How to Get Fucked Over by Corporate America
PT I

So, The DH took a trip to VA for his company, a rather LARGE telecommunications Corp (actually one of the largest in the world, and yes, that is pertinent information, you must know how big they are to see just how absofuckinglutely cheap and stupid they are).  When he left he was told that he would have a cash advance check waiting for him in VA when he got there.  He got there and no one seemed to know where the check was, he was just told, “We’ll have it tomorrow.”  So tomorrow came and no check, same shit-assed answer and so on and so forth, FOR THE WHOLE FUCKING WEEK.

So, he gets back from his trip calls his big boss and explains to him that the approval for the travel needs to go through ASAP.  See, DH used MY credit card to pay for a rather expensive hotel that his company said they would pay for. This took ME over my credit limit and I was charged fees and interest and whatever else the fuck they wanted to charge me.  So DH’s boss’s boss says, “I’m terribly sorry about the situation, I’ll approve it now.”  Well then almost two weeks later, come payday, we think, “YAY! Reimbuirsment is here!” NOPE! NOT A GAWD DAMN FUCKING THING. 

So DH calls around and is basically told, “Oh well tough shit, you’re fault.”  HIS FAULT?!?!?!?!  No one in that gawd damn company seems to get the whole premise of, THEY TOLD HIM HE’D HAVE A CHECK WHEN HE GOT THERE!  Now, what if he DIDN’T have my card? Then what? He was expected to sleep in his fucking truck?!?!?!?!?!

So now they want us to wait ANOTHER two weeks for the reimbursment and no matter what he or anyone in HR tells the finance or travel dept. they don’t give a good gawd damn.  I am SERIOUSLY thinking about suing them.  Just for the sheer principle of it all.  YOU CANNOT tell your employees they will have a check waiting and then not provide for their travel expenses when YOU took THEM away from their FAMILY for a fucking WEEK.

So, now we get to sit around and wait, I had to pay off the overlimit amount with our own money.  I am so terribly livid right now that I could honestly go up to that fucking office and knock about 587 teeth down 35 people’s throats.  I swear I am so fucking pissed that they don’t give a damn about their employees…really, so they think that morale is going be all roses and rainbows when they treat their employees like protoplasma?  F U C K E R S.

PT II coming soon……..

Thinking Thoughts of Interest

I started thinking last night.  Yeah, it’s a frightening thought but sometimes my thinking results in REALLY COOL ideas/notions..so you never really know what will come of my thoughts but once in a  blue moon it’s something worthwhile and good…the other 568,487 times, well it’s mere crap.

Anyway, so I was thinking about how, when I find something that truly interests me I start researching it.  I go all over the internet and look for anything and everything that I can about whatever the topic is.  This usually leads to more questions and thus, more research.  So basically, this one little idea or item of intrigue turns into me totally educating myself on that particular topic.  So I was thinking about making a monthly or every other month, colum type page thingy about what ever interest I was pursing at the time.  I would put it on my turtlemama.com page and this way I could basically write articles that deal with stuff that interest me, might not interest anyone else, but me…yup, easily entertained, I am.

So, right now I’m just in the stages of ‘well, yeah, that might be kinda cool to help people out by doing the research for thema nd then educating them’  Then of course I get the, ‘what the hell am I thinking? This is so fucking lame, but I think it’s sort of cool and it’s my site…right?’  So, we’ll just have to see how this pans out, I need to get organized and figure out how, exactly, to do this…so it really doesn’t suck, that bad.

Yep, and the exAH story needs to be typed out also, I just need to have the drive to actually want to rehash that shit yet again..self-discovery makes you rehash shit over and over and over again and it’s a pretty painful process, then of course you’ve rehashed it and you’ve put your own closure to it and then it isn’t quite as painful to think or talk about, but it’s still mentally draining.  You start typing out a story then you realize after you type a particular paragraph, that maybe THAT’S the reason you have those issues with yellow-bellied sap-suckers, or gold finches, or Burger King drive-thrus.  You get my point, right? So, I promise that I’m working on the story in my head, how I want to write it, what I want to get across with writing it and all that.  I’m sorry it’s taking so long, I am really am not just procrastinating (well, maybe a little) I just have to work myself up to the peak then jump…I’m gettin’ there.

WHEW!

I finally got all the homework done but it too me longer than expected.  The Ex-AH* story isn’t even started and I’m too tired to start now.  I will work on it, I SWEAR, I just need a little more time.  I really should write out an outline before I start writing, there is THAT much shit that happened.  It’s almost a year of my life that was complete shit, so there is a lot to tell.

More interesting things….I don’t have any.  How about pictures?  Nah, y’all are sick of my pictures.  How about a silly kid story?  Ok, that’s all I got…don’t like it? Move along..

SILLY KID STORY:
BT and LT were playing in my closet while I was taking a bath Sunday night and BT kept saying, “Well, blow me down!” and then blowing on his own chest and falling.  LT was just sort of yammering and spinning around, like he always does.
Well, BT started saying, “Blow me down!” to LT and LT wasn’t responding, so BT kept saying it.  Finally LT barrelled by BT to leave the closet.  BT turned (after almost being run over) and said to himself, in a muffled tone, “I said BLOW me down, not RUN me down.” Then walked away…dude, it was REALLY funny at the time and I’m sure that no one will find that quite as hillarious as I, their mother, do…but damnitall it’s FUNNY!!!!!

Have a great week and more stubstance tomorrow, we can hope anyway…

EX-AH=Ex-AssHole

Ok, dustmite, you said you wanted practically nekkid male bodies, right?  WAIT! LT was practically naked (not nekkid..that means you’re about to do something you shouldn’t be..wait..he’s always about to be doing something he shouldn’t, not sexually but usually something he shouldn’t all the same, right?)..well, yeah he isn’t hot, he’s cute as hell, but not hot…Gawd I hope I never hear anyone call my kids ‘hot’…not even when they’re 20! Well, ok maybe when they’re 20, MAYBE!

This is the best I can do, Maybe Playgirl will hire me or something, yeah, I doubt it, too.

That’s the DH, and I’m sure that M, whom he works with, will just LOVE seeing this…Sorry, M…Really, I’m terribly sorry…Maybe the wife will like it?

Speaking of vacations…I want to go to St. George Island in Florida, really I do.  I just need someone to watch my kids, because I couldn’t rent a house down there, they’d break everything, that is unless I just kept them connected to my hip and well, that’s not a whole lotta fun, 24/7.  DH and I never got a honeymoon, hopefully we can take one down there in July or August or something.  I’ll keep dreaming and you all can keep reading through your subs and hopefully you’ll find more stimulating conversation.  Have a great Friday and a WONDERFUL weekend!  If I can get the homework done by Sat. I’ll post the Ex-asshole story on Monday!

Yeah, So…

Yeah, I did say that I was going to type out the ex-husband story…haven’t gotten around to that yet..it will be LONG so I need a weekend, at least.  You’ll get it, I promise!

In other news…I have a ton of fucking sketches to do and have to debate some scholar guy in Art History…BUT, I did get the BEST email from my Art History prof. Weds, that read, “Great essay, well researched and a pleasure to read, Thank You.”  How cool is that? Especially when she isn’t one to interact with the students much, she does on RARE occasions..so I guess I’m doing something right…now just to get the stupid Conceptual Design teach to like me…gawd damnit, I should change my major to photography, but they don’t offer it online..bastards.

Speaking of photography (come on, you didn’t think you’d get away with no eye candy today, did you?)…..

Honeysuckle

Sunny Azaleas

Isn’t LT the CUTEST?! He had just hit his head on a table.

Flyingbutter! WHAT IS IT?!?! I planted it but I forgot!!!

Potato Bush

Part of my backyard

The nightsky.

Have a GREAT Thursday!

How Cool is This?

Monday, after it finally stopped raining I remember reading in my new Birds & Blooms magazine about a gardner/photographer who woke up early to get dew drops and their reflections..so I figured I’d try it.  I was really going for the whole sparkly water droplet thing, but I actually got a good drop with a reflection..not the best but it’s a start!…

Here’s the original photgraph:

Water Droplet:

New Photos are at http://www.turtlemama.com

I am uploading my albums now…it is taking FOREVER! I have a thousand or so new pictures (seriously, I believe them to be near a thousand at least).  I really need a new computer…Anyone want to hire me to photograph something? Or design your house, or wash your dog, watch your kids, do your grocery shopping…ANYTHING for an extra 2-3 grand would be GREAT!

We Have a Winner!

Flyingbutter named the flowers and now they have NAMES! NAMES I TELL YOU!!!! NAAAMMMEEESSS!!! Ok, sorry, but I just LUUUVVVV nature and flowers and all that shit, so….ya know!  Anyway, if Flyingbutter would like me to send her a print of one of my photographs, I’ll be more than happy to oblige, just email me!

Now, speaking of photography…I was out and about on Easter Sunday, well ok, I was in the yard.  I saw a small juvenile housefly and thought, “Wow that would make one kick ass picture!” So, I grabbed my camera and snapped a few shots, he was very kind to stick around so that I could photograph him.  Here he is, in all his hairy glory (or gory?)

Click for full view (I know, I know, you all know that already…but I still say it!)

Up close and personal with Mr. Fly..

I was really trying to pick up the colors from his wings, and I’m more than glad that it came out….The hair is a little nasty, well hell, the whole picture is a little nasty if you think, this guy just got done munching on dogshit and decaying flesh…but his wings sure are purdy!

Your Weekend Blog Entry

Ok, I have an Art History paper to write and an assignment for Conceptual Design, so I won’t be around this weekend.  SOOOO in honor of the break that you all will be getting, I am posting pictures of what we (DH and myself) did yesterday….

First we went to one Ford dealership to trade in DH’s truck and got dicked around, so we left and went to the other dealership who we overheard say, “He’s coming from [Metro ATL Ford Dealership], do what we wants, we want to take the business from [Metro ATL Ford Dealership].” (We called them Fri morning after the other dealership dicked us around most of Thurs. and most of the morning on Fri.)

After hanging around car dealerships all fucking gawd-damn day, we finally got to come home…and I would like to thank my MOTHER for watching my children ALLLLLLL day yesterday, even though she had company in from out of town, THANKS MOM! (although she shouldn’t be reading this, but sis probably gave her the link)…..ANYWAY!

We came home in this:

2003 Ford Explorer SportTrac

The salesman called and told DH that a convoy had just pulled up with the silver one he wanted and the bed liner and cover that he wanted.  It had 8 miles on it when we looked at it on the lot!  It wasn’t on the lot long…and it’s BRAND-SPANKIN NEW! HOT DAMN GERTRUDE!

Click for full-size view (all photos)

FRIIIIDAY!!!!

Being FRIDAY! I thought that you’d all like something a little special.  So, here it is…a contest.  If someone can tell me what these two flowers are and send me a link with their info, I will give them……something, maybe a framed picture that I’ve taken or sumin’…I dunno, I just need the info and would whore my photo abilities to do it..I’m a sick puppy, yes I am.

Flower #1

FLOWER #2

And now, random bits of photography…
Not really artsy, just sort of there.