My computer tells me I have 2 days to activate Windows... guess I gotta do that thing again to get another month of time for using the trial version... but I need Jose's help to walk me through on how to do that. =3=;

AMG I'M EXCITED ( Read more... )

This is what I'm attempting to do. 8)

Granma said she'd pay my scholarship for a year if I set up a budget for myself. Which is fine and practical.

Then she & dad & Ronni get all into the whole "this is how you do it" mode of conversation, which makes me feel like they're trying to control me like I'm still not an adult..?

Which pisses me the fuck off.

And I let Ronni know, while we're in the car driving around town to do shopping. And it eventually boils down to my being irritated that I can't know the figures for the car insurance & cellphone bills so I CAN PAY THEM OFF MYSELF. If I knew those figures, I'd set aside the money for them, and I wouldn't NEED to be told how to budget, cuz I could do it myself. >8(

So Ronni agreed that it was the best thing for me, AND I'M SO HAPPY BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHEN THE FUCK THEY'D LET ME PAY THE BILLS ON MY OWN.

SO.

$560 to state farm, twice a year.
$70 to AT&T monthly, bumping me up to unlimited text messaging.
$90 for health insurance monthly.
$40 to Schools First credit union monthly.
$100 for my own spending of choice monthly.
$the rest to Chase.

I spent a lot of money since Thursday. And I'll spend a little more tomorrow. I think I'll be done after that...... until later, lol.

GIFTS WILL BE RECEIVED LATE, AS USUAL! 8)

The visual effects. It's always the first thing that pulls me into a movie- ALWAYS.

These clever students figured out how monks could enjoy this joyful season without breaking their vow of silence! www.youtube.com/watch

i downloaded an update for superantispyware and now it says the evaluation period has expired. 8((( i'm a dumbdumb, i shouldn't have downloaded the update =3=

Thinking about changing the my account name.

NEVERMIND, IT COSTS 15 BUCKS >8/

I'll just make a new account. XPPP

PAY DAY TODAY!!! WOOOOO~~~

Got some xmas gifts and a few things for myself after work.... I was feeling antsy around 4, so I used half of my incentive time and left a half hour early. I do believe I like this incentive time concept, yessss...

I finally finished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance... the ending was intense. I thought it was gonna be depressing, but luckily I was wrong. But the Afterward was depressing. 8( Buuuuut still very thought provoking, which is what I like best about the book.

Then I started and finished the audiobook The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama. It was a much easier listen. 8)

I'll start Carl Sagan's Contact tomorrow.

It really grabbed my attention today. I think I'll be finishing it tomorrow, if I can follow it well enough.

It's great, but please don't ask me to tell you what he talks about. The whole thing leaves my mind when I try to just think about it.

It makes me think about people, which I probably already brood over more than I should. It makes me think about people, capitalism, how my friends say how unhappy they are living in this country... and then that makes me wonder how difficult it would be to relocate to live in another country, and which countries would be best to move to, blah blah blah blah.

When I think about it long enough, and it doesn't take very long, I just want to let the whole thing go and turn my focus into myself. That's where I'm most comfortable.

( quotes on insanity from Pirsig's book )

So while I'm not feeling 100% festive yet, it is one of the advantages of the season that people start bringing in gobs of nom-y food to share. I'm trying to be restrained, but man is it difficult. We're WAY beyond simple cookies at this point. I think I'll bring in some cheese and veggies tomorrow to try and stem the sugar tide.

Jose fixed my email so now I can send them. He had to uninstall Thunderbird and set up Outlook for me to use instead, so now it's all sorted out. Jose is my herooooo~ =3=

If you read through this book and retained an idea of varying degree of clarity of what the hell Pirsig was going on about, I salute you.

This is one tough cookie. Tolkien was a breeze compared to this guy, but Tolkien was also fiction. 8P

Y'all have probably seen this already, but I'm making a note of it for my own record keeping.

Transformers: The War for Cybertron

New TF cartoon now casting

I nearly hit someone on the freeway. Sudden stops are super scary, especially on the freeway.

Today was blah. I'm ready to just go to bed RIGHT NOW, but I gotta stay up to deal with some computer issues, and not just my own. >8(

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

SECOND: Tag eight people.

Tagged by supakawaiigurl.

- Who sleeps in bed next to you?
A crocheted pig. XD

- What did you last eat?
Dinner of homemade sukiyaki, a slice of guava, and 4 handfuls of salted peanuts, in that order.

-What kind of books do you read?
A mix of chick lit and serious non-fiction. I wish I had the time to read though.

- If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?
Kansas City, Missouri, USA

- What's really creepy?
The door creaking just now. Seriously, let me mind my own business please? >_>000

- If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Set aside a sizeable amount for savings. Then I'd go to Missouri, then to California, then to Japan for shopping. dXDb

- What do you want right this minute, off the top of your head?
Sleep, but sadly it's not forthcoming.

- Where is the place you like to return to in order to calm down/relax/etc.?
I don't know anymore.

- Name one odd item within five feet of you.
My Hello Kitty telephone. X3

- What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
Gyaru anything and boots.

- What did you really want to do today that you didn't?
Relax and sleep early.

- What are you most excited for?
Seeing mai waifus tomorrow.

- What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Email, Poupeegirl, Multiply, Facebook, some gaijin gyaru blogs

- What was the last thing you bought?
The Body Shop Tea Tree Blemish Gel.

- If you could have any pet, what would it be?
Panda! dXDb

- What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
You hear but do not listen; you know but do not believe.

Tag: Waifus, KFC, online friends, anyone who feels like doing it.

So my attempts of melting candy into the shape of a star were disastrous..... which left me with making sugar cookies instead. The first sheet I cooked came out a little over done, so I took Angela's idea and sandwiched them with some cake frosting in the middle. I thought of making my own frosting, but I knew I'd have far more than I'd need. 8P The second baked sheet came out pretty much perfect, so I left them as is. I might put frosting or icing on them later.

So I guess dad's big Christmas gift this year was A NEWWWWW CAMERA! He traded in his old one he got years ago(which had cost him uber bucks at the time) at Sammy's for $75 and put it towards a digital Nikon one.... and I have no idea how much it cost.

Doesn't matter. Dad's not a photographer, and he doesn't take pictures as a hobby.

He's been trying to figure it out with as little manual reading as possible, as to be expected. I helped him figure out how to take rapid shutter pictures, so now he mostly has fun doing that and playing them back and laughing with boyish glee at how neat that is.

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