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Monday, January 5th, 2009

Woohoo, accomplishments!

7:12 pm

Dang, I accomplished a lot today. Ran a lot of errands, and did a lot if shopping at the ever-awesome Target. Got home and did a lot of re-arranging and re-organizing. Have a brand-new Xerox box in the closet of "Amanda's Crap" to make way for more new books on the bookshelves (and yet still more on the way -- am waiting on purchases made with Amazon and B&N giftcards to arrive). Took all my doujinshi out of the drawers I had them stashed in and put them in a nice storage box, and then rearranged the rest of my drawers to make use of the freed-up drawers. Also installed all the new Sims games and am now up to date on it all. Unfortunately the new semester starts tomorrow, so this is probably the last of my free time. Sigh.

Still need to reply to LJ comments and do a write-up about my awesome week with Krysti. Will try and do that soon!

Mood: accomplished
Music: The Golden Compass

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Thursday, January 1st, 2009

It's all 2009 and stuff.

12:19 am

Happy New Year everybody! I have been having an awesome time with Krysti this week and I'm really happy I got to spend the new year with her instead of alone for once. :) Right now we're being huge dorks and doing our traditional Amanda-n-Krysti-hanging-out celebrations: eating ice cream cake and watching Advent Children.

We actually rang in the new year in Kamadan district 4. >.>

Mood: sleepy
Music: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Unlocked work post ho noes!

10:04 am

I had the BEST dumb customer yesterday. THE BEST. This one goes in the epic halls of epicness. This is way more epic than the lady who asked me if I could make a black and white picture color. It's so good that I'm not even locking it. The awesomeness of this must be shared.

So we have a lot of cute little holiday knick-knacks strewn around the store, one of which is a "Bob" clock. It is called so because it is kind of egg-shaped, and so it... bobs. And on the packaging, the Bob clock is currently displaying the time as 8:08, you know, 'cause it looks like "BOB." Get it, it's a big hat; it's funny, ha ha.

So we have this swarm of typical highschool girls pass through, picking up calendars, and they go on their way, giggling and talking about Hanson or whatever the damn kids are into these days. But one of them comes back to me, clutching the Bob clock.

Girl: Hey. Does this clock always say 8:08?
Me: ... I'm sorry?
Girl: Does this clock always say 8:08?
Me: Er... no. It... it's a joke. 'Cause... you know... Bob.
Maria: (hearing only the tail end of this conversation) It bobs.
Girl: Oh, okay.
Me: ...

A CLOCK WHICH ONLY DISPLAYS ONE TIME FOREVER IS NOT REALLY A CLOCK, ALSO IT WOULD BE TOTALLY SHITTY GIFT IDEA. IF IT SAYS "CLOCK," I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE TIME ACTUALLY CHANGES.

*flailflailflail*

Mood: silly
Music: Lagaan - Ghanan Ghanan

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Friday, December 19th, 2008

This graab is frabishing!

11:28 am

Listening to Sims music right now before work (nothing makes me feel better than Nightlife Create-A-Sim if only for the ba-bibba-bas) and realized I haven't played Sims in MONTHS. MONTHS I TELL YOU. I asked for all the Sims stuff I don't have for Xmas from the moomster, so hopefully that will encourage me to play again (IKKEEEAAAAAAAA NNGHH). Although it means I'll have to download Sims PE again.

I was also rewatching this and realized that I own Portal and have never played it!! WTF. I should make that a goal of this winter break.

Mood: cheerful
Music: The Sims 2 - Nightlife CAS

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Thursday, December 18th, 2008

booyah, take that holiday season

11:08 am

Yesterday was a very productive day! Sara and I went shopping over on Merritt Island and I am pretty much done! All I have left is a present for Maria, which I think Sierra and I are splitting so I have to wait to get that till the next time we work together. But what a relief. Now I just have to pay off my CC bill. And buy textbooks for next semester. D:

Afterwards Sara and I hung out for awhile, surfed the intrawebs, watched a little bit of Bunty Aur Babli (which I finally broke down and bought for myself) and then went to Pineapple Bay. Sarah S. and I had got take out from Pineapple Bay before and I wasn't very impressed (we got beef curry, non-spicy, but still I didn't like the flavor at all), but I wanted to give it another go since everyone raves about it. This time I got pad thai without the chili sauce and it was so. good. Although still very spicy to me! I thought it was going to taste like it had been slathered in peanut butter but it didn't at all. It was really good. Afterwards Sara got a "kaya crepe" which had coconut jam in it and she let me try it... it was so amazing. I should have got one for myself, too, lol. I'm glad I gave them another shot!

I'm getting really excited for Krysti to get here. Screw Christmas, it's all about Krystimas, hahaha. Not looking forward to this weekend at work but at least it will all be over in a week. Yay!

Mood: okay
Music: Armaan - Mere Dil Ka Tumse Hai Kehna

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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I HATE YOU T-REX

8:23 am

I had a hard time sleeping last night. And do you know why?

It was because of T-rex. :/

I kept dreaming a T-rex was after me, and every time I woke up I would be like "phew, that's over," but then I'd go back to sleep and it was all t-rex t-rex t-rex t-rex. It was most uncool.

When the dream started out, I was a young, Latino, hat-less Alan Grant (so... not really Alan Grant at all then) and I actually worked on Isla Nublar, and then John Hammond was like "aw shit you guys, I accidently let all the dinosaurs out, have fun with that, peace out." Dream was thankfully void of velociraptors this time, but T-rex kept showing up and my/psuedo-Dr. Grant's reaction was to hide under a blanket and hope T-rex wouldn't realize that there was a delicious person under there.

So I'd wake up, shake it off, and then when I'd close my eyes again I'd have to go through it all over again. Oh, and the T-rexes kept multiplying, so there were always more each time. And even though T-rex is way too big to actually get inside a house, they always managed to anyways, and I would hide under a blanket every time and hope they would overlook me.

Eventually I was me again, and I was in my house, and mom was like "you're an idiot for hiding under a blanket in the house; next time it comes by you should go out the front door to trick them, and hide in the backyard, and then come around and get back in the house when they start to look in the backyard." WORST PLAN EVER MOM, THANKS. But anyway I did, I ran outside to the backyard and there was a ziggurat out there, so we were like, hey, let's go up to the top, awesome, we'll be safe up there, but duh, T-REXES CLIMB STAIRS so we were totally screwed.

Hopefully tomorrow night will be blessedly lacking in T-rex.

Mood: awake

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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Makin' it rain...

11:54 am

I have been spending so much money lately. Obviously, it's Christmas, but I've been buying stuff for myself too. I've really blown a lot of money this year; it's kind of distressing. I still have about 6 presents left to buy, which will be another $100+. And unfortunately there are some things I want/need to get for myself. I've been saying "I'll wait till after Xmas," but I think I'm gonna buy everything now and then buy nothing else after the new year, just work on paying my CC bill. Which actually isn't too bad, but still. No more spending after the 31st, that is my resolution.

Of course I'll probably have to pay $200+ in textbooks immediately after Xmas... ugghhghgh.

Mood: listless
Music: Oojami - Chicky

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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

It's go time!

11:50 am

Yesterday at work was nuts. I was actually pretty okay and calm despite all the craziness going on until like, the last hour, when some guy really hit my PMS button and I was pissed for the rest of the night.

(Note to Mr Very Important -- if your court documents are so Very Important, maybe you should consider NOT PROCRASTINATING TO BRING THEM IN TO GET COPIED UNTIL TWO HOURS BEFORE YOU NEED THEM ARHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHG -- also saying that your stuff was More Important than the other jobs I had in line was Very Annoying and I should have just told you NO but I am a TOOL. :/ At least we got $50 of your cashie monies so there.)

Got up early today and went to the gym with Maria. Did I mention I joined a gym? Crazy right? But it's only $10 a month so it's worth it I think. It takes a lot for me to drag myself out of the bed at 6 AM but it really gives me a lot of energy for the rest of the day.

Did some more Xmas shopping. I'm still not done. I'm glad I have so many friends but wow, it is hard thinking up different ideas for everyone every year!

Also we've finally got the dates pounded out that Krysti is gonna be here and I am SO FREAKING EXCITED. It is going to be AWESOME.

I have a lot to get done this weekend (well, my weekend anyway) but I am totally motivated to do it. It's Amanda vs. Computer: ANNUAL ORGANIZATION AND BACKUP TIME.

EDIT: I swear, every time I am excited about gettin' stuff done, a wild headache approaches. And I lose every time.

Mood: chipper
Music: white dude gettin' a verbal smackdown in Namastey London

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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Krautlet

9:28 am

I just made myself the most amazing omelet with onions and the leftover smoked sausage and sauerkraut from dinner last night. I did it on a whim but it was a good whim.

Further proof that sauerkraut makes all things better.

Mood: hungry

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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I want an awesome road trip...

9:53 am

Man, I slept in and I didn't intend to, since I need to wrap up my assignments before I have to go to work, but I was having the most awesome dream.

I dreamt that Krysti and I flew to China and when we went to rent a car, my car was miraculously there and so we had an awesome road trip across China to the Himalayas (of course the roads were all in pristine condition; it's my dang dream after all and if I want a beautiful road trip to the Himalayas I'm going to get one).

It was worth sleeping in for.

EDIT @ 11AM Dang, I fell back asleep and I have work in an hour... I require coffee input...

Mood: contemplative

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