The Writings of a Hopeful Dreamer

I helped Ogre get a TB hard drive. The one he was going to buy was a 500GB that was $50 less expensive with really sad reviews. So I fronted him the difference and he is paying me back next week. He has to ship his comp in for repairs. Speaking of computers I have to start to pack all of mine up for the move. Gary and I are going to manually run the expensive hardware over for safety’s sake. I really need to take down the computer desk tomorrow night so that the movers can get it out fairly quickly. I’m hoping to have them in and out within the two hour window and it not run any longer.

Moving has been an absolute. Bitch tonight I have to go up to Edmond to help finish up the fence we are fixing/building hopefully a good chunk of it will be done. It really needs to be done before the move so that we can have the dogs at the house. There is so much stuff going on this and next week and with me having issues with my Bum it just hasn’t been fun. Tonight when I get done with the fence I’m going to pack the vast majority of the kitchen and the rest of the closet. I’m a bit tired as we speak because I haven’t been sleeping much.

Dogs have their sauna appointment set up for the morning of the 15th so that they will have nails trimmed and all excess hair removed from them so that they can be all clean and shiny for the new house and they don’t have to deal with mover drama which will be happening that morning as well.

Well my brain is toast I have more posted under the cut but it’s kinda gross and medical related so dont click if you don’t want to know.

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Well, today sucked. I ended up having to stay home from work because of my bum. Yes literally. I have had issues with my bum since birth really and I won’t go into it to spare the disgusting details but to say the least my bum was really hurting today and yesterday and hopefully everything will be wonderful tomorrow with no pain.

Since I was home I figured I would attempt to accomplish something and so I got to work on the packing shenanigans. I got about 10 boxes packed today mostly stuff in the living room and bathroom but it’s still a start. If i can manage to pack at least 5 boxes a day after this there should be no question/problem having everything packed by the night of the 14th. This moving go round I have everything planned from top to bottom. Down to the point I am keeping backpacks in certain rooms so that on the night of the 14th/morning of the 15th I can just throw the last few things in and put them in my truck and everything else is taken away by the movers.

I am so happy in a way I have had so many horrid moves. Because of this I already know everything that can go wrong and do whatever I can think of to prevent said issues. So far my list is as follows:
- Call Edmond electric and set up service (Done and it cost me a friggin $320 Deposit)
- Get everything in the bathroom packed except for Bare necessities (Done today)
- Call ONG and get gas set up (still working on this one.)
- Get the fence at the new place built (Gary has the posts set in concrete so halfway there)
- Hire the movers ( I found 2 guys and a big vehicle for $69 an hour)
- Set up doggie spa treatment for the puppies for a non stressful move (Done)
- Finish packing the living room (Almost done just the few odds and ends and the gaming systems)
- Pack up the desk and everything on it (this is halfway done.)
- Figure out what to do about a fridge (still working on this one)
- Pack up everything in the Closet (Halfway done just need to plan clothes for 7 days)
- Transfer the money from FCCU to TFCU (have to go to the ATM tomorrow to do this…)
- Get Gary’s check depositied (that’s tomorrow)
- Get all of the laundry done in the house (2 loads/day should be done by Sun)
- Move stuff in my Hope chest to boxes. (Otherwise no one is going to get it down the steps)
- Pack up the storage closet with the w/d in it (haven’t started but not much to do)
- Get all crafts and craft containers packed and secured. (Shouldn’t take much effort)
- Work on getting the Kitchen packed except for bare essentials. (Haven’t started.)
- Get all electronics unplugged and packed up (This is going to happen until the 15th)
- File the skip a payment on my truck loan on the TFCU website. (Can’t do this until after the 15th)
- Check to see if mom paid off the Mac (I hope so or the balance went up.)
- Clean out My truck. (This really needs to get done but I might wait until we move)
- Plan menu for the house warming party on the 17th. (I am 90% sure what I am going to do)
- Call Cox to move service (Done)
- Call banks to update mailing addresses. (TFCU done FCCU not done.)
- Call Sprint and update address. (Not done)
- Call friends to tell them about the afternoon house warming event at our house on the 17th.

Yeah I have a bit to do still but I think I can get it all done this week. Not to mention the fact that this month is the launch month for our company. Yeah tons of fun on every front backed by lots of stress. Hopefully though for the first time everything actually clicks in place.

In my offtime and to de-stress myself I have been playing my Pokemon Pearl game again. I almost have my pokedex completed. I am sitting at 455 out of 493. I’m getting so close and the completionist in me is crying out. I really want it done.

Well I’m going to head to bed it’s 10:30p and I really need to make sure that I get up on time and get started on everything. Hopefully everything will be flowing smoothly on this move *fingers crossed* and everything will be fabulos!

Well since the 24th of this month has been a whirlwind, and even more than usual

Gary and I found an amazing place. It is a 1500sq ft duplex with a yard that is about 800 sq ft for the dogs. It’s $795 a month and has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a 2 car garage. The downstairs was designed for entertaining it’s the only impression you get off of the house. There is a huge entryway coat closet and the kitchen is big enough to fit Gary’s dining room table in it which has apparently sat 14 people at it before. Only problem is at the moment we have no chairs for the said table. That’s going to have to be something we work on though. The only downside on the kitchen is I don’t think there is a dishwasher and the counter-tops are yellow and I mean YELLOW like Big bird yellow. I was wanting to do a cow themed kitchen (almost everyone knows of my love for the cow) and I am wondering if I put enough black and white in it will faze out the yellow…..

The living room looks as if it’s about 20×40 ft… I mean it’s friggin huge…. and it has a neat corner fireplace with a mantle which I have been wanting for months now. It’s the ideal location to put a few of my little memorable items I have. Like my sister got me this awesome Buddha incense burner and a nifty Dragon statuary. I have a little Japanese Geisha doll from Japan from when my Papa was serving in WWII and a bottle of sand from the first time I went to the ocean in California. Just little trinkets every girl has that are her specials. I am so Happy i have a place to put them now. They are attractive and important to me and I have a mantle for them now. With the living room I also think I am going to be getting couch covers for my armchair and the couch eventually. Make them a nice tan color and get a throw pillow or two. This also makes Dogs + Couch cleaning MUCH easier. It will also go with the theme that I want to run with in my living room, Horses, not like photo’s but very flowing I have one painting called Zepa Lapa and I want another one similar to kinda flow with it.

If you wonder on my obsession on Cow’s and Horses. I love horses, I can’t watch a movie with a horse in it without crying. Spirit Stalion of the Cimarron was a cry fest from the opening credits I mean it was moving. Hidalgo… same thing I don’t know what it is with horses they are just so free, and beautiful and powerful they move me to tears. Yeah i do have girl tendencies unlike common conceptions of moi. The cow thing…. I don’t know I just love the cows. They are so mellow and easy going and they have such a cool print… I mean they are black and white no gray just awesome. Not to mention I ran arround as a Tauren for years and everyone knew I referred to myself as a Cow because of that…. Hell more people know me by my screen name of Tanalei than my real name of Kristin. Ironic isn’t it how something you pick for yourself can become your primary identifier completely by accident.

Anyway back to the house. The upstairs master bedroom is almost as big as the living room downstairs. Except it has a full bath with a stand up shower only and two closets. I mean it’s friggin huge! Which is a good thing. Gary has his own closet (albeit the smaller one) and we have enough room to put a pet bed up stairs for Terra to sleep on if she wants to. More than enough room to set up my hope chest and actually sit on it and use it for putting on shoes and pants etc which is what it was designed for as well as the storage of my mom’s wedding dress. The other two bedrooms are fairly small. Ogre is moving into one of them, we are going to try the roommate thing again, but he is keeping his own apartment in case things don’t go well since it’s free over there. The other is going to be for crafting since we are going to put all the computer hardware on the first floor to make sure it stays cool, since as we all know hot air rises and having multiple computers in a tiny room is never fun… especially on the 2nd floor.

However to get into this place I really had to break out my business woman on the issue. The duplex is a no pets property so i had to pay a $600 deposit for the dogs and I have to fix a broken separator fence that the landlord was just going to take down. So yeah all in all a $1200 deposit and then we were expecting to put another $400 out on the fence. The good news is when we went and measured and looked at the boards that are available we don’t have to buy as much as we thought we were going to have to so the fence fixing with the Auger rental is looking like we can get it done for under $100. Which is friggin amazing.

I called Edmond electric and they want a $320 deposit from us which really hurts but they said we could do $220 now and $100 on the first months bill. I find it completely ridiculous but oh well WTF. I found out photo-shopping my lease is illegal so I’m not going to get out of the deposit that way. Not to mention ONG wnts like another $500 bucks from me. And we still haven’t figured out what exactly we are going to do about a fridge…

Well alot more is going on I’ll update some more tonight and possibly load some more writing.

Yesterday had to be the best Tuesday in existence. I went to work, I accomplished a ton. Bob and I worked at the switch and we got a lot of things narrowed down on where the actual issue is in the provisioning of the system and the card interface. I left work at about 6:30 PM exhausted and went to FedEx to drop of 4 packages of devices we are shipping out to integration teams and vendors for testing. And i got home at about 7PM.

I started dinner an awesome setup of chicken breasts on rice and cream of chicken soup. So instead of using water to cook the rice you use the soup and it makes an amazing thick yummyness. Then you put the chicken on top of the uncooked rice soup mixture and bake it at 375 for 45 minutes. Gary doesn’t do green beans but usually you put french cut green beans in the rice mixture I made them on stove top and just mixed a can into my dinner. I’ll eat the other chicken breast tonight for dinner. We watched the new Bones episode on the DVR and the season finale of Canterbury’s Law. Both were awesome.

Then after informing all the people who kept texting him that he had been whisked away by a sex fiend and they needed to bugger off I had I think the most amazing sex of my life. I have never almost come to tears because of how amazing something felt until last night it was just a very OMG moment for me. I was truly amazed. There’s no other word for it. I mean I konked out so completely I forgot to take my cholesterol medication before bed, which I know is bad but I couldn’t help it. When I woke up this morning no pain I was still walking on air, It was wonderful. In combination with how amazing he is in bed… the fact that I really think I have given my heart to him makes me feel absolutely wonderful. Content is a new thing for me and I never ever want to loose it. The only thing that could improve my mood is if I get a phone call from Miaa, the woman who is renting the awesome house in the Village, saying bring me the check and the house is yours on the 1st.

Then at work today we finally discovered the problem in the air cards and with the provisioning. It’s unfortunate what we found but hopefully we can get it to work. We still have another way we can secure the network that we still have to test but if that goes through today all is well in the universe.

Tonight unfortunately I am home alone all night so not fun but there are worse things I have learned and not having a Gary at home any night of the week is definitely up there on the bad list. I really need to sit down and look at my bills and figure out what I can combine and Pay everything off My goal over the next two years is eliminate all of my debt (if possible) and fix my credit score. I really think If i get into a good place for a home with how good my life is going I really think that would be possible.

That’s all for the moment I’ll definitely keep updating I felt really guilty for missing most of last week and so daily posts are going to be the wave of the future me. I also am going to load some more poetry tonight. If you don’t like what I have posted so far you probably wont like this either so you know in advance.

Ok I feel guilty haven’t posted anything in a week but my brain is going to ooze out of my ear this weekend to recover from the mind bending loops it has been going through.

Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th

Ok Data cards still weren’t working but we made a ton of headway and I didn’t get home until 9:30 pm which kinda sucked. But Tuesday morning I came in and we got it all worked out (finally!) and authentication is even running properly. It took me breaking out the card of old, the merlin that took a month to provision, to prove that the problems weren’t on the card provisioning end (my end) they were on someone else’s hands which kept me in the clear.

It is very frustrating having to work late on one of the two nights a week you get to see you beau though.

Wednesday 16th

More work and being bored at home that night. Not much happened Wednesday really….

Thursday 17th

We lost our vendor Bright Point. Was a total PITA but I ended up pulling it together two hours after work with an awesome call to Black Star. They were able to get me product by Monday which is completely unheard of fast. And Lori seems like a really awesome person I can’t wait for a vendor luncheon where I can meet her in person.

Went to look at a house in Edmond that royally sucked. But Me being slightly desperate for housing was thinking “well we could replace one of the doors and remodel the kitchen and replace all the windows and take it off the rent….” Gary then explained we would have the next 2.5 years of rent paid for so we passed on that idea. After heading back to Cathy and Bill’s house to drop off Bill after looking at the house I went by Hannah and Jenna’s to say Hi. Explained housing Issue. Vented about the vendor issue and the great new one I found.  And Ogre called.

So Ogre and I went on an adventure. We went to the Casino. I have never been to a Casino before, I have been through the Vegas Airport but that doesn’t count. So everyone there starts explaining stuff to me and I only ended up loosing $20 so It wasn’t all bad. After we finished playing I was starving so I suggested we try the buffet and I was amazed! They have amazing food… that is dirt friggin cheap! It was all you could eat crab leg night so it was $5 more than usual but two people able to eat all you can eat good food with a wide selection for under $30 was still very nice. It was alot of fun and I got to hang out with the ogre friend.

Friday 18th.

Got the new equipment ordered. Wired the monies for it and after work I went to look at an amazing house for rent. It is in the Village, I drove up there at 5pm so I could see what evening traffic is because none is generally worse than Monday morning and Friday evening. I was able to get to the house with very little stress and within 30 minutes which was awesome! To get to a home in Edmond it usually takes around an hour and it is only 6miles further north to the center of Edmond. It being that close that also gives our house the option of a possible hangout location for friends.

The house is $750 a month all wood flooring, new double paned green windows, brick, 1 car detached garage, large yard, all new appliances as of February stove, fridge, ac unit, heating unit, wiring, dishwasher, w/d combo, all new lighting, new toilet and new sink in the bathroom with new tiling. I mean it is an awesome renovation. I put in my application for it and said I would bring Gary’s by the next day. Just awesome.

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th

Took up Gary’s application as well as his pay stub. I couldn’t get into the office so I couldn’t get mine I’m going up on Monday. All day sat and sun I really just bummed around read books and played pokemon. I’m now at a pokedex of 403, I am entirely pleased with myself on that.

I finished The Pact by Jodi Picoult and it is the first book of hers i really didn’t dig. I didn’t like the teen suicide/homicide that happened. But I’ve read worse books. I started another of her books Salem Falls and so far it is going fairly well.

So yesterday I got a call from Scottie asking if I can provide a working wireless card, after talking to Rob no I couldn’t because nothing is working down at the switch yet. She has decided to go ahead and drive down to Verona MS where we are launching and wait for the equipment for me to overnight it. So far I have been sitting at work since 8:00 am without leaving and still nothing works. Gotta love it. And I’m starting to get yelled at when I didn’t break anything!! Just frustrating. The thing that is bothering me most is that I have a feeling that we are going to be here a while tonight and it’s actually Gary’s night off and I really wanted a shag and if things keep going this way I’ll be lucky if I get home before dark.

It is now 5pm. We are still on the conference call. They are saying it is all on the air card that is the issue. What is a Kristin to do? A package came in for me today with the Merlin PC720 - the first air card we ever received and provisioned - it is also the only one of the scrubbed lot that did what it was told. This air card’s settings cannot be changed without a magic key that is sitting in my desk at work. Hence how I know it has all the right settings from back in the day and it isn’t on my end. And the new old guy is just sitting here confused saying it isn’t in the AAA… which is where it has to be… and nothing is working. It’s so fucking frustrating I wish no one would have fucked with it.

I changed the layout again. I was looking and even though I backdated all of my poetry posts I really don’t want them as posts and I want them as pages in wordpress. So… New theme. Not sure if I like it as much… haven’t decided yet. But I do like the layout of the Pages a hell of a lot better than in the other one. If only I was good enough at CSS to combine the two…. I might start studying and build that now that I think about it. But even with the green I think it kinda fits me.

God there was so much I was going to write about today and I’m just so friggin furious with everything that is happening today. I just wish that everything would sort itself out. Why did someone have to come and carpet change all the settings!!! Just grrrrrr! And I’m getting yelled at about it since I have people asking “Can we leave with a card yet” “What about Integration?”

I really hope Gary’s migraine goes away I need to make sure someone has a good day out of this because I am almost in tears. Just OMG I want to go home.

So I realized on Friday, and just didn’t post it I have been so livid on this I’m trying not to think about it, someone stole the lower small grill off the front of my truck. I mean damn. Why would you steal the tiny grill off a truck, the one that goes between the fog lamps? I mean seriously! So now my truck looks odd with it’s little grill gone and I’m pissed. I would call my insurance company (like for the ding someone left in the bed of my truck because trashy people apparently like to have assholes open their rear car doors) but my deductible is a grand. So it is less expensive for me to pay to have the stuff replaced and fixed than it is for me to pay for the shit to be fixed myself.

I am never living in an apartment complex again because of trashy fucking mean people. I swear to god! They took my grill on my truck, they put a ding in the bed of my truck, they don’t pick up their dog’s shit, they don’t put their dogs on leashes. I am soooo glad my lease is up on June 6h because this is getting ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that there is still a section of a pine tree that is about to fall on someones head if they don’t get it removed that I notified them of over a month and a half ago.

Just friggin GRRR

OK, last night was the D&D game. My Evangelical Rouge and the stupid cleric went head to head and I realized one of us would have to sacrifice our character to be able to get the party together. It really fucking sucks but the only beauty is Keet has made enough of an impact on the game setting that  there is no way to really completely remove her because it changes to much stuff. So now she really is a herald of Tiamet and not just a halfling with clear dragon scales covering her body. Before giving her up in my pissyness I put a 200,000 gold hit on the cleric’s head. Ha Ha Ha. I do feel better on anally raping the rules lawyer. Because it fixed the party strife I am now bringing in a character I have always wanted to play, Faelan and her brother Dane. Their background story can be found here.

So now I am actually getting to play a wolf lord. I love this class. It got royally fuckered in the 3.5 revision so I specifically asked… “Is it cool if I play the 3.0 version?” Ogre thankfully was down with it. So now I am a badass ranger with a legendary wolf as my animal companion who in story line is also my brother. Nifty eh? i went the ranged damage route with all the fun feats so I have a composite longbow with a small pouch of holding for arrows and I shoot 9 arrows a round. Totally awesome. Did I also mention that the template for my brother is the legendary wolf since I’m 13th level and I took the feat for +3 levels to your animal companion. Yup so Bro and I are the same level which allows me to use the uber baddass template of doom on him.

However last night at game since i gave up my character and had to do a total re-write that also meant that we had to work me back into the story. This wasn’t as fun or as quick as I would hope. being a wolf lord that means I can speak with any canine in 9 square miles and could have been notified of any passing travelers via the wolf esp network. Totally sucked that I was never able to get into the picture. At 3:30 am I gave up snuggled with the Jak Jak and we both konked out. I woke up again about an hour later and was like…. look if you aren’t getting me in game I’m going to bed which is a lot more comfy than sharing a couch. Game night was fun i just wish we could have gotten me in the game.

So today I’m finalizing the writeup on my character. But when I woke up this morning Migraine from Hell. Yeah soooo not fun. I’m also not in the mood to cook and there is no easy foods in the house. My back is fucking killing me and my tube o Biofreeze is almost gone which is also going to blow donkey dick. I really need to get everything in the house done because I know I won’t get to it later this week until the coming weekend i just don’t have the drive for it because I feel like shit.

Thankfully where I faceplanted the other day hasn’t resulted in a purple bruise just a very very sore spot on my head and a bump.  I should be ale to get everything on track for Monday. Speaking of Monday I am soooo fucking pissed i hate fucking contractors they don’t think at all. I had on every Box that I have sent out for testing all of the information down to the current PRL load written on the labels I made. The stuff I get back from comnet… no fucking boxes they are just laying around and that will wreak havoc on a friggin aircard. I am so pissed about them not taking care of the equipment I just don’t know what to do on it.

I’m not feeling great going to quit bitching and drink more pepto. Thankfully final Rock of Love is on tonight.

I play eve online and i’m wanting to build 5 golems. I got my hands on a BPC for 60 Mil in ISK and it is a very nice 5 run copy. Only problem is what it is going to take to get all of the components to build them there is no way i can get that much isk to buy them all so i am looking at having to mine every mineral that I need. So today, and for most of this weekend I think, I am going to mine my ass off in the belts. I hope I can get some more ore together so that i can build all the parts I need. i only have 60 days to get all the mats before my other account can fly the ship. The question is can I pull it off. If I get a dedicated Hauler I think i could but I don’t wnat to pay for ANOTHER account.

I woke up with a migraine and an over all feeling that today wold suck…. and then…. I checked my email! The new Wii Virtual Console Games email was sent out and it has one of my favorite games of all time in it!!! Yoshi Cookie!!! OMG I’m in 7th heaven played through my first game on medium speed and got to stage 4 round 9. I love this game!!!!!!!! Back pain and migraines be damned I have Yoshi Cookie!!! Pizza for breakfast that i nuked to long as well as a nice pot of coffee. Today is a very good day.