Just Crush My Hopes and Dreams USN

so a few blog posts ago i made mention that my husband got orders to greece and how incredibly excited i was and blah blah blah...well the orders were supposedly "written" and we were just waiting for them to "post" so then we would have our hard copy, i could quit my shitty job that i LOATHE, we could pack, and all would be right with my perfect little world.
well it's a MONTH and a HALF later and still no posted hard copy orders for my to put in my hand, husband spoke with the detailer a week ago and he said "yep they are written and should post in FOUR business days" this was december 2nd. so i've been hounding him everyday "did you call the detailer?" "did you talk to the detailer" "did your orders post" god love him he doesen't hit me. this afternoon when i spoke with husband i asked again "did you talk to the detailier" and instead of his normal response of no [insert lame reason here] he said "no, and today when i called and got his voicemail it says he's NO longer a detailer" **hangs head** "OH SHIT!!"
so now we have NO idea what's going on with these orders. apparently they aren't available anymore so that's a plus. another down side: if he doesn't get the orders soon then he's making the first leg of this deployment to spain and leaving me here all alone to PACK EVERYTHING and transition EVERYTHING to IL where we will be for a few months before greece. i WILL light someone on fire if this happens.
if we don't get the orders then who knows what's going to happen, i know that i don't want to stay at this job any longer than i have to.
and i am done for now.
kristy

Things That Make Me Say 'Are YEW Serious?!"

so the past few days there has been a tremendous amount of shit (<--mostly work) happen that i have just stood there and squinted my eyes, cocked my head to one side, and with the most disdain possible in my voice said "are yew serious?!" and rather than rant and rave and make 546846 different blog entries i'll just make a list, i do luuuurve lists.
Ahem and on we go:

1)my schedule rotates, this week is my short week, love my short weeks, two 12 hour shifts then a gloorrrrrious three day weekend. i come in wednesday in a pretty good mood, made it through my drive without falling asleep, i'm informed there's a communication meeting in the auditorium. (usually these meetings are bullshit and it gives me a few extra minutes to prepare myself for the laziness of my coworkers or to giggle to myself that so many people don't own mirrors and if they do they are obviously not using them before they leave their house) as i'm walking to this meeting i'm hearing the whispers, the norm...bankruptcy, lay offs, new coffee shop, blah blah...i get into the meeting and we are abruptly informed that we as a company are broke, and in an effort to save our pathetic german ass everyone in support of 300 MM will be taking one mandatory UNPAID day off PER pay period for the next EIGHT pay period or SIXTEEN weeks. WTF?! it will only affect me for about 7 weeks but STILL! this is cutting my overtime, my 401K and my BONUS! "Are yew serious?!"

2) fast forward two hours, i'm checking my work email and deleting all the bullshit i get on a daily basis(people around here don't communicate face to face, they would rather fill up my inbox with emails from their blackberry) and i get the company newsletter, basically a worthless email that i delete, not this one this time though. i read it and got to one sentence that almost made me wet my pants, pause for a moment, here's the deal with this job i don't like it but it pays the bills so i can deal and i don't have to work here forever, just while my hubby is still stationed here, but to be at a job i hate that doesn't pay the bills, i'm not so much down with that or to lose it before i'm ready also not down with that, ok back to the story, the sentence in the email that almost made me wet my pants went something like this...if the company doesn't find an investor or stumble on a mountain of cash by the 14th of DECEMBER (<--as in ten days) liquidation will be necessary! "Are yew serious?!"

3) like i said before my schedule rotates on what is called a 5 and 2(one week i work five days mon, tues, fri, sat, sun, and the next week i work wed thurs) we have 4 shifts( 2 day shifts 2 night shifts) i recently got voluntold to switch the second day shift(was on the first day shift) the way the holidays fell this year was the first day shift(D1) had to work all the major holidays excluding new years(my FAVE) then when i switched to the second day shift(D2) i got those off excluding new years (BOO!) so when talking to my supervisor about switching i told him my concerns about having new years off bc on the other shift i wasn't going to have to use PTO and with coming to the new shift was i still going to be able to have it off, everyone else has had the opportunity to save the PTO up and i haven't blah blah blah. he said yes you should be fine no worries. so the first day he changed my status so i could apply for those days off, i did. there was already one person requesting both days off, his request was in waaaay before mine was, no biggie; APPROVED! so the supervisor approves new year's eve and then denies new years day!!! then come to find out approves it for some schmuck who put his request in almost A MONTH after i put mine in! "Are yew serious?!"
***UPDATE***i wrote the supe an email telling him that we already spoke of this situation and with all due respect i put my request in BEFORE the other guy and if he wouldn't give me vacation i'll take it without pay... he wrote me back telling me that i was right in recalling that we had ALREADY talked about it, and i was told i could have it off. so now i don't know what's going to happen. he'll either approve it or deny it and i'll take it without day.

4) i had a class this morning at 10am, i went down fifteen before hand, and when the class ended at 11am i went to lunch for an hour and 15, so i was gone from 945am to 1215ishpm, the agenda for today was two quarterly PMs, they take about an hour to an hour and a half to do. there were two OTHER people who are EXPERTS at these machines up here for that time period, so i was figuring cool i just finish up whatever is left and it will make for an easy afternoon...WRONG! i get up here after being gone for TWO and A HALF only to discover that NOT ONE DAMN THING has been done!!! "Are yew serious?!"

5) apparently around here it is customary that when you walk past someone's chair to grab the top of it, move it around and keep walking. this has happened somewhere between 45 times today. if it happens again i'm pretty sure i'm going to punch someone in the face. seriously stop touching my fuckin chair! (ohk not an are yew serious but along the same lines)

so now i'm done bitching for the moment and i need to go and complete these PMs that the experts couldn't handle.
i'm out

All I want for Thanksgiving is a Deep Fried Turkey

i really was not under the impression that it was such an outrageous demand to want deep fried turkey. i live in VA which depending on who you ask is considered the south, i have NEVER considered this crappy piece of land the south but i digress, i am from the south and wherever you go where i'm from and say deep fried turkey people will just come out of the woodwork and tell you the best place to get it. anyway back to my original complaint...i can't find a place that makes deep fried turkey ANYWHERE within a 65 mile radius(that is how far i will go to get one, no further) these people on the phone really think i'm some kind of redneck reject, the disgust in their voice as they tell me "no we don't make those here...maaaaam" then they hang up. i wonder how many of them have heard me yelling strings of cuss words as i pull the phone from my face? there is something wrong with these so called southerners and thei yankee ways! deep friend turkey is a part of life in the south, it's a necessity at a thanksgiving dinner or any big family get together for that matter. all i want is some deep fried turkey!!!!! and it doesn't look like it's going to happen. boo on you Viriginia!!!!!
if you ever get the chance to move here or visit...just pass! go somewhere else...this place is a shithole...the whole damn state just completely 100% sucks the big one!

i'm done
kristy j

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Blogger...You are on Notice!

oh how i do adore this website, it allows me to blog about things i deem important or entertaining, i also allowed me to discover the wonderful world of blogging without the added hassle of paying for a domain name BUT then this lovely website decided to be a pain in my ass...

Strike 1-when i tried to change the template for the blog it wouldn't work and froze up. this happened several times, eventually i gave up and just picked a different template(of course after screaming strings of profanities loud enough for my poor dog to run and hide under the table...sorry chaz)

Strike 2- i wanted to do some random surfing and check out new and interesting blogs that weren't tied up in the little blog world in which i drown myself in on a daily basis, so i hit "next blog" button about 78,596 times and to my dismay only 6 were in english and the rest were in different languages and so much HTML it just looked like a damn jumbled mess OR were advertising something i didn't care about. boo!

Strike 3- every single picture i find to put behind my title, blogger finds something wrong with the code and won't let me put it there. i just want a little individuality in my blog but apparently blogger says "fuck you kristy J!" and i repeat said actions in strike 1.

so here i sit aggitated at blogger, no new blogs to read, and i'm at work and it's SATURDAY! i'm missing football and NO NEW BLOGS TO READ! i'm dying over here.

and to make matters worse my trainer ate garlic this morning OH THE HUMANITY!!!!

i'm done
peace out

DVR will be the end of me

don't get me wrong i love my DVR but i've gotten SO used to just DVRing everything i want to watch that i don't think about the fact that my DVR and the cable networks are not conversing to make sure i'm getting all of the shows in their entirety i want to watch. take for instance my addiction to cold case...well for some reason CBS is trying to make me crazy and not airing it at the time my guide tells me it is, instead i end up with the first half of the amazing race(really who give a shit about that show, i know i don't!) and the last half of cold case and yes the last half is the best part but i would like to see the first part too!! i'm so spoiled by my DVR that i just can't snap back into reality and realize the cable networks are not revolving around me and my preference of shows i want to watch. if i thought for one minute it would make a difference i would write to tell CBS to stop fucking with me and my beloved DVR but alas it would just fall into the black whole that is the complaint department and i would still be angry and missing the first half of cold case. BOO!
so i guess i'll just go back to finishing my wine and bitching on my blog about CBS and my DVR spoiling me.
later kids

Marriage and Other Shit

so i'm still not very good at keeping up with this thing, i'll try and do better. so let's see what's new...here we'll do this in a list format, it might be easier to follow and easier for me to write seeing as how i've had a few glasses of wine. so away we go:

1--> i got married! YAY! two weeks ago. it was wonderful and beautiful and the happiest day of my life. that being said I AM SO EFFIN GLAD IT'S OVER!! i will pat myself on the back and say i wasn't a bridezilla. i had lots of help and it went smoothly. everyone looked beautiful. i have a great new big family and i am SO SO happy about being married. my hubby is great!

2-->i HAAAAAAAAAAATE my job!!!!!!!!!!!!! the job itself isn't bad but the people...oh myyy god the people...it's like highschool but with older uglier people who face you can't see(clean room suit) the shit talking and the dirty looks, i didn't even do anything to these poeple. WHATEVER! NEWS FLASH LOSERS the company is going BANKRUPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yah the stock closing today was $0.19 today. it's like they refuse to acknowledge that in less than four months they are going to be unemployed. they are a team of ignorant useless uptight assholes who for some reason think they are "cool" bc they spend all day making others feel like outsiders. this one girl did the whole finger wag head shake thing to me then the next day i bumped into her and then like the "mature" 29 year old she is, she PUSHED me! like we were on a playground or drunk in a bar. needless to say i spent most of my day yesterday in human resources droppin dimes like a muthafucka. i hate those people. i start my new shift tomorrow...the good thing about this shift...NO GIRLS! YAY! i don't get along with girls for some reason. i can't wait to quit this job. is that bad?


3--> the husband got orders to GREECE! we leave in february to go to chicago for four months while he attends school, then in june we leave for greece for two years! i'm SO fucking excited it's ridiculous. we bought the rosetta stone thingy so we can learn to speak greek before we get over there. should be pretty cool. i decided(bc i live in a fantasy world where money is no object) that we should live in a villa over looking the beach. i don't know if it's going to happen but i can dream. another really cool part i don't have to work while i'm over there he said i don't have to work i can just go to school full time. YEEEEOW! i'm stoked.

4-->i know other people are thinking this so i'm going to say err write it....CAN THIS ELECTION JUST BE THE FUCK OVERWITH ALREADY?!?!?!?!? JEEZ! i just want to listen to the radio and NOT hear 17 "i'm barac obama and i approve this message" or "i'm john mccain and i approve this message" AUH! i just want to punch babies...shit just play the songs i want to hear and get the hell over it. SHIT!

5-->my dog has a bruised trachea. he ate a rawhide and it got stuck in there and from all the coughing and gagging it bruised the hell out of his trachea, so much so that it damaged the cartilage in the trachea. poor baby. he gets to eat lots of ice cream, soft food, and enjoy lots of belly rubs.

alllllright well i think i'm done for now. i promise i will be better about writing in here.
peace bitches

Just Mount Guns to the Top of the Car and I'll be Fine

I don't live in a big city like boston and NYC but I do happen to live in an area chock full of military…people from boston and NYC that didn't feel the need to get a driver's license until the age of 25 or so…making driving around here feel like being the only sane person in a mental institution.
I won't ever understand the point of putting your blinker on AFTER you've switched lanes and have already cut me off causing me to slam on my brakes and scream never ending string of cuss words.
Or riding my ass in the RIGHT lane flashing your lights and honking at me to get over. PASS ON THE LEFT!!!!!
My favorite is probably when someone is riding in my blind spot while I have my turn signal on…this in turn means I speed up to pass you then you get pissed at me for "cutting you off" and ride my ass while honking and flashing your lights. God that just makes my day!
Needless to say I have turned into an asshole driver(I'm still a GOOD driver which is important.) Probably not up to the asshole level of the big city drivers but definitely an asshole. If someone tries to pass me I speed up and maintain my spot in the lane. If on the off chance someone does pass me I make sure to return the gracious favor of laying on my horn and flashing my lights while riding their ass.
Driving around here makes me insane. It gets to the point where I don't want to drive. Soon I'll live somewhere that I won't have to drive…then I can bitch about public transportation and the way cab drivers drive.
Well that's all the bitching I can muster up for now. I'm sure there will be more.
Peace bitches
Kristy J