I'm Dancing Barefoot, Headed For A Spin

I feel so virtuous. Feel, not am, but hey that is a start right? I have officially gone back and tagged all of my old posts from pre-beta times. The ping servers must love me :P

Speaking of tracking blog related things I keep getting folks here via "suckthisblog.com." Talk about a laugh when I saw that. Hello...how's about you buy dinner first? My blog is not that kind of girl!

Kidlet is at her dad's tonight, I get her back extra tomorrow as he is out of town on business again. Oh and he brought up taking the classes and filing the papers to actually get a divorce. After 7 years. I pointed out that it would cost several hundreds of bucks and I was not feeling that. He still owes me 600 for the first go around. I'd rather buy a laptop, kthx.

On other ex front news, I did hear from the BF variety regarding the kidlet email. We actually have emailed back and forth a few times. I did tell him he was right about kidlet being accident prone. She is a Sagitarrius and so is he and he told me to get friendly with the ER staff. He called that one.

On injured kidlet front, her butt that she broke rollerskating (!) is doing much better. She is pestering me for summer vacation plans. If I could go anywhere, I'd hit Atlanta and then take the Crescent to New Orleans. I LOVE train travel. I'd acutally love to be able to take a sleeper car to Atlanta and then from there hit NOLA and come home. Of course, that is seriously spendy. I'd love roadtripping that as well. Fuck that, I'd love to just be able to move. 6 years 1 month. I am counting the days people. Approx 2200 if you are curious.

What I think we will shoot for the Rocky Horror roadtrip up to Washington.

And now I am off to killer trees and see if I can find any coffee to make in this joint. It's cold today too and there are a shit ton of people in the building for a Saturday.

Oh and the mole from yesterday was AWESOME!

The Middle Of The Road Is Trying To Find Me

Ah another joyous day at Ye Olde Sales Office. Actually it stands to be a fairly good day. Get this, kidlet's dad made a dental appointment for her with the dentist he is seeing for his cracked molar. In addition to making the appointment...he is picking her up and taking her to the appointment!

The Devil Wears Parka... and is ice skating in Hell cause it done froze over.

I almost fell off the couch last night when he said he would take her.

Speaking of snow, it looks as though the Pacific Northwest might be getting some tonight and/or tomorrow. That is going to mean the commute from hell. We don't have nearly enough snow plows and Oregonians won't use road salt cause it might hurt the wittle trees. Mind you, they only need to use it maybe once a year. I guess they prefer the damage cars cause trees by, oh I don't know, running into them :p

I grew up in Utah, people, I am allowed to be snarky about their lack of snow sense!

One Night In Bangkok And The World's Your Oyster

Thai food tonight me thinks. Ohh...or Pho or Bun. I am in a soup mood and at the same time filled with very little inclination to cook. I'd make the Killer Beer Cheese Soup but the idea of peeling 12 potatos is unappealing.

Ba dum dum.

That's right folks I'll be here all week.

Which in fact I will. Doing dinner at Mom's tomorrow night and then will be in to work on Saturday and Sunday. Just not sure how long. Monday I am taking off completely. I am already down for a friggin road trip. I have to get on HWY 26 and cruise out like I am going to the coast to meet the Ex (husband variety) and pick up the kid around 10:30 on Monday am. Sort of a rest area swap since they are spending Christmas Eve at his girlfriends parents house. And they live out in the back of beyond halfway to the beach in methlab land.

I had offered to drive her half way to Gresham that night so she could see HIS family but she is not feeling that much running around and has put the breaks on that idea. Sucks that she has to spend Christmas Eve with a bunch of people she could give a rats ass about, but oh well. You can't pick your parents or the skeezes they date.

I did the good mommy routine last night and took her out to buy Christmas presents for her dad and his girlfriend. Yes, you read that right. Her father is that much of an asshat that he doesn't think to help her with presents for people like his girlfriend or gosh, me, her own mother. I have purchased every Father's Day, Christmas, and birthday gift he has ever had from her in his entire life and that includes the last 7 years since we split up. My mom pays for mine. He pays for jack.

I did draw the line at getting anything for her obnoxious Emo Spawn children. Uh uh honey, Mama don't play that.

All The People So Many People

Lost and found ex is found. He was apparently too tired to call. And his blackberry thingie is broken. And he forgot my office number. And apparently his girlfriend's phone didn't work. Oh and Kidlet's phone that is over at his house didn't work. And my emails that he was able to read on his laptop were unanswerable. Oh and they didn't have my office number on them, even though every single frickin other email I send has my signature and phone number.

You get the point. Whole lotta excuses. Poor kidlet. What is worse, worry your dad is hurt or missing or finding out he just kinda blew you off. To go to a movie. We finally got a hold of him around 6. Mmmk.

THIS is why we are no longer co-habitating, kthx.

It does no good to get pissed either. He lives in his own world and I am sure has any number of reasons why we are over reacting, possibly even mentally ill in our need for communication and attention. That last bit, in case you are wondering, is a oldie but goodie he used to toss at me when I wanted him to log off his damn computer and actually spend time with me. Mentally unstable person that I am :P

Enough about him. Meh.

SO....Eval. It went fine. I got the low end of what I thought I would get, mostly because I had more than 6 personal ill days. Yes 6. In a year. And that is for things like the Air Conditioner dude not showing up as well as my flu. So I got a 3% rather than a 3.5% raise. Big whoop. I think that works out to a whopping 120 bucks a YEAR less after taxes. The hardest part was the freaky mental image of Gwar and chickens and sex I was talking about yesterday.Ended up be the only amusing part of my day.

On a side note I am THRILLED to see that Rupert Murdoch has called off that entire OJ debacle. Our local station had already announced it would not air the interview which makes me even more happy that I took the time to email them and threaten a boycott!

Ever Lost An Ex?

Kidlet's dad (Ex, husband variety) appears to have vanished. He was in Spain on business from the 8th -18th. Last he called and talked to Kidlet was Sunday the 12th. Now not hearing from him while he is out of town and many hours time difference away is not all that unusual. But not hearing from him at all the day he was supposed to fly home is. Or the day after he was supposed to be home. Or today.

He is not answering his phone (again, this is not a biggie) and he is not answering text messages. So if he does not surface by tonight, I suppose we go over there and bang on the door. His girlfriend is not answering HER phone either. If she went postal and did anything to the kidlet's dad, I am so going to have to put the smackdown on her ass. If he is just flaking out, well then, he is going to have some explaining to do, cause kidlet is seriously upset.

On a lighter note, I am on my way to part 2 of my review. Unfortunately, Belle has this seriously deranged post up over at her site and the mental images it has induced are scarring me. Therefore I must inflict it on you. Go check her out!

So You Can't See Me.. No, Not At All

Go on Jump to the left.

Well of course I am.

I was Magenta with a french maid outfit, feather duster, and once even a blow dryer. Kiddo is literally climbing the walls to go see a midnight show. Sucks that they changed the theater it plays at here in PDX to a bar/movie theater. Now I can't take her until she is 21. Unless we road trip to Washington State. Which, yes, I would do. For Rocky? No problemo.

Sucky day. I am flat fucking broke, found out I don't get extended ill unless written off work by a doctor (like I could get my sick ass to a doctor, I could barely care for my kid) and paperwork turned in. So. Fine. Buh Bye 200.00 bucks I was counting on. Going to overdraw ye olde checking account again and the fine folks at WAMU can deal. Would be HELPFUL if the ex (husband variety) paid his childsupport and his half of the back to school expences. He's at 227.00 right now and count. Gonna be 377.00 come Monday.

Did I mention he works at Intel? And NOT as a lowly dweeb?

Grr.