July 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
1 Wraith hive ship destroyed,
1 Ori ship destroyed,
1 Ori super-gate forever busy... check.
Go SG-1!!!! *dances* Last night's episode entitled "The Pegasus Project" was AWESOME!!! So much goodness and Daniel being all smart and cute as always. ;) I heart him. lol My mom and I are probably going to watch it again in a while tonight. We tape them. :D The Atlantis episode was... eh. It was somewhat amusing, but not the best. SG-1 made up for it all though. ;)
Wait... *has sudden scary thought* Oh good, I just figured out that my scary thought wouldn't work because the size of the other gate is too small. Almost thought the Wraith were going to be able to get to our galaxy, but they'd all have to come through in Darts and that just wouldn't make sense because they'd run out of air before they made it to a planet in our galaxy with a stargate... I'm pretty sure. ;)
I actually didn't get to watch the SG-1 episode as it aired. Instead, I was at the movies with two people from the new college group: Amy and Garth. Amy called me up earlier in the day and asked if I wanted to hang out. I was like, "sure!" lol So, I got them both in for free to see Superman Returns, and we ate dinner while watching it. It was fun. The movie was not that good. Charlie claimed it was the worst movie he's ever seen, but I've seen FAR worse than that. At least this movie kept me generally interested through it. The beginning was very slow and the end was sort of anti-climactic, but the latter is generally typical of most superhero type movies or shows, what with them having to have the final hero shots at the end and all. ;) But yeah, it was fun.
My family could use some more prayers from those of you that pray; specifically, my Grandma's appealing her having to stay in the hospital under mental watch on Monday, and we don't want her to win. She's not okay, as much as she tries to say she is. Hopefully, the judge will see that, but my Grandma can some times put on convincing acts for certain things, so there's a little bit of worry. Hopefully the hospital people will tell the judge that my Grandma is not well, and for sure my Uncles will and also the psychiatrist (sp?) that's been talking to my Grandma some. Hopefully she'll come to relize that she's not well soon and accept help. It's hard.
Not too much else going on. I think I've been stressing myself out a bit the last few days. Not intentionally, but still doing it to myself. Not sure how to stop it either. I just feel like I need another job or to go back to school full time. However, a bunch of the jobs that sound interesting require BA's and I can't afford school and wouldn't know what I'd pick as my major anyhow. *lets forehead fall onto desk for a moment* I just don't know what to do and I feel really... what's the word... inadequate--like I'm not acomplishing anything and perhaps can't. *sigh* I know I shouldn't worry or fret about it--God's got a good and perfect plan for me--but I haven't had success in stopping to do those things yet. And then there's the boy issue, which I wish would just... disappear; at least for the time being.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Okay, with the help of PHP Freaks, W3Schools, and the code already in existence on my tag board script, I think I have found a way to keep most of the tag board spam away. I hope. lol I'm giving it a try anyway, so we shall see how it works over the next few days or so. Here's hoping!
In other news, today was pretty decent. It's a bit cooler than the last few days (praise God!), and I got to take my mom out to lunch, so that was super lovely. :D I also went to work with her so I could take some photographs. I was done with that pretty quick, so I went to do a bit of shopping and bought one pair of pants, when what I could really use is shorts. lol I tried on three pairs of those, but none were keepers. *sigh* Tara's going to take me into the guy's section of the store when she comes to visit because they have cooler shorts, and I'm scared to venture over there on my own. ;) lol Tara is full of courage for that, though. :D Anyway, I had to just wait a while at work for my mom to finish, but that wasn't too terrible.
We went to the store on the way home and rented She's the Man. lol Such a funny, funny movie! Mom and I had seen it in theaters, but I wanted to watch it again. And, surprise, surprise, my dad watched the whole thing with us! Wow. He's not real big into movies, so him watching a whole movie with us at home is a big deal. He laughed, and it was good. ;)
I also installed the software for my digital voice recorder this evening and "trained" it to my voice. I had to read a passage out of a book that I chose from their list, and then download the file onto my computer so the software could run through it and match up the words I said with the words in the passage. It's hard to read out loud to yourself from something you've never seen before when you know it's supposed to sound good so the computer can comprehend it. lmao I think it worked... Perhaps I'll test it at transcribing something for me tomorrow. Oh yes, and it said that it would probably take over an hour for it to learn my voice, but it took 2-3 minutes! lol It didn't give me an error message, so I'll just assume it went well and maybe that estimate was for really sad, extremely old computers.
Humm... I suppose that's it. The new college group met again tonight, but I didn't go. I like it okay, but I just didn't particularly feel like going tonight, and ended up doing other stuff anyhow. Now, off to load pictures on my laptop.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Ooh! Ooh! My digital voice recorder came in the mail today! *excited* It's a Sony (of course), and it came with voice to print software! AKA I speak and it types for me. ;) Awesome! Tomorrow I shall probably spend the time needed to train the software to my voice. Hopefully it doesn't take TOO long. lol I also got some CDs today, too.
I get tomorrow off, and it will be GOOD. I worked all weekend and today, too. Yay for money, blarg for having to spend lots of time there. The one up side is that it's air conditioned, though, unlike our house, which is warm even now at almost midnight. *sigh* Oh, for fall to arrive!
Thursday, July 20, 2006
I woke up this morning, and the power was out. :( Rawr. I guess it was scheduled to be out for five hours today, but I just didn't know. It sort of ruined what I'd had planned for the day, but it worked out okay. Since I woke up an hour earlier than I planned, I thought I'd try to catch the earliest showing of PotC 2, and got ready really fast. Figured I wouldn't make the nearest theater, so I went on to the next... and there wasn't a show then even though the paper said there was. Gar. I didn't want to come home since the power was still going to be out for a long time, so I went to Barnes & Noble for a while, but didn't get anything. Then I went to Target for a while, and again didn't get anything. I wanted to be home when the power came on to try and win a Razr off of eBay, but then I figured it was pointless to waist the day and come back for that, so I ended up going to see PotC 2 as soon as I could. I still ended up having to mill around at those stores and inbetween for two hours. *sigh* Oh well. It was good again, and I noticed some new things, and stayed to watch the bonus scene at the end of the credits. It's somewhat humorous, but really not worth staying to watch... at all. At least I got an ICEE from Target. lol
I came home after that and discovered that one of the items I just listed for sale on half.com sold!!! *dances* I'm so excited! I'm not sure if any of the other items will sell though. lol But at least I got the one. :) So now I will finally get feedback as a seller instead of just a buyer! Wee! And it should be positive because I'm shipping it out right away and it's in good condition. ;) So yes, that was exciting for me. lol Not much else happened today. It was nice and calm. Had to do a bit of work stuff, but I survived. And now I must check eBay again. lol
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
So, I haven't posted for a good few days. An update on my Grandma: She's been upgraded to a 52/50 and so has another two weeks in the hospital being evaluated. They had to remove the phone from her room because she kept dialing 911... from the hospital. I guess there's not a bed available in the psyche ward, so they've got nurses watching her 24/7. My mom talked to the nurse the other day and at least my Grandma was sleeping more, so that was a further positive along with them keeping her longer. She still won't take medicine or accept that she's mentally ill, but I'd say that things are going in a good direction, and I just keep praying. They're going to move her to a hospital closer to her home as soon as a bed opens up, and then we can start writing to her and probably send her little cards and notes regularly so that she knows we love her and want her to get help/well. So overall, things are going well on that front.
Not much else going on, hence why I've not posted. Just work and me trying to get a Razr for a good price off of eBay. lol No luck yet, but I've got a ton of them on my watch list, so we'll see. lol I also found a job listing that sounds interesting/cool to me, but it's in southern California and I'm not sure I want to live down there, and I probably can't really afford to do so. Therefore, I've not applied yet and am just praying and thinking about what it would mean if I took the job and moved down there, etc. Basically, I'm not at all sure about anything relating to a new job. I just know I'm getting really tired of my current job and would like a new one soon. That's pretty much it for now. Busy work weekend ahead. I think I might take myself to see PotC 2 again tomorrow. Shall see if I feel like getting dressed and leaving the house or not. Heh.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Grandma went home today. Last night was not fun, and it seemed like Grandma was getting worse off this morning. I was up later than I wanted--and was actually feeling tired--waiting for her to go into her room and go to sleep. She was outside having a smoke, and then came back in, so I went to make sure the door was locked, and it was open. I closed and locked it, and went back into my room to pretend I was asleep the whole time. I guess she'd just forgotten to get her cigarettes or something, because she went back out, and at least when she came back in after that I heard the deadbolt go into place. However, I think the door should not be left open for ten minutes when it's after midnight, ya know? I finally fell asleep around one and slept until three something when my mom made some noises that woke me because she was unable to sleep worrying about what my Grandma would do. Of course, Grandma got up, too. Wee. I was up for about an hour until she went back into her room, and then I fell asleep again. I decided that I would ask my mom if we could send Grandma home earlier when I got up in the morning.
My alarm went off at eight because I had to get up to go down to work early. And, well, I didn't have to ask my mom to send Grandma home. My mom told me that we were having a problem and that we'd probably be sending Grandma back home today. Grandma was not doing well, and had gone out again, this time she stole mail from the neighbor's mailbox. She told my mom that she found it on the ground and was cleaning it. Mom and I found out later from dad that she'd told him she took it out of their mailbox. My mom got the mail from my Grandma, and took it back over to the neighbor's at least, but my Grandma got mad. She was going to go for a walk and my mom told her that she couldn't leave the yard, and ended up having to threaten to call the cops if she did. That all happened while I was still asleep because my Grandma hardly sleeps at all, and then she'll nod off when she's in the middle of a sentence talking to you during the day. Anyway... I went off to work.
I talked to my mom a bit before I was going to start running through Click, and she said that she'd changed Grandma's flight and she was going out at 3:30 PM. I was very happy/relieved. It's just too much. But so, my mom brought my Grandma down to watch Click with us. The previews were going and my Grandma was in the bathroom. I went in to go, and behold, she'd taken the lid off one of the toilets and pulled out this weird plastic thing from inside it. She put the plastic thing on the floor, and the lid on the toilet seat. Then, she was in the other stall and was like, "Holly, Holly, look at this. This is a problem. Call your mother." There's this thing to get into the sewer lines in the bathroom on the floor (all buildings have to have one in some place, as far as I know), and she said it was a problem and that there was electrical tape on it, and it was a problem. I was like, "No Grandma, it's fine. There's no electrical tape on it (because there isn't), and it's been there for years and nothing's happened. It's supposed to be there, it's fine." She kept insisting that it wasn't and there was electrical tape on it, etc. My mom came in and we eventually got her out of there. My mom got her sat down in the theater, and I put on some gloves and put the toilet back together and wiped it down. *sigh* About halfway through the movie, Grandma had to go outside to have a smoke, so my mom went with her. A little while after that, they came back to get their stuff and my mom took her home while I finished watching the movie. Apparently, while they were outside, my Grandma went through a garbage can on the street until my mom finally got her to stop.
When I got home, my mom told me to go into the bathroom and whispered that some of my stuff was in there. Grandma had gone to the bathroom, but then went in my room without my mom knowing. She took a CD case, some lotion, my Disney nametags in a Disneyland bag from my dresser, and a notepad out of my messanger bag. My mom had put back the first two things, and the others were in the Disneyland bag sitting on the counter in my bathroom. My mom had asked my Grandma what was in there, and she'd replied that it was just trash. So, I saved my items and left the bag there, because I don't need that. It sort of scared me and got me a bit over-upset because the notepad has a whole bunch of my writing ideas in it, which aren't backed up anywhere, and would have been totally lost to me if she'd taken them. But, God let me get them back, and it's obvious my Grandma's brain is way messed up/not there. She just does these weird, random things. I guess now there's a possibility that it's not bi-polar that she has, but more like dimensia (sp?). Either way, she's definately mentally ill, and severely so. We got ready and left for the airport shortly after that.
I dropped off mom and Grandma and went to do some shopping to keep myself occupied since I couldn't go up to the gate with them. At least my mom was able to get a pass to go through security to make sure my Grandma got on the plane. Anyway, I'm just leaving the airport area when my cell phone rings and my mom asks me if Grandma's wallet is in the car. When I stopped, I looked all over and under the seats, and it wasn't there. Lord only knows where it is, because we didn't find it when we got back home either. I was freaking out that they wouldn't let Grandma on the flight since she didn't have her ID and that we would have to keep her here longer, and I prayed. And God is good because they let Grandma through with an extra security check. The flight was delayed almost an hour, and Grandma did some weird things at the airport while they waited, but she finally got on, and my mom waited until she'd walked all the way down the ramp before she left and I picked her up.
Oh man, I just praise God that she went back. And, hopefully another good thing has happened. We found out a bit ago that when my Grandpa got to the airport to pick up my Grandma, she refused to go with him. So, they called a 51/50 (I think is the right term), and now she's in the psychiatric ward at the hospital for 72 hours while they evaluate her. I know that sounds bad, but it's the only thing left to do to try and get her in a facility, and hopefully this will get some doctors to confirm that she needs to be in one so that we can make her go to one, which she certainly will not be happy about, but it's the best thing for her. So now, I'm just going to keep praying; that she gets the help she needs, and hopefully goes into a facility for a while at least where they can perhaps help her, and she won't be a risk to others. Thanks to those of you who have been praying. My whole family really appreciates it, and continued prayer that we'll finally be able to get her into supervised care would be great. I could write more, like how my Grandma told my mom before she got on the plane that I have a problem because I want the front door locked at night, etc., etc., but I think I will leave it at that.
In other news, Click is a terrible movie. It's discusting, then it gets extremely sad (I bawled), and then goes back to discusting for the last 5-10 minutes of the movie. *shakes head in bewilderment* Wha? I don't understand how those two things go together, but whatever. Short version is I didn't like it, and I do NOT recommend seeing it.
Mom and I met up with dad for pizza on the way home, and that was good. I think it was some much-needed comfort food, and it was GOOD. Mom and I got some rants out about the stuff going on with Grandma, and decided we both felt WAY less stressed knowing she was on the plane back to California. Apparently my Grandpa and my uncle were not happy that she was coming back so soon, but it was just not going to work out to have her here at all. Anyhow...
Season premiers of SG-1 and Atlantis were on tonight, and both were good. Darn Atlantis one is another "to be continued." Rawr. At least this time I only have to wait a week instead of months. lol I think that helped us a lot as well. And now I'm blogging and listening to Pirate club remixes that Tara sent me along with an awesome Care Bears shirt the other day! lol And soon I shall go to sleep. Both because I need it and also because I'm waking up early again so that I can put in last minute bids on an eBay auction or two. Ah, makes me think of Weird Al's BSB parody called "eBay," which I finally bought off of iTunes a little while back. SOOOO funny, and very tastefully done. And now, goodnight.
P.S. The Get in the Gate Sweepstakes started today and I can enter once a day through late September. I think it's safe to say that each day I've got the computer turned on, I'll be entering. How awesome would that be to be an extra on Stargate? WAY AWESOME! Oh, and good luck to any other Stargate fans who enter as well. :)
Thursday, July 13, 2006
My Grandma is psycho. Oh my gosh, it's only the end of the second day. As bad as it sounds... praise God she's only staying for a week now, instead of two! I feel bad, but at the same time, my Grandma is not the Grandma that's here right now. Like, this one has some of her memories, but pretty much all her actions are totally different. She pulled an old toothbrush out of the bathroom trash and used it. She thinks a rolled up ball of trash is pretty and cute. I'm looking forward to the days of work ahead. I wish I worked more hours so I could be gone more. I'm holing up in my room as much as possible. I might end up being productive tomorrow with some sort of website stuff since I'll just be in here on my computer until Stargate starts. I'm guessing that my Grandma's going to talk through both episodes and I'll probably have to re-watch them later, but I can deal with that. It's the other stuff that's getting to me and freaking me out some. Like, she just picked up my mom's checkbook, and said she thought it was hers. She also picked up my mom's Mace and said she thought it was a flashlight. It's just good that I was able to take both things from her without her getting pissed off at me. I guess right now she's drawing and happy, so that's a positive at least. I just have to keep praying and reminding myself that God is in control, and He's looking out for us all. I just have to keep remembering that.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Man, some bug bit me on the bottom of my foot, right on the ball of my foot! When I got up this morning, I noticed it. It's rather creepy in a way because it itches and hurts at the same time, at least when there's weight on it anyhow. Darn bugs! Grr. lol
Anyway... I haven't posted for a while because there wasn't anything to post. Just work and being at home. That's it. Exciting, eh? Yesterday I actually did something though! The college group met and we had dinner and played Cranium and Taboo. It was fun. :) My team lost at both games, though. Bummer. Next time... lol So yeah, it was pretty good. Right at the end though, I felt weird being there for some reason. Like I'd made a huge fool out of myself how, but I'm not sure how. Make any sense? Probably not. *shrugs*
My Grandma arrived this evening. I guess so far it's okay, or as okay as we could hope perhaps. I was only around for maybe twenty minutes before she decided to go to sleep. I guess she's going back after only one week with us, instead of two, because her new therapist wants to have a session with her. I think that's positive. I think one week will be much better. My mom only briefly mentioned to me about when she picked Grandma up from the airport, but it seems like she's not feeling much like there's anyway we can get through to my Grandma. I guess my Grandma's already gotten mad at my mom a few times and she's only been here a few hours. *sigh* I'm just going to keep praying. God will answer, and hopefully perform a miracle for our family again (got one years ago for my cousin, which was awesome).
I got Friday off of work so that I could be home to watch the season premiers of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis in the evening. Hehehe. I told my boss that was the reason though, and that if she needed me to work, I could, but she doesn't, so YAY!!! I'm quite excited. We were left with a very dire situation at the end of SG-1, and actually, I can't remember quite what the last episode of Atlantis was. Hum. Maybe we'll watch it tomorrow to catch up! :D
Thursday, July 6, 2006
Home, sweet home. Ahhh. It's good to be back. Vacation was lovely (and I'm sure I'll miss it when I'm back at work), but it's nice to be home. I missed my parents and my kitties and my room. lol My plane touched down twenty minutes early yesterday evening. It was crazy. I was in the car with my mom only a few minutes after we were originally scheduled to land. It was very nice. lol Just hung out at home last night, did a few things on my computer, and then went to bed. I'm hoping to try and go to bed and get up at half-decent times as I was on vacation. We'll see if that actually works this time, or not. lol
While still in CA yesterday, I watched some TV, and then Val came to pick me up. We went on a little photo excursion to this nature reserve area and I told her some more about photography and some of the things she can do with her camera, etc. She's got some cool photo effects settings on her camera that I wish were on mine, though. Then again, I could do any of them while post-processing in Photoshop anyway, so at least it doesn't make me want to buy a different camera or anything. lmao On the way to the airport, we stopped and got Thrifty's ice cream! They have the best rainbow sherbert EVER! YUM! :D Then, Val dropped me off at the airport and I chilled for a bit before boarding started.
Today has been nothing spectacular. I got up, took my time getting ready, and then went off to run some errands. I went to the library to find a book or two on how to write a grant, but they didn't really have anything on that. Instead, I got these two HUGE books on colleges and scholarships just to sort of flip through and consider. They are VERY HUGE. Oy. I also got a book on bi-polar for my mom to read through before my grandma comes up. I've just got to keep praying that everything will go okay.
After the library, I went to work to pickup the schedule and my paycheck. Yay for money. I tallied up all that I spent at Disneyland when I got back home today, and I pretty much spent my entire paycheck on that. Oops. Anyway, while I was at the theater, I noticed a thing or two to do and changed some posters out since the ones I recently ordered had come in while I was away. Wee.
So yeah, pretty basic. I watched Robin of Locksley (great movie, and so me), looked online for jobs again (still nothing), and randomly did other junk not worth mentioning. *sigh* And now it's hardly late at all and I don't know what to do with myself for the rest of the evening. Blarg.
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
I'm afraid to have my Grandmother come stay with us. She's supposed to fly up a week from tomorrow; my mom already booked the ticket. I don't want her to come. I'm scared. She's not there anymore. Her mind is all messed up and I don't want her anywhere near our house, or us. It sounds so terrible, but I have to finally be honest and say it right now. If she was okay, I would love to have her stay with us for a few weeks, but she's not, and I don't think my parents know what they're getting us all into. I know my mom has the best intentions and wants to help, but it just doesn't seem possible. At least, not without something terrible happening first. I'm scared my Grandma will grab my car keys and steal my car. I honestly believe that is a very real and highly probable possibility. She might steal other things. She might set our house on fire. I just don't know, and I'm scared. I want my mom to change her mind and cancel the airline tickets, but it seems like it's too late for that now. They didn't ask me before they decided. They didn't ask if I was okay with it before they'd both decided they should probably do it. I'm not okay with it. I want my Grandma to get better, but my Aunt and Uncle make it sound so hopeless and it just doesn't seem like there's anything left for us to do. My Grandma told me Saturday when I saw her that she will NEVER take the medication for bi-polar. She said that I should never tell her she can't do something because she's the kind of person that she will then have to do it. I don't want her to go into my room at all if she stays with us, but if I tell her that, it means she will, and if I don't say anything, she will. She does whatever she wants reguardless of what anyone else says. Period. I don't know that I can handle this. It's horribly selfish of me, but... I just... I don't even know. I just want her to get better, and I keep praying, but for some reason it hasn't happened yet. I know God has a plan and a reason, but it's just so hard. I wonder if my Grandma's even in there anymore. She is so completely different. On Saturday she'd be fine, and then she'd start crying, and then be fine, and then start crying. She did that at least four or five times within about ten minutes. I couldn't even figure out how to react. Do I try to say something to comfort her? Do I just act like her and pretend it didn't happen and everything's been fine the whole time? None of the methods my Uncles have been employing are working, and I'm not sure if we could come up with anything better. I just... I'm afraid of what she'll do at our house, in our town, etc. Is she going to call 911 for crazy, illogical reasons at our house like she has at her's? Is she going to walk out in the middle of the night and leave the door wide open? I don't think I'll be able to feel safe at all while she's with us. We used to live with her and Grandpa, my mom and I; since I can remember up until I was done with third grade. They helped to raise me. I saw them everyday. Now they basically hate each other and even call each other bad names in front of me. My Gandpa is becoming so depressed having to live with her, but neither of them is willing to move out of their house. My Grandpa SO wants my Grandma to come stay with us so he can have a break for two weeks. And I can't blame him. I love them both, I just don't know what to do. My Grandma needs a miracle. But I cannot hope to understand God's plan, and that may not be in it, or at least not yet, but I will stand firm with Him. Please God, give me strength and help my Grandmother. Please heal her and make her better and our whole family which is filled with so much anger and hate. Please God. Please.
Monday, July 3, 2006
Saturday evening Val came and got me at my grandparent's house and we went to Disneyland. We tried to get into the Blue Bayou (sp?) restarant, but they weren't taking any possible walk-ins for a few hours and had reservations for the next few days. *sigh* Next time I will be prepared and make reservations the first day I get there. I told Val that maybe by then I'll have a boyfriend and we can double date there. lmao Sure. *rolls eyes at self* Man, did we have fun at Disneyland though! We got on all the main rides except Splash Mountain. Oh, and we waited less than 10 minutes for Pirates because we happened to get in line at just the right time! lol We tried to take pictures of Captain Jack in there, but since you're not allowed to use flash and the lighting's not that good and you're moving... they all came out blurry. Oh well.
I totally got my first pair of Mickey ears, too!!!! They're the pirate ones. :D lol And I bought a pair for Tara, because I told her I would if they had them. And I picked up a little something else for Sam. ;) I got WAY giddy once I put those ears on! It was AWESOME! Hehe. On the way to the car I even skipped with my ears on and Val made a little video of it. It's funny.
Our longest wait for a ride was for the Matterhorn, and it was about 20 minutes. However, when we were about to get off, they pulled our cars off the main track and had us sit there for a while. Still not sure why as they didn't explain it to us, but the end result was that they let us go on it again without getting off! lol Sweet! We were okay with that. ;) Val also told this cute Disney cast member that he was cute, and it was funny! lol Good fun, good fun.
Yesterday my Aunt Maureen came to get me in the morning and we went to The Huntington Library. I just thought it was going to be like one medium-sized building and some small flower gardens... boy was I wrong! The place is almost as big as Disneyland! lol And they have all these different themed gardens and some art galleries; it's very cool. I took over 200 pictures and will be putting up a smaller selection of my favorites at TWO17 when I'm done posting this.
The rest of yesterday was spent just chillin' out here. I watched Spaceballs, but then started feeling not-so-good. Not good at all. So, I went to bed at nine as soon as the movie was done. Praise God, I woke up feeling great this morning, and without a bloody nose! I had the worst one I've had in a long time yesterday morning, and it was not fun at all. I am hoping and praying that I won't have any more while I'm down here.
Today we were going to go to this thing called the Sawdust festival (or something close to that), but when we were about three miles away, it became a dead stop, so we all decided to turn around and forget that. My Aunt, Uncle, and my Aunt's Mother went to the Santa Ana Zoo for a while instead. It was nice. Then, my cousin Mike and a couple of his friends went to Camelot and played mini golf. Fun, fun. I think I was third of the four of us when the game was done, but we did do the hard course! lol Then we came back and watched Batman Begins, then had dinner. And now I've been playing on the computer and watching TV while my laundry was going. ;)
Tomorrow's the fourth, and that means helping to do some cleaning and getting ready in the morning, followed by party time. Big shabang here with swimming, pool, and fireworks gallore! And I do mean gallore! The likelyhood of me having my computer on at all tomorrow is very small, so I shall wish all of you a happy 4th now! At least, for those of you from the US, anyhow. ;)
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Yet again I shall be posting like it is the day before this entry is dated as it is very early in the morning and I have not gone to sleep yet, though I probably should have by now. ;) lol Oh well!
Today I went to Disneyland again. My Aunt and Uncle came with me for the first few hours and we spent that in California Adventure. Went on all the good rides there within a few hours. Apparently everyone was in Disneyland trying to get on Pirates so D.C.A. was not very crowded at all. At least, not until I was leaving, which was good. lol My Aunt and Uncle called it a day after a little over three hours. They have annual passes, so they can do that sort of thing. Before they left, the each gave me their passes so that I could use them to get extra Fastpasses for the rest of the day. lmao I'm pretty sure Disneyland would not approve if they knew that I did that, but, well, I did it anyway. lol Three fast passes at a time really helps you out while you're in Disneyland. Which, by the way, is where I went once I was left to my own devices.
Oh man, it's going to hurt BAD when I get my credit card bill after I get home. BAD. I probably spent darn well close to $200 in Disneyland today going on a pin buying spree. *shakes head at self* Oh man. lol I have one new lanyard with all PotC pins on it now though, and I finally invested in buying those locking pinbacks. I didn't buy enough for all my pins though, so I shall be spending more money when I go back again tomorrow, this time with Val. Hopefully her and I can get into the Blue Bayeu (sp?) for dinner, and that shall be a bit pricy too, I bet. *sigh* Always wanted to eat in there though. It's better at lunch - according to my Aunt who knows these things - but Val has to work so we won't get to Disneyland until after that.
Anyway... the rides were good and I was planning on calling it an early night after two more rides at about 10 PM, but then I made a friend. I was getting on Indiana Jones and this girl in front of me turns around and asks me if I'm there by myself. I said yes, and she said she was too and that her name was Nikki. So, we chatted, and fancy that, she lived in WA for a while before she moved back down here to CA. lol *insert reference to Disney ride here which I will not mention by name or the song will freakin' get stuck in my head* She's got an annual pass too and came to go on PotC, but it was closed for the rest of the night. Bummer. We talked more though and went on some rides together, and it was fun. She showed me this Snow White ride that I didn't even know was there and we went on it. lol So that was rather nice to have someone to hang out with for a while. We were discussing how some people think it's a big deal to go to Disneyland by yourself, but neither of us really mind. I'd still prefer to go with someone so that there's somebody to talk with, but I'll go on my own if I have to! lol
Nikki left a bit before the park closed, and I looked in some shops for a while before calling my Aunt to come and get me. Then, I got to turn on my computer to update the work website. Wee. I got a call from my boss while I was at Disneyland today that I needed to update some stuff. I really wish she would have called me yesterday because that would have been the better day all around for me to update the info. Oh well. I should just keep my mouth shut on the rest of it. I just need to get my butt into gear and find myself a new job. If the theater was a sock, then the last threads would be about to break creating holes in it. lol And yes, I know that analogy is brilliant. ;) *yawns* Okay, sleep is good. 'Night!
