Zaphod Beeblebrox for President!

House house house

Sat, 10 May 2008 11:35:51 GMT

So, the house is ours. Loan went through and everything, and it is awesome. Kinda strange but I guess it was just meant to be. I can't wait to post more pictures of the house XD And to move in! June 12 or around there we'll finally be out of this apartment. I got woken up at about 5 am because of drunks being too loud in the restaurant downstairs :(

House!

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:08:49 GMT

Me and Zero bought a house! Our bid got accepted -- when three others were submitted in the same day :o I was SO happy. We offered full asking price, $109,900. Its totally awesome on the inside! Its in the "historic" side of Hammond.

The only thing missing is a moat, its a freaking mini-castle. I LOVE it! Inspection, radon (or w/e) and pest/termite inspections on Friday.

Just stuff

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:25:52 GMT

So me and Ed got our engagement rings. But mine doesn't fit :( Well, sort of. Today it oddly seems to be more snug but isn't making my ring fall asleep. Ah well. I may give it a few more days of wear to see if it will be alright; if not I know I can exchange it still.

I decided that I WANT a jeweled ring now :P I've discovered that there are such a thing as BLACK diamonds whoo! Very cool in my opinion. Unfortunately there aren't a whole lot being sold in the jewelry stores around where I live, so I may order a ring online. There is quite a selection on Ebay, but I'm not sure if I should go that route either. While the prices are half what jewelry stores around here charge (or even less!) its still a risk to be buying something like that online and I'm not sure if I want to do that. Albert's had exactly one black diamond ring and it was $1,050. I was very tempted to buy it except for the fact that, well, the same ones are on ebay for $300. I guess I'll wait to see.

My cavalier is going to be fully paid off soon. I'm thinking of dumping that for a mini cooper in the next year some time. Those cars are so ugly they are cute!

And last thing I can think to write about: I haven't bitten my nails in about a week now. I feel oddly proud of myself for that.

Engaged

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:18:49 GMT

So me and Zero Phoenix are engaged. I talked with him earlier in the day (two days ago now, on his birthday) about how well we get along together and how not many people have what we have.

So instead of being ridiculously female and hinting at no ring being on my finger yet, I said fuck that -- I went out and bought HIM a male engagement ring, and popped the question myself. Ya, I was nervous -- but he said yes. Whooo!

Today must be Thursday...Wait, no its not!

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:01:15 GMT

For some reason I felt compelled to write the story of how me and my boyfriend Zero got together. While it is a rather long story I think it only took up a little more than ten pages but whatever. Thinking it might be good zine material ;) At least it is something to do when I am bored.

Still no houses. After getting rejected on that last one, our realtor had to go in for some surgery on her one knee and she's not supposed to do a whole lot of walking until at least the 1st of the next month. This whole house buying business has been a story in itself thats for sure! Some of the nicer ones had only one or two things wrong with them, but they were major things. Such as the bigger house from the first time owner which looked immaculate but was next to Kennedy Ave. Or the really neat looking "vintage" house or two we saw but could tell that it flooded in the basement. And lets not forget the totally renovated and modern looking house that had a sagging front porch and faced (unused and growth topped) train tracks. What a lovely view, not!

It will be great to find a house though. I'm tempted to try my hand at gardening again. Well I shouldn't really say "again" as the last time I was going to, I got hit by a drunken driver on my way home from working at Domino's. Whiplash kinda hampered those plans :P But anyways, I saw an article on composting in Welness magazine and thats what sort of sparked the idea. Plus it would be a great excuse to get a little exercise.

Speaking of magazines: just for giggles I bought "Gothic Beauty" among some other magazines to read on my work trip. I gotta say, while some of the things in there were totally laughable, there were pictures of a couple that apparently were on the show "Amazing Race". I wish I watched it! Anyways, the woman is so beautiful XD I wish I could dress and do my hair how I want. Of course I could but that would mean quitting my job, and I'm not quite prepared to do that since yanno, I can't get a job at any other places where pink fluffed out hair and black pvc clothing is socially acceptable.

Although I am going back to black hair tonight. I'm rather excited as my hair length is past my shoulders now. I'm just so sick of the blonde hair!

Jealous.

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:01:09 GMT

There is no longer a Rocky Horror out here in NW Indiana. True enough Chicago has two of their own casts, but one is actually way out in Illinois now, and the other just sort of sucks for what it is as far as I'm concerned and have been told by multiple people.

The guy that was in our cast and who was also the theater owner of the Pink Invaders had to sell his place because he was losing money on it. He ended up moving to the east coast, but I have his profile on my myspace. I am so completely jealous because he's appeared to have found another cast to join out there :(

As far as the rest of life goes, it goes by OK. We haven't looked at any houses since our realtor has had surgery on her knee, and she won't be able to do anything until the first of next month. But I guess it really doesn't matter since there isn't/wasn't much that caught our eye after those two other houses.

Work is better now that I have this little run. It means more driving to Chicago yeah, but I think I'm less stressed out. Oddly enough I've had that happen before when I was bumped or my job was abolished and I had to get a different regular run.

The search continues

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:18:08 GMT

Well me and Zero are currently getting a list of new houses together to get our realtor to take us to go look at. We also got our financing upped to $120,000; we originally only financed around $75,000 because we thought we would be buying the crap house of Georgeanne's. Anyways.

My job on train 305 got abolished, so I had to make a bump. I really don't like any of the other corridor trains schedules but also don't have much of a choice, either. The run I chose for the interim works like this:

Day 1: Report time 5 am, go to STL and back to CHI, if we're on time home around 10pm
Day 2: Report 4:30 pm, go to STL layover night
Day 3: Report 6 am, go back to CHI get home around noonish.

Not entirely terrible, but I loved my run for the initial afternoon report time :P It will go back up for bids which is great, except that they are changing the hours so I don't know what it will run like. I may not want to go back which sucks :(

House.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:30:29 GMT

Offer: Rejected

Fucking A.

House Woes

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:54:52 GMT

So. In a nutshell, me and Ed placed an offer on a house two days ago. Our realtor was told by their realtor that there was another offer on the house and he'd talk to his client. Later in the night yesterday Tracy (our realtor) talked to the other one and he said "Looks like we'll be going with your offer, let me meet with my client tomorrow and get a counter offer faxed to you."

Well TODAY, Tracy got this thing which stated basically "Kristen, Ed and Valentine Vega are bidders for this house. Each should fax their best and final offer by March 13".

NOT WHAT HE TOLD TRACY YESTERDAY.

I'm kinda upset. Not that I was elated with joy last night, but telling Tracy they'd be working with us, well, made me think we'd be negotiating for a house, not having to make another offer for it. Luckily our realtor has been in the business 13 years and knows what she's doing -- she's bought and sold all my moms and dads houses since I been 13.

We don't even know if this Valentine Vega is a real person, and thats what sucks the most. Either way, this realtor is trying to play a game, and its shitty!

What happened? I don't know!

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:41:48 GMT

So, yesterday while me and Ed were out with our Realtor looking at houses, something happened. In my chest area. It felt like...I pulled a muscle in my chest area, almost right above my right breast. It hurt when I lifted my head up high, or lifted my right up high above my head. Not to be confused with my arm actually hurting or anything -- there was no pain there or radiating through it. In fact, nothing else hurt. No jaw pain, no headache, no sickness, no coughing, itching, sneezing, no racing hearth NOTHING else. This morning I still feel it a little bit. But its almost gone. The only thing I didn't check was my blood pressure, but thats because I don't have one of those electronic/automatic things like my mom has. I may drive over to her house today to pick up my mail since I'm feeling better.

Kinda sucked though, as I had to call off work. I was supposed to go yesterday. We were simply looking at houses early in the morning, as I report to work at 3:30pm. But I knew I couldn't lift anything with my chest feeling that way.

Anyways, it occurred after me and the BF had a sort of "mini fight" over the houses. I wonder if it was an odd stress-related ache? I don't know. If it doesn't go away I WILL go to a doctor.

I'll admit it.

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:19:44 GMT

I admit that I haven't posted many entries in the past year (years?) is because my parents are now online. My mom doesn't know much more than how to turn the computer on, but I'm not worried about her. Its really my dad. I can tell my mom anything and everything (she even knew on was on CW back in the day, and laughed at the idea!) but my dad? Can I scream out "hell no" without frightening you? Seriously. Its just...the idea of a parent having access to an online blog is rather odd. Sure, I could block out their specific profile on Myspace or LJ here -- if they were already on my friends list. I guess I'm part of that generation of internet people that did things online that you hope your parents never find out about.

I may start posting again on a regular basis...Oddly enough, I discovered zines. I never knew such a culture existed! I've bought over 20 now from Etsy, and I just put in an order from a distro online. I'm sure there are one or more distro's in Chicago, but I'd rather not drive there (yet) to buy them. I'm almost tempted to make my own. I wish I knew about this art form sooner!

Clearly unimpressed!

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:02:08 GMT

So me and Zero met with my family's realtor Tracy, who showed us five houses we really had our eyes set on. I couldn't have been more unimpressed! Or perhaps I should say I *was* impressed - by whoever took pictures of each of the houses, as they did a damn good job to cover up the crap that they didn't disclose in the description of the homes.

The first one we looked at was what appeared to be a cute and well maintained 1 1/2 story home in the Hessville area. 4 bed, 1 1/2 bathrooms. First off we knew it was close to train tracks, but we're close to tracks right now anyways and its not really a bother (I work on the damn things besides). Unfortunately it did look like crap on the inside. For being on the market for 200+ days, you'd think the sellers would try to spruce it up a bit to try and get the thing sold! But no. It was dirty, the kitchen looked like crap, and the basement was sloping (I'd not be surprised to find out that it flooded previously). They wanted $89k. It had a pool, too :(

Second and third houses were "ok". The first one was $69k, and had no central air. Kitchen was way outdated and the hookups for the washer and dryer were in it :o My grandma had that sort of thing in her kitchen in Chicago -- DO NOT LIKE! There was also a crack in a window in the dining room area.

The third house was the same cookie-cutter design as the second, but seemed to be more well maintained and is asking $79k. And it DOES have a/c. I do like a/c :D Again hate to be sounding all female and shit, but the kitchen isn't in the best of shape. Cabinets would need replacing, but I think thats about the only thing I can see wrong with it. Both house 2 and 3 have also been on the market for over 150 days, and no one is living in either of them (no furniture or anything!).

The fourth house we didn't actually go to see. Tracy had made the appointment, but the seller failed to mention that it is currently being rented out :( Shame too, looked great on the inside - but again, looks can be deceiving. The outside looked like shit so we didn't even bother.

The fifth house was AWESOME looking upon first glance. It was redone on the inside by one of those people called "flippers". Buy a piece of crap, totally redo it then sell for a profit. While I don't have a problem with this at all, the house had absolutely NO FUCKING GARAGE. Seriously. The person should have picked a better house to re-do :P It was the same design as houses 2 and 3, but it had a "big house" look to it - completely modern and open I guess you could say. It was nice, and definitely an improvement over the other houses by a lot - however, you could tell upon closer inspection that there was no craftsmanship involved. :( It looked as though everyone was just hastily propped together! It was a real shame.

So...We'll be looking for other houses to take a look at, but we're thinking about getting either house 2 or 3. On top of the money that Ed's mom is going to give him for the down payment on the house, she also said she'd give us $2k on her home depot card to renovate the house/kitchen area if we wanted it. :O Very awesome, in case we need it. I have no problem getting a house that needs work, its just that...Well, its added work! And money! I'd rather just buy a house that needs little to no work needed to be done on it lol...Wishful thinking I know.

Head hunting! Wait, what?

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:19 GMT

...A bit like head hunting? Eh, maybe.

Yes thats right, me and Zero will be looking at houses today in the Hessville/Hammond area! We've already gotten pre-approved for a loan, so now all we have to do is find the house. There are some really cute and well-maintained houses for sale that we'll be seeing, and pretty darn cheap in my opinion (I just have to keep telling myself, "Its a buyers market,") although they do seem to have their own little quirks.

The really awesome one with cathedral ceilings has no garage, and the house with a pool for $89k might have well water...? I don't really understand that as its freaking Hammond, but whatever, it remains to be seen. A lot of these houses have been on the market for a long time too, its pretty crazy. I can't imagine havnig to sell a house and no one buying it for months on end - but a lot of the pictures of these homes are from summer at least. As in, no snow at all - foliage all green and bright looking.

I've had a week off of work, it has been uber-nice. Can't say I exactly like my job, but I'm making $19 an hour plus tips (which equals out to around an extra $2 an hour really) selling pop, chips, and hot dogs on a train. Its kept me from trying to go to college :/ I know too many people who have a degree they aren't using because they can't find a job.

Debt: I only owe about $350 on my laptop, under $2,000 on my car, and about $150 on two seperate credit cards (and I never use my credit cards now), and have $2,000 in the bank. It is nice to be finally getting rid of the fucking debt. If nothing else, WoW keeps me from going out and spending money *laughs*

Depending on how much money my dad and Zero's mom are going to give us for the down payment on our house, I may use my saved money to buy a brand new desktop computer to play WoW on, and for Age of Conan when it comes out. Although...I don't think Age of Conan is going to be all that great compared to the hype being generated about it.

Updates

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:31:22 GMT

So quite a few things have happened in the past few weeks -- I just don't write or blog about my life anymore...And I don't know why. I think it might be the fact that my mom and dad regularly get online now, and its sort of...Creepy? Odd? Yes, something like that. My dad found my Myspace page long ago, and I've since stopped updating that page :P

Anyways. My brother and his wife, Kristen almost had a baby. I say almost because after two months or so, Kristen miscarried. I felt so bad for her, because she wanted to have a baby so her father could become a grandfather before he died (he has cancer of the pancreas and one or two other places as well O_o fate has not been kind to the man apparently).

That and me and Zero might buy a house around his gun shop. We went and saw it yesterday. Its not great - I don't think many people's "first home" is. But its over twice the size of this apartment, has a two and a half car garage, a POOL (omg I never had a pool before ^,^), three bedrooms, new roof, furnace, carpeting in some of the rooms, and is only being sold for $85,000. Its one of Zero's mom's best friends who is selling it which is even better.

Of course, its painted...Oddly. Like old-woman-country-rose type of decorations, if you know what I mean. And tiling on the kitchen floor needs to be replaced. But who cares? New home owners always change stuff like that. But other than that it is great. Its in a good neighborhood in Hessville and apparently two cops live on the street (lol and I'm sure they know by boyfriend as the Gun Guy or Deb's Son) and at the end of the street is a bit of woods. Its got 50's and 60's written all over it because thats when all the houses on that street were built.

Other than that not much else is going on. Still playing WoW. Currently saving up to a) pay off debts and b) buy a brand-spanking-new desktop (to play wow on ^^).

Another year almost gone!

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:09:09 GMT

I can't believe that its Christmas already again. With the snow comes holidays, the new year, and my birthday. Thats why I LOVE winter. I don't really care for the cold weather, but I find it much more pleasant to deal with than the heat!

I feel rather bad, because last year I was determined to stick to a healthier eating and exercise program so I could lose weight and tone up in 7 months...And then join the Marine Corps. Unfortunately I had no plan laid out whatsoever, and I just didn't do it. Do I still want to do that now? Getting healthier, yes, I want to do that. Join the Marine Corps? I'm just not sure any more. I looked at joining any branch of the military as bettering myself, because I won't accomplish much by working at Amtrak other than having made good money and having benefits. But do I *need* to accomplish anything? Lets look at it in perspective.

I have a good family (for the most part, even if my dad is a douche-bag to my mom sometimes), I have a great and loving boyfriend, I make enough money to sustain myself and have money leftover for other things, a roof over my head; I have few friends, but those I do I am thankful for as well. I act, dress, and talk the way I *want* to. I'm not fake to anyone, I stay true to myself. Really what more could a person want? Fame, fortune...Yeah those are nice, but they are also secondary. If I get just one of those,great, because a lot of people in life won't; if not, I really don't care.

So I don't know. Furthering my education would be a great thing, and its something I can't do while working at Amtrak simply for the way I work.

And on a side note, I haven't been exercising but I have been eating smaller portions of my normal food -- which is really just anything I crave at the moment -- and I currently weight 140.5 pounds this morning.

I'm going to plan to get healthier again this year as my "new years resolution" and that will be my only one. To help myself plan how I will do this, I've basically distilled all relevant information out of my $300+ worth of health and fitness magazines :[ They were taking up space anyways, and I was looking through them either *laughs* I don't think I'll do much in the dieting area except introduce a few healthier meals, stay with eating more meals and much smaller portions, subtract a lot of Diet Coke (I know I'll fiend a lot, hehe) as well as fast and restaurant meals. The working out bit is the only thing I really need to figure out.

I used that one book for working out every day for 30 days quite a few months ago. I am thinking that will be my base workout, but then I'll add workouts to complement the exercises in it. I really hate cardio, but I know its necessary. I'd much rather just weight lift! Odd as it sounds, I find it much more enjoyable than running on a tredmill for hours on end.

That is all.

Zero

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:39:56 GMT

I'm relieved to say that Zero's mom realized what a bitch she was being, and not only gave him back his job, but is also going through with making him a partner in the business like they originally planned. He did make up a list of things he wanted changed at the shop, but it was all basically so a situation like this wouldn't happen again.

Which means he'll be doing his World of Darkness game at the shop again, which makes me sad in an odd sort of way...We kept the apartment exceptionally clean when we knew people were going to be over (lol).

Oh, also? Its never fun to wake up to the fucking smoke alarm. It went off around 10:15am. We live above a restaurant, and across the hall are neighbors who infrequently cook. Both me and Zero think its the neighbors XD But still, damn it gives me a headache!

Thats about it. OOOh yeah, Amtrak train crash. I wasn't on it, but I knew the engineer and conductors and LSA who were.

zero and his bitchy mom

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:32:19 GMT

So Zero's mom sent yet another email to him, totally apologizing for being an idiot and asking him to come back to work at the shop. I'm rather glad she did email him, because I'm pretty sure he would have hung up on her if she called him on the phone. While I still really dislike her at the moment for causing all this bullshit, I hope Ed doesn't just blow it off out of spite towards her. Of course he's already told her that he needs to think about it because he's been hurt a lot by all of this. If he did go back to work there, there would have to be some changes made. This can't happen again! I mean shit, we were just talking about buying a house. While I can afford one on my own, I'd rather not! Plus if he ends up not going back to work at the gun range and "starting over" somewhere else, it won't happen for a while either...

Needless to say, we're going over to my family's house for Thanksgiving. My grandparents live in Tinley Park (on my Dad's side) and thats where we are going today. I don't think its that far from where we live, maybe a half an hour's drive? Something like that.

Loving Etsy. Sooo many cool things for sale there!

Wow!

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:44:15 GMT

So on a random whim, I entered in my best friend's name from back before I was 10 years old, onto Myspace's search feature.

I found her, oddly enough. I also messaged her asking if she remembered me, and she did. Its so...surreal, you know? I never expected to see/talk to her ever again, and here the internet has connected us together again. I mean, we could be total opposites now of course, but its nice to see she is still around (actually lives in Chicago too!). Interesting.

Zero

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:15:46 GMT

So Zero's mother is continuing to mix family and business, and Zero is not talking to her at all at the moment. She even left condescending remarks in his Myspace journal. Whut?!? Everyone keeps asking if she's going through menopause, or asks "Why's she having this major tampon?" and while I usually disdain remarks of that nature towards women, I'm asking the same thing!

She DID call and apologize to Zero the next day, and did say she had no right to say such a thing to Zero. However, when Zero said they needed to talk about his continued employment then with her (since they were supposed to become partners at the shop come the first of the next year) she balked at that and let her pride get in the way and said she "wasn't going to meet a list of demands" from Zero. I have no idea why she's thinking he was going to demand anything - he just wants a compromise so that he'll not get "fired" again. Who wouldn't, working at a family business like that?

So its just ridiculous. Its a shame his "ma'maw" (<-- I laugh every time I see/hear that word, but thats what they use ^.^) went down to St. Louis because if she still lived with Deb, Zero could get her to hound his mom about the fact. But anyways, Ed is going to give it a few more weeks before drafting a resume and finding another job, which I don't mind. I think it just is at a really bad time of the year for losing a job, but good for at least finding seasonal/temp jobs. I would hope Ed would work at his family's shop only because, its his family's shop and he's worked there for fifteen years on and off again.

I mean honestly, what does his mom expect after she dies? Who would it be left to? Duh! Zero's the only option, and right now if that happened he'd sell off everything and probably run it into the ground, the way things are going.

Pride is a wicked thing sometimes, and him and his mom are both stubborn asses (I have prior experience with this and know them both well! heh) but I really do think Zero is in the right to ask for some things to change if he was to continue working at his mom's gun range.

In other news, I got bumped from my regular run so I've had a few more days off. I haven't done much, its been nice to have another mini-vacation. Unfortunately this means I can't call off any work trips :) Well actually I could, I just wouldn't have much spending money for random crap for a month.

Now we also need to get our apartment nice and clean since Ed won't be having his D&D/Vampire table games at his mom's shop anymore (he used to use the shop since it was a bigger space). I wouldn't want to continue anything over there myself, either. I still think renting a house and/or outright buying one should happen soon. No reason to not, when I can afford one on my own. Living in an apartment where I was paying a rent of $780 a month plus all utility bills showed me that!

On the lighter side of things, I'm totally addicted to http://www.etsy.com. I've been buying a lot of zines, which I'm also addicted to! I also bought some other cute things from the site.

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I also spent time writing this out because I was bored, and was woken up by the drunkards eating at the restaurant below us. I contemplated calling and asking the waitresses to tell those guys to STFU but I think they're gone now. I just don't know if I'll be able to go back to sleep again, since I did sleep for about six hours...

Me and Zero saw the movie Beowulf. I had no idea from the trailers that it was a 3-D movie! It was pretty good in my opinion, just the ending was stupid. But as all endings in Hollywood goes, they left it open for a sequel :[

I want to see Fred Claus as well, and there are some good looking movies coming out in the coming months that I want to see too. That Golden Compass one looks like it will be pretty amazing.

There was a pretty cute "commercial" to join the National Guard they showed before the movie with all the other previews. I think it was the wrong place for such a thing, but it was a song by 3 Doors Down called "Citizen Soldier". I forwarded it to my mom online because she likes that patriotic crap, but she'd already seen it before.

WHAT?!?!

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:10:32 GMT

Sooo for a long time now, I thought me and Zero weren't going to have any problems (financial or otherwise) because we get along together great (strippers and McDonalds aside) and both worked good jobs.

However...Zero's mom just "fired" him from the gun range! >:O Apparently she does this once every few years and did it once a year when he was a younger man. Omg, wtf, bbq??? The reason? She was uber-upset at the carpet installers and Zero was trying to calm her down. Again, wtf mate?

Its just so weird because I'll read friends blogs, or people I've dated's blogs (because hey they are still on my friends lists, and I am bored), or just talk to my mom (who is also jobless) and think "Damn, I really do have it good in life right now."

I guess the tides have turned. So I'll be stuck paying most the rent bills AGAIN. Not that that is a problem. I haven't been paying rent or anything at all since I moved out of the craptacular apartment in Shererville for the last six months. I've been paying off credit card and computer bills.

But...This time I don't mind about paying the bills, and think "Hey, we'll get through this." I can afford it. Its different than with previous boyfriends and friends who I've lived with. I guess its just this unconditional love thing I got for Zero ;)

Stuff

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:30:08 GMT

Zero's cat Bootsy Collins bit my finger last night and left a pretty big gash down the side of it. It didn't bleed much but there is a flap of skin >:O I miss having my cats around! But they're at my mom's at least, and she loves them so much I don't think I could ask for them back (haha). Besides, I visit them every time I go over to my mom's house...

Even IF she lives in Lowell now. *sighs* At least I don't live in Lowell! For those of you from NW Indiana I'm guessing you know the joke. :)

I bough Serj Tankian's solo album, its pretty good, even if he's a total political zealot. I still really love his "empty walls" song. I also bought the Toxicity album from System of a Down, just because I don't remember any of their songs.

I know this sounds funny, but ever since Metalocalypse hit Cartoon Network, I've been searching for more metal-like music to listen to. I LOVE that show!

Me and Zero also got out Nintendo Wii in the mail while I was at work! Oh my god, with what little games we have for it, its SO FREAKIN' FUN! We paid an extra $100 or so over retail to buy it on Ebay, but that was because we just couldn't find it in any local stores. I've played a lot of my Pokemans on my Nintendo DS lite as well.

Makes me want to break out my special edition Pokemon: Pikachu gameboy! Too bad I don't know where it is XD I guess I really do like Pokemon in general, not just Team Rocket [sorry tattoo...].

The new bed is Ok. My back sort of hurt when I woke up this morning, but I think thats just coming from sleeping on a foreign surface. We also hadn't put on our tempur-pedic-like bed topper either, so once thats put on it will be even more comfortable. I just hope it feels better, after spending so much on a bed :O heh

I'd really like to be a D&D gm...Too bad I've never even played D&D, I gather thats sort of a bad thing...

I've read two of the books out of the massive amount I got from Chris when he died. So far I've read the two Timegod books by Modisett (omg AWESOME especially since I've read all the Recluse books except for the new one) and now I'm almost finished with The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King by Lynn Abbey. I really like the magic in that book, very odd and different the way it works! Unfortunately its the fifth book in a series but I'm having no problem reading it (and I'm not sure if Chris had all the books either).

Wii a'na bed!

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:32:35 GMT

So today me and Zero are not only getting our new bed delivered, but we're also expecting our new Wii in the mail as well! I can't wait. We've already bought quite a few Wii games as well as some older X-box games to play on it. Damn, they cost quite a pretty penny, but I think its worth it. We couldn't find the Wii to save our lives anywhere in any stores for the past few weeks. If they had them, they only got 5 or so and sold out that morning they set them out for display :O We ended up spending an extra $50 or so on eBay. Like I said though, well worth the hassle. I'm sure they'll be even more scarce in the coming weeks.

I also bought Pokemon: Diamond as well as a cute little game named "Death Jr." for my Nintendo DS. Makes me want to search all the bins at my mom's house for my Special Edition: Pokemon Pikachu Gameboy though XD Look at me all geeking out about Pokemon...

Currently listening to Serj Tankian's "Empty Walls" song. The video was awesome XD

Work today. Stupid Amtrak. They fucked up and told me my new run reported out today, but they failed to tell me I had to work my trip yesterday...I know that sounds we're to those who don't know how these runs work. Basically I still had to work my regular trip like normal even though my NEW run leaves out today. Well anyways whut! I am listed as AWAL because of it, or however the term is written. Until my train manager fixes it :P Its still CMC's fault for not telling me.

Christmas

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:00:14 GMT

My dad told my mom to find out what both me and my little sister wanted for Christmas. Since my dad doesn't like just giving money or gift cards, and I couldn't think of anything else -- I told my mom to tell him to buy me a gun from Zero's gun range. I can't wait to see if he says "yes" to such a request.

Basically Zero's mom owns the range (although they'll be entering a partnership come the 1st of next year and eventually he'll just take it over) and she's an NRA instructor, and told me she'll teach me how to shoot whenever I want, which is awesome. Oddly enough, my mom said she'd like to learn how to as well.

Although, I don't know if I'd trust her with a gun. :|

Not much going on, I have a few days off.

If I don't buy a house soon, I definitely need to move somewhere. We have insanely crazy neighbors. This mom (who also happens to be a server at the restaurant below us...) and her son are near constantly yelling at each other. I've heard such things before come out of the sons mouth while in the communal hallway:

"YOU'LL BE SORRY WHEN YOU'RE DEAD!" to his mom, her slamming the downstairs door, and then stomping up the stairs.

Yesterday, they were shouting their lungs out at each other again, and I heard quite a few "BITCH!"'s and other choice swearwords directed at the mom. After she again slammed the outside door downstairs, the son came stomping up the stairs. Each stairstomp was a yelling-word.

He got to "I - HATE - MY - LIF-". I ended up punching the god-damned door while he was saying "life" and instantly he started saying "Sorry sir! Sorry sir!" because he thought it was Zero :|

Today, they were shouting again, same shit as above. As the stupid little shithead came stomping up the stairs while screaming his fucking head off, Zero opened the apartment door and ripped him a new asshole. Blah blah blah, same sorry shit.

Later he ended up seeing the mother, and told her about it.

Her excuse? "Oh, well, he's bipolar..." Yeah, and he's also at the very least, 16 years old.

Zero also phoned me to tell me the door that leads to outside is busted...Great! Now just anyone could theoretically walk into that hallway...

Hmm yeah, this has been happening once every few days, if not daily now, for a couple of months, and its not getting better.

Fucking ridiculous. Its a shame too, because we just dropped about $1,000 on a brand new bed, and its to be delivered here on Monday. I'm wondering if I should ask Zero if we should wait on getting it now until we find a new place. I'm just glad we didn't buy that Tempur-Pedic (sp?) bed like we were planning on!

woot

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:56:44 GMT

So I don't normally like coffee, but I tried this pumpkin spice mix drink with Zero's hazelnut coffee and its decent. I think it would be better cold though - I don't like hot drinks.

I'm going to dye my hair black tonight. I'm sick of the blonde :) I have to get my hair cut soon as well. Then doctor's and dentist appointments are needed.

Tried to contact Jason about his stupid MR2...For the past few MONTHS. Guess he doesn't want to talk to me, or isn't logging in to the places I'm trying to contact him, but since the car is still in his name, if it gets towed from my dad's place because of lack of plates, I can't really worry about it. I can't get plates for it and I no longer have the title since I moved out of that shitty apartment in schererville. I even got creepy and tried to contact his GIRLFRIEND about it. I felt uber-bad for doing so, because Yeah I'll admit, its creepy. But she was nice about it and said she'd tell Jason about it. Can't do much more beyond that since I lost his cell phone number (and that was a long time ago anyways since I've had it!) But I didn't want to be the cause of any more financial burdon's for Jason. But I can't worry about it anymore. If it gets towed it gets towed. If they charge my dad for it I'll pay, if they charge Jason I guess I'll never know!

Crafting. Been doing a lot of that. Mediocre crap for the most part, but I haven't been artsy fartsy or creative in a couple of years now. I used to draw anything allll the time, and was great with colored pencils, of all things! Now I've moved on to sewing again, I just bought stuff from Joannes to make a "monster" purse. Its going to be a cute monster and the opening to the purse is going to be its mouth. When I make it of course I'll post a pic.

As for my website, I haven't done much with it lately other than change the layout. Still working on doll tuts and dolls too, although I must admit I'm just not that into it anymore. That was something I was into close to 11 years ago now :/

Whut?

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:48:38 GMT

Both Terry Pratchett and L.E. Modesitt have come out with new books from series that I love - Discworld, and the Recluse series of books. Unfortunately they're hardcover, so I'll just have to wait until the damnable softcovers come out. I don't want to be lugging around heavy books on a train trip that only lasts two days. Still can't wait to read them though! Both writers are amazing.

I'm contemplating buying a house again. In fact, I've also been contemplating what it would be like if me and Zero were to marry. I'm very happy with him and can't see myself being with anyone else. We'll have been officially together for two years come February 25th, although we've known each other since I was -- what...21? Earlier than that? We've got a long and sometimes crappy history together but I think we both turned out better because of it. I mean hell, we hated each other for about four years and now look where we are! Haha.

Just...No babies o.0 Definately no babies. NO NO NO. I do not want to procreate kthanx (his mom really wants grandkids though heh -_-').

Other than that, I'm off to work. Before that though I have to go back to the gun range (where Zero works) and sift through Chris' books. Chris was the guy that both worked at, and lived in the apartment behind the gun range. Unfortunately he died in a drunken motorcycle accident. He was a prolific reader though, and they're letting me go through his books to pick a few out I'd like. We both had the same tastes in books (sci-fi and fantasy, and we both read quite a few of the same books as it was already) and apparently I was the only person he ever talked about said books with.

I wouldn't call us exactly friends, but I saw him so often while visiting the gun range, well, I did end up talking to him a lot over the past nearly two years. Its a shame, and its also weird. He's gone and will never come back. Thats the closest thing to a good friend I know dying so far in my life. Its not a good feeling, but Im' sure it would have been worse if we really were good friends :|

Oh, and I still have to read Sandworms of Dune. Really now, Herbert should have just stopped at the first (ok, maybe second) book. This series is just silly now! I mean...JEWS IN SPACE???

And I thought that was Mel Brook's idea! ;)