Six Word Saturday

Without further ado...

I rocked out to Smooth Criminal

On my way home from work (29 days straight now) a local station played Alien Ant Farm's version, I was very touched by that, and I rocked out to it way more than I normally do. Also at work, a simulcast of a different track's races, they showed pictures of horses that won that evening to "I'll Be There". He was called the king of pop for a reason, and he will be missed.

Michael Jackson & Farah Faucett

Both of their deaths are sad things to hear about. I thought MJ was my generations Elvis, & while I wasn't a huge fan of his music, Thriller, Smooth Criminal, & Billy Jean r good songs. Alien Ant Farm, Chris Cornell & David Cook did a great job on the remakes. While Michael's was sudden, Farah's has been coming. Now she is no longer suffering. May both RIP.

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WTF

Incase anyone was wondering why I haven't been on the internet much in the last few days, early Sunday morning while at work, my phone decided to quit working right. Living in the middle of the fucking bible belt, no place was open that could help me out. Monday morning when one finally opened, the phone could not be repaired. The tech used the term DOA. I asked him about this blackberry that a girl from warriors gave Vx before she deployed (they do have different MOS's) he said yes, so today I took the Blackberry to the store to get it turned on, they said it couldn't be turned on since it was purchased and used by a different cell phone company. My options are to either file an insurance claim and get another Razr (my third) for $50, buy a used phone for $80, I also asked about their Blackberry's, one model was $150, the other's $180. The Razr's are the 5th and 6th cell phones that I've actually owned, all my other phones cost a penny and the Razr's were $50 each (first one was a Christmas present f/my mom, and the second was through the insurance).

There's other shit that has NOT worked out these last few days/weeks/whatever. It seems like nothing ever works out for me! It never fucking does!!! I must go to bed now, after all I do have to work every single night since no one can cover for me.

Thursday: Funny Pet Moments

Does this remind anyone else of the Simpson's? Homer made Bart a similar looking bed when he was really young and it scared him. Picture from this awesome site.

Naptime: not just for kids, shhh

I haven't been sleeping really well lately, and today my body said "Enough!" While at work, I got a headache, took some tylenol and fell asleep in the golf cart for a few minutes (shhh!!!). It was uncomfortable, but those few minutes helped my headache and to stay awake til I got home. I had already decided when I got home instead of fooling around on the computer, cell, etc. that I would just make tomorrow's lunch and go to bed. When I got home I put my stuff down, went into the bedroom where Vx was still sleeping (BTW, he returned a few nights ago, yay!), P joined us, attacked his feet and I ended up sleeping til he left. I finally decided to get up and do what I needed to do, so I did that.

It's been a while since I wrote anything that's been posted, and I hadn't done my scheduled Thursday post, so I just finished Thursday's and here I am letting all of you (2) readers know I'm still here and alive. I have internet at work thru my cell phone (shhh!!!) but it's real slow (dial up) and I can only get on for about 30 minutes at a time (stupid job getting in the way!), I've got some things set up so I can send text posts but since they have to be so short, I have them saved automatically to drafts and then later I can edit them to make sense and get into more details. I also have to deal w/battery issues for the laptop and cell, which also puts a damper on my fun. It's tricky to find plug-ins that will work right, and most of them are in weird spots (up high, in bathrooms, behind an ATM machine, by concession stands, etc). I also can't really do anything too complicated, I need to be able to respond to something in a hurry (loose horse, intruders, etc.). Yeah, it's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it (lmao).

Six Word Saturday

I can't get the button to show up on here, so here's a link to the blog I get this from: call me cate

I'm glad this week is over!

Thursday: Funny Pet Moments

This picture reminded me of a horse I saw once at ES that also looked like a cow. Funny pet pictures from this site. 

Bad 24 hours

It started when I got to work Tuesday night, apparently emergency personnel have a crush on me or something. The police were on a manhunt around the ES/FMT area. In a nearby building, the cleaning crew was there, the supervisor (TW) came over to me and told me about it, where he was and to make sure I knew his phone number. It's like he's said several times before, w/so few of us around at night, we need to watch each other's backs. I'm glad he's watching mine, he's the sweetest man I know, and having a daughter my age probably comes into play as well. Once that was over, the rest of my shift was uneventful.

After I got off work, I took my car to my mechanic to check out the problems the dealership had found. The dealership wasn't bsing w/me, my brakes & tires were worn out, some brake pads were rubbing metal to metal, others were very close to the same, and the tires had no treads on them. So my federal tax return covered most of the bill, and my last two paychecks covered the rest. I won't get into the trouble I had covering the bill, my mechanic knows me and my mom real well, so that part is not a concern. Part of it is the bank is closing down the branch Vx and I use, and since Vx can't seem to find our marriage licenses, we more or less have separate accounts right now. His name's on the new ones and my maiden name is still on the old one. If anyone else reading this uses Bank of America Military Branch, it's closing, so you'll need to transfer to the regular bank, and I think there still doing some of the extra's as well. When I finally got home, I was really tired, and emotionally not in a good place (don't know how else to put it). I just hated everything!

While sleeping, I heard a knock and someone yell "Maintenance!" but since one neighbor's door is right above mine and the another's is next to the wall I sleep against, I just assumed it was for one of them. Then I heard my door being unlocked, a man walked in, said "hi kitty", made some noise, left, repeat everything again, and that was it. I texted mom and Vx to see if they knew anything, neither did, checked on the kitty, she seemed ok, didn't see anything obviously out of place or missing. Some pipes run behind mom's closet, so if there was a problem, they may have needed to get in there to do something.

I finally got to sleep again, but I either didn't hear my alarms go off or both of them didn't, so I woke up about the time I was supposed to be leaving for work, so I got up, got dressed, checked on kitty, and left. I stopped at a drive-thru on the way here for "breakfast" and I clocked in about 15 minutes late, but like I've said before, not a big deal at my post.

Vx called on my way to work, apparently I was supposed to come w/him for 3 days, tonight was an FRG meeting. He said everything they talked about was stuff he's already talked to me about, if I have any problems, I can speak to the FRG leader for warriors, and in terms of car trouble or if we live in a house and a pipe causes problems, call his aunt and she'll either send her husband on the wrecker or one of her son's to fix the pipes.

I swear my life's not always this exciting! I already have my six words for Saturday, can you guess what they are?

Vx cause for drinking problem? Fire dept. bs

I kinda found this funny: Congressmen Sullivan checks into Betty Ford for drinking problem. I don't find alcoholism funny, I saw some of the struggles Buddy went through w/his, the part I found funny is this is the congressman that Vx and Boston visited w/about their missing pay. I joked w/Vx via text that he caused his drinking problem.

I showed up to work a few minutes late, not a big deal here, the reason for it kinda bugs me though. A firetruck was responding to a 911 call at my apt. complex. There wasn't a fire that I'm aware of, they were just there first, and parked right behind my car. Then the ambulance showed up, they weren't acting like it was life threatening, they walked to the apt. then walked back w/I assume someone on a stretcher (saw the stretcher, not the patient), visited for a little bit, then the fire truck moved around so the ambulance could leave, the fire truck pulled up to a near by area, and I left for work behind the ambulance. We pay a little extra on our water bill every month for free ambulance service, so it was probably someone called them so they wouldn't have to drive to a hospital or something. We'll see if they have the same trouble that I had after my wreck (kept getting bills for the ambulance ride, manager finally sent the co. a letter and they quit). I understand responding and not always knowing if it's serious or not, better safe than be sorry later on, it's something that occurs at my job, if a jockey or rider gets thrown f/their horse, if they can't walk away ok, 911 is called, that is also why at the track, no one rides on it unless medical personnel are there. I've also escorted crews into areas, I took firefighters into an arena at ES once for a woman who ended up having back surgery because of her injuries, I've also rode on the gator yelling at people to move so the ambulance could get to the track. What bugged me is the fire department always responds even if they're not needed, and they are more in the way than the ambulance, happens at my job as well. They get to the scene quicker and even though the ambulance is there, they still hang out sometimes after the ambulance leaves. I do feel sorry for them when they have to respond to messed up fire alarms, especially volunteer dept.'s like my home town's was, the school I went to had fire alarms that would go off because the air filters needed to be changed, and everybody would have to wait outside until the volunteers showed up (which if they work in a further away town would take a while) to check everything out. My mom's current job, the alarms were messed up horribly. Some nights the fire department would show up 3 times in 13 hours for false alarms, while there's a station real close to her job, she couldn't tell them it was a false alarm until they were already there, and they would still do the walk around to give the rookies something to do. At my job, the alarms in the simulcast building of FMT seem to be from the same company. Last summer, that same thing happened a few times. There's other aspects of my job that would be easier if it wasn't for the fire marshall, but I won't go into those issues.

Vx may be staying at Salsa longer, guess they want him there til the middle of the month, he told them he had to be back at work sooner than that, he's only supposed to be there til early next week, so we'll see. He's still there, so they're doing better this time, and I think he's been speaking to some people about the bs he's went through because of them.

What excitement and tons of horse terminology

Exciting night! After Vx and I came home f/a restaurant, we were out in the parking lot putting our new tags on our vehicles (nothing special, the state just changed them). When we were working on his(it's tougher to change than mine), we saw a car chase through our apartment parking lot! The driver wasn't going terribly fast, but faster than you should in a parking lot w/dips and speed bumps. Everyone came out of their apt's, kids rode their bikes into the neighborhood behind us (where the suspect went), the police chopper flew over us several times, in the six years I've lived here, there's never been this much excitement EVER! If that wasn't enough, when I got to work, a nearby baseball field was shooting off fireworks! I went down to the apron and watched all the pretty colors.

For the non-horse racing people, wikipedia defines An apron of a racetrack is the part going around the track below the yellow line. In more simpler terms, it's this paved area where you can stand next to the track to see the races real close, the winner's circle is also located there. At FMT, there's also areas there where you can place bets, food and drink concessions (w/ or w/o alcohol), a few chairs, plants, and simulcast of those races and maybe a few others as well. FMT cordinates w/this baseball field so races aren't being ran while the fireworks are going off. For people who don't know this, most horses are easily spooked, especially horses that are pumped w/vitamins *coughdrugscough* which in turn can injure or kill the jockey riding them. Some have been trained so things don't bother them (Budweiser Clydesdales are a great example), many (like Bud's horses) also wear blinkers (also known as blinders or "winkers," used to restrict the horse's vision). Wow! I have learned more than I realised from ES and FMT, if only I knew more about the other events I've worked at (how to speak Spanish, guns, cars, home and garden, etc.). Ok, no more information overload, I need to finish some things up and go to bed, goodnight/day y'all!