i will be glad when this day is over

i leave from work, but choose to go a different way to get off campus because of the kenny chesney concert–didn’t want to bother with that traffice. As I get onto the 19th street (main street in lubbock and very crazy at 5:00) i get into the far left lane. As i am approaching Flint Ave, I hear an ambulance and look up to see it is my lane. I get over to the middle lane because that is what people are supposed to do. Once the ambulance goes by I am wondering why my lane is not moving. Apparently there is a disabled car in my lane, but can’t get over. So we are start the pull over into the right and left lanes. I unfortunately can’t get over. I put on my signal to tell drivers I need to get over. Don’t they see the disabled car??? talk about rude drivers? any way, i look to see if i could get over and i swear i have the space, but apparently the car was in my blind spot and WHAM! Yep, you guessed it I hit here.

Here’s the ironic part—i was hit by someone a week before i was supposed to attend the nascar race last november…and guess what i have another accident one week before this race! What are the odds????

I didn’t think my day could get worse…well…my hubby and i were going to eat and he locked his keys in his car…and then after we get the keys out and leave to go get ice cream with a friend of ours (she brought us a hanger to get the keys out), my husband drives over the cement thing in the parking space with the green neon and Ms. H knows this green neon very well. I think the kharma from the little neon has drifted over to my SUV!

it is now 8:57 pm. The day isn’t over and I am now looking for the plague of locusts to fly overhead.

well–i have to meet with the insurance adjuster tomorrow at 1:00.

damage to my car
1. left front headlight completly gone (someone ran over it on 19th and dragged it down the street)

2. front corner panel and front bumper damage.

3. small corner of hood bent

damage to other car
1. right mirror on passenger said hanging off car

2. big scratch marks

we need this car for next weekend…ever try to drive more than 15 miles in a neon??? not very comfortable…we are hoping the will just put in the light and let us bring it back after next weekend to fix the other damage.

i just want to lay down, curl up into the fetal position and cry!!!!!!

hope everyone else had a better day.

What is in the Big Green Book Bag Today, March 30, 2006?

Highlighers by the Numbers
1 pink bic brite liner grip
1 blue bic liner
3 yello sharpie accent highlighters
1 blue sharpie accent highligher
1 orange sharpie accent highligher
1 green sanford accent highlighter (looks very worn out)
1 pink sharpie acennt retractable highligher
1 blue sharpie acennt retractable highligher
1 orange sharpie acennt retractable highligher
1 red sharpie acennt retractable highligher
1 purple sharpie acennt retractable highligher
total highlighters = 13 highlighters

Pens by the Numbers
1 purple pentel RSVP
1 green pentel RSVP
1 black pentel RSVP
1 blue pentel RSVP
1 red pentel RSVP
2 mulitcolored pens (where you have 4 colors: red, blue, black & green in one pen)
2 papermate expressions
1 pen with United States Postal Service on it (given to me by husband)
1 pen advertising Collectible Sports and More (also given to me by hubby)
1 pink pilot precise roll ball pen-extra fine (almost out of ink)
1 black pilot easytouch-medium
1 green gel pen-not sure who makes it
1 blue Z-grip-medium (almost out of ink)
1 pen advertising Whitehall-Yearling High School All Call Reunion (given to me by mom)
total pens = 16 pens

Pencil Case by the Numbers
1 small clear pencil case with zipper
1 orange bic brite liner highlighter
1 turquoise pilot G-2 07 gel pen
1 case 0.5 mechanical pencil lead (several pieces still there)
1 purple pilot precise roll ball pen-extra fine (almost out of ink)
1 advertising US Army (picked up at graudate school fair last fall)
1 blue bic atlantis
1 black bic atlantis
1 purple uniball vision-fine
1 purple uniball signo gelstick
1 advertising StrengthsQuest-TTU Career Center
1 advertising TTU Career Center
1 advertising Vivid Grip Pen (picked up as a sample from pen supply place)
total items (including pencil case) = 13

Post-Its by the Numbers
4 packs post-it 1 inch flags (link, turquoise, purple, lime green)
3 paks post-it .47 in flags (red, blue yellow)
total post-its = 7 packs

Other Items by the Numbers
1 purse clip on–Stitch (purchased at Disney World)
1 Goofy mints (purchased at Disney World-have been in there since Sept ’05–never opened)
1 orange paper clip shaped like a person
1 .72 oz bag of Goldfish-Chocolate Grahams 100 Calorie pouches
1 Lubbock County Jury Summons (exempt since i am a college student)
1 datebook
1 bookmark (cool thing, you can clip your pen/highlighter to it)
1 empty Brach’s StarBrites Spearmint wrapper
1 empty Wrigley’s gum wrapper
1 MP3 player string lanyard
1 part of cd case–small piece broken off the case
1 clip on of #20 tony stewart (attached to outside of book bag)
1 lap top computer with outlet so i can plug in the electricity
1 cordless mouse (i hate using the touchpad function on my lap top)
1 copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
total other items = 15

what does this say about me?

1. “Hi, my name is Trixie and I am a office supply addict.”

2. I have Macgyver tendacies. You never know when that empty gum wrapper, goofy mints , 16 pens and MP3 lanyard could come in handy.

3. I am paranoid that the pen and highlighter supply will run out.

4. I just am THAT lazy that i don’t clean out my book bag.

sometimes you just have to take stock of your life

i was a little taken back the following story KWTX (Once here click on the story “Middle School Teacher Charged wtih Giving Alcohol to Minors)

I don’t know the teacher personally, but I did go to school with her and her brother. Her brother was a year older than me in school. She was maybe 6-7 years younger than me. I found out her brother is on the school board as well.

Now I remember her brother very well. The nicest person you want to meet. He was a great athlete and he wasn’t too bad on the eyes either. He would always have a smile on his face and even now when he sees my mom he asks how I am doing. I remember his parents as very nice and friendly people. So when I heard about this story before it was even in the news, I was shocked. What was she thinking?

(1) Someone who is clearly over the age of 21 giving alcohol to someone who is clearly under the age of 21 is illegal.
(2) She is a teacher. These are students. You don’t cross that line…period.

I hope for whatever reason possessed her to do this she won’t do again. And if she has some other issues, I hope she gets help.

i don’t deny it–i am a crazy woman. i am use dthe fact that i am a gemini and that i have two sides to my personality–this morning one of personalities reared its ugly head.

i am usually a calm person and understand the whole customer service crap for i too work in area where customer service is important, but today i have been pushed too far.

monday, march 20
i am a season ticket holder at Texas Motor Speedway. season ticket packets aren’t cheap(we chunked down about $800) and that is why when i hadn’t received my tickets i became quite concerned. i asked my husband to call TMS to see what was up. the customer service person he spoke with said to wait until friday and then call back…she didn’t even try to find out what happened to the tickets.

friday, march 21
my husband calls TMS back as as instructed and the other customer service person asked why the previous person didn’t check on them…he was told that UPS delivered out tickets on February 28. UPS left the tickets outside our door because nobody was home .

[Sidebar–I don’t like the fact that UPS just left my tickets outside my door. I live in an apartment complex and we have an office where items can be left for residents who are not at home to receive their packages. Why did this UPS person not think to do this? We have had several things delivered from them in the past and if we weren’t home they were left in the apartment office. Just one more reason that USPS is the way to go.]

any hoo, he was told he would need to speak to another person (Brandy) about our tickets. ssince she was unavailable at the time he left her a message. i wasn’t too upset because my husband called her late and right before five so i wasn’t expecting a return phone call until monday

monday, march 27
Brandy called my husband back at 4:15 pm and tells him that i would have to call her because my name is on the account…ugh…i think my husband can handle this matter for me…i mean after all i had asked him to call on my behalf…fine… so i giver her a ring not 10 minutes after my husband talked with her…i was told she was either away from her desk or on the phone. so i left her two messages. I am becoming very frustrated at this point. let me remind you people “I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER!!!!” and the race is ONE WEEK AWAY!

tuesday, march 28
i tried to contact Brandy once more this morning–and left another message. i wanted to get things taken care of today b/c –well the race is next week. i make another attempt to contact this person and get a very snooty customer service person

Trixie: Yes, may I speak with Brandy?

Snooty TMS Rep: Which one? We have two in the office.

Trixie: I am not sure. I am trying to fix this problem with my ticket packet.

Snooty TMS Rep: She is on the phone right now. Have you left a message with her?

Trixie: Yes, but she hasn’t returned my calls and I have been trying to get this taken care for about a week.

Snooty TMS Rep: She is a very busy person and she will call you back. She has several customers to take care of today and she is the only person who can help you.

Trixie: I understand that, but my tickets were stolen and I would like to get this taken care of.

Snooty TMS Rep: (once again in case i missed her ATTITUDE the firsttim), she will call you back just be patient. Have a nice day.

this is where i lost it…i am not calling just to ask questions lady…i want to know how i can get my tickets reissued to me because THEY WERE STOLEN. STOLEN–TAKEN BY SOMEONE WHO DID NOT PAY FOR THEM!!!! i understand i am not the only customer she has, but you don’t have to be so SNOOTY TO ME. HEY–I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER!

After this “FUN FILLED TIME” with the customer service rep– i call my ever patient husband and lay into him not on purpose mind you..i just needed to vent. i wasn’t mad at him…after all he tried to help. Shortly after talking with said husband, Brandy (who i have been trying to reach) returns my phone call. She reassured me that my ticket packet for this season would be available for pickup next Thursday and the barcodes listed for the first packet were cancelled and new bar codes were issued. She also stated that if THESE THIEVES managed to get through the gate and sit in our seats, i could have the usher have the escorted off the premises. YIPEE!!!!

I would like to say thank you to Brandy for calling me back and alleviating my fears and anxiety about my tickets. This person treated me kindly and was very helpful unlike the other customer service representatives i had spoken.

Note–I have had nothing but positive experiences with TMS. Every time I have called regarding something on my account they have been very helpful, but I don’t know what was up with Miss Snooty Customer Service Rep. Was she having a bad day? So was I. MY TICKETS HAD BEEN STOLEN and I wanted some assistance on how I could get them reissued. I was nice, said my please and thank yous, and I also told them I appreciated for helping me. I hope this rep has a better day tomorrow. UGH!

now that i have my nascar post out of the way for today i can ramble on about nothing.

sporks
what a little invention! for those of you who must live in a cave or are amish, a spork is a the ingenous invention which is both fork and spoon…hence the name spork. i recently acquired my spork from taco bell. Enjoy!

fruitloops
i just love fruitloops. i love to eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I prefer them without milk. In fact i have a full bag of fruitloops in my desk drawer for a mid afternoon snack yum.

taco villa
i love their tacos. don’t know why, but every time i go there–tacos is what i get. i went in the other day to purchase said tacos to find not one, not two, but three people working one register. ok..they were all trying to figure out what was wrong with the register..then one suddenly said…you cash drawer is stuck. ugh—only the best are hired at taco villa

what an exciting day at Bristol–a bump and run finish with kenseth getting the bump from kurt—you knew he was going to do it…so it wasn’t much of surprise when kurt “bumped” kenseth out of the way for the victory. It was nice to see the #2 in victory lane, unfortunately for me i would have rather seen rusty there instead of “Big Shrub”.

[Sidebar #1– I haven’t mentioned much aobut this, but i think it is time. Why on ear did Kurt have his ears pinned back? For whatever reason, come on. You are in the spot light–everything about you will be scruntinized. What about all the “fat” jokes Tony had laid upon him last year? I am sure someone in the dark corners of his race hauler this things bothered Tony, but if you can’t laugh at yourself who can you laught at??? ]

oh well…back to more important things

i was somewhat irritated by the fact that kenseth bumped jeff. this caused jeff to end up 21st instead of in the top 10. damn you kenseth! note to kenseth–when you poke the sleeping bear and it wakes, don’t run over there and try to hug it. you should have waited until jeff calmed down a bit..instead you went over to him to explain things and then you are surprised by the fact of the way he reacted…dude— not the crunchiest chip in the bag are ya??? hey–kenseth…paybacks are a bitch–watch out! you boys are heading to martinsville next week–(evil laugh…evil laugh)

Tony finished 12th after having a good car and leading with the most laps with 245. Tony quotes, “I am really disappointed. We had an awesome car, I felt like I ran the most patient race I have ever run at Bristol. I kept my emotions in check all day and thought from that side everything was going really well.”

Martin Truex got a Bristol lesson from both Jeff and Tony yesterday. Sure, the one from Jeff was uncalled for, but it’s Bristol, however, when Truex was trying to “get back” at Jeff he was holding up the the rest of the cars behind him who were obviously faster. Thanks Tony for that lesson in “move your ass out of my way”.

[Sidebar #2]–I usually don’t mention the Busch or even the truck fesitivities unless my drivers are involved, but what was up with the snow on Saturday? But I can relate to the extreme weather–i live in lubbock. last week alone we had rain, wind, snow, fog, and sun. I would like to say Fox makes weather delays interesting unlike NBC. Thanks guys

On to Martinsville and then Texas!

Good Luck boys!

In Memorium
Paul Dana
1975-2006