Let's see...

New stuff. Hmm... Not much really. Same o' same o'. My VW is falling apart. The window kit went kabluey so the window has to be taped up with painter's tape, and the bumper cover fell off a few weeks before. We are trying to get the darn thing fixed so we can sell it, but our VW guy won't call us back. So that's obnoxious...

I finished my book. Seriously! I would put the rest of it on my story blog 'cept I am rearranging the ending and adding stuff here and there. It's gonna take a while to get through it all and edit since in 8 point font it is over 60 pages long.... Took me over two years to get through it all, and it's still not quite there yet so that's.... yeah. That. I don't care if no one wants to publish it. I would just get it bound for me and put it with my other books in my library. Hahaha. I just like how books smell and feel. It's boring reading it off a computer screen. One of my dad's friends from bowling league recorded his "life story" on audio tapes and wants me to go through it and make it into a book, you know, ghost writer stuff. I think it would be so much fun! Putting it all together and making grammatically awesome sentences. I should be an editor rather than an author. I enjoy proofreading so much more than an ordinary person.... Lol. But yeah. being a ghost writer would be really fun.

I finished a baby blanket for my bestest friend last week. It's so cute! I wanna put up a picture, but I gotta wait until I surprise Goose with it so she'll be surprised. I will put one up after I mail it. Haha. I know you are just so excited to see, oh blog reader. Not.

They have the most awesome ribbons at Michaels' and I have a ton of ideas for the 50 billion other blankets I gotta make for other friends hatchin' babies, including my sister in law's. Luckily they don't take too long, and they look super awesome when I aka the Master am done with them. I am just so humble. I may be the world's most humble person! Haha. Yeah, that was supposed to be a joke. You know cuz... Nevermind.

Evan is totally digging his new job at Intel. I guess they film a lot of stuff that gets shown on the Discovery Channel. Evan will get sent all over the place to shoots like China. The next shoot is in the Cayman Islands, and they wanted Evan to come, but since he's still in training. he has to stay behind on this one. Unless they change their minds at the last second... Who knows? But Evan is totally thrilled with the outrageously expensive cameras and sets and lighting and green screen stuff they have, you know, film nerd guy stuff. He likes to tell me how much the toys are while I gag in shock, usually muttering, "Holy moly," half a second after that.

Currently, it's hotter than the surface of the sun outside, my house is still trashed from our "not unpacking" after we got home from the funeral last weekend, and Evan is out grocery shopping. The fact that tomorrow is Monday sickens me, but hey, I have my random day off on Tuesday, so that lessens the blow a bit. It's always important to have something to look forward to in order to survive the drudgery that is "work" so my current fixation would be getting a new car as soon as the blasted VW dude gets his bum in gear. My other car guy is already looking for my Equinox. *Happy dance. But yeah, that's about it.

I leave you with this parting thought:

"I don't know what to say, so I'll just say what's in my heart... Baboom, Baboom, Baboom.
Mel Brooks

Productive Weekends

I woke up early this morning and cleaned my entire hour in 3 1/2 hours. So proud of me! I love having a spic and span abode. I even hung up all our clothes in one sitting. That NEVER happens. Lol. I tend to believe that closet floors are just shelves. ;) My family finally all woke up a little before 3 (slackers) and called us so we could all meet up and see Toy Story 3. It was really cute, definitely different feeling than the first two, but that's what usually happens when there's a different director. This lady starting choking in front of me, like serious "I-need-the-Heimlich-maneuver" choking and I thought she was going to die or something. But her husband/boyfriend/thing managed to help her out. We just got back from wandering around San Tan (thought my feet were gonna fall off) and now the boys are at Wally World picking up stuff to make chicken alfredo. Woot. Evan is finally starting his job at Intel on the 28th, FOR SURE. Lol. He's been contracting for another company so that definitely saved us from a world of hurt. That's about it on our end at the moment. We "might" be going swimming later tonight. Molly tried to eat the next door neighbor's dog (or the neighbor thought that she was, I knew she wouldn't, but I am still mad at her for scaring the poor little dog). I got my 8-hour days back at work so I don't have to get up so early anymore (haven't gotten my 40-hours back, but.... here's hopin.). Oh, and I'm getting to the end of my story. It's almost a hundred pages, which means if I am able to score a publisher, it should be a regular-sized novel, so that's cool. I just gotta figure out how to go about getting published... Well, if no one wants it, I'll just pay to get a copy made up for me. Lol. Gettin' published sounds like it's as easy an winning the lottery. Haha. Ah, well. I'll just keep my fingers crossed and see what happens.

So, yay

My husband got the job! Took 3 interviews, but he got it. Lol. He is now doing editing/video archiving at Intel (*Ba bum ba bum!) and he starts in a couple weeks, so thank God. Seriously. Idk how we would have been able to make it much longer, you know, mortgage and all that. So that's all good. Now I just need my hours back from work and it'll be peachy again. Lol. This weekend was a good one. Went to church yesterday morning, went out to lunch with friends, went home and took a nap, went shopping with my sister and got a cute dress, friends came back over, and we watched Finding Nemo (always a classic), and then today we're going ice skating. Short post, I know, but at least I finally got a post up. Toodles!

Permanent Nail Polish

What is it with dark nail polish and never actually coming ALL the way off? I guess that's what I get for attempting to paint my own nails. I suck at it. Lol. Now I have these dark purple rings around my nails. Hey, it could be the new trend!

This weekend went by pretty fast. Friday night there was a mass gathering at my parents' house and we had some yummy burgers and watched Surrogates which was basically I Robot. Went to church on Saturday and spent the rest of the day snuggled with my husband watching SG1. We went over to my parents' house and watched Young Victoria, much to Evan's dismay. Lol. He does not like period pieces, but then, most guys don't. It was a pretty good flick. It's always nice to see historical stuff end happily. They're usually so depressing! Evan's snide comments through the "chick flick" made it funny. On Sunday we went to my uncle's house for my cousin's birthday party/Mother's Day and he rented one of those blow-up slip and slides and I didn't have my bathing suit, but I didn't care. Lol. I went in my clothes. Man, am I sore today! One of the nurses asked if I hurt myself on it, and I was like, "Um, no. I repeated a motion over and over again that I never do....?" Lol. Yeah, I totally run and slide on my stomach on a regular basis on the carpet/cement.

Evan got a call back from a prospective job. He had a phone interview with them last week and now they wanna have him come in and do a second interview with them. I'm so excited! Man, I hope he gets it. I'm so tired. We've been on edge for over a month. Evan says that he's still going to try and get out to California, but it's nice to have him with me a little longer. :) Blaaaaah, this summer is going to be INTERESTING.

Ciao, dudes.

Update, UPdate, UPDATE

So I know all of you were just PINING to know what's been going on with our APRIL problems, so here's the sitch.

Evan is still unemployed. Poor boy has applied everywhere, and the only callback he received was from Fry's Electronics. :P He had an interview there today where, come to find out, Fry's has this new policy thingymabob that states no hiring people who have worked there before. Evan worked there briefly when he first moved to AZ. I guess the guy who interviewed Evan liked him so much that he's going to try and bypass the new policy and see if they can hire Evan, but we'll see. Evan is a little depressed to say the least. He got the callback, from Fry's of all the places he hoped to here from, on the day of his graduation. "Here's your Bachelor's Degree and now go work at Fry's." I would've cried, personally, but that's me. I am so unbelievably proud of Evan. It just plain sucks that useless ol’ me gets to keep a job when the talented one gets tanked. Anyway, regardless of whether he gets the job there or not, Evan is now working to get a new demo reel together so he can find a job in LA. Yep, you heard me. Los Angeles. His friend is working on Justified right now and says Evan has a good chance of getting hired on any project he applies for. I guess the TV show V is hiring a lot so Evan's gonna try for there first. So there's a good chance I'll be stuck here alone for quite some time. The plan is for Evan to stay at his cousins' for a bit and later maybe get an apartment with some friends in Burbank. It's gonna suck so bad living by myself. We discussed the possibility of renting out a room in the house, but I don't know anyone looking for a place to stay for awhile. I do NOT want a stranger in my house, thanks. If Evan makes it out there in a permanent position (TV jobs are temporary), then I will make the journey out there, but I gotta make sure that I can find a job with my not-so impressive marketable skills. I have a lot of medical office experience, but so do a lot of other people, and a lot of people are vying for those jobs. I have a lesser chance of getting hired over others who are older, damn me for being in my early 20s. But yeah, that is the mess I call, "APRIL." Hopefully May will bring something good. It's already doing a pretty good job ending my classes for me. I could do with less stuff to STRESS over. Bah. Toodles, readers!

Unfailing Unfairness

So my husband was laid off yesterday. Yep. No warning or anything. That was it. Shall I break it down a bit?

My husband has been working for this company for over a year. He was so talented with what he can do; they opened a whole video department with him as the head. He was bringing in business himself and wowing his bosses like crazy. He was being paid CRAP because the company was just starting out, but for months he was promised a raise come his yearly review. It was a long wait, but we were optimistic that we would get that raise and everything would be okay when we had to begin paying off Evan's school loans. For a year, Evan has not received any PTO or any overtime. And they made him work A LOT of overtime. 15 hour days. Those are always fun. This past weekend with the start of the Phoenix Film Festival, for which Evan did the logo/opening to every screening being shown there, he was there ALL weekend. Thursday night, after having worked all day at his office, he was sent to North Scottsdale for the Festival from 4:30 - 10:30PM, came home, went to bed, got up the next morning for work at the office, went to Scottsdale, came home Friday night about midnight. Saturday, got up at 8AM, shot another gig at 10AM for some BBQ thing, went to the Festival, and came home at 10:30PM. Went back on Sunday and worked at the Festival from 10AM-5PM. All. For. FREE. You betcha. He went in Monday morning to work, worked all day, and was brought in by his boss and his sister and told that there was no more work for him. They couldn't afford the pittance salary to keep him on staff. Evan asked if they could just keep him on for a week or two to give him time to find a new job. NOPE. Is he getting payment for all the overtime this weekend alone? NOPE. Is he getting reimbursed for the gas we spent getting him to North Scottsdale from Gilbert for the past four days? NOPE. You know what he's getting? A recommendation letter. No warning, completely caught off guard, not even allowed to finish out this week. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. NADA.

This post is a little all over the place, so sorry about that, but you can tell it's mostly cuz I'm upset. There's no harder worker than Evan. He's one of those talented, dedicated workers that could go so far and yet keeps getting screwed over by everyone. It makes my heart hurt. But anyway, I thought I would share and get it out of my system. You can see how amazing Evan is on his website: evansprague.com. Hope everyone else's luck holds in this crappy economy. It always sucks when you get to be a statistic on the news......

Death of a Crockpot

Being angry at Mondays is a good thing. It's like some sort of voodoo karma thing that bites you in the butt if you happen to be in a good mood on a Monday. And there I was yesterday, happy as can be, on my way home from work looking forward to some scrumptious chicken cacciatore I had made that morning in my crock-pot. My mood was so fine that I failed to notice my dog slink under the table as soon as I came through the door, my thoughts wholly centered on the fact that I have class on Monday nights and I get home long enough to eat really quick before diving out the door for the next three hours at COM100 so using my crock-pot on Mondays and Tuesdays works quite well. As I put down my purse and started to turn towards the stove to start boiling some water, that's when I saw it; this horrible thing. Shattered glass everywhere, the remains of my crock-pot flung about in disarray, tomato sauce all over the counters and floor, and the horrid lack of chicken cacciatore. I quietly let my dog out into the back, who escaped outside with a sigh of relief, and I turned back to the mess. I could physically feel the seconds counting down to when I had to rush back out the door again. Let's just say that for the rest of the time I was at home, I was pretty angry, and Molly was scared for her life. My crock-pot had been a wedding gift and I just wanted to sit down and have a good cry. Dratted dog! But anyway, I thought I would share my little movie with you all. Someday I will have a movie on how exactly she gets on the counters and knocks stuff off, so there's that to look forward to.