Funny thing, the breeder said she liked the name Vernon, and she’d continue to call him that since it was such a unique name. The name means “Grove of Alders” or “Flourishing”…but, the only reason I picked it was because I loved the old Ernest movies and I wanted to be able to say “Know what I mean, Vern?” ^..^ After brining Vern back to the breeder, I cried pretty much all the way home...let’s face it, puppies just pull at our heart-strings and I was very let-down at the realization that I couldn’t afford to have a dog at this point in my life. But after all that, I went to bed and woke up the next morning feeling better.

Oh, I got to see Enchanted finally. That’s another movie I’ll have to write a review on…there’s quite a few on the list now, isn’t there? Let’s see...I haven’t reviewed, Get Smart, Phenomena, Wall-E, The Incredible Hulk, Hancock, and now Enchanted. Geeze. I’m so far behind. I’m gonna have to do something about that.

Oh, speaking of movies. I discovered Yahoo movies the other day. I spend an hour or so adding movies to lists and rating them. That was interesting...I’m sure I’ll be about as obsessive with it as I am with my IMDB profile and all.

Yesterday was my day off too, but I ended up heading over to work anyway. I was out in town taking care of a few things, and I called G up and asked, “Who needs a snowball?” She replied with “You’re an angel...” which I assumed meant they’d been through quite a lot. This was around 2:15 in the afternoon of course. I took her and Dena’s order for their snowballs and popped on by. Sure enough, they were the only ones there and the phones had kept them hopping. I hung around, but only to sip snow balls with them and help out a bit.

Church was fun last night. I was introduce to the concept of Carpet Ball, because they have it set up in our class room (kids church) and my class-mates and teacher demanded to play it. After a fun hour of heckling Bro. Joe (the wonderful ADHD teacher), I was invited to Big Eddies, a nearby restaurant. I went with Daniel, his mom and two other ladies from the singles group and all we did was have coffee and talk, but it was a lot of fun.

I decided to go ahead and have a movie-night on a Saturday (the 26th). I posted a bulletin about it on MySpace, but I don’t know how many people pay attention to those bulletins. I know Misty and Celeste do, but a few of the other people I’m friends with don’t seem too interested in it. So I just went about posting comments as invites. The people that don’t have MySpace I invited last night when I saw them at church. The only real confirmation I have is Celeste (who may or may not be bringing her hubby Ryan)…Daniel said he might be off that day, but that’s not really a confirmation or anything. I have decided that I won’t be ordering pizza till people actually show up. I had a whole mess of pizza in my fridge for days because of the last time =..= I like pizza and all, but after a while of eating old pizza…it gets…well, old. I need to delete the old list of movies I have on my MySpace blog and post the newest list…just because I’m OCD like that =..=

Oh, I finally got the last two volumes of Alice 19th in yesterday. So I’m done collecting that series. I want to try and get as much of Furuba and W Juliet as I can now...I’m thinking maybe…one or two volumes per check. I should probably try to get all of W Juliet and The Devil Does Exist beings as all of those are actually available. There are still a couple of volumes of Furuba that aren’t even out yet. So...yeah. Maybe I could just buy one of each manga each check. I’d get them all, just …slowly. /sigh. Or I could just buy up as many of WJ and DDE as I can per check and eventually move on to Furuba whenever I’m done with those two…decisions, decisions =..= 

I am so sleepy now...so I shall get back to work. Later, Sunshines.

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You Have Willpower of Steel

Your personal motto could be "Where there's a will, there's a way." If you will something, you make it happen - no matter how difficult it is. You don't back down from commitments, even when you regret making them. That being said, you are pretty careful about what you commit to!

Is Your Willpower Strong?

 

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Not to mention what happened after I got on the road. I turned onto a road, and some guy was pulled on the side of the road, and he took off once he saw me behind him. And I noticed a kitten was in the middle of the road (hit and dead or dying) and another was hurriedly suttling off the road with a hurt leg. That stupid idiot hit those kittens and just took off! I was somewhere between tears and pissed. Fortunately, I had to take some sinus meds before…so I’m sort of muted. Not to mention just feeling off of it…or more so than usual. I swear to drunk I’m not God!

So yeah, this morning was very traumatic for me =..=” But luckily Scamp and Josh will be coming over…in fact they might already be at my house. They said they’d be leaving early so...At least I won’t be as worried about Fred. So hopefully this afternoon will be better. I don’t remember if I turned on the computers this morning O..o’ I sorta had my mind in other places. I did forget to ask her to call me when they got there...oh well.

There’s a peanut butter fudge/cookie tray downstairs…I should investigate that. Later, sunshines.

 

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You Belong in LA

Forget living in a dirty, cold city - you'll take the beach instead. Celebrity sightings, trendy restaurants, and clubbing all night are more your thing. And who knows? You might become the next beautiful person the paparazzi stalks!

Are You an LA Girl or a NY Girl?

 

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Thanks for your support!

Anywho...man. This LJ Idol stuff kinda takes it outta ya. I mean...I spend the first half of my week agonizing over what I’m gonna write. It’s weird. It’s weird having deadlines on my writing/creativity O.o Makes me wonder if I’d actually be able to do it professionally =.=

Plenty’s been going on. My dear cousin, Scamp, came down with a combination of Bronchitus and salmonella poisoning. That’s right, she had that nasty dinosaur-ridden peanut butter (“Kid’s voice: I think salmonella is a type of dinosaur..” Sha.) She had an upset stomach one day and had peanut butter on toast to settle her stomach =.= Only several days after eating this peanut butter did she hear on the news that all peanut butter with the first numbers “211” on them were recalled because of salmonella poisoning. That’s when the whole sickness thing came to light. SO …she is now recovering from that, although last I heard the bronchitis had gotten beater. Man…she just couldn’t get one sickness. Oh no! She’s too special for that. Damn over achiever issues.

What else is there? Oh, not that much of anything but, on Warcraft, I deleted almost all of my Hoard characters on Icecrown, deciding that Icecrown would be my Alliance server. So Bonnianne (human mage), Qiralyn (Nigh elf Druid), Dolithiel (Draenei Shaman), and Leikra (Dwarf Paladin) are all on Icecrown still. Jezeth (Troll Hunter) is still there temporarily...till I can work up the money to have her switched to Sentinels. Sentinels is where I have my Hoard characters. So far, I have Yaviel (Blood Elf Warlock), Yalisilwen (Blood Elf Hunter), and Suzii (Tauren Warrior) on Sentinels. Although, I haven’t gotten the chance to actually play Suzii much =.= I gotta admit...I’m not that into Warriors...I only made her as a Warrior because she’s got Druid, Shaman, Hunter and Warrior as her only options; and dammit! I want a Tauren! They’re…cool…..even if I can’t figure out a way to make such a character interesting…I’m just very warily of making her a hunter, because then that’ll be 3 hunters. Some might say having two hunters is like having the same thing. Oh, no my friends. Having a Troll hunter and a Blood elf hunter are two very different things. But, having a Troll hunter and a Tauren hunter might be very similar. So I’m staying away from that class...even though I do love the Hunter class. So, it was either Druid, Shaman or Warrior and I thought, “hmm…never really played as a warrior…*shrug*”.

Another thing I’d been wanting to do was make some sort of RPG icon for LJ, but have it with my old characters from EQ and my newer characters from WoW..like a moving Giff. Only for some reason, LJ never liked the giffs I made before when I had working corel draw and now that it’s busted I’m sorta stuck. It keeps “Unable to create a DOM document. Class not registered. Verify that MSXML4 is installed”. So I’m prowling the internet for that, even though I’m not sure what I’m doing O.o’ I’m trying the Windows site now…let’s hope that helps. (It’s what it’s there for right?)

Also, I finally ordered something from Amazon.com. Well, a few somethings actually. I figured, I haven’t ordered in a while, I’ve been watching my money like a good little girl, and I got a nice refund from the tax people just recently, so it’s ok to actually get something for myself. Plus pay-day is this Friday, and I did so good between pay-days that I had lots of cash in the bank still. I’ve been meaning to expand my (nearly nonexistent) Manga collection for some time now. I have something like 3 or 4 series up on my Manga wish list, and I’ve yet to start acquiring any of them. So I bought the first and second volumes of Fruits Basket; one of my favorite animes every. Before this anime came along, I had no idea there was such a thing as genki angst. Then I also go a DVD called The Greatest Journeys on Earth - Japan: Journeys on the Tokaido, because while I do enjoy reading, if it comes to something such as learning, I can’t learn very well from reading. Now, if it’s on the History channel or Animal Planet or the Discovery channel...it stays in my brain for years. So buying documentaries on stuff I think is cool works. I also go I’m not Dead by Pink...just because ^___^

…….I think that’s it for me. I’m gonna give a slight ‘Mouto-chan update. Chibi is still doing very well at college in Arkansas. She said that this semester is much easier than the others (though by no means easy) and she’s allowed a bit of a social life. She also said that she’d be coming down for …something…not Spring Break but something else that they have, and it’d be around May-ish. Then she probably wouldn’t be down till Christmas break, which really works because Scamp and I might actually be moved into the Nexus by then and we could have our Christmas celebration there! Coolness! On the Reiko front, things have been fun. Reiko called me Wednesday (I think it was…) and asked if I planed to live with my parents forever…like I’ve got the word “Looser” tattooed on my back or something. It’s not what she said, but how she said it. I informed her that Scamp and I would be moving in the Nexus later in the year. Turns out she’s looking at buying a house in Hammond because it’s closer to the school she needs to go to, and she can buy one at auction cheap from the state. Of course, she’d looked to me as a potential room mate…but that was till she realized I’d have my own house. She also has a new pet rat (her rats are cute guys…seriously. Stop making those faces! They’re really sweet!). Her first pet rat is Milo…he’s kind of this off grayish rat…maybe white with grey tips or something. Anyway, he’s pretty big, and she has her grey cat Chimera (after the band), and Pet Smart (where she works) gave her another rat, because it’s tail is stubbed off and no one wants it. She’s a lot smaller than Milo and she’s dark brown (mouse brown ^.^). She said that she wants to mate the female to Milo later once she’s matured. She asked me what I thought she should name it, and I told her to name her “Joyce”. For you Milo & Otis fans out there, I’m sure you know why ^____^…oddly enough it feels like my ‘Mouto-chans are moving far, far away from me….s’a good thing Scamp’s moving in soon. Otherwise, I’d feel abandoned or something =.=

Eureka! Corel is now working! I just needed to download something from the windows site and I’m good! Thank goodness.

Well, my sleeping meds are kicking in. I’ll be logging off, sunshines. But here’s a nice bout of Sunday Quizzes for you…

Well, so far the City of Heroes is being a pain. It turns out that it’s my router that’s causing the problem. The people at CoH asked if I could bypass the router, and I was like ‘Uh...how?’. They sent me an e-mail saying, Go to this page and it’ll show you an example of different routers. You said you had the Westel router, so check and see which one you have and then after you find your router it’ll tell you how to configure it. Unfortunately when I got to the page, all of the links were 404. They said that I’d have to contact Bell South to figure out how to bypass the router. Wonderful. I can see that this may take a while.

rattgirl posted about getting a Jack Russel Terrier with a picture of Wishbone in her journal, and for some odd reason it made me want to talk about my stuffed animals. I have a Wishbone stuffed animal, so I guess that’s why. So the stuff below the cut is all rattgirl’s fault.

( fwuffy wuffy uffy )

I guess that’s all for now. I really should go and make me something to eat. I only had some toast and coffee for breakfast. Later!

A particularly spooky Twilight Zone episode is
where you belong. It's called Nothing in the
Dark, and is about a woman who is so frightened
of Mister Death that she lives all alone in a
deserted neighborhood with no human contact.
But, she soon finds out that death is not as
bad as it seems.


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MM

WOOT! This is my first message to you from AMOS. I'm so excited! There was that time for a few days where we didn't have any internet, but now it's all fixed. Thank goodness -.- Oh, and there's so much to write on too. Let's see, there's work of course which is over (another Thank God). Then of course, AMOS and all the trouble it was to get him up and running. Oh and then there's the church and Reiko thingy. And the DVD that I finally got in. Ok...I need to calm down and actually explain all this.

I finally got off of work. I really began to hate the place. I just got so sick of dealing with all the mean, stupid, cranky people...and then there were the customers. Lets just say that some people managed to say quite a bit of hurtful things before I left. My opinions of the place were dampened significantly. However, there are a select few people there that I still think very nicely of. Notice I said ‘nicely’ not ‘highly’.

And then there's the 'other job' at the small engine place. Well that fell through. Apparently it's a problem if I have ADD...When I mentioned it, the lady said they all had ADD, so I never even considered that it'd be a problem. But I guess I was wrong. I'm not allowed to have faults, only they are excused for such things.

So, I'm unemployed ...again. I'll start looking for a new job soon. I'd really like to rest and finish cleaning my room. Now that it’s clean, I find that I enjoy it very much. I can’t wait to show it off to everyone who actually knows me and what my room is always like. It’s such a improvement. The only things that still need work are my closets (clothes & movie). But I’ll be able to work on them with the whole job thing out of the way.

Ok, the computer problems. /sigh. Well, first we bought the computer. AMOS was here and everything was looking up...then Brian came over to hook my other 250 gig hard drive into AMOS...Well, I was at work, so I’m not sure about everything that happened. Apparently I can’t put the 250 gig thingy into AMOS for some reason, but Brian said he ‘had another way to do it’ which mystified me when Mom said that. I was a bit disappointed, since I really wanted that 250 gig thingy in AMOS, but it didn’t bother me too much. I was really surprised when Mom said that we apparently had internet still on Irene...But then I realized that she was mistaken. Then I realized that we didn’t have internet at all. I wasn’t terribly upset by this…or at least, I would’ve been if I hadn’t been so tired from working and all. But then, reinstalling the internet became such a hassle.

But honestly, I do love the new computer. It’s got 820 Intel Pentium D processor, 1.0 GB memory, 250 GB hard drive and it can watch and record live TV with the personal Video recorder & FM tuner. Of course it isn’t hooked up to the TV, but still! It could do that. It also has this little media drive that fits stuff into and you can store the entire hard drive onto and just take it with you...which, I think is pretty cool. Then there’s the 9 in 1 memory card thingies. This way, I can actually take a picture and have it put on the computer. Now I can actually tell you that I’m doing something and that I’m taking pictures of it...and I can show you! /pets AMOS..

Anyway. Wednesday was…interesting. I went to work (9-4) and got this vibe from Mrs. D and Mrs. Shirley that I really didn’t like. Then a customer asked me a question, and I didn’t know the answer…I am still new, so that does tend to happen. So I referred them to Mrs. D and Mrs. Shirley. Whenever I started walking back over there to see if there was anything else that needed fixing, I over heard Mrs. D saying “Oh, Tracie doesn’t know anything! Thank God tomorrow is her last day!” and then she stomped off in a huff. I was partially hurt, but partially expecting it. So, I wasn’t in the most charitable moods yesterday. I got home, and Mom and I ate, and she got this thingy full of hot water and Epsom salt to soak my feet in…it doesn’t make all the pain go away, but it doesn’t help…sorta.

Anyway, we’re just sitting there and who calls but Reiko. I was like “?_?” But her mom wanted her to go to church, and she didn’t want to go to her mom’s church cause she doesn’t like that the people there are really touchy-feely. So, she asked if we’d pick her up. I said sure. It’s been a while since I’d seen her. I’ve already figured that she doesn’t really care about me as a friend, or at least I’m not on her list of priorities, but if she wants to forget about me and then just pick up out of the blue, that’s fine with me.

So we went to church, and we sat in the darkest corner of the room. We did a notebook role-play (except for those times we were interrupted when Reiko had to go and smoke -.-), and that was that.

And then…I got home…and I installed Black&White 2 into my computer. Of course, I don’t have that link that was sent to me for my tiger creature, but I didn’t mind. I was so happy to play. And play I did…for hours. I looked up after I’d finally established a huge town in one of the lands, and thought, “It’s probably late…I should shut ‘er down.” and when I logged off it was 1:05 a.m. O.O And then I realized I was hungry. =.= So I ate something and Watched Alice Through The Looking Glass. Oh yeah, that’s the other thing. I finally got that movie in. It came in /thinks Tuesday…I believe. I was so happy to finally get it in. And it’s as corny and interesting and funny as I remember it.

Today wasn’t much of anything worth recording. The only really great things that happened today were that I finally got the internet working and I finally got away from Hancocks. Other than that, there’s no use in relating the day.

When I finally checked my e-mail, I had like, 22 messages. I was a bit discouraged to see that no one that I actually knew had e-mailed me, they were all newsletters or junk mail. But then, I suppose no one really looks forward to my posting as much as I enjoy and look forward to everyone else’s posting. Such is life.

And with those happy words, I must be off. Though AMOS is up and running, there is much that I must download before he’s really up to par. I only just got GarGirlMM up on AIM! Oh well. That’s all for tonight everyone.

Your feeling is depressed...

You always seem to be depressed and cry easily. You
are a bit (ok, more than a bit) over emotional
and are too sensitive. You rarely smile, and
when you do, it's very weak... your eyes always
seem to be misty and though others have tried
to console you of your sorrow in the past, no
one can seem to get through to you that there's
more to life than being sad. No no one seems to
hang around you anymore which makes you feel
worse, and you feel as you're loved by no one
except maybe your family. People might see you
as the "girl who doesn't talk to
anyone", and you may be sort of a loner,
but that doesn't mean you want to be. What
hurts you is people being mean and even though
you might not get it that often, since you're
so sensitive it still makes you deal with pain.
You're not a leader and are usually the person
who stands alone, does what she's supposed to
do and nothing else.


What are you feeling inside? ~With Anime Pics and 8 Results~ -*-For Girls Only-*-
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MM

PS: Oh yeah, the title is 'cause of this girl that came in to work today. She was trying to make a costume for her pet Ginny pig...apparently they were having a competition at her school. Anyway, she decided her Ginny pig would be a pimp. I couldn't let that memory go!

After surveying the ‘cage’ for a few minutes, I realized that the wire frame was rapped in netting. One end was tied together tightly, while the other end had a long bottle-neck like entry way. I asked her what type of trap it was and she said it was used to catch fish. Fishermen would throw the thing in the water, fish swim in one side bute cant figure out how to get back out. The same applied with this little bird.

This little grey brid (must’ve been a Mocking bird) was anything but listless. She had her beak wide open in case we came too close, and she’d fly to the other end of the cage if we came to where she was. So we got her to the ‘bottle neck’ end and untied the rope holding the netting together at the other side. I helped Mom drag the cage off the cauport and then began to open the netting. That bird didn’t wait for me to get it all the way off; she flew out and into the next tree right away!

I mentioned that she was a spry little thing, to which Mom repled,

“You should’ve seen her mate dive-bombing me when I came upon her.”

For some reason, helping the little brid back to her mate made my day. Let’s hope it stays that way.