Happy B-day to Me!

So today was all in all a pretty good day. Didn't start off too great.

I'd forgotten to put a wrap on my wrist last night, but my wrist didn't hurt too much. It was my shoulder, specifically my scapula-area that hurt like crazy. I'm not sure if it's just b/c I tend to sleep on my side and combined w/ the fall yesterday that it hurts, or if it's just the fall that's killed it Still have full range of motion so there's nothing broken or torn, but it hurt. Then when I went to take a morning pee, I got a little surprise. I mumbled monotonely "Happy Birthday to me!"(well this was after only 4 hrs of sleep) and proceeded to get the necessities to prevent messes.

Went a little better, Pokemon Chronicles was a Pichu brothers' episode which is soooo cute. Then went to Warp, and Lin is basically running the entire store, so it's nice even though she seems more tired than ever. Apparently when J went to get my b-day prez (Saiyuki's Sanzo messanger bag) he went to ask Lin if she could get the store to sing me Happy Birthday, 2 of them agreed, but Helen wasn't in, so the other guy did it. Poor fellow, but nice of him. And Lin gave me 10% off too! Then my presents I got the aforementioned Sanzo bag and Genji game. I showed both to Maxine and said "aren't they cute?" And she was drooling Uh huh! Also will be getting the Resident Evil 4 game. Gawd, I'm gonna be pissing myself, especially once D sets up the surround sound. Chris got me the WWE's RPG Know Your Role! handbook. That'll be fun to learn and play. Seems based of the D20 system. J's parent's gave me$40 b/c they couldn't think of anything but that's ok.

Afterwards we went to see Narnia. It was quite good, a bit slow at the start, fair bit of char development for Peter, not much for Susan, and Edmond was still left a bit shallow. Battle was bit short and not quite as epic as LOTR. Maxine liked Mr. Thomas, I liked the Beaver. J was scared of the white witch but liked her. After we went to dinner, I had beef tendon noodle soup. It's hard to get tendon right at home b/c my dad has tried, b/c it involves really long cooking. But it was nice and soft at the restaurant.

So I'm trying to clean up my desk a bit, and was getting somewhere when D came and turned on Mythbusters. So I'm watching that now as I'm doing my blog.

Day of Gains and Falls

So today was my day off, and was it busy!! I made an appointment to see my optometrist to check if my contacts were ok. That and a bit of grocery shopping was all I had planned. Yesterday my dad calls me and asks if I want to go to dim sum at 12. Since it wasn't going to be in chinatown, I had to take the bus. So I stick my contacts in(b/c I ned to have them on for 4 hrs before I see the doctor) and as I get to bus stop, I think I see my bus leaving. So as I stand in the shelter, I check my phone for the time to see if it was my bus, and there's 2 msg on my VM. And it's my brother asking if I needed a ride. Well, by now I'm pretty sure that was my bus, so I call him up, and head back to my apt to wait. Dim sum was ok, my bro's gf was there too, but my nieces weren't there b/c they were sick so my other bro had to take care of them. Afterwards we went back to the house to pick up laundry and mail. And bumps and bruises.

This is not how I planned to go down the stairs. This may be a rush-rush world, but in this case I would have liked to have gone down the stairs a little slower. I was not supposed to feel air. I was not supposed to feel pain. My butt was not supposed to connect to the stairs except from the vibrations reverbrating thru my skeleton as my feet struck the stairs. All the stairs. In this case my feet only hit 33% of the stairs. My butt and hip took much more vibration than it was used to. But at least it was used to it. My wrist on the other hand is not used to taking the full weigh of my body plus absorbing most of the kinetic energy of my rapid descent. It is still movable therefore likely indicating that there are the normal count of carpal bones and they are still in their proper places. My wrist is still within the normal bell curve of size variation in comparison with my other wrist. However it would seem the ligaments have been strained, After a day of carrying bags of groceries, it is now in one of my wraps, and will likely be there for the next 24 hrs. I wonder if I could skip work? It is w/ my right wrist and I'm right-handed, and all of our programs require a mouse. Okay, I guess that's kinda bad. Especially after we got a $1.15 raise. So now the base pay is $11.50, there's no salary cap, and it's supposed to be no-strings attached raise. Well, we'll believe it when it's on our paystub.

While I was there I got $50 red pocket money from my dad. Chinese New Year may be next week, but he wasn't sure if he was going to see me then. Then he first asks when my niece Melissa's b-day is, and then goes," isn't yours around the same time?" Yeah, like tomorrow. So he gave me $100 for my b-day which is pretty sweet. I usually don't get that much. I'm also now officially a member of the Gamer Advisory Panel for Playstation. Got a plastic card to put in my wallet and a tag to hang on my keychain. I'm so cool! ^_^

Anyways, my eyes are all good, apparently I have 20/20 vision w/ them, which is wierd b/c I had probs reading the tv screen when I'm playing. Anyways, I'm not sure if 6 pairs for $80 is a good deal or not. Or if it would be covered by my company benefits or if it's been less than 2 yrs since the last time they covered it. I'll also have to call them about the life insurance, b/c I can keep the policy after I leave the company, and I just want to know the rate I would pay. B/c I"m already getting life insurance thru another company, but they charge over... $30 for ... something. Cripes! WTF?! *looking* seems to be life, wage supplement in case of unemployment, hospital stuff. Geez, well if I stayed w/ the company for the rest of my life, I wouldn't need it. But gawd I don't want that.

Anyways, I'll deal w/ that stuff another time (hopefully sooner than later), anyways, I got meself another Beast figure. It's actually a mini-bobblehead of the feline version. Saw one of them capsule machines, and J had a toonie (yeah it's expensive for a random figure) and he picks up the capsule and clasps it in his hands, looks and then goes "Who do you love?" and I go "Beasty!" and he goes "Happy Birthday!" and I go "Yeah, now I don't need any more b-day presents!" and he's like "Man, if I only gotten it earlier and then I'd only have to spend $2 on you." so I go "but if you didn't get Beast it'd be Here's the entire lineup except for Beast", to which he agreed "it'd be so sad if I had to go to till and exchange a $20 for toonies."

Ah, Beast how I adore you so!
All cuddly and furry,
With a brain that's always in such a hurry
If only others respect for you would grow
Your favours they would curry
Your social life a flurry
The weight of your books would make the shelves bow
With so much fanmail it might even bury
But what really makes you purr-y
Is bright students to show
What's better than hentai, yaoi and yuri
Is a beaker full of chemical slurry!

Ahem..., okay, that was a pretty bad poem. But it had form and meter, and was a pain to rhyme.

Anyhoo after Toys R Us(and I know what I'll be getting as present b/c I saw the game was still @ the same low price and J said, "don't get it!") that we looked at some leather jackets. Found this nice one w/ lots of pockets but b/c I have wide shoulders, I need to get L, but then I'm a shapeless blob underneath. That could be fixed if it had some belt or an inner cord to tighten up the middle. *sigh* and it was only $250. Bought lots of grocery. I'm really trying to eat more veggies, but after a couple weeks of frozen veggies, I'm just tired of it and want fresh stuff. Go figure. I didn't care when I was living w/ my dad, but now it's like, I need veggies! Don't have scurvy yet. Got a few things for Chinese New Year. Not decorations, although I could probably use the ba gua mirror. Had this horrible nightmare where I was at a Xmas party for SLRs with the TLs who made up our duties, and Pile was completely blitzed. Like absolutely stumbling around and doing really inappropriate things. So our temp TL had come with a choker and Pile took it off her to try it on, and then he comes to me to point out how interesting it was and how I should try it on. And I'm trying to refuse when he spins me around and then glomps onto me. And I'm looking at my fellow SLRs w/ the look of sheer terror on my face but I'm too freaked to scream. So when I told this story to J, he sorta gets this look of jealousy and discomfort on his face. Whereas when I told D, he was just laughing cause it was so messed up. I think J keeps trying to psychoanalyze my dreams, cause that's what usually happens whenever I tell him one, didn't try to do it w/ this one though.

Annoyances and Irritants

Must've be watching too much Colbert Report. First person I'm putting on notice is my roommate. I dunno how his wife put up w/ it, but I suppose it's b/c she understands he's a guy. Major peeve is the leaving of dishes in the sink. It's one thing to do it if you're going to be doing the dishes later, or know that it's someone's job to do the dishes later. But the sink is dirty. That is -not- where you put stuff you will use later. Nor is it where you leave your glasses, when there're a perfectly good and empty dishwasher a foot away. Fine if it needs to be handwashed, but goddammit, I've been doing the dishes, whether handwashing them or filling/emptying the dishwasher 80% of the time. And considering for the first couple of weeks I've cooked 80% of the time too...

Speaking of which, I have to get some spices on my beef liver. It's soaked in the milk long enough. Pink milk anyone?

*back* Next irritant, J. It's not just that my bro is a jerk, and living w/ him and my dad was best when I never saw either of them, but at least when I'm living downtown, J won't have an excuse to see me all the time b/c he drove me everywhere. It's always *whine* "when am I going to see you next?" Really. I hate clingy people b/c they're usually weak too. Anyways, he sends me this email, I tell him, yeah I can do this at this time and I want to do that too, and then he sends me another email asking me if I want to do this and also do that. Didn't I just say that?! And hell, not only did I say it, I wrote it, and while it may have been at 3 in the morning, it was a hell lot more coherent than what he wrote back at 10 at night. I looked at it and was going to reply but it just made me so mad, it was like screw it.

One of my friends emailed me a 2 months ago saying she was getting married and wanted to know if I could go so she could send an invitation. Since she was across the world, it was "sorry, no." And I didn't really look at the date of the wedding, but I figured it'd be a couple months down the road, so I dawdled on sending her a wedding card. Well, it was actually last month. Geez, great notification. Oh well, at least I'd sent a xmas card.

Grrr, trying to change addresses, and they couldn't find my info. WTF? Rep was ok, but it's still irritating that I have to waste a stamp to do it. Considering I had the actual letter they sent me w/ all my acct info...

I'll see if today I can get stuff done. Still have to correct the contract w/ the building, my roommate was supposed to do it, but as usual, he didn't/forgot. I had to remind him to clean up the stove b/c his pot boiled over, since he was just about to go into his room to play my game on his PS2. And it's not like a little mess, it really covered the stove. Yes, I nag, but dammit, if you say you're going to do something, you probably should when the promise wasn't made to yourself.