Monthly Archive for February, 2005

I missed the first edition of this show… did anyone watch it? I guess it must not have been so horrible if there is a second edition… and what exactly is SOAPnet?

Open casting calls are being held in New York and Los Angeles for the second edition of Soapnet’s reality series “I Wanna Be a Soap Star,” hosted by Cameron Mathison. The show seeks 12 contestants to live on an actual Soap set while competing for a contract role on ABC’s “All My Children.”

Los Angeles open casting is Saturday, March 5th 2005

New York open casting is Saturday, March 12th 2005

Applicants MUST pre-register at: http://www.iwannabeasoapstar.com/

I went more than 24 hours without blogging.

(But if I tweak the publish time so that the time says it’s 11:59pm, no one will be the wiser… right?!)

So what if I’ve been working for most of the day, running on empty for the rest? I used to do this all the time and 1:20am was still hours away from bedtime…

Working on Saturday is fun.

I *SO* look forward to working all day tomorrow, too.

Ahh, this is the life…

[/sarcasm]

Congrats to my long-time chat/blog buddy Nicole Adams, who gave birth to little Michael Phillip last Friday (2/18/05)!

Michael Phillip Adams
7 lbs. 15 oz.
21.5 in.

…for breaking my site again!

*rolls eyes*

I refuse to do anything else involving calling some big company and trying to get some help. Fucking “customer service” doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

Maybe it’s because these poor people are stuck working on a holiday, but still. I’ve been at this since I got up this morning around 8am. Four hours of this shit would make Mother Teresa snap.

I’m going to relax and breathe a little because it’s probably not smart to hit to road feeling the way that I do right now. I don’t need to get into a road raging fit with some idiot who doesn’t know how to drive in the rain.

*tries to relax*

Ommmmmmmmmmmm…

Dear Dell,

Y’all suck.

All I am trying to do is update my freakin’ address.

First of all, your touch-tone/voice recognition phone system sucks. I got routed to “new sales” three times while trying to update my address and after being routed & re-routed for 40 minutes, I was told I needed to call customer service instead. UM, HELLO! THAT IS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET!

Then, when I was finally transferred to the correct department, the customer service agent DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH! I am pretty good at talking to non-native English speakers, but I get very frustrated when I have to repeat everything I say 5 times and it’s still not right. Moreover, I asked for the address on my catalog AND my account to be updated, but I was informed that they ADD my new address to the catalog list, and that although he will put an address change request into the system for my account, that if I call for technical support, I will have to give my old address.

UM, THEN YOU ARE NOT REALLY CHANGING MY ADDRESS ARE YOU?! JUST REQUESTING TO CHANGE IT?! Plus, it sounds like you’ll still be sending your lame-ass catalogs to my old address, which I do not want being sent there.

Y’all suck.

Dear Washington Mutual…

Today, I went to TWO different branches of your bank and was unable to
complete my transaction for the same reason: no deposit envelopes.

Additionally, it was raining cats and dogs, and I parked and ran around in the rain to your ATMs only to find that I couldn’t make my intended deposits.

Now I realize that it was Sunday afternoon & that the bank had been closed all day, but to go to two different branches and not have any envelopes in stock was disappointing. You’d think there’d by envelopes at one branch or the other!

Y’all suck. This is why you are not my only bank.

P.S. – Why’d you let them take that $2784.36 away?!

(sigh)

It’s Yoshi’s birthday! I get to give birthday kisses to my Hunny!

Check it out!!! I’ve got my party hat all ready to go! Whoo!

Come celebrate this special day with jozjozjoz & yoshi by making your own birthday hat with this handy, dandy template!

Your pictures with a proper celebratory hat are welcome!

(Thanks in advance to the Blue’s Clues people for not suing me or sending me a cease & desist because I “borrowed” your silly little template for a birthday hat. Thanks also to Tak for helping a crazy, sleep-deprived chick named jozjozjoz!)

Are you feeling a bit of deja vu? That’s because I “recycled” this post from a year ago. I consider it a blessing for good things to return year after year. Although I will make a concerted effort to not repost the exact same thing next February 18th. Unless I want to make it a tradition…

Today I woke up, checked my calendar, and saw that I had a small soiree to attend at 6pm. I had received a “Save the Date” on this event many weeks ago & thought how strange it was that I never got the “formal invitation” to RSVP. Regardless, I knew I was definitely invited and I had even already made plans to attend with the fabulous ProfessorEric tonight. So I emailed the hosts to make sure that we had the proper clearances to get on the Lot.

And then I looked more carefully at my calendar. The party was not for tonight (the 16th). The party is actually scheduled WEDNESDAY MARCH 16!

Thus, I am officially a dummy (and wrote another email to the hosts saying sorry for making them think I was showing up tonight). I also had to tell ProfessorEric why our date for tonight was cancelled. Good thing I know he’ll always love me despite the fact that I do dumb stuff like this from time to time.

Also, I am officially absolved of fault for any future booking errors in my calendar since I obviously do not know how to read one.

P.S. – I should note that Feb/Mar is tricky since the days/days of the week are the same…

I was leaving the office tonight while trying to make a left onto some-major-street from a left turn lane. Two cars ahead of me, a driver nearly plowed into a guy crossing the street. The driver swerved, hit the brakes, causing the car ahead of me to brake suddenly and hit the horn. Lucky for me, I hadn’t been tailgating, so I was just barely taking my foot off the brake as all this was happening.

From my angle, I did manage to see the pedestrian bang loudly on the hood of the first car, yell a few (shall we say?) “pleasantries,” and give the driver a one-finger salute with the hand that he wasn’t using to hold his cell phone to his ear. (For the record, the driver was not on a cell phone.) The pedestrian had been oblivious to traffic around him and decided to cross the street from the sidewalk at a place not-too-close to the crosswalk, despite the fact that there were vehicles coming at him.

Nice to know that asshats on cell phones can be just as hazardous outside of cars as they can inside them.

Not only is my spam problem out of control on this blog, I am now having trackback spam problems.

I even got ping-spammed on entries less than a week old!

Is there anyone out there who can help me?!