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[08 Jun 2009|11:15pm] |
lol, this week has been surprisingly good to me.
Got 100$ Visa gift card from work for April company milestone today, and then on a whim I decided to pay off my credit card on the 5th, and they waived my usual late fee cause I paid early or some shit, went to BofA and saw they closed my Savings, which is all well and good since I probably owed them like, 50$ in maintenance fees since I hadnt deposited jack shit in months, and it looks like Wamu finally gave me that 100$ for opening a checking account, so now I has more money that I anticipated.
Yay!
Think Wamu's gonna buy me a new phone. Or shoes. Or maybe I just won't use it. But we all know how likely that is.
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[31 May 2009|11:08pm] |
New patch is doing wonders at work. CCU is going up from what I can see, and we actually made 100% of our sales goal this month (most games are lucky to hit about 90%, only downside is that it means next month's will be a lot higher, I'm betting) which is totally epic, especially considering that MT was on the brink of tanking for awhile. So pleased to see things looking up for my team.
Some trouble in GM land with some dissatisfaction on one end, and one of our teammates heading off for his Euro trip and leaving us for 3 months or so, if not for good, on the other, but I'm staying optimistic. We got a new GM on our team (we were planning to hire another for our team to replace the one leaving, but our temporary member who was supposed to be the first GM for HKO is actually staying with us) who is Japanese and therefore fluent, and she's been a major help, both with communication with our developers and helping us navigate our GM tool, which is in mostly Japanese. CAVE gets on my nerves, something fierce. She's awesome :D.
On top of that, PC Gamer just did an issue on Free to Play Online and Free games in general, and in the MMO section, MT got a huge two page spread. Awesome publicity, that. On top of that, we were thrilled to see that the article stated that it wasn't the gameplay that was so spectacular about the game, it was the GMs. That's right. We are so epic and awesome that it got mentioned in a magazine. We rock so hard.
I'm so pleased to have this job. Lots of paperwork and the hours can be gruelling and I reallyfuckinghatecommuting, but it's so worth it. Once I get most of the money I owe to various peoples and places paid back, I'm gonna work on seeing how I'm gonna juggle work and school and get a damn degree out of the way.
Plus Agent searching, plus losing weight. I r teh fatty and I r need to work teh harder.
As far as Fanime went: I have lots of pictures of FallOut3 Costumes, I promise to post when I stop sucking, and PS, I rocked Fanime so hard that I won 1st place at karaoke. And it's about damn time too.
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| FANIME PRICING UPDATES |
[21 May 2009|02:44am] |
Okay frands, since we had some last minute major adjustments, prices have been adjusted too.
So original estimate for staying at Fanime was 750$, and if I remember correctly, parking is 11$ a day or so.
So, it's gonna be about 55-60$ parking (5 days and some change depending on when we leave) and about 680$ for the hotel room for 4 nights.
So 740$.
Calculated EACH PERSON'S cost separately for the room, and it breaks down into how many nights they spend, if they're parking with us, and the cost of the vault suit supplies.
Jordan - 110$ (Hotel [3 nights])
Joya - 150$ (Hotel [3 nights], Costume [jumpsuit+supplies])
Jeremy - 205$ (Hotel [4 nights], parking, Costume [jumpsuit+supplies+puppet])
Gerardo - 185$ (Hotel [4 nights], parking, Costume [just supplies])
Which makes 580$ WITHOUT costumes included (my price estimate for costumes was 40$ for supplies and jumpsuit, so Joya and Jeremy got the 40$ (Jeremy got another 5$ for puppet materials), Gerardo got 25$ because he paid for his own jumpsuit. Supplies I bought were: Spray Paint, saftey pins, blue and yellow thread, face masks to use as knee pads, circular washer-things for construction, tubing, used all of my transfer paper (SAD FACE) and had to whip out my acrylics, faux leather fabric, x2 snaps packages and x1 package of hooks, and one package of blue and yellow bias casing per jumpsuit. All in all, about 80-100$ worth of shit, for four jumpsuits. I just want you all to know where the costs are coming from.
So 580$, and then Mel pops out her 160$, not including the money spent on costumes (which for me ended up being motherfuckinggoddammit80sumodddollaz) and that brings us to our grand total of 740$.
So basically, price increase for Gerardo and myself, Price stays the same for Joya, and Jordan pops out a little less since he doesnt have a costume, and I owe Jeremy what, 20 or 30$? Don't remember what he gave me originally. Plx inform so I can gives money back.
REASONS WHY THE PRICES CHANGED:
Joya and Jordan are not spending Thursday night with us, so they don't have to pay for that night, thus the cost is transfered to us. Jordan is spending the next three nights with us, thus he only has to pay for that. Likewise, Joya and Jordan are doing their own parking/vehicle, so that additional cost transfers over to us. The amount transfered over to us was minimal atleast (only 10$ increase over the original price, minus costume costs) because of Jordan coming along for Fri/Sat/Sunday.
NOTE:
DO BRING SLEEPING BAGS IF YOU HAS ONE. The suite only has ONE bed (a king) and a pullout. We will have a refridgerator. I also recommend bringing a pillow or ten.
ALSO NOTE:
To yonder couples: Bed-sharing will be same sex, so no, you don't get to sleep with your hunnies in the awesome giant king sized bed. Boys and girls will alternate with floor+bed/pullout.
ANOTHER NOTE:
In case it's not clear from prior note, ABSOLUTELY NO HANKY PANKY in the hotel room. The bitter single people (ie, me and Gerardo) do not want to stumble into anything. And we know how much Mel visits the hotel room. :P
YET ANOTHER NOTE:
Mel will be arriving to pick up Jeremy and Gerardo at roughly 2pm tomorrow. Plx be ready as if one person is gonna be late, it's likely to be me, so lets make it easy on Mel and have everyone else be on time and ready to go.
ONE MORE NOTE:
Joya, Mel will send you her routing number (via FaceBook or whatever) so you can wire j0r share, if Jordan has BofA, he can do it too. I don't like to ask until ya'll have come, but last year the fucking hotel bounced the payment through my account before our stay was through, so I'd like to have the full cost of the room already in my account, and while my money and Jeremy's money is in there, I don't have extra money until Friday, when I gets paid. So if you two could do that, that would be good.
Will post this to facebook as well when I get a second.
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| FANIME DETAILS MY LOVELIES! |
[17 Apr 2009|11:36pm] |
Awwwwwwwrighty bitches, here is the plan as I have it thus far:
HOTEL DETAILS
GET THESE DATES OFF WORK: May 21st through May 25th.
For our suite+parking for one vehicle for 5 days, 4 nights, we're looking at abouts 750$ total.
If we has 6 people (and by my estimation we have five OR six depending on who our six is: Myself, Joya, Gerardo, Jeremy, Kelly, and our miscellaneous 6th which may or may not be Joe or Kelly's bf Chris) we're looking at 125$ each. If we has 5 people, it'll be 150$ each.
No one but myself need worry about the inital 150$ deposit, as for the first time since like, 2006, I will have enough money to pay for it.
If you has a sleeping bag, I suggest you bring it, as our suite has a kingsized bed, a pull out (if anything like any of the other Marriott rooms, "pull out" is much too generous a term) and is not allowed roll-a-ways. I figure we can make a HUGE harem style sleeping area if we all bring one sleeping bag and a few pillows. :P
TRANSPORTATION DETAILS
Getting to Fanime, packing-wise, has never been a problem. Coming back, however, ALWAYS has been. And this year, we're definately going to have atleast five people. There is not enough room in my car for five people+all our shit on the way back, I'm sorry to say.
So, unless I suddenly find myself the owner of an SUV of somesort (and that may still be a possibility, as my daddy is looking into nagging one of his friends into selling me theirs for cheapcheapcheap) on our final day, someone is gonna have to go and get another car, or we're going to have to have two cars. That pretty much leaves Jeremy and Joya as for that, as Gerardo shares a car with his bro and my sister's is no longer in commission. So we'll have to do some planning around that, cause even if we all bring one costume and one luggage case, we're still not all gonna fit in my car. Get used to the idea that on the way back, someone else is also gonna have to drive. This, or we rent a damn car.
SWAPMEET DETAILS
I'm not entirely sure about whether or not I will participate Thursday, but I definately will be Friday. So in exchange for keeping me company (and helping me watch my space when I go sing at Karaoke) I will sell whatever shit you fools want to get rid of. SO HELP ME. <3 Thanks. I also need some manpower to lug around my shit, as I am full of sprained back and do not want to stress it too badly if I can avoid it.
COSTUMES COSTUMES COSTUMES
Okay, so we've decided on FallOut3. So, I'll need you all to stop being poor and get some money by the beginning of May for our costumes. I am gonna pretty much order a bunch of jumpsuits from e-bay and then modify them with piping and stuff, cause that's easier. I'll alter/trim yadayada them and shit too. Expect to pay about 40$ if you're doing a jumpsuit, for piping, yellow trim, iron-on shit, and a little extra fabric. I've got most of that stuff, but mostly I'll just need money for the jumpsuit+shipping, piping and trim. I may, or may not, order kneepads for the knees. Who knows.
As for latex-skin, fake blood, and general chaos make-up, no worries, I've got all that covered. Jer, you'll need to put down a dollar or two for some felt for the puppet.
IF YOU WANTS A PIPBOY: I needs to know asap so I can order more plastic. I've probably got enough PVC, but I'll definately need more modeling clay and lights and shit. I will officially start working on our costumes once I've finished with my current commissions. The jacket I'm making for one person is practically complete, I've just gotta do sleeves+collar. Another one still owes me in excess of 500$, so she'll likely get jack shit form me until she coughs up moar money, in any case, she better do it in the next few days or there is no way in hell her costume is getting done in time for her con. Another girl just needs it before June and I can give a shit less because she bailed on me halfway and has fucked me for a good amount of money, because I'm a nice girl and am not charging the dumb cunt labor. Anyway, grr. Anyway.
So I think that about covers it. If you has money problems, fret not, gief what you can and I'll pick up teh slack, mmk. Loves you all, get back to me to make sure we're all on the same page.
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[12 Apr 2009|01:34am] |
Well Ohlone royally fucked me over with my taxes.
I have gone through minor tax hell for the past few days trying to figure out how to go about this fucking 1099 form. Basically, if I'd just filed it like normal (btw, H&R Block wanted 200$ JUST for that form, lol, and turbotax didn't, but after paying for their stupid services I'd need to pay about 200$ on top of the taxes I now owe anyway) I'd owe self employment tax. Which, gasp, I'm not fucking self employed.
So basically what I got this for is:
Last year, when I worked on a Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, I was told I would be paid by different institution or whatever by Stipend for my hours on the show, AFTER the show was over. I continued my work as I had been, even got a small advance that was on my W-2 from Ohlone, and then got paid my stipend. Well stupid fucking Ohlone sent me a W-2, and then a 1099. The 1099 states that the firm/institution DOES NOT CONSIDER YOU AN EMPLOYEE. Just lol. So, I called the IRS cause I'm all like, fuck Ohlone, I'm not paying 200$ in fucking taxes and shit for this bullshit reason. And so I went through form hell, have to now file a regular 1040 instead of a 1040EZ (and btw, if I didn't get that form I wouldn't have had to file at all unless I wanted the stimulus check, which ofc I do) on top of a 8191 and a SS-8 which basically says Ohlone is a piece of shit lying organization and I was a fucking employee, not self employed or a "contractor".
Basically, I think Ohlone was trying to get out of having to pay some taxes. So I ratted their stupid fucking asses out. Cause now, even though I made under 2,500$ last year (not including my 1400$ or so grant) I have to pay 100$ in back taxes for the 1300$ stipend. And of course, since I don't get paid again until the 22nd, and the tax money is due on the 15th, I had to say FUCK YOU to all the preparers (which, btw, I am so not using ever again) and had to file my taxes on my own.
I HATE FILING TAXES. But atleast it's done now, and I only gotta fork over 100$ instead of like, you know, 200+.
I am so pissed off. :|
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[01 Apr 2009|01:05am] |
Thanks everyone who came tonight for my bday. You guys are the best. I haven't laughed so hard in months :D. And I love each and every gift I got, I'm a happy damn camper, that's for sure. Best birthday evar!
Love you guys so much <3
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[23 Mar 2009|09:23pm] |
So I've been reaaaaaal busy.
Started at Aeria, and despite the commute, I love my job. There's nothing quite like getting paid to play video games. Except that I've gone home with a massive headache just about every day from staring at the computer screen for something like 9 hours (I tend to read e-books on my lunch, go figure). The people are great, and best of all, no fucking lame ass customers to deal with, just obnoxious and semi-retarded noobs.
Working on the weekends there is hi-fucking-larious, btw. There's like three or four of us who work on the one side of the building, most of the others are on the other, and they come visit us on one of those dorky little scooters. I love it, it makes me laff. Going out to eat during lunch with all of them is fun too. I don't know a whole lot of people yet and I've already forgotten 90% of their names, but I'm having a good time.
Ironically, I'm actually putting my mild knowledge of Japanese to use, go figure. There's a lot of untranslated Japanese bullshit in our tools, and most of the GM tools we have available are IN Japanese, we have to fight our way around it. I forgot most of the Kanji I learned, but atleast I remembered all the hiragana/katakana. Once I'm done compiling and translating what I know, I'll go look up the kanji. Yay for being semi-literate.
ANYWAY: BIRTHDAY PLANS
My b-day is the last day of this month, March 31st. I have to work (figures, didn't think to request it off ofc) so I just wanna get together for dinner. I'm thinking Koi Sushi Boat, as it's tradition pretty much. 8pm, Tuesday, March 31st. Be there and give me your love, thanks. <3
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[10 Mar 2009|05:23am] |
It took freaking-for-ever but I'm finally caught up.
Fucking lame ass kinkos refused to print both my reference images and my size-scaled sniper rifle. Cause they were saved off the net and therefore copy righted. Okay, okay, I understand, really. They're not mine, I don't have permission to print them, but FFS GODDAMMIT it just makes things soooo much harder for me. I have to figure out a way to print a life size goddamn victory rifle. Otherwise, I have to sketch the fucking thing, and this is not something I really want to do.
So anyway, after being denied by Kinkos, I hung out with Jeremy for awhile, playing FallOut and bitching about kinkos a lot, and then went home to finally setup the printer Jeremy gave me. All went well until I ran into an ink cartridge problem. It's not recognizing the cyan, and I don't know if it's because the cartridge is damaged or the printer is. So I ended up having to use the free printer my dad got, which of course doesn't suit my purposes real well because the references didn't print at a high enough fucking quality. I'll have to make due, I suppose, but goddammit, it's all kinko's fault!
So five some odd hours later, all references (Except lifesize victory rifle) are printed and filed into my now designated commission folder, at which point I suddenly decide that now is as good a time as any to organize all my damn commission stuff. You never really appreciate what small business owners go through until you try and do it yourself. So, I have all my papers in order, receipts made for each commission, letters filled out with receipt ready for mailing, references filed, contract printed and filed, and now I'm just waiting to go to the post office and retrieve my damn MO from the one person, and my new check card from Wamu, since I opened that bank account. From there I'll be heading out to Joann's to try and find what I can. I'm excepting to have to take 5-6 trips for fabric on my days off. I'll try both Joann's first, and if I end up not succeeding that way, it'll be off to Fabrics-r-us (I just dont wanna drive there cause, ofc, I'm likely to get lost, otherwise it'd be my first damn choice) and if THAT fails, I'll be taking a trip down to San Fran to visit that orgasmic looking store they have there.
Alright, off to sleep for like 5h, then to Jeremy's to retrieve him to keep me company on my shopping before I go to the shitty meeting at work.
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| Cosplayyy |
[09 Mar 2009|01:15am] |
Yayyy. So I think I've found a supplier to buy my plastic from for my Victory Rifle. They have ubar cheap pipes, and I'll have to nag my dad to help me cut them, but yayyyy. I just need the rubber for certain places, bondo for others, and lots of spraypaint.
For the body of it, I think I'm going to cut it out of Sintra. Seems to be fairly good, cheap plastic that works a bit like wonderflex (heat with heatgun/oven and it becomes flexible/moldable) without the need to cover it with bondo to smooth it. I'll also likely be making my pip boy base from it as well. So atm, I think I'm gonna order a 2ftx3ft sheet, cut out what I need for the pip boy and make the rest of it for my sniper rifle.
SOOOOOOOEXICITTEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD. And Aeria is gonna give me Fanime off, unlike stupid Sears. Can't wait til next Monday!
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| Resignation in to Sears, Aeria here I come, and ZOMG COMMISSIONS AGAIN |
[07 Mar 2009|10:06pm] |
So Emilind was not happy about my quitting, as I expected. She even asked if I'd stay to work weekends (it's nice to know you're wanted) and I promptly refused since I talked with dad about possibly doing that, and we both decided that I'd go batshit insane after a month or two of no days off.
So, I'll be starting at Aeria on the 16th, and in the meantime I'll finish out my last week at Sears, so I'll be getting my next paycheck, roughly about 400$, the one for my final week, which will probably be around 130$, and then my final credit paycheck after that, which should be atleast 16$, since I've got 8 so far. I've got a week to get more, but tbh, I'm not really trying a whole lot.
Commissions are up again, and I've put a hold on accepting any more at the moment since I'll be working on a major three-costume commission consisting of two stage-esque gawdy as all hell dresses and one obscenely overdone overcoat, with a grand smacking total cost of 1350$. They're sending payments way later than I had hoped, so I'll have to bust serious ass to get them out on time, since by the time I've got 3-4 payments from each of them, I'll have less than a week or two to ship. I think their due date was mid-may or something. Anyway, so I've got those, but the first thing I need to do is order a goddamn dress form. There's a few on ebay for around 60$ish, so I'm gonna have to cave and buy one of those so I can pattern. Thankfully, one of the commissionees is about my size, so I'll probably judge the hieght of her garment off my sizes, though I'll be SOL for the waist/chest/hips since those don't really match up at all, even if they're within about 4-6 inches. Looks like I'm probably going to have to suck it up and go with modifying existing patterns since I'm without the damn dress form. So once the two payments clear I'll be taking a trip out to Jolly Ol' Joanns and pattern hunting.
Meanwhile, I'm still excited as all hell about fallout cosplay for Fanime. I'm gonna have to delay starting until April, it looks like, and get my major prop work done in April, and costumes in May.
PS
I was electrocuted today. It tingled. (And not in the good way)
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[06 Mar 2009|12:18am] |
So it looks like I'll be leaving Sears!
I got the job with Aeria and although I applied for parttime, apparently they want me fulltime, so I'll be taking that. It's 11$ an hour, which is clearly more than I make at Sears, plus benefits and bonuses, so I'm pretty happy. It's about time I found another job I can get into.
I'm kinda scared to tell Emilind I'm quitting though. She's gonna be pissssssssed. I wonder if I get to keep my associate discount card? :x
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[01 Mar 2009|01:29am] |
Phone is up and running again, you may commence calling and texting. Mostly texting, as I just wasted 5$ to buy 300 texts since they jacked up the prices on them to 0.15$ to send/receive.
Looks like I'll be making 2.5 of those costumes from that major commission I mentioned earlier. I only stand to make around 400$ or so from them, I think, but that's still a good amount of money in pocket. Which means I need to find a dress form, and FAST. And cheap. REALLLL cheap. I recieved the "signed" contract (people can't fucking read, I specifically told them to PRINT it, SIGN it, and MAIL it to me and I would sign/photocopy and send them each a copy of it but noooo they did it with text via e-mail, stupid people :|) so whatever. One person wants to trickle payments, and I'm hoping that the others don't, because I'm gonna need a heavy chunk of change to just buy fucking supplies. I've gotta figure out how I'm gonna pattern them cause easiest way would be to just drape it, you know? So FUCK. I need a dressform and an overlock like, now.
Ebay/craigslist here I come.
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| cellphone problems |
[26 Feb 2009|08:21pm] |
Hey bitches!
So first, I'm in a pretty awesome mood since so far this month, I have 46 credits. Which means my first paycheck in march is going to have atleast an extra 92$, hoping to get 4 tomorrow so I can make it an even hundred. Anyway, aside from that, I've also acquired a second interview at the other job I applied for. Very excited for next Thursday. The interview process is a little interesting there, as I met with a group of people, rather than just one person. I liked it. :)
And the other thing I wanted to write about was that my cellphone charger is busted, I think. It's not registering in my phone, so either my charger or my cellphone is toast. I don't think it's the battery because usually my phone makes a noise when it's attached to a charger or detatched, and it hasn't been so, I think either the port or the charger is fucked. Anyway, I might just buy a new damn prepaid phone, this one only cost me 20$ as it was, and I'm tired of dealing with its bullshit. Not sure what I'll be doing yet, but in either case, my phone isn't working because I can't charge the damn thing. Contact me here or e-mail.
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[22 Feb 2009|01:07am] |
I'm pretty sure the only reason I'm riding the angst train right now is cause it's that time of the month, but man, not only am I on the angst train, I'm in the one fucking driving it. Whine.
Looking into getting another job atm, hate Sears already, but I look at it as both acting experience (my levels of fakeness while working are so astronomical as not to be believed) and at the very least, a stable, if small, paycheck. I think that 90% of the reason I'm so irritated with Sears atm is I keep getting scheduled in Women's. Last week, three of my shifts were in Women's, and the other two were Men's/Home Fashions with float, so guess what? I'd end up in Women's. This week? Three out of four of my shifts are in Women's. It's frustrating on a huge amount of levels. First, Women's is by far the most hated section as a cashier. No one likes working there, because it's always got the rudest customers, the biggest messes, and in general, the most problems. Plus, credits are notoriously harder to sell there. Part of the reason is I think Women's gets the majority of repeat customers. Anyway, for the most part, I more or less dislike it there. I enjoy Men's the most, but I seem to get the most credits in Home Fashions.
Anyway, outside of that, I am looking foward to my next two paychecks, which promise to both be in the 300-400$ range. This upcomming check is gonna have around 50 hours, and the next one is going to have closer to 35-40 hours, but I'll get paid for credits on that one, and so far this month I'm getting close to 40, so I should be getting some decent money from those. Outside of that, I think my interviews have been going well for the other job I'm applying to, and I hope that the next interview goes beyond awesomely so I can snag that job as well.
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| HAY GUYS I'M A DRUG ADDICT |
[26 Jan 2009|01:38pm] |
So I went to the Hospital on Tuesday!
Turns out I was more or less wrong: It wasn't a pinched nerve or a kidney infection.
Somehow, I managed to sprain my back. How, I don't know. I don't remember doing anything that would cause it, but alas, I must have done something.
So, basically what happened after the episode at work is I was really sore the next day or two, and then on Monday night it was so bad (the back spasms and general pain) that I was laying in bed, had to pee, and when I tried to roll over I could not move or change my position without my back spasming. Those who know me know I'm not really a crier, I'm more likely to swear a shit storm than I am to cry when I'm hurt or upset, but I was bawling like a big fat baby because I was so frustrated and so in pain and so stressed out over some random fucking back spasms I couldn't identify. Anyway, I ended up getting my mom and dad's attention (mom heard me bawling) and Dad gave me a vicodin and I managed to pass out (and to go pee once the worst of the pain subsided) and the next day I was feeling okay, I guess, so I figured I could tough it out through work. So I get all ready, I start to feel kinda meh, but I'm like, whatever, I can deal with it long as I don't spasm. I get out to my car, and all I do is lean slightly to put my key in the door and BAM, back spasm. So I manage to straighten up, walk to my house while hyperventilating AGAIN, lay down, call my mom, and then get a hold of my dad who takes me to the hospital. We get there at abouts 6:30ish, and I didn't get to see a doctor until 1:30am. Yea, I waited 7 hours, it really sucked. Once I got with the doctor, it was another two and a half hours or so until I got out of there with Jen and Joe, who took me to their new pad in Oakland and I just crashed at their house, cause I'd sent my dad home at like 8:30pm cause he was in a lot of pain (joy, more inability to afford medical care) and then apparently Jen and Joe had gone to visit Jeremy at Starbucks and he'd remembered I was in the hospital (we gave him hell for not seeing me in my time of pain! but he's made up for it in the last four or five days by letting me play fallout3 at his house at all hours of the night) and then Jen and Joe had come to the hospital to see me, brought me donuts, couple hours passed they left, bought me Jack In The Box, then they came in and saw me in my hallway bed! And I was so drugged up on vicodin and muscle relaxants and I kept telling them I felt sooooo languid and stuff, it was pretty hilarious. PLUS I thought I was next to a dead guy, some fucker had a sheet pulled up over his head and I didn't know he was alive until someone came by and woke him up and wheeled him away.
In any case, I stayed with Jen the next day and she went with me to the hospital again to fill my drug prescription and apply for a financial thing that apparently paid for the hospital visit and my drugs (yay!) and then the hospital told me I could give them my pay stub and extend it for like a year, but I just called the Winton Center and they pretty much told me no, it'd be a waste of insurance if I didnt "plan" to return, but then I'm like wtf isn't that the point of insurance, "just in case"? Anyway, maybe I'll call Jen and ask to crash at her place tomorrow and I'll just go raid Highland or something.
ANYWAY, I've been more or less in a drug haze for about 5 days now, the vicodin makes me sleep like 12 hours a day, I'm on ibuprofen 24/7 until I run out, and the muscle relaxants make me feel a little slow on the uptake, but atleast I'm not in pain! <3
PS
Cosplay plans for Fanime!
Would love to do another group cosplay with G/Joya/etc, maybe bring back Phoenix Wright or something. For the most part, my plans appear to center around Fallout3 though. I'm probably going to do either the Wander's Leather Armor or the Sherrif Duster, and a Vault Jumpsuit. I've already got plans to make a semi-working pipboy. Jeremy we're thinking about making him be the Vault Boy as well as the puppet master, because the jumpsuit will be easy (just gonna buy royal blue jumpsuits, fuck em up, and put on some yellow trim, it's the belt and other technological aspects that will be a little rougher, but I wanted a more prop oriented project this time around) and cause I wanna make a vaultboy puppet.
Anyway, I'm excited to do Fallout3, because I get to do some costume distressing, some heavy makeup jobs (halloween show I love you for teaching me how to make scars and sores and a bloody mess out of my face :D I LOVE YOU LATEX) and I'm gonna try my hand at making a sniper rifle.
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| Well, I don't think I'm dying atleast! |
[18 Jan 2009|02:26pm] |
So, yesterday at work that little backpain that's been annoying me for the past couple of weeks escalated into excrutiating pulses that, mid-transaction, caused me to groan in pain and hyperventilate, where I promptly apologized to the customer I was helping and told them I had to sit down.
So anyway, after nearly passing out the other cashier with me (thank god we had two cashiers today instead of one) called the MOD and my supervisor, and LP and a hoarde of other higher ups and I ended up going home (with two of my best friends ever, thanks Jeremy and Gerardo, you guys are awesome) with Jeremy driving my car and Gerardo following with his brother so they could take Jer home.
Anyway, so after laying down in utter pain (I borrowed some pain pills from Jeremy that didn't help, and then today I've taken Motrin, which hasn't helped) for around 10-12 hours, sometimes managing to fall asleep for an hour or two, it finally started to feel a bit better after 2-3am. At which point I got up and started spending some time on the internet (first I checked out medical insurance, which I discovered basically would cost me about the same as paying out of pocket for one doctor visit, so I said fuck it, stupid goddamn deductibles) and then looking up my pain symptoms, which I narrowed down to two or three possiblities.
First, would be kidney infection, second, would be a pinched nerve. I'm lacking some of the other key symptons for a kidney infection, namely all the stuff that has to do with peeing and fever, and a quick call from my mom to her nurse friend pretty much confirmed that I've got a pinched nerve. So anyway, I called in sick again to work so that I wouldn't exacerbate the problem, and assume if I take it easy over the next day or two (ie, spend most of the time in bed) I should be fine to work by my next shift on Tuesday.
All in all, this sucks. I've already read 3 out of 4 of the books I bought from the thriftstore on Friday. :|
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[07 Jan 2009|12:17am] |
Well looks like I'm going to be taking like, no classes this semester, again.
I won't be able to completely pay off my fees until the 30th (thanks to that fucking online english teacher who added me after I asked her not too, well after the no-refund deadline, so I ended up owing 80$ for nothing), it looks like (my first paycheck I needed to buy some much needed sportsbras, a couple pairs of cheap cheap pants for work and some black-tshirts, also cheap [for 30$ I got 6 garments thou :P] and pay some money to my credit card on top of helping pay for dad's birthday present) and almost all the classes I had intended to take are full, and the waitlists are full too. So I'll only be able to take classes I can register for after school starts, I guess, which leaves like, dance, and combo. I also wanted to take lessons from Janet, but I don't know if I can afford it because it's a lot of money with my really low paying job. Plus, if I get schedule cuts I'll suddenly be unable to afford the lessons. They're sort of important though, so I guess I'll just keep them up until I can't afford them anymore.
So, I guess I'll just take dance classes, maybe combo. And voice lessons. That should leave my schedule pretty free for work. I can work Audrey's hours when she has them around both of those, and work on getting another job. Guess I'll take this semester to make money and save up a little bit.
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[04 Jan 2009|09:39pm] |
Tea (and not in a mug like some blasphemers, but in a tea cup on a saucer with a tea pot!), and a fairly decent book, with Bessie Smith and FallOut 3's sountrack playing = win.
I'm worried that Sears is sending me into blockbuster mode. Basically, customer service quite literally drives me crazy. Quite possibly because people tend to treat cashiers like utter shit. Sears isn't nearly as bad as blockbuster (the benefit of 15 minute breaks, 45 minute lunches, and a more specialized job position, I guess) but everytime I head into work I'm reminded of why I have no problem working for Audrey for 40 hours a week for crap pay, without breaks or lunches (though if I had really wanted to take a break or lunch she'd be fine with it) and yet I can barely stomach a 4 hour shift as a cashier.
Mostly I'm just tired of working shit jobs. I want a career, you know? I want to get on with my life and sing or act or dance or whatever. I'm tired of being unable to afford anything (mainly school, lol). I feel like I can't even get college sorted out and a degree in my pocket. I can't even see what a degree in music will get me in life, especially considering I have no interest in teaching and have a very bad practice ethic, especially about piano. Quite simply, I can assume that if I don't successfully get my career in broadway, opera, or some other professional singing venue, that the only open option as a singer is to get a music degree and teach. Which I don't want to do. My last semester in voice felt soooo rushed on top of everything. If I'd had just another month to really work on my pieces, I think they would have been spectacular. As they were, I felt they barely passed the grade (and considering I wrote all three of my papers in four hours the night before they were due, I am almost not expecting an A in voice, for the first time, ever).
I've tossed around the idea of attempting to compose or write music, and while I think I have the aptitude to do so, I don't have the amount of technical experience necessary to compose at a rate that makes composition worth doing. I've tossed around other ideas but mostly I think I'm just frustrated, and mostly with myself. I feel like I keep running into dead ends (see: money) and letting them block me from greatness. I also think I'm scared to pursue any non-college options (sending out resumes to agencies, for example) because I'm afraid of being turned down for being a fatty. Which is a constant burden, as usual. Between working customer service/retail and feeling like a gigantic fat ass, I'm worried that I'm starting to get depressed. It's hard to feel up to doing anything productive when you walk around feeling like the ugliest thing to ungrace the earth (a side effect of the dreaded period, probably). Just once I'd like to experience a guilt-free meal or snack. I can't eat anything anymore without feeling bad about it, healthy or otherwise. It's frustrating.
On the plus side, I've been getting a lot of hours at Sears. I got around 22-23 last week, and this week I have more than 30. I'm doing okay on credits (how anyone manages to NOT have negative credits is beyond me: even asking EVERY customer [regardless of whether or not they want to hear it, lol, and including trying to convince people with one card to get the other card, double lol] I'm hard pressed to make three a day) except that I didn't get a single credit today, which is very frustrating as I didn't get any on Friday either. I got four yesterday, which means I'm down 5. I'll need to get four every day this week just to make up for the deficit, but I doubt I will. So if any of you wanna do me a favor, come into Sears this week and apply for the card like 10 times for me, especially if you know you won't be approved :P.
Anyway, the only good thing about this month is for once I don't feel like a poor asshole. I'm still knee deep in debt, but at the rate I'm getting hours (and hopefully if I can pull off a bunch of credits) I'll atleast be able to afford school. I have to map out my school schedule this week though, so I hope webadvisor goes back up soon.
Love you all, apply for the sears card (only with me mind you!) so I can stop sucking at work, plx!
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[05 Dec 2008|03:13pm] |
Okay guys!
COMBO CONCERT DETAILS
Awright here they are:
Concert starts at 7:00pm. My class probably won't go on until around 8pm. Feel free to come later.
TICKET PRICES: 10$ for students/seniors, 15$ general admission. I can buyz tickets for j00 if you need me to, but you'll have to give me the cash as.....I don't have any.
DATE: December 12th!
COME AND SEE ME OK.
ps
Today like, four people asked me to talk to Tim about Melody (a girl in my combo class) since she has like...7 songs, and she's well...not a spectacular singer. So I did. Now Tim probably thinks I'm a real bitch (as if most people didn't already think so) and I think Melody hates me. In fact, I'm pretty sure she was talking shit about me more than once. I feel bad but, lets be honest okay: You: Not so great singer, lots of songs. Everyone else: Decent to Excellent singers...1 song, 2 tops. Fair? I think not. I don't care how much initiative she had, not my problem. Anyway.
So. Come. Okay? 'Kay. <3
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[03 Dec 2008|02:57am] |
Got a picture post coming up soon. Stuff from the halloween show mostly, though I kept forgetting my camera and the pictures I took don't show enough of my costumes. But, they're good enough.
Anyway, three new LJ icons from those photos. Loves them.
Pictures in the next couple of days. For now, I sleepz.
P.S. I called Sears a biiiiiilllllllion times today. Stupid non-answering company. Plz give me hours :(.
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