You know I like to keep myself in control. I enjoy keeping myself on, what I lovingly call, 'a short leash'. I can't stand it when people don't keep themselves under control. I feel that I have to step in and make them control themselves. The problem with this is that I am not a nice person when it comes to someone being completely out of control.

The last place I worked, if I didn't have myself on a short leash I would have been telling the one girl to sit down and do her fucking job. Yes, I would have. I bet after doing it once, with the powerful voice I never use, she'd have cried.

The place I work at now employs a true psychopath. When off her medication, she doesn't look at you or speak to you unless you have a penis between your legs. She beats up on defenseless office machines because it did something she didn't want it to do. Supposedly it did something she didn't want it to do anyway, who knows.

I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this stupid bitch, but she aggravates me to the point that I have to keep myself away from her. I want to hurt her. I want to take a hammer and bash her skull in. I want to just rid the earth of her so that no one ever has to deal with her again.

I am an extremely patient person, but she hasn't even done anything to me personally and I just can't fucking stand her. She's rude and she doesn't care. The boss doesn't do anything about it and people have complained. According to the rumors she sleeps with anyone at work that will have her. It cracks me up. Either they are sleeping around to get ahead or they are sleeping around and hate all the women because they are 'too pretty' or 'too smart' or 'perhaps thier eyes are too blue'. I don't know. I just needed to get this out.

If you find yourself in a workplace with a woman like this, try to do what I do. Consider her a character in a comedic tv show and hold your laughter in deeply. Shed the anger any non-physical way you can. I can't stand this woman. If she were hit by a fucking train, taxi, plane, drunk driver, or anything else you want to add in there, she would not be missed by me. I would not mourn her either. I know others who feel the same.

People out there who realize you are like this bitch, perhaps seek true therapy and not just drugs. Obviously for this woman the medication doesn't work. She goes off at every little thing and gives dirty looks to any female who might pass for 'pretty'. If you see yourself doing this, thinking like this, beating up on the office equipment, take a fucking step back and do a self check.

Fin, Finis, Finito.

I can't stand it when someone won't do their job. It's like this woman deliberately ignores pages for her department. There are only two people in her department and even if the other person is on the phone she won't take the call.

The other person in her department and I discussed it a bit today after she had already left, but still. I don't know what to do about this. I've already had issues with her before not answering the phone and supposedly it was because she couldn't hear the speaker when I paged. Then she wasn't answering when I called her directly because she was in the middle of entering an order.

I get so sick of apologizing to people because of her.

On to another aggravation. The girl I met at the bar I go to won't stop calling me. Literally. She's calling me like three times a day! What the hell is up with that? Call, leave a message, I'll call back when I get time. Apparently that doesn't mean anything to her. I told her twice when I did answer the phone that I am working, I have to do homework, I have to make dinner, I have to do laundry. I'm trying to get the house ready for Honey to come home this week and I absolutely refuse to answer most phone calls. I have a lot to do!

The professor for my class this period is an idiot. That's all I have to say about that.

I'm exhausted and I have laundry to finish so I'm off. Laters.

So. I'm sitting here at work and get a phone call stating that the power is out and a tree fell on my car. Also the furnace went out last night.

No clue as to when I'll be available or when I'll get to post again. Laters.

The electric came back on ten minutes after leaving the office.

The furnace is running and we are toasty warm.

The damage to the car appears to be mostly aesthetic, but will still need to be looked at and repaired.

The tree has been cut to pieces and is lying on the ground where the groundskeeper left it. I'm a bit perturbed by it being left, but whatever.

I made a shitload of buttons for the boss' website today. Yay me.

So overall, a very stress-filled day turned out to be not so bad after all.

Let's hope the weather holds. Laters.

Hi.

I know I've been a real bad girl since I haven't posted in quite a long time, but it just got so out of hand with work and school that I've been avoiding the computer unless it was school or game-related things.

I send sincere apologies out to those I've been neglecting, please know that it was not entirely intentional. I wanted to get the homework done and relieve the stress of the day playing games. I've been playing Silk Road Online a bit and my Honey bought me Need For Speed: Most Wanted, so I've been playing that game, too. I'm thinking of starting a new game on it, but so far I love it.

The class I'm in now ended today and I'll know my final grade by the end of the week. So far I am getting a B in the class. We won't discuss as to why since the class should have been easy for me...( The professor and I had a disagreement over tables and frames. She wanted me to do them and I didn't but ended up doing so anyway...)

So let's see. Work still sucks because I sit around most of the day with nothing to do. I work on school stuff and read the online assignments while I am answering phones, checking the fax machine and take care of the customers for the store. I am still aggravated at, yet again, being a receptionist when I was told that I could work my way into going into the graphics department. The new assistant for the designer sits there and watches him work. I find it hilarious.

Haven't written anything new lately, obviously I've been working myself hard. I haven't done a true housecleaning in over a month and I swear I am going to tackle it this weekend. I will not let my Honey say relax and sit down, I will clean, clean, clean! Yes, he reads this. So you see this Honey? I am cleaning this weekend!

Ok, I'm gonna go play a game. Laters!

So the little lady and honey are out getting food for us since I am not in the mood to cook and honey isn't in the mood to cook and neither of us are in the mood for grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner tonight. I am having the grilled chicken breast sandwich will lettuce, tomato, cheese and mayo. Yum. Gotta love those sandwiches, I sure do.

School is going ok. Learning Flash, yeah I said Flash. Why does everyone flinch when I say that? Some get excited, some flinch. I don't get it. The new Flash 8 is pretty good.

Gotta go, food is here.

So today I was exhausted at work, which was my own fault. I slept in on sunday until 930ish something or other and stayed up until midnight - that included my shower. I was working on the new layout and didn't wan tto go to bed with it half-finished. Then I get a lot of people asking me 'what's up with the site? it's kind of.. off.'

So anyway I was exhausted at work. Coffee and Mountain Dew couldn't get me boosted up. Luckily, the boss is off for three weeks on a working vacation. I have a feeling that things will be a bit quieter around the office without him.

Got kudos on the new layout, big yay on that. I am glad there are people out there who like the stuff I do. Can't wait to finish learning flash. If there is a way I will make this a flash blog. That would be great, don't you think?

I have three weeks off of school after this class and then I get to learn PHP and more Visual graphics and so forth.

I am enjoying the classes more and more as they get challenging. I like learning new things, not regurgitating what I already know. A lot of the beginning classes were that and I had to go against the current trends in design, which just isn't a good thing. Ohwell. As and Bs for me!

I am not sure what I want to do after this all ends. I've got plenty of time to decide until then. I graduate in the winter of 2008. Which, by the way, I'll be taking three classes at once and will probably be a recluse, unreachable, wretch during that time period of 6 torturous weeks.

Ok well. I am gonna start getting ready for bed soon. Sweet dreams to all.

Book Update: Still reading Dance Macabre. Bought Strange Candy and Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Scion. I'm going to start reading Strange Candy after I'm done with Dance Macabre and then I'll read the new Kushiel book.

Movie Update: Still haven't lounged long enough to watch the Pink Panther. I know, I know.

Laters.

So it's friday again, woohoo, right?

I am really glad it's friday, I really am. I just wish it wouldn't be another day at work when no one wants to work. Yes, I am goofing off by posting, but the phones aren't ringing and once they do I will pause until all the calls are picked up. I haven't been given any other tasks except to call people for interviews. I only reached 1 of 5 people, but the others may have jobs.

To others here it's just another day to whine and cry. I whine and cry about the whining and the crying and the time it takes away from getting work done. Now, I'm all for a break here and there. Get up, walk around, let your eyes stop staring at the computer screen, but then go back to your desk, get back to work. There's never a need to wander aimlessly through the office whining about everything you have to do and all the things that are (supposedly) keeping you from doing them.

So today I called the people who I was asked to call and left messages where I could and made a time sheet up so that when I go to lunch the one that covers it can write down their name if they call in.

I feel like I was lied to about this job. Everyone does their part, everyone pulls their weight and if there is a problem where someone isn't they'll get a talking to.

Yep, they'll get talked to and after a week or two they'll go back to not working again.

So the phones are quiet again. Some people are at their desks. ::TIME PASSES::

So I've done my office drudge duties and now I am back at the phones and back at my desk. I know the little things are supposed to be good for you but when it comes to "Do this, this and this" all at once, it gets a bit annoying. It's like no one can wait for me to finish one thing before giving me another. I am good at multi-tasking, but that means doing something as I am answering the phones.

Ok, well it's almost lunch time so I am off. Laters.

Ok, I think I'm really going to do it. I'm going to create a blog called Stupid Silly Bitch and have women join who are 1) hardworking; 2) have coworkers that hate them because they are hardworkingl and 3) want a safe place to complain where no one will know who they are or where they work.

There will, of course, be some ground rules to the blog.

I'm going to work on a layout. Laters.

So the AIO sent me an email saying I should take this visual creative quiz. Obviously I'm not going to pass it up. I hate quizzes of any kind, even if it is something like this, I feel like I have to choose the 'right' answers! I'm pleased with the results and I thought that I'd not only share the results I received, but I'd share the quiz as well. This isn't any form of endorsement, I really like the school for the most part. Their online classes are small and - though sometimes hard when it comes to participation - I do learn quite a lot.

Here's the link to the quiz: Creative Quiz

When you're done, feel free to compare your results to mine.

Then go over to imagini.net and take some more interesting quizzes. These are much more than the normal silly quizzes people take. There's a more psychological and serious approach. I really liked the creative profile quiz and I'm glad I took it.

So my three goals for today are to do just that, clean, blog and learn. I have to sign in to AIO and check out what's due today and I haven't done that yet. What I have done is thrown in a load of laundry and washed, dried and put away almost all of the dishes. I'm waiting for my towel to dry out a bit before I finish drying the last of them up.

I've thought of moving a blog that is off-site (on-site being Sweetly-Evil.Org) to being on-site. I enjoy making layouts and so forth and with some places that host free blogs you can't. I haven't been blogging on it either in weeks and I really need to fix that. I also think it would be so much easier to blog all in one place than in three or four different places. I will be keeping the LiveJournal though, that will stay as is, where it is, and private. Sorry, I know you all miss my crazy-off-the-hook rants and raves about work, family and stupid people in general. I really don't think it helps society at all to spread the negativity, do you?

Everyone needs a release, LiveJournal is nice enough to keep mine.

So other than logging in to AIO, the blogging thing will be getting taken care of as well. I will create a new blog and layout, hopefully to be displayed later (depending on how much homework I have) and what the rest of the day brings me. I want to vacuum today, too. I really need to do that and there are circumstances (Honey is not feeling well and is sleeping) keeping me from doing so. Anyway, off I go to the world of education!

So far today I did dishes, but I have to wipe off the counters and stove. I also did two loads of laundry but there are still a few clothing items that need to be put away. I did homework, but I didn't do the reading, perhaps I'll get to that later. I still need to vacuum (Honey is up, but I don't think he's up to the noise of the vacuum) so I'll wait. Honey is working on his caffiene.. can we say IV Needed STAT!

I love Jack but the crickets we feed him (we bought two dozen and threw them in there yesterday so he can hunt when he wishes) are freaking LOUD. I hate meal worms though, they tend to pretend they are dead, even after you throw them in the tank at him.

It's really cold outside, but nice and toasty in the greenhouse. I don't recommend bending over in the front of the windows wearing black pants/jeans though. It's one way to get a hot tushie, though!

Ok, I am done rambling for now and I'll continue later on with updates because I know you care. Laters!

So some guy is suing because of Ladies' Night at the clubs. Yeah. Apparently this guy thinks it's discrimination and he wants Ladies' Night to be judged unconstitutional against all men. That's right, All Men.

Hey guys, you go out the bars to chill with the Ladies' don't you? Um, perhaps you get them to buy YOU drinks since they are cheaper? What are your thoughts on this lawsuit?

Go here for the article: NYC man files discrimination suit over 'ladies' nights' at clubs

Then comment and let me know what you think. Do you want women to stop going out? Think about it. A great night club, great music, hardly any women to dance and flirt with. Just a bunch of sweaty, straight, guys. Yeah.

Ok, so if someone tells you not to stick your arm into a cage containing two adult bengal tigers, what are you going to do?

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317437,00.html

Come on people. Brighten up. Listen to the people around you, they might actually know what the hell they are talking about! The guy died doing something stupid. That is how everyone is going to remember him. In a few months you'll hear "Oh yeah, that idiot that stuck his arm in the tiger cage? Yeah I heard about that. What a moron."

People told him not to do it. Officials working at the zoo told him not to do it. Obviously the guy thinks he is special and can do something like this without getting hurt. Think about it from the Tigers' points of view. Man keeps you locked in cage, feeds you dead meat. You no longer get to run or hunt or be free. Man sticks arm in cage, time for revenge.

I know this guy didn't have anything personally to do with putting the tigers in the cage, but hey, even animals will take their revenge out on someone who isn't directly responsible. I would.

What is going on? It's the holiday-season and it seems to me like the opps for sponsored posts has dropped down to nil (at least for me anyway). I'm lucky if I can grab one when they are available and when they aren't I sit here and refresh the opps page every few minutes hoping to get something. Are we all that desperate right now? I know I am.

I go into the temp office tomorrow at 2, yes I am nervous. I hate interviews. I don't feel I do well in them. I usually get the job, but I hate interviews. This is a type of interview. I hope they don't hand me a freaking test. I have always hated doing tests for the temp places in Ohio. It was horrible.

I suppose you have to make sure someone isn't lying about their education, though, right? I mean, I graduated high school, I passed the computerized secretarial training class at the career center I took with flying colors and this was while I was pregnant and dealing with a bunch of idiots at school that were jealous because I got to sit around and do nothing (play games) the last half an hour of class because I got my work done instead of goofing off.

Seems to me people tend to do more goofing off nowadays than they do work. Are you one of those people? Do you go to work and end up chatting half the day away and then when that final whistle blows telling you it's time to go home you wonder why you haven't gotten anything done? It's because you were too busy chatting all day. When you stand around and gossip, even if you are sitting at your desk and "working" as you chat to your cube neighbors, you aren't getting any work done. You are also wasting the time of your coworkers because they have to listen to how your dog chewed your shoes or how your niece is so adorable and how much money you spent that weekend shopping for things you didn't need.

It's annoying the piss out of people. I don't want to work with you! So stay out of wherever I end up working! If you want to chat all day long and gossip behind your coworkers backs, go find a job on a soap opera!

Sorry about that. I'm seriously not feeling great during this period. I seem to be bitching and complaining about everything. Everything is just agitating me today and thinking about going to work and ending up in a place full of monkeys (old Careerbuilder commercials) is what I fear the most.

Anyone out there need a website? Need a blog layout? Need some form of web design done? I'd be happy to help for a small hourly fee.

Ok, I am off for now. I need something to drink. Meh. Laters.

I am trying to stop neglecting my house cleaning. I haven't done dishes for three days. I haven't done laundry for over a week. I know, I am asolutely horrible. Not.

I simply got lost in the internet, a book, a crochet project I've started, and being slightly lazy. I started an afghan for my honey, I started and finished the book I was given for Christmas - Kushiel's Justice - and I started browsing blogs that use PayPerPost, MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. I've looked through things on Technorati. I have reread the same email three times from the temp agency, ok ok, three times a day, about them wanting me to take an online test on some things. I am going to do that today. I hope. I have to do it by tomorrow.

It's not a problem that they want me to take this test. I have education in the two programs they want to test me with. I can type while talking to someone and not lose my train of thought (I'm still working on this skill) but the issue is that I haven't used the two programs since I got the upgraded versions.

So I have to hopping along the internet for some brushing up or something, I don't know. I'll figure it out today though because I do need to take the test by tomorrow.

I have never used Excel for it's true purpose. Not really anyway. I've used it to make schedules for interviews and I've used it to make catalog item pages and I've used it to keep track of who was paying in cash and check for a project years ago at the agency. I don't know what the questions are going to be regarding and that will probably be functions that I don't know because I don't use them regularly and when I try I usually screw it up.

I can make a very nice looking catalog item list, though.

I'm seriously confused. Yes, I know that's what it says in the title. Anyway, I know that people are busy and want a blog or website for their business or personal life, or for the heck of it. What I don't understand is why they would pay someone to write posts for them. Because they weren't meeting their mark for the month? I don't understand that. If you don't have time to sit down and write, which many people don't, then you lower your mark, right?

I can understand paying someone to design a website for you, but not a blog. There are thousands of free templates out there, and some you can even personalize a bit now. Me? I try to make everything myself. It's so much more personal that way, but then again that is what type of business I want to be in. I am going to school for Web Design, so obviously I plan to try to do graphic design as well. I tend to be better at coding, depending on how complicated it can get, but other than that I think I've had some pretty interesting layouts in the past.

I've made layouts of others and they put in their wants and needs, but I don't charge them. Usually it's for someone I host here at S-E.O and I do it for them because I enjoy doing it. I may not be the best at making layouts, but I have gotten better at it with assistance, one of my hostees helped me learn how to make layouts that are able to scroll. I never knew how until he told me. I still tend to screw it up though and always have to go look at previous layout coding to see. Yes, I have quite a few of my past layouts saved with their coding so that I can look back on it.

I personally wouldn't pay someone to make a layout for me. I know that I can go to websites, such as Celestial-Star.net or Aethereality.net and get a free layout from their site and all I have to do is provide a link back to them. Plus there are several layouts that work with Movable Type, LiveJournal, TypePad and whoever else SixApart took over.

I would not pay someone to make me a WordPress layout either.

Can someone enlighten me on this? I know there are people out there who may not have the time, or may not have the knowledge, but please enlighten me. Is it simply to have someone make you something unique? Not everything out there is entirely unique. I've had people steal my splash page before. I still don't know why and told them they needed to take it down, they never did. I think it's still up there, but I haven't bothered looking since I have changed the splash page 4 times since then.

Ok, well I am off. Laters.

I have my settings regarding comment filtering set to 0. That means I have to go look at each and every comment posted. I have no problem doing that at all either. I get to read what you write and see if you are legitimate. You, who tried to post on the Daily Photo of Jack, didn't fool me one bit. You made a mistake. You mentioned that Jack was cuter than my sister's iguana Izzy, but you copied and pasted it from the post. I know that, because you didn't change the fact that I had words in parentheses.

Let's see. You also didn't put in a name, you put in 'hosting' as your name and then you put in some horrid email address that was for making or inquiring about payments.

I junked you in a heartbeat. Better luck next time.

I am so sorry! I have to apologize to everyone east of us. I have been so sick of rain and overcast skies that I prayed and hoped and threatened - one of these things worked, no clue as to which - and finally received sunny skies. It was still COLD to me, but apparently when I sent the rain away others got ice, snow, and rain.

My friend WichiDude apparently got covered in ice while others are going to be receiving tons of snow. I normally love rain, but weeks on end is still a bit much for me. It's almost as bad as being in Ohio during weeks upon weeks of snowstorms.

Seriously though, 3 weeks of overcast skies and downpours of rain is a bit much, even for me who loves rain. I prefer thunderstorms. I want THUNDER and LIGHTNING not just boring old rain. I don't even care for rain that is slanted three different directions. And I really don't care for howling wind, either! At least the howling wind isn't as bad here as it was in Ohio.

So to those of you who are east of me, I sincerely apologize for the tons of snow and ice you are about to receive. I take the blame and you may have me beaten. Until then, laters.

I'm tired of blacklisting the 500 junk emails I get at chelle(at)sweetly-evil (dot) org so I've deleted the email address and created a new one. You can reach me at disillusioned(at)sweetly-evil(dot)org if you really want to, or even better, leave a comment! Then you get a link back to your website.

I also had to junk about 70 or so comments today as well. Someone apparently loves my post regarding my papsmear and decided I must need viagra. Erhm? If I can have a papsmear, how on earth do *I* need viagra?

Anyway, comments are still open and heavily moderated. Meaning you'll have to wait (sometimes a few hours) for comments to be approved. I don't wish to subject my readers to pills, porn and gambling ads in the comments. I'm sure you don't either.

See you again soon.

So tomorrow I'll be . . . 25 again. Ok, fine, so I'll be 31. 31 and everyone tells me I look 16. Even with hair and makeup done well, I'm told I look 16. On occasion I get carded, but only when I go somewhere they don't know me or someone new is working.

I don't know. I haven't turned yet so I don't feel older yet, usually I don't though, just tired as usual. We are having a family party today. I think I'd like to hang out at home tomorrow. Perhaps go out for dinner if we have the money to do so.

The living room is clean thanks to Honey. He would have done the kitchen yesterday but the hot water tank went out and we didn't know until he went to do it. So the kitchen is a mess. I'll work on that Tuesday. Everyone can fend for themselves until then.

Perhaps next year I'll have a clean house for my birthday. Well, I am off for now. The party starts in about 15 minutes. Should be good, the others all had great parties. Laters.

For years I have found a way to avoid April Fools, except with my daughter, because I simply can't stand the crap that people pull. There was one person who got the bunch of us who talked online really well. He took it way more than just losing his job because of a stupid mistake he made with a girl but to the point that he was so angry and upset with himself that he got into a car acccident as well and totaled his vehicle.

Obviously we all fell for it. Down to the very last line: April Fools!

I have even taken April 1st off from work as a vacation day in order to avoid all the crap that coworkers try to do to each other. Always I am hoping to come back to a desk that hasn't been messed with and have because when you are the receptionist bad things can't happen to your desk that would cause a customer to leave.

Yesterday I didn't even pull a joke on my daughter and normally I do. To be completely honest I forgot. I remember seeing the date being March 31st and then yesterday it did not occur to me that it was April 1st. Hell, I had to keep reminding myself that it was TUESDAY and not Wednesday all day long. I felt 'wrong' yesterday as well. I don't know why, though. I don't have a headache and I'm not sore but I feel as if there is something off with me. Hopefully I'll figure it out. A hot shower didn't get rid of the feeling and neither did an extra cup of coffee.

Well, I've got to jump on the spring cleaning. I'm late, I'm late! For a very important cleaning session. Laters.

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Due to recent changes to the video players on several network websites that I go to in order to watch tv shows (I can't stand 5 minutes of real commercials and prefer 10 to 30 second commercial bits instead) has rendered it impossible for me to watch them on the laptop.

Why you ask? Well the new players just aren't Vista Friendly and apparently the websites don't care. NBC won't even load - not using IE with Service Pack 1 or Firefox. Firefox tells me that the url is going nowhere and that having javascript or cookies disabled might be the issue. I have them enabled.

FOX loads but I can't watch their shows. I can certainly watch the commercials BEFORE the player for the show loads. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the new player they started using. The player either sits there trying to load or it flashes black and white screens at me and then stalls out altogether. I tried using their feedback form in order to tell them the issue but it froze on me when I clicked submit. Obviously that means they aren't going to know about the issue unless I take the time to rewrite everything in an email.

ABC also loads, as does FOX, but again their player no longer works for Vista. Again, I can watch the stupid little commercial before the show but the player sits there with LOADING... across the window and doesn't play. It tries, though, oh does it try.

CBS still loves me and other Vista users. They have redone the video player portion of the site but it's definitely a huge step up from what they had previously. USA also still works and I don't bother with any other networks at this time. USA doesn't even put anything new up. They have old episodes of the shows they offer and it's not worth it to bother checking since they never change them, or they just add the 'New!' symbol to an episode and change it's position in the list. Real innovative, don't you think?

So either the networks don't care that Vista users can't use their website, or at least me anyway, even with the updates, or the team running the website decided we weren't important to the networks. Instead of watching the shows on their websites they'd rather have me go trolling around the internet looking for the shows I want to watch, completely commercial free and sometimes up the same day as it's been shown on tv or the day after. FOX puts House episodes up EIGHT days after the original air date, why the hell they do that when they put others up 1 to 2 days after is beyond me. That's okay though because I can simply go to Google and type in the show and episode and find it to watch online. I'm sure they enjoy losing whatever it is they gain when people watch online.

Any other Vista users who watch tv shows online having these issues? Found a way to solve them? I'd love to know so please leave me a comment!

This is a post regarding those pesky explainations that shouldn't have to occur, but because in these oh so 'modern times' of ours, parents are required to know what's going on with their children even more so than they were when we were children ourselves.

My daughter is 13 for those of you who don't read often. I tend to listen to music on the radio so I know (or try to anyway) what she's listening and being subjected to. I trust my daughter enough to let her listen to pretty much whatever she wants as long as she doesn't start singing it in public and gets into trouble.

Well she is leaving for Ohio in a few days to visit the man I call my 'father-figure' because he's been there for me since my own father passed. He loves the Little Lady like his own grandchildren and spoils her shamelessly. Yesterday I heard her singing a song that she was listening to (this post was thought up because it was just played again on the radio station we all listen to) and it occurred to me that she really shouldn't be singing this song and she should be made aware of what she is singing and that it is not to be sung outside our home.

The lyrics I heard her singing:

"I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you're going down on me
In between the sheets
All the sounds you make
With every breath you take
Its not like anything
When you're loving me"

Addicted by Saving Abel

After hearing her singing it I walk into her room and just let her know not to sing that when she's around 'father-figure'. She asks why not. She didn't really even realize what she was singing, so I repeated the lyrics to her in a normal voice instead of singing them and then she realized what it was she was singing. These bands and music producers seem to be pretty dang good at their jobs if they can get kids singing the lyrics to songs (the music is great, the words are sung in an easy to replicate way) and they don't even notice that they are sexually explicit.

So it's safe to say that my daughter realizes now what this particular song is about. Unfortunately I don't think it's going to make her pay attention any better in the future to the music she choses to listen to. One can only hope she doesn't start singing outloud and end up in trouble for the lyrics. I could just kill her internet connection and empty her ipod and revoke her listening to any radio stations except the Disney station but I have to trust that she'll make better decisions regarding her music and what she sings around others. She's seen worse due to others out of my control and she is still a pretty decent kid. I also think she has enough common sense to know what I'd approve of and what I'd disapprove of.

Any comments?

So tomorrow my lovely daughter will be escorted, by me, to the gate at the airport tomorrow in order to fly to Ohio. Why on earth she wants to go there with all that humidity is the question I keep asking. Her friends are there, school is out, she wants to go. "Grandpa" is more than willing to keep her for a couple of months, and even take her to and from Alabama to visit the cousins.

Did you know that it costs $150 bucks extra to send a 13 year old across the country alone? $75 on the way there and $75 on the way back because she is an unaccompanied minor. It's not like they are going to assign a freaking flight attendant to her or anything though. No one who isn't schedule to be working the flights will be drafted into coming in order to take care of her. Everyone will be doing their normal schedules and duties that they always do. They may keep their eyes open around her to make sure she isn't harrassed. I think that's pretty much it. I may ask more questions regarding the 'services' provided for her and then ask them why it's so extremely expensive. I'll post any answers I receive. If anyone knows, let me know.

People ask me what I am going to do with myself when she isn't here. Probably what I do when she is. Post entries, do the house cleaning and laundry, cook food, read and play games and continue to job hunt. Oh yes, and put money aside for when school starts.

Other than that I'm not sure. I'll definitely write about any adventures, you can be sure of that. I am off for now.

I was able to watch a show on ABC lastnight, a really horrible show that is not worth watching (The Middleman) using FireFox. I then decided to try watching something on Fox as well and it also worked. I still can't get to NBC with either. Literally can't get to the site. There is no possible way to get to the server. I don't know what it is with their site. Apparently they really don't give a hoot who wants to watch their shows. I don't even know if they have any current shows I want to watch.

So if you have Vista and can't get to FOX or ABC, try using Firefox. If you have to download it and do a fresh install, when you are finished, go to Adobe and download the latest Flash Player and Shockwave for Firefox. Then go to the website and you should be able to watch the shows just fine.

If there is anyone that can get to NBC and they are using Vista let me know how you did it. They may end up with a show or two I like (doubtful, but it might happen).

If you continually have problems try going to Hulu.com. They will (sometimes) have some of the latest shows embedded on their website and a few previous episodes, too. Although yesterday they couldn't seem to load anything I clicked on and they didn't have any answers in their support section on the faq as to why.

I also had the computer run a diagnostic on the network connection/internet connection and it found something and fixed it. So far pages are loading at the speed of the cable connection again, for now. Who knows what's next. Laters.

Things have been relatively quiet around here. Other than the cats running around like the crazy kitties they are, that is. We can't seem to go a day without Velvet being somehow offended by Dusty and hissing/growling at him, then running away so that he (not always but usually) ends up chasing her around until we get fed up. So, other than this, things have been quiet.

I have been reading and watching shows online. I watched the entire first season of Cover Me (can be found at Hulu) and even though it was a bit cheesy it wasn't a bad show. I thought it was pretty cool and I honestly wonder how the family got away with doing things the way they did. Basically it's a father who's an FBI agent and he includes his family on all of his undercover operations and even uses them for information gathering. He did this as a way of being close to them and actually home with the family instead of off who knows where with the family at home worrying if he'll ever walk through the door again. I actually think it's a great idea. I wonder if this has become practice in the current times and if not, why not?

I'm also working on a new flash portfolio to go along with the portfolio blog to show my work in a more traditional fashion. I've been having issues on how to proceed. It's so difficult because every time I start doing something I like it turns out that I don't like it. I am on my fifth or six reincarnation without even putting anything of them up. So far I like what I am working on and I hope it doesn't change. The least I could do is alter the one that I do have up but because I did it in two days and didn't include labels as anchors and so many other tiny details it would be a huge project just to tear it down and put it back together again. Starting over seemed to be the better of the two options. Hopefully this one will stick with me.

We've been stuck inside all week due to the high heat warnings. Which is just fine with me. I dislike being overly warm, which is rarely possible but does happen on occasion. Well. I am off. We are going to be going to the store for a few things and then enjoy the rest of the not so hot day. Laters.