So today was Monday, of course, which meant that it was the beginning of my work week (as I’m sure it was for a lot of you as well). I got to work and my boss was already there and he’d been there since 5am, which I personally think is a little absurd (considering he worked from home on Sunday until midnight). I have a workaholic for a boss, but after I told him this, he said that he wasn’t (go figure). Work was busy today… People came back from vacation, a certain government-authorized agency doesn’t like the company too much at the moment due to the recent ‘surprise visit’ and I spent a few hours sorting through all the paperwork that was on my boss’ desk because he was tired of not being able to see the fake wood. Good fun, isn’t it?

I also registered two new domains today, through my registrar of choice: namecheap.com. Both of them are .com’s and I’ll be revealing what the name are when I get the sites ready and up (hoping to do so before I get back to school in a couple of weeks). I’ve tried two other domain registrars before, but one was full of ads all over the place and the other was just a confusing interface to use (and this is coming from me!). I think websites, unless otherwise noted, should be easy to navigate and easy to use – this also goes for personal blogs where the navigation is just roman numerals like I. II. III. IV. V. <- this tells me nothing about what the links are for. </vent about bad navigation word choices> Anyways, what I was going to say is that it’s a great registrar and I highly recommend Namecheap, mostly for the ease of using their website and how quick it is (also, as a major plus, there’s promotional codes essentially every single month for new domain names and transfers, which I happily used today to get a little discount on my new acquisitions!).

Oh, the kicker for today is that I got a message from a girl who was my ‘BFF’ back in grades 6 and 7. We stopped being friends over a boy (juvenile, I realize that – but we were 11-12 and totally thought we knew everything). As it turns out, she’s attending the same school as me and only realized this when she added someone on Facebook and it turns out we’re mutual friends, so she added me to decide to catch up. And the weird thing is, I swear nothing’s really changed about her. She still plays the piano, she still goes to church every week, she still sings in a choir. But then again, I suppose some things haven’t really changed about me either since I was 11 and 12 years old – I’m still clumsy, I still blog, I still roleplaying. I kind of expected things to change, but I guess deep down inside, there’s always something that does stay the same. It’s interesting, to be honest, talking to someone who knew me when I was that age – but at the same time it’s a little unnerving because she would know all the crap I pulled back then, what kind of a person I was and it’s not the same person that I am now.

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I’ve gotten into a pretty good routine since starting work in early-mid-May. Wake up, eat breakfast, head off to work, work (and work some more!), I generally eat lunch with the same people now (occasionally I bring a book to read!), listen to music while entering copious amounts of data, taking a break mid-afternoon for a few minutes so my hands can get a break… and so that I’m not sitting all the time, snack throughout the day, finish at 4:30pm and get ready to go home, say good night to everyone I pass by and then go. Which is awesome, I love having a routine, it’s always good to have one and it’s so much better than those days between my last final and my first day of work where I was doing… I have no clue what I was doing, besides having a horrible sleep schedule (which I still have, but that’s besides the point).

However… Work means I get home and I’m feeling tired because of all sorts of reasons (mental fatigue being the big one), which means less blogging, less everything. So lately I’ve been trying to put more effort into it – blogging, taking photos for my 365 project with my Blythe, Sophie. I’m also still working on perfecting a new crochet pattern for Chelle-Chelle.com, I have a brand new site project in the works (domain name to be revealed soon) which I’m super excited about (!!!), and I’m also working on a rehaul of Heartbreakee.net (which I need to update, do something with). So it’s a lot that I’ve personally put onto my own plate, but it keeps me busy, out of trouble and all that, so it’s good. But I think I’m getting into a better routine with work and all my website projects, as numerous as they are. Which is good, for me.

Sometimes I look at all the domain names in my account with the registar that I use and all I think is ‘Wow, I have way too many domains’ and I think back to when I was in the tenth grade and I thought it was just so cool that I even had one domain – and now I’m up to five? I know to those who have a million (or at least a dozen) domain names, five seems like small potatoes. But for me, it’s a lot because I’ve just never had so many before. Then I think about whittling down the number or something and then go ‘nah…’. I mean, it’s not like I go and get a domain for every single fanlisting that I own, so it’s okay (if I did that, I’d either have exactly 0 fanlistings or I’d be incredibly broke).

I ramble quite a bit, don’t I?

Anyways, I have questions for you!

1. What are your plans for the summer?
2. How many domains do you have? What’s the most popular extension?
3. If you had to choose between jumping off a cliff into certain death or being eaten by a very hungry lion (don’t ask what the lion is doing there, it just is!), which would you choose? (Morbid question, I know.)
4. How do you feel about niche blogging? Do you have one?

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Sighs. First day post-end-of-lectures. I’ve been up for a few hours already (definitely did not wake up at 5am like I’ve been regularly doing since the beginning of September!) and have eaten breakfast, lunch, studied biology and chemistry and fought with my printer to spit out the practice chemistry finals. Am I fully impressed with my productivity? Not so fucking much. But I blame it on my printer, which is being super temperamental these days.

Also, cleaned up some of the old hostees stuff on my server – I found one of my hostees hadn’t updated since April, so her stuff automatically got deleted. As well as a few others that asked to be hosted, had everything set up for them, and then they never did anything with it. Yay for cleaning up – only freed up like 20mb, haha. But it’s not like I’m hurting for space right now.

Anyways… New theme, obviously. A little belated for the start of December, but since it’s still the first week of December, I figured that it still counted well enough for the start of December. Lyrics are from the song Sugar Free by Hedley, go take a listen (probably somewhere on Youtube, if you want to find it). And actively working on a few things right now: some things for chelle-chelle.com, some other things for amesrpg.com, studying (of course), Christmas gifts for the grouchy ungrateful souls that I live with, musings about baking, more studying (and hoping to pass organic chemistry…). So the next few weeks are going to be awesome and just so much damn fun…

That being said, have totally been working on my ‘reference sheet’ for my first biology exam. We get 1 piece of paper, single-sided and we get to write whatever we want. So you best believe that mine’s typed and has all what I consider to be ‘important’ information. Not sure how big I should make the font-size though. My original reference sheets for the 2 midterms were at size 11, so it’ll probably be smaller than that, and a bit more packed and with a lot more colours! Heart colours.

And… lastly for today, does anyone know where I can get something that looks like a Rubik’s Cube that has more than 9 (3×3) squares per side? It’s the only thing that my sister D wants for Christmas – she saw one down in LA that had 16 (4×4) squares per side, but she didn’t get it (and is now regretting it…). If you could help me out, that’d be awesome. I found one online that has 49 squares per side, but it was $71 with a 6 week shipping period so… Help?

Edit: Found one with 16 squares per side at dealextreme.com for $5.99USD + free shipping. Hello, sister’s Christmas present!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday.