Just soooo much stuff....

So, I'm not sure what to say, or where to begin; plus it *is* pretty late at the moment... But let's just go with the flow and see where it leads us...

-First off, Stephen King's "Duma Key" novel.... I'm loving it, and I haven't read a King novel since "Wizards & Glass"...

-The "Big Blue Box" is still mucking about with me, rattling the cage to see what happens... I came down with some kind of stomach bug last Monday, had to call into work on Tuesday 'cuz it was still giving me trouble. The manager I talked to wasn't happy with me, saying something along the lines of "AGAIN? On a TRUCK NIGHT?"... I wanted to fire back with, "If all you schedule me for are trucks, and I get sick, what the HELL DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN?". Next week I've been scheduled for a whopping 4 hours FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK! -I don't know about you, but I can't do that anymore... Which leads me to...

-I've put in an application, done the interview, and have been told to report for training down at the bus garage on Tuesday morning to get a little refresher course for my School Bus endorsement to my driver's license. I used to drive school bus before moving on to the "Big Blue Box" almost 5 years ago. But, I'm not about to argue with bills piling up, credit card companies wanting to schedule payments for their money, and having no money to buy food/gasoline/etc... The job is pretty much guaranteed, will be about 20 hours minimum, and pay $15 an hour. That's much better than the $10 & 4-12 hour weeks I've been getting from my current 'job'. Too bad it doesn't really START until the end of August...

-Bills... Fuck. -And those credit card companies are not any fun to deal with either... I'll be glad once this is over and I can get the balances back down...

-Smurfette... She's been pissing me off pretty easily lately. It's nothing that I'm happy about, but she can really rub me the wrong way sometimes. Between her wanting me to quit (hell no, not until I've got something else, if I get FIRED I can still collect unemployment), and with the lack of hours at work, she has the nerve to complain that we don't spend any time together... And she wanted me to cancel painting at my uncle's to hang out with her brother at her dad's... OK, it was his birthday, he'd recently gotten married, and we haven't seen them in a little while anywas... I'll give her that one, but I was still pretty pissed. Monday she had two doctor appointments out in the Cities that we went to. Everything went well, but afterwards she wanted to stop at Burger King and get something to eat!!! I had to beg money off Papa Smurf to put gas in the car, and didn't have two pennies to rub together, and she wants to stop at BK? Huh? -Apparently, she had a buck in her purse, and I had a winning scratch off from the current TF's promo for a free Jr. WHopper... Of course, she won and ate lunch from BK (for the record, I didn't eat lunch today, but don't think she noticed at all). And to top it off today, we decided to cook the little country-style pork ribs for dinner, but didn't have any potatoes in teh apartment... She asked me to ask one of our neighbors to see if they had any, which they didn't, but had some boxed instant mashed potatoes. I called her up to see if this was acceptable, to which she said yes, but when I came back upstairs she was complaining about it already!!!! Pissed off, I grabbed what little money we had left in the laundry funds to run to Kwik Trip to get a couple lbs of taters to appease the gods... Grrrrrrrrrrr...................................

-I've added more figures to my Sale thread over at TFW2005, and have actually lined up quite a sale if I can swing it. One person who wanted to purchase two of my RHino sets wanted to trade me a MISB Walmart Masterpiece Starscream for them, but I wasn't sure I'd be able to pay for shipping ($10), but told him I'd think about it, and would be adding more figures to my list that night anyways, and see if he'd be interested in anyone else... Boy, was he ever! There's about 4-6 figures on there that he PM'd me back about as soon as I'd messaged him about them... Shipping charges shouldn't be a concern of mine much longer. In fact, I should be getting a decent chunk of change from this person soon enough... and that should help things out here at home (plus, that Masterpiece Starscream would be nice)...

-Speaking of my sale thread, I received my TRU reissue of Powermaster Optimus Prime w/ Apex Armor; MIB, stickers unapplied! -Well, until I got the box back inside, transformed both Prime, Godbomber, Powermaster Prime, & Apex Armor Powermaster Prime. Then, I took about an hour or so and carefully applied the TWO PAGES of stickers to the figure... Let me tell you, there *IS* no better feeling than applying the stickers to a new toy, especially if the toy in question is about 8 years old and as minty as this one was... My favorite so far has to be the Gobot Staks figure I got recently. He came in his original box, and as soon as I had him out, I applied the 25 year old stickers to him... God, that makes me a happy collector!

-That's about all I can come up with at the moment, I need to get some sleep to I can be bright-eyed and bushy tailed for tomorrow's training, and *THEN* I get to work at the "Big Blue Box" a few hours afterwards (for 4 hours before I then go to sleep for the day)...