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[21 Aug 2009|03:50pm] [ mood | optimistic ] I think my interview went very well. My pluses for the firm? -- I'm used to working in small law firms -- I am extremely proficient in WordPerfect -- I have tons of experience where they need it. I'm hoping. God I'm hoping. It would mean I would be able to start furnishing my house and getting Shawna's second hand crap out. I'll start small -- kitchen stuff (new pots and pans, some baking stones, some glasses and silverware, new kitchen table and chairs, etc.), then get a couple of TVs for the house. Then living room furniture. Bedroom furniture. And before you know it, I'll be asking them to move out, because I'd be able to afford that house on my own when I'm making $50k+ a year. Good Lord, I've got my crossables crossed. post comment

[18 Aug 2009|11:23am] [ mood | hopeful ] I need good thoughts. My resume is going to a small law firm (3 attys, 2 support staff) that would pay me the mid-50s range and excellent bennies. 1 comment|post comment

[29 Jul 2009|02:27pm] I love hot weather. :D I'm FINALLY warm and it feels so good. :D The humidity, however, can go away. But everyone's whining about the heat. Granted, it's hotter than we're used to here (it's 103 in Puyallup as I type this), but my God, it'll go away sooner than later and you can have your Seattle drizzle again. As it is, I am LOVING this weather. It makes me so happy. post comment

[11 Jul 2009|02:00pm] [ mood | annoyed ] I think I'm going to be on my desktop with missng letters when I'm IMing since the keyboard is about dead. My laptop keeps overheating and I can't afford to go get myself a can of compressed air or the lap board with the fans in it right now. Sigh. I swear, if it's not one thing it's ten thousand others. This keyboard is going to piss me off. And I'm going to be so friggen uncomfortable. post comment

[07 Jun 2009|02:46pm] Grrr. I hate 13 year olds. post comment

[02 Jun 2009|09:08am] So, we've put our heads together and think my sister has a gambling problem and that's where the money has gone. post comment

[02 Jun 2009|05:31am] This is how mature my big sister is. We tried to talk to her last night to figure everything out. She CLAIMED she'd have the money by Friday. Yes, because we can believe that. She then proceded to yell at me for the utility payments (uh...) and the $200 I borrowed from David to pay the cable bill (they utilize it too). I've paid around $600 on utilities since we moved in here. Until this last week, they hadn't paid SHIT towards the cable. But that's okay with her. that's different, "You still owe us $200 for the fucking cable bill, Nicole." "Well, we wouldn't be in this predicament if you'd deposited the money into my checking account like you said you would." "I DID!" "The fuck you did, it wasn't deposited. If it had been deposited, the check wouldn't have BOUNCED." "I'm not going to sit here and be abused and yelled at. I'm leaving." She took the keys to her car with expired tags and ran out of the house. She never came back. I'll be homeless soon. post comment

[29 May 2009|10:02am] [ mood | blah ] :/ I hate when my kids make me cry and I feel like crying for days afterwards. :/ 2 comments|post comment

[13 May 2009|11:26am] This time tomorrow, I will be in Utah!! Yay! I'm so excited. I'm such a dork. :D Anyway, today, a lady that I ride the bus down to the train station with gave me her card. she told me to email her my resume as her firm is hiring a word processor person. So, I did that this morning. :) Cross all your crossables for me? Good Lord, I want a full time job. I NEED a full time job. Anyway, Utah in less than 24 hours. Did I mention I'm excited? I'm not going to vent about my mom, my brother, my sister, or anyone. I'm over it. :) Life's too short. And, I hadn't been on my meds for a couple of weeks. Back on them, and things are much better. :D I think I may be on Paxil for the rest of my life. lol. So. The attorney insists that I be his temp this week, while I'm in the state anyway. And then he barely comes in to the office all three days. *blank look* So, I've been playing my Mafia Wars and Pirates. i like I like Pirates better than any of the others. lol Salt Lake City here I come.... post comment

[26 Apr 2009|01:42pm] ( Hil, three minutes into this video is my offer to Johnathan for you to be in his harem ) post comment

[24 Apr 2009|02:09pm] My Panda puppy hurt his front left paw sometime yesterday/last night. He was doing just fine when I went to bed last night. When I went out to go to work this morning, my sister said, "Panda's limping." So, I go in the kitchen and call him, and he limps towards me. Then he lays down to get his belly scratched, so I scratched his belly. He started chewing on his left from paw, but it was hard to tell, you know, what was hurt. And then I figured it out. So, we have a "Vets for Less" down the street, and I said, well, you (Shawna) can take me there first thing in the morning so I can get him checked out before I go to CatchCon. She just called me to tell me he won't drink, he won't take a cubie, he's just laying in the middle of the floor. She's taking him to Vets for Less now. :( My poor puppy dog. :( 3 comments|post comment

[21 Apr 2009|01:56pm] [ mood | touched ] So, yesterday I was given a $5 coffee card to my favorite coffee place (Tully's) for Administrative Professionals Week. And then this morning, we had pastries and fruit and juice. And when I got back from lunch, I had a package on my chair, with scented bath bars and a card with a gift card to Starbucks from the female attorney I've been working for for the last 6 1/2 weeks. I'm touched. And not just in the head. :oP 3 more days this week here, and I hope I work for the next few weeks until I go to Utah for my birfday. I also have a few hours worth of dictation to do tonight. Weeefun. post comment

[12 Apr 2009|09:04am] I absolutely LOATHE when my sister is sick. It's Easter, right? I get up early to hide eggs so Jared can go find them. Then I start cleaning up the kitchen. David was on the couch snoring and woke up, went into the bedroom. Jared comes out and he finds all the eggs and then I start to make breakfast. It's 7 in the morning. Yeah, it's early, but we have church today. So, pretty soon, Shawna comes out to lay on the couch. Nevermind she's been sleeping since Friday night. I cook breakfast, Jared and I eat, and then Jared goes to shower and I start cleaning up the breakfast mess. She starts to mumble and sigh all heavily. I'm trying very hard not to just go off on her. She cleans at MIDNIGHT and she's not quiet about it. She's even vacuumed at midnight. But me cleaning up the breakfast mess at 8 am is all against the rules or some shit. Grrrrr. So anyway, I'm showered and I'm about to put on my makeup. We'll be picked up in about an hour and a half. Happy Easter everyone! :D post comment

[09 Apr 2009|09:48am] [ mood | sore ] I'm uber talented. This morning, I was out in the truck so Dave could take me to the park n ride. I realized I forgot my water bottle in the house, so I ran up the stairs, grabbed it, and started to run back down the stairs. I tripped on the second stair and went the rest of the way down to the tile foyer floor. My ankle hurts. I'm wearing my knee high brown boots. I have no idea if my ankle is swollen or not, and I'm afraid to take off the boot to see, because I mi ght not be able to get it back on. My knee has an enormous knot in it, that's covered with a rug-type burn (not sure if it's from the rug on the stairs or from my capris). I couldn't even really nap on the train because my ankle and my knee were throbbing (on different legs...left knee, right ankle). I think today's going to be fairly chill, though, so maybe I can get my filing done. I hope. *fingers crossed* post comment

[08 Apr 2009|03:33pm] [ mood | tired ] Today has been insane. I have been BUSY as all hell. I thought, oh, well, the attorneys aren't here today (one's at a CLE and one's been called for Jury Duty), I can get my filing done! Yeah, no. They both had HUGE stacks of stuff for me to do. I've done some of the filing,b ut I have a good stack, still, that needs to be finished, and then I need to start going through the filing that I've just drop filed in so I can get them organized. One of the attorney's organization of his files is, like, none, so I could spend the next month just working on his files. Sigh. BUT!!! I've worked for 5 weeks here. :D I didn't get to play last night because I had transcription to do. I'll be SLIGHTLY late tonight, because I need to stick some stuff I typed up into a document, and then email it back. At most, it'll take 15 minutes. Probably more lik 5. lol. A month and six days and I'll be in Utah for my birthday. :D I just need to stay busy with work for the next month and five days so I can afford it. LOL. I love if I could stay here for this month. We'll see. I don't know what's going on with homegirl who's desk I'm at. Sunday is Easter. I don't have a basket or anything. I have to go to Walmart Saturday morning for an eye exam, so I guess I can pick up a few things there, get a dying kit and a dozen and a half eggs and me and Jared can dye eggs on Saturday night. Or the afternoon, is probably more like it. My friend that I'm going to church with is all excited that I want to continue going to the church. In email today, she said, It sounds silly, but I was nervous to extend the invite to church originally, I’m not sure why. My guess is our unfriendly neighbor to the south, you know, the horned one – loves to play games with our heads I think. Anyhow, I’m just really happy you’re enjoying it and I’m really happy God put you on my heart. Her emails today made me feel good. lol post comment

[30 Mar 2009|08:29am] Just to put this out here. I am not writing anywhere but the Island. The only storylines are the ones I have with Hilary and Shannon. I am not writing with Angela anywhere. I am not writing Nick anywhere but the Island with Hilary. I do not even know where Angela writes. I have no reason to lie about where I write. I've only ever written two places besides the Island, Glamourise and I don't remember the name of the other comm, and both were short lived stints. That is all. post comment

[29 Mar 2009|09:49am] I'm off to church in a about 45 minutes, when my friend gets here to pick me up. I'm going to ask her, I think, after church if she can drop Jared and I off at the movie theater near our house, since I promised him a movie. We're going to see Monsters vs. Aliens. He's 12, trying to act like he's grown, but he still loves his cartoons. It looks good, so I'm sure we'll enjoy it. Maybe go for some Cold Stone after the movie or something. I don't know. We have to walk home, so maybe ice cream wouldn't be a good idea, since we have snow on the ground. This is the latest I've ever known snow to be on the ground here in my entire life. I think I brought Utah snow home with me. White Christmas, snow at the very end of March... Anyway. I'm back at the firm for the fourth week. I think I'm finally starting to really get the hang out if there. I don't know what's going on with the woman who's desk I"m at. Apparently she's had her second mental breakdown in a year and a half. They don't know when she's coming back, or if she's coming back. But since she's out on FMLA leave, they can't try to replace her or anything until she says she's not coming back. I like the attorneys I'm working for. We'll see what happens. At least I can pay my rent and various bills right now. lol. That's a good thing. aaaand, I'm done now. 2 comments|post comment

[24 Mar 2009|08:34am] I'm looking at my desk here and I have no clue where to even start. I guess I'll try to get some filing done. I called in yesterday because it still looked like I had golf balls on the sides of my neck and it hurt to turn my head because of it. Gah, this desk looks like a file cabinet exploded on it. I don't even know where to start. I'll figure it out, but good Lord. That's what I get for calling in when I'm sick, I guess. File as much as possible. Get everything that needs calendared calendared. Double check the calendaring. Open one or two new files (not sure yet). Save everything on my desktop to ProLaw. Save the new ECF filings to ProLaw. But, before I can really start, I REALLY need to file. Sigh. Ah well. post comment

I think... [18 Mar 2009|11:05am] [ mood | busy ] things may be getting better. Of course, yesterday I wound up working 10 hours between my at-home job and my temp job in Seattle. I was BEAT. But I have 3 more jobs lined up for my at home job, so it'll be good. MONEY!!! My at home job, I've decided that money will go towards my credit cards, and I'll live off my child support and whatever temporary jobs Robert Half sends my way. I'm going to stick all my credit cards in my top drawer of my dresser so I'm not carrying them with me. lol. That would be a good thing. I need to pay my rent next week for April. My portion. I'm not going to worry about when Dave and Shawna will pay th eir portion. And I need to pay my cable bill current, too. I work next week here at Reed McClure, so that's good. I know I'll have the money for my rent, my cable bill and my credit cards to get caught up to date. I'm hoping I can stay busy enough with Pfau Cochran that I can get my cards paid up pretty quickly. It was POURING last night as I walked home from the busstop. My hat was soaked, my coat was soaked, everything was soaked. I was in a foul mood when I got home. So I just poured myself into my work. 10 came around and I was DONE! hallelujah! I enjoyed church on Sunday. It's been so long since I went. But it was nice. And now, I need to finish work. post comment

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