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http://meredithwenham.mybrute.com/
Join me in my quest of beating people up, my lovelies. Become my student.
... yeah, there are real things happening. Stressful crazy things. But eh, this is fun too.
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| Can't say my life isn't interesting. |
[22 Nov 2008|09:58pm] |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008424364_webmallshooting.html
And from my entry to the article:
My roommate and I had just gotten out of a movie. I went into GameStop and the roomie into FYE. After I finished with GameStop, I went into FYE and found him at the counter finishing up his purchase. 10 seconds later, BANG.
Pause. People stare towards the entrance.
BANG.
A mad dash to the back of the store ensues, then to the emergency exit. People start going into hysterics because we can't find the outside exit. Some go upstairs, some go downstairs. Finally one of the employees leads the way to the garages.
Pretty scary stuff.
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Life is just too short, especially when you have idiots who can't just slug or talk it out rather than shooting each other.
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| Pain, Gain, Retrieve |
[02 Aug 2008|07:57am] |
August 2008 appears to be the month for the above.
Oh. Hi. I still have a LiveJournal. Maybe I should post in it sometimes.
Anyway, I wish I could say that the loss is weight loss (ha!) but alas.. two co-workers are leaving us this month. The first was actually yesterday, to the grand tragedy of him going to law school. I don't know him as well as I should and I wish I did; he's a great guy who's fun to talk to and I wish him the best. You can't be a claims assistant forever, after all! .. oh yeah, which reminds me, I can't be a claims assistant forever..
The second will be to retirement, and this one really hurts. My "black mama" (her words, not mine!) is retiring on the 15th. She's pretty much adopted me since I got to this company over a year ago. Hell, I even went to her house for Thanksgiving. This lady has given me so much and I am so grateful for her. It's really sad to see her go but she deserves it. All I can say is that we'd better keep in touch.
... I'm not even going to be able to see her on her last day. Curse you, GenCon!
Now on for gain: GenCon! I haven't been to this con - or any big con - in..er.. many years. Since 2003? In any case, I'm going to meet a lot of friends I have yet to meet... and see a lot of friends I haven't seen since as long as 2003. I'm both excited and nervous as all hell. And a few weeks later, one of my friends is going to drive up and meet me at PAX. More excitement and nervousness!
Why? Because I'm just a nervous paranoid OMGWHATWILLTHEYTHINKOFME type person. Yeah, anxiety and low self-esteem are really awesome like that.
Other than that.. I suppose I'm doing well. Lots of things have been happening: goodness, badness, mediocreness. Can't really say I lead an exciting life. Everyone keeps telling me I should get out more, but... ;)
I am a slave to my cruel masters. They don't let me out very much. *sniff*
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| Help Andrea with her homework! |
[04 Feb 2008|09:15pm] |
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I've already emailed some of you. ;) So here's a second call if you got it already. Hehe. Anyway...
Hi guys,
I need a favor. An incredibly huge favor. My Marketing Research class is making me conduct surveys for my chosen product, which is Dungeons & Dragons. I need to survey a total of 10 people and it's due by Thursday night (Pacific time).
Would you folks be so kind as to fill out this survey for me? The first half of the survey was meant to be conducted during three separate D&D scenarios: a general hack n' slash fest, a heavy roleplaying encounter, and a mix in-between. Obviously I can't run games for this survey, so for that part please just give your general opinion on these types of scenarios.
Examples of these types of scenarios would be the following:
Hack n' Slash: You and a party go into a dungeon, which promises to be filled with treasure. There's an orc here, a dragon over there, some trolls.. Constant non-stop inititiative!
Heavy Roleplaying: You are a member of the elven/dwarven/whatever court. A few.. problems have arisen, whispers tell of a conspiracy against the king. Are you for the king or against him? The only combat you see is at the end.
Mixed: There are problems at that court. From several of the courtmembers, you learn of an ancient item that could help save his throne. You head towards the dungeons and mount your attack against the baddies who lurk there. But inside you find more clues that you're being set up...
Thank you to everyone who does fill this out. I will owe you cookies. And love. And maybe more cookies.
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( Wanna take a suuurveeeey? )
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| Errrgh... |
[28 Jan 2008|12:24pm] |
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Well, people can't say I didn't try to make it to work today. There was a lot of snow and black ice out on the roads this morning. I waited an hour for two busses that never showed. Finally, a group of people came from the bus stop before us, saying the busses were stuck and that they were taking a different bus route several blocks away.
Instead of following, I just went back inside, called my three bosses to say I wasn't coming in, and went back to bed. Which is just as well as I haven't stopped shivering since I came in. The roads look better now, but I'm not taking my chances with later this afternoon and possibly being sick.
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| Harr harr! |
[10 Jan 2008|07:42pm] |
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I get to be the black sheep at work tomorrow. They're having "Football Friday", which means wear any football apparel.
Seahawks vs. Packers on Saturday.
I kinda wish I'd brought my cheesehead with me to Seattle. Then again, I guess I'm glad I didn't. ;)
I've been sorta good with my New Years resolutions so far. At least, I started hanging out with Chris's co-workers/buddies, and I'm going to a D&D game every Friday. Also, slowly working on rebuilding my own D&D campaign, and reading Changeling books so I can run my own chronicle. Now I just need to find the time to squeeze in exercise and writing!
But alas, skool calls.
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| Hoppy New Year! |
[01 Jan 2008|12:19am] |
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Hop, hop.
Ahh.. so .. lookit me, I'm all alone for New Years.
Since fireworks continue to go off in the parking lot of my apartment building and shake the windows/walls, I guess I should work on some of those New Years resolutions, eh? Really never gave them much thought.
For 2008:
Lose weight
Feel great
Find mate
... I just wanted to rhyme.
Lose weight
Write more
Get Falderaal D&D game & Changeling: The Dreaming chronicle up and running (again)
Get out more/socialize
A billion other things I should work on
Anyhoo, I hope everyone had a good Christmas and/or holiday, and that this year will work out just splendidly.
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| Presents "4" you |
[12 Dec 2007|09:38pm] |
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My mom left me a voicemail on my cell, begging me to look around for the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year issue with Brett Favre. Apparently it's sold out just about everywhere in Wisconsin and there's a WAITING LIST at Sports Illustrated to get a back issue. (Geez.. just like Packers season tickets..) I didn't have much luck at Albertson's either, so I had to call her with the bad news.
So, tonight I started bidding on eBay.
Outbid.
Outbid at the last minute.
So instead I just bid on a bulk of 8 issues for $80. And won! I figure that hey, I can get some Christmas shopping done for a whole lot of my family instead of just my mother. >D Rare Brett Favre collectibles + Packer-centric family = VERY merry Christmas.
Three more days before my 3 week break from school. Mmmh.
Nine more days till I get on a plane and brave the frozen tundra for Christmas. Brrr.
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| Single |
[27 Nov 2007|07:17pm] |
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is what I am again.
I'm a little sad, a little relieved. No strong feelings have really hit me yet. Who knows.. maybe they won't.
What I could really really use, though, is a gal friend to come pick me up, take me to a bar, and get me hopped up on daiquiris. And ice cream.
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| Gooo brain! |
[18 Nov 2007|07:32pm] |
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Btw, I never did start NaNoWriMo. Which is good, because I had TEN assignments this week. Usually the max is eight, but noooo not this time. @_@ Thankfully I only have one more assignment to do, due Monday. I believe next week is actually a very calm week with only four assignments total, so hopefully I won't go insane.
I just can't wait till Christmas break ;_; Three weeks' vacation from school, spending a few days in Wisconsin..
Thanksgiving: No idea what I'm doing yet, if anything. A co-worker invited me when she found out I'd be turkey-less, but I haven't talked to her about it since.
Annnnnd the obligatory:
Go Pack go! 9-1! Yay~
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| Feel the burn... |
[05 Nov 2007|07:50pm] |
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... of my brain as it melts into homework-induced goo.
Whose idea was it for me to get a second degree anyway?!
... ... oh wait, it was mine.
Think of the future think of the future think of the future... @_@
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| Man oh man... |
[01 Nov 2007|09:22pm] |
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This has been one busy fun-filled homework-ized week. But now that I'm done with all my assignments for the week~... I need to get started on next week since it's a half week. XD;
I'm STILL not sure if I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. I skipped it last year because I was just starting school, was in the middle of the Seattle move (trying to find a job in Seattle while still being in Wisconsin), and just had a crappy computer to work with. Now it's just.. lots of homework after a long commute from Seattle to Renton. And I still have to finish unpacking. XD;
My only creative outlet right now is the Changeling pbem I'm in.
I think I'll do NaNo but I won't be too surprised if I don't finish. After all, I gotta get SOMETHING out of my head. Just gotta figure out what~
Oh, and this new place is awesome. My only complaint is that we're right next to a major road, so sometimes cars with blasting stereos go by. But our building is also right next to the bus stop and the office. The exercise room/club house is open till 10, unlike our last place which opens/closes when the office does. It did me no good when I left before the office opened and got back with only 15 minutes to work out. At some point I want to start getting on that treadmill again and losing weight. The long commute and two tons of homework a day is pretty much the only thing holding me back.
I'd better sleep! I've been a zombie all week and my office posse is taking me out tomorrow for lunch. Whee~
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| Golden birthday |
[29 Oct 2007|05:53am] |
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Happy birthday... to me!
Darn, I wish we'd get birthdays off work. Today I'll have a zombie day since I didn't get enough sleep (as usual for Sunday nights). What a great day it'll be~..
Packers had better win tonight.
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| It's tiiiime.. |
[20 Oct 2007|07:42pm] |
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... to bitch! Moving sucks! I hate moving! Yaaaarrr! *flails*
Friday after work - I come home hoping the internet is up for just a little bit. I have more participation requirements I need in my online classes that I didn't done during the day. But nah. It's down by the time I'm home. I work on as mch packing as possible before I nearly fall asleep on my feet. Chris punts me off to bed.
6 am, wake up all nice and early. I'd add "bright" but it's still pitch black out. When the heck are we getting that Daylight Savings Time thing back anyway?
Movers come - really no problem here. As they load their truck I start working on my hooorrible bathroom and the hooooorible kitchen. Both are terrible messes. I've gotten probably almost half of my cleaning done. Chris gets the living room and third bedroom. He of course chose those two rooms because all that is is vacuuming, whereas I get to scrub scrub scrub. Oh yay. I s'ppose his excuse his sound (I used the kitchen more) but it ain't gonna stop me from grumbling a bit. =P
Once movers finish packing the truck, they take me (which they're not supposed to - liability and all that) to the apartment. Comcast guys arrived JUST as we did. Yay internet and phone and cable. I wander off to the office, much to Chris's chagrin snce he wanted me to fully deal with them myself (errands to run), to get the paperwork done that I need to. I wait around for 15 minutes, check email, etc, waiting waiting before someone finally shows up. Finally get that done and start working on class participation requirements for the day.
Fast forward to when I have to pay. Ohhhh $719. Chris has a FIT when they leave. I shouldn't have given them a tip, he says. If he'd known it'd be that expensive he would've just rented a pick-up for just his things (like he was going to do in the first place). They charged an extra hour because they include time to find the apartment and time to get back to their HQ. Etc etc DRAMA. I'm at a foul mood at this point, because I offered the help and I didn't expect him to pay to begin with. He insisted pretty much on paying his share. And now today... He has the audacity to first say "What's the total, WITHOUT tip?" too.
AND THEN, he goes out with his WotC buddies at 6. Uhm, hi, Chris? Let's look at all these boxes in our rooms, where we can't even MOVE because there's so many of them.. and start unpacking before we, y'know, do fun things. I doubt I will even sleep in a bed tonight. Our rooms are just FULL and I can't even get to the lamp to turn it on so I can see what I'm unpacking. And he expects me to unpack all the kitchen stuff and unload his car full of personal items.
To top it all off, the internet/phone service has been spotty all day. Apparently someone hit a pole this morning and those two services have been weird for all south King County. This put that whole class participation and homework assignment (due today) at a near standstill. Luckily it came back and I finished it all. Now I'm just catching up on LiveJournal before trying to put a dent in the clogged area that will eventually be my bedroom.
Aaaand tomorrow, we get to clean the rest of the old apartment. Joy~
I love that guy but sometimes I just want to smack him. I'm sure he feels the same way sometimes. I will give him grief at least until August 2008. Muhuhahaha. Anyway, I hope you are all having better weekends than I am.
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| Uhm.. oops. |
[13 Oct 2007|09:34pm] |
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So.. I've been packing like crazy today, since next week is the move and the past few weeks I've been lazy and/or busy with homework.
I was pondering if the movers would be able to even lift my Ikea corner computer desk.
I chanced to look at my bedroom door, and then my computer desk, then my door again..
Oh hey, I realized. It's not gonna fit through the door.
*DIE*
Hopefully those movers will have some magic up their sleeve, but.. Does anyone know if Ikea furniture can actually come apart? XD;
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[30 Sep 2007|04:35pm] |
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I know.. I should update more often. >_>
Let's see~
Remember that temp job I got after Arvin was here? I started full-time last Monday. w00t! I tell ya, I never knew that insurance could be so .. interesting. Well, on the claims side anyway. Lots of claimants are certainly characters. (Yay drug addicts! Yay crazies!) And some of the other claims read like mysteries: what really happened here? Is our insured really liable? Other claims are real (melo)dramas. I love reading these claims when I have some off-time to spare, though I'm running out of the good ones. ;_;
Chris and I are moving to a MUCH better apartment/area in mid-October. I started packing today, not realizing that we have THREE weeks and not TWO like I thought. Uuuugh. Well, it's good to get rid of some of this stuff, I guess. I didn't really NEED to play video games for the next 3 weeks anyway... (not that I've played for a few months) XD;
Yay Packers! Yay Favre! I haven't seen a Packer game since week 1. Not being in Wisconsin during football season really sucks. So I get my "fix" by occasionally glancing at nfl.com's little Java applet... thing during the game. Sometimes when the Packers are in the red zone I will stop what I'm doing and stare intently at the little digital football field waiting. Yeah yeah.. I'm a loser. I'd go to one of the three Packer bars in Seattle if I could get there easily.
School is school. I had a crappy session last session (got two B+'s instead of my usual As, and one of those is the prof's fault!) and now I'm starting up again tomorrow. One of my classes is (finally) copywriting, which is what I'm getting this second degree for anyway. I had almost asked my recruiter last year if I could just take this class - but for the most part I'm pretty pleased. There are a few profs I've had that should NOT be teaching. That and some of the crappily written online lectures makes me wonder sometimes.. But still, an overall good experience so far.
Congrats to Dan & Shannon on their new baby!
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[01 Jun 2007|03:20pm] |
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So~ After a minor miscommunication with the temp agency, I ended up not working at Nintendo. No bad feelings, and I was told I could start after summer if I wanted to.
Finally scored a temp-to-hire position this past week, which I start on Monday. This was after a bout of unemployment.
Annnnd... guess what I just got in ye good ol' mailbox?
Nintendo's hiring again starting on the 18th! Am I interested?
I think Mario is mocking me. Seriously.
In other news~ Arvin visited this past Memorial Day weekend. Squee~
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| Bit of an update |
[21 Apr 2007|01:02am] |
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Wizards didn't like me. But Nintendo does. I'll be starting there next month.
I still have a lovely bruise from the accident in March, which is causing occasional mucho pain. Even went to the ER last week. No big deal, apparently. Now I have another bill to pay.
Knocked Up = awesome.
Hot Fuzz = awesome.
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| Our little jaunt with death (and Vancouver) |
[05 Mar 2007|12:13am] |
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On Thursday, March 1, we got into a little car accident. Mandy, Chris and I were a half an hour away from the Canadian border when Chris tried to get into the passing lane. Another car denied his wish, speeding up out of his blind spot and hitting our bumper, rolling the car over 3-4 times before we finally landed upright.
The casualties:
Mandy's birth certificate
My glasses (found 10 feet in front of the car)
Chris's car
Us:
Bruises
Scrapes
A few burns (from the airbags)
I was half asleep at the time. All I recall was waking up to a car that hit the driver's side, then an airbag in the face. It seemed very surreal the whole time. Once we discovered everyone was okay, I turned around to Mandy, who had just flown in the night before, and said "Welcome to Seattle." I was the only one taken to the ER too. The other two complained of a little neck pain but apparently my addition of a bloody face and blown out window require a trip to the hospital.
It's still really surreal. I'm trying to make light of it and be humorous so I don't think about it so much, but I can't help but think. How often do people survive rollover crashes? Without serious injuries? I've been a very "aware" person as far as mortality goes - live and enjoy your life, etc etc - but it's not until you shake death's hand that you realize how true that is.
One night's sleep (not good), car rental, expensive eye exam/frames/lenses purchase, and unsuccessful search for Mandy's birth certificate later; we were on our way to Vancouver. Great city. Now we're home and I'm going to take Mandy out to Seattle tomorrow and/or Tuesday.
We're all okay. I keep thanking God that we're still here. Still in a little shock and morbid curiosity, but that's normal for me.
Stay happy and safe.
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