| Happy birthday, Liam! |
[15 Oct 2008|04:01pm] |
I waited until the last minute to get Liam's presents so was up until 2:30 am wrapping because I bought a bunch of little things and wanted to wrap them individually because he loves unwrapping so much.
Jim took the day off so was able to keep the kid from waking me until about ten when he did so by screeching in my ear in a manner I find disturbing and annoying when I'm wide awake, let alone when I'm in the middle of a nightmare. Not a pleasant way to wake up but thankfully I had half a salted caramel cocoa in the fridge and that helped soothe me. ;c)
We decided to go ahead and do presents. He'll have a little party on Sunday when we go visit Jim's family but nothing today so no reason to wait. He got a set of Legos, a remote-controlled car and some Transformers and seemed pleased with all of it. He spent the rest of the morning playing and then we went to McDonald's for lunch.
As usual, the draw there is not the food but the playland so he ran around and had a grand ol' time. There were a lot more kids than I expected, though all younger since kids his age are normally in school. There is a little air hockey table in there and it's been broken every time we've gone before but seemed to be working this time. Liam had to wait forever to get a turn but finally did. I wish I hadn't forgotten my phone because it would have been priceless video. The exuberant giggles every time the puck came his way made all the parents who were watching giggle with him.
After that, we decided to stop at the ice cream parlor for a grown-up cone! He is seven, after all. The owner lady said it was also her son's birthday and I think she gave him a little more than the child's scoop we ordered as well as a balloon. Halfway through the cone he announced that he was done and that "it made his eyes grow big". In other words, his eyes were bigger than his stomach. I have a feeling that will be one of those phrases which will live on in our family.
We were going to go do other things but he wanted to come home and play with his toys and, well, it's his birthday. Gotta go out and get a cake for tonight but that'll probably be about it for the celebration until Sunday when it will also be Jim's birthday. Which reminds me that I need to make sure we get Liam's mohawk in good shape before then so that Jim's family can give him a good ribbing about it. ;c)
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The post that got me banned from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) customers_suck for a week/10 days |
[15 Oct 2008|03:44pm] |
"Dear Students from the high school's lacrosse team,
I understand that you'd like to make lots of free monies for your team. I get that. Hey, fundraising is important to organizations; its how I went to Europe with my girl scout troop my junior year of high school. However, when we give you coupons to hand out to people to bring in business, and then we will donate 10-15% of the sales from those tables to your organization, the proper thing to do is come in, behave, and not harass our other customers. The rule, stated on all the sheets and coupons themselves, plainly spell out that you may not hand out the coupons on the premises, nor in the parking lot, nor run around and place them on empty tables waiting for people to sit down. Instead, you came in, many of you ordered waters and side salads (big spenders, you pre-EBs) and then went around begging customers not affiliated with your group to use the coupons so you could raise money. Guess what? When you forced your tainted coupon on my poor little family that could barely speak English (the little 7 year old boy was translating for his mom), I asked them if they were with the group. When they gave me this blank stare, because they WEREN'T, I ripped up the coupon and threw it away. See if we allow your group to have four fundraisers this year. You were one of the few high schools in the area to get that privilege, but now you've gone and spoiled it for yourself. No, it is NOT OK to tell my tables how much you HOMG NEEEED new equipment. It ruins their experience.
Oh, and PLZ TO BE SITTING IN UR SEATS and not standing in all our aisles. It makes delivering the food to you know, the other guests, HARD. And when you go and knock off a daiquiri off my friend J's tray, and then LAUGH, it makes me want to punch you, especially when it was for an actual customer who was not amused by your antics.
Oh, and if you want us to put your stupid coupons on your bill so you can have your precious money? Plz also be tipping at LEAST 15% for us having to put up with your bullshit. If you leave less than 10%, as so many of you did...I can't promise you that those coupons made it into the computer.
I HATE DOUGH RAISERS."
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[15 Oct 2008|03:31pm] |
So I have a really bad cold, and I've been feeling shitty the past few days. I haven't been sleeping real well, and last night I woke up around 1 am to take some more Nyquil. As I sat up I noticed something scurry across the corner of my room. SCURRY. I hurriedly checked Sergei's hamster cage to make sure he was all locked in...yep, he was there, looking at me like I was nuts.
And then the scurry happened again.
It was a mouse.
I screamed, and not knowing what else to do, called my mom. In hindsight, I feel bad for waking her up in the middle of the night, but I was SO FREAKED OUT. I literally couldn't sleep until like, 5 am. Then, this morning, one of my roommates responds to my status on fbook of "MOUSE FUCK FUCK FUCK." with an "I hope you were just imagining it." When I respond that I wasn't, and I definitely saw it multiple times, she replied back with "Oh, I guess J. (our other roommate) saw one earlier this week too." WTF. Why would you see one and NOT SAY ANYTHING. Mice are definitely not as bad as rats, and I KNOW rats are a problem in the city, but damnit, the second you see one SAY SOMETHING so we can deal with it fast. I don't want it to go find all its little mouse friends and have them move in here, since it obviously has such a sweet living situation. I'm going to home depot right now to buy some traps...Probably both the humane ones and the killers, because if the humane ones fail there is no way I'm letting these fuckers live here. I can't get the sonic deterrence one because of poor little Sergei. I'm also getting steel wool to push into any cracks I can find in our foundation, and I'm calling our property manager guy. I mean, I'm sure this won't be super expensive, but we've lived here for THREE WEEKS. Its not like we've been here years; he should help subsidize the cost or even pay for it all himself. Cause i mean...this sucks. Sucks sucks sucks.
I might ask Katie to let me borrow her adopted stray cat for a couple weeks. Strays should be good mouse killers, right? Thats really my main priority at this point. I want those mother fuckers caught and disposed of.
Ugh ugh ugh ugh.
EDIT: Does anyone know if little mice will attack hamsters? Sergei is secure in his cage, but I'm worried about the fact that he has open food in there. No way a mouse could get in, at least i don't think it could...he can't get out? I am just worried for his safety. He's all I've got. :(
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[15 Oct 2008|02:26pm] |
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OK. Because PR's position in the Earth is made out of PHAIL and screams "TS/Hurricanes/Tornados land here~!", there's a chance that I might not be on for a few days.
According to the weather channel, the chances that it actually hits the north side of the island are low, but I don't really trust them, and, hoshi-- They said the same thing with Jorge, didn't they?
And Jorge almost knocked my house down when I was four, right?
Hah.
SO, that means that I might be without internet for the next few days if Omar who shares the same name with my ex-boyfriend -damn it, knew that he would come back to royally screw me over hits here. Pray for me, bbs~ *shotdowntohell*
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| Kari's Twitters of the Day |
[14 Oct 2008|09:05pm] |
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[13 Oct 2008|11:46pm] |
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I really dont think its just the fact that I have a new toy, (the camera) I really think this is my motivation, my passion, my drive, when I photoshop it helps but nothing was more cathartic than today when I stopped and took pics on the roadside... b/c I saw a scene I liked... I wanna constantly study this, I want to post it, I wanna stay up all night editing it... I'd give anything to get paid for this again. I know I could do it. I know I could.
... too bad school 'comes first' *sigh*
Kepi
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| Kari's Twitters of the Day |
[13 Oct 2008|09:03pm] |
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| Busy day... |
[13 Oct 2008|04:54pm] |
We hit the Halloween store first. Turns out, the boy wanted to be Bumblebee from Transformers. When we were at Walmart to get paint yesterday (they suck and we ended up not getting any because apparently the only guy in the whole store who can mix paint was busy with something else and couldn't be bothered to help the three customers at the mixing counter), we made a quick run through the costumes to see what was there. No Iron Man but they did have Bumblebee and Liam seemed slightly interested but I felt sure that when we saw the Iron Man costumes, he'd go right back to that. I was so wrong. He made a bee-line (pun intended, of course) for the Bumblebee costume and no matter how many others we showed him, including Iron Man, he was not changing his mind.
Now to try and figure out where to trick-or-treat 'cause this neighborhood is not exactly gonna work for that.
Then off to Home Depot where we decided on a warm brown, almost pumpkin color for the hall. I am hoping it doesn't show up quite this orange on the wall, however. I purposely went down a color from our original choice for just that reason. We struggled with it for a few minutes but decided that, in the end, paint isn't permanent so we can always try again if it doesn't come out the way we want.
While there, we saw some purty washer/dryer sets! Stackable, even. Except that, when stacked, I would be too short to reach the controls. How sad is that? I'd need a stepstool in order to do the laundry. O, well... not like we can afford them right now, anyhow. But they are on my wishlist, for sure.
We stopped at one of mommy's favorite dives for lunch. And when I say dive, I mean it. It is most certainly what my grandma would have called a greasy spoon -- just a little hole-in-the-wall diner with greasy food and waitresses who call you "hun". I'm not sure what brought it to mind other than it was on the way home. I'm not overly fond of the food and I knew it was bound to bring back memories since it was often where we stopped on Saturdays after the farmer's market. I got all sentimental and teared up while putting jelly on my monte cristo. Jim looked at me a little funny but was smart and didn't say anything. After we left, I explained that mommy always got the hash with toast and would give me the jelly from her toast for my sandwich. Still a pretty silly reason for tears but he understood.
Now Jim is getting all the screws, nails, etc. out of the wall and spackling what needs to be spackled. So I probably won't get to paint until tomorrow but at least we were busy and I still feel like we honored mommy even if I don't get the job done.
My Knightie hit it on the head in a comment on a recent post where he said that mommy was my anchor. That is exactly what she was. Without her, I felt totally adrift. I love Jim, but he's not exactly the anchor type. He is a life raft which is always there for me when I am in need but can be a little rough to ride when the seas are choppy. So I've had to work on being my own anchor. Over time, I'm learning. Thankfully, mommy gave me all the tools I needed. I might be a little slow at putting the puzzle together but I'm getting there and I know that I will be able to be the anchor I need for myself as well as for my family. Perhaps not quite as strong an anchor. She could have held an aircraft carrier. I'm more like a homemade cement-in-a-bucket type anchor. ;c)
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| Gone, gone, gone... |
[13 Oct 2008|11:51am] |
Today is mommy's gone day. Right about now a year ago, Jillian called and was screaming in my ear that she was blue. I was either not able to understand or in total denial and made her say it about four times. Over the past year, I've relived that phone call far too many times. I've no idea why it keeps popping into my head but when it does, it is so fucking real and intense that it always makes me bawl.
Going to try and keep myself busy with painting. In a way, it pays homage to mommy at the same time. She always wanted to get things painted but never was able to find the time.
Last week, Liam peeled away some of the wallpaper in the hallway where a year and a half ago one of Jillian's doggies had bitten the wall and left a divet. SRSLY. Don't ask me why or how, but the dog attacked the wall. So Saturday I came out of the office and looked at what he peeled and wondered if it would all come off that easily. It did. And so I peeled. The whole house is so stark white that I've decided to paint it a sort of cafe au lait shade. Something warm but not too dark so that it will clash with the white molding because it can't be stripped and I don't know what color I would paint it if not the white. Perhaps an ecru. Hmm.... but still, I wouldn't want to go too dark.
So we're off to go paint shopping as well as costume shopping. Child wants to be Iron Man. He also insists mommy and daddy should be Iron Man but I think it'll look cuter on him.
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[13 Oct 2008|02:21pm] |
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While looking for a photo reference for Intermediate Illustration (for an illustration featuring famous hair) today I stumbled a quote from Tom Cruise.
"On the discovery of the pregnancy; "Oh, I—I looked at her. And I went, 'You’re gonna tell me if you're pregnant, aren't you?' It was a moment where… It was one of those things. And I knew at that moment she was pregnant. ’Cuz I notice things in people.”
Because he notices things? Freaking LOL. And yes, I realize that this is over 2 years old, but crazy things are still funny years later.
I'm doing an illustration of either Katie Holmes or Suri Cruise, I think, for the assignment.
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| Right on.. |
[13 Oct 2008|08:43am] |
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I feel like I was run over, thrown across the street, picked up, dusted off, then made to drive in to work for a 7-4 shift.
I'd say that product testing will be interesting today.. but.. it won't. I don't think I'll be able to spot a software bug to save anyone's life today.
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[12 Oct 2008|11:45pm] |
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Starting zee new job tomorrow. Hopefully it's cool. But it's more moneys and I do like my pimp cups.
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| avec les cieux, c'est merveilleux, les abres blues |
[12 Oct 2008|06:20pm] |
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The homework grader thought over half of my homework that I just turned in for Philosophy was wrong ;;;; even tho it wasn't. It said a lot of stuff like "it doesn't make sense in this world!" and I'm like "BUT THE PROGRAM SAID IT WAS CORRECT SO IT MUST BE CORRECT." But exercise 18 pissed me off so much (and it said half of my answers were wrong but they're NOT) so I just gave up :/ I don't think he would change our grade if we changed our answers. Oh, and I still have to do exercise 19, but that one doesn't get turned in online.
And our French composition has to be on Hiroshima, Mon Amour which we're not reading until tomorrow technically. I didn't want to read it tonight ;;; because I was thinking that it was going to be one one of the poems that we read. So that means I have to read it and then decide on a topic tonight.
Needless to say, today hasn't been agreeing with me xD;;; I just don't feel like being in a good mood.
Yesterday, the guy from Verizon came buy to try and fix our internet (the modem was plugged in and wasn't picking up a signal from the internet at all). Then, once he got it working, it turns out that it didn't want to work on my laptop. But it works on Kit's, so I'm going to wait for my dad to send up the router and hope that I can connect to the wireless.
I cut my bangs on Friday~ Because I was really tired of the long ones that just hung their and got in my way. They're a bit uneven, but whatever. I can see again xD But they were trained pushed to the side for so long, now they won't going back to being fringe.
I also think that I've been loosing weight ;;; I do look thinner, but also my shirt/bra straps won't stay on my shoulder. I've tightened them but they slip down constantly. Also, you can see my shoulder-blades and spine more now xD;;;;
Kit and I want to get the little hetalia key-chain things. THEY'RE SO CUTE. Really tiny, about $5 each, but so cute. I want Su-san and she wants Liet, but we also want to get Austria and Finland and she also wants Poland xDD If anyone else wants to get one, tell me and you can just send me $5? Shipping should only be about 3 or 4? So if we get a few then having only that much for shipping shouldn't be too bad.
Oh, my cold has started going away! It's just a little bit of my nose bothering me and making it hard to breathe through my nose, but that's it. But I think I'm getting either a sty or, very slim possibility, pink eye (dies) I'm having my dad send me my eye drops when he sends up the router.
It's gotten pretty cold at night! Our feet have been getting really cold haha but when I wear my slippers around, my computer shocks me ;;;
Tonight, I'm making stir fry of sorts for dinner! Cooking up a chicken breast and putting in some broccoli, asparagus, peas and corn to fry altogether. Then we're putting it on top of rice and it shall be yummy.
I didn't go buy CDs/DVDs today because I really didn't feel like it, and I was taking a long time to do my philosophy (WHICH SDLKFJ WAS ALL WRONG APPARENTLY DAMNIT) but I will tomorrow. I also need more orange juice. Maybe I should get something larger than what I've been getting. Oh, and bread and more eggs! I've been having a lot of fried eggs for breakfast haha maybe I'll try making an omelette again, or scrambled eggs. I'll buy more cereal after my cold is gone all the way.
Anyways, I should go check on the rice and see if I should start cooking the chicken and then do exercise 19 and start reading Hiroshima, mon amour :/
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| Kari's Twitters of the Day |
[12 Oct 2008|09:03pm] |
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| A decline from a high point |
[12 Oct 2008|11:18am] |
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So last night my computer decided it didn't feel like working. The internet wireless thing was being a tard and said tat it was disabled but wouldn't let me enable it. So I log off and log back onto my profile to see what would happen and----WINDOWS EXPLORER HAS ERRORED. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
So I rebooted my computer and it gave me the same error message. Just so you know, that means NOTHING on my computer was working because my desktop wouldn't load and when I tried to use Task Manager to load any programs, Task Manager would error as well. So I just gave up, read Beowulf, and went to sleep. This morning it was doing the same thing and so I was on the phone with my dad for an hour and a half as we tried to figure out what the problem was. Turns out, something happened to a lot of my .dll files and they were corrupted (I later found out that about 25 of them weren't working). But it would keep giving me the same error message no matter how I logged in (safe mode, administrator, etc). Finally, I did a system restore back to September 8th (the one to October 4th didn't work) and my computer loaded and I had never been so happy to see Jezebel and Zakariah in my life (they were my wallpaper back then before I changed it to Spicy Diamond Rayborn).
Anyways, ran this program that was a Registry Cleaner and fixed some 2300+ errors and it should be fine now. But I'm going to go buy some CDs and DVDs today and backup all of my files just in case. I was going to cry if my computer didn't load. In fact, the conversation went something like this:
Dad: The dll files are all ones that work with the core of your computer. It's the core that's messed up.
Me: Well fuck.
Dad: Ohmy.
But right now is shower time, then I will do my phisophy homework, then I will go buy the DVDs and CDs (I have to make an extra copy of gintama for Natalie~♥ and I should ask Cara if she ever downloaded the KISS album from L'arc because it was supposed to be a christmas present but I never had CDs xD;;) And while that burns, I read Richard II! After that... find the topic for my French composition and start working on a rough draft for that because it's due on Tuesday. I'm going to try asking Ashley again if she wants to go see The Fall at the theater on Monday. It looked good and is only $4. I'll have to text her since she didn't see my facebook message xD;;;
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[12 Oct 2008|01:32pm] |
This is pissing me off.
I recieved a week ban from customers_suck because in my post, I implied that some of these horrific teenagers that were present for a fundraiser may or may not have had coupons attached to their bill. It actually is management's practice that, if these kids leave less than 10% for good service (one table left $4 and change on a $100 tab) then they won't put the coupon on for their dough raiser. If they're not going to treat the staff with respect, management feels it is not right for these entitled brat children to benefit.
So I posted, the mod said "ZORRO" and gave me a one week ban. However, it has been more than a week now. I want to comment again. And I'm pissed because she didn't even give me a chance to explain it. I am not a person who gets back at tables. I didn't take any coupons off of mine. I merely stated that some of the other servers may have, and that they should behave better and appreciate the chaos they throw the restaurant into the next time they come in, because when they treat people like shit there is a chance for reciprocation.
I'm getting to the point where I'm considering logging in under my other journal, my old icon one ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) umbyicons and posting a comment saying "hey, its been over a week, wtf."
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| Random post |
[11 Oct 2008|06:52pm] |
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JUNJOU ROMANTICA SEASON 2 EPISODE 1. SO CUTE. HEEEEEE!!!!!
OPENING. SHINOBU YOU'RE SO CUTE~~~~♥
Someone had Junjou Mistake up for download ;A; but she changed the password each time. I'll go see if she changed it recently because someone asked AND I WANT JUNJOU MISTAKE. They have pictures in the artbook!
But anyways, someone had up Romantica ch 18 (FINALLY omg 3 years later!!) and ch 19 but I had to reload the page orz it's not working that well haha Mizuki is a butt, and Misaki's nephew is the cutest thing. ANYWAYS. On a Junjou high. SO CUTE ILU JUNJOUUUUUUU
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