Remember the haunted clock? The one that keeps adding an hour to its time? It has done it again twice in the last week. I've no idea what's going on. It's freaking me out just a tad. I should probably setup a camera in my room for real. If only I knew how. DAMNED MY IGNORANCE!
In other news, I've eaten another package of cheese and peanut butter crackers. That's the 8th package I've had since the lovely candy people left so many packages in the "Honor System" candy box. I love those people, whoever they are. I never get to see them. I just come to work and the box is stocked full. Speaking of work (as a verb, not a noun) I have a website to make. It has to be done by Thursday. Guess I'll be gettin to it then.
says MarissaD at 10/29/2001 09:07:00 AM
Surely there's one person out there that went to work an hour early today. Surely..
Here's a good one. A guy calls me and says "the lady that I rent a house to next door has your service, and when she writes me emails, she never uses capital letters. I told her to fix that because it was improper capitalization, but she said that your service won't allow her to use capital letters in their emails." ... Does anyone out there understand how absurd that is? RAAAAAAAAAWR This is getting so old.
says MarissaD at 10/26/2001 04:58:00 PM
Cousin-In-Law: So does this mean you're 46% freak?
hmm.
says MarissaD at 10/26/2001 08:43:00 AM
How is is possible that I'm only 12% geek and I'm 34% goth? LOL Those stupid things are way off.
says MarissaD at 10/26/2001 08:28:00 AM
October 25, 2001
says MarissaD at 10/25/2001 03:01:00 PM
When it rains it pours.
*sigh*
says MarissaD at 10/25/2001 01:10:00 PM
October 24, 2001
Tech Support Mode
Well not really tech support, but work related none the less. I can not stand it when a customer doesn't pay their bill and their service gets cut off, so they call us and tell us the long sob story of being in the hospital, having surgery, a mother dying, a child failing class, a dog puking, a bird molting or a finger bleeding from a papercut. I hate to sound insensitive, but I hear it all the time. I'm not a moron, so don't lie to me and think you've gotten away with it because I extended your account. It's company policy to extend the account if you call to make arrangments regardless of your personal tragedy. Just be honest. Tell me you're a lazy poop head and didn't send the payment in for two months. That will make me feel better.
says MarissaD at 10/24/2001 09:01:00 AM
October 23, 2001
Tech Support Mode
First, this cracks me up. A guy that I've been working with to get DSL for his business, everytime he hangs up the phone he says "Sounds like a winner" only he says it faster than I can say "Goodbye" so it sounds like he's saying "Soondsnukawinter". I laugh everytime.
Next, the bad. I post bad experiences with customers all the time. I post them and I usually give a disclaimer. I know they are not computer literate people, so making fun of them for that is rather useless because ignorance is usually not a choice. Sometimes, yes, but that's another post. Now. The lady friend I have had to deal with over the past few weeks is causing me some very painful tummy tumors. First of all, she came to the Internet 101 class here that I teach once a month. She came 2 months ago. She informed me that she had been to 8 (eight) other beginning Internet classes. I knew right away she was going to be a handful. Since that class, 2 months ago, this lady has called technical support not short of 5 times a week. She has been here to the office at least 4 times. She lives an hour away! She makes special trips just to come up here! She has no power whatsoever of retaining knowledge. I'm not saying this makes her less of a person or that I'm better than her. I'm just saying it is SO ANNOYING to try to do technical support for her. She wonders constantly when I'm trying to get to her email settings, she clicks wherever she wants and then I hear "Oooh.... oops... hold on let me get back to that screen. OOoooh." She has a revelation at least twice per conversation and that revelation is normally her figuring out that the right mouse button and the left mouse button do not do the same thing. At LEAST twice a call. She got very mad at me one day because I walked her through some settings and told her she would need to hang up and try again to connect and if it didn't work to call back. She called back. I wasn't at my desk. My co-worker told her that, then helped her some. She ended up having to call back later that afternoon and I answered the call. She informed me that I had gone to the bathroom after I told her to call me back and that was very rude and she didn't want me to help her anymore so for me to transfer her to someone else. Now that I think about it, I think I posted about this lady before. Well anyway, she's looney. I don't want her to come to the Internet class. I don't even want to teach that class anymore. Anyway, I'm so very frustrated with her. That one specific user. I'm pretty sure she has some kind of mental illness. So that makes me have a little sympathy. Plus she hates me now so when I get her on the phone she asks for someone else. hehe sad job this is.
says MarissaD at 10/23/2001 02:44:00 PM
October 22, 2001
LEGOS!! - Thanks to Tom for the link! That roxors.
says MarissaD at 10/22/2001 09:56:00 AM
October 19, 2001
Shout-out to Ashley. Hi. Miss emailing ya. Write me? Lemme know how things are.
WOOOOO!!!! Look at number 12!! My boy! Yayay Spoken!! I put a Spoken sticker on my car today. I want to take a picture of it and post it. I think I will. Later. Maybe. Except I don't have a camera. DANGIT! oh wait.... *scheming*...... To Be Continued...
says MarissaD at 10/18/2001 03:18:00 PM
October 17, 2001
Conversation that I had with a male friend of mine: Me: "So have you met anyone lately?" Him: "Yeah. I went out with a girl. We had a lot of fun." Me: "You like her then?" Him: "Yeah, but she has a lot of rear baggage if you know what I mean. She's not the one." Me: "Oooh no. Kids? Ex husband?" Him: "No.. I mean rear baggage. She has a large rear." Me: "Oh. Right."
And that ladies and gentlemen is the difference between men and women. A man sees a physical feature that he doesn't like on a woman and decides she isn't his soulmate. End of story. A woman sees a physical feature on a man that she doesn't like and decides he's her soulmate and it's her duty to fix that feature she doesn't like. It's almost true!!
says MarissaD at 10/17/2001 08:46:00 AM
Holy haunted clockwork batman! I don't know what the crap is going on, but 2 mornings in a row, I've been woken up by only 1 alarm clock instead of the regular 2. What happened to the other clock you ask? Well it seems that the main, loud alarm clock is missing an hour. The secondary, not so loud clock is keeping time fine. Right now the main one says 8:17. It's really about 7:08. All my clocks are about 10 minutes fast, (I don't know why I do that, every morning I tell myself "It's 10 minutes fast, you can sleep through the next snooze"), and this clock is mysteriously adding another hour. Two nights in a row. I think I'm going to setup an infrared camera system so as to ease my mind about having ghosts. Maybe Ryan did it.
says MarissaD at 10/17/2001 07:08:00 AM
October 15, 2001
Well hello there Ms. Marissa'sjournal! Long time no see! Yeah so I'll give you two guesses as to why I have been silent! Nope. Nope. Okay so Ryan came to see me. He's here. Now. In my bed sleeping. Because he stayed up til like 6 this morning playing EQ. I'm jealous that he can do that, but he was a little loud when he went to bed. But that's fine. Also, my pharyngitis wasn't all that bad. It never got worse than a slightly sore throat. Because I got me some TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR antibiotics. Good grief that's so much money. Needless to say Ryan and I have been scrounging for food for the last few days. But I get paid today so rock on paycheck. Last night we went to Whataburger on the last $7.00 to our names. I wasn't hungry because my tummy has been hurting for a little bit now. So he got a meal and we Whata-sized it. Sad thing, he likes Root Beer, I don't. Worse thing, I drank most of it. I didn't even get anything to eat and I don't even like root beer. I felt kinda bad, but he survived. Well lunch is coming here soon. In an hour. I'm sure he's still asleep though.
Weekend Recap: We went to a concert in Andrews on Saturday. There were actually a whole lot of people there. Probably around 1,000 or so. We saw Pillar, Skillet and Justified. It was fun. We got to go stand backstage because Ryan knows the Pillar guys, so yay. I didn't have to be in the "mosh" area and it wasn't that loud at all from behind. The blonde chick in Skillet is their drummer and she's super cool. That was fun and free and cold. We hung out with my parents on Saturday night and played dominos and stuff. I know. We're crazy like that. I didn't blog or read message boards or anything most of the time. I kinda missed it. But I'm back now. For the moment.
says MarissaD at 10/15/2001 12:32:00 PM
October 11, 2001
Okay, I went to the Dr. on my lunch break because the bosses told me that Christi is out with tonsilitis and I didn't want to get what I had before so I went to get checked out. I have acute pharyngitis. It's contagious. I'm home. sigh. going to get very, very bored. I don't even feel that sick, but I'd rather not go to work and make everyone there sick too. They'd be pissed. Anyway, I'm off. Going to .... watch tv ... or something.
says MarissaD at 10/11/2001 04:02:00 PM
Oh sad day. I think I'm getting another coconut in my throat. Remember the spikey coconut? Scarah! I kind of want to be sick again cuz man those drugs were awesome, but it hurt a whole lot so I dunno. Plus Ryan is coming Tuesday. Hmm. The dilemma. I miss my check card. I left it in Ryan's wallet last weekend. But I haven't spent any money all week. I guess that's good, but I want my check card back. :) Okay back to work. Bye now.
says MarissaD at 10/11/2001 11:31:00 AM
October 10, 2001
Any other bloggers out there having problems with updating archives or is it something with my settings? AIM me.
says MarissaD at 10/10/2001 11:55:00 AM
Firstly:
Secondly, blogger is kinda pissing me off the last couple of days. I know it's a free service and I love it, but when the free service I love is taken away from me it pisses me off. Hm. Going to lunch with a DJ today. He's gonna pay for an expensive lunch for me. I love it when that happens.
Talking to my Ryan. He's fixing me. Well kinda. I know everything will be okay. I know this is all a part of the plan for me. I just need him to remind me right now. And to make me feel better about me. And us. And life. Anyway, here's the best song to listen to when you're a little down. Michelle Tumes - Healing Waters
says MarissaD at 10/08/2001 09:57:00 PM
JUST GREAT! IT'S SO SUPER TO BE BACK AT WORK! I COULDN'T BE MORE EXCITED. YAY. HOORAH. ECSTATIC.
says MarissaD at 10/08/2001 09:19:00 AM
October 07, 2001
Fun weekend so far. I got to see him for less than 8 hours and I was asleep for 4 of those, but it was still awesome. Having an awesome friendship with the same person you're totally in love with has to be the coolest thing in the world. I love you Ryan! Thanks for making me the happiest "sexy girl" in the entire world.
The wedding was cool. My mom sang The Wedding Song by Paul Stookey (That copy has the song duped at the end. I didn't make the mp3, I just DLed it.) She sang it at Misti's wedding too, but she was a little teary and emotional. This time she nailed it. It was the best I've ever heard her sing it. I'm so proud of her. The wedding was pretty too. Misti cried like a baby. Just like I did at hers. heh Now we're even.
I think I'll do some laundry now. A few moments of silence for John Paul Pitts who passed away this weekend from a heart attack.
says MarissaD at 10/07/2001 08:43:00 AM
October 05, 2001
I just had the best line ever. I was trying to explain an irritating/annoying situation to my manager. I went through the entire explanation and he still wasn't completely clear on what went down, so I said, "The guy is a fruit and he doesn't know what he wants. That's it." Manager, "Oh okay that's all I wanted to know. Thanks." hehahfahhfal;kf;jdsak
says MarissaD at 10/05/2001 01:15:00 PM
Tay isn't on AIM again. He played hooky yesterday. I bet he did again. Such a glut!
says MarissaD at 10/05/2001 11:41:00 AM
So I just made the decision to drive 3 hours tonight and go to one of Ryan's concerts and stay at the same hotel they're at and then drive back here tomorrow afternoon in time for a wedding at 5:30. I'm so spontaneous like that. I get to see Ryan tonight though. :) YAY!
says MarissaD at 10/05/2001 11:38:00 AM
Holy. Crap. - That is one of the most inspirational stories I've read/heard in a long time. I downloaded all the video clips and have them on my FTP in case that article gets really popular and it's hard to DL them later on. (I have a feeling it will be huge in a short period of time.)
says MarissaD at 10/05/2001 09:33:00 AM
October 04, 2001
If you speak to me this evening will you please ask me if I have gotten my Sonicwall Sales Certification please? Thanks.
says MarissaD at 10/04/2001 01:37:00 PM
Tay isn't on AIM and I think it's so he can get work done instead of chatting it up all day. Fine. Just fine. Be that way. Really, I have something big that I should've been working on for the past few days. I haven't even started. I'll start now.
If I didn't have this one private place online that I wanted to keep private in my world, I would totally link all of my new friends. Unfortunately this private place is where I met a lot of them and they link the private place on their sites. Oh it's so complicated! Anyway, thanks Lor, Shauna, Cori, Sara, Sara, Kristine, etc, etc. There are so many. I'm just really glad I found all of ya. Lots of gratitude to Zal for making that possible. Okay I'm going to stop mushing now.
says MarissaD at 10/04/2001 10:09:00 AM
October 03, 2001
Can I just say I have the greatest boyfriend on the entire face of the planet? If you disagree, I don't care. I'm floating right now. Thanks Ryan. You are a good boyfriend, don't ever question that.
Oh nevermind. Tay isn't gone. He just doesn't express his thoughts clearly. My mistake.
says MarissaD at 10/02/2001 11:54:00 AM
Ack!! I didn't know Tay was leaving yesterday! I thought he said Sunday! Gr oh well. Have fun Tay. Get on AIM sometime! And let me know when you meet her!
Ryan and I talked forever last night. Made me feel so good. I don't even care if we talk about NOTHING for most of the time. Just talking. About our future, about my cat, about the pros and cons of laxatives. Don't care what. It's just good. Two weeks and one day. :) Yay.
says MarissaD at 10/02/2001 10:04:00 AM
October 01, 2001
Oh, by the way, he's going to be here Oct 16-24. ROCK ME!
says MarissaD at 10/01/2001 02:30:00 PM
Dealing With Stress... - Linked from KDLB. I'd link you to her site, but I don't want you nosey mongrels seeing where I spend all my message board whoring time. Anyway, dealing with stress. Coping. Spending 10 minutes a day to write down all these distressing feelings. I see where they're coming from. I understand, but that doesn't always help. Neither does doing 500 crunches or 5 loads of laundry or blading for 5 hours. The feelings are still there. Why are they there? Why do they totally screw up my insides like I drink acid everyday? Where did they come from and how the heck to they have so much power? And why aren't they consistent?? Why are they so miniscule and almost non-existant one day and overpowering the next? I just don't know. Is this what being an adult is about? Is this what it is to learn about life and get out on your own? Sometimes I have all the answers. I know exactly why I'm upset or what's wrong. Today I know what it is. It's Monday. It's crap. But sometimes I have no idea what the problem is. What am I talking about? This is only making it worse!
Screw it. I'm going to think about bunnies wearing pink ballet shoes and yellow parkas. GR.
