Insane Random Ramblings

I don’t even know how I did with this years resolutions. I do know that I put them on my other blog so I’ll have to dig up the post and see what I wrote. Then I’ll have to do an analysis on how close I came to meeting my goals.

I do know that my savings goals should be pretty close if not over what I anticipated. That’s mainly due to my house savings account. I’ve been squirreling money away for months. My debt however, is probably slightly behind the curve. I haven’t really gotten my hands on a decent enough sum to knock my debt out.

I do need to start on this years list though. The New Year will be here before you know it.

Ughhhhh I hate waiting. Patience is definitely not a virtue for me. I thought I had a good shot of getting the job but I found out that they are still interviewing people so that’s not good news for me. They’ve been interviewing for the past week and a half already. The manager is out sick so my coworker is interviewing with the assistant manager next week.

Not good news for me. I guess I had better keep searching the open positions list.

I have nothing but a bunch of anecdotes so here goes:

• Bye Lamar, I hate the fact that the Lakers traded you to Dallas. I don’t want you and  the in-law side show affecting my boo.
• I hate Dirk’s new hair cut, I like the long hair.
• Now that the Laker’s didn’t get CP3, will they get D. Howard?
• What did the Cowboys expect? You iced your own kicker last week, what made you think the Giants wouldn’t do it again this week?
• Is it psychological with the kicker now? He aced the first kick, I realize the second kick was blocked but wow.
• I still have a long way to go before pitchers and catchers report.
• I really don’t like the Angels now. I hate AP.

Even though it’s been a short work week for me. I came back to work yesterday to a mess! In a normal work-week I get about 1 or 2 work-related emails. When I walked in to work yesterday, I had more than 5 times that amount. Of course everything was priority one.

I spent the better part of a day running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Hopefully everything is calm and back to normal now.

And I have no idea why. I went to bed at a pretty reasonable hour but once I laid down, I couldn’t sleep at all. I tossed and turned for pretty much the entire night. I think I fell asleep around 4:30am for 1/2 hour and then again around 5:30 for about 45 minutes. So a total of 1 hr and 15 minutes all night. It doesn’t help that I have to work today.

Ughhhh, this is going to be one long day.

On Thursday of last week, I knew that I was tired and needed some rest. I felt tired and didn’t even want to stay and finish the day. Then on 2 separate occasions I had someone tell me that I looked tired or exhausted. To tell the truth, I honestly was and I was happy to have Friday off of work.

I pretty much did nothing on Friday. I watched a lot of tv. Then I went to the casino in the afternoon for a little while. I lost at the casino. Then I stopped at and got something to eat on my way back home. One of my friends called me later on in the evening and we went back to the casino, where I won. Then I went home and chilled for the rest of the weekend.

I have to admit, that day off felt great and I’m energized and ready to start the work week. And I don’t say that too often.

I just have a lot going on. I’m trying pay down debt while saving for a house. That’s pretty much going according to plan but it would be nice if I could increase my income to help things along.

This job search thing is weighing heavily on my mind as well. I want a new job in the worse way. I don’t make enough at my job but I also don’t like my job at all. Add to that the fact that I’ve been a job hunt for what seems like forever and it’s just not a good feeling.

Today is just not a good day in general. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll feel a little better.

Which means I lost one. I use 2 tickets per day so a book should last a whole week. On Wednesday morning as I was getting ready for work, I noticed that I only had 5 tickets in my stack instead of 6. I have tickets at home that I was planning on using this week since I only work three days. Instead I now only have 5 tickets so I’ll have to use the odd book and then start another book which will again, leave me with an odd amount of tickets.

I always keep extra tickets so it’s not really a big deal. I just prefer to have even numbers of tickets so it’s easier for me to keep track of. I’ll just throw the odd ticket in my wallet for a just in case emergency.

Our big boss comes to visit every other Friday just to touch base and keep us updated on things coming down the pike. The previous two visits we had “food days” planned so of course he was able to join us.

Today we didn’t have a party planned so he offered to buy us lunch. We could order from either a hoagie place or a pizza place. Considering that there are over 30 of us, we decided to go with the pizza and salad. I offered to go and get a couple of bottles of soda for those of us that are interested in having something besides water.

Of course, we had 2 or 3 people that wanted the hoagie place which is much more expensive. Which is more cost effective, 5 pizzas or multiple hoagies? We probably would have ended up with sandwich rings, which I don’t think are that tasty. The hoagie place specializes in hot sandwiches and they are much better than the cold ones.

People just be glad that we’re getting treated to lunch and stop being ungrateful.

I ask that because I have a coworker that’s investing in this currency deal right now. I wouldn’t exactly call it a scam but it’s not going to pan out how she thinks it is. But that started me thinking about how people fall for these things.

I think it’s mostly money. It’s a cheap venture, usually less than $1k, but it promises sky-high returns. People feel “privileged” to be a part of the scam. It’s mostly closed and they think they’re a part of an exclusive group. In reality, they’re just easier to dupe than most people.

Finally, it’s usually hands-off. You hand your money to an intermediary who invests or gives the money to someone else to invest. Again, it feels exclusive and clandestine. You feel like you’re pulling one over on “the man”. The problem is that you’re just creating layers between the “marks” and the money men.

I’m just glad that I listened to my inner voice that told me not to bother. It’s going to be really sad when my coworker loses all of her money. I did try to talk her out of it but she wasn’t hearing it. Maybe it will work out and she won’t lose too much.