I'm too tired for a title today.

Mood: Sore >.<
Music: None

I had a *hard* day at work today. We were going through export beef today (anything going to the US is inspected 12x more than any domestic meat which make no sense to me. All of our meat should be high quality ^^')I had to do lots of manual labour to keep the whole thing going (*nobody* wanted to do it. Well neither did I but that's why I worked hard, so I can get it over and done with.)

Today was the last day of my Japanese classes. Shaggy and I both got certificates. I'll miss having class with Yumi-sensei.

Well it's time for good little QAs to go to bed, but maybe I can get used to posting less more often.

Up and down

Mood: Depressed and slightly angry
Music: Beautiful Like Me by Joydrop

It's been I while since I have been able to post. Blogger seems to not like me somedays. I had a nice happy post planned for today with artwork and an nice big paragraph on my new iBook and I'll still keep some of the happy news. I tell that first. Then I'll go onto what happened to my happy post.

I updated the main page and I added a forum. I hope everybody takes a look :)

In other (happy) news Little Tokyo had a *huge* manga sale. They sold off almost all of their rental manga stock (which was considerable, old but considerable) dirt cheap. Shaggy and I spent $70 (Tax included. In Canada that makes a big difference) on manga alone and here's the difference it made:

Before:

After:


Shaggy bought Ranma 1/2 (38 Volumes) and I bought RG Vega (10 volumes. CLAMP's first manga. I love CLAMP!) and Nurse Angel Ririka SOS (4 volumes). I took a chance on N.A.R. SOS, but it looked easier to read so maybe by the end of next year I can actually sit down and read it, if all my Japanese lessons go as planned.

Now on to the bad news :(

When I got home, considerably tired from carrying home all those manga and Christmas presents, and after I put everything away, I sat down at my iBook and noticed a new message. My Mother decided to finally e-mail me back and tell me that, no, I cannot see my siblings over the Christmas holidays.

Now I would expect this behavior from my Father. He has been known to flip flop on issues from time to time. But from Ms. "I won't force my opinion on my kids", Ms. "Everyone knows where I stand. I don't go back on my word."? Is this a *lie* I detect. Did I not hear her tell my Father that she would not keep my siblings from seeing family if they wanted to? Well I hate to tell you lady they *do* talk to me! I just built a guild page for my little sister, heck I'm part of her guild, does that not constitute contact lady!

Well at the very least I am permitted to drop off their Christmas presents. Of course they are things she would never buy them since they are not *practical*. I had that whole stupid practical philosophy shoved down my throat as a kid. It won't happen to them, not if I have any say about it.

I almost wish I could tell her all this. Maybe it would open her eyes. Maybe she would realize that there are really good reasons she isn't on speaking term with two of her children and if she keeps it up, when we all grow up, she may not be on speaking terms with any of us. Maybe someday I can do something, but I don't know what and I don't know when. At times like this I think of the Nickleback song Someday: "Someday somehow, I'm gonna make it all right, but not right now."

Shopping Day *^-^*

Mood: Happy
Music: Romance by Aino Minako (PGSM)

As most Saturdays are, today was shopping day. Shaggy got his mind benders, and I bought a new coat (I found to my dismay that my old winter coat is not machine washable), an angora hat (like the one Minako wears in PGSM. I love that hat *^-^*) and a copy of Codename wa Sailor V volume 1(reprint edition).

I started reading the manga with the aide of some online text translations and was presently surprise to find that's I *can* read some Japanese now. It's just such a nice feeling to know what hajimemashite　means *^-^* (in hiragana of course, but I have no clue how to type that in Blogger so that you see the text and not gobbledygook. I couldn't even get the yen symbol to work properly ^^')

My little sister took a look at her brand new guild page and likes it. It feels nice to have finished something *^-^* Now I have to finish S&S.com's main site. Now she wants me to put up a message board so we can talk outside of Neopets. She's not alowed to chat. Those evil net stalkers will get her. Heck, my little brother who is two year younger than her doesn't even have "parental permission" to Neomail other Neopets members. Neopets is like the safest place for children to talk to each other. I don't know what my mother is thinking now. I started e-mailing at the age of 14. I started chatting online at the age of 18. (I wasn't allowed at her house. When I moved out I didn't have a computer. Shaggy got me hooked on chatting *^-^* Now I have a cellphone with chat capabilites because I want to stay connected to people on the net when I'm out and about) The evil net stalkers haven't got me yet. Just teach your kids a bit of common sense and they will be just fine.

I swear my mother is getting more parinoid by the year.

Assorted Musings

Mood: Content :)
Music: Someday by Nickleback

I'm actually listing to a playlist that is completly composed of songs sung in English. I only have one playlist in iTunes like this. Someday is one of my favourite songs. There are so many conflicts in my life, so many things that went so wrong. I like this song though, it reminds me that someday I may be able to fix these things, Sigh. My life is so messed up sometimes.

I finally finshed the Neopets guild page for my sister. I decided to host it on my server. I gave her a subdomain though. I like to keep all the seperate sites on subdomains. I like to keep them in thier own little compartments. Like tupperware *^-^* I'm actually very happy with the way it turned out. I made the layout in one shot and I had a lot of fun with it. Especailly with the buttons. I love making nice colourful little buttons.Finally my button making skills are useful for someone other than me.The guild site is now listed in this blog's link section. Check it out, make a little girl happy *^-^*

The HR person at work is really starting to creep me out.I was sick for a week and I actually almost quit over the politics in this place. Shaggy told my boss and he wasn't very happy about why I was quitting. I decided not, to but I think he talked to a couple people and told them to leave me alone. Yesterday the HR person (an evil evil old woman who has the credentials for my job but is too lazy and stupid to get it. She hates my living guts because Shaggy and I both stole high positions from her) is being "nice" to me. She comes up to be and compliments my glasses and asks if they are new. I've had the same glasses for almost two years now. Get a clue lady. Then she says she just bought a pair just like them, but she scared to wear them to work because she thinks they look horrid (can anyone say "oxymoron") I then commented that I hope she got to the optomitrist before the new health care reform came in and visiting the optomistrist started costing lots of money. She said she did and we traded comments about the state of healthcare and she left. And I mean she had the worst fake sugar coated smile on the whole time. It was really, really creepy 0.o

Today I come in and she is wearing the ugliest glasses! I mean just really really dorky. For all of you that haven't seen me in real life I wear translusent purple plastic glasses with a thinish, sqaure yet rounded frame. They seem to have something in them that looks like matte sparkles and you can see the metal frame through the plastic. I like them. They make me look smart but not dorky. The purple also balances out the red in my face.

Her glasses on the other hand are solid *black* plastic glasses. They are squarish with very think edges by the hinge. They are just so ugly. What makes you think that my glasses look anything like yours lady. That's a downright insult. Someone in her family told her she needed cooler glasses. Her old ones were rounded with a thin speckled frame. That last decade, these glasses are last ice age.

Yet again I shake my head and wonder about that woman.

Neofrustrations

Mood: OK ^^'
Music: None, I'm too tired for that.

Yeah, I can finally post again! I was having issues with that.

For that past little while I have been embarking on the quest to make my little sister's Neopets guild look good. She asked me because she know I know html. (I mean I've been coding html since I was a little older than her and she's in grade school so that says alot. That was back when all I had was the Geocities HTML editor ^^')I figure sure, why not. It'll make her happy (since most of my family and almost all of my mother's side won't speak to me, that's a big thing) and it shouldn't be that hard. All she wants is a simple yet nice looking page that shows up almost the same in most browsers.

That was great. I had a design that I liked alot (almost more than the upcoming design for Sorceress & Swordsman) and it only took me a day to figure out. (I shelved the update for S & S for a little while. I love my little sister alot and I promised her) I was doing good. Till I tried to upload the whole shabang on to the Neopets page that my sister's guild inhabits.

First, it won't serve the images. That's ok. I have my own domain space. What you are reading inhabits that space, but I do use the services of Blogger so that's not a foriegn concept.

Second, I can't link *OUT* in the html code or it won't upload it. I can link images , but not webpages. At this point I'm thinking, Ok, you want me to HOST the images for free but I can't make a HOSTED BY banner linking to my domain. How cute.

Third, even with those changes in mind, when I manually changed the code ( I use Dreamweaver but I do retain enough skill to tinker with the code) to fill these requirements and finally got the thing to upload, Neopets somehow mangled my code and it looked horrid. For some odd reason blank table frames didn't work. They work in the original html file when you view it in Safari or Firefox, but when you upload the html code to the Neopets server it doesn't work. Go figure.

But my clever little sister assured me that you can put visit me at blahblahblah.com in text (as long as you don't make it a link or put www. or http:// before it)on the guild hq page and sort of use is as a splash page for the guild webpage.

And I'm ok with this whole thing (somehow I got roped into hosting the whole thing now. But that's ok 'cause it's my little sister and I promised *^-^*) but I still wonder, how did all those other people get such nice looking pages with so many limitations.

Oh well, sleep makes everything better. Besides I have class tommorow and I have my Pretty Guardian Sailormoon TV Book 1 comming in the mail so I can't be too cranky now can I be. *^-^*