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[Nov. 7th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
Kitty duty today! And my erstwhile partner decided to show up this time. She apologized for not being there last time and said now she's got it on her alarm or whatever to notify her the next time she needs to be there. UHHH as if it's really hard to figure out when it's supposed to be? It's every other Saturday so it's not that difficult to figure out which week you go. Did you go last week? No? Then you go this week. Stayed after again for a little bit to snuggle with one of the kitties they keep off by herself, poor thing's all lonely in the office. One of the cats adopted out was brought back due to continual peeing on the new home's carpets.
Gamefly apparently got my game back quicker this week and made up for the speediness by sending me a notice they have to ship my next game, Trivial Pursuit, from PITTSBURGH. Because certainly don't want me thinking them to be speedy or some such. Honestly, it was just a filler game and I didn't want it so badly they had to send it from Pittsburgh, for crying out loud.
Brother in law was reading about new homeowners tax credit, even for people who've had their homes longer than five years, and also thought he read something about a credit to help small business owners, where the government will match a year's profit? Anyone heard of such a thing? Thinks he read it in the Oregonian but might have been Columbian, so might have to hit the library to check out the papers, as their websites don't provide any story like that. Don't have a huge amount of profit, $20K, according to sister, but $20K would be useful to have, for sure!
While checking out bluray players on Sears' website--especially the Samsungs that stream Netflix--I applied for a charge card on a whim and, unless someone in the home office wakes up and goes NO WAYYY, I will be receiving a Sears charge card with a credit limit of $900 in two weeks. WOO HOO! I lied on the income portion of it but who doesn't fluff up their income numbers when it comes to charge cards? Not gonna go whole hog on it, I will use it to buy the bluray player for sister's Xmas present, the present for the whole dang family, and pay it off, like I would if I was doing layaway on it. It would be a good card to keep due to the automotive department, handy for any kind of repair thing needing to be done, though KNOCK ON WOOD that it wouldn't be needed. Their plus size department is even smaller than JCPenney's and as expensive, but they got a better kitchenware department and unlike JCPenney, the kitchen electronics selection is not skewed to their own store brand.
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|08:49 pm] |
Working my way through my Gamefly list. Tried Fable 2, not interesting enough to keep longer than a night, also did Left 4 Dead and though I'm not a big fan of first person shooters, I think I'll get it once it goes down to cheap, like $20 cheap. Also got Dragons Age on the list, for when it comes out, and gonna try Uncharted 2, when that comes available. Demon's Souls and Fairytale Fights, plus Overlord II. The first Overlord was fun, though I didn't finish it, and the second should be fun too.
( Now for the requisite Supernatural spoilers! )
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|04:07 pm] |
Bleah, being picky doesn't work well with low funds. Trying to find shoes and it's hard when you have wide feet and need to have a size 11, because there's not a lot to choose from, and Famous Footwear for one doesn't stock crap in the way of size 11. Nothing at Sears, found ONE pair I kinda liked at Payless but only the one pair and when it's BOGO I feel obligated to get a second pair.
Was parked by Macy's so decided to go in there and take a look around. I found a cute light purple top for FIVE BUCKS. There was this other top I had great love for but even at 40% off it was $35 and my love for it was not that great, I decided. Also decided that I need to regularly hit up the 75% off rack to find more bargains. They have a lot of really nice stuff but it's also expensive and when I look at the tag to see where it's made, it's generally in the kind of country where a worker's weekly pay is probably the same as the retail price of a T-shirt. And when you grow up in lower middle class, where money was always tight when it came to clothes and shoes, you tend to be frugal with your money. Clerk asks if I want to apply for a Macy's card and, DANG, even if they did give me one, it'd be one shopping trip to max it out. Their clothes are expensive but their cookware has some nice, reasonable prices so it'd be a toss up between clothes or nifty cooking pans lol.
The remake of V is on tonight, Syfy ran the old miniseries over the weekend and it'll be interesting to see how the new version stands up. Watching the old one, it's also nteresting how so many young members of the cast didn't do much of anything acting wise past the series, basically dropping out of Hollywood sight. Of the cast Michael Ironside is probably the only one who was been working consistently. Just goes to show the craggy character actors generally last longer than the pinup-pretty ones.
STILL got this dang cough, am ready for it to GO AWAY. It's been more than a week, dang it. It's annoying to cough so hard the bladder lets loose just a little bit, requiring a change of pants.
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[Oct. 31st, 2009|09:34 pm] |
Happy Halloween!
And...BORED. Hadn't been horribly slow, did a decent amount of sales, but in between was bored and wanting to go home. The desire to go home was only increased by a repeat visit from a mom and her two little ones, dad tagging along this time but NO USE AT ALL. Little brat kid tossing his orange tic tacs all over the floor, or if not tossing then just dropping them and apparently picking them up is beyond him and parents.
Had pizza delivered to store while still there, too lazy to pick it up afterward. Then to continue my oh so exciting Halloween I took a nap when I got home lol.
What's up with no horror movies on HALLOWEEN??? You'd think at least HBO would be playing something horrific, and I'm not talking Australia. Oh, sure, they're doing True Blood, but each night they seem to be playing the same eps from the first season, and of course ones I've seen already. Only decent horror movie playing is the ultimate classic, Night of the Living Dead.
"V" starts up on Tuesday. Will be interesting to see how it plays out, compared to the original. I saw the original way back when, as it aired, and then followed the short lived TV series it spawned. It was a darned good show, even if the plot did have a tendency to veer into soap opera territory, especially with the backstabbing antics of the Visitor commanders, but then it was the heyday of prime time soaps. No new Glee till...when? A few more new Supernatural and then hiatus.
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[Oct. 29th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
Ahh this time of year, it's all about people looking for obscure things to add to their costumes. And it's the time of year where I mentally compile a list for next year, but inevitably it's not the same things they want year to year, so what can you do, huh?
Bought candy to hand out and will probably end up eating more of it than what we hand out lol. Though not right away, as my stupid stomach is in that post sickness state where it's not sure if it's feeling nauseated or hungry so it does BOTH. Hungry and vaguely nauseous, lots of fun, 'cause I get to feeling a little shaky due to not eating but stomach isn't always super cooperative. Better get it straight by Saturday, stomach, 'cause I wants me Halloween pizza!
( Supernatural spoilers! )
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[Oct. 26th, 2009|03:16 pm] |
Am home, having my very first sick day in the four years the shop has been open.
Started up Saturday with a tickle in my throat and excessive coughing, building up to coughing hard enough to make me gag and try to bring up whatever it is stuck in there. Still coughing on Sunday but moving around, did some cleaning, cooked dinner. Breaded pork loin chops with sausage gravy and mashed potatoes, should have been a sign that while I was cooking it, stomach wasn't all that interested in what I was doing. Only ate half of what was on my plate, and that felt too much, and then later...Toilet, meet Dinner. The flu has apparently commenced. Only threw up one more time though, and was trying to this morning but nothing to throw up, just a pounding headache from the coughing and attempts to retch. Feeling better now, after resting, and had a piece of toast, will have some soup and crackers later on, I think.
It's going around, niece has apparently also got it, as well as sister's friend, showing the same beginning symptoms I did, but thankfully it's short lived, for me at least. Just wasn't sure how well I'd do at the store so called sister last night and she agreed I should stay home. Will get back there tomorrow, as I'm sure I'll be ready by then. The headache seems to finally be ebbing and moving more into runny/stuffed up nose cold kinda thing. Think I had a bit of a fever too as my face felt hot and I wasn't flushed at all, I was overheated enough to open up window to get cool air in or at least to make it cool enough in her so I can snuggle under blanket.
Saturday did the cat shelter, ALONE again, because apparently my "partner" has a thing about remembering to go somewhere every other week. Last time she didn't show up till I was about ready to leave and gave me her phone number to call her and remind her but, hell, I'm not her mommy and I can slog through it on my own. One of the kitties had appointed himself Snack Monitor and followed me around as I collected plates, to make sure everyone licked theirs clean. Stayed over an extra ten minutes to snuggle with the one kitty they keep separate in the office, as she apparently doesn't get on well with others. There was another new orange colored kitty named Goldy, who I've dubbed Grumpy instead, as kitty is wandering restlessly around growling at others and just being grumpy. She might be another case for isolation as she also doesn't seem happy to have others around.
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[Oct. 23rd, 2009|05:40 pm] |
Almost Halloween and one's fancies turn to scary films and what is really scary about a film.
Scariest movie I've ever seen? Burnt Offerings. I saw it when I was...gahh...twelve? I'm too lazy to look at IMDB and see when it came out, I just know I saw it when it was originally released in the theaters so I was still young. It was one of those movies that scared me so very fucking bad I HATED it lol. I couldn't sleep that night, because I kept seeing images from the movie, and the scariest was the chauffeur with his death head's grin. Years later, I watched it again and, yeah, it failed to scare as much as it did that first time. It was always stick in my head for how very scary it was, for my pre-teen self.
In my early years with horror films, "scary" was the popping-out-at-you things. An overused staple of horror films, to be sure, but it still works if you learn how to time it just right. Zombies were never terribly scary, as I cut my horror teeth on repeated viewings of the original Night of the Living Dead, shown with loving dedication every summer on Creature Features.
Nowadays, it's the subtler creepy things, the flash of something out of the corner of the camera's eye, the lengthening shadows and distorted shapes they make. GHOSTS, because I still sleep with the light on. Maybe it's always been ghosts, ever since my grandpa died way back when and I used to have dreams about him, scary only in that I knew in the dream he was dead and shouldn't really be there. Even then the thought of someone reaching out from the other side was not a happy one for me lol. Blair Witch Project succeeded in its approach of hinting and not really telling or showing, just playing on our fears of the dark.
The pop-out-at-you thing still works and though I hate it, like any decent masochist, I like the idea of confronting this fear/hate and going to haunted houses, watching scary movies. Though I think I'm gonna avoid Paranormal Activity, though I don't think it's going to be as scary for me as it seems to be for everyone else.
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[Oct. 22nd, 2009|11:11 pm] |
WHERE IS THE DARKER THAN BLACK SUB?? Me WANTS. Watched the raw and need the subbed version to really know what's going on.
Will probably stay up too late waiting for it to come out.
Dinner was a highly nutritious fried spam and cheddar cheese sandwich. YUM.
( Spoiler cut for Project Runway, of all things... )
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[Oct. 22nd, 2009|09:32 pm] |
No new Supernatural, just a repeat of the season premiere. Though next week is new and a few eps past that, before the holiday break. They really do need to bring Meg back again, she was so much fun in this, like usual.
( Spoilers for future Supernatural epsiodes! )
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[Oct. 20th, 2009|10:49 pm] |
Got my first game from Gamefly. Still don't get how it takes as long to get mail to here from CA as it does East Coast. Should really come here quicker than it does but already knew that. First game is Last Remnant to utilize the lonely Xbox. Some good games coming out but no FFXIII till next summer, just about? Latest release date says June 2010, though it's getting a December release in Japan. One in particular looks good, Fairytale Fights, I think it's called. Fairy tale girls get to go postal lol.
( Sons of Anarchy spoilers... )
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[Oct. 19th, 2009|02:12 pm] |
Well, Danskin/Triumph Apparel has done a real bonehead move. They're shifting their operations over to the Caribbean, where presumably the labor is cheaper, as they're transferring over their machines and some of their management, but of course not the people who actually run the machines, because what's the point of going to a country with cheap labor if you're not going to exploit it? So from now till March of next year they will not be producing new tights or any kind of wear. FIVE MONTHS they will not be producing product.
Simply put, they're going under. Not only have they messed up for back to school season, which is one of the biggest sell points of the year, they're missing out on holiday sales, especially in tights. Holiday time, studios do shows, they do the Nutcracker, recitals, all that stuff, and they will be wanting tights, which Danskin will not have to send out to retailers. And given that retailers do their spring ordering around the beginning of the year, they're going to miss out on spring recital sales of tights, which is almost as big as back to school. March is just a projected date and if they miss that date, they might as well fold up their tents and go home, because retailers are going to shift to other companies for the tights they need. Companies like Capezio and Bloch, they can survive on shoe sales if their tight sales are low, but when your company's product line is tights and bodywear and you're going five months without producing either? You're dead in the water.
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[Oct. 17th, 2009|11:03 am] |
Because it has been warm lately and when I went out to refill fluids on car, it looked clear, I wore sandals. And Mother Nature wen OH HO! I shall rain since you are wearing sandals! And thus it did rain and still rains. SIGH.
Got two pairs of shoes with my JCPenney card, received them last night, tried them on, and am 0-2. One wasn't wide enough and the Propet which was supposed to be extra wide, didn't seem really extra wide, plus the seam on the top and side of the shoe pressed into my foot, in a way that'd be uncomfortable. I wouldn't take that from a $20 pair of Payless shoes so I'm certainly not going to keep a $50 pair of shoes and hope it's less uncomfortable once it breaks in.
( Glee clip and spoiler for next ep... )
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[Oct. 13th, 2009|11:02 pm] |
BIG SALES day at the store. I sold a pair of laces. TOTAL. Yeah, that was worth sitting there for hours, in between the odd customer asking for something that exists only in her head. It's Halloween season, after all, and people come out of the woodwork with odd requests that they must have filled by the weekend, because they couldn't have gone looking for it ahead of time. Sheesh.
( Sons of Anarchy spoilers )
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[Oct. 12th, 2009|01:23 pm] |
Hmmm I must have been less satisfied with the latest Supernatural ep than I thought, for I haven't really felt the need to download it, and I'm now more anxiously awaiting new Darker than Black. Ah, anime, I have missed you giving me good series to watch! Been rewatching Darker than Black to get me back into the plot of it and to maybe understand what the hell Hei's doing now lol. Used to be able to count on having at least one anime series to watch in the spring and fall but only thing to catch my interest is Hetalia and it doesn't really count so much as a series, given it's a series of shorts. Guess I need to go back and search out Gintama, which I keep forgetting about.
Still with the Versus players...shoot me when I'm on the Survivors level, not the SLAYERS level, mmkay? And if your partner shoots me then you can be assured I'll be going after you, too. The microphones also drive me crazy, 'cause it's not like you're using them to direct your partner, you're chatting up whoever is in the room/on the phone and subjecting me to the yowling/chattering of whoever's in the room with you, plus whatever trash music you're playing. You're making me want to get a mic just so I can tell you to shut it off! And to quit fucking shooting me because this is SLAYERS not SURVIVORS.
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[Oct. 11th, 2009|10:41 pm] |
So a new Resident Evil movie is filming, and the cast list released for viewing. For Chris Redfield they have cast...Wentworth Miller, of Prison Break fame. And contrary to previous news reports, the story is centered around Los Angeles, not Tokyo. According to one article I read, after they do this one, they're going back and doing a reboot of the first one? Could do worse for Chris, actor-wise, and can't off the top of my head think of anyone in that price range who could do better.
Watched a Numbers ep and should probably watch more eps through Netflix when bored at the store. In just one episode--and I don't know if they're permanent cast members--is one former cast member from Rescue Me and the actress who plays Tommy's wife.
When looking for cookware, DO NOT buy the JCPenney brand Cooks. I've only bought a crock pot but am not happy with it. The size is nice but it sweats like no other crock pot I've had before, and I think even the low setting runs too high, because it's been burning stuff that it shouldn't burn, namely the lasagna I did this morning, cooking at low. It's fine for doing roasts but anything with a sauce that can potentially burn, or ingredients that can stick to it, not good.
Plus I've learned that the reason why it's better to buy the Kraft caramels bag rather than buying them through the bulk bin, the caramels in the bulk bin take twice as long to unwrap, yikes. And you're not saving much money there, anyways, so might as well go with the Kraft. So this weekend it's been lasagna and another batch of caramel cheesecake bites, which are VERY yum. Am going to invest in a bottle of Bailey's Irish Creme with caramel next week to try another cheesecake recipe and also have to find other recipes to make use of it. More than $20 a bottle so damn right I'm going to drain every drop of it. Some kind of French toast recipe but there's got to be more things to make with it...
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[Oct. 9th, 2009|10:07 am] |
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Already a subbed version for Darker than Black. Go HERE! It's a quick avi file, downloaded for me in no time at all. From the raw I got some of the story and the subs helped a lot for understanding, and reminds me I need to go back and watch the last few eps of the previous season.
There needs to be a Darker Than Black video game, if there already isn't? You play a contractor on a mission and if you fail to pay your remuneration post battle you die lol. And if there is a game for it, then it really needs to be ported over to the USA. And they need to do a Bluray version of Darker than Black, I would totally buy it.
Now there's something else fun to watch on Thursdays! And according to the DTB LJ community, they're producing OVAs to cover the period between first season and second season, explain maybe why Hei seems to be running solo.
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