First off, I hope everyone had a happy 4th of July!! May your patriotic spirit(s) never die! Tyler & I visited his grandparents down in central VA - they have a house on the Chesapeake Bay and it was very relaxing. And I got to go on a boat, it was awesome, everyone should go on a boat and they should bring a nice buzz along with them.

Secondly, more of that Words Meme from caffeine_monkey (( under LE CUT! )

In other (*ahemcoughWoWahem*) news ~
So about a week ago I got an authenticator for my WoW account from a coworker - you push a button and get a random 6-digit code that had to be typed in every time I logged in - extra security and all. Well, on Sunday, the battery died - NUUU! And since it was Sunday, the WoW phonelines were closed, so I tried to pop the back off with a screwdriver and ended up stabbing myself in the thumb six times in the same place - I am so smart, S-M-R-T. And after all that I found out the battery is plain, unmarked, and SOLDERED INTO THE STUPID CASE. Gay. So last night I called the billing help line and waited on hold for 40 MINUTES. When I finally got to a rep I (of course) almost accidentally hung up on her, AND it only took about 45 seconds to resolve the issue. D'OH. But at least it's fixed. :D

And! That lull in my WoW-service got me in gear & I measured & took pictures of the fabric & trim in 2 of the 3 giant bins that are just CHOCK FULL OF CRAP that I have laying around. I can't believe how much white casa satin & gold lamé I have, it's obscene. So, thank you, terra_firma, for motivating me. I've been meaning to do this for ages.

Look what I found! I'm so excited, they're pretty much perfect.

( And now, a gross amount of pictures that I've had on my camera FOREVER. )

Aaaaand that's that. :D

Reply to the meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you (up to) five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

( Words from AlexBond )

( Words from A-feepit )

( Words from Tini )

( Words from Kira )

Who just discovered the Tasks feature in Microsoft Outlook?

I did. I love lists.

<3
( A short Meme! )

I’ve become so lazy I can’t even type out a full livejournal entry anymore. Anyway, have some lists:

( Things I Wish Were Real (May or May Not have been stolen from another feepit :D) )

( Crap I Have To Get Done This Summer )

( Things I’m Looking Forward To )

( Things I Love About My Job )

And now I leave you to your day.

P.S. I just remembered a really weird dream I had last night where I had pierced my left Achilles tendon.

D:

Okay, so, tonight I've heard Audrey's phone ring at LEAST twelve times. And I don't even know how many text message beeps have gone off. Scary thing here - I have specifically not been writing about my roommate because I know this creepy stalking motherfucker reads my livejournal occasionally in the hopes that I'll mention her. So...

MESSAGE TO ALL CREEPY MOTHERFUCKERS: STOP CALLING/TEXTING/OBSESSING/STALKING BECAUSE IT'S DISTURBING MY NIGHT, IT'S CREEPY, AND GODDAMMIT, TAKE THE FUCKING HINT ALREADY AND GET A FUCKING LIFE.

WHAT THE FUCK. Restraining order for obsessive stalking anyone?

In the past week I have:

-Metaphorically given the Finger to SRI and the Shittiest Job
-Been a fat lazy loaf
-Not worked out once (YES)
-Made cookie cake twice (mmmmm)
-Had Tropical Smoothie approximately seventy thousand times
-Got a new job (I start tomorrow!) which includes a shorter workday (9-5), a way shorter commute (10 minutes each way instead of 60), and a RAISE!
-Got my epic flyer! BEHOLD, FLYING CARPET AND BRONZE DRAKE (NO CUT!):




(yes I made the carpet WITH MY OWN TWO SPACEGOAT HANDS)

Mmmm. I think the Universe gave me a break because of my Damn Heroic Effort to make SRI a good place to work. In the words of Tini:

"zer0 one gunner: let this be a lesson to all - quit your job. you will get a better one and get an epic flying mount"

So. I quit my job today.

Just left.

Half of me is SUPER HAPPY I never have to go back to SRI hellhole.

But I'm also pretty freaked out coz...well, I'm jobless, and I have bills to pay.

I have enough money saved for about 2 months...so if I don't have a job by the end of July/beginning of August, I'll be in trouble. Til then I'm just gonna enjoy my time off.

I'm hoping two and a half months will be enough to find something awesome.

Wish me luck?

Today! Is already so much better than yesterday!!

My friend Faith shares my irrational love of Slip’n’Slides and Moonbounces!!

She’s getting both of them for her 30th birthday!! And her party’s happening on June 27th!

SLIP’N’SLIDE + ALCOHOL + MOONBOUNCE = WIN. AND POSSIBLE INJURY. THE FUNNEST INJURY EVER.

I’M SO EXCITED!!

Plus!! I got some possibly awesome news but I don’t want to talk about it yet in case I jinx it!!

AND!! I can get coupons for $15 off Kings Dominion tickets!!

Holy crap!!


P.S. This made me laff. http://astrange.ithinksw.net/sa/1233164065872.jpg

Whew! Today is my first day back at work after an extended, five-day weekend, and I am a tired, tired feepit. While still crazy & hectic & irrational, my immediate supervisor at least seems to be in a better mood this week and isn’t constantly hounding everyone in the HR department. This morning was pretty slack – although I came in to an entire postal box full of mail, because apparently no one will stoop to touch it when I’m gone. I also learned that while we’re hiring for 2 new contracts at the moment (27 people total), we just received word that in less than a week we will need to hire an additional 56 people. All with only three recruiters (me and two others who are temps), one security guy to run all the background checks, and one person authorized to actually make offers to candidates. FUN FUN! Also Creepy McJanitor dude is still creepalicious. I feel nothing short of loathing for that mofo. I think I’m just getting used to working here because I’ve stopped registering anything as bad/weird/crazy. OH. EXCEPT FOR THIS: We now have mandatory training sessions every Friday from 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM. The normal office hours are 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM. However, no one is allowed to take a long lunch on these days, AND we have to stay until normal closing time, AND we can’t put the extra half hour on our timesheets. So not only are we not getting paid, but we’re being forced to work overtime. BOTH OF WHICH ARE NOT LEGAL. SO THERE IS THAT. WHY DO THEY THINK THIS IS OKAY.

Most of the other feepits are in a cosd00min’ frenzy for most of the year. However, Tyler & I decided that we wanted to save our money to buy a house and eventually take a really baller vacation to Hawaii. I’m very excited for both of these things. :D I AM making Kevin a Goku costume and parts of an Ichigo costume though, so I’m not totally out of the costume crunch.  The next con I want to go to is Katsucon 2010, and only so I can wear the Basilisk (from Pet Shop of Horrors) costume I’m planning to make. Oh, and Movie Juri (from Utena) because I always have a butt ton of fun acting like. Well, a butt :D in my Nanami costume. After that I think my cosplayin’, con-goin’ days are over. I’ve started posting my old costumes up for sale in an effort to gain more closet space. All the money will be saved to buy furniture for a nuu Haus, whenever we may gain one.

Oh, right – Tyler is currently on a Haus Hunt! Whenever he’s successful, I’m going to move in with him and live in an OMG HAUS YAY! No more shitty neighbors, no more landlords who don’t care about excessive ant problems, no more leaky dishwasher & laundry closet that smells like pot!! We’ve been searching for about 3 weeks now and have seen two houses we love (both of which we didn’t get). We’re going again this Saturday and I hope hope HOPE we see something we love and THEN I hope we can get it. Wish us luck. :D

Speaking of Tyler, our one year anniversary is coming up in about a week and a half! I’m excited to be celebrating it with him. So excited, in fact, that I’m taking us to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse for a deliciously fat celebratory steak dinner. Mmmmm.

Also coming up soon: mah birfday! Well, soon-ish. It’s in about a month. Kind of crazy to realize that 2009 is already half over. And that I’ll be 24 (BAWW GETTING OLD T__T). Anyway, Tyler got me a baller (early) birthday gift – an Alienware Area-51 m15x lappy!! It’s SO, SO GREAT. For example: A 790 MB WoW patch downloaded in 15 minutes! And! It can run WoW, and AIM, and a web browser, all while downloading an 800 MB photoshop program, and it runs so FAST! Even with all of those things happening at once. I <3 my nuu lappy!! Now I just have to think of a name for it. :D Also a sign that I am, officially, a “grown up”: I’m really excited about boring birthday presents from my parents – my dad is buying me new front tires for my car and my mom is paying to get my car’s AC fixed. XD

Also this weekend: Tyler’s family is having a big old family picnic at his parents’ place. Nervous jitters: check! Meeting-like-thirty-people-at-once Awkward Personality Syndrome: check! Nervously Awaiting the Outcome of a Bid on a House: Probably also check. Le sigh. I wish I could go to the picnic and down a couple shots immediately before I get there. XD

Hokay. Essay time is at an end. I suppose I should get back to being productive since I AM at work and all. :3

OH YEAAAAAAAAH! First Guild run into 10-man Obsidian Sanctum and WE KICKED AAAAAAAAAAASS! Only one wipe (on the first try on the last boss) and HELLZ YEAH! CHECK OUT MY DPS! Oreo finally broke 1500! I'M #3, BITCHES!!!!!!!



NO CUT FOR YOU!

The Best Beltaine! No awkwardness or anger sadness, just joy & reflection & happiness (and lovin, of course :3). Definitely my favourite Wicker Man, favourite bonfire (which everyone jumped except me because I am mighty fearful of my epic clumsiness), and surrounded by my favourite people in the world. We did have some injuries - I fell and I think sprained my wrist (it's a little swollen & a nice shade of green right now - this is why I didn't jump the fire XD), Kevin burned his foot on an ember that got kicked out of the fire, and poor Audrey had to get 11 stitches when she cut her leg on a broken bottle - but I'm pretty sure when Pagans & alcohol & fire are combined, it's almost impossible NOT to have a few injuries. Either way. It was a fun, successful Holiday, and I loved every second of it.

Nooow back to applying for new jobs on my lunch break....>.>

Okay, I am having a personal crisis today. I feel FAT and FLABBY and DOUGHY and LAZY and I’m IN DEBT and I have NO WILLPOWER and my job is pretty much to be the OFFICE BITCH and my company I’m pretty sure is gonna FOLD since it’s freaking $200k in DEBT and can’t even pay its employees on TIME WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE UGH.

In short: Baaaaaaaaaaaaw. :(

I think I need to go back to school. It’s only 30 credits to get a Master’s degree, which is only 2 years. I can probably do most (if not all) of it online & it could get me into another field (something LUCRATIVE, and not fucking “psychology” aka I went to school and here’s proof but IT DOESN’T DO A GODDAMN THING OTHER THAN THAT).

Fffff. I have a plan of action though:

1. Cut up credit cards – done. Helps with debt & lack of willpower problems
2. Seriously, watch what I eat (1500 calories a day) – STARTING TODAY. This will help with feeling fat & gross & my lack of willpower.
3. FREAKING EXERCISE – STARTING TODAY. This will help with feeling fat & gross & lazy & my lack of willpower.
4. SAVE MONEY (for Hawaii & Master’s degree) – helps get me out of current “office bitch” position & my lack of willpower.
Sorry, just needed to get that out of my system. And it gave me an excuse to make a list.

So, is anyone else having an extremely lethargic Monday? It’s obscenely hot in my office, I’ve done nothing but shred & sort filing today…leeeeeeeeeeeeeethaaaaaaaaaaaargyyyyyyyyyyyy.

P.S. http://thisiswhyyourefat.com is all I've done today. NOTHING on this site has looked even remotely appetizing.

I finished my first dress ever first piece of real clothing that's not cosplay ever! The back is a tad wonky, but I think it'll fix itself once I sew a hook & eye at the top of the zipper. I also still need to hem it, and lose about 2 inches around my waist for this to be comfortable (I can wear it as is right now, but it feels like a corset around my waist XD). YAY SPRING!

( Lemony Goodness )

So, although those who will be directly affected by this already know, I feel like making a Grand Announcement because, as most of you know, I am a bit of a drama queen. So, without further ado:

Tyler & I are going to Hawaii this December!!

I’m going to try & foot the whole thing as his combination birfday/Solstice gift, but if I can’t pull it off he’ll help out and it will still be a lovely vacation for us.

This does mean no more cons until 2010, because I need to save money & vacation time, but I’m down with that. I WILL be taking some “sick” days to go to the beach, however. >:3 Because I am a responsible worker. I’m still going to make a Belf costume for Halloween (because I NEVER have a Halloween costume), though! I’m super excited about it. :3

Other than that, life goes on as always – I work a crappy job so I can be comfortable in the rest of my time, so the BS I put up with here can *almost* be justified since I am mostly happy. However, still hunting for a new job. They’re hard to find. T_T But anyway, I’m still WoWing, Larping, sewing (just real clothes & purses & stuff, instead of cosplay), cooking, loafing, working out, looking forward to Beltaine & beaches & larps & drunk-a-thons with my feepits...it’s a good life, and I’m happy. 

Epic! Event! I say it every time but I mean it all the time!

My highlights, in no particular order:

-KATE. YOU WERE AWESOME. KICKING THE DOOR IN TO GET TO BARBARIANS TO KILL THEM. “That bad smell can’t be the septic system, IT’S THE ACTUAL GREEN RIVER OF DEATH-GOO”. BEST NEW LARPER EVER.
-Cardea’s accidental badassery in killing some war golems
-Um yeah, the war golems. Totally terrifying, totally awesome.
-“Watch out! I sting!”
-Lucca’s Cardea’s & Marle’s Pennyroyal’s DUAL TECH FTW. YEEEEESSS!
-(I am probably pretty biased here, leave me alone) Osric’s rage abilities! They make me a little hot (love you, saundetr :D)
-Like everything about this event, all the PCs & NPCs & storytellers rocked, I <3 Wanderlust
-I perfected the running scooping of spell packets. I didn’t think it was possible to use so many, but I guess I’m still getting used to offensive casting as opposed to defensive.
-THE STEW WITH THA STEAK (WITH THA STEAK). And last-minute S’Mores. And pretty much all the food I ate during the event.
-ANDVARI. WHY HE BE DED. T_T I actually almost cried, he just looked so lost and arone T__T

The Kristin-is-stupid:
-My CONSTANT AND UNABATING CLUMSINESS. I can’t even count how many times I tripped (whether it was over my own feet, my skirt, or the fire pit), ran into people, knocked OTHER PEOPLE OVER, fell down, GOT INTO FIGHTS WITH INANIMATE OBJECTS...argh!
-Only 35 of the 100 packets I brought came home with me. I’m bringing like a thousand next time. :B
-The snake & hornets/wasps in the house! The hornets were just awful, and the snake only scared me coz even though it was a cute black rat snake, it meant that other (potentially venomous) snakes could also get in. >.>

I know there was way more awesome since I had fun the ENTIRE TIME, but this is all I can really remember at the moment. :3

LARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARP

LARP

LARP LARP LARP! Wanderlust LARP!

LARP!!!!!

P.S. Hemming sucks!

LARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARPLARP

Soooo guess who just got into work about 10 minute ago? Yeah. Traffic was AWFUL today. 3 fender-benders on 66E this morning, and I don’t think I moved faster than 20 mph until I got to 495.

However – I get off work at 3:00 PM on Friday!! My cat is “getting her teeth cleaned”, or “giving Kristin a convenient excuse to leave early”. I’m making the time up by missing lunch today and tomorrow, so I don’t even have to take vacation time! It’ll be worth it to get out early since a.) it’s supposed to be GORGEOUS weather this Friday – Sunday, and b.) having extra time to pack/buy food/make spell packets for Wanderlust will be nice.

-fin