How awesome, Jazzy! That sounds like a really good idea!
I was surprised how hard it was to find green nailpolish. Almost every brand carries at least one shade of blue, but never green. =( Discrimination!
Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 09/17/2006 12:19 AM
Highlight: learning Count Duckula is on DVD, buying the aforementioned DVD, tonight is movie night (currently playing: Hellboy), my boyfriend comes back from TDY tomorrow, narrowed my Halloween costume ideas down to three possibilities.
Lowlight: my sister and her fiance lost a groomsman, so they kicked me out of their wedding… MY EFFING SISTER! And now I have to tell her off about it and I despise confrontation.
Highlight: Started a new job on Monday, my first job ever. Got my first paycheck on Friday so now I have some money to spend on my vacation to Niagara Falls next week.
Lowlight: On my second day of work, got the bitchiest customer ever, ( I work in retail). I was just trained on the register and the stupid thing froze up on me. The lady started yelling at me how there is a button I should be able to push, but if I wasn’t so stupid, I wouldn’t have to push the button in the first place. I finally unfroze the machine, but somehow messed up on what button to push to calculate the change back, so I’m doing quick math in my head, which I’m not that good at, and said to the customer, “Your change would be $1.31 right?” She yells back that it’s not her job to know what the change would be, and I shouldn’t be working there if I’m that dumb. I explain that it’s only my 2nd day, and she goes, I don’t care, and chances are after you’ve been here a year, you’ll still be stupid. She then took her change and left. Yeah, that’s the lowlight of the week.
Chestnuts roasted by Stacey @ 09/17/2006 12:52 AM
Okay, way offf topic. There was just a string of tornados and thunderstorms here and the local news chanel just came upon a collapsed house. They pulled over and started taping, while the family drove up to the house. (they hadn’t seen the house until then) As they were getting out of the car they shove the camera and mic into the family’s faces and interview them as they react. SO tacky. The reporter actually said, “Have you ever seen your house like this before?”
Highlight, my power’s back on already:)
Highlights: Week without mom (came back today, ugh), myspace blog getting popular due to fark and word of mouth (see Straight Balin’ entry), Who Concert, Applebee’s last night w/ friends!
Lowlights: crappy check from KB, and no check from CVS, no one is talkin in IMs right now, 4 of them (I’m on AOL). Missin’ both a bday party AND an important frat meeting due to work at CVS.
Highlights: In the comments on my poem for this week’s Poetry Writing course at school, I got a lot of “This is the best poem from today!” I got the new Dan Bern CD. Four Elliott Smith tracks leaked. One of those three.
Lowlights: I’ve been sick since last Friday.
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 09/17/2006 1:11 AM
Highlight: I just got a fat paycheck yesterday that will allow me to now get my new computer, an iMac, probably sometime today. This rules extra because I no longer have to share a computer with anyone. The people I share one with are like virus magnets.
Lowlight: I tried a new local resturant Friday, and it wasn’t very good. Getting Sprite that oddly tastes like club soda, watered down Coke, and crappy mozzarella triangles without any cheese in them made me slightly upset. Plus, they had a game room, where you have to pay 2$ just to play any of the games, which, in my increasingly surly mood, I was not up to do.
Chestnuts roasted by Rob @ 09/17/2006 1:54 AM
New highlight. I wised up and put Windows back on my computer. Some related highlights are finally being able to watch the TV shows I have downloaded on my TV (Linux wouldn’t do it) and getting access to my files in time to get my Halloween post up in time (Linux wouldn’t let me view the hard drive contents), I had promised to have it up on the 16th; made it with about a half hour to spare.
Highlights: Almost done with season 2 of 24, dropped a class so I dont have to wake up at 5:15 every week day, saw a school poster with something that looked like a gaping anus
Lowlights: Computer busted so needs to be in safe mode, almost crashing car, getting algebra teacher with thick indian accent, getting 6 hours of weekend homework, argument with father, and school.
Some one kill me after I see the last episode of 24.
Chestnuts roasted by nomad sea cucumber @ 09/17/2006 2:12 AM
I was just thinking how my week was a total roller coaster. Most of the time I go through life at a slightly unhappy medium. This week was different.
Lows: Working over 60 hours this week to plan a test that was more about politics than good engineering principles. Finding out the fabrication of equipment for said test wasn’t going to be totally complete for the test. Looking at the duties of someone two pay grades higher than me, and realizing that I do all of that stuff, and the only thing holding me back is a patent disclosure and time served with the company. Watching a worker let a piece of tape get sucked into a radiological ventilation system full of delicate gauges and filters.
Highs: Having my boss and my boss’s boss congratulate me on my totally worthless testing. Seeing the equipment I designed in operation, and working even better than I expected. Finally getting my overdue raise and promotion. Finding the piece of tape lost into the ventilation ducting stuck at a junction that was easily accessible, so I don’t have to direct workers to break open a radiological ventilation system.
That last item probably saved me 40+ hours of overtime, for which I wouldn’t have been paid, or paid at 50% my normal rate. I have that tape mounted on my bulletin board like a trophy.
Chestnuts roasted by brianfax. @ 09/17/2006 3:00 AM
This week was actually a pretty good one, I guess.
Highlights: I went to a show on Thursday night, ran into a friend from eighth grade on Friday, and went to my best friend’s birthday party tonight.
Lowlights: Um, school? Also the pain in my ears from the concert and “the club” where the BDP was held. So much pain!
Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 09/17/2006 3:28 AM
Highlights: Actually had a day off this week where I didn’t have to get up at 5am the next day, and I got to drink and be merry. Awesomeness. Got Cow costume I wanted from Party City. Made awesomely bad dancing video. Just talked to some guy on the phone at work from Minnesota that sounded like Michael Moore. Thought it was interesting. Did first on-air contest last Sunday giving away Bonnie Raitt tickets, didn’t sound like a boob. Well that much like a boob.
Lowlights: Working all weekend long, one job after another practically.. barely any sleep. Got yelled at by parents for not picking food up from their house, because I’ve been too tired. One of my parents’ cats died from cancer. My ex boyfriend is still being an immature piece of crap.
Chestnuts roasted by Dj Lisa s @ 09/17/2006 4:20 AM
Highlights: Talking to a girl at work who I have a crush on, buying a cheap guitar flanger off ebay, a huge box of books from Amazon Japan arriving for me
Lowlights: Losing out on a cool Sailor Moon doujinshi on ebay due to some idiot at work distracting me, failing to do any excercise again
Chestnuts roasted by Jasper Crank @ 09/17/2006 6:40 AM
how much do the halloween ponies cost at target? i am homebound but really wanted them and was gonna get them off ebay but dont want too be ridiculously overcharged. being ill sucks.
Chestnuts roasted by kittycatgirl @ 09/17/2006 8:20 AM
GREG- I’ve seen SEVERAL people online bitch because Lego Star Wars for the DS was shittily crafted. I strongly reccomend you check out some reviews before you purchase. You may just want to get something you know will be good,like WarioWare or New Super Mario Bros.
Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 09/17/2006 8:38 AM
Highlights:
-Started a new Job
-STAR WARS original cuts on DVD (even if they arent’ widescreen or remastered)
Lowlights:
-Too many nights home alone
-had to do inventory for band mouthpieces.
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 09/17/2006 9:27 AM
Lowlights: Finding out a friend of a friend is in an abusive relationship and having zero way to help. 3 kids involved. Yuck.
Highlights: My girl drew us together and looks fuckin’ awesome! (Plus she’s an amazing artist)
kids with no appreciation or frame of reference of anything that occured before 1996
Well, to be fair, all exsistance did suck entirely up until that year.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 09/17/2006 9:42 AM
Cameron: the Star Wars DVDs ARE widescreen, just not Anamporphic Widescreen (i.e. they won’t mold to your Widescreen TV–the black bars are part of the picture, like on a widescreen VHS).
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 09/17/2006 10:23 AM
Is that what Anamorphic means? I’ve tried looking it up several times but never understood the definitions.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 09/17/2006 10:31 AM
I sure hope that’s what it means, or I’ll look a fool.
Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 09/17/2006 10:40 AM
Highlight – My Eerie Indiana box set finally arrived in the mail.
Click my name for one of the best guides to what anamorphic widescreen is all about. Easy to read and understand, with picture examples to illustrate the point.
cmon, anyone know the going price for the Target Halloween My Little Ponies? Ive seen pix, they are too cute and I must have them!!!
Chestnuts roasted by kittycatgirl @ 09/17/2006 11:44 AM
Highs= Held an 11 person Texas Hold Em game at my new apartment that was really fun, went to a Blues festival, started tutoring a Korean couple and I got to eat Korean food again for the first time in a year!
Lows= I have a cold, still no work (I am a substitute teacher), my bank card stopped working and nobody knows why…
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/17/2006 11:54 AM
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How awesome, Jazzy! That sounds like a really good idea!
I was surprised how hard it was to find green nailpolish. Almost every brand carries at least one shade of blue, but never green. =( Discrimination!