Yesterday I was checking out my FB News Feed and saw that Pat Robertson was quoted as saying “Gay People will die off eventually, they don’t reproduce.” Really? Maybe he doesn’t realize but its Straight people that reproduce and there is a chance their offspring could be GLBT. Duh!
My money is in the bank this morning and I have already scheduled the pay off of my credit cards. Of course not before going bat shit crazy last night with yet more stuff to order. I am honestly done now, until the next irresistible item comes along and catches my eye. I have a decent amount of money left.
I just called the old mortgage company and they finally have refunded the escrow money. As I suspected they mailed the money to his bankruptcy attorney. I phoned him and he is going to send me the 1 check he received and will be looking for the 2nd check, if he finds it then he will mail it to me. I will be eagerly watching the mail. I also told him about my plans to pay off the bankruptcy early and he told me NOT to do so, as it would cause problems. So I will just continue with the regular monthly payments until we reach the magic number next year This of course means that any tax refund that he gets will be subject to being taken by the government, even though it is totally my money. Ah well at least this is the last year I will have that problem. I told the attorney that I was able to get the house in my name and he was surprised that it took me so long.
I have received confirmation that my latest shipment of toys is waiting for me on my porch. 5 packages and I am sure the UPS person is cussing at me for ordering so much. Just so long as it’s all there when I get home. I am going to have a blast this weekend playing with toys. I have to setup my Roku Stick, The Cameras and the Wii that I got. I just hope I am happy with all of them. Oh yeah then there is the manual labor job of replacing the rollers in the garage. I sure hope that goes well and is painless – but something tells me it will be no picnic. I also have to get my haircut, it’s getting long again but that is just from my eyes. Everyone else in the world thinks I have short hair.
Last night I got some cream to vacuum out my pores on Birchbox. Amazon had a sweet deal on steam mops so I got a replacement Shark Steam Mop for the one that broke. I love cleaning with steam and then I don’t have to worry about the animals eating off of the floor or getting contact dermatitus. Chemicals make me nervous. Speaking of which the pee pads seem to serve as a special resting place for everyone. They love to lay on them. I of course make sure they aren’t wet and it is all good. Bear appears to be using the litter box. Hopefully, things stay that way. Depending upon how I feel I may or may not try to clean up the mess he made. The smell has died down which was my concern. Perhaps I should leave well enough alone.
The commute home last night was brutal once again. However, the commute on the way in this morning was a breeze. You could see the difference in the volume. So hopefully that means the commute home will be a breeze, which would be very much welcome.
The on-call schedule came out yesterday. Oh boy I kind of got a bad deal but there is good news. So I am on in late January, take a week’s break and then am on the following week. The first shift will be no problem. The second one things are changing and we are only going to have one person supporting everyone after hours. While this is good in that it will give us all a break it will also mean that when we are on-call that the work load will increase because there will be a greater responsibility and that will include getting woken up more than once in the middle of the night. At least the potential is there, hopefully it won’t happen as often as I expect it to. The good news is that I will be done until the end of May when the next part of the schedule comes out. That will be one sweet break! Our boss had someone pull names out of a hat to populate the weeks. I personally think that is a crappy deal because a lot of people got a way worse deal than I did. It would be far better if she just assigned people based upon a rotation or let people pick by seniority. Ah, well it’s done not much I can do about it.
It’s a calm day here, a lot of people are off or started a vacation. New policy this year you can only carry over a weeks worth of time, so that prompted a lot of people to take off. They don’t want to lose their time, which makes sense I am carrying sometime over. You never know when you might need a day or a week. I actually try to use days instead of taking an entire week until I have a decent amount of time built up. Going on vacation is nice but you need a destination and I haven’t been on a true vacation for a very long time. The problem with going on vacation is that you have all of this crap piled up when you get back.
I got a package in inner office mail today. It was a box of cookies from a co-worker that I met earlier this year. We have worked together off and on over the course of the year and this was very much a welcome surprise. She made Chocolate Chip cookies and you can taste Chocolate Liqueur, nice! I really don’t need them but glad that she sent them. Kind of makes me feel obligated to go out tomorrow on Oh Shit Saturday and pick her up something. I won’t but I feel like I should. I will call her and thank her instead. That is the very least I can do. I really would like to open up to a few people but realize the risk involved so think of it as a fleeting thought. I got a friend request from another co-worker and well honestly don’t want to accept it. Not because of her but because it’s pretty easy to deduce from my FB page that I am gay and she is friends with lots of other people that work here and the last thing I want is a flood of friend requests only to be in the office gossip. I kind of hate to hurt her feelings but I am just letting the request sit for now. I also realize I can limit what she can see but that only implies that I am hiding something, which I am.
Next week all 3 days will be the last week that I work in complete quiet here. A co-worker from another office is relocating and will be in at the end of the month. I hope he doesn’t make too much noise and that by his being here it doesn’t take away my freedom. Time will tell.
I have succumbed to being sucked back in to the on-line dating thing. I have reinstalled some selected apps on my phone. I am not back on every site I was before. I want to see if maybe I have better luck. I don’t know that it’s common for people, let alone 2 guys to find love via the internet. To find someone to sleep with for one night, yeah that is easy to accomplish no matter who you are. I am surprised my will power didn’t last longer but I was going through serious withdrawals.
I wore my fitness thingy to bed last night, told it I was going to sleep and told it this morning that I woke up. Then it told me that I met my sleep goal of 8 hours of sleep. Funny, I didn’t set a goal must have been a preset I wonder what it will do if/when I take naps. Guess were going to find out! I am happy with my purchase but kind of feels like I am a slave to a piece of technology. Then again the same could be said for my phone. Unplugging and just taking a tech holiday is nice However, you can’t totally escape tech. It’s in the car, the microwave so you have to deal with it at some point. Still its’ nice to be able to turn the world off. I usually try for that at some point over the weekend. It’s tough though to not have my phone to check but usually I wind up sleeping some of the time away so it’s not too bad.
Well I am getting very sleepy and that is not a good thing. I need to get up and walk around so get the blood pumping and then eat my lunch and watch You Tube Videos which will probably make me even more drowsy, but it’s a day in the life. We are on the down hill slide and the next 5 and 1/2 hours should hopefully fly by. Who knows I may even sneak out early. Shh don’t tell anyone. :)
Have a great weekend. I hope that your holiday shopping is done and that you are able to relax and be with the ones you love this holiday season. Appreciate them for all they are worth and let them know it. Because in the blink of an eye things can be different. I will talk with you peeps later.
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