Ok, by now, I think everyone knows I have an unnatural obsession with the game
Animal Crossing (which is all my best friend Jef's fault; he went and bought the game and made me play it! I don't even own a GameCube!), but this is funny for anyone who also likes
Monty Python. In
The Meaning of Life, there's a scene with a waiter offering this unrealistically obsese customer a "
wafer thin" mint to finish off his meal. The man objects saying he can't possibly eat another thing, saying that he will burst, but the waiter insists that it's only "wafer thin" (said in a baaad French accent). The man accepts the mint and explodes.
Anyway, there's a seagull who washes up on shore about once a week or so and each time, if you go talk to him, you "save his life" and he rewards you - but not without first explaining to you what happend
this time. So, tonight's was hysterical because it included an in-joke of the above Monty Python scene.
Click to see larger imageI just cracked up and I had to take a picture of it (another reason I love my digital camera!) Too funny, isn't it? :) I love when people give tribute and include little in-jokes that make things that much funnier.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 2/7/2003 11:59:27 PM ~
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Well, I don't have time to get pictures in all my new shirts (I have to clean the house and squeeze in some time to play some Animal Crossing before Jef takes it back with him tonight), but I am wearing one of them today and I did take pics of me in it. Some of which came out pretty nice. So, I went ahead and uploaded some. Now, an hour later, I'm
really behind my assigned schedule, but there's some new pics up.
Some Cam Highlights from today (new shirt)Three pics with the new shirt onEnjoy! TTFN.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 2/7/2003 02:54:15 PM ~
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Groovy! ;)
Went over to Rand's mom's today to give her another ACT! training and update her database with the files I entered last week. Well my floppy decided to go bad right at that moment (even though it worked fine last night when I saved the files onto it) so I couldn't give her the the stuff and I really couldn't do much of anything with her on the exisiting (since if we made a bunch of changes, we'd have two conflicting databases - hers and mine.) So, we decided to run out and pick up some new floppies and ended up running to Best Buy and got some CD-RW's instead. Then, she says, "Let's run over to Ross" where we proceed to shop for the next couple hours. Her buying a bunch of cute houseware items for her
and then, her taking me around to pick out some clothes which she bought for me. Wow. That was so nice of her. :) I got like five shirts and a pair of CK pants (which needed to be hemmed about an inch, which she pinned and is taking to get hemmed for me). She's such a sweetie. Wonder if it had anything to do with the fact I was wearing a shirt with holes (from being old and worn out) in it? *lol* Seriously, Rand says his mom's been wanting to go shopping with me for awhile now (he says like a year) and every time I see her, she's always telling me she was in the store or at the mall and was going to pick up some things for me, but didn't because she didn't know if I'd like the items or not. The joke is that she adopted my Love and I - which she's happy to say she did since we're extended family.
I thought that was so nice of her. She knows that we're not doing that well on money and that I haven't bought clothes in literally years (hence the holes in my shirt today) and she also knows neither my family nor my Love's has money and she wanted to help out. She also says she loves shopping with other ladies, something she never gets to do.
Anyway, that was just so nice of her. We didn't really get anything done work-wise, but I have a bit more to do for her (and some field inputs to change around a bit now that I understand a little more about the types of reports and such she wants to run) and it won't take too long. We made tentative plans to get together next Tuesday to try again for training.
I'm uber tired though and running a headache at this point, but I wanted to at least note that nice thing she did. If I don't crash to sleep, I might take some pics of the stuff. If I do crash to sleep (much more likely), I'll do it tomorrow. :)
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 2/6/2003 09:03:26 PM ~
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Kira wrote a
post on why she writes and to whom she writes for. She asks the question of the reader and this is what I left in her guestbook:
I write for the sake of writing. For the need to release my inner demons. For the desire to feel as if I matter and as if my life is something in the great mass of shifting, heaving fluctuations. I write because I am. I write because it's there. I write because some things need to be said. I write because some things should be kept quiet. I write for the words. For the dreams. For the hopes. For the fears. I write because I have to. I write because there's an emptiness inside me that I somehow believe will be filled if only I can keep on talking.
I write for the sake of writing.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 2/5/2003 01:36:47 AM ~
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Hrm. Haven't really written anything in awhile. I guess I just haven't felt like going through the motions of recording the sameness of most of my days nor the banal drudgery which marks a change of my schedule. Like, while it may be a huge thing for me that I hung out last Thursday with my friends Jef and Kali while my Love was out helping another friend, and that we had a lot of fun playing
Animal Crossing (GameCube) and
Super Bust A Move 2 on the
PS2, it just doesn't sound all that interesting, nor does it seem like it's worth writing about. To me, that was a massive shift in my schedule, but to everyone else, it's like:
eh, whatever, so you played some video games. But my normal schedule consists of things that aren't worth talking about. Here's my normal day.
12pm - 1pm (ish) wake up
--spend a couple hours on the net
--clean and/or get some chores done
5pm - Love comes home, start dinner stuff
--watch a little tv
7pm - eat
--maybe watch tv, or a dvd, or something with Love for a couple hours
1am - Love goes to bed (meaning I have to leave my pc since it's in the bedroom)
--watch tv, doodle, work on necklaces, etc. Kill time
3am - watch People's Court
4am - 5am (ish) - go to sleep
Rinse, repeat.
This is literally every single day for me. This is why I really just haven't felt like writing here. It seems so pointless.
However.... the last week or so, I've been slammed with things I need to do from all sorts of people. Everyone has that
well, you don't do anything, so you've got plenty of time on your hands to help me with my project syndrom and it gets to a point where not only do I not have enough time in the day to do it all, but I get so frustrated with the backlog, that none of it gets done.
For example, I've been helping my friend Rand's mom enter her contacts into ACT! and trying teach her how to use the program at the same time. This isn't a big deal; it's extra money for me and I'm helping her out. But then, she up and decides she wants to include all kinds of quote information in the contacts in addition to just the standard stuff like address and phone number and so I didn't know what to do with it. Well, I spent literally all day Friday (hours and hours) just trying to figure out a way to edit the database and the fields and the layout (figuring it all out as I went since I'm no expert at the program, I just opened the box, installed it and started going when she originally wanted to move into a digital database). I tried so many different ways before finally settling on the way it is now. I was talking to my friend about it over the weekend and it seems his mother was already overanxious to get my update as she had even more for me to do. Suddenly, it was like I wasn't doing enough, and that my progress wasn't moving fast enough. The implication was that I was slacking on doing the job. Which really hurt my feelings. I was actually crying about it today before I finally finshed all the data entry I had. All last week I had other things to do as well (like my mom came over and we spent three hours taking photos of items she's selling on ebay to raise money to help my sister get her dental work done - over 150 photos which I just now today had time to upload to my pc and now have to go through and edit/resize/format them for use in the ebay auctions,
then still write up all the info and make the templates for all the auctions) and it's not like I wasn't working on the project for his mom, it was just that I had to take time to sit down and figure out how to proceed before I could even do the actual work.
So...I've been overtaxed and I still have to prepare all 50 of my mom's photos and auction templates (I downloaded an Ebay lister helper software that I now need to learn as well), fix two necklaces for my sister (one I already restrung, the other needs to be taken apart and then shortened), somehow get to Rand's house to drop off the latest update of the database and pick up the next batch of files (hard to do when you don't have access to transportation during the day), register, create and design a domain for my mom for another project she wants (we're getting together on Wednesday afternoon), get to Rand's to do another afternoon teaching session with his mom, and of course, keep up with the laundry and the cleaning and all the rest while still trying to find time to do my own things like manage my domains and forums and such.
All of that turmoil and I'm on my damned period as well. So I'm a hormonal bag of crying rage and in addition to cramps my neck's bugging me and I've got a headache. Oh yeah, and I've been having some nasty dreams. So NO. I haven't yet managed to get everyone's projects for me done yet. Grr. People think this is 10-minute stuff but it's not. Restringing my sister's necklaces is at least an hour/hour and a half each for example and it took me 30 minutes just to upload all the pics and will take a couple hours to edit them all.
*tense*
Anyway, that's an update in a nutshell. Not that I think it made any sense; like I said, my emotions are all over the freakin' chart and I'm just sad and pissed and hurt all rolled into one and overall, frustrated and not a happy camper.
editOh yeah, and then my pc isn't upgraded yet either - that keeps just busting out - and let's not even get into the added depression of the Columbia tragedy as well. Ugh.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
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