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My day was uneventful and filled with a headache. Anyone wishing to download mods for games, don't unless you understand the lingo. I was lost for 30 minutes til I figured it out - and I was a freakin Programming Major. gonk Games are best left in vanilla (plain) form.

Anyways I modded a game I've been playing forever. It came out with an expansion pack but all the units were for different campaigns and not the grand campaign so I dled this mod to bring them to the grand campaign. Now I'm playing the modded grand campaign, woot.

Otherwise uneventful really. Just talked to my mom more often lately. Her and I are talkin more which is good.

All else is bleh.

Ughgh serious case of the blah mondays. I really miss tv links, how sad is that? ;___; Soooo bored. Boooo homework! I zoned out so bad during stats today. I was doodling 80% of the time.

Man, it seems like all of us are kinda in a bad rut right now. I know I am.

My husband's working for assholes. They decided, without giving him any notice, that they weren't paying overtime anymore. If he works overitme, he gets paid the same thing he does for normal hours, instead of the usual time and a half pay. That's illegal here - they are required by law to pay overtime. So when he went to confront them about this, they said he had been "abusing his timecard" and clocking too many hours. Which he hasn't. So he is currently refusing to work overtime right now. Once he gets 40 hours for a week, he leaves. Doesn't matter if the job is done or not. If they aren't going to pay him what he deserves for the work, he isn't going to do it.
This sounds great in theory, but we're really only paying bills because of his overtime pay. If we aren't getting that, we can't pay all the bloodsuckers.
And he can't quit because of some contract my dad signed to get him the job. They may be able to steal the work van if Gary quits, and they owe dad a bunch of money, so Gary is basically leverage right now. We would feel bad about telling my dad to shove it and deal with the problems on his own, but it may come to that.

Also, our computer monitor died. We had a spare, but the resolution is really weird on it so I have trouble reading anything and haven't felt like posting much, or playing with my avi, or anything. We had to deplete our savings to order another comp, and it was supposed to be here Friday, but they didn't even get the money out of our account until Thursday, so we still don't have our comp. I decided to type anyway, even tho I can't actually read what I'm typing. sweatdrop

And our house is still infested with roaches. We've been having an exterminator come for about 4 months now. The last time he was here, he said they would normally be gone by now. They aren't. I think they're worse. He basically told us our only real option at this point is to take all our stuff, put it in a Pod and fog the hell out of it for a few weeks, and then move it all into a new house. This house is never going to be roach free. They are too deep into it. And of course it takes money for that too - we'd have to pay for the Pod, moving costs, living costs while were were moving because we couldn't work at that time, and the cost of a new house.

They say that money doesn't solve everything. I know that's true, but I also know that at this point money would solve ALL our problems. Everything else is great. In spite of all our other troubles, Gary and I still love each other, and we never fight, and Eleanor is an angel... We just need money to fix the mundane stuff.

So I've resorted to playing Powerball. It's like the lottery. It seems like the only way we're ever going to have the life we want - pay bills, eat food without bugs, send Elle to school, etc. - is to get a large amount of money. So we've decided that the extra $2 a week is worth it. (I'm such a gaming nerd, I rolled dice to choose the numbers...)
Gary is even so desperate he's asked me to do a spell. This never happens. My spells ALWAYS work; they just don't really work the way you expect them to. Like I'll do a spell for more precipitation, thinking rain, except the temp suddenly drops and it snows instead. Or I did a spell in Kansas to get Gary a better job, and he got fired and we wound up moving here and working. It was definitely better, but not at all what we expected. So I'm going to try to do a spell for prosperity, hoping to win the lottery, but who knows what will actually happen?
...Assuming I can stop being depressed long enough to do it. It's hard to reach a higher state of consciousness when the mundane world is weighing so heavily on you. I don't even feel like cleaning the house right now. It's like, why bother? I can't clean up the bugs, so why should I worry about the dust or clothes either?

Anyway, sorry for the long post. But if I don't reply to some of you, maybe this explains why a little. It's not that I don't care; I do. I read every one of your posts, and I even talk about you in real life. It's just that sometimes it's too difficult to form a reply without crying.

Aww *hugs Skele* ~tries to send good karma your way~

hope things get better.

My day was very chaotic and now I'm exhausted. Slept in till about 11 but got up, ate, ran to a few stores for ingredients for cupcakes to make for work, came home and cleaned the kitchen so I could bake. Then I baked and decorated all 4 dozen cupcakes before running out the door to campus to do a make-up test. Flew straight from there to work, which was absolutely NON-STOP mess and by then it was midnight. Came home finally settled down with some dinner and fell asleep on the couch for a half hour. Now, I'm awake again at 2:10am but just waiting for Dale to show up so I can go back to bed. So tired!

I wish I wasn't on a mountain...All I see is fog. T^T Makes me not even want to start my day *crawls back into bed*

Today is beautiful outside here in Utah, I just wish I felt well enough to enjoy it. I'm home from work on dr's orders. He says I have a contagious bacterial infection. Streep of a staf infections he said. But I get paid today! Yay!

I'm trying to find someone who can draw a goat wearing a cape and chasing parsley, I only see avatar artists though, please help q=P

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