I've REALLY got to get over this 'I have to be up early so I can't sleep at all' thing. I turned my alarm off Wednesday and SLEPT. But I still got up before 6am because I had gone to sleep early (I was very very tired)
But today? 4 hours of sleep wouldn't have been enough, but it sure would have been better then zero. Did it happen? NOPE. I'm positive I didn't even doze 'cause I've got none of that morning crud in my eyes.

I wonder if I start setting my alarm every morning would this problem go away? Or does it only work if I set it for the same time each day? I can't keep doing this. Esp when often the reason I get up REAL early is so I can go somewhere & take pictures. Lack of sleep messes with my balance which messes with my photography.

I'm glad my flight to Seattle is so late I don't have to set an alarm 'cause it's a very bad way to start a trip.

Well, I might as well get moving. It's a bit earlier then I had planned, but I decided it would be a waste to try sleeping for an hour and I can do some star gazing since it's almost a new moon. Damn, sunrise is early. First stop - Wawa on Rt 50 for some caffeine.
(I'm going to Bombay Hook - haven't been there since new year's day... hope it doesn't disappoint. Locals have said the foxes are hiding this year. Sigh. But the turtles should be out. And hopefully the horseshoe crabs.

oh, I don't really understand the tides, but I think I found the right info.
http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/delawaresites.html#date

Bombay Hook usually lists tides for the Leipsic River - and high is at 11:53am.
BUT the buoy at Port Mohan says the high tide is 8:46 AM. Big difference. So, that's what I'm aiming for and hopefully there will be activity. The NZ bird club is doing an outing tomorrow, so they expect things to be hoping.

My square card stopped working on Sunday. It was fine on Saturday. Then on Sunday I lent it to the vendor next to me 'cause she left hers at home. It didn't work. Then I couldn't get it to work either. I even tried my own credit cards, but nothing worked. Luckily I could manually enter the numbers.

I ordered a new card and was just told it's been shipped already. Nice.

And customers are starting to see more and more of them and are much more comfortable with the process. This has been a huge money and time saver.

BTW - did you know businesses will have to separate income starting next year? It was on this years Schedule C, but was optional for this year. But next year companies like paypal and squareup will need to send their information to the IRS and we need to put it separate. Kinda makes me wish I had a personal paypal account also - I could have used it early March. No way I'm paying income tax on money I gave directly to the vets. If I HAVE to put it on to match some 1099 Paypal sends me I'm offsetting it with the expense it went towards.

While I'm grumping about all the evil empires that are REALLY pissing me off I must add Microsoft to that list. When I put my laptop to sleep when I'm using Word the documents often shrink to a totally unusable size. I can minimize the files, but I can't resize the windows. All new documents I open will also be this stupid size. The only solution is to quit the program and reopen the files. (which is a HUGE pain if I've got a lot of them open)

So Microsoft you go in the GRRRR pile (or stay in it since you are the ultimate evil empire)

They want me to get my bills online, but won't actually let me do this. For some reason, even though I log in and I can see other things on their site, I can't get my bill unless they give me a PIN. So, I had them send it to my home phone.. grumping that I can't see my bill NOW. The message says "Your request to receive your PIN via a phone call has been noted. ... If you're not home, we will leave a voice mail with the information...."

Except they didn't. The message is an electronic voice asking me to press 1 or 2.. and then says they'll call back later. The second message is the same. Where's my PIN? Why can't I see my bill?!!!

I printed out an invoice for some travel expenses and saw enough stupid error in the line items I linked to that client that I decided to delete the whole invoice and start over. Except the items I assigned to that client won't re-assign. Some of the new taxi expenses I was easily able to just delete and re-enter, but the train and airfare were paid for with a credit card and reconciled already (one was done last year!) So I can't simply delete it and re-enter it. I tried deleting the 'class' and then re-entering the class, hoping the expense would again be linked to a new invoice, but that didn't work.

grrrr

So, I'm up in the middle of the night because my antibiotic (I think) is messing up my insides and decided I was awake enough to look at the NJ tax information.

I'm tempted to just say fuck it - I won't sell some items. My non-exempt items include: dog shirts, scrunchies, head bands and bags.

I can't get a FEIN through the IRS until 6am
And I can't get one through the NJ site until 8am

Fuck them. I wanna do this NOW.

oh - and my tooth hurts... It's on the side #30 was. The only two teeth over there have old root canals. It's been almost 2 months since tooth #30 was pulled. And it hurts more this week then it did last week. I think it's #31 that hurts when I bite down... That tooth has a crown on it too!

fuck.

I don't have time this week to go to the dentist, but I don't really have a choice. There's got to be an infection in there...

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Originally uploaded by FlyingWolf.

I'm not sure I've ever seen him actually SWIMMING before, but I have seen him wading and splashing around.

But on Thursday, before their morning bones (which were delayed because of an 11am behavior watch) he took a dip. And another. And another. In total, if you count every time he went from having all 4 paws on dry ground to all 4 paws in the moat he went in 8 separate times (at least!!)

My light has shipped! Waiting for the FedEx tracking # to process, but I'm sure it'll arrive in time because it's only coming from NJ. I got the real strong one and it costs a bit over $60 and I was able to use a small gift card of unknown origin. I couldn't use the Amazon local one I just bought, but maybe that's because it's linked to my Amazon address and I used my sisters. Not that I could order one that was eligible for prime (that one said it wouldn't ship for 2-3 weeks) but I hoped having prime might expedite shipping. Not sure if it did, but it'll be here on time!!

The weather forecast for Sunday is exactly the same as it was when the 10-day first came out. 72f, sunny and no rain. WOOT!! I sold over $700 last year and hope to get close to that this year. Maybe even more. Crossing fingers!

The Wilmington forecast isn't too bad, but I am glad I didn't spend time on the tanks I just ordered. Temp = 60s!! And I won't have to worry that the AC in my van doesn't work. I have to wait until a warm day so they can fix it and it hasn't been that hot! Not complaining. Still broke and not needing it works too.

I'm tired. I think the pollen in my eyes is making that worse. Sigh. I'm not having other problems, but ugh. My eyes itch!!

I'm shopping for a battery powered light for my canopy. Right now I'm thinking of getting an LED camping lamp, but I'm not sure what brightness I should get.
The canopy is 10 X 10. I was thinking of hanging this from the center. I need light that's bright enough to shop by.

The brightest I've found is 580 Lumens.

Another I'm looking at is 390 lumens.

There's a big price difference - especially to get one before I leave for North Carolina. Would two 300 lumen lamps provide the same light as one 600 lumen one? Or would it just be twice as much dim light?

It's 65f outside and calm enough that it's not coming in enough to cool my bedroom down. (I was doing laundry) My tiny space heater/fan died and the replacement doesn't have just a fan control so I currently don't have a fan. And it's too freakin early for anyone to have fans on sale.

Too early for auto shops to have AC service on sale. But that doesn't matter 'cause I end up taking my van to the shop on the coldest day in March so they can't do anything about the AC.

I needed the space heater yesterday. Damn if I'm going to turn on the AC tonight.

But, if I don't finish some things they'll just be worse when I come back. SO... somehow I've got to not lose it the next few days. Boss goes out of town on Monday and I can take some time off and relax... HA!!

I need to see if there's anything I can do about my blown mattress. (1/2 my Comfortaire mattress is flat) It's over 10 years old, so no warrantee, but I should dig up the paperwork and see what my options are.

The HUGE utility shelf I ordered yesterday because it said it would arrive in "2-7 business days" - is currently sitting in my yard. I need to make room for it inside and bring it in before it rains. OMG it's going to be REALLY FUCKING HEAVY!!! I was expecting to be home next week when it arrived and hoped the delivery person could bring it into the cleaned off area inside. Instead - there's not even a cleaned up area!!

Headaches - I'm getting 1-2 a day. That number could be higher except I don't always take an imitrex right away. (example - yesterday evening, I waited until right before bed to take the pill because I knew I'd just get another headache)
My chiro keeps fixing my back and my bed keeps messing it up. It's either that, or my glasses are messed up. So, I should go to the mall next week and get them adjusted. Make them fix that screw too... and I can treat myself to some yummies at a store I got a groupon for. (yogurt... and smoothies... and pretzels)

And my van is super sick and needs to go into the shop. OK, not SUPER sick, but I'm really worried about the locks! (the only way I can get into my van if it's locked is by using the key in the drivers lock. NOTHING ELSE WORKS. And the AC doesn't work. (and minor stuff like oil change & wipers). I'm totally ignoring the REAL big stuff (engine light went back on this week)

Taxes - yep. Need to do them.

Of course, I'm still madly dyeing stuff, filling out gaps in my inventory. I've been mostly doing simple things around my office hours - trying to minimize dye wastage. But I'd like to be able to work on some more complicated patterns (maybe even some new ones!) next week. After I get the utility shelf together and the downstairs in some useable state, I can start matting photos and making more cards.

I need a cat fix. Maybe I'll wait until Tuesday to take the van to the shop and catch rabbit day with the boys.

I wish I had more. I do one little thing that's been on my things to do list for 11 months and I'm beat. Maybe I can use this as a motivation to get into better shape... no wonder I don't finish big projects.. I get exhausted part way through!

I want to finish the shed project. I want to paint the trim on my house. But cleaning the driveway and folding my tent caused my head to spin! :P

My boss keeps asking me to add references to his Wikipedia page... and all I manage to do is read the instructions until my head spins with absolutely no comprehension.

HE claims it's easy and even he's done it. HOW?!!! I've never done anything with wikipedia... and it looks like there are a zillion different ways to add references. If you use one way, you must ALWAYS use that way, but I have no idea if any way has been used with this entry.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS. IF I COULD UNDERSTAND IT, I'D HAVE MY FUCKING COLLEGE DEGREE AND BE MAKING MORE MONEY!!!!

I've been looking around the clutter pit that I call a house and realized that I never changed anything when vending became more then a casual thing. I got no new shelves or furniture. This has GOT to change!! While I hate spending money, I've got to make my house more usable for my current life. And maybe that would make me more productive. (plus it's a business expense)

I don't use my fireplace, so I'll ditch the shelf above it (it's tilted at a horrible angle anyway) and put a utility shelf or two on that wall.

I don't read books anymore, so it might be time to get rid of all my paperbacks.

I eat in the living room or in my office so it's time to get rid of my "dining room table" and chairs. LAURA - DO YOU WANT THE CHAIRS?!!

A large shelf unit would be useful in my bedroom too - to replace the boxes of white stuff cluttering the floor
and maybe even a larger bedside table.

(doing anything about the books will be the last thing I do because they are in the least way)

oh - and does anyone need cat toys, treats or food? Or know where I can donate some of this stuff. My boy was spoiled and had a LOT of toys. I'll save some for my next kitty(s) but I sure don't need to save all of them! I plan to return unopened cans next week and I'll ask about donations of the open dry food, greenies and pill pockets when I go to the pet store.

ACK!!

I think my email address is being used in a DOS attack!!

I'm getting lots of bounced email with

Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

said: 550-5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a
rate that 550-5.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. For
more 550-5.2.1 information, please visit
550 5.2.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6592
o1si14918125vdv.129 (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Most are gmail accounts. One wasn't, but went through google

The content of the message is gibberish and they weren't sent to anyone who's addresses I recognize.

The worst thing is that it's my primary email address!! Am I going to get on spammer lists or something? :P

I've gotten 23 of these and one automatic response from someone saying they've got a new email address.

I can't find my phone!! I last saw it around 8am when the vet called. Thought I put it in my purse. When I went to look at it after my short zoo visit, it wasn't there. I've called it and can't hear anything, but I can only call from my office 'cause that's the only phone that works. I searched the car with a flashlight. Checked all my pockets. Soon there won't be a ring to hear. :(

Maybe I need to get a new cordless phone or a battery for the one I've got...

His numbers suck.
He's in full on renal failure.
Anemic.

I wish money weren't an issue. But it is.

They want me to bring him in for a 2-day stay with IV fluids to get him over the hump. Then I do Sub-Q fluids at home.

He's eating some of the foods I've been trying. I'll be going back to the stores today to get more of the ones he ate. 2.5mg of pepsid daily might help his appetite if his tummy is a tad upset. He's already on the appetite stimulant.

I'm not seeing this as a hump and can't see spending over $300 I don't have... a hump would be if he actually is showing symptoms. And he's not. He's alert. Eating sometimes (depending on the food), playing, watching birds, drinking. Jumping up on my table (with the help of step). I took him to the vet because of his oder, not because of they way he was acting.

I don't think I'm going to care about the quality of food. If he wants fancy feast - he's going to get it.

11 years with my wonderful Chessie Cat is far to few.
(

what's it going to take to get me to start drinking enough? I knew I wasn't drinking enough yesterday morning. Then it became more difficult to drink for a while because I had to have gauge in my mouth for hours to stop the bleeding. And I was running errands. Every time I visited the bathroom I hardly had to go - I mean.. i HAD to go, but it was an allusion.

I wake up after 5 hours asleep and am on my computer before going to the bathroom. Splitting headache. I'm waiting for the 6 hour mark so I can take another vicoden.

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Originally uploaded by FlyingWolf.