Month: December 2004

So.

We took the first bluetooth adapter back because it didn’t work. Well, neither did the second one we got. After about two hours of FORCING Windows against it’s will to SEE THE DAMN phone we were able to send images TO the phone, but the phone flat out refused to send anything to the computer. Or so it seemed.

Ben had mentioned that maybe it was Service Pack 2 that was causing the problems but by the time he said that I had pulled out all most of my hair, turned red and was running around the room singing Christmas Carols. Seriously, I was THAT frustrated.**

Today I came home and decided to start fresh. The first thing I did was start reading some message boards and sites to see why we were just not making it happen. Low and behold… Service Pack 2 seemed to be the issue. Instead of letting the install process load the drivers it chooses it’s own. So, I updated the drivers through the device mamager and still.. no go. So, after pulling out some more hair and a few more carols.. I just uninstalled SP2 (after saving EVERYTHING IMPORTANT).

Lo and fucking behold!!! The goddamn thing installed the first time. The phone saw the connection the FIRST TIME and THERE ARE MY PICTURES! Stupid SP2. (Did I mention that Ben had suggested that the night before because he’s the smartest man alive. :mrgreen:)

Now you are to be subjected to the first pictures. I haven’t decided to go the MOblog route or just add them to the gallery. I’m thinking gallery because then they will be there with the rest of my pictures where they should be. But who knows. It doens’t really matter because the first ones are going RIGHT HERE!!!!

Rainbow Bright:

Gryffindor!!

What I see at work all day:

Cody the Unwonderful Dog:

Ben playing with his phone at dinner (did I mention Ben got himself a phone too?):

I sent Ben a kiss today:

**(I actually just played Mario Cart but still!!)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6741038/

I think I’ll con Cameron into camping out in front of the store so we can get the book the day it comes out. And I am SO sporting the Gryfindor shirt. Because I AM IN Gryfindor.

Have I mentioned before that I have no patience? I’m sure I have. Anyway, Ben and I exchanged our Chirstmas gifts tonight. With Cassidy gone, I didn’t see why we should have to wait. 😉 Then Ben went today and got my ‘big’ present which made it necessary to do it today even though he thought that we should wait. (I’m sure that I’ve mentioned that Ben had the patience of a Saint… because he does.)

Anyway!! I got him a Game Cube. The one that comes with two controllers and the new Mario Cart (which ROCKS by the way). We’ve had too much fun on it already. 🙂 He also go a few CD’s off his wish list, the back scrubber he’s been wanting, a nifty toy that has a car shoot out of a miniature NOS bottle for his desk at work, and a new bottle of Eternity because he’s almost out and I’m just not willing to let that happen. Eau de Ben + Noxzema w/ lotion + Eternity = Heaven.

I got a flat iron for my hair which I’ve used and is beyond awsome. A Gryfindor t-shirt. (I’m SO in Gryfindor!! ;)) A Rainbow Bright t-shirt. (Yeah, so what… so I love Rainbow Bright!! SO?!) Some Happy perfume. America the Book by John Stewart. (WOOHOO!) A gift certificate to get my nails done…

And the ‘big’ present?? I finally go a camera phone. The V551 to be exact. Awsomness. He also got me the bluetooth adapter to go with it. So it tales 640X480 pictures, 30 second video clips. I’m in absolute love with my phone. 🙂

For some reason I can’t get the BlueTooth adapter to work so we’re gonna return this one and get a name brand one. Prepare yourself now for the 1000’s of pictures you are going to be subjected to. 😉

P.S. – Thank you, Benjamin, for everything. I always wonder how the current Holiday could possibly top the previous and you always seem to make that happen. Life with you in general seems that way. Today is always more magical then yesterday.

And be prepared for the ‘adult big’ present on the real Chirstmas morning. *kiss* I :heart: You.

We had our Secret Santa gift exchange for work today. The Boss treated us all to Chili’s. It was a lot of fun.

We wrote down three things that we might want and I included a new plant for my desk. I already have some lucky bamboo on it but I want mroe green. Amy was my Santa and she got me the Chinese version of the Lucky Plant. It’s really cool looking and even came in a really neat blue pot. I’m going to have to do some reading up on it to find out it’s history and how to take care of it.

So, if anybody can identify this plant let me know!! 🙂

I got an official job offer last Friday. The way it works there is that my supervisor grades me uing a points system. Using actual refunds that I’ve submitted to come up with a #. Then he submits that to the finance department and they assess my past experience and come up with a final dollar per hour amount. I’m feeling pretty good about it because the amount that my supervisor came up with before finance got ahold of it is almost $2.00 more than what I’m making now. So finance will either offer that amount or more.

My boss told me that I’ll be on the payroll in January. Benefits start immediately. Ben is paying $250 a month for coverage for Cassidy and I right now because we fall under ‘domestic partnership’. My coverage will be much less and his will drop to $70 just for him so we’ll save money that way. Plus I’ll be making more. AND I won’t be a temp anymore so that won’t be hanging over my head. I was always confident I’d be hired on because my boss loves me but still… it feels good.

YAY!

I swear. I just happened to stumble back on this when ‘Ben’ was on the list. Crazy. And to be honest, :heart: wasn’t the first thing I thought but if I stated what really popped into my head I’d have had an X rated post. 😉

Unconscious Mutterings

1. Plot:: Book
2. Farce:: Lie
3. Unexpected:: Rain
4. Siren:: Fire
5. Ben:: :heart:
6. Freshman:: Innocent
7. Quicksand:: Cold
8. 24 hours:: Strangulation
9. Spunky:: gag
10. Vicious:: cat

I’m addicted to black eyeliner.

I’ve taken a picture to show you but my smart card reader is broken. Blah.

So, I ranted. I ranted because I saw an ending to a movie, a good movie, that sucked ass and depressed me.

While Ben was talking to a co-worker about my reaction to the ending he suddenly realized that we had watched the Directors Cut. So the ending we saw was different then those of you who watched it in the theater. heh

Allow me to explain. I understand in the movie that at the end when Evan is watching himself on the video in the mental ward, he’s watching a video of himself as a young boy.. and when he makes the jump back there he kicks the girl in the shin causing her to not like him, never having become her friend, she moved in with her mom, her brother doens’t become psycho, etc. Evan is alive and well as are the rest of the gang at the end of the movie. THAT ending I can deal with.

In the Directors Cut… at the end when Evan is watchng the video in the mental ward he is watching his mother in labor. When he jumps back, he’s in his mothers womb still. He reaches for his umbilical cord and squeezes it in his hand, cutting off his blood supply, until he dies. HE DIES PEOPLE!

WTF kind of ending is that?? Sure, everybody else grows up happy and crap but Evan KILLS HIMSELF after being ass raped in jail, blowing himself up, beaten to hell, forced to perform child pornograhpy and watching his dog burn! Hello?

My computer has been up and down. I’m troubleshooting. Thinking it’s my burner. I pulled it out a few months ago because I was having issues but thought I had tracked it down to the motherboard. Maybe it was the burner after all. *shrug*

Anyway, I’m posting because Ben said that I have to. He found a TV he likes at Best Buy today while he and Cassidy played hooky from work and school. At first we were thinking about getting it for the bedroom because our TV in there is about to die. We found one for sale on CraigsList in the area for $600.

The frugal side then kicked in and we realized that if we sold the TV we have in the living room now it would more than cover the cost of the new TV. We could use the new one in the living room and just live with the ancient artifact in the bedroom. To look up the going rate of the TV we have now I had to squeeze behind it to get the model for Ben. He pulled the heavy beast away from the wall and I squeezed my head between the wall and the TV and used my cell phone for light to read him the number.

I went to pull away and realized that my head was WEDGED in the space. I could not go backwards because my ears were like, jammed in the forward position. I yelled for Ben to help and I think at first he though I was kidding but I WASN’T! He ran over and pulled the TV out a bit further and I was free. 😳 It hurt. Probably my pride more than my head. I’m sure there will be jokes about the size of my head in the near future as a result. 😉

Then he looked at me and said, ‘You SO better blog that.’