Well, if anyone lives around this area or has seen the news or weather lately…you know about the evil ice storm that hit. Well where I live they declaired it a disaster area. Yeah, it’s that bad! I don’t think there is a tree around here that still has all it’s branches. It looks like a tornado went through and only got the trees. Thankfully none of my family or friends had any damage to their houses and everyone either had heat or was able to go to someones house that did have heat. I’m staying at my parents house for now. They have a propain heater and a generator. The only time I really notice that we don’t have electricity is when we start cooking. We have been going over to my grandmas to eat because she has a gas stove. Thankfully she lives just across the yard. 
It all started Monday. I was getting ready for classes when my Mom called saying that the weather was going to get bad and she thought I should come and stay at her house. So I did. I didn’t think it was going to be as big a deal as it was cause I only brought 1 change of clothes. lol. I also forgot things like my phone charger and to leave the water running a little so that the pipes didn’t freeze. :/ Once I realized how bad it would be I started worring about the pipes and tree limbs hitting my house. We went over there on Thursday though and everything is fine. Actually there is one tree down and a few limbs but nothing like at my parents house. (I’ll have pictures sooner or later.)
As far as the electric goes at one point they were saying that it could be up to 3 weeks before we got it back. Now my dad is thinking sometime today or tomorrow. But sense I live in the oposite direction and farther out, it will be longer before I get electric to my house. I think the only good thing will be that my bill won’t be so high this month. 
O and did I mention that 90something percent of the town I live in was without electricity for a while. Yeah… They have electric people in from everywhere and truckloads of generators in the mall parkinglot. I wish I could get one right now, that way next time I might be able to stay at my own house. I mean, I have a wood burning heater, so the cold won’t be a problem. I would just need some way to get hot water and to heat up food…o and ofcorse I would need internet!! lol. Then again, it would be better to wait till summer to get one, they won’t cost quite as much then.
Anyways, while this is going on here my hubby is in Iowa with a phone that has died and without money because the company he works for aparently forgot to pay him for one of the loads he took. The port thing on his phone where you plug it in to charge it stoped working. So now he can’t charge his phone. He managed to stop at a verizon store earlier, they told him what was wrong and took out his battery, put it in another phone, charged it, then put it back in his phone that way he would have battery for a little longer. It died a little while ago though. So now I probably won’t hear from him untill Monday. 
Also, I quit my job at WalMart. Now I just hope people start needing websites very soon. I put up one flyer Monday before the weather got bad. I will print a few more this comming Monday and put them up at a few other computer shops.
Ok, so I was reading someones blog yesterday and they said that they had decided to delete all their old blog posts (after saving them of corse) because it’s a new year so there should be a fresh start. (If this was you let me know and I will link to you.) Anyways..I was thinking of doing the same thing. Only also adding a new layout and organizing my pages and such. I’m also going to start trying to write blog posts that are a decent length. Most of mine are fairly short and usually annoy me. I was thinking about making myself get to a certain word count…but maybe not. I don’t know yet. We shall see.
Yesterday was a crappy day. Well, school was ok (first day back)..but work was crap. After a day like that at work I’ve decided that I hate working there. I’ve never liked working ‘normal’ jobs. WalMart is definatly a ‘normal’/deadend job. They tell you that it isn’t a deadend job, they tell you that anyone can work their way up the ladder in the WalMart corporation. But the way I see it…it’s a deadend job. I don’t think there are many people that aspire to be a WalMart employee.
Not only is it a deadend job, but they treat you like crap. Let me explain:
Sense I started back in August I have been sick/unable to work quite a bit. (Not as much as January of last year, but that’s another story.) WalMart has a point system. You get a point when you miss a day of work, half a point when you are late, 1/3 of a point if you leave early but only after you have been there for at least half of your shift. Well, I had a dentist appt. in September and another in October, both of which I couldn’t get them to let me have time off for. So I got points for that. I almost passed out at work 3 times and decided to leave early in November. I got in a wreck in November and was late. I had the misscariage the beginning of December and was late because of going to the doctor. I had a cyst before Christmas and left early one day because I was in so much pain. And I think that’s it. So all of those times I have had an actual reason for not being there. I’m not like the teenagers who call in on Friday because of a party, or the ones that call in on Saturday because they are hugover because of a party. That’s not me. I get a job because I need it. I work hard for the people I’m employed by..but aparently that’s not enough. Now they have told me that sense I haven’t been there for more than 6 months if I miss another day I will be fired. Well f**k them, I don’t give a s**t.
Ok, please excuse me for that last sentence. I don’t normaly talk like that. WalMart is just not one of those places that I can stand to work at for a long period of time. I keep saying that I will be quitting at the end of this semester…but it may be before that. Of corse, I won’t quit if I know we still need the money. That’s the only reason I’m there now.
Anyways…. How’s this for a decent length post? haha.
I walked to the post office the other day. It was a bit chilly…but it was nice to get out of the house. It’s not that far from my house (I live in a very small town, the post office is the only thing here execpt for the beer store by the highway). That day was a very un-eventful day. I also swept and swiffered the floors. I could have done more to clean the house…but I just didn’t feel like it. :/ I’m allowed a lazy day.
School starts back up next week. I went and got my books today. I have four classes (12 hours) and I’m going every day but Friday this semester. Adobe Flash, Adobe InDesign, 3D Animation, and Digital Media Projects are my classes. All computer classes. 
I’m excited about this semester, but I will also be happy when it’s over. I’ll be graduating this semester. Once I graduate I am going to start putting up flyers for my webdesign and then go out on the road with Cory. I think I will spend two weeks out with him then two weeks home. I would probably stay out full time execpt that I will need to come home every now and then to collect money from clients. O and I will get to quit my “day job”. lol.
Alrighty, at some point I will actually have a little something about me in here, untill then, this is all ya get. :P Sorry. O and there will be a picture too. For now I'm going to work on this layout. It's almost done. :)
