The good thing about having such routine days is that they just sort of blur together and before I know it, it's the end of the week. Of course, on the flip-side, it also means I've been feeling quite listless. For the most part my days are get up too early, go to work, do work, eat lunch, do work, come home, eat dinner, tidy the kitchen, go to bed, repeat. It's so boring but I don't really have time to do anything else. A bit frustrating and a little scary to think once I'm done with school, that'll probably be my life from here on. :(

I remember when I was a little kid, everyone was always like "MAN I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL I'M AN ADULT SO I CAN DO MORE STUFF" and I just sat there thinking, "damnit I'm growing up DO NOT WANT" because I knew it'd suck. :( It does. Lmfao I kinda miss being a kid. I miss having summer vacations. *sigh* But I guess mundane routine is better than a lot of alternatives so I can't really complain.

So yeah there were two 11+ hour work days this week. x_x; idk what the deal was but dad wasn't ready to leave until 6ish on Tuesday and Thursday so I was stuck there. Made up for it a bit by leaving really early (12:45!) today but it still really sucked. :( I got fairly caught up with my work though so that was nice.

Um... yeah, wow that really is all I have to talk about. I should go back to cleaning my room (it's been horrible ever since May) but I cleared most of the clothes off the floor and now can't be bothered to organize my Pokemon collection (which is in random areas all over my room x_X) so it's on hold. I should play Dirge of Cerberus since I promised Sawah I would but ffff I have no drive to play anything right now. I wanna watch stuff but Sailor Moon is still downloading (omg 3 weeks to finish at this rate x_X) and I don't feel like veoh'ing it and I'm actually caught up on everything else wtf. :( so instead I am sitting here alternately refreshing PC and staring at the ceiling. Fun stuff, lemme tell you.

			Situated: My bed Currently: Blah Listening to: The 13th Side - Takehiko Yamada [Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections] Current Tags: job

I don't update this enough and I really should. I guess I'm just not doing anything interesting and anything notable enough to get a mention is stuff I don't really feel like talking about or else I've said enough on twitter.

( I'm nervous though, so I'm venting. TMI and tl;dr below the cut. )

Uhhhm what else of interest has happened in the last while...? screw it. Point form here we go!

→ Mom got her new car the other week. It's nice. I got to drive it (most of the way) home from the car dealership. I wasn't a fan of the colour but it's growing on me. My dad and I have named it BFTZ (pronounced Biftiz, sorta) because those are the first four letters on the license plate and we love pronouncing license plates and that is an awesome one. We took the BFTZ to work today 'cause mom was home recovering from having a tooth extracted yesterday.

→ I've been waiting every so impatiently since May 30th for my copy of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days to arrive. Some bitch nearly spoilt it for me on deviantART. It was very hard to not download a ROM to my R4 but I prevailed and it finally arrived last night. I LOVE IT AAAAAAH. Gameplay is fun and Marluxia is in it omggg. He teaches you how to fight (or rather, stands there looking *fabulous* with his hand on his hip as you get swarmed by heartless and are nearly dead). And has gotten like 50x gayer. He runs funny. But when he's actually helping you he's probably the most useful partner I've had so far. XD; We had a wonderful time trying to beat this one stupid boss. I bet he hated me for that because my strategy was just horrible. But enough fangirling (for now).

→ They want me to work five days a week at work. BAAAW. I worked 5 days this week and I'm ready to collapse. But... money is money so I'll probably take the offer. I hope this doesn't burn me out. (It probably will.)

→ I need to sell some stuff to make money. :( I really want a new computer since my HP is a piece of shit. I got internet working on it the other day by reconfiguring my linksys router with custom firmware to turn it into a wireless switch but it worked for a day and then stopped and I'm not reconfiguring every time I turn that thing on so it's basically acting as a paperweight right now.

→ Snagged the username "lightningism" on facebook. I'll probably regret that one day since I changed right at midnight and could've picked a plethora of names but oh well. It's only FB. Not like I ever use it anyway lolol.

→ goddamn I'm tired. And it's only 1 AM. Hahaha. Gotta get up earlyish to pick up my prescription for Sunday and then clean up a bit before Dean gets here. He's coming over around 1 to pick up his copy of 358/2 and then sticking around to play. omggg I can't wait to try out multiplayer.

→ I need a new LJ layout. :|

			Situated: Bedroom, falling asleep as I type ack Currently: Nervous ._. Current Tags: gaming:kingdom hearts, gaming:nintendo, health:endo, internet, job, tech:laptop, whining

Today was so strange!

I was cleaning up the basement last night and I finished around 11:30, so I was in bed by midnight. It's not uncommon for me to fall asleep much later than that so I didn't think much of it. I felt awful in the morning and slept in 20 minutes after my dad woke me up (oops) but then I got up and we went to work.

I was training a Guy today. His name was Guy. He's doing my job for the 4 days I'm gone this week and next so apparently I had to train him? I still don't think it was really needed but whatever. :[ I had nothing to do for the first long while and then when he got the hang of things, I got a new task from the woman who runs accounts payable. I was... so tired I couldn't do it. Like, seriously. I sat there and was literally falling asleep. I only ever feel that way when I hit the 24-hour mark when I stay up all night. It was crazy.

Since I was absolutely useless and falling asleep anyway, I ended up just deciding to take my lunch break early so I could sleep. So I shoved everything on my desk to the side, set my phone to go off at 1, and rest my head in my arms and promptly fell asleep. @_@; I was woken up twice--once by dad who thought I was crying or something when he walked by so he put his hand on my shoulder and scared the crap out of me omg XD and another by Guy asking how to use the photocopier. I woke up around 12:45 on my own and with a glance at twitter, saw I'd only rested like 20 minutes. I felt a lot better though so I went across the street, grabbed a hot dog and a coke, and came back.

And proceeded to do basically all of what took me an hour and a half to figure out while tired in like 15 minutes. Kick ass. We solved a few problems, I made some neat lists, and then we went home. I'm sure I looked like a model employee while I sat there sleeping but I wouldn't taken all day to do that stupid thing otherwise. /sigh

Now I just have to clean up my room again, make dinner, figure out wheretf Audy is gonna sleep, etc. I should get to it!

			Situated: Family room Currently: Tired Listening to: Brynn is playing Halo really loud :( Current Tags: job

Whoo, first week of work is over. :>

That job would srsly be the best ever if the early mornings weren't so... so... early. :( Getting up at 7 instead of 6 today (sometimes production starts later on Fridays so we head in later) was so much better. I got as much sleep as usual since I'm smart and stayed up like 4 hours later than I intended but I wasn't tired at aaaaall. (Well maybe just a little bit.) Work was fine today, aside from the boring parts where there was nothing to do, and then at lunch dad and I went out for sushi. I had a rainbow roll and tempura udon and OMG SO MUCH FOOD. lmao I didn't think there would be so much but there was and I ate as much as I could and it was good. ;~;

Not much else. Yay GS remakes, I guess. I think the names are retarded but they'll probably grow on me. So long as the acronym is GSDS for this iteration rather than HGSS, I can deal.

Oh, thanks for the votes on my poll, guys. It looks like I'll be playing Persona 3 first. XD I got through April when I started playing it at some point last year buuut I think I'm probably going to restart when I dig out the PS2 to play it this time around. I don't remember much of anything and I wasn't too far anyway so... yeah. I'll be giving it another try whenever my component cables come in from Monoprice. :D (I already have some but they don't carry the voice sound channel to my speakers so... so idk, I'll try another set. o_O)

Also also also... 2 weeks until Anime North. ♥ I've got to round up the people who're coming into a group convo so we can hammer out those final details. DON'T LET ME FORGET, GUYS.

For now.................... brb playing more Picross. >_>

			Situated: .......ON MY BED WHAT A SURPRISE Currently: Excited :3 Listening to: Dad mowing the lawn lol Current Tags: food, gaming, gaming:nintendo, gaming:pokemon, job

On Monday I got around 5-6 hours of sleep and by the end of the work day I was just dying of tired. Last night I had SUCH problems getting to sleep. I don't think I managed to doze off for a "decent" length of time (ie more than 20 minutes) until like 3 AM. Yet overall I've barely been tired today. It's really weirding me out but at least I know I'll be ready for bed muuuch earlier today. @_@

Not much of interest to say except I am shamelessly and hopelessly addicted to Picross oh my god. :( It's like all I've been doing aside from work and minimal sleep in the last 24 hours. I... I don't even know WHY it's so addicting. I wasn't even decent at it until this morning when some technique I can't even explain dawned on me, ahaha.

I need to start a new RPG soon to clear out my backlog but I am horribly indecisive and I won't even listen to Fortune Cookie on Backloggery, it seems. But I love my friends so I'll listen to you because unlike a cookie you can bother me over and over asking if I've finished whatever game is chosen. Everyone vote!

Poll #1396024 rpggame
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

What RPG should I start/finish next?

...if you are vehemently against all of these, suggest something else from my unfinished list here lmao.

ooh, new episode of chi is out. \o/

			Situated: ...I'm always on my bed these days. Currently: Okay 8| Current Tags: gaming, gaming:nintendo, job, poll

Well, first off, it was my first day of work today. I was pretty tired all day yesterday so I managed to get to bed around midnight and I don't think I was awake when 1 AM hit. Thus I actually got a nearly-acceptable amount of sleep and I wasn't completely dead when I got up at 6:10. Work went well. I somehow haven't forgotten a thing so I was able to jump right in and get back to business pretty quickly. Got about 30 minutes of overtime in because dad took forever getting ready to go. I'll be working 4 days a week and tomorrow is my first off day, haha. (Dad's golfing tomorrow and wouldn't be able to bring me in.) I kinda missed it there. My dad and I had an office chair fight for a bit. :')

Anyway, aside from that not much else is new. Looking forward to Anime North. :] I'm actually really excited for this month. Mother's Day is this weekend and while I haven't actually thought of what to get mom, we always have a nice dinner that day so yaaay. The week after is a long weekend. We've got nothing planned but extra days off are always welcome. (Mind you, work is going to be SO BUSY in the next bit while liquor stores stock up for the May long weekend. >_<) Then ANIME NORTH the week after and I don't even have to explain that one. Then the week after that? 358/2 Days comes out and will be on its way to me. :> May is just awesome whooo.

All that out of the way, I'm kind of curious eljay. What's with Dreamwidth? I know everyone's migrating (even though everyone did that with Inksome and something else too and then came right back to LJ) but why? I can't imagine it's great for RPing or even all that great for fostering community discussion since from what I can tell even making communities needs a stand-alone invite code. Is it just so everyone can snag an awesome name and then forget about it? Is anyone using it for something other than their LJ (ie, posting art, fic, etc.)? Is everyone cross-posting? What's the deal? :( I wanna keep up with you guys but I'm not paying $3 for a month of paid time* just to get an account and apparently they're stingy with the invites so... idk. ._.;

* unless I know I'd actually have a reason to be on there for a whole month at least lmao

			Situated: Sitting on my bed Currently: Good, albeit very tired Listening to: Pokemon. Trying to catch Giratina. 8| Current Tags: anime:conventions, internet, job

It's 5 AM, I'm not really too terribly tired. Haven't slept yet since I ended up just cleaning my room and throwing stuff out. Haha, I'm a horrible packrat but at least now I've started to forget why the hell I even have half of my stuff so if I don't remember the significance, I toss it. Gonna finish up tomorrow and then I'll have my 2 weeks of ~clean room~ before I go back to my old toss-everything-on-the-floor habits.

The worst part is... in two days, in an hour's time, I'll be waking up for work. FFFFFFFFFFF do not want! Well, I want the job, but not the hours. Ugh, I'm not a morning person so these 6 AM wake ups and 7 AM starting times are just... just... ick. Doesn't help that summer is the big time for the beer industry. I'm gonna be so busy and I'll probably end up working 5 days a week. Well, could be worse. :( I'll deal, though my already-sparse activity is just gonna plummet I bet. baaaw.

idk what I'm still doing up. Stiiiill not too tired but I think we're doing a big house cleaning this weekend (if my parents remember what they said, at any rate) so chances are I'll be woken up in about 5 hours and... LOL OKAY I HEAR BIRDS. That's my cue to get the hell to bed omg.

			Situated: Sitting on my bed Currently: Awake. >:| Listening to: Birds >8| Current Tags: i don't know, job

Ugh, okay I need to get out of this not-updating funk. :| To be fair, though, I did try to do a voice post last week and the Canadian LJ number wasn't working. fffffff. But jeez, only three entries this month what the heck.

→ School's over. Final exams went okay but idk about the courses themselves, haha. Thinking of maybe taking some time off school. Depends how this summer goes with work, maybe. I just do not want to have to deal with my medical issues in another school term again. Being high on painkillers over and over in the middle of a school term just throws me off and makes it so hard to get back on track.

→ Got a job back at the microbrewery my dad works at. Lucked out and managed to get a job assisting with accounting again thank god. Didn't wanna work in the plant and if it had come to that, I probably would've started looking elsewhere. Of course this means I'll be getting up at 6 AM everyday starting next week.

→ It's nice being home. I'm kinda rearranging my room a bit. Well, I was but then I got my Pokémon collection mainly set up and my desk moved near my bed and set up my computer and monitor and... and I kind of forgot about the rest. XD Will finish this week though, haha.

→ I dunno what's up but I haven't been well rested in ages. Mom says it's because I'm just overtired after the exam period but I'm not sold on that. It's just... I've been getting enough sleep (ie sleeping between 7 and 9 hours and waking up on my own), getting too much sleep, getting too little sleep, etc. I can wake up and not be sleepy but I'm so tired and listless these days. I have so little energy. :( I dunno if it's the insomnia kicking in (because I haven't been taking my hormone pills--heat flashes returned too) or something else entirely. It's bugging me and I think my parents are getting kind of annoyed by it too. ._.

→ There was a windstorm/thunderstorm last night and man it was crazy. It didn't SEEM that windy while my mom and I were out driving home but omg we got home and noticed a tree in my neighbour's front yard had fallen down blocking one side of their driveway. O_O; Then we noticed a tree in *our* backyard fell down. Then this morning we woke up and found that a huge tree in the neighbour's house across the street eventually fell over too. XD; It's crazy.

Okay I think that's about it. Not much else of interest to say, I think. I wanna go back to bed.

			Situated: Bedroom Currently: Tired Listening to: TTGL Movie: Gurren-hen Current Tags: family, health, job, university, university:exams, weather

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day.

♥ CHRISTMAS EVE. Even though it still doesn't feel like it. Well, the "OH GOD WE HAVE TO WRAP GIFTS" thing feels like it but... XD;

♥ I got to sleep in this morning! Until 7:25 AM!!

♥ I got to leave work early today! We left at noon. :D

♥ My boss gave me a preseeeeent. It's a pretty picture holder thingy.

♥ Our tree is... somewhat decorated. :D Good enough, anyway.

♥ Dinner was good, even if completely unplanned. XD;

♥ Bought/downloaded the MGS level pack for Little Big Planet! XD I LOVED THE PLOT FOR THEM OMG. I lol'd heartily.

♥ I got failriot's card today!! :D Thank you!

♥ static_anomaly is making me a siiiiig. :DD

Um. We're doing our traditional "open one present on Christmas Eve" thing in about 15 minutes when mom wakes up. Even though, tbh, we're all almost ready for bed anyway. I haven't decided which gift to open yet, though. I guess whichever one looks like new pyjamas. :[

WELL ANYWAY I should get back to my annual Christmas puzzle. 8|

			Situated: Family room Currently: Good~ Listening to: Family Guy Current Tags: christmas, family, friends, job, meme

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day.

♥ Got my deposit notice or whatever at work today. I made over $800 in the last two weeks. :3

♥ Played some LBP with Rockets from PC. XD It was fun even if I suddenly sucked at it and my internet was shaky.

♥ I found a spoon at work! XD; For those who follow me on Twitter you probably saw my spazzing when I didn't have a fork for my lunch but dad found me a spoon and I was able to eat. :DD

We still don't have our Christmas tree decorated. I got kinda sick of it so I put some Pokémon plushies in it to sort of spur my parents into maybe doing something about it but it hasn't yet. XD; I'd decorate myself but augggh my arm is killing me. ;_;' I really hope we can do this tomorrow though. <_<; KIND OF WANT A DECORATED CHRISTMAS TREE ON CHRISTMAS, Y'KNOW? Tomorrow, dad and I are heading into work a little later. I get to sleep in!! ♥ Just for an hour or so but that's still awesome. Plus we're leaving no later than 1 PM, he said, so yaaaay. \o/

			Situated: Bed. XD; Currently: Tired Current Tags: christmas, gaming:ps3, job, meme