It’s Only Wednesday..

Posted on by Jennifer GB

…and the week is dragging. I so do not want to be at work today and am anxious for the three day weekend to get here. Work is normal…as normal as it could be. Its the busy season with graduations and college enrollments so we have to help out the students with that. Should slow down soon. I need to find a job within a school so I get more holidays off as well as summers and finish at 3pm. This 9-5 stuff is for the birds, LOL! I need to play the lottery and win. Id quit my job, pursue my hobbies and fix up my home with the renovations I am dreaming of doing. But, this is the dream of a lot of people I’m sure.

When I walked into work this morning, it felt like I was only here an hour ago instead of 15 hours ago. When you think about it, I am at work more hours in a day then I am awake hours in my home. I wake at 5:30am and putter around the house, make coffee, eat breakfast that hubby makes me (yes every morning, and Yes I know I am blessed) and get ready for work. Then I maybe do laundry, putter around on World of Warcraft a bit and then leave for work at 8am. I work till five and am home by 5:30 and because I’m old (hit 50 on the 19th of May) I’m usually in bed by 9:30. So, calculate that: 4 hours in the evening + 3.5 in the morning = 7.5 hours I am awake in my own home during the work week. In that time I have to squeeze in house work and chores like, laundry, dishes, cleaning bathrooms, playing with the corgis, etc. I hear in Italy they take two hour lunches each day. I only get half an hour for lunch at my job…and I work for the State! I keep trying to convince my husband to move the family it Italy. He said “the government is so corrupt there”….and ours isn’t?? LOL, in my opinion the food and the history and scenery of the country is worth it. Plus, free healthcare.

Well after ten years I finally got myself a new computer. I was going to build one but hubby found one with a video card that was almost equal to the price of the whole computer and when I did the math, was cheaper with that card then building a new one and using my old video card. So I am now the proud owner of an Alienware Aurora R10 Gaming desktop. Its so QUIET!! My old computer sounded like a hoover vacuum cleaner. I love it. Windows 11 is on it and it looks like they are trying to mimic what a MacBook Pro looks like with the icons in the middle of the bar at the base. Took a little getting use to but I love it. I am even getting into streaming at the encouragement of my youngest, who is streaming his games himself. I made a twitch name: Garavana. In case your interested at all. LOL! He has me learning how to make videos of what I stream/record. Wants me to make a YouTube channel. He’s hilarious. Like anyone would want to watch a 50 year old woman play World of Warcraft! I suppose if it makes me a little bit of money down the road its better than, IDK, trying to sell pictures of my feet? ROFLMAO!

I am starting a new page on WordPress for my arts and crafts. Its an update from my old blog on BlogSpot which is about 12 years old. (old blog: https://theembroideress.blogspot.com/ ) Going to continue it on this new WordPress page, which is still under construction: https://astheneedlepasses.com/ Just have to make it look a little bit nicer. If I could import the old blog I would but I am not that tech savvy when it comes to web sites.

Alright, should get back to work, break over.

Ciao!

WTF IS GOING ON!?!?

Posted on by Jennifer GB

There are so many things going on in the world right now between the war in Ukraine, COVID cases spiking again, people not wanting to work and so many businesses are closing because of it. A month or so ago a local diner that was our favorite Friday night take out place closed because he couldn’t get people to work there and the cost of food for the restaurant was just getting too high. When he announced it, business boomed. The place was always filled and it was hard to get an order.  They day they closed, they were nice enough to give my son a t-shirt with the store logo on it. I think he was upset the most when they closed.  To a special needs kid, change can be catastrophic, and it did make him cry, which he rarely does.

Gas prices are soaring because oil companies are greedy bastards. Democrats are trying to pass a bill against gas price gouging but from what I’ve heard, all republicans voted against it, which is not surprising because the owner of the oil companies are primarily republicans, and they certainly don’t want to give up any chance to pad their bank accounts further. 

And now another mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas with 21 dead. I just cant. Why does this keep happening here? Why must they resort to killing children or anyone for that matter because of what they are feeling?! How does taking someone elses life….innocent lives…help!?! Its depressing, so very, very depressing. My heart hurts for the families that lost their loved ones yesterday. It scares me too because I still have one kid in school. They sent a notice out last night that they were upping security even though there is no threat to his school. I always tell him to hide, don’t be seen or if you can safely get out and away from the school to do that but not to take any chance at all of being hurt.  I tell my older son who works at a Walmart to do the same thing. Ive told him ways he can get out of the building from the department he works in without hopefully being seen. They give them mandatory videos to watch for “Active Shooters” that he was to watch quarterly.  This shit didn’t happen when I was a kid.

Things have to change. Things have to get better.  With everything going on, it makes me consider moving to another country. Italy is my first choice.

Anyway..I gotta work.  Promise ill try to be more uplifting and positive in my next post.

Ciao!