It's been a million years since I've visited. I've mostly been caught up in the world of myspace and craigslist. Oh well. I started missing LJ tonight and am going to try and be online here more often and update.

I don't know the proper authority to report this to, but read this and share with alllll your friends:

1. About a year ago we went to Kroger and found so much rotting and past-prime meat we wrote a letter to headquarters and got a formal apology. At time time there was green steak, grey pork, and chicken with orange semi-opaque juices.
2. About 3 months ago we found a steak so putrid green in the case that J actually went and got someone from the meat department to come remove it because it was gross. They said something regarding the fact it shouldn't have been there.
3. TONIGHT we actually bit into rancid cooked beef we'd purchased there not 2 days ago and had been in our freezer.

Seriously, please tell everyone you know to not buy meat from Kroger.

i am sad.

Ok so here's my ridiculous situation..
I already mentioned we had some changes at work and the girl they let go was the girl who did all our tech support. Now, by that I mean she did everything from "My computer froze.. what do I do?" to being server admin to rebuilding towers that broke. Well when she got the boot, that whole job got dropped square on my head since I'm the next in line when it comes to computer knowledge.

So.

I need help.

Can anyone tell me the basic cliff notes version of how to work certain things? I mean, I know most stuff, but I don't know jack squat about servers or how to connect a PC to a server or things like that. That essentially what I need. Is anyone a computer genius?

Even though it's not New Year's day anymore, I feel the need to pay some sort of retrospective honor to 2006. I'm not what to say about it. I feel like it's been the fastest year of my life to date. I always say that the year feels like it went fast... but this one was just stupid fast. When I think back to last year's New Year.. it's like it was yesterday.. literally! The only thing I can say is that time does fly when you're having fun and also when you're really flipping busy. Getting your entire life reorganized does keep you really flipping busy. I still feel like my life is up in the air.. as it has been all year in a lot of ways and I still don't feel settled quite, but it's ok. We're working on it piece by piece and I'm sure things will settle down in 2007. I feel overall like this has been a year of learning. I feel like I learned a lot about myself, a lot about my life, a lot about my goals, and a lot about the world. I feel like I have a much different perspective now that I did at the beginning of 2006, which has been a pleasent change.

I've also selected my favorite New Year meme.. mostly because of it usually turns out to be amusing rather than for its informative value.

Take the first sentence from the first LJ entry of each month and record it below:

January: Starting off with another big Happy Birthday to Bret who I thought of very much yesterday, but was unable to communicate with.

Febuary: So I've really been doing pretty ok with wedding everything despite in unexpectedly large quantity of mishaps (J's delayed release, lost paperwork, the arrival of a faulty passport, confusion about where we're living, honeymoon disasters..), but all of a sudden things are starting to wear on me a little

March: I'm Married!!

April: I'm so excited because today I actually had a real respectable professional person who works in the consulting/recruiting field tell me my resume is "quite impressive."

May: Today, during a last second work crisis, I was forced to learn how to create extended animated gifs on the fly.

June: It's been raining here pretty close to every day for awhile now.

July: I feel so shitty today

August: Yesterday's meeting with the newspaper was another dead end.

September: Hey.. I need a hand with something rather silly.

October: Nothing has calmed down yet in my neck of the woods.

November: Well I've gone through some job changes... did I mention this?

December: Well, I finally got a second job.

I'm removing a friend from my friend list soon. If you're reading this and wondering why, it's probably not you. The fact is that there's someone that I have tried to be cool with and they just won't be cool back. They have removed me from their list, effectively blocking me out so they can most likely lie about me and talk bad about me behind my back... in fact the last post I saw from them was venemous and vindictful and directed at me. I just don't think it's fair that they could still read and respond to my journals when they kicked me out. Like I said, I have tried to be nothing but cool. Guess there's nothing left.

People are just weird

I'm sorry things have ended like they have. I really honestly am. I am sad that things had to be that way.

I wish I could change it, but I can't. I just couldn't deal with it anymore... the emails, the posts, the invasion of privacy... but the phone call was was what tore it.

You know what I really wanted? I wanted to sit down and call truce together. I wanted to make peace... if not forgiveness then at least peace. That's what I wished for up until the last second and what I still wish for now. I wish it could all be mutually put behind us.

I'll never have that, I know.
I don't like the consequences of what I had to do.
But I did it.. and it's over.
I hope you can be happier.