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Frankie “Puggs” in His Santa Suit

December 24th, 2008 by Catgirl

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LOLcats Haz Kontracts Finalz

December 5th, 2008 by Catgirl

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TwitterCat iz in ur blog updating ur Tweets for 2008-10-28

October 28th, 2008 by Catgirl

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TwitterCat iz in ur blog updating ur Tweets for 2008-10-26

October 26th, 2008 by Catgirl

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I Hate Comment Spammers

October 26th, 2008 by Catgirl

Seriously, I just wish they would die.  I don’t check my blog for a week or two and I end up with 80 or more comments “waiting in moderation.”  At least they didn’t get posted.  But it still ties up space and takes up my time.  Most of them don’t even make any sense; they are just a bunch of letters run together with a link somewhere.  Who the hell clicks on these links and buys crap from these people?  Whoever you are, please STOP.  If no one actually clicked on them or bought anything, then it wouldn’t be profitable to keep doing it.  Evidently it is, so someone must be buying stuff from them.

I think we need to have a really stiff punishment for spammers.  I vote we cut both of their hands off and their tongue.  That way they can’t type on a computer ever again and no one has to listen to anything they have to say.  Yeah, it’s barbaric, but I REALLY, REALLY hate comment spam.  Argh!!! :cuss:

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-25

October 25th, 2008 by Catgirl

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October 20th, 2008 by Catgirl

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October 17th, 2008 by Catgirl

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October 16th, 2008 by Catgirl

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Follow Me on Twitter

October 9th, 2008 by Catgirl

I finally succumbed and started a Twitter account.  I figured that “micro-blogging” would be better than no blogging.  I often don’t have time to write a post, but I can usually update on Twitter quickly and easily.  So if anyone is curious and wants to follow me on Twitter, then go HERE to do so…

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Bad Law School Day…

October 1st, 2008 by Catgirl

I suppose it was bound to happen.  I had a bad day at Law School.  It started with sleeping through my alarm, which seems to always be a precursor to a bad day.  I think it’s because I get immediately stressed by being in a rush.

I woke up late, which means I had to rush out the door and then exceed the speed limit (and managing to anger one driver because I was passing on a 2 lane road and had to squeeze in front of him since there was a curve coming up) to try to make it to class on time.  You really don’t want to be late to class in Law School.  Many professors will count you absent just for being late and even if they don’t, there are the ones who like to point out for the whole class that you’re late.  Not that the whole class needed pointing out.  I sit on the front row so I had to go by the whole class just to get to my seat.  And yes, even with all of my speeding, I was 2 minutes late to class.  The instructor did not point it out, thankfully, but I’m sure everyone was already painfully aware.

That’s not the worst, though.  I have a pet peeve.  I hate hearing a cell phone ring in class or a meeting.  It’s annoying and disrespectful.  So I am usually SUPER diligent about making sure mine is off or on silent before I go into class.  Naturally since I was in a huge rush this morning, I didn’t even think about the cell phone, which was in my purse (not in its special pocket as usual, but somewhere in the middle of the vastness of space that is my purse and probably why I can’t find things that are in there).  I had just thrown it in, not thinking.

Sometime around 8:30, my phone goes off.  I have some silly song for a ringtone (which thankfully wasn’t anything awful, but it was LOUD).  About this time, I’m wishing I could just crawl in a hole and disappear.  The class is giggling and I am fumbling in my purse trying to find it and then when I do, I can’t find the button that makes it shut up.  The professor is standing right in front of me, like 2-3 feet in front of me, too.  It’s taking me so long to shut it off that he makes some comment about how you just want to take a hammer and smash the thing.  Even though I have an expensive phone (because it’s also my PDA), at that moment, I seriously did want to smash it if it would just shut the hell up.  No one ever calls me that early anyhow and after I saw the number, I realized it was probably some telemarketer because it was an 800 number and they didn’t bother to leave a message.  Grrr!  I hate telemarketers.

Of course it wasn’t the telemarketer’s fault.  It was MY fault for being in such a rush to begin with.  It was so embarrassing, though.  I never want that to happen again.  I almost feel like I should apologize to the instructor for being a dumbass and not turning my phone off because it did disrupt the class.  I realize everyone makes mistakes, but this is one I could have done without.

Then to top it off, I get bad news at the end of the day right before I have to drive home.  I had tried out for Trial Team this past Sunday.  Of all the groups or things to be a part of at the law school, Trial Team was the one I wanted most.  I didn’t make the team.  I felt like I had done fairly well, so it was a blow.  I’m extremely disappointed.  I won’t get to try out again until the Spring, which I plan on doing again.  I’ve been really bummed out since I found out and after the day I had, it didn’t take much.  I’m trying not to dwell on it because there isn’t anything I can do about it now, except learn what I can do better so I have a better chance of making it in the Spring.  Of all the things, I think disappointment is one of the hardest things for me to deal with…

I’ll try to post more in the next day or two.  I actually have a few posts in draft form but instead of working on editing one of them, I felt I needed the therapy of journaling about this day so I can get it out of my mind and move on to other things.  Like reading and sleeping…

That’s all for now.

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This is SO true…

August 24th, 2008 by Catgirl

Political Promises

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Meh.

August 7th, 2008 by Catgirl

I’m in a crummy mood and sometimes I just wish I could talk to someone about some things. But I can’t. That makes it difficult because people tend to ask what is wrong. I’m not very good at hiding my feelings.

I had a friend be really curt with me today and I feel something is wrong, but they won’t tell me what it is. :cry: It’s difficult to not take it personally. I can’t imagine that I’ve done anything, but then again with me having ADHD, I am sometimes totally oblivious that I might be stepping on toes. I can sense a general feeling from a person, but it’s hard for me to know if that feeling is directed at me or someone else. And I’m not very good at taking hints when people drop them, because my mind is often somewhere else. I miss subtleties that other people generally catch. :???:

I just flat out feel so awkward in the social realm at times. And just when I think I’m getting better at it, something like this happens and it really undermines any confidence I might have had that I’m being a good friend. I really wish people would tell me when I’m doing or saying something that might seem inconsiderate or wrong when it’s happening instead of playing these games and making me rack my brain for hours trying to figure out what it is I might have said or done. I’m fairly sure that whatever it is wasn’t intentional on my part and is just me being oblivious or not catching body language, tone of voice, etc. And if I DIDN’T do anything wrong, then why treat me as though I have?:roll:

I’m supposed to go kayaking in the morning for the first time. Normally I would be excited about it. But instead I’m still racking my brain trying to figure out why my friend was so curt with me today. I really don’t even feel like going. I don’t feel like being around people. But I’ve already committed to it, so I will still go.

I also have some other things bothering me besides a friend being curt with me, but I seemed to be handling all of those for now. I just really got my feelings hurt pretty bad today and the thing is, I don’t think my friend has any earthly idea she hurt my feelings at all. And I’m not even sure if she knew, that it would matter… And that just hurts me even more if that is indeed true.:cry:

I doubt I will be able to sleep much (still racking my brain), but I have to try, I suppose. You might end up hearing a tale about some zombie kayaking at JB’s Fish Camp. If so, that will be me, due to lack of sleep.

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It’s Caturday!!! Time to Post Some Cats…

July 19th, 2008 by Catgirl

This Caturday’s post should look familiar to those of you who’ve seen the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas…

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Updating

July 17th, 2008 by Catgirl

I finally decided to update my version of Wordpress since I managed to lose over a year’s worth of posts on my domain site. Luckily I think most of those were saved on LJ. I also had hundreds of comment spam I had to delete. Gawd, how I HATE comment spam!

I’m still trying to work out all the kinks and get things back the way I want, but I think the site is at least functional for now. I don’t know if I’ve managed to prevent further comment spam or not. There are a few plugins for doing that, but I’ll have to try some out and see.

Please let me know if anything is acting really funky or not working…

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Much Better Cat Video

August 31st, 2006 by Catgirl

Originally published at The Cat’s Meow. You can comment here or there.

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Cat Video

August 31st, 2006 by Catgirl

Originally published at The Cat’s Meow. You can comment here or there.

Just to warn you, it’s a little over 30 MB so if you’re on dial-up, it might take too long to download.  Also, I took this with my compact camcorder and the video quality isn’t as good as my other camcorder.  This video also has not been edited at all.  It was my cat’s one year birthday and I had been meaning to put this video up before, except I had planned on editing it, but I haven’t really had time to mess with it.  So I uploaded it ‘as is’.

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Eye of Ernesto, Aunt Flo and No Dough

August 30th, 2006 by Catgirl

Originally published at The Cat’s Meow. You can comment here or there.

I had started writing a post about some of my classes which I am finding very interesting and about some other things I felt the need to rant about. But I’m finding that I just don’t have the energy right now to finish that post so I’m posting this one instead and will finish the other one tomorrow if I can. We do have a tropical storm (Ernesto) which is heading straight for us. It always seems that the storms seem worse when they come from the west instead of the east. Supposedly the wind isn’t going to be as bad as they first predicted, but I’m sure we’ll get hit with lots of rain and winds of 40-50 mph at least.

I spent most of the day stowing and putting away things outside that might blow around and cause damage. The university has canceled classes tomorrow, which disappointed me. I was really looking forward to class tomorrow night. I have another class on Thursday and the storm should be done by then. That’s the class that only meets every other week. The other half of our class time is done online. That is my Legal Research class. But I’ll go into more detail about my classes in my other post. I’m just so exhausted right now.

Part of it is that I’m so broke and I’m worried about bills. It’s hard to do other things when you’re worried about stuff. I’m waiting on my financial aid still and I had hoped I would have at least my short term advance by now. I’ve had to put off some bills but now this week is the final, no more extensions week and of course it isn’t a week that hubby gets paid. On top of that is the approaching storm which meant I had to get a few other things I hadn’t planned on, just in case. Consequently, the bank account is overdrawn and my unemployment check isn’t even going to cover it. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the bank hadn’t processed the debits the way they did. Several came through on the same day and the very last one that we did was for the car insurance bill because it couldn’t go another day otherwise they would have canceled us. So I knew it was going to overdraw it, but the other ones we had, which were for gasoline and groceries should have gone through with no problem. But even though the insurance was the last one done, they put it through first, which caused the other debits to incur charges as well. So instead of one overdraft charge, we were hit with several. I hate banks. I know they do that on purpose. I have no problem with paying an overdraft fee when the account is overdrawn. I just have a problem with paying several of them when if they had processed the debits in the order in which they were made, we wouldn’t be paying over $100 in friggen bank fees. And of course this is at the worst possible time because I have to pay two other bills by Friday that add up to another $500. My unemployment check would almost cover that, but if I don’t try to cover the bank deficiency, then they add $6 a day as well for each day the account is overdrawn. My financial aid advance was supposed to be available last Friday and of course it wasn’t. Then it was supposed to be today, but that didn’t happen. Now I’m being told it should be tomorrow. It’s $600 and would easily cover the bills I have to pay, plus I’d have $100 left over. After all that, and my unemployment check arrives probably Thursday or Friday, I still don’t know if I’ll have enough to cover the bank deficiency, but I hope so. Of course that means I won’t have any money at all for a week for gas, food or anything else. At this point if I can just pay those 2 bills and stop the increasing deficiency in the bank account, I’ll be happy. Originally that $600 was going to go to help fix transportation, but now it’s having to be used for damage control. All of this is simply because I cannot bring myself to ask my mother for help. I know I’m getting financial aid and will have a little over $1000 left after tuition so I know I can pay her back if she were to give me a short term loan. I just don’t want to go through having to hear her bitch incessantly about why hubby can’t take care of all of this. I felt that overdrawing the account was the lesser of the two evils. Hubby’s working two jobs right now, one full time and one part time (when they need him). He’s exhausted when he gets home and many times I see him for a very short period of time where we eat dinner, then he goes to his second job, comes home, takes a shower, and is in bed and asleep by 9:30 because he has to be up at 5 a.m. to drive an hour to work.

Until we can get our transportation woes taken care of, there isn’t much point in me accepting a job offer unless it’s very close by. We only have the one vehicle running right now. I get it the two days I have to go to class and he takes it the rest of the time. If I need to go anywhere during the day, I have to ride the bike. I’ve already managed to get caught twice this month in torrential downpours on the Interstate. Lots of fun. I had to slow down a lot just to be able to see and then I was worried about someone coming up behind me and hitting me. It’s hard enough to see taillights on cars when it’s pouring. Try seeing a single motorcycle taillight in a storm. So I don’t really feel that I have ‘reliable’ transportation at this time.

I did get a call about the Demon today and the guy is supposed to come Friday or Saturday to look at it. He asked me about making payments on it. I didn’t really want to do that, but I’m in desperate need of funds that I told him I might consider it. It would have to be a lay away type of deal, though. I’m not about to let someone take possession of the car until I have all the money. I also don’t want to be waiting forever for the rest of it. I can understand if someone needs to split it up between a couple of pay periods or something like that, but I really don’t want to go any longer than a couple of weeks or so to get the rest of it. That money is hopefully going for a downpayment on a newer vehicle so we can get rid of the truck that is starting to have major problems, needs tires and gets 18 mpg tops on the highway.

I just am tired of worrying about money and bills. We were stretched thin enough to pay the bills before, but now it seems like every single bill has either doubled or gone up from a year ago. Gasoline is much higher than it was and because of the fuel costs, our electric bill is double what it used to be. It’s not that we’re using more, either. I looked at the amount we used last year versus this year and we’ve actually used LESS, but yet it’s costing more. Our water bill went up, phone bill went up, and even our grocery bill has gone up. That’s because it’s costing more in fuel to get things to the stores and the costs get passed on to us. The only problem is that while all of this stuff has gone up, salaries have not. Salaries are very stagnant down here. Hubby’s company is having a freeze on any raises or new hires. If you account for inflation, salaries have actually gone down, not up. That means there are more and more people who are having trouble making ends meet. I know we’re not the only ones in this predicament. We have many friends that are having similar difficulties. I just wish there was some way I could get a loan against what I’m expecting to receive in financial aid. I thought about asking my Mom and telling her I’ll pay her back an extra $100 along with whatever I borrow. But it wouldn’t matter how much ‘interest’ I paid her for a loan, I’d still have to hear her bitching and even then I still don’t know if she would help me out at all. So I might have to listen to all the bitching and STILL not get any help.

Well, I wasn’t going to get into ranting about this but it appears I did anyhow. Sometimes it just seems it’s taking all you have to keep your head above water and then when the waves of unexpected expenses, higher bills, vehicle breakdowns and delayed funds happen, you just feel like you can’t take anymore and it would just be easier to let yourself drown.

Anyhow, sorry this is such a downer of a post. I’ve been worried a lot about it, and it doesn’t make it very easy to get good sleep. I’ve been so excited about my classes yet all this has really put a damper on my good mood regarding my courses. Oh yeah, and to put the icing on the cake, Aunt Flo came to visit this week as well. Another night of being up until 3:30 or 4 a.m. Joy. Guess I’d better go and at least get the little bit of sleep that I can get. I’ll try to finish that other post tomorrow about my classes, that is, if I still have power or Internet connection with the eye of Ernesto aiming right for us.

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Voice Post

August 26th, 2006 by Catgirl

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I Is A College Graduate

August 23rd, 2006 by Catgirl

Originally published at The Cat’s Meow. You can comment here or there.

Since my full name is printed on the degree, I had to edit it so I put my nickname on it for the picture. I put the picture behind the cut since this gets crossposted to LiveJournal. I started the new semester at UCF this week and so far my classes are very interesting. One class is completely online, one is half and half (we meet face to face every other week and the rest is online), and one class is entirely face to face. I will post more about the classes tomorrow. I managed to wrench my back somehow and I’ve been in constant pain so I’ve been on muscle relaxers. They tend to make me feel like I’m trying to move through thick molasses. I think it’s time for me to go to sleep anyhow.

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