Stich and Bitch

I joined this group of ladies and my home park called Stitch and Bitch where we do just that, we stitch and we bitch. I have been to two meetings already and I bring the blanket I have been working on since I was 12. They all said it was pretty. Other ladies did cross stitching, knitting, and other things. Most of the ladies there are old ladies so there is a huge age gap there since I am the only one under 60 or so. We all bring our lunches and after about two hours of working on our projects and talking we eat them. Next week the group will all go out for lunch. I was also invited to brown bag on Tuesdays where we just bring a sack lunch and eat it and socialize. They said they will throw me a party when I finish my blanket. I can only go to these things as long as I don't have a job though. The second I get a better job I will miss it.

I have also been playing on the XBOX this game called Dark Alliance. So far Hubby and I beat the game on easy, two player mode and I have my own game where I go t to this point where I cannot go any further. It is just to hard for me to get past. There is also this new level called the Gauntlet that Hubby has been trying to beat but it is very difficult. It won't let you save in between but you must start at the beginning every time you die. It is not easy at all.

Hubby and I played Scotland Yard yesterday. I got to play Mr. X the first time and I came so close to winning. I was only about two or three moves away from getting away with it all and winning. Then we played a second game and Hubby got to play Mr. X and I was all the detectives. I was chasing him around the board and blocking him off and cornering him but then I ran out of the right moves and he found a way to be within one to three spaces away from me at all times without getting caught. I was so, so very close to winning but he beat me again. Oh well. Today we may play another game of some kind.

I continue to try and find a better job. Hubby said I am not putting enough effort into it. I do tend to get distracted while I am on line at times. I try not to be. I also have been working on my website. Hubby said if I do it right then it could make a lot of money. I hope so. It also has my resume so I can perhaps get a better job in the meantime. I have much editing to do on my pages. So far it is not very good. I hope I can get a better job soon.

Banks and Bucks and Batman

Well, this week I had to deal with the bank several times. Ok, so here's the story. I get a check in the mail from my job and I am very happy. "Yeah! I have money now!" I say to my hubby and we are happy. I go to the bank and deposit the check and then we get food and a few other needed items. Hubby later goes to check my account online and low and behold we learn the check had been returned! My account is now overdraft. Now I am very not happy. So I go down to the bank again and ask them what the hell happened (well, in a nice way) and they told me that the check got rejected. I wonder how the hell my company could have issued me a bad check. There was one other possibility that it didn't go through because I didn't sign the back of the check but no one really thinks that was the case. So, I call up my job and ask them to issue me another check. I wait a whole week before it arrives in the mail while in the meantime each day I am overdraft I am racking up fees at the bank. I am going nuts at this point because I cannot afford an arm and a leg of bank fees.

When I finally got the replacement check I also got my next check because enough time had passed so now I have two checks. I go back to the bank again to talk to the main guy that handled the first transaction and explain my story to him and if he could please remove the charges because it is not my fault that I went overdraft. He to ld me that I need to first bring my account current before he can do anything and then told me that I should go to the other bank (the one the checks came from) and get them verified and cashed there so when I make a deposit to my account, the money will be available right away and we will know the checks are good. Then he wanted me to come back to him and talk to his boss about removing the charges to my account.

So I went to the other bank and guess what I found out? Both checks were not good because there was no money in the account! I was so pissed! I asked the bank what I should do and they told me to come back tomorrow and see if they had made a deposit. I went home and called my job to climb down their throats to make a deposit so I can get to my well earned money. I went back to the other bank again the next day and prayed like hell the checks would go through and I could cash them. I had to resign it, re-fingerprint it, and wait about 10-15 minutes but finally I got the damn things cashed. So, then I went back to my bank and talked to the guys manager lady about the charges after telling her this long ass story not forgetting to mentioned that I worked really hard to fix all this (and I prayed some more, crossed my fingers etc.) She was very quiet up until the very end when she said to me that just this once she would reverse the charges because this is my first offence and I tried very hard to fix it. Then I breathed.



Since I just got my paychecks squared away I thought I might treat Hubby and I to a movie. We went to see Batman in IMAX. It was awesome! I really liked it. It was worth seeing in IMAX. Just when you think it may be ending it didn't, it just got better, faster, and more intense. I really am glad I was not disappointed by it at all. The joker and the others were played so very well. When I heard about how well the joker was played I didn't think it would be quite like the way I saw it. It was superb acting on all accounts. Two Face scared me a bit. I couldn't believe there were children in the audience. I would not have let my children see that and that is saying much. There is little I would keep from my kids but Two Face was enough to give anyone nightmares.

This week or so

I got to hang out with my little sister last week. It was fun. We went to Monterey to her friend's house. We all played disc golf. I was not too bad at it. She had to go to the college for some appointment then we had food with her friend. Later on one of her friends made us dinner. It was really nice of her. You know when I go back and read my blog sometimes I feel I sound real stupid. So, anyway after dinner we watched a movie and I got drunk for the first time. I don't think I was drunk enough though because I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. I felt numb physically, and dehydrated. We had rum and coke. I had a bit of trouble walking but I was relaxed enough I could do the spits. I was mostly just over heated and tired. It wasn't all that much of an experience. It took quite a bit to get me drunk and I sobered up way too fast. I didn't puke and I didn't have a hangover in the morning. I was only needing water.

I have had trouble with my job this week. The paycheck they sent me got rejected at the bank for some unknown reason and I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get them to issue me another one and I am still not sure if they did it correctly. I also should be getting another pay check sometime on Monday but this company has a habit of giving out late checks. They only give me two days a week to work and at 10 dollars an hour. The two days are on the weekend too so I am missing everything I am invited to. I can't even go to a friend's girly sleep over party, or the sun devils outing, or the dinner party at another friend's house that I missed already. I am so missing out but this is the only steady hours I can seem to find. It is pathetic for all the schooling I went through to get my AA degree. It is not like I am stupid or anything. So why are people not hiring me? I blame the job market and people who are willing to work for so little so they are setting the bar for the rest of us.

In order to fix this huge mess I am in with all the debt that comes from poor jobs and all the lack of food and everything that is important I have made a website with my resume and stuff all about me. I don't know when it will be up and running but when it is you can be sure it will be on my MySpace page.

I am still happy that I got to meet John Barrowman but the shock of it is wearing off a bit.

I wish this society didn't make it so difficult for people to live. Life is so much more complicated than it has to be. We could make it so much easier on ourselves if we wanted to as a whole, as human kind.

I am still putting together ideas, notes and research for the book I will be writing in November. I am both excited and scared about how it will all turn out.

Now it is time to watch Penn and Teller: Bullshit

Oceans and Desserts

This dream started out with me being in the ocean teaching my nephew how to swim. He was doing a good job too. He would move his little arms and legs the way I asked him too. I would pick him up and let him pretend to fly then dive into the water. We were playing in the water when all of a sudden the water started to move back and forth and the ocean was now a gigantic skateboarding rink and the water moved back and forth, back and forth. As the water swished it started to slowly spill over the edges to reveal the sand underneath. The ocean was slowly turning into the dessert while we were swimming in it. The sand was soft and I looked up to see on the other side there was someone there but I don't know who it is. I had a feeling it was a warm and friendly presence. Then I woke up.



Heads and Skeletons

I was in this maze and it was Halloween. There were no children around. There was no one around. There was mist all over the place and I saw a skeleton with no head wrapped in a black cloth. I walked a little further and saw a bunch of heads without bodies. The headless body came at me from behind and tried to chop off my head with a sword. For some reason I was not scared during this dream. I almost wanted to laugh. How weird is that?