November 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
9:30 AM - I am happily asleep.
~9:35 AM - Loud cracking noise followed by a good-sounding thump. Power goes out.
It took me a minute until I realized it sounded like a tree had fallen. I got up and peeked out the window, and sure enough, there it was across the road. lol I can write "lol" because no one was hurt and it didn't land on anyone's house or anything. It's kind of a fun little story to tell. So, being the good little photoblogger I am, I got dressed and ran outside with my camera to take some pictures. lol Here is one of the power line down with some tree branches. The ice that came off of the branches looked like shattered glass.
The power was out for a few hours. After a while, my dad, my aunt (who's visiting if I didn't write that before), and I went out to lunch. The power was on there! lol At least the power wasn't out for too long. On the news the other day there were some other people in Washington that haven't had power since the storm started on Sunday. I hope it's finally come back on for them because a house gets awful cold when the heaters aren't working. Burr.
On Tuesday my mom and I took my aunt to the Seattle Aquarium. I hadn't been there in a few years, and they've majorly changed a lot of things. It looks really nice now, and it was fun. The only bummer was that half of the stuff it outdoors and it was FREEZING. We blew on by that stuff pretty fast. lol It was cool, too, because there were hardly any people there with it being a school day and not-so-good road conditions, so we got to talk with the aquarium staff a bunch and learn new things. :D Fun! I tried to take some pictures of the black tip reef sharks in one of the tanks, but they move way too fast for my little point and shoot to handle with no flash, and you can't use a flash when you're photographing through glass. lol I did get some cool pictures of other sea creatures though, which I may post later.
Speaking of posting photos, I'm now working on writing my own little PHP/mySQL script for my photo blog. I tried to find a new blogging script or something that I could fit to my needs, but there wasn't any I liked. Darn. So, I worked on that a bit last night, but still have lots to do. I'm hoping in maybe a week or something I can have that site back up. You know, depending on how productive I decide to be. lol
Monday, November 27, 2006
Six years ago today, I wrote my first blog entry. Wow. I've been blogging non-stop for six years. Of course, that doesn't mean every minute or every day, but at least a few posts every month for the last six years. Does that make me a blogging veteran of some sort or something? Do I get some kind of trophy? lmao j/k I'm sort of proud of myself for doing something regularly for so long though. I truly am a writer, just not always doing the kind of writing I should be along with blog posts. ;)
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Well, that was just dandy. I was almost finished typing my entry when the power decided to go off, flicker on for a moment, go off completely, and then come back on a minute later. Why? lol This time I will try to save as a draft periodically in hopes I don't have to re-type EVERYTHING a third time. lol
When I woke up this morning, it was snowing!!!! There was already about an inch on the ground and it was still floating down all pretty like. ;) The first snow of the season (and way earlier than normal, too)! Yay! But, of course, in standard Washington fasion, it's raining now and pretty much all of the snow is gone. lol Perhaps it will snow again tonight though! It's getting pretty cold, and I think there are some more clouds coming in ready to drop some precipitation on us. :D *bounces up and down in her chair a few times in excitement*
My monitor is faking me out again. *sigh* It was being all nice a number of days in a row, but now it's stuck in the messed up way again. I got an e-mail back from the seller I got the replacement monitor that doesn't work from. He said he'd refund me the shipping and everything if I sent the monitor back to him and he found that it really wasn't working. But, if I were to do that, it would be no different than me just keeping it and cutting my losses unless he wants to pay for me to ship it back to him, too. lol I'm guessing he won't. I can sort of understand why he wants it back to check, but at the same time, the whole shebang was only $30, so if it worked like it was supposed to, I'd have been a happy camper and there'd be no reason for me to lie about it and say it wasn't working if it had been. *shrug* But you know, I suppose he just doesn't think that way or something.
We put up our Christmas decorations today. This is the earliest we've done it since I can remember. lol The tree is up and lit and pretty now though, with our happy singing lights (they blink to Chistmas music!!!). I felt so in the mood that I also Christmas-ed up my cell phone. I made a holly wallpaper for it, and I made ring tones from a couple of songs off my Burl Ives Christmas CD. Now I just need someone to call me so I can hear them. ;) lol
Update: Ha! I just looked out the window after I finished posting this, and it IS snowing again!!! :D *points at self* Happy camper right here. ;)
Saturday, November 25, 2006
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Um, I just got an e-mail from the girl who got the college group at my church started over the summer saying that one of the guys in our group, Garth, died this morning. I didn't even know that he'd been having problems with his kidney for a long time, apparently. I didn't know him real well, but it's kind of hard for me right now, because I did hang out with him and Amy and number of times, going to have dinner and then to a movie and he was a really nice guy, and only a couple of years older than me. And he was really close friends with another guy in the college group, so this has got to be really hard for him. I'm hoping I can get his e-mail to send him a little note or something. It's just hard. I hope his family is doing okay, but what is okay in a situation like this? He's in heaven, I know, and it's amazingly beautiful and wonderful there, but human as I am, death is still scary and sad, even though I know Heaven is better than anything I could imagine. If you pray, please pray for Garth's family and friends in their time of grieving. Thanks.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
So, my used monitor that I ordered off of eBay came in the mail on Monday. In the evening of that day, I unplugged my monitor, moved it onto the floor, put the new (used) one in its place, plugged it in, turned on the power strip and pushed the button to turn on the monitor... nothing. It doesn't work. It won't power on at all. I tried both the power cord it came with and the one to my current monitor (which is the same make and model), and nada. *sigh* I've messaged the seller to see if they'll refund me at all. The problem is that the shipping for the thing was more than the final price of the auction, so it may just be that I lost $30 completely. Man. What to do though? The only thing was to write the seller and see if they decide to give me any money back, and I imagine I won't hear for a few days with tomorrow a holiday.
Speaking of holiday... Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I know other countries celebrate it at different times or not at all, but I'm still wishing those of you that live in those places a Happy Thanksgiving anyway because, heck, why not?! lol It's always nice to get wished a happy holiday, right? We're actually spending it with extended family this year, so that's rather exciting. Normally it's just us, or last year we went to some people from church's house. As long as I get my green bean casserole, I'll be good. ;) I'm totally serious, too. Yummy stuff.
Not much else to report for the moment. My current monitor is being extremely nice to me right now, which is great since the replacement one is worse off that it. lol It's wigged out a few times, but only for a moment and with long stretches of working just fine in between. Lovely. It would be just peachy if it kept on working for months now. ;) I'd best not get my hopes up too high though--just in case.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
I just finished reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, which is a book on writing and things to do with it as according to the author. Most of it I didn't get or found rather odd, etc.; however, there were some good kernels of advice that I found interesting. And, I think I've sort of figured out a couple things from it. One being something towards the end of the book that I just read this evening:
I often ask my students to scribble down in class the reason they want to write, why they are in my class, what is propelling them to do this sometimes-excruciating, sometimes-boring work. And over and over, they say in effect, "I will not be silenced again." -- from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
That segment is connected to other things she was talking about previously in the book, so I'm not sure it makes sense taken out on its own, but it basically has to do with her saying that kids observe and say what they see and ask questions, and grown-ups tell them to stop, to be quiet, and eventually the vast majority of kids do just that, even though they know they shouldn't.
For me, I don't think there were many--if any--times when adults told me to be quiet, but once I hit middle school and high school, I quieted myself. I felt so often when I spoke that no one was listening, no one wanted to hear what I had to say, nor did they care. I think, in some ways, my wanting to write has to do with wanting to be heard and wanting someone to care about what I have written, if even only in some small, tiny way. That is, perhaps, a portion of my reason to write, anyway.
In other news (as I so often write), I used the shop-vac to vacuum out a lot of the water from my car today. Not all of it, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was more tomorrow, but a fair deal of it. *sigh* Poor car. Will it ever be fixed? Will we ever discover how the water is even getting in there? Will I have to buy a new car (and of course I mean a used one that is new to me)? Who knows! But, at least I cleaned the kitty's food area and their litter box today, so that was an accomplishment.
Friday, November 17, 2006
I got back from seeing Happy Feet a little while ago. I had never planned to see it, but it's free, I was bored, and when I read the info about it I thought it sounded like it could be sort of cute. Don't go see it. Don't take little kids to see it. Most of the stuff in the movie's okay, but there are definitely inappropriate things and the part that got me was the song lyrics. Don't get me wrong, I like some of the songs that were in the movie, but they're not appropriate for kids. Wow. They're kind of not even appropriate for me. lol I did laugh at some of the stuff, but you know, a movie's ability to make you laugh does not automatically also mean that it's good. I've gotta get my act together and write.
What I also need to do is find some friends. Not having any is starting to get to me some. Most of the time I'm not bothered by it, but I'd like to go do stuff every once in a while and not having anyone at all that I can call to even ask is kind of a bummer. At least I've got my mom and some good friends via e-mail, but it would be nice to have one or two people who had a fair bit in common with me to go hang out and do stuff with. At least this means I'm truly artistic though, right--since I'm a loner? lol It's good to laugh about stuff. I told my mom the other day that perhaps I should become a stand-up comedian because people think I'm so funny. ;)
Is there any other news? My car is still filled with water. Not completely, but there's a lot. And, of course, that is causing condensation to build up on the inside of the windows, etc. Tomorrow I get to take the shop vac and suck out the water. Lucky me! Which reminds me that I'm supposed to ask my dad where it is. lol
I had fun with pumpkins today! My mom cut the tops off for me and then I scooped out the gooey muck inside and picked out all of the seeds. It feels cool. lol Then I rinsed the seeds off and baked them. I think I left them in there a little too long. Oops. They taste all right though, but I did have to add extra salt. Yay for salt! So many things would be bland without it. And now; now I shall stop talking about pumpkin seeds and gooey stuff and go.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
I know that Sam is going to be proud of me. lol I already sent her an e-mail about this. She's a big John Mayer fan, but I'm not. However, he was on Oprah today singing "Waiting on the World to Change," which they played on the last Oprah episode I mentioned (the Challenge Day one) and I really liked it, so, I've just downloaded it off of iTunes. :D lol I was going to buy the album, but then I decided to just go with the song right now since I don't have that much money and the money I do have is reserved for some books coming out next month that I want and Christmas presents for my family and friends. :) While I was at it, I got these songs off iTunes as well: "Yeah!" by Usher (not the best lyrics, but I like the beat), "Heaven" by DJ Sammy and Yanou, and "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada. I tried to browse for more dance songs, but there are a lot and the other ones I sampled weren't what I was looking for. I don't know anyone to ask about good ones either. Blarg.
Anyway... in other news, I had my job interview today. The interview part went well, but I don't think they'll end up offering me the job, and I think I've decided that I don't particularly want it now. They've changed what they're looking for from what they originally posted, so I'm not sure if I'm the best candidate, or if that's what I'd like to do. Still praying. Hopefully, if God doesn't want me to take it, they just won't offer it to me and then I won't have to stress over making the right decision because it will have been made for me already! lol The lady who interviewed me was very nice though, and I felt that that part went well, so it was good practice for me if nothing else and I'm happy with that. :)
Another thing that came out of it is sort of an affirmation that I should still go for the writing thing. The lady who interviewed me asked me why I wasn't going for a BA or something, and then we talked about school some and she kept mentioning that I should go to school because my resume and skills look like I'd do really good with it, etc. I agree that I'd do good with school, and if I felt like I needed it for what I'd really like to be doing, I'd be more willing to shell out the heinously large amount of money it costs to go, but it's just too expensive and I can't justify it to myself to go for a specific degree for something that's number two or less on my list. Writing does not require a college degree. Not the type of writing I want to do, anyway. It requires practice and reading, and a little talent, which I hope I have (Sam said she thinks I'm good). However, I will say that I'm semi-contiplating the somewhat remote possibility of going for a Graphics Design certificate. I'm not sure I'd want to, but I'm letting it stew around in my mind for the moment.
I leave you with some lyrics which I consider to be very powerful, and are quite relevant to me at this point in my life.
Me and all my friends, we're all misunderstood, they say we stand for nothing and there's no way we ever could. Now we see everything that's going wrong, with the world and those who lead it--we just feel like we don't have the means to rise above and beat it, so we keep waiting. Waiting on the world to change. We keep on waiting, waiting on the world to change. - "Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
My poor, poor car. lol Still don't really know how the water's getting into it, but there was more today when my mom and I went out there to try and soak up as much of it as possible with towels. The other day I went out there again and at least had the sense to check the back seat on the driver's side to see if it was wet too. It was, so I picked up the stuff sitting in the water on the floor and moved it up onto the seat where it should be safe from water. My mom checked the trunk today to see if the water was getting in from there, and it doesn't appear to be coming in from the top because the carpet is dry, but when she lifted it up, well, my spare is drowning. lol But there is no water on the passenger side yet. *confused look* Not sure what the deal is or how to fix it. *sigh* Now I just want a new car (well, new to me, but not brand new), but at the moment I can't even come close to affording it. lol Joy! *dances* Hehehe. It's not that bad. At least right now I don't really have much need to be driving, so that makes it less of a problem. We'll see. *shrugs*
In other news, I haven't touched WordPress again. I'm not so sure about all the claims on how great that is. Humm... I may use it for another blog if I can figure out the themes thing, but I think I'll end up writing my own little PHP/mySQL script for my photoblog, since I can now. :) Not sure if I can make it have comments, or if I want to bother with that, but we'll see. Humm... I don't know. Now that I think more about that, it might not be such a good idea to take on writing my own. Maybe I'll just keep it on Movable type and upgrade it to a newer version where I hopefully won't get comment spam. lol That could very well be the plan I end up going with. ;) I'll decide some other time. lol
I'm supposed to make new decks for Portal, but I don't know when I'll get around to doing that. I haven't been on my computer too terribly much in recent days. Instead, I've been doing lots of reading. :D I finished Voyage of Slaves by Brian Jacques the other day, and then began Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder, which I spent most of yesterday reading the last half of. lol Lots of reading yesterday! It's hard to put her books down. Granted, that's only her second published one, but that and the first in the series, Poison Study, hook me in pretty quick and then it's a galavanting ride the whole way through and it's hard for me to stop reading to go to sleep. lol That means they're good books, so it's good; it's just bad if I start late at night and tell myself I'm only going to read a chapter or two. Yeah, right. lol At least yesterday I started when it was early afternoon and finished at about midnight, so that was sort of a new thing for me. lol With the exception of the one time a couple years back where I was babysitting the phones of a business (which didn't ring too often because everyone knew the owner was out of town) and read all of Island of the Blue Dolphins in about eight hours. I was surprised at myself for that one. ;) lol
Okay, it's getting a little late and I'm trying to start going to bed before it hits the next day, so... lol I imagine I'll still be on the comp for a little while longer though, and then read a bit perhaps, though. Hey, staying up till all hours of the wee morning is a hard habit to break! Goodnight!
A Note About Titles: I believe that the proper designation of book titles is to underline them, which I've done until now. However, as you may have noticed above, I've decided to start putting them in italics instead. Why? Because the underline tag is depreciated in XHTML, which means that newer browsers don't like it, and code-checking scripts would spit errors out at me for it. lol So, italics for movie and book titles now because I don't want inanimate browsers and code checkers mad at me. ;)
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Today is not totally my day. It hasn't been bad, but a couple not-so-good things have been discovered. lol
I went out to run errands earlier. I opened the door to my car and was about to get in when I noticed a puddle of water on the floor of the driver's side. Not good. Poor car. Not sure what's going to happen there.
The other not-so-good thing is that the "themes" for WordPress are friggin' annoying and confusing!!! *holds up fist* Why did they have to make it so difficult? On their site they make themes sound like the greatest thing ever. I'm not seeing it yet. So for the time being, I'm taking a break from it! My brain hurts!!!! AHHH! lol
Friday, November 10, 2006
Accomplishing things feels good! lol I accomplished a fair bit today, too. :) First, I won a computer monitor on eBay (which really isn't an "accomplishment," but it's a good thing). I'll post pictures here soon of how sad my desktop monitor is right now. Poor, poor monitor. I thought that it was getting better for a bit there, but now I'm sure that this is very close to the end. I'm just hoping it doesn't totally fry while I'm still using it and waiting for my new used one to come. lol I'm happy though, because I found one that's the same model as my current one, so provided it works, I'll be a very happy camper. :D Yay and thanks to God!
Then, I was good and did some web stuff for one of the paid ones. Now I just get to wait and hear back on if they like it, and I'll probably be asked to change things again or something. That seems to be how it usually goes. Oh well. Fun, fun. Once I finished that, I put TWO17.net on hiatus. I'm going to install wordpress there and convert all the entries to it, etc. Hopefully I won't take too long to get started on it, and hopefully I can figure out the WP templates once I get the thing installed. ;) lol
My big accomplishment today was finishing cleaning my room!!! My closets still rather haphazard, but my room is clean and pretty--for the moment at least. :D I even got my desk cleaned off mostly. I say "mostly" because there's some stuff that I'm not really sure how I'm going to organize it or where I'm going to put it, so that's in a few piles. lol I also cleaned off my dresser which has not been done in a VERY long time. lol I vacuumed really well, too, and now my room is like a whole other place. lol Wee! It felt good. Now we shall see if I can keep it this way for a while. ;)
Thursday, November 9, 2006
It's interesting to me that this comes right on the heels of my last entry where I joked some about having a tortured soul in high school. If it has not re-aired where you are yet, please watch today's Oprah. Here they air it again around 9 in the evening. It was very powerful to watch and hit a mighty cord in me. After the first few minutes I started crying and it didn't stop until the show was over, and even now I'm tearing up again thinking about it. Some people might say I'm being over-emotional since my period started today, but I don't think so. I cried for each of those kids on the show, for every kid in high school, and for myself.
This high school that they went to for the show did a thing called Challenge Day. They got 60+ kids from different walks of life to sit down and open up to one another, and I really wish they'd have tried something like that with my class when I was in high school; even middle school, which is sad but true to say it's needed. My high school had something called Day of Respect that was just a huge joke to everyone. It was an assembly, and nothing more. It did not break through cliques, and no one learned a dang thing about anyone else. I remember the feeling: sitting in the gym on the bleachers with the group that accepted me and the looks for others, and even the looks we gave to others and the things we thought and said. I was never popular, and I hate to say it, but my group and I dished back what we knew they were giving to us and others. Making fun of the popular and preppy kids. I should never have done so. But even now, with high school behind me, I still see people like that walking around and the first things that jump into my head are negative ones. These things never should have been in high school, but they were; and we haven't left them there, we've taken them with us.
I cried a lot during the show because one of my cousins who's in her second year of high school now is not having a good time of it. I don't know what it is that's happening with her, but it hurts me that she probably has half the feelings I did and still do because of the lack of understanding and caring from people in that age. When I saw her this past spring she hardly talked at all, even with just family around. She used to talk all the time to me. *laughs* She even thought I was cool. And now she hardly says a word and seems so sad. I resolve to try and get e-mailing back and forth with her to let her know I care and she can tell me anything and I'll listen.
I hope and pray that the kids on Oprah that did this keep going with and don't forget what they've learned. There was a lot of happy crying mixed in with my sad ones, too, because of people realizing how others felt, that they weren't alone, and apologizing for things they shouldn't have said or done, etc. I just wish that all of the youth in the world, that we could all learn to understand and love and support each other, that our generation would make things change. I don't know if that's ever to be, but I hope that God will change me and make me better and help me to reach out to others in His name and maybe make a difference in one person. If I could be His vessel and make a difference in the life of one person, then I know mine would be worth something. I'm going to try, but I feel like I fall short all of the time, and I constantly make mistakes, and I just hope and pray that God can use me. He uses all types of people, and He loves us all, and I hope that more people can see that and that we all try to love each other as we've been called to do.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Wow, I was a tortured soul in 9th and 10th grade. Not that things are fabulously great and perfect now, but I do believe I'm a whole lot happier than I was then. Whew. What brings this topic about, you ask? I decided to read through some of my old poetry. I was wondering if a few of my poems might be good enough to submit to an SF/F online mag, but they're not. lol Anywho, some of my poems are dang good, but some of them are crap, and they're all ranges of things. Let's see: pining love, loneliness, sf/f, animals, self-depreciation, etc. And most of them are straight into what I was feeling at the time. High school was an evil place for me, and I firmly believe I was never meant to be there. However, I imagine one or two good things came out of the experiance; I just can't tell you what they are. Perhaps they'll come out if ever I write a memoir. Actually, I've sort of started it. *shrugs* I wrote down a few things I could remember anyway.
I had planned to be in bed early tonight (still consider it the 7th) since my job interview was scheduled for tomorrow. However, as you may have guessed by the "was," it is being re-scheduled. I just had this feeling yesterday and today that it would get postponed. So, I made sure to check my e-mail regularly in case I got a message about it, and I did! lol No problem. It gives me more time to think about it, as I'm not sure I'd take the job if they offer it to me. I have questions to ask them first and whatnot. Also, there's what God wants to be considered, which is really what I should be focusing upon. Part of me feels like God wants me to get a job since I haven't been doing any writing or other worthwhile things with my time. However, the other part of me feels like I don't want to give up on my writing and God's okay with that. I suppose there could be a balance? Mostly I've been trying not to think about it at all, because I start stressing right away as soon as I do. And, of course, today the college sent me a course schedule for winter quarter and I'd like to take a couple classes. Ha. Life is so funny. So now, what to do? Between tuition and gas money and the car insurance payment, I'd pretty much deplete my savings account. I don't have job (exactly, but I get a little income from website updating). College is freakin' too expensive!
In happier news, I guess I did sort of do something worthwhile with my time today... sort of, maybe. Uh... I recycled a bunch of paper that had piled up on part of my desk therefore cleaning part of it. And, I shoved almost all of my Backstreet Boys stuff into two plastic tubs. Hopefully my dad will make space for them in the garage, otherwise they will sit on the floor in the middle of my room. lol Now I have some space to play with at least. And in another kind of happy news, I'm over halfway through reading a book! *does a happy dance* I haven't read a thing for at least a month (I think) until now, so I'm excited! I may be semi-coming out of my current funk. Now if only I could write...
Saturday, November 4, 2006
*sigh* It's been over two weeks since my last post. I'm apparently being terribly lazy about updating my blog like I should. I'll try to be better, but I make no promises. And really, I'm not sure how many people stop by here regularly and actually read what I write. I know there's a few, but aside from them I'm thinking there's not many others. lol
Let's see... for the first week my parents were in California. That was the first time I've ever been alone overnight, and it was many nights. The only bad thing that happened the whole time (praise God!) was that the power went out right after I got into bed the second night (I believe). My eyes were closed, but I heard the sound of everything shutting off, and then I opened my eyes and couldn't see anything. I was then praying very hard and for a half an hour until the lights came back on. I couldn't go to sleep with the power off--it was too creepy. But anyway, praise God and that was the only thing that happened that wasn't good. :D I handled it much better than I thought I would, so I'm thankful to God for that as well. :)
This past week all I can really remember is that on Wednesday night I went and watched The Guardian for my second time--this time with my dad. Thursday, my mom and I went and saw Man of the Year, which was pretty good. Not all comedy like you'd think; there's actually a lot of serious stuff in there, and it really hits home with being so disappointed in how politics are and the stupid two-party system, etc., etc. I told my mom today that if Jon Stewart ran for president with Stephen Colbert as vice president, I would so vote for them. lmao
Yesterday I went and saw The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause because I've been majorly looking forward to it. lol Why? Martin Short as Jack Frost, of course! The first two I liked pretty well, and this one was okay. The sad part is that it was really carried by Jack Frost, in my opinion. He was the best part of it. That, and how they made the North Pole be Canada and everyone said "eh" after everything because "that's how Canadian's talk." lmao They're dang lucky that I'm a Canadian descendant that can take a joke and found it funny! Sam's a true Canadian with a good sense of humor, so I bet she'd get a kick out of that stuff in the movie too. ;) lol Eh?
Last night there was also a new episode of Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel where her and Jake Ryan finally kissed!! OH! lol Yes, I watch Disney Channel... a lot. It's much safer that the vast majority of the other available channels. For instance, being a late-nighter as I am, I'm often surfing through the channels for something to watch in the early AM and the last few nights it was Home Improvement. Now, each night there were at LEAST 15-20 commercials for phone dating services just in the half hour of the show's time slot! *smacks forehead* The more I see, the more I know the world is ending. lol Eventually.
Now, this whole entry has been really happy and filled with funny stuff (or, what I consider funny), but I'm going to have to bring it down right now. I found out yesterday that my cousin's wife's sister was murdered by her own ex-husband on halloween. The police got there quickly and ended up killing the ex-husband. They had three kids that are now without their parents. The good news is that other family members are going to take the kids in and look after them, but it's still so sad. It's just crazy scary that people kill their spouses, whom they said they loved when they married them. The only possible way to explain why the guy did that is that he was possessed by the devil. That's my opinion anyhow. If you're a praying person, please say a quick little prayer for the kids and the rest of the family members.
Sorry to bring it down so far at the end. I'll try and truly end on a happier note, however. I applied for a job a few days ago. It's a web assistant job, and I got a reply back and have been asked to go in for an interview. :) So, in a few days I go in and chat with them and see if I'm super interested and if they want to hire me or not. lol I'm not sure I'll take it if they offer it to me just yet. I've got some questions to ask them about it first, and I'll need to know exactly what my job would entail, etc. So, hopefully I'll be good tomorrow and start writing down some of the questions. Heh. That's it for now. Goodnight.
