It's so true...

I always knew it.

o/~All I want for my birthday is my wisdom teeth out...o/~

Ok, well I got that. (^_^) Opened up my family presents today (minus my brother's...he gave it to me last night.) I got "Neverending Story" DVD from my brother, plus a "Matrix Reloaded" poster and a "Finding Nemo" poster. I think I'll ask for more wall space for Christmas. (^_^)

My parents gave me money for a Canucks jersey, some butter toffee peanuts (I'll wait a week or two to eat those I think...), a Canucks scratch 'n' win and a couple of books I'd been wanting. "Vancouver: A Novel" and "Images on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art". It struck me how my reading tastes have changed over the years. Less soft fantasy and more history. I think it's a change for the better. :) I'm certainly enjoying it.

Ooh!! I'm disproportionately excited!! I got to eat solid-ish food today. Mmmm...lipton's chicken noodle soup... I was eating the broth for a couple days and got to eat the actual noodles today.

And Justy came over on his way back from work with an embroidery hoop for me so that I can work on my multitudes of cross stitch stuff. He was the first non-family member to see the amazing swollen jaw and bruise. He didn't run away screaming, so that's good stuff. (^_^)

Hmph.

Teach me to do my postings before reading my blogroll...Justy got his Friday Five out half an hour before me.

Friday Five! Friday Five!

Ha ha! Got mine out first-ish...

1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
Considering the nature of the last post...hockey! I'll also watch any playoff games that BC/Canadian national teams are in. Or if someone in my house is watching a game.

2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?
Vancouver Canucks: Markus Naslund, Todd Bertuzzi and Dan Cloutier
BC Lions: I liked Damon Allen when we had him. I was at the game he threw the yards record... That was pretty cool.

3. Are there any sports you hate?
Not really. I'm not a huge fan of car racing (sorry Justy...) but I haven't been exposed to it much.

4. Have you ever been to a sports event?
Yep, lots. About a half dozen Canucks games last year, including a playoff game, BC Lions games, several Whitecaps (European Football [aka soccer]) games, a WWF (now WWE) event and probably a few others I can't think of right now.

5. Do/did you play any sports (in school or other)? How long did you play?
Ultimate frisbee, for the last year and a half. Various martial arts, on and off for the last three years. I'm currently in karate.

Go Canucks!

Well, that was a damned fine game. I wish I could've gone...Candyman had access to tickets, but... :( Oh well. Got to watch it from home, so that's good. 4-1 Vancouver over Calgary with Todd "Damned Sexy" Bertuzzi scoring the first goal, and at least one "new guy" goal. King...? I don't remember. I'm a little doped up right now. :p

Either way, it was a good game. (^_^)

Mm...liquid yogurt.

Despite not being able to eat solid food, I'm doing pretty well. I'd really like a pizza or taquito though. :( Hmm...blender? (^_^) Nah. Not so much.

I should probably take a nap. I look like I got punched in the jaw...I have a nice bruise forming along my right cheek. :p So much for my close-up Mr. Director...

I got stuff to look forward to tomorrow though. It'sa my birthday! We had our dinner Sunday, knowing I wouldn't be up to eating much but I get family presents tomorrow. I know a few things that I'm getting, because I picked them up and gave them to my parents and said, "Here's a birthday present for me." (^_^) So, I'll be playing Myst, Riven and Myst III (if I can get The Cheat working...)

I'm going to go take a rest and watch more Sopranos. Candyman loaned me Season 1, plus a million other DVD's, so I'll do that, do some more cross stitch and generally veg out.

Teeth update

I slept, I got my ice packs changed every half hour, (thanks Mom!) I drank some ginger ale and Yop, (thanks Mom!) and did a little cross stitch. I needed to come downstairs for some scissors, so I decided to do a quick update.

My lower jaw, lip and tongue are still frozen. I have a couple of small bruises on my face, but nothing major. I'm a little swollen and in a bit of pain but I haven't taken any pain medication yet. It looks the the ouchy ones are going to be the bottom teeth.

And I created a new Japanese smiley...behold... (^_^) Puffy cheeked smile!!

Outta surgery

Just got home. I'm woozy and going to sleep now. Later...

Ookay...

Blogger's doing not nice things, so I can't get into "View Blog" mode. :( That means I don't get to see much bloggity goodness tonight either, and I won't be able to check blogs tomorrow... theoretically. God only knows how I'll be feeling.

I'll try to post something over the next couple of days.

I'm still a little nervous about going under anesthetic. I've never been unconcious before, and I'm not thrilled with the idea of being totally out of it with a bunch of strangers around. I'm less afraid of the pain, and more worried about that. I'm scared I won't wake up, I'm scared I'll get raped in my sleep...pretty much totally unfounded fears, but that's the way the mind works I guess.

On the plus side, I get to be off work for a couple days. w00t!

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Probably vanishing...

I'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow so I might not be around for a couple of days. I'll see what I can do. Incidentally...doing this fulfills a two or three year old promise...I made Otter go to the chiropracter a couple years ago by promising to get my wisdom teeth out. So, a little late, but better than never?

[strongbad]The Cheat...is grounded.[/strongbad]

The monitor's not really working. :( Oh well, I'm sure it will, or else I'll get a different one. It's all good. It's kind of weird though...it'll work right at the beginning when stuff is booting up, but then it won't. Myabe it's less the monitor and more the O/S...? But I'm not really a hardware girl...at least not with computers. >:)

I guess I should do this...

This Sunday's Five brought to you by Friday Five.org. Funny, dat. That's the same guys who do it EVERY week. :)

1. What vehicle do you drive?
2002 Chevy Cavalier, red. Name of Garnet (aka "Gar the Car")

2. How long have you had it?
Since late June.

3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle?
It's got lots of cool features that Herbie (my old blue Mazda 323) didn't have. Many cupholders, A/C, CD player, lots of room, brakes and power locks with a remote control. It doesn't have the same personality that Herbie had...jealous with occasional attempts to kill me.

Herbie was kind of cool though. He got jealous when I had men in my car and would sometimes refuse to start or refuse to unlock the door. Except with my brother. THAT was strange. Herbie also tried to kill me twice. Once by disconnecting the brakes and another time by filling the passenger compartment with smoke. That wasn't so fun. After the brake incident I bought Garnet.

4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle?
The A/C controls are too low and any drink containers get in the way, the defroster always defaults to A/C and the aerial is missing. :p I need to get a new one of those.

5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now?
I'd have two. I'd have a rocking motorcycle of the "crotch rocket" persuasion. Probably a Kawasaki Ninja, and I'd have Garnet because I love my car. Awwww...

Annoyance

or...

Well, it works properly on MY computer

Yes, but I have a Mac. The Cheat is a PC, and I haven't seen my site on him yet...but I've had a few people tell me that they can't see the bottom of my page and that it cuts off at the bottom of the sidebar. *irritation* I looked at the template a bit this afternoon ([smartass tone]Because I know sooooo much HTML [/smartass tone]) over at Candyman's but couldn't figure it out. Justy thinks he knows what it is, so hopefully it will get better.

If anyone's had this problem with my site and/or knows how to fix it, please let me know.

Battlefield God

This is pretty cool. Bimkins found it for me.


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Battleground Analysis

Commiserations

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The number of direct hits that you suffered and bullets that you bit as you progressed through this activity suggest that you need to give some thought to your beliefs about God.


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Computer

I have my computer. It's name is The Cheat. I actually got it for $140 because the guy didn't bring me a power cord and they're about $10 at LD. So now The Cheat is sitting on my living room floor waiting for me to find it (him?) a monitor.

Long live The Cheat!

Typical...

I finally find a good site of free cross stitch patterns and I have to go pick up my computer. Have to? Have to?! What the hell am I saying?!

*scrape of chair leg* *thump thump thump runrunrun* *front door slams* *car door slams* *screech...zooooooom!!!*

*incoherent mumblings*

I'm so tired...I finished work almost two hours ago (yeah, me lazy 4 hour shift...) had some soup and generally avoided sitting at the computer so that I could work on my paper. :p

Good news though...lots of it.

1) Me and another new girl were apparently being considered for a front end supervisor position in the store, but since we hadn't finished our probation period (or our first...you know...month...) we couldn't get that promotion.

2) I've been officially hired as "part time" rather than "temporary part time". That means I don't need to worry about trying to find another job in January. HURRAY!!!

3) The manager has pretty much told me that this being in charge of books 'n' stuff is a test. If I do good, I get more responsibility, more status and (please God...) more pay.

4) I got the Assignment Of Death back. I got 89% on it.

5) I pick up my computer today, after I finish this paper. Last paper due until November 7th, with a small assignment and an Assignment Of Death stuck in there somewhere.

Have I mentioned yet that my life abso-frickin'-lutely rocks? :D !!!!

Ok, let's do the math...

Now that I've gotten a comment about the evilness of leaving people hanging...I'm not going to say anything. :) Just kidding. :) So here's the math...

I've been at the store for three weeks. Exactly.

*pauses to take off "Buffy-Entire Musical Episode" off the random music.* Ah, Queen...much better. :)

I was hired for part time, seasonal work.

*pauses for dramatic effect*

I received a promotion.

Today.

Me.

Holy $#!+!!!

Yeah, anyways, I'm freaking out...I'm so excited. I have no idea if I get a raise or not. I have no one underneath me, but I'm the "Captain of Magazines and Books" with the responsibility of looking after said books and magazines as well as pulling the old mags off the shelves, sending them back to the publisher and putting out the new ones.

I start training tomorrow...three weeks and one day after starting at the store. OMFG.

Step one towards management, bay-BEE!!!!

Whoa...

I have some really big news, but I want to wait until I tell Candyman...

Don't worry. I'm not pregnant, despite the recent future Dooce Junior and No Name Yet Junior. :)

Oh, and specs for my new computer...

Pentium III Processor 450mhz
256 mb Ram
60 Gig Hard drive
Creative Sound Card
Nvidia Video card
48X CD Rom
10/100 Network Card

No monitor...don't know about keyboard/mouse etc, but I can pick them up cheap at a used computer place...or I can beg and borrow computer parts from my computer part collecting geek friends. Anyway, I'm paying $150 for it and I'll pick it up tomorrow after I finish this evil paper.

Must...finish...evil...paper...

Actually, wait. Must...start...evil...paper...

That's more accurate.

Did I mention the paper is due tomorrow? :(

Woo!

I'm getting a new computer! Well, new to me. I need a monitor for it though...