divnehammer (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} clobberin_time) wrote,@ 2005-12-23 02:11:00 |
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Just because you think I won't do it...
It is always so infinitely easy for me to find stuff for myself while I'm Christmas shopping then gifts for others. I think next year, I'm just going to spend all the money that I would normally spend on presents on ME. Okay, not really, but MAN was I seeing a lot of stuff that I wanted today. The lines were absolutely ridiculous at the stores. Perhaps next year I'll actually start a bit earlier. (Not going to happen.) Online shopping hasn't gone much smoother for me this year, one of the gifts I ordered was out of stock, another order was canceled. NEITHER company bothered to send me an email telling me that I wasn't going to be getting my shit. So, of course I didn't find out until it was too late to order someplace else/ something different. Ugh. I am starting to get to the point where I can call myself done though. I might pick up a few odds and ends, but the bulk of this nightmare is over. Now on to wrapping. Shit! *Bangs head on wall*
In other news, I am completely and utterly stoked. Nine Inch Nails is coming to town, and I am GOING. Hallelujah.
I am going to have 3 weeks off of work after the holiday. Our christmas vacation is being extended by a shut-down because the Jeep plant we supply to is expanding. This would normally be phenomenally good news, but it's kinda tempered by the fact that I am only going to be paid for ONE of those weeks. I'll get vacation pay for the first week, but then I would normally have to depend on Unemployment. The only problem with THAT is, Unemployment somehow managed to screw up and over-pay me by $600 when I was laid off from Alcoa. So now, until that money is made up, I get no unemployment compensation. Bastards. Somehow I think if they had UNDER-paid me, I would just be S.O.L now. Oh well. What are ya gonna do? I took some money from my 401k to cover the house payment, so I should be okay, but it is going to be tight.
It is always so infinitely easy for me to find stuff for myself while I'm Christmas shopping then gifts for others. I think next year, I'm just going to spend all the money that I would normally spend on presents on ME. Okay, not really, but MAN was I seeing a lot of stuff that I wanted today. The lines were absolutely ridiculous at the stores. Perhaps next year I'll actually start a bit earlier. (Not going to happen.) Online shopping hasn't gone much smoother for me this year, one of the gifts I ordered was out of stock, another order was canceled. NEITHER company bothered to send me an email telling me that I wasn't going to be getting my shit. So, of course I didn't find out until it was too late to order someplace else/ something different. Ugh. I am starting to get to the point where I can call myself done though. I might pick up a few odds and ends, but the bulk of this nightmare is over. Now on to wrapping. Shit! *Bangs head on wall*
In other news, I am completely and utterly stoked. Nine Inch Nails is coming to town, and I am GOING. Hallelujah.
I am going to have 3 weeks off of work after the holiday. Our christmas vacation is being extended by a shut-down because the Jeep plant we supply to is expanding. This would normally be phenomenally good news, but it's kinda tempered by the fact that I am only going to be paid for ONE of those weeks. I'll get vacation pay for the first week, but then I would normally have to depend on Unemployment. The only problem with THAT is, Unemployment somehow managed to screw up and over-pay me by $600 when I was laid off from Alcoa. So now, until that money is made up, I get no unemployment compensation. Bastards. Somehow I think if they had UNDER-paid me, I would just be S.O.L now. Oh well. What are ya gonna do? I took some money from my 401k to cover the house payment, so I should be okay, but it is going to be tight.
