Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How ya like me now?








Being unemployed is fun!

Dekalb Sanitation Department, 1 - Jennifer, 0 --- For Now

In an earlier blog post, I shared my excitement over the purchase of a new garbage can. My giddiness, however, was tainted with bewilderment over how exactly to dispose of my old decrepit garbage can with the bent wheel axle and salmonella-infused homemade rope handle. Today was my first attempt to throw away said sad can.

Free Trash Can to Good Home
OR
Garbage Man, Please Take

Pretty straight-forward, right? I even put a little "Not Recyclable" symbol with a sad face, so that I wouldn't be judged by the more rabid environmentalist residents of unincorporated Dekalb County. I wheeled my cans to the curb last night; my new can full of garbage and my sad can with its sharpied sign. Imagine my glee this afternoon upon returning from errand-running to see only my new can sitting by the curb with its lid in the upright position...the universal santitation worker symbol..."we picked up yo' garbage, come get yo' can!" But oh, blog readers, what did I spy when I reached the curb:


Not only did they NOT pick up sad can, they took my sign and hid the can behind a bush! Read my lips, blog readers:

THIS IS WAR!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Letter from a friend

Some background. I worked with Byron in my former life...you know, the one where I had a job? He's been at TMA as long as I had and worked out of the Chattanooga office which I commuted to for over a year. He's one of the nicest guys and was always one of my favorite TMA folks. We had dinner about a month ago when he was in Atlanta for an audit. At the time, I was lamenting about how I had just cancelled my cable. He offered to send me season 1 of the Sopranos on DVD. The package arrived today along with this note. Made me laugh out loud.


I don't have the heart to tell him that I re-upped my cable. :/

Friday, August 27, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Wednesday

I'm considering renaming my blog. Something with a soap opera theme. Some ideas:

As My World Crumbles
Young and The Jobless
Bold and The Medicated
All My Cats

Still working on it. :)

The books I ordered came today! Woot! Don't you just love getting packages? Though after perusing my purchases, there is little doubt that I am on Amazon.com's suicide-watch list.

We've got a jumper.
In other exciting news, I got a new garbage can today! It's one of those heavy duty ones that you get for free if you live in a major metropolitan city. Unincorporated Dekalb County? Not so much.

Isn't it pretty?

Ideal for garbage. Score!

Goodbye, sad can with the homemade handle and bent axle.

That rope handle was toxic, y'all.

Sad, just sad.

My new purchase sparks a question that philosophers have wrestled with since the beginning of time - right up there with "Does God exist?"

How does one throw away a garbage can?

Do I put it in the new garbage can? What if it's recyclable? Do I put it in my blue bin? These are the things that keep me up at night. That and whatever is living in my attic.

Speaking of...as I am writing this at 12:23 a.m. on Thursday morning, the little critter is dancing above my head. I had Bart, my Orkin man and new BFF, put a humane trap up there Monday. Now I'm kind of freaked out that I actually might trap something. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to kill whatever it is, but the thought of it scurrying around and then hearing the trap door slam shut is giving me the creeps. Bart tried to make a deal with me. "If it's a squirrel, we can set it free, but if it's a mouse or rat, you let me take care of it." I agreed to no such thing. I told him that if it is a squirrel, I would let it out in my yard, which I understand makes no sense. But I love my squirrels. Mr. Squirrel greets me every morning in the holly tree, and my boys chatter at him. If it's a rat/mouse/other vermin, I will take him/her to Stone Mountain where we will take in the laser show before I set him/her free.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

HA!

Sunday, August 08, 2010

three sixty five

I signed up for the 365 project which is where you take a photo every day for one year.  You can follow me here: http://365project.org/jenniferhoskins/365

We'll see how long this lasts.  I have a tendency to get all gung ho about these kind of things, then abandon them when I get bored or distracted.

Exhibit A: My foursquare friends (all 3 of you) are probably concerned that I have been @Home since August 1.  I can assure you, I have left the house in the last 7 days.

Exhibit B: My twitter followers (all 6 of you, 3 of which are spam), think that I have been sitting waiting on my lunch since April 2, 2009.  I'm hungry, but not that hungry.

Exhibit C: The blog. Enough said.

Wish me luck!  Oh, and take a wild guess who the first picture is of.  ♥

Saturday, August 07, 2010

random thoughts from the unemployed

Big Lots is the new Target.

My ghetto TV from 2004 needs a digital conveter box. Will have to wait a bit longer to tell Comcast to kick rocks.

When I hear R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" I like to change the lyrics to the following:
I believe I can fly / I believe I can touch this guy

It is quite possible that I haven't dusted the top the entertainment center since April 2005.