Well so much for updating often. I've been meaning to write up a new post everyday since the semester ended, but I've just been ridiculously tired when I get the chance to finally do this. I can say that this will most likely be another huge ass post though.
Winter break is now half way over and it's just flown by! Last week I was called in two days, so overall I worked 5 days and clocked in around twenty nine hours I believe it was. I worked Christmas Eve as well from 7a-1:30p, which was not very fun since seven was extremely early for me. I was only supposed to work until 1, but was asked to stay the extra half hour so someone could take a lunch break....I never even got my fifteen minute break.
Friday I work as well from 2:30p-7:30p and it's my last day as a seasonal employee. I seriously thought there was another week left, but turns out there isn't. When I checked my schedule on Monday there was only my half hour interview with the General Manager on it, so Friday is it. I also don't think there are any cashier positions opening up, so sadly I'll be without a job in two days. It really sucks that it's ending...I've talked with some cool people and have even kind of made a friend.
I mentioned in one of my previous posts how I exchanged cell numbers with a coworker at Best Buy...Well we met up last night and grabbed a shake at the Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts hybrid place. Which reminds me that half of my shake is still in the freezer. ANYway, he's seasonal as well so he's in jeopardy of not having a job soon too.
Speaking of endings, the semester's been over for a week and a half now. The last day of Sculpture class I took pictures of almost everyone's sculptures. We were putting the patina on them, which is like a glaze. Here they are:
This is my only completed sculpture. I know it looks like crap. I've never gotten along well with clay.
This is one of Melanie's completely finished sculptures. At least I think that's what her name is. Her's were definitely the best out of the group.
Melanie's second one.
This is Nicole's. She was in Sculpture II, so she chose to sculpt a skull. It's not finished, but it's extremely cool.
This is one of Kinsey's finished ones. She took her other one home before I took pictures.
This is one of Mija's. (I think that's how you spell her name, I believe she's from Korea) She wasn't there the last day of class, so her's is unfinished. I also forgot to take a picture of her other sculpture.
This is Terrance's. His second sculpture is better, but it was in the other room when I took the pictures real quick.
This is one of Jane's sculptures. She's older and apparently works with clay pretty regularly if I'm remembering correctly.
Jane's second one.
We had pizza and pop while we finished up our sculptures, but the next day was my Calculus test. It took me three hours to finish that thing and I thought it was alright. There were several questions that really confused me, but other than that I thought I was going to get a decent grade. Apparently I thought wrong since I ended up getting a D on the final exam. I couldn't believe it when I checked the grade. It brought my overall grade down dramatically and I ended up with a 79.something % It really pissed me off since it made me end with a C. I'll be taking Calculus II in January, so I'll have to up my concentration in that class.
Besides work and school, I have watched a few more movies. It hasn't been as much as before due to being busy and tired though. They are:
I'd prefer not to talk about how my Christmas was, but I only got a $25 gift card to Meijers of all places from my mom's side of the family. The next day I went there and bought:
I used to watch that movie five times a day when I was little. Best Buy also had Toy Story 3 and Inception on sale for $9.99 so on break I went to snatch those up, but we were out of Toy Story 3. I might have to check if there's more tomorrow.
I do have some postcards to put up, but since I'm on my NEW laptop it'll have to wait until I'm on my desktop again. I went to make a payment on this laptop last Monday and my dad offered to pay the remaining balance as a Christmas gift. Of course I agreed so I was able to take it home that day. It's absolutely amazing! I had to wait a day to really mess with it though since I downloaded World of Warcraft and that was a ridiculously huge download.
At first I had only bought the WoW Battle Chest that has the original game and first expansion, but then the second expansion was $20 off and this week Best Buy has the newest expansion, Cataclysm, on sale for $10 off, so I picked that up as well. WoW is now fully upgraded and I am loving getting back into it. I think I'll be making a second character soon, but for right now I'm playing as a Draenei Paladin and am lvl 31, which is a higher lvl than any of my characters ever got to when I played two years ago.
I do have some postcards to put up on here as well as a few other pictures I'd like to post, but I still need to go through my stuff and scan everything. I might hop on my desktop later tonight to update with those, but for now I'll keep it as is.
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
