AlibisDragon's Journal

Holy crap, I am in SUCH a bad mood. >.<

And my laptop is dead atm. Which doesn't help.

At least I can distract myself by trying to figure out CSS and layout design and such... *confused as all hell*

I have mixed emotions about the way the superbowl turned out. : / There were some good commercials though! :Db

But wait... wait... G.I. Joe movie? Fuck yes.

And Transformers sequel??? FUCK. YES. *screams like a scary Twilight fangirl*

Two of my New Year's resolutions have been going well! I've started kick-boxing and I only drink soda on special occasions. XD I used to drink WAY too much soda. AND even though I haven't posted them up here, I have been writing my list of dumb little things I'm thankful for.

( The list is as follows... )

Holy crap, it's 2009! Seems like just yesterday that everyone was all "Y2K!!!" I hope everyone had a good holiday season!

This year I have 3 Resolutions:

1. I'm going to read more. I think it'll be good for me, and when I had no trouble writing I think it was because I read constantly.
2. One of those typical resolutions: I'm going to be healthier. Better eating habits, exercise etc...
3. Everyday I'm going to think of one thing I'm thankful for. Could be dumb or something actually meaningful, just a small reason to celebrate everyday. I want to post them here, because that'll make me post something everyday. XD I'm not really imposing any rules on myself except that I can't repeat anything. Though I decided I can be more specific: Like if I say "friends" one day, I can pick a specific friend another day.

ANYway, I already missed the first two days technically, so that's boding well! :Db So here's what I've got so far:

January 1st: I'm thankful for sparkling grape juice, cause it gives me something fun to drink on new years. Since I'm not a fan of most alcohol.
January 2nd: I'm thankful for Mythbusters, cause that's an awesome show!

I told you they could be dumb! |D


Also, a note to myself regarding stuff I need to post about:
- My uncle
- My brother
- Tucker
- Video games
- Betta fish

It'd be pretty awesome if I could stick around long enough to reply to people who reply to my own posts, wouldn't it? : \

Have a random post about how Marley & Me is going to be the most adorable movie in existence forever! And my favorite movie of all time! *wibbles* I can't decide if I want to see it on Christmas Day or not...

Labs are the best dogs ever!  \o/

Hope everyone is doing super special awesome~!

And HOLY CRAP SNOW~!

Alright, I know I haven't been around in forever, and I also know that this is like the eighth time I've made this kind of post. : /

I've been bogged down with so much ridiculous crap that I can barely even get any sleep let alone get online. But that's all another post. Actually, what I'm posting about now is really stupidly small and insignificant compared to most of the stuff that I've been dealing with, but sitting on a tack hurts more than sitting on a stump, right? They're equally round, yet the smaller one would hurt more even without the pointy part. Awesome metaphor, I know. :Db

I feel like I'm acting like a spoiled brat when I talk about this for some reason, but it irritates me. I did badly on a test in a class I'm doing very well in otherwise. The reason I did badly was because of miscommunication between me and the professor regarding the date of the exam. I hadn't studied at the time we had the exam because I thought it was a week later. I was extremely pissed, but I did the best I could and got over it. I figured I got maybe a fifty, if that, on the exam. When we get the exams back I find out that I got a 70 which, granted, isn't awesome, but there are 70 other numbers below 70 (including zero). I was pretty damn awesome, because I could easily pull my grade up from that.

So I get home feeling pretty relieved, and tell my mother - who I had told earlier about doing badly and who I thought would be at least a little happy - and the response I get is "Well, that's not very good."

No shit, mother dearest. Sorry I didn't do worse.

Like I need her to tell me that when I beat myself up to begin with. That was the first time I've really ever told my mother to fuck off. Which felt really good actually.

The thing that irritates me most about the whole thing is that it feels like there's a rampant double standard in my household. I do reasonably well in school. I know I could study more than I do for some things, but I still manage to get good grades. But my brother, who is completely failing at least one class this semester doesn't even get any sign of disapproval (which is all the more irritating because he can be an awesome student when he feels like it). He can sleep through classes, go out drinking at night just to come home, puke all over the bathroom (and I mean ALL OVER), and then leave the mess there with a note left on the closed door that he'll clean it later. Which of course means that my mom cleaned it up herself. If I miss a class I'm screwed when it comes to my mom.

Ugh.

In other news, I went target shooting with my dad today. Which was freaking awesome. :D I know everyone pretty much knows I love my dad a ton, but I really do. Even when he puts me through an emotional hell when it comes to work. Every time I hear father-daughter songs on the radio I tear up. |D;;;;; And remind me to post about how we got our new puppy soon (who I still have to post pictures of), because it still makes me cry when I think about it~.

Back to work! Hope everyone has been doing well! I miss you guys~.

Everyone at OSHA is a whore.

Stuff I have to do in the next week:

- Alternative Energy prototype.
- Alternative Energy report.
- Alternative Energy presentation.
- Alternative Energy final.
- Engineering Economics HW.
- Engineering economics project.
- Engineering Economics final.
- Ethics outline.
- Ethics essay.
- Ethics final.
- Product Conceptualization prototype.
- Product Conceptualization report.
- Product Conceptualization presentation.
- 4 Evaluations.
- Co-op follow-ups.

NOT to mention all the crap I have to do at work. x_x

Holy crap! So much work to do! No time to talk!

But watch this!

Alright, here I am, reappearing once again after another rather abrupt hiatus, with nothing much to say other than crap happened. And that said crap made me neglect a lot of stuff, including this journal. x_x And to anyone who cares, I really am sorry for that. ._.

So! My plan for the moment is to just try my hardest to make more of an effort on lj, reading and replying and such! I really hope everyone is doing well!

In other news, has anyone else seen that "Magical Amount" commercial? The one about truth/smoking? That is like, the best commercial ever! XDDD And I was pleasantly surprised on friday. I preordered FUNimations release of the eighth One Piece movie back in... last year some time... and it wasn't due to be released until the 19th, but I got mine on the 8th! Which was so odd I almost forgot to be happy about it!

AND last but certainly not least is the picture of our new puppy (who is four months old now) I promised you guys!


And please excuse the floor in the photo. XDDD;;;; We had a couple cracked tiles in our kitchen, and he discovered that he if he worked at it long enough, he could uproot the broken pieces and run off with them.
So we had to pick them all up just to keep him from trying.

Just wanted to make a post to let everyone know that I'm still alive. -_-;;;;;; And to say merry Christmas! And happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa... and a pleasant whatever-else-you-guys-might-celebrate-this-time-of-year! ^_^ I hope everyone has a great holiday!

In other news... WE GOTS A PUPPY!!! *flails* He's so damn freakin' adorable! Still debating what to name him. He's a yellow lab, and by the look of him, he's gonna be HUGE when he's full grown. So if anybody has any ideas, feel free to toss them my way! XDDD;;;; My family is at odds about it. Though I think Moose would suit him very well...

ANYway, back to wrapping presents/writing my x-mas fic. (*GASP* I'm writing again?!)

This just sucks a thousand ways to hell and back. -_- I mean, I already knew life wasn't fair, but this is bullshit. Why does someone survive a stint in the military that spans two wars, live through thirty-something years risking his life for others as a firefighter, break his neck and recover fully, weather through terrible heart trouble, just to wind up with cancer? Come the fuck on.

And after seeing some samples of the new OP cast, I want so badly to be happy about them. And I mean like, ORGASMIC happy. Not just ecstatic or anything. *huffs* No fair. >.<

Di-chwan~, sorry about that earlier. x_x;;;;;; I was on the family computer and wandered off without realizing I hadn't signed off. Apparently my brother decided to help himself to the computer and didn't actually tell me anyone was trying to talk to me until like... ten minutes ago. -_-;;;;;;; So sorry! ;____; I wasn't ignoring you!

The Road to El Dorado is a freaking awesome movie. XDDDD And speaking of movies... I need to see Transformers for like... the eighth time. XDDDD Saw the new Harry Potter movie. It was... okay. Good enough for me anyway. XD;;;; But that's because I read the books and don't expect much from the movies to begin with. Though the Goblet of Fire was sweet!

And I don't think Hershey's gonna be with us much longer. Poor old guy, his legs just don't work anymore. I can't believe this is happening again already. It was only like... two months ago that we lost Boston. Fuck, that really sucked. Dogs just can't go peacefully in their sleep can they? Shit, it's stuff like this (even with ALL the good times) that makes having pets almost not worth it.

And now I am off to bed, cause I have to see the rest of my family off early, cause they're all going camping. x_x

(I love this icon. X3 Though people won't get it unless they know a bit about Zoro's new dub VA.)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............... *dies*

Why is this stupid evaluation so looooooooooong? x_x

I've been working on this thing for over two freakin hours.

Blaaaaaaaahhhhh.

I'm bored, so why the hell not? XD

Stolen from Plushie-boo~ and/or Di-chwan~!

I highly recommend that anyone who has written a fic or done an RP, download one of those text-to-speech programs and have it read it aloud. *DIES* Smut works best!

My heart goes out to everyone affected by the attacks at Virginia Tech today. I'm beside myself with shock and sorrow for those lost in such a tragic event. I can barely bring myself to speak about it without getting upset.

But as a college student myself, I'm also completely appalled with the way the campus handled the situation. Based on the articles I've read and the news coverage I've seen, I feel that this incident was handled very poorly. Besides the fact that the only school wide notification was an email sent about two hours after the initial attack, I cannot believe the lock-down was lifted before they were certain the gunman was located. Not only that, but the attacker managed to make it half a mile across campus to the site of the second attacks. The fact that they assumed that the first attack, even though it happened in a residence hall, was an unrelated domestic dispute shows a severe lack of judgement. That decision put the entire school in danger.

The email was too little, too late and it's sad that students and faculty at Virginia Tech couldn't trust the school with their safety.

Ugh. I am so tired of everything right now. All the work I did last year cleaning up the office and straightening out all of the files and the billing and such at my dad's shop is gone. I left at the end of August to start school again and the good state of things lasted until about... September 1st. Looking at it on the computer shows that literally the first day I wasn't there, everything went to hell. so now I'm doing EVERYTHING I did then over again, and what's worse is I have to redo about six months worth of paperwork. I really don't want to be irritated with my father, but it's partly his fault for letting everything get this fucked up again. *sigh*

And I think I'm someone people only become friends with out of convenience. It seems like I'm the one people talk to if they don't have anyone else around, and people only want me to tag along places when they won't know anyone else there. I know for a fact that this one girl I know from school treats me like that. Good thing she's a bitch so I can tell her to screw off... But I've been noticing it with other people too.

ANYway, can anyone out there help me decide if I want to go to Florida or not? o.o;;;; I can't decide! I'm not much of a beach person, so I don't do much there... And I could stay home and do nothing when I'm not at work, and cut out the 24 hour drive both ways. >.<;;;;;;

...over a month ago?? O.o;;;;;

ANYway, meme time~!

Cause I did this thing in crystal_chan's journal, I must post this here! Comment here and the directions are as follows...

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this in your journal!

Have fun! XDDD I'm gonna go try and hammer out some semblance of a story...

*headesk* Snnnnnooooooowwwwwww Daaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy. I want one so baaaaaaaaaad. My siblings school is already cancelled for tomorrow. It was cancelled at like... 7 pm. Don't you think that if the weather is bad enough for them to be cancelling stuff so much in advance, that my school has a better chance of closing too? Maybe?

It was so cold today... violent wind. Below zero temperatures. The kind of cold that makes it hard to breathe even after you're back inside.

*prays* Please! Just one more! I need to work! My dad's new secretary is completely incapable and I need to make money and every day I have makes it easier! ...Not that it's hard to begin with... but...

......... *headdesk* ....Snow day.... Maybe I should wear my pajamas inside out and put a spoon under my pillow... -_-

Not that any of you out there were planning on talking to me on AIM tonight, but for any who might have any inkling, I have some advice.

Don't.

I'm in an incredibly, inexplicably foul mood and I don't want to take it out on an innocent bystander. So please steer clear for a while.

Di-chwan, I hope your first day back to school went well.