So yesterday, or the day before (it’s so hard to tell working these shifts), I woke up to find that my car was missing. I talked to my father about it who then told me that he and my mother had allowed my sister Adriana to borrow my car. I absolutely freaked out. I would never have let her use my vehicle even if she did ask for permission. She has broken far more than her fair share of cars, and when I’ve asked her if I could use her car I was immediately denied. But I wasn’t angry with her at all, I was only angry with my parents, and I made that quite clear, especially with my father. I pretty much stopped talking to him, which is definitely not the best way to go about things and isn’t going to make things better but it did get my point across.

That same day I went to the pumpkin patch with Brenda and after selecting a couple of very good pumpkins I went back home where I was confront by both my parents, who both seemed very guilty and offered to get me a guitar for Christmas but I just rejected it. I felt like a huge jerk almost immediately and left the house again. I’m not even sure why I rejected it, a guitar would be nice be a nice gift and they obviously felt sorry. I think it’s partially because of my increasingly severe impatience. I’m tired of waiting for everything. Waiting to find work, waiting to put my life in order, waiting to return to school. I find my self so sick of waiting that at times I can’t listen to a song the whole way through because I’m tired of waiting for the next track. I think another cause for why I rejected the guitar might be because my dad said “We can get you a good one, like a Yamaha” which I’m told actually isn’t a good guitar brand and he most likely knew that but was hoping I didn’t.

I spent the majority of today not really doing much of anything. I waited for hours before I ate because I wanted food but didn’t particularly want to make it and my father was supposed to bring Taco Bell home after work. Well he showed up, late, and he did go to Taco Bell but he forgot that I would be home and so he didn’t buy me anything.

I probably could have made myself something to eat at that point but I was being stubborn and really didn’t feel like eating if it meant I had to prepare the food myself. Sometime past eight though my mother shows up and asks me and my father if we’ve eaten. We both said no, and I pointed out to my mother that my father had actually eaten Taco Bell, enchiladas, and he had an instant lunch in the microwave waiting when my mother asked him. So she made him give me some cash and I went to Burgerville and had a yummy pumpkin pie milkshake and sweet potato fries!

I played countless hours of Phantasy Star Universe today too which was fun. The game is divided into chapters and at the beginning of each chapter it replays the intro like most any other animated series (except the music is worse) and at the end of each chapter it gives a preview of the next chapter. I haven’t tried playing the online portion of the game yet, and most likely won’t until halfway through next month, but the single player campaign is fun. It plays out very much like Phantasy Star Online except there’s an actual story line.

Oh! while I was wandering the internet today I found my favorite clip from the Sandra Bullock episode of the Muppets, I’m sure most your are bound to enjoy it as much as I did.

Recently I managed to acquire a weekend job over at the Ramada in Vancouver, and although it will require some training on weeknights after work (my trainer only works Sunday through Thursday) the extra income will help me out immensely.

I’ve been looking for a different job so I can leave my current employer recently but I’m having the most horrible luck. I seem to come ever closer to securing a better job and then it’s taken from me by fate or some jerk telling me I’m over qualified. Recently, my desperation to leave my current employer has become even worse. I have been trying to get a raise for myself and for some of my coworkers recently and I decided to contact Human Resources for help. A different superior, not at human resources, then decided to bring it upon him to lecture me about why I didn’t deserve a raise in an email. It’s bad enough that a request of that nature was shared with him, it’s even worse that he made it quite clear he doesn’t feel I deserve one, and then toward the end of the email he says that they just aren’t very likely until the end of 2006, while every superior I’ve spoken to has pretty much directly told me that raises don’t happen, himself included though it seems he forgot.

P.S. I’m sorry about the default WP layout, I switched web hosts recently and I lost my old one. I’ll work on a new layout this weekend (I think it will be more masculine this time … maybe)

So in the past couple of days, some jerk decided it’d be funny to run a virus via PHP on my PC. I’m not entirely sure what they were after. One of the viruses that my PC was infected with by this person was a key logger so at first I was afraid that perhaps this person obtained some passwords from me that could be potentially threatening to my finances, and then I realized I have approximately nothing-at-all for this person to take. The other virus stopped me from running certain net applications, meaning anything that required an internet connection not on port 80.

With some effort I eventually managed to remove the viruses from my computer, but now it just doesn’t feel safe to use this installation of windows for anything and so this marks my return to the world of vista. I haven’t installed it yet and I may instead decide just to switch back to x64. I do really love Vista, but the resources it requires are bordering on ridiculous and I do like light interfaces and applications that allow me to allocate more resources for gaming. I guess I’ll ask Aaron tomorrow morning and get his opinion on the subject before making a final decision.