I'm listening to music right now, so if the mood in this post jumps around a lot then just blame that. I really need to learn not to try and type when I'm tired and emotional. I'm going to keep my last post up simply because someone actually commented on it. I have no idea who you are, but once again, thank you.
I have some (crappy) pictures that I took of some of the snow that's happened over the past few days. Most of them are out of a car window so they are probably blurry. I'm actually not sure yet since I haven't put them on any computer. I'm on my desktop right now, but will be uploading them to my laptop, so I'll add some after I post this and switch over. Update - Here they are:
This is the day after the blizzard. We didn't get near as much as I thought we would.
This was on some other random snowy day the other week.
Side of the highway.
Exit off the highway.
I haven't really been watching movies lately which disappoints me. My dad has been sleeping on the couch in the living room (where I like to watch movies), so I've basically been playing WoW instead. Which is quite a bad idea. The other week I watched:
Which has got to be the most depressing movie in all of existence. I find it interesting that the picture says "Edited Version" when the one I watched was the "Unrated" one. The guy in the right corner actually looks a lot like someone I know personally, which highly creeps me out. I have yet to review this movie, nor rate it and I probably never will simply because....HOW?! How do you rate and review a movie like this? I knew nothing about this movie when I watched it, and I'm not sure if that was a good thing or not.
The movie I have from Netflix right now is:
Oh how nostalgia has overwhelmed me while watching this. The version my dad and I are watching is the concert one from 1996. I remember renting the VHS of it from the library when I was around eight or nine, but most likely even younger. We only watched about 45 minutes of it tonight. Don't want to lose all the magic in one night.
I need to start utilizing the "Instant Watch" function of Netflix more. I did that tonight by watching the first two episodes of this anime about two hours ago:
It is definitely different, that's for sure. It shocked the hell out of me when I started the first episode and English was the language I heard. It's a series that I was previously unaware of, so I was quite surprised that there was an English version of it. There's 26 episodes and I think I'm going to attempt to watch two episodes a night. Each episode is only 23 minutes long, so it shouldn't be that hard, right? Right?
Each episode is a different story, but the character you see in the picture is the main guy in each one. At least it seems like that's what's happening. It's heavy on the symbolism and some of the dialogue might make you go "Wait, what?" at first. I think it's going to be worth watching though.
I took the most pathetic test today. Since the blizzard was on Wednesday I had to reschedule my Personal Health class test to today. In class the teacher said that most people complete it within an hour. Well...over the past few years my test taking speed has decreased a crap ton, so I figured I'd end up taking the full hour. Wrong. I finished the test within twenty minutes. I could not believe how quickly I went through the test. I even noticed that four or five of the questions were ones that had been on the two quizzes we had taken already. Now if Calculus could just be that easy....
.....and speaking of such, there is no way I will be able to take the test tomorrow. I have class in the morning and then I work the rest of the day. I emailed my teacher at around seven, I think it was, asking if I'll be able to postpone it until Monday. I know he allowed a lot of people to do that last semester, so hopefully he'll ok it. I seriously hate when everything decides it needs to happen all at once.
I actually received a postcard from Postcrossing the other day. I have no idea why I got one since I haven't sent one out in quite a while. It's inspired me to try to get into it again, one postcard at a time. The last postcard I sent actually hasn't arrived yet for some reason. It has three or four days until it expires too. I just hope it didn't get lost among the insanity that is the post office. Here's the PC I received though:
It's the first postcard I've gotten from Russia, at least if I'm remembering correctly. I think it's awesomely adorable. And yes, I think I love alliteration.
I know I've been quite terrible about keeping up with posting what I've received in the mail lately. If I miss posting anything, which I probably have a lot by now, then I apologize. I did get an ATC in the mail though for the I Love Narnia ATC swap on Swap~bot:
I'm also in a Dollar Tree Valentine's Card swap, and have received two of the four cards, but I think I'm going to wait until I have all of them before I scan them and post them. I wish I had places in my room to actually display all the lovely things I've gotten.
Besides playing WoW like an idiot, I've been trying to play some other games as well. I've been extremely awful at saving my money lately, so I've acquired a few more games:
I still need to play the first Bioshock, which I started at my cousins last week. So overall in the past two weeks I've only played an hour of Darksiders and about two to two and half hours of the first Bioshock. I am completely terrible at managing my time so that I can fit in everything I want to do.
Darksiders is actually a lot different from how I thought it was going to be even after reading the reviews. I've barley played it, so I don't really have an opinion on it or anything like that yet. I'm loving the short time I've played Bioshock though. My cousin watched me play it and was just "WAT" the whole time through it though. He needs to play better games.
Since this seems to be turning into a beast of a post I believe I'll try and stop here. I'll upload all the crazy snow pictures and try to get them up here ASAP though.
By the way, don't watch Requiem For A Dream.
EDIT - Because I can here's some kitty pictures:
Charmin giving my grandpa some love.
Jack likes to play Peek-A-Boo on the stairs.
And finally, Charmin being a fatty.
Well there's now less than a week and a half of the semester left. Thank God. One quiz and two more tests in Calculus and then I'll be free for a month. I don't remember if I mentioned it in my last post, but I currently have a B in the class. I took the Chapter 5 test last Friday though and felt extremely good about it, so hopefully I won't be disappointed.
Geez, we're already over a week into the month of December and I still haven't written about my Thanksgiving. I've actually been stupidly busy, so I'll catch up on everything right now, including pictures.
Overall my Thanksgiving seriously sucked. I got to my Aunt Tammy's at around 3:45 P.M. My mom hadn't even gotten there yet. Turns out my grandpa got pissed off at some ridiculous thing and went home. My mother showed up just a few minutes after me...with her room mate in tow. Instantly everyone was voicing their disapproval considering she never even told anyone that she was going to bring her along.
The dinner was short and it was strange not having the whole family there. Everyone's become so disjointed and are holding so many grudges that I'm not even sure who's still talking to who anymore. There was a lot of arguing since my mom decided she was going to flaunt her online boyfriend collection. I was very close to saying something to her, but I hate stirring things up even more than they already are.
My brother and I decided to go see the movie "Tangled", but of course even that couldn't go smoothly. We misread the time and ended up going into the theatre a half hour late. We didn't realize it though until we walked in and saw that the movie was already playing and people were everywhere. Turns out we didn't miss much at all and it ended up being an extremely good movie. It doesn't end here though.
The car I drive is a 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme...A.K.A: Old and doesn't want to run. It takes a long time to warm up, otherwise it'll stall. Normally if it does stall it will the first time I hit the gas. Well this time it decided to do things a bit differently.
I was taking my brother back to my mom's house when a red light came on in the dash. It said "GEN", which means generator apparently. Immediately my car started to deaccelerate. I was not a happy camper at this point, especially since I was going 75 MPH on the highway. Obviously I pulled off to the side, which was when my car decided to not allow me to steer anymore either. Here is a picture I took while stranded on the side of the highway:
You can kind of see part of my car and the window on the door that's open. My mom, dad, and grandma all ended up coming out to get us. My dad and grandma came in the same vehicle so that my dad could drive the Oldsmobile. Of course it was fine for him all the way home. My dad used to be a mechanic, and according to him the Oldsmobile stalled. I don't think I've driven it since then.
Of course with it being Thanksgiving and all the next day was Black Friday. My original shift at Best Buy was supposed to be 4:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. I ended up getting there at 4 in the morning and found out they extended my shift until 2:30. The good news is that it wasn't near as bad as I expected it to be and only one customer yelled at me. Apparently an employee was telling people that we were doing price matching that day when we had a meeting that morning that specifically told us that we WERE NOT doing price matching on anything. Hell, we weren't even matching our own website. So the customer got pissy and threw the items around. Oh well.
What was kinda funny is that even our lunch breaks were all scheduled, yet they had people taking them early anyway. My "lunch break" was at 9:30 if I'm remembering correctly. I also ended up getting out of there at 1:30. One of the supervisors let me leave since I was originally only scheduled until 1. I would have stayed if I could, but I honestly could not take much more. I was dead tired and completely exhausted, so I snatched up the chance to leave.
Besides the terrible holiday and the end of the semester coming up, I have been finding time to relax. Almost every night I watch a movie. I signed up for Netflix a few weeks ago, and it is seriously the best thing ever. I only tried out the instant watch thingy the other day since I wasn't sure how it would go with my craptastical internet, but it works amazing and I have already watched three instant movies:
Here are the ones I've watched using DVD's:
Since I'm posting quite a lot of pictures right now, here's another one from the night I went to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie. Hopefully you can see it, but it looks like there's a rainbow above the moon. The picture really didn't capture much of it since I was using a phone, but in person it was truly amazing:
Now that it's December it seems like it's opened the doors to all the good ol' lake effect snow. Here's after the first snowfall of the month:
And here's on the way back from work on Sunday:
And finally on the way to the college I attend on Tuesday:
On the way to school I actually saw my art teacher in a vehicle going the other direction...away from the college. Turns out class wasn't cancelled, but he was just 5 minutes late. One whole side of the art room is windows, and at times the visibility out of them was zero. It was just pure white outside. I have no idea how these geese and swans tolerate it:
I do have a few postcards to post, but I have yet to scan them so I'll just wait until next time. I do, however, have some pictures I'd like to share of my cats:
This is Charmin...
...He loves boxes
Jack also loves boxes.
My computer is now starting to get very angry with me from all these pictures, so anything I've forgotten will have to wait. Hopefully I'll be able to post more often, but it might have to wait until the end of the semester.
I'm still hoping for an A in Calculus. Hey, miracles do happen.
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
