I got an official job offer last Friday. The way it works there is that my supervisor grades me uing a points system. Using actual refunds that I’ve submitted to come up with a #. Then he submits that to the finance department and they assess my past experience and come up with a final dollar per hour amount. I’m feeling pretty good about it because the amount that my supervisor came up with before finance got ahold of it is almost $2.00 more than what I’m making now. So finance will either offer that amount or more.

My boss told me that I’ll be on the payroll in January. Benefits start immediately. Ben is paying $250 a month for coverage for Cassidy and I right now because we fall under ‘domestic partnership’. My coverage will be much less and his will drop to $70 just for him so we’ll save money that way. Plus I’ll be making more. AND I won’t be a temp anymore so that won’t be hanging over my head. I was always confident I’d be hired on because my boss loves me but still… it feels good.

YAY!

I swear. I just happened to stumble back on this when ‘Ben’ was on the list. Crazy. And to be honest, :heart: wasn’t the first thing I thought but if I stated what really popped into my head I’d have had an X rated post.

Unconscious Mutterings

1. Plot:: Book
2. Farce:: Lie
3. Unexpected:: Rain
4. Siren:: Fire
5. Ben:: :heart:
6. Freshman:: Innocent
7. Quicksand:: Cold
8. 24 hours:: Strangulation
9. Spunky:: gag
10. Vicious:: cat

I’m addicted to black eyeliner.

I’ve taken a picture to show you but my smart card reader is broken. Blah.

So, I ranted. I ranted because I saw an ending to a movie, a good movie, that sucked ass and depressed me.

While Ben was talking to a co-worker about my reaction to the ending he suddenly realized that we had watched the Directors Cut. So the ending we saw was different then those of you who watched it in the theater. heh

Allow me to explain. I understand in the movie that at the end when Evan is watching himself on the video in the mental ward, he’s watching a video of himself as a young boy.. and when he makes the jump back there he kicks the girl in the shin causing her to not like him, never having become her friend, she moved in with her mom, her brother doens’t become psycho, etc. Evan is alive and well as are the rest of the gang at the end of the movie. THAT ending I can deal with.

In the Directors Cut… at the end when Evan is watchng the video in the mental ward he is watching his mother in labor. When he jumps back, he’s in his mothers womb still. He reaches for his umbilical cord and squeezes it in his hand, cutting off his blood supply, until he dies. HE DIES PEOPLE!

WTF kind of ending is that?? Sure, everybody else grows up happy and crap but Evan KILLS HIMSELF after being ass raped in jail, blowing himself up, beaten to hell, forced to perform child pornograhpy and watching his dog burn! Hello?

My computer has been up and down. I’m troubleshooting. Thinking it’s my burner. I pulled it out a few months ago because I was having issues but thought I had tracked it down to the motherboard. Maybe it was the burner after all. *shrug*

Anyway, I’m posting because Ben said that I have to. He found a TV he likes at Best Buy today while he and Cassidy played hooky from work and school. At first we were thinking about getting it for the bedroom because our TV in there is about to die. We found one for sale on CraigsList in the area for $600.

The frugal side then kicked in and we realized that if we sold the TV we have in the living room now it would more than cover the cost of the new TV. We could use the new one in the living room and just live with the ancient artifact in the bedroom. To look up the going rate of the TV we have now I had to squeeze behind it to get the model for Ben. He pulled the heavy beast away from the wall and I squeezed my head between the wall and the TV and used my cell phone for light to read him the number.

I went to pull away and realized that my head was WEDGED in the space. I could not go backwards because my ears were like, jammed in the forward position. I yelled for Ben to help and I think at first he though I was kidding but I WASN’T! He ran over and pulled the TV out a bit further and I was free. It hurt. Probably my pride more than my head. I’m sure there will be jokes about the size of my head in the near future as a result.

Then he looked at me and said, ‘You SO better blog that.’