Jeans and Sneakers

Time for a little fun!! Last night I went with my sister and brother in law, and with my boyfriend to a Halloween party. Dressing up was mandatory.

So from left to right, that’s Andy (a coworker of my sister’s), me, Rob (my bf), my sister (Marj), and her husband (Chi). (also, what you can’t see in this picture, is that I’m totally wearing jeans and sneakers under my costume!!!)

Or if you want to go by costume, it’s a doctor, Edea from Final Fantasy VIII, The Beer Looter from New Orleans (www.thebeerlooter.com), Sadako from the Ring (japanese version), and Ryuji also from the Ring (japanese version).

We had a lot of fun, there was food, drink, and karaoke. Who could ask for more?

I have to get all done up in my costume again tomorrow, for work. I don’t know how I’m going to make it all day with that headpiece on. I made it out of rigid wrap, right on my head, I made the main shape, but then took it off to put on the extras, and it kind of hurts my ear on the right side of my head, and I kept poking things with the horns on accident. One of the horns actually cracked a little bit, and I’ve got to patch it before tomorrow. *sigh*

I hope everyone has a great halloween!

Edit: If anyone reading this can tell me why alt tags don’t work in Firefox, and if there’s an alternate tag or code to make that work with Firefox and IE, it would be greatly appreciated. I’m lazy today, and don’t feel like looking it up. As it is, just for the image to display correctly in IE, I had to manually alter the image size in the tag, which is obnoxious, since Firefox did that for me automatically. Oh well. Comments would be appreciated!! ^_^

I know I haven’t updated in awhile, but things got kind of crazy, kind of hairy there for awhile.

I nearly blew up at work last Wednesday because my coworker, with whom I’m stuck in a 10′ x 10′ room with 8 hours of the day, 5 days of the week, is a sexist, chauvinist moron, who has absolutely no clue how to talk to people without pissing them off.

Without getting into a whole lot of crap, I didn’t walk out like I wanted to, but I didn’t go in on Thursday either. And on Friday when I did go back in, my coworker tried to have a “talk” with me, since he still didn’t understand that he’s an idiot. And that’s when I told him that I’m looking for another job, and to be expecting my two weeks notice at any given moment.

*sigh* What would be really great, would be another job, so that I could actually give them my two week’s notice. But I have not secured another job yet. . .so. . .I stay at this one until then.

Also, my coworker made sure that I understood, that while he has no problems with working with me until I eventually leave, our head supervisor may have other plans. I’m not completely sure what he was alluding to, maybe I’ll get fired. Who knows? Maybe they’ll move me back to customer service. Either way, I’ll be glad to be rid of this job, it’s been nothing but trouble since I got it.

I’m also thinking about attempting some work at home webmaster-craftery. I don’t know if I’ve the self discipline to actually make money at home. . .but I’m seriously thinking of trying.

And on that note, I’m going to go be irresponsible, and watch Batman Begins, even though it’s already midnight, and I’ve got work in the morning. :]

And I found out that this is going to be unexpectedly trickier than I thought. I’m moving along slowly in learning things about CSS, but I found out today, the hard way, that I’m going to need to learn a lot about HTML too, even though I have a basic grasp of it.

It’s hard to try to learn something, when you can’t understand the definitions you are given because you lack the knowledge of terminology. You can know all of the words in a sentence, but that does not mean that you understood the sentence.

So nothing grandiose yet, I’ve still got a lot of learning to do, but I figured I’d update that I’d at least done SOMETHING, and haven’t been sitting on my bum reading all the time. (Even though I wish I could be.)

I got really bored of the other theme though, and went looking to see what I could find. How could anyone pass up pirates?

So I’ve been sick, and rather than spend the time I’ve stayed home from work learning about anything, I read “Stephen King’s It” instead. :[ I know, I suck. But I am feeling a lot better than I did on Monday.

Also, I found a listing for a job paying $15 an hour as a painter’s helper. I called and left a message, so maybe he’ll call me back, and I’ll get to do something else for more money. It’ll sure beat listening to a chauvinist pig go on and on about how it’s a “man’s world” and trying to push my buttons. I still think it would be nifty if I got fired from this place.

That’s pretty bad, hunh?

Oh well, it’ll be back to work tomorrow.

C’mon, you know what I’m talking about. You may have been 7, 10, or 16, but at some point in all of our childhoods (and some of us, at some point in our adulthoods), we’ve all played which is worse.

“Ok, which is worse, french kissing a monkey in front of your whole school, or having your pants pulled down in front of the whole gym class?”

“Which is worse, getting back together with my ex boyfriend/girlfriend, or moving back in with my mother?”

“Which is worse, having your boss hear you say that he’s a balding version of Rick Moranis, or telling your wife/husband that you’ve had better?”

My which is worse, is job related. Since I’m trying to learn stuff, I’ve managed to find a position at my less-then-meritable job where I can at least try to learn some web stuff, with the help of someone who’s actually doing this stuff every day. Well, actually, I’ve done this twice at the same place. Right now I’m working with a guy who has no idea how to have someone work under him, and most of the time, when he’s not “innocently” insulting me by telling me that I know absolutely nothing, he tends to not give me anything to do that I can learn from. A lot of the time, he just doesn’t give me anything to do.

So I spoke with one of my “supervisors” and she said that she’d see what she could do about it. But no changes came. Her husband also works at the company, and he happened to see the site I made for my dolls, and he offered me a chance to work with him, developing and ultimately being in charge of the new store front that my company will eventually bring live. Rockin, I think, I’m actually going to get the chance to work and learn something I can use!

Except the guy who’s supposed to be taking me under his wing (he was talking about teaching me all sorts of things, from java script, to css, to whatever else he thought I may need.), has been really busy, and hasn’t had the time to actually work with me. So, although we got the approval from the big big boss man for me to work with the web guy, I’m still working with the guy who usually gives me nothing. *sigh*

And, my supervisor kind of tipped this guy off that they might move me to a different department if he has nothing for me to do, so he’s been giving me bs busy work for the past couple of weeks. Like, giving me 300 html files, and telling me to find and replace php code, or to remove everything that wasn’t just plain html. And I do admit, he actually does need these things done, but there are simple scripts that can be used to do this, but he needs to make me look busy, or he can’t keep me for his ego.

Anyway. Back to my original subject. My which is worse is this:

Which is worse, staying at a job that has jerked you around from the start because they promised you a higher paying position that would teach you things you need to know for other facets in your life, even if it seems like they may never move you over, or finding another job that will most likely have little or nothing to do with the internet, but that pays more money, and learn all the stuff you’re trying to learn on your own?

So I’m sick of live journal, I’m sick of my job and not knowing how to do things on my own. Voila! My wordpress blog is born!! And. . .I’ve even got a goal. I’m going to learn. Anything I can get my little hands on and wrap my big stubborn head around, I’m going to learn. To what end? To try and make myself happy by either learning how to support myself with a web-site oriented business that I can keep successful, or by learning enough to land a job where people don’t treat me like I’m an imbecile.

And to start off, I need to learn how to manipulate this blog. So far, if you look up in the top right hand corner. . .you’ll see what I’ve done so far!! ( I know, small victory, but at least I did something!!) Oh. . . you didn’t notice? :] I moved the text in the header area to the bottom right of the header area. Rock. Not really that big of an accomplishment, since I didn’t have to learn anything new to do it, I just looked in the style sheet, and changed some numbers based on their labels and some common sense, but still. At least I made a change at all.

I know I’m being lazy today, but I’m probably not going to try to fiddle with the design here tonight. I had about three hours of sleep last night, and I’m about to crash hard. (Already making excuses? I know. :[ ) But with any luck I’ll be back on track tomorrow!

Wish me luck!