Mondays always seem to vex me. Even though I haven’t been in the workforce for over two years, they still bite me sometimes. Almost makes me want to stay in bed all day but…

My new bed is harder than it felt at the store. We bought the floor model for a substantial savings but for some reason it just doesn’t feel the same as the day we plopped on it at the furniture store. I would love to return it but…

It is the floor model so there is no money back guarantee. The warranty is still valid but the no return policy is in effect. Now I have to sleep on it for the next few years till we can save enough to get yet another bed.

One thing that doesn’t suck is the fact that I am one payment away from officially owning my truck. What does suck is that the last time I payed off a vehicle it died two days later!

I am enjoying my amateur radio. I have been listening in and learning mostly. What sucks about this you ask? I know no one on the air. These people all know each other and have way more technical skills then I do. Even when I do talk to them, I have no clue what they are talking about sometimes. I would love to get a home based radio that puts out some nice wattage and a big antenna but they are expensive and then there’s that pesky HOA covenant.

Done complaining yet? No I am not, but I will give you a rest here.

There was supposed to be a picture here. Let’s for the sake of my sanity, pretend that there is indeed an amazing photo of whatever it is you want to see.

Got it in your mind?

Good cause that’s all I have.

I’ve been trying to play catch up with all my tasks and getting seriously bogged down. I have no idea how anyone could stand to do housework every day, it sucks! Anyway, if it warms back up I will get out next week and take some photos so I don’t get caught with my metaphorical pants down again!

Between the wedding shoot and a recent portrait shoot, I have been kept busy. Honestly, I should be working on the photos right now, but I wanted to get something up here so you can see what it is I am doing.

This shot is from the portrait session, my Pastors daughter. She’s a blast to work with and also a really great singer.

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I am still working on it, this is a rough draft. The only part of photography that slows me down is the retouching and getting them ready to print.

So, how was you Memorial day weekend?

Really, that good?

Huh, mine wasn’t so hot, as you can tell by the title of the post.

Want to know what happened that made my holiday weekend suck? Too bad, I’m telling you anyway.

It started out normal enough, the neighborhood pool was opening that Saturday so the girls and Becky decided to go enjoy that for a few hours. To make it even more amusing, they decided to drag me along, I don’t swim so all I do is sit in the shade and sulk while they swim.

When that bit of joy was over we decided to hit up the little carnival/fish fry that a local church was having. I asked if we could please stop somewhere and get me a Mountain Dew, gotta have it! Becky needed gas anyway so we went to one of the local inconvenience marts and tried to get this accomplished. I stayed outside and worked on gassing the car while Becky went in and got sodas. This is where things really started to go wrong!

I usually pay by card at the pump. I slid my card through and after a few seconds it says “invalid card”, what, what the heck does that mean? I try again and still get nothing. I walk into the store where Becky is getting ready to checkout, I inform her of the problem so she goes and tries it with her card while I try and pay for the sodas. No luck, my card won’t work inside either. We leave the building with no sodas and one not so happy daddy. Becky tells me her card won’t work either!

Our bank is just next door so we decide to take a quick drive to their ATM and see what is going on. Well, unfortunately their ATM was out of service, big surprise there. We drive to the next bank over and try to get a withdrawal there only to be informed that we have insufficient funds! What, I made sure the deposit was there Friday, I payed a few bills, but nothing that would drain the bank account.

At this point, I am furious. I tell Becky we should go ahead and go to the carnival/fish fry and try to enjoy it, we can go home and see what happened later. We get to the carnival and it is HOT, boiling hot and they are holding it on their blacktop driveway. I do not enjoy myself, mostly because it is so hot but partly due to the fact that I am fuming over the bank problem. We leave after an hour, since we don’t have money we aren’t getting any fish!

When we get home I head straight for the computer. I go to our bank site and look up our account, what I found darn near made me cry! See one of the bills I paid was to my ex-employer for my COBRA payment. I gave them a check for$185. When I checked my account it showed that the check had been cleared not just once but twice. Once for $185 and once for $10,124.86! Well, my account did not have that much in it, not even close, my fury turned to rage!

I called my ex-employers home number and informed them of what had happened. It appears that when the check was ran it went through alright but the next check they ran went under my account instead of the correct one. Alright, it’s 2:00pm on a Saturday, there’s no one at the bank. As a matter of fact, it’s a holiday weekend, there won’t be anyone there till Tuesday AND I AM BROKE!

So I spent most of my weekend sitting around and fuming over this whole mess. I started in with the phone calls early today and as of this writing everything seems to be back in order, except that my entire weekend was shot!

What have I been doing you ask? Why haven’t I finished the hospital story? Well it’s like this, have you ever had so much to do that you decided the best way to deal with it is to not do anything? No, well I have, and that’s where I am at the moment. I have spent so much time watching the news and being depressed about the economy and the nuts we have working on it that I have been hiding on twitter. Speaking of which.

You may have noticed the daily updates from twitter. I added that partly so you would know that I am still alive and partly to make sure my site has something new on it when I don’t feel like making a whole post. Yeah, it’s cheating I suppose but at least there is something new to read every day!

I will get to the rest of the hospital story soon enough but for now I am working on someones website and I need to figure out the google maps setup so I can make maps for their site. So for now, see you later.

Over the last week I have been in the emergency room twice, once from home and once from work. The trip from work was via an ambulance. My chrones is giving me fits and really making life miserable. I’m not sure what exactly is going on, I will have to wait to see my gastro guy to find that out.

The ambulance ride was due to the fact that I had thrown up so hard and so long that I was unable to stand on my own. I was severely dehydrated and so weak that it was pathetic!

Hopefully this too will pass. I am trying to keep a positive attitude, which has been very difficult. This is about the longest that I have sat at my computer all week. It is just too uncomfortable to sit here and type.

On that note, I am going back to bed.

Peace!

Back on third shift, posting may be sporadic for awhile.

I am trying to out type the next round of storms. That last round actually unnerved me. I wasn’t prepared for it and when the hammer fell, I wasn’t ready. I did manage to grab the watch spot at work. So I got to stand outside and watch the storm and make sure it was all clear before everyone went back to work. It did get pretty nasty, but when the sirens went off that caught me off guard. I usually have my radio with me when I expect severe weather, but I wasn’t expecting it tonight, boy was I wrong.
This is what it looks like right now!

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Alright, imagine if you will, the most annoying thing you can think of.

Got it?

Now multiply the annoyance factor by 10.

Are you there?

You still aren’t even close to this!

I like to play a game sometimes. See when people get on my nerves, rather than ignore them I get even. So I play a game with them. I call it sing song. From the point I declare game on, I will take a word from everything they say and find a song with that word and start singing it to them. There is a goal and yes I can win the game. See, the game goes something like this:

coworker: Jeff, can you help me with this?

me: Help, I need somebody. Help, not just anybody.

coworker: Jeff, come here please.

me: Here I go again on my own, walking down the only road I’ve ever known.

Can you see how this works so far?

Here’s the goal line, the idea is to get them to tell me to shut up!

coworker: Shut up

me: Up up and away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon.

Oh the joy I get from this game. It may not seem like much now, but you should try it sometime. I guarantee you will enjoy it. Also, it keeps your mind sharp trying to think of a song as quickly as possible. Don’t worry about it when you get stuck, just make one up if you have to. Now get digging through your music collection and get ready to drive someone nuts!

Ok, I have nothing again. I had hoped to post something substantial tonight but I am beat. Work was trying to kill me and I am in need of some sleep.

In other news, it’s time to break out the ark again. It has been raining all day non stop and it looks like a river is running down my alley!

I am off tomorrow, well today now. My dad is having surgery on some skin cancer and my 11 year old has a choir concert tonight that I told her I would try and make it to. I haven’t told her I actually got the day off yet, thought I would surprise her when she gets out of school.

Alrighty then, I am off to bed!

God bless,
Jeff A