Ramblings of a Geekling mom

For any graphic makers who are Doctor who fans

2008-04-10T17:37:21Z

Come on, you know you wanna!

fading_xhopex @ 2008-04-07T20:43:00

2008-04-08T03:45:09Z

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What a weekend

2008-03-23T16:05:48Z

So, it's been a crazy hectic weekend. Homework, shopping, easter, Danny on Duty. Just a hell of a long weekend. So yesterday, we went and got the 40GB PS3. Yep, we now own a PS3. We couldn't for a time decide between a PS3 or an Xbox 360, since there are games for both systems we wanted, but went with the PS3 because it has the blue ray player. We also got Heavenly Sword, the Resident Evil Trilogy on Blue Ray, Three hundred, and Blue Planet, also on Blue Ray, and I got Torchwood Series One. FINALLY!! Danny also insisted on taking me to a Salon and getting me pampered. So my hair has been cut to a cute little bob, just at my chin length, it's a nice light ginger colour, and my eyebrows got waxed as well. So I feel all pretty now.

Currently I'm reading the online lecture before I sign off and go read the textbook. When I sign back online it will be to work on my one page assignment and get it out of the way. Then tomorrow I can spend the whole day typing up my two page assignment and get it in on time and done completely and correctly. In fact, I might work on half of it today, so there's less I'm forcing myself to type tomorrow.

Other than that, I think I'm just going to watch Dr. Who and Torchwood, and have fun with Chris since it is Easter. Hope you all have a great Easter!

"Not too bad for a man in his jimjams"

2008-03-20T16:35:13Z

I'm a Tenth Dr. Fan girl. I watched the first two episodes last night, and yeah, completely and totally hooked on David Tennant as the Dr. He's witty, funny, serious, but mostly goofy. Case in point:

"From the day they arrive on the planet...and blinking step into the sun. There's more to be---no, wait, that's the Lion King, sorry."(I'm pretty sure I butchered the line but you get the point)

People I RP with, sorry I was just too tired to do tags, but I will be working on them right now, as soon as get breakfast. I just couldn't think last night, so yeah. When Danny has duty, alot of times, my tags fall behind, but don't worry, I do my best to not let threads die, promise.

School is, well, I have to put more effort into it, honestly, which is why I think I did so poorly these past two weeks. I will do better this week. I plan on reading my textbook the minute Chris hits the sack for a nap. Or when Danny gets home, whichever comes first. I've got a mid eighty in the class, and I want to bring it up to a High A by the end of the class. I'm sure I can if I just apply myself.

I think I'm going to stop letting Danny put Chris to bed. It takes forever for him to get Chris down, but I have had no problem getting him in bed by nine pm. Sure, he wakes up in the night sometimes for a bottle, but goes down rather quickly after that. so I think Danny is just not as firm as he needs to be when it comes to getting Chris in bed.

Tomorrow we finally get our tax returns in, which I am completely giddy about. I am seriously thinking of getting a PS3 after we fix the car, put money into Chris's college fund and into a CD, but not too sure yet. There are other things we could get too. It's in that we'll see category.

And that's it for this morning so far. :D

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2008-03-18T13:05:27Z

So, Danny had to be in at work at five. And since his alarm clock is on the effing fritz and yesterday he was too sick to go out to get a new one, when the first alarm went off and he was like, "I'll get up at the second one, I stayed awake until he was out of bed and dressed and out the door. Shouldn't have been too big of a deal right? HA! Because once again, Chris woke up with us, and is currently running around the living room, because guess who's not sleepy? grmbl grmbl. Happy fucking Tuesday everyone.

Although, I can't say i'm that surprised. Chris conked out around seven thirty eight o'clock in Danny's arms on the couch while i was doing my homework. It was really cute and all, but dammit, I'm still tired because I didn't get to sleep until around eleven cause I had to get my homework in on time. I wasn't going to get half credit on that just because I was tired.

And boy, was I tired. And it didn't help that I was piling on guilt for being angry. I was angry at Danny cause he had a migraine, which meant no break for me from Chris, at Chris because he wouldn't let me do my homework, even though I had spent all afternoon playing with him, at myself for not getting my homework done sooner, etc. So when Chris fell asleep eating dinner, I went into the bedroom where Danny was laying down to get rid of his headache, and just broke.

Full on, fetal position, breakdown. I haven't cried that hard since...god, I don't even remember when i cried that hard before. I did feel better after that, but still, fifteen minutes of crying always makes me uncomfortable, especially when I'm convinced I should be taking care of those around me, and not the other way around. I mean, Danny was feeling like crap yesterday, I should have been making him feel better, not having a nervous breakdown on him.

I did get my homework done, which is yay, and another yay? Nick Andros got accepted in aiodeoffcampus. Which I am completely excited about. Although I didn't get friended back by the mod journal, so i can't do the friend add or request "housing" for him, or even update my contact info...although I could do that with my Swink Journal, so that part's not the big issue. I got accepted into the comms all right though, so that's good. All I know is i'm gonna have fun with those two characters.

Let's see, oh yeah, I need to work on those Stay Alive icons, and finish those Mask of Zorro icons. Only one problem. While I found one of my jump drives, the one with my completed graphics, and homework, ironically, I can't find my jumpdrive that has all my raw materials on it. Which is why I haven't been with the icon making.

but since my completed graphics jumpdrive also happens to have my stories on it, I should work on those today. Although I'm hoping Chris will be calm enough now that I can go lay down with him until I wake up. I don't care if he sleeps or not. I just want him to lay with me quietly in my arms while i pass out and sleep.

fading_xhopex @ 2008-03-17T09:01:00

2008-03-17T16:02:21Z

Oh man, I hate Mondays. No seriously. Mondays are definitely the work of the devil. Although today does have the benefit of being St. Patrick's Day, so here's hoping today won't suck too damn much. Let's see, what has been happening in the land of El?

Well, this morning sucked ass as Danny's alarm and my cell phone alarm failed to go off. Yeah, We woke up at seven fifteen. did I mention Danny has to be at work at Seven thirty? Fortunately, he raced through dressing called and got out the door before he would be massively late. I still feel like it's my fault. I think it's time Danny and I got a new alarm clock. Will be checking for one over the next few days. Didn't get alot of sleep last night either, guess who decided that he didn't want to sleep in his own bed, which meant I got kicked in the back, a lot. It sucked because the night before I got him to bed by nine and not only did he go down at nine o'clock, he stayed asleep til around six thirty, when he wanted a bottle.

Over all, yesterday was really grand. I got my homework done early, got in some great RP time, Danny took me out to Red Robin's for Dinner, AND I got to get the second series of Dr. Who. The one with David Tennent as the Tenth Dr. Tee Hee. I'm addicted to this show. Which is funny because before it was always Danny who was into Dr. Who. Now i'm the one wanting to get it all. Well, at least, the newest versions. Danny's still more into the Tom Baker years. I think it's the Scarf.

I wanted to get Torchwood, but although they had it Saturday, they didn't on Sunday. I knew I should have hidden it. Oh well, I can always get it off Amazon next pay period.

I've got eight hundred words to write for class today, plus make a show over at the discussion questions. Shouldn't be too hard. I just hate writing when I feel like I have nothing to say. It sucks when your writer's block affects your school work too.

Trying to think of anything else that needs to be done today. nothing is coming to mind other than grocery shopping, but that should really wait until tomorrow since the Commisary is closed on Mondays. oh well.

fading_xhopex @ 2008-03-14T16:59:00

2008-03-15T00:00:40Z

So, yeah, I'm on a Stay Alive kick. Anyone really shocked by this? Anyone at all? I mean seriously. I know I was completely one of those people who when the movie hit theaters that said, "OMG SO LAME" and never went to see it. Which is probably for the best because the PG-13 version from everything I hear sucked. So when I went visiting in Dallas last October, Debi brought it over the night my mom was staying with my dad at the hospital, and we watched it. And it was not only sufficiently creepy, but it wasn't just a slasher film, like the trailers made it out to be. There really is a supernatural kick to it.

So, i think I'm gonna finish making icons from the movie, for each of the five main characters. I've got Phin and Swink Done. Now I just need to do October, Hutch and Abigail. I think since I started October already, I'll finish her batch, and then work on Hutch and Abigail...but first I need to finish posting and making the Mask of Zorro Icons I promised at < lj comm="fadingicons">Blergh

Gah, I'm bored, I need to study. Which I am, but it's time for chris's Breakfast, so I will see you all on the flip side.

Every...effing...hour!!!

2008-03-13T16:46:24Z

I effing hate mornings. Like there are no words for how bad last night sucked ass. Ok, well maybe Angry Video Game Nerd could come up with something, but I'm not him, and I've not had enough caffeine to wake me up...at all. I doubt i will have enough caffeine to fully cover for the completel and utter LACK OF SLEEP I was able to get last night.

So I was pretty happy, we got Chris down at a decent hour, around ten thirty, and Danny and I crashed. He had to go to the Gym at Six in the morning for his Second Class test. Which he failed to inform me of until right before going to bed. I'm gonna start making him LIST everything he will be doing for work for a whole week in advance so that shit doesn't happen again.

Anyways, Chris waked up at eleven thirty in pain. I think another tooth is coming in, because EVERY HOUR we were up with him. Finally, around three, I gave up, grabbed him, and dragged him into the living room with me, where I proceeded to have a complete and utter lack of sleep meltdown. I'm talking tears, hiccups, nose, which was already stuffed up getting worse, and yeah, my night was not fun.

On the plus side, he finally went back out around four and slept til around nine this morning, letting me get at least four hours of uninterurpted sleep. Thank Christ for small favors.

Oh, more issues with the car. Danny replaced the battery last night, got hooked up and everything, and now...the car won't fucking start. Just fucking incredible. And Chris is low on formula and baby food. He thinks it's alternator. Which is hopefully what it is, because we don't need to get effing screwed on this. Top that with all the electrical problems that car's been having since Day one...Anyone know where I can get a bazooka?

Rps are going good. Fem needs to pick back up. I want to get that rescue sl over and done with. And RS is really hopping too. I'm really excited about playing Swink in Aiode though. It's pretty active, fairly large, and We have a complete set of Gamers from Stay Alive. Hee! I've just introduced Swink, and already I know it's gonna be fun.

School, is well, school. I got half credit on my last assignment, so I'm down to an eighty three in the class, but that's fine. I so know I can bring that grade up, and high. i just need to start monday's assignment on Sunday. So today I'm reading the online lecture, then tonight, the first of the two chapters assigned. Tomorrow the second of the two chapters as well as the discussion questions. Then Saturday work on Sunday's assignment and Sunday knock out at least half of Monday's assignment and Monday finish it so I get complete credit.

Another day in the life of boring old me

2008-03-12T01:46:31Z

Yeah, sometimes, I think my life is pretty boring. Well, kinda. It's boring in the fact that it seems the same thing every day. I get up, take care of my sweetie pie, who is currently playing quietly after a nap. Oh, wait, no, he's just smiling up at me. He's clapping now. which is too cute for words when he does it. He actually took two naps today, which is an improvement. of course, i think the only reason he took the second nap is because I had to trim his fingernails, and that always upsets him. I'm hoping to have him in bed by nine thirty so i can have the rest of the evening to myself.

Let's see, got my homework in, finally. It was due yesterday, but due to the panic attack caused by nearly losing my wallet, I was unable to concentrate to do it. Well, finish it. I got a good portion of it done yesterday. Just had to do what little I hadn't done already today. I had it in before noon.

It's another duty day for Danny, which means just me and Chris again all night. Another reason I want him in bed before Nine thirty. So tomorrow he'll go to bed at a decent hour and not make it hard on Danny tomorrow when we try to get him to sleep. Yeah, try explaining Daylight Savings time to a baby who doesn't understand time. Yeah, doesn't work. But If i can get him to sleep on a schedule, or at least the basics of one, then maybe we can get back to a decent nights sleep. Wish me luck on this.

I'm tired though, so i'm probably going to play some Brawl here soon. I need to beat up on things.

It's only monday?

2008-03-10T21:03:53Z

Grmbl Grmbl. Whoever thought up Daylight savings day should be drug out into the street and shot. Literally. I don't get enough sleep as it is with Chris running me all over the place. Now I have to lose an hour of my sleep? and why is it so early this year? Are we gonna continue to move it up til it never ends? Seriously, give us first time mommies a break.

It was a decent weekend, overall. Danny had duty on Saturday, so it was just me and Chris. But we still had loads of fun. He has new toys to play with. He loves his lamb and plush truck basket. And the Baby Einstein toy that teaches colors and music, he loves that one too. He's sitting over by the gate playing with that right now. Got my homework done for the weekend. Just have to work on the essay due today. Shouldn't be too hard. Overall, the homework has been really quiet easy. And I don't expect it to get much harder. I'm really enjoying the readings each week, and it's helping me not only understand others, but it's giving a good insight into myself as well.

Sunday was a better day. I had the pleasure of being woken up by Danny. It was really sweet. We cuddled with Chris, and then he let me sleep in while he took care of Chris and started cleaning. Then we went to get Super Smash Bros Brawl. ZOMG fun game. Tip: The old Gamecube controls work better than the WiiMote. and Diddy Kong is so much fun to play with. The adventure story mode is actually interesting. I enjoy it so far. Danny and I got to take turns playing it. And we played against each other and he showed me how to actually perform a smash attack. That was alot of fun. Went to bed and grumble grumble. Morning again

Today so far has been crazy. Went to check the mail, got a check from my aunt. Danny got to come home for lunch so we could go to the bank and put the money order we got a few days ago from my mom into the bank. And I couldn't find my wallet >.< It sucked. I thought i was seriously going to have to cancel my credit cards and such. I know what it's like to believe you might not exist according to the government. But we found it. It had fallen behind something. So we ran those errands, and ended up having to go to Auto Zone to get a new Battery for the car. Got home, fed Chris, and here I am. About to start my last assignment for the week.

fading_xhopex @ 2008-03-08T12:56:00

2008-03-08T20:58:10Z

So today is kinda good kinda bad. See, Danny has duty today, which means it's just me and Chris all day. Which isn't too bad. I don't mind it, I got used to it when he was underway last time, and when he had duty before. The biggest difference is that Chris is alot more active and harder to keep up with. Last time he was just starting to be mobile. Now he's crawling, cruising, pre walking. He's talkative now, and when he wants your attention, by God he will get your attention. And I have at least one assignment to get done before tonight. Hopefully Chris will let me work on it, right now, and then while he's napping i can get going on the other assignments. What else?

Oh, I got a new cell phone. Same number, but I got one of those Verizon NV phones, with the full keypad? A lot of my friends are into texting, and this makes it easier to get in touch with them. Cause like, my friend luckecharms, she doesn't have internet at her house, but has texting. So that's alot of fun to actually be able to contact her when she's not on AIM. Yeah, my old phone got kinda ruined by Chris always grabbing it and sticking it in his mouth. So yeah, he's not getting a hold of this one.

And I got photoshop Elements. I've been wanting it for a while. Finally able to get it. So now I can make the pretty graphics again.

Speaking of graphics, I still need to finish that butload of icons for Mask of Zorro. I think I'm gonna go ahead and post half of them now. that's a 165. >.< but I have those made, so it's not to hard to do. This way I have something to show the girl. Watching Stay Alive. Might need to grab my own screencaps from this movie. I have some downloaded already. but I need to go work on my discussion questions. So peace out for now.

Oh yeah, and we got a huge box from my mom with a ton of new clothes for Chris, which is good because he was kinda short on the clothes department, and CANDY. loads of Easter Candy. *does the happy candy dance* Now back to your regularly scheduled flist.

fading_xhopex @ 2008-03-07T12:16:00

2008-03-07T20:19:01Z

oh crap. Well, I had thought I had something big and important to say. I thought about it all morning, but I had first to finish the first of two chapters I need to read for psych400, and then Chris needed breakfast and some fun play time. We crawled around the living room like kittens for a good portion of the morning, and sang songs, and read stories. Now he's climbing around the couch and on the TV stand. I'm really glad we got the new TV stand. It allows him to climb on it, without me worried that he's going to pull the whole thing down on himself. Plus it has glass doors so the wires and players are all safely out of the way, and I don't have to worry about him sticking something in his mouth that doesn't belong, or could hurt him

and he's finally down for his morning/afternoon nap, which is nice. I should finish these icons for fadingicons. I got a request to fill. I'm almost done with finished with the Mask of Zorro icons, but I haven't even started saving screencaps for Finding Neverland. I have a great link for getting them, I just have to save them. I just want to finish this one first before getting on to it.

I should also work on my story, but I'm kinda not in the writing mood. Just an iconmaking mood.

Blah Blah blah...Ok, there is really not much I want to talk about, obviously, so I'm gonna finish up tags in the RP world then I'll get to work on the icons.

Yesterday=Boring

2008-03-06T18:23:52Z

So yeah, my day yesterday was pretty much that. Boring. I tried to make some more icons but since I reformatted, I don't have photoshop on this computer. I might download it if I get really desperate, but I'm really not wanting to do that. As much I suck at using PSP 7, I have that and can make it useful. It's just harder to do manipulations on it. Which, since i'm constantly putting somebody's head on another's body, or putting two people together for a relationship pic or icon, whatever the relationship might be. I think regular cropping down of icons, lightening up and other small effects won't be so hard in PSP, as I've done it before. But I am really comfortable with Photoshop more, and would rather work with that if i could.

School is going great. Just finished my first week of psych400. I only lost a total of ten points, five on each of the essay assignments, and only because I didn't include the works cited page. I will the next time though. So this week we are studying Adlerian and Psychoanalytic theories of counseling. I'm about half way through the first chapter I have to read, and probably after Chris's lunch, I will finish up my reading assignments. Right now I'm reading the online lecture, well, now that I've finished feeding Chris his breakfast that he was clamoring for. Anyways, after that I will look at the discussion question for this week and see how best to answer it. I'm really enjoying this class so much!

Haven't been writing much lately, but I have started working on a companion piece to a series of novels a friend of mine is writing. It's a parody/AU version of the buffyverse. Mine follows my Slayer character Alania. I'm sure you've remember me mentioning her before. Anyways, it follows her time in college. Currently, I'm working on the part right as Al's adoptive sister gets called. This directly involves my character because she got so drunk after a break-up that she was technically dead for a bit, and the little sister was now a Slayer. It's serious, silly, funny and touching, I think. It's no where near that good yet, I'm just writing as fast as I can what I can and will go back and edit it later. Otherwise it will never get written.

Let's see, what else? Hmmm, like I said, my life is pretty damn boring right now. Not much going on in the way of actual stuff other than school and Chris, who just got his third tooth! and he said Bye bye for the first time the other day! Oh my god, it was so cute. His toy has an auto shut off feature(thank god) and when it shuts off it says, "Bye Bye" Well, I was doing something, I forget what, but anyways, his two shuts off and says bye bye, and Chris repeats it back to the toy! He's also waving, a lot. If you wave at him, he'll wave right back, OMG so cute.

fading_xhopex @ 2008-03-05T19:20:00

2008-03-06T03:21:16Z

You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.

The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

My take on yesterday.

2008-03-05T16:47:30Z

So, we only "won" One State last night. I'm not worried, as She only won Rhode Island and Ohio by less than fifteen percent, last time I checked, last night before going to bed. And in Texas, the race was even closer.

Not to mention, in Texas, there is the combination of primary and Caucus. And from what I've understood, he's always done better in the Caucuses than the primaries. There is a High probability that we will be waltzing out of Texas with more delegates than Clinton. And we're still going to be ahead of her in delegates, no matter the results. She didn't win by a large enough lead to really change the numbers that much, if at all. So she can spin this all she wants, but we know in the end, Obama WILL win the nomination. And I'm pretty sure she might already have that idea, but darn if she ain't gonna make it difficult for us.

This was not the make or break us that some people seem to think it is. Am I disappointed that we didn't have a "clear" victory in all four states? Yes. Just as I am disappointed that I wasn't registered in time to vote in my state of residency's primary yesterday. Does that change anything else for me? No. I know we can do this.

The reason I am a Barack Obama supporter is simply this. He has inspired me and given me hope for the first time in seven years. He has made me believe in our ability as country to change the way we do things. He has made me believe that every vote matters and that we are all important. I know we can. Do you?

Yes, We Can!

2008-03-05T05:41:53Z

My day has been kinda slow. Studying the Psychoanalytic Theory and Alderian Theory in Psych400. Focusing on Chapter four right now. Got my first grade back. 55 out of 60 points. Pretty good :D Need to do a resourses sited page. I can do that, not hard. Class is going really well.

Did some phone campaigning for Obama. Most of the ones I called either weren't home or had already voted. Oh well. There are more primaries coming up and I'm going for it. Obama, Yes We Can!

I went to the watching party like I said I would and it was alot of fun. I plan on trying to make it to my district's democratic convention. Well, if I'm not in Texas at the time. Man, my head is also killing me, so we came home early.

My headache is now a full blown migraine and blergh. I hate this time of the month. I don't care if it's TMI, i'm not cutting, deal with. I hate the cramping, and the feeling of icks I get from this damn time of the month. GRRRRRRRRRR

Oh, yeah, and I am sad for myself, my husband and the gaming world as the Co creator of DnD, Gary Gygax, has passed away. Tis sad. I made this macro in honor of him.

Vote!!1

2008-03-04T02:55:00Z

It's time. If you are on my friends list, and live in Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island or Texas, then you know what you must do tomorrow. You must go out and vote! Make your voices heard. Raise your voices for change! Do not let them tell you that your vote does not count, because you are only one vote! You CAN make a Difference! I CAN Make a Difference! We CAN! Yes, WE CAN!

Now, as an Obama Supporter, I would love to have all of you go and vote for Obama. If you are looking for change, HE is the candidate who is not just the most hopeful, but the one who WILL succeed in making the changes where others want the status quo. If you think he does not have experience or the ability, compare his voting record to Hillary's and compare the amount of bills he's written or co sponsored. And then compare how many of their bills have gone through. He has experience on a State Level, and more importantly, he has reached people like me, who have never really cared too much about politics to register to vote for the first time! Prove to those who say No We Can't, and the Hope is just Empty Rhetoric that We can prove them wrong.

However, I can't change your mind if it's already made up, so I just want you to all get out there and vote. Let your voices be heard! For whomever you wish them to be heard for. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!!!

In other news, Chris had his nine month appointment. He's on track developmentally and there's no sign that he's got any serious health issues. Had to take the bus home so my back and knee are hurting now and I can't move off the couch. It sucks. But we did get Christopher's photo taken with the Easter Bunny. True, he cried the whole time, and looks absolutely pathetic in the picture, I think they came out cute.

I still am working on my assignment, but I want to make sure I have a good response to what he wants. I'm enjoying this class, and I want to do well. I'm trying to give thoughtful answers, but I'm also tired and need caffiene. I need to get working on that last question, but Danny ran out for sodas so I'm here with the little one and he's down right fussy right now. Cute fussy, but fussy. I know he wants to eat, but how do you explain to an infant that you can't move off the couch. oh, that reminds me, picked up the Girlfriends Guide to Toddler's. Been looking for that one for a while. I just had to find it somewhere.

Well, time to go work on my homework.

Peace, love and Hot Chocolate!

Tired

2008-03-03T01:36:20Z

Again, not so much of the good sleep last night. I wish I could have gotten more sleep. I also wish I could have not suggested gaming today, because I have homework due tomorrow. At 10:59pm, but still, I wanted to have it done today, but i think with rereading my readings in the textbook, and looking up the culture of Sri Lanka so I can find out what the differences are from our culture for my report. >.< Oh well, It's important that I get that back information for my homework to make it as complete as possible.

I plan on buying a Barack T-shirt and button today. It's important to me to support my candidate any way I can. I just wish it would be here by Tuesday for the Watch Party. hmmm, maybe they have a Button or T-shirt on sale there. Oh well, no biggie there.

DnD went...well. We had fun, we got the game moving. But Bruce's character >.< OMG. ok, remember Bob? This is mostly for Carey. Do you remember him? Bruce as a player is WORSE! The game is no longer fun, I want him out of the game, and I would rather not game at all. Which, unlike Danny and some other friends I've gamed with over the years, I'm not addicted to it, and it doesn't bother me at all to say, "Meh, I don't feel like it." And go back to my homework, or whatever. I could have seriously spent the day working on said psych homework checked it, and turned it in instead of the waste that was today. Seriously. I did it for the guys, cause they are about to get really busy at work, and we may not have much time to game any more. And he wasted today. Seriously. He wasted it. The ENTIRE GAMING SESSION. *Is pissed* what a waste of my time and Danny's. He's got to work tonight, and we tried to get the game moving fast, but no, not him. GRRR.

Let's see, oh yeah, still got homework, so I think I'll cut this rant short.

Peace Love and Hot chocolate.

Musings of an exhausted mind.

2008-03-01T21:37:26Z

Pardon these musings, I haven't been getting enough restorative sleep lately. I'm not sure why. I get the right amount of hours, eight to ten hours of sleep, but i still wake up feeling exhausted and that i could sleep for several hours more. But usually I'm being awakened by a nine month old who needs a diaper change and a bottle, so maybe that's it? Speaking of which, i need to find my camera. Dad is going to annoy me to death if I don't find it. Anyways, my brain no function when it's full of foggy sleepy musings, so I am trying to write these down. and since I want to work on my Psych homework. It's not due til 10:59 my time, but I want to get working on it now and turn it in early. That is my goal for this class. Get all work in correctly and early. Keeping ahead of the classwork will mean I will also be able to keep up with stuff that is going on in my gaming RP life.

RP life. things are really moving in Femenino, and RS is off the ground, got some really good posts going, and hope to keep it up. right now, the girls are showering at a TA travel center. which leaves one of my pups out, because he is like the only guy PC that is on the bus. >.< Other than that, not much is going on in that front. which makes it easy to keep up with my pups there.

Writing, again, not much going on there. Woe is me. Well, not really. I just haven't thought of anything to write yet, so I'm not going to pump out something I don't feel is there. Or maybe i will. We'll see. Some advice always given to writers is shut up sit down and write. So maybe I should stop talking about writing and just write.

Iconmaking, well, this is kinda on hold right now. When I reformatted my computer, I lost photoshop and PSP. I have the disc for PSP, but I need the one for Photoshop. Might have to just wait and then I can buy the latest shiny edition of it. Squee

Let's see, I'm going to a Results watching Party Tuesday for the results of the Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island primaries. This should prove to be both fun and it will get me out of the house. If Danny gets bored, he can always go home with Chris and enjoy himself while I cheer for Obama's victory.

And lastly, and please note this is not pointed to anyone in particular. The conversation I had was civil, and i want it to remain that way. When it comes to religion. Let's just agree to disagree, all of us, ok? It's easier that way. And easier on my brain i think.

Peace love and hot chocolate(guess where it got cold again)

Bored now

2008-02-29T20:04:27Z

Yep, it's another meme. I hardly do these kind of things, but I'm bored, so what the hey.

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Not much going on today. I'm working on my psych400 homework. It's not due til tomorrow, but I want to get it in early if I can. So I can keep focusing on both it and not letting my freetime be completely eaten up. I might post my answers here, too, just to get other discussions going. i'm really getting into this class. I think this is why i finally am doing well in school. I finally found a major I'm truly interested in. I mean, sure I love writing, and I still love Dolphins and sharks, but English Major and Marine Biology Major were not meant to be. This is really working out for me and I'm really excited. To the point where i suffered through a really hard cours( for me) because I want to get my degree!

Memeage

2008-02-29T18:36:48Z

a) List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself
b) Tag seven people to do the same
c) Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it"

tagged by pen

1. Hmmm, I tend to write my stories in snippets. I don't write from beginning to end, because I'm afraid if I get that really good idea for chapter twelve that if I don't write it down immediately I will lose it and not remember it when I get there. I have several stories in half completion stages that have the first two chapters, the end, a couple of the middle chapters and just need to figure out how to get from point A to point B.

2. In going with that theme, I always know the beginning of a story and the end of the story before i even write down a single word. It's the fun part for me is getting the middle figured out so I know how I got from where I began to the end of the story.

3. I'm left handed. My husband is Left handed, my mom is left handed and my older brother is left handed. In fact, the only one in my immediate family who isn't left handed is my father. And maybe Christopher, though it is too soon to tell.

4. I have been called the girl of many nicknames. Depending on who you talk to, I'm Loriann, Lori, Lor, Nora, El, Nala, Gizmo, or Little One. I think that's it, but there might be more.

5. I am the Queen of all things Jonathan Brandis. If there's a factoid about him you need to know, come to me. If i can't remember it off the top of my head, I'll track it down. I have loved him since I was twelve years old, and that didn't change even after his suicide.

6. Hmmm. When I get a new Tv show, I have to watch all the episodes in that season, even if I didn't like all the episodes. And when I get the next season, I have to do a marathon. I must watch all the episodes, again, from the first season through the season I'm watching. i'm obsessive like that

7. My books have to be organized by genre, and then by author. I worked as a Page in a Library once, reshelving books. Can you tell this rubbed off on me?

And to continue the meme, I tag:
anamoly
min_sora
luckecharms
tracichan
mugetsu
nanthimus
pinkfm

Long ass night and morning.

2008-02-28T23:20:58Z

So, I gave up and reformatted my computer last night. And it did take pretty much all night. I had to get the Windows reinstalled, then hook my computer up to the internet directly and download the drivers. It was a pain in the ASS, and i had forty nine Windows updates which took most of the night to do, but they are don, and everything is running smooth as silk. Although those two little lines at the bottom of my screen are still effing there. What the hell man, what the hell? Oh well, they aren't bothering the computer, so maybe that is a problem with the moniter and the CPU itself. I'm not gonna worry about it. I got office back on the laptop, Score! And it's actually working for once, so again, SCORE! So i should be able to get Lotro reinstalled too and it will actually work as well. I'm in a chipper mood.

But on the plus side, I'm really proud of myself. I did it all myself online without Danny's help. I am a tech wizard in training!

Psych400-Counseling theories

2008-02-27T19:28:05Z

So, I've started studying for Psych400, aka, Counseling theories. I read through the lecture last night while RPing with Debi and them, and found the class intriguing already. This morning, I started reading the textbook, and it really made me think. The first chapter was about the counselor--professionally and personally. And reading it, it actually made me reconsider doing some counseling sessions myself. I mean, if I want to be any good at any kind of psychology, it would help to at least start working on some of my own neurosis. Yes, i'm quite neurotic. Shock and amazed. But if I want to help others, I need to at least recognize the triggers and develop ways to work through the panic attacks and mood swings in a healthier manner, and perhaps without the use of pharmaceuticals. Don't get me...wow, I actually spelled pharmaceutical right the first time...wrong, I have no problem taking anti-anxiety meds or anti-depressants. But lately, my body is reacting weird to my zoloft. I might try some St. John's Wort otc right now to see if that helps, because wow, feeling like crap to the stomach all day sucks. I have thought about calling my Psychiatrist and talking to him about it, but until I started taking Algebra, I was doing fairly well with my depression and anxiety. So I'm wondering if my anxieties and depression are more from environmental triggers than chemical imbalances.

I mean, I have a lot of strengths when it comes to people. I'm not all that shy, mostly. There are some situations where I tend to be more reserved than others, like with the other wives from the boat. Or just with the guys in his division. But that's because some of them can be backstabbers and I don't want to put my trust in the wrong person.

I'm pretty much an open book, and I try to be honest with people. I also have always been about trying to help my friends through their problems. Because alot of them come to me with their problems, and I'm really good at acting as a sounding board, and offering suggestions for them to take or leave.

But i also have some weaknesses that I have got to come to terms with. One would be my temper. I'm normally slow to anger, but if you know which buttons to push, my temper flies out of control and I will say and do things I will regret later. As can be seen by the recent drama. I need to find more constructive outlets for that.

Then there are the panic attacks. Never good. I can't think, I can't breathe, no decision seems to be the right one, and I can't stop crying. It's really scary. I don't like really scary. Again, I have to work through what triggers them and find a better way to deal with my stress.

So I'm going to look into my options for counseling. I think it's the best choice overall. Plus, in the long run, it will make me not only a better more well adjusted person, it will make me a better counselor.

Attention Friends list

2008-02-27T05:16:40Z

I PASSED ALGEBRA!!! I DID IT! I DID IT!!! I will no longer have to sit there and fuss with that damned textbook and not get it and scream in frustration and rip out hair and things get ugly and yeah. it's all good now.

My head hurts. I'm gonna relax, RP, and get ahead in Psych400

Join!! Join!!

2008-02-26T02:43:19Z