drey_chan

Yeah, I finally decided to make a banner. Go me! But yeah. I've been posting Friends Only for a while now, so I figured it was time to announce it. Mostly 'cause I'm bored and have the time/resources tonight.

Sign up for DBCC classes
Apply to UCF (just in case)
Get Marcus to do his damn laundry
Draw something
Argh.. I really really miss typing endlessly for my own amusement. Or being able to edit my own profile. They really need to fix that. And why do I feel like I'm the only one being effected? No one else has any shorter posts, or anything like that. -_- LJ only hates me.

..Ok, maybe not, but I had to say something, because I JUST got past that Goddamned Challenge of Atlas!! WEEE!! I'm sorry that fight was just pissing me off so bad. I kept getting as far as having 1 gorgon left, then getting killed and having to do it again. And then when I finally got that taken care of, I had the million-man fight to not get mushed by a huge wall of death! And I kept sucking at that!! But I finnally beat it and the rest was easy, so I finally got to save my game somewhere else and next time I play I can do something ELSE! *charged up about the game again* Now I have too much energy. I'm gonna go browse the internets some more. deviantART is fun.

I finnally killed the gorgons... But now I have like 30billion zombies to kill before we are smashed into a wall, and still no save point in sight. I may cry. Its getting to be that time when I should turn the PS2 off and call it a night. But regardless of me not being sleepy (I'm not), I just so very much don't want to fight that same battle with like 20 zombies followed by about 12 gorgons then 3 more gorgons and... This "trial of atlas" is one of how long you can go without getting carpel tunnel or throwing the controller at the TV. >.> I might just have to give up soon. Better to do it again and not break the PS2.. But God damn...

Yeahhhh.. I dunno if bored is the right word for this feeling. I mean I have GoW that I'm playing. Right now in fact. Its on pause. But God in Heaven I'm tired of fighting these Goddamn gorgons!! There's like 30 of them and they refuse to die!! Raaawr!! I'd just turn it off and go to bed for the nigt, but I am tired of this challenge and I am NOT stopping until I hit a save point. I will take breaks tho. Reading the internets is highly amusing if you start poking around where you don't belong. I ran back into something very old and quite hilarious now that I know the truth behind it. I re-read it and had a good chuckle.

This DBCC attack or whatever is getting old. *pouts* Only thing I can figure is that the server can't handle the strain of posting anything longer than a short paragraph. Its not like I have anything amazingly awesome to say, but long entries are my favorite kinds! I amuse myself when I'm extra bored that way. =( I really hope they get this fixed soon, just because there is nothing more annoying that waiting 10 minutes just to see that what you spent half an hour typing disappeared into the land of failed-to-load. This keeps up for too long, I might have to go back to BlogDrive. >.> No one reads this junk there, but I don't care if anyone does anyway.

Odd.. Something about the long-ass entry I typed up that LJ doesn't like, because it kept timing out while I was trying to post it. Probably for the best. It was a lot of disjointed rambling, because my head felt.. bad and I was having trouble focusing. Sometimes I think I get like.... spontanious retardation or something. Its weird. Like I'll still be able to use big words and stuff, but stringing more than one idea together becomes out of the question. I think long posts are just too much for the system right now or something. Whatever it is, its annoying.

I learned a lesson this morning. ^^;; Apparently when using Marcus's mini-sized and Philipeno Modded PS2, I am not to play anything for more than 5 hours straight without turning it off. If I'm not done, it needs to be tuned off and allowed to cool for a while before carrying on. Yeah, I ended up playing until Marcus got home at like 8am. I did however beat the part I was having trouble with. And find something new to have trouble with. XD But I know what to do. Either way, its time for anothr rousing night of fun and killing. ^_^ We ended up sleeping allll day today, except a few hours in the middle where we got up and ate and chattered and watched TV.

We got Arby's for food today... It was sooooo good. But dude! I ordered large drinks and they gave me a pair of kickass hard plastic cups! They have big twist-on lids with closeable openings at the top and everything... Very cool. Deffinatly a keep-and-wash deal. Isn't it sad that that's my favorite way to get cups and junk? Who buys cups? XD But yeah, back to the game. I only have until 3:30 before I have to turn it off and rest it half an hour! ._.

Holy freakin' crap I suck at this game! Its soooooo cool thooooo.. <3 Glad I bought it, but God damn! Why is it 6am, and I'm still staring at this You Are Dead screen.. For some perspective, I started playing about right after I last posted, and have only made it as far as the Rooftops of Athens, which only means anything to you if you've played it, but its only the 4th segment out of 17. @_@ I have to take breaks to... mostly keel over and stare sideways at this infernal screen, because my fingers start to hurt and my thumb gets tired from rapid mashing of buttons. Plus as I get tired I tend to fall into the habit of doing the same thing over and over and over. "Square Square Square SquareSquareSquareSquareSquareSquareSquareSquareOWW!!" Thank God for this checkpoint system.. I'd be piiiissed  if I had to restart from my last save every time I freakin' bit it. >.<

During one of these breaks I paid off my credit card again. During another, I discovered something rather cool. Its a new Google thing called Reader that lets you add various websites and have their updates all show up on one convenient place, marked as read or unread. So, I have it set up to show every update for VG Cats, Megatokyo, Least I Could Do, Bunny, Candy, and Applegeeks, until I remember more things to search up and try to add. Some things don't work, like I have yet to find the right feed for Dominic Deegan, and Chugworth seems to be temporarily (I hope) down for the night, so I'll try that again later.. And I only have to check one thing to get all my webcomics! Next time I'm at my house, I have a lot more comics I'd like to keep up with but forget because I'm always here that I'll try to add. I think its supposed to be for news and stuff, like interesting blogs, but this works too. XD Now if only I could get it to pick up my LJ friends page... But that didn't work, and I don't feel like adding each of you goobers' individual journals to it. I also took a whole buch of Of The Day stuff. Word, Quote, Joke, Interesting Thing.... So amusing...

I've been on break a while now I guess I should take another stab at this damn game...

I am staring at two possible occupations for the night. Today, I broke down and bought God of War used at EB for $17.99. Yey smart Caitlin for just-so-happening to have a PS2 memory card of her own here, so all I have to do is unearth the wire for the controller so I may have some manner of free movement. We only ever watch DVDs on the PS2, so it just kinda has to sit by the bed normally. Meanwhile, I was talking to my old buddy Gerald, who seems to have gotten himself sucked in to a new life of MMORPG addiction in the form of Second Life, and wants me to follow him into the abyss. This is a user-built world of live-as-you-please, kinda like The Sims Online, I guess. And its free to play, though of course you can pay real-world monies for land and game monies with upgraded accounts. But even that's only like $9.95 a month, compared to your standard $12-$13 fees for stuff of this nature. What's crazy about this game is that alledgedly, people are making real-world money from this game, providing "goods" and services. Set that aside, freaking colleges are offering some of their real, credited CLASSES in this game. It was on the news and everything an while back. Now, normally I'd cry "Not my computer!" and forget about it. (Need... own...lappy...) But the download is only 35mb. o.O That's absurdly small for something with graphics like screenies make this look like it has.. Even RO took like a gig all told. So it wouldn't be making a huge intrusion... Meh, I don't even know if this little thing could run something like that, and it still isn't mine. And I have God of War.

Other than that, life is quiet.. Marcus and I have been eating at Woody's. I think he likes going there because he knows it drives me crazy to not get up and work. >_> But the food is still delicious, and everyone certainly knows my name. Besides, it was all-you-can-eat spare ribs and $1.75 draft beer day. A day built for Men like Marcus. I had the baby back ribs out of sheer curiousity. Oh Ye Gods. They were freaking amazing. @_@ I was reminded why I work there. Other restaurants may send their girls home smelling less like meat and sauce, or with more tippage in their aprons, but I have great faith in what I serve at Woody's. Our food is just really good. Unless of course you hate BBQ. In which case you are an unAmerican commie pinko bastard. <3 =P

Monday I had to leave the d20 game early to go to work, so I said that my character had to do a show in which she fought two midgets. While I was gone, those idiots got themselves wanted for murder without ever actually killing...the person they were accused of killing. XD Still, work was busy. I didn't make amazing amounts of money, but they really did need me in there.

And uhhh.. yeah! Thus is life! Isn't it grand? Jessica bought a 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer off of eBay. 1) Ooooh shiney I wanna ride! 2) Damn. That girl is officially Queen of All EBay.

Hehe.. You know, Marcus and I got home yesturday at I'd say 8pm or so, and decided we'd nap a while and go see Pirates of the Carribean. We overslept until it was too late to go to the movies, and spent the rest of the night trying to get up and go get food, only to fall asleep again for a while, wake up, almost get up and go get food, and fall back asleep.. Wash, rinse repeat until 10:00 today, when we got up and went to the noon show after getting food at Sonic. XD We. Are. Awesome. Pirates was really quite excellent in more than several ways. Then we came home and I went to work and got out as quick as I could so I could end up right back here! I told my boss not to be afraid to call me and let me off tomarrow if it looks slow, but as it stands I may have to leave the game early to go to work at 5. -_- I'm a renessance fair carnie with teleportation powers and an a fair hand with a bastard sword this time around. I need to write up a good story for why she got those powers... =3

Saturday was a delight.. I took my mom and grandma to celebrate Aunt Mary's 80th birthday and Faith's 18th.... Dear God I knew NO ONE there, and it was the thickest crowd of old people I've ever seen. And I live in freakin' Florida. But Aunt Mary's house is so cool... WIth its horse-shoe shape around her awesome pool and the many rooms and passageways... We were there for like 2 hours, then Miyie got tired and I got back just in time to be late for the character creationing for the game. OK THOUGHT INTERUPTION!! THIS SHOW SUCKS THANK YOU. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job? No. But why was Weird Al in it...? wtf.. Now where was I? Ohhh yeah. Characters. Yey.

Oh yeah, and I might be moving to Deland in the fall. Mom and I are gonna go out there next week and see what I need to do to go to Stetson. I think if I go there I'll live in the dorms... I've always wanted to do that...

I should go get stuff.. Like epsome salt.. and a food... instead I might sit here and play with the internet.

I leave you with the cutest damn thing you will ever see in your life:

BABY LEMMING!!!! 

EDIT!!
OMG THIS MAY KILL YOU BUT LOOK AT IT ANYWAY!!! The Cute Project

Bwarharhar... Bastards. I was trrrrying to update last night, and everything about LJ worked except updating. ._. Oh well. I was just whining about how it was a dull night anyway. I don't really have a whole hell of a lot more to say tonight. Marcus is staying home because his ankle hurts and his eye is swelly. x.x So he's sitting here playing pokemon... We watched Curse of the Golden Flower... Cool movie, I must say. Now we have Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School on and it's hurting my ears... ._.

More importantly,
HAPPY BLEEDIN' BIRTHDAY ASHLEY!!!
Gwaaahahaha congratulations! You're out of highschool, you're 18, you're employed... Kickin' ass, girl!! ^_^

Also, everyone wish Joyce a safe trip and good luck in Melborn with the jobage and the sewing... Come home soon. ;-;

I don't have much else to say. I had a weeeird-ass dream today before work that I left on telaranrihad.... I think I might be insane. Also... I've been dragged into something interesting... *shrug* Yey life.

It kinda reminds me of how gasoline smells... XD For no particularly good reason, Marcus made a rubberband ball. Now it just kind of foats around being silly... I should get more rubberbands and make it bigger. I can't stop smelling it...

In unrelated news, I had a peculiar dream today that there were a lot more flowers and trees around this appartment complex, and that sort of nextdoor and below us (basement appartments?) there was an old guy with thick-framed glasses and a tyranasaurous rex, who was small enough to live in an appartment like a man... And as soon as Marcus and I fixed the broken electricle outlet, we were going to take the old man a bag of apples. ....................Yes.

I meant to run errands today. I neeed to go to the bank and put all my money in it, checks 'n stuff, so I can pay down my credit card again and get a better feel for how much money I have that's actually mine... I need to write that check and get it mailed off, which would entail going to Miyie's house and getting the letter I wrote, and an evolope and a stamp. (shuttup, if I bought stamps I'd lose them. I run her errands for her.) Not to mention getting out in the sunshine wouldn't be half bad.... But instead I fell asleep. Good job Caitlin.

Random thoughts on my mind: I'm lame. Every other thing I say when talking to people directly seems to refference Marcus. I appologise for this... Its just I spend more time with him than anyone else, even myself, so he has something to do with most of the things that happen to me these days. Heck, I practically live in his appartment... So yes, I do know I'm doing it, and I appologise. But its all I've got. ^^;; Also, I wonder if I shouldn't make my LJ friends only.... I doubt anyone has enough interest in little old me to be reading this unless we're friends, but..... *shrug* Whatever. Also, they needed to come up with a better name for the new pokemon serise than "Daimond and Pearl." >.> Oh yey, lets refferance the popular new games. Its always been something better and more show-sounding before. "Battle Frontier," "Jhoto League," "Chronicles"..... I dunno if they corrispond to other games or what, but this last one is just downright uncreative. Patooey.

Damnit, I think my body is getting used to going out for food at this hour... I am quite awake and I feel like I should go do something, but the last two nights in a row I've scooped up the girls to go eat, because I was hungry and that's all there is to do. Its making me feel like a fat kid.. I don't like feeling like what I am. >:O Need something else to do in the middle of the night... Even in conjuction with getting food. I would feel better if it wasn't the ONLY thing we were doing.

One of many things irritating me at the moment. I do have money, thanks to getting quite a bit of work and getting my tax return... But like... Ok, Marcus and I have been wanting to go play paintball. Problem is, we're the ones that ever have money and time to go. So when we found out the Webb brothers go from time to time, it was cool. That was the first and last time we got to go play, was with them. So we'e been planning to do this more regularly, but like.. Last week, no one had any money, and we were gonna go this week, but they were broke again, so it got pushed back to next week, we were gonna go, but now they can't again because of fundage. Its just bad luck. Anthony got a speeding ticket, we all make minimum wage part time, and paintball is expensive. Particularly the $40-$50 cases of paint, then add the $20 to get in... Well, it turns out I can't really go either, because EVERYONE's birthday is this Saturday. My Aunt Mary is turning 80, AND my Cousin Faith is turning something.. Probably like 17 or 16. So they'll be at the same party that I really just kinda wanna make a short appearance at because its family. It'll be an old people party, so it'll take like an hour tops. That's all Miyie can handle. Then Ashley's birthday is that day too.. BTW What's goin' on Saturday with that, lady? When, what, where, what should I bring? Anyway, so I thought that was fine. But Marcus is all upset about it and wants to know why I can't go later or whatever.. which I understand. Its his only day off, and we have been wanting to go for a while now... Its frustrating to find out halfway through the week that there's yet another hitch in a long stream of hitches... But it is an old people party and it won't run that late, so going later is.... The problem is not the amount of time it'll take, but the timing. As it stands, it would be around noon that we'd need to go. ARGH!!!! And of course it has to be THIS week.. *cough* I hate it when my vision of how I want things to go and what would make me happy contradicts other people's visions... I really hate it when my plans for a perfect working out of all plans are not allowed to play out as I plan them. Ughhh why am I the only one who understands... Bah whatever. I might just have to do what I want to do and let other people just deal with it. What I want, is to take my grandmother to see her friend for a little while, leave early, come home, and go hang out with my buddies to celebrate Ashley turning legal. That would be my successful day. Lets see how that goes. Brace yourselves, lads...

Anyway what else.. You know what's funny? I don't dream much, but when I do, it's always always always about trying to escape something or someplace. 'Least it seems that way. A while back I actually had a dream that I'd had before... I forget what happened in it now, but all I remember is that I woke up thinking "hey, I've had that exact same dream before!" I wonder why that is..? My life has always been pretty damn good.. I'm pretty happy...

BLAH anyway I'm gonna go grab a shower, then see if anyone else is interested in solving the hungry-bored problem.

Ok, first of all, I really really really wanna play God of War. Yes, I know its been out forever, and its brother 2. We were watching Chad play it last night and I was just really reminded how important it is that I play first one then two.

I'm really sleepy, but I had to relate this tale. Marcus and I went out to Denny's after watching the God of Warness, 'cause i was hungry. So we're sittin' there  drinkin' our milkshakes when this random black guy walks past on his way out. He looks at Marcus and I and says "You two make a sexy couple!" Then he looks at Marcus and says "I'd bag (or was it "bang"?) her, if she wasn't with you." I had nooo idea how to take that but it made me laugh. XD Ahhh..

So worked two doubles, one on Saturday one on Sunday.. did ok... Came out of it SO tired though. Today I had no work, slept most of the day, and hung out with Joyce and Ashley a bit..

I SLEEP NOW!! WORK TOMARROW NIGHT!!!

All lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive...

Deep stuff for freakin' pokémon. *chuckles* Yeah it's been a quiet day.. I fell asleep in the chair... I got lunch from Chik-fil-a... Now Miyie's watching Opra and I'm playing pokémon, exploring the Unown ruins. Frankly I'm tired of "Hidden Power" so I think I'm done for the day. I may live without all 28 Unown forms in my pokédex. Marcus was tired, so he didn't come over. Just been me, Miyie and the internet all day. Kinda feels like old times when this was life... Gotta tell ya, its a little boring. I even tried to get on RO, but the version on Miyie's computer doesn't work anymore. ...Touching stories of success and charity are boring and mildly annoying. Am an I awful person for thinking that?

I guess I better get my bum to work. I don't wanna deal with sauce.. I hate sauce... Waiting tables is fun. Its when I have to fill and pour and wipe things covered in sticky nasty BBQ sauce and salad dressing that it gets annoying. Lemme tell you. Ceaser dressing feels unimaginably gross when it gets on your hands.

Oh Gawd two posts in one day. But this was too random... I'm leaving work, right? (it was really slow, and the sun was still up when I was leaving) So I head toward Marcus's house (9 months today!) and there's this truck ahead of me. Suddenly this blonde girl starts waving at me through the back window. o.O She's waving and waving like she recognises me, and making hand gestures like she's trying to get me to call her. I'm like "Ok, this must be someone I know. But WHO?!" Feeling like an aweful person for not knowing who the heck this person who I must be friends with is... So I gestured like I couldn't find my phone. XD Then she waves at me to follow them, and they lead me into this parkinglot for some townhomes off Nova. I follow, sure that as soon as they stop moving, I'll know who it is and she'll never know.... Turned out to be a truck full of random 16-year-old teenagers. XD She's like "Hey! I don't know you, but I flagged you down 'cause you seem awesome! ^_^ I'm sure glad you're not an axe murderer!" And I'm like "Ha ha hold on I'm looking for my axe. >:3" and we kinda bullshitted for a few more minutes until I told them I had to be getting home and went on my merry way. But that was freakin' weird!

Back at Miyie's for the night again, checking my internets before I shower up and crawl into a cozy bed... A decent enough day, I'd say.. I wanna watch the DVD that came with my CD, but I know Miyie will not like Dane Cook's humor at all. Too much swearing. Argh.. I'm hungry. I should go find some small muchy food I can consume. Yes..

I was at Target buying bandaids. Innocent bandaids. And a toothbrush. And shaving cream because I used all of Marcus's. I'm not sure he was comfortable using my girly rasberry rain stuff. And there, sitting at the head of one of the checkout lanes... was a Dane Cook CD. Harmful if Swallowed. I think its the one we listened to with Fez and those other people in Tampas. I bought it. I do not think it is SAFE for me to listen to this in my car. I had to stop in the middle of my grandmother's street, because I could not breath from laughter. I brought it inside to enjoy it further in a safe environment.

Ahhhh I hope I didn't just completely fux0r my until-now stellar credit.. See, in my total lackage of monies, I overdrafted just a little bit. But gasp! I have overdraft protection! But AGAIN gasp, it wasn't kicking in very fast. >.> Meanwhile, my credit card bill was due today. Yes, I know I said I paid that so'bitch off, but then I overdrafted a bit temporarily and it took $100 and put it in my checking. Glee. Well, I had about $275 heading out to Jersey, and could have paid it off, but instead I decided to wait until we got back in case I needed it. Well, apparently I did. Thus the tiny overdraft. But when you have no money, what do you pay your credit card bill with? So I came up with an ingenious plan. I headed off the overdraft protection by transferring $70 from my card to my checking. Then while $20 was left to balance my books, I used the extra $50 as a payment to the card. Clever, no? But can I do that? I realise how awful it is... But I hope its not so awful that I get spanked for it. >.> Its not like it'll take me long to pay down again, now that I'm back at work...

Speaking of work, I have hours comming out my ears... Including Saturday, when I never work. >.< Daaamnit.. But there is a reason. Who primarily staffs Woody's BBQ? 18-year-old highschool students. Seniors. Almost all from Spruce Creek High School. And it just so happens that teh Cre3kz0rz is having its graduation ceremony this Saturday. ._. That leaves a grand total of 4 of us even capable of working that day. I'm on 12:00 on to 9. @_@ Tomarrow and Friday I'm on 5-9. But I do need the money. *SIGH* Damn life. I need to hurry up and get certified for a real job. A career I could go to every day and make enough to pay bills, keep gas in my car, and still have something for a rainy day. Rawr!

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Why can't I enjoy the last of being a kid like other kids my age? From the stories Miyie tells, I've been saying I wanted to be self-sufficient since I was 4 years old. I don't want my parents to pay for everything. I don't want to mooch. I don't want to live in someone else's house. I've been doing that for 19 years and I'm tired of it. I want to work and give myself my own things.. I want a house of my own.. Nothing huge, just a nice middle-class affair with a yard and a couple bedrooms and a kitchen and a livingroom that I can keep exactly as I want it. Most kids my age see asking Mommy and Daddy for money as a perfectly viable solution to finacial problems. I can't do it... I'm 19 years old, and already I'm so God damned tired of nothing being mine... If this problem isn't solved soon, it may drive me insane...
</rant>

Anyway, now I'm sitting in my grandma's house. She had surgery today. She's got some blockages in her heart... Saying she's a little wobbly would be the understatement of the month, and none of us want her to be alone at any point. But Uncle Hugh has to get back to work and is leaving at like 4am. So I'm gonna hang out and take care of her tomarrow until I have to go to work, and hopefully mum will be able to stay with her during that time. I'm just glad she's ok-ish... I was worried. I hate hospitals. >.> Still, Miyie's house is nothing if it isn't comfortable. Warm, but not too warm, and everything is soft, and if you're hungry there's food... So I don't mind one bit! ^_^ Tho Marcus isn't too keen on the idea of me being away from him. =/ Well, we've got our whole lives. Miyie needs me now. I guess what I better do is finnish my business online, stir the uncle, 'cause if he's leaving in 4 hours, some sleep in a real bed instead of that recliner he's passed out in will do him good, and then I should hit the hay myself. Its hard to sleep this early, but when in Rome...