It is incredibly sad that I didn't even remember that tomorrow is our three year anniversary. Oops, if that didn't make me feel like absolute shit.  The last few months have gone by so fast, and I've been preoccupied with class and everything...I can't believe September is almost half-way over.

I like the fact that the only reason I really went to class today is because the teacher is attractive and I find it hilarious that he falls asleep half the time. Thats my kind've teacher, although we learn nothing in the class.  I did get a good chunk of the assignment finished, although I need to bust my ass over the weekend to finish it. The next project involves wire, which sounds...fun. I hope.

Planning on cleaning the apartment, along with Moot's cage. I don't remember if I ever put up a picture of my new chinchilla, so here goes:.

Please ignore the small poop pellet on his house, because it is virtually impossible to get a picture of him without it. He's like Chu, only his poop factory is filled with a couple hundred more foreign employees. Erm, yea.

Around this time last year Apple introduced the iPod Nano, and I felt that my iPod Mini was effectively outdated and tossed aside. Today Apple announced the NEW Nano, which looks like a nano encased in the metal Mini casing. My Mini is cool again, it MIGHT be mistaken for a Nano! Even though it isn't .26" thick, it COULD be! The new iPod Shuffle looks like it could easily be swallowed by a dog -- I love Apple, and I love being a consumer whore. And I'm sure one of my families labs would love ingesting a Shuffle, too.

I feel like Chinese tonight, and I also have some more of Lost Season 2 to watch, I will proudly proclaim that it is my favorite TV series in a long, long time. Besides my childhood favorites, of course...but Lost is pretty damn great.  My hard drive should be here tomorrow, and I need an IDE cable and a power splitter. Hopefully my computer woes will be over soon. Other than that, another boring night in Mt. Pleasant.

I have a few minutes to burn before I rush off to the campus in hopes of parking, and with how shitty it is outside I wish I could just stay home and play some games (Coloris) that I haven't played much recently (Coloris). I stayed home yesterday because I felt like total and complete shit, and any efforts to drain my head of any of that extra fluid it seemed to produce ended up unscuccesfully.

"Hi,We are a leading manufacturer of PVC and Al ceiling in China. We wonder if there is any chance to cooperate with your company…"

I love Skype, the invitations for chats that I get are almost as good as the spam mail that floods my gmail account!

In other news, I ordered a new hard drive from newegg because this one has been wheezing and clicking in the last few days, and now all I need is an IDE cable and a Y-splitter and I'm all set. I think. At leaast, I hope because I've never done anything like this, and am pretty sure that I will manage to fuck it up in someway. The program I downloaded will apparently transfer my OS too, which would be great...who knows where my Windows XP Pro disc is in this mess.

I even got a line of credit at newegg that is incredibly daunting, and since I wouldn't have to pay for six months I could just go crazy with it. But...I'll hold back, because being a jobless college student means I can barely afford ramen. I did get free Papa John's last night just for renting this apartment, though, so that was a plus.

And now that I've managed to waste a small portion of my morning, time to go. Heres hoping today is somewhat decent, although I don't have high hopes for my Cultures of the World exam :P

A weekend trip to Traverse City was a welcome change of plans, even though it was just a slight change. I was originally going to camp (a.k.a. watch cable in the camper while listening to music or playing my Nintendo DS) but after discovering my father invited friends and my brother invited a huge array of assholes that it'd probably be best if we just went and spent two nights with Sara and Brian. Which we did, and we gamed the night away. Woke up this morning freezing cold as it was 40 degrees outside, and the windows were open. Stopped at my old Bed, Bath & Beyond and discovered that a new store is opening in Midland sometime within the year, and I'm glad that even if I can't find something here in Mt. Pleasant (where every single place I've applied at since January hasn't needed me - even Kohl's, fucking assholes :P) I'll have something familiar 30 minutes away.

I've found a new addiction in the GBA game "Coloris" - the art geek in me cried tears of joy at using my knowledge of the color wheel to play a puzzle game.

I've decided to stop making everything Friends Only for a while, and see how it works out. Now, I'll go back to watching Season 2 of LOST or studying for my GEO test - probably only being successful at the first.

Mood: tired
Music: Richard Cortex - "Song For When"

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I woke up this afternoon at around 10, feeling like utter crap. I kept attempting to get some more sleep because I managed to net only around four hours, and each time I did so I ended up just staring at the ceiling until the alarm went off thirty minutes later. Comfort is something I've been missing completely lately - and my insomnia has been back for the last few months. It's incredibly annoying, especially since I'm not attempting to stay up as late as I did during the summer. Hmph.

I don't really have much to say, really - I've had class and then work pretty much all of last week, followed by a trip back home to stay with my parents on Saturday and Sunday. They went away to Petoskey on Friday and Saturday so I stayed home with Grandma for the night - since Chad was out and about for a bit. We're never sure where he goes anymore, lol. Oh well. I stayed around, baked a cake, made a pizza for Grandma and I and I flipped on the TV in my parents room and watched that for a bit before falling asleep. I drove there immediately after work, so I didn't get there until around 8 pm. It was dark when I left work at 6...gonna have to get used to that :P

I'm about to head off to my Drawing class - I have to pick up another sheet of grey canson paper before I go in because we're using it again - although I loathe it. I'll flesh out this post more, tonight or tomorrow afternoon. I'm going to work directly after class today...I think I work with Amy. Hmmm :O

This is Brad running to work. See? Wow. Look at him go.

I think the next few days wlil turn out to be as sporadic as the last...due to the fact that I will be living at Bed, Bath & Beyond for around 20 hours.

*runs*

During the last few days, I had to deal with my car deciding to croak on me...which ended in me borrowing David's vehicle for upwards of three days. Now, I've driven his car before and I will if I absolutely have to but in this situation I couldn't stand it. I didn't want to cause a hassle, and his car has a tendency to stall and that scares the absolute bejesus out of me. So, I buckled down and drove the rattly nightmare and drove. Rather cautiously and panicky. My car's alternator had apparently died on me, even though it had just had it replaced a year before.

Saturday, my family came up after Jamie bailed on helping me twice in a row. Of course, my parents then were coming up blind and purchased a new alternator and we hoped that it was the problem.

As I worked that forever long shift at work, they fixed it - and it was freezing cold outside, and I watched them as I walked in the front of the store. It was incredibly hectic, so I was glad when I saw my card going about the parking lot. The dim lights needed replaced, but other then that I just had to leave it running for a few hours. It runs, and for that I am glad. I'm also happy that David let me borrow his car for those days.

I'm currently in my Illustrator class, which doesn't seem like it'll be too bad. Illustrator seems fun, regardless of it's use of the pen tool. As I was walking to class today, I noticed a familiar scent that I haven't smelled since the last fall I lived in Gladwin, which...

Was really two years ago.

And now that I've typed that phrase, I feel slightly shocked. *sigh* Anyways, it was so nice out today. A cool breeze, grey skies and all the leaves have fallen. The crunch as I stepped through them, and the earthy late fall scent in the air. I'm sad - and I wish I wasn't. Why was it that last year I wanted to come here so bad, and now that I have it I am being ungreatful and wishing to return?

This Christmas will be the death of me, I can tell.

This will be updated at break. Mm. Alright, and it's break time now. Last night, at around 4 a.m. I randomly clicked PlayOnline, and started up FFXI one more time, creating another character on David's account - a Taru WHM...named Maidir. The only difference is that instead of being on Lakshmi, I am now a resident of the same server as David which is Siren. Hopefully I can get back into FFXI, and...I won't leave Nexus. I hope. I really don't think I will. I'm having fun with it.

So, my computer started to vroom up again like it always did playing FFXI, since it's so graphically intense that my computer screams. It handles it, though. Just much much louder then most. Sadly, I don't have a fan on my low profile video card so the main fan attempts to cool it down. I'm not that computer literate when it comes to hardware, so I will need to look into something that will cool the beast down.

Class is over, basically. So I will be heading out. I wonder what should be done tonight...

For the past eight months, I have had my schedule written down on two pieces of paper.
One that I had brought in to work to verify it with Brad, and one in my notebook written right on the manilla divider.

InDesign on M/W from 1-3
Photoshop on M/W from 3-5
Drawing I on T/R from 3-5
Starting October 27th
Illustrator on M/W from 3-5

Well, actually...

I had it wrong all along, and Illustrator actually took over InDesign's time slot when it ended. So as I walked into class today take a guess as to what was happening. The class was letting out, and I felt like a complete dumbass and ended up having to fucking send an apologetic e-mail to Caroline.

God dammit, I have no idea how I could have screwed that up -_-;

Fuck fuck fuck

Along with this, as I was pulling into the Bed Bath and Beyond parking lot last night after I got out of class, I noticed my car was feeling really weak. I had noticed it just as I stepped on the accelerator not a mile away at the light to turn left to get there. I felt the car...jump. Ahh, and as soon as I put it in park I heard a strange noise and my car was driving like a remote control car. The Service Engine Soon light popped on and the battery light flickered though it said it had a full charge. And when I came back after work was over, and as everyone was leaving the lot..

I turn the key and just hear the "ding ding ding" and it wouldn't go. It wouldn't even attempt to start. Just the annoying bing bing bing, with etremely dim lights and shit. The car has 240k miles on it, so I expect shit to happen, but it was driving perfectly before. I called my mom, freaking out, and apparently they think it is the alternator or something and I need to get it fixed. Fun. So, now the car is in the lot...stuck until it gets fixed because the fucker won't move...

And I am driving David's car, which scares the bejesus out of me.

What a fucking horrid day, blar. And I need to get to work in 2 hours, now...since...I have no class today. Yay.

Mood: crappy

With the rate time is flying right past me, Christmas will be here in about two months. Thanksgiving at the halfway point, pretty much. The Holidays this year are going to be quite different, as I am no longer living downstate in my old apartment at Tallgrass. Someone else is living in O-7 right now, which makes me have this slightly strange feeling...since I lived there for a while, and although I never really headed out on the town much - it was my first place away from home. The fact that I could drive home in 30 minutes was a great thing, which meant that travel wasn't a hindrance. I would drive 2 1/2 hours just to see David for the night and drive back home at 6 a.m. - and now the scenario is the same with my family.

Except I don't skip class and leave right after every class day it seems. God I blew through a ton of gas during those months, lol. I have to talk to Manager Brad about getting my schedule worked out for the holidays. I'm still unsure as to what time I have off from NMC, but I think I'm going to request Thanksgiving and the following day off...if not he day before and Thanksgiving. It isn't a big deal as to what day, really...as long as I manage to nab Turkey Day itself off. Christmas will be my first real request for time off, I think. Looking at getting off on the 23rd, and having about a week off or something. Really just need to look at a calendar and count days. I think I have a few sick/vacation days that I can use as well.

Hmm.

The last day of Photoshop is here, and I guess our projects are being displayed to the class and talked about. Joy. Hopefully I did alright. We're also having our final quiz, as well.

Ok, and off I go.
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And I just recieved a final grade of...4.5/5 total. I got a 98% on my project, and a perfect on the final quiz. Happy with the grade, I must admit.

Posting this from Beau so I can find it again because I can't figure out how the hell to copy/paste with this damn Mac. http://takureihp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/Princess-azumanga.swf

Must watch that at home when I'm not in class. Yes.

Urgh, last night was the first night in a long while where I couldn't fall asleep. I would just stare blankly up at the ceiling, listening to the noises outside and David's breathing. I heard Chu bounce around his cage a bit, and my phone was chirping because some girl kept direct connecting with me trying to find someone named Randy. I had it really low, so it was barely audible - since my phone has problems charging when it's turned off for some reason. The vibrations whenever a direct connect came through were fun.

I don't know why I couldn't sleep. I was thinking, pretty much. About recent fuck ups and how to mend them. I spent a lot of time actually plotting out financial situations in the future, where I tried to think of how much I could save by spending x amount of dollars monthly, along with the y for rent and z for bills lol. Attempting to save around 2 grand for the Malibu is a start for me, because I've never been able to save up anything past a few hundred dollars. I think it's my parents testing me, really.

I didn't attend class today due to my 2 hours of sleep and my attempt at gaining more, but that didn't quite work out as planned. I need to get over myself. Blar.

I have to go to work. I think I work with Thom, tonight. And Brad is closing again, which will most likely mean staying late doing small projects that he oh-so loves.

My InDesign teacher was really hardcore on the grading for the layouts.

They basically had to be completely exact. Eww. -_-;

My grade in this class, regardless of quiz grades, will probably be a B now. Dammit.

In Nexus, I might as well STOP hunting. Everytime a friend and I hunt, they ditch me and never really hunt again. They ALWAYS say they will hunt with me again, and don't. I'm so tired of being passed, and all I want is to hunt with friends. But the friends never consider me good enough, or some shit. That's fucking why I only RP in this god forsaken fucking game.

End rant.

A few entries ago, I posted about how I was attending two classes at the NMC Mac Lab in the Art Building here in TC. I have one day left, other then this for them. Haha. Seven-week courses aren't that great..I really can't say that it was a very enlightening experience, and my knowledge on either InDesign or Photoshop isn't that much higher then when I started. I find that slightly strange, but ah well. It gives me those oh-so important credits that I need. I finished up my layout in InDesign for the Game Informer copy I had to make, and I mounted it and turned it in last class. Now we are working on a Mac Lab Font book that we have to get set up and printed by next class. Sadly enough, I don't have my pica and font ruler at the moment because I somehow must've lost it. Damn. Two other members of my group aren't even finished with their project, at the moment. So that leaves me and the other member to work on it. And I don't see her here yet. Fucked much? I think so.

So, that is pretty much what I will be working on for the next two hours. In Photoshop I have to work on a Halloween poster, which should prove to be fun...if I can come up with an idea for it. Hopefully I can at least get some of it finished today. And Caroline just walked in with our projects from last time - looks like they've been graded. Eep. Oh, not yet...actually.

Ok, getting to work like mad.

I swear, I must've slept in at least two hours extra this morning. Everytime the alarm would go off, I would wake up a moment before and add about twenty minutes. Bad, bad, horrible Brad. I woke up, and immediately had to get ready for class. And once again, surprisingly enough, I work immediately after class! Haha, another 12 hour day. :)

Right now I am currently awaiting InDesign to start, as I have to start placing my text into the document today. I have all of the images scanned, and I just need to place them in. Hopefully I should be almost done today with it. Fingers crossed, of course.

I spoke with Chris (old friend from High School and CMU) and chatted quickly as he called me right before class started for both of us. Things are going good for him, which I'm glad about.

And now I must run.

I couldn't believe it this morning when I woke up and started to head out for class. I saw some people with sweaters outside today, but I thought nothing of it. I tossed on a t-shirt with a polo over it and ran out to get to class. I stepped outside of my apartment and it was 45 degrees out. I've been freezing for a few hours now, as I am wearing light clothing. This will be a fantastic October, if the weather stays like this.

I'm currently awaiting my Photoshop lesson to begin, which will be in a few minutes. Things have been going well. I work tonight after class, and then I'm planning on cleaning our room. I need to air it out and do some laundry, too. Might as well get that hamper made, too - though I think investing in a new one with two parts would be better...that way David and I are able to separate our clothes. It would make things much easier. I'm also looking into purchasing a canvas closet shelf unit thing. Our closet really really really needs cleaned out. The damn dresser with Chu on top is in the way, so I'm going to move that a little bit. Fun fun. I was going to buy a shelf from work for the room...but the last one was bought 15 minutes before I went to get it apparently. Woo.

Working every night after a morning of class is going to be rather draining this week - I believe. But it's money, hurrah!

I'm going back home for the weekend, since I have an orthodontist appointment at 8 a.m. on Friday. So I'll be heading back home Thursday night right after I get out of work. That means I'll be getting home at around 1 a.m. (eww). I also have an appointment to get my hair cut that afternoon *cringe*. After the ortho appointment I'm going to the mall to get some clothing, care of my mother. I also need to talk to her about setting up an appointment to get my Wisdom teeth extracted, seeing as how they're beginning to come in again but this time actually getting through the gums. It might be needed that after the braces are removed that I get them extracted. I'll know on Friday, I guess.

Blar. Bored. Cold. Class ends in 40 minutes now and I'm thinking that I can get everything done tonight pretty quick. Wee.

At the moment I am currently in my InDesign class and it is Wednesday of the week already. I only have one more day left of classes, and it seems to be going by rather fast. I just finished taking my quiz over Chapter 5, which went alright. Caroline is currently at a thing with some other students out of state so Tom Auch has taken over the class for today...it's really just like some crazy free period it seems. I'm going to have David scan the photos I need for my design, since the scanners in here get whored around all class and it would be hard to get them today. I need to scan them ino Photoshop and work with them. Should be fun. I really need to work on retouching this fucked up wedding shot that Tom gave us. It has two inverted within an invert sections that say "Lasersoft" and they're causing me a ton of problems trying to clone out.

Just got the answers read off, and I nailed them all. Hopefully I manage to net a decent grade in this class, although I think that Photoshop will pose fewer problems as I know my way around quite a bit more. Although I have worked with Page Maker, it's been two years and InDesign is a different program. Fun.

These two friends in this class always speak in a different language, and I always wonder what they could be talking about. They speak fantastic English, too. Strange.

I just sent 40 minutes working on the layout design for lesson 6 and finished it all including colors, spot colors, gradients, applying all the shiz to different layers and graphics and all that fun stuff. The layout I was given to work with looks pretty good. :)

So, things have once again gone stagnate in my life so far. Everything is boring and standard again. I had fun with Beky last weekend at the mall when I went camping, and I'm really hoping my parents come back up to Benzie so I can spend time there. Regardless of how small the town is I do enjoy it there. In other news, the weather has actually cooled a bit and it's nice outside. Not that I get to spend anything with it as I am going immediately to work. Hah. Like I do every day after work. And of course after work I go home and veg, usually playing Nexus.

Seb is a Shaman Guide in Training, though it's going so slow right now. My first student is always preoccupied, so she can't really finish her training (*glares at Kris* :P) - oh well. It'll happen eventually. I dropped my position in the Phoenix Clan - it's just falling apart and I'm slightly tired of it. Apparently I was never trusted, because I'm an old member or something? All the new Council needs to be shot and the Clan needs a good disbanding or something. All the current members have no idea how shitty things are now, compared to before. And we once had a tyrant leader who would never pass on the position. I don't agree with rebelling or causing disturbances, I will just wait it out. I can't do what some of the other older members did and completely freak out and ended getting themselves exiled. Of course now the Clan spies on its own members to check for disturbances. Freaks. :P

I'm actually hunting on Nexus, and hopefully I eventually get to Wasabi - at least by Christmas. I need to get to 25,000 mana and I'm currently at 16,300. That's 8,700 that I need. That's a little over 3 billion experience, while I'll only need around 1 billion for my 15,000 vita that I should have. Definitely going to get Wasabi before Christmas, I can feel it.

Work has been going alright. John's wife had her baby yesterday - it was a boy, and they named it James Gordon. Or as Amy and I will now fondly call him...Flash. Hurrah! Not much that I can really do tonight, regardless of what they'd like. I think I'm working alone, in which case I definitely hope it goes slow. Yesterday was incredibly slow, so...that would be quite nice if it repeated. Bill O came and went, and was very pleased. Brad, our Manager's boss is Don. Don's boss is Fran, and Fran's boss is Bill O. Bill O. is like..in the group of people holding 3rd from the top or something. He was very pleased, and there were just a few things that needed to be worked on, but I'm not supposed to work on those during the closing hours of the day. Ah well, eh? They'll get done I'm sure of it.

All the Christmas and Fall scents finally came in. We were waiting on Sunflower Days for a month now, and it came in and I want to buy a jar now. Cranberry Chutney is the Thanksgiving scent, and is quite good. The Christmas scents aren't anything special. They smell like pine-tree, cookies or some type of combination of peppermint, tree and poinsettia. Mmm.

Three months until Christmas. What the hell? That's coming up so incredibly fast. I remember when I was looking forward to Halloween but it was like three months away, and now it is only one month. Blah. I'm thinking since I have one month off from classes, I will be asking for the 23rd through the 2nd off (I'll be down in Indiana with family, I swear! :P). That'll give me some time to enjoy the Christmas decor at my parents house.

I also found out that if I can save up $1,500 - my parents will let me take over the Malibu that they just recently bought. I love that fucking car, too. I make about $600 a month, with $220 of that going to rent - $40 to bills. That leaves me with $40 leeway a month, and if I can save around $300 it will take me 5 months. I have $300 right now, so...that will be around four months. I should have almost enough by Christmas. :)

I need a new car, as mine is beginning to wig out a little when I drive, as it should. The damn thing has like 230,000 miles on it. The Malibu has 45,000 and it's a 2001. Strange thing is, a Malibu is what I learned to drive in...around 2001. So I have a good chance of it being the same model of car lol :P

Ok, this entry has been started on for two hours. It's time I actually click submit.

Everything seems to be going the same as it always does. At least for these last few months, actually. I don't know why - but they are. Nothing exciting, nothing new. Just the same old things and the boredom and repetition is beginning to drive me farther into this shell that I've begun to call home.

School has been far less rewarding then when I was at CMU. Perhaps it's because the atmosphere is completely different? At CMU everything seemed to be fast and frenetic, with everyone so concerned on learning and doing well. Here at NMC it's just...sort've...

Boring. It's laid back, and that throws me out of whack for some reason. I don't mind the school, not at all...but I don't necessarily feel like I'm accomplishing much of anything. Perhaps that is why this is merely a transfer school. Tra la.

David and I's one-year anniversary was on the 14th. We went out for a bit, and he got me Pokemon FireRed. I picked him up a copy of Guilty Gear X2#Reloaded.

We are both enjoying our respective gifts, mine filled with nostalgia and the quirky goodness of these pixel critters...and David getting some good old-fashioned whoop ass on XBox Live. I don't play because I get completely destroyed. My skills are lacking, sadly.

I woke up this morning with a massive headache. My nose was burning, my eyes hurt, and...oh great, it's a fucking cold. I think it's the remnants of Chibi's from last week. Hurrah for my first cold of the season!

I always think of starting out and having some amazingly detailed and thought out post and I can't bring myself to actually write it as such. So, perhaps later. But then again I always say that. :P

Stepped out of my car. It's September 13th, 2004.

I step out of my nice cool car and a wave of immense heat comes over me, and I walk uphill to the Fine Arts building. This weather is crazy. It gets cool for a few days, then warm again, and this pattern repeats for months. When will the weather actually be somewhat stable? This summer was already a mixed bag in terms of weather (seeing as we only reached 90 on what...1 day?) and it seems to be quite sporadic.

I'm looking forward to the fall, when hopefully the nicer weather falls back into place but knowing how strange things have been going it will most likely storm the entire season and I will be quite sad.

Come tomorrow it will be David and I's one-year anniversary. We're celebrating tonight seeing as my boss put me on the schedule anyways though I requested it off. Yay. We're going to make dinner, and probably do some other things. It will be decided as the night progresses~

Can't find my vehicle registration. Eep. I wonder where the hell it went?

Here I am again, sitting in the lab at Fine Arts building in room 120. Class is just now starting, and I just have to sign in. This is quite different as opposed to classes at CMU where the class sizes were so immense that no one could get to know their teacher. Mine already know my name, which is incredibly surprising to me. This class has about 15 students - apparently about 5 or so dropped on the second week. Fun, eh?

I had problems falling asleep last night. It was freezing in our room, and I couldn't close the window because I enjoyed the cool, fresh air...but I just couldn't get comfortable. I tried so many different positions, and I kept tossing and turning - which lead to me using the computer each time for about 10 minutes to pass the time, and I eventually conked out at about 5:30 a.m. - or at least that is the last time I remember being up. I woke up at like 9:30...and set my alarm til 11:45. I basically rushed to get to class today, and I'm still extremely tired. Joy. I work tonight, but after class tomorrow I have the night to myself so I should definitely be able to get some rest to make up for last night. It's really beautiful outside...so soon enough the drive down and back up will be pretty wonderful - it's becoming cooler, yet still sunny, and the leaves are changing. I love it. I love fall. I love this transitional period that leads towards winter.

And class is officially starting now...so, I shall finish updating at break.

[edited at 3:10 p.m.]

Alright, so I ended up working through the class break...I am now updating prior to the beginning of my Photoshop course. Auch just walked in, so class will probably be starting within the moment.

One class down, one left. I am literally 1/4 done with my day - baha! I had to pick a magazine spread (two-paged) for a project we will be doing, where we recreate the spread. I have to have the guides and pages set up to begin with by next Wednesday. Should be a piece of cake, but I need to pick up a - oh shit I forgot about this quiz.

Cut short. Hehe.

[edited at 3:22 p.m.]

That was the easiest quiz I had ever taken. Wow.

And I got a Check + on my last homework assignment. I feel like I'm in High School again.

Mood: anxious

I'm downstate, in what is day two of my four day vacation that my boss oh-so conveniently gave me yet again. I can't complain, since it was perfectly scheduled. I got back to Gladwin the other night, and this has been a completely pointless trip. I got here only to discover that my aunt and uncle from Indiana were coming up so basically we did nothing. I was rather annoyed, but hey...what can I do? I already drove all this way so I might as well make the most of it.

I'm almost done with Mario&Luigi now. Makes me hunger for Paper Mario 2, it does. Doesn't help that the night I left a new event finally started on Nexus and I wasn't able to work on it on dial up. Curses! So, instead, I will be doing it tonight when I return. Although it's only 3:56 it feels like it's much later. Hmm. As soon as I get some things ironed I'll be on my way back to the apartment.

Nothing else ta do now, other then wait.

And play M&L.

Well, I'm about 20 minutes early for my InDesign class - I left an hour ago in order to get here in time to find a parking spot and wonderfully enough the lot near the Fine Arts complex has tons of space open in it at this time of day, so finding a spot there should be a breeze a little later. I counted about 35 spots open, 30 minutes before class began. People were just milling about the lot, not really pulling in or anything. Cars were waiting for people to leave to take their spot, although there were spots open around them. I found that quite strange.

School has been going alright. I'm pretty sure that sitting in front of a computer for 4 hours every other day won't phase me too bad, although the iMac's screen is a little harder for me to read then my own LCD. I think it's the font that shows up, it's awful small and such and I can't get into the settings in order to change it. Damn, I say. I really am enjoying the iMac's - and found out that I can get a discount on them from Apple.com since I am at this school and they have an account with Apple. But, sadly, the iMac model that I like (G4, I think) is no longer in production and has been replaced with an all-in-one model that I don't care for that much. I think this bubbly iMac is adorable, lol. I want to lick it, as my subject line said.

I've been too busy with things, and when I have had the time I just couldn't bring myself to update the journal. I don't know exactly why, but I think things are beginning to really hit me for some strange reason. Oh well, there isn't anything I can do to help it.

Chu is doing well, and is the cutest pet ever. David and I enjoy his sporadic actions, and attempts at wall jumping. For the first time he actually took treats from our hand and ate them - and it happened to be raisins. I like the fact that he is becoming more tame, as it makes it infinitely easier to care for him. And now that he tolerates me holding him and petting him he really feels like a pet. He still shits little pellets out a lot, and flings them everywhere. We're currently devising methods to fix this matter.

I'm not at my workstation because some older lady took my spot. I don't think she was here the other day, so she just up and took my designated spot by the window. Rawr! That spot is mine, bitch!

I work straight after this, and that saddens me. That means all of my day was spent elsewhere, and it's David's day off. I don't have the time to do anything anymore, which is going to annoy me I am sure. I am either working or at class. *pout* David and I's one year anniversary is two weeks away. Startling, eh?

Alright, more people are beginning to filter in so I am going to get my homework ready. We were asked to bring in two magazine spreads, one full-bleed, one not. We need to like them both. We also needed to bring in a spread that we disliked. I couldn't find anything not full bleed, so I skipped that one - but I did bring in one of the Year Books that my High School put together. It's horrible. Pixelated pictures, font never staying the same...fun fun fun. Ok, class time. 4 hours sitting here will be fun...I hope.

Mood: busy
Music: people talking

And the word for today, kiddos, is as follows:

killer

Inspired by my Photoshop I teacher and his excessive use of said word.

<3

Mood: dorky

How dare you deny my application for a loan, Apple!

All I wanted was a beautiful iPod, now with the click-wheel! I have the money, but the oh-so convenient payment method is out of my grasp! Curses!

It's 6 a.m. and I am bored, so I tried to test my credit. :P

David wants an iPod really bad...and our one year Anniversary is coming up next month...¬_¬

*cackles* ♪♫ Ok, sleep now.

Eh, last post has been made private. There are a few things that need to be situated, and even having it up for a few hours wasn't really needed. :o

I'm heading back downstate tonight since my boss oh so conveniently gave my days off in a row this week - so I'll be dealing with a few things down there. Well, not tonight. More like when I gather my clothes, get ready and feel like hauling it all downstairs. :p

My sleep schedule is still royally screwed as it has been since I left CMU. I've always been a night owl, so I end up staying up late and waking up late. Before, I went to bed at about midnight - which is what I'd like. I can't do that now unless I have something to wake up for (i.e. class). I sleep a lot due to one reason; the last time I wore myself out, and wasn't getting a lot of sleep I got mono. So, I'm guessing that plays a part too.

It looks like it is going to rain, again. I really don't want to drive in that weather...but I have no choice :P

This entry has taken about an hour to type of regardless of it's length, just because I am in a really weird state this morning. I'm going to get some things ready, call David in order to explain last nights events and the morning aftermath and then...head downstate for a night or two.

Ok. Brad is rushing around now to get ready. Wee.

Hmm? Oh, yes. Perhaps I will update tomorrow if I feel up to it. It's going to be a long day, so...yes. Fun. Blar.

It's been such a long time since I last posted. I don't know exactly why I have been staying away from the journal more so in the last few weeks, but I have. Its like this every summer it seems. And this is the third summer I have had this journal. Hmm. So, I believe now would be a good time for an all encompassing post, yes?

Things have been going slowly the last few weeks. In regards to personal life, work, etc. Slow, very slow. The summer seems to be going by extremely fast but at the same time it drags. I am not sure why I want it to go so fast, since it already has been. Oh well, I suppose. Over the week that I had off for my birthday, I just spent time back in Gladwin enjoying the absolutely wonderful weather that we had. It was crisp, and breezy. It felt autumnal, though it was July. My parents drove me around, since I hadn't been out and about adventuring for almost half a year, since my sickness. We saw the water, ate dinner at a few nice restaurants and I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent with them. I truly do love them, and all that they have done for me.

My birthday went off without a hitch. The night before we went to the casino in Mt. Pleasant to talk with Kurt, and he was working at the old one across the street. We stopped in to say hello, and then I gambled a little bit. I played the nickel machines, since the bright graphics and fast action kept me amused for all of fifteen dollars, and then we left. On the day of my birthday we left early, and headed to a few places. None in particular, though we shopped at a few little places along the way. I wanted to see the sand dunes, but it looked like it could have rained. I was also hoping we would take my favorite puppy out of the litter along with us to play, but that got nixed. It was a good thing, too. We went to Mackinaw City and couldn't have brought him in everywhere. We watched the water at the bridge and I relaxed on the way home. I finished two books on that trip. Making up for lost time, I suppose.

I've been back home once since then, and it was for my orthodontist appointment. It wasn't exciting, but I did see the puppies one last time before they were all sold. I miss having pets so badly, but I am relatively glad about one thing. Although it is not a dog, it will do. I came home from work today to find a little book about Chinchillas on my keyboard. Chibi had told me about the chinchillas at PetSmart, since they got some in again - and David is picking one up next Wednesday. It is small and cute, and can't be slept with like a dog, but it will do quite fine <3. David's life has been shit for a few reasons lately. He's once again feeling like everything he can do is wrong, but he's slowly coming to the realization that some people are just freaks and enjoy making him feel like that. The world is full of them, and he seems to get them often.

Work has been slower then normal lately, since we are trying to cut hours regardless of our fantastic sales recently. Tonight we had to cut everyones hours short, and we were understaffed. We were incredibly busy with people shopping off bridal registries. I had to show people what they were all about, do e-store orders, and command a register the entire night. We still got out early, which surprised me.

This post is shitty because I am tired, and I can't really promise that I will post another one in more detail because those promises always fall through. Why am I so moody lately? I probably don't want to accept the truth. Blar. Anywho, back to collecting Wool on Nexus, and then getting to bed.

Mood: tired
Music: Through With You - Maroon 5

So, the only reason I am making this post is because of an incredibly childish reason...

I purchased Legend of Zelda: Four Swords with David, because he was looking so forward to it and he promised that we would play together.

I thought it was fun.

Until they played it everytime I was at work, and are pretty much done with it at the moment. I played like 2 levels.

And Chris ROYALLY pissed me off, too. I selected a stage in Level 3 because thats where I left off..

So he exits it and goes to Level 7, and I give the controller to David and come in here. I paid $25 bucks for a game that no one wants me to play.

I can't believe that it's Sunday already. I'm incredibly tired of having the weeks fly by at record pace, but it just happens I suppose. I guess it means that I have been busy, but besides the normal work days scattered throughout the week nothing out of the ordinary has happened. Blar.

I'm incredibly tired, but I can't get any more sleep because I have to get to work in a bit. It's a Sunday, so chances are it might get a little busy. It always seems to get busy when people get out of church, since they apparently love shopping after services. Heh. I may post more when I get back, if I don't fall asleep.

I may edit this tonight, adding more to it. I'm not fully awake yet - there was definitely an inability to rest peacefully last night. Things are going the same as they have been here, except for the fact that I have been working more hours lately due to the Cherry Festival being held here (where tourists flock in giant packs towards the bay)...which is alright. I suppose it gives me more time to attempt to save money in my new savings account. I got back from downstate the other night, as I just went down to visit for a day and I really do miss everything still..

This place, no matter how hard I'd like it to be, isn't home. I'm sure David gets the feeling from me that being here makes me sad, but there really isn't anything else I can do about it. I don't want to just run away again, I've done that too often in the last year. I don't have any friends, or any real reason to socialize here. Regardless of how often we're told to do something, I don't have the heart to drive around and attempt to entertain myself. I've sectioned myself off in the apartment, due to my fear of a few things that I really just don't want to get in to, hehe.

Last night David and I were planning on going to see the fireworks. It had been an incredibly rain and cloudy day, so we were unsure as to whether they would still be held or not. We waited for Amy to call us back, after forever, and she told us she wasn't going out there. So, we called Chibi and were told the fireworks had been cancelled today due to the weather. So, to make my 4th of July even crappier along with the rain, boredom and sadness - the fireworks were cancelled. So, we headed to Meijer. We purchased nothing, but wasted some time before we went to rent movies. As we walked outside, the fireworks started. I crawled into my little shell and was quiet. We went to Family Video, rented some things and came back. We had forgotten that the AC was on, as we had gotten used to it in the warmth earlier in the day - and Chibi made sure we knew about it the moment we stepped in the door. David quietly dragged the TV and PS2 into our room and we stayed in there, after I had to calm him down. Everytime he does something, someone HAS to let him know what was wrong. Or that he messed up. He never once felt good about himself at his old house because of Kim, and I -won't- let anyone do that now. People are still trying to do it and it pisses me off. If he does something wrong, I see no need for everyone to always bring it up. Nice way to give someone an inferiority complex, although I don't think he could feel any more inferior then he already does. I held him for a while, and I started 50 First Dates. The movie made him laugh, which I was glad for. We both fell asleep, and plan on watching the other DVD tonight.

I did get to chuckle at David's sleep-talk again tonight. I've never listened to someone who talks in their sleep, and David always finds it hilarious the next morning when I tell him what he said. :D

I work at 3, so I might add on to this tonight when I get back from work. Hurrah.