again. Estelle's mom brought her caramel apples this year. Yum! We didn't have a lot of Trick-or-Treaters, which was strange since the weather was really nice. I thought for sure that nice weather on a Friday night would have meant lots of people going around.

{{shrugs}} Oh well. All the more little chocolate bars for me at home. ^^;;

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Of course, I now have the worst sinus cold in history. I'm coughing, sneezing, can't breath, and my head feels more stuffed up than a Thanksgiving turkey. It sucks... big time.

no rest for the weary
Unfortunately, timing is everything. I get sick right around the same time Lori's aunt died, so I have to come in to work all week anyway to at least cover the phones.

I just had to get sick this week, didn't I?

sife
Plus, tonight is one of the presentations at the Probation Department for SIFE. So, I have a second rushed day in a row. Yesterday was because class started at six and we had to stops to make on the way home from work (Sam's Club, voting, school book store, etc...).

So, doing a presentation while I feel like curling up in the corner should be loads of fun.

it costs how much?
$216.00

Wanna know for what?

Financial Accounting 8th Edition (with additional workbook) and Java How to Program Fifth Edition. Three books. I nearly died. On top of that, because of my past issues with check writing, the bookstore won't take them, so I couldn't write a check. And, since I didn't have the funds to cover it anyway, I couldn't even use my debit card.

So, I left without getting my books.

Hopefully, the check Bill gave me for last week will clear soon. I have Dad to thank again for footing the books bill once more.

birthday fun


Today's Bill's birthday, too... or it was yesterday, I forget. Either way, we all got a pizza lunch. They had beer, too, but I didn't think that would sit well with the sinus medication I've been taking for my cold.

Of course, as soon as you put a whole group of people who are 35 and older that have known each other for a long time in the same room with some beers, you get an awful lot of old funny stories from the past. I heard some old company dirt that was just absolutely hysterical.

doing my civic duty
Well, I exercised one of my basic American citizen rights last night and voted. I hope all of you Americans out there remembered to do so!

Some people think it's not even worth it. It's that attitude, and the multitudes of people that go in and just vote everyone in by row that really screws up the system. It works if you do your homework as best you can and really try to make an informed decision.

Well, for the most part.

But, at least I try. We were talking on the way into work yesterday about it. Freddie said he wasn't going to bother. He never votes, apparently. Billy was saying how he was just going to go in and vote all Row B, Democrat. I'm like, 'That's intelligent voting...'

I hate that. I had someone in the other booth last night where you could hear they were just voting party lines. A rapid succession of clicks in a row and then they pull the handle. Done. Now that was a truly informed voting decision.

Billy justifies it this way: "I vote in all Democrats because they at least care about the environment and the lower and middle classes."

My rebuttal: Politicians don't give a shit. If they cared about the working middle class Joe Schmoe's like my family, then they wouldn't be trying to tax us out of existance. They wouldn't be trying to get everyone dependant on government programs that we all have to pay for anyway out of our hard earned wages. How is it fair that I work hard to make a better life for myself, so that a good portion of my wages disappear into taxes that just end up in some Welfare-scamming lazy bum's pocket?

Now, don't get me wrong. I've been on Unemployment. I know people who need Social Services to get by. That's fine. It's there to help us in our hardships. But, it's the asshole who goes out and buys 10 Social Security Numbers so he can actually live off the system without working a day in his life that pisses me off. It's the illegal immigrant, who's generally working off the books and doesn't pay taxes, that goes and collects this stuff from my government and my tax money that pisses me off. It's supposed to be a temporary assistance, not a way of life.

As for the environment, most people have a basic care for the environment. But, lately, when it comes to that department, it just seems everyone running for office is just out there to make a buck. They'll say what you want to hear so you'll elect them and they can get paid for a while and have a nice pension when they're done.

Speaking of which, you wanna see Social Security fixed? Make Congress use it instead of their little pension plans they voted themselves. Guaranteed we'll have a working Social Security system before the next Congressman retires.

Kinda makes you wanna get involved in politics, don't it?

snapple "real fact" # 96
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime.

I think my dad's got that beat by a long shot already... ^^;;