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Downbeat Randomness

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Eviction post: *hugs* Theresa, Derrian, Trelithe, Kim, Hillary, Bevey, and Ook. Thank you for all your thoughts, prayers, and hugs.

Writing Randomness: Why do you always get the best story ideas at 3am, have it all written out in your head, but by the next morning — you can’t remember a damn thing? XD I had this whole short story about some post college guy going to Las Vegas for a job interview and by this morning I’d forgotten everything. I really need a handheld “tape” recorder. lol

On Kids: I’ve decided I want to be a mom. I want to be a mom bad. Yet I really have no plans of ever getting married. Hell, I’ve slid back into an almost child-like “boys are icky” stage again. Pathetic, huh?

Diabetes: I’m feeling weird again. I’ve only gone hypoglycemic three times today, so I have a feeling I’m crusing for another. Of course, I could just be tired. Hypoglycemia does that to me.

Website Promotion: Have you ever felt just plain dirty when you haven’t done anything TO feel that way? I’ve been promoting my domain today and a couple sites I wanted to put my link on required me to put up advertising reciprocal links. Now I feel all dirty. lol

Anime: There’s some new samurai anime on Adult Swim. I haven’t had the energy to find out which one it is. Just wish they’d stop censoring the swearing. That record scratch is annoying.

Randomness: I really feel like making some kind of dessert using rum. Rums good. Very good. Too bad there’s none in the house. Then again, that’s probably good.

Website Promotion II: I summed up my promotion thoughts on Arise today in a tutorial. I’m still trying to promote the boards, but forums are a royal bitch to promote. I really don’t know how to write down what I really want to say, so I guess I’ll play the part of the bitch and just say it. During their infancy, forums NEED an established, successful website in order to be successful themselves. With RW.com long dead, it’s no wonder we’re having trouble attracting people.

Anime #2: Watching some anime on cable, not sure which… I wonder if they ever get motion sickness the way they… I dunno – bounce? – when they run. Making me dizzy just watching it.

Blah, my randomness is nowhere near as amusing as Kim’s randomness. ^_^;; Kim, you’re my hero! Y’know that? Alrighty, I’m going to bed now. Maybe I might remember that story.

*glomps*

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My life, in a pixel

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Well, the mess with Mesopia went easier than I thought it would. Still no word back on my domain, well, unless you just count the receipt of them charging us $12 for the domain. *sighs*

Today was a massive grocery getting day, a quick attempt to fill up the pantry until we can get another chance to catch out breath.

Well, it didn’t last long. Apparently, mom didn’t think for the last rent check she wrote and it bounced. All of five days before she cashed her next paycheck. Since I’ll be the only one home tomorrow, I suppose it’s up to me to go talk to the landlords and beg forgiveness for the check. I don’t remember for sure, but I seem to recall seeing a note in the rules we agreed to that says we now have to pay via money order. Oh well, that’s for tomorrow.

(Waiiit… wasn’t I avoiding money matters?)

First week of college went okay, I’m pretty sure I can do this. The group project they want for this next week is a little scary, but everyone seems pretty nice. I really didn’t do anything today with it, so tomorrow I have to check the class message boards again and make myself known.

It’s hilarious, Jass and I have become lurkers on every MB on the planet… with the exception of the school boards. Thing is, since we’re not appearing in person, we have to make significant posts in order to be considered “participating.” But it’s not that hard, the instructors give you essay questions you have to answer almost every day and since everyone is so nice; chit-chat is easy too.

The academic advisors already have my summer classes picked out. I get to take Composition II, Human Relations, File Management, and Internet and the WWW. Composition II sounds okay, I’ve needed it for a while and I’m not sure what to make of Human Relations. But taking me through Files and a introduction to the internet is just, well…. funny?

Yeah, my blog isn’t pretty anymore. I HAD to upgrade wordpress. So tomorrow, after the walk to the office and then school, I’ll settle down and rework my poison layout to work with the new version. I tried to get the LiveJournal auto-update program to work with Wordpress, but it’s not compatable. So, I’m still crossposting.

Much love to everyone

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Check my ego in at the door

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

Not to be outdone by a childhood friend, I picked up a A+ Certification Study Guide book yesterday while on a shopping spree at the mall. Lets just say for everything I knew, there was 5 things I didn’t. Up until that point in the computer store I was feeling like a hot shit, then I get home and begin reading the book.

Dammit. LOL

The book is a bit out of date, which makes me feel a little better. It doesn’t cover Windows XP, nor some of the more powerful goodies out there like the new RAM – among other things. Still, remembering just how much of a newbie I still am was sobering. Then, as if to underscore that – my computer crashes and crashes hard. XD I went to Safe Mode and several scans later I had it back up and running. Not sure what the hell happened, but this beast has so many weird issues with conflicts and bad drivers (that also can’t be updated) it could be most anything. -_-;;

I really need to figure out how to juggle my Avandamet and a job so I can begin putting together my new machine. (Which is the main reason I had been feeling so good before I picked up the book.) I found all the parts I wanted for my home-built machine and they weren’t all that different from the places on the internet I’ve been looking at. I’m still going to be ordering the bulk of it off the internet anyway, so I’m not paying for the “purty” packaging.

Anyway, it was girls’ day out at the mall yesterday. I got two new bras and five new panties at Victoria’s Secret, some new Lavender scented body lotion at the Bath and Body Shoppe, and then browsed the Anime’ at Suncoast. I almost picked up Silent Mobius, but after burning almost $70 between the first two I didn’t feel I had another $15 to spend on it. I didn’t get to go clothes shopping either; but as it was, we didn’t get home until 7pm anyway. So I suppose that’s going to have to be a trip for later.

My new Insulin regimen is going well, provided I can keep my bloodsugar from crashing and burning. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to be able to occasionally eat chocolate again, but not necessarily under those circumstances. I’ve also gained weight *sigh* It’s probably a side effect of the insulin therapy, but I feel really bloated and uncomfortable. But, on the whole, my bloodsugar is starting to come down which is a good thing. I just don’t want to gain too much weight, since it makes controlling bloodsugar much harder. I doubt I’m going to be able to stop the Avandamet, though, but it’s something to ask my Doctor once my body finishes adjusting.

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Merry-Go-Round Life

Friday, June 4th, 2004

Anyone who has spent any amount of time trying to navigate through the maze of automated phone systems will be able to sympathize with me on this entry.

It started simple enough. I received an invoice for $12 to have my Host renew my domain for me. Simple enough. I also decide to “upgrade” my webspace down to 150MB, since we’re using so little of the resources I paid for. Why pay for things I’m not using, right? So, I send a Money Order for $52 to my Host for both by the 8th on overnight. Simple, right?

Day after day pass and still no word. Thanks to the USPS, I know they received it – because someone had to sign to receive my Money Orders. Getting nervous, I decided to move everything early, just in case. It goes better and faster than I expected, so now I’m waiting on them. Finally, it’s May 19 and still nothing has been done. My domain has expired and I had 48 hours to get it back. Furious, I launch a campaign – demanding answers, ending with a threat to get the BBB if they didn’t do anything. I finally get an answer and my domain is renewed.

I thought I was home free.

Well, that thought turned around and bit me in the ass.

I waited for the Registrar Lock to come off and discovered I couldn’t access any of my domain information. I couldn’t change the Nameservers to point to my new, smaller account nor could I update my contact information. Weird, but I decide to wait longer. Now, May is almost over and I still can’t access my account. I once again launch a slightly more polite campaign and a few more days later – they’ve fixed the error and I’m able to point the domain here.

*sigh* So now, everything’s running again, where it’s supposed to be.

And then, there’s Medicaid.
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Fun stuff

Sunday, February 8th, 2004

Hehe, got this from Amanda’s LiveJournal ^___^

EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS = Favorite Spice + Last Foreign Vacation Spot
Cinnamon Notapplicable

“FLY GIRL” ALIAS (a la J. Lo) = First Initial + First Two or Three Letters of your Last Name
S. Kni – heh

DIVA ALIAS = Something Sweet Within Sight + Any Liquid in Kitchen
Creamsavers Water

GIRL DETECTIVE ALIAS = Favorite Baby Animal + Where You Last Went to School
Kitten Sparta

BARFLY ALIAS = Last Snack Food You Ate + Your Favorite Drink
Popcorn Cola

SOAP OPERA ALIAS = Middle Name + Street Where You First Lived
Marie Schultz

PORN STAR ALIAS = First Pet’s Name + Street You Grew Up On
Sandy Schultz

ROCK STAR ALIAS = Any Liquid on the Bar + Last Name of Bad-Ass Celebrity
Vodka Bloom – XD

SOCIALITE ALIAS = Silliest Childhood Nickname + Town Where You First Partied
Lucy-Moose Mount Pleasant – mmm… kay XD

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Another Ramble

Sunday, April 13th, 2003

/Ramble on

Okay, I double-checked this time LOL ^^;; Teach me to just yank down that menu without looking! I’m sorry I’m still MIA even though I’m no longer working; it’s just felt good to pull my head in and pretend the world doesn’t exist. The way I keep wanting to do the hermit thing, it’ll be a wonder if I don’t build a fortress out in the middle of nowhere to live out my life away from the ID10+$. I’m not cut out for having to deal with the public… I just can’t handle them.

*coughs* Spent the past several days cleaning for an open house with our Realtor. No one came, but we all spent the 2 hours outside cleaning up our yard from the ice storm we had on April 4 – 6. We’ve cleaned the carpet (made an even bigger mess – I don’t think it’s ever been cleaned!!) and otherwise straightened the house. The usual running around at mach 20 buying cleaning supplies and other junk wasn’t a total loss, though *holds up her new Evanescence CD proudly* They are just too awesome ^___^ “Going Under”, “Imaginary” and “Whisper” have been added to my new favorites! Of course, “Bring me to Life” still has me hypnotized. *beams* A few of their songs are a bit too slow for my taste, but the majority of the album has a good enough beat I can listen to it front to back – which is rare for me. Usually it’s only 2 or 3 songs and the rest of the album doesn’t get played.

I’m sure everyone remembers the weird neighbor from back when I moved in. He got caught cheating on his wife, so he’s gone. (Thank heaven) However, his wife is still up to her shit. She’s one of those people who seem to think that life is a soap opera and they need to act the part, everyone else is guilty, she’s just a victim of circumstance, etc. Just a very very melodramatic and aggravating person. *shakes her head* She’s accused us of stealing and of keeping a shovel of her ex’s that my mom returned over a year ago; lets forget that she’s been caught shoplifting several times.

Speaking of my neighbors, I do have another rant. A huge number of the people around here don’t keep their dogs tied up, leashed, or otherwise controlled. The dogs are just allowed to run loose to do their business and the animal control folks are worthless when it comes to filing a complaint. Strays are fairly common, and they’re not always ones you can stomp your foot at or yell to make them run away. Well, the neighbor from above has joined this practice. A few weeks ago, this neighbor got a puppy for her kids (lets forget not more than a month before she was anal about keeping her youngest away from dogs because the little girl is supposedly allergic! *boggles*). Thing is, she doesn’t think she has to keep control of the animal when she or her kids take puppy out to do its business. So the puppy is on our property, the other neighbors and most of the way to the busy street we live on. Her kids put the puppy out with no leash, no chain, nothing and stand there looking stupid as the puppy runs away and THEN sudden remember and run after her, giggling in a way that’s obvious that they think chasing down the dog is fun. Anyway, yesterday they put it out and puppy makes a beeline straight for Luna. I gently warn the kids (Ages 13, 8, and 4):
“Keep Teddy Bear [the puppy] away from the cat, please, she doesn’t like dogs much.”

Sugar has a history of being a touch vicious to members of the canine species; our old dog, Brownie, experienced many attacks from her and had the scars and fearful respect to show it. She was fairly nice to Luna as a puppy, but I don’t like to take chances.

I go back to raking, thinking my warning was good enough, as Luna tries to stay one step away from the puppy, who seems to want to climb up on Luna’s back. Dummy me.

As if on queue, the puppy gets bored with Luna (who was beginning to growl and bare her teeth) and starts to do that uncertain run puppies do towards Sugar. They stand there, fingers up their collective noses as the puppy comes right up to Sug’ and tries to climb on/pounce her – and the kids stand there looking dumb and not more than a few feet away, despite the fact of what I said not more than two minutes before. That cat leapt a good three to four feet straight up while screeching her indignity at the top of her lungs, and lands swinging like a Featherweight Boxer going for the title.

To make a long story short, if our house doesn’t sell soon, we’re going to be fencing in the yard. ^^;; In other news, Sugar is back to being the ultra-affectionate beast she usually is, though now I know that while she’s old, she’s definitely not geriatric!

/Ramble off

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Danke Nette!

Wednesday, November 27th, 2002

*HUGS* Thank you so much, Nette! ^_^ You’re way too awesome to us! *huggles her YGO CD tightly*

Have to work 3pm to 11:30pm tomorrow *sighs* I really don’t want to; they have me working the next four days solid… there’s just no way I’m going to get enough sleep to be back in… especially for the 6am shift on Sunday. Get out at 10:30pm and have to be back in by 6am on Sunday is NOT my idea of fun.

All I can do is shake my head. When did I “insult her intelligence”? When was I “snippy” as her PM to me stated I was? *sighs* Whatever.

The house is going back on the market really soon. We’ve had it here. After Thanksgiving, we’re going to start decorating the house for Christmas and getting it ready to sell. We’re also going to be trying for some financing so we can afford something a little higher priced… with inflation and popularity of some areas, houses that aren’t worth the price of the box of matches required to renovate them are going for $100,000 and up.

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Planar

Sunday, November 17th, 2002

There. I did something with Legacies. I’m sorry guys, but I don’t really have time to play right now. :-( If you guys want to reassign groups or just try a different idea than the one I came up with, go ahead. If you want me to choose someone and give them Admin powers over the board, I’ll do so. *hugs* Sorry. Still not sure what you guys want me to do with Nic Jean’s character though :-(

Work has just been a bitch with my time lately. I haven’t had much of a day off in recent times… I mean, heck… normally I get to see Yugioh on Saturday mornings, but all I got to see was the 8am showing. I know that Malik shows up, well… Cameo type thingy as he does the puppit-thang with Bandit Keith, but I missed the next episode. Fantasy, you may have me at Kaaza yet! I’m spending most of my time trying to get rested so I can survive the next day at work, so my internet time has shrunk down to checking my mail. At least my paychecks are semi-decent…. I did get to go shopping and repair a little of my wardrobe last week. Got several tops, a load of underwear, and a couple low-rise, boot cut jeans. (Pretty decent, not those horrifically exaggerated things I’d been finding. Boot cut isn’t Bell-Bottoms, despite what some designers seem to be thinking) ^_^ Now just to get that Debit Card so I can do a little shopping online. Want to make it to Grand Rapids soon… one of my favorite Craft Shops is having a massive sale and I/we want to splurge a little. That and I want a few more clothes… it feels good to start getting clothes that actually fit me. Now to stop drooling at those black, leather pants I found at this one store. ^^;;

Listing to “Plane of Time” and “Plane of Earth” themes from the new EQ expansion… I really love those. ^_^ The latter has this really cool Egyptian-sounding thing going, which drives me right back to my Yugioh fetish. I really want to play-play, but everytime I intend on coming on I’m too tired to even want to to much with the computer, let alone seriously play. Ah well *hugs everyone*

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Mega Ramble

Friday, September 20th, 2002

Thanks for your words of encouragement Kai, Fantasy, and Momma Elf *hugs* Honestly, it’s one of those dreams I’m really longing for.

Warning: Mega Ramble forthcoming! Please keep your seatbelt on and lock your chairs in the upright position.
First off, I’m going to go to a Sylvan Learning Center and shore up my math skills. I’m one of those people who can barely do basic math, let alone algebra, calculus, etc. etc. I can generally decipher the gist from most Latin-based languages and even a little Japanese. Eight-hundred-plus page novels are nothing for me. I can understand complicated scientific theories and have even written papers on them for school term papers – my 8th grade year, I even sent a copy of my term paper on “Dark Matter” and the universe’s expansion to a local physicist, who wrote back to say he was shocked I had such a firm grasp on the theories I was writing about. But Math? Math is like trying to read and comprehend a completely Alien language for me. This even translates over to Chat Shorthand… numbers come in and I’m like “huh??” It’s wild: I can do Mole Conversions and stuff for Chemistry, but can’t figure out 75% off a $11.99 candle holder. Frankly, I can’t live like that.

For those who are wondering; I can explain the Chem. My Junior Year Chem teacher in HS took my inability to do math as an insult to his and my intelligence – I was averaging an A- for much of the year until I had to start doing any math, at which point my grade plummeted. He obsessed over making me actually LEARN and retain the math for over six months before I finally got it. He spent many of his lunches on the phone with professors and others trying to find a way. The rest of my teachers weren’t really interested in helping me like that. :-( He’s a Superintendent or Principal of some school now – All I gotta say is that wherever he is, they better appreciate Mr. Kraus… he’s a saint!

Anyway, we’ve already contacted Sylvan. For $200 they’ll give me a comprehensive test to figure out where I’m lacking and then they’ll work up a custom, tentative program for me. Since it’ll be all custom-tailored for me, I’ll have no other figures until after that. However, until it does that college will be useless for me to even try. I don’t have the money to constantly fail my math courses. For that, it seems like a small price to pay to get a clue.

After that, I think I’m going to stick to Web Development at the first school I looked at. It’s aimed more at non-traditional students, which would be awesome for me. After I get a job from there, I think I’ll start saving up again and find something else. If my interest in trying for my own Comics and Collectibles store continues, I’ll probably choose some business courses so I can learn how to effectively run my own shop.

Well, my Japanese Garden design has gone on hold. U2 has a new song out called “Electrical Storm” which has given me an amazing idea for a totally different set. It’ll be yet another blue set, but done in kind of “stormy” hues. Now who to use in it? *taps her chin* I have an image of Shin naked, but I’m also of half a mind to wait on it and get one of my original characters done anime-style for me to use in it. Decisions… decisions…

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The ramble beast strikes back

Monday, September 9th, 2002

*HUGS* Thanks France and `Nette. Feel free to use and abuse Hisahsi at will; I trust you guys – heck, everyone in the game. If there’s any anything that needs to be put up or changed, let me know and I’ll give access/passwords. Once I get my life back under control, I’ll hopefully have more time.

*rubs her eyes* I think my eyes have changed again… each and every time I put on my glasses I get such a sudden, fierce headache I end up feeling like I got socked in the back of the head or right in my face. Took 5 Advil after dinner and it barely touched it. But in happier news, unless it was some figment of my imagination, I can read things better at a distance without my glasses. *dances* So hopefully once bills are under control I’ll be able to go to my doctor and see what I can get. This time I’ll be getting contacts along with glasses, though. ^__^

Went to see one of my friends today at his lake house. (Almost fell asleep out on his deck too: that lake is dead silent compared to the busy, main-drag street I live on) He’s one of the guys involved in the same group I do/did my kite flying with, nice guy and owner of enough goodies to make you wonder if he isn’t really Santa Claus. ^__^ He and his wife have recently renovated their house, which is NO bigger than the one we’re currently in, and really opened it up – or at least made it look that way. Originally, the cottage was this classic, drab vacation home… kind of rustic, but so dark it felt somewhat clausterphobic. Now they’ve changed the whole beast. Now it’s this bright, breezy, cozy, and welcoming place. They’ve done things in shades of white without making it feel institutional. I mean, complete 360 from what it originally looked like. All of a sudden our notebook of renovation ideas for our home has grown by another dozen pages.

Anyway, we got talking and he suggested that maybe I might want to suppliment my income with a little webdesign business on the side. While I’ve thought about doing this before, I never really thought about things like what he was suggesting. I dunno, he’s always been able to talk me into (and out of) things. But he pointed out that he’s found some places that charge up to $1000 for the graphics, coding, and implementation. With him going over the things I’m learning, already know, and want to learn… all of a sudden I was able to see his arguement. However, I really want to do things the right way, not have the IRS sudden ask “Hey, Sally… where are you getting this extra $$?” Either way, it’s something to look into. A while back I had this really cool dream about me running my own Anime store, but that’s going to run in the same line as a Comic book and Card Shop… really dependant on the community and the store location. It’s been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but the particulars kind of scare me. But web-design? Hmmm.

Finally getting something close to some inspiration… found an image of an oriental garden in one of our This Old House issues. There’s one image of a Tea-Ceremony house surrounded on three sides by ponds, and plenty of oriental goodness. I’ll have to scan it in and play with it… see what I could do with it.

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