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| Thu, 06-08-2006 - 5:26am |
Hey everyone just thought I would stop by and say hi and let you all know I am still in the land of the living. Frozen but living... tho I guess what I call frozen would be tropical to others lol!
I dont get much time to sit and play online these days, I work 7.30am til 1pm most days and then go back again 4pm-6pm, that doesn't include the 20mins each way travelling time. Then I have kids who always need something and housework and now and then there is this woman here who calls herself my girlfriend.
With all the expenses of raising kids and running a vehicle etc I have managed to scrape together a bit here and there because I really wanted a more up to date computer. I bought the components one at a time as I could afford them- set up the computer for the first time yesterday but had no hard drive, so used a live linux operating system (from a cd) and had a test drive. My hard drive arrived today, so I have spent most of the day installing windows and transferring stuff over from my other computer.
For anyone who is interested in this stuff, this is what I have put together:
Case: Chenbro gaming bomb w/ 400w PSU
MB: gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
RAM 1 GB Dual channel PC3200
Graphics: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 7600GT
HDD: Maxtor Diamond10 300GB SATA
OS: Windows XP Professional OEM
I have also put in fans with blue LED's and have blue LED's in my mouse!
I am still working at the dog kennels, I still really enjoy the job but apart from the 2 weeks I had off after my gallstone op I have never taken any leave so I have requested 2 weeks off. It's quite a physical job, I dont think I would get a better workout if I joined a Gym! But lately I have hardly been two weeks without a cold, we are heading into the coldest part of our winter and my morning at the kennels usually starts with breaking the ice in the dog's water bowls- so I think a bit of R&R is called for. Besides I have a new toy and no time to play with it....
Still seeing the new GF but I suspect it wont last much longer. I was going to say I think she gets more out of the relationship than I do, but in hindsight I dont think she does. I think she lives in eternal hope lol but I am just not all that into her. I think if the hormones hadnt taken charge and we hadnt rushed into the physcial aspect of the relationship, we would have been great friends and the sex thing would never have happened. So if someone could please develop an on off switch for hormones I am sure it would be worth a Nobel Peace prize!
I am having trouble telling the GF I don't want this relationship as she is in her last year of her PhD, has put herself behind schedule through dealing with sexuality issues in the first place, was granted an extension but I think her deadline is closer than she would like.... I am afraid that breaking up with her now would upset her so that she doesn't finish her PhD. I have tried to explain to her in the past that I can't see this being a lasting thing, that I dont think there is any real chemistry between us... she doesnt seem to get it. THe more I get to know her, the more things I discover about her that turn me off rather than turn me on.... but how do you tell someone something like that?!! I have been kind of hoping she would figure it out for herself....


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Hi Ven!
So nice to see you pop in!
(((((((((Ven))))))))))) It's so awesome to see you! Thanks for the update.
Sounds like things are stable for the most part, and that's great. I do hope you'll enjoy your time off from work. It's so hard to imagine being in cold weather right now. I would actually love a bit of here, though.
I'm sorry about the rough decisions you're having to make with respect to your girlfriend. I don't have much advice for you except to say be honest. Maybe you will have to finally lay it all out on the table. It's wonderful that you are trying to time it so as not to coincide with her PhD work, but really, this is your life and you deserve to be happy. A year would be a long time to wait.
At any rate, so glad you stopped by and I hope you'll be back with us again regularly soon!
Hugs
(((((((Ven)))))))
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Sorry to hear about the g/f stuff.... but good your realizing it.... but sorry your having problems getting her to understand the point your trying to get across..... But I am not much better at times at getting across my point.. Or perhaps I am... but I just get ignored..LOL... Oh well... whatever..
Hormones switch huh? Yeah that sure would be a real money maker LOL.. I'de like one please!~
Come back soon Hon.. Kudo's on doing soooooo great with the job and hey How are the kids?. Growing no doubt..
(((Hugs Hon))))
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Hi Caly!!
I bought the best graphics card that I could afford and then chose the rest of the bits around that. Actually I am not much of a computer geek myself, I relied on the reviews in computer magazines and lurked on pc-building forums to find which were the best brands. So far it seems to be going well.
I had to laugh at your bit in Easties post about being as far away from your mother as you could get because that is about where I am too. She is at the far norhtern end of the north island. I would have moved to the southern end of the south island until Natalie talked me into moving in with her. Much colder that way anyway!
Hi Ting!
Love your sig graphic. Did you make it yourself? I'm stuck with plain posts because I am discriminated against lol. I have faced more discrimination in my life for being non-american and while I was overweight than I ever have for being lesbian!
I have tried to give my kids a fairly stable life, we check in on the soap opera of Nat's life on a fairly regular basis just to remind ourselves that we are doing ok!
I have her son here at the moment. He is more our son as he does not remember a time when I wasn't in his life doing all those other parent type things. I believe my influence is really the lad's only chance to grow up some sort of "normal" lol (he wants to be just like me....)
Hi Pam! How's life treating you?
Kids are fine, my son is in his most important year of High School when he starts gaining qualifications that will hopefully see him into Uni or a job. My daughter has settled into her new school and made new friends - she is in her preteen know-it-all years, has a smart-arse answer for everything that is said to her but she could be a lot worse.
I wasn't joking when I said I would get a better work out than at the gym. I seem to have ended up the person in charge of the hydrobath. The last week, I must have bathed upwards of 80 dogs and not all of them are too pleased about the whole procedure. The kennels have a run complex about 200metres from the main complex and on tuesday most of my bath dogs were over there. I ended up with 9 dogs to bath in less than an hour and most of them were over in the runs. So I had to run over, grab the dog, run back, encourage it into the bath, dry it and take it to an outdoor kennel to dry.. run back and get the next dog.... which is all very well but two of the dogs were English Bull Mastiffs and they did NOT want to be bathed! You kind of have to pull them at one end and push them at the other- a whole body workout!!
I am sure the gf might have figured out by now that I am not interested in sex with her, I have told her I think we get along fine as friends but it's all one way. I told her to find someone else who shares her eccentric interests... the problem is that I am the first gf she has had and I dont know that she believes she will find anyone else, has had nothing to compare the relationship with I guess.
Kids are fine. I know I have a daughter. I think I have a son?! I hear horrid noises coming from the room next to mine and no police or ambulance so I am guessing it's his music. The food keeps disappearing and when we run out of cups and plates, that room is where we usually find them... so far I think raising teenage sons is a lot easier than daughters! All you do is keep putting food in the fridge, pay the broadband account and wear headphones!
so far I think raising teenage sons is a lot easier than daughters! All you do is keep putting food in the fridge, pay the broadband account and wear headphones!
ROFL Ven!
Hey Ven,
I made up my own sig. I found the clip art online and then added my name/title in Photoshop. Do you have the Express Yourself package through ivillage? You could do color, graphics, etc. with that.
I'm glad you aren't living a soap opera anymore and can help Nat's son. That's really awesome of you.
Take care and hugs!
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