| PICTURE SPAM POST |
[03 Nov 2009|05:24pm] |
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PICTURE SPAM!
Because I suck at finding images of my own to icon. :P
Just throw any images you would love me to icon, at me. This includes b/w manga or dojinshi pics, precolored images, anime screen caps, and fanart.
The fandoms I have icon in the past perfered. (see Tags) But you can give me images from series I don't know nothing about also.
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[03 Nov 2009|06:02pm] |
So life's been progressing these past few days. Good things, unpleasant things, ya know, the norm.
I started my new job yesterday. To my pleasure, I also learned I will be getting weekly paychecks instead of bi-weekly. The only other job I got weekly paychecks was at the job recruitment office that I worked for a whopping 3 weeks before they were asshats and let me go due to financial strain. But even then, I noticed getting checks every week was SO much better in handling my finances rather than waiting two weeks for money. I could understand why companies do bi-weekly checks. It's less work for them in the long run, sure. But hell, it's MY money. I should be getting paid the same damn day right after I punch out. But of course that would be bad for me because I'd have that money in my pocket, and down the drain it would go on stupid shit. Anyway, with all the automated systems and what not lately, I wonder why more companies don't do weekly checks. Hell, the place I work at now has an old punch card time clock system, so that means someone's gotta go thru all the time card sheets and write down punches and etc every week. So you'd think if anything THIS would be the system that does bi-weekly checks. But I'm not complaining, oh no.
Aside from paychecks, the rest of the job seems good. Easy enough tasks to pick up on, friendly coworkers. It's much better than retail store work, that's for sure. But I think I'll be happier when I start getting some paychecks in, because my finances are starting to turn sour and I want to work on some budgeting asap.
The biggest worry came today when my contact at Geico called me back and said that the decision for my car damages is looking like "no one can provide enough proof that one side is more responsible for damages than the other, so everyone just has to take care of themselves and no money is exchanging companies." My agent said she'd have to call and double check the verdict because there might have been some confusion or something (she left a voicemail) and I'd know by tomorrow. But basically I've got a feeling I'm going to be out $1,000 until I can get all my paperwork together to take the lady to small claims court. Which I'm going to do, because shit I don't have $1,000 to pay for HER mistake. But that is just wonderful, ONE MORE thing I have to do. It also sets me back in my plans to purchase more fun big things like a new computer or a cruise, or SAVE some money for chrissakes.
The other semi-financially stressing thing is this Vegas trip, combined with the holiday season creeping up almost right after that. I can certainly afford both the trip and shopping for presents...but they're all still going on my credit card, to be paid off eventually. Grr, I can't wait till I have enough money in my checking account to not have to put stuff on my credit card. Because now it's basically: get paycheck, mete out funds to deal with upcoming bills, use the rest of paycheck to pay off some of the card. Which leaves me with nothing in my checking account, so any purchases I make in between paychecks all get put on my card again. I need to figure out a system where I keep a certain amount in my checking account and then all the extra goes on the card. At least that way I will kinda get ahead of myself a little. Bah. No need to bore you all with my budgeting.
Augh, I can't wait for this Vegas trip to come! Mainly because it's going to be awesome but also because after the trip, my life's going to kick into high gear again. Here's my (hopefully) plan with my life after Vegas: Now that I have this nice "I get to sit down" job, I'm hoping the troubles with my knee will go away. Not to mention I'm not incredibly footsore when I get home from work. I'm giving myself three weeks of recovery, and then after I get back from Vegas, I'm going HARDCORE style on weight loss and exercise. I've been the same weight for almost a year, which really is a good thing because I haven't gained anything since I cut back on exercise. But I've still got 30 pounds to go, and it's all that difficult "around the middle" fat that your body is so reluctant to get rid of. And yes, call me crazy for doing it in the middle of the holiday season. But if I am successful I guess that's another trophy I can add to my shelf.
Additionally, we're going hardcore with my finances too. It's going to be "Go to Vegas, enjoy myself, don't feel guilty about the money we're spending." And then after Vegas I'm going to get my Christmas shopping done, hopefully before the end of November. And then from December on, it's going to be spendthrift lockdown. Focus on getting my credit card paid off, and get money in to savings. I have a big budget plan written up that I won't depress you with, but hopefully by March I hope to have everything paid off and see a significant increase in my savings account. And by then I'd like to not be living via credit card, and instead be living via checking account, so I don't have to be in debt any more than I already am with my car and my school loans.
Heh, I just realized how rambling I sound. I even made a promise to myself to stop talking about money and junk in my LJ posts. Whoops, oh well. I doubt anyone sat through and read this whole thing anyways.
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| Guilty Pleasures: Books 'n Music |
[01 Nov 2009|10:44pm] |
So I'm almost finished with the second Sookie Stackhouse book, "Living Dead in Dallas." These are the novels that the HBO series True Blood is based off of. I have to admit that True Blood was my first little guilty pleasure. The whole series is awfully campy and just really kinda a lower end production value that HBO normally provides. Of course, I compare pretty much anything HBO does to their other series, Rome, so they have to try really hard to impress me with anything after falling in love with that show. But True Blood has an interesting plot line, unique characters, lots of sex and hot guys and fairly decent acting, so after watching the first season in about two days, I started following the second season that was currently on air.
After watching seasons 1 and 2, I figure I might as well pick up the books. I wasn't too impressed with the first book. It wasn't really bad or anything, but I didn't fall in love with it either. I really had no opinion of it either way. But after being almost done with this second book, I've been warming up to both the books and the series a lot more.
Firstly, I'm impressed with the translation from the book series to the TV show. The first book relates to season 1, the second book correlates with season 2, and I'm going to assume season 3 will pair up with book three as well. And while there are some fairly glaringly obvious differences between book and show (and let's face it, what film translation doesn't have that?) I do have to give a round of applause to everyone involved with the entire production. The writers really stuck as well as they could to the book, but kind of smoothed things out that seemed to be difficult to explain easily in a one hour show. It was great being able to read the book and further understand what Sookie, the main character, was thinking, because she was able to explain things a lot more since the books are written in a sort of journal-esque way. I enjoyed Anna Paquin's portrayal of Sookie before I even read the books, but now that I have read them, I am even more impressed with her ability to bring the character to life.
Sookie is a great character, especially lately where everyone and their mother wants to write something about a young pretty innocent girl falling in love with an ancient undead. Sookie herself is modest and kinda ignorant of a lot of worldly things, yet she isn't that innocent, weak girl that sits and mopes in a corner about how depressing her life is. Because of her ability to read people's minds, she's fully aware of how truly awful some people can be. But she's still bright and positive, all the while learning and knowing how to protect herself. I've definitely seen some character development in her throughout the second book, with her becoming more and more secure with the world outside her home town. So I'm excited to read the other books to see how she develops further.
As for the other characters, I'm not really sure about them. Bill, the vampire Sookie dates, is kind of difficult to figure out. I'm glad I saw the series first so I could kind of put a face to his character, because it seems to me in the books, all Bill wants is to dress Sookie up pretty and screw her brains out. What I do enjoy about Sookie and Bill, is that they have relationship arguments that seem really "real." I mean, as real as arguments between a human and a vampire can get. I dunno, it's hard to explain. But it just seems more "real" to me.
But yeah! I would recommend both books and show!
On to music. Lately I've been digging this one guy who goes by the "band" name Owl City. It's not really a band, I guess, because it's just one dude and his synthesizer and organ doing this weird kinda electro-pop-indie music. I'm bad with putting music into genres. But also I think a lot of bands like to push the envelope lately and cover as many categories as they can so they can be considered "different" and "ground breaking" when all they're doing is pissing me off because I can't figure out what kind of genre to explain them as. So maybe it's not me who has difficulty categorizing music, and maybe a lot of bands are just assholes and should stick to "rock" or "pop" or "jazz."
Anyway, I've heard about half of Owl City's latest album "Ocean Eyes." And I call this music my guilty pleasure and you probably would too if you heard the songs and listened to the lyrics. Pretty much every song this guy writes is about innocent, happy love. And if you've ever been in a loving, long term relationship, you know that this kind of love never ever exists longer than maybe the first two weeks of meeting someone. Now don't get me wrong, I've been in a relationship for 5 and a half years, and I still love my guy like crazy. But the kind of love this guy has written down and set to music is the kind of feeling that makes you crinkle your nose and get all giddy and bop around until you have your first fight with your significant other, and that's when you realize that either you have REAL love, or you've just been infatuated and blinded with emotion.
But it's still nice to hear lyrics that make you remember at least for the three minutes that the song is playing, that you used to have that kind of love. And it's even nicer knowing that it evolved into something so much more than butterflies in the stomach and un-wipeable grins whenever the person you love (and hopefully still love) gets near to you. So maybe I've been nostalgic for the past few days while I've been enjoying Owl City's songs. But it isn't a nostalgia based off pining for days past. It's a nostalgia of "Oh, those days were nice and I'm glad we had the experience, but look at what we have now. It's even better."
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| Love Lazy Sundays |
[25 Oct 2009|10:20pm] |
So this morning I started my day off with this...live journal. I woke up super early, couldn't sleep so decided i'd give an update. Well that turned into hours.
My nosey love Dan gets up and of course the questions begin. He is the most inquisitive person I have ever met. Who, what, where, when, why?! Drives me crazy but if that's the only thing that drives me nuts, then I'm great. Dan i'm updating my journal....what? You have a journal..online...who can read it don't put our address let me see. haha It was hilarious. I love when he freaks out. I play pranks on him all the time. Its just sooo easy.
He's out right now with his friends. His friend Jeff is moving to Colorado so they went out for a goodbye goodluck drink. Of course, I stay home. I'm a homebuddy.
So after my journal dan gets us breakfast. We eat the snuggle. We take nellie outside and she rolls around in the leaves. We come back inside it's 11. I'm beat cause I got up too early. I go back to bed. Dan goes to target looking for night lights and he did and exchange for me.
I had this crazy dream about my old house, the one in Haskell. It was so vivid. By the end of the dream I was crying. Then I woke up. It was 3:30. Dan was in the living room playing video games. I asked him if I was talking or crying he was like I didn't hear a thing. Thank goodness. I always worry that when i'm yelling in a dream or something that i'm actually doing it. So that was a relief.
We ordered a pizza and watched E.T. I cried..I always cry during E.T. Dan is like you know he's gonna live why are you crying, true I do know but it's still so sad to watch.
After that we ordered Knowing. Crazy mind fuck movie. But I enjoyed it. I called it that those watchers were good people.
Then Dan went out to Sona and I watched x-men while working out. I love to work out while watching action packed movies. It's more exhilarating or something.. I dunno.
That was my day in a nutshell.
Tomorrow is auditions for the solo in Kyrie for chamber choir. Hopefully I do well.
Goodnight!
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