My pink mini may look all pretty, but the hardware/software inside it and related to it are pure evil.
Or maybe I just don't know how to use it properly.
I can program VCRs, I can figure how to use most programs pretty quickly, I am the go-to tech person both at home and at work. (What? I work in a tiny office!) But I cannot figure out this whole itunes/ipod thing!! Why won't the files be sorted the way I want it to? Why won't Chinese show on my ipod?? Why is the software so slow???
Stupid apple. Yes, Apple is "da bomb" and all right now, but the interface just isn't to my liking. It lures you in with its prettiness and then WHAM!, leave you struggling to figure out how the hell to use everything. Yes, everything looks so neat and tidy and organized.. but how the hell do find anything?!?!? Augh! I'm so a PC girl. If i wanted a pretty white laptop, I'll go buy myself an ASUS.
If the mini wasn't so much cheaper compared to equivalent MP3 players... I swear... I'm seriously considering bugging Edward to trade his MP3 player with me. augh.
time for: nothing. just gonna relax and read.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
dude, a 40 day trip?? nice.
Yup yup, I'm going on a 40 day trip..
In my dreams!
My parents, however, are considering taking a 40-day cruise/trip. They found a really good 19 day cruise in and around Europe (again, but with different ports) for just under 1,000 USD. That's one helluva a good deal. 50USD a day for accommodations, all the food that you can eat and the chance to see many different cities in Europe? How badly do I want to join them?
Sounds awesome, right? Especially for my parents, who have worked hard for 30 years (dad at work, mom at home), don't they deserve to take holidays whenever they feel like it? For however long they want? I'd say they've earned the right. My sister, on the other hand, doesn't think so. She thinks 40 days is too long.
I asked why:
E: Why is it too long?
C: Because it's too long.
E: Why?
C: Because it is.
E: That's not a reason.
C: I don't have to give you a reason.
And right then, I think my blood pressure shot up a few points. Nothing pisses me off more than not getting a straight answer from people. It just drives me insane, as I'm sure many of you know. A couple of names come to mind when I think of people who do this on a regular basis. Grrr.
But that's an entry for another day.
Back to my parents. I honestly cannot fathom a justifiable reason that 40 days is too long for a trip. My parents are in their mid 50s, relatively healthy with the help of drugs that I'm sure most middle aged people take. They are not stupid. They've taken trips by themselves many times before. They don't work. When they are at home all they do is go to the gym, go shopping for groceries, cook, watch TV, etc. So it's not like they have any responsibilities to neglect here.
See, I think this is were the key lies. While I think my parents are entitled to having no responsibilities to anyone but themselves (hello? Youngest daughter 24 years old!), someone else in this household, however, may not want to leave home for too long. Why? Because it'll mean that dinner will not be ready when she gets home... and bathrooms won't magically keep themselves clean... and groceries will not appear in the fridge on its own. I hope to hell that these aren't her reasons, because they are so unbelievably selfish.
But other than that, what could it be?? Their health? Afraid of the bird flu? I don't get it. Are they supposed to stay at home forever due to the possibilities of health risk? I'll never understand why children get upset when their parents go out or take vacations. They are grown ups; they aren't stupid; they aren't doing anything immoral; they can take care of themselves. What's the deal?
time for: wax on, wax off, as Edward likes to say whenever I get worked up.
In my dreams!
My parents, however, are considering taking a 40-day cruise/trip. They found a really good 19 day cruise in and around Europe (again, but with different ports) for just under 1,000 USD. That's one helluva a good deal. 50USD a day for accommodations, all the food that you can eat and the chance to see many different cities in Europe? How badly do I want to join them?
Sounds awesome, right? Especially for my parents, who have worked hard for 30 years (dad at work, mom at home), don't they deserve to take holidays whenever they feel like it? For however long they want? I'd say they've earned the right. My sister, on the other hand, doesn't think so. She thinks 40 days is too long.
I asked why:
E: Why is it too long?
C: Because it's too long.
E: Why?
C: Because it is.
E: That's not a reason.
C: I don't have to give you a reason.
And right then, I think my blood pressure shot up a few points. Nothing pisses me off more than not getting a straight answer from people. It just drives me insane, as I'm sure many of you know. A couple of names come to mind when I think of people who do this on a regular basis. Grrr.
But that's an entry for another day.
Back to my parents. I honestly cannot fathom a justifiable reason that 40 days is too long for a trip. My parents are in their mid 50s, relatively healthy with the help of drugs that I'm sure most middle aged people take. They are not stupid. They've taken trips by themselves many times before. They don't work. When they are at home all they do is go to the gym, go shopping for groceries, cook, watch TV, etc. So it's not like they have any responsibilities to neglect here.
See, I think this is were the key lies. While I think my parents are entitled to having no responsibilities to anyone but themselves (hello? Youngest daughter 24 years old!), someone else in this household, however, may not want to leave home for too long. Why? Because it'll mean that dinner will not be ready when she gets home... and bathrooms won't magically keep themselves clean... and groceries will not appear in the fridge on its own. I hope to hell that these aren't her reasons, because they are so unbelievably selfish.
But other than that, what could it be?? Their health? Afraid of the bird flu? I don't get it. Are they supposed to stay at home forever due to the possibilities of health risk? I'll never understand why children get upset when their parents go out or take vacations. They are grown ups; they aren't stupid; they aren't doing anything immoral; they can take care of themselves. What's the deal?
time for: wax on, wax off, as Edward likes to say whenever I get worked up.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
doesn't get any easier, huh?
In about 6 hours, I'll be driving Edward to the airport once again.. it'll be the third time I've driven him to the airport in a bit over half a year. On the one hand, that indicates that he's back in Toronto quite often.. but it doesn't really mean anything when he's back for such short periods of time or in the case of last december, he was back for three weeks, but my focus was mostly on my CKEs.
I've spent all the time I can with Edward in the past 9 days, so much that I feel a bit guilty since his mom didn't get to spend much time with him. Sometimes I think it'd just better if I didn't spend so much time with him when he's back, going from 0% to 100% and then back to 0% is hard on the system. I just can't think of a feasible way to warm-up and cool down.
Speaking of which, in a completely different context, I think I should start jogging again. I have the next consecutive 7 Sundays off so perhaps I'll try to jog every Sunday morning if the weather is decent. I said try, so don't hold me to it. I need to use my Pilates DVDs too. I have been eating so much food.. healthy and otherwise. I cut off fried food for a week and then I broke it yesterday with tempura... and then again today with Swiss Chalet fries. Man, Chalet fries are gooooood. (Yes, I call it Chalet. Calling it Swiss is just weird to me) I'll try to cut it out again for another couple of weeks.
I have only been lured once by the current Roll-Up-The-Rim-To-Win stint, 0 for 1. That's it, I'm done. Good luck to all you RUTRTW whores.
time for: sleep. or at least try. I slept in 'til 12:45pm today.
I've spent all the time I can with Edward in the past 9 days, so much that I feel a bit guilty since his mom didn't get to spend much time with him. Sometimes I think it'd just better if I didn't spend so much time with him when he's back, going from 0% to 100% and then back to 0% is hard on the system. I just can't think of a feasible way to warm-up and cool down.
Speaking of which, in a completely different context, I think I should start jogging again. I have the next consecutive 7 Sundays off so perhaps I'll try to jog every Sunday morning if the weather is decent. I said try, so don't hold me to it. I need to use my Pilates DVDs too. I have been eating so much food.. healthy and otherwise. I cut off fried food for a week and then I broke it yesterday with tempura... and then again today with Swiss Chalet fries. Man, Chalet fries are gooooood. (Yes, I call it Chalet. Calling it Swiss is just weird to me) I'll try to cut it out again for another couple of weeks.
I have only been lured once by the current Roll-Up-The-Rim-To-Win stint, 0 for 1. That's it, I'm done. Good luck to all you RUTRTW whores.
time for: sleep. or at least try. I slept in 'til 12:45pm today.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
entry with no title..
No title because I can't pinpoint any one particular thought to build the title around... Hello, I'm Miss Scatterbrain. Maybe I hit my head too many times on the slopes the other day.
Still can't believe we went for so many runs. Never mind the falling, just the physical exertion from 16 runs was almost too much to deal with. Why does snowboarding have to be such ridiculous fun?? I want to go again before Edward leaves. There's something satisfying about the noise the board makes as you carve down the mountain.. kinda like crunchy-slicy noise. One day I'll be able to hear that noise continuously through the whole run.. one day..
My boss is coming back from his little Blue Jays Spring Training in Florida vaca tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to it. I have to pin him down (his words, not mine) and make him answer questions about some of the stuff I'm working on. I'm merely a lowly CA student, I can't make some of these decisions... hell, I don't want to be responsible for some of these decisions. As a student, you sometimes kinda dread how a file is going... you know what's right and what needs to be done... but you also know that to do it correctly and to fix previous mistakes will mean a whole crap load of work. This is how I feel. I wish people would do their job properly and make copious notes for subsequent years. Or at least for people knowing the rules so they cab attempt to do their job properly. It just takes so much energy and brainpower to fix pervasive things that have been done wrong over the years.
Enough about work. I shouldn't think about it at home. It already takes up 7 precious hours of my days, I'll be damned if it ruins the remaining 17 hours. Edward's here 'til Monday, and so I shall spend every single minute I can with him... not sure when he'll be back again. Maybe in May? That's too far away! Boo.
time for: burning DVDs for various people..
Still can't believe we went for so many runs. Never mind the falling, just the physical exertion from 16 runs was almost too much to deal with. Why does snowboarding have to be such ridiculous fun?? I want to go again before Edward leaves. There's something satisfying about the noise the board makes as you carve down the mountain.. kinda like crunchy-slicy noise. One day I'll be able to hear that noise continuously through the whole run.. one day..
My boss is coming back from his little Blue Jays Spring Training in Florida vaca tomorrow, I'm not looking forward to it. I have to pin him down (his words, not mine) and make him answer questions about some of the stuff I'm working on. I'm merely a lowly CA student, I can't make some of these decisions... hell, I don't want to be responsible for some of these decisions. As a student, you sometimes kinda dread how a file is going... you know what's right and what needs to be done... but you also know that to do it correctly and to fix previous mistakes will mean a whole crap load of work. This is how I feel. I wish people would do their job properly and make copious notes for subsequent years. Or at least for people knowing the rules so they cab attempt to do their job properly. It just takes so much energy and brainpower to fix pervasive things that have been done wrong over the years.
Enough about work. I shouldn't think about it at home. It already takes up 7 precious hours of my days, I'll be damned if it ruins the remaining 17 hours. Edward's here 'til Monday, and so I shall spend every single minute I can with him... not sure when he'll be back again. Maybe in May? That's too far away! Boo.
time for: burning DVDs for various people..
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
I should start again..
Haven't blogged in a long, long time. Haven't had time to gather my thoughts and translate them into coherent sentences.
A breakdown of the essential parts of life (in no particular order) for the past month and a bit:
Work - is alright. It's tolerable. But I'm seriously lacking motivation. In the beginning of the year there was a lot of yelling in the office and that brought my morale down. The yelling has ceased in recent weeks (although I did hear that there was some yelling going on regarding myself when I was in Boston), but it hasn't been long enough to be forgotten. No one in the office is a fan of yelling, nor are there any fans of the swearing and attitude that come with the yelling. It's kinda like a time-bomb, just waiting for the next apeshit episode. I've also noticed that I'm the only one in the office who doesn't have a photo of some sort on her desk. Even apeshit lady has a few. Hmm... that brings me to the topic...
Love - Went over to Boston (yup, it's over to Boston, not down, cuz it's technically just east of T.O, not south) for Valentine's Day. Had an excellent, excellent time. There was a time when I thought I would get sick of someone if I spent all my time with them, but really, that was just an excuse. You don't get sick of being in someone's presence, you get sick of putting on an image in someone's presence. If you can completely be yourself and still enjoy spending time in the same room with others, you won't really get sick of them. What I'm trying to say is that I can't wait 'til we move out together.. Boston, Toronto, somewhere else, doesn't matter to me.
Friends - I remember a time when I used to go out all the time. See movies. Get coffee. Just hang out and have movie nights. Now it seems like people only get together for birthdays or if someone's back in town for a few days. Mags and I met up for lunch today because she was passing by the proximity, give or take a few kilometers, of where I worked. Quick 1 hour get-together was hardly enough, but at least now I don't have try too hard to remember the last time I saw her. Thanx for the posters, lady. We need to fight the fatigue and go have some fun, and don't even tell me that sleep is fun.
Family - what can I say? They are family. Drive me up the wall one minute and crack me up so hard the next. I may roll my eyes at my Dad and Carol a lot because of things they say or do, but they make me laugh so hard... sometimes with them, mostly at them. I'm not being mean, that's just their role in the family. Everyone has a role. My role is the ungrateful little brat who gets annoyed if you wake her/bother her/ask her questions or sometimes even speak to her. Yup, while I'm at home, I'm stuck in teenage-rebel mode. I hate you all, leave me alone!! heehee.
That's about it. I was going to post some pics... but I couldn't find enough.
time for: clean up my room? some things never change.
A breakdown of the essential parts of life (in no particular order) for the past month and a bit:
Work - is alright. It's tolerable. But I'm seriously lacking motivation. In the beginning of the year there was a lot of yelling in the office and that brought my morale down. The yelling has ceased in recent weeks (although I did hear that there was some yelling going on regarding myself when I was in Boston), but it hasn't been long enough to be forgotten. No one in the office is a fan of yelling, nor are there any fans of the swearing and attitude that come with the yelling. It's kinda like a time-bomb, just waiting for the next apeshit episode. I've also noticed that I'm the only one in the office who doesn't have a photo of some sort on her desk. Even apeshit lady has a few. Hmm... that brings me to the topic...
Love - Went over to Boston (yup, it's over to Boston, not down, cuz it's technically just east of T.O, not south) for Valentine's Day. Had an excellent, excellent time. There was a time when I thought I would get sick of someone if I spent all my time with them, but really, that was just an excuse. You don't get sick of being in someone's presence, you get sick of putting on an image in someone's presence. If you can completely be yourself and still enjoy spending time in the same room with others, you won't really get sick of them. What I'm trying to say is that I can't wait 'til we move out together.. Boston, Toronto, somewhere else, doesn't matter to me.
Friends - I remember a time when I used to go out all the time. See movies. Get coffee. Just hang out and have movie nights. Now it seems like people only get together for birthdays or if someone's back in town for a few days. Mags and I met up for lunch today because she was passing by the proximity, give or take a few kilometers, of where I worked. Quick 1 hour get-together was hardly enough, but at least now I don't have try too hard to remember the last time I saw her. Thanx for the posters, lady. We need to fight the fatigue and go have some fun, and don't even tell me that sleep is fun.
Family - what can I say? They are family. Drive me up the wall one minute and crack me up so hard the next. I may roll my eyes at my Dad and Carol a lot because of things they say or do, but they make me laugh so hard... sometimes with them, mostly at them. I'm not being mean, that's just their role in the family. Everyone has a role. My role is the ungrateful little brat who gets annoyed if you wake her/bother her/ask her questions or sometimes even speak to her. Yup, while I'm at home, I'm stuck in teenage-rebel mode. I hate you all, leave me alone!! heehee.
That's about it. I was going to post some pics... but I couldn't find enough.
time for: clean up my room? some things never change.
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