Wednesday, July 26, 2006

   No song.. too tired.
My contacts have been getting on my nerves lately like you would not believe. They last maybe an hour or two before they start to itch and burn and I have to take them out. Yeah, not pretty, I know. So I've been wearing my hideous glasses an awful lot lately. The prescription is most definitely NOT up to date, so it's a good thing I don't do a lot of driving or anything that requires perfect vision. (heheh)

So. I went out today and picked out new glasses. Contacts can wait if I have a decent pair of glasses to wear in the meantime. I made my mom go with me to help me choose. We went to 5 different places and I must have tried on a few hundred pairs. In the end it was a toss up between the favourite pair from the FIRST place and the favourite from the LAST place. Isn't that the way it always goes.. The pair from the last place won. I'll try to remember to take a picture..

Anyways.. I should have them by Friday. I can't wait to be able to see again. Goodnight everybody. *bakes a pie for New Zealand*
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Monday, July 24, 2006

   "Come in, come in, come in, come in/
From thin and wicked prarie winds, come in/
It's warm and it's safe here and almost heartening/
Here in a time and place not lost in our imagination..." -The Tragically Hip (The Darkest One)

Well, so far, so good. No crashes yet today. But the CD-Rom is opening and closing by itself again. XD I put a cleaning CD in there just in case it decides to start working at some random interval. Maybe all it needs is a good cleaning? Who knows.. I don't care that much about it right now because I can still play media in the DV-Rom if I need to. And I don't really need to.

So. On Saturday night, right before bed, I watched the movie Aeon Flux. Pretty good show. Decent plot even. But I got this though in my head after that that made it hard to go to sleep. You know the kind.. Anyways, I'm sorry if this spoils the movie for you if you haven't seen it, but it kept me awake, dammit! Alright, so the characters in the movie only exist because they are all clones. When someone dies, the government recycles their DNA so that what population is left can continue to survive. BLah blah.. So my question is.. If I were to clone myself, in what sense would that person be "me"? Is the clone the same person as I am? How much impact does experience have when it comes to the development of the "self"? If that clone had exactly the same experiences as me, could you say that there is no difference between me and the clone? What if every experience except for ONE was the same?

Alright, quit rolling your eyes at me.. Heheh.. At the concert on Wednesday, Jenn and I were talking during the set up/ sound check for the band and she came up with this one.. Where exactly IS the internet? We all know what it is, but WHERE is it? *facepalm* And if THAT dosen't keep you awake tonight, then say I have a perfectly smooth, perfectly spherical ball, no imperfections can be found no matter how closely you examine it. How many sides does it have? One? Or none? *headdesk*

Dear god, that was a long-ish post. I'll let you all leave now. I see you edging towards the door Aya.. XD Goodnight everybody. Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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Sunday, July 23, 2006

   No song..
This computer has been driving me absolutely batty. I said before that the CD-Rom was having issues, and that half the time the machine didn't even recognize that it was even there. Lately it has been freezing up for no reason at all. Sometimes it does it before it's even fully started up, and sometimes it's a surprise ten or fifteen minutes later.. so we'll see if this post makes it through at all.. (and it just did it right in the middle of that sentence.. luckily it didn't restart itself, so I can continue uninterrupted, thankyouverymuch). I tried the "System Restore" business, but that either did nothing or I didn't choose a date that was far back enough.. Maybe I'll try it again later on and go all the way back to July 1st.. Bleh.. I guess it's just a sign that it really is time to replace this beast. *sigh* Just when I've got it all figured out.. Oh well..

On another note, I really need to have people in this house start screening my calls for me. The losers at work called and sucked up to me so that I'd cover for someone who called in sick. Luckily for them that it was for the bakery/deli. I don't mind that so much.. They've had this woman in from our head office and she's been rearranging everything over there, and programming that stupid new labeller. Did I mention that she's annoying as snot? She is. Anyways, Things actually looked nice until she left and then everyone started just throwing crap wherever. So I took the time to draw a pretty picture illustrating where all the product should go. But it's a known fact that I work with quite a few morons, so we'll see what happens.. Also, I slammed my rght middle finger in the deli showcase door. It really hurt and I almost cried. No blood though..

Anyways, that's it. And hey look, this is still my first attempt at a post. I better click the button before it freezes up again and everything is lost forever.. Happy weekend all... And Sita.. where are you?!
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Friday, July 21, 2006

"Well it's good to know that you'll be okay/
I've been waiting for this/
And I'll be there to sit while you pray/
No one's blaming me/
I'm not supposed to wait/
When they open up your heart..." -Our Lady Peace (In Repair)

Holy, was I ever wiped today. I slept very late and got up around noon to shower. Now, I've had some pretty bad showers in my life, but this, I can honestly say, was the Worst. Shower. Ever. As soon as I started with the shampoo, someone decided to start doing laundry. So the water went hot, then cold, then pressure, then no pressure, then cold with pressure, then hot with pressure and then hot with no pressure.. Bleh... It's a wonder I got my hair washed at all...

Anyways, waiting for the water to do normal things led to thinking and thinking eventually led to LJ postage.

I tried to put my contact lenses in. I couldn't do it. They just made my eyes burn today. SO I wore my glasses to work for probably the first time all year. It wasn't terrible.

Took off for work shortly after attempting that. Fixed other people's mistakes, like usual.. and now here I am. I've finished making my new icon. Like? It's alright, I couldn't find a lyric that really stuck out in my mind. Nor could I find a decent image, promo, official or otherwise... Suckage. So that's what I've come up with. Not too shabby, if I do say. Off I go. I'm going to TRY to get my sleep schedule back on track. I stay up too late, and sleep too long, so now all I want to do is sleep. So I shall.. Goodnight everybody.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

   "Just when you think you're done/
The war can never be won/
I, I'll be there to pick you up/
And dust you off/
And bring you home/
And make you feel loved..." -Our Lady Peace (Boy)

***BONUS LYRIC!***

"Take a little time to mess with your mind/
Or mess with mine and leave me where I stand/
Then walk away from here..." -Stabilo (Mess With My Mind)

Back from the concert.

Dear GOD! I can't hear a thing, I smell like beer, and I'm pretty sure I need a shower. That... was... Wicked! The only, and I mean only disappointing bit was that they used just a little too much backlighting. That's all. Other than that, I had a killer time. I'm actually glad we weren't on the floor for that. It wasn't seated and I don't like crowds too much, so first row on the side was pretty damn good. Nice view.

I was actually glad that we got there in time to see Stabilo. The guy goes, "It's only polite for us to say hello to you, and it's only polite for you to scream back at us. So scream louder notherf***ers!" HAHAHA! I really didn't mind them at all, and I actually am considering picking up their new album. Sita, do you have it already? If so, is it worth it? The group on before them was called Pedestrian, and that's pretty much what they were. Not great. I'm glad we missed most of that.

SO. With that said, I'm going to go to sleep. I am a happy camper. I'll probably change my icon to something OLP related today. There is, however a serious lack of decent iconery. Therefore I may have to make my own. We'll see.. Goodnight everybody. Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

   "Nobody left in line/
Noone to make you shine/
Hanging on to the backs of opinions/
You're borrowed & betrayed..." -Our Lady Peace (Lying Awake)

One more sleep...

I should probably mention that I wasn't actually finished typing yesterday when I hit the "post" button. That was an accident. I was also going to say that I love liquid eyeliner and probably something about potatoes too.. I can't really remember now. Sita's comment made my brain hurt. Heheh..

I've been really tired these last few days. I don't know if I'm getting too much seep or not enough, or what. Maybe I need more iron. All I want to do is sleep.. Well.. okay, sleep and play the guitar.. XD I found a tab for Leader of Men, by Nickelback. It's an oldie but a goodie. And fairly easy, especially with a digital tuner, becuase you have to tune it weird to get it to sound right.

Enough babbling. Sleep now. *uses Aya's shoulder as a pillow* Night night!









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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

"Don't take my picture down/
Don't erase everything that we had/
Don't think I let you down/
And I might be gone, we'll meet again/
Can't find you, so I'll call your name..." -Our Lady Peace (Picture)

I've decided that I really like their early work, and their latest work, but not much in the middle... Oh well.. I'm still expecting a wicked show on Wednesday night. I hear they're better live than they are canned, so here's hoping.

Nothing much happened over the weekend. Just went to work a lot. It's really annoying right now. They've got this woman in from our Head office and she's programming the new labellers in the bakery/deli. I spent not more than 15 minutes with her, and she managed to annoy the snot out of me. Not to mention that they brought all this new crap in and put it out to sell BEFORE they programmed any of it in to the main computer.. *facepalm* That means that when it gets to me, I pretty much have to make up a price for it, because as far as the computer is concerned, it dosen't exist. It's a hassle, is all..

And I've pretty much decided that I shouldn't be allowed to think for myself anymore. When it comes to deciphering other people and what they mean when they say certain things.. I think (oh, there I go again...) that I need people to be blunt and tell me exactly what they mean when there are two possible meanings for something. It gets awfully confusing. But see, if I know exactly what you mean, then I won't feel like a moron for expecting something that maybe I shouldn't.

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Friday, July 14, 2006

   "You love me but you don't know who I am/
I'm torn between this life I lead and where I stand/
And you love me but you don't know who I am/
So let me go/
Let me go..." -3 Doors Down (Let Me Go)

I'm not a materialistic person. Really, I'm not. But I must admit, sometimes material goods make me very happy. I went out shopping with my sister on Thursday afternoon. I spent a lot of money, but I'm happy. I finally got my Our Lady Peace tickets. (Yeesssss...) Pretty decent seats for the week before the concert. I'm impressed with myself. My friend Jenn who's going with me was pretty happy too. Heheh.. she's like, my concert buddy. She's the one I saw Collective Soul with too..

So anyways, after I picked those up we did a couple of errands and ended up at the mall where I bought two new pairs of shoes. I love Payless shoes. Hahaha! Black Airwalks that are work appropriate, and a cute pair of sandals. They have that little thing that goes between your toes which I hate but will get used to because the shoes are so damn cute. Last stop was at Wally-World where I spent nearly $100 on, oh.. all sorts of fun stuff (*cough*bras*cough*) Heheh.. But see, for having spent all that money, I feel much better than I did these last couple of days. So, it just goes to show you that money CAN buy happiness. Especially in shoe form. *grin* Goodnight everybody.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

No song... No smiley..
You know what's disturbing? When a five year old asks if you have any smokes. This didn't happen at the store, thank god. I was out playing tennis on Monday night and this group of little kids came over to the courts and asked if we had any cigarettes. None of them could possibly have been any older than five. What kind of idiot parent sends their five year old over to complete strangers to bum cigarettes? For the love of.. That's just not right.. *headdesk*

Tuesday was just a stupid day. One of those where you wonder why you bothered getting up to begin with. Well, I bothered because I was due at work. Wasn't feeling all that great, but I went anyways hoping that once the afternoon shifty people had arrived that I might be able to take off a little early and go be ill at home. No such luck. When I got there there was supposed to have been another girl there with me for another three hours or so, but she was feeling crappy too, so she left as soon as I got there. So I was by myself most of the day. *sigh* It sucks having to pretend to be feeling okay, when you're really not. I'm not sick... just worried...
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Sunday, July 9, 2006

"I must be out of my head/
It must be something I said/
So come on I'll waste my life/
You think I'm out of my head/
But I'm romantically dead/
So come on I'll waste my life on you..." -Mobile (Out Of My Head)

What a weird day..

After 4 hours of sleep, I made it to work on time, only to discover that the mother of one of my favourite coworkers had died unexpectedly. She was older, so it was expected, but just not YET, y'know? So one of the deli ladies made up a tray and I took it over when my shift was over. It's hard to see someone who always has a smile and a laugh to share feeling so down. One of our other coworkers is living in her basement suite and I guess she didn't see too much of him all day. I guess he just didn't know how to react..

It's a bit ironic that the lady who made up the tray had a death in her family a couple of weeks ago. Circumstances surrounding that one were very strange and a bit on the touchy side, so we weren't sure what to do for her. Stuff is happening, so it might not be too late though. So that's good.

I'm changing the date for my staff BBQ. Seems like when I put up my poll everyone just signed their name in the column for the date I had already booked for just to be supportive of me over new boss. And a bunch of the people that signed for it aren't even going to be in town. I do appreciate the loyalty, really, but I want people to be there too.. So later in August, when people are getting back from hols and getting ready to go back to class. That'll work.

Last item of business, my computer is haunted. The CD-Rom drive has been opening and closing all by itself, and the little light is blinking like mad. Restarting didn't help, so I ran the defragmenter, the ad-aware and deleted about 40 music files. After that, it has stopped opening and closing, but the light is still flashing and the machine now does not recognize that a CD-Rom drive even exists. Blah. Not a huge deal, but it'd be nice if things worked the way they're supposed to, right?

Anywho.. as usual, there was something else, but I forgot what.. so that'll be enough out of me. Goodnight.
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