OK, so hears what’s been happening. The 17th, is G’s birthday along with my Dad’s. I got a call from Mom that morning saying that my Uncle Bobby (who lives in Atlanta) had died that morning. On my Dad’s birthday his older brother died...not a great way to start a birthday, I tell you. Mom told me she was driving down and Dad would be coming in from the rig by boat (which is a long and arduous process). I checked the schedule, and knowing that G would be leaving for the remainder of the week to see her granddaughter graduate from basic training, I knew that there was no way I’d be able to take off. So I was going to be staying home this time.

Mom got to my house some time that night around 9 and had brought food. She went next door and got some sleep and so did I. I know Dad got in some time much later, but I was too tired from the emotionally draining day and just hit the hay. The next morning, my Aunt Tammy dropped off her dog, Max, and Dad popped over to say good morning and then goodbye. Once I had Max all situated, Mom and Dad got in their car and followed Aunt Tammy and the rest of the family on the way to Georgia.

Aside from having a house guest, not much really happened for the next couple of days. Friday, Mom and Dad got back from the funeral (which had been on Thursday). They called me just after lunch to find out where Max’s leash was so they could take him out for a walk ^..^

Around 4:45 I got a call from Kayla . She said that she and Renata and Celeste were going to World of Wings and then going to see Get Smart that night, and they wanted to know if I would come too. I told her I’d see if I could make it, as they were meeting at 6:30 and I got off at 5. I rushed home and told my parents what was up and they agreed that I should go. I pulled in to the restaurant parking lot (and it was so full) and I got a call on my cell. It was Kayla saying “Get your butt down here now!” which tickled me. I then told her I was in the parking lot. I joined them, but I really didn’t eat. In fact the only thing I ordered was a vanilla milk shake. We rushed off to the movie afterwards (as they were slow getting our food to us) and we all sat together up in the very top.

The movie was awesome, but I’ll wait to talk about that for a full movie review. Afterwards, we laughed and giggled about our favorite parts. In the parking lot, Kayla was like “I don’t wanna go home...” so we talked about it and decided to go to Starbucks. Renata couldn’t go…I think because her little sister Alyson was with her. But Celeste, Kayla and I enjoyed the coffee shop (me being very wary about the whole experience, as I’d never been to Starbucks before). We sat and talked till around 10:40, and then we all went home (after freezing inside the coffee shop).

Saturday and Sunday run into each other, as I was feeling absolutely terrible through both of them. Bloody hell week started on Saturday, and aside from getting Mom to “teach” me how to make one of her spaghettis (by filing her for my Cooking with Clara dvd), I did little but sleep. In fact, all Sunday I was napping…and nothing else.

Monday, I started my new duties, tending to the mail, though I had been doing that since Wednesday of the following week as G was on vacation. My days were full of mail and stats and checking files...so much so that I barely looked up long enough to check my own e-mail.

Oh, also, I finally got the book, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I’ve only gotten up to chapter 5, but I’m confident that I’ll have that book read before the movie comes out (since according to the IMDB profile, the movie won’t be out till December 12. It seems fairly interesting...even though I have a sneaking suspicion (mostly from Reiko’s excited ramblings) that I know what will happen. Still, if it’s good, I’ll get the other books ^..^ Or maybe...I’ll wait to see the other movies that come out and read the books after the movies…it’s always better that way.

Wednesday, Dad came in from offshore (again. I know) and he and Mom packed up, planning to leave the next morning for Ark. Mom knew that I didn’t like borrowing Cole’s (from work) phone, so she said she’d talked to my cousin Tammy. She said that Tammy had a razr that she didn’t need anymore, and would give it to me since I was having such phone troubles. I was excited about it, till I learned that it was a pink razr. But I got over it, reasoning that a good phone is still a good phone. And how many of my friends would have a pink razr? None of ‘em! Anyway, I headed out to church that night, and talked to Tammy. Turns out, she was still using the phone, and while she wouldn’t mind giving it to me, she’d need to convince her husband to upgrade first so she’d have one of her own. Celeste, who I’d been talking to before hand, mentioned that I could probably get a good quality phone off of eBay for much cheaper than it’s sold normally. So, this morning, I bought THIS. I’m pleased with it ^..^ Though, I have no idea what I’m going to name it. I’m thinking, it should be a girl name though. I’ll figure it out.

Other than that…I get paid tomorrow…but nothing else to report on. It’s rained here every day. Sometimes, so hard that the trees bend and there are white-out like conditions. I love it!

You Are a Lizard

You are intuitive and sensitive. You pay close attention to your subconscious and your dreams. You embrace your fears and the darker side of life. It's easy for you to be detached and objective when you need to be. You are able to let go easily. You don't get attached to much. And considering how often you change course, people shouldn't get too attached to you.

What Reptile Are You?

I wub lizards!

 

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Beware, for I am: Tired

Wow. Today was just...wow. Dad woke me up around 10. I ate breakfast and we headed to my bank to deposit the rent money. We then went to Wally-World to get groceries. I swear, all we had was 5 things on there. But of course we found a dozen or so other things we needed. Then we realized that some of the stuff we needed we could buy in bulk at Sam’s. So after spending money at Wally-World, we headed over to Sam’s. But we only got like 3 things there. We then sent buh his money and came home.

After unloading the groceries, I sat Dad and Mom down and watched The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe with them. My God, I love that movie. I cannot wait for Prince Caspian. But that will be coming in December of 2007 if IMDb is accurate. Dad really didn’t get it so I had to explain a lot of it to him. Mom is so focused on the fact that LWW parallels the Bible that she sometimes aggravates me. The story is teh greatest on it’s own! Anyway...

After the movie, I got to work washing; dishes and clothes mainly. I then got online and checked eBay for Corel Draw. I’d be saying to Mom that I needed to get the newer version for AMOS, but it cost like $200, and now that I’m unemployed I don’t really have that type of money. I bought it today for about $45. God, but I love eBay. However, I need to make sure that I stay away from it for another month or so; otherwise, I may end up buying more stuff and without an active source of income...well, that’d get old fast.

I had started watching The Day After Tomorrow last night. You know how it is, up and can’t get to sleep. Watch something you’ve seen a million times and hope it lulls you. So I finished watching it this afternoon. It just proves what I’ve been saying all along. We are all suckers for CGI weather graphics.

Since I have a paid account, I searched for people in my area. I actually found an old friend of mine that I’d virtually lost contact with. She’s mostly on MySpace really, but it pointed me in the right direction. So, now I’ve been messaging her with MySpace and we’ve kinda renewed ties. That’s good. It makes me feel like I actually have another friend.

Well...that’s all for now. I need to go check the clothes and then I might try taking a shower. Catch ya later, babies.

What would you look like in Anime?

Red haired anime chicklet! Heres' da info people of america, or wherever!Hair:redeyes:greenwords'o'wisdom:speek up when you have an idea, dont be so quiet!hobby:speeking with animals'animals:Mikawcolor:earthy shades' sport'for'ya:soccerBrief history:You were priestess born in avalon, you were a princess, King arthures' sister. You worshiped the goddess in Avolon. your name was Morgaine, and you had many loves' once your "time" came. You became pregnant, and had to give it up for adoption, then you married at age 28. Getting your baby back. And having enother. You had a boy and a girl.
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Yo. God, the last few days have been terrible. I’ve had to keep fighting off a sinus/tension headache. It tends to make one slightly disagreeable. But I think I may’ve gotten it whipped...although it was kinda still with me till just after my shower this evening. But I feel decent enough to post and not sound so crabby.

I woke up very early...like 5 a.m. early. I kept trying to go back to sleep, but it wasn’t working out. It’s one of those things where you wake up and you’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and you can’t get back to sleep, but then by the time you’ve decided to get up, you’re exhausted from the struggle of getting back to sleep. So, I finally got up and made breakfast around 8:20ish. I fixed breakfast and coffee. I’ve been told I have way too much sugar and carbs for breakfast (muffins, toast, cereal, and the like), so I tried eating a slice of ham with breakfast. That didn’t really go over that well, but I managed to finish it.

Watched Gilmore Girls. And I’m pleased to say they’re rerunning the episodes from the very beginning, so I actually get to watch them all over again from the beginning! I think I came in near the end of the second season / beginning of the third. So, I’ve never seen them from the beginning. This way I get to see them all.

So, after GG I jumped on the computer and I did a lot of writing while it was still morning. I have a huge stack of papers on the floor that comprises over half of what I’d written up over the last few months. I got a call from Chase from Hancocks. Turns out the month that I worked, we made enough to qualify for bonuses, so I had an extra check. I waited for Mom and Dad to get home (they’d borrowed my car to fill it up), and then I headed over to pick that up.

I ended up talking with Chase for half an hour about movies and such. It ranged from Star Wars to Batman Begins to X-Men. Star Wars was mostly about the stuff we’d like to see, everything from Exar Kun to Mara Jade. He said that when George Lucas made episodes 1-3 he said something about how he wouldn’t do 7 and the later ones. But lately there’s been a rumor that the people that work for Lucas all signed confidentiality agreements concerning episode 7. I was fairly well psyched about that. Then I couldn’t wait for X3 and the second Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I said I’d heard that Juggernaut was gonna be in X3, and I suspected Phoenix would come into play too. He said he heard Emma Frost would be there too (woot!) and that they would even go into the whole Phoenix saga. Serious woot-age, man. He even told me what a great movie Batman Begins was and encouraged me to go see it. Now, I really want to see it, even more than I did before.

After the good talk, I went and deposited the money into my checkings and then headed home. Mom told me I’d gotten a call from someone at Hibernia bank about an interview. So, I called them back, and I’ll be going on an interview 8:30 a.m. Thursday. I’m looking forward to it and dreading it all at once. But I’ll just approach it as I do everything else. Laid-back, waiting for it to come on it’s own. No use getting my hopes up right?

Now, I am relaxing and watching the first season of X-Men: Evolution. I’m on the 3rd DVD and quickly moving towards the 4th. God, I wish I could afford the next season /sigh. And I wish even more that the other season were available through DVD...at least Amazon doesn’t have them...I might need to check eBay.

Well, that’s about all there is for today. Till next time, goodnight.

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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.


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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!

Yo. Let’s see how we did on the check-list shall we?

1) Woke up – Check
2) Went to Work – Check
3) Hated every living second of work – Check
4) Went through horrific spasming pains because of work – Check
5) Hobbled home receiving death glares – Check

Yep! My day’s pretty much complete so far.

This frikkin job sucks now. It’s only been what? Two weeks so far. And already I hate it. I hate the unreasonable amount of physicality, I hate the way people expect you to know everything about everything, and I hate the way people seem to think the job is more important than life itself. Hello?! Helo~o! No job is worth my self esteem and physical soundness, thank you.

Today was the best so far /sarcasm. After getting to work I received the cold shoulder from even people I knew before I started working at the stupid place. Why? Well, because I called in sick the day before, of course! Like it’s my fault I’m sick or something. People were more distant towards me, they put me to work without wanting to talk or caring about what had happened yesterday. So, I was just like, whatever, right?

Oh, and even better! I get there and a new lady is there. I’ve never seen her before. So I introduce myself and ask who she is and how long she’ll be working today. She says she’s working ‘9 to whenever’ and that she’s ‘the replacement for the girl that didn’t show up yesterday.’ The only girl I know of that didn’t show up yesterday...was me. And she’s all excited because she says she’s being trained to supervise nights and weekends. Hmmm, kinda sounds like the job description that was pitched to me too. That’s just great, I call in sick for one day and already they’re replacing me.

Honestly, I don’t care too much. She can have the damn job. It’s just so disappointing to get attached to these people and begin to rely on them, only to have them stab you in the back for being human. Honestly. I hope someone throws their shortcomings in their faces.

Then I checked my e-mail...I’m getting to where I want to change my e-mail address again, but I’ve forgotten how to configure Outlook Express /rolls eyes. I had 7 e-mails today. 1 was from rattgirl-chan, 1 was from a newsletter I subscribe to, and the other 5 were all “Pay off your mortgage!”, “Lose weight quickly!”, “Rapid Fire Ring tones!” and enlargement of organs that I don’t even have. Honestly! Why do we have to get cyber-junk-mail? Don’t we all get enough junk-mail in real life? But, even though I’ve gone over to hotmail every day and blocked all the companies who’ve sent me this junk, it still comes!

You know...I’m kinda in a justification/rant mode...I think I should do something, and then come back to the computer...maybe I’ll go shower...and have an egg roll...or 2. That might be a good plan. I have to eat an egg roll for Chibi-chan(amai_tenshi) since today’s her birthday. I’m sure with how the mail’s been so screwed up around here, she hasn’t gotten my package yet.

That’s another thing that’s driving me crazy: the mail. I ordered a Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass DVD off Ebay weeks ago, and it still has not come in. Seller says she shipped the thing off, and she’s as concerned as I am.

OK...I’m really going to step away from the PC before I get aggravated again.

Later.

Your Summer Ride is a Toyota Prius

Sure you're a little sensible and quite green But no one enjoys outdoors more than you do!

What's Your Summer Ride?

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