Well yesterday we did our Valentines Day a bit early with giving each other things because Patrick has had to work almost all day so far today. He’s supposedly heading home so we can head to Reno and get some lunch then swing by his brothers house. I got my heart baskets I so wanted for the wedding and some wine with chocolate. His little things were from Despair.com which is a hilarious site btw. He got a pessimist glass coffee mug that has the phrase about the glass being half empty or whatever then a calendar. He doesn’t really have anything for work so figured i’d give him some things that are funny and well I know he likes the despair sayings. Oh, and tons of candy for him in a heart jar.

Patrick wrote the check yesterday and signed off finally on all the house options. Little did we know we ended up with 23k worth of options. YIKES!! Well, the house should be beautiful and we both can’t wait. I don’t know how many times he says “I want our house built now” and it’s cool to hear how excited he is also.

till later~
heather

I woke up a few times in the middle of the night with these odd dreams of having twins and then after I had the twins I got prego with another set of twins. I don’t know wtf this means?? I’ve always thought it’d be cool to have twins and all but i’m no where near ready to have kids yet. I imagine a year or so in the house and of course after we are married before we start even going down that road. So what did this dream mean? /shrugs

I get into work and nothing out of the ordinary ..typical voices from upstairs yelling “heather do you have a minute?”. Away I go upstairs and the guys are puzzled at how to create a shortcut on their desktop. I show them the easy right click send to desktop shortcut route and wala i’m done and heading back downstairs. The morning has been quiet minus the phones ringing. Nothing freaky, eerie, disturbing which should happen on Friday the 13th right? We do have a house meeting today at 3:30 though to go over once again our options.

Tomorrow is Valentines Day. I really don’t remember not having a boyfriend or something on Valentines Day. I’ve had years where i’ve been apart from them distance wise but i’ve still gotten flowers or something delivered. I got Patrick some stuff I hope he likes, nothing big but things that fit his personality…can’t go into to much detail here I think though that he has forgotten about me for it./shrugs I was talking to him on the phone earlier and he was like “oh, that’s tomorrrow”. Last Saturday I took him into Costplus to get these heart baskets for the wedding guest table to put the favors in, cards and the markers for the guestbook. I finally found them in the store then he told me not to get them cause he was going to suprise me and get me them with stuff in them and had actually hoped I hadn’t found them. Well, I put them back. I am sure that between last weekend and today he hasn’t made it over there to get them or i’d have seen them in the car or somewhere, right? Oh well, I guess I should be happy I have someone in my life as good as he is to me. I know i’m a lucky girl but Valentines Day to me (despite the bah hum bug valentines people) means something nice, warm and fuzzy.

Maybe i’m just wrong in expecting something or even celebrating this holiday. I know he’s given me a lot more then just gifts, he’s given himself to me and his heart. I guess I should just be happy I have as much as I do in my life.

~heather

For the first day all week it’s extremely quiet at work ..well besides the nonstop phone ringing. Our new salesguy Dan is out of the office today and tomorrow so no working on his computer or getting him settled into the swing of things. I’m supposedly an accountant but sometimes feel like local tech support. Yes, I do bitch about this quite often but I can’t help it. It annoys me to no other when I see an invoice for $80/hr charged to us for installing windows xp. Then when I have to install it on 2 machines, install office xp and spend half my day dealing with this i’m barely getting paid more then mcdonalds workers. Ok, maybe a bit more then then fry flingers but not more then the managers? Just keep thinking, once I get through all my school I can get paid more and also involve things I enjoy into my daily job.

Patrick did his taxes last night since I did mine on Friday and we found out I was getting $400 something back and he’s getting back oh $1700. That is going to help us out bigtime in the honeymoon area. We’ve been pretty stressed over our money situation just because this house thing is really coming at a rough time. We didn’t expect to have to put so much money into the house thing. For our initial lot hold we put down $500 and then we had to put down 25% of our options total cost which we are thinking it’s going to be around $2500-2800. We are going in Friday to find out for sure because we added wood floors to our kitchen and the wood type of white blinds to our whole house. (not vertical blinds) I want to relook at our counters for the bathroom because our vanity counter tile is costing us almost $800 WTF??? It costs only $1200 to put marble down on our whole bathroom…um there is something wrong with this picture? Patrick obviously has expensive taste in our tile choice.
I’m sure we’ll be back out there looking at the lot to see whether they have broken ground this weekend or not. *crosses fingers*

Forgot to go into the fun of a wedding registry. There are some basic rules that apply to the process of taking your dear loving soon to be husband who acts like a 12 yr old out to register.

Rules of the Registry Process:
1. Do NOT let him get ahold of the scanner. (I believe I scanned only 2 things.)
2. Those items you said months ago that he couldn’t have and would have to wait until we register…well he doesn’t forget and will bolt to those items first. (hence our hoover floormate)
3. At some point he’s going to scan something just for a shock or joke factor.(Bucket of Tequila mix anyone? yes mom&dad that was his fault honest)
4. Items that you would never use but sound cool seem to spark interest suddenly. (garlic press? when would we use a garlic press that costs $30?…not added btw)

That’s all I can think of atm..back to work smork.

~heather

I don’t know why I showed that I know computers sometimes. I mean I have spent almost all day working on our new guys computer only to get told I need to install XP on it. So, the fun of my day has been that. Our contracted out NT guys get paid like 80$ or more an hour so where’s my money for installing this stuff! just kidding Anyhow, back to this install.

Although I just got asked if I was on something cause my mouth was moving a hundred miles an hour and the guys were all laughing at me for asking for a screw. It was to hang a picture in my office duh!

heather

That’s right the quiz wasn’t anything to be anxious about and was a let down but in a good way. It was multiple choice and really basic questions over his lecture from last week. I just don’t get how some teens in this day and age can be so computer illiterate. Sitting next to people that are well much younger then me who have grown up even more so on a computer then I was and finding out they can’t figure out how to log onto their computer.

As I was sitting in this lecture and we were talking about the origin of computers and their impacts on graphics communication and design, I started thinking about my parents first computer. Now that I look back, we had a computer long before most people did in their house. I remember our first computer being in our house at least by the time I was 9 as it was in the house in Yuma, Colorado. We moved from there when I was 9 so that would put the computer at the latest coming into our house in 1986. I remember it being an IBM PC but besides that nothing. Later on I do remember the 486 that was in my parents office because when we got it my brother was always sneaking up their to hack into the bullentin boards and look at porn. Or i’m sure that’s what he was up to. I just used the computer for wordperfect and typing up documents which was a rarity back then to turn in a paper from a printout. I don’t think I was geeky as I just was always around the technology. Unlike my brother I was always busy with sports and friends. His friends and him loved to get on the computers, trade baseball cards, play video games..typical male things I guess?

I just don’t know where this whole computer thing came about for me. I got a computer for graduation (1995) from my Granny and Papa. I loved my first computer although I had to work at keeping my brother off my AOL or printing pics of half naked women. (i’m sure my parents and family will love reading that but hey that’s typical of a teenage male I think. I mean young boys have looked at Playboy for years and now the new generation looks at that online. Some of it is to much for young people to see but the naked body is nothing to be ashamed of being interested in.) My first computer was the first pentium released and windows 3.1 but I had a coupon to redeem for a free win95 version when that was released. So, it must’ve been during the years in college when I had AOL that I started to get more curious about the net, the chatting, the web and the games. I tinked around with frontpage in 95 or 96 and started doing my first web stuff. I’ve never claimed to be an “artist” but I do enjoy it and it is something i’d like to continue to do.

I’ll never forget turning away from my biochem degree pursuit, my dreams of becoming a doctor, my EMT certificate and deciding I wanted to go into something computer related. Everyone for years told me computer people were geeks. Now that i’m in this design program at school I see so many interested in what I am. My professors tell us we are artists, not the computer geeks my friends always described us as. It feels nice to be in a program that i’ve been searching for all these years when I was almost wandering lost in programs trying to find my place. I am taking some programming (geek classes as some might call it) but I really do enjoy the programming side of things too. Last week in class when we did HTML it wasn’t hard for me, mainly because i’ve done that for a while now but also because I do enjoy it. I could tell others were just ansy to get working in dreamweaver and move past the basics.

Anyhow, i’m off to study more and type up a site needs document. Fun stuff! Luckly for me, next week I have Monday night class off for the holiday and then Wednesday my professor will be out of town. That means Mon-Wed nothing! How i’m going to love next week.

until I ramble again,

Heather