Just wanted to leave a note for everyone!

I’m spending the evening with the boyfriend. We’re going to dinner, heading over to my aunts for a little while to wish everyone a Happy New Year and then we’re heading over to his aunts house for a New Year’s Eve party. So I’ve got a pretty busy day ahead of me.

I’ve been working – a lot – over the course of the last couple of days. Quite a few clients emailed me and requested New Years launches on their websites. Of course most of the emails came in on Friday. Talk about cutting it close, right? Thankfully I was able to get everything done. I’m still working on two accounts though. I’m getting the non-profit site up for Alicia’s fiance and I’m working on a WordPress template for another client that I most likely won’t have done until Tuesday afternoon. I don’t want to take that long but I just won’t have any time for it over the course of the next couple of days. I did about 4 hours of work with it today, I have maybe 4 more hours to go. I’m leaving in a half hour though so I can’t really get much work done now, unfortunately.

In any event, I need to take a shower and get myself ready to go. I hope everyone has a safe New Year, lay off on the booze if you know you’re driving home, eh?

A little note for everyone celebrating this special day!

On Thursday I was woken up by a phone call telling me that I had an appointment with the Dentist at 2:00 PM that afternoon. Considering it was 10:00 AM I figured I’d have plenty of time to figure out what the hell just happened (I was only asleep for like two hours at this point mind you).

I got to the dentist about 20 minutes early because I’ve never been to this guy before and figured I’d have paper work to fill out. I was there for 10 minutes and went right in to get checked out. He preformed a root canal right then and there because it was either get that done or the tooth wasn’t worth saving. He also seemed very disappointed with the status of a few other molars in my mouth. They cracked, I have no insurance, nothing I can really do about it. It took three large shots of Novocain for me to finally go numb, I’ve always had a high tolerance to that stuff…probably why Ambesol doesn’t ever work for me.

He’s been the ‘family’ dentist for my Aunt, Uncle and Grandmother (Dad’s side) for the last like 20 years, so he only charged me $140 for the root canal and temp filling. After the holidays I’m going to have to schedule an appointment for the rest of the root canal and then a crown. That’s probably going to run me about $1200 so I guess we’ll see what happens from here. So much for buying myself a new computer for Christmas. I really don’t want a desktop with Windows Vista so I’m going to have to figure something out.

As far as shopping is concerned, everything is covered. I spent more on my sister than I probably should have. I bought quite a bit for my father as well as my aunt. I went a little crazy on the boyfriend, but he already knows that. I even went in on some gifts for my mother, crazy eh? I didn’t get her husband anything though, it’s not that I didn’t want to it’s because he’s a fairly large man and it’s impossible to find clothes for him in stores like Wal-Mart and what not. So I think I’ll have my sister head over to like big and tall or something and see what happens.

In any event, I’m going to lay down, my fever hasn’t really come down yet from the cold so I don’t want to sit up any longer than I should have to.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I’ve been home since late Saturday night but I’ve been unable to really sit down and relax long enough to update the blog.

I had a very, very, very nice trip to Atlantic City. I went down with $350 wondering how I’d manage to stretch it for three days and after being there for two hours, I had that completely figured out. On one slot machine, after two plays, I hit for $1500. Four hours later I hit for $5200, so I guess you can say that Krissy is a very happy, happy girl.

I was a little under the weather all weekend though. By Sunday, I guess since all of the excitement kind of died down, I was in bed all day sleeping with a really bad cold. I still can’t breath through my nose but at least I’m not hacking up a lung anymore either…you know? But, I guess there’s a price to pay for any happiness – eh?

I know exactly how I got sick though. There was some little brat kid in Wal-mart on Tuesday night that couldn’t cover her mouth when she was coughing all over the place. It’s not like she had the kind of mother who would say ‘cover your mouth’ either, she was the kind of mother that left the child in the middle of the store while she went to another isle to pick something up. I swear, some people never freaking learn. If her kid was picked up by someone I can guarantee that the mother would blame Wal-mart and try to sue. That’s just the stupid world we live in I guess.

Anyway…in the last two days I think I’ve spent about $1200. This is ok though because I’ve covered the Christmas Bases as I like to call them. The boyfriend is almost taken care of, my father is basically done, my aunt there’s a few things left, same goes for my uncle. I did get some small things for Alicia and the boyfriends aunt so I’m sure if either one of them is reading this, they’ll know that they’re also getting something out of me for Christmas.

Side Note: Alicia, call my cell when you get the chance…k?

Anyway, I’m going out with my Dad tonight to do some shopping for my sister, aunt and uncle so I should be able to square them away with no problems tonight. I did get some stuff for my sister yesterday but she was with me so she already knows what she got. In order to avoid any no-present syndrome for her she’s not allowed to have anything until Christmas Morning anyway. I got her two pairs of sneakers from Lady Footlocker, a few shirts from Wal-Mart and then since she was actually being NICE for a change, I bought her a quick $20 refill card for her Boost Mobile.

Once all the Christmas shit has died down, I’ll be treating myself of course. I’m enrolling in school, getting a new desktop and then I’ll be getting myself a new cell phone because our family plan is up for renewal in two weeks and thanks to my sister running the bills up, excessively, for the last two years, Dad has decided that he’s just going to remove both of us (even though I gave him the $30 a month for my phone anyway). I guess it doesn’t matter though, with the amount of time I use the phone during the month anyway…I can live on a prepaid…trust me. The only reason my bill was $30 a month was because that’s basically the cost of having the phone on the plan. I’ve only gone over my minutes ONCE and that was the fault of my sister.

The family plan only had 500 anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends (starting at 9pm). She managed to use up over 8000 minutes for the November10-December10 billing cycle. She had over 1500 BILLABLE minutes. The bulk of the other minutes were all night based, I believe she had about 6500 nights/weekends. She used all 500 on the plan, this plan covers ALL THREE PHONES. So because of her…the 60 minutes that I used were billable because there weren’t any minutes left. Those 60 minutes were the phone calls I made home during the few weeks I was with the boyfriend so I could update Daddy on my medical status. Thanks a lot sis…

So yea, I’m getting myself a new phone. Considering a Razr because I’ve wanted one for a really long time and I know a few people who mod phones so I’m going to get some funky stuff for it. Maybe some case mods there are like 200 colors you can get for cellphone covers, I’m not stupid enough to cover my phone with crystals because that honestly just looks stupid. I’ll go to T-Mobile prepaid though, I really dislike Verizon’s prepaid services. I also have a Nextel from Alicia that she says she doesn’t want back, I might get a boost sim card so I can at least be in free contact with my sister, mom and even Alicia so I guess we’ll see what happens there.

In any event, I have to move some laundry around and do a quick email check before I get out of here for the night.

Good luck finalizing your shopping and be careful!

After a few wonderful weeks spent exclusively with the boyfriend, I’m finally home. This doesn’t mean I’ll be around for long though. I’m leaving again on Thursday because my aunt has invited me to spend three days with her in Atlantic City. I don’t have much money saved up to bring with me but I also have no real intent of doing much damage there anyway.

It was my goal to have maybe $600 to come down with me, this way I can do $200 a day on my usual slot machines and then go from there. I’m only going to have about $350 with me, so I’ll have to break it down to around $115 a day, this isn’t too bad though. I’m sure I’ll be doing more wondering around than gambling.

Based on family history in Atlantic City, all the money is usually won on the last night just before they’re going to get their stuff together to head home. I figure if I can save up the bulk of the money to play exclusively on the last night – maybe I’ll come home with something.

I could bring more money down with me but it would be absurd to take out of my savings account just so I can gamble it away. There are still Christmas gifts to buy – you know?

I did a bit of shopping tonight with my sister, she dragged me out of the house around 7:30 screaming that Dad’s gifts needed to be purchased way in advance. We went to Wal-mart, dropped a quick $120 and the rest is history. We got him quite a bit though, there’s still some things that I’d like to pick up for him…I guess I’ll see what happens after Saturday.

I’m waiting on an email from a client so I can finally be done with their account. I also have two more that I’m waiting on a payment from so hopefully those will be coming in soon. I spent the last 3 days working on accounts. My only issue is a few paid through Escrow with a site I’m involved with so I won’t actually see that money until like…the day before Christmas at the rate of cash-out times with this stupid site. Not a big deal though, it’ll be here soon enough.

When I get home on Sunday I’m going to finally get my ass in gear and finish the new templates for AGn Solutions and AGn Designs because I’ve waited just too damn long to get those up. I have about 300 template screenshots to add to AGn Designs so it’s about time I get my ass in gear on them. I want to be able to have everything launched by January 1st to bring in the new year.

And speaking of New Year’s…I’ll be spending it with the boyfriend and his family. His aunt is having a party and since both her and his mom seem to love me, I get to go. Nifty – eh? I’m sure it’ll be fun, it’s nice spending holiday’s with the one’s you love…that’s all that matters.

On a side note, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine tonight and I have to say I’m a bit annoyed with her husband right now. For their five year wedding anniversary he went ‘out of his way’ to buy her one of those Kay Jewelers 10k white diamond Journey necklaces (the ones they’re advertising on television right now). He got her the one with 7 diamonds to match every year that they’ve been together. This in itself is very sweet, I’ve seen the necklace and think it’s gorgeous – this is coming from someone who’s not overly a fan of necklaces (minus the one the boyfriend gave me for my birthday of course). But anyway…long story short. He goes on to tell her that his gift broke the bank, when the necklace itself is only $99 to begin with. But he claims that he got the one that’s over $1,000 blah, blah, blah.

She’s looking at the Kay Jewelers website and notices that the necklace isn’t the same. She keeps her mouth shut though because the $1,000 he spent showed up on the credit card bill so it’s not like he completely lied about it. She did notice, however, that this $1,000 charge came from K-mart, not Kay Jewelers. She goes into K-mart and heads over to the Jewelry counter, she instantly finds the necklace. it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s a whopping $9.99 – yes, nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. She asks herself “Why would he lie?” so she finds the receipt after she gets home and it turns out the bank was broken because he bought himself a plasma screen that he was hiding in his office from her behind a curtain.

All of this is brought to his attention, with the evidence respectively, and he feels as though it was a complete invasion of his privacy to go behind his back and find the information that he was clearly lying about.

My question to you is: Do you think she was wrong for bringing it to his attention, or do you think he was right for being extremely angry with her for doing so?

He completely 100% lied to her about the price of the item, not to mention the store it was purchased at. He bought himself a new TV in the process when they can’t financially afford it considering she’s 7 months pregnant (yea…sorry I think I forgot to mention that previously). If I were in her shoes I’d use the little strength I had left at the end of a pregnant day and kick him in the face.

This of course…is my answer for everything.

What would you do in this situation?