Where has the time gone!

These past few weeks seem to run together. My graps of time is slipping it seems.  The days and weeks seem to run together.  There clearly isn't enough time in a week to get everything done...that, or I just have too much to do. 

I ended up telling Seth off a few days after my last post.  He still doesn't have a job, and he still doesn't do anything around the house despite everything. He had an interview at "Taco Bell" for a night shift manager position.  He claims they will hire him and train him for that position.  According to Seth, his first interview was just to see if he could show up on time.  The next one was a week later, to meet another of the 3 managers.  The most recent interview was to meet the other assistant manager and the district manager.  he learned that he would not be getting the $9.25/hour he said he wouldn't work less for.  Instead, he'll be making $7.50/hour (minimum wage is $7.25), and he thinks they hired him on as a manager in training.  We'll all find out on Oct. 5th whether he has a job or not.  If he doesn't I'm going to give him 14 days notice to get out. 

I know that sounds absolutely horrible of me to talk about all of this.  Yes it is.  I could be a better friend, and I probably could deal with more of his laziness and more of him being a slob.  I'm actually nice to Jamie and Seth...Adya is the one who yells at them constantly. Seth had a job at a local gift store called "Things Remembered", but Jamie applied for the assistant manager position.  She told the store manager that Seth was her bf.  She knew that'd keep him from getting the job.  Jamie was rather spiteful of Seth possibly having a manager position and an eight hour a week second job. 

Jamie was denied employement from "Lane Bryant" a clothing store for women that are 50-120lbs overweight. They wanted her for the ASM job, but the second time she interviewd she hadn't bathed in 3 days.  The manager had her come back in the next day to turn in her paperwork.  Jamie didn't bother to clean up then either, so they decided to not give her the job.  I know you're thinking that someone can't smell that bad.  Imagine someone who doesn't scrub their body.  They use liquid soap without a poof, lufa, or washcloth.  She sweats quite a bit at her job, but she can't smell herself!  I won't give her rides to and from town unless she has bathed recently. It's noxious to sit in the car with her considering she talks non stop too.

I do understand some people have an odor problem, and can't help it.  That i'm ok with.  However, I've smelled her after she has bathed and scrubbed properly.  I've also smelled her breath after she brushes and flosses.  She smells normal, so there is no reason she should stink.  I had to teach Seth and Jamie to wash their hands after using the water closet, and upon waking up.  The sad part is that both of them have worked food service.  Jamie has even had a reputable position at Hills pet nutrition!

Jamie and Seth ended up going back out again.  I think it's more an issue of they just settled for less.  She still complains non-stop about him (vice-versa). Thankfully, Seth has taken a hint and started to get his act together.


Last week I ended up taking Adya to Buffalo Wild Wings since she finally cleaned up her mess in the bedroom.  After that, I realized I was hungry and wanted hot wings too! I ended up buying 5lbs of wings, and 5lbs of breasts and proceeded to BBq 10lbs of chicken lol.  I also made a ham, and some fish with some jamaican jerk seasoning. On Friday, I made pizza for everyone. Seth and Jamie ended up wasting about $100 of their food stamps last month.  Seth left 5lbs of pork "chops" in the fridge til they went bad, wasted $15 of ahai tuna, 5lbs of lean ground chuck, and I don't remember how many lbs of steak.  He burned the steaks and the tuna on the grill. That's what happens when you put something on the grill and go play Ps3 for three hours without checking on the food.

I went to the "Bark Park" on Friday before I went in to cover for Gloria, and I made the mistake of taking treats into the big dog side.  I had forgotten that they were in my pocket!  Within seconds I had a beagle, my basset hound Freya, 2 rhodesian ridgeback's, a lab, and a boxer all trying to get into my pocket to get the treats! I had to go put them in the car. (lol) The dogs got to play for about 40 minutes before I got a call that my co-worker needed me to come in and work for her.  During that timespan I was asked at least half a dozen times if Sokah was a wolf, or what % he was.  The county I live in has an ordianace against "Wolf-hyrbids" or wolves.  So, if I said anything other than a husky mix he'd be taken and put down.  Not only that, but the word "wolf" comes up and people get VERY judgemental and skiddish.  The last thing I want is for that to happen, and some dog bites him, and he bites them back.  It'd just be an incident waiting to happen.

We canceled the U-verse and signed up for Cox cable.  I'm not exactly thrilled about that, but it is almost $60 cheaper, and gives us faster internet (12mbs with powerboost). The basic channel quality is garbage, and they managed to screw up our work order.  They signed us up for 5 digital boxes, but we only signed up for 2 HD boxes.  We had to ask for the HD boxes, and the tech only had  one.  They also ended up giving us the wrong channel packages, and not signing us up for the promotion we had asked for.  I'll have to call and deal with that on Monday.

Somehow, Adya managed to get a virus on my work computer!!!! She was looking at Imgur, and a banned loaded... That's all it took to get the "Open Cloud Security Center" virus.  I had it removed and the computer working 100% normal after a few hours.  I came in today, and the power had gone out before I could save the changes to my profile. I tried to fix it today, but my profile is now corrupt and I can't even get on it to fix the issues.  I just hope it doesn't transfer to anything on the remote server.  I log in remotely to a server which just happens to have all of our patient files.  I can't believe the virus software we have didn't stop it.  It was up to date too!

On top of that, I had to replace the HDD to my laptop! Seth decided on Thursday last week, that instead of setting the tool box down, he'd toss it... He tossed it where my laptop was.  We were listening to music when he hit the base of it, and it broke the HDD.  I ended up loosing ALL of the pictures of the horses I had, all of the pictures of the dogs, pictures of my neice, the pictures a special someone sent me, my music, movies, 20gig of books, saved game files, portfolio's, and even my CGI portfolio for digital animation.  I realize I should've had it backed up.  The issue is, I did have it all backed up! I had it spread out on a few extra HDD's I had laying around.  I was working on moving everything onto a single one with a backup.  So it's all lost. 

Well, I finally got back in touch with "Angel" (pseudonym) again.  Angel was a girl I met online after a (then) friend Steve broke up with her.  He had been playing with her acting like his friend Rick.  He had me interviene to explain that he was Steve, and not Rick. He basically tossed me in the middle of it trying to mop up his mess.  That was back in 2004 or 2005. Since then Angel and I have been friends and were pretty close.  We ended up dating for quite a while. To my dismay I went away for a bit, only to find that she screwed around with something like 5-6 guys while we were dating.  She tried covering it up, but she didn't realize that all of her friends she had introduced me to were my friends now too.  They were telling me what she was doing when I got back.  I gently confronted her, and she denied it for almost 2 months.  During that time, I ended up talking to her current bf while she was dating me.  He told me what was going on.  At that point, I wasn't even mad. It was an experiment to see how long it'd take for her to feel guilty and tell me.  I confronted her with that, and he did too.  She chose him, only to have things blow up in a week or two afterwards. She tried to fix things with me, but honestly I still to this day don't trust her. During her trying to fix things with me, she ended up falling for her boss at work.

 Mind you, she was 16 at the time and he was 30(?).   With common sense you can tell where that ended up.... As it turns out, he was just in it for the sex.  (big surprise?) He was going through a divorce with his wife when all this was happening, and Angel was the mistress.  Too bad Angel didn't realize he was using her though.  He was abusive to her, had her buy him things, and pay for his stuff (mind you he was making way more than she was, and yet he was still playing Yugi-oh!).  She stuck with him for about two years! Only to see that those of us who told her he just wanted to use her were right.  I'm just giving the bare bones here.

So, after this all ends she magically reappears and starts chatting me up again.  At that point I"m wondering why the hell she thinks I'm going to be her go to guy again once she screwed me over.  While we were dating she talked about how she wanted to marry me, how she'd never cheat, how she loved me, how she thought I was her soul mate.  In hind sight it's enough to make me choke seeing what happened, and the fact I bought her a 18k white gold & 2c Tanzanite engagement ring.   Also, while with the thirty something guy, she was still trying to patch things up with me, and sent me some rather naughty pictures.  No I never posted them online, but I sure thought about it after what happened.

Anyway, things have been off and on as friends.  She claims to want more, but doesn't want to commit to anything.  I don't blame her either.  She still has baggage from her previous relationships she hasn't worked out, but then again, she had baggage when we started dating the first time.  She seems to have a hard time making peace with things.  I do feel bad for her though, considering everything she's been through.  She's kind to others, goes out of her way to do everything for everyone.  She's the type of person to give you the shirt off her back, and her shoes if it'll help.  She doesn't think of anything in return, but she goes too far.  She ends up paying her friend's bills when they are irresponsible, puts herself in a bind for them, and goes out of her way to do things for them.  They don't ever do anything for her.  Granted, she'd never ask due to being too proud, and stubborn.  She's even had to sleep in her car for lack of gas to get home, or had to sleep on her friend's porch. All b/c she gave them what she didn't have to help them, and they couldn't even be bothered to let her come inside or give up a bed for her!

She's got some maturing to do and to sort through her hells, but we all do.  It almost seems like she's being saintly to atone for something she thinks she's done in the past, or she has done something to deserve what's happened.  Life deals us wild cards at times, and other times it's the results of our decisions.

I do admit though, it feel slike she only talks to me b/c i'm still here.  Well, that and she usually only talks to me weeks-days before she wants something.  Recently she popped up out of nowhere a month ago, and was being all sweet and sent me some things.  That was right before she sent me a pair of shoes for a guy friend of hers, that I needed to spend about $35 to ship to her. They dont' deliver to her country, and they don't have those shoes in that size.  I would've done it regardless, but I have finally learned when & where to draw the line.  Earlier this year she wanted me to send her a ruby ring. She wanted a ring from me. I have not done that, nor do I plan on doing that seeing how things are going so far. Yes, I do still have immense affection for her, and when she ever matures and wants me back I'd highly consider it. 

Well, I'm out of time so I leave you with a delicious Jamaican Jerk recipe that is just a few calories, and just as good as the ones with brown sugar...if not better

Jamaican Jerk:

-½   Tbsp of: onion powder, garlic powder, allspice, coriander.
-1    Tbsp thyme
-1    tsp of: nutmeg, cinnamon, chili powder, cayenne pepper
-3    Tbsp fresh lime juice
-1    Tbsp olive oil
- 1.5Tbsp ground Ginger
- Fresh ground pepercorn to taste

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly 
2. Rub onto meat and marinate in a sealed bag in the fridge for a few hours or overnight 
3. Bring meat out of the fridge for 30  minutes before grilling 
4. Grill on high heat for 2-3 min per side (depending on thickness)
5. Remove from grill – Tent the meat under foil and let it rest for 5 minutes 
6. Slice into thin pieces (slice against the grain of the meat) and serve.

OR


3 scallions, chopped
4 large garlic cloves
1 small onion, chopped
3 fresh habanero chiles, stemmed and seeded
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
2 Tbsp tamari
3 Tbsp olive oil
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp thyme leaves
2 tsp ground allspice
2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
3/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger

Blend until smooth in food processor or blender.

Pour into ziplock bag, add meat, push out air, seal, and let sit for 8-24 hours, turning 2-3 times.

Remove from fridge, let sit for 30 min.

Grill til done, or can be baked for women trying to decrease risk of breast cancer

Goes great with fried plantains, coconut shrimp, salad, or w/e else you can think of! My roommates give it two thumbs up.  Also works great on shishkabobs!