@ Georgina – That is so not cool. I wish we had that sort of system (there’s student loans, where the government gives you an amount and you have to use it towards school and such, but you do need to pay it back after, with interest).

I had a good day today. I skipped volunteering (well, I told them last week that I wasn’t showing up!) because my sisters and I had tickets to go see a play in the afternoon. We went out for brunch first with the family, it was to a new restaurant that was having its grand opening weekend. The food was great, they had some issues with servers not knowing the table numbers quite yet. But all in all, the restaurant itself was great. The downside was the other patrons. My sister got yelled at by an elderly woman who entered into the rest room a few seconds after her and my sister had taken the last available stall and had to listen to the woman the entire time going on about how children no longer respected the ‘old people who always need to have respect’ and whatnot… I was cracking up while she was telling us about it.

Anyways, my sisters and I had a great time out! We saw a Shakespeare play and it was really excellently done (A Comedy of Errors), there was some freebies there (small desserts, coffee – bleh, and gift cards to a coffee chain – I’d say bleh to that as well, but they offer baked goods!), which was a nice perk. The line it took just to get a small chocolate dessert was massive, my sisters lined up and I just walked around checking things out during intermission. The gift shop section, stuff like that. It was really fun and afterwards we just spent some time walking around and going window shopping.

I haven’t done a whole lot tonight, but I made excellent headway on my end-of-summer crochet project. I’m making crocheted cupcakes to give away to people on my last day of work. So far I have 5 “vanilla” and 5 “chocolate” cupcake bases and 1 chocolate-coloured “frosting” top. I only have 9 more to go. I’m going to do one in cream colour, a couple in pink, yellow, purple and blue. And then I’ll be stuffing them and finishing them all up. And getting an absurd amount of photos of them all, just because I can. I might even make an extra one to keep for myself (if I don’t get sick of making them?).

Hope your weekend has been excellent! I have 5 more work days!

Kristi &  Deena – I have no clue who sent the weird email (besides their first name – which I removed because it seemed like a ‘unique’ name and to protect the privacy of stupid people and all -  and no, I didn’t reply to it.

Work went reasonably well yesterday. I say reasonably I was productive, I got my work done early. I went home, changed, and then drove out to go and see Clay last night. Which was fun. We hung out and watched tv and just talked a lot. He fed me dinner and we just got caught up a bit. I mean, we text on a daily basis and we talk loads, but it’d been a while since we’d just hung out, so it was nice. We had mini pizzas and pop for dinner (super nutritious, eh? But he gave me a choice and that’s what I picked) and watched random shows that I can’t even remember the titles of anywhere (there was some guy who hunted for, killed, cooked and ate some kind of snake on one of the shows), but they were entertaining. Besides, I hadn’t seen him for an entire week – it took a lot not to just pounce on him and kiss him senseless as soon as I saw him, I have amazing restraint (if I do say so myself!). ♥♥♥

My sister J and I went shopping today! Which was fun. My parents wrote out a cheque for me to pay tuition as school starts in just over a week (crap). I can pay for my tuition to my school via a bank where I don’t have an account, but my parents do. So they pay for my tuition initially and I pay them back at a later day when one of them and I can go to the bank and I can transfer the amount into their account – at the bank where I do have an account. Why did I just explain all of that? I don’t know (perhaps I’m just bored?). But anyways, I still need to buy my textbooks (ugh) and people are being kinda crap at actually listing books that I need for the upcoming term on any textbook selling sites that normally work quite well for me. I need 2 biology textbooks (+ 1 lab manual), 1 chemistry book and 1 psychology book (I checked out the covers of everything online so I know what I’m searching for – the book that I need for my infant psychology class is the most adorable thing ever, there’s a photo of a smiling baby on the cover and I get to look at that all term, I’m rather pleased now). I still want to get a few coiled notebooks since they’re so dead useful, but other than that (and textbooks), I’m pretty much set for the start of term (… clothes shopping, but that’s not absolutely necessary).

After the bank trip, my sister and I went to the crafts store. She picked up more pink yarn (she’s been working on a crocheted Pink Panther for the last three months or so and then she ran into a roadblock with running out of yarn) and I browsed the clearance section of the beads and such to see if there was anything I wanted. Well, there was lot that I would have liked (although I wasn’t sure if it was because the price made it all look so damn attractive or because I actually wanted them). But I dug around and found 2 things that I had eyed before (and liked!) and they were both at 60% off, so I bought them (shell beads and an etched shell pendant). I know, I know, I own enough beads to never have to buy any more for like ever, but… they were so pretty. And I have plans already in my head for those! I also bought tacky glue as that’s the recommended glue for gluing eye chips back into Blythe eyes.

So yeah, my weekend’s been fabulous so far! Time with Clay, shopping for craft supplies (and didn’t spend a whole lot either – I love clearance events) and I also got my first email from one of my professors for the upcoming term (regarding room number changes – thank you, Classroom Services). All in all, it’s been a fairly decent weekend so far.

Questions for you:

1. When is the last time you bought any craft supplies? (What was it?)
2. What movie are you looking forward to (that has not come out yet) that’s coming out in 2009?
3. What are some happy songs that you like (and would recommend)?

My answers:

1. Today! Yarn, beads, pendant and glue.
2. Not sure – I need to pay more attention to trailers…
3. And… I can’t think of anything (which is why I asked the question).

6 more work days!

Work’s been a bit stressful today… Which really sucked. It did not help that I was preoccupied with something that was related to work (but not at the same time)… It’s complicated.  So yeah, work went very slowly today and overall it kinda sucked. I did get some stuff done, but not nearly as much as I wanted. I did a lot of research and emailed a dozen companies during work yesterday, but I only had 1 company email me back with a quote for the parts I wanted (for the project that I’m doing – yay for being vague).

Oh, and I got this total gem of an email in my inbox yesterday from a UK email address:

Hello dear
Greetings to you,My name is REMOVED, i read about you in this
site and i decide to communicate with you  and it will please me if you will be my friend,
i wish if you will respond to my mail box so that i will tell you more about my
self, i hope to hear from you.
yours REMOVED

Lack of spaces, capital letters, commas and proper spacing of any sort… All original, I just copied and pasted it from my email. The person apparently found my email from a fanlisting (I went to that fanlisting to check – my email was listed, but it isn’t any longer).

I have never had anyone randomly pull my email from a fanlisting and then proceed to email me and ask me if I’ll be their friend. In a way, it just seems so forward and rude. It’d be like me going up to a random stranger on the street and going “Hi! Want to be my friend?” Which would be probably socially acceptable if I was under the age of 5, but it still seems rude and forward reading it in an email. I’m not quite sure what to make of it, honestly. Have you ever gotten such a random and kinda awkwardly written email before? Ugh, weird people…

And, to end up on a good note (for once?), my dad’s been super awesome. Back when I was looking for my first camera (as in – only belongs to me!), I really wanted to get a DSLR, but because it was a gift from my parents for Christmas, they didn’t wanted to spend too much and I got a point-and-shoot camera instead (Sony Cybershot W150). Which is nice as well, and it fits into my small purse. But because I was still interested in SLRs, my dad gave me the old film SLR cameras (a Nikon and a Pentax), the camera bag and all the lenses and filters that we have for them. Which was really cool and I love it, but I hadn’t gotten around to buying film. So when my dad gave me some unused rolls of film, I got a little confused. But he’s really taken to the fact that I’m interested in photography (since he’s the one that bought the SLRs and all the lenses and filters and such) and has spent time sitting down with me and going over what all the different filters do. So I thought that was pretty cool of him.

Questions for you:

1. What is the oddest, most recent email that you’ve received from someone that you don’t know?
2. What’s something awesome that one of your parents have done for you lately (without being prompted to do so)?
3. What is something that you’re looking forward to this weekend?
4. Why did your parents pick the first name that they did for you?

My answers:

1. ^ That one pretty much covers ‘odd’ and ‘recent’.
2. My daddy bought me film for the SLRs so I can actually use them!
3. Seeing Clay (tomorrow!) and watching a play on Sunday with my sisters (we’ve had tickets since June!).
4. It was in the top 10 girls names the year before I was born (my parents obviously have no creativity, whatsoever).