I’ve probably complained about it in passing before, but oh well. Now, every time I turn on the news (yes, I’m insane enough to actually watch it), I cringe and flip channels. The top three storiees, more or less, never cease to not surprise me. Front page usually consists of: Iraq–someone’s threatening or killing or kidnapping someone, Isreal/Palistine–rocket attack, retaliatory suicide bombing, shelling, wash, rince, repeat, and the US screaming bloody murder about both stories–Bush is picking up where his daddy and Clinton left off with the talking tough and doing absolutely as little as possible to actually prove a point. It wouldn’t bother me quite so much if I lived in the US–I’d probably expect to hear about it all kinds of often, then. But I live in Canada, and the back and forth jabbering on about it doesn’t involve us. So why’s the Canadian media focusing almost entirely on it? Yeah, we have troops over there. We had troops in Bosnia, too, and in Cyprus, and they didn’t get this kind of coverage. We don’t have troops in Isreal and that, so are they just using that to fill up space on the front page? I’m a huge patriotism nut at times, I’ll freely admit that. But damn… at least talk about something we can be patriotic about, if you’re gonna yammer on and on for bloody ever anyway. Like… I dunno… something local, rather than half a world away where if we’re lucky we have 3 citizens!
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Headlines are now a source of irritation.
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What crappy Christmas gift are you?
So it isn’t Christmas yet. Big flippin’ deal.
You Are a Losing Lottery Ticket!
Full of hope and promise.
But in the end, a cheap letdown.
Why didn’t the thing just say “You’re a piece of shit!”? LOL
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Another bloody BBQ…
I’m gonna be BBQ’d all the hell out by the end of next month at this rate. So far we’ve had 3 this month, and we’re supposed to have one on Canada day. I should not be allowed to socialise this much… it’s bad for me, I swear. At least I stayed out of the alcohol this time. I’ll make up for it on Saturday, though… gonna go buy me a case on Friday, and I plan to have it at least 3/4 gone by midnight Saturday. Yay party! And now, with the calendar and such up on the site, there’s no need to be asking me what I’m up to.. it’s all self-explained. Because I’m all for making things obvious. Now, if I can just make some money so I can go back to college, where the obvious actually does me some good.
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Happy early birthday to me.
For a crazy old lady, My grandma still rocks plenty. It’s still almost a week before my birthday, but she already gave me my present. Yeah, I know, I’m 23 fucking years old in a week and don’t need presents. Well, I’m not about to tell her no.. especially when she sticks $20 in a card and calls it a birthday present. So instead, part of that $20 will go towards coffee tomorrow morning, or whenever it is we get around to getting out and doing things. Hm… which, come to think of it, probably won’t be tomorrow morning, or tomorrow at all. Because I’m still lazy as fuck, even though I now have money for caffeine. Including stocking my fridge who’s caffeine supply has been drained now for… hm. At least 3 days. How I managed to stay conscious without my caffeine is anybody’s guess. But anyway. Birthday money will fix that. Yay grandparents who give you birthday money! … I feel like a kid. I’m gonna stop writing now before I end up making myself sound like one.
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What should you major in?
Your Scholastic Strength Is Deep Thinking
You aren’t afraid to delve head first into a difficult subject, with mastery as your goal.
You are talented at adapting, motivating others, managing resources, and analyzing risk.You should major in:
Philosophy
Music
Theology
Art
History
Foreign language
The last one told me I should be a lawyer. Ah well. I’m still too poor to do any of the above.
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One waste of a Friday night, coming up!
So, we decided to go to a party last night for some person’s wedding that I’ve never even heard of, never mind actually met, and it turned out to be more of a rehearsal for the reception than anything else. The music sucked muchly, there were speeches of all sorts I thought would never end… yeah, it was kind of rediculous. I suppose it wasn’t all bad, I mean they did serve alcohol so the speeches weren’t quite as irritatingly dull. But yeah, the next time I manage to get talked into going to a wedding thingy thing for someone I don’t even know exists, remind me to remind someone to shoot me. That was just… *bad*.
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What do people envy about you?
People Envy Your Confidence
You have the attitude and self esteem to take on anything. Failure is beyond not an option for you – it doesn’t even cross your mind.
People envy your ability to take on any challenge … and they’re secretly afraid you think you’re better than them. You don’t. You’re just sure of yourself.
Hmmm. Guess that works. =)
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Happy belated pappy’s day, pappy!
So, I finally got off my ass and got a father’s day gift and such, even if it is uberly late in coming. That’s okay, so is my dad. He’s at least coming home tonight, and leaving again at noonish tomorrow or so, so at least it won’t be to the point where I get to hear how much he doesn’t like the t-shirt he got. Then, we stopped by my uncle’s place since, you know, we were there… he of course had absolutely nothing important to say. I love my family for that–really, I do. But not really. And now, I get to do all kinds of being lazy, yet again. Hm. Maybe I’ll slap on another quiz.
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How weird are you?
You Are 60% Weird
You’re so weird, you think you’re *totally* normal. Right?
But you wig out even the biggest of circus freaks!
But I *am* normal… *sniff sniff*
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Well, that was a waste of an upgrade.
So, anyone who pays attention to half the crap I put here knows I’m blind, and use a screenreader. Specificly, this screenreader. Well, it just so happens that today they released a new version of said screenreader, and that one has more holes in it than your average program designed by AOL. It probably wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t like a lot of the new features they threw into the upgraded version of that program. But, when they break the features that already exist, work perfectly, and I use regularly, it stops being an upgrade. Ah well.. that’s why I don’t delete older versions of programs for like ever. Yay procrastination at this point.