miko2 | More days of nothing

I don't know if it's the same as what Gene posted in his journal, but I do on occasion find myself feeling pretty down (at least as much as I ever feel down). It tends to go away quickly... but tonight, after having yet more of my billing errors pointed out to me, I was not feeling too up hehe. I have the kind of bosses who never really tell you when you're doing a good job, who only point out when you've made a mistake. Not that they're bad bosses... they're very nice people, easy to talk to. But the only indication I've ever had that I do a good job is that people kind of panic when I go on vacation. Going on vacation is a good way to see if you're really valuable to the company. ^_^

And anyway, I've been playing EQ a lot lately, and while I don't have a problem mentally with spending my free time however I want, there is an emotional satisfaction that I get from reading a book or writing that I don't get from watching movies or playing video games. It's a sense of accomplishment... I don't get that playing EQ. But I still enjoy playing. ^_^

I also know that I need to clean up around the house more, and get more of my life in order. I need to schedule a dentist appointment. I managed to at least check up on what my dental insurance is, and recover the name of Sky's dentist from when he posted it sometime in July when I was saying I needed to go to the dentist then. ^_^

I haven't heard from Saturn yet on my car. My only worry is that they'll do a bazillion dollars worth of work on it, but my insurance will only cover part of it. Heh. ^_^ I mean they want to do a tune up, and I'll probably have to pay for that myself, just not sure how much it will cost.

On the flip side, Chase called me today. They got the payment from my new credit card paying off my balance, and wanted to ask me why I wasn't forking over 25% interest or whatever it was to them each month, as if that needed to be explained to them. They said to call them when I wasn't getting a good interest rate from my new card, lol. They're well aware that odds are good that I'll slip on my payments, and they'd rather I pay them 25% interest than to someone else. Laff. But I think I'm going to be good about it this time and not screw up yet again. Otherwise I can I can still still transfer the balance to my Teamsters Mastercard at 4.9% interest, and maybe by next year I'll finally have it all paid off anyway.

Next step is to dump my Chase and Citibank Visas which I have no use for.

On the music front I bought three new cds Monday. I was in a girl group mood I guess, I got One Beat by Sleater-Kinney, which is a group I like so I want to eventually collect all of their stuff. Then I bought two groups based on reading reviews of them. One is The Donnas, who are kind of a female version of the Ramones, all simple unpretentious straight-ahead fast-paces rock songs about partying. Fun stuff. ^_^ The other is Sahara Hotnights, another girl garage punk band, but this one is harder rock, they get compared more to Joan Jett or her former band the Runaways. Also a lot of fun. Actually so far I like Sahara Hotnights better. ^_^

And a review of my EQ life, as if you needed that: my friends from Pasco that I group with all the time dropped out of The Grove to join another guild. The Grove is not a real guild anymore, there are only two regular members at the moment, me and Dinomight, and then Priis who is leader of the guild and Roncor, both of whom have been too busy to play for the last month or so. Anyone else who is in the guild either pops in on a very infrequent basis, or is a low-level alt character of someone whose main character is in a real guild. I think if Dino were to quit the guild, I would too. But I doubt I'd be of any use to any other guild given the hours I play, so it's just as well, for me.

But anyway, I'm having fun hanging out with my friends who play late and can group with me. We played our alts the other night and hunted in Echo Caverns and then Paludial Caverns, and that was a blast. I really need to play my main character more though, I'm nearly 50th level which is a milestone of some sort, since a long time ago it was as high as you could go in the game (now you can go to 65).

Another thing I need to do, get subscribed to dsl or broadband pronto. With Tom moving in, it's stupid to not do this.

But anyway, enough rambling, time to go goof off in virtual fantasyland.