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Basil got his first repair a few days ago.

Oxygen sensor. He was only gone for one day. I was very impressed with the service. :)

He just passed 5,000 miles on the odometer, will be 8 months old in two days. It was pretty early for a first repair, but I’m ok with it…. so long as no other problems become apparent any time soon.

Huuuu.

99 in one class… havent gotten the results of the other yet but it was a 94, got a 79 in on my final…

My 21st birthday is in just over two weeks.

Basil has 4,350 miles on his odometer.

Um.

Not sure what else to put. =)

So since I have last posted I did indeed get my MINI Cooper.

I did not name him Xaben. I named him Basil.

And here he is.

Specs are as following:
2009 MINI Cooper
6 Speed Manual
Premium Package (Dual-pane sun/moon roof, automatic air conditioning, HiFi sound system)
Grey/carbon black leatherette interior
Cold weather package (heated seats, all-season tires, heated windshield washer jets, heated power fold mirrors)
Chrome line interior (adds chrome to all the accents)
Sport seats
White turn signals
Factory alarm
6 year 100,000 mile extended warranty

I love him. Have 3,300 miles on him — purchased June 1, 2009. A looottt sooner than I had hoped but at least I have him now. The Jeep, sadly, is no longer in my name. I have no idea where he is now. Hopefully in the hands of a loving owner.

Life… midterm in college right now. Passing both classes I have…

My 21st birthday is coming up next month.

Otherwise…. nothing else really major that I know of. Yay?

College is over for the year.

I passed Drawing I with an A (4.0) and I haven’t heard back about Intro to Communications — but I will rip some serious butt out if I DON’T get an A in that class. I’m worried my teacher didn’t get my portfolio — it had all my schoolwork in it. If he didn’t… ugh, I can’t even begin to fathom how humiliating it would be to have to take a failing grade and have to pay for last semester and THIS semester since my grant would fall through… hooooy.

No classes this summer either. They didn’t offer any of the ones I need to take right now. Ah well, it means more overtime at work.

Speaking of work, Toshiba merged with SONY at our facility a few months ago to create, of course, Toshiba/Other. Meaning I now not only work on Toshiba laptops, but I also work on SONY (Vaio), IBM, Lenovo, Alienware, ASUS and other generally unknown laptops (Thinkbook, Panasonic, etc). It provided a very interesting learning experience and it keeps things from getting boring. It’s a lot of fun to work on so many different laptops with such a huge variety of problems.

My Jeep has also been giving me many, many problems for the past few months. I’ve had him repaired I think four times since 2009 started. I think he’s finally giving up on life.

I love him.

But I’m saving up for my 2009 MINI Cooper and am more than halfway to my goal. I’ll have him by September and I’m very eager to start driving him.

This is Xaben, my MINI. Also known as my Cinni MINI. He’s so cute! I can’t wait for him to be born and be in my hands. :D I’m learning how to drive stick so I can enjoy myself even more.

The guy who’s teaching me how to drive stick also owns a MINI. A Cooper S, and it’s absolutely adorable. It’s also a lot of fun to drive even though I don’t have a lot of experience doing so. Stick is very confusing, though — it’s just like trying to learn how to drive all over again.

This would be the two of us grinning like idiots. The picture is photoshopped though — it was originally two separate pictures of us making silly faces to the camera. Put two of the more ’serious’ looking expressions together and voiala, an almost normal looking picture (even though you can still see the cropping lines. Eh, it was a 10 minute job. I was very lazy).

Best part is he also works at Geek Squad with me. :D

I also convinced one of my friends from out of state to come apply for a job at the same facility I work at. He finally gave in a month ago and got hired on practically instantly. I knew he would, too! I’m so happy for him. He started work this week and moved down here two weeks ago. My best friend and I took him and his fiancee out to dinner a few days ago and it was very enjoyable. I’d like to do it again…

The Renaissance Festival season is coming too. I wanna go to the one just north of Cincinnati, Ohio when it opens. The one in Eminence is going to be open very soon and I can’t wait for that one either, but the one in Cinci has the most… epic… bread bowls ever. Just thinking about them makes me salivate. Ironically I’m eating a bread bowl right now — but this one’s pasta. One of Domino’s pasta bowls, to be more precise. They are fantastic. I would highly advise someone who hasn’t had them to try them at least once. They taste great for what price they are. My favourite is the chicken alfredo. Yum yum.

But my hands are starting to grow cold from all this typing so I think I’ll stop.

Life is good! :D

Definitely not what I do.

I also just don’t think I have too much of a reason to post here honestly.

There’s nothing special in my life.

But uh, I can go ahead and write what’s gone on in the past few months, eh?

1. I got promoted. I’m a CIA at Geek Squad now finally, and it was a lovely pay raise. Same shift which is also great. I work on Toshiba laptops. Love the line I’m on, too, the people… it’s fun.

2. I got through this semester of college. I finished with two Bs unfortunately, meaning one class was completely pointless and the other … well. It doesn’t count because it was an “aid” class. Ah well. I’m getting back on track next semester!

3. I’m on break right now. I go back to school on the 12th of next month (January)… and I’ll be taking two classes. Introduction to Communications, and Drawing I. Three nights a week, but unfortunately they’re a good ways away. So… my best friend and I decided to carpool (luckily we have the same shift at work and are taking the same classes).

 4. Unfortunately, same friend got into a serious wreck three days ago. She’s okay, but we can’t say the same thing about her car…

5. My birthday is in five days (ironic that I chose number ‘5′ to say this…). I’ll be 20… woo. I don’t entirely care…

6.  Amazingly, my hair is still streaked. It’s still red. And I never got it redone. This dye is like… amazing.

Yeah… so. I’ve been in a horrible art lapse for months — but I’ve been having a little more inspiration about it lately. A little.

I’ve drawn a few bland pictures, but hey, at least it’s progress in comparison to drawing absolutely nothing. I hate not drawing. D:

But yeah, apparently I have to go, like, now .. have to go to some stupid christmas party. Ah well.

At least my best friend is coming along. .-.;;

I got my hair streaked red this morning.

I like it. Not the first time I’ve done it… but man, the lady was right — my hair is like six different colours. xD Previously when I did it, it was… err… DARKER. Now it’s a mixture of browns and golds, and a little bit of black thrown in I think. I don’t know.

But I still like it. Half tempted to get what WASN’T streaked dyed black, I dunno. I’ll have to think on it.

I hate spambots.  -_-

But I have new stuff. Too lazy to write a full-blown article.

1. I have a new cell phone. A non-prepaid one, too, which is fab.

2. I saw “The Dark Knight” in theatres the other day. I loved it. There was a baby right behind me crying through half the movie, though… suck. :/

3. I got to meet one of my internet friends, Sonic Remix. It was a lot of fun, she wound up coming over twice. :3

4. I got a new outfit yesterday. ‘Tis cute. :3 My new capris are black with little white stars on the pockets! I love them. <3 I’ve also got one of those half-jacket thingies too.

5. I CAN HAS ARTISTIC INSPIRATION. Kinda. Sorta. :3

… uhh, I’m laaazzyyyy. Done typing for now. <3 *Scuttles off to doodle*

I’m gonna go visit my mom and grandparents in Florida on Friday. I’m looking forward to it, too. <3 A whole week off of work.

Leaving at 7pm-ish. I’m going to go to work Friday, yes, and I feel that if I want to sleep I can either sleep on the plane or on the way to my grandparents’ house from the airport when I get there.

Which reminds me. I got that desktop I was ranting about last Saturday and I want to bring it along. ;o; I loves it. I loves it lots.

Also went to my first ‘concert’ this Saturday, Videogames Live. It was *amazing*. I recorded two videos from it — One Winged Angel (FF7) and Castlevania. I would’ve recorded more but I thought we weren’t supposed to… but I saw a crapton of people doing it so I decided to do it anyways. Not to mention they told us on stage to get out our electronics and wave them around haha. It was great.

 I really enjoyed it. <3 Entered the costume contest with my Reala costume (and Jess was there, too — she used her NiGHTS costume), hated being on stage… we didn’t win, predictably. Oh well! :D It was all in fun.

Uh, there’s probably more to add but I don’t remember what. My memory is so horrid. xD

But life’s been going pretty well for me lately. One of my coworkers is getting on my nerves like no one’s business, but I’ll leave this to be a happy journal. <3 Yay, vacation in a few days.

Is a fun game.

I bought it last Thursday, and beat it by Sunday morning. Pity, too, since it was great. Ending made me mad though, despite how fantastic it was at the same time.

Other than that, no real special news. I haven’t updated in a while since my life’s been pretty boring as usual, doing the same things… work, work, work, work… things like that.

But, I am getting a new bed soon. I’ve been sleeping on a broken futon for the past two years or so now, so it’ll be nice. Meaning I can rearrange my room like I’ve wanted to for months, get out those hideous curtains (which are just gigantic crayons, basically. They’re kids curtains), and possibly get a new bedset (comforter, sheets, skirt, etc)… since the one I have now, despite how much I love it, is completely falling apart. My comforter even has burn marks on it, which I have no idea where they could’ve come from. o_O No one in my house smokes, and I most certainly don’t play with fire — ESPECIALLY around my bed haha. I’m wondering if they came from our dryer…?

I still haven’t gotten my Stimulus check either. :/ I’d really like it though, since this whole eyeing-this-desktop-PC-at-Best-Buy thing is REALLY driving me nuts. I want to finally retire my eMachine since it’s nearly kicking the bucket now anyways. And not to mention, if I got the HP desktop I’ve been looking at, my laptop and my desktop would match. :D They’d both be black and silver and HP… with the same squiggly lines on them.

See?

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2006/psgconsumer/images/dv6000.jpg <~ This is my laptop :D

http://64-bit-computers.com/wp-content/hp_pavilion_a6000.jpg <~ This is the desktop that I am falling in love with.

THEY MAAAAAAATCHHHH

Not to mention I work on ‘em every now and then at work. They’re easy to service, lightweight, and very pretty. So I wouldn’t really worry about new parts (Upgrading and repair) and the like, since they’re so easy. :D I might not even have to worry about a service plan, but then again… if it did mess up too many times and I sent it in for repair, they could send me a new computerrrrrr… soo… I dunno.

 I’ll stop ranting though since everything I’m talking about nothing special anyways, so…

I can’t actually bend them without a searing pain ripping through them, lmao.

Proof that ACEN was quite enjoyable.

I managed to FINISH MY HAT THIS MORNING <3 so I got to wear it. Unfortunately I do still have missing pieces to my costume, but oh well. I’d work on them right now but oh my god I’m so sore and tired.

 We met a lot of interesting people there, I bought myself a pretty Alucard (from Hellsing) print and a comic (Flipside) which the artist doodled in for me, had a Tarot card reading, and we got like… nonstop pictures.

Seriously. Jess and I would walk about three feet and someone would ask for our picture, so we’d set down our bags and pose… they’d take the picture… then as soon as they were done, we’d just grab our stuff and walk about two steps before someone else would come by and ask for our picture. Was kinda funny, but quite flattering. I’m glad to know our costumes were so well-liked. Some people even said we were the best NiGHTS cosplayers they’d ever seen; most of them were rather half-assed (which I will straight up admit mine is… I’d never have finished it if I would’ve put ALL my effort into it. I just took the easy ways out of things, like gluing the fabrics together rather than sewing them).

One thing I absolutely loathed though was how uncomfortable the hat could get at times. I accidentally made the right side’s horn too tight against my ear, so it kept rubbing up against it and made it rather raw at times. Painful. Not to mention, the boots made things worse because of the fact they were heels. Ugh. Both Jess and I have bruises on the tips of our feet.

BUT! We saw someone cosplaying GLaDOS. Which … was amazing. And surprisingly creative. She just blew me out of the water. And we saw a Mewtwo! And seven of the 13 members of Organization XIII. And many many other characters.

Met several people from Nightsintodreams.com; four, I believe — two other people will be cosplaying NiGHTS characters with us. A Jackel and another NiGHTS… I look forward to seeing their costumes. :D

We also got interviewed for Nightsintodreams.com too, which I thought was funny. Completely unexpected, but whatever ~

The food at the restaurant-thing there was super expensive too… $7 for a hotdog and some fries? Ugh. Rip off! Oh well… we only had one meal lmao. We forgot to eat, just like I’d anticipated. I usually forget to eat when I’m at a con.

Also had someone from dA come up to me and ask for a sketch like I’d advertised in my journal, which made me pretty happy. I didn’t anticipate anyone coming by, but she had apparently been seeking me out for several hours. I felt kind of bad when she came up to me though because we were in a busy area and I was in everyone’s way when she asked…so I kind of had to rush it. :/ I would’ve put far more effort into it if I would’ve had more room and the like… mrrh. I hope she’s okay with the picture she got. She seemed pretty happy, but that doesn’t mean that it could’ve easily been a face. But eh, I suppose I’m super paranoid.

I wanted to go see HALCALI and Peelander-Z and Mari Iijima (I think that’s her name….? Something like that at least) today, but we couldn’t find where to get the tickets and we never had the opportunity to afterwards. I did see Peelander-Z in their booth though, they made me laugh since they had been like… drumming pens against their metal tables in strange rhythms and bouncing around and the like. Kbooki (someone from NiD.com) didn’t seem amused that her booth was right next to theirs, lmao.

 Another thing, I’m glad I had my badge mailed to me… the lines to pick up badges were INSANE. It apparently took some people up to NINE HOURS to get their badges!

 I had more stuff to talk about but I’ve forgotten now, and my knees hurt like a bitch so I’m going to go ahead and end this journal so I can rest. ‘Ta! Should have another report tomorrow with what happens at ACEN… tomorrow.

I’m in Chicago right now.

Finishing my costume. xD; Almost done.

Sooo, yep. I’ll be uploading pictures sometime soon; I just need to find the time to…!

So excited for tomorrow. :3

I’m not sure if I’m appaled, glad, betrayed, or something completely different… it’s really just a mix of emotions. Shock, mostly.

I got a note on deviantART today from one of my best friends who died three years ago.

She had called my dad from the hospital to talk to me one last time, and I never could call her back. It left me with a horrendous amount of grief and guilt. She died of anorexia.

This PM consisted of her saying she was back, she had to disappear from the internet because of foes, and the like… but her typing style is different (but then again, three years have passed, so this is understandable). She has a completely different story. Completely different screen name. She says she’s the same person, she’s still anorexic, and that she’s moved to a different state (to avoid conflicts apparently?).

I just… don’t know whether or not to believe this. Someone may have made a prank account to mock her… which is just something that would be absolutely disgusting.

Or maybe she really didn’t die? She lied to me. I cried for endless days for nothing.

It really hurts either way I look at it, and I really don’t know how to feel. If this is true, though, it wouldn’t be the first time she’s lied to me about something really major…

I just don’t know on whether or not to respond to this note… ugh…

I am now officially an “HP Certified Technician”. =) I’ve been taking an online course offered by Hewlett-Packard over the past week and I just today finished my credential test. I got a 94%. I was certain I’d fail, too… but hey! I passed. I’m psyched.

That’s one step closer to being a CIA, and now I have the certificate to prove that I know stuff about computers. *Nod*

I find it funny now that I came home with this diploma, my dad seems to listen to me more now when I tell him what’s wrong with his computer. Lmao. I guess it’s a good thing… before hand he’d tell me that I didn’t know what I was talking about because he took two years of computer classes in college and knows nothing about Windows Vista — which is my primary operating system.

 Lmao. I love dad, but he can be so… ridiculous sometimes.

I saw a hedgehog this weekend too for sale. D: I wanted hiiiiim. He was so cuuuuuuute and lonely looking. And he looked kinda sick too, which made me feel really bad for him… the petshop he was at didn’t take good care of their animals at all. Which is really horrible, seeing as it is *brand new*. Meaning, it’s been open less than a week.

Poor pets. :/ I’d probably have honestly bought that hedgehog if I knew of a vet who could take care of him.

I’m about 70% done with my costume too. Very close ~

I’m feeling better today.

Well… somewhat.

Got dad’s PIN to work so I can mess with the FAFSA again whenever they authorize it. One to three days.

I’m getting more ideas for my costume, finally. I am starting to figure out how to do things, and thus, I will be able to get more done sooner. I may start working on the gauntlets again sometime in the next few hours, and possibly finish one by the time I go to bed.

Hurt myself today at work, too. Sucked quite badly. My supervisor asked me to get some parts from the top shelf (about 6ft, I’m 5′0″) and move them to another department. I said sure, not really thinking about it.

Grabbed them with no problem, seemingly. See, there were about 20 motherboards in a tub that I needed to migrate to a specific type of rolling rack. I did just this, three times for motherboards. There were two of LCDs. Grabbed the smaller batch first, had absolutely no trouble. The second apparently had about 25-30 LCDs in it, and was *quite* heavy. I had started to pull them off, noticed how heavy they were, and instead of putting them back on the shelf like a normal, non-idiot would do, I braced myself. So, I pulled ‘em off. I had pulled them off at an angle unfortunately, causing me to lose my balance (these things are about half my body weight if not more), and I stumble. worrying for the LCDs (and the glass that I may have encountered if they shattered), I jerked the tub right-side-up again, and in return, I wind up collapsing on the floor in a pitiful little heap.

 Good news?  The LCDs came out unscathed.

Bad news? Both of my knees have *gigantic* bruises on them and now it hurts to bend them.

 Woohooo for my idiocy.

Ugh. I hate myself so much some times…

God damn it why must I be so fucking stupid?

Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid FUCK.

Other than that, I got my Jeep fixed… just got it back yesterday… it cost $857 to get repaired… ugh… god damn it. That hurts.

 Now I fucked up on something else, and I have to pay an extra $140 on it… I am just completely and ridiculously embarrassed and frustrated with myself right now. I actually am at the point where I *badly* want to attack myself, but I think self-mutilation is one of the most disgusting things on this planet.

Not only that but my financial aid for college is ALSO screwed up. I can’t do ANY FUCKING THING right, now can I? Especially when it’s all this important shit.

I am so fucking retarded.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, and FUCK.

I’m STILL ridiculously behind on art trades and commissions. One of them, the other has been waiting over a YEAR! GOD FUCKING DAMN IT I AM SO FUCKING STUPID

I try, and I try, and I try to get things accomplished, but then I just get completely overwhelmed by EVERYTHING and then I can’t even begin to start something for a long while, then I wind up forgetting. Not even a fucking to-do list works for me. Because, I can’t do anything right.

god I want to cry so badly right now. In no less than two weeks, I’ve practically completely fucked up myself for a good long while. Especially financially. If I don’t get my financial aid for college worked out soon, I won’t be able to get into college… fuuuuccckkkk. I tried and I tried and I tried to get it to work, but every time it comes back with an error… and I talked to someone about it on the phone and she was a complete bitch so naturally it made me feel like even more of a fuckup than I already am… and god I hate phones. This is probably why I’m spazzing now. I have a completely ridiculous phobia of telephones and talking to people I don’t know. God damn it.

 I need a break so badly. I wish I had some free time.