Don’t look down, you’ll fall down, you’ll become the sacrifice.

So I guess, I’m happy. Is that okay for me to say at the stage in my life that I am in?

I mean sure I have something’s that upset me, and are making things a bit harder, but I’m generally happy.

I realized this when I was at work, and I was thinking about how much I smile more at work, and how I’m actually happy to be around people and such.

I realized that certain situations I had put myself in, in the past weren’t making me happy all around. It wasn’t just affecting my home life, but my life inside of work. I was never a smiley type. If someone asked me how I was, I was “okay,” I guess now when people ask me how I am I’m usually “great” or “good” which is way better than “okay.”

I’m very content. I love my new place, even the location isn’t THAT bad, or at least I haven’t noticed. Things are going well. My roommate makes me laugh on a daily basis, it’s like we live together and it’s not just us living in the same house. We actually converse there are few texts – unless of course we’re being silly. We hang out. We’re friends. I don’t feel like I’m “intruding.” Its Fantastic. It’s like I was living alone, but I have someone to talk to... best of both worlds.

Another thing I noticed was I was happy from the start of this. Previous situations I was feeling awkward had the sense that it wasn’t going to be right.

So yay for being happy!

Before you call a technical support line..

Before you call a technical support line, here are 20 things you should know.

1. Do not yell at us, we don’t care. In fact, we’re less likely to assist you if you are yelling at us. Didn’t your mother ever tell you yelling never solved anything? And if you do in fact insist on yelling or being generally rude, you are SO getting a time out. (I.E we will disconnect the call and you can “think” about what you did while waiting another 30-40 minutes for someone to answer the phone... We don’t suggest you continue yelling when the next agent answers.)
2. Do not use the “Puff Up” tactic. – Again, we don’t care. You can be Prince Ali Ababa, and we really don’t care. If you would like to inform us that you are Doctor James Johnson, Fantastic, you spent a lot of money on a title that really won’t do much for you when you call a technical support number. Maybe in your little “club” will you get recognition, but here... you are the same moron calling in for help just like every other peon person you disregard on the street.
3.Please do not waste my time by telling me what you had for breakfast or who you saw at the store.
4. If you have annoying pets (birds, yapping dogs, children...) Please lock them in a closet, the basement, the attic or put them outside before you call. Thank you.
5. Your attitude problem will not get you better results.
6. Speaking to our supervisors 9 time out of 10, will do NOTHING but have you waste someone else minesweeper time to get the same answer that we just gave you.
7. Your petty little “competitor threats” mean nothing to us. Maybe in the sales retention department would they care, however, you are calling technical support, there for you are causing us to work, and to actually not have conversations with co-workers. So if you decide to switch to the competitor because of something we cannot control like how the Bank of America website isn’t allowing you to click a link and you’ve called Fast Tax for assistance, you made the wrong call buddy, not me.
8. This goes along with number one, remember, you are calling me for help, treat me nice, and I will assist you. Treat me badly, and your question may or may not be answered.
9. Because we are technical support, does not mean we can fix other peoples errors and if we can, we probably wont, because that’s not our job (i.e. if windows is having a problem and giving you an error message, call Microsoft... not FastTax)
10. Please do not eat while talking into the phone, your slurps and gurgles are gross.
11. On that note as well, please do not talk to use while you are in the bathroom, when we here the toilet flushing us, we instantly want to release your call and set you back into the 40-50 minute wait you just had.
12. Don’t tell us how many years you have used this product, we probably weren’t with the company back then, and if we were, we wouldn’t be answering the freaking phone.
13. If you are on hold for a long time, chances are we are really busy, do not complain about the hold time, we’re just as busy answering call after call... We get it. Theres a really long hold time, maybe if you would stop calling we wouldn’t have a problem now would we?
14. For the love of god, please do not call us if you have dial-up. Upgrade your technology, and if you can’t, why the hell did you move to the middle of Bumble feck anyway? – I guess that’s the price you have to pay for silence.
15. If you don't meet the System Requirement, don't call us and complain.
16. Please learn how to read.... Even the small print.
17. Learn how to enunciate words, mumblers will not be helped. – If you mumble, I may switch on “India accent” and then neither of us will be able to understand what’s going on.
18. If you do not know at least basic Computer 101, please hang up, take a class on computer usage, pass course with at least a B grade then call us back. We may require proof of passing grade. And yes, there will be a test.
19. I am the expert. Not your family or friends. You called me, not them.
20. If you cannot follow these guidelines within reason, you will not be assisted, because I will be forced to experience some "technical difficulties” when I hang up on your dumb @$$.

Things are looking “Grown up” for me

So, I moved into my new “own” place. I have a fantastic roommate who’s extremely cool and an awesome apartment, even though it’s slightly ghetto.

It’s a two story apartment where the living room and Kitchen are downstairs and both bedrooms and the bathroom are up stairs of doom – which means no drinking and walking up and/or down stairs. (Possible pictures to come?)

I spent 500.00 some odd dollars paying off some tickets I had on payment plans and I bought a 20 GB? IPod on eBay for 120.00 roughly, so I’m excited to get that.

I also get a home phone and internet connection installed on Friday. Things are looking “Grown up” for me.... It’s entirely too weird.

Wish me luck.

Pay Tribute to my "Husband's" band On V-Day

On this Valentines Day, I would like to pay tribute to a band that shaped my Tween and Teen years....

So Maybe I’m really lame, but every time I hear a backstreet boy song (like now) I get an odd retarded smile that spreads across my face like some sort of infectious disease.

Makes me go back to the days when it was okay that I would bust out the folding chairs and practice the dance moves to “As Long As You Love Me.” But rest assured I do not do that anymore, but that could be because I don’t have a folding chair... Yea, that’s the reason!

I love the innocence of youth, how a band can rule your world and create the best bonds ever. My friends from Junior High school shared the backstreet boy bond with me even if we were ridiculed by other kids. In fact, this bond didn’t stop in Junior high, some of us carried it into high school and we still weren’t afraid to show our Backstreet Pride, and I can honestly tell you right now I am still, at the age of 22, not afraid to show my backstreet pride.

I love their CD’s, (even if I look back now and think, ‘wow, those lyrics are such cheese!’) I love what they did for me as a band, I loved that I could invent pretend worlds in my head where I was marrying a member of the band and I love that it reconnected me with a friend I thought I might have lost.

The Backstreet Boys were my Beatles – because yes, the Beatles were a boy band, regardless of what you might think, and the Beatles were epic.

Happy Single's Awareness Day! - True to its Name

Why is it that if you are alone on valentines’ day you are all the sudden unhappy? Is it okay to be single and okay with it? Or is that just not allowed?

Are we (singles) supposed to be upset about not being in a relationship to share a day that was created by card and candy companies to raid us of our money?

I’m not really saying this as a disgruntled single person. I’m saying it because I had a conversation with someone and they were asking me about hooking up some people with some other people and I stated it’s not my job to play cupid. And apparently his question had bad timing because valentines’ day is tomorrow and I’m obviously supposed to be bent out of shape because of this.

I’m not at all concerned about tomorrow. I don’t care if I get a dozen roses, or a card, or a candy. I don’t care if someone decides to shower me with gifts that I will more than likely throw away or tuck away in a closet never too be looked at again. And Do I really need the chocolates? I’m already fat. So I think I’m good.

I’m comfortable with myself in the “situation” I am in that tomorrow will come and go, like any other day.

And for the record, I have TWO Valentines’... So was it really bad timing or just poor judgment and assumption?

“That’s awfully big, don’t I need that?”

**WARNING** So, the guys may want to skip over this. Maybe even cover your eyes and go “la-la-la” Because this is about to take a turn. A turn I’m sure you don’t even want to go on. But if you read on, in all fairness, you were warned.

So there’s something about the female body that each month the insides pretty much have to purge itself, we all know this as a period. The End of a sentence... So as we all (Females) become aware of our cycles and the things our body emits, I can’t help but wonder, “That’s awfully big, don’t I need that?”

I swear to god, I thought a clot was the size of a small child and that some how my body and rejected a vital organ in the midst of "spring cleaning" that just so happens to be a pain in the ass we lovely refer to as “aunt flo, coming for a visit" each month.

Seriously, as if pimples and back ache weren’t enough. Very funny God, Very funny.

Chicken came out of where?!

I don’t know, maybe I wasn’t as observant, maybe I didn’t have a lot of snot as a kid. But I have become acutely aware of how much I blow my nose. I apparently am FULL of snot, because I cannot go a day without blowing my nose. And Heaven forbid I cough while eating a food substance, because that’ll get lodged up my nose.

Not to be too graphic, but I totally just had a piece of chicken come out of my nose. That’s freaking gross. Why does my body do such odd things?