a current update of my oh so unfortunate life right now

so...

yeah it has been a while! thanks for pointing that out mager. props to you! anyway, so far life is SHIT! i left a very secure job that yeah, i was unhappy with, for a job that was better fit for my career as well as the pay being good. and have been there for over a month now, but i am no longer working for the company!!! why? you ask. well, payroll comes around and the came and went and i hadn't received my paycheck yet. (my boss isn't always in the office and had fired the accountant.) so i called him and emailed him and finally i got paid the following monday. okay, fine. he had a good excuse. still should have gotten paid on that friday but whatever. so, next payroll comes around and again, same shit!!! so i told him he needed to come back to the office and pay me. he did. so i didn't come back in. i emailed him telling himt hat it wasn't right for an employee to have to ask for their paycheck and that he shouldn't of hired someone on if he couldn't pay them. he replied by saying that i am great for the company and if there was anything he could do to get me to come back. i told him no, so then he proposed to pay me up front. i agreed, but told him i would only work the hours that he paid up front for and that he would have to pay me that way for a while until i felt comfortable enough going back to regular payroll. until i could build up trust with him again.
i went into the office yesterday to meet him and he wrote me two checks. one for payroll for today and one as an advancement to get me to come back and work. i was very hesitant in taking the checks becaise i wanted to make sure he gave it to me in cash so i wouldn't have to worry about the checks bouncing and what-not, but when i got to the bank to cash them, i was able to. so that put my mind at ease for a bit. (sorry i am writing in all lower caps. for whatever reason i found it necessary to do so.)
i went to san francisco yesterday to pick up a couple of my friends at the airport. then we went downtown and to fishermans wharf to hang out and do some shopping. it was a good trip. we got to the airport about 30 min. before their flight came in and when we went to check their flight information it said that it was delayed until 2:11-their original time was 12:30-so heather and i drove to redwood city to go have lunch. i wanted to go see mager, but for whatever reason i couldn't. nerves got the better of me i suppose. i also wanted to see jessie, but i felt uncomfortable bringing heather along with me because she doesn't know her or mager and i didn't want her to feel bored or whatever. i can't really exlain it.
anway, they finally got in and we got in the car and started to head downtown. i was so proud of myself because i do not take or give directions well and none of us knew where we were going so i just drove until i saw signs that lead us right into downtown. and i found my way to where we needed to go and how to get back to the 101 from fishermans wharf. i was going to bet money that i would have gotten lost, but oh well. i have no sense of direction and unless i have a mapquest page printed out right in front of my face, then i know i am going to get lost at some point. but, i didnt! yay! kudos to me.
we got back at about 10 or so. actually, i didnt get home until 11 because i needed to drop roland off at his house, then take megaroo and heather back home to their house. megaroo gave me some sweet ass wine fron france!! like actual french wine! hell yeah! so i am going to dip into that tonight. and i have more wine that was bought last weekend... no no no. someone at gary's work brought back some wine from a wonery when doing coffee for them so i can get into that tonight as well. or save it for another night. whoa, what a dilemma. which wine should i get into first?? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
work is extremely hot and tiring right now. i have busted my ass trying to catch up these past 2 weeks that i have been "on vacation" (as everyone thinks i was) and it has been a monster. i had, get this, 400 emails to catch up on! thats an average of about 28 emails a day! crazy stuff huh?? so i need to finish with those and all of the phone messages. 22 of them. which is not bad, but having to weed through all the hangs ups and wrong numbers was annoying. i ended up with only 10 that i actually had to take care of. OMG get this! so i come into the office today and jenni (my receptionist) asked me if i knew about an infestation that was going on by tom's desk and i told her no. i had no idea what she was talking about and i was too busy playing catch up to even consider looking. after i got back from lunch, i had a few minutes of down time and decided to investigate the situation. HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!! there were hundreds of these little winged insects and some w/o wings crawling around on the carpet and up in the window cill and near the baseboards. so i went online and googles small bodied, long winged insects and went through several images until i found one that looked identical. termites. it turns out, these things come out near the end of spring and during summer to mate. yes, thats right... to GET IT ON right in the middle of the office carpet! so... that means that in the next couple of days, they are going to be breeding like mad crazy. TGIF is all i have to say about that. luckily our company specializes in dry rot and pest control so he is going to poison the hell outta these buggers and hopefully rid of the problem before we return to work on tuesday. OMG it is a three day weekend. freak yeah!
i have so many things to do this weekend. i need to dig out my dead and dying pansies/marigolds/celosias and make a trench to blend potting soil and sand that way when i plant new ones they might actually live. the dirt i have in my back yard in clay so they didnt like it too much. i either didnt water them enough or too much because of the way the clay retains (and sometimes lack there of) water. i am also going to convince my better, no; other half to get something to put in the corner of the yard that is bare.
my tomato plants in the front are doing very well. we already picked the carrots and, although they look extremely disfunctional, they are full of flavor. the tomato that i picked was very sweet and fully ripe so that was nice. i have another tomato plant growing in the back yard. i took a lot of picks of the garden as it started to grow, but have lazily decided to not put them up on flickr yet. most of it has to do with the fact that my camera broke so i sent it in to get fixed. it took them forever and finally i had to call to see what was up with that and they said they would just send me a new one. the part(s) that they had to replace were on parts backorder and weren't sure when they were going to get them in. i just got my camera back the other day so i promise this weekend i will post them on flickr.
i think in the last post i said i was trying to lose weight. well, task and goal accomplished! i have lost about 15lbs. i did lose more, but was very depressed for a couple weeks and gained about 7 back, but have been busting my ass to try and lose more. i need to get that 7 back off and lose an additional 5 and i will be all gravy!!! actually, i wont be gravy; i'll be skinnier! lol. dork. anyway, hellie and i hope to start a yoga class soon and then get in to take some spinning classes. we'll see. i took a spinning class once and that KICKED MY ASS!!!! but it did get my booty in shape. until i had bryanna.
awwwww, i miss that little girl! i spoke with her a few hours ago and she was with her dad at the bowling alley bowling a 72! crazy. bumper bowling, of course, but a 72 none-the-less. she is doing very well in school and is excited about first grade. she actually went to homework club on her own! good girl. i wish she would come back already. i'll se her during xmas, though. thank God for holidays!
alrighty, time to get back to work. i will try and keep my blog more updated. i need to add more 14,000 things to be happy about postings. i have the book still.
have a wonderful three day weekend!