07.22.08 - 09:03 PM The paint...it won't come off!! I don't want to make this a home improvement blog but it's the most interesting thing I got going on in my life at the moment. Scott and I tried to finish painting the master bedroom today...we just needed to paint the ceiling. Unfortunately the sun went down before we got a chance to finish (we started at 6:30 PM). Stupid work! The master bedroom color was as tacky and tasteless as everything else in that house. Basically they painted one wall pink with sponged splotches of orange and brown and the rest was a really dull white that eventually turned yellow with age it seemed. Scott agreed early on to let me choose the colors for this place. I've read that blue is a peaceful color to gaze at before going to bed. Also since we only have one window in the master bedroom, we went with a light blue color since we didn't have too much natural light to go with a darker tone. For the ceiling (as per Kathy's advice) we went one shade lighter than the light blue we had so it was an even lighter blue which would fool the eyes and make our vaulted ceiling look even higher. Sounds like I'm pulling it out of my ass but its true =P The upstairs carpet is an uglyyyy brown. We are definitely getting a nice beige carpet (the carpet is super old, it was most likely the original carpet that came with the place). I tagged it before we painted over it! muahaha That is one uglyass pink paint they did. *Shudder* I will post pictures up when we are fully done. I am already considering painting over the moulding and doors in the bedroom with a nice cream color. One crisis at a time right? [No Comments]     07.21.08 - 06:35 AM Hauling over the house Over the weekend Scott and I started on the house. We're trying to get priorities in place before we do anything, but there's a LOT more stuff to do to the house than we originally estimated because the previous sellers were so backwards. Things we NEED to fix before being habitable (this is not counting the vanity stuff) - Put the washer/dryer piping and ducts back into the laundry room and remove from the kitchen pantry - Put the refridgerator outlets from the hallway closet to the kitchen pantry - Remove all the wood and shelves built into the wall in the washer/dryer room in the basement - Remove tons of bookshelves and faux shelves they built into the walls over the years - Change the carpet (upstairs is the priority, but the living room needs it too, such an ugly forest green) - Paint bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, and living room (These people had NO taste whatsoever) - Get insulation done in the attic. - Install new screws in the patio So on Saturday Scott and I removed every shelf these people built into the house. I'm not talking about fashionable wooden shelves for bookcases...I'm talking about wal-mart style bookshelves, home depot wood planks, leftover cabinets when they refaced the kitchen...the list goes on and on. But yes, not only these shelves don't match anything in the house, they just NAILED, SCREWED, and GLUED it in and painted over it so it's tons of effort to rip it out. I can't emphasize how backwards they were and the random stupid tight places they these shelves and cabinets in (ie, basement hallway and basement entrance which is hard enough to get through since they span 3 ft. But we got a lot of work done! Not only did we remove every shelf (we filled 1 and a half dumpsters with shelves, I'm sure our neighbors hate us now) but Scott's dad came over and helped us rig the fridge back in it's rightful place in the KITCHEN. Yes, the kitchen is mustard yellow and the carpet is forest green. NO TASTE. Anyways, it has been successfully moved. Woohoo! We also started paint in the master bedroom. Ugh, I'll talk about that later. [No Comments]     07.16.08 - 09:01 PM A Dumptruck's worth When we got back from Vegas Scott and I browsed through the house we took possession of. The sellers had SO much crap everywhere that we were excited to look at the house without the crap everywhere. To our surprise, the sellers LEFT a lot of crap behind. Cheap walmart bookshelves and cabinets were nailed to the walls and painted over (which pissed us off completely, they told us they were taking everything with them). They left a big HEAVYASS desk in the basement along with several display cases and broken table legs. The worst part was they basically left EVERYTHING in the attic. It was jam packed full of their crap! Now if you're anything like Roman who thinks that "You totally could've ebayed all that!". No seriously, it was CRAP. The most valuable thing in there was an old silverware set and an old record collection (of country singers). The rest was tacky holiday stuff and important tax and bank documents they've accumulated over the years. So we call our realtor and she gets us in touch with the seller. This old lady is such a BITCH. She's like "well some of that stuff was in there when we moved in". SO?? Its under the terms of contract moron. You don't leave shit behind even if you claim it isn't your shit. It was your shit when you bought it 25 years ago and you didn't say anything about it! So the lady agrees to pay for haulers to take the stuff out of the attic. They charged her over $1000 to clean it up...and trust me I don't think it was enough. It took them FOUR hours to clear the shit in the attic...and the poor guy who was in the attic throwing it down, I felt so bad for him because it was 120 degrees up there. There was so much crap to the point it broke the attic ladder towards the middle and the lady immediately says "That's not our fault!!!". Bitch. Anyway, it's all cleaned and the attic is clear and it's HUGE. Now what's left on our priority list is to unscrew all the cheapass shelves and cabinets they put in random places, paint, and then new carpet. Wish us luck! [No Comments]     07.13.08 - 11:24 PM Emptying the Camera! Hi all! Thanks for waiting. Like I said stress sucks. Let's just say...we closed on the house a week later it was supposed to because Wells Fargo underwriters don't care about deadlines. A whole bunch of people turned in their resignation at the Credit Union (but I don't care cuz I'm still on vacation, muhaha). We need to do some work on the townhome we bought but nothing that won't break the bank at the moment. And I came back from Vegas safe and sound! Las Vegas is quite awesome! I haven't been there since I was twelve when I stayed at Circus Circus with the family. Lets just say when you're 21, that place is a BLAST. I'm a little sad I had to leave but at the same time was super relieved when I hit the bed when I got home. We stayed at the Imperial Palace (Super cheap hotel in the middle of the strip across from Caesar's Palace). Although I must say going to Vegas in the middle of summer is NOT a good idea. We were dying from heat exhaustion during the day (we got smart after the first day to leave the hotel room after it gets dark). I definitely want to go back to Vegas soon! It was so fun! I was super disappointed that Avenue Q wasn't playing in Vegas anymore (replaced by Mamma Mia, ugh) but Scott and I shelled out 80 dollars to see one of the Cirque De Soliel shows. We went to see Zumanity in New York New York...and let me say it was frickin AWESOME. It was a sexuality themed Cirque and let me just say one thing that will make the show worth if for you...FLEXIBLE MIDGET. Holy crap I wish they let us take pictures. The show was amazing and hilarious at some points. It was worth it! So here's me emptying some pictures from my digital camera. Obviously these are not all the pictures I took since not all are appropriate. Also I couldn't take as many as I wanted because they would not allow us to take pictures of inside the casino floors and the show. Phooey. On the plane to Vegas...Allison caught this while I was reading I caught this as we were landing...XD The view in front of our hotel (the Imperial Palace), that would be Caesar's Palace...in all of it's 115 degree glory. You can't see from the picture but the streets were doing that weird wavy heat thing. Allison is awesome~! One of the many nudie statues in front of Caesars Palace. Inside Caesar's Palace drinking a Fat Tuesday Strawberry Daiguiri. Don't be too impressed, Scott drank a good majority of that...In fact he drank 5 of those on the entire trip. I'm surprised he held himself back actually. Me and Scott in front of the awesome Bellagio right before the fountain show. Allison's a good picture taker! Fountain show was awesome. We waited to watch three of them. I was going to shoot video of it but I'm pretty positive there's tens of thousands of those on Youtube at the moment. A view of the new Planet Hollywood Casino from the Bellagio steps. Too bad the picture blurs because the lights in Vegas constantly blink. Inside the Bellagio...and their current art scheme in the lobby. It had a cute train setting this time around. They had a creepy tree on display and Allison took a picture of it staring at us...the eyes follow you, so scaaaaary. Inside the Madame Taussad's Wax Museum...Jeremy and Scott with Jenna Jameson (each holding a titty). She's so frickin TINY! Me and Allison with the Rock. Allison is distracting him while I cop a feel. =) Scott ducking in front of Babe Ruth (I think thats Babe Ruth?) Scott took this pic when I bent over to pick up a golf ball to post with Tiger. Priceless. He wishes! XD Simon Cowell is quite creepy. One of the best pictures taken in that place. XD West Side! Too bad he couldn't do that upside down kiss. that would've been awesome! Scott says this is the best picture taken so far there (for those who don't recognize, thats JFK and Jackie O) We have a picture of us all flicking off George Bush but Allison has that picture and promised to send it later. I promise to post it when I get it. I'm so glad there were no black people present at the time. I loooooooove Master Chief...*love shudder* Here's some more pictures I promised to post on my blog several months ago but never did XD. Better late than neve right? New Years Eve on 16th street mall in Downtown Denver. Hooray for Below Zero Temperatures! Me and Scott on New Years Eve. SO COLD. New Years kiss with Brandon...still funny! New Years Eve with Ronald McDonald! How awesome is that?? We tried to take a picture in front of the really pretty tree in Scott's work building but the camera kept blurring. Bah. The one nice picture where I'm not squinting! Too bad Scott looks funny hehe. This was at Red Rocks at Scott's sister's wedding. I have vacation until Wednesday. I will SAVOR every moment! [No Comments]     06.30.08 - 06:42 AM I'm not good with stress Too much crap turning my hair gray at the moment to blog yet. Will blog later. [2 Comments]     06.24.08 - 11:18 PM Work Drama Sorry for the lag in blogging for the few people that check my blog. The last couple days have been absolutely hectic. So lemme get to the nitty gritty of whats been going on at work since I last blogged. The teller manager (we'll call her N) is the nicest person you'll ever know and she's a prime example how fed up we've all become of our place of work thanks to our CEO. What basically happen is that we had an extremely psycho member who was ranting, spitting, and threatening everyone in the lobby because the tellers could not give her cash from her deposited checks (she opened the account fraudulently). To get her out of the lobby, N cut her a bank check...and the member service manager immediately called the police while she told me to stop the check immediately. So the cops come in and they're taking a statement from the member service manager. The crazy member comes BACK after 20 minutes to try and cash the check with a different teller. The cops spot her and immediately go to her to ask her a couple questions. The lady spazzes out and assaults the cop (putting him in a headlock and punching him in the face trying to get a hold of his gun) and tries to run away. It takes four cops to pin her down and hog tie her! Basically I saw the whole thing through surveillance cameras and watching the whole thing go down outside my office window. Well back to the subject in question, so I personally think N did a pretty appropriate thing. The lady was psycho (as seen in my story) and the security of the other customers and employees came first so she got the lady out of the building by giving her that fake check. After all this went down, the CEO pulls N into his office (mind you, he did this without telling the Member Service manager who N works under) and took it upon himself to berate her about the decision she made. I don't know what exactly they discussed in his office, but I heard it was along the lines of "that was a bad decision, you should've waited until someone else called the police to arrest her rather than let her go". The fuck??? We all know she did it with the best intentions to get a psychopath out of the building so no one would get hurt!! Basically in this hour long office meeting, the CEO brings N to tears (congratulations, you're a real man for making a girl cry) and she goes back to the teller line to resume work. That was when the member service manager spots her and asks, "Oh hey, N~ I wanted to ask you about that check that was cut" and thats when she had enough and flipped out and yelled "FUCK THIS SHIT, I'M NOT TAKING THIS FUCKING CRAP ANYMORE! I'M GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE" and left the building right there! Everyone's been trying to get a hold of her all day today to get her to come back, but no such luck. She was a great teller manager and a great person. I am completely on her side on this one. I'm sad that she had to take so much crap from the guy, but at the same time I admire her a lot for getting the heck out of this place with no compromises. I've been submitting resumes again to different places to see what I can get. At this rate, I don't see anything good happening at work at all. They basically tripled my workload and there is no sign of me getting a raise or getting another accountant in our department. Sigh. [No Comments]     06.18.08 - 12:35 PM Sucks to be me! I absolutely hate politics at work. I know no matter where I go, I will hate the boss there, but in my current situation, the CEO at our credit union is an absolute MORON. His current state of mind is still in the 1980s and he basically shuns any technology that was created after that. Everyone at our Credit Union is still running on old printers that were literally made in 1983 (my birthyear for crying out loud!), my computer is over ten years old and running on Windows 2000. The reason why I mention these things is because as you can see, he does not want the Credit Union to invest a little bit into upgrading our ancient hardware. But he WILL plunk down over $10,000 to a website design firm to redesign our website with the most PLAIN drab looking layout that looks like it was a template taken from Microsoft Frontpage. THE FUCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are three webdesigners working at the credit union, including me! We saw the design and our jaws literally dropped at the crap. And all our CEO can say is "wow, that's a really nice design! it's perfect for our members!" THE HELL? If our members were over 50 years old yeah! Good God, I can't believe we paid $10,000 for that piece of crap layout. And its JUST LAYOUT. No flash, no cgi, no php...just DESIGN. As I said, our CEO is an idiot. Anyway, as I blogged before, Airie is leaving and today is her last day. Even with Airie, the people in accounting are struggling to get all the work done amongst ourselves, so with one leg gone on a four leg table...things are definitely going to fall. So our GENIUS of our CEO basically refused to let me take Airies position and give Solongo (my former assistant who basically knows the entire job) my position. Why you ask? "Because I like the fact that we have plenty of tellers on the teller line and our members that come in don't have to wait in line" Ah but wait! Whenever I go downstairs to the main lobby, the tellers are all basically twiddling their thumbs and staring out into space. We do not have high traffic in our main branch. At the very worst, we have maybe 4 members inside the branch at once. So yeah, basically no one will be waiting in line because NO ONE IS THERE. So when we suggested we send Solongo up to accounting and we'd refer many qualified recruits for her teller position, he replied "Well...the teller line is already overstaffed." THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS MAN???? IF YOU'RE OVERSTAFFED THEN SEND SOLONGO UP AND PROBLEM IS SOLVED! THE HELL IS IN YOUR PEA SIZED BRAIN??? I WILL GO POSTAL IF IT IS ONLY THREE PEOPLE IN ACCOUNTING!!! I WILL LOSE MY FUCKING SANITY!!! I absolutely HATE this man! I want our board of directors to get rid of him SO badly but they're all in cahoots of one another because of HIM that the board members can go to nice cushy "credit union functions" to Hawaii and Las Vegas on the credit union's tab. So we're stuck, absolutely stuck. Is there anyone in Colorado that can offer me a good job with a competent upper management? [1 Comment]