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I saw Return of the King last night. It was pretty good. I'm actually not much of a fantasy fan, and I never read the books (very extreme opposite of my boyfriend). I usually like Action, Comedy, or SciFi. Watching the previews before the LOTR, I realized that I really want to see Ashton Kutcher's new movie, The Butterfly Effect - that looks damn good, and it's a good role for him to take right now, as he's richer than hell but starting to be taken not so seriously.You can see the trailer here.I heard that The Last Samurai is excellent, and I also want to see the new Rock and Vin Diesel movies - both look pretty good.OK I'm done with my little movie kick. I got an A in my Physics class, woo! -only one more day of work until my much-anticipated vacation.

Vacation

I haven't written in a while - I've been SO busy with finals and work! I'm out of school until January, and after I work Monday and Tuesday of this week, I'm out of work until January 5th. I can't wait for the break! I'm not planning on doing anything extraordinary during my break, but the luxury to sleep whenever I want / don't want to will be great, and I'll even have time to detail my cars! I can clean my room, paint my nails, and touch up my hair with fresh pink dye - wow, the menial little possibilities. I've also been busy improving www.lightsabercrew.com - there are actually a lot of users of that forum, and they all depend on / cry to me to keep giving it improvements and keep it running smoothly. During my Christmas break I plan to design a sister site, the light side, to it's current dark side, and add a portal to the forum, as well as other minor mods.Last Tuesday I went to an Ill Nino / Sevendust concert at the House of Blues Anaheim - it was awesome. I went with my brother, my boyfriend, his sister, and her boyfriend. Unfortunately we missed the beginning of Ill Nino's set, who we all primarily wanted to see. We all like Sevendust, and they had a great set, but Ill Nino tore it up. Then I took my Physics final the next morning at 8 a.m. I hardly had any sleep the night before, and I believe that contributed to my mistakes - I did shit like used the force of friction throughout an entire problem instead of the work of friction, and on one problem, we were instructed to solve by dynamics, and I used energy. Damn sleep - I should really do that more often. Then, that night, I went to the Static-x show at the same venue, with my brother, my boyfriend, his sister, and 3 of our friends. I haven't seen them since their "Machine" record release party at the Troubadour in Hollywood, I believe... it was well worth the wait. I hadn't seen them with their new drummer yet. He's excellent. Since the passing of Lynn Strait (Snot), Static has done a great job of filling Snot's shoes as my favorite live band. We were all too tired to see the (hed) show the next day - but we've seen hed live at least 60 times, and probably 10 times just this year. I've also seen Static almost that many times, but had gone too long without a show. Speaking of music, the new Spineshank album is the best album of the year. Go pick it up!We are going to have a small kickback at my house for the New Year. No one is in the mood for a large party. We had one of those pretty recently and I think we're still mentally recuperating. I finished all my Christmas shopping - I haven't bought anything for my best friend. I never know what to get her. We don't actually hang out enough, I think, for me to be able to know what she wants. I doubt she'll get me anything either - we'll probably go treat each other to some mutual activity later - neither of us gave the other a birthday present this year, either.I took a bunch of silly pictures recently - almost makes me want to get a pay-account so I can use them all.Tomorrow I'm going to see Return of the King - I heard it's the best of the trilogy... better get some sleep.

Christmas Stuff

I'm pretty stressed out about Christmas presents right now. For some reason I'm always broke, even though I make pretty good money. I spend it like water. I just bought my first presents yesterday. I bought my boyfriend some miscellaneous stuff from the Franklin Mint store. I bought him a cool dagger and a dragon - it's the fourth dragon I bought him. They're about $300 each, so he's a pretty spoiled boy, but I feel kind of bad buying him miscellaneous objects instead of something he could use. I bought him exhaust for his truck for his birthday, though, and so I guess the miscellaneous objects are pretty cool.Here's a picture of the dagger - it's really cool looking, called "Vampire's Curse", and has a polished wood dagger that slides in and out of the guard. It's about 40 cm tall.Here is a picture of the dragon I bought him. I love the Michael Whelan Dragons. I have the set of 6 miniatures of these. His are about 27 cm tall. Now I just hope he doesn't find my live journal - that would suck.For my brother I am buying a set of APC Black Racing Bucket Seats for his 71 El Camino... unfortunately, today he just found out that his car isn't an El Camino at all! He's had the car over a year and we all thought it was an El Camino, but he checked the VIN, and it turns out it's a 71 GMC Sprint. Freaking crazy. However, there were only ~4000 of those made, so it's actually more rare and worth more money (it's just got a lame name). We all loved the connotation his "truck" had as an El Camino - I don't think a Sprint gets the same redneck with a mullet vibe, but I'm sure he'll learn to deal with it. :) What sucks is, now that he found out it's not an El Camino, he is considering working to give it a factory restoration, while previously he has just been focusing on upgrading performance parts. Well, I'm probably getting him the seats anyway, because either way he'd have to redo his upholstery. These are they:I also picked my brother out some merchandise from viewaskew.com (Kevin Smith-related paraphernalia). -can't go wrong there.I haven't decided what to get my parents yet. I picked my mom up some perfume, but I need to find something else, too, because I feel like a cheap bastard. I also have to buy something for a chick at work - we did the Secret Santa thing. I get really stressed out about this present stuff. I havent' even thought about what I'm getting for my best friend. I can't wait until Christmas is over so I can finally install my Hotchkis suspension set on my Trans Am.

Relaxed

I feel pretty relaxed at the moment.I finally get a slight break. I have a lot of studying to do, but this four day off of work and school is NICE.Although I'm feeling pretty calm right now, I'll take this time to complain about what an annoying person my mom can be anyhow... I eat my parent's free food every day on my lunch break. Today I get there, and my dad is home, which is strange, because he works all the time. I asked him why he was home, and he told me it was a vacation day. My parents were originally going to go camping, but the campground burned down in our recent California fires, so he was home instead. Then my mom chimed in that he was "supposed to be cleaning the garage!" I asked her, "Dude, you gave him chores on his day off?!?" She tried to explain to me that "they" (meaning "her", I checked with my Dad) decided that since they weren't going camping my Dad was going to clean out the garage. My dad is a 61 year old man who is overweight and has to troubleshoot broken elevators when the repairmen can't find hte problem. This means that my dad had to climb stairs all day carrying an absurdly heavy toolbox, and my Mom is so hyperactive, that she is basically trying to get him to do chores every weekend, and every chance she can get. My mom works from home. She teaches classes for how to make porcelain dolls twice a week. She has to pour the porcelain into the molds (prepare the basic elements) and fire the porcelain in the kiln in between classes, but that's pretty much it. Yet she is somehow under the false impression that she works as hard as my Dad. She never relaxes, and if you are ever around her, it is bitch bitch, nag, nag, all day long. No one ever wants to be around her, and I tend to feel quite sorry for my Dad since he is an incredibly mellow guy. I love my Mom, but damn! Sometimes it's just too much. I suppose I should just be happy that my parents are still together.

Shitty Day

My day just ended pretty crappy. Yes, ended at 5:30 pm because I've been awake for 34 hours straight right now. I worked from 5:30am to 11:30 am, school from 12:pm to 3:pm, work from 3pm to 5pm... I was just getting ready to go home and get some rest, and my boyfriend called me at work to pretty much---bitch display his displeasure at the fact that my ex boyfriend and my other friend have had his xbox for over a month - going on two. Those two mod consoles for a side business, and our xbox was modded a while ago - yes, actually it's ours - i paid for the mods... so anyways, the newer games weren't working, and we needed our bios updated. First they took my brothers and fixed that - took them about 3 to 4 weeks. Then they took mine (actually I drove it to their house and gave it to them). They've had it for a very long time, and the one friend won't answer his phone when my brother or I call, and he won't return our voice mails. I talked to my ex last night and he was a rude bastard (not out of character), but he basically said he wasn't going to get involved in any BS... and he didn't let me know what was taking so long... So today my boyfriend called me and he wants it back, and he's real irritated at the fact that they've had it so long, but I don't know what to do. He was yelling at me (not yelling, but as close as he ever gets to it, talking in his "highly irritated voice"), and I told him that it sounded like he was mad at me over the situation, and he told me he kind of was, because it was my job to take care of this situation, and I was doing a poor job... so that made me pretty mad/sad something like that, and I hung up on him and called my friend, who didn't answer. I left another voice mail. Then I called my brother to tell him that my boyfriend was pretty upset about it and to see if he could get ahold of our friend, but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. I will probably have to go to his house tomorrow, which sucks because it's completely out of the way of anything for me... damn eastern rancho cucamonga. If he's not home we probably won't even be able to get it, because his mom is a real snatch, and he works wacked hours at a warehouse. My boyfriend's adamant about getting it back by thanksgiving, though (by tomorrow, that is), so I'm just pretty bummed about the whole thing -- not to mention that when I'm this over-tired I get upset / sad more easily than normal. I also probably type in long run-on sentences when I'm tired but I'm too tired to read over what I just typed.... and now I sleep.

Credit

OK, I'm making one more entry today to rant.I am continually trying to improve my credit. I fucked it up when I was younger BIG TIME. Now I have 3 accounts in bad standing (from back then--they won't be gone for another 3 or 4 years), and 13 accounts in good standing or closed in good standing. However, I get denied for things that require credit checks all the damn time. The three credit cards that I do use suck ass, but I keep them in good standing so one day the magical credit fairy will sprinkle the magic dust upon my credit report and make it dazzling and illustrious!One of my credit cards (which has a 19.99% interest rate - eww) just gave me a $35 late charge and $19 finance charge, because they received my payment ONE DAY after the due date. Fuck Providian - right in their ear... if they report that to the credit bureaus as 30 days late, I'm gonna kick them in the shins. I pay my balance in full every month. I called them up and cancelled in a blind rage - they lose my $1000/month in senseless spending because they're a bunch of bleeding cunt rags. (potty mouth)Luckily I just got a brand new transparent orange credit card with a much higher limit and lower interest rate than that one, so poop on them.

Damn Work and School

I guess my journal's going to stay very boring, because my life is pretty boring. Work and school - school and work. I went to school today from 9 to 10am, and paid a speeding ticket from 10:15 to 11am (my sixth speeding ticket in my commuter car - I am yet to get one on my baby (my Trans Am)).So I paid my ticket, went to work, and worked from 11:15am to 8:45pm. Now I get to do my physics homework - I'm two chapters behind on the standard homework, and my weekly lab write-up is due tomorrow morning. This is the part of this entry I'm sure no one wants to read: I'm stuck on this one stupid issue... I found that there is a linear relationship between the hanging mass and the angular acceleration of a frictionless pulley system pulling on a small torque wheel fixed to steel disks... so anyway, yeah - the equation that relates them is:I need to explain why the relationship between m and alpha (angular acceleration) is linear... So everything in the equation is a constant except for the acceleration, which increases as the mass (small m) increases... It doesn't look like a linear equation, but it has a linear relationship, because everything else is constants. One of my employees (a mechanical engineering major) and I tried to freaking algebraically convert this thing to slope-intercept form all day, and we kept getting this wack-ass intercept (but an accurate slope)... That's due tomorrow, so I hope I figure it out by then.Oh yeah and besides work and school, my boyfriend puts me to work as his webmaster for www.lightsabercrew.com. I get to maintain an ungodly amount of user art pages and what not, as well as help him mod the forums there. Tonight one user sent me 23 megs of images that he wants added to his user art page, so I get to do that, in addition to all my homework... Good thing I'm wasting time making this worthless entry first.Damn my life is exciting... Wish you were me?