My new favorite song starts out like this....
"Look what you've done, you've made a fool of everyone....
Oh, it seems like such fun until you lose what you had won"
It is Jet sounding very Beatle-esque and I have to admit that I REALLY enjoy this song. Hmph.
So....Thanksgiving is today. I am spending yet another holiday without my family. Not by my choosing....I am very willing to drive the 5+ hours to visit my relatives. It is because they are too dysfunctional/depressed to get it together to spend one day together in the same room with each other. For fuck's sake...what's the big deal? I mean, I don't care how fat you may think you are, how dirty your house may be, how you don't feel like cooking 700 different dishes....it's a holiday for pete's sake, and we should be together. Whatever. I'm over it. If we were together, I would say something stupid to piss someone off and they would end up throwing a turkey leg or perhaps some giblets (whatever those are) at me. Food fights at family gatherings are NOT unheard of. You don't believe me? I can tell you stories about the Christmas of '87 that you wouldn't believe.
So, I have been incommunicado for the past 2 weeks due to a disagreement that the phone company and I had recently. They thought I should pay my bill on a certain date, and I thought I should be special enough to pay it the day after said due date. In a outlandish attempt to assert their superiority, they disconnected me. Can you fucking believe it? Well, they did. So, I have spent the last 2 weeks on the phone with these morons trying to figure out why each and every day I still didn't have phone service. First it was, "Well, the work order takes from 1-5 days...just wait and call us on the fifth day if it's not on." Then, on the fifth day, "Well, I don't know. Please hold. I'll check." Then, phone company moron #2 politely tells me that the reconnection could take up to 7 days and to call back on the 7th day. Then, on the 7th day, I call back only to be told that no work order was ever put in to have my phone turned back on and that she (phone company moron #3) will "personally guarantee" that my phone will be on the next day. So, was it, you ask? No. So, I call back yesterday and am told that my old number no longer exists (even though if I call it, it says it's been disconnected) and that I'll have to be issued a new number. So, I get my fancy new number (which will take me at least 6 months to remember) and am told that it will take an additional 1-5 days to get my new service. Well, by that time I was too exhaused to argue about it, even though the inconvenience of not having a phone for the next 5 days was daunting. Luckily, when I got home last night, my phone was indeed with service. So, to all of you that thought perhaps I had been murdered, kidnapped, locked up, or abducted by aliens....don't worry...I'm fine.
In other interesting news, I received an application at work from a guy whose nickname is "Killer". Yes, he listed it on his application...like he expected me to put it on his nametag. Now, to all of you who thinks it's a good idea to list your nickname on a job application....it's not. When I talked to this person, he HAD been convicted of a felony (I didn't ask why)....I can only assume that he came by the Killer nickname honestly. Now why would I, or anyone else hire someone whose chosen name was Killer? I just wanted to put it out there that this is NOT a smart idea in case anyone was contemplating doing such a thing anytime soon.
I hate how right around the holidays all the cool stuff that I want to buy comes out. I mean, every year this stuff appears right before Christmas and I spend the next 10 months allocating certain amounts of my paychecks to buying DVD's/CD's/Books. Just when I think I have all the awesome stuff that I could possibly want to own....here comes Christmas again and there's all this new stuff to lust after. For example, the 4th season of Mr. Show, the 1st and 2nd seasons of Ren and Stimpy, the first 3 seasons of Seinfeld, along with Harry Potter, the Star Wars trilogy, Spider-Man 2, and a new Radiohead DVD have all been put out within the last month. Along with numerous CD's and books that there's just not enough room to mention. How depressing. The old addage that "money doesn't buy happiness" just doesn't hold true for me. Don't get me wrong, I am happy now. But if I had all of the stuff I actually wanted, it would be multiplied. I mean, I'm not trying to come off as a materialistic bastard, but things are nice. You know it...they are.
Well, I just got off the phone with my girl, and she is on her way here with my Thanksgiving goodies. I can't wait to eat...I'm starving. I have to say, despite all my angsty bickering about crap....I am really happy right now. The girl is perfect, this relationship is perfect, and I couldn't be happier. Each and every day I give thanks that she's in my life.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!!
Oh, it seems like such fun until you lose what you had won"
It is Jet sounding very Beatle-esque and I have to admit that I REALLY enjoy this song. Hmph.
So....Thanksgiving is today. I am spending yet another holiday without my family. Not by my choosing....I am very willing to drive the 5+ hours to visit my relatives. It is because they are too dysfunctional/depressed to get it together to spend one day together in the same room with each other. For fuck's sake...what's the big deal? I mean, I don't care how fat you may think you are, how dirty your house may be, how you don't feel like cooking 700 different dishes....it's a holiday for pete's sake, and we should be together. Whatever. I'm over it. If we were together, I would say something stupid to piss someone off and they would end up throwing a turkey leg or perhaps some giblets (whatever those are) at me. Food fights at family gatherings are NOT unheard of. You don't believe me? I can tell you stories about the Christmas of '87 that you wouldn't believe.
So, I have been incommunicado for the past 2 weeks due to a disagreement that the phone company and I had recently. They thought I should pay my bill on a certain date, and I thought I should be special enough to pay it the day after said due date. In a outlandish attempt to assert their superiority, they disconnected me. Can you fucking believe it? Well, they did. So, I have spent the last 2 weeks on the phone with these morons trying to figure out why each and every day I still didn't have phone service. First it was, "Well, the work order takes from 1-5 days...just wait and call us on the fifth day if it's not on." Then, on the fifth day, "Well, I don't know. Please hold. I'll check." Then, phone company moron #2 politely tells me that the reconnection could take up to 7 days and to call back on the 7th day. Then, on the 7th day, I call back only to be told that no work order was ever put in to have my phone turned back on and that she (phone company moron #3) will "personally guarantee" that my phone will be on the next day. So, was it, you ask? No. So, I call back yesterday and am told that my old number no longer exists (even though if I call it, it says it's been disconnected) and that I'll have to be issued a new number. So, I get my fancy new number (which will take me at least 6 months to remember) and am told that it will take an additional 1-5 days to get my new service. Well, by that time I was too exhaused to argue about it, even though the inconvenience of not having a phone for the next 5 days was daunting. Luckily, when I got home last night, my phone was indeed with service. So, to all of you that thought perhaps I had been murdered, kidnapped, locked up, or abducted by aliens....don't worry...I'm fine.
In other interesting news, I received an application at work from a guy whose nickname is "Killer". Yes, he listed it on his application...like he expected me to put it on his nametag. Now, to all of you who thinks it's a good idea to list your nickname on a job application....it's not. When I talked to this person, he HAD been convicted of a felony (I didn't ask why)....I can only assume that he came by the Killer nickname honestly. Now why would I, or anyone else hire someone whose chosen name was Killer? I just wanted to put it out there that this is NOT a smart idea in case anyone was contemplating doing such a thing anytime soon.
I hate how right around the holidays all the cool stuff that I want to buy comes out. I mean, every year this stuff appears right before Christmas and I spend the next 10 months allocating certain amounts of my paychecks to buying DVD's/CD's/Books. Just when I think I have all the awesome stuff that I could possibly want to own....here comes Christmas again and there's all this new stuff to lust after. For example, the 4th season of Mr. Show, the 1st and 2nd seasons of Ren and Stimpy, the first 3 seasons of Seinfeld, along with Harry Potter, the Star Wars trilogy, Spider-Man 2, and a new Radiohead DVD have all been put out within the last month. Along with numerous CD's and books that there's just not enough room to mention. How depressing. The old addage that "money doesn't buy happiness" just doesn't hold true for me. Don't get me wrong, I am happy now. But if I had all of the stuff I actually wanted, it would be multiplied. I mean, I'm not trying to come off as a materialistic bastard, but things are nice. You know it...they are.
Well, I just got off the phone with my girl, and she is on her way here with my Thanksgiving goodies. I can't wait to eat...I'm starving. I have to say, despite all my angsty bickering about crap....I am really happy right now. The girl is perfect, this relationship is perfect, and I couldn't be happier. Each and every day I give thanks that she's in my life.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!!