More random stuff

Well, I posted most of my stuff earlier in the post below (make sure ya read that!) but I have more random stuff I want to post about... I don't think I never posted a pic of my car with my windows tinted did I? Well here's one from a few weeks ago in the snow- looks kinda sexy there eh? Of course, I think I'm going to replace my Cavalier in the fall.. check out this new Chevrolet Cobalt being released at that time! This is a concept pic, but well, mmm! It'll be officially unveiled, with real pics, in a week or so. Oh, and there's a Lord of the Rings supertrailer out :) You HAVE to see this - show it to someone who hasn't seen any, especially. IT ROCKS! Oh, Return of the King made $124 million from Wed-Sun last week, and there are rumors that the Extended Edition might be 5 hours long :) Does anyone have any idea how THREE of my remotes would go bad? I tried changing the batteries, everything... they don't work I'll continue to update as I think of things...

Merry Christmas!

First off, I want to say Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it :) And Happy Holidays to those who don't! My Christmas hasn't been that exciting, (well, besides what I did yesterday which is mentioned waaay later).. the only news is that my aunt is pregnant (with her first child - at 35!). We haven't had a new addition to my family in 17 years - my brother is the youngest of all of us - (yea, it's about time us kids start havin kids eh?), so this should prove quite interesting. So ya, I haven't updated in a week again. I have my reasons, and they would be work, school, and relaxing. So let's start at the top. Work has been the same as usual, it's just been very, very hectic, so I don't really have much to say about that. Nothing new or exciting or anything like that. I just have to be there at 6am tomorrow to set the ad because for some reason they were incapable of doing it last night. I guess they wanted to get home to their families on Christmas Eve - can't really blame them. School is finally done for me for the semester. I don't know how well my grades are - I fear for two classes, honestly. But now I need to let myself relax and get other things done before I have to worry about my last semester at Mercer in January. I'm still deciding what to do about if i want to transfer or not, but I figured I should at least fill out and send out applications to various ones to transfer to. I saved various college .pdf files to a CD and I'm going to print them at work tomorrow and then get to filling them out. The colleges I'm looking at are: Drew, Drexel, Montclair St, NJIT, Rider, Rowan, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Stevens, TCNJ,and Temple. A few of them I might not mail in but I just ran down a list of colleges around me I'd like to go to and those caught my eye. I'd love to go to Full Sail in Miami but I don't know... I guess I could always fill something out for them too. As for relaxing and all that various random stuff... I really, really need to start playing my backlog of games. I got Fire Emblem and FFTA for GBA today, as well as Prince of Persia and FZero for GC, along with alllll the other games I need to play/beat. Not to mention the massive amount of DVD's I could watch - I have over 90 now, my brother has over 100, and we figured out that most of ours are not the same ones, so we have quite a big DVD selection goin on, and I'm happy I got new DVD racks for Christmas - now I can hold up to 200; of course it's half full ) We also have 4 DVD players (not counting the two laptops that can do it) in the house, so I think we're pretty well inclined in that department :) I need to clean my room AGAIN, clean up my computer (I'm missing 40 gigs on my hd, I think I should try to clean that up and defrag), not to mention how my laptop is.. Oh and Cingular is so so pissing me off lately, gah their service has gone down the tubes. It's a shame I don't think I can port my number until May, how stupid. I want to either unlock my Siemens S56 and try it with someone else, or get some money and get the Motorola V600 phone that'll be out soon - it's so sweet. Oh and I finally ordered a Jabra bluetooth headset, yay! $80, not too bad, since they kick ass. I can't wait for my Cingular bill this month; text messaging is going to be sky high. Oh, has anyone ever heard of Swoops candy? My mom got them.. they're like pringle shaped chocolates.. so odd..

"My friends - you bow to no one"

Nothing really important here, I just feel like quoting Return of the King at 6:30 in the morning "Smeagol?! What is this!!?" "You'll see" "Come back, Mr. Frodo. Don't go where I can't follow" "I can see the Shire" "Fool of a Took!" "That sword was broken!" "It has been reforged" "You have the gift of foresight - tell me what you have seen!" "The ring is MINE!" "Actually, it would be best if you do not speak at all" "This is not the first time a hobbit has crossed your path" "Faramir, do not throw your life away - your father loves you. He will remember before the end" "Word has reached my ears of this Aragorn some of Arathorn. And I tell you now - I will not bow to this Ranger from the North!" "They will follow the King of Gondor" "My lord, the beacons are lit! Gondor calls for Aide!" "... and Rohan will answer" "You must take a different road to Gondor" "For Frodo!" "Don't you know by now the stubborness of a dwarf?" "Face it laddy, we're coming with you" "Is there any possbility of seeing that old ring of mine one last time?" "It is time, Frodo" "The last pages are for you, Sam" I don't think any of those are really spoilerish, especially since it's not really obvious who is saying anything :) I'm sure I'll post more as I think about the movie again, and as I see it again :)

"That's why I have a job"

Ah, my update before bed. First off, I would like toa gain emphasize the need for everyone to go see this movie, at it is great. Also, as snake reminded me, for those of you who looked at that picture I posted a few weeks ago saying it had a spoiler in it for the movie,a nd couldn't figure out what it was, after seeing the movie look at it again. Notice now? :) Oh, I'm also very proud of the majority of people who were able to survive since 2001 and not find out how this whole thing ended by asking or reading the books. Must've been a long journey :) And me myself, I plan on seeing it twice more this weekend :) First day figures are supposed to be available tomorrow btw, but it made about $8 million alone at midnight showings. So today I woke up temporarily, then zonked back out till 1ish, woke up, ate cereal, posted my post, surfed the web. Then at 2 I had a doctor appointment, this time it was for my head. I first had him check out my ear, which if I put any pressure on it at all (like, laid down on it) it would clog. He used a lil tool and took out a ton of earwax from it. "Feel better?" me: "Yeah, I couldn't get that myself though". His response? "That's why I have a job". All I know is its better, woo! Next up was my headaches and runny nose and stuff for the past 6 weeks. He did some examining, used a lil camera to look in my nose, and decided I still have a mild sinus infection that hasn't gone away, and prescribed me more medication. I am not the healthiest person, lol, and I have so much to look forward to. Speaking of that, an ad came on for Deborah Heart & Lung center before RotK started last night and I just continuously gave it both middle fingers; my brother just kept shaking his head and told me to calm down. Bah, they're a bunch of IDIOTS!.. How do you not check to make sure your damn heart monitoring machines are MONITORING THE HEART and allow people to have heart attacks after a triple bypass surgery?! RETARTS!!!!! AAKSJLDLAKJFSLDFKJSDLFKJ Anyway, didn't mean to get on that rant. After the dr I came home and cleaned my room (looks better now, whew). Gotta set up my new DVD rack hehe, so I don't have DVD's all over the place. Then I went to Olive Garden with me, my mom, brother, and grandfather. After that I came home and I've been lounging ever since, chatting, typing, cleaning my room.. gotta finish my online stuff, guess I'll do that tomorrow, then I can relax except work till January. Hang out, read, play games.. yay :) Relaxation time is coming! After I get through work tomorrow, which'll be hell... Off to bed!

"No man can kill me." "I am no man"

Oh my god, what a GREAT MOVIE! I don't really want to say too much about it, but you HAVE TO GO SEE IT. Even people who liked the first two but weren't crazy about them really liked this one. And it most definitely has Best Picture written over it. Amazing, amazing. And if you are prone to becoming emotional in any way towards movies, bring a nice big box of Kleenex, because half my theater was bawling by the end. Of course, half of the theater was girls, not that I'm saying anything by that ;) Well, I plan on seeing it at least once more this week, but for now I need to do stuff.. I have school things to do, room to clean, etc etc, even though its my birthday. I just need to get stuff done. I'll update again later probably.

BECOME WHO YOU WERE BORN TO BE!!

Well, after a hectic day at work I had an even more hectic evening finishing up homework for class and dropping it off at Mercer.. And then I got some wrapping paper too, had to keep myself busy this evening ;) And now it's time time GO SEE RETURN OF THE KING!!! I CANT WAIT!!!! And my birthday is in 2 hours too!!! WOOOO! Talk to ya guys later :)

The Journey Ends Tonight!

Hmm.. you know it's going to be an interesting day when it starts out and you're talking to someone that you didn't really expect to talk to. Ah well, I wished her a happy birthday, which I wasn't sure I'd be able to do anywhere near her birthday, and it's some type of hollow shell resemblence to years past. But now I'm sitting here waiting to leave for work, looking over some of my class stuff that's due later and is barely done, oh boy! :) And then Return of the King is tonight!! YEA! We've got Return of the King tonight (11 of us are going from work, woo!), my birthday tomorrow, kind of a dull day Thursday besides work, and then on Friday is the best part of the week, where I get to hang out with my girlfriend, yay :) Welp, that's pretty much it. I gotta get dressed (ya know, throw on the Staples uniform) and keep lookin this classwork over.. then get through work.. then finish hw/possibly retake a test in a class tonight/go buy a cute lil christmas present for a certain someone that I thought of, since we're exchanging lil gifts and all ;) / get some sleep somehow/see Return of the King! Off I go! Oh, does anyone know why my cat started biting my ear lobe? Its not a fun thing, let me tell ya. Oh and for anyone who is anticipating the Sopranos return on March 7th like me, there's a clip from Season 5 on this page.

Great things are coming!

I'm still chugging through class stuff to get it all done by Tuesday (except the online classes, they are Friday). I'm also working a lot like usual, and I've been playing games like Diablo2 for some reason, hehe (I need to play more GC and GBA games though).. Oh and Tuesday night at 10:30 I'll be at AMC, and at 12:01am Wednesday it'll be time for Return of the King and my birthday :) And then I'll probably see it again Wed or Thurs, and then definitely see it again at 7pm with some friends from my class at Steinert. And hey, if any of you people are reading this and want to join us at that, let me or Dan Burton know! Oh, and I enjoyed myself when I stopped in at Staples to buy stuff today (employee discount weekend + christmas gift card + coupon, so I bought my brother presents). Oh, I'd also like to say Congrats to the US Army for capturing Saddam. Now we don't look quite as bad, thanks guys :) Oh also, is anyone else having issues with AIM recently? Whenever it switches ads at the top if gives me an error message saying "Undefined ;". and it keeps crashing and closing. I had to switch back to Trillain because it was bothering me so much. That's pretty much it, I just need to get stuff done for class, work to make money, see Return of the King Wednesday, and hope the week goes fast so I can see my girlfriend again on Friday :) I'm so excited, and happy :) Oh, you guys might be interested in seeing the Spiderman 2 trailer. It'll also be in front of Return of the King :)

Zoom Zoom Zoom!

Geeze, it's already Friday morning as I write this, amazing! Sorry I haven't really posted except for the song this week, I've been extremely busy. Monday: Work-Class, Tuesday: Work-Class, Wednseday: Work-Online Class HW, Today: was supposed to be off, got called into work, then class/final and took two tests while I was at it there for other classes. I'm about halfway done everything for my classes I'd say, although I don't have to go back to Mercer after Monday until January 20th :) Nothin else really; I need to clean my room again, I work in the morning again, then I need to do more school stuff, work a bit Saturday/get overtime (since I had to go in today), have plans Sat night I hope.. I'm afraid to look at the weather.. Eek its going to snow sunday! hah, what fun, just as long as it stays on Sunday. Cloudy and cold on my birthday too :( oh and I am playing Diablo2 again, go figure haha. Welp, off to bed since I'm exhausted. Update tomorrow I hope. 5 days till RotK/my birthday!

Hmm..

Lay down Your sweet and weary head Night is falling You have come to journey's end Sleep now Dream-of the ones who came before They are calling From across a distant shore Why do you weep? What are these tears upon your face? Soon you will see All of your fears will pass away Safe in my arms You're only sleeping What can you see On the horizon? Why do the white gulls call? Across the sea A pale moon rises The ships have come To carry you home And all will turn to silver glass A light on the water All souls pass Hope fades Into the world of night Through shadows falling Out of memory and time Don't say We have come now to the end White shores are calling You and I will meet again And you'll be here in my arms Just sleeping What can you see on the horizon? Why do the gulls call? Across the sea A pale moon rises The ships have come To carry you home And all will turn to silver glass A light on the water Grey ships pass Into the West - Into the West, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Saturday Saturday Saturday

Ok, so I haven't updated since Monday.. I'm sorry, that's not a good thing. Where to begin.. I guess I should run down the week. What have I been doing? Work, school, and chatting mostly. I have a lot of schoolwork I need to get done and I keep procrastinating - it's not good. I seriously need to buckle down and plow through it tomorrow so I have all the big stuff done for the semester. I have one more week of class, and then finals. And as for chatting I've been talking to tons of people, and it's been distracting me from watching movies, playing games, and doing homework, hehe. Not that that's bad. And for work.. I worked a lot this week, and managed to meet my goal of having to leave at 1 instead of 5 today because of overtime. Apparently Staples closed at 6:30 today because of the snow.. even though it stopped, hehe. We got a good 16-18 inches (I'll take pics in the morning). Oh thank god I'm parked in the driveway and didn't pull back out into the street tonight like my mom asked me to because she has to leave in the morning - the plows are goin by right now, I woulda been seriously stuck, whew. Well I'll still be stuck in the driveway now, but ya know. My front wheel drive cavalier is alright in this weather, but not the greatest in the world. I need to weigh my ass down. I've also been working on my website today, getting Coranto/NewsPro up - people might actually be able to post soon, woohoo! Then my site can actually operate :) That makes me happy. We'll see. I'm also playing Diablo 2, hehe. Gotta love it. And I have 200,000 other games to play as well. Gotta get my schoolwork done so I have a month off to play games and work on the website and try to find a girlfriend, lol. Oh, and I have an extra ticket to Return of the King.. someone let me know about it.. Oh, what else is new.. the EBGames in the Hamilton Marketplace opneed, yay. I got Pirates of the Caribbean, yay! I should go pick up SimCity for GBA and Pac-Man World 2 for GC (It's $20, and you get Pac-Man Vs free. Pac-Man VS = a GC/GBA hybrid game where three people can play the ghosts on the GC, and you play as Pac-Man on the GBA running from them. Cool huh? :)). Anyway, Tuesday I got to work on time, but all the roads were icey and it kept customers (and employees) away for awhile, and I had planned on taking a lunch and leaving on time.. but I got stuck helping copy center. So that made me not take a lunch, and then I had my data communications class at night, yay. Wednesday I ended up staying till 5 because I made a big mess redoing printers and had to clean it up. Then we went to take the dogs to get cleaned and that failed, and then I stayed home for the night. Thursday I was off, so I went to Mercer and took 2 tests, then picked up Pirates, then I brought my brother to work, got some Cracker Barrel salads, and had my NET120 class, yay. Yesterday I worked normal time, came home, sat around 'cause I was bored after I shoveled, and thats it. Today I went to work from 9-1, had no customers, watched it snow another 6+ inches and had to dig my car out AGAIN, got free food, and went home.. sat around and talked to more interesting people the rest of the day, and worked on my website and stuff.. So tomorrow.. it's: homework, website, games. Christmas stuff/finances. Yea, that sounds good. Oh and pictures of the snow. Off to more D2 for a bit, and then bed!

T-5 Days...

I have to run off to class but I wanted to post two things I thought were pretty good reads; I'll update later with more rambles. First off is this (read it here):

A comment last year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was awarded the "Foot in Mouth" prize Monday by Britain's Plain English Campaign. Rumsfeld, renowned for his uncompromising tough talking, received the prize for the most baffling comment by a public figure. "Reports that say something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know," Rumsfeld told a news briefing. "We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

Also, here's a scoop on the Return of the King premiere in New Zealand:

Like a victorious general at the front of his army, home-grown director Peter Jackson led stars from "The Return of the King" for five km (3 miles) through central Wellington on Monday, flanked by characters clad in armor and on black horses. Amid drifts of ticker tape thrown by fans, Jackson and cast members were besieged by crowds 10 deep as they made their way up the 470 meter-long (510 yards) red carpet to the theater.

Gotta love it :) I'll update later, off to my Linux class! Yay, back from that awful class! Luckily next week we learn about AS/400, and the following week is the final, because I can't take much more of it - we're not really learning linux, blah. So work today was alright, there's a lot to get done and I definitely did not have time to finish it all today. Luckily it allowed me to stay an extra hour and take a shorter lunch, and I'm sure I can do that again this week. That let's me have even more time on Saturday :) Yay :) And speaking of that.. things are going well still, and I'm happy. Still no explanation, you'll get one eventually guys, for better or for worse. Let's hope it's for the better :) And ya, after class my night encompassed chats again, hehe. So I'm finding even more fun articles for you guys to read. Here's another:

Wellington, New Zealand - A recently leaked trailer for The Return of the King has Tolkien fans outraged over the apparent addition of a new character - Jar-Jaromir. The scene depicted in the trailer shows Jar-Jaromir shouting, "Gondora gonna fallsa"; he then trips over a corpse and knocks down a couple of Uruk-hai. Producers of The Lord of the Rings trilogy confirmed the addition of the half-brother of Boromir and Faramir.

And not to be outdone, here's a news article that sums up all the other news articles today aobut New Line and Peter Jackson really wanting to make The Hobbit!! (it also talks about them wanting to build a LotR museum in New Zealand but blah)

New Line, which spent $US300million ($415 million) making the films, is already planning to continue its Rings success with an adaptation of Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. More difficulties with the Tolkien estate were looming, said Jackson, who added that he would be keen to get involved after he finishes remaking King Kong in 2006. "New Line haven't actually talked to me about The Hobbit. I know there's difficulty about the rights, certainly if they want to talk to me about it I'd be keen," he said.

Well that's all. Off to bed :) "No one knows it's here, do they? Do they, Gandalf?" - Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring