week in a flash (week 25)

1. I love me some Spaghetti Westerns…mm, mm, yessir I do.  Lol!!

2. So I’ve started to practice meditation, you know like the Eastern version – sitting cross-legged in a lotus-type position with my hands resting palms up on my knees and my eyes closed and all sound turned off.  I do it because it helps me relax and de-stress which I really need right now.  Just like practicing Yoga was and believe me if I could I would start up my Yoga practices again but I packed all the stuff I needed for it and my back is screwy so…meditation it is. 

3. So I realized something about myself (to my family and to those who know me well please: contain yourselves) – I like being difficult sometimes, you know raising possible controversies and playing the Devil’s Advocate or suggesting an alternative explanation to something, stuff like that.  Why?  Because it’s kind of fun.

4. If my next few “weeks-in-a-flash” are unfinished or appear half-way done it’s because I’m going to start writing them a little bit in advance and then scheduling them to be published on a certain day at a certain time, therefore it’s not a guarantee that I’ll have them done before they publish…sorry but it’s really the only way to have them up for you guys without interrupting my school work.

5. By the way if any of you experienced snow last Tuesday I’m sorry but it pretty much always snows on my Mom’s b-day because, as she says “God loves me!”  :D  I love her too…even if I don’t love the snow.

6. I don’t understand hate, I’m serious what is the purpose of hating someone or a whole group of people?  And it’s not like I haven’t had people come into my life that others would say “they deserved hate.”  But I really, really don’t get it.  Hate accomplishes nothing…well, nothing good, productive or worthwhile anyway…

7. Ever notice how Sci-Fi shows and movies always use Area 51 as a failsafe?  We discovered this alien technology, it’s kept at Area 51.  We have aliens, they’re at Area 51.  Anything suspicious or alien-like, it’s at Area 51.  It’s a great plot device when you get stuck but only if you are writing a story with a Sci-Fi element  :)  Sorry, I just find it really funny that’s all.

8. I realized the other morning as I was turning the heat up that I have begun to turn the heat down at night……………really??  I don’t “do” that, I love warmth and it’s not like it’s been warm at night (I mean c’mon I live in South Dakota) nonetheless I have been and here’s the kicker I stayed warm, who knew? …I bet my parents wish I would’ve done that sort of thing as a kid.  ;)

9. Veteran’s Day was alternatively know around my school as “the random Thursday we have off.”  *chuckle*  Ok, seriously now – this is my thanks to anyone who has or is serving in the Armed Forces, you are amazing.

10. Bolthouse Farms’ drink Vanilla Chai Tea is like the Elixir of Life.  Seriously it’s delicious and no matter how upset my stomach is I take one drink and it’s like “aaaahhhhh” better now!  :)

11. Why am I seeing so many Christmas-themed and Christmas-focused commercials already?  We’re not even past Thanksgiving yet, sheesh…

12. http://lightofdawn.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/10-reasons-why-gay-marriage-is-wrong/  —  I think this is a pretty good rebuttal to some of the arguments I’ve heard against gay marriage.  Feel free to take your shots at me.

13. Days to graduation = 22

w/ weekends and holidays =32

w/o holidays =28

14. Days to Thanksgiving break = 9

15. Had to get a new computer, it’s not really a happy thing, the old one caught a virus and I needed a computer NOW for my schoolwork, so it got replaced…*sigh* it’s very sad  :(  :(  :(  RIP Saskia (the old computer (yes I named it)).

week in a flash (week 24)

1. Soooo…who forgot about Daylight Savings Time?  I didn’t (yaaaa) but that’s only because my phone automatically updates the time lol!

2. Still tired.

3. My computer is officially dying.  I can’t open more than one Internet window, I can do tabs but even then when I try to close the Internet browser I get the little box that says Internet Explorer has stopped working.  Windows is looking for a solution. Followed by Internet Explorer is restarting.  And if I try to ‘cancel’ the second box it just sits there with a blank webpage and a little hourglass and even starting task manager and hitting “end task” a jillion times does nothing.  Basically I have to let it restart and then I can close it because when I do that I get a little information box that informs me that something went wrong with the program and it will now close…………no?!?!?!?  Really???  Because I totally couldn’t tell!!  Also Microsoft Word has started doing funky things too, and Facebook does weird things and wordpress…what else…oh yeah I went through and cleaned out what I could from my C: drive but it randomly changes on how much space I have left going up and down, up and down, up and down.  *So I ran my antivirus and antispyware deepscans and Big Fat NOTHING, that’s right no viruses or anything else*  This sucks!

4. On that note – I moved what I could off the computer and on to a couple of thumb drives so I don’t lose anything.

5. Wi-Fi also sucks, still randomly disconnecting and having connectivity issues but I’ve noticed that it seems to stay connected longer and work better when the ‘signal strength’ is between ‘poor’ and ‘good’ but if it moves up to ‘really good’ or ‘excellent’ that’s when it really starts acting up.  Wierd.

6. Days to graduation = 26 w/o holidays and weekends

w/ holidays and weekends = 39

w/o holidays = 34

7. Days to Thanksgiving break when I can go home and see my family and my cat = 16

8. One of my plants bit the dust but my bamboo sprouted a new…stalk? branch?  I’m not sure what to call it but it is new growth which is soo cool!

9. Hey it’s my Mom’s (aka purple dragon lady) b-day today!  Hippo Birdies Mom!!!

10. Do you know what else I get to see on my Thanksgiving break?  The new Harry Potter movie!!

11. A lot on my mind…mostly that I miss writing my longer, more in-depth blog posts (because I have a few things on my mind that would work better that way but I just don’t have the time) and my stories…but I’m thinking that even when I’m out of school I’ll keep this ‘week-in-a-flash’ thing up but it’ll be more like a placeholder for a certain day than anything else……

12. The town I currently live in is so odd, it’s a college town but it pretty much closes down at around 9 or 10 pm and I mean streets empty, stores and restaurants closed even places like Perkins which is usually open 24 hours…in fact the only thing that stays the same is Wal-Mart because it’s Wal-Mart.