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One thing that I have realized is not in my near future is buying a house. I just can't afford it at this point. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea if or when I'll ever be able to afford it. I know they say it's a buyer's market right now, and I'm sure that somewhere there are probably mortgage lenders that will approve me with my horrid credit, but I'm sure I'd be paying some horrific interest rate and have payments so high it would be pathetic. Not something I can do with the thought of taking out student loans looming over my head and the possibility of having to purchase my text books out of pocket with no sort of reimbursement.

So right now I'm going to put the idea of buying my own place on the back burner and I'm going to focus on getting finished with the wage garnishment (not even going into that one, because it'll only piss me off again) and getting myself back into school and up and running with that. Those are my priorities at this point and I'm going to get them taken care of first, then I'll start working on getting some of the other things taken care of.

There are a lot of things I need to do. I need to get my apartment cleaned up and decluttered. I need to start sorting through all those knick knacks that just aren't my style and start looking at ways to get rid of them. But most of all, I need to start working on getting myself into shape. I need to start working on healthier eating. I need to start exercising like I should be. I've heard a lot of gals at work talking about taking weight loss pills.  To me, I'm still not sure that I want to go that route. I mean, after all, there can be so many side effects.

Now I could always pick a few of those weight loss pills and start looking them up on the internet and see which ones are rated highest for success and lowest for bad side effects. Myself, I'd prefer to try and get something that is more or less a natural herbal supplement without all the harsh synthetic chemicals the manufacturers put in the pills.

Then again, I'm still more or less anti-weight loss pills. I still prefer to go it alone and use diet and exercise to lose my weight. Guess I'm just old fashioned that way.

One of the things I never did in school was get recognition for anything. Well, I got recognition a couple of times for getting on the honor roll, but other than that, I didn't get recognized for anything. Some kids, girls as well as boys, had bedrooms full of certificates, plaques, and trophies. Not me. I had some certificates which  my mom displayed, and a plaque she displayed, but not a whole lot.

My crowning achievement was when I made it to the city wide spelling bee. I beat out a sixth grader - and I was in fourth grade. It was actually my second time at the city wide spelling bee. I went there in second grade as well. I was a damn good speller. ;) People still constantly ask me to spell stuff for them. There's a few words that I get wrong, everyone has words they just can't spell. But of late, my spelling errors are most likely to be typing errors. :)

Ok, not usually my topic of conversation, I know, but I've really come to see how it is that overweight women like myself don't feel too sexy. After all, we're bombarded with images everyday, in magazines and on TV of women who are considered sexy...and they're all rail thin. No one seems to care about those of us who are overweight. We're not considered beautiful or sexy by the majority of people. But there are some places that do carry women's lingerie in plus sizes. In fact, one place even has sexy costumes in plus sizes.

I'm starting to see just how saturated the market is when it comes to diet aids. I can go to Wally World and see several different ones hanging out on the shelves there. I can go to a nutrition store and see several different ones hanging around on shelves there. I'm even seeing stuff on the internet about various diet pills, Anoretix included. It's really starting to get ridiculous. Of course, in today's world, no one wants to have to work at anything, including losing weight. It's just easier to pop a pill or two and sit back and hope it works. If it doesn't, we move on to the next pill. It's sad to see that people just don't use the good old methods anymore...diet and exercise.

So I've been pestering my landlord again about getting the bathtub and toilet fixed right. Then I mentioned that if I have the hot water turned on in the bathroom sink, it leaks, and that there's now a leak in the kitchen sink drain pipes. The landlord just sighed and said those would probably need to have new sinks put in. Myself, I would prefer they put new pipes in so that the stuff would just work right. Pretty soon I'm gonna have to find myself a new place to live and be done with it. I'm telling you, the handyman who works for my landlord needs to be fired. He never shows up to fix anything.

Isn't that difficult. What is difficult is when the radio doesn't want to pick up the signal and then the customer starts having a fit about it. Ok, here's the deal. I can click the button, I can send the signal. I can't make the radio pick it up. It's not like I can put a turbocharger on the satellite or the radio and force the radio to pick up the signal. Asking for a supervisor is not going to do you any good. Use your head. Do you honestly think that I, sitting behind a desk, at a computer, in Iowa, can do ANYTHING other than send out a signal to your radio in California, New York, North Carolina, or wherever? Well, you shouldn't because I can't. Don't go asking for supervisors because your radio isn't catching the signal. If it doesn't catch it, wait a little while and call us to send it again, or use the login and password we give you to log into your account online and send your signal to yourself. It really isn't rocket science people.

I swear, pretty soon I'm just gonna give up on my domain name blogs. Why? Because I'm trying to move to a new server, which I have done countless times before, and have never had this much trouble. But this time? Oh I'm having a horrible experience! First, my site stopped working the day after I moved it. It finally started working again, so I thought I was fine. Then I went to bed last night, all of my sites working great, and today I go to check on them to find every last one of them down. ALL of my databases just up and disappeared AND my host was going to charge me $15 to restore them from their backups. Excuse me? YOUR SERVER messes up and you're going to charge ME to fix it? I think not. Good thing I kept all my database backups from when I moved to the new server!

Plus, I can't stay logged into the FTP account for the server. I upload a few files and it boots me out. I download or delete a few files and it boots me out. I really don't think this is the correct way for a server to be, thank you very much. I'm really starting to wonder if I shouldn't have saved my $9.95 and put it towards a stay in a condo hotel somewhere. Yeesh!

It's funny, but I've never really wanted to travel. I usually don't travel very well and almost always end up sick when I do go somewhere. My body just doesn't care for climate/environment changes. That doesn't stop me from wanting to take a trip next year to the East coast, but still. :) However, I do not, nor have I ever had, a desire to travel anywhere that a passport would be required.

Of course, now that Canada and Mexico will require a passport to get to, I suppose it won't matter. I would like to see Canada, so I guess if I'm going to do any sort of Canadian travel, I'll have to get off my duff and get a passport at some point. Oh well, I've got time. After all, you have to have money to travel and that, I don't have at the moment. ;)

I swear, I've never actually seen so many different computer cables in my life. Well, I take that back. Yes I have. I used to build Gateway computers, and cables were everywhere. But I can honestly say I've never see so many CAT5e cables in my life. They were cleaning out the computer supplies room at work, trying to find all the stuff they'd need for Nike and I swear they had more networking cables than anything else. I mean, yeah, I understand why they'd have so many, because you need to be able to replace them as necessary, but still. LOL It was interesting.

I have to say, I do like the fact that everyone has their own desk at Stream. When I worked for Convergys, we shared desks and had to move on a daily basis. At least those of us who came in after noon did. We'd often come in at 12:30 and have to wait until 2:30 before we could get on the phones because we couldn't find a desk to sit at! Yeah, it was bad. I'm glad I have my own place, because that means I can decorate my little space. :)