12/3/03

*yawn* It was seriously cold this morning. I’m going to have to invest in a new winter coat. I need a new nice black wool one for work. The one I have is so worn out it’s not even funny. Luckily I should be getting birthday money here pretty soon, I think that’s something I’ll invest in. I’m sick of wearing my fake leather one around, it’s nice for weekends but I want something a little nicer, and a little warmer, for wearing to work.

We’re officially not allowed to use instant messenger at work anymore. This is annoying because hubby and I leave it up so we can make comments and figure out what to do for lunch and stuff. Now we’re using a chatroom thing that doesn’t flash when you get a message. It sucks because when you get engrossed in something it’s hard to remember to check so questions often go unanswered for awhile.

I have to meet with Marlene this morning. She makes me totally crazy. She’s never happy when changes go out. I’ve been making changes and corrections to changes to her for weeks. If she’d get it right the first time it went out my life would be a lot easier. It would also help if she’d just send me a note with the damned changes attached instead of wanting to meet every time. Her stupid 5 minute meetings are getting old, fast. I go down there, watch her explain every mark she’s already made and explained on paper, nod my head and leave. It’s annoying. She treats everyone like they’re stupid. She was even asking me if I knew what certain basic editing marks meant. I’m like, yes Marlene, I took English in high school for crying out loud, we learned and practiced editing marks, and it’s not like they’re not obvious anyway. I’m seriously hoping to be rid of Marlene’s group soon. It’s sounding like I’m going to be doing less editing and more teaching. My new supervisor was saying he wants to see the users maintain their own content. He wants me to be available for training and support. So it’s basically sounding like I’ll be doing a lot of HTML, a lot of training and some support. I’m going to work on learning some more HTML related stuff. I need to learn more on stylesheets, I have a basic understanding of them and how they work. I use them some on my webpage, hubby set them up though. I also want to learn javascript. I want to make myself as useful as possible, so even if my group dissipates over the next year or two I’d be useful elsewhere in the company, maybe in the Internet group or something. I want to stay in this company until I’m ready to quit working full time, which will be when I go to get my Masters degree, more than likely, I believe that’s when they really make you quit working and focus entirely on the degree program. I can’t remember exactly what I read now though on the schools website, so I might be wrong.

Tonight I get to pay bills for the first time since we got the equity loan, there’s some catching up to do on some things, like um, book club orders and stuff. 🙂 I’ll get those all caught up asap and hopefully our situation will improve dramatically. I’m hoping hubby and I get decent raises this year, if so we’ll be doing fine. And of course, in a few month’s we’re going to refinance the house and roll the equity loan into that, leaving us with one payment instead of two. That’s what I’m really looking forward to. That and working on the house. It’s nice to have money in the bank for working on the house. Friday we’re getting an estimate on the windows. We’re still waiting on a roof estimate, hubbys dad is taking care of that for us. Our roof is designed differently so since he built the house he’s explaining that to the roofer and stuff for us, and showing him the construction pictures. We went to Lowe’s and looked at kitchen and bathroom designs. Hubby is going to custom build cabinets for the kitchen, we’re going to paint them colonial blue with off-white door fronts. It’ll fit nicely with the old feel of the house. Then in the bathroom we’re getting one of those old fashioned deep, claw-footed bathtubs, and a corner shower. We’re also getting my car fixed!!!! My car has been sitting in the barn for over a year now. It has a blown headgasket. We have the gasket, hubby was going to try to fix it but when we realized there’s the possibility of the head being warped and whatnot we decided it’d be best to leave it to a pro. I cannot wait to have my car back. That car is my baby. It’s a 1982 Datsun 280ZX and it’s in awesome shape considering it’s age. My dad bought it for me when I turned 15. I wanted a 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback. I LOVE those. But, dad decided I’d do better with something else, something with fuel injection, something newer. So when one of dads customers said she was selling the Datsun my dad jumped on it. She was the original owner and my dad had done most of the body work on it since it was new. I couldn’t be more excited about having my car back. Not only because I miss it but because it sucks having two people and one car. When hubby is in school or something I’m stuck at home. I’d normally just stay home anyway, especially for the night classes, but when he was taking those saturday classes it sucked, sometimes I wanted to like, go out.

Anyway, *yawn* I should get to work. Provided no work comes in today I’m going to catch up on my time, I haven’t entered it since October. And finish up a huge filing project I started a couple weeks ago. I’m redoing the WHOLE filing system for my forms. It was a mess in there and folders were hard to find and were out of order. I printed and made labels for every company in our forms database and am making folders for each one. It’s tedious, but I’ve got to keep myself busy somehow though, right? 🙂