Mwhahaha no more Norton

After years of using Norton products I'm saying goodbye and good riddance. I've learnt in the past to just stick with AntiVirus because their other products just bog the system down and meh I don't do much to really get much attention otherwise. But after battling with Norton 2008 AV I've uninstalled the whole damn thing and refuse to touch them again. Add insult to injury their chat blew up when I tried to use it. Their tech support sent me over to try something I'd already tried...not impressed did you even read my email? Blah blah, oh and I'm sorry but I'm not calling support centers and have them pass me onto India and not be able to understand the person at the other end thank you very much and then have them read off of a script. Am I the only one that hates big companies tech support?

I work for a software company, we are small enough that we have support in house we service the US and I think we do a far better job than some of these large corporate operations. I'm actually at the point where I almost fear to interact with people on the phone, my last few experiences have ended up with me wishing I hadn't bothered or in one case just hanging up on the useless individual on the other end of the phone. If I am booking a hotel room for one specific night I don't need your sales pitch badly done and obviously read from a cheat sheet, I really did hang up on that guy he was that bad. So I'm probably a bit of a b#$% sometimes but man I have better ways of spending my time.

Dragging

OK I'm totally bush whacked this week. Can't even think straight to post anything useful or stunning or mindshattering. Pretty much on autopilot, get up go to work come home go to bed get up go to work...

Planning on going away over the weekend, hope I can summon up some energy before then. Ah well hope you had a great holiday and have a lovely New Year.

I want my car back /whine

Ok 2 days and I'm really missing my car. Not that it's that special but I'm missing it, missing the being able to put in the garage and not have trouble with waiting for the car to warm up so I can see in the mornings. Oh and the having to stop at the toll plaza that was so last year! Oh and no way to listen to podcasts in the car unless I buy an adapter not worth the hassle for a few days but /cry.

Managed to get a little of the oil of of the windshield of the car it's not perfect but better, hopefully next time it rains and I'm driving I won't run so much of a risk of an accident.

What did the guest sing at the Eskimo's Christmas party?

And I'll be back tomorrow!

Oh this is funny!

This well this is an oddly familiar feeling in our house...check out the video at this link, I was chuckling over it for awhile, specially after Jagr's tales from yesterday. I will leave him to tell that tale if he feels like it.

Oh joke of the day, how does Rudolph know when it's Christmas?

So it's wet and rainy today. Not a bad thing we could use the water rather we didn't have to go to water rationing last this year. Quiet evening last night, caught up on a little tv, but generally felt too damned tired for much of anything. But the bright side is the short work week. Was busy tho yesterday, but hopefully it will be quiet today. Yawn shame it wasn't the weekend today tho nothing like lying in bed listening to the rain and rolling back over and having another half hour in bed.

Car in the garage

So the car is in for the repairs to the side where I argued with the garage door. I have a ford taurus to keep me company till I get my baby back. Did have some drama with the keys, Jagr ended up going to the body shop and fortunately found them. Unfortunately I was at Hertz so it was a bit hard for me to help resolve that problem.

Also was reminded as to why I leave for work at 5:30 am...that commute sucks! Left my toll pass in my car so now I have to stop and pay each day. I'm still cursing at our old neighbours and the damage I swear that kid did to it, even tho I have no evidence, mutter.

I'm also trying to figure out if the rental is actually going to fit into the garage...I'm not convinced. It's longer than my little car and we have a lot of crap at the end of it. Ah well.

Oh more jokes...

1. What is the most popular wine at Christmas?
2. Which elf is the best singer?
3. What do you give a reindeer with an upset tummy?
   

Today's Joke

What's a parent's favorite Christmas carol? Again see the comments:)

Good evening last night, took my husband out for dinner. I think I was little disappointed with the pasta tho, I thought there was way too much garlic in it, plus it was supposed to be penne but I kept finding other varieties of pasta in the dish, almost sent it back, but it was sort of edible. I have had better tho.

Loved that one of my friend's has been reading my blog /wave one of these years we will be back in England for Christmas again honest. In the meantime do enjoy it while the kids are still young.

Must think of another couple of Xmas things for people but for the most part I'm almost done. Oh TGIF and tomorrow I get to bake. And I got my first party on Sunday, what makes it even nicer is Jagr has to work that night so he will be abstaining from drinking and gets to drive. Not that I over do alcohol much at parties but even still will be nice to have a drink or two.

Thursday one more day to grind into the office :)

Getting out of the office today for a change for lunch, looking forward to it. I try not to go out much ends up being too expensive, it's also cold out there at the moment. I had to change to the thicker comforter last night, and even Jagr complained about the cold this when he got home.

Been sleeping like a log most of this week not sure why, and reluctant to get out of bed in the morning, then again it's like dipping a cold in ice cold water right now, so it's not exactly surprising.

Will be a nice short week next week so I can't complain. And although boss is going to close the office Thursday PM and Friday I suspect I will still come in Friday morning and do some work, won't be so bad as we are staying local, figure I'd do the email things so that they don't pile up.

I want to take my husband out for dinner tonight, not sure where we will go but I want to check out some places in Dublin, CA anyone got any recommendations? At some point we need some take out places tew :)

Oh and while I think of it:

!) Why does Santa have three gardens?

2) Did you hear about the crakers Xmas party? (See comments for the answer!)

Check out this cutsie game

Check out this game, fun and simple thank you FloydUK for that one couldn't resist putting that in here. Weather is heading below freezing mmm yum, guess that means time for a fire again. Might think about that tonight get home see my lovely husband take a warm shower put the fire on and enjoy with husband and cat.

Sure can tell it's gotten nippy Lani is a plaster to my leg. She will not let me alone for more than 5 minutes if I am home. If I happen to go into the office of an evening I get mewed out something chronic. Now I know that I used to be a big gamer and all that, but this cat is seriously keeping me in line and not letting me game all night like I used to hehe. Probably a good thing to be honest.

Last night was an injection night, got to admit I chickened out of doing my butt like I was supposed to and did the cope out of the belly, I'm going to have to bite the bullet on the next one. And for some reason my left thigh just doesn't take well to the injections. Next time I get back to that spot I might have to go for a manual one again and see if that helps to improve things. Sometimes I'm wondering if some spots are just better for the manual than the auto, not sure why but sometimes manual seems less painful.

Fruit is still in soaking so this is going to be day 3, something tells me I won't be baking them until the weekend, should be good tho. Ooooo and I got some baaad jokes to tell.....

Hmm how to do this I think I'll post the answers in the comments so you will have to read those.

1. What do you call a cat on a beach at Xmas?
2. What's Santa's dog called?
3. What's a sheep's favourite Xmas carol?
4. Where did the mistletoe go to become rich and famous?
5. Who's working at MI5 on Xmas day?
6. What did the big angel say to the little angel?
7. Why are Xmas trees like bad knitters?
8. What carol is heard in the desert?
9. What did Adam say on the day before Xmas?
10. What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
11. What does Santa suffer from when he gets stuck in a chimney?

See comments for the answers and yep it's going to hurt...

New week...

Things started good with Xmas this year...cards went out early, shame I am not so organized about gifts, less than 2 weeks to go and I'm flapping about. Ah well I'm sure I'll get it together before I need to.

Got to love my G'friend she made sure my husband gets his haircut! Mwahaha domination here I come, I can get my friends to help me out into the taming of the mop.

I realize I haven't been too vocal of late on my blog. I admit it I'm baad. Been wrapped up a bit with Facebook and the evils there. But been able to catch up with old acquaintances, good.

I just realized today that the numbness in my finger and thumb I had after my last exacerbation of MS is a lot better than it was a couple of months ago. Either I'm just getting used to it or I'm rewiring so it doesn't bother me half as much. It's not 100% by any means but it's less irritating to rub them together, and it almost feels normal.

Had Jagr's folks visiting for a few days. I think I was a miserable whatsit, was busy at work, the commute bit due to lots of rain, and it was the end of the week, I'm just not so good at the end of the week anyway. Sorry for being so anti social again...really I am nice...I think.

Making a mental note that we should make a trip out to NM next year or early the year after will depend on the cash flow, think we would be better off staying in a hotel less stress on everyone that way.

Think I might be coming down with a slight cold, nose has that slightly stuff, dry feeling that you get sometimes before it gets clogged up and then starts to drip and make life in general miserable until you can breath again.

Xmas Office party got moved which and boss is going to give us an extra day off. Will be nice as those days occur right over Jagr's weekend. We are also staying the night at the party hotel...should be fun :) No cats to worry about (man we need a bigger bed for the rare occasions we both choose to sleep in the bed at the same time!).

Oh put the fruit on to soak for Mum's Caribbean Xmas Fruit Cake. Only 5 types of liquor and will probably only soak in that for a week...hahaha.

Picture Link for Apartment Photos

Finally not sure if this link will work but here are photos of our apartment. Table in the dinning room has changed we got a new one a couple of months ago. There are also some pictures of our angles, and Josie up to some interesting tricks getting to spots she shouldn't bet....

Start of a good week

Got the Xmas tree up over the weekend. Made a head start on the cards as well. Got back in touch with a lot of old friends, so far I think that has just about made my week. I made a lot of great friends back when I went to Uni, I had managed to loose track of a lot of them over the years, but manage to reunite via facebook with a lot of them over the weekend as well. To any of you guys that might drop by here and read the blog /wave.

Started to make more definitive plans for Xmas and New Year. Em what else...oh found out a friend has a book published through Amazon...I'm going to place a link for the book in my footer as well. Will make sure I get her to sign it and I think I'll pass it onto my niece when she is old enough, she is a bit young for it still.

Hmmm, anything else exciting? Can't think of much. I'm totally amazed at the problems with the teacher in Sudan, that was way blown out of proportion, unfortunately extremism will always exist in this world. All I would like to see is a little bit of tolerance and understanding. But some people are just looking for an excuse to pick a fight I think sometimes.

Oh hells need to take shot...must not forget it's Monday...all done stomach shot today so least painful over all. I must make sure to leave my arm for Friday I don't want to be shooting up in the butt when Jagr's parents are here hehe.