So both of my classes so far today lasted only about 10 minutes each, and were called "work periods" in which we only turned in an assignment or learned of a new assignment. That was it. What a waste.
Then when Aaron and I got back from Kmart from buying some things, I went to the fridge to open a 12-pack of Pepsi, which was on the top shelf instead of the bottom shelf...and you know how when you open the 12-packs, the first can falls out, since it has nothing to hold it back anymore? Yeah, well, imagine it falling about 3 and a half feet and hitting the linoleum, opening from the tiniest hole, and spraying all over the kitchen. Yeah, that was fun. Good times, good times.
Well, it's now official that I will not recieve my paycheck from two weeks ago until after I've recieved my paycheck that I will be getting tomorrow. Fantabulous.
Also, for my parents who read this, I'm coming home on Friday because my new box o' checks came in the mail today, so I need to give those to Mom, and Aaron's going to be busy at work all night, and I don't have anything to do except maybe some homework. So I'll see ya then.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
finally figuring stuff out!
Well, we finally found out what happened to my check; the first time you use the electronic payment plan, they convert your money into a paper check, which then gets sent to Virginia for whatever reason, which takes seven to ten business days to process, even though the lady at the bank told me it would only take five days (today is day six, so hopefully something happens tomorrow). Also, for whatever reason, I put down my home address instead of my bank address, so the check is going to be sent to the house, which will only delay the process another day (you check the mail at the end of the day when you get home from work, and have to wait 'til the next day to do anything with it, unless of course it comes in the mail on Friday or Saturday, then you're just straight screwed).
We've started building web pages on Front Page for my computer class. It's horrifying. It's got the same templates as Power Point. The agony! It's so dumbed down that I just go into the HTML area of it and do most of my editing there because that makes more sense to me for some reason. Especially with links and pictures.
Anywho, that's my ramble for the day, I gotta leave for work in 45 minutes, so we'll see what I can non-accomplish in that time.
We've started building web pages on Front Page for my computer class. It's horrifying. It's got the same templates as Power Point. The agony! It's so dumbed down that I just go into the HTML area of it and do most of my editing there because that makes more sense to me for some reason. Especially with links and pictures.
Anywho, that's my ramble for the day, I gotta leave for work in 45 minutes, so we'll see what I can non-accomplish in that time.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
the itsy bitsy spider...
The stupid spider is gone. After sitting in the exact same place for an entire day, it's gone. You'd think that would make me feel better, but it really doesn't, because now I don't know where the thing is. I liked it better when I could see it, just sitting there idley, not when its spindley legged little self wandered off into the night.
My paycheck is still lost. Fan-friggin'-tastic. This is the most retarded thing on Earth.
Peat, Jill, and I spent probably an hour last night looking at Google Earth or Google Maps trying to locate the Great Wall of China. Peat found out that despite common belief, the Great Wall is not visible from outerspace, which made it very hard to find on the satellite picture program. We never did find it, and then trivia started, anyway.
Well, I guess it's another day at work. Bye!
My paycheck is still lost. Fan-friggin'-tastic. This is the most retarded thing on Earth.
Peat, Jill, and I spent probably an hour last night looking at Google Earth or Google Maps trying to locate the Great Wall of China. Peat found out that despite common belief, the Great Wall is not visible from outerspace, which made it very hard to find on the satellite picture program. We never did find it, and then trivia started, anyway.
Well, I guess it's another day at work. Bye!
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Friday, September 16, 2005
checking, schmecking.
Two posts in one day! Amazing, I know!
When I got hired on at the casino, I wasn't aware they didn't have a direct deposit system set up for paychecks. This isn't a problem normally, except that my bank is in Gillette, not in Spearfish or Deadwood. What about branches of the bank, you say? No, this bank has no branches, "only roots." I have no way of getting my money to my bank account in Gillette without setting up some pretty elaborate systems. So here's what I did:
Set up a checking account in the Spearfish bank where I already have a savings account (I only made the account so I could cash checks without being charged a fee).
Set up a SmartPay plan where I make my bank account in Gillette the payee, and all I have to do is enter how much money from my account in Spearfish that I want to send to my bank in Gillette. Seems pretty simple, right? Especially because it's online.
Well folks, it's really not that simple. It takes an additional WEEK for the "electronic" money to be sent to Gillette, which is only an hour and fifteen minutes away on the Interstate. Now, that just doesn't seem logical, does it? Well, it's not.
I called my bank/my mom to ask if my paycheck had been wired in yet. Nope, not yet. Well, that's funny, because the money has been taken out of my checking account in Spearfish. So I guess it's just floating around in space somewhere. Fantastic.
Called the Spearfish bank to see what's going on. They said it takes 5 business days to go through, and it's only been 4, and I need to be patient. I told the lady on the phone that it was rather silly to have to wait around an additional week to get my paycheck that I deposited in their bank on payday.
So what do I do? Order a box of checks from the Spearfish bank. When they come in, I will sign an entire book of checks, and send it in the mail to my mom (praying that it's not intercepted somewhere...oh jeez, that could be bad), and just call her up every payday and say, "My paycheck for $xxx is in, could you please write a check from my Spearfish account and deposit it in my Gillette account? Thank you."
Now, how much of a pain in the arse is this? It's quite a lot of work, I think. Some people say, "Just keep your checking account in Spearfish, that way you don't have to worry about all this." Well, that would be fine and dandy, especially since they have online checking and whatnot, but then I wouldn't have as much of a reason to call my mom and talk with her.
"Just cash the check when you get it." Well, then I couldn't pay my credit card bill, cell phone bill, electricity bill, or cable/internet bill, as those are all either taken out of my checking account either automatically, or they don't accept cash through the mail.
What a royal pain.
When I got hired on at the casino, I wasn't aware they didn't have a direct deposit system set up for paychecks. This isn't a problem normally, except that my bank is in Gillette, not in Spearfish or Deadwood. What about branches of the bank, you say? No, this bank has no branches, "only roots." I have no way of getting my money to my bank account in Gillette without setting up some pretty elaborate systems. So here's what I did:
Set up a checking account in the Spearfish bank where I already have a savings account (I only made the account so I could cash checks without being charged a fee).
Set up a SmartPay plan where I make my bank account in Gillette the payee, and all I have to do is enter how much money from my account in Spearfish that I want to send to my bank in Gillette. Seems pretty simple, right? Especially because it's online.
Well folks, it's really not that simple. It takes an additional WEEK for the "electronic" money to be sent to Gillette, which is only an hour and fifteen minutes away on the Interstate. Now, that just doesn't seem logical, does it? Well, it's not.
I called my bank/my mom to ask if my paycheck had been wired in yet. Nope, not yet. Well, that's funny, because the money has been taken out of my checking account in Spearfish. So I guess it's just floating around in space somewhere. Fantastic.
Called the Spearfish bank to see what's going on. They said it takes 5 business days to go through, and it's only been 4, and I need to be patient. I told the lady on the phone that it was rather silly to have to wait around an additional week to get my paycheck that I deposited in their bank on payday.
So what do I do? Order a box of checks from the Spearfish bank. When they come in, I will sign an entire book of checks, and send it in the mail to my mom (praying that it's not intercepted somewhere...oh jeez, that could be bad), and just call her up every payday and say, "My paycheck for $xxx is in, could you please write a check from my Spearfish account and deposit it in my Gillette account? Thank you."
Now, how much of a pain in the arse is this? It's quite a lot of work, I think. Some people say, "Just keep your checking account in Spearfish, that way you don't have to worry about all this." Well, that would be fine and dandy, especially since they have online checking and whatnot, but then I wouldn't have as much of a reason to call my mom and talk with her.
"Just cash the check when you get it." Well, then I couldn't pay my credit card bill, cell phone bill, electricity bill, or cable/internet bill, as those are all either taken out of my checking account either automatically, or they don't accept cash through the mail.
What a royal pain.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
pass the salt, please.
Last night, after six months of almost no contact at all, Wes decides to message me on MSN. He started off talking with Jill, who was giving me a play by play, and then finally IMd me about an hour later. I don't know what I was expecting from the encounter. Not instant forgiveness, that's for sure. And that's not what he got, either. In fact, talking to him and opening up those wounds all over again has made the forgiveness and any other "nice" feelings I had towards him go away.
He finally admitted to having cheated on me shortly after I left Tennessee the last time, but not after I had to dredge up every single detail that led me to that conclusion. He told me about the things that initially attracted him to me, and why the relationship didn't work in the end, and why he ended it the way he did.
And I really don't think it helped me.
It just brought up all that crap again, that I'd been working on dealing with and getting out of my system for the last six months and I want it to go away. I don't want to think about him whenever I see a commercial for "Travel Tennessee" or Dollywood or the Volunteers. I don't want to think about how he initiated conversation, how he's the one who said he wanted me to move to Tennessee to live with him when I was done with school. I just don't. I don't want Aaron to feel like this is something that could affect our relationship, because it won't.
I just need a few days, and things will be better. That's all. I guess that's my post for the day. Sorry it's so depressing, but even after last night, when I unloaded everything to Wes that I'd unloaded to everyone else, it still didn't help.
He finally admitted to having cheated on me shortly after I left Tennessee the last time, but not after I had to dredge up every single detail that led me to that conclusion. He told me about the things that initially attracted him to me, and why the relationship didn't work in the end, and why he ended it the way he did.
And I really don't think it helped me.
It just brought up all that crap again, that I'd been working on dealing with and getting out of my system for the last six months and I want it to go away. I don't want to think about him whenever I see a commercial for "Travel Tennessee" or Dollywood or the Volunteers. I don't want to think about how he initiated conversation, how he's the one who said he wanted me to move to Tennessee to live with him when I was done with school. I just don't. I don't want Aaron to feel like this is something that could affect our relationship, because it won't.
I just need a few days, and things will be better. That's all. I guess that's my post for the day. Sorry it's so depressing, but even after last night, when I unloaded everything to Wes that I'd unloaded to everyone else, it still didn't help.
Monday, September 12, 2005
there's a spider in my room...
Do you have any idea how impossibly hard it is to finish showering once you've turned around to rinse the shampoo from your hair, only to find a giant black spider on the tile wall of the shower? Yeah, pretty hard. Glued to the same spot, not getting too close to the spider, but still trying to move around because you still have to condition your hair and soap up...*shudder*
Today is my first "full" Monday as far as work and school are concerned. Although school has been in session for 2 weeks now, and I've been working at the casino for 4 weeks now, today is the first Monday that I've actually had a class. So I can clearly see that Mondays and Wendesdays are just going to stink because they're full of school/work, with only an hour or so break in between each session. I'm going to have to see if I can bring some homework to work and work on it during the slow periods, which will probably happen in the winter when all the snowbirds go to Arizona.
In other news, I don't really have any news. Mom came to Deadwood on Saturday, so when I got off work at 3:30pm, we went downtown and gambled away our money and ate some dinner, and had a good time, generally, except for the hour long trolley ride to the parking lot to get to my car that would have only taken us 20 minutes to walk there. I didn't realize that it went through all of Deadwood and Lead and probably some other town in the vicinity. Other than the trolley ride and losing money, it was a lot of fun.
My computer class is starting to annoy me because it's all stuff I've known since I was probably 12 years old. It's frustrating because this is a class that you have to take a pre-requisite course to get into, and be in the College of Education to get into. Well, I did not take a computer course in college, and I'm not in the College of Ed, and yet, here I am, in a class that should be the pre-requisite. It should be an easy "A" as long as I keep up with my daily assignments, which are for the most part, tedious and boring.
And that's my update. I had something else to talk about, but I'm not sure what it was, unless it was the zombie dream I had the other day at 2am that woke me out of a dead sleep and wouldn't let me fall back asleep for at least an hour.
Today is my first "full" Monday as far as work and school are concerned. Although school has been in session for 2 weeks now, and I've been working at the casino for 4 weeks now, today is the first Monday that I've actually had a class. So I can clearly see that Mondays and Wendesdays are just going to stink because they're full of school/work, with only an hour or so break in between each session. I'm going to have to see if I can bring some homework to work and work on it during the slow periods, which will probably happen in the winter when all the snowbirds go to Arizona.
In other news, I don't really have any news. Mom came to Deadwood on Saturday, so when I got off work at 3:30pm, we went downtown and gambled away our money and ate some dinner, and had a good time, generally, except for the hour long trolley ride to the parking lot to get to my car that would have only taken us 20 minutes to walk there. I didn't realize that it went through all of Deadwood and Lead and probably some other town in the vicinity. Other than the trolley ride and losing money, it was a lot of fun.
My computer class is starting to annoy me because it's all stuff I've known since I was probably 12 years old. It's frustrating because this is a class that you have to take a pre-requisite course to get into, and be in the College of Education to get into. Well, I did not take a computer course in college, and I'm not in the College of Ed, and yet, here I am, in a class that should be the pre-requisite. It should be an easy "A" as long as I keep up with my daily assignments, which are for the most part, tedious and boring.
And that's my update. I had something else to talk about, but I'm not sure what it was, unless it was the zombie dream I had the other day at 2am that woke me out of a dead sleep and wouldn't let me fall back asleep for at least an hour.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
quick post
Just a quick one before I scamper off to work:
I got a fancy new cell phone; camera, speaker, color screen bigger than my iPod mini's, this and that. The first person to call me on it? The former roomie, Jill! Even though I didn't answer it because I had the ringer volume set to super low and it was out in the kitchen. Whoops! And so far, most of my calls have been the wrong number. I got two wrong numbers yesterday, and another one the day before. The weird thing? I haven't even changed my phone number.
Also, while doing laundry yesterday, I found myself with a "laundry cube," something that should never occur, unless your clothes have been sitting for far too long in a basket. And I think there were too many of them. I mean, I just peeled off layers of this cube, and it still maintained its form.
And finally, Mom is coming to Deadwood today, so after I get off work at 3, we're going to go around to some of the other casinos and have a good ol' time. And then tomorrow is when I do homework!
I got a fancy new cell phone; camera, speaker, color screen bigger than my iPod mini's, this and that. The first person to call me on it? The former roomie, Jill! Even though I didn't answer it because I had the ringer volume set to super low and it was out in the kitchen. Whoops! And so far, most of my calls have been the wrong number. I got two wrong numbers yesterday, and another one the day before. The weird thing? I haven't even changed my phone number.
Also, while doing laundry yesterday, I found myself with a "laundry cube," something that should never occur, unless your clothes have been sitting for far too long in a basket. And I think there were too many of them. I mean, I just peeled off layers of this cube, and it still maintained its form.
And finally, Mom is coming to Deadwood today, so after I get off work at 3, we're going to go around to some of the other casinos and have a good ol' time. And then tomorrow is when I do homework!
Thursday, September 08, 2005
i'm a big, dumb, dummy dumbhead
After weeks of searching for my missing driver's license, I gave up, and today I drove to Sundance with two forms of identification so I could get my picture taken, take a vision test, and wait 30 days for my new license to come in the mail.
As I'm scrounging around in my wallet to try to find my school ID, I see it, there, under my CPR and First Aid certification cards - my driver's license. Tucked under there, instead of on top of them, in the window, where it should have been. I wanted to hit myself in the head with a hammer. I can't believe I did that.
So I drove back, speeding most of the way, now that I didn't have to be so careful anymore, picked up my paycheck from work, deposited it, and cashed in all my $1 bills and coins from tips. Then, 20 minutes before class, I realized I had an assignment to read two articles and write a paper on them. Damnit to hell.
On a more positive note, we had our apartment warming party last night, and quite a few of Aaron's friends showed up (they're all my friends, but through association with Aaron), and we had a good time. Chips, dip, taquitos, cheese and crackers, with some music for atmosphere. It was fun and nice to let everyone know they were welcome to come here and hang out if they wanted to.
But, now I am off to class, the one where I forgot to read the articles. Great.
As I'm scrounging around in my wallet to try to find my school ID, I see it, there, under my CPR and First Aid certification cards - my driver's license. Tucked under there, instead of on top of them, in the window, where it should have been. I wanted to hit myself in the head with a hammer. I can't believe I did that.
So I drove back, speeding most of the way, now that I didn't have to be so careful anymore, picked up my paycheck from work, deposited it, and cashed in all my $1 bills and coins from tips. Then, 20 minutes before class, I realized I had an assignment to read two articles and write a paper on them. Damnit to hell.
On a more positive note, we had our apartment warming party last night, and quite a few of Aaron's friends showed up (they're all my friends, but through association with Aaron), and we had a good time. Chips, dip, taquitos, cheese and crackers, with some music for atmosphere. It was fun and nice to let everyone know they were welcome to come here and hang out if they wanted to.
But, now I am off to class, the one where I forgot to read the articles. Great.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
random post #49,583
Well, not much here. Just doing my obligatory update to keep my fans happy. *Hi Mom!*
One of the new cashiers at work was fired today because she has a bad personality and no one can get along with her. I only worked with her a few times, so I'm not really sure what she was like, except neither were very pleasant experiences.
I still can't find my driver's license, so I'm going to have to go to Sundance, Wyoming to the DMV to get another one on Thursday. The lady who does that is only in Sundance (the closest town in Wyoming with a DMV to me here in South Dakota) on Mondays and Thursdays, and since this coming Monday is Labor Day, she won't be there. Then I'll probably have to wait for another month before it comes in the mail. Bastards. Just print it up there!
Gasoline has jumped up to $3.09/gallon here. I never thought I'd see that day. I thought $2/gallon was outrageous, and now this. I'm buying a moped.
Oh, I got a Flickr badge thingie like Sarah on my side panel! It's fun, but I can only download so many pictures per month, so that kinda stinks, but check it out. Well, maybe not, 'cause they're probably all the same pictures I have up on my photoblog. Never mind. But the badge is awesome.
And that's it for today. I can never think of anything to say on here, but I can sure think of some cool stuff while I'm driving around in my car. Damn you, short term memory!
One of the new cashiers at work was fired today because she has a bad personality and no one can get along with her. I only worked with her a few times, so I'm not really sure what she was like, except neither were very pleasant experiences.
I still can't find my driver's license, so I'm going to have to go to Sundance, Wyoming to the DMV to get another one on Thursday. The lady who does that is only in Sundance (the closest town in Wyoming with a DMV to me here in South Dakota) on Mondays and Thursdays, and since this coming Monday is Labor Day, she won't be there. Then I'll probably have to wait for another month before it comes in the mail. Bastards. Just print it up there!
Gasoline has jumped up to $3.09/gallon here. I never thought I'd see that day. I thought $2/gallon was outrageous, and now this. I'm buying a moped.
Oh, I got a Flickr badge thingie like Sarah on my side panel! It's fun, but I can only download so many pictures per month, so that kinda stinks, but check it out. Well, maybe not, 'cause they're probably all the same pictures I have up on my photoblog. Never mind. But the badge is awesome.
And that's it for today. I can never think of anything to say on here, but I can sure think of some cool stuff while I'm driving around in my car. Damn you, short term memory!
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