television – Imaginary Sunshine

Me, myself and I.

Michelle — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:41:46 +0000

I wasn’t late to chemistry this morning (yay). I actually got there a whole three minutes before my prof started talking – I really need to stop waking up and checking the time and seeing that my regular bus had just been missed. Makes me really want to just stay in bed for the rest of the day.

I handed in my biology project (last one for the term) before class, fed the mice some more (they’re so damn adorable).

I got my algae midterm remarked – I got 91% (A+) instead of 86% (A) (very pleased with that!). (I used to be incredibly competitive about grades in high school – once I got to university? So not competitive anymore. Depending on the class, I’m quite content with a pass or a low grade, like for organic chemistry. For other classes, generally biology, English and psychology, I do expect to get B’s or so.)

I didn’t completely fall asleep during psychology. My prof spend ~30 minutes on the same slide that he went over on Wednesday – the slide did not require that much explanation.

I hung out at volunteering for 2 hours – had fun despite having to tell one person that no, they could not have another beer because they were cut off from the alcohol for the day (yeah, that’s always a blast). Left volunteering a little early since I was the last volunteer to go and L didn’t need me to stay until 4:30 (so I caught an earlier bus and got home to help with making dinner).

I watched another episode of Pushing Daisies (I bought season 1 of the show for my sister’s birthday, she bought season 2 for herself) – the season premiere for season 2. Excellent show, very sad that it was taken off the air though, but at least it’s on DVD and I can watch it at my own leisure.

Hope everyone had a lovely Friday and an even better Saturday.

I cannot write on just one topic (today)

Michelle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:44 +0000

The ways today did not just work out well for me:

I slept in and woke up about a minute before my regular bus arrives.
I skipped breakfast and lunch. I ate when I got home (at 3pm, I woke up a little bit after 6am).
It didn’t just rain, it poured and I didn’t have my umbrella with me (due to the fact that I was rushing out of the house).
I cut my finger (twice) with a razor blade in my biology lab (I was making cross-sections of the specimens).
I tripped down the stairs (concrete stairs…) in the biology building. My knees are not thankful to me.
I got stuck on the train for over 40 minutes (my usual train ride is much less than that) due to someone activating the emergency thing… And missed my regular bus going home, and the one after that. I got home an hour later than usual.

Other things that I did today included… eating something as soon as I got home (whilst soaked – the whole ‘drowned’ look does not look good on me), working on yet another organic chemistry assignment, played some Facebook games (Farmville and Mafia Wars), watched some television (General Hospital and I finished watching season 1 of Castle that my sister D bought on dvd – completely awesome show, definitely a favourite!), listened to some music and did laundry. My sister thought I was absolutely insane, since I’d done the laundry just a few days ago and there wasn’t that much waiting to be watched. So what did I do? Tossed everything into the laundry. Jackets, a few coats I haven’t worn in a while but pretty sure they were washed prior to putting into the closet, sheets, pillowcases, blankets, stuffed animals. I get odd looks from my sisters when I sit up against the dryer while doing chemistry problems on my laptop, but hey… they’re my older sisters, I’m pretty sure it’s some kind of unwritten (or written) law that they’re meant to give me funny looks and question what I do.

I’ve settled on what patterns I want to use for Christmas presents this year! I hope everyone in my family (including my father – joking!) likes having either a crocheted cowl or a slouchy hat. I just need to go yarn shopping and get things like ribbon and buttons. And then there’s about a million other things to make… Pretty sure I’ve promised to make one too many things for people this upcoming Christmas, but it shall come as they come. I’ll always need a nice little distraction from the projects and the papers and the tests. But all the wrapping…? I don’t think I even have Christmas wrapping paper that isn’t just red and white snowflakes. I swear, there is no variety in the wrapping paper that I have. (I sincerely hope that I don’t mix up gifts – because depending on what it is, it will be awkward.)

It’s been so awkward with television and commericals. Like Grey’s Anatomy had a Thanksgiving/Christmas episode tonight. Thanksgiving. Sometimes I forget that the US has their Thanksgiving in November, because the one for Canada is in October and therefore I’m always kind of like “Ehhh?” when it comes to all the turkey dinner scenes in the television shows that I watch, because (well) they’re mostly American (and Thanksgiving isn’t nearly as big of a deal in Canada as it is in the States). But yeah… A Christmas episode on Grey’s Anatomy. It’s only November 19th and they’re having a Christmas episode. Seriously?

That being said, totally just saw a commercial for a movie that I want to see that happens to come out on December 25th; Up in the Air with George Clooney and Anna Kendrick.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thursday and will have an even better Friday.

I can has good mark?

Michelle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:30:19 +0000

I generally try to eat remotely healthy. I do try. Or sometimes, I just lapse and don’t eat a thing, at which point, if someone notices that I haven’t been eating breakfast or lunch, they’ll start asking me about my weight and if I’ve been losing a lot of weight lately (because, you know, I can’t be just busy… granted, that’s the excuse I’ve used for years for not eating, bleh). Anyways, this is the crap that I’ve eaten today:

Breakfast: orange juice (with pulp – bleh), 2 previously frozen blueberry waffles
Lunch/dinner: (this is where I got really bad…) 1 burger, fries, 7-up
Pre-exam munchies: fruit snacks, Swedish berries and Swedish fish, Aero
Post-exam munchies: cookies! of the chocolate variety

Let’s see… Where did I go wrong? Oh yeah. The whole two meals in place of 3 kinda sucked today. Then again, I spent ~6 hours studying my little heart out on organic chemistry problems (I had my last midterm today! Yay!). Of course, it’s just 2 hours after my midterm had finished and already there are people talking on the online discussion boards about how difficult the very last question was.

There was 5 pages of question (7 total – 1 title page and 1 periodic table, which was useless, by the way). The very last question was worth 12 marks (the exam was worth 55 marks, I believe, with two questions being worth 12 marks each). And the thing is, even people who I know had no trouble with the material was saying that the midterm was difficult. Also, that the mechanism required to be drawn for the very last question actually had 20+ steps to it and we have to draw in arrows and all lone pairs of electrons, so it takes a long time to draw out each structure as it goes through all the changes. I go through about half of the mechanism before it was only 5 minutes left, and I was definitely not drawing neatly either. But a lot of other people found it be very difficult as well (considering the very last question resembled nothing of what we had ever encountered, not even in the practice midterms, which are supposed to reflect the type and level of difficulty that we were supposed to be expecting to see on the midterm), so hopefully it gets scaled waaaaaaaaay up. Because my poor little grade can’t take another hit (I don’t think).

So I’m currently at home (obviously) and eating dinner (sort of… it’s leftovers from what the family ate, plus a glass of juice). I’m also watching my printer spit out page 2 of my 3 page joint lab project. Because I have a colour printer, I’m printing out of the images, while my partner-in-crime (R) is printing out pages 1 and 3 (as she hasn’t finished her portion of the work yet, tsk!). But now I only have 1 more biology project (besides the one due tomorrow, as that one is essentially completed), 1 more term paper (psychology, yay for babies! ← can you believe I just wrote that?) and 1 lab final (bleh) before finals. And then it’ll be winter break (blissful, wonderful winter break). At which point, I will promptly go to sleep and absofuckinglutely be hibernating and only be accessible to the world in 2010. Well, I might be not hibernating long enough to plan out what I want to do in February (during my rather extended reading break from school, 2 weeks off! I so want to go somewhere, but no one seems to want to go anywhere or do anything, boo). And may blog about my hibernating state from time to time.

I’m not even sure where I want to go, but I do know that I want to go and do something. Maybe a small road trip, or just going to see a bunch of museums and sight-seeing type of things, head out to a beach or just something. Yes, I do realize I just said that I wanted to go see the beach in February and that BC-weather will not be very nice at that time of year… But I still want to go! What’s the point of having two weeks off if I don’t go and do something besides staying home and studying?

Anyways… I hope that everyone had a good/hopefully awesome Thursday! I’m off to go and watch General Hospital and Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice… Then it’s off to do a bit of cleaning before I go and crash and sleep. And tomorrow’s my birthday party (!!!), so I may or may not blog during that, chances are I’ll save the blogging until after things die down a bit (do things die down during sleep overs though? Somehow I highly doubt it…). Or just tweet a bit, since I’ll be playing music off of my laptop (three cheers for wireless internet, how I appreciate that router!).

Have an awesome Friday, everyone!

It feels like a Monday

Michelle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:21:18 +0000

Finished (hopefully) essay prep for my Friday psychology midterm
Made more notes for my biology paper preparation
Watched 1 episode of General Hospital and 1 episode of Castle (new addiction – I blame my sister D for introducing it to me)
Read the news (favourite article today: ‘vegetarian’ spiders – really should be omnivorous spider)
Realized the top 3 articles under the section of Canada were about adults, murder trials, and dead children (1, 2 and 3) – disgusted.
Made dinner – yay!
Had 2 3 cups of tea (obviously, I cannot count)
Looked over my biology lab notes (lab midterm + second shot at Koehler illumination quiz… meep!) again (dislike drawing, can’t believe my drawing skills count towards my grade – gah, why didn’t I do more art lessons when I was younger? Oh right, I wanted to swim instead…)
Updated my ‘reference sheet’ for nursing school applications (it’s very snazzy and pretty – colour coded too!)
Updated notebook for psychology with little Post-It tabs for sections (yay!)
(Partially) cleaned my room
Attempted to remove one of the headlight bulbs from the car (… and failed miserably – even with coaching on what to do from Clay! Now, if you ever needed someone to dissect something for you, I can do that and will love pretty much every moment of it. But changing a bulb? Apparently not.)
Looked through new Flickr photos from everyone, went quickly through posts on the dolly forums
Wrote this list.

Why don’t you… distract me or something?

Michelle — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:57:09 +0000

So this is what I did today:

Sneezed. A lot.
Watched Supersize Me with the sisters (it was the first time for both of them to watch it, D was so disgusted, it was hilarious!)
Finished notes, definitions and readings for my psychology class (midterm this Friday!)
Printed out slides for the last 4 lectures from now until my cell biology midterm (I need to go to the store at school and buy the note package – black ink is running low, I don’t think my printer will suffer printing another 70+ pages of full text!)
Sneezed some more.
Made (better) flash cards of animo acid structures
Ordered copies of my university transcripts online (not as expensive as I thought it was going to be…)
Read a chapter for organic chemistry, completed the online reading quiz (booooooooring)
Read people whining on the online discussion board for o-chem over their chem grades (I am pleased as punch to announce that I did better on the o-chem midterm compared to a guy who claims that he spent 3 weeks in the library studying and spent ~$100 on a 6 hour tutor session for the midterm – I did better by nearly 10%! Without spending ~$100 extra on the course, but I spent ~2 weeks studying for this… while juggling studying for another course.)
Sneezed some more.
Watched General Hospital (because it’s only the Canadian Thanksgiving, so I still get my American shows)
Caught up on stuff over at my roleplaying game, Ames!
Did psychology midterm essay prep for 3 of the 5 possible topics (yay)
Reread the good parts from Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella. I swear, that part about “Mont Blanc” and the whole entire section about the sunflowers? Best parts ever.
Sneezed some more.
Commented on some of the entries that have been gathering on my RSS feeds (sorry everyone – you all blog too much and I’m only one person… It’s not my fault you all write interesting things!)
Played Mafia Wars and Farmville on Facebook… (Procrastination at its best?)
Killed a spider (forecast called for rain before I killed the spider – honest!)

And I’m going to go to sleep. Atrociously early on a Monday night. Why? Because I’m sick (tear). I also emailed the people at volunteering to let them know I wouldn’t be in this week because it’s never a good idea to go in and work with people who have compromised immune systems when you’re sick or just recovering from being sick. I’m not sure what I hate more – my immune system, or the fact that people last week refused to stay home when they were sick and coughing in enclosed rooms with poor air circulation. Damn it, I’m going to be a hypocrite and join that group of people, aren’t I?

Oh well, such is the life from the start of midterms until… finals end?

A’choo!

When it rains, it pours.

Michelle — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:35:20 +0000

I’ve almost emailed the IT support at my school (due to their failings at keeping the servers running) as many times as I have my professors and TAs. I’m pretty sure that the emails to my professors and TAs does outweigh the number of emails to the tech support, but I’m not sure how long that will last. In other words – today has sucked when it comes to attempting to access anything on my school’s servers. Why? Because I try to log in, it takes about 5-8 minutes for me to get to the log in page, then another 5 minutes for the page to load to this great screen that says “Your session has timed out. Log in again.” Terribly not impressed. All I wanted today was to get the slides from my biology lecture today because Dr. B decides that ‘we can just read those slides on our own time’ and zooms right past about 5-7 of them… So not impressed right now. Does not help that I’m feeling overwhelmed and stressed and just overall kind of upset and lonely. I just wish there was more time. It’s already week 4 of the semester (there’s 12-13 weeks/semester) and we just finished review for my organic chemistry class. Not to mention that there are midterms coming up, along with a project being due, and two papers that I’ve just started doing research on. And I just feel like I’m floundering… Like a fish on dry land.

Oh, I’ve also discovered that I can’t seem to print my slides properly (hah). Or rather, I managed to print out one set correctly (because well, turns out my biology prof skips a lot of slides!) and then the school server decided it wanted to quit working, so I couldn’t access the rest of the notes (note to self: once it’s back up, save all the PDFs and then print off my own computer).

I so need something else besides school to talk about, I’m starting to be depressed by all of this. Oh! So has anyone been watching Dancing with the Stars or So You Think You Can Dance Canada? My sisters watch both shows, so often I can hear the music downstairs, even though the television is upstairs, and some of the dancers are pretty good! Not so much in some of the celebrities (although some are them are pretty light on their feet), but overall it’s fairly entertaining. I haven’t been keeping up too much on television lately. The only show I watch on a daily basis is General Hospital and I already fast forward through a large portion of it (it’s an hour long show, if you cut out commericals, it’s a little bit over half an hour and if I fast forward through the people/story lines that I don’t like, I can be done an episode in about 15-20 minutes). Then there’s Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice (which starts up this week) and Dollhouse. So little television this year… Good thing too, classes are kicking my butt and I’m only taking four this term!

I really miss the summer (May-August for me). I miss Clay. I miss my friends (that I don’t see very often now). I miss work and the people there. I miss only having to be mentally engaged in something for a set number of hours and not bringing work home (readings, assignments, review… sucky) and getting to do anything I want in the evenings (i.e. watch tv, or movies, or craft or read a good smutty romance novel) instead of getting home, reading for one course, eating dinner, then doing an assignment for another course. Then there’s a bunch of family-related stuff going on (uncle’s death, funeral arrangements, so many international calls at all hours of the day, birthdays, my other uncle [and aunt] are moving and want help in moving things from their old house to their new one). I just miss the whole relaxed feeling that I had over the summer, when I really wasn’t worrying (too much, anyways) about any one thing in particular. Now I’m worry about multiple things all at once and I just want to breathe.

And… just to top it all off… It rained today. A lot. I was at school from 8am to nearly noon (1 class plus loads of review for my plant biology class – midterm next week, meep!) and I was in a building that has relatively decent insulation and I wasn’t that close to the window so the only time I hear anything from outside of the building is the horn from a car. And all of a sudden I heard this big whooshing sound, followed by something that sounded like a crash. So I looked in the direction of the window and everything was just super blurry and it was raining so hard. It had been raining the entire day but it wasn’t quite as bad. Because, really, when your jacket soaks through twice in one day, it’s not the makings for a really awesome day. But… on the bright side, I got a lot of review done for one of my classes today.

Question:

What are some questions that you have for me? Ask me anything!

Almost cheery Tuesday!

Michelle — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:21:42 +0000

Oh dear, Caity and Jenna! I didn’t mean four hours of math! I meant four hours between my 3rd class of the day and my 4th class (being math!) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My math class will only be 1 hour long, three times a week. You had me scared there for a moment!

Anyways… Today’s been rather nice. I spent a lot of time today at work with my data entry, of course. I chewed someone out for being downright lazy… Despite them being higher up than me. Luckily people think I’m just so cute and funny and that I couldn’t possibly be yelling. At the end, I ended up just going straight to my supervisor who went straight to that guy’s supervisor. It’s kind of like playing leap frog up a mountain and over people. It was not a highlight of my day. Eating chocolate chip cookies and gummy worms? A lot better than having to inform a grown man that some things should not be elective (i.e. using documents required for work). But, alas, so not my problem (right now, anyways).

And enough about work!

I bought a (doll) dress online, it’s a dress that came with a different doll, but I’m in love with it. It’s white with butterflies on it. I’m hoping it arrives within a week. I have plans to do a bunch of sewing on Saturday. I’m so excited for Saturday since it’s Les Miserables night! The circumstances have changed and I’m no longer to go see the play with Clay. Instead, I offered my second ticket to my friend C and she accepted. She likes musicals and plays and such as well and plus it’s been ages since I’ve seen her (… by ‘ages’, I mean ‘May’… I think – I obviously have a very poor sense of time and a very poor memory).

I really ought to spend time with my friends more often, I really don’t see them often enough and it’s easy to remember how much I’ve missed them when I’m actually spending time with them after a month-plus of only talking on the phone, or texting or chatting online. I guess I never really noticed it during high school because all I did was see everyone five days out of the week and chatting online in the evenings or weekends was perfectly fine because I’d just see them again in less than ~48 hours. But now it’s just a whole different dynamic and things are different. We’re all at different schools, we all work at various places with different hours. Some of us can drive, some of us can never seem to borrow the car (that would be me!), some of us just have different groups of friends now, or spend copious amounts of time doing something else. Like me with my blogs, crafts, tv shows (The Bachelorette is ending in a few weeks, whatever am I going to do for entertainment?!), doll (!!!), work, volunteering and trying to stay sane around my dad…

I’ve been working on loads of things lately, especially at home. My sister J and I cleaned out the closet where we keep all the wrapping paper and gift bags and massive rolls of Christmas paper. You do not want to know how many rolls of wrapping paper that we have that is red with dull gold holly with the words ‘Happy Holidays!‘ we have. I wish I hadn’t counted. I’ve been working on cleaning my room, which is a huge task in itself because while I’m fairly organized in many aspects of my life (i.e. my desk at work, usually my school stuff) the rest of my room is a disaster. I’m going to be getting a new bookshelf (which will not be going in my room, but will be doing downstairs so I have a new ‘expansion’ in terms of storage space!) so a lot of my novels will be moving, as well as a lot of resource books (i.e. my physiology book that I’m never selling, a bunch of books about animals for children) and I’ll free up some space and just keep my ‘favourite’ books upstairs. Which will be… a lot, to tell you the truth. I’m also going to clean out my wardrobe, figure out what I’m never wearing again in my life (or haven’t worn since I was in high school). Once I figure that out, I can figure out which fabrics I want to keep to cut up to be sewed into dolly-wear.

And speaking of dolls… I’m also working away on my (new!) dolly blog. I’m quite happy with it so far, but it won’t probably be done until tomorrow. I’m getting picky about the colours and such… I do occasionally wish that I was more decisive.

And… That was my day! And me going on and on about nothing and everything all at the same time.

Grump-be-gone?

Michelle — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:53:39 +0000

I’ve been given a new nickname at work. It goes with a whole looooooong list of random nicknames that I’ve “earned” since working there. Such nicknames do include: T-bird, Phoenix, Cheer Bear (from Care Bears), Grumpy Bear (from Care Bears), Blue, “That Girl” (which I’ve never answered to), Bumblebee/Bee (which is frequently followed by “buzz!”) and my newest “addition” is… Grumpy Pants. Seriously. I liked Grumpy Bear a whole lot more. At least then it’d be a nickname after a cute little animated bear. Why “Grumpy Pants”?

So what’s up, Grumpy Pants? You look bitchy again today. You’re not going to hit me again, are you?

I heart work people. Most days.

I got oodles of work done today, I was so pleased with myself, haha. I wrote so many damn emails to coworkers and people at the other building. I also made a series of phone calls to people as they were not understanding my questions via email (the phone didn’t help too much either). My computer crashed seven times today while I was trying to either load one program (4 of the 7 times), when I was trying to send text-only emails (2 of the 7 times) and when I tried to open the database (1 out of the 7 times). It’s an old computer. It also hates me. What can I say… I make an impression on technology and it just bites back.

Besides that, nothing much has been new lately. I’ve been working on my game, watching tv (General Hospital, The Bachelorette – my not-so guilty pleasure!), working on the dolly blog (name’s a secret, just for now!) and working away at my writing/craft blog revamp! Plus loads of crafting lately (crochet, jewellery) but I haven’t gotten around to photographing anything yet… I’m a lazy girl sometimes.

Oh, and I’m not-so silently upset over the idea of taking a math course that’s four hours after the rest of everything else in my schedule.

I’m not going to have a life next year.

Cheers?

Weekend where I’m actually doing something, continued

Michelle — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:30:50 +0000

So last night was fun. We went out to a restaurant (the choice in restaurants had to be changed as the first one had a power outage) and there was about ten of us. K had invited everyone, so everyone knew her and every time someone new showed up, she’d have to do introductions again. I think next time, I’ll just get a shirt with my name on it and wear that out. It’ll make things so much easier. But I had fun. I ate key lime pie, which was delicious. K enjoyed herself by ordering drinks (they cut her off after a few though). It was cute, she regaled everyone with stories of last drunken antics. I’d heard most of the stories before, so it was interesting to hear about it.

But going out again tonight, which will be fun as well. Not quite sure what all the activities will be, but I’ll find out anyways. It may very well involve drinking tea and loads of desserts… Which is kind of straight up my alley considering how much of a sweet tooth I have. So not sure about that, but it sounds like it’ll be fun. I have no clue who’s all going to that, besides the hostess, so hopefully I know almost everyone and won’t be like “Erm… Hi? I really need to get my name screen printed onto a shirt.”

So far, I’ve spent this morning… Watching clips from Britain’s Got Talent. I mocked that little teary-eyed girl (Hollie Steel, who broke down and got a second chance during the semi finals) a little bit after I watched it. If she had been, say, 16 years old and broke down, I doubt they would have given her a second chance. But she was 10 and put on the tears and the “Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease *tear*” so very well. I hope she doesn’t win… But good for her for pulling on heartstrings and getting pity from the audience. But, to each their own. If she wins, people will always speculate if the breakdown on stage had anything to do with it.

But overall, everything’s been going well so far. Apparently I’m going out for lunch with the family and the extended family today? I just found out three minutes ago. So that should be interesting. My eldest sister has been back since Wednesday night and so far has not done any of the dishes or any other chores besides just organizing her own stuff. Her excuse was that she gave my parents money earlier this year and that ‘counts as rent’ so she doesn’t ‘need to do anything’. I wonder how disasterous her apartment down in the US was then… I mean, she had to pay rent, and so if the same logic applies, she never had clean dishes, clothes or floors. Doubt she pulled the same crap there though. She didn’t have anyone to pawn the work off of. I did the laundry this morning and left out all of her clothes… We’ll see how long it takes for her to start doing chores around the house again.

Anyways, for this summer, I’m determined to do more than I did last summer. More time spent with my friends and with Clay. The zoo, the aquarium, hiking, parades, (window) shopping in malls that I don’t regularly go to. More crafting, more everything. Hopefully it’ll all work out. I’m trying to determine to see if I can go paintballing next weekend right now. Although it might overlap with volunteering, so I might do that instead – not sure yet. But shooting paintballs at people that I don’t know? Always fun.

So how was your Friday night? What do you have planned for today?

A little bit of everything

Michelle — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:39:34 +0000

The last week has been… Well, “interesting” is too vague and “exciting” is all wrong, no matter how you take the meaning of the word. Work’s been fairly consistent. Go to work, log into my computer and scan a few documents before getting my ‘real’ task for the day. Now, my supervisor will be off on vacation, so he’s loaded me up with lots of things to do next week (which is a four day week, thanks to Victoria Day! Hello, long weekend, it’s been a while!). So that should be… fun? A lot of driving between buildings, he thinks I might even just end up spending whole days over there… I hope not. But that’s work.

Umm… Someone new from work knows about the Boyfriend and myself. That would be my own doing, and I really have a good reason for it. This occurred on Tuesday. Umm, not going to get into it right now as it involves a story and me explaining why I would even tell anyone. That being said, D’s pretty trustworthy and he understands all my reasons for why people can’t know. Plus he thinks it’s cute. And he actually used the word ‘cute’, which was kind of weird. And to be honest, I only told him because he gave me some advice that was kind of useless unless someone found out. And yeah, that was Tuesday.

Thursday was the Grey’s Anatomy season finale. Two hours of “No!” and “LIVE, DAMN YOU!” and “NOOOOOOOOOOOO” from me. It was good fun. And, of course, they had to end on a cliffhanger of all things. Two hours of all that and a freaking cliffhanger. But I’m sad that I have to wait until season 6 begins in order to find out what happens! Ugh, when do season premieres start again? (Too far from now, obviously!) I’m also wanting to know what’ll happen in season 3 of Private Practice as well, but not as much as I want to find out what happens in season 6 of Grey’s! And that’s it for my fandom-ness for today.

I’m currently in the process of designing new crochet projects. One involves math (… I know, math and me… What a horrible combination!) and the other involves cutesy animals and babies. So that’s interesting. I also came up with a new project that I’m going to do for myself so I have something to decorate my cubicle with. But I’m keeping that completely underwraps since I want it to be a surprise (I’m not even telling my sister!).

Speaking of my sister… My other sister is officially coming back to Canada on the 27th. My parents are falling over themselves getting things ready so that we’re all welcoming and that she’ll stay instead of moving out as soon as she finds a new job here. Fat chance of that, seeing as it turns out that the only reason that she took the job in California was because it allowed her to get away from the parents. I mean, honestly, just taking a job in the next province would have done that, or stay in the same province and just move time zones! But yeah, that’s how badly she wanted to get away from the parents. And they’re thinking that they can convince her to stay at home…

But on a happier note, I’ve been getting updates done on my baby (read: Ames!). Turning 3 years old next month, I’m crazy happy about that. I’ll probably make the site a new layout in a while (the current one was just put up in late April!) but right now I’m organizing some kind of ‘election’ in the game as it takes place in a city and they don’t have any form of municipal government at the moment. But it’s not going to have mayors or anything, just councillors. Which was treated very nicely when I first suggested it, so I’ll see how that goes.

Umm… I think that’s about it? Oh! One last bit – I need to go to bank to get money so I can buy myself a present that my parents are going to kill me over (maybe). =) I’ll be sure to post photos when I get it!