I Can’t Find Anything!

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I keep telling myself I used to be more organized than this. Maybe I just think I was. Right now my entire life is one big disorganized mess. I haven’t been able to keep up with anything, and I feel like I’m running in circles. I’ve been making lists, but then I forget to check my list, so nothing gets done. I swear I’m feeling ADD here lately.

Hubby tells me I need something like Phentermine to give me energy to get everything done, but energy isn’t my problem. The problem is my mind running in 100 different directions at once.

Even my computer is so unorganized I can’t find anything. Normally I keep my computer more organized than anything, but I’ve been switching back and forth between my two computers and Hubby’s computer because of different things like the sound card going out on one or the psu dieing on another. I’ve got email, scrap kits, all kind of stuff spread throughout the 3 computers right now, and it’s driving me crazy.

I went to look for a photo earlier, and after searching 2 hours I realized it’s on a hard drive in the computer with the dead psu. That means pulling that hard drive out and putting it in this computer just so i can get to that one picture. If I had my backups I’d be fine, but I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off, so I haven’t backed up any of my hard drives in weeks.

Ugh. That’s it. Tonight I’m sorting, organizing, trashing, and cleaning. If nothing else in my life is going to be straight at least my computers will be!

Tags: computer, disorganized, organizing computer

The Bald Spot

Hubby has been begging for a haircut all week. My best friend normally cuts his hair, but she’s had a lot going on. Well last night Hubby changed the front brakes on her Blazer, then she agreed to give him a hair cut.

I’m always picking at Hubby that I see a little bald spot popping up here or there. Normally it’s just joking because he’s not going bald just yet. He does have a receding hairline, but it’s moving at a very slow pace. I keep telling him we’ll get him hairloss treatment when he starts going completely bald. He says no he’ll shave it all off and just go bald. I say I’m going to sneak it into his shampoo then. I really don’t care if he chooses to have hair or not, it’s just fun picking at him.

My friend was almost finished cutting his hair when her son came running in covered from head to toe in blue paint. He was supposed to be in the basement playing with play dough, but he apparently went snooping until he found the finger paints, and he proceeded to paint himself. My friend and I were laughing so hard she nicked the back of Hubby’s hair. Hubby didn’t even notice, so that caused us to fall into a bigger fit of laughter. She fixed it the best she could, and we sent Hubby outside to shake off the excess hair while I got her son into the bath tub.

We spent another hour there before heading home, and Hubby still hadn’t realized it. He ran his hand all over his head, and he never felt the little bald spot. It happened to be at the base of his hairline, so it isn’t too terribly noticeable. When he got out of bed this morning I spotted it and started laughing again. I finally broke down and told him what had happened, then I held a mirror for him while he inspected it in the bigger mirror.

Hubby laughed and decided if anyone asks him about it at work today he’s going to say the women in his life are driving him to lose his hair. Luckily his hair grows pretty fast, so the spot will be gone in a few days.

Tags: bad hair cut, hairloss treatment

Typical

Normally I talk to my mom on a daily basis, but last week we had a huge fight. I was so angry I just couldn’t talk to her. Last night she called me to apologize, and after a very short apology she fell back into her typical pattern of things.

I got the 15 minute rundown on the gossip going around at work (although she knows I don’t care), then she had to tell me all about the 5 car pile up that happened yesterday afternoon even though I’d already heard all about it. Then I listened to about 10 minutes of how great my sister is before she got down to what she really wanted. As usual the main reason of her phone call was to get me to look something up for her.

My mom won’t even consider using a computer. I showed her how to check her email once, but she never grasped the concept. Normally she calls me and asks “Have you heard of Daniel Neumeister? Will you look him up for me?” or stuff like that.

Last night she wanted me to find her a new car.  I guess after pouring tons of cash into a Grand Am that’s falling apart she finally decided it’s time to get rid of it.  It’s going to cost way too much to fix the electrical problems.

Unfortunately you can tell it’s been a loooooong time since my mom went car shopping.  She asked me to find her something BRAND NEW in the $6,000 range.  Riiiighhhhtt!

Of course I told her a Kia was going to be her best bet if she wanted something both new and cheap, but even then she’s looking at around $14,000 for a base model automatic Kia Rio.  She could get one for closer to $11,000 if she could drive a manual, but she won’t even attempt to learn.  Buy used?  She won’t hear of it.  She believes all used cars are someone else’s problem, but she still couldn’t get it through her head that there’s no way she’ll find a brand new car for $6,000.

Affording it isn’t the issue.  She could probably pay cash for a $15,000 car right now, she’s just too much of a spend thrift to want to shell out the cash.  When I started going over the costs of the car with her, taxes and tags, she freaked out.  She’ll have to pay $300 in sales tax because she lives in SC?  Well that won’t happen.  She’ll just buy one in Georgia.

What?  Since she doesn’t pay sales tax in Georgia she’ll have to pay the sales tax in SC when she registers the car?  Well then she’ll just carpool with my aunt until September, then she’ll buy a car during tax free weekend just so she can save $300.

I understand being a thrifty shopper.  I’m one, too, but sometimes you have to break down and buy something because you need it, not because you want to.  My aunt doesn’t want to haul my mom around for the next 2 months just because my mom doesn’t want to come off the $300 for the taxes.

Oh No She Didn’t

Even though I promised myself I’d be in bed by 1am, it’s not happening. It’s now 3am, and I’m wide awake. If you’ve read my other blogs tonight you may have also noticed that I seem to be in a little bit of a bad mood. There’s a really good reason for that.

I received an email tonight from someone I thought was a friend that kind of upset me.
This person called me a Saturday night asking if I would help her with some computer problems she’s having. She wanted me to come over then to look at it, but I told her I couldn’t. I was taking the weekend off for the holiday, and I already had other plans.

I said I’d be more than happy to take a look at it this week, on her day off (Thursday) or in the afternoon after she got home from work. I also said she could drop it off at my house, and I’d look at it.

This is normally what most people choose to do, and she knows this. I custom built this computer for her. I’ve fixed it many times since when she’s loaded it down with viruses and spyware so bad it wouldn’t turn on. I even went to the mall (an hour away) with her just because she wanted me to check out some ceiling and wall speakers she really liked. She wanted to make sure they’d work with her computer before she dropped over $500 on them.

So why she sent me this email, I don’t know.  Basically the email told me she was pissed off that I wouldn’t drop my plans Saturday night to go straight to her house.  She told me I was pathetic because I don’t bust my butt working a 9-5, and she doesn’t have time to sit around waiting for me to decide I “feel” like fixing her computer…for free I might add.  She said she didn’t consider me much of a friend anymore because I was “there for her” when she needed me.

I was blown away.  Not only do I do all this for free for her, but I don’t decide to do it “just whenever”.  I work her in just like everybody else.  I had already sent out an email to my regulars letting them know I wouldn’t be working this weekend, and she was on that list.  I think I deserve to take days off just like everybody else.

No, I don’t have a really busy week this week, but I planned it that way.  I set my own hours, and I plan out my schedule ahead of time.  If I’ve already planned something else that’s important to me, I’m not changing my plans.  Taking the weekend off was important to me.  I wanted to spend the holiday with my family just like she did hers.

I don’t even know why it bothered me so bad that she sent me that email.  I wasn’t there for her?  What?  I didn’t run to her house to spend hours cleaning up her computer so she could get on Myspace?  Is it my fault she refuses to use the very simple programs I installed for her (and showed her how to use) to help keep her pc clean?

Now that I think about it, I know exactly why it bothered me.  Here she is a woman in her early 30s with a family, and she acted so childish as to send me this email.  That’s what really ticks me off.  She sank to the level of one of her pre-teen children.

Seriously.  People wonder why I don’t like to have a lot of friends…why I actually hate making new friends.  I tend to generally think people suck, and things like this just prove it to me.