One Of Those Days

It has definately been one of those days. The kind where nothing seems to go right. Even now I'm beating the shit out of my keyboard to get it to type out what I want it to say, so that instead of me typing something like "mtoccle" I can actually get it to say "motorcycle." Heaven forbid someone actually make something that works properly. No, then the world may implode upon itself because someone was HAPPY! No, we can't have that, now can we?

It actually all started this morning when Tinkerbelle and Momma got into this huge fight. See, Tinkerbelle has this idea in her head that just because she has a job, she doesn't have to do anything here at home. So when Momma asked her to go downstairs and turn on the furnace, Tink mentioned that she had a job that she had to get to IN THREE HOURS and she needed time to get ready. This resulted in Momma practically exploding in anger, as this has been going on for the last couple of weeks. Just when the argument seemed to be over, Tink asked when Poppa was going to put the stuff back into the closet that he had taken out. Yes, because Tink is tired when she comes home from work and Poppa isn't. That was sarcasm, by the way.

Then I go to the bank to deposit my check. See, the fact that I got fired from being a bell ringer outside JC Penny doesn't help matters much. I only got one pay check because apparently they were on a "one-strike-and-you're-out" policy, which they conviently told me nothing about. So I recieved my first (and last) check from them in the mail. While driving there, I discovered just how STUPID people are in this town when it comes to the concept of turning. First of all, turn signals are there for a reason. USE THE DAMN THINGS! Second of all, when making a turn it doesn't require you slowing down to the point that you will be going in reverse if you went any damn ass slower! Third of all, you are not a fricken semi truck, so don't make such wide-ass right hand turns! God, I hate driving in this city!

I get home, and decide that I'm going to listen to a cd. Of course, my cd player decides to be a douche and not play anything properly. OK, so I'll watch tv. *buzzer* WRONG! Nothing's on! OK, I'll go online and role play. Oop, well as it turns out, you're in trouble with the admins because you've inadvertantly acted on information given to you OOC so you've been muted for three days. Another role play site? Oh, well everyone there will ignore you and tell you they'll "post later." Oh, fine then I'll draw out the characters for my story. Oh, guess what? Suddenly your hand doesn't work and everything you draw comes out like CRAPPY CRAP! Oh, you wanna type in your blog? Well that requires an internet connection, which your computer will now randomly lose so that you can't go online without calling in the FREAKING CALVALRY TO CONNECT THE DAMN INTERNET! So, now you're online? Oh, well then your computer will run so damn slow that it won't be able to keep up with your 32 wpm typing speed. Oh, it's finally begun to catch up? Well now that means you just won't be able to type AT ALL!!! Oh, you can type? Well, then we'll just kick you offline again.....

It's a neverending circle that needs to end, then jump out a 100-story window and drown to death. Oh, yes I'm in such a good mood, can ya tell?

This is the way my day has been. Now that you know the trainwreck that is me, I'm going to TRY to get some damn sleep before I hafta have another crazy ass Thanksgiving at my aunt's and uncles tomorrow. The only bright side to the day tomorrow? My boyfriend was invited to dinner, so I'll have someone who's semi-sane to talk to.

Crappy Computers

Lately my computer has been running something ALL THE TIME. This usually results in it running incredibly loudly (which screws up my microphone when I'm talking to my friends on skype), and slowing videos way way down while I'm watching them. Usually slowing videos down wouldn't bother me...much, but then the speakers make this awful noise trying to run the video and whatever else my computer is trying to run with it. Then I go to pause it to allow the computer time to do whatever it's doing, and IT WON'T PAUSE! It just continues playing slowly (or, more accurately put, jumping erratically between frames) and playing that awful noise in place of the audio. I just don't know what to do....

Hopefully this new job will get me the money I need to buy my tablet, then I can pawn this current P.O.S. off on Mickey. She already said she wanted it!

Family is annoying.

OK, so apparently my boyfriend's been texting me for the last hour or so and I never recieved one of them. Suddenly, Mickey comes barrelling downstairs, yelling at me to answer my phone and that Danny has been calling all afternoon. Since I am already not in a pleasant mood, this didn't exactly help and I nearly ripped her a new one. I proceeded to try to prove to her that I didn't recieve any of the texts or calls, and she promptly told Momma, who then proceeded to repeat that Danny has been calling all afternoon and asked why I was ignoring him. I was not ignoring him, I just didn't recieve any of the texts!!

Then Poppa got home and immediately began disecting my phone (figuratively of course) to discover if I was hiding one of the texts from everyone and began asking me if I was ignoring Danny. Holy crap on a cracker, people, how many times do I hafta repeat myself???

So then, Tinkerbelle just came down. She promptly pounds -- not knocks, but effing pounds -- on my door, scaring the crap out of me, and begins screaming at me asking why I was ignoring Danny. To repeat a silly saying: HOLY EFFING CRAP ON A CRACKER!!!!!

When you live with four other people, this kind of thing is bound to happen, but this is just REDICULOUS!!

Depression...again

I think I may be chronically depressed. Once in a while, I'll get to a state where nothing matters, I feel unloved, and I feel like crying. Right now, I feel that way. I feel like my friends are ignoring me, like my parents don't support my dreams and are trying to shoot them down, like nothing I do matters, like I'm going to be stuck working a crappy job I hate for the rest of my life, and like I have no hope. It really sux. I'm not contemplating suicide or anything, I just feel like I don't want to do anything and want to just sit in bed and cry.

I would go to the doctor and make sure I'm not chronically depressed. And if I am, maybe I should get medication for it, but that requires money, which I don't have. Well, I did get a job, but that don't mean I have money to see the doctor. On top of all that, I have bed bugs, which means I'm waking up every morning with new bites in unusual places. How does one get rid of bed bugs? I have no idea.

*yawn*

With depression comes the irrational need to sleep ALL THE TIME. I really hope I'm better next week before I start my job. If not...well, let's just say it'll make a boring job that much more painful. It sux majorly, but that's the way my life is.

Well...I guess I'm going to bed. Night.

Just a Lovely Day (sarcasm: NOTED)

This morning started out...meh. As I was coming up the stairs to eat breakfast, Tinkerbelle was heading back downstairs to take a shower. She had just turned off the tv. So I get upstairs, turn on the tv, and get nothing but sound. The tv was on but there was no picture and our cable box kept flashing "dUI." I went upstairs to get Momma and tell her something was wrong with the box, and she wound up calling my uncle, who works for Comcast, to ask him what was wrong. His answer? The box was dead. Simply...dead. Which wouldn't be such a big deal (OK, so I would still be annoyed) if Tinkerbelle hadn't been watching tv not six minutes before that.

So we ate lunch upstairs in the new office, because that was the only room with a tv large enough for us to see. And we have to go out later this afternoon to get a new box. Woo...hoo...

Plus, Tink and Mickey were sick the last two weeks (Mickey stayed home from school for the last two days because of it), and now I've caught whatever they have. It came on really quick too. Pretty much right after lunch I started getting the chills and I am having the hardest time staying awake. A cough, headache, achy joints, and sore throat also come with this, just so people know.

And now, while watching the Ellen show, they've interrupted to do a memorial to the fallen soldiers. Why it's suddenly such a big deal when people have been dying in that God forsaken country for the last couple of years, and they've never once stopped a show midway through to hold a memorial for them, I will never know. Don't get me wrong, I feel for the families and I have the highest respect for the soldiers (for the most part). But where was this big deal for the other fallen soldiers all these years?

Now I'm stuck watching Hannah Montana, trying not to fall asleep, and taking crap from Momma about how I'm just being a big baby (but when Mickey gets sick it's all, "Oh, no! Poor Mickey is sick! Everyone cater to her!").

Lovely Wednesday. Just lovely.

Youtube Maitenance

OK, so for the last couple of months, there have been some complaints against youtube, and for good reason. Since the site has been bought by google, it's gone WAY overboard with things like censorship, copyright "laws", and many other things. A girl who I am good friends with online had made several AMV's using clips from the movie 9. Now, according to youtube, all you have to do to post copyrighted material is say that none of it belongs to you, that you're giving credit to the owners of the material, that the video is fanmade, and that it will be taken down upon request. This girl just started her 7th youtube account because they, without any kind or warning or supposed "requests to remove the videos," closed her first six accounts because she violated the youtube rules. Even though she FOLLOWED all of the rules given her, and made sure that anyone involved in the making of her videos did as well.

They repeatedly keep taking down videos I make because of copyright problems with my videos. No "requests," no "warnings."

And yet, people can post entire movies online with no problem whatsoever.

On top of all that, most websites post something on their main homepage when they're down for maitenence. Not youtube. Oh, no, their front page is perfectly up and running, but if you try to watch any videos, you get a bar on the top saying they are "down for maitenence." Along with that, it takes for-fricken-ever to even get to that page telling you that the site is down. Just under three minutes for me. Which, of course, causes me to get mad at my computer and throw a little hissy fit that involves cussing out everyone and everything in sight.

Youtube, you need to get your shit together, and run the site how it used to be run. Your "changes" are crap. Thank you, and have a nice day!

9!!

It's finally here! The day I've been waiting for for two months! 9 premiers tomorrow!

Yes, I am talking about a movie. A movie directed by the incredible Shane Acker and produced by the one and only Tim Burton. I discovered this movie a couple months ago when my boyfriend took me out to see Transformers 2 and we saw the trailer for 9 there. I became curious, and began doing my research. I have become obsessed with a movie before I've seen it. Which NEVER happens!

9 is based on a short film made by Shane Acker when he was in UCLA studying for a degree in Architecture. It's 11 minutes of pure and raw entertainment. You can watch the original short http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IQcMeNh7Hc <-- HERE. It's really good! The short has been expanded into an eighty minute long movie, in which new characters and monsters are introduced, and the backstory is included. The movie's coming out tomorrow and I am so seeing it! This movie stars: Christopher Plummer as 1. Martin Landau as 2. John C. Reilly as 5. Crispin Glover as 6 (6 is in my blog title, btw). Jennifer Connelly as 7. Fred Tatasciore as 8. Elijah Wood as 9. The twins, 3 and 4, don't speak. Anyone who is interested in learning more about this movie can visit these sites: http://9experiment.com/ - the Scientist's Laboratory, where you can learn the backstory of the movie and characters.
http://www.shaneacker.com/ - Shane Acker's website.
http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/9/ - the movie's official site.
http://movie9.proboards.com/index.cgi - a fan forum for the movie of which I am a member.
http://thexsource.proboards.com/index.cgi - a roleplay forum for the movie, of which I am a member.

The Scientist also has a facebook, so go check that out as well (It's pretty much the same info found on the Scientist's Laboratory without all the prettiness...)!

TOMORROW!! OH, I CAN'T WAIT!!!!