I woke up very early this morning in anticipation for the landscapers.  I make it a point to be outside so that they properly cut the grass when they finally make it to our house.  If I’m not out there they tend to half-ass it and kind of brush over one area and call it a day.  I understand they have a lot of lawns to cut but seriously now - you’re being paid by the hour to do a job - why must you insist on doing the most amount of jobs in the least amount of time? Efficiency is the only proper way to work, but I guess when you don’t understand English and are working off the books - you can get away with it.

But either way, come 9:30am (their typical time-frame) I didn’t hear the rumble of all the mowers coming up the block.  Around 11:30 I poked outside again and they still weren’t there.  By 1:00PM I figured they weren’t going to bother even showing up at all.  By now the exhaustion had set in.  I’d only gotten about 3 hours of sleep last night so being up and moving around for the morning took a lot more out of me than someone who’d had a solid 8 hours of sleep to work with.

I started redoing my portfolio and I also updated my resume.  There are a few outsource positions open through some companies I found and I requested more information on the tasks they have and hopefully the updated portfolio will help me out.  I’m also working on getting a new template up for krissy.nu, the pink is starting to bother me.  I’d also like to remove a lot of the ads on acidgloss.net but I am actually making some decent money off of them so I guess time will tell with how far I’m going to go with that.

After I completed that, I couldn’t keep my eyes open so I wound up taking a bit of a nap.  I hate sleeping during the day when there’s a lot of things to do but when you can’t function without that extra hour you’re basically useless.  So I crashed for a little while, woke up and did some quick shopping and I’ve been accomplishing quite a bit ever since.  Hopefully I’ll have it all completed before I’m ready to completely crash for the night, I just hope I don’t start falling asleep anytime soon, there’s still quite a bit of things left to do.

I was just accepted as a contractor for an outsourcing company based in New Jersey - I can’t wait to get started. Today, since I haven’t had much work to do, I spent the bulk of my time outside snapping pictures so I can have before/after articles for the garden in upcoming weeks. It previously looked like hell and now with a little extra work things seem to be pretty nice. I can’t wait to put up the final touches of fencing and other items.

In a few weeks I’m heading out to Big Lots to pick up some new solar-lights to line the garden with and I’m also in the market for a solar spot light to put on the side of the house, it’s very hard to see anything over there and I figure if I can get one with a sensor I’ll be able to accomplish more in the backyard. At least going as far as walking back there at night without worrying what could jump out at me.

This complex is filled with Skunks, Bunnies and other furry-friends so I think the light will help to keep things visable enough so Bella doesn’t go running into a field of skunks at night and come back to me all smelly and what-not, heh.