Take It Easy On Me

I've been wanting to update this thing for about a week now. Shows how busy/tired I've been lately. My computer has also been giving me the worst trouble. Either last Thursday or Friday I did a virus scan and had it do its thing on all the problems it found. Well...a few hours that I click on Hotmail to login and check my email. For some reason the page won't load. I try a few other sites and some load while others don't. Turns out if the page requires a login then it won't load at all, but if not everything's fine.


This became extremely frustrating very easily. I have no idea how many pages I went through on Google trying to find a solution. I tried so many different things and half of them I had no idea what they were doing to my system. Finally I decided to try a system restore even though I have never been able to get it to work before. Amazingly, it does.


My computer starts back up and I can login to my email again! Hooray! Well...not quite yet. After about five minutes it starts doing the same thing as before. I am so far past frustrated at that point. I undid the system restore and then tried it again. This time I went back two weeks just to make sure. Now everything works fine.


 For some reason though my iTunes became uninstalled during all the craziness, but a quick reinstall and it was fine. If that's the price I have to pay for it working normally again, then so be it.


Speaking of computers though, I just put a new laptop on layaway at Best Buy. I can't even remember what kind it is, but I do know that the graphics card on it is kick ass and that's all I care about at the moment. It also has really good memory for a laptop, so I should be all set for quite a while. I've needed an upgrade for so long now that a decent computer might startle me.


And I'm going to use Best Buy to move into the next story of something that happened a few weeks ago. I believe it was after my second shift there. I had just clocked out and had all my stuff together and was just waiting to get it checked up by the AP. All of a sudden I heard my name being shouted. It was my best friend from high school whom I hadn't seen since the middle of 2009. I was in such shock that I just stood there and stared at her.


Turns out she moved a little bit closer to me, so now she was only an hour away. So this past weekend on Saturday I drove up there and spent the night. There isn't much to do right where she lives, so we drove about 20 minutes away to a huge mall. It had escalators, so it was well worth it in my opinion. Of course I didn't end up buying anything even though I saw about 349583495 things I wanted. I'm just really cheap like that. The next day we went to several thrift stores where I bought a bunch of books and SCOOBY DOO Monopoly. I seriously flipped out over the monopoly game. It's just too cool. I'll have to update this with a picture of it later.


Also, speaking of thrift stores...my grandma and I also went to Goodwill today where I found this awesome little jewelry box/chest thingy. It had just been put out there today and I had to have it since it looks so cool. Here's a (crappy) picture of it I just took a minute ago:





Since I'm dealing with pictures at the moment...I have a few that I took of the first snow of the season. I woke up one morning and looked out the window and was instantly pissed by what I saw. I'm not a fan of the cold, at all, so snow is not my friend whatsoever. Here they are:









This one is right out of the side doors of the college I go too. It was after class and the snow was STILL on the ground. According to the news it wasn't going to stick. Yeah right. At least it was just a dusting.


A lot of stuff has happened these past few weeks and with my terrible memory there is no way I can even begin to recollect everything that's occurred. Maybe it's a sign that I should update more often? Who knows. ANYway, if I remember random things that I originally wanted to include in this post, then I probably will edit it. Speaking of which, I just remembered something I need to talk about still: Calculus.


Oh, that lovely subject. Which I'm surprisingly not doing too bad in at the moment. We took the Chapter 4 test a little while ago and my brain completely froze. I thought I was adequately prepared, but about a fourth of the way through I just couldn't think anymore. It was the strangest thing and I've never had it happen that badly before. So naturally I started to write a story.


One of the problems talked about a guy in a boat and the path he'd have to row and run on land to get to a town the quickest. My answer was something about how it was irrelevant since Cthulhu took him to Bacon Town instead. Of course writing about bacon distracted me, so then there was no getting my focus back on Calculus. I ended up getting a 74 on it.


We've turned in two quizzes since then. Well...I have...the one quiz isn't due until after break, but I did it all and turned it in on Monday. There's no way I'm doing homework over this mini-break. But anyway, he showed us what our current grade is. I have an 84.9%, so that puts me at a B. To take Calculus II next semester you need at least a C, so I'm at an alright spot right now. I just can't bomb anymore tests like I did before.


I actually have a few swaps that I've received from Swap~bot to put on here. There's one that I really love that I'd like to show, but I can't find it for some reason. I'll have to update the post later when I can look for it better.



This one I received for the Totoro ATC Swap.



And this one's from the Harry Potter Coloring Swap.


I actually saw the midnight showing of the newest Harry Potter movie. I bought my tickets at the beginning of November and several days before it came out I realized that I didn't remember where my ticket was. I recently switched wallets, so I started panicking since I should have seen it then. Turns out it was in between a folded receipt in my old wallet. Good think I found it or else I would have taken a family members ticket.


The movie ended up being pretty good. the beginning was a little boring, but it got into the main part pretty quickly. Overall it was definitely better than the last one. I have read all the books, but I read them so long ago that I don't remember every little thing. It's nice though since it allows me to still be surprised by some of the things that happen in the movie. Near the end it even made me shed a few tears.


I think I'm going to wrap it up here. I still haven't quite jumped back into Postcrossing yet, so I'll update with those pictures when I've accumulated a few more. Not sure how my Holidays are going to go, but to everyone who celebrates it...


HAPPY THANKSGIVING

It's November? Really?

Which means everything is now going to be about Thanksgiving. This year really has gone by extremely fast. Merely two months left and we'll be celebrating the New Year. I am determined to do something fun for New Years. One of these times I'll make it to New York City to celebrate. 

It's also almost November 5th, so the V for Vendetta references are probably going to increase. When I was in high school there was always one guy who would dress up as V on the 5th. I just watched the movie on October 30th, so my contribution is complete.

The cold weather is also forcing its way in. The news is talking some snow flakes this weekend, but luckily nothing is supposed to stick. I am never ready for Winter. I don't like the season at all. My house turns into an igloo during Winter since it's about the same temperature inside as it is outside. Terrible.

As far as postcards though, I only have two that I haven't posted on here yet. I stopped sending on Postcrossing so that I could save what little money I have. Now that I'm going to be working, I'll be able to start sending (and thus receiving) out some postcards again. These are both from Postcrossing:

From Finland

From Russia. This is definitely my favorite card so far. It's a lot prettier in person obviously. Where ever there is silver, it's actually sparkly. 

So far I've had two out of the three Best Buy orientations. The one I had on Monday only lasted two hours, when it was scheduled to last four, but I'm in no way complaining. I was surprised with a phone call today from Best Buy though. I'll be working this Sunday from 10 A.M. - 3 P.M. and next Wednesday from 1 P.M. - 5 P.M. There's also a mandatory meeting this Saturday at 7:30 in the morning, so unfortunately there's no sleeping in for me this weekend. 

As far as Calculus goes, this chapter is so much better to comprehend than chapter 3. I got the first Chapter 4 quiz back today and my score was 22/25 due to some stupid mistakes I made. We turned in the second Chapter 4 quiz today and after going over the quiz key, it looks like I'll be getting 100% on it. I really need to keep a decent grade in that class, so those two quizzes will help me a bit. Since we're done with the chapter now, it's time to get ready for the test. Oh fun. 

I was looking at a swap description yesterday and this site was listed in it: http://oneword.com/. I checked it out, and ended up creating an account there. Basically you are given a word and a box to type in. You have sixty seconds to type whatever you want. The word shown is the prompt you write from. Each day there's a new word, but I'm unsure of the time they change words. Creating an account allows you to keep track of what you've written. It seems very interesting, and it's a very quick thing to do. 

Not much is going to be happening. My posts are probably going to be even more focused on school and work related things since that'll be about all I'll be doing. I'm definitely glad that I'll finally be able to build up some savings.