77 posts tagged “work”
I have been so negligent in posting. I know I know. I suck.
I try. Some days I wonder if I really need to share my day to day stuff. Other days I think of cute things to write down. Then completely forget as the coffee wears off. Pleh.
Our washer broke. Finally, after about 9years, the thing just finally gave. Lee and I bought it when we first moved in together. Not an expense we needed right now. We're making enough to cover a month's of bills, but I still have a tiny bit of taxes to pay, and cards to pay down. So, determined not to have to spend more money, Lee spent some time with google. Apparently it's a common problem with Kenmore washers as they get older. This little coupler broke, which makes the thing in the center of the washer agitate, and because it broke, it wasn't turning, and making an AWFUL sound. So I drove around town monday morning and found a little used appliance store / repair shop and showed the old fella there the part. He knew what it was immediately (Note: Canadian Tire, Rona and Sears did NOT know what it was or where to get it). Cost us 25$ for the part, but Lee got the thing running again after work!!! Better than 1000$ for a new washer/dryer combo. (If we're gonna get a new washer, might as well get the new dryer, lol)
But then tonight I noticed that we have a headlight out. Sigh... Well, the car needs a servicing anyway. The thing will be paid off in February of 2010 too! Pretty soon we will have no more car payments. YAY!
Business is great. Lee and his partner are very very busy. We're having several web sites go pretty soon here. I spent most of today polishing one. And we have a few more nibbles. I have a couple more that we are waiting on feedback, and content. I can only make up so much crap to type in there.
I'm still mad at the douche who whined about my coding.
I made an awesome pumpkin pie tonight... from pumpkin! Not a can of brown goop. Actually quite easy to do. Even the dough. If you have a pasta roller, it makes pastry dough so much easier. Even the kids like it!
We might... repeat... might... be moving next year. Lee's business partner, and long time friend, might be moving into his father in laws old house, because the father in law is building a new house across the street from that one. Since his partner owns his house, he doesn't want to have to sell, or attempt to sell, so we may rent it from him. It will offer us more space, and we might turn the basement into our home office, setting it up to make some remote work easier. Not sure when this will happen. Probably next year. Will keep you posted.
Ok, all for now. Try to post before too long.
I leave you with a lol cat , or 2.
And the lol cat to describe today:
Took me 3 hours to finish the thing I was to do. It was suppose to be pretty basic, and it was. I thought I did alright. He then seemed happy, and asked for help with a 2nd project, doing the same thing, only it would be simpler. So I did. I finished in 3 hours, and had to finish up a section he just didn't get to yet. So I basically completed this one part for him.
Well, this morning he's all unimpressed, saying my work is unorganized, hard to read, and basically doesn't work. He has to redo it all. I followed his style of coding, and naming conventions so it would merge with his stuff better!!!!!!
But! I chose to not jump to conclusions and asked if SectionA wasn't working... Nope that was fine. (using sections instead of really what I did for privacy sake)
I asked if SectionB wasn't working, because I took an example of his to model how I did the work.... Nope that was fine too.
Well that was 80% of the stuff I did!!!
So I asked specifically what I did wrong, so I could figure out how to do it right another time.... Well! He's too busy to tell me what it was because he has to fix it all.
Translation: Im a jerk and I'm trying to weasel out of paying the bill.
I took a look at the changes that he made afterward, to my stuff. I can see now what he added, that might have been a good idea for me to add, but he didn't give me much in direction. I was suppose to finish up this little module for him, add this other function there. I didn't realize he wanted me to change some naming conventions in one part, or add more info to another.
He could have just asked: "Oh BTW, can you add the client info to this part as well... can you name these parts this way" and I would have done it. It often takes a 2nd pair of eyes to spot something the first pair might overlook without realizing.
Instead he chose to take the douchey route.
So I'm in a super bad mood today now.
Will post Halloween and kid photos tomorrow or Saturday tho!!!
Well, after 2 whole months I finally got some work from the office I hate working for. I am suppose to help with some web page stuff, but it looks like they dont want to give me access to the source, just have me mock up some 'widget' (they love that word to describe everything) and show it doing this nice fade to view effect, and give them that. I wont be pulling any information from a db or anything. I guess someone else will incorporate it.
I am not sure if I should be insulted by that. It's possible they are testing me, to see if I really know this code I will have to use. But then again, why should I care? I dont even want to work for them. I just really need the money for the short term.
Gaaah
I invented a new term this week:
Pro-Fresh-ional!
It is a combination of being professional, and fresh!
It came about after a client complained that her web site didn't look professional enough, after we had almost finished it, and she had already seen and approved mockups.
She gave us 2 other sites, saying that she liked those... but not the color scheme... just how they look.
She actually said that she wanted her site to be 'Fresh'.
I thought that was what we did.
So after I grumbled for 2 days, Lee redesigned it and we have been working away at it today. I've been adding some cool slide and fade effects so it looks 'Fresh'.
As Lee and I were joking around I came up with that term!
I will also accept: Fresh-Tastic as an acceptable term of description.
lol
I think I am actually looking forward to when school is back in. Summer is great for relaxing and sleeping in, but I am starting to find that I need some sort of daily routine to keep my mind from.... taking off on me and not telling me where it is going!!!
Also I get daily showers when I have a routine too!! And I am not in my pyjamas half the day.
The weather has cooled off and it rained finally. We had temperatures in the high 30s (Celsius) for so long there, and in British Columbia, that means forest fires. Fortunately our area is unique, probably because of the large lake, so we don't get them close very often. But the areas south and west of us tend to get them often. They are much dryer areas. We wind up with all the smoke coming up the valleys and settling on us however. Some days it's rather stinky outside.
But the weather has helped the 2 largest fires in the province, which have been threatening homes and such, but not as bad as a few years ago, when a fire leveled all sorts of new development in a town south of us. Many people lost their very large, uninsured houses...
Anyhoo,
Kids are enjoying their summer but I think they are looking forward to getting out more too.
One morning, we got up, made coffee, and saw this:
Two horsies! Charlie is the dark brown one on the right. The light blond one on the left is called Roy, short for 'Royal'.
They're both very nice and the girls love to take apples from the few apple trees we have in the yard to them. Now some days I find 2 horsies staring at me through the window.
What else...
The business is going great! The guys are very busy. Lee is able to bring home some money every month. However the office that I still work for, that I hate working for, (I think i mentioned them a few times in my rants), has basically ignored me all summer, so I haven't had much work. I keep pestering, and It's always an excuse. They're waiting on some other project blah blah blah, they will have more work later... blah blah blah.
So I haven't brought much money home the past 2 months, and I'm looking for ways to cut spending. Including unplugging all counter top appliances in the kitchen when I'm not using them. Shutting power bars down at night for all computers. Trying to stick to cereal and apples for breakfast and lunch so I dont spend much on food...
Supposedly they have work for me in PHP, which is what I have been doing for the web page work our business gets, so at least it's something I know. And they're suppose to get to me before the end of August... wheee...
It's a nice dress, cost me over 900$.
I know many people have them packed away and preserved in case their kids might want it someday. But how do I know they will like the style?? I'd rather sell it to someone who really wants a dress, but can't afford to pay some of the prices out there.
I also half considered selling some jewelery. But I do not have much that is very nice, except for my grandmothers pearls (wearing in that photo), and my mom's grandmothers gold ring. I just can't sell those 2 things. They mean too much, even if I do not wear jewelery.
So that's where we're at...
I know it's been almost a month since my last post, and I was posting rather erratically before that. Don't take it personally! But I thought I should make a quick post to explain.
I go through phases like this often on message boards, or sites like this. I will post a lot, think of lots of witty (sometimes non-witty) things to say, then peter off a little... then pretty much stop all together. Usually after a few more months I get the urge to post again and I come back.
The same thing has happened with every board I have been on. It's also why I have a hard time sticking to a diet plan or an exercise program. Ha ha!
I do miss my LOL cats, and hope to get the urge to come back soon. I am actually up to my earlobes in web sites that I am working on, and have started looking for part time day care for the girls so that I can start going into the office more! This fall the youngest will be in Preschool, and the oldest in Grade1, so I will have more time on my hands for work then. To start they are going to be watched by my husband's cousin's wife. They have a 1 year old boy too and they both love to play with him, so this will be a good start
Talk to you all soon I hope!
I've pretty much completely forgotten about Vox for like 2 weeks.
I've been so insanely busy, and I keep forgetting to do important things like finish my taxes, that I just kept glossing over when it came to Vox.
The wedding is this weekend. We leave tomorrow afternoon to drive down, and I took the car in today to the shop for a quick tune up before hitting the high mountain highways.
I still have lots of stuff left to do, but I did get my dress back all fixed up. I still have to find the right shoes, and a stick on bra cause the back of the dress is real low.
Once we get to Vancouver I have to balance the stuff my friend planned for us and visiting my parents... Theres a rehearsal i need to take my oldest too cause she's going to be a flower girl, and a manicure/pedicure session on Saturday morning, which I dont really want to go to. I've never had either, and not fond of the thought of someone fixing up my toe nails. Not like they are awful, but it seems a little like invading my personal space. Wierd huh?
Friday night there is the batchlorette party, which I think will be fairly tame. we might make it down in time for me to meet them for dinner and afterwards we're going to a comedy club!
I have 2 fairly complicated web sites on the go, and a new one about to start up.
And Im getting some work from the office I hate working for, and every time I see an email from them with some ridiculous bugs to check out at the last minute cause no one is organized there, I die a little inside.
But one good thing about the past few weeks has been Mothers Day weekend. It was wonderfully relaxing. The weather was very warm and clear (unlike the rain of the past few days). We spent most of the weekend in the garden. We built our contraptions for doing Upside-Down-Tomatoes this year. And then on mothers day went on a hike to a local waterfall. There are several around here. nice thing about living in the Rocky Mountains :)
I have barely posted in like 3 weeks I know!! I'm trying to remember. Work was crazy busy for a while and I finally have a lull here before it goes bonkers again. I have been on here, reading others posts, and commenting now and then. So i'm not completely out of touch. I thought I would update everyone on what's going on here, in bullet form... hopefully I don't yammer on too much.
- Spring break here is 2 weeks, which meant I got to sleep in for 2 weeks. But then the web page work through the business took off and I was typing like a madwoman for the first week of it.
- A week and a half after all the kids were back in school after spring break, they got a 4 day weekend for Easter. My oldest's internal schedule was just all thrown off I think, but she's back to normal now.
- My youngest turned 3 last monday on 420 (Im sure some will find that amusing) We just had a small party with just us. I didn't have the energy to do more. And she didn't really notice anyway. She loved her gifts, and got apple cake with chocolate glaze and gummi bears, so she didn't care either!
- I think I hammered out about 5 web pages the past month. Most are real simple, 6 to 12 pages with a little back end work so they could add content. Nothing huge.
- We have 2 or 3 coming up that could be real huge tho. Including adding shopping carts!
- Weather here is off again on again warm, mixed with rainy days.
- I had to mow the lawn on the weekend before it got too high, and I think I nearly croaked.
- Lee is a bit of a hypocondriac. My youngest has allergies... hay fever I think because Lee has it too. And he's getting me to check her for fever in case she has swine flu.... sigh...
- He also has on a couple occasions, thought he had flesh eating disease... because he found a red spot...
- It's infuriating.
- Im just making sure I get the kids to wash their hands more. Even though we are not near any areas that have confi
rmed cases, it doesn't hurt.
- I got my bridesmaid dress in the mail. I haven't tried it on to see if it needs altering. Frankly Im afraid to find out its small... but I think Ive done well.
- I cut out beer the past month... excuse me while I go cry for a bit.
- Hopefully that helps cut some calories.
- The dress is more of a cinnamon color since the original green one wasn't available. My friend called back to let me know and help me pick out more colors and order them from most preferred to least preferred, just in case
- This image is fairly close.
- I got the hotel booked for the wedding, and I am hoping to make it down in time for the stagette. I think if we leave by 2pm I'm good.
- Other than that, Im just waiting for good planting weather to get the garden in.
- This year we're doing: acorn squash (soooo much better than storebought), tomatoes (cherry and roma), peppers (all colors), onions (green and purple), and several herbs
- We're going to do Upside Down Tomatos actually.
- It's a neat planting process.
So that is me. Im sure I'll think of more tomorrow that I totally forgot.
I'm just hungry at the moment.
:)
I had this odd dream last night, that I can mostly remember. I have this project today that I need to compile and make installs for so that the company I work for can test out some bug fixes. I said I could do it before 2pm, which is when our Australia office comes online. I dreamt that it was noon and I had forgotten all about it and there wasn't enough time for me to get everything done and I was really really worried.
Anyhoo.
For some reason my alarm didn't go off this morning. I thought I had set it. So the kids came into my room at a little after 8am. And I usually get up a little after 7am. Well. We had to get dressed, hair brushed and some food in the kids within a 20 minute span so we could get in the car and I could get my oldest to school.
And when my oldest wakes up, from overnight sleep or a nap.. shes pretty much useless for 20 minutes. She isn't a morning person and she'll start crying if she has to do anything other than sit and watch a cartoon while she eats. I can't get her to speak words half the time. So you can imagine how fun that was this morning.
So now I am on edge thinking I have forgotten something else important!
I can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since I made any meaningful post about what I've been up to. Things got so busy with work there for a while, that I just kept forgetting about it
Lee's mom was down for a week visiting, before flying down to Palm Springs to meet up with her brother and his wife for a vacation. She should be coming back this weekend or next week sometime.
I had 2 good sized web sites to work on too and I think I finally got them both finished and ready to deploy.
This morning our coffee grinder decided it was just not going to turn on at all. So out of desperation I got the kids dressed and into the car to go to the store. The Zellers didn't have coffee grinders that I could find, and the kitchen store in the mall only had one extremely complicated one with all sorts of buttons... it's just coffee... So I just bought a small can of ground coffee to last for now until I can get to the Canadian Tire to find one there.
I had a very relaxing weekend however. It was easter weekend and my oldest had friday, and today off from school. Lee was coming down with a cold so he worked from home on thursday and they closed the office on friday, and he only went in for a short time on saturday.
It was very quiet. I guess most people were busy with easter things, family or going out of town. That's ok. It made for a nice vacation for us before things pick up again.
So that's about it. Not much exciting. :)
