9.29.2005

DDR

My DDR game came in today! Dance Dance Extreme 2 for the Ps2. I am quite stoked about it! I bought the game pad last week and have been waiting for the game to come in. It has over 70 songs in the song list! It was just released on the 27th but I pre-ordered a copy so I'd have it 'cuz that's how much of a DDR dork I am. LOL

Song List:
1998
ABSOLUTE Cuff-N-Stuff it Mix
AFRONOVA (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX)
AFRONOVA PRIMEVAL
air
BE LOVIN
BRILLIANT 2U
BRILLIANT 2U K.O.G G3 MIX
BURNIN' THE FLOOR
BURNIN' THE FLOOR BLUE FIRE mix
Can Be Real
CANDY?
Colors(for EXTREME)
DAIKENKAI
DIVE
DYNAMITE RAVE
DYNAMITE RAVE (B4 ZA BEAT MIX)
Happy Wedding
Heaven Is a '57 metallic gray (gimmix)
I Need You (Insideout Door Mix)
INFINITE PRAYER
INJECTION OF LOVE (HINA MIX)
INSERTiON (Machine Gun Kelly Mix)
INSIDE YOUR HEART
KEEP ON MOVIN' DMX Mix
L'amour et la liberté
La Bamba
Look To The Sky True Color Mix
Look To The Sky (Trance Mix)
LOVE IS ORANGEMake A Difference
MARIA (I Believe...)
Miracle Moon ~L.E.D.LIGHT STYLE MIX~
PARANOiA
PARANOiA survivor
PARANOiA survivor MAX
PASSION OF LOVE
Polovtsian Dances and Chorus
Quickening
SAKURA
Sana Mollete Ne Ente B.L.T.style
Saturday Night Love
SEDUCTION
SEXY PLANET
SEXY PLANET (from NONSTOP MEGAMIX)
SWEET SWEET ? MAGIC
sync (EXTREME version)
TOMORROW
TwinBee ~Generation X~
un deux trois

Hamsters Part 3

So today I had to purchase another hamster cage, that makes 3 in total! I had the one I had originally purchased which was a Gigi starter cage from Petcetera that came with food dish, wheel, water bottle and elevated house with ladder. I also, upon getting my two new hamsters purchased food, snacks, hamster bedding fluff, mineral stone and hamster ball (the kind you can let the hamster roam the apartment in.)
This one cage sufficed well enough for one hamster back a year ago when I had only one. It seems though that it wasn't really big enough for two hamsters as they were often getting in each others space and fighting (well I thought it was fighting, in light of KusKus though I'm thinking it may have been something else...) So when my roommate's mom took us to Wal-Mart on the 5th of September I bought a second cage. A Habitrail Playground cage that came with turn-table, food dish, water bottle, and "exploration station." (basically a little tunnel with a clear plastic, lidded area attached to the cage.) In addition I purchased Habitrail Playground tubing and built a walk-way from the old cage to the new so that they had twice the area to play in.
The other day KusKus, being the wiley little "toddler" that he is managed to get out of the opening in the cage that the access tube went into from the Playground cage to the Gigi cage. Neither my roommate nor I saw how this was accomplished but as best as we can surmise she would have had to have climbed upside down to get to the opening. We found her (thankfully) behind the couch and at that point I took out the tubing and shut up both cages securely. In doing so I also separated Gerbil from Mouse & KusKus as I really do want to clean out the cage and am unable to until Mouse stops having litters.
The cage I bought today is pretty cool, it looks like it's from outer space. It's a CritterTrail X It has a slide and a really innovative hamster wheel on a track, a drip-system water bottle, a food dish and an observation deck that doubles as a mini cage for during cleaning time. It is supposed to be compatible with Habitrail tube systems but upon closer inspection this doesn't actually seem to be the case as Habitrail tubes are too big to fit onto the cage in the manner they are supposed to. C'est la Vive I suppose. So now I have all three cages set up with for hamsters with shavings, bedding, water & food. I still need to purchase some more mineral stones so they each can have one but other than that I am pretty set to endure the worst of the litters. LOL

9.28.2005

9.27.2005

iCoke Points

The Coca Cola corporation for awhile now has been offering iCoke points on many of it's products via codes you enter onto the website to redeem for prizes or entries into draws. It used to be that a bottle of coke would get you 250 iCoke points but recently all the codes in the bottles have been redeeming 500 iCoke points instead which is great as it takes only 1500 iCoke points to redeem for a free ringtone for my cellphone (which is a good deal as ringtones cost $2.10 from Rogers.) So I, ordinarily, am a Pepsi person but recently I had switched to Coke simply for the iCoke points, I mean the product itself costs the same as Pepsi and is comparable in taste and caffeine content, although Pepsi has a slightly less acidic after taste.
Anyways I purchased a diet coke with lime today and it did not have any iCoke points. I actually thought this odd so I went back to the cafeteria and inspected all their Coca Cola products and none of them had iCoke points anymore. This seems odd, Coca Cola has been running this promotion for about 2 years now, I don't know why they would suddenly stop! Also why they wouldn't put iCoke points on all their products is beyond me, I thought they wanted people to try the new flavours so they would sell and it would seem putting iCoke points on them would be a good way to do this.

Appropriate Timing

The other night, Saturday to be exact, I was out at Essie's with my roommate. We had a few drinks. (Well truth be told perhaps more than a few drinks) As the night wore on I decided to go seek the company of others, other than my roommate that is. So I began circulating the bar, drink in hand. At some point my drink left my hand as I finished a second mini-pitcher of rum and diet coke. (Even in a drunken stupour I've given up un-diet pop, which always amuses me in retrospect.) I wandered back to the table where my roommate sat dutifully guarding my jacket and purse. I procured some money for more beverages and meandered back to the bar.
On the way there I met a rancher, a nice older man who offered to buy me a drink, I of course accepted and we talked while they prepared my drink. He then handed me my drink and left to find his friends saying he'd find me for a dance when they were playing country again. (The current tune was closer to Gwen Stefani than Kenny Chesney) I wandered back to my roommate taking him the drink I had procured for him after speaking with the charming rancher. At this point I realized the evening was winding down (it being half hour to last call) I began wandering again looking for a cowboy to dance with. I figured a night at Essie's would be wasted without dancing with at least one cowboy.
I came upon a guy, who was off to one side aways. I began speaking with him and hit up a conversation, he declined a dance, which was probably better as I was a fair bit too tipsy to keep my balance, let alone two-step. We talked until the bar closed and upon closing he asked for my number. Now I have only given out my number on a very few rare occasions, it is not something I normally do, or something my mother advises on. Also as my best friend Kar says, "You will never meet the man you're going to marry in a bar" so I thought it had been fun talking to him and as he lived out of town I figured it was safe enough. So I gave him my number and left with my roommate. (Which is another miracle as I am sure the guy asked me to leave with him.)
Which brings me to today, Tuesday, 3 days after going to the bar, with no phone call. I of course did not expect this guy to call me back, they never do anyways, it's more of a social etiquette thing to give one's number, the other party to promise to call and both leave acknowledging that your paths will probably never cross again. When I arrived home tonight there was a phone message on my cell phone (which I had turned off while in class.) It was from the guy at the bar! I couldn't believe it! He'd even waited the appropriate 3 days (so as not to seem desperate but also not to seem un-interested.) So now I come to a dilemma, do I call back a guy I met at the bar while drunk? And if so do I also wait an appropriate 3 days or does that bit of social etiquette only apply to the first call? Well I suppose I will have to decide by Friday at any rate. What a funny situation I've found myself in. LOL

9.26.2005

The Dairy Queen Sign

I live in an apartment in Lethbridge that overlooks a Dairy Queen. From my window I can clearly see the Dairy Queen sign, logo on and all staring at me. Day and night it stares at me, it seems to say "buy some ice cream, you know you want to." The sad part is I know I want to, and the longer I stare at the bloody sign the more I crave the ice cream, somedays a banana split, others a blizzard, sometimes just a junior dipped cone and still others a moolatte. Oh how the sign mocks me and taunts me until I, being the ice-cream obsessed individual that I am, get up and go to the Dairy Queen and make my purchase. Upon arriving home I look again out the window, cup in hand and the sign seems to smile at me as if to congratulate me on giving into it's spendthrift ways. I enjoy the ice cream, I won't lie to you, it always tastes delicious, always satisfying and for awhile after finishing it I can ignore the sign, but I know I will chance a glance out my window again at some later time and the cravings will begin again, the sign will begin it's mocking and I will be forced to succumb to the logo yet again.

Song of the Week

"Lonely no More" - Rob Thomas

9.24.2005

Hamsters Part 2

So evidently Gerbil & Mouse (the hamsters) need to be separated! Today is KusKus's 2 week birthday and as a way of celebrating I was all prepared to clean out the cage, when low and behold Mouse has 2 more babies!! They are also very small and very ugly and very pink. LOL I read on the internet that a mamma hamster will sometimes kill her young so that she only has as many as she can take care of, I'm not sure how Mouse will react to her young so I am going to hold off on naming them as it would be tragic to name them and then have them die. I am also not sure how well KusKus is going to adjust to his new siblings and nestmates.

9.22.2005

Pickle Barrel People

In the olden days, back in the "wild west" before there were modern conveniences like motor cars, aeroplanes, electricity and indoor plumbing, back in the days of the Pony Express and wooden sidewalks, when it took months to cross America and the stagecoach or the covered wagon were the only ways to do so, back when there was no internet, no TV and no PS2, back then there were pickle barrel people. Namely the old men who sat in the General store (the one that sold a little of everything and not too much or more than one brand of anything) at the very back, or very front, pulled up on stools overlooking a chess board perched atop a big barrel of pickles, or pickled pork, or pickled beets, or pickled venison, or pickled whatever else one felt compelled to pickle. These old timers who were too old to work the land and too young to succumb to it. Back when women did the housework and once past your prime the only acceptable pastime was sitting at a pickle barrel in the general store playing checkers, or dice or cards or even (for the more sophisticated) chess.
I know that you are thinking it a shame that there had to be an end to pickle barrel people, but fear not for I have discovered the haunts of the modern day pickle barrel people and shall divulge them here:
The modern day pickle barrel people can be found at small coffee shops, the kind with small patio tables outside sitting talking with other old men, or in co-of cafeterias with other farmers, or in farm implement stores (some of which still have barrels, although they be not filled with pickles) talking with old friends. It would seem that the pickle barrel people have merely evolved into a new breed of men, the coffee shop people, not to be confused with the coffee shop junkies (who of course make up a completely different clientele.) These coffee shop people are the ones who go for the cheapest thing on the menu (namely the senior's discount small, black coffee) and milk it for the longest, making one small cup of coffee last the better part of the day. The people who leave home and there not-so-dependent wives to go for "a coffee" with the boys and come home hours later.
Yes the coffee people, modern day pickle barrel people, what would society be without you?

Muffins: an aside

On a completely sad and earth-shatteringly shocking note I have found a muffin I enjoy (I know it's hard for me to believe too.) They are carrot creme muffins as sold at Esquires coffee. They are sinfully decadent, imagine if you will a rather large muffin, devoid of the gooey middle and instead filled with whipped cream cheese that is inserted into the muffin via syringe, filling the center with wonderful "carrot creme". It's just like eating a piece of mouth-watering carrot cake. I still stand firm in the belief that one should eat cake over a muffin do to the wastefulness of the calories and carbs in a muffin, but in the case of the creme muffins it's almost the same as eating the cake. LOL

9.21.2005

Hitch

So the movie "Hitch" with Will Smith in it is awesome, my roomie rented it tonight and I was reminded yet again how much I enjoy it. Here's one of the best quotes from the movie, it's actually the opening narration but it's really good:

"Basic Principles - no woman wakes up saying "God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today!" Now, she might say "This is a really bad time for me," or something like "I just need some space," or my personal favorite "I'm really into my career right now." You believe that? Neither does she. You know why? 'Cause she's lying to you, that's why. You understand me? Lying! It's not a bad time for her. She doesn't need any space. And she may be into her career, but what she's really saying is "Uh, get away from me now," or possibly "Try harder, stupid," but which one is it? 60% of all human communication is nonverbal, body language; 30% is your tone, so that means 90% of what you're saying ain't coming out of your mouth. Of course she's going to lie to you! She's a nice person! She doesn't want to hurt your feelings! What else she going to say? She doesn't even know you... yet. Luckily, the fact is that just like the rest of us, even a beautiful woman doesn't know what she wants until she sees it, and that's where I come in. My job is to open her eyes. Basic Principles - no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet; he just needs the right broom."

9.20.2005

Theory & Aesthetics

And thus I found myself in the den of the dorks, otherwise known as "Theory & aesthetics of Video Games" an elective that I, unwittingly, chose to partake of this semester. In a class of around 30 persons. Of the 30 persons registered 3 are girls, myself, a girl who seems to only be in the class because her boyfriend is taking it and a 3rd girl who was not in attendance tonight.
As I walked into the room and took my customary seat near the front, so as to actually see the board somewhat, I glanced around me. Most of the boys in the class are just that, boys, little more than 18 years old, many of which still with acne, baseball caps and cartoon characters adorning their dirty T-shirts. Some of the others, who are not at first glance boys, are dressed in a fashion reminiscent of the nerd, dress pants, long sleeved dress shirts, immaculately combed hair and glasses. The remainder are obviously there on a whim in an attempt to pull up their GPA's these are the slackers, the ones who wear baggy clothes, look as though they just rolled out of bed even though the class is at 6pm, and don't take notes, participate and I'm sure are only their for the gameplay. If I were to wager a guess I'd say less than half of these guys have ever had a girlfriend, let alone kissed a girl.
I figured I'd give them the benefit of the doubt though, and as I pulled out my notebook to take lecture notes I began listening in on the conversations around me, to get a feel for what type of people these actually were. The topics of conversation included video games (understandable due to the nature of the class), D&D (again not so far off the mark, although at this point I was beginning to think my suspicions were confirmed), skateboards (slightly cooler than dorks, but still pre-pubescent), blogs (yes, yes I have one too, but mine is not on technical manuals and hacker codes!), message boards (those frequented appear to include sci-fi, RPG, video games, hacking, modding, pirating and the like), and then a lively debate regarding Mac or PC occurred followed by a discussion on Linux as an operating system and the benefits of hacking... Rudimentary hacking I might add. At which point I realized I had in fact enrolled myself in the dorkiest of all the classes at the University. I honestly believe I would be hard pressed to find a class with more nerds per capita.
I suppose I must clarify a bit though, only about half were nerds, some also fell into the category of dorks, dweebs, geeks and hackers.
On a only slightly related note my suspicions about the never been with a girl, were confirmed when we went to the gameplay portion of the class. (Yes for every 2 hour lecture we get an hour of hands-on gameplay on that which we discussed in lecture.) As I waited patiently for my turn on a console more than one of these guys gladly and willingly gave up their controllers for me to have a turn and then stood as close to me as possible as I played. One even smelled my hair and said it smelled nice, which is by no means a bad thing, but the approach was rather.... um.... creepy!
For all my griping though the class doesn't seem horrible, I'm sure I will enjoy myself and learn a lot, at least I'm going to hope so.... I guess we'll find out next week when I return to the Den of the Dorks.... LOL

9.19.2005

AutoCAD: friend or foe?

This semester I decided to take a course in drafting with AutoCAD for the stage. Today we had class 3 or perhaps 4 of the semester. It was the 2nd class we were really getting into and using the program to draft things. We are currently drafting very basic orthographic drawings (front, side, top views of stuff.) The first one was super easy and I was so proud of myself because I finished it before the end of last class. I entered the class room all proud of myself and ready to jump headfirrst into the program again today.
The problem was that once I dove in, I hit my head. Or as best as I can surmise it, I basically forgot everything we'd learned last night. My lines kept coming out diagonally, tools kept having stupid rules or line errors or keystroke errors and I couldn't get anything to work. The create new wizard has abandoned me and still has not re-surfaced as did the save option. Although with some tinkering I made that one re-appear so the work I put in today was not in vain. I did finish the assignment about 20 min after class ended and after everyone had left the room, I e-mailed it to the Prof so now all I can do is wait to see if I did it right. Alas I fear I did not, but only time will tell.
So thus far my feelings on AutoCAD are very mixed. I see the merit of the program, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it may have been created by a MAC user, based solely upon the lack of regard for regular mouse click ,drag and roll options! And you all know how I feel about all things MAC!!

Song of the Week

"She Thinks my Tractor's Sexy" - Kenny Chesney

9.18.2005

Muffins

I have decided that I really dislike muffins. I mean I haven't just decided this, it is an ongoing pet peeve of mine, muffins are. I know you are wondering how I can dislike an inanimate object like muffins so much, but it's true, I do!
I dislike the texture of muffins, muffins are often made huge so you get "the biggest bang for your buck" meaning that they will use huge muffin tins to bake them and often ice cream scoops to scoop them into these huge trays leaving the consumer with these gigantic monstrosities known as muffins! This in and of itself is not a huge deal except that because they are SO big they rarely get cooked all the way through so the middle is gooey, not moist and yummy, but raw and gooey. Or else the middle is cooked and this is only achieved by charring the outside of the muffin so that it is either burnt looking/tasting a mixture of the two or rubbery and thick making the inside seem gooey even when it is not in comparison with the rest of the muffin.
Another drawback to muffins is the amount of fat in a muffin. Even low fat muffins are fattening, simply because all they are is carbs!! The trays they are made in are first "painted" with a layer of grease to ensure they pop out easily and the contents of the muffins themselves is mainly flour and sugar in abundance. I mean honestly if I wanted to eat that many empty calories I would simply eat a piece of cake, but people think "because it's a muffin and not cake it must be healthy for me." It's not!
In fact my deep-rooted hatred of muffins is so defined that I have determined it is the one factor that will determine the perfect man for me. He will be a fellow-muffin-hater. LOL

9.17.2005

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes I slip into my own little world...but, that's okay...they know me there."

9.16.2005

Uses for the Internet Part 1

So today I purchased a pizza via the internet. Pizza 73 offers online shopping for pizza, you simply place your order over the website, hit the submit button and it prints you out a confirmation and then in 20-40 minutes a pizza guy shows up at your door with a wireless debit machine, and delivers you pizza. It's absolutely amazing really. I wonder what they'll come up with next.

Rant of the Day

So I couldn't sleep and at 2 in the morning it seemed perfectly reasonable to transcribe Stewie quotes from the Family Guy season 4. LOL So here's the best of them, it's not perfect 'cuz I have no idea what he's saying, it's hard to understand some of his words when he's screaming and pissed off... but it's still a good rant so I'm posting it as is:

"Girlfriend? Oh what kind of sick twisted game are you playing at? HA! I got your hat! Take that, hatless! Now go back to the quad and resume your hackey-sack tourney! I'm not going to lie down for some frat boy bastard with his damn Teva sandals and his Skoal Bandits and his Abercrombie and Fitch long-sleeve, open stitched, crew-neck henley smoking his sticky buds out of a soda can while watching his favourite downloaded Simpson episodes every night! Yes, we all love Mr. Plow - oh, you've got the song memorized, do you? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE! That is exactly the kind of idiot you see at Taco Bell at one in the morning - the guy who just whiffed his way down the bar-skank ladder. If he wants to throw hands, I'll throw hands!" - Stewie Griffin "8 Simple Ways to Sell my Daughter"

9.15.2005

Quote of the Day

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

9.14.2005

Time Off: The Hard Way

Been awhile since I posted, I managed to get myself stuck in a hectic-busy-crazy life schedule for the past couple weeks, what with school starting, still doing training for work, working the table for Improv club, making posters & flyers for Improv and going out partying way too much. LOL, pretty fun though.
And on the upside in the midst of partying I gave a cute cowboy my number, LOL, not that's he's called, but the point is I gave it to him.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) as I choose to look at it I got a day off. I hurt my eye last week, still not sure how, and I finally gave in and went to the hospital yesterday morning after I couldn't see well enough to put on my glasses. I was there over 2 1/2 hours and they determined I probably needed steroid drops so they gave me some and made ma an appointment with an opthomologist, which I went to this morning. The opthomologist says I have an iritis (http://www.iritis.org) and that my iris (the blue part) is inflamed and sticking to my eyeball causing stress & discomfort. He gave me drops to dilate my pupils and then corticosteroid ones to take down the swelling. I've been on them for about 12 hours at this point and I still can't put on my glasses or see properly, in fact now it's kind of fuzzy as well as sore. Thanks goodness I have Zoomtext on my computer or I couldn't even be typing. So I really hope these drops start working by tomorrow as I am in transition week at work and the first week of classes at school and I really can't afford to miss another day of either.
Oh and the other fun part, I'm supposed to take the corticosteroid drops every hour which means I get little sleep tonight and on top of that the school's drug plan is in a "blackout" period so I had to put up the $50 for the drops out of my own pocket, but they will most likely reimburse me in October, so that's something.
While I was at home today I made a website for the Improv Club at the University, it's pretty neato, check it out:
http://people.uleth.ca/~amberjoy.boyd

9.12.2005

Coffee Rants

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!" - Joe from "You've Got Mail"

"Oh I see what they’re doing! They call “small” “tall” because it makes the customer feel good when they pay $3 for a urine sample sized cup of coffee swill! This way it seems like they are getting more because the word “tall” is stuck into their psyche. I see their psychological marketing trickery! You tricky bastards that’s what you all are!" - Foamy the Squirrel

"And Vien-tee isn’t even a word! It’s some f***ing “hoighty toighty phrase used to make people feel more sophisticated when ordering a large coffee so when they part with the $5 for the coffee they don’t feel like a f***ing moron. " - Foamy the Squirrel

Song of the Week

"Lady" - Styx

9.11.2005

Sushi

Sushi, well more specifically sashimi is just about the most perfect food in the world. It's so texturally wonderful. I love how when you put it in your mouth and push down it squishes. It's such a fun food to eat. In fact the whole sushi experience is fun. You get to use chopsticks, which is definitely cool as if you use them outside the context of sushi or Chinese food people look at you funny (believe me, I use them for everything, try eating salad with chopsticks and see how people look at you.) When you are eating sushi though it is only socially acceptable to use chopsticks so if you can't you are in the minority not like the rest of the time when forks are the norm. (I think forks are horribly overrated)
The other wonderful thing about the sushi experience is the pickled ginger, which next to dill pickles is my favourite pickled food, and wasabi, which is just about the best spicy food around. I love the way wasabi hurts in the nose, not the throat, when you eat a big glob of it.
The best part about sushi though is the variety and the general healthiness of the food.
All in all I think sushi is winning as my favourite eating experience.

9.10.2005

Hamsters

I have two hamsters which I acquired less than a month ago from the pet store. They are both very cute. Their names are Mouse & Gerbil. They live in a cage that I bought over a year ago for a previous hamster I had who had an untimely end when Celeste (my ex's cat) scared him to death at Christmas. I decided as I am no longer with my ex and as I am not able to have a cat in my apartment that I would try again with hamsters. They are both dwarf hamsters and fit into the palm of my hand. They are beige with dark stripes running down their backs.
I didn't know the sex of my hamsters until today when Mouse (who is the larger of the two, and apparently a girl) had a baby! It was the tiniest, pinkest, ugliest little thing ever! I named it KusKus. My roommate read up on the web and evidently we are not to touch the baby or the "nest" (i.e. clean the cage) for two weeks, which is a shame as I was intending to clean it tomorrow as it has only been cleaned once since I got them.
So evidently Gerbil is a boy, and not just for obvious reasons, we looked it up on the net. LOL

9.03.2005

Journally

So we did simulations of tech calls at work today. It was pretty good, kinda stressful. I hate how frazzled I get under pressure. I was reminded, yet again, why I'm a tech major and not a drama major in Theatre arts. LOL
Oh and super-dee-duper news on the subject of school. I got into the Tuesday night course I wanted, "Theory & aesthetics of Video Games." You seriously study the theory of video games and one hour of every three hour class is spent playing games! Suggested materials for the course include memory cards for PS2 and Gamecube. I'm so stoked! I didn't think I'd get in because it was reserved for New Media and then it was full and then this morning I tried again on a lark and I got in! YAY Me!! Well more specifically YAY God!!!
With the addition of that one I'm currently enrolled in like 5 courses but I have to drop 2, I just can't decide exactly what to take. I have Playwriting, and the pre-req to Playwriting (LOL) and Designing with Autocad for the stage. I also put myself in logic and Anthro 1000 and I tried to get into Japanese 101 but it wouldn't let me, oh well. Funny part is I don't even need courses to get my degree, I've already done my pre-req to convocate classes. So this semester is all about the fun.
If I enjoy work at Convergys I may go full-time come January and try to get a job as a T.L. or as Floor Support, both seem quite decent but they don't even really consider you 'til you've been at the company 6 months.... So come January if I go full time I may have a shot sometime in the spring. That's be cool, although then I may be limiting myself to Lethbridge, still don't know why God keeps calling me back here.... But I'm sure in His time and not mine He'll show me.... I hate lessons in patience. LOL
Well anyways I'm off to make cookies, going to Waterton tomorrow with peeps from worky and I promised I'd bring dessert or desert (whichever doesn't involve sand LOL)!

9.02.2005

Sleepy!

2:30 - Workin' on burnin' a CD, just finished blanching some corn (LOL, how very Huderite of me) K-Lite going pretty good, being a bit slow though :( Oh well I guess that'll happen when d/ling over 200 songs.. :P Talked with Boo, she had a good birthday. Wish I coulda been there with her... but she understands.

3:00 - Sleep lookin' pretty good... guessin' perhaps 5ish I'll get to bed.... Gotta finish burning CD and I think K-Lite & Nero have joined forces against me....

3:15 - Listening to music.... so many dirty lyrics is songs from work peeps, naughty people!!! LOL, Boo suggested music too, probably no time until tomorrow.

3:30 - CdeX has joined forces with K-Lite & Nero to thwart my efforts!

3:40 - K-Lite has left the battle, I am victorious.... Playing "Guess the Dictator or Television Sit-Com Character" http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html stating to get a bit obsessive.... Thwarted them with Gimpy from Undergrads & Nicki from 6teen, almost had them on Fred Flinstone but 4 others guessed likewise and 17 others on the Jetsons. Boo thwarted them on Zoey from Zoey 101. They guessed Lizzy McGuire though, go figure... and Richard from Caroline in the City has been guessed a bunch.

4:00 - Hoping to be asleep by 5.... Maybe.... darn Nero. Install #3 here I come!

4:10 - K-Lite decided round two was in order, now slowing down Guess the Dictator... too slow to function... thining of coffee....

4:15 - Realized I hate coffee.... thinking of tea.....

4:16 - Realizing tea = no sleep.... hmmm.... re-thinking caffeine altogether

4:30 - Settling for dill pickles

4:45 - School server is down.... Pinged it and Tracerouted it and nothing. LOL, not necessary but very proud of myself that I can do those things... considered renewing my IP 'cuz I can and realizing that would probably make K-Lite hate me anymore, thinking better of it.

5:00 - Sleep nowhere in site. Nero finally installed, no music d/ling at 128 X 44.... stupid encryption!!!

5:30 - Sun's up now, kinda sad... I don't like when the sun gets up before I sleep, doesn't seem right.... Cleaned up kitchen, re-inflated inflatable couch, gotta remember to look for that leak when I'm coherent... cleaned up my room, considered cleaning cupboards, realized too tired to stand on chair without falling off again... re-wrote grocery list ('cuz I could) Filled out msn profile, Where are you Now profile, Classmates profile.... Thinking I'm on too many websites.

5:40 - Hi5, Bebo, WAYN, Classmates, BirthdayAlarm, MSN, Geocities, Piczo, Livejournal, Ringo, Reunion & Blogger, too many profile managers!!

5:50 - Almost done, thwarting CdeX by putting all files into it! Finally got Nero to install.

6:00 - Putting on pyjamas.... almost bedtime!!!

6:15 - Nero failed, GRRRRRRRRR.... one more time!

6:30 - Burning, burning, burning.... I don't care anymore I'm going to bed I'll check on it when I get up at 10:00am.

Goodnight!

9.01.2005

September

I remember learning this poem in grade one:

In September for a while, I will ride a crocodile
Down the chicken soupy Nile.
Paddle once, paddle twice, paddle chicken soup with rice

LOL,
Just so you don't think I'm too crazy here's the linky to more Chicken Soup poems! We learned them every month in grade one.
Chicken Soup