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Sexy Magick
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Sunday, April 30, 2006
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make it stop - more blog thingies - or maybe its my brain telling me to stop working - cuz these are alot more fun than accounting :)
oh doesn't that suck i just terminated the page where I save the code..ok must start over
| The PJ's You Are Most Like: His Shirt |
 You're a loyal and caring girlfriend who can't get enough of her man
So much so that you love to have him with you 24-7
And when he's gone, wearing his shirt is the next best thing |
| Your Power Color Is Red-Orange |
 At Your Highest:
You are warm, sensitive, and focused on your personal growth.
At Your Lowest:
You become defensive and critical if you feel attacked.
In Love:
You are loyal - but you demand the respect you deserve.
How You're Attractive:
You are very affectionate and inspire trust.
Your Eternal Question:
"Am I Respected?" |
11:52:36 PM 
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New website to check out if your into magick - I love Magick - nice to finally have forum to talk to other witches
1:42:56 AM
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Saturday, April 29, 2006
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saw this quiz on Zy's blog and then proceeded to take two other tests :)
| You Are a Newborn Soul |
 You are tolerant, accepting, and willing to give anyone a chance.
On the flip side, you're easy to read and easily influenced by others.
You have a fresh perspective on life, and you can be very creative.
Noconformist and nontraditional, you've never met anyone who's like you.
Inventive and artistic, you like to be a trendsetter.
You have an upbeat spirit and you like almost everything.
You make friends easily and often have long standing friendships.
Implusive and trusting, you fall in love a little too easily.
Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul |
| You Should Be a Film Writer |
 You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind.
You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life.
Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling.
And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen! |
| Your Birth Month is May |
 Unique and creative, you seek your own path in life.
You love change and are able to adapt to any situation.
Your soul reflects: Sweetness, joy, and a complete life.
Your gemstone: Emerald
Your flower: Lily of the Valley
Your colors: Yellow, red, and green |
12:12:41 PM
Quizzes
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I've been dealing with this management consulting for a client of mine and at first he seemed like a nice guy but now I know what kind of person he really is. I emailed him a question - a question I need clarification on because the employees are asking me how it works because I'm in the office once a week and what does he do, he turns around and emails the guy I'm asking the question about or copies him on the email. If I wanted the guy copied on the email, I would have copied him on the email period. Its not like I was talking about the guy, I just wanted to know if the mgmt consultant talked to him about the issue - a question between me and the mgmt consultant guy. I really don't like people that are two faced. I shouldn't have to state in my email to "not forward this email to anyone else - i'm asking the question, not them." I like the mgmt consultant guy up to that point and now I'm just weary of him. Its kinda of like who do you trust - he's not one to trust. He reminds me of when I worked in a corporation - back stabbing, two faced ass.
and now to a very relaxing day - haircut and massage
12:11:10 PM
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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- pay bills
- do my 941 and EDD forms and pay them for 1st quarter
- Mike's code (this isn't hard just need 15 minutes to figure it out)
- Update website - i really want to get this done - I can't stand my website anymore
- KD - sales tax forms by Thursday
- do my client billing
- do my bank reconcillations
- play with Monica's template and add some froggies (this is fun)
- play with the cats more often
- sleep
- find my chi
- relax
- finish AC's tigger stuff (not that they are using what I trained them on)
- finish VDV tigger stuff
- Create new tutorial for payments
- Figure out how to put my tutorials into a book - any suggestions on this one would be great appreciated
- work on crazy lady's tax stuff (new client, crazy lady)
- figure out how to get to Dallas - apparently southwest does not fly there
- did i say sleep - me tired
12:48:50 AM
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so today i blew up at a clients - I'm not sure exactly what is wrong with me - I'm not the happy julie that I know or that my clients know, i was so upset that I was crying. I know that I am overwhelmed and I'm still sick and stressed out and today a friend told me I need to find my chi again - and she is so right. I do, I need to find my center again.
I also have a client that is an ass for the lack of a better word - he always thinks he can bully me and get free help, he has an outstanding invoice and he won't pay and me I want to help and get him the answers he has questions about but I also don't want to do free work.
Then there is this other client that hasn't paid either and I guess he's not in the office this week but I did the work so I don't understand why these people can't pay me. I think from now on - tigger jobs, I want a deposit on the project - 1/2 of the proposal is due at the time of signing the agreement.
thanks zy for the lead of employee resources - you're right, I need to find my chi again and i definetly need a personal assistant asap.
12:40:31 AM
Data Dump
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Monday, April 24, 2006
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you know when you meet someone and you get that instant vibe - that physical chemistry attraction, that pit of your stomach vibe and you think to yourself - i can't get him out of my head kind of thing. Its great, its delicious, its what makes the world go round and round. It makes you more upbeat and happier and less stressed. It gives you more confidence in your step and your smile. That's how I felt when I met him. We IM for a few weeks and it was still there although I knew in the back of my mind, that I was his rebound and honestly I'm ok with that. I liked him, I figured at the most, we'd have some fun and we did and we probably will off and on again, we still have plans to go to a few places and hangout together but after spending the a very delicious weekend with him - we both didn't get that sense of a romantic vibe more of a buddy vibe. I think I could probably tell him anything and that's a great relief because dating in itself is really a pain, holding back who you are, dressing up, not being yourself, dating is a pain and its not the real you. And it was such a relief that he didn't get that romantic vibe either, he felt the buddy vibe - so cool. A buddy with benefits, someone to go out with, explore places and things you don't want to do alone but don't really have that someone special to do it with either, its nice knowing that he's there and he didn't feel that pit of your stomach vibe either and we can move on to that friendship phase and still have fun. So that's where we go from here..friendship, hang out, have fun with benefits :)
12:55:09 AM
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while I'm not really one for changing blog posts, I had to strike out a few lines here and there and change the names in a few posts just because its not fair to the individual himself if you read current and then past entries
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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no matter how well you think you know someone, meeting them in person, face to face is something you should always do before agreeing to hire them, hang out with them, date them, etc.
I hired someone a few weeks ago based on an online friendship, never having met the said person. I should have done a formal interview, I should have met him in person not once but probably a few times before actually hiring him, because I think I would have found out our personalities didn't mesh quite as well as they did online.
And today I had to let him go after only working with him for a few hours but those few hours told me many things and my gut instinct tells me many things as well. A few comments that I personally didn't like whether or not he said he was joking, did not come across that way to me. This is my company and I will not be made to feel bad because I scattered or late all the time. The reason I started a company - I can do what I want to do when I want to do it.
If I had meet him in person before hiring him, I think I would have probably realized his sense of humor and mine don't mesh, or that my scattered thoughts just don't work for him or many other things. I should have just said no when he asked for an advance - that should have been my clue not to hire him in the first place or to stop the process. I am truly sorry that I put him through hiring him and letting him go in the same 24 hr period but I am not responsible for the way his girlfriend feels. I am not responsible for truly disappointing his girlfriend (actually I'm not sure why his girlfriend even comes into play here).
I honestly do wish him the best of luck finding a job and her the best of luck of not feeling truly disappointed. I'm sure that I lost two online friends but maybe that's why they have always just been online friends, that's all they were meant to be, nothing more, nothing in RL.
Hindsight is 20/20, now i know better, I will always do a formal interview and a 2nd interview and probably a third interview before I offer anyone a job in the future.
11:21:34 PM
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
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New theme for the Poetry page - still needs a little tweaking but i'll finish it later, xxxxxxxx, where does that stupid line come from - out with ya/ nevermind, liked it better with the line
2:54:59 AM
Poetry
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in the process of building a business, i think i forgot something called ME, doing things I like to do, it seems like i'm working and working and working and never taking time to just do things I like to do like blogging, website design and as my doctor said - people who work and work and are stressed and don't realize their body is saying stop get really sick all of the sudden and stay sicker longer
and as much as i like doing tigger projects, i don't particulary like all the people i have to train, although the last two clients have been exceptions in personalities except maybe the goonies(they were ok after i told them to shut up) and the last one - omg, prepaid me, what a concept but in general telelcommunications companies - WTF? why don't they like to pay, why do the owners always seem to be weasels who try to weasel out of paying or hold off on paying. You'd think I'd know better working for weasels in a corporate environment for 15 years and people tell me well maybe they don't have any money - you know I'm integrating their accounting system with tigger, i know that these people have money - i've seen the books. This one weasel in particular who won't pay, i sent him another collection notice and he called and left me a VM that said "julie call me" yea, I know who is was but i do not call back people who think they can intimdate me and I'm not arguing with him again
so i guess a few people have google me and figured out this blog exist - which is ok by me, i've got nothing to hide and I don't neccessarily blog about everything, some things aren't either something i want to share or even i find boring and not worth blogging about and sometimes i think of something really great to blog about and i promptly forget it, in one ear - straight out the other side *grin*
i keep getting these emails to my sexymagick address about my chase account, why would anyone be stupid enough to click on an email for an account they don't have?
just yawned, must be sleepy time finally
*message for ian* i should be back on track soon and will be able to help with your stuff, sorry for the delay
1:33:51 AM
Data Dump
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Friday, April 14, 2006
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nothing like coming back from a successful trip ready to start the week and get all your accounting clients back on track only to find out you're sicker than a dog
not sort of sick, like its just a one day thing, nope, sick beyond sick, I missed about 45 hours worth of work this week - which is nothing if you're paid salary but to me that means between 1000-2000 dollars worth of work
TM was supposed to start working for me this week but there is no way he would have been up to speed in time to cover me for week long sickness, although I'm thinking we'll just start him by having him start working with me on Tuesday - he can jump in with both feet and go from there (i'll call you later this weekend, we can go over details)
Did I mention it was tax season, god I felt so bad but all my clients have told me stay home, they do not want it and the cpa has filed extensions for all of them and me.
And you're wondering how sick is she really?
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Day 1-3 > I had a 103 fever, sweated like I've never sweated before. I was disoriented and had enough of an idea that it was morning and I need to call clients but other than that completely out of it and I think the fact they kept calling me made it easier. I knew that I needed to get up and feed the cats and I barely registered that concept. I was totally out of it.
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Thursday, woke up still had a fever, although it dropped to 101, called the doctor, i was still really sick. You know I knew that I needed to get up and take a shower but I just didn't have the motivation to get up
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Diagnosis - i have a ruptured ear drum, strep throat, chest congestion, cough, flu.
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I got cough syrup with codeine, antibotics, medicine for my ear
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and advice from my doctor - take time for myself, if i need to hire employees to help, hire them. Take a day off every couple of weeks, i thought I was doing that but I guess not enough. and why am i blogging because jt isn't online and i can only sleep sitting up and you know how hard it is to sleep sitting up, everytime my head lolls back it wakes me up
8:48:29 PM
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Sunday, April 09, 2006
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Phoenix itself, gorgeous, hot and I've got a bad bad sunburn but it was worth it. The client/trip went great.
The spa experience was good but not great - honestly, more expensive is not better, I'd rather go to Osmosis than the Golden Door Spa again. The Golden Door was very very modest - honestly, if I'm getting a clay wrap, I want my whole body head to toe, wrapped in clay not just certain parts of my body. I like Osmosis I think, because every inch of my body gets the treatment. There were women in the Spa that looked mean, they didn't smile - they looked like they weren't having a good time (my mom told me that they were probably corporate wives that got the option of going to the spa, shopping or jeep tour while their husbands did the golfing corporate thing and they just weren't having fun) ok seriously folks, I'd choose the spa experience if it came with the package all the time and have fun doing it. The modesty part bugged me but I guess for people like my mom that doesn't like to dress in front of anyone - haven't figured out why, she's got a nice body - the whole modesty thing works. Me on the other hand think that certain parts of my body are just as stressed as the rest of my body and need attention too.
- the travel reservations from hell - Travelocity I will not be using ever again, they have messed up my reservations 4 out of 5 times, duplicate charges by the hotels, rooms not available when I get to the hotels, etc. This trip to Phoenix was the last straw with them. My flight was late, I opted for a jeep at the car rental counter because I've never driven a jeep and never want to again now. I drove to the hotel and thought no, this couldn't be right, bad bad area - gunshots, sirens, etc. So I go into the hotel and the room I reserved not available - so they give me a room with two double beds and non smoking by the back door which doesn't need a key code to get in - there is a reason I reserve at least a queen size bed - I hate sleeping diagonal on a bed because I don't fit. My gut is telling me bad, leave go somewhere else, I check right back out of the hotel, the clerk is a moron, he's more interested in talking to his friends that are hanging out with him. So I call a few other places and get this travel conceirge services who sends me to another bad bad bad seedy area and by this point its midnight and I'm tired, I just want it to be over. So I pay for the room, go find the room and its gross, people live at this hotel. I didn't noticed the sign that said weekly rates when I got there, they should have been the first clue. I thought ok, I'll just look up better places on the internet and find some place new in the morning - guess what? No fucking internet connection. I go back to the front desk and she told me this was suppose to be a vacation and they didn't have internet connection - WTF? She didn't know me. I went back to the room, moved the heavy chair in front of the door, closed the second inner door and put a chair in front of it. And the bathroom, disgusting. I spend the night, got up at 6, got dressed and left that icky place. I drove towards the client location and found the Marriott - which I checked into that morning - I defintely need to check into corporate rates for the Marriott, Hilton and nicer places. I finally felt safe. I called Travelocity to get a refund and omg, I had to call back and explain to three different people in India apparently what the problem was to get a refund, they kept wanting me to call them back so they could call the hotel with me on hold - I finally got pissed off and told them to call the hotel, get the damn refund and call me back with results and a refund confirmation ID - the hotel wouldn't deal with me directly because I purchased through travelocity, which reminds me I need to make sure the guy followed through and a refund is on its way.
12:45:48 PM
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
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so I don't know how to delete an old post...and here's my answer - just retype over it...this post has been moved to another location..
1:09:00 AM
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so boyfriend and girlfriend status - to me that means something more, more committment and when you loosely throw around those terms - its kind of fucked up, to be quite honest.
I'm in the weirdest strangest mood this last week, to be honest I think I'm just overwhelmed with everything and I'm leaving tommorrow for another project. I've been working 16 hour days and someone wanted me to just drop everything and go to vegas with him as soon as I got back from Phoenix and while that sounds great, I can not and will not just come home and then leave 4 days later and as everyone keeps telling me its not the cats, thats not the reason, it is the main reason and my business is the second reason.
I couldn't find Baby Kitty for the last day or so, I've been so worried and so upset. There has to be five, I don't know why, there just has to be five. They all have to be here, I would be so upset if I lost one of them.
and OMG *NEWS*, TM is going to work for me, YEAH!!!!!!! so i should be able to get some ME time soon
ok, back to work :)
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