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Well we had a really good Halloween and Halloween Eve! I think it was the best one I’ve ever had. It was just fun.

Last night we went to get pumpkins. We tried to find those special pumpkin carving knives but everywhere we went they were sold out. So we went out to eat to a yummy dinner, came home and carved our pumpkins the old fashion way. I think it was the first time my kids and I have all sat down and carved pumpkins. I also think it had a lot to do with Jeremy. He loves Halloween and he gets all into the pumpkin carving. Which makes it fun having an adult who is having fun with it too. If that makes any sort of sense. We all had fun. Even if it was like 50 degrees outside.

Tonight we got home relaxed for a bit. Then I had to repair Shelly’s costume. She had torn all the tulle underneath when she tried it on the first night we got it. Jeremy went and got us Del Taco. Then the kids got all dressed and Jeremy doused Chase with fake blood. Chase was Jason & Sheldyn was a cute little witch!

We went out for an hour, and the kids were done. They got a lot of candy though. Actually Sheldyn had to pee on the last stretch and even pee’d a little in her costume. Ha! Poor thing. Plus it was cold, cold, cold tonight! I think in the high 40s!!!

Good times!

 

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So Universal sucked. Deep down I knew it would. I had this vision of what it would be like, and it seemed really scary. It seemed wonderful. Then you get there and there is all this red tape, and lines and bullshit. It blew.

The best part was Freddy Kruger. I was SO scared of him.

Then Nick Carter, his brother Aaron Carter and I think a sister or two were in front of us at the Insane Asylum. At the end, they were fucking gay! Nick was talking like some obnoxious white black guy…at the exit of the maze, only still inside. The whole group was all loud and annoying. I can see why he’s famous. He’s an attention getter. The maze sucked ass, so I don’t know what he was all hyped up about or why he felt the need to reiterate the maze to everyone exiting it. Go stand in the front if you want someone to give a fuck. Just get out of my way wigger boy!

So 2 days ago, on my lunch break I go to Walgreens down the street from where I work. I needed more tampons. So I go there, and I’m at the register paying, and I notice a really tall black guy get behind me. I walked out to my car, which was in front and saw him walk out. I did this super fast double take at him, because he looked familiar. When I did that he got this weird look on his face. Then I was like (to myself) “He’s famous!!!! I know he sings. He’s not R.Kelly but a singer like that. Then I was thinking well maybe he’s not anyone at all, and just looks like someone famous!” Then I thought “Well let’s see what car he gets into, because if he gets in some old beat up car he’s nobody obviously with money…but he if gets in a nice car…he has to be famous.” So he walked to a brand spankin’ new Range Rover. So by the time I got back to work I figured out his name, but wasn’t sure if I made it up or not. I searched google and I was right. It was Brian McKnight. Now don’t tell me how on earth I knew his name, cuz I have no freaking idea. Does it matter though? Now I’m his biggest fan! HaHaHaHa! Not!

Okay, I think I am a bitch. I am not a very nice person unless I know you and even then if I am comfortable with you, I can be a bigger bitch. I mean I can put on a front and be all smily and lame and make you think I am a nice quiet chick. Like work front or I’m in front of Jeremy’s family front.

Anyway, I have a lousy 30 minutes for lunch. I usually go to a fastfood place…and smoke. Today I was planning on going to Wendy’s. So it is 2 minutes to lunch time, and I am at my desk. The owner of the company I work for is no younger then 75. His son is President or the company. The son is out of the country on vacation. The owner comes in like 3-4 days a week. I don’t think he does anything but sits in his office. I know how my Grandpa is though. I think when you get older, especially being a man…that it is hard to give up things. Lose your control over things. When his son is here, they all go out to lunch together.

So today I am getting ready to go to lunch and over walks the old man. Asking me where I go to lunch. I recall him having the old receptionist get him lunch my first week, when his son was out of town. I say I go to fast food off this street here. He asks me if I know where the old Italian Deli is and I say I don’t. As a matter of fact I don’t know where anything is but a couple fast food restuarants and how to get home. He walked away annoyed. I think he wanted me to go get him lunch…although I have no desire to go get him lunch. I don’t get paid enough to be personal assistant to the owner of the company. Hey if you want lunch, you can leave and get your own lunch. You could even drive to your big home in your Lexus…and take a nap if you want to. I have 30 minutes to myself.

So I had to call Jeremy and ask him if that was rude…but I’m think because I knew he would tell me no it wasn’t and wouldn’t do it either…but my boyfriend can be mean to people he doesn’t know too.

I mean I could have asked him where it is, and if he wanted something. I just never would. I don’t extend myself to people I don’t know. So I felt like an ass coming back to work. Oh well.

Is some little handsome love muffin’s birfday! I guess he turned 29 this year. That’s what he was telling me…although I could of sworn he turned 34 today. Hmmm.

For his birthday I already got him his present. We went shopping the past weekend for his gift. He didn’t want what  I was thinking of buying him…so I suggested a new stereo for his new car. He couldn’t find anything he liked within my budget. So he ran into a group of guys who he went paintballing with a couple weekends ago. So I suggested he get a gun…since he had to borrow. So he went with his friend on Sunday and got a gun. I also ordered him 2 Danzig shirts on the internet…but they have yet to arrive…even though I bought them Friday, and spend $8.25 on 2 day overnight…and even though they said they would ship on Monday…and now their website says it shipped Tuesday. Didn’t know 2 T-shirts took so long to throw in a fucking box…and mail. Glad I paid the extra shipping for it to get here oh at the same time regular shipping would have took. Sweet!

Anyway, he wants me to make him dinner tonight. Which is fine…but he told me this dinner he wants and it’s this mismatch weird things.

He wants Chicken. I asked how should I cook it?

HIM: Just bake it.

Then he wants stuffing. No stuffing with sausage.

ME: “So you want the stuffing my Mom makes for Thanksgiving?”

HIM: “Yeah!”

ME: “Well No! That took my Mom like 45 minutes just to prepare for the stuffing! This isn’t thanksgiving!”

HIM: “Kind of! It’s a day to be thankful I am alive & with you!”

HaHa!

Then he wants green bean casserole. I don’t know how to make that. Brown and Serve rolls. Homemade Mac & Cheese & a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and shave chocolate on the top.

I don’t even know why I really want to go home.

I know he’s getting the cake. He can have some stove top stuffing, some chicken, homemade mac & cheese & a cake.

Anyway…I love him and hope he has a happy birthday today.

Heard a phone ring so much you were almost ready to throw your body on the ground and cry & scream and carry on in such a manner that is totally inappropriate and reminiscent of a 2 year old? 

I want to right this very second. This fucking job SUCKS SO MUCH FUCKING ASS!!! 

How can the phone ring non-stop all day? I mean really. How is it when the entire office goes to lunch between 12-1, people still call and ask for sales reps. Hi, they are at lunch from 12-1…and you were more then likely told this AT LEAST last week if not this week. Make a fucking note of it…because I get sick of answering a phone when nobody is here to give it too. Also while your making fucking notes, let’s make a note of who your sales rep is like a grown up…so Mommy Stephanie doesn’t have to look it up for your goddamn annoying ass every single time you call. 

Guess who else I hate. I hate when I answer a call and say my speech…Good Morning/Afternoon…Company’s Name…then they say “Hello?” Yeah, Hey mutherfucker…I think I just said Good Morning and announced who you were calling. Then I say Hello back…then they do it back and at this point I really want to hurt them so I have to just say Who are you looking for while in my head I am beating them. 

Oh and wrong number callers…I hate answering this phone. So when I’m to the point of wanting to slit my wrists if I hear one more call…and then I get yours with your little giggle and whoops…sorry wrong number. I’m sorry I don’t live in happy go lucky giggle land where the clouds are made of cotton candy. I’m an angry bitch…and if I could I’d climb through the phone and beat your ass. 

Also calls that are faxes. Just what I wanted was to say my whole phone call opening speech…only to hear the high pitch beep in my ear. I guess at least I don’t have to hear an idiot on the other line not knowing who they need to talk to even though they call several times a week…and correspond through fax nearly daily. 

That really made me feel better. Pheeeeew! I’m really not that violent. Just when I’m pissed and talking. Okay? Okay.

I should go to bed right now! Take a shower and go to bed. I should. I won’t. Even though I was dead tired at work today. Yawning all day. About to fall asleep periodically during the day. I came home and crashed on the chair from 5:00-6:25 P.M.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. Since today was Columbus Day, we didn’t have nearly as many calls…but still alot non-the-less. We didn’t get our mail today either. Monday mail is atrocious! No less then 100 envelopes filled with either a check or an invoice then the numerous magazines and other shit. The rest of the week it’s probably close to like 50-75 of the same. Tomorrow I will have Monday & Tuesday mail to open. I can’t wait! I love passing it all out too.

Did you know I hate my job? I do. I know I am a receptionist, but I have NEVER worked where the phone rings NONSTOP all day long. All day long. It doesn’t stop. Sometimes you have 2-3 calls all at once. It makes me fucking pissed off. Seriously annoyed. I cuss to myself all day long. “Mutherfucker!!!!” “Oh my fucking GOD!!!!” “Oh my God, I am going to freak the fuck out!!!!”

Then there is the faxes. Part of my job is to fax 8 people’s faxes. This company works with faxes. People fax in forms for quotes. I have to stamp all the faxes with a received stamp when they come in. I have a stack waiting for me every morning. Then I have to sort them for 12 people. This goes on ALL DAY LONG. As soon as I am done passing out the morning faxes, there will be 4 more waiting for me when I get back. They don’t want me to let them sit and check them like every 15 minutes. I have to hand them out everytime one comes in. This is where I cuss to myself again! Then there is the basket with the faxes witht he quotes on them. I have to fax them all over the world. Japan, France U.K.. Those are a pain in the ass. Sometimes I type in the number and I go to send and the number disappears. I love when the sales reps hold onto the faxes and give me a pile of like 10. Why can’t they bring them up one by one like me?

Then after I fax them, I have to stamp the back with a dated FAXED stamp. Then I get to fold each one in half and put it in the file thing under each individuals names. Which I get to pass out at the end of the day.

Then there is the 100 or so invoices I get to fold into 1/3 and put in an envelope every single day. Then stamp and seal.

Then on occasion I get to make labels for people in the back. God forbid I have a printer near me. I get to get it ready to print…run to the printer. Put the label in…run back to my desk and push ok.

I’ve worked in Escrow. I’ve worked in Escrow when it was really busy, and being a receptionist for Escrow was never this annoying. Maybe because there was the idea one day I could move up and be an assistant. Maybe because I was given assistant work…and I felt like I wasn’t just a bottom of the barrel receptionist…but actually doing something productive, and helpful in the process of getting Escrow’s started…and there was always the new tasks I would be trained to do.

I guess I hate the idea that I am doing this for what you know? I will never work up to something else better paying. Most people at this company have been there from 18-26 years.

Plus in Escrow I was paid $1 more an hour. The only thing that keeps me going is I can wear jeans & converse every single day…and even though I only get a 30 minute lunch…I get out at 4:30 everyday. So that is sweet. Whatever though I get paid a check every week. I gues that is all that matters. I mean who cares if I want to commit murder or suicide every day. Ha! 

I got my tickets today for Halloween Horror Nights! Bought Jeremy’s & mine…and bought Angie’s with her CC. Printed them out and they are here at home. Jeremy’s fried and his wife are supposed to go. Although the wife is 5 months pregnant. When Jeremy told me they were going, I questioned her going. “She’s going pregnant!?” I don’t know why? I guess when I was pregnant I just sat at home and didn’t do anything except I went to a Wild Child show once when I was pregnant with Sheldyn…and I didn’t have that great of a time, because I was huge.

So I guess tonight Jeremy talked to his friend and his wife is worried about going. From what I got she’s worried about her being scared if it will affect the baby. I mean I’m sure it will raise her blood pressure a little…but I don’t think it would harm the baby. I would be more worried about getting freaked out and running and falling or someone else running into me or something. So I don’t think they are going to go. I wish we had more people to go. I wish my brother would go, dammit!

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So Jeremy got a new car last week! Kind of exciting for him. I was excited for him! I think last Monday he went to look for the HHR he wanted. He wanted a black one. So he went and put down a deposit for one. On the way home from the dealership…his truck crapped out on him! What luck huh? He has a Silverado that has 197,000 miles on it. He drives alot for his job. It must have been pissed at him.

So on Wednesday when his black HHR was supposed to come in, it didn’t. So he got a call from another dealership saying they had one. So he went with his Dad to Hollywood and the black one had been sold. So he got the gray one.

He was originally going to get a Scion, but changed to the HHR. I think they are much cooler looking, and plus the front seat fold down for his equipment.

We’ve been driving it around all weekend, and it’s so nice! I’m so glad he’s got a nice car to drive around especially since all 4 of us can fit inside it.

He doesn’t like anyone telling him he has a cute car though. LOL!

So I’ve been looking around for places that Jeremy and I can go for the Halloween Season. You know haunted scary things. Year before last we went to Knott’s Scary Farm. Wasn’t so much fun. There was one good maze that was scary at the begining of the night. The rest litrally was disappointing and annoying. It was nothing like I remember it to be when I was a kid and also that time when I went there with Angie, Damon & Chuck on acid. Good times! It was pretty dumb. Good for kids, dumb for adults.

So I was pretty certain we were going to go to the Queen Mary – Ship Wrecked next Friday. It looked pretty cool. Plus, I wanted a package and to stay on the boat. I hadn’t done that since I was about 9. That boat’s haunted you know!

Then  I was listening to KROQ on the internet and heard about Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios!!! I went to check it out. Well, my god does that not sound terrifyingly fun???

Here’s a little description:

“For the first time ever, step onto the famous Universal Studios backlot at night and come face-to-face with unimaginable horrors. Don’t get lost or left behind because the Director, a sociopath with an eye for gore and a taste for reality, is loose and looking to cast his next film—and you just might be chosen as his next star.
There’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide as the entire park is transformed into L.A.’s most terrifying experience that you simply won’t want to miss.
Straight out of the Director’s sick mind you’ll find yourself in the middle of a living horror film filled with haunted walk-through attractions, roaming scare-actors, nightmare-inducing rides, shows and attractions, plus unforgettable live music and high-energy dance performances by “The Mutaytor.””

I can’t wait!!! Plus it is Friday the 13th!!!!