Going on a diet soon…
I really need to start dieting soon. I don’t really eat healthy at all nor do I exercise much… this needs to change. I want to get and stay healthy, which is going to be hard because I love eating candy… lots of it. I am thinking maybe a natural substitute without all kinds of preservatives will be nice, so I found this site: http://www.healthyfellow.com that might help out with that. Cross your fingers and lets see if I can drop a few… eighty pounds!
Otherwise I am really in a good mood at the moment. I dropped off my application to Hobby Lobby, but they aren’t hiring. I came home and filled out an application for a part-time job at a bank here, and guess what? THEY CALLED. They called about two hours after I submitted the application, which was NICE. I have an interview at 10am tomorrow. I really want this job. Its part time, so I can still have time to take care of the house and such AND since banks are closed on Sundays AND are closed by 5 or 7, I will still have time to play D&D and enjoy my anime! Woohoo.
And to those wondering, YES Illindir is still very active, but a lot of the staffers are busy busy busy at the moment, but we are working on stuff…. IMPORTANT STUFFS!
Gino is sleeping… poor thing, hes so exhausted.
So close to the D&D swagness!
So I have been using swag bucks and Amazon Mechanical Turk to try and earn a little extra money to get Gino the D&D stuff he needs like a battle mat and a dungeon master screen. I have $15 in amazon gift cards still pending on swagbucks and $33 in Amazon Mechanical Turk, so once both clear I’ll have enough money to get him both! Hopefully I can have that done before next Sunday. Thats when we play next.
If you aren’t a part of either of these sites, both of them are pretty amazing. Essentially, swagbucks is a search engine like google or yahoo. The main difference is when you search through swagbucks, you have a chance of earning various values of “swagbucks.” These can then be traded in for REAL prizes, such as Amazon Gift cards to get whatever you want. They also have all sorts of other things in their swag store too, including Wii, PS3 and 360. Lots and Lots of nifty stuff. Heres the link to check it out and sign up: http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=431417
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a little different. You do little jobs called “hits” for money. Some are just simple 30 second tasks you only get a few cents for, while others can give you upwards of 5 dollars per hit. They have ALL kinds of tasks, from writting reviews, picking out images, labeling things, and essentially anything else that needs the human touch to complete versus computer generated. I’ve been working on it for about a month maybe and already have 33 bucks. Heres the link to that: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
If I hadn’t gotten sick today I would be out applying for work, but I caught something and its left me couch-ridden. I am going tomorrow for sure though, I’ll just tough it out. I’ll probably check monster.com and craigslist again in a little bit.
P.S. – Got my grades and I passed all my classes, now I just have to wait for the official degree in the mail, but I am now a college graduate!
Stuuuuupid technology
Ugg I hate my laptop so much. Its offically a glorified portable hard-drive now. The good news is that I will be getting a new one this weekend (hopefully tomorrow).
I haven’t gone to class in the last couple days because my neck is seriously hurting me. I pulled it somehow and it makes my jaw and ear hurt too… it sucks. Otherwise school is going fairly well thus far. I need to go apply for graduation stuff soon though, like this next week. I want to graduate… I neeeed to. Yusssss….
My poor kitties are sick. They got worms, probably from going to the vets, so we are taking them in on Friday to get treated. Gino says its not a huge deal, and most cats get worms, but I still worry about my little babies ;-;
Since my computer problems, I haven’t been able to log much time for Illinidir things. *sadness* Nuuu I neeeeed to. I am going to try and get big chunks of things done over the next week to make up for the couple weeks I had to be MIA. Maybe even get all the room descs done for one of my cities. And map Danizibar, thats at the top of the list.
Otakon… its coming… eventually! YAY! I am getting excited and Ashley and I are already making plans. For once we are going to get our passes a day early, since we arrive the Sunday before the con, and check out the last day of the convention. We’ll get up, pack up my car with our stuff, and then head to the con for the last day of fun. Then we should know about how much extra room we are playing with for last minute sales and such. We also decided we are bringing 3 highlighters; a green, pink and yellow one. Once we get our schedule of events the day before, we are going to go through and highlight things we ABSOLUTELY have to see in pink. Then things we’d like to see in green, but if we miss it, its not a big deal. Then we are going to go back and every time slot that doesn’t have something, we are going to highlight our favorite thing(s) in that time slot in yellow. That way if we get bored and want to find something to do, we can look at the things we thought were interesting, instead of sitting around for 10 or 20 min, reading through everything til we find something, and by the time we get there, is already over. I am most looking forward to the shopping >.>
Anyway, Ashley came and visited me this past weekend. It was fun. I spent a lot of money >.> Next time I need to keep better track of all the things I buy. I kinda went overboard. Ohh well, it was fun, but now its saving time! Anyway, the weekend was a blast, even if I was lazy sometimes. I hope Ashley didn’t mind. I just needed a break away from all the busy busy stuff like school and work. I was kinda… no really disappointed and hurt one of our mutual friends bailed out on us. She texted me on Friday and made plans, but never called on Saturday. She called Sunday, 10 min before Ashley was leaving, saying she didn’t call the previous day because she had to work early on Sunday. We both thought it was a shoody excuse, but, its kinda come to be expected from her. I haven’t hung out with her in a long time, it just seems like shes got other priorities now that just don’t include me. Its cool, I’ll figure out something. Besides, I am moving in about 5 months anyway, so its not like we would have been able to hang out after that anyway.
Work is going pretty well. Its a more complicated job than I thought it would be, but otherwise is a lot of fun. I really like the people I work with, and they all seem really nice. Its a longer shift than what I am used to, but hey, it pays more than my last job did and is a much better working environment. Hurray for me! My first paycheck is next week, on a Thursday I believe. Yay for monies! We are going to try and save any money I make, and just use Gino’s paychecks to live off of. Try, but it may not work. At the very least, I want to save more money so we have more than enough for the move and Otakon.
Cancer Vac!
So I openned my new vaccum to try it out, and when looking over the do’s and don’ts, I stumbled across this…
“WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer. Wash hands after handling.
….Yah. I am having this exchanged. I’d rather have dirty floors than cancer.
