It’s nice that I don’t have to deal with the coaew on any sort of personal level. I know some stepmothers have to actually speak to their husband’s exs and I am so glad that I do not. It’s nice that Sweety has always handled everything with her. I’ve never dialed her phone number and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have mine. I had to speak to the heifer (See how I called her “heifer” instead of “flaming twatwad” as was my first instinct? I’m trying to be kinder.) for about 30 seconds this weekend in passing (she butted into a conversation I was having with LB) and my head almost exploded. There’s no way I could have a productive conversation with her without needing to take a nap afterwards. And luckily – I don’t have to.
My job makes me want to poke bamboo shoots under my fingernails but at least I have a job. I get plenty of paid time off and health insurance. The insurance is the main thing that keeps me there. If Sweety were to carry the boys and I on his insurance plan, it would cost 3 or 4 times as much as what we pay now under my plan. I work inside. I can surf the internet at work to read the news and whatnot. I know what the fuck I’m doing so I’m left mostly alone. That is a good thing.
Living in Florida. Well, I hate the weather but we are close to all sorts of fun things. It’s been neat to take the kids to theme parks and different places. When my sister and her family were down last week, I let LB miss a day of school and we went to Kennedy Space Center. He’d never been before and he’s pulling all As in school so I didn’t think it would kill him to miss a day. BB is not doing as well with this grades so he didn’t get to go. (And he’d been to the place before on a school field trip.) He was bummed about it but he understood why he didn’t get to miss school.
Now that I have a GPS, I can always find my way home if I get turned around in this stinking town. That is nice. I do not like being lost. Um, sometimes though? I forget that I have a GPS and drive around aimlessly, looking for something familiar. I think my brain cells are dying quicker than they should.
This concludes my personal pep talk.
16 Comments, Comment or Ping
I want the Joanna Lumley GPS – she says “Well done darling!” and things like that in a posh voice. Yeah – I really need that. I don’t have a car.
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
You could use it on foot! Like carrying a tiny friend in your pocket!
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March 22nd, 2010 7:02 am
Reading your blog is one of my nice things.
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Aw, thank you!
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March 22nd, 2010 7:56 am
*Hugs*
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Thank you! I needed that. :)
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March 22nd, 2010 11:35 am
You totally deserve a Nobel Prize just for the way your brain works. I swear.
xoxo!
And… Vegas… YAY!!!! Let the countdown begin!!!!
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:12 pm
FIVE DAYS! WOOT!
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March 22nd, 2010 4:54 pm
The internet is so locked down where we work that we can’t even browse many sites we need to visit for work related things. And, just today, I received some emails that were caught in the anti-virus filter since Thursday. They reconfigured it last week but didn’t fix it until today. In between it was eating people’s emails. So, your workplace that bad.
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:14 pm
We just all got email access at work. It is the bane of my existence. I prefer killing trees and getting paper notes about important things. It seems like lots of junk email comes through.
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March 22nd, 2010 8:15 pm
You deserve the awesome person award simply for your making the best of Florida. ;)
I actually learned my way around there without a working GPS, if you can imagine! Of course, it’s not like Deltona was all that freaking big!
Anyway, almost vacation time for you!
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Chickie said:
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:12 am
Heh, that’s where I live! My sense of direction is totally broken though. My time in Florida? I’ve served almost 9 years so there’s only 5 more to go!
Vacation! 4 days til my happy ass is on a plane!
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March 22nd, 2010 10:39 pm
You are a freakin genius! I love your brain too! You are also so funny.
Have a great time in Vegas.
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Chickie said:
March 26th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I’m sure we’ll have a large time! I can’t wait to be lazy without kids or dogs nipping at me!
Thanks you for coming by. :)
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March 23rd, 2010 10:06 am
Ahhhh, my dear Chickie. You never dissapoint! I always have loved the way your mind works, my dear, and I still do….”Twat-Wad” Indeed!!!
LOL……Today is March 25th…And you will be on that plane in a Hot Minute!
I look forward to you and Sweety getting here–if possible…!
Fly Safe, dear Chickie!
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Chickie said:
March 26th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
We’re almost on our way! Yippee!
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March 25th, 2010 7:12 pm
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