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Published on August 23, 2004 By KarmaGirl In Life Journals

Today has been a complete pile of crap.  Just didn't give me a break.  I started the day off bright and early with a customer from WinCustomize sending me 17 email over the weekend because I was ignoring the one from 1:34am on Sunday.  Hmmmm....didn't know that I worked 24/7... And it was about nothing.

Then, one of our employees (who we regard as family) tells me that his fiance got a job out of state and they are leaving in 3 weeks......that *really* sucks.  But, I hope all good happens to them because they are very nice people.

Then, I get home to read email from this moronic place that I applied for a consolidation loan from. (I hate writing checks, so I figured that one payment per month was better and I could deduct the interest at tax time...and, yes, this will have it's own article soon.)  A few days ago, their "appraiser" called to ask a couple questions.  Obviously, they used that to base the "appraisal" of our house along with something they claim was a "public" record (not sure whose it was, but it wasn't ours) that showed our house being about 600 sq ft smaller than it is, so there "appraisal" said that our house is worth $50,000 less than it is.  Hell, even double SEV was more than what they claim the house is worth.  I didn't have the energy, so I told her that her appraiser should come out here and measure the house and see how very wrong she is....

While I was sitting at my computer, I noticed my hamster out of the corner of my eye. 
1) My hamster is usually not out of her house at this time
2) My hamster seemed very still
3) It became obvious that my hamster was dead.
Great...a dead hamster...which caused my 5 year old to cry her eyes out.  Nice.  Really needed that today....

I wonder if lightning will strike me in my sleep.......


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on Aug 23, 2004
Awww, KarmaGirl, bless your heart. I'm sorry you've had such a crummy day. At least tomorrow HAS to be better . . .
on Aug 23, 2004

Aww, I'm sorry you had a shitty day......and I'm doubly sorry about the hamster, that really sucks.

I'll try and send a vortex o' good vibes in your direction.....

on Aug 23, 2004
Sorry about you terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.... Hope your remaining week fares better!
on Aug 24, 2004
- remember Angie - shit days make nice days worth while

BAM!!!
on Aug 24, 2004
Uo, oh very sorry for nearly bugging You on IRC that morning now...
on Aug 24, 2004
can only get better? *hugs*
on Aug 24, 2004
An enthralling article, almost as riveting as your epic "New Coke" post. Perfectly punctuated, too. I'm glad JoeU has successfully purged all poorly puntuated, non-American (ie boring and irrelevant) drivel.

I get the knack. Desktop widgets good, miguna bad. Pro-War good, Pro-Peace bad. America good, rest of world bad. Mormons good, 700 year old Buddhist monasteries that I just spent the week at (http://meditationthailand.tripod.com/N/umong.html) bad. New Coke good, economic charts bad. Kerry 'Penis Hat' pictures good, Bush punching guy in face picture bad. Oh-so-1998 jokes like 'Asshat' and 'tinfoil hat' good (funny!), new material bad.

There aren't enough kilobytes to write the article I want to write on my journeys here in Thailand. But thanks to JoeU I've seen the light - Thailand is a small, irrelevant country, even smaller than Alaska. It's GDP is smaller than Delaware. Therefore it has no place here at JoeU. You display the dhamma of Siddartha Gautauma himself in your articles. "karma" girl. I, for one, am deeply indebted to you and your infinite wisdom.

Peace and happy blogging,
David St. Hubbins
Chiang Mai, Thailand
on Aug 24, 2004
karmagirl,

I completely disagreed with everything you said. Your views need to be changed. I'm jsut kidding, feel better. How'd today go?
on Aug 24, 2004

David is just showing why Brad was wise in booting his ass off JU.


Karma, I don't blame you for venting about a day as crappy as that. 


Best wishes.

on Aug 24, 2004

Thank you everyone for your kind wishes.  And, thank you LW for saying what I am thinking but wouldn't say myself....actually, I was thinking something worse than that, but it was in the same thought process


How'd today go?


Don't know yet- it's still to early to tell.  It's got to be better than yesterday, though.  (Plus, lightning didn't strike me in my sleep, so that is a good sign). 


Daughter was still upset this morning, but seemed to be getting better.  Luckily, we knew that the hamster died of old age since it was about 3 years old.  The night before I was feeding it bits of food by hand and she was running around like crazy.  She was up like she normally was in the early morning when I left for work (5 am) so she just dropped dead sometime during the day.  If it wasn't my pet, and it weren't for the fact that dead animals make me sad, I may have gotten a chuckle out of the way she looked.  She looked like she was in mid walk and just fell down dead.  Luckily, my husband, knowing how utterly pathetic I am, took her out of the cage for me and stuck her in a box.


On the plus side, I didn't have to clean her cage as planned yesterday.  On the minus side, I had just bought her a huge bag of food.  Guess the birds and rabbits outside will have something to eat, huh?

on Aug 24, 2004
I started the day off bright and early with a customer from WinCustomize sending me 17 email over the weekend because I was ignoring the one from 1:34am on Sunday.


Oh, oh, can I send you emails? Mine would be nice Karma, and only a little creepy!

Seriously though, sorry to hear about your rough day. And I am sorry that your legitimate place to rant (after all, if you can't even rant in your own blog where can you rant?) was tainted by the verbal feces of some self-righteous former user. Rant away!
on Aug 24, 2004
Meh. Are your really that thin skinned? I was just kidding Geez you American kids are sensitive these days...
on Aug 24, 2004

Oh, oh, can I send you emails? Mine would be nice Karma, and only a little creepy!


Sure.  I'm OK with "a little creepy", I just don't like complaints and flames.


Are your really that thin skinned


Nope, not thinned skinned.  I just think it is in extremely poor taste to come on somebody's "life journal" which talked about an awful day and start posting crap.  My pet just died and my daughter is upset- how can you possible find this as a place to post your crap?   You claim to have just spent a week at a buddhist monastery.  What were you doing there, washing the windows?

on Aug 24, 2004
When I read about the Hamster I was like, "Wow, you really did have a bad day. Seriously, what could be worse to end the day?"
on Aug 24, 2004

What Dark-Star said was actually genuine.  After reading it, it looked like he was being a smartass if you didn't know him, but he wasn't.  He is actually one of the site coders, so I work with him.  But, David on the other hand.........well, he needs to spend more than a week with the buddhists.....


And, you are right, when you have children, you have to live in their world.  She has been really upset over her favorite fish dying in the past.  I really dread the day that one of the dogs die (especially since I will be a total mess myself).  And, thanks for watchin' my back, sister!

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