Sheesh, I check my f-list for the first time all weekend and nobody's done a thing.  You'd think it was summertime.

I got the Lappy back on Friday (and there was much rejoicing in the land).  She's almost good as new, but I have to figure out how to get the backup files installed back onto the hard drive.  I have most of the important stuff back, but Microsoft Office is being a whore.  I was going to take it to my uncle over the weekend, but he was sick with heatstroke or something, so I'll have to wait on that.

Anyway, the story of how I braved insane Wasatch Front drivers to secure the hostage: CompUSA called while I was at work, so I decided to take a slight detour (oh... about ten block detour) after work, but the problem is that I forgot that it was Friday and everyone would be eating each other trying to get home for the weekend.  And there was construction in a number of places.  It was quite the harrowing experience, but like all such experiences, you learn to leave work at 4:00 and go straight home away from the psycho Friday 500 races.

Then my brother's basketball team was at the U for summer basketball camp.  It was fun to go watch them play against teams from much bigger schools and even more fun to see the family.  Except that my dad volunteered me to take some of the boys halfway home on Saturday after the camp was over (my mom met me at the halfway point, so I didn't have to go all the way to Delta).  I wouldn't have minded, except I was kinda planning to go to the park with some friends on Saturday afternoon and my dad didn't even ask me if I could play chauffeur.  By the time he even informed me I would be performing this service, it was too late to tell the coach that I couldn't.  Blech.

But in really good news: I found an apartment to move into!  It's in a fairly nice complex in Holladay (with a pool! My bedroom overlooks it, which could be good or bad, depending on who's down there at the time) and I can actually afford it.  I'm planning on moving the weekend of the 13th (seeing as how the Order of the Phoenix movie got moved up), but I probably could move earlier if I wanted to.  The funniest part is that the girl I'll be rooming with was actually my neighbor in Logan last summer.  I didn't know it her advertising until she answered the door when first I went to see the place.  Funny how these things work out...

My sister went home to the desert with the rest of the family, so I'm on my own for the weekend.  I've just been making friends with TV Links and re-watching "24" season 4.  The problem is that some of the eps don't work and I've been deprived of the major Tony/Michelle moments of that season (which I am a shameless sucker for) and even some of the more tender Jack/Audrey scenes (which everyone is required by law to love and I don't care who you vote for).

Holy crap! It's quarter after eleven and I have work at eight tomorrow morning!  I just realized I'm tired.  G'night!

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

PS, The infamous politically charged rant?  Scroll down a few posts if you really want to read it.  Just to advertise... you don't have to...

Just a quick post to let everyone know what's going on:

THE LAPPY'S COMING HOME!!!  I just got a call from the computer service guys and they said that she's home and as good as new.  They replaced the battery and revamped the system and whatever little doo-hickeys they worked on are fine (I'm not technologically inclined), so I'm going to go get the ol' girl on the way home from work.

Speaking of work, they've got me getting busier.  I've been trained on a few more processes, so I'm not just sitting around doing nothing all day.  I do still get to listen to the radio online.

Some things have been happening in the world at large that have prompted me to write a rather lengthy and passionate post about something  that I'm very much in the minority about.  I have it saved on the LJ under the Private filter so I'm the only one that can read it.  I really want to put it on the Public filter, but I'm a little scared.  I have very passionate opinions about certain things, but experience has taught me to keep those opinions to myself because someone else often comes along and kicks me back to the ground about it.  I know there are others that share my views, but they're hard to come across sometimes, so I feel a little like I've been fed to the wolves.  I need to get over it and just stick by my convictions.  This post might be the beginning of a great confidence-builder.  Or it just might make me want to crawl into a hole.  Either way, something's going to happen.

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

I've decided that if there was a delete key in real life, yesterday would have been zapped into oblivion.

In the morning: woke up late, so I didn't have time for breakfast.  Grabbed an apple to eat at work, which, I hate leaving the house without eating something.  It throws off my day's routine, so maybe I can blame the following on that.

At work: sat around and did a FAT LOAD OF NOTHING!!  Spent a little time -- what else -- reading the training manual and surfing the 'net, feeling extremely non-productive, even though I ask repeatedly what I can/should be doing.

At home: Got on my Lappy to work on my DH theory essay and relax to some iTunes.  The Lappy spontaneously shuts down.  Not once.  Not twice.  Not even three times, but FOUR FREAKING TIMES!!  I called the CompUSA that I bought it from, praying that the extended warranty I bought three years ago was still valid.  There was some good news: it's still good for another two weeks and the service desk would still be open for another hour and a half.  I zipped down to the store, only to find out that the problem is probably a monster virus that my warranty -- fancy that -- DOESN"T EVEN COVER!!  So, I forked out $160 bucks that I do not have to get my precious Lappy shipped away to come back in who-knows-what condition (at least I had the foresight to backup all my files).

There's even a chance that the Lappy is broken beyond repair and that I will need to save my pennies for a new one.  That may take some time, what with me trying to save money for rent on whatever apartment I happen to find, and I have a car payment to make and I have utilities to pay and a car to fill with gas and food to buy...

Suddenly, all the money I would be making in my new job doesn't look like very much and my obnoxious tendency to worry is working overtime and then some.

Let's hear it for adulthood initiation!  Or maybe it's more like hazing.

Kids, say no to growing up.  It's not healthy.

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

PS, In an attempt to find some silver lining, work finally set up my time card entry system, which is nice because I can see that all the hours I've spent sitting around doing nothing at work are adding up and I can translate that to money that I hope will be enough to cover all the things I need to pay for.

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