Of Cross-stitches and Black Belts

you know, sometime I really wonder what it is in people that make them so fucking inconsiderate. In my apartment building they do have a laundry room, 3 washers, 3 dryers. I'm lucky that my roomie has a washer so I don't need to pay the fifty cents to wash my clothes, just to dry them if I don't feel like doing the line dry thing. So, with my wet clothes in a bag I walk down to the end of the complex to get a dryer. I constantly am left waiting because I guess it's Saturday and everyone has been doing their laundry (plus not to mention they apparently changed the lock to the laundry room and no one has keys to it yet, so it's also possible that everyone has been waiting the whole week to do their laundry).

THIS is my point: I go in there, it's now 8:30 at night, the dryers are all full. I sigh, decide to wait a few minutes because the dryers have stopped so hopefully the owner of the clothes is mindful enough to get their clothes. He is, however, he points to the washer and informs me that all three washers are full of more clothes that need to be fucking dried. Son of a bitch. It's like dude, *EVERYONE* needs these machines, not just you, so why the fuck do you possibly feel justified in using EVERY SINGLE FUCKING MACHINE?!? Grah! I mean I guess it's all first come/first serve and whatnot but still! Why do I feel like I'm the *only* one in the world who is considerate? Because I wouldn't do that, not unless it's like, mid-day and I'm fairly certain that there's no one else around. I just feel like going back to the laundry room to turn off the dryers, or dump a bucket of water inside >.< but I won't. Wonder how bad would it be to let my wet clothes sit in the bag overnight and dry them in the morning? I'd do the line dry but I'm too lazy and I dunno, I don't want my stuff hanging outside overnight. Plus most of it's underwear u-u; Stories of panty thieves in Japan run through my head.

... but seriously, am I the only one in the world who's considerate of others? I can't be.

well, for anyone who cares, things are fine, living quarters established, got one job so far, all set for classes, even have the majority of my main textbooks and will be getting the supplemental ones as time goes on (mainly because I think most of them are books I can just check out of a library).

Missing everyone pretty badly, it's been a rough week and (of course to no fault of anyone, between the time difference and that everyone has a life) no one's schedule is syncing so I feel like I haven't talked to anyone. Am thinking I'm also being emotional due to hormones since this sort of thing doesn't seem to bother me most of the time. I'm sure once school and work starts everything will be vastly different. I'll have more stuff occupying my mind and all will be well once more ^_^

I don't want to wait two months for Nano. But then again, I'm actually grateful for the time because I need to get reacquainted with the main characters for one of the novels I want to write (and no, that's not a typo, I mean that's one of the novels I'm working on for Nano). Which leads me into my second thing; I'm going to attempt two Nano-novels. How? I have no clue, I intend on making my one about the Sentinels 100K, no less.

If I catch the flu this year, I'm going to laugh.

Being nagged by this depressing "wtf am I *doing?*" feeling. Is quite annoying. Is possible leftover emotion from being pissed that my mom hung up on me (short version; she doesn't know where her debit card is, neither do I, so apparently it's my fault). I really want to stick it to her when she gets home but I dunno if I'll have the energy or the desire to do such a thing.

Maybe I'm just pissed about how my summer is turning out. I was under the impression I was going home, be able to relax, buy some new clothes, get my school stuff together and go back. Instead I spend two weeks having to deal with the strain between my sister and mom sharing a tiny space with me and two children, a week in NY trying to coax my brother to do the shit he was *SUPPOSED* to do during the WHOLE YEAR he lived here and the next week dealing with my mom and fixing the house, then three whirlwind weeks of packing (the only highlight there was that Nalan came to visit) and now for the past week I've been working to the point of total exhaustion (which means by 7pm I'm babbling like a moron and unable to hold proper conversation) and what gets me is that while I'm lying on my mom's bed, my mouth hanging open and my eyes rolling, she still fucking talks to me about the shit she's trying to do in the house. For whatever reason, whenever my mother starts talking I find myself wanting her to shut the fuck up already. All she does is talk and it's really starting to piss me off.

::sigh:: ok, am going to go nap, hopefully i'll feel better when I wake up >.

::is watching History channel special on comic books, and this is what they have to say of Green Lantern (which is Hal at this time) during the 60's when they were re-vamping a lot of the comics to keep them alive::
Announcer: Green Lantern, who had a lot of power but no personality-
Me: ::has to pause and keep herself from falling over with laughter::

I just had to share.

( Cut for ranting and family bashing (not my immediate family this time) )

In other news, excited about Nalan being here by the end of the week, the move to NY which was supposed to happen between 7/29-8/2 is now going to happen something like 7/23-7/26. Mom is going to NY for the deposition the 16th to the 19th and I am so happy to have this house to myself during that time. I'm going to be able to get so much done with both moving stuff and my own things it's going to be so great.

I got a huge, long list of things that have to get done and since my mom will be off of work for four days, I can't imagine getting too much of it done then. If nothing else, it's because when my mom gets involved in my projects, she just complicates them. She thinks she's helping or thinks it's a better way, and heck she might be right, but I want to do it the way *I* want it done. Not unreasonable considering her thoughts and ways of doing things.
Really wish my mom's lawyers would get their act together, she's supposed to go to NY for a court thing and I've already told her I'm not going to go (for one, I'm not needed for this particular court thing, and two, she'll make me work on the house which at this point I will almost absolutely *REFUSE* to do). She tried to get it set to go during her few days off, and I really wish they called her and made it work because I really need the time away from her. I know she's going at some time during this month, would just rather sooner than later and a longer time as opposed to short (going this weekend means she'll be gone for four days. Other weekends, maybe two).
Think I'm starting to PMS or something. Feel really on edge and irritable. Nearly pounded my keyboard because of a typo u-u; wtf is wrong with me?

I am so displaced right now it's not even funny. I have been going to bed with an overwhelming sense of depression 95% of the time for the past week and a half, it was so bad the other night that I almost asked my mom to take me to the hospital. It only seems to happen at night. I think it's due to being tired, mostly, but also I'm just basically beginning to loose my mind. Having a real hard time keeping track of my stuff, my mom is giving me a headache, I feel horrible that I haven't been able to get a hold of Neko but I know she's doing wedding stuff so making our plans may be better off waiting until later anyways.
And off I go to do more stuff >.

Got to NY all safe and sound, decided Jetblue rocks as an airline and definitely recommend people to fly with them, get my shoes soaked trying to find where my friend works in the city, find out my card has no money, and I forgot to pack my laptop power cord. So, good and suck all at the same time u-u; Get back to LI and find that I also don't have my cell phone charger T_T Mom is mailing me both items, but they won't get here until Wednesday. At the moment my phone battery is about to die. Though when I saw my brother on Friday night he said a friend of his gave him an old cell phone, which has a full charge, so we'll temporarily transfer my phone number to that phone and all will be well until I get my phone charger back.

Kids Black Belt test yesterday went very well, was very surprised by how much my kids grew since I've been gone. Me being there surprised them as well, they were very happy to see me.
Going out to dinner with Sensei's tonight, probably going to hang out at the dojo most of the week, seeing my friend Jen on Wednesday night, and for the most part chilling until my family gets here to bring chaos u-u; ^_^; Oh well. I have access to bagels and decent pizza. All will be well.

::HEADDESK::
OMFG.... HAL YOU FUCKING ASS!!!!!

http://hoosierinanity.blogspot.com/2008/02/green-lantern-history-7-leap-year.html

A *TOY* *AIRPLANE!* WTF HAL?!?!?

Not so much a downside, really, but, well look;

Me: ::at my laptop, giggling::
::Andrea and Brian playing video game::
Andrea: You laughing at me?
Me: No, no,
Andrea: You keep giggling and it's always after I say something, who are you talking to?
Me: Nalan, but she keeps sending me funny stuff.
Andrea: Like what?
Me: It's comic book stuff, you want me to explain?
(I note here that anytime I mention anime and/or comics I get brushed off and ignored... usually)
Andrea: Yeah, tell me.
Me: Oh, uh, okay well, short version, Green Lantern's a superhero, only weakness is the color yellow, don't ask it's a really long story. Well, there's a GL from another planet that's like a squirrel, he gets killed by a yellow truck.
Andrea: (doesn't answer, I assume it's because she's concentrating on the game)
Me: It's disturbingly funny, I have no idea why.
Brian: It's swearingly funny?
Me: ... You weren't even listening, why do you care?

This is going to be a long summer ^_^;;

I'm sorry, this is long but I'm too lazy for a cut thingie.

This was an interesting trip.
First of all, I have never traveled injured. Sick, yes, injured, no (well not on a plane at any rate). But have been on crutches since I fell and kinda broke my foot. So, at Honolulu Airport, they get me a wheelchair and a porter, I go through security, porter wheels me to my gate and leaves me there, saying someone will come to take me on the plane (which doesn't leave for another hour). I start talking to a lady who had stepped on some coral and is in the same sort of situation as me. I ask her what time it is because I have to take medicine, and then I think "silly, you have your phone," and I realize it's not there. I figured it was left in the little white dish at security. Lady tells me not to panic, someone will be at the gate that can help (also other odd sort of thing; there were *no* workers at the gate, no one at all). So after a while I think, "screw this," pick up my bags, leave my crutches with the lady and wheel myself to find someone. It took forever to find *anyone* and the wheelchair was hard to push u-u; finally I came across an agricultural security checkpoint and tell the guy there what happened. He questions where I was, what checkpoint I was at, what gate I'm supposed to be at, and just all in all most of the time I'm thinking "dude, pick up the phone and call someone, questioning me is getting us nowhere." Another guy shows up, takes out his cell phone and tells me to call mine. I do, we talk to guy at security, they tell me they'll bring my phone to the plane. Crisis semi-solved, I thank the man and he says he'll bring me back to my gate. So as he's bringing me back I ask if there's a water fountain or something so I can take the medicine I need and he shows me that there's one next to the vending machine. I only have a $5 and a $20, so I tell him I'll just use the fountain and he goes "Nah, I'll get you a can of soda (no water in the machine)." What a darling. He wheels me back to my friend and where I left my crutches and I start the balancing act of my soda, bags, and trying to take meds and succeeding. During this my new friend muses at my self-reliance. So, get on plane, my carry-on suitcase ends up needing to get checked in (this I get a bad feeling about), and I get my cell phone back.

Plane trip to AZ was ok, slept on and off, was a bit irritated they didn't have any food for us, but it was an overnight and it was my silly-ness for not eating dinner. Oh well. Get to AZ, when I got off the plane they had another wheelchair and a very nice lady waiting for me, she brought me to a place to get something to eat and drink and wheeled me to my next flight. I eat my breakfast, call my mom, then get on plane in pretty much same manner as before, sans missing phone. On plane were two boys taking their first plane trip sitting two rows behind me, and the questions the older one (maybe about six or seven) amused the hell out of me.
"Are we going to blast off? Is it going to be fast? Am I going to fall out?"
Poor kid. Then when we did take off he went;
"I don't like this! Mommy I want to land and go home! I don't want to do this!"
But once the plane leveled he was fine. Mostly him and brother were quiet most of the trip.
Was very happy I did eat before getting on plane because any of the food they were selling was pretty much sold out by the time they got to where I was sitting and the snack pack thing didn't look very appetizing. I mean it was fine, some fruit, crackers, yogurt, but nothing I particularly liked.

Finally land in NC, there wasn't a wheelchair for me, which surprised me, but no matter, I didn't have to go far to get to my family. The security people nearly yelled at my mom, she and my sister made me a flower lei from daisies and small roses, my sister ran off to get a wheelchair for me, and after all the hugs and kisses we went to get my bag.
::sigh:: my checked suitcase got left in Phoenix >.< No big deal, they promised it would be in by that night or the next morning and someone would deliver it to where I was. Cool, family assured me they had extra PJ's and stuff and not to worry. I didn't. So we went back to my mom's, and guess who was there? My brother XD he surprised me. I was very happy to see him, and really had no idea he was going to be there even though my sister slipped up a few times in conversation (shows to go how out of it I was :-P ).

Now I'm dealing with this strange surreality of being here. Since my sister and her family moved in with my mom, well, things aren't quite the same. My room has mostly been left alone, though some of my boxes and such had to be moved but nothing I didn't already know about, everyone has been really respectful of that. It's a bit strange to be back I guess but I can't pinpoint why. Also there seems to be some more drama going on with my sister's end u-u; I feel bad for her, I do, but geez. I really didn't want to come home to a drama-fest. But, I haven't even been back for 24 hrs yet so I guess I should just not let it bug me for now ^_^;

Well, foot is still the same. The rest of my body is all sore from using the crutches. Wondering now if I said this before because typing it is giving me an odd feeling of deja vu.
Boss has decided to close the spa on Sundays, which means I'm not working tomorrow. This is both good and bad; good because I don't have to schlep to and from bus stops on my crutches and it gives me extra time to do my laundry and pack and such, bad because it's $50-$80 I'm losing, now perhaps I may have too much time on my hands and I really don't want my last days here to drag on.

If I wasn't such a klutz, this wouldn't be so bad because I had made some plans to explore. Granted I didn't solidify any plans, which is good cause it means no money wasted, but doing some of it is just no good while on crutches. Maybe this will be good for me, I actually have to relax and just chill out.

I'm also a bit concerned, tried messaging some friends from my phone and I wish I knew if my messages were going through. Maybe the AIM is being weird again ^_^; -->really hopes so because she's a bit concerned for one friend in particular...

I tripped, fell, and tore a bunch of muscles in my foot. This means I'm not to walk on it for about four to six weeks. I told my mom this, explained that I want to talk to her but I'm not limping down to the end of my street, which is the closest area where the reception on my phone will work (I get just enough reception to get text messages and even those are somewhat unreliable) so to just send me a message on the computer when she was done. What does she do? CALL ME ON THE PHONE. Of course I'm in the other room, actually resting, so I couldn't get it in time but it wouldn't have mattered because the call would have dropped in two seconds. I have told my family many, many, many, many (assume the "manys" continue for a while here) times that trying to call me when I'm at my house is silly, because THERE IS NO FUCKING RECEPTION! If there is nothing else about my family that pisses me off more is the fact that I constantly, CONSTANTLY, have to repeat shit for them. I mean okay if they don't know I'm home that's one thing, but dude, I told them last night *and* this morning that I wasn't going to be going anywhere today because doctors orders or not, my foot is in no condition for me to be going anywhere. Besides, is my first day without school, work, or even needing to study, I'm sitting on my butt and resting for once. ::sighs:: oh well u-u'

Danny is Hawaiian and she is going to make fun of Hunter by calling him haole boy.

( ::sigh:: okay, yeah, regardless of the fact that I'm thousands of miles away from my family, I still want to kick them in the head sometimes. )

( And now for something completely different )

::takes a deep breath:: ok, am done ^_^; ::headdesk::

I had been warned that Reload sucked. They played it on a cable channel I had back in NY and since it was the only thing on during that time slot I gave it a shot. Took me a while to get used to the voices, but after a few episodes I kinda liked it. Well they only seemed to play the same like, ten or twelve episodes, not sure why, but anyways I recently re-discovered this series via YouTube and now I think I see why people told me to not really bother with this series.
First of all, I do like Gojyo's change in wardrobe. I didn't mind his other outfit, the pants always bugged me, but I like his new look. So far, this is the only change I like.
Beyond that... sometimes I wonder what the hell *is* up with this series. Now granted I didn't watch all of Saiyuki, maybe up to episode like, 20 to 25, but so far this series seems to be the same, especially when you get to episode 15 when Sanzo gets poisoned and it comes down to a fight between the Sanzo party and Kougaji. Sound familiar? Try what, episode 20 in the original Saiyuki series where Sanzo is poisoned and it comes down between... ok you get my point. There are differences, but also, and maybe it's because I haven't seen the whole first series, but why the hell would they think Kougaji would help them?! Unless I missed something which is entirely possible.
Also, the animation in Reload bugs me. It's not horrendous, I've seen worse, but did they have less of a budget to work with? I mean there are lots of good places, but also I've seen plenty of cring-worthy pieces.
Okay I'm done XD

On a more personal note, I'm finished with all of my classes! ::does a happy dance:: Next week I have finals and then I'm going to the mainland to see my family and friends! I'm so excited ^_^

Okay, today kinda sucked, all because none of the therapists know how to answer their goddamn phones.
Had two groups of two people wanting massages. I couldn't get anyone to answer and come in therefore could only persuade them to take appointments for tomorrow. So I set the appointments and send the couples on their way.
Now, first of all, technically I'm not supposed to set appointments until I confirm with the therapists, but since these people had waited around for a while as it was (and both couples didn't have a number I could reach them at) I just went ahead because surely I could find people for the next day.
Already I saw that the regular shift therapist for Monday had the day off, which meant I had to call in on-call therapists. Also I noted that Lilianna, the bitchy therapist, specifically has on the calendar that she is available from 12:30pm to close (but frankly one thing I have learned is to never take this as gospel truth, especially when it come to Lil). How this works is that I put out the calls and whoever responds first gets them. There's a bit of a hierarchy involved, I leave a good ten minute window between calls so the first ones have a chance to respond and get the appointment. Everyone I called went straight to voice mail. Two of the others called me back and got the jobs. I called Lilianna to leave a message to let her know I got the appointments filled... I have to say that partly I called because I wanted to let her know that her inability to answer her fucking phone lost her work.
Here's the fun part; Lilianna calls me back about fifteen minutes later. The following conversation takes place;

"So, you got those appointments covered?"
"Yes, thank you."
"You know I'm available that day."
"Yes, I did see that, however I didn't want to book the appointment without a confirmed therapist." (I wanted to add on "I'm not *allowed* to set the appointments without conformed therapists, you know that, you cunt!")
(all pissy like)"Well, if anything else comes up just book it."
"All right."
(still all pissy like)"Bye."

::smiles:: Now, see, I don't know if anything else will come up because I was closing up the spa. I wonder if she's going to go crying to my boss saying I did it on purpose or something. No, I definitely did *not* do it on purpose, however I'm not going to lie that I kinda liked the outcome. Karma is a bitch and I can be one, too.

Been watching Getbackers for the past couple of days, joked to Nalan about cosplaying Ginji, and upon getting to the episode where you first meet Akabane, I'm reminded of Marluxia from Kingdom Hearts and started wondering why the creepy!evil ones always come off as perverts in fan stuff. Then I got a vision of Akabane cosplaying Marluxia, and then vice versa, and then a better thought hit me:
Ban should cosplay Sora and Ginji should cosplay Roxas, then reverse it for Sora and Roxas. All four of them already have the hair XD
I would so *love* a pic of that.

Lilianna is starting to make me laugh, really. First of all she was complaining a week or two ago about the fact that work was so slow and she was all "give me whatever you can!" and acting all desperate. Well, things have picked up a bit and Lilianna has been getting a pretty good amount of work but it's starting to wear on her. Now, on Wednesday she had one of her regulars come in, and afterwards the customer asks if she can make an appointment with Lili on Sunday since now we were open that day. I said that I would ask and I pull Lilianna up and ask her about taking the Sunday appointment. She said, in front of me and the customer, that Sunday is her day off but she will take the appointment. Okay, fine, appointment set and it's all done. Today, the customer calls up because she has to cancel the appointment. I call Lili to let her know and she gets all pissy about it, "You know she does this all the time and if I would have known that she was going to cancel then I wouldn't have taken the 5pm, go find someone else to take the appointment."
....Where do I begin?
First of all, if you're off on Sundays, then don't agree to appointments. Past that it's your own damn fault.
Secondly, you know what? In every job I had if I needed someone to cover my shift, I had to do the legwork and find the replacement myself. Okay now granted Lilianna doesn't have everyone's phone numbers, but again this goes back to what I said above.
Thirdly, especially after being accused of stealing and not doing my job right I'm a little disinclined to acquiesce to her request (thank you PotC).
This woman needs a serious dressing down and I'm afraid that I'm going to be the one to do it. Will talk to boss about this because I feel she is really getting out of hand.

Boss called me last night to tell me that I'm being taken off Fridays. Already he had taken me off Mondays. The other day receptionist got a lot of her hours cut too, but I can't tell if this is because of her own availability change or boss is trying to save money (he also cut the pay for the therapists). Then he took me off Fridays because he realized that he cut way more hours for the other receptionist than for me. I know that while trying to save money he's also trying to be fair, so that's why I'm really not too upset, plus this means I have a full day to myself now, because now I work all day Sunday. I'm just annoyed because it means losing money, because I went from working four days to three and when I first got this job it was supposed to be going from four to five. Oh well. It'll be ok, this also means less contact with bitch therapist (who tried to accuse of stealing *AGAIN* and I swear I will either talk to her next time I see her and the next time it happens I'm putting my fucking foot down because it's getting ridiculous) and more time to get stuff done so I'm not scrambling to do laundry at some weird hour, more study time, and time to read comics (priorities, you know XD).

Starting to feel a little panicky, about finals, about school, about most stuff in general u-u; I'm really trying not to but I feel like I'm back in high school. I'm all paranoid, more shy than usual, I get to school and then all I want to do is to go back home... starting to really wonder what the hell is wrong with me, if anything I was supposed to feel like this when I first got here and get more confident as I go along, and now I feel like whatever confidence I did finally build up in the past eight years has been destroyed u-u; maybe it's just the stress over the past, like, almost month now. I haven't been sleeping well since the convention and have had very little downtime. So, yeah, maybe getting Fridays off is better.

Well, speaking of all of this I better get moving, have a bit of homework, of course my laundry, and I gotta start packing up some stuff to send home ^_^ Talk to you all later!