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Duker

After I got off work yesterday I went home for a little bit and then headed out to Lesta’s where I met the little Min Pin pup I’d mentioned before. He was absolutely PRECIOUS. I hope her friend lets me have him, if not I think I’ll go on a homicidal rampage.

Really though, he was so well mannered and sweet. He hardly barked and Les said he is house broken very well, something Lola Bean still needs to work on. She won’t go in the house as long as you take her out about 45 times a day, which is hard when I’ve got a full time job. My brother said his dog finally understood when he had to spend the weekend with his mother-in-law’s dog. He said they watched him for a weekend and something must’ve clicked in Neo’s head.

Anyway he’s really sweet and cute… gimme gimme gimme!

the credit card saga

There have been times in my life when I viewed credit cards as a really bad idea. When I was first starting off as a credit card holder, I didn’t make the best decisions and ended up with some hefty debt. However now that I am an established adult, I no longer view credit cards as a death threat.

In other experiences, I have found myself with a credit card through a company that I wasn’t fond of. This taught me that it is important to compare credit cards before you go ahead and get one. You should also consider balance transfer credit cards, which can help you break your ties with the icky companies who are only out to charge you unnecessary fees, alter your due dates each month keeping you from ever being able to pay your bill on time, and APRs that are far too high.

My advice to someone looking for a credit card would be to make sure the overall limit on the card is a manageble one. The thing that helped me most was being able to pay off my entire limit with one paycheck, so there was no reason for it to pile up!

Photobucket

Does anyone else hate photobucket?

I used to love this website, I thought it was great back before they added the video uploading feature and tried to make it all fancy shmancy. I don’t know if it’s just me, but when I try to visit and use this website on my computer (running mac os x tiger/firefox browser) it runs like complete SHIT. Generally after I get my image uploaded, it freezes up my whole browser and I can’t even get to the url of the image, which is the whole reason I use photobucket.

I don’t know if there is some setting I can change, or if I’m missing a plugin or what the issue could be but it is so irritating. I must scour the internet to see if I can find a site that I like equally as much so that I can move on from photobucket. I have a pro flickr account, but I don’t want to upload just anything to my flickr account. I used photobucket for mostly random crap…

Screw you photobucket!

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Respect thy… phone answerer.

The thing I dislike most about my job would definitely have to be the fact that I answer the phone. It isn’t exactly my specific duty – but it seems like if I don’t answer, a majority of the time it doesn’t get answered. It’s really not that huge of a deal, but on days like today it really starts to drive me nuts. I am not sure why as soon as I hang up it’s ringing again.

I’m not that much of a people person either, I mean I have good qualities – I’m super nice, polite, and soft spoken yet there’s always someone who calls and wants to get pissed off that OMG! The person they were calling for is in another call. It’s like get over it dude, just leave a voicemail or GASP! Call back!

I definitely wouldn’t mind having to answer the phone if everyone were as nice to me as I am to them.

Ford Blue Oval Scholars Design Contest

Ford Blue Oval Scholars is a scholarship program sponsored by the Ford Motor Company Fund. Their website connects Scholarship students with the opportunity learn about available internships and jobs as well as access information about their upcoming careers. To help kickoff what the Ford Blue Oval Scholars program is all about, they have introduced a logo design contest. The winning logo will be used as the official logo and will represent the Ford Blue Oval Scholars program. It will be used on the website and will appear on all materials used by the Ford Blue Oval Scholars program.

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6. Sixth Place – $50 Music Download Card
7. Seventh Place – $50 Music Download Card
8. Eight Place – $50 Music Download Card
9. Ninth Place – $50 Music Download Card
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Eep! I think I may have to enter!