Butterfly’s Flutterings

1.I am the most horriblest blogger that there ever was.

2. I’m also very lazy lately

3. And I’m a bit of a looser.

So. June Bugs right now are the bane of my existence. For some insane reason  they like my porch. Since I have my light on in my living room they also really like my window. All I hear right now is the clicky clicky clack sound of their wings right before they hit my window. It’s like suicide bombing beetles. Ick!! And you know how in the day time they are all slow and tired and don’t fly a lot? Well that means that tomorrow whatever gross bugs didn’t make it off the porch will be just sitting there, inching around in circles. I swept them off today. I made a game of it. I would fling them off the porch as hard as I could. And then I could actually hear them hit the pavement 20 feet away. It creeped me out big time.  And they’re creeping me out right now. Just so you know.

On other B news I got myself an iPhone. I am completely in love with it. I don’t understand how I ever got along without it. I learned some awesome tricks from my forum friend and iphone guru Scooby. He taught me how to jailbreak and unlock my iphone. I am so happy he did.

I bought my wonderful phone from ebay. I spent a grand total of $232.00. Which is not that much if you search ebay for an iphone. I found a great deal. Since I had planned to spend  so much money, I really couldn’t see myself spending another $70.00 a month for phone service and the data plan. So I went the geeky route and hacked it. I’m really happy I did. Not only do I get to use a prepaid wireless service, I also get to stylize my phone to fit my personality with all kinds of themes from the Winterboard app which I got through Cydia. And that’s another thing. I now have access to all kinds of apps that Apple App Store doesn’t carry. It’s amazing.

ipnone fun/ Louis Vuitton << Pictures !!

iphone fun/ Louis Vuitton 2 << Pictures !!

The theme I stuck with

Hmmm. Other news includes my littlest sister going in the army. I’m so proud of her.

I also have a new little nephew from my sister Stephanie and her looser husband. He’s so adorable.

Cuteness!! << baby pic

I found youtube finally. I’d never really paid much attention to it except to look up some music or the random how to video. One of my favorite people  on youtube is Philip Defranco. He does a couple vids weekly and a daily vlog. He’s hilarious. At times I think “what an asshole”, but its always while I’m laughing my ass off. He’s very goofy and sarcastic at the same time. It’s a great combination. Oh and he also does twitter stuff and has a blog

Another thing that I’ve done recently is get a pay cut. Yep that’s right. The company I work for took a 15% paycut out of each employees pay rate. I don’t know how many people care about this little bit of news, but to the 15 to 18 people I work with it’s HUGE!!!

The staff of the Inn was told to come to a mandatory meeting last Friday morning. At the meeting we were notified that each employee would receive a 15% pay cut starting the next pay period. They gave us two days notice that our livelihood is going to be taking such a complete blow. We were also told that cutting our pay so drastically will not even come close to solving their money problems, but will make a small dent. What I don’t understand is if this is only going to help just a tiny bit, why do it at all? I’m sure there is a better way to come up with that same amount of money. With so little of an amount of employees working here I don’t think they could be saving more than $3,500. We were told that supposedly once this money crisis that the hotel is going through is over, every one will go back to their regular wage plus a 5% raise. But they can’t tell us even a ballpark date on when this could be. It’s totally ridiculous.
I am personally loosing $1.57 an hour. That doesn’t seem like a lot when you look at it in print but imagine what that adds up to. I used to make only about $1,344 gross a month. The last check I received, $136.18 was taken out for taxes. We get payed bi-weekly so that makes about $1071.00 a month take home.Now I’ll be making $1,141 gross a month. I imagine that the taxes I’ll be paying will be a little less at about $115.00. That makes my new take home pay about $911.00 a month. $911.00 A MONTH!! I’ve been doing some number crunching, and that leaves me about $200.00 to feed and cloth myself after I pay my most basic bills.

I understand that this “recession” is taking a hit on all of us, and I am so happy that I at least still have a job. But I can’t help but feel that there has to be a better way to save/make a little bit of money to keep us at our same pay rate. I can’t think of it though. Anyways I just had to get this off my chest. Especially since we were asked not to make a big deal of this and spread it through the community. So now I’ve spread it through the interwebs. Muahahaha .

Today is actually kind of a bittersweet day for me as well. I’m very sad that for a year now a friend of mine has been gone. But I’m also happy that the community seems to have got through it just fine. We’re a very resilient bunch.

Oh!! and I almost forgot!! The sun was out in all its beautifulness today. And I got a sunburn. I love the sun. There is something about the heat I feel from the sun that relaxes me. So i was very happy about that.