Lady Madaysia

Unfortunately, I have figured out that I can be a rather unpleasant human being when I am too hot for too long. Our AC broke a couple of weeks ago and Andy tried fixing it. It worked for another week and a half and broke again. It happened in the evening, after we had used the oven and boiled some vegetables on the stove top. It was so bad. I was fine until it came time to sleep. I just cannot sleep if I am too hot. So I didn’t sleep well. I woke up in the morning, took a cool shower, and hoped that the apartment people would come by and fix it.

After coming home from work, it still hadn’t been looked at. I was very hesitant to cook any dinner or wash the dishes/run the dishwasher because of the use of hot water and steam. After 4pm, I felt like maybe the apartment maintenance crew wasn’t coming by after all, but they did. They tried to do a “quick fix” since they didn’t have enough time to do the real fix until the next day.

It didn’t do anything at all. It was swelteringly hot and I had a messy kitchen. I also didn’t get enough sleep. I ended up snapping at everyone. Boy was I irratible. I can’t believe how grumpy I ended up being. I didn’t complain that I was hot, since I knew that nothing could be fixed until the next day, but grrrrrr. The kids wouldn’t go to sleep because it was hot. I couldn’t get to sleep because it was hot. My kitchen was messy and that really bugs me. I tried, tried, tried not to let it get to me, but yeesh.

What made it worse was that it was actually decently cool outside, and even though we had all of our fans blowing air in from the outside, it still wasn’t cooling very well and it was humid. I don’t mind outside hot so much, it is just the inside hot. I’ve been outside hot for more than a couple of days in a row and it hadn’t affected me as badly.

So I am definitely NOT a perfect human being. I just wish I hadn’t been so snappy and grr at everyone.

So, sorry if I was a grumpy mumpy.

And we got our AC fixed yesterday, so I felt like cooking and cleaning more than I did the previous day. I’m still catching up, but at least I am more willing now.

I apologize..I meant to post this post…mmm 4 months ago. I thought it would be fun to go ahead and post it, since it pretty much sums up my feelings about government run anything, because anytime I deal with a government run something or other, something like THIS happens.

Back Sometime In May…

Yesterday I went to renew one of my car’s registrations. When I got home (and they were closed by then), I realized that the plate number was wrong. They had my Jetta’s plate on my Hybrid and my Hybrid’s on the Jetta. As in, the old registration papers were switched compared to the renewal registration papers.

So today I go into the BMV to tell them. After 10 minutes of explaining over and over again (with the kids running amuck) what I felt was wrong, and even showing them proof by having the registrations for all the cars handy, they finally understood what my problem was.

Then they move to trying to fix it. Well they can’t. The computer system won’t let them because the law won’t let them. Why? Because somehow BOTH plates were registered to the Jetta and I’ve been driving a whole year with an invalid license plate on my hyrbid? Except the registration paper said otherwise. Good thing I didn’t get pulled over, huh?

The lady had no idea how this could happen and could not fix it. She moved me over to the next lady who most likely could.

After explaining to her multiple times what was wrong, she finally understood and went to fix it. She then proceeded to get b***hy with me telling me that (get this!) I am NOT allowed to drive with an invalid plate. (No S**t Sherlock!)

She then looked into the whole issue and found that the processing center had somehow processed the plates incorrectly and a bunch of other bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. She then spent another half hour trying to resolve the issue. She explained to me that they are having trouble because the plates we have are 5 year and not 1 year, so I can’t get another new plate for another 4 years. And you technically aren’t allowed to switch plates on the cars (even though that is what happened in the first place.)

Anyway, after it was all said and done, everything worked out. I had to pay some extra money for THIER mistake, but you know, it is over with. The plates are fixed with the correct number and registration to each car.

The Spoiler Tags aren’t working, and for some reason, I cannot add html in this box like I used to, so I am sorry for those with unwilling eyes.

Well, now that I’ve seen the movie three times, I figured that it was tiem for me to elaborate on why I didn’t really like the movie in regards to following the story, but liked it alright in regards to humor.

There was not much background or story line on the Half Blood Prince at all. I felt that the movie followed too closely with the miniscule love stories within the background of the book and not enough about researching and discovering details about the Half Blood Prince and his book. I felt like only 5 minutes of the whole movie was spent on Mr. Prince. However, I am sure that you all know me well enough to know that for me, there can never be too much time spent on him.

They also cut out the battle scene on the Astronomy Tower. I am having mixed feelings about this. It still worked, what they did, but I could have used a little more action. Or at least, a little more action in the cave scene.

The cave scene I hated the first time I saw it. But I have to say that it has grown on me over time. I actually cried the second time I saw it. I think I was just so entranced into following every minute detail that I missed the whole thing. It was emotional and I could hardly stand to hear Dumbledore say “kill me”, “please stop”, and “it’s all my fault”. Seriously, why weren’t you acting like that before Mr. Gambon?!

I wish that man would LOOK at whoever he is speaking to because it looks a little, well, stupid. I understand that there is supposed to be a bit of wonder to the man while he is speaking, but whenever he is talking to Harry, he speaks off into space. It only works so much in a movie, Mr. Director.

But bravo on acting more “gay”! Dumbledore borrows a knitting magazine…that cracks me up.

The “Liquid Luck” sequence of scenes was by far my favorite part of the movie. Full of humor and wit and sarcasm..I never imagined Daniel to act so…convincing…during that scene. It was a hoot. Thumbs up on making me laugh really hard throughout the entire movie.

That’s all I have for now. Let me know what you think of it, too.

-A

I just got home from driving all the way to Indianapolis to preview the Half Blood Prince movie.

Woohoo!

It was good for the most part. I’ll detail later, when others have had their chance to see it.

In the software that I use for compiling my manuals (still no InDesign or FrameMaker…le sigh) there is this tiny little annoyance that I have that really isn’t a big deal, but can be a little bit of pain sometimes. The spell checker I have isn’t as all-encompassing as the spell checker in Word. Normally that isn’t an issue, since one can edit the spell checker to include a specific word into its ignore list. However, with the program I am using, it will not allow for that option. So I am stuck having it pop up a dialogue box in my face repeatedly, “You spelled ‘ADSORB’, we think the correct spelling should be ‘ABSORB’.” However, I know that ADSORB is a word and it seems to be used often in the manuals. A few other bugger words/phrases are “ChemSense 600″, desorption, sorbent, diagram, diaphragm, calibrant, calibration, annihilation, segmentation, fragmentation, liberation, and m/z. As you can see, most of those words are fairly common. Just, you know, annoying that you have to still scan through each word carefully. Because maybe I did spell it “calibarnt” instead of “calibrant” or “desopr” instead of “desorb”. Then I have to go and type it in, instead of just clicking on the word.

Tsk tsk. Sometimes you wonder why they don’t allow for certain editing capabilites….