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Friday evening I made my quarterly trek to Uwajimaya to search for lychee, grab some chinese food marginally akin to that of Betty's Chinese Kitchen back in Kona, and look for cute trading cards. Preferrably Di Gi Charat trading cards. I saw a box of what I thought was Di Gi Charat, so I grabbed 4, but got home and realized they're Pita Ten. Oh well. They're pretty cute too. I also grabbed some Chobits and Sister Princess. Scans will be up soon, when I'm done modifying them into individual pics.
Sunday was a lazy day. Perfect. We hit The Dish for breakfast. Damn, their Sausage Benedict is the best meal in the world! Eventually we ended up at the Seattle Center to play mini-golf. Um, that was the shitties mini-golf course ever. Each hole had something wrong with it, and one was just broken so we skipped it and did one hole twice. Bah. Then we picked up some fudge, and caught the monorail to go catch a movie. We saw Chicago. I've been bugging Eric for weeks to go see it, and once it won some Oscars, I knew I could finally get him to give in. Part of me wishes I hadn't. He didn't really like it, and I thought it was a bit boring. You can read my review of it here. We had dinner at Red Robin (their teriyaki chicken burger is yummie!), then called it a night.
3.29.03 @ 5:34pm
I can't believe a whole week has gone by without an update. It's not like I didn't have stuff to say.
First, let me just say that this was a much better week. After having a meeting with management that was a little disheartening at first, I am now officially taking over Purchasing, so that will give me more duties to do at work, so I can pick up more hours. I need the hours, and I need the stability. I really was just sick of dividing up my time everywhere like that.
Yesterday was a great day. I did purchasing all by myself, and everything went well, so that was a proud achievement. Also, I called my mother during lunch. I am such an evil daughter. I never call my mother. We haven't spoken in so long, I'm not sure she knew we were even looking for a house. I updated her on life in general, but then I had to actually eat some food before going back to work, so I had to cut the conversation short. I told her I would call her last night, and of course other pressing matters came up, so I never got around to it. I'll call her tonight or tomorrow, I swear. Really!
The pressing matter was going to the movies! See what a horrible daughter I am?!
Eric and I haven't been going to movies like we used to, so it was really nice to get out and see an entertaining movie. We saw Dreamcatcher. It was quite good. Not excellent, but definitely worth seeing, and it was proper scarey, so I was very pleased. To read more about my thoughts on the film, please go here. I started writing movie reviews about a year ago, and decided I should start up again, and then I can add them to my website. Only a few so far, but I'm planning on reviewing most of the films I see from now on, so hopefully there will be lots more coming soon! So please go here and check out what I have so far!
Speaking of the site, I am not satisfied with the layout. Eric has always maintained that frames are lame, something about real programmers never using them. I just roll my eyes. But I think it's annoying (as I'm sure site visitors do) that when you click on a link to go to another page, the site address doesn't change. And if anyone google's me for something like my backgrounds and it links direct to the backgrounds page, they don't get the full layout, and hence will have no way to click out of the page and view the rest of my site. And it bugs me that 99% of referrals to the site are from "mysie.com/left.html". Bah.
The reason why I did it this way in the first place is because I like those items hanging out on the left. I like for the Bettie pic to hang out and always be there with you while you're visiting, no matter how far down a page you scroll. But, I want to add more links under Bettie, and it's already maxed out space wise to leave a scroll bar out of that frame. So I don't know what to do. I guess I just buck-up and do it. Turn the layout into a table like a proper programmer would, and be done with it. But why the fuck has no one thought of a good way to keep a left floating image floating, other than as a fixed background? Because I can't have a background image as my navigation tool. You can't make a background image into an image map. Dammit!!!!!
Finally, I just remembered. We caught "The Final Flight of the Osiris" from The Animatrix, which is playing before Dreamcatcher. OMG! It looks like it's the same group who did the Final Fantasy movie, only they've gotten even BETTER at skin. I was more impressed with Aki's skin in FF than her hair, which Eric constantly mentions they spent like half their animation budget on making look lifelike. The first half of Osiris is a nifty sword fight, and the skin of the two characters is amazingly lifelike. Brilliant work guys.
I found myself holding my breath, butterflies of glee bubbling in my gut when I heard The Matrix music at the beginning of Osiris. Holy Fuck, I'm gonna bust a seam if that movie doesn't come out SOON!!! I had forgotten how completely magical that movie was. Just hearing the music reminded me.
3.24.03 @ 9:53pm
Friday was another difficult day. It was the last day of classes. I got really depressed near the end of class. The idea that I'm not going to be working with kids anymore just kills me. I broke down that night and Eric just hugged me and kept trying to reassure me. I think I'm going to try this for 6 months. Try to get as healthy and fit as possible in 6 months, then see where I am and if I still want to work with children. Maybe that idea in my head will get me through this. I hope.
So that evening Eric decided the way to cheer me up was to go play indoor mini-golf at the Seattle Center. After trying to find a parking space near the mall so we could Monorail it, or by the Center so we could walk, we circled back and found a spot by Westlake and grabbed some chow because I was starving. Then we went to an Anime store and Hot Topic. They had a great Hello Kitty tee that I wanted, but they didn't have my size. Thank you Torrid!!! Somebody please buy me this:
And while you're at it, here's the rest of my wish list!
Anyway, back on topic, we never made it to mini-golf. We had an appointment to play Trivial Pursuit with J&S. It was a nice evening (of course, since we won, mwahaha!). But I was really tired, so we called it a night around 11:30pm. It's really frustrating how tired I am lately. Maybe I'm anemic. I hate this body.
The rest of the weekend was rather boring. Wanted to go out to see a movie, but we never managed the energy to leave the house. Instead, I spent most of my time playing The Sims Unleashed. Do you ever find yourself playing CRACK, and wondering why you're STILL playing crack? That is the basic experience that is The Sims, version any. They've just added a cute factor by adding pets. And the new "community lots" make it easier to get your favorite Sim to interract with others. Easier to make friends, etc. Some annoying bugs though, mostly buying stuff from the pet adoption center lot. I kept trying to adopt a pet and it wouldn't complete the sale. Ditto buying pet treats. On a whim I changed the lot to have different cash registers to match the green cabinets, and realized that made different sales people appear, and my problems were gone! I can't believe the game shipped with a cash register that equips bad sales reps that spend so much time chatting with each other, they won't sell you anything!!!
The only other news I have is that Jenni sent me this link and told me to click Go, then Deep Fried, then CC Cookies. Amusing, but me thinks some people have way too much time one their hands. And I'm not just talking about Jenni.
In closing, I spent a good deal of time deleting files on Saturday to meet the 1.2g(!!!) space requirement to install The Sims, and ended up deleting my old desktop. I now have a gorgeous new desktop that you can get by going to Suicide Girls. Just click on SG Army, and there is a link to desktops. Lots more desktops than the last time I looked a few months ago!!! Here is a preview of the one I selected:
Oh, but I did also want to show you my old desktop though. It is so gorgeous:
It's very hard for me to explain my spirituality to people, but that image is like spiritual poetry to me. And the movie Contact is kind of like a scripture. That's all for tonight.
3.20.03 @ 10:10pm
i finally renewed my suicidegirls membership after letting it lapse many moons ago. have yet to look at any lovely ladies yet, coz i was spending way too much time fucking around with my profile & piccy. eh. anyway, the site is rated nc-17 (x?), so no youngins peepin', ok? if you're of age, feel free to note me there.
we're going to extend the current owner's time in our new house. bah. but she's given us cash MONEY, so goodie. and i finished my homework after headaching all afternoon and then doing some serious procrastination. when you'd rather watch knight rider than do your homework, it's a bad sign...
ok, eric is demanded we take out the garbage for the week. ciao.
3.19.03 @ 6:32pm
decisions. life is filled with so many of them. and many of those can change your life. ok, they all change your life, to varying degrees. this is a big decision making week for me.
last week i decided not to go back to school, and to quit volunteering at the daycare. this week, i had to actually go through with that, and tell my teacher and kids. i did this yesterday, and it was so hard. i almost cried so many times, but in the end i didn't. but it was such a sad day for me. admitting defeat, saying goodbye to something i love, to so many people i love.
by last night i felt better about it, mostly because i knew i would get a good night's sleep for the first time in weeks. and i did. but after i woke up and realized i still had to go to work, i started feeling sad again. i'm not sure why.
i think because i have another decision to make. i want to add some more hours, and right now my work load doesn't support my current hours very well. so michael & debbie offered to give me purchasing and shipping/receiving. not the most thrilling prospect, but *eh*. not like i have anything better to do with my life right now. but those are big responsibilities, and how do my current duties fit in with that? i can't really add on that many hours. i can't survive working full time right now. i just can't.
so, yah. decisions.
even about the house. eric emailed me that we'll have some docs to sign tomorrow, and then the house should actually close on the 25th or 26th - ON TIME! holy shit batman! so i was getting all excited and giddy, looking at the calendar and realizing that that would put our possession date to a week from Friday or Saturday! holy shit! but, about a 1/2 hour later, Robin called. the current owner wants to know if we can change possession date to 14 days after close, and she'll pay us to let her stay. this is not necessarily a bad offer, since thomas has not been able to find anyone to show the apartment to yet, so the likelihood of him getting it rented by the 1st is about ZERO. but BAH! i want my house, dammit!!!!!
and then there's this war. a big decision and, contrary to what the picture below implies, it's not mine. we elected(?) bush to make these decisions for us, and he has. i think it's a horrible idea. mostly, i don't like war, and the idea of going against the UN sounds like bad news. everyone's making fun of france. why?? because they don't want to go bombing people? i may like to make fun of them as much as the next person for their evil frenchie attitude, but they're still our allies. our buddies. we help them and they help us. and they're telling us this is a bad idea. shouldn't we listen? and do we really want to tick off russia after so much time has been spent to build a relationship with them after the cold war?
anyway, i have no problem with bush making saddam his bitch. eric and i rarely talk politics, but a few weeks ago he mentioned how torn he is. because saddam is an evil mother fucker who kills his own people. we should do something about that shit.
but can't we just go in and kill the bastard? what's wrong with a little assassination between enemies? hmm? that may sound evil, and vaguely against the geneva convention, but it's sure friendlier than bombing those cities and moving in a quarter of a million troops.
stupid geneva convention. stupid bush. i hate this whole thing. i really do.
I got this image here.
3.16.03 @ 9:30pm
We spent all yesterday cleaning, and now the house is spotless! It hasn't been this clean since we moved in! I realized that I'm not really lazy, I just have a problem finding the energy to begin tasks. And I feel overwhelmed when faced with a beginning, which makes it even harder to start. But once I do, I'm a hard worker. I finished all my tasks yesterday, and now the house looks immaculate. Yay!
We took one break yesterday, and went to a late lunch at Johnny Rockets. When we walked out, I told Eric and I don't I can eat there again. The entire waitstaff is white, with the exception of a woman that may be Fillipino or Hawaiian or Asian. The entire cooking staff was Hispanic. But Eric said that probably all restaurants in Seattle are like that, only this one you can see the kitchen from every seat in the place. I wondered about this. Seattle doesn't have a large Hispanic population. But maybe it's true? If I was a journalist, I would investigate, but I'm still just me...
Today we went to see Daredevil, the first movie we've seen in weeks. It was quite entertaining, mostly because Jennifer Garner is hot. That song by Evanescence, "Bring Me Back to Life", is very good. Not sure I want to buy the CD though. Instead, I bought Norah Roberts' Come Away With Me, and Paul Oakenfold's Bunkka. Have yet to find the time to actually listen to them.
We don't think Thomas showed the place while we were out today. That probably means he won't be able to put someone in here immediately after we're out, and so won't be able to pro-rate us. Oh well.
I thought I had something more interesting to talk about here, but I'm distracted because Children of Dune has already started. Ciao.
3.15.03 @ 12:41am
Quick update: I added a link in the Goodies section to my Anime Scans. There are also some links to real Anime sites there. See, I can be sexy and cute.
3.14.03 @ 9:37pm
Today was a good day. I spent all of my evening last night finishing up this project for class and not getting the apartment ready, so I was stressed that so much was left to do. But by the time lunch rolled around, I realized I wasn't just nervous or trepidatious about the Art Show. I was excited! I was so full of energy, I wanted to burst in the room and yell, "Art Show!" I didn't, but everyone was kind of frenetic like that. It was great.
The kids made big messes during the Workshop, but none of that mattered, because we had all this great stuff from previous weeks already on the walls in the other room. We cleaned them up and marched them over to Art Show. They all responded so positively! This has been such a wonderful class! It's so sad that next week is the last week, and that this week was the last with the children.
It makes it that much more poignant. That I've decided not to take classes next quarter. Rosa and I talked about this alot on Wednesday, and we had both come to the same conclusion separately: working with the children is making my already over-loaded immune system wack-o. I had been debating internally for 2 weeks whether or not to register for classes next quarter. Wednesday morning, I decided: no. I need to start focusing on my health again. The diet's just not doing it. I need to exercise. I need to join a gym again. I have gone downhill in a big way since I quit the gym. And then I started working at the daycare and my health got even worse, which is pretty hard to do. I thought it was impossible, but it wasn't!
Rosa said that most everyone has their limitations. Some people can't take high-stress jobs or jobs that require travel, all because of their health. And I can't work with children. My immune system is just not kicking in like it's supposed to.
This really sucks. I am still really into it. It was a hard decision to make, and even harder to accept and go through with. Next week I'm going to tell my lead teacher it's my last week with her. I can't stand the idea of not seeing those kids again.
I went into this with the support of Eric & Rosa and their assurances that this was an experiment, a learning experience. If it didn't work out, then that would be knowledge gained. But it's certainly a bitter pill now that it's come down to it. Especially because now I'm right back to where I started: what on earth do I want to do with my life?
3.13.03 @ 10:27pm
Betcha didn't know that Brian Moody of Evanescence is an organ donor. Yep, he was in our shop today, and I took a look at his license. No, I didn't memorize his home address. He was with their road manager, who said they were on Leno last week, and playing Tacoma tomorrow. I'd never even heard of these guys before. I went online to check out their album Fallen. Amazon's clips are crap. Dawn played me a bit of their song, and I can see why the review online mentions Tori Amos & The Cranberries. I think they would be worth a 2nd listen, if I could find the time to download something.
This is the first free time I've had all day, and I'm using it to update this. That's not a bad thing. I like to write. I need to write more often.
Actually, during lunch, I had the time to read a fascinating article titled "Starlight Express" in the April 2003 issue of Wired. It's about the dream of Brad Edwards, founder of Seattle-based HighLift Systems. He wants to build a space elevator using nano-tech. Of all the sci-tech out there, I always thought nano was the most science fiction in the bunch. In fact, I kind of thought it wasn't for real. But this guy is some genius, who developed a laser when he was at Los Alamos that can cool. Isn't that crazy? Said to absorb the heat it produces, and more.
And now he's onto this nano stuff. Currently has something 4 times stronger than steel. He wants to launch a ribbon of the stuff into space, send down a 2nd ribbon, and voila, space elevator. The article stated that it currently costs $40,000 dollars to send just a pound of material into space. No wonder space shuttle flights are so expensive! With the space elevator, that same pound would cost $200. And eventually they think it will drop to $10. $10 x 200 lbs = Average Joe Schmoo in space star-gazing first hand for a whopping $2000. Carribean cruises cost more than that!!!!
Where do I buy my ticket?
3.10.03 @ 4:11pm
tinkering with a few odds & ends that weren't quite right. in the middle of packing. i do that alot. start something, then go off and do something else in the middle of it. bah. you should see the amount of dust in the computer room under some books that were sitting there *forever*. eek. we could create a whole new colony of cats based on the cat hair Kitty has left around the house for the past 5 years.
i am obsessed with this song by Norah Jones. i had no idea who she was when she was up for a grammy or when she won. just heard a song by her the other day. friday, i think. heard it twice today. reminds me of patsy cline. just listening can make you cry. i must purchase her cd. wait a minute. YOU should buy me her cd! everyone go to my wishlist and buy me stuff NOW!!! mwahahahaha!!!!!!!!
3.9.03 @ 4:11pm
Well, the new layout is up! What do you guys think? Oh, wait, I don't have guys. No regular readers. Oh well.
We went out for a yummie breakfast at IHOP, then went to Lowe's to check out how much it will cost to replace the sliding glass door in the master bedroom of the new house. Cheaper than what our inspector had thought. We also looked at carpet, washing machines, shovels, and smoke detectors. This is kind of an overwhelming process. I really want to have someone else do all the installs. It's alot of work just finding the info! Who wants to do manual labor too?
I guess I better go tell our landlord about the new house, huh?
3.8.03 @ 10:48am
Well, the new layout is almost ready to go. Last night I finally changed every last page. I think. I still have to make sure there aren't any pages hiding in folders anywhere. Then I'm going to update some content. I don't think I'm going to put up the new layout until I've updated for content. It's just easier to put everything up at once, rather than update the web now, and then again after I've done more changes.
On the home front, the house is a go. We have accepted the inspection, and are moving on with financing, etc. We're supposed to be in possession sometime the first week of April. Now if only I'd work up the courage to tell our current landlord that...
Oh! Now that I have a better layout, here is a picture of the house! See the big window on the 2nd floor? That's going to be my new office!!! It's just an alcove, but it's a pretty spacious, light and airy alcove, and I've always wanted my writing desk to be near windows!!!
2.24.03 @ 7:18pm
I am so very sick. It's just wretched. I've spent alot of today alternatively sleeping and playing with a new layout. I'd really like a new layout *soon*. I really like this one, but I'm tired of it just being "cute". Cute things are a really important part of who I am, but there are alot of adult parts to my personality that are getting crowded out by it. I'd also like to maybe start up a blog. I'm not really sure though. I definitely want something less limiting for updates, since this damn box is so small, I can't even put up a picture of our new house. Yep, we bought a house yesterday. So, instead, follow this link to take a peak. There used to be alot of pics on the net of it, but I can't find them now. Grr. Anyway, I bet you'll be hearing more about it soon. Take care everyone.
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