Waiting for a baby to decide to enter the world is frustrating as hell. A friend of my sister’s is pregnant and she has been spending a lot of time over at my house during the last days of her pregnancy. She started having contractions last Friday but they haven’t been strong enough to do what they are supposed to do. She is apparently supposed to get induced next Monday and it can’t come soon enough. I want to meet this little boy. Before Saturday night I had never even put my hand on the belly of a pregnant women but I finally have and I have got to say it is amazing. And seeing the baby move is even more amazing. You can actually see when he moves a leg or his head. I haven’t felt him move yet but I am hoping to get the chance before he comes.

I need a new layout for this site. And I desperately need to update my Wordpress version. Possibly I will find the time tomorrow on my day off.

Sorry for the short blog but I’m wiped and need to hit my pillow.

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So I got the higher level position I was hoping for at my new job. We finally opened the store on Friday for a soft opening to get some experience on the cash registers. We figured that we would get a small amount of customers and that would be it, but we actually got quite a few. More than any of us employees expected. So then yesterday was our Grand Opening day and omg, it was hectic. We had huge lineups for the cash registers down one whole aisle of the store for a lot of the day. I was on cash for the better part of the day because I seem to be understanding them well and I am pretty fast when putting customers through. So it kind of sucked to have to stand in one place most of the day, but other than that I think that the opening went really well. I have another shift today that is part of the grand opening sales, then Monday is a holiday and thanks for that because I need a day off. As of my shift today, I will have worked 14 days in a row. Great pay, but I am so tired.

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On Sunday, my mom woke me up early so that we could go with some other family out to a graveyard on the outskirts of my town for Decoration Sunday. For those who may not be aware of this day, it is when you take flowers out to the grave sites of your family and friends who are no longer with you. A lot of people all do it on this one day a year, so there were tons of other families out there when we were. We visited a bunch of my mom’s friends and some family members, most of who died in their elder ages. While we were out there, all I could think about was how lucky I have been in life to not lose anyone really close to me. I mean, some of the graves we visited were family members, but they had all died before I was born or when I was very young. I have been very fortunate not to have lost anyone close to me at a time when I could fully understand the idea of death. Have you ever lost a family member or friend at an age when you understood what death meant?

After the graveyard, my entire maternal side of the family got together for a corn roast. We do this every year on the weekend of Decoration Sunday. The corn roast is starting to get a bit tedious though because the same people show up year after year, while other members of the family never attend. It’s still nice though to see family that I don’t get to see as often as I would like to. We did a 50/50 draw, so that we can get some new picnic tables for my uncle’s house (where the corn roast always takes place) and the youngest person in the draw (my cousin Allyn) was the winner. Haha. Figures that the one who doesn’t really even need to cash would be the one who would get it. I was hoping my name would get called. I could really use the cash at this time. Thank god I am working right now otherwise my web hosting wouldn’t be getting paid this year. My hosting will probably suspend for a couple of days as it is, as I am waiting on a transfer from my bank account to Paypal. Transfers take 6-8 business days for people who live in Canada, so it would make it in time before my hosting cycle ends. But it should only be a couple of days of suspension.

So, I am pretty sure that I will be getting a position at the store I am helping to open. I haven’t been offered anything yet, but my manager has been talking to me about it a lot and I get the feeling that she wants me to stay. And I may even be getting a higher-level position, which would be awesome. It would be the perfect job to get me through until I decide to go to college, so I am really hoping that things work out.

Right now I am drinking a tall glass of my mom’s homemade Iced Tea. It is the first batch she has made this summer and was such a nice treat after a long day at work. Yum!

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Summer has really sucked thus far. I quit my job at the grocery store in early July for a variety of reasons, but it was mainly because I needed more shifts. I was only getting about 13 hours per week. I am hoping to move out on my own by the end of the year and I just can’t do it while only making minimum wage at 13 hours per week. So, I had started to look for another job and thought I had found one. A friend of mine works the night shift at Wal-Mart and she told me that they were needing some new employees on her shift. So I sent in a resume and got an interview. It turned out to be the best interview I have ever had. I was so comfortable. I normally get really nervous and completely shut-down, but this time it just felt right. I, more or less, had the job in the bag, all Wal-Mart had to do was check my references. So I went ahead and gave my notice at the grocery store. Big Mistake! My boss, who had been a real bitch up to this point, gave me a bad reference. I did everything but kill myself for this woman and she gives me a bad reference. That is a whole other story in itself, but needless to say, I didn’t get the job at Wal-Mart.

I was off work for about a week and a half, when I got a call from this new store opening in my town. They needed help in setting up the store and asked if I was interested. I told them I was, even though the work was only temporary but had the opportunity for a position come opening. So that is what I have been doing for the last two and half weeks, and I think that I may be staying on after opening. I have been getting along great with the manager and she is the one who decides who is staying. It is really tough work at the moment, but should get a bit easier if I stay on. Right now it is a lot of manual labor, major sweat-fest for me. Haha. But things are looking good for the immediate future.

Anyways, you may have noticed that I have revamped the site. I was absent for about six months, haven’t felt the desire to blog, but I’ve been needing an outlet to pound my frustrations out, and blogging has always been good for that, so here I am again… What do you think of the new look? I like it. It is a more simple design again, but I’ve really been drawn to that look lately.

I’ve been overhauling my fanlistings again. Giving them new designs and buttons. I’ve got four done at the moment and plan to get the other ones done within the next week, permitting that I am not to drained after work. I may have to do some cutting back on my other websites though, i.e. fansites. I hate to do it, but if I get the position I want at the store then I won’t have nearly the free time I am used to. Ah, the joys of growing up.

Well, my alarm is set for 6:30am and that always comes way to early for me, so it seems my bed is calling.

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It was during a 4th grade math test. I wrote some references on the palm of my hand. I have always been terrible at math. I get the basics and thankfully that is all I mainly need in my life and chosen career, but I could just never grasp any of the other concepts. Anyways, I had planned to cheat on the test with a couple of other girls in my class. I was the only one who got caught though. I guess I must have just been too obvious when peeking at my hand. My teacher came over and flipped my hand over and saw the references. She took my test away from me and I failed. It was extremely embarrassing because not only did I fail, but I also got caught doing it in front of my entire class. The humility I experienced that day has lived with me to this day. I never again even considered cheating on a test.

Two years later, during grade six, I tried forming a school newspaper staff. I had always loved the idea of a school newspaper run by the students. I, along with a friend of mine, talked to the principal about it, and when he agreed that it was a good idea, we began recruiting people to help out. The group was large in the beginning, about 15 people. But before the first issue was even out, the group had dwindled… to me and that original friend. The two of us worked hard to put together the first issue and we actually got it out. It even turned out to be quite successful. A lot of the students seemed to enjoy it, but for whatever reason, that was the only issue we ever put out.

It’s amazing the things you can remember from your early years in school. All of this college considering has really gotten me thinking about past school memories. So, I just thought I would share a couple here. Have you ever done anything in school that you have regretted? Or done something that has always made you smile, even to the present day?

So, I am still just getting the answering machine for the course coordinator I am trying to reach. There is an email listed on the college website for the coordinator that I think I’m going to try. My teacher at the adult alternative school I am attending to finish high school told me that most college course coordinators are notoriously hard to get a hold of. She apparently called four different coordinators regarding another student. She left messages with each, stating that she was a teacher. Only one has gotten back to her. And she’s a teacher! But alas, I will keep trying. This is something I want badly, so I am not giving up.

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Have you ever had a fallout with an extended family member? If not, let me tell you, it isn’t fun. One of my aunts has pretty much royally screwed me on some school stuff and I am still really pissed about it. It all went down on Monday. I don’t even want to see her right now I am so mad about it. You think that your family are there to support you and be happy for you when you get something that you want, but occasionally they aren’t. And it really hurts when it happens. I don’t really want to go into full detail about it but I just needed to get it off my chest.

So, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned before but I am a 22 year old high school student. I had a lot of emotional problems during the first two years of high school and got really far behind. And then I got lazy. But I slowly got back into it and I am only in need of about 8 more credits to graduate. But as of now, those eight credits are holding me back. They have nothing to do with my chosen career path and since I’m really a ‘need to have a passion to be interested’ kind of person, I’ve really been neglecting my school work again.

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I’ve been thinking about applying to college. I recently found out that the Web Design courses I am interested in taking don’t necessarily require a high school diploma (in Ontario we call it an OSSD). I may be able to apply as a mature student because I am over the age of 19. I have been talking about it with the head teacher at the adult alternative school I am attending to finish high school and she thinks it’s a really good idea for me. She said that she wouldn’t recommend it for everyone but for me she thinks it’s the best thing I could do to further my career. Because I’m already cemented in what I’d like to do.

I’ve already started making calls to the coordinator of the course. But all I’ve been getting is an answering machine so far. Keeping my fingers crossed. I do want to finish high school eventually but I think I’ll go back to it when it really means something to me. Right now, I need to do what is best for my immediate future.

RIP Heath Ledger

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Today was apparently Annual Sister’s Day. I looked it up on the internet and couldn’t actually find a concrete date for it but regardless it got me thinking about my own sister. She is two years younger than me and for most of our lives we haven’t gotten along the best. We used to fight like cats and dogs and for a long time our mom took her side for the simple fact that she was the younger sister. Now as my sister got older, she started to get into quite a bit of trouble. She got into heavy drinking and drugs at a pretty young age and I must admit, it really changed her. She had very violent mood swings. They were mainly just verbally abusive moods swings but occasionally they turned violent and we would end up in a physical fight.

When Vicki (my sister) was 19, she moved out of our home after a pretty bad screaming match between the two of us. I more or less told her to pack her bags. My mom was quite upset about it at first but things got a bit better afterward. We all realized that Vicki was better off on her own. She began a serious relationship a couple of years before she moved out and her boyfriend was a bit possesive. After she had moved in with him, he became extremely possessive. They were both doing cocaine excessively and things between her and I as well as her and my mother became very strained. She was threatening to move away continually and that really hurt my mom as we have always been a three part family ever since my parents divorced when my sister and I were very young.

In June of last year, Vicki finally broke up with her boyfriend and started to get herself clean. She has begun a new relationship with a really great guy who is very against drugs. She has been completely clean for six months now and is finally back to her old self. I really missed my sister and I am so glad to have her back.

So, if today is in fact Annual Sister’s Day, I want to say cheers to my baby sister.

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Okay, so I know that the last layout was only up for about four days but I got really bored with it really fast so when I got the inspiration to create this layout, I went with it. I love how this one turned out. I used a stock photograph taken by Marcos Santos. I found it on Stock.XCHNG. Some amazing artwork on there. Anyways, I hope everyone enjoys this new theme. It will be up for some time longer than the last one was.

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Don’t you hate when you’re trying to find something and you search for hours on end and still come up with nothing? I’ve been searching for my angel light switch plate cover all day long and I can’t seem to find it. I moved to my current location back in February of last year and because I’ve been sort of redecorating my room since then (I’ve gotten quite sidetracked, lol ), I have not replaced the ugly plate cover with my cute angel one. And I want to now! I hate when I can’t find things.

I am so sick of work lately. My schedules have been really poor. It’s a pretty good thing that I don’t live on my own yet because if I was, I’m sure I’d have to move back home anyways. Frankly, there are too many employees in our department. And because the sales haven’t been that great lately, our hours are constantly getting decreased. I can’t work Tuesday or Thursday each week but the other five days I am as free as a bird. And I never seem to get more than two or three shifts a week. And they are usually only five hour evening shifts. Making only minimum wage is not fun when you only get 10-15 hours per week. I swear I think that my boss thinks I’m a student or something. I CAN work day shifts.

I am really thinking about applying to college in the fall and I have been looking at some courses in web design and programming. With my current working situation and the fact that I just hate making minimum wage when I could possibly be making a lot more, is really making me take a hard look at my life. I just want more for myself. I don’t want to work in a grocery store for the rest of my life. And I always get such a rush when I sit in front of my computer and mess around. I know this kind of work is what I want to do in the future, I just need to get off my behind and apply. It’s a scary feeling though. I don’t know why really but I just get nervous when I think about going to college and quitting my safety blanket of job. I mean, it’s not the best job but it’s secure. And it’s just scary to think about leaving.

PS. I added a bunch of Visitor Content today, during breaks I took while looking for that damn light plate cover.

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I only took a short break so that I could convert my blogging program from Movable Type to Wordpress. Don’t get me wrong, I love MT and always will but I despise the newest version for it and I was really wanting the themes part of WP. I could never figure out the custom themes part of MT and from previous use, I knew WP was pretty easy to customize.

So, that is what I have been up to for the past three days or so. Well, that and creating this new layout! What do you think? Let me know because I love visitor feedback on my designs. It is still following the more simple look that I have been going for. I personally like it so I hope you do as well.

The Archive pages aren’t setup exactly how I want them though. I want the blog posts to be linked instead of laid out the same way as they are on the main page of this blog. Anyone know of a WP plugin that will do that? Let me know because I’m a stickler about documenting everything and I want the archives setup the way that I want them to be… damn it! (Got it the way that I wanted it!!)

Anyways, what has been going on with the weather we have been getting? I don’t know about you but I live in Canada, and us Canadians are used to freezing cold temperatures from about November to March/mid April. It’s the beginning of January and I see green grass when I look out the window!! Now, don’t kid yourself, there is still quite a bit of snow because we got so much of it a couple of weeks ago, but still… grass! In the middle of January! We also got a couple of days of fog. It was so thick that you couldn’t see in front of you more that about ten feet. I was scared to death walking to work on Monday/Tuesday.

In other offline news… I got my new ceiling fan finally put up! It only took ten months since I bought it last March. My sister and her boyfriend came over last night so that I could help her setup her new cellphone (She got the new LG Chocolate in red… very cute!) and Luke decided to tackle my fan. I was so happy to get the other ugly one down. It was left by the previous owners. It was light blue with little star stickers all over it. Not my style. I got a really nice sleek black one with glass blub covers. Very much my style.

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Isn’t it amazing how there is a whole month of holiday build up for two days of excitement that ends quicker than the blink of an eye? Looking back on the holidays now, I gotta ask, where it all went?

Christmas Eve was spent at my grandparents for our traditional family potluck. We brought Texas Potatoes and damn, were they ever good. There was so much good food that night. My aunt made this really amazing dish with tomatoes and cauliflower. It was such a simple dish but so mouthwatering. I’ll have to remember to get the recipe from her and post it here.

Unfortunately, my sister had to work on the big day, so she couldn’t stay over at my house. Christmas Day just felt very weird without her. It was more or less just a normal morning… with presents. My mom and I opened up all our gifts and then went to my grandparents again for more present opening. I got tons of new stuff, it was ridiculous. A new printer with a built-in flat-bed scanner, the new Keith Urban cd (listening to it now ), tons of angels for my collection and tons of Toronto Maple Leafs memorabilia are just some of the gifts that I received. I admit, I got quite spoiled.

New Years’s Eve was a blast of course, spent out in the middle of nowhere at my friend Nicole’s place. There was about 16 of us and we partied till the wee hours of the morning. Seriously… crawling into bed at 6 am is only fun when you are too intoxicated to barely notice the time.

I must admit that I don’t really have any New Year’s resolutions this year. For years, I have made a list of them, but I think this year I am just going to let things fall where they may and hope for the best. Do you have any resolutions this year that you hope to succeed with?

I barely spent any time online over the holidays. That would be why I’m trying to cram my entire holiday recap into one blog without boring everyone to death.

How did everyone else’s holiday go?

PS. Just wanted to give a shout out to my home girl Little Lisa!

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I mentioned that I would post this recipe mentioned in my last entry, so here it is. I definitely recommend this to anyone who likes rich, cheesy foods.

Ingredients:

• 2 (750 g) bags of CAVENDISH Hashbrowns
• 2 (500 mL) tubs of SEALTEST Sour Cream
• 2 (284 mL) cans of CAMPBELL’S Soup (Cream of Chicken or Mushroom)
• 1 (520 g) block of BLACK DIAMOND Mild Cheese shredded (split in half)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a bowl, mix together sour cream, cream soup and one half of the cheese.
• Pour this mixture over the hashbrowns in a roast pan and mix everything together. Sprinkle the other half of the cheese on top of this mixture.
• Put this into the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Stirring at least once in.

PS. You don’t have to use those exact brands. I just wrote them out because they are what I usually use and I wanted to link to some nutritional facts for them.

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Every year, my mom and I always have our annual Christmas party on this Sunday in December with a small group of family and/or friends. It’s just an intimate gathering of great people with great food and a chance to open a couple of your very first Christmas presents that year. I always enjoy myself and love spending the day cooking our famous dish of Texas Potatoes (will post recipe later!). But of course, things can’t always go so smoothly. Like this year.

I woke up this morning to white. Literally white snow everywhere. My tiny town is in the midst of a gigantic snowstorm. None of our guests want to travel in it and who can blame them? I’m staying inside for the day myself. But it just really throws a damper on the whole day. And my mom and I don’t even have the ingredients for the potatoes as we were going to go get them all this morning. So I can’t even cheer myself up by making a hot and gooey batch of the best potatoes on the planet.

Ever had a Christmas holiday plan go awry due to weather? It’s kind of ironic that Christmas is in the winter. The days when you should be spending time with family and friends but sometimes can’t due to the overwhelming mounds of snow that Mother Nature feels the need to pour down on us.

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That would be me. You may remember me as Braeden. While today I’m here to tell you that Braeden was an online alias, created to keep my mom from acting paranoid when I used the internet. Of course, she asked me to use a fake name back when I was 14 (almost nine years ago!) but I had been continuing to use it. The reason: I was familiar with that name online. People already knew me as Braeden and I had been creating websites under the alias, so it just seemed best to keep with it. Plus I liked how it sounds.

But alas, here I am, announcing to my online world that my real name is Ashleigh. Why? I just felt it was finally time to shed the alias. At times, I’ve even confused myself with who was who. Especially since a friend of mine offline also used an alias online and we sometimes even gave each other Christmas gifts using our online names. Weird, I know.

You are probably wondering about the new domain as well? I just decided that when I dropped the alias, I would need a fresh start. I have been a huge Jack’s Mannequin for a really long time and one of my favorite songs by them includes the words remove my splinters. It’s cute and I like it. I know you were probably expecting some long explanation about why I chose this name and how it makes me feel and blah blah blah. I’m afraid there isn’t one. I just like the name. End of story.

I am extremely tired from spending the last three days working on this site. I have been learning about the benefits of a Strict document type and trying to train myself to code in XHTML. I gotta say, it hasn’t been as easy as I thought it would be. I definitely like the fact that Strict has more rules to follow. It is so much easier to stay organized with. But it definitely takes time to get used to. And when you change over from Transitional, you really see that the coding you used before to style a layout won’t work anymore. So, the last couple of days I’ve been literally retraining myself on everything I thought I knew about web design. And I plan to keep learning. A List Apart is my new best friend.

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Things have been so beyond hectic lately. All of my websites are suffering. I’m having to close a few or step down as coweb. It sucks, but I just don’t have the time anymore. School started back for me and I also started to look for a job hardcore. So it has been rather crazy. But I finally succeeded in finding a job. I got hired at my local grocery store, in the deli/prepared food department. So yay for that! I actually just got hired on Friday. Tomorrow is my first day of work and I am a little nervous. It has been so long since I had a real job, other than teaching the Babysitting Course, which is also starting again next week. Gah! But I should be fine.

I am going through my websites and really looking at each one. Really deciding if I want to continue with it. I have very limited time now, so cutting back is the only option. FerreraFan.com is staying. I couldn’t close it if I tried. It is my baby. My hockey/sports site is still being decided upon. I really don’t want to toss it, seeing as how it has still yet to open, but it is a huge undertaking and the fact that I’m going to be doing a lot of evening shifts cancels out me watching a lot of the games I normally do. We will see about that site. I already junked my Channing Tatum fansite (it hadn’t opened yet). I came to the realization that there are already enough great resources for it and my half-assed attempt wouldn’t be necessary. I just emailed Jenny from Sophia Bush Central to step down as coweb. And I think I’m going to close my designs site. At least for now. I don’t have the time to work on my own websites that much, let alone other people’s websites. Plus I’m gonna be making money with my new job, so the little amount I did make with designs isn’t too important now.

All this tossing is just so draining. Seeing that work flushed down the toilet really sucks. But I guess in the end, it will be worth it because then I can dedicate my little free time to stuff that is really important.

I miss all my online friends. I rarely get on messengers anymore as I find them very distracting when I am trying to accomplish something on my fansites. It’s a vicious cycle.

Anyways, I’m off to bed. Up early for my first shift! Wish me luck…

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What a week. I feel so drained from all the crap. I haven’t had any time to blog. I have been so busy online and offline. Okay, so here’s a breakdown.

August 20
4:10am: Wake up to hear my younger sister screaming and crying downstairs. Both my mom and I jump out of our beds and race downstairs. We find out that her boyfriend (whom she recently moved in with) has went on another coke bender and has freaked out. Kicking in the mirrors on her car, throwing her down the stairs. Just being an all around asshole. But who isn’t while on cocaine?
7:00am: Wake up from the shitty sleep I have had since my sister returned home to see my mom on the phone with my aunt. She is asking them to come in and help us move my sister home. I get dressed and get ready for the move.
7:30am to 9:30am: Go to her apartment and start packing her stuff. Her boyfriend is pleading with her to stay. He’s all cracked out. One of his friends is there, who actually tried to prevent us from coming in by blocking the door with his body, but was no match for my mom who pushed the door open. Haha. This guy just more or less sat around while we moved my sister out.
10:30am: Back at home with all of my sisters stuff. Trying to find places for it. My aunt is calling around for apartments listed in the papers. My sister doesn’t want to move back home now that she has had a taste of being on her own. We hear about an apartment that is available. My aunt knows the owner and may be able to get her the place.

The rest of the day is spent lazing around because we are all exhausted from not sleeping and then moving. My sister has A LOT of stuff. Haha.

Monday through Friday
It was just extremely hectic. My sister’s boyfriend has been calling non-stop pretty much. I’ve been trying to catch up on all my websites and design orders as I will be starting back to school soon and won’t have as much free time. Plus I’ve been calling the bakery all week to find out if the permanent part-time position is still available and when they will be interviewing. I finally find out on Thursday that it is already filled. Nice… Didn’t even get called for an interview. Time to start back at square one.

My sister also goes to see the apartment my aunt mentioned. She plans to move in with a family friend. He’s a male and a total redneck. Haha. But he will keep things mellow and be there for protection in case her boyfriend tries anything. So they move in this Friday coming. Which I am sure will be hectic again. But I’ll be happy because I can finally have my room and computer room back. Haha. Her stuff is everywhere and it has been so frustrating.

August 26
My mom, sister and I woke up for 7am. We have to head to another city for our nephew’s birthday party. My sister grew up knowing this girl. They were best friend’s all through school. Anyways, she is like a sister to us. So when she got pregnant, we automatically started calling her new son our nephew. But anyways, it was his second birthday. So we drove to where he lives which is about two hours away. Then spent time helping her get ready for the party and playing with him. Then the party where about 40 of her relatives showed up with all their children. So by the end of the party I was just so drained. We then had to drive back home, which of course took another two hours.
My sister and I then had the bright idea to do some drinking. We got wine and coolers. Wine makes me very sleepy though, so on top of already being exhausted, the wine did not help. Haha. Although it was very good. We polished off a huge bottle of Strawberry Zinfandel. And some Strawberry Swirl coolers. It was a strawberry kinda night.

So this week has just been so hectic. And next weekend doesn’t look all too bright, what with helping my sister move to her new place. So I’m hoping this week is kinda mellow. Haha. Although I doubt it.

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Crap. Yep, that pretty much sums up how I feel right now. Or how I’ve felt all day. I was up til 2am last night, well technically this morning, and then when I went to bed I had a restless sleep. I finally fell into a good sleep and slept til 12 noon. Blah! I hate sleeping in so late. Even if I was up late. It just screws up my internal clock and I’m all whacked out for the whole day.

I’ve spent the day on and off the computer. Doing various website things. Tomorrow I gotta get down to business and do some design work. I have one design order already been paid for so that is first on my list. The other stuff can wait a bit until I receive payment for it. I want to do a new layout for my design site as well. It needs a new look.

I’ve been rather busy with other website stuff lately that my sports fansite has sorta been shelved. I’m just putting it on the back burner for a little while until I can get most of my other websites up to par. Or even running. Haha. It will get done though, so don’t you be fretting.

I really hope that I get a call from the bakery this week about an interview. I’m crossing my fingers like crazy because I *really* need a job. Not just for the money but also to get me off my butt and out of the house. This summer has been so boring. I can’t wait to either start working or to go back to school. Whichever comes first. Hopefully working. *Hoping Hoping Hoping*

Not having a job sucks. Not having money sucks.

I will leave you with those words of wisdom!

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So I decided that I wanted to do some fun stuff with my blog. Not just boring old posts. So I was surfing around some lj journals and decided to try a few of the memes I’ve seen. So I’ll be doing some every once in awhile. Watch for these, they are fun!

Gakked from Holli

If you had your choice of fictional character, who would you choose to be the following:

01. Who is your best friend? Brooke Davis (One Tree Hill) and Izzie Stevens (Grey’s Anatomy) Weird age differences but meh.

02. Who is your mother? Rose Abbott (Everwood)

03. Who is your father? Keith Mars (Veronica Mars)

04. Who is your older sibling? Brandon Walsh (90210) Younger sibling? Delia Brown (Everwood)

05. Who is your prom date? LJ Burrows (Prison Break) Hee. He is too cute.

06. Who do you have a no-strings-attached one-night stand with? Dean Winchester (Supernatural) Yum! Treats that car with tender/love and care, what do you think he could do if he was horny…

07. Who do you date for a year or two? Alex Karev (Grey’s Anatomy)

08. Who do you marry? Michael Scofield (Prison Break) Such an intellectual mind. I could settle for no less. Oh ya, and the rocking body with the hot tat. That too. Hee.

09. Who is your boss? Karen Roe (One Tree Hill) Opening a Karen’s Cafe/TRIC website.

10. Who is/are your next door neighbor(s)? Haley James-Scott/Nathan Scott (One Tree Hill) and Addison Shepard (Grey’s Anatomy)

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So my sister officially moved out today. She has been talking about it for the last week, but she actually moved all her stuff out. My mom, sister and I had a huge fight last week. Just about everything really. We have all been getting on each others nerves a lot lately, and it sort of exploded. It was mainly just me and her fighting with my mom sort of trying to keep the peace. But anyways, my sister threatened to move out and I told her to pack her bags, that I was sick of her… So she did. But don’t worry, we worked it all out. She came by two days later and we all talked. She decided that she needed to still move out, develop some independence but it is on good terms now. We have been helping her pack and move everything for the last week. But all the furniture went today, so it is now official. It is just me and my mom at home now. And within the next couple of years, I will be moving out so then it will just be her. My sister and I will probably have to buy her a bird or something for company. Aww, that’s a sad thought. We are all pretty close so this has been a pretty huge adjustment. It is going to take some getting used to.

Anyways, so now that she has taken the last of her stuff, I can get started on cleaning her room. I’m going to turn it into a computer room. Right now, my computer is sorta crammed into the storage room, with my computer on one side and all the storage stuff on the other. So once I move the computer into her old room, my mom and I are going to organize the old storage room back into a storage room. And I’ll have so much more room. I have a computer desk, file cabinet, tower platform, my computer chair and an extra chair for guests. Plus all my books and notepads and accessories. And it is all crammed into one corner of the storage room, so I can’t wait to be able to spread out. I’m actually getting a new desk. Bigger! Well, new to me. My aunt needs a smaller one and I want a bigger one so we are gonna do a switch. The reason I want a bigger one is because my computer and accessories already take up a huge chunk of my current desk. I have no room to do homework or anything. So with this bigger one, I will finally be able to do other stuff unrelated to using a computer.

In other news, my online friend Jesilou got to meet Jose Theodore recently. I gotta say I am beyond jealous. But she did provide lots of pictures and even video, so I am quite satisfied. He lived up to his potential as well, which rocks. I love hearing about celebs/athletes who are decent in person as well. I can’t stand when they turn out to be jerks. My sister Vicki actually recently got to meet Tori Spelling. She was in my town (Woah! Crazy, eh? Little town of ours the location for a tv movie!) and she went to a local bar one night with Dean and some friends and my sister happened to be there. If I hadn’t been in my pajamas and ready to turn in for the night, I would of been down there in a second. So anyways, my sister called me all in a frenzy, and I told her to ask for her autograph. So after some well placed shots of alcohol, my little sister walked over and asked… for a picture. Haha. Which we aren’t even sure will turn out because her camera didn’t flash or something. I’m not sure what happened exactly, but we will see once she develops the film. I’ve tried to get her to buy a digital, but she is very un-high-tech and refuses. Her trusty old camera has never let her down, so why fix something that isn’t broke. Haha. Ya… But anyways, I guess Tori was un-Tori and was a little snotty. My sister said she couldn’t find her arm either. Haha. That must read weird… My sister went in for the hug to take the picture and said she almost couldn’t find her arm. She was so skinny. And this coming from my size 3 sister.

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The season schedule was released today!

Lots of matchups between the Leafs and the Sens, and Leafs and the Canadiens. Can’t wait to see my two favorite Eastern Conference teams go head to head. The Leafs versus the Canes! Of course I want the Leafs to win those, but I’d be satisfied either way. I’m not sure about my Canuck love right now. The Sedin twins are like the only players left who I liked. Alex Auld, Danny Cloutier, Ed Jovanovski, and of course Todd Bertuzzi. All been traded.

And Marty Havlat. Guess I’m gonna have to follow him to the Blackhawks. I don’t think I’ve ever caught a Blackhawk game before in my life. They meet with the Leafs once this season. I’m gonna miss him as a Sen. *Not a Sens fan, for those who don’t know me well, but like to catch their games because there are a few players I just adore.*

I’ll probably be trying to catch A LOT more hockey then usual this season. With my sports fansite, I’ll need to be keeping up on more than just my favorite teams.

Anyways, off to do some fansite work. Be back soon ya’ll.

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