Birthday • 1965-06-05 Gender •
Female Location • The Edge of Sanity Member Since • 2004-05-11 Occupation • Freestyle lunacy Real Name • Secret, but I'll give you a hint: it has 2 A's & 2 N's in it.
Personal
Achievements • a couple college degrees; MOS Certification; CIW Associate & Professional certification; Master CIW Designer certification Anime Fan Since • the 20th century Favorite Anime • FullMetal Alchemist, Trigun, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Cowboy Bebop, Ranma 1/2 Goals • Getting a job that will support my bad anime/manga and latte habits! Hobbies • Drawing, writing, learning Ancient Greek, learning Japanese, panicking Talents • Multitasking at a cosmic level. Can sing along with the 4th Movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony...in German!
myOtaku.com: KitsuneTsuki
Welcome to my site archives. 10 posts are listed per page.
Yes... I'm doing some stuff to this site right now. So, don't mind the chaos. I promise it will look really nice when I'm done. Well, maybe not really nice... how does "different than it had been" sound to you?
Sunday morning...
Well. Here I am. I've been messing about with the look of my site this morning. I think I may have part of what I want to do to it figured out. I just need to find a good wallpaper to throw in the background. Then the trick will be to get it to stay in one place and not scroll around. I guess I'll experiment with that later on.
Last night at work was rather interesting, to say the least. At 4:15 pm, I got in the van to go get a bottle of Glenlivet scotch for the wedding reception... and spent the next 2 hours and 25 minutes in that van! I stopped briefly enough to drop off the bottle of scotch and later long enough to go to the bathroom! Sheesh!!! All I got for tips was a lousy $4 from three guys I picked up at the airport. Out of curiosity, I totalled up how long I spent in the van driving around. It came out to be 3 hours and 16 minutes out of an 8 hour shift! Whee!!!!
Hmm...it's almost lunchtime again. I think I may wander off toward the kitchen area to see if I can figure out what to eat. The refrigerator is having issues....
Saturday morning!
Well, here I am. Work was okay last night. I didn't spend quite so much time in the van driving people around as I did last Friday. The motel was full last night and will be again tonight. I don't know how many railroaders will be needing rides to and from the depot. Those guys are fun to talk to.
I did spend some time working on some CSS to make this site a little more interesting. I have one thing that is defying me! Well, duh... I have another CSS book here that may help shed some light on things. I have to remember to look in that one!
Yesterday I went to Sioux City early so I could go to the mall for a stroll. I didn't get very far strolling the mall. I stayed in Barnes & Noble the whole time. Remember I said I wasn't going to buy any manga. Well, I caved... I picked up Kenshin #16. I also found a truly cool book of Japanese family crests on the bargain table. I've had my eye on that book for a couple years and it was marked down to $7.48! I couldn't pass that up. I did behave myself and didn't buy Kenshin #17 & 18. I read all of #17 and half of #18. I also spotted Trigun Maximum #6! Ack! I'm two volumes behind that one, too!! I don't even want to think how far behind I am on InuYasha!
Oh... I haven't had any round numbers for a while, have I? Here's what I saw when I logged in today!
Coolness!! Both end in 800!
Well, I gotta run now. 'Tis lunch time!
Late Thursday night...
Well. Here it is...another day has almost ended. What excitement did I encounter today? Four loads of laundry! Whee!!! I was going to do some drawing while doing laundry, but ended up playing the GBA and working on my Japanese instead. I have been so bad about drawing and writing both!!!
I don't remember the last time I was as tired as I was last night. My eyes hurt... that's how tired I was. Work was so boring once most people checked out. I didn't take anything along to do, so I sat and read all three newspapers we have at the front desk. Then I wandered back & forth behind the counter for a while. I definitely need to take something along to do between times of helping people.
I got paid today! Whee!!! I must resist the urge to go running out and buying manga right away! There are things that need to be dealt with before I do anything like that. Important things like car payment and loan payments. If I get any tips driving, I'll use them for manga... yeah... that'll work!!
As you can see by my subject line, I filled Onigiri today. I bought a small, fuel-economic car so I wouldn't be paying so much for gas. Of course, gas prices had to go up. *sigh* When I got Onigiri back in December 2003, gas was $1.359 a gallon. Prices have slowly increased over the months since then. Too bad my wages never increase the same way.
Well, I actually visited all who updated on 9/8! I'm so proud of myself!! I won't be visiting much for the next five days, as I have to work all that in a row!! All of them are the 4 to midnight shift, too! Hmm... if it gets really dull at work, I may go visiting...
Yes, it's Wednesday night and I am very close to being asleep here. And it's only 10:30 CDT!
I've been up since 4:45 this morning, so it's small wonder that I'm tired. Work was okay. I learned new stuff today. Hopefully, I will remember it if I ever have to work the 7 to 3 shift again. I have tomorrow off! Yay!!!
Well, I guess I am going to go lose consciousness for real now.
Tuesday night and it's time for EVIL!!!
Well, now that I got that out of my system...I guess it's time to post. There's been a few things that have happened during the past week that I've forgotten to mention. So, I'll try to remember what they were and tell you about them.
I spent my tip money from the first weekend I worked on Kenshin #15. I went in early and sat and read #16 before work. Big mistake. Now I want it and #17 so bad that I could scream.
I hoped to get more tip money this past weekend, but it wasn't meant to be. I got a measly $2 out of a British guy I picked up at the airport. Can't get Kenshin with only $2. So I bought a couple bottles of pop with it.
The morning I posted the words "I'm hungry." was a morning that my sister came over to use our computer because it has a scanner. I had to sit and wait for her email to go out. It was earlier than I usually get up and I hadn't had breakfast yet.
And finally... my car's transmission is not broken! Onigiri has been having issues with shifting gears and such for a while. My dad called the local mechanic and he took a look at it. Transmission fluid was leaking from a hose and some switch thing was getting stuck! Yay! I don't have to have the whole transmission replaced. The hose got tightened and the switch got fixed. The little riceball should behave itself now.
Well, that about wraps it up for me tonight. I gotta drag my keester off to bed here pretty soon. I gotta be to work at 7 tomorrow morning. Ick.
Happy Labor Day to all of us in the US. I have to work. Go figure.
Well, I was really bored last night. I don't think it's gonna be any better tonight. I'm taking that CSS book along again, as well as a listing of HTML tags & a notebook to do some code writing in! Then maybe, just maybe I'll have an idea of what it is that I want to try to do. Perhaps something will be done to spark up this site. I don't know, though... I sorta like my simple black background.... I gotta think about it.
Well, since I've done nothing particularly exciting so far today, I may leave you now and will probably check back during the evening hours. If not, see you tomorrow!
It's Sunday night... and I'm semi-bored.
Well, I thank MiasmaMoon, katocool & ConneryAlexis for being nice and giving me words of encouragement the other night. I was so upset that I fell back into my old insecurity. I'm still somewhat upset with my brother. That's one thing that won't be changing very quickly, but I'm trying not to let it get to me. It ain't easy.
The reason I've not been around since Thursday is that I've been working all weekend. I still have to work tomorrow night. Then... Tuesday is a day off! Whee!!!! I think I will sleep... and maybe draw some more stuff.
Here's a summary of what I've been doing:
Friday: worked. I swear I spent most of the night driving back & forth from the railroad depot.
Saturday: worked. There was a wedding reception at the motel. It wasn't very rowdy. I did more driving, but nothing like Friday.
Sunday: working. Been to the depot a couple times. Saw four firetrucks around one of the bank buildings downtown. Have no idea what that was all about. Will try to update as soon as I find anything out.
Well, I think I'm going to get offline now and read some more in that CSS book I brought with me.
It's late Thursday... almost Friday morning, and I'm incredibly upset again.
I'm so upset that I have a stomach ache and probably won't sleep very well tonight. I get so tired of this. Why won't my oldest brother ever consider what I'm going through? Why won't he consider how frustrated I am? Doesn't he realize he's making a Kitsune that already has self-confidence issues feel even more like a failure? All he cares about is what he's going through. He doesn't give a rat's ass that my life has been almost a living hell for the past 15 months. All he cares about is himself. I'm sick of him blaming me for things that I have no control over. I'm sick of him treating me like a failure. I'm sick of him calling me a liar. I'm sick of him making me feel like this. He's going to call tomorrow and I'm going to end up in tears. I know it. I feel like throwing up.
Mistakes I have made:
Took BASIC programming in high school and fell in love with computers.
Went to college & a learning center to get an education so I could have a career in the computer field.
Thought I could have a career.
That last one seems to be the biggest mistake I've made. I thought I wanted a career. All I seem to get are jobs. Now that I've got all this education behind me, it's even hard to get them. I'm over-qualified for so much. And the fact that I've just attained these certificates in the past few months makes me under-qualified for anything that pops up on my job searches for the field into which I thought I wanted to go.
Should I just give up on my dreams? I have a goal for the year 2010. It's a secret goal that only one person knows about. At the rate I'm going, it will never happen. So why do I dream that I'm going to do this thing? I should just give up on my dreams and become yet another drone going from day to day, living from paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by. I should give up on all the things I like to do: read, draw, work on the computer. My life should become meaningless. My life should leave no imprint on anyone. I am nothing.
Acoustic #3
They painted up your secrets
With the lies they told you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew
And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
No one's listening anyway
Your voice is small and fading
And you hide in here unknown
And your mother loves your father
'Cause she's got nowhere to go
And she wonders where these dreams go
'Cause the world got in her way
What's the point ever trying
Nothing's changing anyway
They press their lips against you
And you love the lies they say
And I tried so hard to reach you
But you're falling away
And you know I see right through you
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all the screaming
You're not listening anyway
Lyrics by John Rzeznik. Italics by me. The italicized part really sums up things for me right now.
Well, I think it's time for me to take my stomach ache and heartache somewhere else. Sorry I didn't visit sites at all tonight. I don't know exactly when I'll be visiting again. I'll try to post as much as possible, but with the way I feel and having to work all weekend, I may not be able or may not feel like it.
Oh, heck... it's Thursday! It may be 1:14 in the morning, but it's Thursday.
Well, I know I said I'd visit you all on Tuesday night. I ended up having to work Tuesday. So, here I am in the wee hours of Thursday morning after spending time visiting sites and thinking unkind thoughts about my computer. It crashed twice tonight! Grr....
Time to summarize the past few days. Such excitement, eh?
Monday: worked. Had a few runs for railroaders & that was about it.
Tuesday: worked because the manager didn't schedule anyone to drive!
Wednesday: took a nap at 11:00 am! Did a little bit of laundry so I have something to wear to work. Played Golden Sun: the Lost Age for a couple hours non-stop!
I had a bunch of stuff I was going to tell you all, but I can't remember it at all right now!! I guess it's because I'm a bit tired and should go to bed.
Well...I think that's gonna be it for now. Take care, everyone and Happy September!
Hard hats required in this area! 
Meet the new boss... same as the old boss. 
I'm dancin' as fast as I can. 
$31.87 for 11 gallons of gas.... *sigh* 
This post typed by a sleeping Kitsune! 
I'm not mad, I'm evil!!! 
Monday afternoon.... 
I hate my life.... (long, depressing post)