I have map! *admires her map* it has lots of little flags made from T-pins. *admires her little flags* Unfor-tun-ably I stayed up until 1AM making those little flags and stabbing them in the wall *stab-stab* So now I'm sleepy ~.~Zzzzzz Zzzz ZZzzzz Zz... and is only 10:30 in ze mornin' anz I gotta bezzzzz here till 5ishie... *wishes her map waz at work so she could admire it sum more*
*passes out*
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
10:08 a.m.
I want a ferrari moped... *whines*
Monday, June 2, 2003
03:25 p.m.
Okay, life is back to a semblance of normal now - I took my Govt final this morning so regardless of how that ends up I am at least FINISHED with the class. For the record.. mini-sessions are EVIL, TERRIBLE, CRUEL & UNUSUAL and should only be undertaken by the very stupid or very crazy. I will never do one again >.<
Being that my life has consisted of school-work-study-sleep-school-work-study-sleep for the past few weeks I haven't got much to catch up on as far as what's been going on in my life. I start working full-time next monday and summer session also starts next week (though with any sort of luck it shouldn't suck quite the amount of free-time that this last class has) so most likely I'll still be hard to catch online or in RL... =S
Also, my 'puter is being wonky and has decided to only access the net through win 98 (and this only after getting a new cable modem) so until that gets worked out I'm liable to be ranting about TED crashing all the time & will probably have fun being booted off ICQ all the time again... you have been warned. >.<
Friday, May 30, 2003
10:02 a.m.
Life go mad. Sorry no been writing. Many things happen. Make Leigh go crazy. Sanity maybe be back someday. Final is tomorrow. Then will be over. Will blog soon.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
10:43 p.m.
Do you suppose its a good sign of exhaustion when you can sleep through someone hammering a new roof onto your apartment?
Friday, May 16, 2003
03:45 p.m.
The second sign that the new apartment management sux - they decided to redo the roofs of our apartments but failed to notify anyone. Added to my annoyance of being unable to take a nap(seeing as my kind neighbors kept me up intil sometime after 3AM and I've been in class all morning) is the fact that the roofing company is throwing old material off the roof at random. Coming home to find your pathway covered in sheets of plastic and that black crap that smells like tar is bad enough. Dodging a carelessly thrown strip of the stuff is just salt in the wound.
All I can say is I'm tired and irritated and so help me that crap best be gone by the time I get back home or I WILL be tracking someone down to cuss out about this.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
12:31 p.m.
I have a job.
I think o.O?
Monday, May 12, 2003
04:19 p.m.
Men are pigs. Today my Dad and my brother decided to redo the flowerbed in the front of my folks for my Mom for Mothers day. Am I remotely included in this decision? Of course not, but I don't mind. Its a nice idea.
So I go with my Dad to buy some dirt and my brother comes to pick it up in his truck. They already have plants that my Mom picked out at some point. The brother hauls them home and spends 20 minutes(I'm probably being optimistic with that time) dumping soil unevenly on the flowerbeds.
I get there later in the afternoon(with no sign of little bro) and spend 2 1/2 hours planting, trimming and transplanting the front flower beds. At some point little bro comes home, mumbles a hello and goes inside to take a nap. Eventually Mom comes home, give a quick happy speech and leads us on a tour of the backyard's plants(which was nice... but badly timed).
How is it that whenever the Men in my family decide to do something(usually without consulting me) *I* end up doing all the work? At least my wonderful roomie was there to help me with the gardening work. I think I would have keeled over otherwise... and would probably still being working at it now... Sank-U puddle! Was mucho appreciated! ^o^
Saturday, May 10, 2003
06:38 p.m.
You know.. I really love my little brother... but sometimes I just want to kill him. He's been home for less than 48 hours(just long enough to already have my Mother going insane - I spent lunch yesterday counseling her about it) and the first thing I hear from him? A phone call asking me for money.
It really upset me, especially after yesterday. I found out at lunch that he's somehow managed to spend all his graduation money in under 12 months(something that took me 3 years and two good sized car down-payments to accomplish) and is already campaigning with my father for a new car. Cars are a reaaaaalllly sore point for me with regards to my bro - my parents' have bought him three so far and he's two years younger. Both of my rides I've paid the majority for myself and the only reason I'm not still in my *first* car is because of tropical storm Allison.
So it really pissed me off that he called about this. For one thing, I'm broke. For another, he knows this. But he's trying to guilt me into giving him $$s anyway. Even though it wasn't a lot he was asking for (less than 10$) it was still more than I would spend casually these days and on top of that it was for something I've already taken care of - a mother's day gift.
It absolutely infuriates me that he would dare to ask me to "pitch in" on something like this just because he chose to spend those 10$ on *chairs* earlier this week for *himself*.
Saturday, May 10, 2003
11:43 a.m.
smog sucks. lack of sleep sucks. smog+lack-of-sleep= suprisingly awake Leigh trying to kill the stupid birds nesting outside her window that won't shut up.
Thursday, May 8, 2003
07:38 a.m.
This first sign that the new apartment management sux - they lost the rent check for May.
On the upside, it was raining on the way home so maybe all this humidity will clear out soon or it'll cool off a bit *fingers crossed*
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
05:16 p.m.
Okay... I'm pissed.
I've gone through all this trouble the past week to apply to HCC and stuff because my Mother works at their downtown office so I'd get free tuition if I took classes there. As it turns out though I have to be living at home to be able to receive the free tuition! >.< This is especially annoying because it took my *Mom* talking to three people to find this info out(its supposedly buried on their website somewhere, but the whole site is crap so lord only knows if that's actually true.. even if it is its impossible to find information on anything through it) after I finally gave up asked her what I was supposed to do next.
The only saving grace is that I can take my summer classes at San Jac & not have to worry about driving all the way out to the HCC campus to take tests. It still pisses me off though...
Thursday, May 1, 2003
04:27 p.m.
My mother frightens me sometimes.. ;;~.~
I stopped by my folk's house on the way home tonight to pick up some stuff and my Dad pointed out their fridge to me... aparently my Mom went to Central Market today(hey! I was there too! =P Mmm.. jivara-choco) and came home up about 10 bottles of wine and a case of beer. They were all chilling when I came by. o.O
Its summer now. >.< I can tell because I got up this morning to go running(a little earlier than planned thanks to the roomie - pud you was *loud* this morning... and late, what happened?) and by the time I got home I wanted to pass out from the heat. The last few weeks have been so nice too! All breezy and with that little bit of cool air despite the sun.... *sighs*
I suppose this means I shall actually have to change my schedule and start getting up at dawn if I want to keep jogging... *sulkies* no more nice quiet mid-day trots through the neighborhood... I guess school will be out soon so I'd be trying to jog around a bunch of hyper kids at that point anyway... >S
For anyone who hasn't seen this.... our Auto instructor was showing it to us last weekend. Its really impressive - the latest advert for the Honda Accord. Rather hypnotic to watch... o.O... *spaces out*
I had the horrible realization today that I don't like regular chocolate anymore *cries* Its all my mother's fault! She introduced me to this stuff... It wouldn't be so bad... but the Jivara bars run 4$ a pop and even the Le Lacte(for reference, pud, those are the ones we got last time, we shoulda stocked up >.<) are 2+$.
And seriously... I *can't* eat normal choco anymore >.< It tastes... I dunno, sloppy or something... leaves a weird aftertaste too...
Anyway, I figure if I have to suffer so should everyone else! So next time you see some try it... is REAAAAAALLLLYYYY yummy ^-^
Friday, April 25, 2003
04:05 p.m.
~.~ you ever have one of those nights where you absolutely CANNOT sleep? Then it gets to be 6AM and you're so tired and cracking your skull on the side of the table next to the bed is starting to sound like a good idea...
Then you *finally* pass out more or less but instead of resting you keep half-waking up and hallucenating its tomorrow and that your bed has up and moved itself to the other side of the room and that your stuffed carebear is missing an arm. It gets especially annoying when you start seeing your family wandering around(particularly since they keep using your bed as a table and dropping pillows & what not on it, never mind you're still in it) and then your roomate is telling you its sometime in May and you really need to stop sleeping now.
At which point you give up and get up because the clock says its 2PM anyway and you figure rest ain't happening.
And then just to spite yourself you realise that you hallucenated the clock too and that its actually just before 11AM, but by that point your totally awake again with a restless 4 or 5 hours of quasi-sleep as all to show for the night.
I really want someone to come knock me out now ... ~.~
Thursday, April 24, 2003
04:43 p.m.
New layout!!! ^o^
This is quite possibly the fastest one I have ever completed from original sketch(at 9pm) to finished HTML. It's 3AM now (>.< damn... no sleep again... oh well, I'll crawl into my closet to nap when the construction guys start tomorrow), which seems like a long time... but this is including pencil sketch, outline(illustrator), color(photoshop - fun with transparency! ^.^v), web compression, HTML, and troubleshooting.
I'm pretty happy with it - fishies are fun to color! I admit to planning more detail on his fins though... but I got tired =S its late and my hand is cramped from too much time with the tablet(and several hours of homework earlier).
Still a few kinks to work out, but they'll have to wait until tomorrow... plz let me know if you find probs! ^o~
Also... just in case anyone was wondering... Singing fish know the meaning of life... =D
seriously. ^-~
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
02:53 a.m.
I've finally managed to get the A/C to blow cool air into my room. Yay. On the downside, the damn vent rattles. >.< Oh well, its not 80+ in here anymore.
Other than that I am very out of it... the stupid construction guys are back and disrupting my sleep habits again. I'm contemplating taking the next couple of weeks to resume a 'normal' sleeping routine(which is to say... sleeping at night and being awake during the day... rather than the opposite) since it seems to be that or not sleep until they finish whatever they're doing.
There should really be someway to get away without sleeping...
Monday, April 21, 2003
11:08 a.m.
Today has been nutty.... Slept in way later than intended because the Construction guys that have had me up before 10 everyday this week took today off and I've not been bothering to set my alarm. >.<
Went out to a late lunch(3:30) and out in search of stuff for a quilting project I've been putting off - bad me. Did get all my fabric sorted and located a Darning foot that fits my ancient Singer(lucky! so hard to find parts for that damn thing). Pretty fabric... blue & green & sorta watercoloryish ^-^
Of course... this means I have to clean my room now so I have the space to spread out the quilt for basting & tracing the stitch designs.
>.>
<.<;;
I suppose its just as well... the pile o' random crap has been kinda getting to me(as the roomie knows... I had a bit of a freak out over the kitchen earlier).
*wishes it was Sunday already*
Friday, April 18, 2003
07:55 p.m.
Red/Green/Blue:
To you, the world is logical. Everything happens for a reason, life is scientific. You like to find solutions. I doubt you needed to take this quiz in order to realize this.
Just what every driver wants - their mother telling stories about how cute they were as a kid ^o^
poor Trulli, the 11th musta been a slow news day... *snrks*
catching up on racing news - in f1 one the brazilian GP result was turned over(Amended Results). Rather pleased about that actually, I like Kimi and all(incoherent mumbling tendencies aside), but I really felt awful for Fisichella watching that race last week >.< Also from that race - Alonso is ok, was kinda worried about that, that crash was really nasty.
Anyway, enough f1(being that so far I don't know anyone besides myself that cares) - WRC was in New Zealand this weekend. Weird time thing - the rally's over and its not even sunday here yet o.O - did produce a cool link though, check out the World Time Server to find out what time it is anywhere in the world ^-~
Petter took 3rd so I'm happy enough, despite the Peugeots running away with things again( 1- Gronholm, 2 - Burns). Tommi hit some back luck this weekend though and finished 7th(which at least scores points this year) after a 5min time penalty(little confused on what for still). Skoda must be quite happy with 5th though(Gardemiester) - and little brother McRae did suprisingly well at 6th considering he's in last years car(which wasnt all that competetive *last* year, forget now).
Very spread out leaderboard though... not a very competetive last leg because of that. Might have been more interesting if Markko hadn't retired yesterday. *wonders if Ford is regretting its driver line-up yet*
Sunday, April 13, 2003
11:11 p.m.
My brake pads are not dead. Yay. Well, saved myself 40-50$ anyway... Auto teacher says maybe they need to be greased or something... only have one weekend of class left though so it may not get done. 'least I get to sleep next saturday. Will be happy not to have class on the weekend anymore but will kinda miss playing with car guts. *sulkie* maybe will take another auto tech class next semester...
They should have a portion of driver's Ed devoted to being a passenger.
I went downtown for lunch w/my mother today and on the way back accidently ran a red light. It was admittedly my own fault for not paying attention(I was a little to taken with not being hit by the large truck to my right that kept slipping into my lane and watching out for the confused SUV in the center of the road to spare more than a glance to the well-hidden light), though anyone who drives on the Elgin end of Westhimer will probably agree that those lights are as easy to miss as anything. Regardless we were far from getting hit(the light was just barely red and the SUV was still blocking traffic anyway).
In the middle of trying to get through the intersection my mother grabs my arm & starts hyperventilating on me. While I admit it was lucky not to get pulled over, it wasn't a life threatening mistake... though she made me feel like it was. Something about having your passenger tense up and freak out will set the adrenaline running better than anything. I don't like it.
The best way to get out of traffic problems is to stay calm, and its made more difficult when your passenger is freaking out next to you(this may be part of the reason why I prefer to drive alone most often - I notice my ability dropping drastically when other people are in the car). Even my roomie, who seems to put a lot of faith into my driving skill freaks out sometimes. Probably so do I(will have to keep an eye on myself). Still, it would be better to recieve a calm verbal warning. Screaming, grabbing the 'oh shit' handle, grabbing me, hyperventilating, or making unarticulate sounds of fear do nothing to help me correct whatever is, or whatever is percieved to be, wrong.
I could rant on... but most of you have probably heard my opinions this topic before...
On the upside, I think my mother felt bad for going nutty on me - she gave a $$s ^o^ to go buy Tazo & imported choco-bricks & organic fruit. Unfortunately they were out of Valhrone so I had to settle for El Ray though =( so I'm not totally recovered... close enough now though ^-~ *knaws on a choco-brick*
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
02:55 p.m.
Life is dull. End of the semester is approaching and I am in fullblown avoidance mode. Which basically means nothing of priority will be completed until the last possible second. ;;>.>
Its probably not an effective way of dealing with things, but at least it gives me a fumbling excuse to spend a lot of time downtown this week ^-^
*wishes it would stop raining*
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
01:55 a.m.
Hmm... New Vin movie opened today... will have to make time to see that this weekend(maybe after auto class tomorrow? Good incentive to get that poster thing done tonight...*hint-hint*). If I can just get past this freaky dream I had where he was trying to kill me... concussions bad. Make you dream about people crushing your skull. >.<
Need Rally fix... six weeks is way too long! Still have to wait a week for NZ too... thinking about it too much now... rally-adiction is kinda like a mosquito bite... if you don't think about it it doesn't itch but if someone points it out suddenly its driving you nuts... on which note, its getting to be mosquito season here I think. Yucky.
Um.. enough randomness from me today I think... *wanders off to go find auto homework or something*
Friday, April 4, 2003
04:17 p.m.
Needed to archive badly... kept forgetting ;;>.>
Too much to do today >.< Gonna have to prioritize or something... For some reason I am making a Doggie bed for my mother (hehehe - that sounded so bad ^o^). I think she's on a decorating kick or something and has decided the dog needs a bed to match the house. I don't ask, I just sew.
Also helping the roomie out with a wedding poster-thingie. Shouldn't be hard, just kinda tedious(lotsa tracing - I feel for her having to get all the coloring done >.<) and have homework - Auto reading & work I haven't finished(because being half asleep is not conductive to really getting anything done - I left way more gaps in my work than I originally thought) and three papers that I'm still putting off <.<;; They're not technically due until next wednsday.. err...
Plus I keep promising myself I'll go buy quilt fabric... *sighs* guess that can wait until later.
Its always the thing you really WANT to do that falls lowest on the priority order isn't it?
*wanders off to try and track down her lunch plans again*
