i couldn’t accept being forced to pay $12 because of an honest mistake. i contacted Chase again, coincidentally talked to the same rep, and managed to convince him to waive the charge this one time. at work, I just found out that our second candidate accepted the offer. i will have two new personnel starting on March 1st. this is very exciting. i need to do reviews of my current members ASAP.

i just blew 1/3 of my earned interest from last year, $12. i scheduled a payment with chase bank and had the wrong checking account number (i was missing some extra fancy digits) and since i wasn’t notified until two days before the payment was due, i don’t have time to get it to them via regular mail. to do their check-over-the-phone service, they charge me $12. to be late would cost $35 dollars. i am not a happy camper.

i slept in, i had a good meal, and i didn’t worry or fret about love. as dad told me: ‘she loves me, and i love her.’ life is much more simple with that view. i was surprised with a package about noon, which was from Eriko. she made me a sweater. its beautiful and i really like it. its a tad big, i think it goes to my knees. hehe. her first sweater was a little too small, this one a little too big. just like the rings i made for her. maybe the third time is the charm for both of us. ;P i didn’t do anything for valentine’s day for Eriko except spend time working on the container for the cookies i’m going to send her. after spending way too long trying to get sticky material off of these two nut jars, i finally realized i could just cover the nut jar with construction paper and decorate it. that and if i left two cookies out then i didn’t need to have two jars. this morning i bought three flavors of frosting and i will sample them and apply them to the three heart shaped cookies to go along with the jar. it will be two years since we met next week. time really flies. i’ve watched her grow and mature, becoming the woman in real life that my heart already sees. i’m so grateful.

I just bought my tickets for Japan, Aug 22-29. Now I have to figure out when I’m going to Alaska… July 4th weekend?

i think i finally figured out what her cryptic email address stands for! my guess is “look up at aurora in alaska.” she received her tickets to seattle, she’ll be visiting me the 20th - 23rd. she decided that she cannot visit anchorage during the summer (too expensive) so i’ll go instead. she wants to come to anchorage during Christmas. i was hoping she’d take that route, because christmas is just so unique and exciting in our family. matthew will turn 1, we’ll sit around playing games and making fun of Zack. it will be great.

i wanted to make a point of writing about the negative aspects of my day. i’ll start with sleeping – i moved from the couch to the floor and it seems to be much colder there. regardless of whether i leave the window open or not (for instance, Bailey is outside now and the window is open). i’ve been wearing long johns to keep warm but they aren’t that comfortable. this morning besides being a little cold i also had a bit of a tummy ache. my alarm went off at 6 am but i didn’t get out of bed until close to 8 – that is really lame. i am annoyed by my lack of discipline. i was a little dissapointed that my weight this morning didn’t drop at all past what it was the morning before and that my exercise was lighter than i wanted due to my tummy ache. i got into work a little past 8:30 (which is late for me) and ended up being a tad late for a meeting (which kaya was supposed to attend). the meeting was a phone call with some guy in michigan and everyone had everything taken care of. i probably didn’t need to go at all, but it wasn’t so bad. i got a couple new bugs assigned against me. it seems like everytime i make a little prog! ress i get assigned another trivial bug. they are trivial in their nature but can often be a pain to reproduce and figure out how to fix. ok, i can’t bitch anymore. i’ve got other things to bitch about but i want to watch seinfeld and go to bed. ;P