In the month of December, one would find him or herself looking at how much they actually spend. On themselves and on others. Take a look at me. I’ve spent quite a few pennies on my loved ones. I’m glad that I’ve done that because I feel so horrible about last year. Last year I couldn’t even afford to send out a christmas card. This year however is much diffrent. I feel good about what I’ve purchased and hopefully my sister, family and all will enjoy my gifts After christmas I’ll share what I got.

One thing I found incredibly odd was this. I was shopping like the crazy kid I am looking for those perfect gifts. What to get someone who you havn’t seen in a year or two except on and off sparatically? Money? Gift Cards?

Ok … so lets talk about this. A gift card limits where the person can shop, basically saying you know what I have no clue as to what you want but I can limit it to this store! Money … money is awesome because well .. money can get you anything however it says look, I’m to lazy to pick out a gift. You see the odd thing is I don’t have the heart to give money to anybody because I dont’ want to be lazy HOWEVER a giftcard or money for christmas as a gift would be probably the best thing anybody could do! I dont’ know. Moral of the story is I don’t mind recieving gift cards or money, I just have a complex about sending them to people…. grrr … decisions.

So anyways … this week is going to stink, horrendously. Why you ask? 13 days straight at work and of course mandatory overtime. Why again you ask? Because I’m being forced to go into a diffrent department at work. Instead of talking to stupid people that do not know how to turn on their tv’s, I know get to listen to disgruntled customers complain to me whenever they want to disconnect their services. The company claims it’s a promotion however get this. No raise, no respect and more work. does happy dance so yea .. I’m not that happy of a camper right now. However whenever I finish all the training they they have to provide I would have at least 10,000 with new hire and this proquest training under my belt. That is a good feeling. Also they tried to say that "out of the entire working staff we only chose 200". That figure is bogus! Anywho … they tell me to feel special because they only picked 200, and off of my team it was me and like one or two others. Feel special? Basically I feel like I’ve been slapped in the face but nothing I can do. That is corporate america for you.

I’m so tired and stressed right now. Mostly becuase I’m envious. Why? I see people quitting there all the time. Not becuase they found other jobs … but because they don’t have to. Kids driving BMW’S to school, other kids having their stuff hand fed to them basically. I know one guy that he gets money every two weeks from his parents/grandparents and on top of that doesn’t have to pay for rent/food/gas/insurance school or anything. He just quit echostar. That would be so nice … but then I’d be living in a perfect world but we are living in a material world, and I am a material girl … errr … or boy. sighs I’m just really burnt out. Working full time and school really does have me warped. I am doing good which is awesome news to report. As each day passes I grow closer and closer to getting my associates. On top of that, the 17th is my last day of class for a week or two. I’m so excited to get this term done and over with. So boring .. every day just seems to get longer and longer. My classes are boring. One is to help me get a position called career development. I had a mock interview yesterday. I aced it. I was pretty nervous. She told us she was going to have someone in the room in our field to monitor us, and on top of that a movie camera to tape us so that way we could see what we do when we are nervous. Never happened. Me her and some questions. Bada Bing Bada BOOM BABY!

Well I should be off now(working on a new ozweegoville ) hehe … this will be the final version for a while. YOu all would be so proud of me if you can only see what I’ve been accomplishing since we’ve last met up … Until then all take care and have a happy holidays if I don’t speak to you soon(which I will for sure) but if not…

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
theMayor

Yes, horrible is the correct word. That’s the way I’m feeling right now. I feel so incredibly sick right now. I had a pretty high tempature last night, my windpipe shriveled up to nothing and of course my nose is stuffed like nobody’s buisness. Hehe … ok, so I’m making it out to be far worse then it really is. It doesn’t help I’m still sore from raquetball! Ouch … anywho .. I so do not want to go to work today. I’m so tired! Well I should be off .. hopefully I’ll come back with good news(more on this in a bit).

LaterZ,
The Mayor

So yea .. I’m watching a show on the science channel that is somewhat similar to the movie bio-dome. Basically the goal of the program is to show that plants along with recycling of everything produced can be used for the colinization of the moon. Using human urine as drinking water and human #2′s, when burned produces carbon dioxide(for the plants) and also some sort of powder that they said can be turned into flour for bread etc … yuck. I dont’ want anything to do with populating the moon until they devise a star trek system where everything doesn’t have to be "recycled". Ugh .. the thought just scares me.

-sighs- so yea … today is my day to go back to work. I’m excited can you tell? I really dont’ want to go but I have to. I’m so incredibly tired. Last night I had to deciede between sleep or homework. Homework … so yea … I am somewhat tired. But there is so much else that I have … want rather, to do. I’m not entirely sure what I will do tonight but we’ll just have to see.

Everything is going excellent right now. School is incredibly difficult but managable(except tons of homework) as for me and Jo. We are still doing very well. As for the movies … the movies have slowed down. I havn’t seen any good movies yet? Has anybody seen any good movies latley? I was just curious because I’m bored right now. Somewhat rambling … maybe I should just be quiet and work on my message board no? Anywho … wish me luck and a quick day so that way I can at least think about sleeping. Night .. err … good day all.

Mayor of OzweegoVille

So yea … yesterday mandatory overtime was … well it stunk. Yesterday was supposidly the buisiest day of the year so they made everybody work which didn’t make me feel so incredibly bad and hey, for $22 bucks an hour I survived. However 4 hours smack dab in the middle of my day somewhat wasted my day off. I’m ok with that I suppose. So anyways … what shall I do today? I was thinking of calling my parents as well as my sister. See how everything went. They went to see probably one of, if not the best comedians ever which is Rodney Carrington. We’ve also seen Bill Engval who is pretty funny life but I really wanted to go home for Thanksgiving.

At least this year it wasn’t as terrible as Christmas and Thanksgiving was last year. Last year I was alone. I thought someone cared for me and didn’t. Boo Hoo. This year if I look at it in the right light was a million times better. Yes I would have rather been home. Seen my lexie girl and my boy max. My parents sister and brother in law :@ Hehe … actually my brother-in-law is actually a really nice guy. Well, I havn’t spoken to him in quite some time and I hope he still treats my sister as nice as he once did in the past but anywho … yes I would have rather been home. But it was nice this year. I went over to Jo’s house. Her mom is japanese and I suppose doesn’t really know Thanksgiving traditions. She was going to have lasagna! Hehe. Lasagna! Can you beileve that? "So casey, what did you eat for Thanksgiving …" Oh I had lasagna! Yes I do like lasagna however it just doesn’t sound right being paired with Thanksgiving.

hehe … lasagna … I am thankful to say that either way with the proclaimed lasagna or what we actually ate, ham, mashed potatoes ect … I am greatly appreciative that they let me into their homes and have dinner with them. That nigh could have been highly depressing but it was instead a good night.

Hmmmm … What else. Oh yes. X-Men 2 has so many things inside that I didn’t even notice! For example … there are all kinds of neat things you will see if you slow mow during certain parts. Such as you can see "the beast" in human form conducting an interview right before mistiqu(sp?) injects the guard with the iron. Also you can tell when she breaks Magnito out of his prison you can see other people in jail as well. Gambit, Magnito’s children etc … also what I found intresting was you saw the Omega Red Project. Ok, all stupid things but it’s actually quite intresting. I think so anyways … Also on bruce almighty if you watch the delted scenes, I was really disappointed that they didn’t add some of that into the movie. I thought the part where the kid wanted to get up the rope the fastest and he says yes to all the prayers. That was the best. Bascially this kid was always teased because of his weight and when he was to be older God’s invision for him was to become a world famous writer by using his sufferings from his childhood to help others. Instead Jim Carry’s charachter granted his wish when he was younger and he ended up being some no-name wrestler. Moral of the story is that just because we ask for things doesn’t mean we should get it. I really do appreciate the point that was driven behind that movie. I really did and if anything it opened my eyes. Yes .. a silly movie but again… the points that were driven and how they were driven were astounding and the makers of that movie did do an excellent job. Oh also! There was a movie way back when that I remembered and I could not think for the life of me what it was! It had a bunch of gnomes, elves and such and at the end it had a huge diablo type creature! I couldn’t remember and everybody thought I was loosing my mind. However I found the movie at K-Mart and it’s called Legend! It’s an excellent movie, I know becuase my roomate bought it, anywho … it’s an excellent fantasy movie and if you get the chance. Definetly … do see!

Well I should be going now. I have alot of nothing to do today So I should get to it … oh yea … and I am thinking twice about the user system. I don’t care that SHE comes back here anymore. I just don’t care. I was thinking about making a mailing list associated with this journal because my enteries are somewhat sparatic. Sometimes I post regularly and others .. well other times I just neglect it all around. We’ll see. We’ll see. I suppose only time will tell …

Take Care,
Mayor of OzweegoVille

I apologise fanclub for this being such a long time since I’ve last posted. Alot has happened in the last few weeks. Basically I’ve done alot of revamping. Including this journal. Completly customizable templates and comments system so that way all I have to do is include

include(‘/home/cmerrill/public_html/jV2/index.php’);

and -POOF- Whola! It works! -does happy dance- On top of that I’ve it set up using a flatfile database system that I’ve designed using the explode() function. We’ll see how the database Holds up with a huge file however in dummy trials it help up perfectly fine. Anywho … the journal can be found in the downloads section just as soon as I load it up. Really really neat features it has!

Lets see … as for work. Work = bleh. Why you ask? Basically they are making me move to a diffrent department which involves more work. Supposidly only 200 agents were picked out of the entire company to do these duties and I hear the training they are putting us through is about $3,000 a head. However this is just all hearsay. I’m so tired of my job but the odd thing is if they were to offer me a job in QA I’d love my job. We’ll just have to see about that. I dont’ know how much longer I can hold out until my brain explodes and my teeth are finally gritted down to the bare minimum.

Life is definetly not rough right now. I’m watching X-Men 2 before I go to work. Yea .. I know. It’s my day off but they have this really nasty word they use. It’s called mandatory overtime. Yuck. I hate it. I’m so tired of just being pushed around… What can I do about it though right? I badly want and need another job that makes me happy. It’d be the missing piece in the happy circle of mine.

So what’s next for me? I’m not quite sure. I think I will sit here. Sipping on my beloved diet coke. Watching my movie and hoping the next 4 hours of overtime will go over smoothly and quickly for that matter. We’ll see. As for cool things that I’ve purchased over the last few weeks. Let see … a total of 3 new dvd’s. X-Men 2, Bruce Almighty and Road Trip. All are decent movies. Obviously some better then others. I really do enjoy bruce and X-2. What else what else … oh yes. I worked enough overtime the past 4 weeks and i purchased a pretty nice jacket made by Columbia. I’ve never even heard of the company but they are supposidly the Microsoft of jackets. So I did some research as to what makes these jackets so warm and cozy for half the size of a conventional jacket. GorTex. It’s a material that struck a nerve as soon as it was told to me what it was made out of. My father has a gortex jacket that the military issued to him. Thin as paper yet warm as a parka. Water and wind resistant too. As for the jacket my father would only let me wear it once or twice because he said if he lost it, it was worth about 500$ dollars. Obviously I only paid a fraction of that cost however it is as warm as can be! I really like it and I got it 50% off. I really like it and it was really cheap too. Anywho … I think that’s it. I soooo do not want to go to work but maybe I’ll post some more either today or tommorow? We’ll see … oh yea .. as for the users that registered. Don’t fret. I havn’t yet implemented the user login which is coming shortly … so don’t worry about not having a login quite yet. But soon … very soon!

Be back in a moment!
Mayor of OzweegoVille