New beginnings...

FIRST!

OTAKON. Who on my f-list [lj only people] are coming and going to be in my room? My calculations are 7 people right now, but a few maybes.

NEXT!

SCHOOL. I have applied, spoke with my counselor. I skipped... a few steps I think. .__. I have to speak with the transfer specialist, and then probably financial aid. I have grant money to use, but I don't know how the hell all of this stuff works. I know I need the money to pay for classes and the books and all, but I'm hoping I'll have some left over. I'm kind of doubting it. BUT going back into school on a full time basis WOULD delay my student loans. Which is a major part of why I can't ever catch up. 200 bucks going towards that every month.

Even if I only go full time one semester [fall] I would still have 6 months after that before they start again. And by that time, I'll have paid off one of my loans, and if I do it right, possibly my car, too. That would be such a load off. But then all the money would just go to my mother, who I... haven't really been paying all of my rent to since I moved in. ⌐_⌐ I have a roommate now, finally, a co-worker who's nice |D and it's amazingly helpful for my mother to have someone who is actually PAYING to stay in the house. But then the AC blew up. So she's still in the hole paying for that. It's like Murphy's Law decided to target us specifically.

And, of course, I don't know which courses I want to take. I have been looking at the Networking Fundamentals, because I thought to myself that maybe that's what I should have done. It has more hands on work and not just staring at the computer all day. Probably. It's a certificate and not a degree, but based on it I can get my A+ cert later, which I should have had ages ago, and yet 8|a

But then there's WELDING. I don't know why that's stuck in my head, but I kind of want to go for it. It's also just a certificate, but I figure I could get it in two semesters as extra classes to take. Problem is, it's at another campus. It's a good clip away, but I believe some classes are at the campus closest to me. If I'm lucky, it's the ones that are the fundamentals that I need to take first that are over here, so I can figure out whether to power on or just drop it. At least with the networking stuff it's all over here. If I like the classes, I can jump right into the associates while trying to find a service desk job or something. I thought about a bachelors, but computer science is a lot of math and programming and that's why I didn't want to do web design. The programming part that is. Eventually I will probably have to get a bachelors in SOMETHING so that I can get higher paying jobs, but I'm just happy to have some kind of plan.

I haven't told my mother anything either, because then she'll act all happy and if I drop the ball her disappointment will crush me. ;__;

THEN!

Work. Not getting enough pay, as usual. Not enough hours, but I don't really want more. I'm hoping to get a call for that post office job at the end of this month, but who knows. If I do, then I'll have that, my current job, and school. I don't know how that'll work, but I have to give it a shot. If all else fails, I'll have to drop down from my current job to one day a week or something. I just need to keep it because I DEMAND to get my vacation week. I would also like to keep my insurance, but pft. Who knows.

Oh my, I'm going to starve. Not enough hours at work, and I can't spend my tax money until I know about the job or not. I'm still amused [read = annoying and rolling my eyes] that they feel 20 cents is a decent raise. I'm twenty five [now] working in a grocery store. Oh, my life. What am I going to do with it? I wish I knew. I feel younger than I am.


Spent at least an hour yesterday, between refreshing that gd plurk, searching through collapsingnight for this ONE icon.



At least 100 posts. I didn't even find it. My eyes probably glazed over and missed it, but it's still annoying to have not found it. I want the bigger picture of it to use as reference, but I have no idea where to find it. I want to redo a picture I'd done last year, but I'm horrid at leg positions. Ah well, that icon will have to do. The general layout should be enough.


Now, to finish reading Acheron. That boy's life ass horrible, but I laughed at him just as much as Fitz in the Farseer Trilogy. Can't do anything but laugh at how shitty his life was. It got better.

Random tidbits from work:

Me: The schedule isn't done yet. B|
Kitchen Manager: Actually it is.
Me: No it's not. It isn't posted.
Kitchen Manager: That doesn't mean it's not done.
Me: Yes it does. It isn't done until it's posted, we've looked at it, and complained about it.
Kitchen Manager: *laughs* That was a good one.
Me: I've gotta get one in every day.

And the BEST one EVER. We have a fire station right around the corner, and recently, they've been coming in and getting sandwich meat for lunch. This saturday, I was rolling.

T: So, you're not supposed to soak wood in gasoline and put it in your fireplace, are you?
Fireman: .......WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
T: I didn't. My step dad/father-in-law [something I forgot] did. Told him it was stupid.
Fireman: Yeah, you shouldn't ever do that. Gasoline is dangerous and highly flammable.
T: Told him. And Imma report him, too. :[ It was wet, and he soak it in gas then put it int he fireplace.
Fireman: Is he in ____ County?
T: No, he's in the city.
Fireman: Oh good \o

Me: *laughing forever*

His face. Oh, man, it was PRICELESS. It reminded me of all of those interwebz motivation and memes. The look of 'ARE YOU STUPID' on his face, even if it wasn't her. Aaa, humanity sometimes isn't fit for life.

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Had to be at work at 6:30 this morning. Woke up to my alarm clock at 5:15. Hit snooze repeatedly. Stared at phone at 5:50 and sighed.

*fast forward 45 minutes* Re-wake up at 6:34. Lol oops. Got to work at 7. \o Oh well. All the work got done and I got extra sleep =D;;



Additionally: Oh LJ. So funny. You and your wanting to connect to other sites that many of our users hate. *strokes* It's okay. I have a DW account, but I don't use it. Yet. I guess I should add to those on my f-list or who comment on my journal: Don't cross post. I'm not on those sites for a reason, and there's enough stupid stuff on LJ. Don't want more. =o=

Additionally 2: Watching Hellsing Ultimate. Subbed. I am split two ways. I almost always watch things in Japanese and only choose English as an after thought. [Outlaw Star and Saiyuki being two of the exceptions] But I like the dub [mmm accents~ |D And Crispin Freeman] Maybe the same reason why I like the GitS and Wolf's Rain dubs. Crispin Freemaaaaan



I'm behind on my 30 days of anime. Meh. =o=

Eh. My shoulder has been hurting for weeks. My range of motion has been getting better, but goddamn is it shitty to have to lift 10lb pieces of ham when your dominant arm has a vendetta against you. I slept on it wrong one night and... man, who knows.

That place STILL hasn't gotten back to me about career day. I still have hopes for the job, but I really should have been 1. Studying more; 2. Applying for other jobs. If I could find something within 30 minutes of home [that hopefully isn't downtown, fuck do I hate paying 7 dollars a day for parking] I would take it. As long as it paid me as much or more than I make now. This job isn't bad, but management really pisses me off.

I've been re-reading KareKano. And since Kris was reading it too, it made it all the more enjoyable. I really, really love that series. I have to do a few tweaks on how I play Yukino, since it's been a shamefully long time since I re-read all of her canon from the start [and I've been playing her for 3 years, so looong]. She's gotten a bit off track, but now that I'm just... enjoying RPing in general, Yukino especially, it'll be easier to bring her around to the active, personable, manipulative, and thoughtful person she should be. I let her stagnate for way too long. She's so out of the know it's criminally OOC. She should know everyone important and excel in people relations and information gathering. She needs to be up there with Maes in how much she knows. Better late than never? Eheh? Let's hope my motivation lasts.

And now, because I obviously don't post enough *sarcasm*

DAY 01 - Very First Anime

Dragon Ball Z!


I chose this picture because I have a horrible sense of humor.

Come on, you knew it was coming. I almost said Thundercats, but that was American Made and produced, even if it was animated by a Japanese company. Or something. ANYWAY, Oh Toonami. I used to rush home to make sure that I got to watch it. I also watched Sailor Moon, but that wasn't until later as I had -still have- an amazing aversion to girly things. They totally offend my sensibilities.

( 30 Days of Anime )

Haha, Suge na~ This marks my 1001 post~ *random*

As much as horrifying Pan on her return from... wherever she went... at the eggs she had carefully plucked being dead would amuse me to tears, I'm going to post them here. So you all click on them. =o=



And moving on from there, Tuesday I am either going to be in Newport News for Census work, or New Jersey harassing Kris for a few days. Cheza, if you were 2 hours closer I would be popping up at your house =D; I'm torn as to which one I want most. Census work means MOAR MONEY. And I definitely need it, as it's ending sooner than I had hoped. But a trip up to Jersey may be what I need. Just to get out of the damn house and DO something different.

After Otakon, I think I'm going to go on a site seeing tour around VA. I've lived here most of my life and yet haven't been so so many places. Luray Caverns... And I wanna visit Colonial Williamsburg. I haven't been there since... middle school field trip. Maybe pop up in jamestown or york town. Just... soak in all the history that's around me. Anyone going to Ota who wants to travel down to VA is welcome to join me, as long as I have room in my car, or you have you own >_>;; But Imma be running my own schedule, so if you want to do something different, I will leave you behind if I'm not interested \o

The How's My Driving? Meme



And I really need to get on top of sending the Shark that e-mail about events....... and other stuff. But mein gott I can't even keep up with tags half the time. At least I'm not so bad as to leave tags for two weeks. B|

And next week, I only work at the store Sunday and Monday. The rest of the time is mine. ALL MIIINE. Mmmhmm, thats means heavy duty census time. Yeeaaah. *insert cabbage patch dance*

Before they fire me for being unproductive. e__e

Fuuu I'm bad at remembering things like this.

4TH WALL EVENT

It's at my comm, dystopian_flux, so I invite all people on my f-list to come and harass people. Just have fun.

In other news, my store re-opens monday after remodeling last week. I'm going to die. Even if it's only a 6 hour shift. 2/3s of the case is all new stuff. All the codes have been changed and instead of 3 digits, they're all four. And we have people shadowing us for the next two weeks.

Good news: Maybe people will do their jobs when they have People Who Matter watching them all day. Here's to hoping.

...It's lucky I didn't do my taxes on Wednesday, as I got my 1099 in the mail that day. Late. The bastards know they have to be IN your hand by the 31st right? I knew it was coming, and remembered I'd have to add it, but forgot I didn't have the form. I can be pissed that they did a 10% penalty on my pre-tax amount and not my post-tax amount, right? So they penalized me on the full amount that I didn't even get, because they took out 200+ dollars of it for taxes. That's bullshit to me, but WHATEVER.

I did my taxes just in time because my CAR decided to have a fit. Why hello check engine light. It's not nice to see you. What do you mean? Oh, I just hate having to go to the car place where they love to charge you 85 dollars just for them to look at it and try to con you out of money for things that don't need to be fixed, that's all. B|

I'll turn Kyorabi in tomorrow morning, right before another EPIC SNOWSTORM that is slated to be somewhere between 8-20 inches. Yes. Eight to twenty. Because I keep hearing all sorts of numbers from people and haven't actually looked myself because I don't care as long as I can get home. I'll work 8am-10pm if that means I make up the hours I'm going to miss on Saturday because we'll be closed. AGAIN. ~_~

Now to shower and sleep, because I need to be up at 6:50.

It's snowing.

( I don't like it. Beware huge images )


It started around 4:30 and hasn't stopped. It... kinda looks more like sleet now than the white fluffy snow. Driving home wasn't so bad, but the roads aren't that safe. I'm supposed to go to work tomorrow at 12:30, and... I kinda just wish we'd be closed, but then what would the point of my extra hours on Wednesday have been for? I guess so that I still get 30 hours if the store is closed tomorrow. I kinda doubt it would be. It's christmas season. Stores are probably sobbing if people decide to be sensible and not go out shopping tomorrow.