A Friend Indeed...

So on Saturday I had a party for my friend H b/c she was going to Korea for a year. I invited a lot of people, and a bunch said they would come, but inevitably only a couple showed up, so there were a couple empty seats at the restaurant. But we had a lot of fun and got a lot of dirty looks from the other patrons b/c we were loud and uninhibited in our topic discussions.

Now in one of my earlier posts, I'd written how my "friend" J had called me and then my phone died, and it took me about 10 min to call him back b/c I was answering another call on my house phone. So I found out why he wanted to know what I was doing on Saturday. One of our mutual friends M was turning 18 later this month, and he'd wanted a party before he went back to school. No one had a set time for when the party would be. So since he never said anything to me the day after when I saw him, it was like whatever, maybe he just wanted to get together to do something as an apology for being such an a$$hole or b/c it's his needy-compulsive nature that he wanted to spend time w/ me. Seriously he's jealous that I'm spending a day out w/ my other friends when for about 2 years, I would spend about 4 hrs hanging out at his house after work 5 days out of the week. And I've known him for about 10 years now. Anyways, around Friday he wanted to get his gaming books back. Well, whatever, they're his books, even though we hadn't gamed for ages. So on Friday night when he drops me off at home, he's like "Say bye to H for me, cause I probably won't see her before she leaves." So okay, whatever and when I told H, she was like "you didn't invite him?" And I give her this look, and her husb from the front seat was said"Why would she want to?" And H said "good point."

So I see J today, and he just casually mentions that he had a b-day party for M on Saturday. Well thanks a fu(king lot since he knew I had a present for M, and since another mutual friend C was going to be there, I could've gave C his present from his B-day b/c it was coming in the mail at the time. And he starts talking that they did gaming, and M bought himself a PS2 and had lots of fun. Well since he's rubbing it in and shit, I didn't want to seem all upset, so I didn't react. And later in the day, M got thrown out of his house by his dad, so we were trying to find a place for him to stay since he was already kicked out by his mom to his dad's. So I'm like, "well he might be able to stay at my house if he's really quiet so my dad doesn't know." And J goes "Well it shouldn't be your problem b/c he's my friend" Now that's just fu*king insulting. So if I don't hang out w/ someone 24/7 it shouldn't mean that I'm not a friend anymore. What a fuc*ing joke. At least I know what he considers a friend. He's just like Tad in the Season Finale for Queer as Folk. Just b/c Ted when acted friendly towards the bartender and Emmet, Tad accused him of being a slut and goes all ballistic. And then later Tad comes by all sorry and thinks it's all ok. And of course Tad started isolating Ted from his friends.

Speak of QAF, I took the calibrator quiz, and the first time I was like Emmet, which is wierd b/c I'm not flamboyant, and when I took it again, I was Ted. But unlike Ted, I'm not desperately looking for a partner. Then again, I'm not 39 either.

this really is an online diary and reminder list

Just looking thru some of my old entries why waiting for the post to publish. Apparently in May, I wrote that I needed to dust my desk. Yeah, so I finally did it the other day. However this time on my vacation, I accomplished a lot more. Animethon was happening and I actually worked there instead. C&L Multimedia came to the convention and were looking for help and I worked there. Earned $120 which meant in net total I only spent around $50. But I also missed some sweet deals on manga. That's ok, have lots to read anyways.

I need to take a shower, I'll write more about my holiday, since lots of stuff happened, which I want to remember.

A lesson in Microbiology

So my brother had a party on the weekend,and he bought 2 fruit platters. Now the last time he bought a fruit platter for a party, the leftovers sat there for 2 days and then I ate about 6-8 pieces every night until it was gone. Then my dad bitched at me about being a pig, and hogging all the good stuff for myself. So this time I didn't touch the leftovers until tonight. Which is about...5 days after the party. And no one has even opened it until now. So what do I find among the grapes. strawberries, watermelon, canteloupe, honeydew melon, and pineapple? Fuzzy mold growing on the grapes, spreading to the strawberries, possessing the pineapple and contaminating the canteloupe. The honeydew had a possible spot and the watermelon looked ok. So I picked off 2 watermelon and 2 honeydew. I tried the canteloupe but it tasted bitter so I spat it out. Well what a wonderful waste of nutrients, grower's hard work, and $9 Cdn. Did I throw it out? Nope, because if they wanna bitch at me about eating the food, then here's the f*cking reason why food needs to be eaten soon. Label said it was best before Aug 13.

Speaking of my dad being a dumb@ss, he always lectures me on being fat (aside from other sh!t that I've mentioned) and then it's always at the dinner table when there's a drumstick left or whatever, he'll tell me to eat it. And so I go "I'm full, you eat it." and he acts all pissed off. And then wraps it as leftovers for next dinner. Yumm, food that's been reheated 5 times. For some reason, I usually don't eat at home at the same time as the rest of them, and if I have to, I'm usually sitting in front of the TV instead of the dinner table.

Ohmigod!

So I went into my email program cause I need to send an email to to one of my friends about the party, and lo and behold, I have comments! Comments!!... wow... It's so cool... It's so weird. I didn't think anyone would find my little blog in the morass of live journals, blogs or just personal websites. Yeah, I was squealing like Woody Allen... on helium! Yup purty darn exciting! So I guess I'm going to get fired for all the stuff I wrote about work. Heh heh. Actually there's a whole message board dedicated to how much the company sucks. But anyways, thank you so much for reading! I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!! ;P So will Sally Field be remembered for anything other than that quote? Hah!

Damn, HBK just interfered in the match btwn Angle-Hogan and I didn't see how. Ah, sharpshooter! But Hogan's knees are too gimpy to bend! Michaels nearly falls on his face trying to turn him over!! Well, that was fun. What happened to Angle? Shoulda had Angle trashing Hogan too. The best submission was when Angle was doing the Ankle Lock and Chris Benoit was doing the Crippler Crossface. Don't remember who the poor jobber was, but that was totally nasty-cool. What's with those T-shirts being torn that way? Where they basically take off the sleeves and the sides of the shirt so it's like a poncho thing. It doesn't look good guys. I don't care if it's easier to take off, it's just silly.

Well, Daily Show was funny w/ Steve Carrell on. It's a lost art to get people to laugh when all you do for 5 min is just look at each other. I don't remember if I've mentioned Daily Show before, but it really one of my primary news sources, aside from CBC and reports from BBC. It's certainly less biased than CNN, and has more intelligence than ... CNN. CNN's just always on the TVs in the lunchroom, so I'm really sick of it.

Mondays

So I'm watching Monday Night Raw, and they had the Eugene Invitational. Now Eugene was kinda fun when he first came out, the whole underdog thing, but when he got Kurt's gold, and started cheating, then it just got stupid. I never liked that whole thing where when he hits his head on the turnbuckle, he'll start going all beserk. They really shouldnt' have had him cheat. Now I can't wait for Kurt to get his medals back. Wrestling's gotten kinda stupid. Smackdown is such a waste of time, I'm totally on the computer w/ smackdown. There's so many commercials and people just yapping, that there's only like 3-4 matches in 2 hrs. It's cool to see HBK as a heel again. I hate Hulk Hogan. I'm really not sure what to say about Jericho going heel.

Anyways, my friend H's going to be leaving for Korea soon, so I'm planning a going away party for her and trying to spend as much time as I can w/ her. Except stupid J got all jealous. No really. He's acting like a little wussy, and acts all pissed off when I say I'm going to do something with her. Shit, he was acting like such a little shit that the last time he asked me what I was doing with H, I told him that we're running off to BC to get married. And it was like instant silence, then he goes all monotone and says "that's funny, so what are you doing?"

Hell, he just called me to ask what I was doing this Saturday and my phone died. But does he call me back when I get my phone on the charger? Nooooooo. Elapsed time btwn dropped call and getting the charger: 1 min. So after I finished talking w/ A for 10 min who just called me on my house phone, I tried calling him on his cell, and either his phone is off or he's talking w/ someone. Well whatever bitch,I've got other things to do.

Rebellion!!!... well it is for me

So I go on vacation on Thursday, and I had today off, which means I have to go in for 1 freakin day. It's not a long vacation, almost a week, but gawd do I need it. The other day I was ready to walk out of work because they have this stupid statistic that they want everyone to fulfill, and I was just 20 sec over its tolerance. But I've seen other people been placed in the shathouse for just missing the stupid thing. It just so p!ssed me off, especially when I'd been trying to meet the f*cking target. But it's not like my supervisor's been a hardcase about it, but still the thought that such a tiny little number would affect me, just threw me off. It's just been so annoying, and makes me sooo angry. And the stupid SLR program that they had in place, well from the looks of all things, it seems that they're going to eliminate it. It's been well over 2 months that it's been suspended, and they haven't given us anything to do and any word on it. And they've been removing our access levels. Production minutes my butt. Any excuse to shaft us. One of us was placed into a "corrective action program" and accused of call avoiding. And then when it was closed, he was scheduled to take over a certain duty, but then a day later, he was removed from the schedule. I even had a dream about answering calls. Argh!!!!

So I'd been so upset about everything, and obviously it doesn't matter how good you are, just how much you suck up to people, that I decided to f*ck the manners, and do something radical. Well radical for me anyways. I coloured my hair. It's not an offbeat colour like pink or platinum blonde, but a red that's lighter than my natural highlights. I know lots of people colour their hair, but I've had completely virgin hair for about 8 years. And when I say virgin, I mean it hasn't gotten anything more harsh than dandruff-shampoo. It's pretty much the epitome of healthy hair. So major props to my friend H for helping me with it and doing all the work with bleaching and colouring it. Now I just have to get all the colour off my neck.

So I'd heard that Koyasu Takehito and Seki Tomokazu got together. Literally. That's what H told me, and I was like, no way! Seki-san is such a porn freak(well when your favourite actress is Traci Lords...), and Koyasu-san is married. This I've got to look up

Bad Timing

So my cousin's come over from HK to visit, well really for a wedding, but flew to see us for a few days. Unfortunately it's also my weekend to work. Well that's what sick days are for. But my head's so not in the mood for being pleasant. The other day my brother bitched at me for "having it so good". Having it good is getting told that we're moving and having no say in the house that we're moving into?! Having it good is having your father say that having a dog is better than having me?! My friend went to see Unleashed and was so disturbed that Jet Li's character was treated like a dog and couldn't fathom how someone could treat another person like that. Yeah, for some reason my work schedule corresponds to my brother and dad's waking hours.

Anyways, my friend's come back from AnimeExpo. I gave him some money and asked him to find some Angelique stuff for me, but the dealers there barely even heard of it!! It's like a big shoujo RPG-date sim game, with lots of the hottest male seiyuus like Seki Toshihiko, Hiro Yuuki, Koyasu Takehito, Sho Hayami. Boy does AnimeExpo suck. Anyways I've been taking care of his fish Akido. It's a beta fish. It sure poops a lot. Not little strings of poop, but big globs. And I caught it puking up its fish pellet after chewing it a bit. Akido doesn't seem to like soggy pellets, so I have to feed it one by one instead of dumping the lot in. Anyways, I'd been looking for some way to get my lucky bamboo "dracaena Sanderiana" to get some food. The dirt didn't seem to work very well, and I have a big square glass vase. So apparently other people have placed beta fish in w/ them and it works pretty well. So I'm looking to get one too. And it's not as expensive as a dog or cat to maintain or replace. Too bad I can't pet it though. :(

...just called my friend, he did find something there, a Pokemon plushie! Yes, I like Pokemon. Well specifically Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur. I'll collect anything with them on it. And I got Pokemon Sorry. I'm very confused though, with Card 11, you can switch places with the other pokemon and send the other pokemon back to it's start. But you can't have 2 pokemon of the type occupy the same square. So if there's already a pokemon at the start, does that mean you forfeit your move?

First kicked in the nads...

So last week they announced a posting for SLRs to apply for. And pretty much everyone did. So guess who got the positions? The people who'd been pulled for the PAR Team. Gee, why even have the rest of us apply then?! So as my friend said, first they kick us in the gonads, then they punch us in the face, and now they want to ream us. Oh and incidently for the stupid Duty Desk, they've blocked all our breaks all together so we have to take them all at once. Wankers. Of course we're not supposed to be doing anything at Duty other than staring at the screen. Well, they didn't say we couldn't sing. And I get to be on Duty on the slowest day of the summer, 4th of July. Whopee skip. Wankers.

And my f*cking brother said I knocked down his stupid bathroom fan b/c of all my jumping playing DDR. Well if you hadn't bought a rundown peice of shat "new" house, it wouldn't happen. So in order for me to get my exercise I have to move my PS2 to my other room. Which means rearranging all my furniture except for 2 pieces. Wanker.

I hate customs, ordered some books, and the bastards opened the box. And usually the books are sealed in plastic, but none of them were. Since I'd ordered a yaoi doujinshi and it wasn't in the box, I was starting to flip out. Then I saw the packing slip and the damn store didn't have any in stock, but didnt' email me about it. So customs really didn't seize anything from me. But they're still wankers b/c we have no way to retaliate. Store's a wanker too.

And no, wanker is not my new favourite word. I just don't think it'll be censored as much as f*cker would.

Exxon Valdez Duck

Ah, another post about work. Truly people's life is defined by what they do, but not only the jobless are hopeless. Anyways, the company has decided to suspend the SLR(senior lead rep) program, which means no more doing paperwork, monitoring and most importantly being on the phones. Sure we'll still occasionally be doing Duty desk, but other than that, we're all on the phones. Which royally sucks. And considering they've also cut down on the Redhat(floor support) prog, we can't even get pulled for that. However for some reason, a certain bunch of people get to be offline to drop schedules and seem to do a lot of Duty Desk. Of course a lot of us are pretty upset about it, and I know that when the supervisor in charge of the SLRs were delivering the news, he really expected us to blow up at him. Well I don't any of us started swearing or quit on the spot, probably b/c we expected them to pull crap like this, but we can't kvetch about it either. In fact, we can't even voice any of our disappointment or feelings. Just supposed to let the crap slide off like water on a duck.

And this just after I finished filling in for a supervisor that went on vacation. Last week, for a whole Tues-Sat, I managed his team. It was quite interesting. Actually I wonder, though I doubt it, if the fact that I barely used my SLR had any influence on why they decided to suspend the program. I tried to give her stuff to do but she either didn't know how to do it, or did it so poorly I had to redo it anyways. Amazing how fast you learn names once you force yourself.

Work dominates my life too much. I've had dreams about people at work, I bring crap from work b/c of the dumb security audit. Not enough time to play. And I'm such a tub now b/c it's a bloody desk job.

oh

I guess the default is edit html instead of compose now.. Heh, my bad.

Dog's Life

Just a quick post here....wait, what happened to being able to change my font? And my colour?! What the #@%$*?!?! Man, it looks like it might be time to review my HTML again.

Anyways, just wanted to say that I bought A Dog's Life for the PS2 a while ago, and I've been playing it off & on btwn my other games, and it's quite hilarious. Sure, it may be targets for 12 yr old boys, but there's a lot there that's for the older people with a juvenile mindset.

Yes, I've learned how to poop and pee on command. But there's also listening to the radio broadcast, and having them actually be long and adding more humour to the game. A lot of subtler stuff that encourages you to pause in the game and not breeze thru.

Speaking of games, Asterix & Obelix is enjoyable, except for the slides and boat rides. I don't have the greatest control of the gamepad, and I keep missing the helmets. And cursing Obelix in general. He's soooo slow to respond.

I have other games, but this was supposed to be quick. And I'll probably spend 1/2 hr trying to get my post to show correctly too now b/c of the changes.

Quizilla Result

Popped over to Quizilla for a little fun before I went to bed, and found an Angelique quiz. And I'm so happy with my result! Guess who's the seiyuu for him? That's right, Seki-sama!


Luva


Which Angelique character is your match?
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Well that went by quick...

I just had a week off work. Well technically 8 days, and tomorrow is my last day of vacation. It was generally relaxing, just played on my PS2, read, slept, cleaned my room, moved furniture around. I don't think I'm a bath person. For one thing, it's just tooooo boring. I've bought rubber duckies, bath squirters, have CDs playing, and I slump there. I know it's supposed to be relaxing...wait, I have to sing "In the Moonlight" since it's playing on Anime Hardcore 1.

*singing*

Ok, so where was I? Baths. So it's good for softening your skin, and relaxing your muscles. But I think I had it too hot last night b/c I was getting a nasty headache, and starting to pass out. Like seriously dizzy, starting to hyperventilate, sweating like crazy, not comfy at all. So about half an hour after sitting in there, I had to get out. What a waste of water. Although I didn't drain it right away, mostly b/c I was so dizzy I had to lie on my bed for about 10 min w/ the window open. Even after about an hour (b/c I got the munchies too and went to watch DVDs so I could recover from my dizziness) the water was still pretty warm. So usually I'll try to stay in the water until it gets kinda luke-warm, but I think if I stayed in any longer, I'd be draped over the side of my tub and unconscious. So I just let the water sit there all night so the heat from the water could warm and humidify the rest of the house. Well, it's better than wasting it. It's $1.1344/cubic metre

So back to the original purpose of the post, vacation. Didn't accomplish much. I'm currently painting my Gundam Deathscythe model, which should've started on a long time ago. Got 1 leg done. Shoulda dusted and rearranged all the figures on my desk. Nope. Although I've gotten pretty far on my blanket. I'm crochetting a blanket for myself. Just b/c I can, and I find I'm sometimes cold, and I don't have a lap blanket for everywhere I am. Yes, so instead of pulling one from another room, I'd rather make a new one. I know it's not logical. Unfortunately the ball has collapsed on itself and is now a Gordian knot. I was supposed to d/l some programs, burn some songs, patch some things, blog everyday. Nope, nope, nope, nope, and obviously nope. Well at least I've exercised about an hour everyday. Don't think I lost anything though. Cursed belly chub.

Of course, is it really bad to accomplish little on vacation? I guess if you're dissatisfied, I suppose it is. I guess everyone needs a goal, even when they're supposed to relax. I guess if my goal was to sleep 12 hrs every day it wouldn't be so bad. Unfortunately I don't think I've even averaged 8 thru this week. Today I had to take a nap b/c I had a nasty headache. I think still from the bath. And I have my Seki Toshihiko CD playing, and I feel so guilty that I fall asleep to him singing b/c he has such a sweet voice and I wanna hear it all the time. Although I don't feel the same way when my Hiro Yuuki CD is playing. I think mostly b/c Hiro Yuuki has such a gentle voice, and all the tracks are very gentle so it's like a lullaby. Although I suppose since Seki-sama makes me feel all relaxed and snuggly it's ok.

Empty Promises Pt. 2

Well I got to see my OM the other day, finally. And she goes "well we're not sending you b/c the people who thought they were coming back early decided not to". So I go, "well what about the girl who came back early b/c of a family emergency?" "Well, she decided to go back." And I'm thinking, ...Gee I guess the family death wasn't that big of a deal. So I just say, "oh okay, well at least we got HRD working." So I head off to find a desk and then my Team Leader says he needs to talk to me. So I head over, and he says "Let's go somewhere private." --cue ominous music-- So he says that he needs to give me feedback that my recent vocalizations of how I felt I was getting punished for my HRD not working wasn't professional. And I didn't deny I said it. I said that to the OM when I first found out that HRD needed a 2nd trouble ticket filed (which would be approx Apr 4 from my Blog posts) and then she told me they found another person who had a working HRD so they're not sending me. So I say to her "Well I feel like I'm being punished for something that's not my fault." To which she replied, "Well I'm sorry that you feel that way." And then I asked her what would happen if HRD went down and she said she hoped it wouldn't happen.

So the amusing part about this is when I said "I feel..." is the actual phrase that you're supposed to use in arguments based relationship counsellors research. Not "You did..." which is accusatory, but you're supposed to say how a person's actions impacted you. Considering I could've said a lot worse things and every one of them would have been absolutely true... getting feedback on something like that really pushed me over the edge. I was just like ...Holy f*ck you guys are such a bunch of @ssholes. Considering all the hell that I went thru, not just the 3hrs I spent at work on my day off, but all the stress and confusion over wondering if I'm going or not and trying to think of what I need to bring, trying to refresh myself on the GSM material, getting so stressed that I need to spend 3 hrs on the PS2 just so I'd be tired enough to pass out and not stay awake all night thinking of work. But I'd end up walking in the middle of the morning (I go to work at 2:30p so I sleep until 1:30p :P) and start thinking of work. Trying to conserve my usage of clothes(we need to dress business -casual, which meant that in the time between when I found out I got SLR position and when I was officially SLR, I spent my days off shopping), and get my affairs in order in case I'm not in the city, and I found out one of my favourite TLs is quitting ... I basically lost it. Nope, I didn't punch out my TL. I did what women do when they're super-stressed...I started crying.

Let me just say that I'm not a crier. I start getting weepy when I see death on film(I have issues with my mother's death), but other than that, nope. Last times I've cried it was b/c my dad threatened to throw me out of the house (but I wasn't crying in front of my dad, it was more when I started talking about it w/ J), and when I was going thru a dispute w/ WCB and the last place I worked. So for me to break down at work, really sucked. And since I was ashamed at myself for getting weepy, the more upset I became, which meant I got more stressed... Anyways, he didn't help things by saying that they give us assignments to see how well we handle them and also test us on how we react when we get rejected. So he kinda mumbled a couple of things(it doesn't help he has a speech impediment), and then said that he's picked me for this special project that helps the upper management, and is really important work so they only picked the best performers for it. Well it sorta helped, but I've seen what happens to some of the SLRs when they get assigned to special projects, they end up spending unpaid OT trying to finish it.

Anyways, the SLRs OM came in to confirm the booking of the room for the SLR meeting, and I didn't really look at him, cause my eyes were soooo red. So I basically booked it to the washroom, applied a bunch of cold towels to my face and eyes, blew my nose lots, and then ran down to Shoppers for some Visine. I made it for the meeting just in time, after applying about triple the recommended dose. And then afterwards b/c I had to see the SLR OM for my badge(I was several weeks late, but he had a pretty big stack left, so I didn't feel too bad), and he asked if I was ok b/c he saw that I was kinda upset in my meeting with the TL. Well, just thinking of the whole incident got me stressed out again, and my eyes started tearing up. So I just mumbled that it was about the trip. Well this OM was way better, he apologized for the confusion and the mixup, told me that the new project is another opportunity, and could be an even bigger opportunity since it has a bigger impact on the centre, acknowledged that it was a a disappointment not to put the trip on the resume, but they were looking for other things to offer me which is why they wanted me on the new project. So he really made feel a lot better, which is probably why he's one of the better OMs.

Anyways, for the rest of the day I didn't talk about it about anyone b/c when I tried talking to one of my friend's hubby (who's a cool guy and I knew him in HS but not well, and so we commiserate over missing his wife b/c she's on the trip), I got all upset again. But all night I had a headache and my eyes were aching.

So I went and got myself Soul Calibur 2, and spent the night playing on the PS2 until I couldn't keep my eyes open. Then I passed out in front of the tv. So now I'm trying to file my taxes, but I just needed to get everything out in the open.

Empty Promises

So this is just a quick one since I'm going to work in an hour, but speaking of work.... Yes, this is where the title of the post comes in I was one of the first ones offered to go to another city to help set up their project. But my HRdirect didn't work(thru no fault of my own), and that was the only way they could set up the expense accts, so they found someone else but PROMISED ME that when 2 of the people come back early, I'll be the first one to go, if my HRD worked. So then last week, someone had to come back unexpectedly, but my HRD still wasn't working, and on Friday they said, well we'll see on Monday if we can send you w/o having it work. Well Monday was my day off, but I went to work and spent about 3 hrs there and finally got it working. Then they go," well we need to see if the other centre is doing ok being shorthanded for trainers, I'll tell you tomorrow." Tuesday, same thing. Wednesday, couldn't find her. So it's Thursday, and there's no way in hell that they're going to be sending me this week b/c we come back to the city on the weekends. Not to mention that the OM was going, "well it might take a week before the expense acct is set up so you might have to keep your receipts for the week." So I basically go, "well why don't you set up the expense acct now and by the time you finally get around to sending me, it'll be working." And she goes "well...we'll look into it" as in f-you how dare you think instead of accepting what I say. Considering before, I asked if there was another way of setting up an expense acct w/o HRD and she said not anymore so I said well what if HRD goes down? and all she could say was I hope it doesn't happen. So for some reason my company loyalty is pretty low.

Anyways, I've bought a new TV since my old one is going crap. Well it was before b/c the sides of the screen curved in and there was a lot of ghosting. But I'm finding that I can't read some of the text when I'm playing my PS2, so it's time. The new one still hasn't come yet b/c it's being delivered. If the store delivered it, it'd be $45 shipping, but if I order it online it's free shipping. Sure the $45 would get the guys to move it into position for me, but it's only 88 lbs. Considering my brother and I moved the 32" widescreen TV, there'll be no point paying someone else to move it.

i need more sleep!

Yes, it's daylight savings time again, when we lose an hour of snooze. Or party time, depending on your lifestyle. I want my snooze though, even though the time I go to sleep is when some people get up. But what really sucks is that I work today, so I can't even get a day to adjust. Argh!

Work is .... well, I'm kinda seeing how people fall behind what they're supposed to do and end up doing overtime. Sure it may not seem on paper that we have to do a lot, but when you can't tell people to shut up b/c you're busy, or just dump their evaluation on them, it kinda bites into your time. Like I told a rep that I had to go to lunch but because she was going to be home by the time I'm finished my floor supervisor duties, I was going to give her feedback right then. So something that could've gone 5 min, turned into 10 b/c she started telling me of her personal life. And the worst part was that if I wasn't in a rush, I'd liked to have talked more about it.

Hopefully I'll be able to go on a trip. It's work-related, but it does give me time to be away from some people, and it'll look good on my resume. Only thing that's a prob is the stupid profile in the company website isn't right, and they can't seem to figure out a way around it. Uh hello, what if the entire system crashed?! I guess I'll check on it now and see if it's been fixed.

Games games games

Drinking my milk. Trying to sing "Catch You Catch Me" from Cardcaptor Sakura which isn't hard except for a set of bars in the chorus. For those who don't know which one I'm talking about it, it's right after this line: "sou Nice to Meet You Good to See You kitto" Suddenly you have to cram 8 words into about 1 1/2 seconds. While I can't read actual katakana/kanji/hiragana (ie. any of the Japanese writing systems) except for a few characters, I can read the romanji fairly well, so that I can spot-read it decently. And for those who say, what's so hard about that? Try singing and reading the lyrics for a song in a different language like French/Spanish and pronounce all the words correctly, on time, in tune. It's way harder when you don't have a clue what you're singing. Mandarin is really hard b/c romanization can't reflect all the intonations. And you do have to learn the romanization system.

Anyways, another day off. My work schedule really sucks, I have the weekend off, work 1 day, have Tuesday off, then work 5 days straight and have next Monday off. So my PS2 is kinda warm now. Been playing Final Fantasy Tactics. My main char (default name Ramza) is lvl 41 now. And I'm still in Ch. 2. Can you say random battle maniac? I'm the same way for FFVIII, Squall is lvl 71 and I'm only on the 2nd disc. I don't think I've freed Balamb from Galbadia Garden yet. Course I'm trying to do Zell's Love Quest, but I think I might've missed a flag somewhere, the girl doesn't show up at the train station. I'm also playing Asterix & Obelix Kicks Buttix. It's quite fun, especially when you get to rescue all the cast, watching Dogmatix(he's sooo cute!) bite Roman butts, and unlock extra costumes for Asterix & Obelix. Bashing Romans is bit boring after a while, especially when they just keep spawning. It's gotten me into re-reading the Asterix books, and I think the game needs an FAQ on GameFaqs. Only prob is ever since I got the flu, I can't seem to be able to play very long w/o getting nauseous. Maybe hour tops. Before I'd play like 3-4 hrs before getting sick from all the camera angle changes.

So I really hate the whole regionalization of games. DVDs I'm not so worried about b/c I have a DVD-ROM and the software allows for different regions. But I can't play a Japanese game even if I get a Japanese console b/c of the difference in voltage, screen refresh rates etc. It's really annoying. And since I have the slim PS2, some of the mods might not work. Argh! And there's sooooo many awesome Japanese games, like Angelique, hoards of anime games etc. Angelique mainly. Who wouldn't want to hear Seki Toshihiko and Hiro Yuuki? Luva-sama. Mar-ce-ru. Luva-sama. Mar-ce-ru.

Litterbox change

So it's been a while since I've updated. Was it b/c there was a lot of stuff going on? Well, yeah but shouldn't that mean I would update more, b/c I wanted to capture those changes? Yeah, well while I'm singing "Heart and Soul" from Macross 7 (Haven't finished watching it, and I'll have to say, you'd better like the music or you'll hate it cause the same songs get repeated. Lots. Lots lots.)

I'm just chilling after cleaning my bathroom and vacuuming my section of the house. The other weekend my brother bitched about having to clean my bathroom b/c he invited his friends over to watch LOTR. First off, who said that they had to use my bathroom? Why couldn't they use his? There's 3 bathrooms in the house, I'd only punish people by making them use my dad's .It's filthy. I really don't think he's ever cleaned it since we moved in 1 1/2 years ago, and since he's old and can't see well, there've been misses. (I only go up there to see when my ride comes b/c that's the only place to see the street). Secondly, he didn't really ask me when they could come, and if they don't come in the weekend when I schedule to clean, too bad. I really hate when people use my bathroom b/c they always leave the toilet seat lid up when they flush. Since I use the blue toilet tabs, I know that toilet water sprays up b/c I see it on the toilet lid. So toilet water goes all over the bathroom, and since my extra toilet paper rolls are on the ledge above the toilet, can you say contamination?! Good thing I have a bathroom cabinet where I keep my toothbrush and cup. Despite what they showed on Mythbusters, I still think it makes a difference. Although that micobiologist should've gotten the sample from the room where the control toothbrush was, not bring it into the bathroom where she had the rest of the samples. Yes, I'm a bit nuts about the bathroom and stuff. I also like to buy toilet paper when it's on sale, and I price it out by the sheet. Well, it is the only way to really tell which is cheaper. Although Charmin is the nicest and I will spend to buy that brand. Even at 1-ply it's really absorbent and strong. And it's nice and soft too. I actually use my Charmin for blowing my nose, b/c it's cheaper than facial tissue. And yes, I priced that out by the sheet also. So I actually have 3 kinds of TP. Charmin which substitutes for facial tissue, regular cheap stuff for what it's actually made for, and then this really cheap rough stuff that my dad buys which is basically wiping off toothpaste foam.or little cleanups that don't need an entire sheet of paper towel. Paper products are excellent for stocking up on.

Am I really lazy?

So today's my day off and I was telling my friend about what I was going to do today -- sleep, play games, work on my model, do some laundry. My friend gives me this wierd look and goes, "that's it?" Well, yeah. So she kinda says "you're not going to hang out w/ your friends or chat online or something?" Well, let's see, the other friends I have work, I'm sick right now, I haven't chatted in a long time or even posted or read newsgroups in a while, my emailing habits are horrible. All day at work all I do is talk w/ strangers, co-workers and friends. I think I do enough 2-way communication. Course my friend can talk for hours, and she's a lot more extroverted than me.

I did manage to get some decent sleep. About 11 hrs worth. Mind you, I can't seem to sleep even 8 hrs straight. It was 4-2-2-3 hrs today. So I went to bed about 6 (I was reading Hikaru no Go), woke up around 10, turned over and slept another 2, got up and had breakfast, finished Hikaru, napped, played FF8, napped, got up for dinner. Yes it was CAT DAY. Considering most days I end up getting only about 6 hrs of sleep and the last few days b/c I'd been coughing and drowning in my mucus, I've had days where I've only had 4 hrs of sleep. I think I deserve to get to sleep in.

Hikaru no Go was excellent as usual. Obata-sensei is such an awesome artist. Sai is sooo hot, and Akira's adorable. I think the appeal is that Hikaru's trying to learn Go on his own, but also willing to exploit Sai's connection w/ him, which doesn't make him annoyingly goody. He's just a kid, and acts like one. Some stories have characters where you wonder why in the world they have any appeal (ex. Fushigi Yuugi's Miaka getting every one of the Suzaku Warriors to fall in love w/ her . Even Noriko!!!! Oh, she's a breath of fresh air, whoopee, so she's a nice girl and tries to do her best. Well then all the women in ancient China must be bitches then, cause Miaka is whiney, indecisive, mannerless, brainless, and very useless. Jeez. Yui was so much better), or are soooo good and perfect, you just want to kill them instead of emulate them. Which is an odd reaction I suppose. Aren't we supposed to strive to be better, and therefore learn from those who can do something better than us? Then why must we seek falliability or are jealous of others? I suppose it's that inborn instinct for dominance or survival. If all we do is support others, then our own genes don't survive as well. Of course there's also benefits to the followers by the extention of favouritism to the followers, which must imply some kind of competition either btwn the followers or btwn camps. Well it's been a while since Anthro, but that was fun. Never took Philosophy though, but I'm sure Socrates or the like have already thought about this.

Anyways, I think Rumiko Takashi-sensei creates the best female protagonists: Akane Tendo from Ranma 1/2, Kagome and Sango from Inu-Yasha. I haven't had chance to read a lot of her other stories, but they're not whiney. Sure they get frightened, scared, cling to the guy but they end up dealing with it and not complaining about it again. I wish I were more like them. I'm just such a coward sometimes.

Financial Investment!?!

Mood: Just woke up, and it's 7 pm. I was up earlier, but I went back to bed. It's my cat-day :P.
Music: Information High from Macross Plus. Yoko Kanno is truly a wonder.
What I'm should be doing but aren't b/c I'm blogging: Writing the label for my burned disc.

I must say, it seems the only time I actually post is to reveal the next disgusting/offensive/annoying thing the guy who's chasing me, let's just call him "J" said/did. So what was it this time?

Well we went out to dinner(for no reason that I could discern. My birthday was on the 22, and I'd gotten together w/ my friends including him and actually had 2 parties. One was the official and the other was for Royal Rumble which my brother paid for as b-day pres) and we got fortune cookies. Mine said "You believe in the goodness of mankind." And you know the little jokey thing you add at the end "-in bed"? Well it didn't really work for this one. And I don't really there's goodness in mankind. Potential for something, but not goodness necessarily. And considering I don't think it would be a bad idea if humanity was annihilated so we'd get our heads out of our asses, nah, I don't think it's very true.

Anyways, his was something like "a financial investment will result in great rewards." So I'm like "what investments? Stocks?" (I know he doesn't have oodles of money and almost living from paycheque to paycheque) And he goes "dinner?" .... Like what the f**k?!?! I know he can't be talking about anything else b/c he can't write anything off as business expense. So I give him a "what the f*ck are you talking about look?" and he tries to look all innocent. So I'm like " fine, I'll ignore that," and say "Bonds?" and then we started talking about bonds and how high his credit card limit is now.

So this is probably why I don't want to get into any romantic relationship with a guy, Talk about total creepazoid. Why do I still talk to him? Well, he drives me to/from work (he doesn't work with me) and when he's not acting like a total a**hole, he can be funny and we share a lot of interests.