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Shaky Awakening
Aug. 17th, 2005 04:49 pm
My dentist woke me up, calling to confirm tomorrow's appointment. Bastards. I forgot to put my cell next to my bed, and instead left it in my purse. So twice this afternoon I was treated to a muffled (but still loud enough to make my dreaming self say "WTF!? Who's playing totally inappropriate mood music?!") 'William Tell Overture'.
Rob's stressing over the fact that he's supposed to go back to work in two weeks. He really doesn't have to go back to work, but we'll never get anywhere on my money alone - not that he makes any great effort to work full-time, but it does give us mid-payperiod eatin' money. I keep telling him that if he wants this move & wants me to be able to continue w/the idea of becoming a CPA, I can't do it all alone. It's not going to happen. I barely make enough to pay rent & keep the cc's at bay as it is. I don't know what kind of job I'd end up w/in Washington, or if I can even find work. It's got to be a cooperative effort. So if he wants to continue being a slacker, he's going to have to get used to the idea of just staying here. And I can be very slothlike in not moving forward. I've been doing it for years - I am no longer an amateur. He's also been nagging at me for months now to play a game with him. I am sooo sick of Diablo, especially because his idea of playing Diablo is to hang around in town, shopping. And then trading out characters & items. He plays Ultima Online, too - and what does he do? Hangs out in town, selling & trading crap. Same thing he did in Asheron's Call. My husband, in the wide & almost infinite world of MMORP's, is a townie. I'm frustrated w/all the RPG's. I hate scrolling, killing the same monsters over & over & over again, the huge gaps of experience points between levels once you get a character past, say, level 10. Millions of experience points...
Found out that I can't just take my vacation pay, I actually have to take the time off. But I can't take a day here & a day there, I have to take it as a full work week. It blows. I really wish I could just have the cash, or a day off here or there - I'd make sure I only took Saturdays off & left the job up to Alea. I don't want to give anyone a refresher course and I'd rather not have to train anyone new. I spent my last vacation on the phone every night anyway... and Alea's last vacation I had to go in & take over from Shirla. And I don't want to encourage the idea of me being trained as a relief lead. The graveyard supervisors are prone to disappearing without telling anyone where they're going.
I was dreaming that I was paying bills - I shouldn't bitch too much about the dentist interrupting that, but I have the nagging feeling that my paycheck is going to be somewhat less than I anticipated, even with a full shift of OT on it. I should start picking up my deposit stubs, but it means hanging around the job on Sunday mornings - ugh. I'm thinking of selling off my fiction collection, but I'm waffling about it because some of the books I have are quite rare, and others are simply loved. Been trying to get back some of the books that I had as a kid - The Velveteen Rabbit, Where the Wild Things Are, the Ratha books, of which I currently have 2 (Ratha's Creature & Clan Ground), but the other 2 (Ratha's Challenge & Ratha & Thistle-Chaser) are over $50 apiece. I'm probably going to just shell out the money & sacrifice a bill just so I can have them while I can still get them. I got lucky w/Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer books - the SciFi bookclub put out an anthology w/all 3 or 4 (I wrote a suggestion letter to them to do the same w/the Ratha books). Even though I've left the world of unicorns, dragons, hard-working men & other such fantasy creatures behind, the Firebringer tales are very much worth the read. I re-read The Hobbit earlier this month. For having such a huge impact on my mental imagery, I keep forgetting that Smaug was a minor character & his death was only incidental in the storyline. Weird. I mean, I look at the 3 shelves of books & think to myself that I would just want to buy them all back... but I also think, "Hey, that's one less heavy-ass box of books to move."
Rob's stressing over the fact that he's supposed to go back to work in two weeks. He really doesn't have to go back to work, but we'll never get anywhere on my money alone - not that he makes any great effort to work full-time, but it does give us mid-payperiod eatin' money. I keep telling him that if he wants this move & wants me to be able to continue w/the idea of becoming a CPA, I can't do it all alone. It's not going to happen. I barely make enough to pay rent & keep the cc's at bay as it is. I don't know what kind of job I'd end up w/in Washington, or if I can even find work. It's got to be a cooperative effort. So if he wants to continue being a slacker, he's going to have to get used to the idea of just staying here. And I can be very slothlike in not moving forward. I've been doing it for years - I am no longer an amateur. He's also been nagging at me for months now to play a game with him. I am sooo sick of Diablo, especially because his idea of playing Diablo is to hang around in town, shopping. And then trading out characters & items. He plays Ultima Online, too - and what does he do? Hangs out in town, selling & trading crap. Same thing he did in Asheron's Call. My husband, in the wide & almost infinite world of MMORP's, is a townie. I'm frustrated w/all the RPG's. I hate scrolling, killing the same monsters over & over & over again, the huge gaps of experience points between levels once you get a character past, say, level 10. Millions of experience points...
Found out that I can't just take my vacation pay, I actually have to take the time off. But I can't take a day here & a day there, I have to take it as a full work week. It blows. I really wish I could just have the cash, or a day off here or there - I'd make sure I only took Saturdays off & left the job up to Alea. I don't want to give anyone a refresher course and I'd rather not have to train anyone new. I spent my last vacation on the phone every night anyway... and Alea's last vacation I had to go in & take over from Shirla. And I don't want to encourage the idea of me being trained as a relief lead. The graveyard supervisors are prone to disappearing without telling anyone where they're going.
I was dreaming that I was paying bills - I shouldn't bitch too much about the dentist interrupting that, but I have the nagging feeling that my paycheck is going to be somewhat less than I anticipated, even with a full shift of OT on it. I should start picking up my deposit stubs, but it means hanging around the job on Sunday mornings - ugh. I'm thinking of selling off my fiction collection, but I'm waffling about it because some of the books I have are quite rare, and others are simply loved. Been trying to get back some of the books that I had as a kid - The Velveteen Rabbit, Where the Wild Things Are, the Ratha books, of which I currently have 2 (Ratha's Creature & Clan Ground), but the other 2 (Ratha's Challenge & Ratha & Thistle-Chaser) are over $50 apiece. I'm probably going to just shell out the money & sacrifice a bill just so I can have them while I can still get them. I got lucky w/Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer books - the SciFi bookclub put out an anthology w/all 3 or 4 (I wrote a suggestion letter to them to do the same w/the Ratha books). Even though I've left the world of unicorns, dragons, hard-working men & other such fantasy creatures behind, the Firebringer tales are very much worth the read. I re-read The Hobbit earlier this month. For having such a huge impact on my mental imagery, I keep forgetting that Smaug was a minor character & his death was only incidental in the storyline. Weird. I mean, I look at the 3 shelves of books & think to myself that I would just want to buy them all back... but I also think, "Hey, that's one less heavy-ass box of books to move."
