Here I am.  I found me.  I was getting worried that I was lost, but I found myself. 

Anyway, I’ve been playing my Guitar Hero on my Wii and uhm, American Idol Karaoke.  I’m totally a superstar.  heh Doug also upgraded the memory in my laptop so that I could actually run programs and it not seem like I poured cold syrup in my computer when opening Photoshop.  Which meaaaaaaaaaaaans also that I can play The Sims on my laptop now.  Woo hoooooo! 

Work is going well.  I mean, I’m actually enjoying it.  I try to keep busy which helps the mindless hours pass more quickly.  One of the girls is out on maternity leave so my hours have upped a bit while she’s out.  I don’t expect I’ll be working nearly 40 hours much but we’ll keep an eye on it.  Y’all know I love my free time!

And so last night, I slept in one of the guest beds because Doug was snoring to wake the dead and I took the dogs in to sleep with me.  Dixie takes up a bit of room at first on the bed, then she curls up in a little puppy ball and sleeps right by my head.  But Buddy.  My gosh.  Buddy takes up 2/3 of the bed.  He’s just a 35lb beagle mix so I don’t know how he does it!  He also likes to sleep AScloseTOmeASpossible.  Like when he lays down and we go to sleep, I fully expect to have an indentation in my side and leg where he lays and presses up against me.  I drew a representation:

I put $40 of gasoline into my car today.  It was nearlyempty.  The line on my gauge after I put in the $40 read a little more than 1/2 tank.  OMFG are you KIDDING ME?  This means that it would cost about $75 to FILL MY CAR FROM EMPTY.  That is absolutely ridiculous.  Luckily, I don’t drive my car very much.  I work less than a mile from home (and yes, I could walk but I would be walking uphill after being on my feet for 8 hours and that would make me entirely too bitchy) and I don’t even go shopping much anymore because well, I just will order online or wait until I have a list before I make the trek to the shops.

I can’t believe it.  I mean, I knew the price of fuel had risen in price but damn, gimme a break.  All the while the asshole petrol companies are making “record profits” and boasting about how many BILLIONS of dollars that they’ve made.  I hope all those assholes rot in the fiery pits of hell for all of eternity. 

We watched the price of gasoline go up twenty cents in one day.  ONE DAY.  Now, you cannot tell me that they aren’t just randomly choosing the price.  They’re going to keep fucking around until the government starts regulating it.  And we all know that as soon as the government gets their greedy, sticky paws into something, they fuck it up royally.

Like taxes.

It is Tax Day today.  We’ve already filed ours and since I didn’t work but 2 months last year, we qualified for a refund!  Which was promptly deposited into our checking account the same day that the debit for the supplemental tax bill was taken.  I love how that works, don’t you?  I think we came out about $70 ahead.  Anyone else wish that we just had to pay a consumption tax besides me?  I make money, I buy things, I’m taxed for the things I buy.  If I don’t buy things, I’m not taxed.  Isn’t that how is should be done?  I mean, simply speaking, obviously the government will fuck with it and make it a bunch of horseshit, but seriously.  The wealthy people buy more expensive things and are taxed more, the poorer people buy less expensive things and are taxed less.  Everyone pays the same tax amount based on their consumption.  We, of course, would probably be fuh-hucked because I like to buy things but I’m not buying $100,000 cars so....tht tht tht...yeah.

And why are teachers salaries taxed by the state?  I mean, they’re PAID by the state, so why are they re-taxed?  A bit of money laundering on the part of the state?  I think...uh...yes.    Same with taxes that are paid on social security benefits.  Money from the government that is being taxed by the government?  What is THAT?  Hmmm? 

Sorry for the rambling post.  I have to work 6 days this week and I’m a bit peeved over it and I’m still pissy about the gasoline price AND taxes. 

So, I did a bit of shopping today.  Nothing exciting to report unfortunately. 

But I did notice something while I was looking at things.  You know how there are always those little kiosks in the mall for the cell phone accessories and the kiosks for the cell phone companies, right?  Right.  So I never look at them because we all know that eye contact with those “middle of the mall people” guarantees that you will be hypnotized and buy some dumb crap that you don’t need.  But today, I actually looked at a few of them.  I don’t mean I stopped at their counters, but that I looked at the people working in them.  And then it hit me.  All of the people working in those were 20-something AmerAsian boys.  And then I thought of my OWN Verizon store where I buy my new phones and extend my contracts.  And all of those people were 20-something AmerAsian boys. 

So what is up with that?  Is it only like that here in Northern California?  Do the boys in your cell phone store act as though they’ve had about FIVE TOO MANY REDBULLS?  Seriously.  They’re ADD or something.  It makes me nervous to go in the store because they stammer and are always fidgety and moving around like buzzing bees.  Anyway..maybe it is only here.  I dunno.

And DO YOU KNOW that our grocery store did not have any creme filled chocolate doughnuts today.  This is a major tragedy.  So I bought some chocolate drizzled Rice Cakes.  SO not the same.