Exercise equipment commercials are funny.



It gets even better at about 1:27

So I went to artworks with my mom today where they had a jar of beeswax soothing salve. Now... I have always pronounced this word as SALVE... but then I've never really heard it said before either. I've always only read it. So when I said it today my mom was like it's pronounced "sahv." And I was like, noooooooooooo. Looked it up just now... totally pronounced "sahv." Why the eff is that L in there then? poop.

Good memory of the day: Dad is watching Star Trek while mom is reading and I'm on the computer here. So when Bones said to Spock, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" my mom bust out laughing. I had to laugh at her laughing. My mom is so funny.

Taught myself how to crochet spheres (avoided saying balls 'cause my friends are perverts ;p) and made a really cute cactus. A few people saw it and said they wanted one too. Working on other shapes too.

BTW, I like Zoel Deschanel's voice. Her and her sister (Brennan from Bones) are very talented. ^_^ I think I want the She & Him cd too.

I still need to get my hands on one of their CDs. Hopefully one with this song & Gaja Gaja Goo. Maybe I'll check out the tofu records website...

Or maybe a DVD. They have such great videos. ^_^

Other Japanese CDs to get Someday:
Kokeshi Doll
Anna Tsuchiya
Amuro Namie (used to be Amuro)
Puffy (Puffy Ami yumi in the US) - I have 2 but I like them so more wouldn't hurt. hehe.
Asian Kung Fu Generation
Yui

This just plain made me laugh.

I was SUPER productive the past two days.

Yesterday I went to work, finished phase 1 of my portfolio, talked to my Prof for an hour with my group about the next part of our ethics paper.

Today, I woke up an hour before my alarm... and sat in bed making a list of everything I had to do. Then I went to work for my LSO meeting where I found out that I'll be taking up some of the responsibilities of Nancy who recently had to resign. I will start training on make labels and do inventory soon. yay! Got out of work and typed up question to interview librarians for a project. Made phone call to make appointment with adviser. Made phone call to see why the hell I'm getting bills from my loans. They removed the transaction. hooray! Then I went to Reed City Public Library and did one interview. Drove to Evart but discovered that the library there was not... ideal. So, drove back and went to Big Rapids Public Library instead. I will have to talk to my Prof about doing the interview here but I don't think there will be a problem. I go back there tomorrow. At 4pm I call Scout and talk about my status in the class.

It feels like a week has gone by since this morning. I'm going to use the next hour to check Email and such. After my phone call, I'm either going to clean house or read the book I have to write a review on. This all, of course, depends on whether I pass out on the couch or not. haha. Either way, I feel really good about being really productive.

Oh, stopped and picked up some Fergasa rolls from Wright's Bakery on the way back from the RCPL. Oh Em GEE yumgasm.

Well, I honestly think I'm shit out of luck as far as my Master's goes. I got an Email from my Professor saying she was worried and an Email from my adviser saying I have to set up a meeting with him. I don't think I'm doing well. (But how the hell am I supposed to tell?!)

I also started getting bills to pay back my loans... which I'm not supposed to get 'til I'm out of school... so wtf? I'll be calling them later this week to find out.

I've decided I'm going to start looking for another part-time or a full time job just in case. I don't see this working out well. *sigh* I decided I need to stop being stubborn and just deal with the fact that I'm pretty good at this failing thing.

I'm getting a really intense feeling that I need to travel. It doesn't happen often for me, but I need to get out of Big Rapids. I don't really have the money to go anywhere, especially after all that car work. I have an assignment to visit a library and interview someone... I am thinking about going to Grand Rapids to do it. That would be a good excuse to go that would make me feel justified in spending the money.


I am also feeling the need to clean/rearrange everything in the house. haha. I think the best I'm going to get outta that is moving my room around. We'll see. The bathroom is really working its way into being gross. I'm still hoping Tom will clean it like he said he would for the Halloween party. He keeps hinting to Sarah and I that we should finish raking but I don't think he realizes how much Sarah and I do for/around the house. Sarah does the dishes more than either of us. I'm guilty of not doing it at all. hehe. At least I usually rinse my dishes before I leave them to sit. I happen to be the one who takes out the trash, though sometimes Sarah helps. I usually take back the bottles/cans. I usually sweep the kitchen/bathroom. I usually clean the toilet and shower. I usually run the sweeper vac over the carpet or borrow my 'rents vac and do it for real. I've been NOT doing it lately so maybe Tom will see how much pickup Sarah & I do. Doing this stuff wouldn't bother me at all if Tom weren't telling us we have to do more. Notice how Sarah and I haven't touched the leaves? hmm. I wonder why that is? Oh, man... didn't even MENTION what we buy for the house. Sarah and I have bought all the toilet paper, the paper towels, the garbage bags, the cleaning products ('cept draino, ONCE), and most of the food for when people come over to the house. I have bought the sweeper vac, the curtains, the dryer sheets, the laundry detergent, the window cover plastic stuff (which I still need to put up), etc. etc. etc. So I think, maybe, Tom can rake the leaves. I'll help him haul them out to the pit, but I'm not gonna rake them just because he said what he said.

Let's see what else... Nothing new really. Re-worried about how I'm doing in school. Oh, oh wait... haha. We had a "bonfire." hahahaha. Tom had talked to Bryan and I about he wanted to having a bonfire Saturday night after he got out of work. Friday rolls around... and he had forgotten he had said anything. haha. I reminded him, apparently, when I asked who was going to come over. ha. Turns out it was Josh & his sister D (nina), Armond, Bryan, Sarah, Tom and I. I think that was everyone... But Armond brought over this HORRIBLE ugly orange chair.... and I guess they thought it was smart to burn it. *cough* The flame was huge. The wind was blowing. It was hot. Needless to say the lawn caught fire a bit. *rolls eyes* Kind of why I didn't want the leaves piled in the fire pit to go all the way to the edge. Dummies. We haven't done any upkeep on that since fall started so no DUH the lawn would catch. Anyway, we all sorta panicked for a minute... And then we had a good laugh about it. It was cold out so that was pretty much the whole bonfire. It was really short. hehe. I just keep thinking the word "dumbass" when I think of it. hahaha.

So, when I was getting my transmission leak fixed last week, they pointed out that my VERY rusty oil pan also had a leak. So today I dropped off my car to get that fixed. I've had my car for YEARS now. How dare all this pile up at once. lol.

New Tires - $400
New front hub for broken tire rod & transaxle - $350
Oil Change - $35
Transmission - $135
Oil Pan - $411

In the last month and a half I have spent at least $1331 on my car. Please, PLEASE don't let anything else be wrong with it for at least another year. A woman's gotta eat!

Made a new journal about my diabetes. http://dbburnout.livejournal.com/

If you want to watch videos from the party, here is the link but I will have to Email you a password so let me know if you want to watch them.

http://www.screencast.com/t/nyhvqgUFM10

Shaping Up to Be…

This is the shape of my life.
And it concerns you.
It may not be the same as yours,
but all the edges fit together.
You may want to make a circle of a square,
but frankly I don’t notice.
I would prefer to throw an arc up here
where you would have put a line,
By the way, I’d like to remind you,
that since it may not be good enough for you,
And you may wish that I would improve it,
that this shape is mine.
You may find my lines
doing loop-da-loops until they intertwine.
But they’re mine.
You may think the lines aren’t thick enough,
but where they’re thin,
it’s because I like them that way.
This shape does me just fine.
Because it’s mine.

You Could Have Been Spared

I told you once and you ignored me.
I tell you again, just to be sure.
I told you thrice, but you mistook it.
I show you this time, and it works.
I told you not to expect things.
I told you I couldn’t commit.
I told you not to bother
so don’t get mad at me for this.
You thought we were a couple.
You thought you had a claim.
You thought this even after,
I told you over and over again.
If you simply would have listened,
If you would have paid some heed,
If you would have left me drifting,
you wouldn’t be in this pain.

Still pretty busy with school. I get a break this weekend! Sort of... Well, I'm taking one anyway. haha.

Friday - driving to Chicago to see Cyn & Jessie. Going to Kiki's Halloween party dressed as roadkill. I make a damn cute deer if I do say so myself... which I do. hm. Why do people say that? If I do say so myself... well, I just did. There's no IF about it. weird. hm.

Saturday - Coming back from Chicago to have a party of my own. I'm really excited for both parties. A lot of people didn't RSVP to my party so I don't know how many people will actually show up. I've also had a lot of people who were coming before, cancel and a lot of people who said they had other plans say they were going to stop by. I can't wait to see all the video game costumes! Can't wait to see the faces of anyone who comes without a costume since we have some awesome penalty games!

Sunday - Clean up and homework. How depressing.

Time to go get dressed up and record my presentation! Then write my group blog piece! Then pack for Chi-town! Then... *rambles on*

*sigh* So busy. Damn it.

Not much different. I've been really busy still. This week was a little slower than the rest of them have been. I got to read a book for FUN for the first time since school started. It was surprising how fast I gobbled it up. Zoom. 752 pages less than two days. With work and everything else I think they was damn fast. And it was just what I needed. mmmm.

lessee...
Work: the same as usual. 20 hours a week. more boredom than not.

School: still hectic. I'm doing better at keeping up so far. After panic attack #2... I had almost decided to drop out of grad school... I've been trying harder to step it up. I had to tell Bryan that i don't have much time to devote to him... he took it okay, I guess. I HAVE to make this my #1 priority if I expect to finish. Still having trouble, but doing better than I was.

Halloween: Definitely going to be Vanessa from King of Fighters. I'm getting really excited for the party even though I don't think a lot of people are going to show up. But I don't know for sure because no one really gave me the RSVP. However, I know Cyn and Jason are coming and that is enough for me. ^_^ <3 <3 <3

Guys: see note about Bryan? Kind of at a standstill...

Health: Both roommates got the flu on the SAME night last weekend. So far I haven't gotten sick yet... but I'm drinking a TON of oj just to be safe. lol. Other than that... I might start having some issues.

hm. Tired now. Probably gonna go sleep. ZzzzZzzz

Tonight is Jodie's b-day party. I'm excited since we're going to the gate... on a Tuesday! I'm hoping to see some of the people I used to hang out with. I got Jodie a Chinese paper umbrella. She said she wanted one that one time we were in Chinatown. Tom told her that he got her a clip-on, since she's always saying how she has on with hairy balls. lol. She totally believes him. I plan on getting drunk. Don't think it'll take much considering how little I've been drinking lately. Oh, and I have tomorrow off work. Double win.

1. Bold the names of guys you'd definitely shag.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might shag after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don't do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark after the guys you've never heard of. ?
5. Strike the guys you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. ADD FOUR OF YOUR OWN AT THE END.
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Orientation went okay. It was pretty boring. Drove to Detroit on Wednesday and parked my car in the iffy lot outside of my hotel because there was no obvious sign signing "valet parking" so i didn't know there was a safe place to put my car. Turned out okay though. The nice man didn't charge me too much and even though my car was in an unfenced lot that was unwatched between the hours of 12-8am, nothing happened to it. I did get kind of surrounded by a group of guys outside the bar between the parking lot and the hotel but luckily they were the type to take my death glare seriously. (Or maybe it had something to do with me being half a foot taller than the tallest guy there...) The hotel was nice even though it was being remodeled. I really liked being there. It was like living alone... 'cept not. lol. Got up on Thursday and left for Wayne State about an hour earlier than I had to. On my way out of the parking garage I was stopped by a woman(?) in a wheelchair with a spork who kept asking me to come closer. It creeped me out because I've heard of people getting attacked like that. I tried to help him/her but s/he couldn't make up his/her mind about what s/he wanted, so I left. I felt a little guilty but whatever. I checked-in half an hour early and then sat in the auditorium through 3 hours of boring speeches. Next was lunch with our advisers... which I didn't really get because there was no room left for me at his table. (Way to Plan, WSU.) Then we were split up into 4 person sized groups and put through a series of group exercises. It was fairly dumb but better than sitting listening to people talk. After that was my first official class as a librarian! My teacher was a woman turned man, which threw me off because all my papers said to go to the room for class with AMANDA Calvert but the only person there was a SCOUT Calvert.... (Again, Props to WSU. *rolls eyes*) BTW, there were 250 people attending the orientation MLIS. I think that may be a lot of people. lol. After that I went and got my Student ID and talked to the financial aid office to see when I'd be getting my loans. (They will be released to me 2 days before my tuition is due, apparently.) I was suppose to take my IC3 test after getting my ID but they gave my freaking seat away. So now I have to try to make an appointment in Grand Rapids. Ah well, orientation is over.

After that I was TOTALLY EXHAUSTED. I slept an awful lot this weekend. Went to bed early Friday, got up for breakfast at 10:30am and went back to sleep again 'til 4pm. The next night I played video games with Tom and Josh until about...4am? That's really all I did the whole weekend. hehe. Last night we watched a movie called "An American Crime." It made me really glad I don't live in a time when if someone was screaming inside a house the neighbors considered it a "family matter" and none of their business. Poor tortured girl.

hm... I get my tuition released to me on Wednesday so hopefully I won't be so... lacking. I hope I'll get to pay Mom back. I'm so bad at saving money. hehe.

Still don't know which video game character to be for my Halloween party. I've been having a lot of really great ideas for decorations and activities and such... but no costume ideas, really. *sigh* Like most years. =.=;;

I think I'm going to make a bento tonight. It's been a while.

Had a fight with Jessie.... *sigh*

I am home now. Tom, Josh and Jodie came and picked me up. YAY! We made a short stop in Chinatown and then Cyn drove us by Millenium Park and through the area where Batman 2 was filmed. Tom has never been to Chicago so he was pretty excited.

We got home around 1:30AM. I am TIRED. I am going to be exhausted this week. Full day of work today. Another full day of work and then I have to drive to Detroit tomorrow night. Then Orientation and my IC3 test on Thursday. Another full day on Friday. Saturday is free so I'll finally be able to catch up on sleep then. Thank bob.

My weekend. *giggle* So crazy. So I thought it was going to be relatively slow. Cyn was supposed to come up and we were gonna hang out and that was it. It started off exactly as I expected. She showed up on Saturday and we went tubing. We went back to my place and watched Hellboy, which she'd never seen. Once that was done we wanted to watch the second one so we went into town to my 'rents place and borrowed it. However, while I was in the house grabbing the movie, our friend Jason called us. So Jason had gone to Chicago... He was staying with a friend but while he was there, him and his other friend had a "falling out" with the first friend while away from the apartment... something about a girlfriend. And of course they were REALLY drunk/stoned. Thus, they found themselves without a place to stay and with their stuff thrown to the curb. This is why they called Cyn. Cyn was the only person Jason knew in Chicago... and it just so happened that she was in Big Rapids with me... so he STILL had no place to stay. I had him call Jessie... and a few minutes later Cyn and I decided to drive to Chicago. We kept up communications with Jason for a bit and then he didn't answer his phone. We got to Chicago around 3:30am and neither Cyn, Jessie, nor I had heard from him in a while. (We found out later his phone was broken but he put it back together in the morning.) So it's Sunday morning around 11 and I get a text from Jason. "I have no idea where I am." He had ended up 30 minutes south of Chicago in the house of some stranger. His friend was missing. Cyn and I went and picked up and attempted to go find his friend. We went back to where their car was parked but it was gone. So we went to the train station and around to the other places we thought his friend might have gone. When we checked all those places and gave up, we went to IHOP. While there, the friend called Jason and met us there. We found out then that he had slept on a beach. lol. I guess they took some questionable things while they were drunk and had a crazy adventure. So now we are back at Cyn's apartment. The boys are clean and sleeping and Cyn is cooking for them. It was quite a day. Now I just need to figure out how to get home... lol.

In tribute to Wolfie's "Funny Spam Titles" series... I decided to post a few of my own.

-"No woman will dare reject you when she sees that beast in your pants"

(actually... I think maybe I still dare)

- "Don't be a chicken, go for a bigger cock"

(LMAO. Nice pun)