stars are out [04 Dec 2008|03:04pm] giish [ mood | cold ] [ music | I think it's an Adam Sandler Christmas song on Musak ] I like to think there are certain things I can put up with. Actually, since moving here I've found that my tolerance for waiting and patience has risen dramatically. Where I used to fuss and get cranky at power outages, I now merely shrug and light some candles. It's nice that my candles are both pretty and functional. And I mean that in a completely non-Martha Stewart way. But today has been an odd day. It's been the kind of day where you get good news, and lots of it, but it's like double edged in disappointment in some way. For instance, when I heard from my supervisor that I can now take the time off as planned in December to go home for Christmas, I was happy. But not so happy when I realised I would have to change the plane tickets *back* to their original dates at an added cost of 500 dollars. Then, a job I had applied for (read: dream job) with no real hope of actually getting in for an interview. I don't mean that in a low self-esteem way, just being realistic as there are tons of people way more qualified than I am to take that position. In any event, I get a message and an email asking that I take part in the 2nd round of the interview process. I'm happy, and excited. So I call the guy back, then he tells me that yes there is a large pool of qualified applicants in the B.C area already from which they will likely hire someone, but that he would like for me to participate (if I still wanted to) to see where it went. So, I get to partake, but only until I get shot down in one of the rounds of the interview. Cool, but you kinda see where that is going :) I took this the other night. A paper lantern that I have hanging in my living room. Like some kind of bohemian love-nest. Yeah. Right. But no fear, dear beauties, I still have my cranky side. I've spent so much time on the phone with the airlines, that the operator I'm talking to is now familiar with my sighs andmoans of frustration. I don't understand, so early in the season *why* it's so difficult for them to put together the itinerary I had...from FOUR days ago. I'm still on hold. ugh. 1 Spank Pull out the paddle

Beginning of the End [03 Dec 2008|09:43pm] morbid29 So finally it December and as usual looking back and thinking "where has the year gone?" It didn't seem all that long ago when 2008 was just starting. But then that is just the usual case, no matter how we use our time in the end it slips us by faster then we would like. But to more recent things and of course with Christmas not that far away now the music channels are getting bogged down with seasonally related songs. Not only the music but the adverts have started to appear that will have the brats bugging their parents for stuff they neither will need nor play/use that long with before forgetting about it. Look for some this time of year maybe about togetherness, giving and all that lark but what I see is crazy nonsense that has the shops jammed to the gills with shoppers who should know better(!!) and this whole sense of false cheer that gets crammed down our throats because of it. It was two days ago I believe when a online friend said I have been in a bad to questionable mood for about the last week or two. I blame the time of year and secondly for the idicy that goes in chat channels; not that internet speak isn't enough to rattle me with being the hack of a writer. Now speaking of being a writer I have managed to start up a new scene in my story pretty late on in what I hope to be one of the later books in the series, wishing thinking, and have been picking and rewriting it since last week. Still got a way to go but it has been a start. Also there has been something else with listening to the Hardcore Christian Gamer podcast and they bring up the Trinity that gets me thinking. I used "Trinity" as the name of three Christian families formed into one organisation for a common goal but they are not presented in a good light with power play, politics and general displayment from the real world due to their hardlne beliefs. So talking quickly with a online friend and at the moment I look set to change the name from Trinity to Agia Trida. It may not roll off the tongue as the former did but should I ever get this story published it won't have hardliner Christians kicking up a fuss such as with the other books before. There has been one last thing of late. Yet again I am re-evaulting how I feel about one of my friends who so far I know only online but could stand to actually meet. I won't go into any detail with this for this is too open a medium and I just don't know fully myself. Well here we are at the end of this rambling entry so if you are reading on this well done on getting through. Pull out the paddle

[02 Dec 2008|12:49am] lilmouse9 [ mood | tired ] It was a very sad day when I had to get up at 9:15 and get ready for work. But c'est la vie for a few more days. Still no word on whether or not more funding came through. I'm actually now torn on whether or not I want it to come through. Is that weird of me? Blah, I'm freezing. Time to get in bed, warm up, and sleep. Pull out the paddle

Gobble, gobble, gobble or oink, oink, oink! [27 Nov 2008|12:58pm] lilmouse9 [ mood | hungry ] I hope everyone is having a Happy and yummy Thanksgiving! Pull out the paddle

[26 Nov 2008|01:24pm] thefool Live and love like there’s no tomorrow. Each day can be the last. No more regrets. Pull out the paddle

This, that, and the other... [25 Nov 2008|06:29pm] lilmouse9 [ mood | blank ] I'm free! Well, for the rest of this week I am. Then, two more weeks. Then, freedom! Freedom for a whole semester...unless the Basic Skills thing gets funded and my new teacher gets the okay. Yup, that's right. I got an email yesterday from my old English 1 teacher (which I find funny because I got a C in her class (either my own fault or her teaching style and my dislike of her then teaching style or both), but A's and B's in the rest of my English classes after hers) asking if I wanted to be her SI for English 370. Now, I took English 370 because I missed the test they have you do by one freakin damn point. I passed that class with flying colors, bells, and whistles on and I'm hoping her teaching style in this class is different or has changed. Of course, whatever I do has nothing to do with her teaching style. What I do is help, provide discussion time, clarify, and the like. Hopefully, I'll be able to understand her stuff a lot better now than before. But first things first, we gotta get funded. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. In other news, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and I'm starting to think about Christmas; like decorations and cards and presents for my loved ones and all that dandy stuff. I've been watching and looking at the sales and for potential stuff in general that my lovely people might like. But I have to budget and not go overboard. Crap. The dogs are acting crazy again. I'm out. Pull out the paddle

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