Three Headed Monster

06:51 pm: Outside of My Happy Garden
...hey hey HEYYYYYY!!! I've been so eager to post an entry all week but have been too busy! It's so frustrating because I've been wanting to do a whole list of things that I haven't managed to do in the time alloted. I'll come home from work, clean the house, then watch the house get trashed again as I start up another project and move things around. This week has been INSANE! Sometimes I have to just sit for a moment because I'll want to do three things at once, but then I have to make myself decide which big project I want to commit myself to. Friday, I was so busy working on the garden that I didn't get to folding the laundry by the end of the day. I've been wanting to put stuff on ebay for the last three days, but only managed to get the stuff out I sold last week. I try to ship things the day after people pay but they don't always pay right away. Sometimes I'll sell ten things on a Friday, then have five payments on the same day, two more on a Tuesday, one on a Wednesday, then another maybe a week and a half late. Occassionally I'll have a customer who either won't pay or who will send a money order weeks late. Fortunately, mom is helping me with the books now so I don't have so much work to do.

I'm also not eating as well as I should be. Before going to Australia, I was on a faithful routine of eating an apple every morning and plenty of veggies throughout the day. Now, I've been back on a milk, meat and egg diet with a few potatoes or veggies here and there. That's good for quick energy but not really healthy. It's funny how that works though because I was just telling the lady at church about how I'll get in the habit of going to bible study, then something will come up and I'll stop making it a priority. It's like everyone has old habits they fall into and it takes a strong effort and eternal vigilence to get past them. I'm going to bible study tomorrow; I don't care how much work I have to do at home. At least I have some major accomplishments this week. Here's a picture of my garden:

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I guess I'd better go to bed now because it's getting late and I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow. Of course, I may just drop it all and take the kids to a matinee. Prince Caspian is out and it's the first movie I've been excited to go see in years. I took Alex and Kevin to see the first Narnia. They even read all the books in the series. I used to read them over and over when I was a kid. My favorites were A Horse and His Boy -and- The Silver Chair. Until next time, when I write another installment of my Australia trip and show off some pictures! X-D

Tags: annoying fat broads, conflict, gardening, hard work, lists, opinion

02:08 pm: Australian Adventure: Day IV
UPDATE: THIS IS HUGE!! SERGIO GARCIA WON THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP!! I've seen that guy lead, then choke on the last day so many times.

Today is the day I almost choked to death. I've been laughing so hard all afternoon that I could hardly breathe! My gut hurts so badly right now. Whew....the legend continues. I was banned from useless_facts, just for expressing my opinions. Oooooo...springyscrotum sure showed me!! He was banned too, for making a post about me. It was really funny and full of conspiracy theories. I have this sneaking suspicion a lot of people feel sorry for me because of how I have so many supposed sockpuppets, like countrymember. My Aussie boyfriend Randall just might be a make-believe person I invented to make it look as if at least one person in this universe could stand a three-headed beast like me! I put some pictures of us up on my profile, but don't you believe for a second that they might be real! *shakes finger* I could have gone out and stalked a perfectly happy couple, took some pictures of them, then pretended they were Randall and I.

Believe me or don't, but I put the pictures up to show I'm a woman, instead of the tow-headed dickens I go about pretending to be. -Not that I'm out to prove anything; the images just add to the mystique of who I really might be. In real life, I have hair that could be described as caramel in color. Kharmii has white hair because he is part damned spirit. My original design for him was to have his hair floating around his head like smoke at times, during the moments he becomes like a wraith and shifts in and out of solidarity. It's rather frightening; perhaps some day I'll draw a proper picture of what he is supposed to look like in that state.

That out of the way, I'll now show you my freaky bird:

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We've been getting pouring rain all day! I can't go out and finish spray-painting my rain barrel until we have a drier day. When I got the barrel, it was a nasty black, which would look horrid in the yard. I went to Ace Hardware and picked up some nice pale rose spray paint of a kind that will adhere to plastic. Yesterday morning, I went to a subdivision sale near where I work and found a vanity new in the box for only $20!! Granted, it was the cheap IKEA kind that I had to put together myself, but it still looks good, has a comfy padded stool and a swivel mirror. Now I can have a place to put my many cosmetics besides having them shoved all over the bathroom and spare bedroom. Everyone should have a vanity because it's just handy to have a one-stop place to put on cosmetics. It even has a bunch of drawers I can put my hair brushes and barretts into. Funny thing is, I had to keep it in my vehicle when I delivered mail, then found out it was food drive day! On top of the mail and vanity, I had to fit all the food people donated to the food pantry. God bless whomever picked up donations on Parker, Florence and US HWY 6 because my van was getting quite full by the time I was halfway through the route.

Tags: australia, beach, economy, queensland, retards, thai, trolling, vacation

06:25 pm: Australian Adventure: Day III
A few days ago, I was talking to Randall when my mom stopped by and dropped off a few things. She was doing a little spring cleaning and found some of my old school pictures from when I went to Hudson. I looked through them and saw a whole lot of strangers, then when I got to the second grade group, I saw Kirby. I've thought about him before, like back when I was thinking of the last part of that life story I never got to finish. I did manage to write this:

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I'm glad I cleaned the house and weeded my garden early because I went and started drama on useless_facts again! The Duggars of Arkansas are having their 18th child. Knowing the childfree folks would get a hair up their ass, I put a post up about it, then disabled my comments to prevent a flame war. Someone else put a post up saying that I did something against the rules (even though a lot of others break the rules as well). Read About it Here. Then the moderators erased my entry, just after someone else duplicated my entry with the comments enabled. I still got to spread the love around and get people worked up. Read About it Here. Damn losers! If you don't want to breed, then don't breed. -But don't tell someone they shouldn't breed, just because they are religious! Damn...noone is telling the illegal aliens not to crank out their anchor babies, but God forbid a Christian should have more than one! That's what bothers them more than anything else, that their bitter enemies are into happy families more than gay men. X-P

Tags: australia, australian wildlife, nature reserve, pictures, trolling, zoo

07:34 pm: Australian Adventure: Part II of Day II
Well, I had a few really good days at work, despite having unusually heavy mail. The fat lady didn't annoy me too much and I managed to igore her all day today, even when she kept trying to initiate conversation. I managed to bite my tongue on three potential mean comments. The first after she complained about how her sub left her mail yesterday. She ranted about how he didn't come in early enough; he should have come in at 6:30AM, instead of 7:30. I thought, Hey! How about you show up on time for once? Then she tried saying that her rheumatologist cancelled her appointment because of a death in the family. I thought, Yeah sure! I believe you have rheumatoid arthritis about as much as I believe that Elvis is still alive.....and that he has rheumatoid arthritis. Then she complained because she used to get every Monday off. When a paid holiday falling on a Monday came up, she'd get Saturday off and have a four day weekend. Upcoming Memorial Day happened to fall on the Monday she would have had to work so she wouldn't get the Saturday. She accused the supervisors of planning it deliberately. I thought, It's a vast conspiracy! Every Monday holiday from now on will just so happen to fall on the Monday you would have had to work!

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Okay, I need to be getting to bed. I have to pick up my rain barrels tomorrow after work, plus go to my patriotic musical practice. I hope I can fit a walk in, as it's only supposed to rain in the morning. After work today, I went home and mowed the lawn. Lucky for me, it was getting cloudy when I started. I don't need anymore sun right now, especially since I have oozing blisters on my left ear and a big oval burn in between my neck and left shoulder that is starting to look like one big blister. The 'plumber's tan' wasn't the worst of it. After mowing and weed whacking, I walked over to my parent's house and ate dinner. Mom made her awesome Greek salad with the pasta, onions, chicken, feta, black olives, grape tomatoes and olive oil. Dad was working on his truck because the exhaust had leaked onto his spark plugs and melted the wires. When mom and I walked, we had Dieter in the stroller and he was good the whole time. He went through a phase for a while where he was a pain in the butt on walks.

Tags: adventure, aussie rules football, australia, culture, idiot america, pictures, political, rant

09:00 pm: Australian Adventure: Part I of Day II
I'm exhausted! Right after church, I went to Ace Hardware and got a few 40 pound bags of topsoil. Then I unloaded them and dumped them all -16 bags total- into the front and side garden. They weren't enough and I'll probably need about five more. There's no way I'm getting them today; I'm done.

After I put the dirt down, I planted some sedum. I had gotten five of the plants at a garage sale for a dollar each. I was able to split them into six plants each. Six went into the front garden and the other twenty four went into the side garden, which has a rotting stump I hope to obscure. I put a big, flat rock on top of it and surrounded it with plants. I was so tired after doing the planting that I sat in the sun for a few hours on the south side of my lawn and pulled out creeping charlie and violets. When I got a little energy back, I went around the yard and dug out all of the dandelions and some of those weeds that look like mini rhubarbs. The latter grow off the alley and look like hell. After a while, I got a headache and was light headed from the sun so came in. Later in the week, I'll go out and pull some more of the weeds in the lawn. Also, I need to get more dirt and more plants to fill the front part of the garden.

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Okay, I've got to wrap this up because it's getting long and I have to get to bed. I did so much work today that I'm likely to wake up with some wicked body aches. Also, I have a farmer's tan right above my butt! I took every precaution against the sun today, wearing shades, a hat, a long-sleeved shirt and pants, but didn't count on getting an inch high sunburn in between my pants and shirt. Can you believe that? It's always something. Oh well, I've had worse, like when I've gotten sunburns on the tops of my feet and on my scalp under my hair.

Tags: adventure, australia, culture, pictures, vacation, yard work

07:27 pm: -of Clowns and Rain Barrels
A few days after I got back from Australia, I went out to deliver mail on a nice sunny day and saw the white-headed robin on Florence again. I've seen it every spring since I took RR31, and I decided that I would get a picture of it this year to put up in this journal. When I got home, I put my digital camera in my purse to bring with me to work. Then we got a cold spell. I didn't see the robin again. I assume that it was huddled in a tree keeping warm. On Tuesday, someone asked me if I could show them more pictures of the valances I was selling on ebay. I took more pictures of them and forgot to put the camera back in my purse. Wednesday was a warm, sunny day and I saw the robin again. Doesn't that just figure!? Incredibly disappointed, I brought the camera Thursday, which was windy, gloomy and looking like rain. I scanned up and down Florence but didn't see the bird. Oh well, maybe next week...

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We had our bowling banquet last night. We got a good variety of food which was served homestyle, with big dishes being passed around the table. They had salad, rolls, green-bean salad, Italian sausage with bell peppers, seasoned potatoes, and chicken. My high score of the year was 174, bowled in early March. I ended up with an average of 120 for the year, which is a record. My mom's high score was 189. The other ladies had high scores of over 200 but I can't remember exactly what they had. I won a door prize and got to take home a red rose plant which is now sitting on my porch getting drenched but I plan on planting it somewhere soon.

Okay, that's out of the way and I'm really going to finish my story about Australia.

Tags: bargains, conflict, cooking, food, irony, kids, pettiness, plans, zen

12:26 pm: Australian Adventure: Day I
Things got even better at work yesterday. We got into a discussion about whether or not a carrier should sign for an accountable for a customer if the customer requests it for reasons, such as: 1.) The customer works third shift, sleeps during the day and isn't active during postal hours. -or- 2.) The customer commutes and never makes it home before the post office closes. Though I have never come across the scenario, I agreed one should sign for it but the Baptist and Fat Broad said it was wrong because it goes against the book. I thought that customer service was important and that one should use his/her best judgement when it came to uncommon situations.

Fat Broad does everything by the book and moves at a snail's pace to get her daily tasks done. She resents the other workers for being more efficient and will not hestitate to go behind their backs to a supervisor whenever she catches them doing something against the rules. One time, the lady from Texas did an illegal u-turn out on the street and fattie happened to see her driving by in her LLV. After she delivered her route, she went back and squealed like a pig to the supervisor, even though it was a minor transgression and the Texan wouldn't have received even a warning. That is why it is her, not Randall, that I really need to watch out for. Hells, I need to watch out for all of them. It's one thing to give unwanted advice. That is rather rude but I can let it go if I feel someone is only looking out for my best interest. It isn't okay, however, to make snide comments and accusations regarding a situation one has no knowledge about. That is why the beast in me came out yesterday, and over something stupid as well....

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I'll have to leave it at that for now. I was antsy at church all morning because it is springtime and I had all kinds of plans about what I wanted to do today. Then my mom called and told me that my aunt and uncle from Iowa are over. Uncle Tony, Dad, Benny and Bizza are going to a hockey game tonight. The Waterloo Blackhawks are playing up in Chicago somewhere. I haven't seen the relatives for about five years so I'll go talk to them for a bit and then be able to escape with the excuse that I'm talking to Randall on IM. Yay! Can't beat that! Maybe I'll cut out a little early; depends on how entertaining they are.

Tags: adventure, australia, conflict, flying, nasty people

09:03 pm: I'm Back!!
They think they understand me so well, and I tend to go out of my way to be dull and practical. Sometimes the clerks will bring by a lot of mail, and then the people will bitch, piss and moan all day, as if we were out breaking our backs busting rocks. I just keep quiet and endur; my routine is so incredibly easy that extra weight is never a burden. Rarely did I moan and groan over my body aches this week, even though the jet lag made me feel like I had been beaten over my back and shoulders with a baseball bat. See, I'm blessed with the ability to be happy in everyday life, therefore I never feel the need to prove anything or brag when something good happens, like the trip to Australia. Only when folks asked about it would I enthusiastically reply.

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Okay, the negativity is out of the way so now I can write about my Australian adventure. I'll write it day by day, starting with the plane ride out of the O'Hare Airport.

I didn't have time to work on any artwork or writing today because I've been so busy! Mom and I went to Shorewood Townwide Garage-sales, then I put a few things on ebay and started in on spring cleaning. I had to take the viscuine off the porch windows, then vaccuum the dead bugs and dirt off the window sills. Then I had to brush the cats, vaccuum and sweep the whole house, put out ant baits, clean the kitchen and reorganize the basement. I had to sort the clothes in the closets so I had better access to the summer clothing. Then I had a lot of little jobs to do, like dusting and cleaning out drawers. I'm not yet finished and still have to tidy up the spare bedroom and do touch up painting in the porch on places where the winter viscuine tape tore up some paint. When I went through the clothes, I found a few shabby old things I could donate to the charity fabric box set up by Docs Drugs. It's pouring down rain so I didn't have to think about the lawn and garden.

Tags: adventure, assumptions, internet relationship, meddling, paranoia, yuppie jokes

12:37 pm: Got to Rush
I thought I'd have all week to prepare for this trip to Australia; instead I'm rushing to do everything at the last minute and only have an hour and fifteen minutes to get the rest done. This week was so incredibly difficult at work and at home.

Check List:
✓ Mail out ebay merchandise
✓ Pay bills
✓ Water plants
✓ Fertilize lawn
✓ Do laundry
✓ Finish packing
✓ Clean house
✓ Do dishes
✓ Feed kitties
✓ Take out garbage

I still have to fold laundry, sweep the floors, weigh ebay merchandise for my mom, and dry dishes. I can manage that in the time I have left, I'm sure. I kept going over checklists of items to bring and almost forgot to pack my bikini, sunscreen and camera. Got them. Oh damn! I still have to call about international roaming! For your entertainment, here's a picture of some Australian currency. It's made from that laminate type of plastic that cannot be torn. Be back in a few weeks!



Tags: australia, fun fun fun!, hiatus, love, stress, vacation

12:57 pm: More Of My Life Story: Part III
Uuugghh..I didn't make it to church this morning because I felt so horrible! Funny thing is that I didn't drink that much. It must have been the mixing and the fact that I hadn't eaten much in the last two days. I got off work at around 2:15PM, then drove around LaGrange in Mokena to do some shopping. Staples didn't have my printer ink, which is a bonehead move on my part because I memorized the number wrong. It was 946, not 953. There's probably no such thing as a 953. Anyway, after that I went to Home Depot to get some luggage locks for my trip to Australia. Then I drove around looking for this Poor Reds we were going to hang out at. The work people described it as a log cabin off of LaGrange near the Home Depot. I drove up and down LaGrange looking for it, then finally found it set back from the street a block directly across a side street from Home Depot and behind a very ornate brick bank. I got there at 3:15PM and got a table and a Blue Moon. The place was decorated like a rustic hunting lodge, but was big and open with high ceilings and big animal heads on the walls. A half hour later, noone was there yet and I was starving! I got another Blue Moon and a Country Fried Steak dinner. It's the breaded pork patty and mashpotatoes dish with the peppery gravy and corn. People started showing up at 4PM. I had eaten my last bite of dinner and we all moved to the bar. Once there, I had two more Blue Moons, a shot of Rumplemintz and two shots of Jameson Whiskey, which another girl was drinking and I drank a few for the fun of it.

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I'm running out of series of stories to tell! I wrote that epic about my loser friends (wackyland tag), and now I'm onto the family. There's not much more I can write about my life when things get dead around here. I hope my days in LJ aren't numbered?!? Maybe I can find something else to write about, like essays about the things I hear about on talk radio and more of my views on religion, culture and politics. Also, I have my trolling! X-D I think people are becoming numb to my shenanigans or else I'm trying too hard. I haven't given the Fascist Loser Club anything to bellyache over lately. Oh well..until next time, when I write about how my parents told me God didn't exist and my subsequent religious insecurities. I once wrote in a Kharmii story about how he always felt the need to explain himself. That's true with me. I also have the passionate need to make people understand me and make them understand why I have the beliefs and prejudices I have. I hope my story clears things up.

Tags: drama, family, fear, memories, moral lesson, parties, responsibility, stability

02:24 pm: More Of My Life Story: Part II
This morning, I drug myself out of bed at about 7:30AM (I did not want to get up at all; I could have slept for another two hours) to go to a garage sale with my mom on Brian Drive here in town. It was the first garage sale of the year. When we got there, I waved to the people setting it up, then looked around. The lady putting it on was a stranger, but her friend said my name. I vaguely remembered her from a ten year highschool reunion I went to a year and a half ago in November. She wasn't in my graduating class, -she was two years older- but she was married to the host -Matt M.- who was, although I don't remember anything about him at all, except that he has a fraternal sister named Misty. Also, he and his wife live on the same side of town as me, somewhere by the lake. Other than that, I don't remember anything else about them. Did they get good grades? Were they religious? Did they go to dances? Did they like sports? Were they into drugs? Were they from well-off families? Did they see me as a decent, ordinary sort of person?

It's kind of funny because the older brother of the twins tried to bait me into saying something negative about them at the reunion. He said, I've heard that Misty M. was a real slut in highschool! and I replied, Well, I don't know anything about that! which was the only thing I could have said because I didn't know what kind of person she was. She and her brother put together a good party that night but it was kind of disappointing. I thought I'd meet up with some old friends; instead I encountered a room full of strangers. Oh well, it isn't all for nothing if I'm coming across some people I met there and forging new memories.

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Got to cut this short and make a part III from it within the next couple of days. I'm going to talk to Randall on IM soon. I didn't get as much done as I wanted today, but still got quite a bit done. I have a few sketches down for some art projects I'm working on. I have five ideas! Isn't that something....I lose interest in art completely for a while, and now I'm submerged back into it with sudden prolific inspiration! I also wanted to put some more stuff on ebay but only got as far as taking some pictures and editing them on photoshop. I folded the dark wash but haven't worked on the white wash yet. It's still sitting on the couch in the living room. I'll have to get it done before bed so the cats don't use it as their bed. Oh well, I still have Sunday to do as I please after church. Tomorrow after work, I'm going out with the work buddies. We aren't staying out that late because I and one other girl have church the next day. We will probably be the first two to leave while everyone else has a few more drinks.

Tags: drama, family, fear, memories, moral lesson, responsibility, stability

06:26 pm: More Of My Life Story: Part I
Today was a fairly easy day at work. I got back from delivering mail at around 1:30, then had to spend ten or so minutes putting up the PM mail for the next day. After that, I went into the bathroom and saw a clerk was already in there. She asked me if I heard about (so-and-so's) car. I hadn't. She then told me about how a thief had stolen someone's catalytic converter about an hour before, right in the postal employee parking lot! D-: I was all about asking, "What is a catalytic converter?" Apparently, it is a part of the exhaust system in a vehicle. It is the new popular thing to steal because it has valuable platinum in it. When the victim of the theft went to start her car, the muffler and some other parts fell off the bottom and she was unable to drive it. The police came and filed a report. Everyone got the creeps thinking how someone would dare sneak into our parking lot in broad daylight when the gates are open. People are frequently going in and out of the building, but the thief could have gone unnoticed lying flat on his back. I was freaked out walking to my van, but it started fine and I went home.

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This will have to carry over into a part II because I'm going to bed. I made the mistake of taking a nice, long hot bath, then starting the majority of this entry later in the day. I relaxed so much that I almost fell asleep. Note to self: Writing is best started earlier in the day, maybe after dinner and a walk but before the bath. Tomorrow I will write about important lessons I learned growing up about: responsibility, faith, getting over oneself, morality, discipline, freedom, order and how to avoid saying one thing and meaning something completely different.

Tags: common sense, drama, easter, family, food, responsibility

07:40 am: Ebay Experience
Good news: I AM NOT LOSING MY DAY OFF! X-D Disregard that last entry.

I wrote this yesterday but this entry is dated today because I was already committed to the LJ Strike. Why? No good reason, really. I don't give a damn if Basic Accounts come with ads and I could care less if pasty-faced depressed fan-crazed hikikomori don't have their agendas listed in the top interests. I just agreed to it on a whim, to be amniable towards the person who informed me of it. After all, it's hard to criticise a person who encourages one to post less on LJ. If they wanted to stick it to LJ by posting more and spending more time on the web, then I'd have issues. A lot of people got their panties in a bunch about it and threatened to post as many entries as they could, just to spite the protestors. Wow....words can't describe how pathetic that idea is. One day some addicts in internet land are going to wake up to find out that their youth is gone, they have noone to love and all of their friends are on the web participating in drama noone cares about but them.

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I guess I'll go to bed now and post this in the morning when the strike is over. I had a long day today of cleaning, doing ebay and picking fur out of the cats. They like to just lay around and purr, while I pick the spring shedding out of their backs. I also have to brush down my comforter and couch often and vacuum everyday. Poor Puddins! Randall thinks she may be 8 or 9, even though the animal shelter told me she was 4 or 5. She doesn't like to be picked up because she is showing signs of arthritic pain in her joints. Squeaks is a bully and attacks her whenever she goes into the bathroom or spare bedroom. It's funny because Puddins is heavily muscled and could probably beat Squeaks, who is soft and flabby from being pampered her whole life. Squeaks is just full of mean, however, and makes more of a noisy fuss when they wrestle around. Then she's a big baby, like when she got outside, then sat on the recycling bin meowing. You should have seen her when Randall came over. She hissed and growled at him, then spent a day whining in the basement and would only come up to sniff his shoes. Randall fed them soft food in the mornings and Squeaks finally started getting used to him after a whole lot of sulking and lurking around.

Tags: advice, ebay, garage sale, kitties, lj strike, online business

06:09 pm: Preventing Wear
I got into it with the union steward today because I saw a bunch of people standing in a circle around him asking questions about the results from the mandatory count, and he was full of excuses. It wasn't the supervisors' faults we got undesirable results. We didn't lose hours and/or days off because of our own complacency and lack of vigilance. No, it's all the union's fault because they are supposed to be fighting for our benefits, yet they let us down time and again. There's no vast conspiracy in the plants to hide the mail, as some people claim. I pretty much got the amount of volume I would expect to get in February. That's the problem. When we last got a mandatory count five years ago, the union screwed us over by allowing the count month to be changed from September to February, which is a much lighter month. Many people lost wages as a result of that. Now this year, the union allowed management to abolish the majority of our markups, which would usually add up to several hours of evaluated time per week. Also, they allowed them to lower the standard time, or the time it takes a carrier to sort through each of the letters, flats and parcels. We were given the same amount of mail but each piece suddenly became worth less than before.

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I like the cold weather but am ready for spring! I can't wait until the weather is warm enough to where I can open my windows at night and let in the fresh air. I'll have to go back to earplugs because of the noise, but it would be worth it! Also, I'm eager for garage sale season and hiking at the nature reserves on Sundays. Mom and I have been walking around town, but the state park has been flooded all winter. The biggest reason I'm ready for spring is so the road crew can repave the roads. I'm tired of playing pothole slalom on Rt.45 everday. I've actually been getting up ten minutes early so that I can take the slightly longer drive up Interstate 57, just to save wear on my tires.

Tags: annoying fat broads, change, conflict, count, gossip, postal, union

08:29 pm: Back From Hiatus!
Okay, so I've been back for a couple of days but haven't had time to write. I went to work on Monday after an awesome vacation with my Aussie boyfriend, then found out that mail count had started the previous Saturday. Aaaawwwww...... I'm glad I didn't know it was around the corner because my vacation could have been a little less pleasant if I were to have worried about it over much. Count is a pain in the ass and full of time-consuming protocol. I've been working late these past few days, plus walking with my mom and chatting with Randall on IM. He got back to Australia on Tuesday morning even though he left Sunday night. Time zones. They are 15 hours ahead of us.

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I'm about to fall into bed soon. That mail count is tiring! Plus, my body aches from shoveling. The neighbor with the snowblower usually runs by my sidewalk for me but his snowblower broke and he was out yesterday shoveling his sidewalk. I shoveled my sidewalk and front walk, then cleared my porch with a broom again. I always keep that porch clear because I don't want the heavy, wet snow to damage the wood. The mail count seems to be going good this time because the supervisors are being fair. In the past, they'd do shady things like count obvious parcels as flats so we would get less credit. Also, they'd go through the tubs and pick the mis-sorted mail so that we wouldn't get counted for the extra time we have to take sorting it and bringing it to the throw-back case.

Tags: fun stuff, love, mail count, mountains, traveling, vacation

05:31 pm: Fun Memes
Stolen from twyleth_teg.
Personality Defect Quiz

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I may take the Sublime Philosophical Crap Test next. If anyone takes the above quiz, please share the results. I'm curious to see how similiar or different I am to all the LJ friends. Oh, and you could ask for a letter too!

Tags: fun stuff, letters, memes, quizzes, silliness

08:20 pm: My God and Your God
I'm on hiatus again, starting tomorrow morning. I have to go through a day of work, -which will be the longest day ever- then I'm driving up to the O'Hare Airport to pick up Randall for a ten day vacation!

Before I go, I have to record some typical trouble-making. Someone on useless_facts irritated the hell out of me by pointing the good old 'racist whitey Christian' finger. Supposedly, a lot of people worship a Jesus with 'bright red hair, piercing blue eyes and pasty white skin'. I was like WHAT?!? Why haven't I seen this yet? Man oh man.....I'm a pitiful excuse for a racist white devil if I haven't heard of VIKING JESUS!!1!!1! It was so freaking ridiculous. Since it amuses me to go tit-for-tat, I decided to make an incendiary post attacking some of the things prolific internet users worship. I don't think two hours went by before I was featured yet again on sf_drama. I know all of the things to say to bait people into a frenzy, yet they still think I'm serious! X-D

Sunday Morning in the House of Optimus

Randall got into it with me. People are finally clued in that he's a real person and not my sock-puppet. That was so insulting! -As if I'd ever be so insecure that I'd need to create a make-believe character to agree with me! Kharmii The One-Man Army is capable of being self-sufficient in the internet jungle, although it is fun to have another different personality come up with funnies that I couldn't have though of. There's this guy named tomecatti who, when he's not making mean posts about me, is saying something negative about me, such as how noone thinks I'm funny -or- how my artwork sucks. I read his blog to see what kind of person he was and found this: Tomecatti's Epic Poem.

Wow...these people take internet trolling waaaaaaaaaaay too seriously! I guess the guy is hoping to become the next Great Internet Folk Hero! His poem is quite catchy; I could even turn it into a song.

a derk a dum
Out in the great wide web of the world
a derk a dum
There is a land call’d Live Journal
a derk a dum
Therein, many epic tales have unfurled
a derk a dum
Most beings therein, of nature infernal
a derk a dum dum DUM dum a derk a dumdumdumdum DUM dum......

I'm tired! I've worked on extra cleaning tasks for months in preparation for company, but yesterday got an inspiration to clean the lime off the sink. I believe my stainless steel kitchen sink is the original the house came with. I used two different cleaners to loosen the lime, then chiseled off the stubborn stuff, which chipped away in chunks resembling moss-green porcelin. The sink is sparkling silver, but water is leaking out around the base of the faucet because the chemicals corroded the decades old caulk. I've got that battery powered caulk gun my brother gave me for Christmas and some sink-window-tub sealer I can use to repair it. Also, I'm waiting for the last of the laundry to dry, then I'm going to bed.

Tags: dorks, fun fun fun!, hiatus, repairs, tag team, trolling, worship

03:26 pm: Classy Guy
Whew! I've been incredibly busy today, doing errands and marking off my To Do List, yet I'm going to take a little time to record an incredible speech I heard yesterday on the radio. Mitt Romney announced his withdrawal from the race for presidency on CPAC yesterday. I had the opportunity to hear him speak while delivering yesterday and what he said pretty much summed up the reason I voted for him:

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Romney values many of the same things I value, especially when it comes to culture, the importance of the family and economic stability in the private sectors. I was all about voting for him three years ago while I still lived with my folks, then later lost confidence in him for a while because of how his opinions on many things were unstable and how he flip-flopped on many issues. Also, Romney's a Mormon, a religion many people are prejudiced against, so he wouldn't have been a good unifying candidate. Still, his speech was so good that I may want to read it again in the future and may even borrow from it in a discussion.

Tags: culture, mitt romney, political, presidential candidate, republican, speech

09:15 pm: Weather, Personality-Types, Monster-Heroes...That Order
Well, on this Super Tuesday, I did my patriotic duty and voted for Mitt Romney to be our Republican presidential candidate. Surprized aren't you? -Especially since I've been talking up Ron Paul and Huckabee. I have my reasons for making that choice, and if he wins, I might even talk about it.

Voting was kind of a pain in the ass today. I went to work, then immediately had to go to the dentist to get a filling replaced. With one side of my face numb and drooping, I parked at the jr. high and walked to the entrance in a 30degree downpour of rain, only to find that they changed the voting room to the new gymnasium all the way in the back of the building. Add to that, they changed my voting district to the community center and never sent me a notification, so I was wasting my time. That was vexing, especially since I called town hall first thing in the morning and asked them where to vote. They told me to go to the jr. high still, even though I let them know I moved across town. Sheez...

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Alright...it's bed time! I've had a long day! My pineapple pies for tomorrow's lenten dinner turned out beautiful, but the cherry pie looks kind of ugly. I put too much filling in and the top of the crust is a mosaic of cracks. Next time, I'll try making the grid on top, instead of just a flat crust with four knife holes. I've also volunteered to make quiches for the Valentine's Brunch two Sundays from now. That will be the weekend my boyfriend is here! I can hardly wait! That means I have to get moving on my short story, however, because his arrival was supposed to be the deadline for getting it finished. I'm only halfway through the first part. There's a prologue (finished), three parts, then an epilogue.

Tags: conspiracy theories, monster heroes, opinion, violence, weather

02:32 pm: Winter Fun!
I've been lucky this winter. We've been getting regular snowstorms all winter and they usually happen around either of my two days off. Last year, we only had two snowy days but they were on days where I'd put in a long and tiring day at work, then come home to a sidewalk and porch full of snow I'd have to shovel for the next day. See, it's my responsibility to keep the property clear because my mail person is on a walking route and has to be able to approach my mailbox. Also, I like to put food out for the squirrels and birds. Snow will bury their pan and I'll have to clear it out. This morning, the kitties and I had some fun clearing out the snow.

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Shoveling snow is hard work but I enjoy it regardless. It beats sitting around the house on my butt or doing something inside where I'm not getting any fresh air. It's nice we got the snow now so the kids can spend their weekend sledding at Henderson Hill. It probably won't last long, however, because we are supposed to get weather up in the 40's all next week. That's cool. My boyfriend is coming for a visit in a few weeks and I'm hoping it will be warm enough for a lot of outside fun!

Tags: fun fun fun!, kitties, photobucket, playing, silliness, snow, winter, zen