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kade — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:04:09 GMT

Finally took my Honda in to the dealership, so my airbag no longer has a chance of killing me if it deploys. I'm glad for the not-being-decapitated-by-my-airbag thing, but it was just as much of an annoyance as I imagined. Waited for almost 2 hours in a room full of people sniffing and snorting and snotting all around me. Gross. You guys need a fucking tissue or???

Oh well, at least that's one thing to cross off my Pain In The Ass list.

I need to update this more frequently. I love going back and reading all my old entries, and there's a tragic lack of material in the last several years. A lot of things happened and I wish I'd thought to write them down.

Been playing Fallout 76 with Jenny the last couple months, ever since beta. It's been fun, despite the toxic hate that try-hards are spreading about the game.

Also, looking forward to finally getting the colors done on my tattoo! We had to reschedule twice already — once because I got sick, and a second time because of a scheduling mishap. Tomorrow is the day, so I'm hoping third times's the charm!

Anyway, work soon, so I don't want to get too in-depth about whatever. Update later!

it's a sign of the times

kade — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 02:22:50 GMT

So I had this dream last night. I was at the grocery store and for some reason Donald Trump was holding a rally there, like they'd moved a couple aisles and made room for a podium and shit, but not very many people were there? Mostly people were going about their business and getting their groceries.

Anyway, I went over to the announcer's booth and I was like, "Hey can I borrow a microphone?" And the dude gave me one so I turned around and looked Trump dead in the eye and was like, "I would just like to say GO FUCK YOURSELF." Then I dropped the mic and walked away flipping him off while Trump shouted back that I was lucky he was so busy right now otherwise he would have me arrested and thrown in jail. LMAO.

Then I continued to casually shop for cereal and fruit like nothing had happened. It was pretty awesome xD

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kade — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 03:24:47 GMT

I CHANGED MY USERNAME.

BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.

"KADE" HAS BEEN MY ONLINE PSEUDONYM SINCE I DISCOVERED THE INTERNET.

AND IT'S NEVER BEEN AVAILABLE.

UNTIL NOW.

YEAH SON. *SITS ON THRONE*

It's also just funny because it's $15 for a name change, and back in the day I got an entirely new journal JUST to change my username. Like, I was THAT BROKE. and now i'm like $15 WHAT A FUCKIN STEAL, SOLD.

stuff my face with chimichangas

kade — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 03:26:26 GMT

okay I'm gonna start a tag series called THE LOST YEARS or something to cover the period of time where I didn't fucking update at all, so like...from 2012 through 2015? I'm just going to pick interesting things that happened and write about them as I remember them. Cliff-notes version, because fuck if I can remember every detail. Which is kind of why I'm doing this, because I don't want to forget the cool things that have happened and ACTUALLY it's been an interesting couple of years.

Timeline of Topics (for my own reference)

2012
-- January: Last semester finishing pre-reqs to get into the Vet Tech program.
-- February:
-- March:
-- April: Trip to IN with Jess to visit Jenny for a long weekend. Kentucky Derby stuffs and wine tasting fun. ALSO I was accepted into the Vet Tech program to start in the fall! This year was really a turning point for me in the best of ways.
-- May:
-- June - July: My sister got married and I was her maid of honor. Spent the month in VT (June 8th to July 9th). Shenanigans include a trip to Cedar Point with Joe and Maia, a hilarious accidental butt-dial, and Katie's bachelorette party.
-- August: Began my first semester at FRCC to become a Veterinary Technician.
-- September:
-- October:
-- November: Note to self, that pink slip from the electric company is not an idle threat... Also, election time and Mitt Romney Style.
-- December: Lots of WoW and Skyrim apparently.

2013
-- January: Trip to LA with Jenny to visit Jess! I went to the casino!! Won $85 grin emoticon Also tasted the hottest hot sauce (supposedly) that made me want to die for about five minutes, stayed in a haunted guest house, ate gumbo and walked down Bourbon Street, saw an AWESOME magician, went on a swamp tour and a bunch of other awesome things!!
-- February - April: School school school.
-- May: Began my internship at Paws 'n Claws.
-- June: ?
-- July: Spent this month in VT! Went to Cedar Point twice; once with Maia and Jenny, and then another time with my parents and sister on our way back from my aunt's wedding in MI. I blacked out on a roller coaster. Good times.
-- August: Jess F. visited me for a week! Fun times in Denver and at my place. X-men lulz. JEEEAAANNNNN!!!
-- September: Tycho had his first dental.
-- October - November: School school school.
-- December: Went home to VT for Christmas.

2014
-- January: Vet Tech internship at CSU starts. I missed the first 3 days because I was TRAPPED IN VERMONT THANKS TO A STUPID BLIZZARD. Thanks to the help of wonderful people like Anne G. and Dr. B. AND my super supportive classmates (MOO!) I was able to keep my schedule intact and get up to speed in order to successfully complete my first rotation. Insert talk about internship stuff and all my rotations here. ALSO got contact dermatitis during my radiology rotation and nearly passed out driving home. Took my first pregnancy test (I was paranoid and it had been a VERY stressful few weeks). January was a hell of a month.
-- February: Went to LA to visit Jess F. for her birthday! :D Took a week off during my internship. So many good times were had!
-- March: My internship ended. My class held a pinning ceremony at the college for friends and family to attend, which was preceded by a small dinner at Noodles & Co with a group of classmates.
-- April: I took this month off to relax after the end of classes.
-- May: I graduated tech school! My family came out to visit me for a week around Mother's Day (mom, Katie, Jake and Katie's husband Jason) so they could see me graduate, and then after that Maia came out to visit for 2 weeks. May was a great month! Hell, this was a great year all around.
-- June: I was hired for my first vet tech job! And promptly bought my first smart phone.
-- July: ??
-- August: Passed my VTNE! Officially a Certified Vet Tech! :D
-- September: My brother Joe got married. Spent about a week in NH/VT area. Got into climbing with Jess T. Super fun!
-- October: My parents sold the house I grew up in and moved to FL. I took in a foster kitten. Kevin and I got engaged on the same day that Kevin unofficially got his PhD. Foster kitten found a lovely home.
-- November: Thanksgiving with the Thompkins/Gleason family. Foster kitten died (heart defects - VSD) D:
-- December: Kevin's graduation. Kevin's family came to visit the week before Christmas and we had a mini-Christmas together.

2015
-- January: Visited my parents in Florida, went to Universal Studios.
-- Feb - May: IDK I CAN'T REMEMBER MUCH. I guess nothing much happened then. My parents had a falling out with my aunt in Florida and they moved to NH near my brother and his wife.
-- June? or July? -- Visited VT for about a week, got my third tattoo! Plus an excursion in Maine with Maia and her family.
-- August: Pretty boring month, far as I can tell.
-- September: Kevin was offered a post-doc position in DE. Rough month, super stressful.
-- October: Moved across country from CO to DE with the cats in the car (lovely story to come). Spent Halloween in Salem with my mom and my sister and my sister's husband.
-- November: Fallout 4 came out!! Spent Thanksgiving with the Whitcomb family + Maia and Matt and Kyle. My parents hated being in NH so they moved down to NC.
-- December: Got a new job. Spent Christmas with my parents in NC.

2016
-- January: Newark sucks. I have lots of anxiety, so superfun. Found out that my brother and his wife are expecting their first child.
-- February: Adventures in anxiety continue with its sidekick Depression. I start going back to the gym and focusing on getting back into shape in earnest, and it helps a lot with getting me feeling like myself again. Saw Deadpool twice, it's fucking awesome.
-- March: is right now. Looking forward to...PAX East, Dirty Girls mud run, my first niece/nephew being born, hopefully a trip to NYC soon.
-- April: PAX East
-- May: Trip to NC for Mother's Day weekend. My sister and her husband recently moved down there so I saw them, too. We saw Captain American Civil War and later went back to watch Ant Man at the house. My mom was coming up with various wedding ideas.
-- June: Was looking for jobs elsewhere because I couldn't stand working at TVH anymore.
-- July: Was offered a position at OVH, gave my 2 weeks notice at TVH. Then - Dirty Girl Mud Run! it was cold af and rainy but we had a blast. Maia got me into Pokemon GO! and we spent the rest of the weekend collecting pokemon. 15th was my last day at TVH and then I started at OVH on the 18th. On the 22nd my nephew was born.
-- August: Went to NH for a weekend to see my brother, sister-in-law and meet my nephew. They're all moved into their new house now.
-- September:
-- October: Trip to DC

i must've meowed a thousand times

kade — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:26:00 GMT

YO. It's been a while. I haven't done one of these questionnaires in a billion years, so here goes!

Get to know me.

A) What does the last text you sent say? And to whom?
It was to Maia and it was sarcastically singing Adele lyrics: "HELLO FROM THE OTHERRR SIIIIIIDE."

B) What does the last text you recieved say? And from whom?
Jess telling me she had to convince herself not to buy a stack of fucking books LOL

C) What time do you wake up most mornings?
6-6:15 *super sad face* I am not a morning person, but it takes me 25-40 minutes to get to work depending on how shitty the traffic is. Stupid traffic.

D) Are you afraid of walking alone at night?
Nope, I love walking at night!

E) What do you do to relax at the end of a stressful day?
Either go to the gym to work off the stress orrrr eat chocolate. Sometimes both xD

F) Where did your last kiss take place and with whom?
Umm...I walked out of the bathroom and kissed Kevin.

G) Do/did you get into trouble a lot at school?
Not really. Most days I was avoiding interaction like the introvert I am xD

H) Do you enjoy your job? If unemployed, are you content being so?
I do! I'm a Veterinary Technician. I love working with animals more than anything, although my current job has some downsides. I wish some things were different, but it's honestly temporary until Kevin finishes his post-doc, so I can deal with it until then.

I) Do you often pick up on double entendres and innuendos?
Yeah usually.

J) Have you ever been offered drugs but declined?
Listen, I lived in Colorado for like 8 years xD

K) Have you ever met someone who has completely altered your way of thinking?
Probably. Every now and then someone brings up a point that I'd never thought to question before, and when challenged to think of why I do or don't agree, sometimes I find that my answer isn't what I thought it'd be. That sort of thing. I can't think of anything specific off the top of my head, but it happens.

L) Have you ever been offered drugs and accepted?
Shouldn't this have directly followed the declining drugs question? Anyway, yes.

M) Tell us something weird that turns you on.
Like how weird? idk I can't think of anything super weird, lol.

N) When did someone last admit romantic or sexual feelings for you? Was the feeling mutual?
idk I live with my fiance, it happens often. So yeah it's mutual.

O) What is something you have given a lot of thought to lately?
Babies o___o Like, not in the immediate future, but I have been warming up to the idea in recent years.

P) When did you last swallow your beliefs to avoid an argument or confrontation?
tbh it's awful hard for me to do that, it's really unusual. Although a co-worker I get along with pretty well recently was saying how much she hates Obama and I just kept my mouth shut about my own opinion. But that's fucking politics and boring anyway.

Q) Do you usually initiate hugs?
Depends on who it is. With my fiance it's usually me doing the hugging.

R) Are you a very affectionate person?
I can be, but usually no. Emotional shit isn't the easiest thing and I get super awkward about it.

S) Can you roll your own cigarettes?
No LOL

T) What are you looking forward to?
PAX East 2016!! Fuck yeah! And also the Dirty Girl mud run happening in July, omfg it's going to be so much fun I can't wait!

U) Do you have any tattoos. Do you want any/more?
Hell yes. I have 3 at the moment. I want more. At least 2 more - one on my shoulder and then a half-sleeve on my upper arm. A watercolor tattoo...those are amazing.

V) Are you mentally strong?
Yes.

W) Are you physically strong?
Yes.

X) Do you think you’re a good person?
For the most part, yeah, I try to be.

Y) Name one thing you wish you could change about your life right now.
Not having to live in motherfucking Newark.

Z) What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Lately it's been either a protein shake or "protein pancakes" which are fucking amazeballs.

Done! *jazz hands*

whoohoo controversy

kade — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:33:46 GMT

Michelle Duggar Miscarries 20th Child

WTF this makes me irrationally irritated, your 20th fucking kid, are you NOT HAPPY with the 19 you already have?! You just want to burden the world with your spawn so they can also have 20 fucking kids and help deplete the Earth's resources faster than ever before. IT'S GOD'S WILL, PEOPLE, OK? If I were religious I'd rant about how god gave us free will and etc., but I'm an atheist so whatever. I'm just sick of seeing this shit on the news and on TV, don't fucking REWARD people for screwing like rabbits, when they're really screwing all of us over because futures generations are going to suffer for it, and

HOLY FUCK SOMEONE TURN OFF THAT ANNOYING ASS CAR ALARM

and it seems that stupid people breed the most. We're going to have a wonderful world full of complete morons pretty soon, we're already nearly there already. Now I'm depressed. I depressed myself. >:C

On a more serious note, I do think it's sad that the unborn child - however far along it was that it could even be called a child at that point - had to suffer for the irresponsibility of its parents. Not only are they irresponsible, but selfish. Selfish as FUCK. She's 45; she HAS to know that any children she has at that point in her life are at serious risk of having severe birth defects (hell, the 19th baby is what, mentally challeneged? I just know that he/she barely survived birth as it is) and that STILL doesn't stop them from having more!? Dude. Not cool. Do they not even CARE that they are unnecessarily putting a child through a lifetime of difficulty? It'd be one thing if it weren't intentional, and while it probably WASN'T intentional, they sure as fuck aren't doing anything to prevent it. idk I think that's fucking cruel, personally. I wouldn't want that life.

It's so fucking stupid I can't even properly express my "asdlkfhje3jkhf!!!" Ignorance, naivety, stupidity, BLINDNESS, selfishness. Shit, people, get a clue, how many of us do you really think the world can support? Certainly not enough for everyone to leave the number of kids they have "~UP TO GOD~" fffffffffffffffff *brain implodes*

LOL this isn't even my first rant about the Duggars, probably not the second either. They just. ARRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH. Why are people allowed to pull this shit, and then get a motherfucking TV SHOW ABOUT IT!? That is straight up retarded, this woman should be spayed. Your vagina is not a clown car, bitch! >:|

and lastly:

"There ain't anymore eggs in your hen house! The snake of time done saw to that!"

On a lighter note, I'm done with school for this semester! Now I'm waiting to see if I ~~passed my classes~~ get into the Vet Tech program for the spring semester....come on luck!!

I'msotired zzzzzz

I like to turn into a cat sometimes~

kade — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:47:40 GMT

Well. There went a few weeks with no entries. I didn't do it on purpose though! I started getting carpal tunnel so I had to limit the use of my right hand as much as possible to make it go away as fast as possible. It was...hard, LOL. It's still tough D: If I ever lost my right hand, damn, I would just be up shit creek, because lefty is NOT very efficient =\

But it wasn't that bad to begin with, I realized early on what it was, so I've got a brace and I've been icing my wrist, and I've got some NSAIDs to keep inflammation down. It seems to be improving, so whoohoo! :D

ANYWAY SO HEY GUESS WHO'S GETTING A SONY VAIO? AWW YEAH. I've been wanting one ever since high school, it's pretty much my dream laptop *_* I'm using the money I'm getting from my tuition refund. Yeah whatever I have to pay it back someday, but the way I see it, I'll either have a great career going or the economy will have fucking collapsed and I'd have been screwed regardless. I also need to use some of it to get my eyes checked and go to the dentist. I haven't done either in years and I'm long overdue.

SO DAMMIT THEY NEED TO PROCESS MY REFUND, I'M SO ANXIOUS FOR THAT LAPTOP I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF D:

It's been so rainy out all day, it's STILL raining. And Kevin's gone to a science convention. So I spent a lot of today playing WoW XD Anyway I was in a dungeon with a random group of players, toward the end we were crossing this crumbling bridge over a lava pit and this happened:

Tank: *in bear form* :D I should jump off! :D *gets closer and closer to the edge*

Healer: TEEHEE~

Tank: *FALLS OFF BRIDGE*

Healer: Noooooo!! D:

Tank: *DIES AT THE BOTTOM* OOPS!

So stupid wtf XD It's really fucking annoying when two players are all flirting with each other and shit while the rest of us are trying to play *eyeroll* He was like saying dumb shit to be funny to her the entire time, neither of them acted like the other players even existed until we had a wipe and suddenly the rest of us were dumb for not killing the adds fast enough. Fuckers.

So yeah I thought it was kind of hilarious XD I don't even know if anyone on here plays WoW at all, but basically, a dumb bear fell into a pit of lava because he was stupid :D

As a side note, I'm starting to feel as though I don't like a lot of the other girls who play WoW =\ They're just so... "teeeeheeeee~ I'm a kitty, KITTIES ARE CUTE!! :D I know nothing about gaming LOLOLOL!!!" or "GRR WHY ARE THINGS NOT DYING. MY CLASS SUCKS!! >___< OMG I'M LOST WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS!? WHAT THE FUCK. 5 WHOLE MINUTES TO GET INTO A DUNGEON?!!!?!" or they have to fucking make a big show of the fact that they are girls and they know how to play WoW. Like that's something special :P Yeah, there may not be as many of us on there as guys, but there are still a lot of us, and people like those girls are kind of embarrassing.

...Also, I seem to attract all the creepers of the internet on there, somehow. I always get weirdo players running up and doing inappropriate things to my characters, or my poor poor mounts D:

Anyway. Damn it feels later than 10:30. I hope I can wake up tomorrow without Kevin to poke and prod me until I get up :P I've been going to bed earlier lately but it seems I still need to hire a marching band to wake me up. I could probably sleep through just about anything D:

Annnnd Rory keeps sitting in front of the screen, so I guess she has decided it's time for me to stop typing and pay attention to her. ;p

FML wanting to do things you can't do

kade — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:36:10 GMT

oh god dammit I want to draw right now, so badly, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the one thing I CAN'T do because I'm going to fucking get carpal tunnel if I keep trying to do it >_< well, I've never had it before, so I don't totally know what it would feel like but I googled the symptoms so who needs doctors AMIRITE?!

Yeah so anyway, joking aside, Friday night I had been working on something for a while and when I stopped, my hand was numb and my fingers were all tingly so I freaked and stopped drawing, then made myself abstain until about last night when I tried sketching something quick. Fifteen minutes or so later my fingers are tingly again, so I stopped. ARGH. Why me?! Dammit!!

D:

I'm also worried that I have a cavity (another thing which I have never experienced, so I'm not totally sure about that either), and have been for a while, but there's literally nothing I can do about it when I have no extra money to spend on a trip to the dentist. I'll just have to wait and see what I get back for my financial aid refund and maybe I'll be able to do it then.

I also need new glasses/contacts because my eyesight is beginning to suck.

...I also need to figure out how to launder money because this shit is ridiculous.

In um, better news...school is going fine, minus the fact that the biology lab is a fucking refrigerator....wait. Okay fun fact: all my life, for some fucking reason, I've been spelling it 'refridgerator' WTF WITH A D IN IT. WHAT THE HELL THAT'S NOT RIGHT. LOL. WHAT. Anyway yeah, so the lab is like being in an icebox even though it's been in the 90s until this week, so I've taken to wearing sweatshirts and jeans to school just so I can stay warm enough to be able to concentrate on what the instructor is talking about @_@ Other than that, it's been going well :3

Jesus christ wtf my cat is seriously broken today, all he's been doing is going around the house and YOWLING for absolutely no reason at all. Not sure what he's on about, I don't really pretend to understand his eccentricity LOL. I love my cat, really, but this is ANNOYING D:

but anyway, what else....oh yeah I must nerd out about the fact that I've reached level 85 on my main toon in WoW TEEEHEEEE~ LOL, yeah whatever, laugh/roll your eyes at me, go right ahead. At least I'm not one of THOSE people. You know, the kind who don't understand what life is like without World of Warcraft? Everyone knows at least one! IDK, not really sure how anyone can sit there all day and do nothing but play WoW but they manage it somehow o_O The game gets a bad rep for "ruining peoples' marriages" or whatever but it's seriously stupid to blame a game for a person's irresponsibility LOL. If not WoW I'm sure it'd be something else, in their cases.

I suppose that about wraps it up. Freaking Labor Day and nothing being open... *grumbles*

droppin' washingtons!

kade — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:55:30 GMT

Holy shit I need to clean this thing up a bit. Everything is so old, so ooooollllld @_@ and I'm kind of sick of my username =\ but the ones I would want are taken.

/PRE-POST BITCHING

Okay, so the other day I was lamenting the fact that my days seem to pass by so quickly. Kevin recommended that I start writing in a journal, as he thought it would help, so I'm really going to try to keep it up this time. Really I am!

WORK

In July, I got a job! and not freelance, an actual job in which I leave the house, arrive at my place of employment, work for a set number of hours, leave, and get a paycheck every two weeks. YAY! It's called the Country Buffet, and I alternate as both cashier and server. I like server better because I make some nice tips, though not everyone thinks to tip the server since we don't actually bring them their food. But we DO have to clean up after them and holy crap some people are slobs. Especially people with children. I haven't minded people not tipping if it's just a one-person table, but if someone comes in with their kid and leaves the table looking like a tornado hit it, then I'm kind of pissed when they leave me nothing LOL.

But anyway, it's been good so far. Everyone I work with is pretty nice, which always makes things so much easier. The pay sucks when I work as a cashier, but hey, it's not easy to find work here, especially when you barely have connections. I can live with it.

I actually did get desperate enough to work at McDonalds, back in April. Haha oh my god. Everything anyone ever says about working there? They aren't fucking kidding. It was terrible. That's an understatement. I can't think of a word accurate enough to describe working there. They put me on grill, and not only is it like eight thousand degrees back there, but also, they pack you in like sardines. I'm not exaggerating, you are literally back-to-back with your co-workers, hoping that nobody slips and bumps you and causes you to spontaneously make out with the grill.

Not only that, but this particular McDonalds was the worst at communication, I have never worked with a company so horribly lacking in that aspect. Nobody knew anything that I asked them, my schedule was never ready, I had to keep calling back to find out and the managers never fucking had a clue. One of them remarked to me on my first day how unqualified she was to be doing the job. Really? How reassuring.

To think I left orientation thinking, "Hey, this might not be so bad after all!" LOL. I think they purposely neglected to give us a tour of the place. The woman doing the orientation was the only professional person that I met there, and I didn't see her again afterward.

So one night I left...and I just didn't come back. They hadn't given me a schedule, and I called a few times, but I was just like 'Fuck this, I will find something better.' I still have the uniform, LOL. I didn't even want to go back to turn it in. It's very likely that they would've just stared blankly at me and not have known what to do anyway.

Fucking ridiculous. Never work at McDonalds. The legends are true.

In other news, I am finally free of graphic design. Thank god, Jesus H. Christ I don't know why I ever thought I would enjoy that. I'm just not the type of person who can create things for other people. I'm only interested in what I want to do, it just doesn't work for me. It almost killed my personal interest in graphic/web design completely @_@ Hopefully now that I'm done with that job, I can get back to working on my own personal websites as a hobby, and I can begin to love it again.

Moving on...

SCHOOL

Yay. I'm not sure if I mentioned that I was trying to get into the veterinary technology program at my community college, so if I haven't, then hey I just did! Right now I'm working on knocking off the prerequisites before I can fill out the program application. There are 4, and then 2 electives that I can take anytime I want. I took a class over the summer, but it was only 1 credit. Medical Terminology. It was a really neat class though and I enjoyed it, will definitely be able to apply what I learned in class to many things I do in the future, and that makes me feel good about it.

This semester I'm in three classes. Biology, Career Math and Public Speaking (which is one of those electives that I'm getting out of the way right now). I also need an English class, but I took so many at LSC that I've got that one covered.

Anyway, so yesterday was my first day. I set it up so that all of my classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I can be free to work the rest of the week. But holy crap I didn't sleep at all on Monday night, I maybe got 2 hours and that was it. I got up at 8:30, got ready for school and before I left I bought a bunch of energy drinks. I never drink those, normally, and I had two of them; one before I arrived, and the other after my first class. I was okay until around the time I got home, when I started to crash so hard. It was unbelievable, I'm never doing that again. NEVER.

Energy tastes fucking awful by the way. I bet one of the biggest factors in creating those things is trying to mask that disgusting taste they all have. Ugh gross.

So anyway those are the two main things going on. I'm also getting excited because jesscheaux is coming to visit me for a week in November! :D She never comes to LJ anymore so she won't see this and squee with me but whatever XD

Okay also, games I play right now: WoW, Dragon Age, Fable 3 and I'm trying to get into Mass Effect. I started a pt but I haven't played in a while.

Anyway, that's pretty much all I have to talk about. Yep.

Writer's Block: School days

kade — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:15:01 GMT

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GOD I DON'T BELIEVE IN, YES. Ignorance sure as fuck isn't working. LOL

THRICE~

kade — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:53:19 GMT

lol hi! Been a while since I posted, and things have changed a bit for me so I figured I should write something in here. I wouldn't call this my triumphant return to blogging or anything, I mean you can fully expect me to disappear for another... *counts* ... six months after I post this XD;; but who knows! Maybe not. I dunno.

Anyway wtf was happening last time I updated...oh right, I was doing freelance and enrolled at DeVry University. Well, that went to shit because my car decided it wanted to be a defiant SOB and it began to develop an overheating issue, and when I went to get it looked at I found out there was not only a leaking transmission but also the head gaskets needed to be replaced. Which would have ended up costing more than my car was worth...so basically I was told that I was driving a car that could expire on me at any time, and since DeVry was almost an hour away it was just not a risk I felt like taking, and so I had to drop my classes there.

It wasn't so bad in retrospect, I wasn't really digging DeVry. They had a weird way of doing things, and because I was commuting some of the classes were only once a week so if you missed one class it was like missing two weeks of a regular class @_@ Plus, despite meeting in-class we still had to do stupid online crap like forum discussions and quizzes, which I find impossible to keep up with due to all the distractions of the internet.

So yeah, I actually dropped my classes shortly after my last post. I've still been doing some freelance, working with the same company I mentioned previously, but all of these failed college experiences thus far have taught me that I should never try to take a hobby and turn it into a career. I'm sure it works out great for many people, but evidently not for me. Every time, it just starts to feel like a chore and it sucks all the fun out of it and I end up not even wanting to do these things on my own time let alone for other people. I don't know why I thought web design would be different. I still love it, but I don't want a career out of it anymore. I'm fine doing a little on the side for some extra cash, but yeah, not really wanting to do this for the rest of my life anymore.

Expensive lesson, but you can't know these things unless you try. So then, what am I doing now, anyway? Well for one thing I told myself I shouldn't aim so high. I have been trying this whole time, like I said, to turn a hobby of mine into a career so that it would feel like I never had to work. So I thought that instead, I should focus on a job that I would NOT be doing outside of work, something that is not really a hobby, and for a while I didn't really know what the hell that would be.

And then my mom was telling me that I should do some volunteer work to get out of the house and maybe I would find some job opportunities through connections I'd make with other people, so I remembered the Fort Collins Cat Rescue, the shelter I had planned on volunteering at in 2009 (and then missed the meeting because I had the flu). At that point I was also considering getting into a vet tech program somewhere, but I wanted to be sure that this time I wasn't going to make another mistake. The shelter also has a Spay/Neuter clinic and I figured if I could get some work there, I could gain some experience and get an idea of what I would be getting into. Not only that, but if I did decide that being a vet tech is what I wanted to do, the volunteering would look really awesome on my resume.

That was a month ago, and I've been doing a lot of volunteer work at the clinic since then. Things have worked out SO much better than I ever thought they would, everyone at the clinic is SO NICE and the techs are always teaching me how to do things. I've learned a lot from them so far, you'd really be surprised what they let volunteers do! o_o

My first day there, I walked in and basically one of the techs held up a thermometer to me and another volunteer and was like "Who wants to take this dog's temp?! 8D"

I did it, haha. Typically whenever I go there I can expect to help restrain animals, take temps, draw up vaccines, run heartworm tests, and help out with any miscellaneous task that they need me to do. I've also been taught how to give injections (microchips and vaccinations, although only employees are allowed to give the rabies vaccinations so I haven't done that, but I've given a distemper shot! XD) and I've drawn blood samples a few times, too.

I am never unsupervised while doing these things, of course, because I'm still learning. But everyone seems more than willing to teach me this stuff, it's SO awesome, like I said I've learned so much in just one month there. I've seen a few surgeries, too. The veterinarians don't mind when volunteers watch, and today I was watching a dog being spayed and the vet was super nice and was explaining things to me as she was doing them, it was just so cool :D

One of the techs was also telling me that if I kept volunteering regularly, like a couple times each week, then there's a good chance that I could get hired there because apparently they will teach you all of the things you need to know to work there (which I believe, for sure, LOL). She said one of the employees is leaving in August, so that might be when I could get in, which would be BEYOND awesome!!

I'm not going to put all my eggs in one basket or anything, I mean fully intend to get into the vet tech program at the community college whether I can get the job there or not, because I just want to have the entire education regardless. But I was talking to my sister (who IS a vet tech) and she said that all the stuff I've been doing/seeing is basically what the job normally consists of. So I'm pretty much halfway there already! Crazy, right??

But really, I am loving it, I enjoy being there and I'm not even getting paid for it. I find it totally rewarding and I love getting to see all of the animals that come in, all shapes and sizes. I got to hold the CUTEST LAB PUPPY EVER last week, omg his owners are so lucky I decided to give him back ;D I've seen the angriest cat on the planet get vaccinated, a dog that lost a lot of weight and had these big skin folds draped over her tail (THAT was strange o_O) and...a kitty abortion...well, they weren't kittens by any means and didn't look like anything remotely recognizable, but it was still a bit jarring to realize what I was seeing, you know?

I'm just glad that I'm not at all squeamish. I can compartmentalize pretty well, too. For example, stitches CREEP ME THE FUCK OUT but I was watching the vet stitch up that dog earlier and had no ill reaction at all, until I got home and started thinking back on it XD

So anyway, I'm really thinking that this is it, this is what I want to do. I've always loved animals, often times more than people, and I remember as a child I was always saying that I wanted to be a veterinarian. I don't think I want to be a full-on doctor, just because it seems so high-pressure and I don't want to kill an animal by accident o_O ...but being a tech is definitely something that I can do.

I'm going to the meeting at the community college in April, it's the first Wednesday of each month and I missed last month's meeting by ONE DAY agh! But anyway, it's a separate meeting to get into the vet tech program so I'm aiming to get into the Fall semester, and spend the summer semester making sure that I've got all my prerequisites done. I think I might only need the Medical Terminology course, but we'll see :3

So anyway, there's a big fat update for ya. Other than that, I've been playing a lot of Dragon Age 2~ omnomnom.

Also, I couldn't fit this in anywhere, but we did end up getting a new car. It's a 1999 Saturn, affordable and it's been okay so far XD

mmkay, I have to go and finish my sink-full of dishes. BLARGH D:

*poofs*

Fisher

kade — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:31:31 GMT

My mom just told me (via Facebook message 9_9) that our "free loader cat" has died.

Fisher was technically our neighbor's cat, but most of the time it felt like we had joint custody of him. He wasn't a young cat, I remember back when our neighbors got him as a kitten. They let him go outside and he'd wander down to our yard, and I always worried about that tiny little kitten and hoped he'd be okay being outdoors like that. I guess he got so used to us that it was no big deal to him to hang around all the time; eventually he started getting into our house and he would eat our cats' food. My parents didn't want him in there at first, and then my mom would call the neighbors and let them know that Fisher was hanging around here if he didn't go home that night.

So it always felt like Fisher was a member of our family too. Mom said he was hit by a car on route 5. Seems like a lot of animals die there ):

Fisher freeloading.

I'll miss him. At least I got to see him while I was in Vermont last month, though. FISHER ;_;

dyslexia done spread to his legs

kade — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:57:21 GMT

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I put in my entire NaNoWriMo novel XD which I didn't think was all that dark...LOL

Writer's Block: A rose by any other name

kade — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:41:09 GMT

Never really liked it, no. I'm not entirely sure why, I mean it's not like 'Keri' is all that common (at least the spelling of it is somewhat uncommon), but for my entire childhood I pretty much hated my name's guts. It actually got to the point where my mother was ready to take me down to the town clerk's office or whatever and have it legally changed, but in the end I said I didn't want to. I was like ten years old, lol! What the hell would I have picked, I wonder? Probably something I'd end up hating later on, I think I was at least smart enough to know that, hahaha~

I still don't really like it even now, but hey, it's my name. I hate my middle name too (because it's REALLY EFFING COMMON in the USA X___X I swear every fourth girl shares my middle name), but at least you can shorten 'Elizabeth' so I'd almost rather have that as my first name :P

Ugh, damn. If I ever have a kid I'm going to try to be a little more creative than my parents, LOL.

As for what I'd change it to, hell if I know. I like my alias (Kade/Kaden) so probably that, I've used it for years anyways XD I probably wouldn't ever consider changing my name for real though, I mean nobody who already knows me would call me something different and it'd be kind of weird, LOL!

i-it's YOU!! the HERO OF KVATCH!!!11

kade — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:42:49 GMT

Ok my list of crap to do:

-- go to the bank, make a deposit and STOP ALL THE ~~DOWNLOADING~~ OVERDRAFTS
-- go to the post office and get envelopes and stuff for mailing my Ebay things
-- mail that shit
-- work on the website for my HTML class
-- get cards for my sister and brother since they're BOTH graduating
-- call DeVry to see what I need to do next

man. I need a haircut D: I just need to have my hair re-layered so I can wear it down again without having it look all funky XD Haircuts aren't that expensive, maybe I'll go and get one using some of my Ebay money.

I totally don't know what to write. I had all these thoughts earlier, but then I sat down and now I feel all "Meh" about it. Yesterday I was pissed at the bank, mad at the gym, worried about the math exam I took in the morning, rushing to finish a project for Photoshop class...and today all of that is gone XD So I have nothing to bitch about anymore.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'mmmmm booorrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg~ lalalala.

It's a miiiiiid-liiiiife criiiissssiiisssssss

kade — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:29:41 GMT

HI LJ I seem to be posting frequently these days. Anyway I figured I'd make a post here instead of continuing to spam the fuck out of Twitter.

The Yahoo articles are mostly stupid to begin with, but sometimes they REALLY stir me up. Especially this one about how spanking 'leads to aggression' in children.

LOL WHAT.

I hate this article. Not only is it completely UNTRUE but also seems like it would make parents feel guilty for the way they raise their kids. You know what? I was spanked as a kid! I did turn out fine. In fact, I probably turned out better for it, because as a child I learned an important lesson: if you act like a shithead, you're gonna get what's coming to you.

Sure when I was a kid I'd scream about how I'd ~NEVER~ spank my own children if I ever had any, but now that I'm grown up I can't blame my parents in the least. I did act like an epic brat now and then, and I completely deserved everything I got in return!

I mean yeah, if you spank your kids EVERY DAY for the smallest of reasons, something is probably wrong there. If your kid doesn't eat his vegetables and gets spanked for it, then yes, he'll PROBABLY turn out to be kind of a douche. My siblings and I were spanked maybe once every couple of months; you save that stuff for when they REALLY act like assholes. Furthermore, we got PLENTY of warnings! It's not like we got spanked out of nowhere, LOL. I don't EVER remember walking into a room, mouthing off, and IMMEDIATELY being hit. My parents would say "You better quit that, or you're gonna get it!" After the second or third warning, true to their word, we'd get our asses smacked. WE KNEW WHY. There was never any question about it. We'd be sent to our rooms afterward, and then a half hour later one of them would ALWAYS come up and talk to us about what we did. Most of the time it was my mom, bringing some dinner with her as a peace offering. My mom always made sure we knew that she loved us, but also that we had fucked up big time XD

I just think it's SO STUPID. Parents these days are all a bunch of wussies, there is NOTHING wrong with spanking your kid every now and then. It's NOT going to ~TEACH HIM VIOLENCE~ and turn him into a bully, that's RIDICULOUS. My three siblings and I ALL got spanked (although my youngest brother didn't get it nearly as much, and he actually turned out to be an even bigger brat than the rest of us! CHOKE ON THAT, YAHOO) and NONE OF US have ever been bullies. Like I said, we knew EXACTLY why we were being spanked. Kids aren't oblivious to such things.

I would definitely spank any kids I may or may not have in the future, goddamn right I would!! I think my parents did a pretty damn good job. It never felt like I was being punished because Dad didn't like me, or for no reason at all. I was always very aware of the fact that I'd been pushing my limits, and finally I got what was coming to me. I dunno, kids do that. When we're young I think we all like to find out just how far we can push things, how long we can get away with something. Like the majority of others of my generation, I found out that it's not a very good idea to fuck with my parents!

Blah, dumb article. LOL. IDK, opinions anyone?

I need FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. The cadbury egg I just ate was the first thing my stomach has had all day ;__;

I'd like to help you out; which way did you come in?

kade — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:28:59 GMT

OMG, never breathe while attempting to drink coffee. ...Not that people do that type of thing on purpose.

Anyway I'm leaving in about 45 minutes for Westminster! Charging my iPod right now. I kind of miss the long car rides, so I'm looking forward to it XD

I just got back from Web Design class. The instructor FLIPPED HER SHIT because the majority of the class (aside from me and one other person) didn't do the assignment she'd given them about a week to do. She's teaching us how to make web sites using Wordpress, and had instructed the class to download and install Wordpress onto a website. It's very simple for anyone who is already familiar with the way these things work. The thing is, though, this class does not know JACK SHIT about coding web sites. Most of them just barely learned to make their first web site ever, and I don't think many of them knew much HTML other than maybe bold tags and simple stuff like that. She wanted them to figure out FTP programs by themselves. These people had NO FUCKING CLUE what they were doing!

I mean, I understand the frustration, I agree completely that they should have at least tried to do it, and just asked questions in class if they didn't understand. But I also disagree with her way of going about it. She definitely should have demonstrated to the entire class how to do this shit. I mean, I easily installed everything like LAST WEEK when we were first told about the upcoming stuff, but I KNEW that most of the class was not going to fucking get this stuff. It's hard when you're a beginner, and when you're learning on your own then yeah, you fucking figure it out for yourself, but when you're PAYING for a class then I think it's fair to expect the teacher to make damn sure you know what the hell you're doing (I mean at least make the effort, because it's nobody's fault if the student is fucking lazy or doesn't pay attention) before throwing you to the wolves.

Seriously. I love the class because I love web design, but I really am not loving her way of teaching it. She gets irritated when people aren't getting something. It's not their fault, they're fucking newbies, what do you expect?? She didn't even really teach HTML or anything, just pointed them to Dreamweaver and basically said "figure it out on your own."

The problem is that this is a Web DESIGN class, not a "learn-how-to-code" class, and there REALLY should be a prerequisite for it, but there isn't. You aren't required to know basic HTML before taking the class and you REALLY SHOULD BE. That's the reason this class is a total mess right now, because she realized in the beginning that most of the students were fucking clueless and had to haphazardly teach them how to throw a website together. We haven't even really gotten much into the actual design aspects of a web site. We've done ONE PROJECT so far for this ENTIRE FUCKING SEMESTER. FUCKING ONE. I'm paying for this class, really?? Sigh.

Hopefully everything works out with DeVry, because I really want to be in classes that actually challenge me and I want to learn new things, not sit around twiddling my thumbs while I'm lightyears ahead of the rest of the class because not everyone is on the same level. I spent most of the class today helping my classmates get their FTP accounts set up and helping them install Wordpress.

It just baffles me. When I walked into the class this morning, our instructor was in the middle of losing her shit, and then informed us that she wouldn't be teaching anything today because nobody did the homework that would have "taken 5 minutes to install." If it would have taken five minutes, then WHY THE FUCK NOT SPEND FIVE FUCKING MINUTES having everyone do this shit AS A CLASS??? That is such bullshit, completely unprofessional of her in my opinion. Like I said, we are all PAYING to take this class, she is being paid to teach us.

I'm just really fucking disgusted with what went down today and it's making me glad that I probably won't be there much longer.

I hate it when you're with MC Hammer and he won't let you touch anything

kade — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:08:45 GMT

Aw dammit I had coffee and then I totally forgot about it, and now it's getting cold D8 But that doesn't really matter, because guess what? I don't think I'm going to transfer to CSU after all.

I'm just going to drop out of college completely.

No, kidding of course XD Actually I'm probably going to transfer to a different university! I discovered DeVry the other day and as I looked over their website I noticed that they have the EXACT PROGRAM I HAVE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT -- MULTIMEDIA DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT in which I can specialize in web design!! OMG YOU GUYS, I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. SO EXCITED. I love web design so much and I've always wanted to be in a program like this, but I didn't think there were any places nearby that I could get to. There are three locations in Colorado, the closest to me being in Westminster which is anywhere from 35-50 minutes away depending on how fast you drive LOL. But that's absolutely do-able, especially if I line up my classes so that they're all on two or three days during the week!

Anyway, so yesterday I requested more information from the website and about an hour ago a rep from the school called me and we talked a little bit about DeVry and what I wanted to do, THEN he set up an appointment for tomorrow. He's going to look at my transcripts from LSC and figure out if there is anything that would transfer over. FRCC didn't accept any of my credits, but he said that DeVry might... I dunno though, my LSC transcript is not that impressive... XD;;; I was pretty irresponsible back then and also bored in all my classes since we were all being taught things that I had already learned on my own. I don't like showing it to people because I feel it's not an accurate reflection of who I am now, but...blah XD

So my appointment is at 3pm tomorrow and I'm already SUUUUPAAAA (lol Franky) excited about it! Except I've never been to Westminster...and my sense of direction is generally pretty fail, but they e-mailed me directions so hopefully I'll be okay. I also printed out directions from MapQuest..funny thing? The MapQuest directions and the directions DeVry sent ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT!! WTF? So maybe there are just two ways to get there...I feel as though I just got one of those chance cards in the Sims:

"Keri needs to get to DeVry University, however she has somehow acquired two completely different sets of driving directions. She has the instructions sent from the University, and also directions she had printed off from MapQuest. If she does not make it to the appointment on time, a bomb will blow up in her car. Which directions should Keri follow?

[MAPQUEST] [UNIVERSITY]

*chooses 'MapQuest'*

"Keri decides to go with the MapQuest directions; after all, when has MapQuest steered her wrong? She follows all the instructions very carefully, getting onto the interstate and traveling the 52 miles as directed, yet somehow after 50 minutes she notices that she has arrived in fucking Canada. Keri misses her appointment at DeVry and loses 2 points of Charisma. Also, her car explodes."

Yeah, so...wish me luck? XDDD

lol first post of March and the month is almost over A+

kade — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:06:36 GMT

This quote is so utterly full of 'tard that I had to post it.

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding."

WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK??

So basically the idea is to trust in something you have NO PROOF OF, that you have NEVER SEEN FOR YOURSELF, rather than what you actually know and have seen for yourself?

That was posted by somebody on Facebook. This girl I went to school with, she often posts this crap, I can't imagine what her life must be like if she's constantly relying on some magical guy in the sky to make everything better for her.

Why can't these people fucking think for themselves?? That's partially what drives me NUTS about religion and people like her. FUCKING HAVE YOUR OWN IDEAS!

And I am sorry, but if someone actually REJECTS the idea of evolution in favor of creationism, I really am forced to believe that they are somewhat mentally retarded. I really think you CAN believe in both, I have heard of scientists who believe in both for crying out loud. personally being an Atheist I think creationism is a load of horseshit. Nothing about it makes any bit of sense at all to me. The bible has been re-written like how many times?? Every version is different right? How the fuck can people believe something that has changed so much over the years with no actual proof or anything to back it up?

I know that while there's no way to prove that god exists, there is also no way to prove that he DOESN'T exist. But the whole idea just seems more and more ridiculous with every retard holy roller beating on their bible and spouting bullshit like that quote above. I can't help but think religion is nothing but a cult and all those people are MOTHERFUCKING BLIND AS SHIT, brainwashed into believing all of it.

And then there's the fact that there are SO MANY other religions around the world and all of them think that they are right. They can't POSSIBLY all be right, there is not a super-special afterlife for each individual religion.

I just cannot fathom buying into religion. it completely boggles my mind, it really does. And it's not that I think I am somehow better than religious people, or smarter, or whatever else I may have unintentionally seemed to imply. I don't. It just all pisses me off sometimes, and this is one of those times.

I'm so sick of religious people shoving themselves into issues that have nothing to do with them at all. Abortion. FUCK. OFF. You are NOT the one making the decision, it's NONE of your damn business, shut the fuck up and SIT THE FUCK DOWN, you do NOT get to poke your dumbass nose into something that has nothing at all to do with you. If you don't like abortion, DON'T FUCKING GET ONE, but shut up when it comes to other people!!!

Same with gay marriage, if you don't like it, DON'T GET ONE!!!! But SHUT. THE FUCK. UP. It is NONE of your business.

This is what I don't understand. Why are religious people always up in everyone's business!? It's maddening to me! What the hell do they care if two men get married, what the hell does that have to do with them?? ARRRGH

Blah, I should stop. I have homework to do. But before that, I should eat...

YOU WANT ME TO...WHAT?!!! o___o

kade — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:33:19 GMT

UGH OMFG WHY DID I JUST ANSWER THE PHONE, WHY?? *rolls* That was the weirdest fucking phone call I've ever had x___x

Okay the thing is...last year when I worked with the county for the election, I was partnered with this eccentric old lady. I had to train her on one of the days we worked together, and when the election was over, she asked for my number for some reason and said she would call and 'talk business' or whatever...I gave her my number even though honestly I had no interest in hanging out with her, but really I didn't hear from her after that so I figured she probably lost it or forgot about me.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO TODAY. GUESS WHO JUST CALLED? And no, she didn't ask me to just hang out with her, because I wouldn't be bitching about that. As soon as I answered the phone, she LAUNCHED into this tirade about her finances and her health and everything and then she was talking about having me come over to her house to help her with like...her back problems? O_O From what I understood, she needs somebody to put stuff on her back for her...err...AWKWARD. Then she was talking about having me clean a leather sofa for her. WTF?

DUDE I DON'T WANT TO. I tried to nicely get out of it ~~because she seems a little bit loopy~~ by telling her I have classes and I'd probably be too busy, but somehow I ended up saying that I didn't know what my schedule would be like, and she said she would call me back next week X________X

I DO NOT WANT TO BE STUCK RUBBING CREAM ONTO AN OLD LADY'S BACK. That's what a fucking NURSE is for! CALL A NURSE, NOT ME. WTF.

omg, omg, omg. Why would she call ME for this stuff? I barely know this woman! Ugh. I have to tell her no. I just don't want to feel like an asshole >< I know she's old and she probably doesn't have anyone else, and I do feel bad for her, but this is NOT something I am comfortable with.

*throws phone into the street* GAAAHHHHHHH! ;____;

shorty's like a melody in my head that I can't keep out

kade — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:59:22 GMT

OMG, I love having my own place, I just think about it all the time XD Coming from a household of 6 people really makes you appreciate being able to keep Captain Crunch or Nesquik mix around the house for weeks at a time rather than having it gone by the end of the day! The mentality in my house growing up was pretty much along the lines of 'Ooh, new thing!! I better eat some of this right now, because it isn't going to be there tomorrow!' And you would eat that bowl of Cookie Crisp, even if you weren't hungry, because it really WOULD be gone the next day. So if you were unlucky enough, you'd come downstairs the next morning and find like...a freaking handful of cereal left in the box because your brother didn't want to be accused of being a goddamn hog so he left a microscopic amount in the box. Not nearly enough to serve as a decent breakfast, but just enough to piss you off. And on top of having 6 people in the house, we were also poor a lot of the time, so coming down in the morning to find a cupboard that included a box of Cookie Crisp, well, that was like fucking Christmas XD

Well, you know, there are easily a thousand other reasons I love living here with just one other person, but that was what I thought of earlier when I reached into the cupboard and noticed that I still had some Nesquik mix left over...and I've had that same box for probably 3 or 4 months, LOL. AMAZING!!

TODAY I SPENT $345 ON BOOKS. Not the most I've ever seen, and luckily I could just have it charged to my student account, but JESUS THAT'S A LOT FOR FOUR FUCKING BOOKS .___. The most expensive one was, of course, the bloody math book >< MATH SUCKS. I'll probably be lucky if I can get $50 from selling them all back at the end of the semester @_@ I dunno though, I might keep my web design books, those would be pretty useful. I got a PHP programming book, a book on HTML for a required class, that damn math book, and a book on Photoshop. OH DEKE, WE MEET AGAIN. HOPEFULLY THIS IS THE LAST TIME, DAMN YOU. I've taken Photoshop TWICE ALREADY. THIS WILL BE THE THIRD TIME, THE THIRD DAMN TIME that I have taken Photoshop!! I had to take it over again at LSC because I failed the first class out of laziness (I already knew Photoshop pretty well so I didn't do the assignments) and I have to take it again NOW because apparently LSC sucks ass and the credits wouldn't transfer >< I guess after this semester I'd better be a freaking expert on this shit 9_9

Anyway, so I had orientation today and I wasn't sure about going at first, but I'm glad that I went, because now I know more about where I'll be heading next week, and I also know where stuff is such as the computer lab that I'll most likely spend all my free time in. I was talking with this one girl for a bit and then we found out that we're taking the same math class, so yay, I met a classmate! :D

I'm probably going to end up canceling my gym membership at Miramont, even though I really like that place, because Front Range has a fitness center that I can use for $25 per semester and while it is smaller, it does have all of the equipment that I normally use.

liek w00t!

it's time the fat cats had a heart attack ♪

kade — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:58:39 GMT

Day 02 → Your favorite movie

hrrnnn...okay here's the thing, I'm really not much of a movie buff XD; So I'm not so sure that I actually have a top favorite, but I do especially love the X-Men movies and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies ♥ I also really liked 'Marley and Me.' Only movie that has EVER made me cry like a bitch D:

* * *

In other news....blah? I turned in the missing paperwork that I needed in order to get my financial aid. You know, they REALLY could have mentioned to me that they needed the second page of my tax return, you know, the day I fucking turned it in. Instead, I wait around for WEEKS for my aid to come through and then have to fucking drop all my classes because it never happened. It's not as if I wasn't asking them about it, either! For christ's sake!

Ugh, well, no use complaining about it now. It's just dumb as hell is all.

Anyway, on my way back home I stopped to get my hair cut. I got it re-layered, as it was starting to look retarded when I'd wear it down, idk. What I wouldn't give to have a little less hair D: Volume is completely over-rated! Among other things.

I guess that's it, I don't have a lot to talk about, LOL. I'll try registering for classes tomorrow, I REALLY hope everything works out this time!! :<

um lol?

kade — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:26:56 GMT

LOL why is Sarah Palin still making the news? Although this article is pretty wtf. OMG IT'S SEXISM U GAIZ!!111 You cannot use a photo of a woman in shorts, okay, it's SEXUAL HARRASSMENT!!!! D:

Wait, WHAT.

Seriously what is she bitching about?? Clue me in? LMAO last time I checked, using pictures of politicians in jogging attire isn't really sexist. Irrelevant as hell, sure! But sexist? FUCK no! I mean yeah if the pic depicted her barefoot in the kitchen, then okay, THAT'S SEXIST lol. But this? Uh...shows she is concerned about staying healthy...and that's apparently OMFG SEXIST!! LOLOL~ Seriously, Palin, you can be irate over the fact that the pic has absolutely nothing to do with your career (unless you are running for president OMFG LAWL I AM SO WITTY ~~*shot*~~) but calling it sexist is just grabbing at straws!

GTFO THE NEWS ALREADY KTHX 8D

...man my coffee tastes really gross D: *sobsob*

gaming help??

kade — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:57:27 GMT

I dunno if anybody is going to know this, but I figured I'd pose a question here just in case!

Okay, I recently bought a PAL game for the Wii (One Piece, because I absolutely refuse to play the English dub version lol) and was going to buy an NTSC Wii because I'm in the US, but I just realized that using a PAL/NTSC converter would probably not work in that case since they're for the actual SYSTEMS and not the games themselves.

So my question is, does anybody happen to know an easy way to make this work? Should I just buy a European Wii and use the converter (which I read can be costly and doesn't always work well)? Or is there like an inexpensive solution to playing a PAL game on an NTSC system, like a hack or a chip or something?

If anyone has any idea or could point me in the right direction I'd be eternally grateful! If not, idk I'll figure something out, I mean I already bought the game lolzzzz~~ This could have all been avoided if US companies weren't so fucking lame and included a subtitled version on their games ><

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kade — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:49 GMT

PANDORA YOU BASTARD, SELLING OUT LIKE THAT :< As if being made to listen to ads and not being able to skip songs anymore isn't bad enough, NOW they're setting a limit on the amount of free music you can listen to and then they charge money for it!! WHY DON'T I JUST LISTEN TO REGULAR RADIO THEN. I MIGHT AS WELL DO THAT SINCE IT'S THE FUCKING SAME NOW.

Damn that really burns my biscuits.

So anyways I had a visitor last night:

It was maybe a little after 10pm and I was enjoying a One Piece marathon when something SWOOPED DOWN FROM THE CEILING towards me and I'm like 'WHAT THE FUCK' and then realized it was a bat, well after chasing the thing with a pillow trying to get it to go out the door, it perched up on the ceiling like in the picture and REFUSED to go anywhere even when I waved things at it and tried to scare it off.

By that time it was freaking POURING RAIN and storming outside and then hail started coming down so I'm like 'Okay I can't chuck this poor guy outside into that shit!' So I went back to the couch and watched One Piece until the storm subsided, meanwhile the bat hadn't moved AT ALL. So I grabbed the broom and like...poked at it gently because I wanted to get a chair to stand on and capture it but I had to make sure it wasn't going to like freak the fuck out and fly into my face or something. But it didn't move at all even when I did that, the poor thing was scared shitless.

So then I grabbed a coffee can and a chair and I caught it, the bat didn't try to get away or anything, Jesus Christ I could have been trying to kill it and it wouldn't have moved! Afterward I went outside and let it out although I should have thought about where I dropped the coffee can because it totally landed in a huge puddle x_x The bat tried to swim back towards the door and I'm like 'OH HELL NO' LOL, well at least he can swim and he's probably fine right? RIGHT?? I hope so, I felt kinda bad about that XD;;;

ANYWAY, so I've had the house to myself for the past couple days since Kevin is down in Aspen for a science thing, he had to give a presentation that he says went well, so that's good. He's coming home today, but it was nice to have all this time to myself, I think I really needed it especially since I've been stuck inside going a bit stir-crazy while I was sick (oh yeah, I forgot to bitch about that here but I've been sick with a cold for the past week and a half) and idk I've always been the type of person who appreciates their alone-time XDD

Sunday I went to see my kittens! I got freaking hopelessly lost while I drove over there but MIRACULOUSLY was able to find my way there, LOL. They've gotten a little bit bigger, but I still felt like they were SO FREAKING TINY HOLY CRAP. It's been so long since I've had a kitten so I'm not used to how small they are XD Rory was being a little anti-social because she just wanted to play, but Knacky was so freaking friendly and lovey, I feel like I definitely bonded with him while I was there. He started coming over to me and rubbing his head into my hand to make me pet him, which was so cute I could have died, this tinyass little kitten shoving his head into me XDDD

There was another kitten there named Nocturne, he was this impossibly fluffy little gray guy who was shy at first but then he kept trying to climb onto my lap, so I held him for a bit and he purred and was just generally heart-stoppingly cute, making me wish we could have three cats instead of two XD Then when I went to leave and was kneeling down to say goodbye to Knacky and Rory (who had gone and plopped down in front of the door as I was trying to leave), Nocturne took that opportunity to leap onto my back XDDD OMFG HE WAS SO CUTE. KITTENS!!

But yeah, I can't wait to them with me. Knacky (who still needs a new name) is going to be a great cat I can already tell, I love his attitude XD And they're both going to be SO PRETTY~

I have to start thinking of tattoo designs!! And also a place that I want it to go. I don't want it anywhere near my first one though. I kind of wanted it on my stomach somewhere but Kevin said that only hookers have tattoos there D: That's not true is it?? ARGH. Anyway I want to start brainstorming things, Kathy and I were going to get tattoos together when (hopefully) I come home for Christmas!

I has long bangs now, I really like 'em! You can't see the highlights as well in the pics, but they show up really well in brighter light! I'm happy with it~ The haircut was basically just a trim because the hair in front was longer than the hair in back for some crazy reason, and I just had the hairdresser put in some layers. LIEK YAY.

Anyway that's all for now. The job interview was okay (it was at Macy's), but they weren't hiring even though they had people coming in for interviews, and the next day I got a rejection e-mail basically, that thanked me for applying but informed me that I wasn't getting the job. I'm not too broken up about it. The hours would have been terrible and the pay WAS UTTER SHIT. I don't think I would have liked working there at all, anyways. I hate bothering people about buying shit. That's why I never did well in school fundraisers XD

Well whatever, I'll keep looking. There must be SOMETHING!! Jeez. I just want to go on the cruise with Luffy and be a pirate!!! LMAO. Anyways I guess I'll go do stuff now.