When I got home from work last night there was a notice on my door that I hadn’t paid my rent. At first I was all “Those idiots lost my rent check!” and then I was all “Crap…I didn’t pay my rent!” So I go up to the office first thing this morning to give them my rent + an $80 late fee and I have to wait out front for about five minutes with some twentysomething guy on his phone. This was his conversation. It was extremely loud and I’m censoring the swearing but this was the gist of it:

The office is f’n closed. Yeah. It’s f’n closed. It won’t f’n open for another f’n five minutes and I f’n want to check MySpace. Oh f Autumn. She’s not f’n sick. She’s f’n not. She f’n lost her job and she’s not f’n sick and now we’re f’d because we don’t f’n have insurance and she’s not even f’n sick. Screw Autumn. Well, don’t screw her. She’s not sick, though. She has like a cold. I live with her I know she’s not f’n sick enough to f’n lose her job. I mean, I know she’s pregnant but she’s not f’n sick and now we don’t have insurance. Do you know how f’n much it costs to f’n have a baby? They don’t have universal health care. You don’t f’n know what you’re talking about Mom! They don’t have Cobra. We’re totally f’n screwed. She can’t get another job. No one is going to f’n hire a 7 month pregnant woman. Now we have to get married and she has to assume all of my debt and then we’ll f’n have insurance. I’m $67,000 in debt! So f Autumn.

Around this time the office person opened the door to tell him she could hear him all the way in the back so he hung up. On his Mom. Who he had just said the f word to about hundred times while berating the 7 month pregnant mother of his child. What a charmer. And what a lucky baby!

Regarding my rent problem. I am a mental case. I’ve been trying to figure out a good New Year’s Resolution and I think it should be to quit being a mental case. I totally flipped out about forgetting the rent. I’ve never done it before. I got nervous about paying it and I couldn’t sleep all night wondering what they would say to me in the office and when I got up there my hands were actually shaking I was so nervous and they just said it happens and thanked me for being nice about paying the late fees. So I spent all night freaking for nothing. So I resolve to not be a mental case in 2008. And to pay the rent on time.

I had the bestest day yesterday. I found out that not only was the Adam Carolla Show coming back in January but Danny Bonaduce is out. This is very exciting news for me. The office closed at noon for a four day weekend. I went Goodwill shopping with my mom’s gift certicates she receives for making sales goals. That means we just walk around the store throwing stuff in the cart and it’s all totally free. Awesome. And she’s been making her sales goals a lot so we can get a lot of free stuff. More awesome. Somebody donated their VHS collection of Degrassi High episodes and I bought them all. I’m talking classic Degrassi not this new The N “it goes there” Degrassi. Whoohoo! I also got a couple of dancing turtle toys that boogie to Funkytown and Let It Whip. Don’t judge. They’re cool. And some “I heart Jim” The Office notepads. Awww….I do heart Jim. After Goodwill pillaging we ate dinner at the Roadrunner. Mac and Cheese and Dr Pepper Steak Tacos. Delish. And then we checked out Bellagio’s Christmas display which was better than ever. Polar bears are out; penguins are in. Such a fun afternoon and way better than sitting at my desk counting the minutes until the holiday weekend.

Christmas weekend plans? Sweeney Todd and National Treasure 2 at the new Rave theater they built down the street. And my mom and me decided to shaft her employees and steal the ham she was taking for the potluck today for our Christmas dinner. Scroogy? Perhaps. They’re getting KFC instead though. It’s not like they’re going to starve. And she also took them multiple bags of presents so they’ll have a good day even if it is hamless.

Pictures from the Bellagio. The reindeer are covered entirely in pecans. I know! All the tourists thought it was really cool too!!

I was sitting next to this cute maybe sixish year old kid playing some sort of handheld video game at lunch today. He was just playing the game and smiling and once he got up and walked around playing the game and he was cute and we were watching him and then, all of a sudden, he just lets out this wail and throws the game down and claws the left side of his face with his fingernails and then stands up in his seat and starts throwing stuff. I guess he lost the game because his father took it away from him and calmly told him it was ok and he was on level five and blah blah. Then someone else at the table asked what he did to his face because there were raised marks down his cheeks where he had clawed himself. It was craziness.

I’m sick of the writers’ strike. I think they deserve what they’re asking for but I think it stinks that they’ve put so many people out of work to get it. There had to have been a way to continue talks without putting thousands of regular crew out of work right before the holidays. What do they actually think they’re going to accomplish anyway? Between reality tv and reruns I would think the studios can hold out for quite some time. I’ve also grown to kind of hate Nikke Finke. The more popular her site has become the more obnoxious she’s become. I actually think she’s the reason I’m not supporting the writers as much anymore. But really, none of this has anything to do with me anyway so I should really just move on.

I’ve had an awful cold for about a week now. Well, actually it was just a cold for a couple of days and then it was awful for a few days and now it seems to be winding it’s way back down to just a cold again. Although I have a wicked cough still and every time I cough it feels like my brain is throbbing against my skull. It’s painful and disturbing. Hopefully that will go away soon. I’m trying to decide whether I should ditch out of work tomorrow or not. I probably shouldn’t. Which doesn’t mean I won’t. I probably won’t though. But I might.

I just spent half my lunch hour listening to co-workers feel sorry for OJ Simpson. Poor OJ can’t get a hotel room. Poor OJ is being tried for something that other people wouldn’t be. Well, yeah…you reap what you sow. He murdered two people and then made jokes and wrote a book about it. Then he broke into a hotel room with a gun and tried to steal stuff. Was it a setup? Probably. He still did it. He wasn’t forced. He’s a criminal. Why shouldn’t he be punished? Then it actually devolved into a discussion of how he didn’t even commit the murders. He hired someone else to do it. What? Where did that come from? God…I hate OJ. I almost wish he wouldn’t go on trial for the robbery because I don’t want to hear about him for months on end.

I was sort of hoping that the writers’ strike would go on for a really long time just to see what would happen if Hollywood shut down. Then last night I was watching Life and I realized if the strike does go on for a really long time I’ll probably never find out who set Crews up. That would really bug me. Although, NBC will probably just cancel the show and leave me hanging either way so I guess it doesn’t matter.

It’s been so long since I posted I forgot my userid and password. I wish I could say I’ve been incredibly busy with charity work and whatnot but I’ve mostly just been watching tv and being incredibly frustrated by work. I figured I should interrupt my Netflix Watch Instantly “30 Rock” marathon to post something before the entire month of October passes by.

Yesterday some dude in an old Volkswagen hippie van yelled “C’mon Grandma!” at my mom because he thought she took too long making a u-turn. If you’re going to be a road-ragey, disrespectful, butthead jackass you shouldn’t be driving a hippie van. It’s a total misuse of the vehicle.

Favorite new tv shows? “Moonlight” and “Life”.

Tomorrow I’m going on a little roadtrip to Pioche. I really need to get out of town so yay.

Six day vacation starts in 15 minutes!!! And today has been a fairly horrible workday so I’m looking forward to getting out of here even more than I was before. Grand Canyon Thursday and Friday; Williams, a deer farm and Bedrock City on Saturday and Route 66 on Sunday. I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon before so I’m really excited. Yay for me!

I was looking in my wallet for some stamps and I found $60 that I can only assume I hid so I wouldn’t gamble it in some casino. Yay! Found money is the best.

I was pricing imaginary vacations last night on Expedia and it was cheaper to fly to Rome and stay in a 4 1/2 star hotel for a week then to go to DisneyWorld for a week. That just seems so wrong.

It just makes me so happy.