Summerslam

Yup, I saw Summerslam. Basically J suggested it that day, so we went to see it after doing our usual Sunday shopping. The best match was the Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio, not just for the work and bumps they took, but there was also a good emotional impact. For all the weeks leading up to the Summerslam, and they were trying to build it up, I was just rolling my eyes, and really not paying attention to the trash talk. But their ring performance did more to illustrate and tell the pain of losing a child than all their speeches could. Benoit winning the match that quick was really wierd. I don't think that was supposed to happen. But at least Benoit has a title.

HBK really is one of the best workers out there. He was selling Hogan so much, Hogan only had to lift his foot, and HBK would fly into it. I really don't think the crowd gave HBK the props they should've for all the work he did. HBK was always one of my favourite wrestlers. Ever since the Rockers hit the WWF, I've had a thing for him. When he first turned heel, kicking Marty Jannetty into the glass on Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's show, I was really upset and mad at him. And I was confused about the whole sexual innuendo with Scary Sherri. (What can I say, I was an innocent in a lot of things) And for a year I drifted away from the WWE. But I saw when they created DX and that was sooooo awesome. For me, that's when you actually saw the people behind the personas and people were allowed to be themselves, instead of some caricature. Course I was super sad when he retired, and elated when he returned. I'd hoped they'd pick up the HBK-HHH relationship, but alas. I'm not sure why he became a born-again Christian, I don't think the Playgirl spread was anything to be ashamed of. (Yes, I do have that issue. Actually my only issue of Playgirl) I'm not any religion except "not Christian"(kudos to D for coming up w/ that) so Shawn bringing that into his wrestling really wigs me out. I understand Chris Jericho is also of the same persuasion, but I don't remember seeing that huge of an emphasis by him like HBK does.

Anyways as for Batista powerbombing JBL into the stairs. Wow, JBL sure takes a lotta bumps.

HRD

I'm sure everyone's had their fair share of problems with the Human Resources Dept, if they have one that is. In my job, we do have a special office set up for them. A nice little posh area. And when we go in for help, they tell us to go to the website for Human Resources. Not just for info on policies and benefits but for -everything-. You want a letter of employment? Go on HRD. Don't work here anymore so login doesn't work? Too bad, and that is the god-honest truth that they told someone that. Yes, they are a bunch of a**holes. When we were in our managerial training, one of our biggest beefs was the people at HR. They're just a joke to us.

So now they're not printing out our paystubs anymore and want us to view it online. Ok, fine save the trees and all. But the website will not load properly on anything other than IE. So risking viruses, keyloggers, trojans I open up my IE. Well, now the paystub won't load either. Try to send back feedback. Instead of a handy form you can fill out, they've decided to set up a Java-based message board. Which after waiting 2 min for it to load (and I have cable modem, and it's in the middle of the night), it finally shows me something. Well nice to see that I'm not the only one w/ this problem. Have to double click on a topic to read it. No way to get to next message in the thread other than going back. Great, doesn't show me which message I read or even get me back to where I was in the message board. I have to remember who I read and re-find the topic again. And right now, it's displaying nothing. Literally, it has that kinda ghost image from my other pages which I click on the window, I can see what I'm typing on this window in the other window in the area where the Java is.

And I'm sure if I go to them asking for paper stubs, they'll tell me to print it off the website. Our company underwent a good lopping off the top(lots of operation managers were laid off) and if there's one dept that needs trimming, it's HR. Useless f*ckwads.

Animethon Summary

Typing this while watching RAW.

That was cool to see Benjamin and Angle wrestle, the whole pupil-teacher thing. I'm not sure what they're doing w/ Chavo's character, but it's ... controversial. I guess if a Latino says it, it's ok? Benjamin's awesome and I wish they'd push him more. Now that Cena's champ, it shouldn't be a prob for matches but I guess a face-face match wouldn't be that interesting.

So here's my report on Animethon, or at least how I experienced Animethon. Showed up @ H's house at 8 in the morning. Ended up not leaving her place until about 9 b/c she was showing me her dirty pictures of Aragorn and Boromir. Since I was going to working at Animethon in the dealer's room, I needed to get a pass to get in and out, so went thru the back to talk w/ my employer. H came with me, and we basically snuck in even though I wasn't working the Saturday. Stayed in the Dealer's room for about 3 hrs b/c we weren't sure if we could get back in. Went to lunch at Eastbound, and then saw the Naruto movie "Dai Katsugeki!! Yuki Hime Shinobu Houjou Datte Bayo!". It wasn't bad, but really felt like an OVA. Didn't get to see the movie short though :( I wish Sakura was able to show her ability more, she was fairly crafy but not crafty enough. Sasuke really outsmarted her. H had to go home, so stayed outside talking for about an hour. Then ran in to watch "Kannaduki no Miko" Was in the back, when I saw J and M walk in, I did a little wave and I dont' know if he saw me, or actually wasn't interested in what was on the screen but he turned around and left. Which was like "What the f--?! Whatever, I don't wanna sit next to him anyways" Wasn't too impressed w/ the anime, I'm really sick of the genki useless airhead that seems to attract everyone. She had no personality. I was sort interested in seeing her gf react to the boy rescuing everytime, but not that interested. Met my A, T, W in there, and we went to the room of mystery. Saw "Club to Death Dokura-chan" which was awesome. Brutally funny, ecchi and sweet, shows what happens to the angels that you don't hear about :D Had some $4 pizza(per slice!) and then went home.

Snitsky and toes... well everyone's got their thing.

The next day I showed up at Animethon at 10, and worked all day until 7. Only had an hour to get lunch, and basically gave back my paycheque since I spent almost $100 @ C&L Multimedia, and I got paid $120. It was kinda funny when I was working b/c even when we were setting up, and I was dressed in a white shirt w/ shortalls, organizers would come up to me and start asking me things. Then when I was working, and I was doing the cash, everyone would come up to me, and ask me about getting deals, where the store was, and all kinds of things, and treating me as if I ran it. Which I guess I kinda did b/c I'd tell the other people to hand out the biz cards and straighten out the shelves a bit as they got emptied. It must just be my experience working at Superstore as an assistant supervisor. It was fun, even though J said I had my "work face" on which is usually "I'm busy so ask me quick". Yes J was there.

I don't think the white hair makes Bischoff look any older.

So on the Friday, there was going to be party for C, and it was going to be at 7. And set up for C&L was supposed to go from 3-6. So plenty of time right? Except the C&L guy was late, gym wasn't ready, but I still left at 6. But J was acting all bitchy and it was at the party where I made the crack about running off to BC w/ H. So we were watching MST3000, and after that crack, he didn't laugh for at least 1/2 hour, he was so f*cked in the head.

Sweet, Tori and Candice just kicked Ashley's ass. I'm so used to Tori being a face. I still miss Trish. And Victoria was briefly back as a heel, but w/o Trish, there's no competition.

So on Sunday, when I was working at the booth, J comes thru, and he sorta looks at me as if he expects me to spit in his face or something. Of course I ring the purchase thru b/c 1) I'm professional 2) I'm not that petty. And then when there was a break in the lineup b/c everyone was watching the demostrations, he comes by and goes "I'm sorry about Friday, I was being a jerk." Gee, talk about a captive audience, like I could leave the booth. And I sure as hell couldn't swear or do anything, so I was like "whatever, fine" And I don't know if he was trying to do his best hang-dog impression or what, but basically we confirmed that we were going to do something the next day. But the next day... I laid it out for him.

I told him that I don't like him always putting his hand on my back, especially when I'm browsing and he starts putting his hand there and rubbing it up and down. I used to let him give me backrubs b/c my job was a back-killer but the amount of pressure he was using when we were shopping was not a "therapeutic touch." I showed H once what he did, and she was sooo creeped out. And he's like "I thought you like backrubs." And yes, I actually had to explain the difference. Oh, so I had to tell him that I don't do hugs. Wait... this feels like deja vu. *reading thru old posts* Ah, here's one in Nov and Dec. I know this was the 2nd time I've had to tell him that I don't do hugs. Oh, and I had to tell him all this in the middle of the store, b/c there we were again, shopping in our favourite comic book store, and I look at manga, he looks at manga, I look at comics, he looks at comics, I look at gaming books, there he is again. I'm whipping around the store, and he's just following me. Then I did the stupid thing and picked up a book to look at, and there he comes up behind me, and there goes his hand.

And now he's acting all petty and treating me like shit. And I really shoulda taken him up on his offer to break off our friendship, but f-ck I'm too nice, and I'd feel guilty if he did something to himself, which he claims he's gotten over, but I know it's just lip to not have him committed. But you know, that guilt is quickly going away.

Damn, Cena won. Wow, Jericho really has blue eyes. Boy, can Jericho grovel. Awwww. poor Jericho. Well Smackdown does need a boost. Oooh, Angle's kicking Cena's ass. Cool. Now there's a guy who can get things done. Angle is sooo intense.

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.