Just Pass Me By

Boy I am having the time of my life lately. I am not having fun at work, it’s a difficult job, everything employment wise for hubby and I seem a little up in the air okay I can handle this it called temp work. Eventually a company will want to hire us on so i am not letting it get to me. This morning I lift for work. Ever have one of those days where you should have just stayed in bed. I think I am having a month of I should have just not woke up this morning and remained in my nice warm bed.

I lift for work and smelled a mild smell of gas, I thought nothing of it because I was near the gas station at the time and it seemed to dissipate, I got to work on time. I was anti social I just did not want to talk to anyone after what happened Friday. I lift work and smelled gas when I started up my van. Hmm odd this hasn’t happened before.

I got home and the gas smell was very strong, I thought nothing of it because the engine was running fun and there was no sign of any leaking yet. I decided to treat my self to a bagel, because hubby is going out with a friend tonight to watch the game. I got to my bagel place, yummy all i could think about is the smoke salmon sandwhich I was going to eat for dinner. Yummy.. it was good. When I parked I noticed the gas smell was sicking strong, and the hood was steaming. Last time I had a car steam this much it was because the water pump decided it was going to break down, but the van wasn’t over heating, and it was running smoothly still. So i figured maybe it the coldness outside and it just being strange.

Well I got out of the bagel place and the van smelled badly of gas. I turned on the car, when I lift the gas was just over 3/4 tanks lift. I was thinking I have enough gas to last me the rest of this week and next week since i work close to home. I turned on the car it had used up 2 bars of gas. My heart sank, by the time I drove the van home, my gas was well under a half tank. This is not good I got it into the garage and popped the hood. It the roof was all wet this is bad it smells like gas. Well i didn’t realize i got what ever it was in my hair, which it was gas because that what my head smelt like. There roof foam or what ever it was is soaking wet with Gas.

Great time to call the mechanic who I bought the car from and tell him what going on he ask me what I think it was. My first response is well there gas allover the place, so it gotta be something to do with the gas. I am not sure if it the pump, the fuel, or some other thing to do with the fuel system. Great just what I need I just got the car in September. So I kindof fell it should always need a tow to the mechanic, but I guess that how the cookies crumbling today. I spent 1200 on a car that already needing repairs. Wonderful…. I can’t drive the van if it spraying out gas all over the place.

Otis, likes water, but will scream in the bathtub bloody murder. So why does this cat want in the bathtub when I am taking a bath or a shower. If he don’t like being cleaned he shouldn’t like being in it with me.

It is winter here in Minnesota and very cold. Normally I do not give Otis baths after September because I feel it is just to cold for bathing him and he takes forever to dry out. I give him a bath once in the spring time and once in the fall time. This helps my allergies not become to bad, and well it keeps him smelling fresh. Otis s long haired so he gets brushed often. Normally before bathing him I will brush him out get as much loose hair as possible off of him, because we all know cat hear in the drain is not fun to deal with. After he is dried I will brush him again and clip his claw, then he will be mad for a bit.

I put a heater into the bathroom so that it does not get to cold. I put that down on the floor while i was drying Otis. Otis was happy to just seat at the hot air blowing out at him, yet he don’t like blow driers. I will ever do that again I tried to blow dry him once and *laughing* it was not pleasant I thought he was going to tear my hand off. I also raised the heat in the apartment so that it would be toasty in here. I do not want him to get cold. He hasn’t even shivered like he does in the summer when i don’t bother with turning on the heat.

I let out Otis after he was some what dry, and he ran into the living room area, and gave me the evil eye then started cleaning himself again. You’d think he had a bath already he don’t need another bath.

Yes you read the title right, and it was almost just like a bar, they had beer. I was a little shocked when I found out about this, Yes we are a good team at work and get our work done and get it done a head of time. So it was nice of them to throw us a happy hour, but they should have watch how much some of the staff were drinking. Most companies I have worked at will have things like this after business hour at a restaurant and will not pay for the alcohol.

Honestly I did not have a good day at work. First thing this morning almost I was yelled at by someone for being happily married. He was bitter because he is in the middle of a divorce. Well I do have to say he has a Biblically reason to leave his wife, or should I say his wife does. Well he seemed to calm down with the adult drinks, and was a little nicer and easier to deal with.

Honestly I have never worked at a company that had a happy hour and actually served us beer, I did not drink, they had the option of pop. We had Mexican lunch today it was pretty good but I know the place they order from isn’t a place I could eat because of my pork and beef allergies.

A few of the men got a little hyper after having a drink and well we’ll just say they where rather honest about looking at woman in a sexual way. I think they might want to rename the company sometimes because sex is talked about even with out drinks. Then they got on the topic of hitting woman, I have a look my grandma and husband probably know well. The Look of “this is not funny at all, and I am becoming pissed.”

At one point in time our boss had to come and tell 2 guys they needed to calm down, or else she’d get in trouble and then we wouldn’t be allowed to do this again. She said people where still working and this isn’t a bar. Personally I think they where looking for trouble not supervising how much Alcohol people where taking, you have to think Alcohol and working doesn’t always work very well and may hinder other workers, thank goodness no one was on the phone during this time.

I am growing so unhappy at this assignment but I know my husband and I need the income so I just hang in there, and say nothing. I should say something but then I won’t have work and I will never get back to college. I feel so trapped here, I am in the middle of my degree and can’t even go back to school because I am not making enough money to pay my tuition.

Lately it seems that Otis is watching the parking lot, from the patio window. It is funny, I drive by the window and there his little head picking out of the window. He must now my van, when I got in from parking in the garage he was right there at the door waiting for me to get in.

It never fails Otis wants to be right under my feet it is a wonder I don’t trip and break my nick because he under my feet so much. I know he just wanting to greet me, and probably happy to see me home, but can’t he just let me get through the front door, and out of that little hallway area.

Otis thinks my new teddy bears grandma gave to be belong to him. It is funny, he gets very caring with them bears. I got him a duck which he doesn’t play with he mothers the duck.. I think my cat sometimes thinks he a dog.

Otis has been on Sensitive Purina One food for several years now. Otis if he eats normal food will just give it back the same way it came from. Over the weekend I told my husband to stop and get cat food, and cat litter with a few items I had forgot for Sunday Dinner, and my sink plug. Well, he went to Target which is where I normally buy the cat food, no cat food. Target didn’t have my drain plug for the sink neither. Oh well, so Craig decided to go to Cub Foods.

Craig, was able to find the drain plug but no cat food. Okay no worry at least not yet, because I had about 3 to 4 days of Cat food so i wasn’t getting to upset. Yesterday we went back to Target still no Sensitive System Cat food. Well anyone who is a cat own or a pet owner knows changing the cat food can be a bad idea. Craig started getting upset and worried last night because I only had 2 more days worth of good for Otis. I still was not worried because I figured I could always go to Pet Smart or a the Pet Store over by Cubs Foods if they still didn’t have it by Thursday. I did get one thing from Target I wanted and that was Harry Potter 5, so I guess it was worth the run, but forgot to get a few pairs of winter soaks

Craig was so set on making sure the Cat had food before it ran out, that he wanted to go to Rainbow which is a more high cost store. They had the Cat food but it was a little over a dollar more then Target would have been, Pet Smart might have been more but I don’t know. I have found in the lower cost food Purina One is the best for my cat, some of the other brands he hasn’t responded well to.

Tonight my husband and I went out for dinner. We went to a restaurant called Majors here in the cities. They are a sports bar type of place. They have good food and so far I have been able to eat there with out getting sick this is a good things.

When we got their we told the host we would like to be seated, she asked if it was for the bar, we said No. She told us seating was seat yourself, so my husband and I went and seated ourselves and was basically ignored until a young waitress had seen us there.

I told my husband we would give it a couple more minutes then leave, because this is not good customer service and if we get waited on the tip would reflect how we where treated in the beginning. Our waitress came to us, and we told her what had happened, and she apologized and decided to wait on us herself. She did a great job.

She took our drink orders, and then took our meal order when we where ready. I have allergies and sometimes it is hard to place a order but this place it is fairly easy. We placed our order and we had lift overs. Yummy. Our waitress did very well, and her tip reflected it. We gave her a 20% tip which is good and what is expected for the most. Major has always had good customer service, and tonight showed that they have good customer service and are able to recover after miss communications.

This morning I got ready for work and was ready to walk out the door. I try to be to work by 650-7am, I ended up being late, because I could not find my keys anywhere. I looked on top of the filing cabinet, inside the filing cabinet doors, in my favorite chair cushion, in my office, in my bathroom and in the bedroom. I could not find the keys.

I finally decided I would just leave for work, I would just end up leaving the sliding door open we live in a safe neighbor hood and my neighbors watch out for each other.. I looked in the kitchen one last time before I lift. I went to work, I do not attach my house key and car keys. I have a key holder up, I usually put the keys up there. On Saturday we went shopping for some items for our Hanukkah party. We first brought up all of our groceries and later I went to go and get the mail.

It was all junk mail, so I came back intending on throwing it away. Today at work I was trying to retrace my steps in my mind and Praying that I would remember where to look. I started wondering if I might have done a stupid thing and throw away the keys because I had throw away the advertisements, and I had looked everywhere. I texted messaged my husband and asked him if he had seen them and he hadn’t then I told him I think I might have threw them away.

I came back home, and got in the house. I started searching through my dirty Clothes just in case I lift them in my pants I was wearing and they fall out. Not in there, I looked again in my office and bathroom, and took everything off the coach. No keys great! Now I am starting to stress because to replace the keys will be $40. I decided I would look in my tool box which was on top of my filing cabinet. Guess what I found when I moved my tool box. My keys were between the wall and the tool box. I should just start looking in all the odd places first.

I am 31 so I am still to young to have a senior moment but lately my keys are hard to keep track of.

I have never had a car that had ABS breaks, all my cars where way to old to have it. This morning I was on my way to work leaving my apartment parking lot. I was probably going a little to fast, with the snow still on the ground and wasn’t thinking. I hit my breaks and all the sudden the stupid van started pumping the breaks for me. I am so used to having to do it on my own, that at the same time it started pumping I was starting to pump.

I made my sudden stop with no problems and no sliding but the ABS Breaks really bugged me this morning, but I know it is best to have them in a van incase there are problems stopping or if i hit the break to hard.

I am not used to it making the pumping noise and still cause me to just about jump.

Today I came home from work and was kind of in one of those moods. You, the one where you just don’t like any one being around you. Last weekend my husband got Blue Dragon for the Xbox360. Yesterday was the first time I played it, I didn’t lost in the game.

Today I got home said Gee I will play for a hour or so then get done and start my teaching for Sunday Study in a chat room I belong to I will be teaching a little bit about Chanukkah.

Blue Dragon isn’t normally the style of game I enjoy playing, it not free enough with the character I like going everywhere and searching everything. It is a lot more free then some other games I have played. The battle sequins I normally do not like I like that to be more action then telling the character what to do and then having them do it I like pushing them controller buttons I guess. My husband had to stop at a store on the way home. I should have been done playing no later then 430pm well I went 2 hours over that time.

I was having fun looking for stuff and trying to figure out things in the game and fighting the bad guys. I wish my black mage, and my guardian would get more attack skills.  I am happy that the monsters I have to battle in the beginning aren’t totally impossible to kill, some games are like that, and how most of their quest fight the difficulty for your characters level. I have played some games where you do the main story and you die several times just trying to figure out what in the world your supposed to do. Right now I am very suck on one of my DS Games, I like the PS3 version of the game but i am stuck in my handle held game. I think games should increase in hardness and not just be hard to begin with.

My husband computer started to crash on him. He’s hard drive was making a lot of noise and he decided he would try to get another hard drive and make it work that way. He did not realize how much trouble that would cause him. We did a system recovery, and it did not work. Great he just lost all his files because he does not back his computer up. He is not a patient person when it comes to getting things to work the way he wants them to.

I tried telling him what to try and well either I wasn’t clear in telling him or I should have just done it for him. He finally gave up on the computer, well he ended up with my new desktop computer which is good because his mother board is seeming to have troubles.  I figured give him my desktop computer because I only use it for music, so we will have to get me a new computer later which will need 2 hard drives. We will start saving up again, wonder how long this will take to save for.

Craig was rather stressed about all the data he lost on his computer I have a few friends who are computer techs, so i told him not to get raid of the hard drive and I would talk to them. He told me if I wanted to try to get it to work then I could. I decided I would give it a try with out him at the computer, it is easier to explain things when your doing it and not trying to get them to do it.

I did a system recovery. It acted like it didn’t go through but i told it to continue, and it did it took it about a hour to figure out how to get to the main part of the computer.

my husband CD ROM drive was not showing up, which is a whole other issue. We did not have enough floppy disk to take care of all his data. My husband remembered he had a port in his PC which allows him to copy music onto his PSP ( Portable Play Station) It got all of his important information saved and allowed him to save to his new computer. Way to go PSP makers they are data savers…

It is funny because my husband prides himself on all his computer knowledge, and I really don’t think I have much knowledge, But i do know a lot about computers.  I was surprised that the PSP memory stick would actually do that. I think soon I will go to Target or Wal-mart and get him a Flash drive so he can have his data saved there too.

Our computer maker wanted us to pay them 60 bucks for help and only for 3 days worth of help, we decided that wasn’t going to work.