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I’ve been thinking about it for a few days now and I’ve decided to move this blog to blogger.com. 3 times now I have been posting almost every day and having it not show up because I forget to change the publishing status. Since I really hate feeling stupid I’m moving this to a place where that wont happen again.

You all see the wordpress publish section…

That dropdown defaults to unpublished and unless I change it to published, it doesnt matter which button I click on.  It’s saved as a draft unless I change that dropdown to PUBLISHED.   Thats how I keep screwing up! 

On Blogger.com there is none of that dropdown business. 

The publish button is a big blue button right underneath where you type. No more screwups from me!!

So here’s the new address… http://in-here-somewhere.blogspot.com/

I hate the template. I’m still looking for something jazzy.

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I really wish these blogs had an option to set the publish status to immediately instead of it defaulting to unplublished.   I’ve been posting all week but stupid me forgot to change the status again. 

Sorry!! 

 I made the BEST dinner last night.  I’ve been trying to calculate the calories in this salad but cant find a way to do it.  I’ve been craving macaroni salad but cant justify the mayonnaise in my head.  There are so many calories in mayo and I dont think the fat free stuff has any taste.  So here’s what I did.  Keep in mind that I’m feeding teenagers so I had to make a lot.

2 boxes of Ronzoni Rigatoni (the regular kind,  the whole wheat pasta was more expensive and I couldnt afford it)

1 pint of cherry tomatoes (sliced in half)

2 green peppers (chopped)

1 bottle of Kens Lite Creamy Caesar dressing. 

Mix all of that up and put it in the fridge to get cold.

Then I took 1 pound of boneless chicken breasts. Sliced each breast in half (to make the chicken thinner) and marinated it in 1/2 cup of fat free italian dressing for about an hour.  I cooked the chicken outside on the bbq grill, chopped it into chunks and mixed it into my pasta salad.  THE KIDS LOVED IT!  I cant imagine it having too many calories but  OMG it was even better today for lunch. 

My mother and her friend stopped by last night.  Her friend has lost over 80 pounds.  I should have been inspired by this.  Instead I was sad.  She looks horrible.  Her skin is sagging everywhere.  Folds and folds of it,  her cheeks are hanging down almost into her neck, her arms and legs are so droopy and wrinkled you can barely make out her knees and ankles.  I can only imagine her midsection.  I found myself wondering which looks worse.  To be fat and overweight or to have all of that skin hanging from your body.   I know that’s wrong but I couldnt help thinking it and I’m probably going straight to hell for not being able to stop thinking about it. 

Am I wrong for being afraid of it?  I mean, is this a real concern for people? 

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The recruiter called me today.  I was supposed to start work on Monday but they’re changing it to Wednesday.  The IT manager wants to be there on my first day and he’ll be out of the office Monday and Tuesday.  That’s fine by me.  More time to be lazy

My drug tests results came back.  My “sample was too watered down for any type of definitave result” so I have to go back and take another one.   Watered down?   They make it sound like I turned on the sink to fill the cup.   This place that I went to…  they didnt even have a sink in the room they sent me into and they had one of those toilets that only use water to flush.  How could they think I’d cheat?  Well, in fairness, they didnt actually SAY they thought I cheated but I dont know what else could be implied.  I woke up at my normal time.  I’d only drank 3 cups of coffee and half a glass of iced tea all day, and the test wasnt until 1:00!  Thats 5 hours!  How could this sample be watered down?  Anyway,  I have to go back on Tuesday and take another one.  This time I’ve been advised to not drink anything all day.  It’s just more bullshit.

Speaking of bullshit.   I got another email from those background checkers.  This time they want (and I’m pasting the actual text here so I dont misquote them)

Now.  2 things wrong with this request.  First, they want pay stubs from the day I was hired and another one from my last day of employment.  Who keeps paystubs for that long?  We’re talking 2003 here.  I dont have paystubs from 2003!   The other thing wrong with this request is this…  they KNOW the company filed for bankruptcy and closed their doors.  Exactly who do they want to hear from?  Nobody works there anymore!!  I offered to give them names and numbers of people who worked there when I did but they dont want that.  They’re insisting on speaking to someone who still works there to testify that I used to work there.  Arent my tax records and W2’s enough??  

What kind of Mickey Mouse operation are they running over there anyway?  All they’ve done on their own is a credit check.  A credit check that wasnt authorized by the way!  Everything else they’ve needed to check on is being supplied by me.  Exactly what are they getting paid for? 

I cannot believe that I have to go through so much shit for a temp job. 

Toyota called.  They’ve finally gotten permission from the extended waranty department to replace my transmission.  They’re ordering a new trans today and hope to have my car fixed in the next few days.  NEXT FEW DAYS?!!?  If they ordered the trans today,  they MIGHT have it in by Monday (probably Tuesday).  Then a day or 2 to put it in.  I have to start work on Wednesday at a job 33 miles away at 25 cents a mile.  Not to mention the 35 a day they’re charging me just to have the car. I’ve already had the car for 3 days and now including the weekend I’m looking at at least 4 or 5 more days until I get mine back.  OK, the trans and labor are covered under the waranty so I wont have to pay for that.  But where am I getting the money for this other stuff? 

I need a drink

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My son has eaten almost 2 gallons of cherry lemon ice since yesterday.  I’m also shoving milk shakes down his throat.  I know the milk causes more mucus but he needs something to coat his stomach so these pain pills dont make him puke.  Thats all he needs!   He’s still in major pain.  The pain pills arent working for him at all.  I feel so bad for him.  I wish I could make all of it go away.

I get an email this morning from the company doing my background check.  They need a copy of my GED.  Well I dont have a copy of my GED so they give me the phone number of some state office to get a copy of the transcript.   I called that office all day and got no answer.   I was looking through some old folders hoping to find that stupid piece of paper and came across my HS diploma.   I called these background checking people and told them that I would fax them that instead.  Well…  that isnt good enough.  I have a strange history with GED and diplomas.  When I was 17 and a half I got married.  I couldnt stand my mothers husband.  He was bigoted and abusive.  This is the guy who bought my underwear for Christmas one year but wouldnt let me keep it unless I put it on in front of him.  Yeah… keep your shit mister.  You’re a creep!  He never did anything but boy did he try.  I so desperately needed to get away from him that I conned my father into signing the consent form (he was in the hospital and highly medicated) and I got married.   Well, the school board here in my town (and maybe others, I dont know) said that I couldnt be married and still be a high school student so they made me quit.  It was either quit or be expelled.  I thought quitting would look better on my resume than getting thrown out…  17 year old logic.  What can I say.  That was October 1982.  In August of 83 I took my GED and passed it.  In 1984 I decided to join the US Air Force.  Well back then (again, I dont know about now) a GED was good enough for a man to enlist but a woman needed a diploma.  The Air Force sent me to an adult learning program at a local high school and I got my HS diploma.  So I have both. 

SO, back on track.  I called these background checkers and told them that I would fax them my HS diploma.  The told me that a check of my background shows that I have a GED therefore I need to show it to them.  As far as I am concerned, the HS diploma trumps the GED so they should be happy with that.  I had to get a supervisor on the phone and argue with him for 20 mintues before they finally decided to accept what I had.  The guy on the other end of the phone told me they are going to use the GED as proof of identy, not proof of a diploma.  They already have copies of my drivers license with my picture on it, they have my social security number,  they have proof of address.  How much more proof of identy do they need? Besides, If I had to wait for a state office to call me back I’d never start this job. 

So anyway…  thats done.  Drug test is done.  More and more I’m finding myself hoping this job goes past 6 months to permanent. 

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#1 son is sooo sick :(   He woke up yesterday with a sore throat.  We went and got him some cloraseptic throat spray (yes…  I know I spelled that wrong :p)  but it didnt help.  By the end of the night he couldnt swallow at all.  I have never seen him in so much pain.  My son HATES doctors.  He thinks they’re all in it for the money and dont give a shit if they make you better or not.  In fact, he thinks they like to keep you sick so they can make MORE money.  Today he begged me to make him a doctors appointment.  He doesnt have any insurance so I called my doctor hoping they’d give him some kind of break on the office visit and he did.  All the way over there he is writing me notes saying how he hates my doctor and how he cant believe that I called the doctor who broke me hoping to fix him.   It’s an argument we’ve had for years…  I just go with it.  His tonsils are so swollen and infected that his throat is almost completely closed up.  If he’s not better by Friday I have to bring him back.  He gave him antibiotics and pain pills.  Well!  My son exploded!  How does he think I’m supposed to swallow these things!  I cant even drink water and he wants me to swallow these huge pills!  SEE!!  I told you it was a waste of time!  Why do I have to go back?  If he did his job in the first place there’d be no need to go back!  SEE!!  He just wants to make more money!  Good Grief that boy makes me crazy. 

OK so I’m on my way for my drug test.  The car was hesitating a little bit on the way there but I thought it was just bad gas.  I I made it to the testing place and started to make a K turn to park on the other side of the street.  I put the car in reverse.  No go.  I put the car back in drive.  No go.  It went just like that.   Fine one second.  Broke the next.   My car is a 2005 so it’s still under waranty.  I called Toyota’s roadside assistance.  Wow was I impressed!  They had a tow truck there in 15 minutes.   I had called my son before I called Toyota and as sick as he was, he came out to help me.  My son drove me to the dealership where the tow truck dropped my car.  They think it’s the selenoid.  I dont know what that means but they said it’d take a few days to fix and gave me what I thought was a loaner car.  By this time, all I could think about was getting my sick son home so I signed where they told me to sign and we left.  I get home and look at the loaner paperwork.  It’s not a loan.  It’s a rental.  I get 100 miles free then 25 cents each additional mile AND 34.95 per day rental fee.   I’m supposed to afford this how?

Hopefully it wont take too long to fix. 

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Mini-reunion went ok.  My son showed up so that was fun.   He’s almost 22 and we hadnt been out for a drink before.  It’s not something that I plan to make a habit of, but it was still fun. 

I’m supposed to start my new job next Monday.  That gives me a week to lay around and be lazy.  You want to know what’s really sick and twisted?  I’ve spent all of these months praying for a job and now that I have one I dont want it.  I got used to sleeping until 10 and now I have to be a grown up again and give that up.  Isnt that crazy?  lol

They ran a credit check even tho I was told they wouldnt.  My credit sucks but nobody said anything about it yet.  Still waiting on the results of the background check.  I got my new hire paperwork today.   I’m scheduled for a drug test on Wednesday.  I have intentionally NOT taken any pain medicine just to be sure I’ll pass.  I know that I have prescriptions for these pills and legally they cant say anything about it but still, it’s a road I’d rather not drive on.   There are so many ways to skirt around the legalitys it’s scarey.  This is a pharmacutical company…  they have super strict rules and I dont want to push it.  So I sit and suffer. 

I had zero appetite today.  I know you have to eat to lose weight but no matter how hard I tried I just cant seem to want to pick up a fork.  Unless it’s a forkful of cheesecake..  thats a horse of a completely different color

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