Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

People take it too seriously, it just makes you high.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

People take it too seriously, it just makes you high.

That's all I've ever used it for. I can't be in a bad mindset to get high? It's not like psychedelics are the only drugs I'm not using right now.

Ignoring homework, playing LoL, Pokemon Blaze Black 2, and The World Ends with You

I know how to live guys

Originally Posted by mikeac

Ignoring homework, playing LoL, Pokemon Blaze Black 2, and The World Ends with You

I know how to live guys

What's that a hack of?

Fuuuuuuuu. I gotta fly to the other side of the country to work on one of our new contracts. ...in the middle of winter. UGH.

1. I hate flying.
2. I hate flying.
3. Did I mention that I hate flying?
4. I hate sitting inside a pressurized metal tube full of beer and peanut farts.

I read some stuff today and I was extremely annoyed (read: snarl face and twitching), so I decided to work out. Good choice! I feel better and I'm not pissed off anymore. Thanks, punching and boxing workouts! I'm also happy to start working out more because as stupid as it sounds I want to learn parkour. Not with all the fancy flips and stuff, but everything else. Right now I lack the cardio and upper body strength, pretty much the two most important things in parkour. So best of luck to me. I'm skinny, very little muscle mass, so it'll take some work. Thankfully I don't have a lot of weight to lose, just gotta tone. But anyone who says that skinny people can't be out of shape is a liar.

Yesterday was a very good day. The only bad thing that happened was that I missed the bus stop since the bus always stops at every stop, so I didn't pull the cord, and then they stopped the route since it was Friday. That made me kind of annoyed. Then the only thing I had eaten was a bowl of Lucky Charms and it was about seven hours later, so I got super hypoglycemic and everything was kind of pushing around (like the floor was moving, but not quite dizziness). I went to two food places on campus and they were both closed (at 3 pm) before I realized that everything shuts down early on Friday. So FINALLY I got some food and felt much, much better. Then my husband had to drive to pick me up from work so I was sitting on a rock for about an hour and a half. Surprisingly though everything else that happened that day made me so happy that all of those things were just minor inconveniences, when normally I turn into a snarling rage monster whenever I'm hungry. Seriously. One time I almost attacked a group of adults twice my size because they were between me and some food.

The lab thing was really fun, the person didn't go into REM sleep but I got to see sleep spindles It's also amazing how much everything spikes and falls when a person rolls around. I helped put on the cap and got to go into ID card protected areas I didn't even know existed. I felt pretty awesome man, pretty awesome. The research assistants were super friendly and hilarious, I'm going to enjoy working with them. Also the girl RA was interested in DJs and lucid dreaming! She gave up because it wasn't working (she was trying to recognize dream signs, nothing more), so I encouraged her to try it again and maybe I'll have someone to talk to about all that stuff! Wouldn't that be awesome?! No one I know cares about dreaming save my sister (and we don't talk much), and no one at all cares about lucids. Totally badass! I'm excited

Next week I get to be a guinea pig too, the RAs need to learn how to measure heads for placing electrodes (this new area they need to run tests in doesn't use electrode caps) so guess who's head they're using? That's right: Mine. And if it sounds like I'm getting shafted, consider that getting electrodes on my head and seeing my brainwaves is on my bucket list. I'll just need to bring a hat or stick my head under the sink or something so people won't see all the paste in my hair. Trying to manipulate the waves is gonna be fun

Rant 1: I set an alarm for 5:45 PM, and it was about 4:28 PM at the time I just wanted to meditate again for self-hypnosis. God, controlling the urge to just stay awake from the hypnosis is really hard now. I can feel the commands I give myself working quickly, and every time I give myself the suggestion that I'm getting more relaxed and deeper in the hypnotic state, I really am getting there and it's just harder to stay aware even with setting posthypnotic suggestions that I'll be aware throughout the whole process. But another factor of it is that I was just tired from this week of handling the first 2 weeks of classes, and most of it was the activities from that Kinesiology course where it was obvious I haven't worked out for months now. At least it wasn't the actual timed run, otherwise I'd have a bad grade for that portion, and the thing is, I had more energy after the workout to ride on my highest gear on the bicycle -___- , what's up with that?!!?

Rant 2: I just looked over the T.V. screen I left running while I did the oversleeping thing, and realized my Tyranitar from Pokemon Colosseum is taking WAY too long to get it's Shadow Gauge empty so I can purify it. I'm doing this glitch where you just move the Gamecube controller a certain way, hold it, take it out of the port while still holding the control stick, put it back in, and then it'll make your character move automatically without you needing to hold it anymore. And since Shadow Pokemon have their shadow gauge slowly withering away when you walk, this allows you to just leave the game on autopilot. And since this is different for the hill in Agate Village that most people use, this speeds up the whole process.

It's just this same pokemon I'm waiting for so I can purify it has gone through at least 2-3 sets of purification with other pokemon, and it's gauge is only at like 25% left...what the hell!?!? Ugh, what arrogant pokemon. It should be finished by the time I wake up after a few hours of sleep again.

Rant 3: This third-party blogging site I go to from time to time, people are so bloody stupid. They complain about not being paid at all when I've literally worked with the system and have been paid 7 times now. It's not even that hard at all, it just takes a little practice in writing, and they're not expecting a novel everytime you blog. I swear, you don't have to be a rocket scientists, and I can literally be paid off the user's stupidity. Hopefully when the site updates this coming March of 2013, it will filter out the incompetents and make me more money.

Even through all the reboots, updates, errors, anything, I've been paid consistently from that site, and even show payment proofs. But noooo, they just spam at the understaffed team, expect them to be miracle workers, when they themselves can just WORK it out if they just realized they have a FUCKING BRAIN. It just shows how many people are just stupid in this world, both online and outside of it!

Tired of helping people when all they do is take advantage of me...

That sounds awesome NewArtemis!! Have fun!

We still have no water. Blah. I finally had to comb baby powder into my hair to soak up the oil. Gross. I'm using hubby's shower later today whether he likes it or not lol Baby wipe baths and powder only go so far!
Other than that, life is good. Nice and quiet.
Except for the bird I was whistling earlier and slipped a note in a song and produced an extremely high pitched sound. That got the birds attention right away. So whenever he started carrying on, I'd make the sound again. Only, now I can't lol. My mouth wont form correctly
He's such a silly boy though. It's hard to be overly annoyed with him even when he is giving me headaches. He's now making a lot of "wtf" movements.
Goof ball.

I also need a soda. Water just isn't cutting it right now. But I'm going to wait until the sun comes up.
Been playing lots of WoW and taking it easy, waiting for the weather to warm up again.
In the kitchen, our liquid dish soap actually froze.

Wowwww, Zhaylin, it must be cold where you are. Maaan, it's getting so warm here. Everybody thinks it's cold, but this is like spring for me and it's bizarre because we've gone from something like -1/0C up to around 15-18C in a matter of days :/ I doubt it will get cold again, but maybe it will, because the weather is all over the place.

I had a pretty irritating morning. Basically after thinking I would be getting another five days off, one of my colleagues called me and woke me up (at around 10:05, haha) and asked me why I wasn't at work (the work today did start at 10:20 though). And I said that we were told by our boss that only one of us needed to be there every day and so after some calling back and forth, she said, "No actually, you do need to be here. The headmaster says you should both be here. Can you be here before 10:20?" And I was like, "What, are you serious?!" So I was running around and racing for the bus and then 10 minutes later she calls and says, "Actually, I've spoken to the headmaster again. You don't need to be here. The headmaster and Frank [the overall boss and, incidentally, the headmaster's brother] disagreed about it at the meeting, which was why he told you that you didn't have to be here. The headmaster thought you should be here. But now he's changed his mind." I swear, I was fuming. They didn't agree at the meeting, so....what did they think was going to happen???? And, I was woken up out of the only decent, pleasant dream I've had in days

I also had some awful dreams last night and I'm feeling pretty blue. Still, I'm definitely going to have a LD tonight. It's happening

Lula x

A parrot just flew overhead and landed on the nectarine tree in front of me in my garden, sang to me and then flew off.
Haven't seen one of them for ages, so beautiful.

Ahhhh life....

I'm so annoyed!!!! First I thought I lost my phone, spent around an hour looking for it full sure I had brought it either to the couch or piano, but no....it was still in the charger. I swear there must be poltergeist around here somewhere.
Next I decided to check my email, and on top of the ridiculous amounts of DV emails I get, some idiotic company keeps sending me stupid shit like " want to win a CuPcake Mak3r "
Half the emails I get is crap like this and the wierd thing is it comes in waves. It's like there is some bot somewhere in the world who every now and then decideds to empty his rubbish bin into my email.

I'm so worried. I've bought some band merch online, and normally it takes 2-3days to deliver. And i've been waiting for 9 days. So something went wrong for sure. On the site, it says that it got delivered on wednesday 12:06pm. But I still haven't got it. So I've sent them an email, and now I'm waiting for them to reply. And if they don't, I'm gonna let my dad call them. Cause I've paid 100 euros for like 5 t-shirts. I want them so bad. This is why I hate online shopping D:

Rave: Oh my god, ever since I got back to cooking some basic stuff, I'm so excited on other things I can make.

I thought cooking would be boring, but not when I can make something I like a lot, which is Asian food. If I finish my assignments, or at least 50% of them, I'm going to get groceries and start making some basic Asian food....I'm so excited right now

If things go well, which I'm sure they will, I'll rarely have to do fast food when I can make the stuff myself. I'll even make Fried Rice, it's so easy.

GASGHASDFKGADHF FOOD ORGASM right now~~

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

What's that a hack of?

Pokemon Black 2, the newest release IIRC

It's been a while since I played any Pokemon game, let alone a hack since about 2010. The levels of all Pokemon and modified Trainer Rosters are curved up by about 5-20 above the normal game, which means that you spend more time grinding during the main storyline. You can't just cheese all the gym leaders with something like Guts+Flame Orb Heracross (though it helps that you can catch that and stuff like Beldum, Gible, Victini, etc. super early). It's definitely an interesting mod (all 693 ((lol)) Pokemon, early powerful TMs like Flash Cannon and Earthquake, modified item drops, etc etc) but I'm still not sure if the grind is worth it unless you really have some time to kill. What's neat is that the patch download comes with documentation for all of the changes in the game.

That sounds so awesome Tommo! Are parrot populations on the decline?

Crashyy, I hope you get your shirts soon. I hate shopping on-line too. I bought a bunch of Bawls candy from Thinkgeek and both times they arrived moldy The only way to get them (for me anyhow) is on-line though. I haven't tried since. Been several years.

Link, make me up some Chicken Fried Rice? *tummy grumbles* I am SO jealous!!!!!!

Lula, I would be steaming mad too! Hope the rest of your day went better.

My rant is that the pipes have begun thawing and one leak is already apparent: the toilet (under the floor, the water coming in). Ugh. Water still wont drain however.
My body started aching last night. It felt like I had a cut near my hip but I couldn't find anything. Then I just put it out of my mind. I went to Sheetz early this morning and on the way to the car I realized why I was so sore. I slipped in the snow and ice yesterday while walking through the yard. I even had a good laugh at myself and then I saw my son laughing in the doorway. He had seen the whole thing
And then I completely forgot about it I swear, if I don't write something down in my notebook, it never happened as far as my memory is concerned.

Other than that, it's been a nice, quiet day. Hopefully, hubby will let me go shopping tonight. Now that we can flush the toilet again, I could go for some real food. This (nearly) starvation diet is killing me. A person can only eat so many slim jims and BBQ chips lol

Anti-Complain: I broke my dry spell last night! If this hadn't happened, I think I'd be breathing into a paper bag while I type out an angst-filled rant in this very thread about how my mojo was lost forever.

Anti-Complain: Yesterday was beautiful (impossibly so for January.) We got to spend the afternoon in the park with the kids and I got to catch up with an old friend that I hadn't seen in eight years.

A damn fine day, all the way around!

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

That sounds so awesome Tommo! Are parrot populations on the decline?

*sigh* probably.... like most other species. We're killing 50-55,000 species every year.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised. I still see them a lot in forest areas around here and a lot of them down on the south-east coast though.
So they may be okay since they're spread out. Although I think the ones here are a slightly different species, the colours are arranged in a different pattern.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

This (nearly) starvation diet is killing me. A person can only eat so many slim jims and BBQ chips lol

Given link's post, maybe you could take up cooking as well. Or do you already cook?
If you don't you should. It would give you something to do. Plus it's far, far, far, FAR cheaper than mcdonalds and all that other fast food filth.
And it tastes infinitely better.
You can get like 10 kg of rice for $20, then just get some curry or other spices, some herbs like oregano, rosemary, thyme (or, hell grow them yourself, they're super easy to grow) and then some veggies. You make like 100 different things with these ingredients. And if you buy noodles as well, you make like a 1000 different things.

Haha Zhaylin, your life sounds well exciting. The other week, we had no water for a day, but someone living downstairs told me about it the night before, so I just started filling up buckets of water like it was going out of fashion. This girl who was staying with us was like, "Why do you need so much water?" I was like, "Dude, this is for the whole house! Plus, do you know how much stuff needs water?! And what happens if the water is off for longer than a day?!" I was in a mini crisis mode and it was delicious.

tommo, I love parrots; I wish I lived somewhere where they were flying around in abundance. Also, awesome dream goals!

My day got steadily worse and then better and then worse again as I went to bed. I had awful dreams where my entire family was entirely against me, shouting at me, locking me away, etc. It made me so sad.

BUT...just as I said I would,

I had my first LD this morning!! It didn't last long (I need to practice control), but I'm practically weeping with joy, especially because it was dark and I had no fear

Lula x

Rant: So the Calculus professor I go to that can't even distinguish "roll" from "role" did something very unexpected today.

We're only allowed a few absences before it's setteld that we'll fail the course for sure (about 3-4 I believe, maybe less). And even though absences may not be something a lot of people would abuse too early, there was this one guy sitting RIGHT next to me that looked like he was impatient from the professor's rambling.

It's about 3 minutes left in class, and he's already set to get out of class. There was another person that left the classroom before, or maybe went to the restroom and came back, but anyway, he leaves the class. And it's blatantly obvious that when you open the door, it's going to make a LOUD sound that will throw off the professor's train of thought going through all those formulas for us.

So guess what the professor does? He goes to the person who's in front of me (I'm at the front row), and told him, "Write your name and pass it down to the rest."

Man, that dude that left just now is SO FUCKED right now, unless the person sitting to the right of him is his friend, no one is going to really inform him that the professor might take a record of who's here again by writing their name. So if he's completely oblivious and repeats it again a few more times, it doesn't matter if he makes a 100 on every exam, he is going to be fucked in the ass when his grade comes up as D or F....and when he'll explain what happened, it'll be obvious that he didn't sit down until class time was over.

I loved how the professor, who's usually passive and engaged in teaching, suddenly went dictator mode and told that as soon as everyone writes their names down, they're free to go.

I loved how everyone just froze and started getting scared at what happened.

Man, I feel sorry for that guy if no one is going to tell him. It's just simple things like this that can fuck you over in college, which is why all my teachers in high school state: READ THE SYLLABUS.

Rave:

Just one more class for the day ( I fucking love morning classes for this reason, finishing things early), and I'm going to get some stuff to start improving my cooking skills. I might test out a sample on making Asian Chicken with the Sauce and see how it goes. But I'm mostly excited for learning how to get into making Fried Rice. I read the ingredients and multiple guides, and it's really easy.

I just need to make sure I WATCH the stove top so nothing burns. I wouldn't want to be like Raine from Tales of Symphonia who can't cook for shit because she just doesn't follow the instructions!

Bwahaha. Loved the clip, Link. That's how my kids sometimes used to feel when I used to cook. But not because I didn't follow instructions, but because I made up my own versions of stuff (like Quiche).

Now-a-days, however, I still have no working stove or oven. Everything I "cook" comes out of a small microwave. I also have no real fridge, just a tiny thing that can hold a gallon of milk and a 2 liter of Soda and that's about it (there is a little ledge under a teensy freezer section for small things like sticks of butter. I have a huge freezer though. Perfect for storing microwave dinners, lasagnas etc.
That's why I now eat a lot of soup. But I need to pick healthier selections before the sodium kills me. But I love those Cups of Soup (Creamy Tomato, Broccoli, Chicken and Stars)

Lula, so happy to hear you had an LD
And yeah, water is a pain to gather when you don't have any. Everything takes water it seems (from cooking and drinking to bathing and the toilet).

Our pipes are completely thawed now. Then the kitchen sinks drained but the shower, tub and toilet were stopped up. Those finally cleared a few hours ago thankfully. The water going into the toilet is leaking, but I can't get under the trailer until tomorrow (or rather, I wont because it's super cold and raining but tomorrow and Wednesday are supposed to be perfect). I dread going under the trailer. The back of the house has never frozen before, so I need to cut out the plastic sheeting which, in the long run, makes things a million times worse because I lack the tools to properly replace it. The insulation is going to need replaced as well
Hubby needs to call a friggin pro.

Other than that, all is well. I slept worth crap last night. Reflux kept disturbing my sleep and I got up after only 5 hours. But I'm feeling okay now.
I do wish my dog would stop begging me though. I've been avoiding eye contact with her lol because that makes it worse. But she's pacing and whining at me every now and then. She been let outside a dozen times. She has food and water. She's gotten love. Now leave me alone lol

Originally Posted by tommo

*sigh* probably.... like most other species. We're killing 50-55,000 species every year.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised. I still see them a lot in forest areas around here and a lot of them down on the south-east coast though.
So they may be okay since they're spread out. Although I think the ones here are a slightly different species, the colours are arranged in a different pattern.

I wish that I could say that I have seen a parrot that wasn't in a pet store. :/

Today was pretty usual. Although I am home alone right now and I don't know why, usually people get home around 5:30, and its much later than that. Maybe they are home but I just haven't been downstairs today.

I think I have a brain tumor.

I can't stand anyone in my life. I can not cope with the fact that everyone has flaws, they keep bugging me until I completely explode and then, boom, no friends for me.

So that's my life.

Edit: And why the hell is my post still bold. It was supposed to get changed forever ago!

So fucking sick of not having a job its like FUCK what do I have to do, Might as well go do charity work, fucking no money no food Don't have shit, its ridiculous Can't even get a job at McDonalds whats that shit. guess I'll just die of starvation or cold at night once my mom dies since I obviously can't even get a job to barely make it by on.

I made my new signature. It looked great while in photoshop, but on the site it looks dark and pixelated. :/

I thought JPEG was hard to stretch out!?