Goodbye Rat-Hole Job

To make a long story short, I quit my job. I hated working there and I'm glad I got out. It was beautiful. I had a two-week notice all typed out and as the guy was chewing me out for being unreliable (it's very hard for me to BE reliable when I despise the place so much; at my previous job I went to the office even when I was sick cause I loved it :p), he goes, "So you have two choices, you can ship up or there's the door." And I handed him the two-week notice and said "Ok then!" XD I'm FREEEEEEE. No more picking up old, crusty pepperoni off the floor!We've been house and cat sitting lately, hence my absence. This week we've been over at my sister's. Over the course of our stay, Melanie continued to show her gender preferences. That is, she seemed to only come out when it was just me. Not five minutes ago, she was sitting in my lap, which is a first for this trip, but it always took her a little while to warm back up to me. She's very skittish. Mouse, on the other hand, doesn't too much care about who you are as long as when he flops his massive girth over, he gets a belly rub. They're cute kitties. <3This next week we'll be over at the in-laws. I don't really want to be mean about it, but this house is very dusty, and our sinuses have been killing us over it. Not to mention the 'fridge and pantry were mostly bare. When we change houses, I've been assured that not only was the 'fridge totally restocked, but apparently there's some suprises waiting. :D Plus the house has always been very clean whenever I go so that's a bonus just in sleep-ease. Expect to see me around more often now that I'm between jobs. ;p

"Metaverse" Article featuring World of Warcraft

Well, someone was bound to write about it sometime. Link.It's an amusing read too. Very creepy, indeed. The artwork that accompanies the sections definitely gets the point across too, and I can't help but snicker at a dragon picking up some food and a nazi at a store. I'm suprised they didn't use EverQuest for this article as the main focus but in another sense I'm not. While EverQuest probably holds more subscribers and has for a longer period of time, WoW is the current new thing and it's expanding exponentially. Considering the topic, they could have very well used Furcadia, Matrix Online, or even Anarchy Online. But they didn't, and so now I get to be amused by the drawing of a female human mage at a boardroom meeting and analogies of items and concepts that aren't foreign to me.So, let me get this one straight here. If I was making an Awesome Me, and had the ability to choose a perfectly lean, sexy human or elf, (nevermind the fact that my first character was such an elf) but instead now have a decaying, undead shadow-specialized priest (which I enjoy more than said previous elf), what does that say about me? Teehee.Well, it's funny anyway. Go look!"Wouldn't those long Calculus lectures have been easier to sit through if, every time you learned something important, gold light shot out from your body?"Hell yes.Even more amusement:Check this out.Oh, this one too.

Photos from Iraq

US Soldier in Iraq stops to pet a kitten.I have more photos, comment with your email if you want to see.

Strange Ailment, Mike's Job, My Game Addiction

Cutest teddybear ever.Mike is finishing up his first week on the job, and I've got today off. His job rocks, I wish I could have found something similar. Basically, he's a merchandising representative for Storelink, which services Home Depot stores among others. He's responsible for two Home Depot stores, specifically, maintaining displays and stock placement for the hardware departments. He gets an awesome Dell PDA that has a high-resolution camera in it, which will receive his daily assignments and the camera is to take pictures of the stock when he is done setting it up. He has 8-hour shifts Monday through Friday, with no specific start time and no specific end time. He can go in at 8, he can go in at 10, as long as he has a total of eight hours that day. Awesome, isn't it?For the past week or two I've been feeling strangely sick to my stomach. It's an off and on kind of thing, usually in the dark-hours of the morning, afternoon, and again in the evening. It's a nausia that that steadily increases until I feel like I need to puke. Usually I can eat a little handful of something and it'll subside for a while, or take a Pepsid. I tried looking it up on WebMD, since I can't afford to go to a doctor about it, but the only thing I could find suggested that it may be anxiety related. Apparently nausea/vomitting is also a side effect of my Seasonale, but considering I've never encountered this side effect before I don't know if it's related or not, and I certainly don't know if a side effect would persist for a week or more. Augh, my ears are stopped up now too, ick. :(The internet has been boring me lately. I think I mostly just miss the thrill of World of Warcraft. Sitting around on Furcadia has lost its flavor (woo joy, let's log in and idle at the clearing for a few hours), the forums I frequent aren't so active as to always keep me entertained, and I long to interact with our A-Team. Sadly, I know that they--Fuzbucket, Mahimoh, and Jigs--will all be a higher level now than we are, and that's kind've saddening. We were such an awesome team, and us being drug along by higher levels just won't be as fun. Mike seems to think that maybe Fuz will have been leveling his warlock instead of his tauren warrior, since we promised everyone we'd be back in about two months, but I'm not that optimistic. I gave Mahimoh my email address and never heard from him. Wish I still had the Relentless Horde teamspeak server information. With or without the A-Team, however, I still want to log in, wreak havoc, and melt some faces (then eat them).On Animal Cops last night, someone abandoned a bunch of dwarf hamsters in a plastic container near an apartment complex. They were all in good health and apparently were all very friendly (they didn't nip the investigator). It made me mad to think someone would just dump the poor hammies, but if I lived in Houston I'd so be going to the SPCA to adopt them. They were soooo cute!Edit:I want to die now. Asked mom to bring me home some medicine and she refuses, cause "I may be pregnant." I don't see how... the nausea isn't restricted to morning and night, I've felt it in the afternoon and evening while up at work too. I'm going to go apeshit ballistic if I'm pregnant. I think I'd rather kill myself than produce an ugly, noisy baby.Edit #2:Wtf. Mom's bringing me home a pregnancy test, some Cokes, Doritos, and Cheetos. Normally I have to beg for that. ...Wtf. -_-Edit #3:Peed on stick. Not pregnant. :p Mom's got some anti-nausea stuff that she's taken before, I'll start using it when I start feeling ill again, likely later this evening. :p I wonder if I'll feel well enough to go to work tomorrow.

Game Meme Thingy Ganked From kalio

1. Pick fifteen(!) video games you love/thoroughly enjoyed.2. Find screen captures (stills) for each video game, preferably from scenes you like. If you can't find a still, pick a new video game.3. Post the pictures with the rules; let your readers guess from what game each still is. (Readers, no cheating. No google, no looking at my livejournal interests, and no looking at the properties to see if it has the game name.)Guess what they are! :D NO CHEATING!

Just Need Something Better

I'm one picky little twerp, I know. I hate opening because then I have to scrub out the trash cans and top-to-bottom clean the bathrooms (women's restrooms are always freakin' nasty). I hate closing because it's a TON of work that I can't possibly concieve myself doing on my own. Namely, cleaning condiments, sweeping under tables, vacuuming, cleaning the kiddy sky-tubes, scrubbing game floorboards, balancing all ball-related games, refilling tickets, scrubbing the floor around each game and finally polishing all games so that there are NO fingerprints. Wtp. So naturally, closing shifts suck. I'm ready to go find a new job now. On the bright side I was told I could fill another position other than gameroom if I don't like it. I might do that. I may try for cashier or something. I don't ever see them close or anything. Sure, I'd have to deal with a ton more people but man, if all I do would be to tap on a touchscreen and handle some money, sure, sign me up. It'll depend on the other responsibilities that aren't as clearly laid out.Mike got a job finally, he'll be a hardware merchandise rep servicing two Home Depot stores. $10/hr, not bad. He gets an awesome PDA with a camera and wireless connection to receive his work and send reports on. Sweeeeeet.Still miss playing on World of Warcraft. Been discussing the idea of re-trying a PVP server now that Battlegrounds are in. I don't know yet. I'd certainly be rolling a priest though, maaaaybe a shaman. Hmm. :I It would all depend on if Mike was willing to retry PVP with me. Like heck I'm gonna quest by myself! :p I dunno though, we do have level 30-something characters waiting for us to resume them on PVE. Decisions, decisions.

Third Day of Work!

Yes, Inny is now a GAMEROOM CAST MEMBER for Chuck E. Cheese's! My uniform, black pants and a Chuck E polo that is black and white, makes me stand out like a sore thumb--a refereeing sore thumb. So much so that I can be bussing a table at the back of the room and people will see me all the way up front so they can come track me down when X game suddenly does something wrong! Eventually I'll get a photo. But not today. I was so happy to get out of the clothes (I HATE tucking in my shirt) that for a short time I was running around butt-naked (thus, hubby got a peep show).Behold my cut/paste/replace skillz!inhandra: hay uinhandra: <3<3inhandra: oop afk brb.kalio: kinhandra: bakinhandra: how r u :Dkalio: im k uinhandra: i'm gudinhandra: I had my first "real" work day. xD Even if it was short.kalio: Ohh. :okalio: How'd it go?inhandra: Not bad! A lot of bussing tables and a good bit of having to fix games.kalio: Cool. :)inhandra: PEOPLE PUT COINS IN STUPID PLACESkalio: Really? XDinhandra: Someone jammed two tokens into the ticket dispenser when the token slots are BIG AND GLOWY AND SAY ONE TOKENinhandra: And then they're likeinhandra: "omg it didn't give me tickets"kalio: Wtf.kalio: XDinhandra: And then someone goes "omg this game is jammed" and I open it up and JAMMED TOKENS GO EVERYWHERE ON THE FLOOR O_Oinhandra: I don't mean no 3 or 4 or 5 tokensinhandra: I mean like, 15inhandra: So this little kid next to me tries tos teal theminhandra: And I'm like HEY :(kalio: Haha, figures. :Pkalio: Darn kids.inhandra: On the plus side, the guy who's been training me for a couple of days, he's the assistant tech, he's getting promoted to a manager, and he told me that since his spot is open that once I have more experience that the general manager was planning on putting me therekalio: Ohh, niice.inhandra: And this one time...inhandra: not at bandcamp,inhandra: I fixed a ticket mech and TICKETS STARTED SPEWING EVERYWHEREinhandra: and when I got that fixed and bundled up the tickets (the extras we stack away for the Chuck E, 1000 ticket give-away stuff) this lady walks up and goes "can I have those?"inhandra: .....inhandra: And I was so going to post this on my livejournal, but since I already said everything I think I'll just copy/paste like a lazy bum.kalio: XD