candy – Imaginary Sunshine

Mastering Procrastination

Michelle — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:40:21 +0000

It’s always when I have a million and one things to do that I end up blogging. Why? Probably because I could be one of the many Queens of Procrastination. Next week I have a couple of midterms and a lab quiz. I’m more worried for my lab quiz than I am the midterms. Why? Mostly because I did very poorly (but not a failing grade) on the first lab quiz (worth 5% of my total grade, so I’m not entirely nervous about it yet). And the other two midterms? Multiple choice. Yes, I know, be happy for me that I ended up taking 300-level courses for my secondary concentration that ended up with fully multiple choice tests. (Have I also mentioned that I’m horrible at multiple choice because I generally second guess myself?) Luckily I like my professors and they’re fairly approachable. Even if they’re dropping F-bombs in lecture because their ancient laptop freezes for the umpteenth time while connected to the school’s “secure” wifi network.

In other news, I bought candy on November 1st because that’s when it’s cheap. I bought Tootsie Roll pops, mini Hershey chocolate bars, mini Kit-Kat bars, little boxes of Smarties, a bag of mini lollis, Halloween-themed Lindt chocolate balls, Halloween-themed Kinder Surprise Eggs and a box of 120 mini chocolate bars. Nom nom nom. I knew I always loved November. And it’s not just for the sugar rush either.

I was told by my friend’s mom that I’m a (and I quote) “horrible influence” on her daughter this week. Why? Because I told her daughter to do what makes her happy and that it’s okay to kiss a boy that she’s dating. Zomg. You would have thought I told my friend that it’s perfectly okay to shoot up drugs and get wasted during a midterm or something. Public enemy no. 1, that’s me. Then again, I may have said to her face that she was crazy. Because I honestly do believe that she is. Which also did not help her perception of me as being a horrible influence. But really, who tells their daughter that they have to marry a guy first and then date him? And that if you hold hands, you’d better be married first? Crack pots, that’s who. Even my own mother thinks that it’s really weird and completely backwards (I found someone with parents more traditional/strict than mine, with an extra helping of crazy-pants added in there).

Now I’m going back to studying because I have lots of things to do! I also get invited to my sister’s birthday party, which was very generous of her considering she’s having it at the house that I live in and I plan to be in the house at the time of the party anyways. I’m only going for the food though. And if her friends start singing karaoke again, my ears may bleed. (There is very few things worse than listening to grown men trying to sing soprano when they really should never ever ever try to hit those notes because their range is not that high. Also, they sing 90’s pop songs, because what’s what we have in terms of karaoke discs.)

It’s November!

Michelle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:14:05 +0000

It’s the first of November. Which means that it is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month).

This will be my fifth year participating in NaNoWriMo and my second with NaBloPoMo. The difference this year is that beyond a title, I absolutely have no plot, no list of characters or anything for NaNoWriMo. Which is really odd for me, because I usually have a list of characters, a thought process that I go through for getting my characters from points A to B to C. But this year, I have… nothing. Well, I made up character names when I started, and came up with a setting (local city) and a random process of how the main characters meet. It’s a lot easier to come up with psychotic characters without meaning to, I’ve realized. Which I am not sure what this says about me. I plan to get ahead (by quite a bit) by mid-week this week, as I won’t have any time for writing next week. Wish me luck?

Oh, and also with the first of November means that Halloween candy is discounted. Yay. I bought… a bag of Tootsie Rolls, a bag of Maynards candy (Fuzzy Peaches, Swedish Berries, Sour Patch Kids, Fruit Mania? No clue about the last one…), bag of caramel-green apple pops (ugh, so disgusting but I like them…) and bag of mixed candy (Mentos, Airheads and Chupa Chups). And I was relatively conservative with my candy-buying antics… At least compared to my sisters. One only bought a box of mini chocolate bars, but then my other sister… several boxes of mini chocolate bars, a few bags of mini chocolate bars and those little boxes of Smarties. We had a full shopping basket at the store and it was all of candy. The cashier asked us if we were making up for not going Trick-or-Treating the night before. Erm, yeah, pretty much.

How was your post-Halloween? Have you come down from that sugar high yet?

NaNoWriMo
1704/5000
Chapters done: 1

Mishaps, comfort, friends and dolls.

Michelle — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:14:57 +0000

[Side note for Dane: your 5 words are: (1) Disney, (2) relationships, (3) family, (4) future and (5) independence]

Sunday was briefly eventful. Volunteering went splendid, I helped out with the trivia game and the residents really seem to enjoy it (especially when one person realizes that they’ve been answering correctly more than everyone else – at which point they start bragging about it!). I had a pretty low-key time there, beyond helping out with serving people and whatnot. Some of the residents who previously kept on forgetting my name are actually remembering who I am now (I was never issued a name tag and most of the staff recognize me now).

And speaking of name tags… I got one at work. But instead of my photo, because I’m a temporary full-time employee, I get a visitor’s tag. In place of a photo is a filled in rectangle and the word ‘VISITOR’ printed across it. It’s become the butt of a lot of jokes so far. D stopped me in the hallway today and this exchange occurred:

D: Excuse me, I’m going to need to see some photo id.
M: -glare- You know who I am, D.
D: I’m sorry, company policy is that everyone needs to have photo id on them at all times.
M: Jerk.
D: -smiles- Thank you, “Visitor”! I try my best. [He did air quotes…]

Overall, worked rather sucked today. It was long and boring and I wasn’t particularly productive today. I haven’t moved over to Building B yet… I’m not sure when I’m moving now because my boss hasn’t told me the date. He said he’d give me a day or two’s notice so I actually have time to gather up all my crap stuff.

Sunday evening was rather… interesting, to say the least. I had an awful fight with Clay to the point where we were saying very hurtful, snarky, snippy and just plain cruel things to each other. I ended up driving out to see him (which, in itself, sucked as I don’t have a lot of experience with driving at night and I was being emotional and I hate driving and it was a fairly far drive). We patched things up. I glowered a lot at him… But we talked things through and we parted on pretty good terms as I needed to go home and he needed to work and whatnot. In a way, while I absolutely hate fighting with him, I think we do come a little bit closer together each time. Like we’re usually pretty good about letting the other person know when something’s bothering us, but sometimes it just gets out of hand. But when we’re able to step back and actually look at things from the other person’s point of view, it does help. And I do realize that I often talk only about the bad things that happen and it really does make it seem like all we do is fight at the time. Which isn’t the case. We have loads of wonderful moments when we’re not being hurtful and snarky and snippy… I just don’t document them as often? I don’t know. I should write more nice things regarding our relationship before everyone ends up thinking that I’m in some relationship that’s just full of arguments and fighting all the time and starts trying to get me into counselling or something.

And… I still hate night driving , I’m not big on the whole ‘lack of light and the lines need to be repainted badly as I can’t tell where the line is between my lane and the ones next to me… But it was okay, I got home in one piece and I wasn’t mad anymore, which was awesome as well.

I had K over tonight, which was great because I needed some girls night in time and I haven’t seen her in ages, it seems! I introduced her to my dolls and she picked up Sophie and pulled on the string and just went “That’s really loud…” at the sound that the doll makes when you’re changing eye colours. It’s a kind of a ‘ka-plunk’ sound… It’s hard to describe, really. But we just had a nice time hanging out and chatting. We covered work, school, boyfriends, general life occurrences… It was good, catching up.

Every single time I spend time with one of my friends from high school, I always kind of mentally kick myself for not making plans earlier because we all live within like a 5 block radius so it shouldn’t be that difficult to be able to see one another, but we’ve all been so busy… There’s summer courses (not for me!), work (full time and part time), family vacations (… not for me) and then just general, people have plans with other people, or they have dates or they’re just too tired from work to do anything else besides chill on their couch with a doll (… I think this only applies to me though). But it’s still good, to get to catch up with people.

Monday questions for you:

When you get upset with someone (anyone), what do you do for comfort?
How close to your friends do you live?
What candy-eating quirks do you have, if any?

My answers:

It’s usually curling up in my bed or on my couch with a blanket and either a stuffed animal (usually my favourite bear) or a Blythe doll (well, since I got them – so since late June).
To most of them, it’s probably about a 5 block radius, at most… For some, it’s a smidgen further, but not too much.
I pour candy out and separate them by colour. Then, I generally pick the group that has the most and eat that group first and work my way to the group that has the least. This only applies to candy like Skittles or M&Ms, this doesn’t apply to things like gummy bears, because I’ll just decapitate them and eat them in whichever order I happen to pick them up in.

Wedding (!!!), work and a new fanlisting

Michelle — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:09:57 +0000

If you haven’t yet, and you still can, go watch Grey’s Anatomy. It’s the 100th episode and the wedding that you don’t want to miss.

And in other news… It’s Thursday! Which meant Grey’s night. No more Private Practice as the season finale was last week (the season finale for Grey’s is next week, it’s going to be two hours, I can’t wait!). And Thursday means that tomorrow is Friday and that means then it’s the weekend, yay! This week has seemed incredibly short, but oh well. Weekend! Which means… my dentist appointment (that my parents made for me and didn’t inform me of until two hours ago), volunteering, Mother’s Day and hopefully seeing the Boyfriend (right, Clay?).

I got dating advice at work from the most unlikely of pairs. A and D (not the nice one, but the one who has been nice thus far). They were giving me dating advice and the weird thing is that it wasn’t bad advice (however, it was all very common sense!). But still, weird. So I didn’t do much prior to lunch. Then I got sent to the other building because the guy I normally work with over there (let’s call him “C”) actually sent my boss an email saying that he wasn’t going to do something (… write a freaking document) because “there are many technical terms that I do not understand”. And he put it in writing of all things. In electronic form. To be forwarded or printed as my boss may wish to do. Oh boy. But yeah, so I got sent over to take notes (no photos – my boss didn’t tell me that he wanted photos until after I got back!) and I spent some time with someone new-to-me, J. He was really helpful and explained everything as best he could. So hopefully that’ll work out well tomorrow when I continue working on it. I also got ‘packages’ done for tomorrow’s meeting… 161 pages in total for all 7 copies (23 pages/package). We don’t like trees very much at work, as you can see. I may have pilfered some copies from other people as well. To prevent me from printing on even more paper.

But besides work… And getting teased by M over at the new building… And getting Skittles today (from you-know-who!)… Nothing much happened. It’s been a pretty okay week. Decent deadlines for work and whatnot so I don’t have too much to do as I can’t do much until after the meeting on Friday (which is at 1pm and expected to “only take an hour”… I doubt that very much). So I’ll probably get started on the bulk of the work on Monday. Which will hopefully be lasting me for quite a while. Cheers to data entry.

And last, but not least, I have a new fanlisting up! It’s for the song “Miss California” by Jack’s Mannequin and the fanlisting is called Misplacing My Affections.

Cows go moo.

Michelle — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:49:24 +0000

@ Lauren, Jenna and James – chocolate Skittles aren’t the same as M&M’s (which is good, or else I would have felt the need to buy M&M’s or Smarties instead). They have the same texture as regular Skittles, just with chocolate-related flavours. The flavours were: vanilla (absolutely horrible), s’mores (more marshmallow-ish than anything else in terms of flavour), caramel (getting better), chocolate (did taste like chocolate, so I wasn’t turned off by it) and brownie (it tasted like chocolate with nuts, so it won overall). And speaking of Skittles, I’ve run out (actually, I ran out last night, but that’s another story).

And since I don’t really have any thing to say beyond ‘studying for my psychology final is kind of lame’, you all get a snippet of the most absurd conversation ever. About cows, no less.

C: Well, I’ll be back. Going grazing.
M: Grazing?
C: You know… mooooooo… cow… grazing…
M: I know what a cow is.
C: I’m going to go get something to eat and drink.
M: But ‘going grazing’?
C: You know, cows graze in a field. I’m going grazing…
C: Do you get it?
[pause]
C: Well? Do you?
M: Yes, I do.
C: Hehehehe.
M: You think you’re so cute sometimes.
C: I’ll be back in a bit.
C: And I am.
M: You are such a dork, it’s not even funny.
C: It is a little bit, or else you wouldn’t be smiling right now.
M: … Shut up.

Skittles encourage awesome study habits? I think so.

Michelle — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:38:01 +0000

Chocolate Skittles. Seriously. I have never seen them before and then I was wandering a dollar store in the mall and there they were. In all their shiny, chocolatey glory. All for a dollar. Other interesting things include a clothing store that was going out of business in which my sister and I went through the clothing and actually managed to find things that we liked and in the right sizes. She got a light blue skirt (that I picked out) and I got a light lime-ish green skirt with a black pattern. Definitely spring/summer wear, unless I can find something to keep my legs warm. And other than that… I’m going to go back to studying memory for my psychology final.

I hope everyone has/had a great Saturday.