Injum's Wednesday

Painting Project continues... Day 3

So at this point everything that needed to be painted in our office building has been painted. The only problem, the painters pooped out today. I must say I saw this coming. So now we're left with painted walls, most could use a second coat, and the painters are so tired out from going full steam ahead on the project that they've decided to stop until next week or so... blah I guess this nightmare will continue.

In good news: Injum Jim may have found himself a new tipi for rent. Okay so heres how the story goes. My brother has 2 friends, Friend A is moving to a family farm house in the country and so Friend B is moving in to Friend A's house, leaving Friend B's house available. From the outside it looks pretty nice. It's a two story house on a corner lot with a 2 car garage. I can see it has patio doors and it looks nice. The guy who owns the place is a local bank big-wig so I assume it should be have been kept up inside. If I can swing getting the place, I could possibly move in mide June to early July.

In MORE good news (that's right it gets better for me): My apartment lease in Vermillion is finally FINISHED. My lease went until May 31. I moved out at the end of November. So it's been up for sublease since December and sat vacant (and sucking $650) out of me until April. April 3 a gal sublet it from me and the real estate agency said for the remainder of my lease so I figured okay that takes me off the hook for April and May - better than nothing I thought. SO May 15 rolls around, no news is good news on the apartment - I get a call from the real estate people. I guess the gal who sublet my apartment skipped out at the end of April, turned in the keys and left town. Now they wanted me to pay half to the whole months rent for May. BULLSHIT! I pulled the I need to talk to my lawyer card and they quickly said "well we will try to get it out of her then, we'll be sending your deposit back to you shortly" So I haven't heard anything yet but I also haven't gotten my deposit back either so we will see how that goes.

Back to the war-path...

Blah Mondays & Tuesdays

Okay, Jim here... (sorta)

So Sunday we got a pretty good storm that came through town. Our office is perpetually experiencing water leaking issues. Needless to say, half of our office carpet was soaked with water, water was standing in the low areas on the carpet. I was pissed. So Monday morning I managed to get my hands on this huge commerical grade Shop-Vac and managed to suck up most of the water in the carpets. We were going to paint so all our furnature had been moved in the middle of the room. So after that disaster, we started painting which had its own little mini disasters.

We got our main office room done yesterday, it looks decent. Now today they're painting the hallways (again alot of mini-disasters such as oh, say spilling paint on the carpet... yea). So things are starting to get somewhat back to normal right now. You know how they say when dogs get upset when their routine or environment has changed? thats me right now I'd say. I'm irratable and on have been slightly snippy. I'm wanting to travel to the other offices and drop in on the rest of the staff just to get away from here. You get two particular people in a room, each with their own idea of how the room should look and then try to force a compromise. I must admit though, I won ;-) So now our "painters" are getting tired of painting while they're the ones who are the reason why we're painting in the first place. They were so freaking out about painting that I finally thought " ah what the hell, if it keeps them busy and off my back then I'm set". Guess I was wrong. More to come...

Later, Injum

Friday Friday, Injum Friday

Injum Jim Here,

Okay, so I decided, after MUCH MUCH prodding from Linda (psycho-ish co-worker/peon) that we should paint our office & classroom. My ultimate vision, annex the neighboring office, put in some French doors in the wall and connect the two so I could have an actual separate space where I could shut the door if I need a break from crazy. So anyways for now I said yea we can paint. We have a petty cash fund and can get some more paint from the university maintenance if we need it. I just thought yeah a nice touch up on the paint, the walls are already white, it would just be a new coat of white. Our two rooms are fairly good in size but not huge. I was thinking, okay about a gallon to a gallon and a half per room? Sounds good to me, get a smooth roller that won't leave alot of paint and still look good. Here's Lindas reply, "WELL WE NEED AT LEAST 12 GALLONS OF PAINT"

Holy F#ck! What the hell are we painting? are we trying to make the Golden Gate bridge the White Gate bridge cuz thats what it sounds like. We bought 3 gallons of interior egg-shell latex paint, that will carry us - and hopefully a long way. I know how some people paint, they just glob it on the wall. I'm talking about a nice fresh light coat of white on already white primered walls. so yeah, I said we'll do it next week starting monday and today we can prep for the painting. So now here I sit, my desk in the middle of the room along with every other piece of office furniture and file cabinets and such. Everything is off the walls. We're ready to roll, I guess... I managed to keep my desk somewhat in my corner, and my other desk that completes my corner domination area is still in place. Fuck-tard meanwhile wanted to push them together in the middle of the room such that I wouldn't be able to sit anywhere. Lets not forget I'm the boss, if some GED Crisis comes up I need my command center - i dont want to be saying "hey you guys can we move the desks so I can get stuff out of my drawers!"

Perhaps I'm partially pissed because I just need a Goddam day off every once in a while... I could have stayed home today, I seriously contemplated it. Just call in, say you're feeling a little mucky and stay home, in bed where its nice and warm and comfortable. But yet I feel the need for punishing myself by subjecting myself to mind numbing clamoring voices that is my co-worker/minion... I took a break to go fill some holes with some spackle. So anywho... Yeah we got alot of work to do. K so the radio station is having a story about a 4H barn dance in town and the guy heading it up was like "yeah and we're going to have a slave auction to raise some money... Told you I was living in redneck central. Okay so I better get going... More later, updates on the painting that is...

Hayayaya, (sincerely yours in Injum)
Jim

I dont play with barbie dolls

I play with action figures, get it right. So its been a while, I almost forgot our unforgettable password for this blog. Everytime I type it I'm reminded of all those hours spent at work, by myself, at night... SESDAC. By the way, I HAVE been working. It just gets so boring at times, I need to be a better blogger. As far as the texting, I'll get a random text from Sara every now and then of how much she loves this or that. Meanwhile I'm stuck in I hate-sville. Apparently Sara's got a lot of love to go around, I'm a bitter man. (the song on the radio is Styx Come Sail Away - see what I mean about a sucky radio station, IN FACT it sucks so much instead of calling it Magic 93 like the radio station likes, everyone calls it tradgic 93)

As far as things I love, I keep it pretty simple. (RADIO UPDATE now it's blues traveler Forever owed.)I don't fall immediately in love with something, it has to work to earn my love. Lets say I have a cookie, and its a good cookie. I don't immediately fall in love with this cookie and profess my unending love for said cookie. The cookie has to prove to me that it deserves my love. OMG I LOVE THIS CHIPS AHOY DOUBLE CHUNK COOKIE, YUM-O, no thats not me. (UPDATE Rick Springfield - Don't Talk to Strangers)I keep my love for things on the DL, just between us sort of thing. If I like that same cookie, I'll let it know I appreciate it. Okay lets get off of cookies.(UPDATE Van Morrison, brown eyed girl)

So maybe I should do a list of I loves, to see what I actually love, its an exclusive list:

I Love:
1. good music
2. quiet time
3. when Linda (who works in my office) is on leave
4. when I go for a drive, with no destination in mind
5. Fall/Spring seasons
6. Lasagna
7. Tootsie rolls
8. Carmel Rolls
(UPDATE Incubus - Love Hurts)
9. Golfing - perhaps Love would be too strong, maybe enjoy is a better word
10. I would love to have a new car

great, Linda is back, and she's talking non-stop (as usual). She's on this diet and I have to hear everything about it. "Jim, I lost 2 more pounds, that brings it up to 8!" Whoopty fuckin do. She's going to be gone Thursday and Friday - those are going to be two good days. (UPDATE Godsmack - Shinedown)

11. The weekend
12. sleeping in
13. French Dip w/ au jus from the Diner on Main
14. My computer
15. iPod & iTunes
(UPDATE Eagles - Lyin' Eyes)

We can end the list there. So I came up with a master plan for my life. Okay, So i'll work at this current job for say 3-4 years. While I'm here, I can ge my Masters degree for free, I just have to pay for books. Okay so then I will try my hand at applying for some form of graduate school. Like Law school, and a joint degree program. I'm too young and talented to waste my talents at this job to make it a career. A place where people argue at me for enforcing the rules and following our policy. Perhaps I could go back to USD, or maybe UND or elsewhere. I am getting valuable experience at an administrative level job. Maybe good experience isn't the best way to put it but its experience none the less.
(UPDATE John Cougar Mellencamp - Ain't even done with the night)

Ok, I'm going to wrap it up for now. I'll think of something better to post later.
Later, Injum

We've been MIA, but we don't hate you!

Hey All. Chatterbox Sara here. First and foremost, we don't hate you readers of our blog. We may hate everyone else, but not you. You're too cute and fluffy and shiny and fun for us to hate! Muah muah! But Jimbo and I have just been stupid busy. I grow more whale like in my pregnancy by the day and it's the end of the semester for my little family. I've even begin to suck at blogging on my other blog. That's super duper hyper monster pooper sad.

But, but, but, well, I mean, I just only have soooo much energy by the end of the day. Plus a lot of the time I cannot think of things that are funny enough or smart enough to say here so I relegate them to my blog instead. I promise I'll be better, starting next week. I'm gonna blog about how fucking great it is to apparently be a socialist for supporting our President and for thinking most red-blooded right wingers are dickbongs.

I also need to talk to you about how great Anthony Bourdain is and how over being pregnant I am. I've got loads of fun I need to share with you. I also need to talk about Madonna and about how stupidly confusing it is that it apparently is uber-cool to post 8000 pictures of ones' self on Facebook drunker than shit.

As for where is Jimbo? Welllllllllllllllllll, I must say he and I suck as bff's because we maybe text each other once a week and talk even less lately. I dunno why. He's apparently "working" aka watching vh1 in his parents basement while playing Barbie Dolls and eating Jalapeño Cheetos. All I ever hear from him is how much he hates everything, so I dunno whats up in his land of a thousand red skins.

We suck and we know it. But, in the meantime, here's a fun Friday picture for you!



Peaceout bros-

Chatterbox Sara

WHAT IS THIS?????????????/

Uhhhhh, pretty sure I will never sing something like this in any synagogue. Why is there even a hymn like this? What on earth- who WROTE this weirdness? SOMEONE EXPLAIN!!!!

1. There is a fountain filled with blood
drawn from Emmanuel's veins;
and sinners plunged beneath that flood
lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains,
lose all their guilty stains;
and sinners plunged beneath that flood
lose all their guilty stains.

2. The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day;
and there may I, though vile as he,
wash all my sins away.
Wash all my sins away,
wash all my sins away;
and there may I, though vile as he,
wash all my sins away.

3. Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
shall never lose its power
till all the ransomed church of God
be saved, to sin no more.
Be saved, to sin no more,
be saved, to sin no more;
till all the ransomed church of God
be saved, to sin no more.

4. E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die.
And shall be till I die,
and shall be till I die;
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die.

5. Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save,
when this poor lisping, stammering tongue
lies silent in the grave.
Lies silent in the grave,
lies silent in the grave;
when this poor lisping, stammering tongue
lies silent in the grave.


I'm gonna go have nightmare now.

Peace out-

Chatterbox Sara

The Candy Man

It seems our nation has really reverted to this whole idealogy that appeals to most 3 year olds. It's called instant gratification. We just want everything now, now, now, don't we? That's why we've got plastic in our wallets and fat on our asses. The right wing really knows how to capitalize on this and turn our new President into a bad guy. There's been this whole slew of mud slinging at President Obama for "not delivering on his 516 campaign promises" and about our nations descent into rotten quagmire.

Please. Grow up. These are just the piggy squeals of sore losers. Get over it. If the reds were doing so great, would public opinion of President Bush have sunk as low as it did? Would Nancy Pelosi have needed so much botox to appear even slightly happy to be at her governmental position everyday? I think not. Listen, I'm not anti-republican and I'm not going to say republican values are bad. There are a great deal of reasons why I'm an Independent and that's because there are principles from both parties I really believe in. What I am against is the fact that Republican's seemed to have turned into the quintessential good-ole-boys network that enjoys bad mouthing change because change = them having to roll up their sleeves and do a bit of work too.

Let's remember that our President has been in office for right around 3 months, please. Let's remember that working for a nation's government, no matter whether you're the head honcho or the lowly coffee runner includes a great deal of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. I imagine someone somewhere has to sign and stamp a piece of paper just to get a double cappucino. Things like governmental transparency, change we can believe in, and elbow grease take time. Things like WORK takes time.

How is ANYONE supposed to deliver on every single on of their campaign goals in less than three months? When you work for the government you're lucky if anything gets done in a timely and efficient manner. We've been operating on the principles of gummy stasis for awhile now and even the biggest ball buster high rolling change talker is going to encounter some setbacks to getting the ball rolling. A lt of this just boils down to how unsettled our country is right now. We screwed up our own economy, we're all in debt, we're in a war that we can't win, and let's face it, NO OTHER CUNTRYIN THE WORLD LIKES US THAT DAMNED MUCH. We know we're the unpopular kid at school. So instead of running with that fact and making our own lives happy and better, we're desperate for $400 jeans that will "make everyone like us and make me feel happy again".

Please. We need to get over ourselves and take a bit of a look around. We did this to ourselves. We don't deserve international sympathies, we deserve to accept our errors and make some changes we don't like. No one was happy with President Bush by the end. But if you expressed that you were somehow anti-American. Now, if you're in line with President Obama, you're even more anti-American. Do you know what we're all doing by focusing on these petty trivial things? WASTING TIME INSTEAD OF GETTING TO WORK.

This, I believe, is the heart and soul of the matter. We want to avoid the truth and the ugly mirror. So instead of doing our part to fix problems and be a part of "change we can believe in", it's just soo much easier to whine and wax poetic about the way things "ought to be". Did you ever work in fast food? Maybe back in high school? There you were, cleaning out the Dilly Bar machine or filtering the chicken mcnugget grease and pissed that you were doing it while your coworker Bambi stood right next to you whining about how HAAAAAARD this is and how much this job SUUUUUCCCKKKKS. That's a bitter pill to swallow. What's even harder to swallow is that now you're just another Bambi.

Get over yourself. We could always go back to this . . . .



But instead we've got this . . . .



Neither are perfect and they work with a terribly imperfect system and a country that enjoys excess and self-absorbancy. They work with whiners, slackers, and losers. We should be proud to be American, eh? Oh and here's just a bit of something for your consideration.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
Baracknophobia - Obey
comedycentral.com
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I'm sure I'll get flamed for writing this. But whatever. That's fine by me.

Peace out-

Chatterbox Sara