…every time I see a house for sale that I at least kinda-sorta like, it’s either too expensive…
…or doesn’t have a basement?
Blah.
Monthly Archive for September, 2006Page 2 of 4
This is just a quicky. It’s only 11pm but I feel it should be about 3am, I’m so tired.
Here’s a pic of my sweetie from today. Maybe from it you think you can guess the type of day I’ve had? (Well, trust me, you cannot. Heehee.)
More later, I have an early morning!
Apparently, any text message I sent with my phone from August 16th through September 2nd was over my plan’s limit and I’m now charged 10¢ for each one. An extra $13.10. Handleable, yes, but the bill itself is already so high. Yes, I have three people who are supposed to be paying for their parts, but since we still owe my brother-in-law money, he gets his phone for free, and my sister-in-law and father-in-law pay him their parts and we just take the whole phone bill.
*sigh*
Will things never get any better?
But for what it’s worth, I still have a hard time believing I sent/received 354 messages in a billing period. I’ve never even gotten close to my 200 limit before… If only the billing period had ended about three days earlier, before we went on that little vacation (I used a lot then). AND, for what it’s worth, Cingular’s website keeps refusing on a regular basis to show me anyone’s current usage for anything other than talk minutes, no text messages, nothing. It’s seriously ticking me off and I’m seriously wondering if T-Mobile would be any better. According to the map, they now service our area (unlike this time last year)… I wonder if they can get me out of my Cingular contract.
I ordered candle supplies the other day. I was in great need of some more wax and a few select scents. Thankfully one of the scents was on sale and that brought my total to, after shipping, the wonderful amount of $416.96.
I swear, this time last year and I would have paid half that. Two years ago when I started this, a case of wax cost me $36. Now it’s $49.02. A certain scent I have in mind (that is thankfully a good seller for me) was $14.90 a year ago. Now it’s $22.95.
If you ask me, this is a big increase. I understand that prices go up, but this is rediculous. I am beginning to think it’s time for a new supplier. Of course, the wax I buy is a custom blend specific to this company I am currently buying from. I really like it, it works well for me. It’s two pour but I don’t have to buy any other special additives (and it’s cheaper than other waxes they offer that are not their own). And, of course, at another company I may not be able to find the same scents I have now.
I am not sure, at this point, what to do. I cannot raise my prices any more. I am presently at the top I want to be, I’m getting all I can, but staying lower than all my competitors. Plus, honestly, I scent mine more than they do. (I occassionally buy a candle from a competitor at a fair, so far mine have always outdone theirs.)
I have been thinking of ways to cut costs and production on items that don’t sell as well. But in the meantime I still need more supplies for those items that do sell well, and all my Christmas scents/preparation.
However if this keeps up, I’m screwed. My business credit cards are already too high. *sigh*
So, it apparently blew up today. Some chick on YouTube who’s been calling herself “Lonelygirl15″ and was supposedly a 16-year-old homeschooled student doing video blogs, is actually a 19-year-old actress who was paid to do this supposed internet drama.
This was the first thing I saw when I opened my browser this morning. Thank you, My Yahoo.
All I can say is: WHO THE HECK CARES?
The article goes on and on about some famous internet chick who is “dealing with” her newfound fame.
When, in reality, who actually has heard of this chick? Seriously, I go to YouTube and cannot find one of her videos without going straight to her profile, since I know the username. I’ve never seen any of these videos before and I watch a few.
They suck. Really. She never could have tricked me into thinking she’s some 16-year-old doing some of that video work on her own. Let’s not even mention how horrid the acting is. They all sound like they’re reading parts. Which, I guess they are.
But the thing that gets me? From the videos that I’ve watched, she makes homeschoolers out to be completely unsocialized*, totally contumacious, drug users, unbelievers in science, etc.
And that offends me.
Internet famous. Ha. Anyone out there actually heard of this chick before this “news” story. Man what is wrong with the world today when this is “front page” news?
Continue reading ‘LonelyGirl15′
I totally need to stop running across people I used to know on there. Especially people who now have their Master’s Degrees!
Talk about a kick in the face.
Now, you must all excuse me while I go email my bestest friend ever and say, “Like, omg, you will never believe who I found on MySpace!!”
Continue reading ‘MySpace makes me want to puke’
At craft fairs, it’s very common for people to come by our booth and give us pieces of paper. Sometimes these are advertising other area fairs, and sometimes they are advertising local services or products. Last weekend, while I was away, someone dropped by a homemade pamphlet for photographic services.
I recognized this company as soon as I saw the brochure. I had seen a vehicle at Walmart one night that had a sign for them on the side of it. I had laughed my butt off then and now again, I had to laugh. This company calls themselves
Dream Photo’s
Do you see what’s wrong with that? I know it can’t be just me.
Yes, the apostrophe. Photo’s.
This is a pet peeve of mine, the incorrect use of apostrophes (now you all know).
For the record, apostrophes are not used when simply adding an “s” to a word. That makes the world plural, as in more than one. However, when you own something and add that “s,” then you can add that apostrophe. Or when you’ve omitted letters when combining two words together. Oh, look, I just did it there. A lesser known rule of the English language, however, is that you can use an apostrophe in a plural of an abbreviation or number, such as 5’s. But please, oh, please, do not use an apostrophe in regular plural words!
Now, I’m sure it’s a very nice company and their prices seem reasonable, but I am just completely blown away by this blatant mistake. The first time I saw it, at Walmart, I just sat there in my car for a few minutes and stared at the sign. I could not figure out why that would be on the sign like that. Did the sign maker make a mistake and the company owner not notice?? Apparently not! They use the term “Dream Photo’s” in the brochure three times. It never says something like, “Dream Photo’s photography is…” or “Dream Photo’s located at…” No, it says “Dream Photo’s by…” and “At Dream Photo’s we…”
Sorry, again, BIG pet peeve. I can hardly read something that’s written like that without doubling over in laughter until I am unable to finish it. Reminds me of the time we saw the messed up McDonald’s sign:
I mean, seriously, what’s up with that? Why can’t anyone spell or use proper punctuation in America anymore?
So my adventure with the broken window yesterday yielded a very strange dream this morning. Here’s how it went:
I woke up after Steve was gone for work and it didn’t seem strange that Sarah and my mother-in-law were in my room. Elijah was around somewhere, too. I noticed that the window no longer had the black trashbag over it, that it was kinda ripped through the middle. And I remembered Steve getting up in the middle of the night because of sirens and looking out the window, so I just knew he had ripped it up to see out.
So, of course, I got mad and started complaining to the others in the room, saying I wanted it covered because of those wasps there, see? I pointed, and the area with the wasps was about three times as big as it really is and just then, one flew into the house through the broken window. Then several more of them flew in. Sarah was freaking out, and I started to freak out, too, and went to frantically try to tape it back up.
Then all sorts of strange bugs started flying and crawling in, huge ants, big beetles, etc. The hermit crabs were there and they looked strange, almost like stuffed crabs you actually eat, and it was really gross, something took a bite out of them.
Okay, it got creepier than that, but suddenly my brain has turned to mush and I can’t remember. All I can remember is that in the end, I got it covered back up and we all came downstairs…
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