August 2005 Archives

Ahh, fun fun I had.

Yesterday, John (along with Suraj) decided to invite some people to slackline with him.

(For short explanation, we tied a nylon thingie between two trees and tried to get up on it, and balance)

It was a very interesting, and fun experience. John was the only one that could walk on it, since he has been doing it for some time now. Suraj, Ed, and I managed to get on a few times, and balanced to a point.

It was difficult getting on, and since it was not a tight rope, it started swaying from the moment one stepped on it. It was a good exercise in balance.

Well, we did plenty of that, until it started getting dark, and then we went into Suraj (and John's) apt.

We played Halo 2 a few times, and it was tons of amusement. I was just a tad rusty, since I haven't played anything halo-like in a while now. Good thing that the teams were one newbie, and one expert. It evened things out. I managed to assist a lot, but the whole killing thing, that was rather tricky *grins*

They just had purchased a new map pack, so it was a new experience to everyone, that proved a formidable challenge.

When we got done with Halo 2, it was time for a classic to come out... Super Smash Brothers Melee!!

Ahh, that great game from some time ago, back and still rocking. Kirby is my fave, and I did manage to kick a bit of arse. Hey, something I am good at for a change. Ed, was amazingly confused by the fact that there were random items popping in from everywhere.

Overall, it was a fun and entertaining evening. I haven't had one of those in a long while, and much less with friends.

So far, school is being quite nice.

I have plenty of teachers that seem very nice, and the subjects they are teaching don't seem that bad either.

I have done plenty of things at school.

I bought books the first day, before any of my classes, and stocked up on all the needed supplies, leaving nothing to be worried about.

I made appointments with my councelour go to over all the classes that I need to graduate.

I have visted the school career center, and got the information and card for the director of internships. I'll be in contact with her

I have visited the gym, started the process of setting up a fitness assesment, with personal training. As soon as I get the money for that I will start.

I will probably have a workout partner starting next week, which will give me some motivation. I will still do the personal trainer thing, but this is just to get my started on the basic stuff.

I have gotten a proper sized locker, and actually remember the combination this time.

I have already acquired all the software I need for school.

All the test dates are written in my calendar thingie. I have slowly gotten myself to use it. Over the past few semesters I have been better at it.

I am doing my best effort to read things ahead of class, which actually helps. It does not make some lectures any less boring, but it does help.

I got all the books that I have acquired over time, and put them in a set place. It's missing the whole bookshelf things, but it's something I have planned on doing for a long long time.

It's nice that in my classes I have people that I've know in the past. It lightens that atmosphere a bit.

Although this one was a bit of a pincher, I did end up buying a graphing calculator, which was needed for my Numerical Analysis class. Again, I reiterate, it sucked having the shell out the money. Granted *hehe* most of it was given by grants that were credited to the book store for me to buy stuff.

I planned ahead on my transportation, so I don't end up having to dig up coins out of my seat.

All shows that all my plans and slowly hammering in thought patterns into my own head, have worked. Yeay.

That's my classical way to sidestep talking about things that are actually bothering me.

Well, it does have some sigficance at times, because I do go towards the verbally lazy side of things sometimes. It might mean that I'm actually fine.

Otherwise, it's my standard response when asked if everything is ok. As I put it, if my house was burning down, I would probably just say "I'm Fine, Thanks." It's a polite response, albeit, a bit dull.

For right now, I would say things are controlled at the moment. There's really nothing overly uncertaing looming around. All the annoying worries are most certainly there, but they haven't really changed.

Aside from that, I feel drained. I have energy, and it sustains me, but aside from that, it incurs no bonuses. I'm not pissy, or mad, or the such, which is good.

An area I am drained in, is the emotional arena. I kinda feel like a puppy right now. All bouncy, yet, I have noone to pet me. Granted, most of the things that cause that are outside my control. I'm not without anyone. I have my family, which is still there, and my boyfriend, which is also there.

As far as friends go, well, ehh. They are there as well. I have well, not many at all, and are all from work. Things revolve around work with them, and that is the time I talk to them. It's afun at times, but it lakes palpable dimension.

Anywho, I'm simply not in the best of moods, but I am managing to stay goal oriented on school, and doing the things I need to do otherwise, I will be posting about that next probably.

As I said before, if I pick up my phone, and try to dial someone, I will usually be at a loss, so it's pointless.

I do apologize for being just a little bit selfish, yes I am considering all the other people, and the things they are going through, but still... I have feelings, and they are being hurt.

* This was inspired from the entry I made today.

* That darn puppy took so many tries to draw

* I can draw alien puppies better than the eartly canine ones.

* Yes, and it does have bells on it's legs. Hehehe.

Sometimes I do embody my major of Computer Science.

I've been working on a little project for work, involving Access, and laptops. I spent a decent amout of time on, it, and was quite happy. It did what it was supposed to do, with a few bugs here and there. Hey, they gave me Access to work it, it's a bit icky.

Granted, I had to learn how to use it in the first place. That was sure an experience. I really should have read more about relational databases, and how things pop up from it.

Anywho, I was all happy, brought it to work, and then...

Hey, add passwords, add this, that, the other, that other thing, we need messages here, and there, and logs, and move buttons, disable this. Ohh, and also this thing you did, that everything depends on, make it the old way.

Bleargh!! Granted, I should be expecting such things, but I had such a little thing in my hand, and it was mine. Now, I have to pierce it, slash it, dash it, and glue little bells to it's legs.

It was kinda fun though, and figuring out all the requests was a great learning experience. Now, I do have to make a lot of errors look graceful. That is turning to be quite a pain the in kanookeys. C'est La CS Vie.

Tonight, the floors at work are getting stripped, and recoated.

So, the plans are to be very efficient. There are tons of things that can be done without the pesk presence of customers. Things that would take days can be done in hours.

There are boxes of old archives, that have expired. A plethora of meaninless paperwork that needs to be done, besides the fact that it's meaningless.

We clain to heading towards a paperless society, but we produce a lot of paper, just checking and auditing all the paperless systems. They all print long reports, that need to be checked, and go in folders, that are archived in boxes.

Also, something I am very excited about, is that I get to test the eletronic laptop log I have created. It was confusing at first, since I had to pratically learn the whole system I was doing it in. The good thing, is that it all started to make sense, and quickly I had something that fit the purpose well.

It should be fun.

Just popping in to woohoo the fact that I got a good grade in Calc III. I was hesitant, but things ended up perfectly.

Ahh, the joy, the joy. *grins*

Woohoo, my life is entirelly weird. Just when things are about to go south, magical things are in the mix.

I called the bank regarding my mom's car. I was all worried, and was going to ask when the car was going to be repossesed, and how can we stop it.

Instead, what happens, is they said that there was a promotion for our July payment. The promotion was, that we got to skip that payment. I have to say, that's amazing.

So, insted, what happens now, I can make the car payment this month (albeit, it will be late) but we don't have the same risks as we had before. It seems the car will stay properly with us.

A sigh of relief I must say.

I do have to mention, that as I was sitting on the phone I was shocked to hear that things happened to be fine. I was thinking to myself "what are the odds of that."

Well, I am most certainly not going to complain about it.

It helps to believe.

Sometimes, things don't seem to come on time.

Slowly creeps the chance of things being lost.

The one on the list this time, is Moms car. Since virtually every single bill is late by one month, and so are both cars, things get difficult. We have already lost the home phone, and temporarelly our gas. Power runs a mild danger of also being cut off, depending on my next pay check.

Mom's car payment, with the late fees, is the equivalent of one full paycheck, plus a small part of my other paycheck. Also, she's one month behind. It's impossible to make those payments. The other thing that must be paid, is the car insurance, which is about 92% of one of my paychecks.

It's not all bad, considering I'll be getting a hefty amount of money from school, but that will probably hit my account at the end of august or the beggining of september. That is just too late. And sadly, even then, not everything will be paid.

We will be trying to call the car loan companies, and see if anything can be done. It's extremelly annoying I must confess. One other good thing, is that mom will also start getting a paycheck, which makes things easier. Again, the problem is timing.

It's not that things are not coming, it's just that they are behind what they should be. We have already borrowed money from here, and there, so that eliminates mostly everything.

I talked to mom today, and she said they will probably just end up taking the car, but I am hoping not. Since we are both on the lease, we will be locked out of being able to buy a car for some time. That will just cause chaos. Mom, sis and I, all need to have a car to make things work. Any other way, and we start losing things ever more rapidly.

I'm crossing my fingers that something can be worked out in due time.

I have to say, I'm quite amazed at myself.

I've behaved very well accourding to my standards set forth.

Also, I'm very happy to say, I'm out of the danger of crossing the 180 mark. Granted, with muscle, at a later point, I might cross it, but not with jiggly fat gloops.

And now that the finals are done for this semester, I have all this time for clarity, and directional thinking. So Happy I am. :)

No TV
No Junk Food
No Porn
No IRC

Mandatory Exercising Daily

Sounds rational. Let's do it!

Well, a few days ago, I've mentioned a letter that mom received.

It was a letter concerning her mamogram. They found some things that they need to investigate further. some lumpy things, and some rigid bodies.

So, she will be doing the untrasound soon, and we will now much more accuratelly if we have to worry or not.

Anywho, there were good news after. Mom asked her doctor friend about the results, and she said that when things are worded as such they were in the letter, she doesn't have to worry. If they were suspicious of something more serious they would have used different wording to describe it.

Still, we are concerned, but it lessened things up a bit.

Well, as soon as I have results, I will be talking about it.

I remember, my wonderful constant breakfast. Kellog's Smart Start Soy, and 8th Continent soy milk. So delicious, and always kept me from snacking, provided me with the right amount of energy, and it tasted wonderful.

Slowly, I got away from this habit, and started eating a poorer diet, that was nothing but just confort food. Little things that I eat when I'm not feeling well.

Well, everyone knows that confort food will usually cause the obvious effect of weight gain. So, logically, that's what's been happening.

I've strived to lower it down, and put a great deal of effort into it. Yet, it waines away, as this line of unqualified meals take over my everyday life.

I will probably soon, be swinging by the supermarket, and getting this delicious piece of my morning back.

Well, there are good news abound.

Well, at least one really nice bit of news, that is rather good.

Mom, was offered a job, she of course accepted it. After clearing things up with the bigwigs, she was the confirmed. She now just needs to fill up some paperwork, and she will be as good as employed. Of course, she will be on a 90 day trial, which is like most other jobs frankly.

Ahhh, I'm quite happy about this all. She was jumping with joy, she was quite naked doing it, since she had just came out of the shower, but still, joyful. Ahhh, a silly mother I have.

Anywho, that all should make things quite nice around the house.

Just thought I would share.

* This was inspired by my mom, about 30 minutes ago.