spoiled chinese girl

my mp3 player is back! savage garden: affirmation makes me work out harder than any other pop dance song i own, or at least for the time i was there. must make playlists. 30 minutes on eliptical, on crosstraining #2 program.

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem
I believe Im loved when Im completely by myself alone

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires

I believe forgiveness is the key to your unhappiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that god does not endorse TV evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity

I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

Never send a mother to do a geeky job. I forgot my MP3 player's charger at my parents house, because I thought I had moved it down to my apartment long long ago (And since the thing only needs charging every 15 hours, who cares??) Anyways, I *NEED* music to work out, and now I need my player because the radio SUCKS. Forty minute workouts consist of listening to 15 minutes of music, 10 minutes of babble and 15 minutes of commercials. So I asked my mom to find my charger cable, and have my classmate pick it up. It's a charger cable. Nothing major. I even told my mom it had a north-american plug on it. To weed out a variety of things that were obviously not needed. This is what I ended up with:

Adaptors & Chargers:

• Motorola phone charger (North American)
• Erricson phone charger (North American)
• Sharp MiniDisk charger (Hong Kong)
• Kenwood MP3/CD player charger (Hong Kong)
• iRiver MP3 player charger (North American)
• Nikon Coolpix AA battary charger (North American)
• One random adaptor (Hong Kong, DVD/VCD player??)

Sound stuff:

• Sharp MiniDisk Remote & headphones
• Kenwood MP3/CD player Remote & headphones
• One random set of oldschool headphones
• Handsfree cell phone device for Nokia phone

Even more random cables:

• 3x network cables
• 3x computer power cables
• 1x telephone cable
• 1x some weird random sound-ish looking transfer cable still in bag

I had to go to the subway station my friend parked his car, grab this MASSIVE bag of cables, and then drudge my way down to unicycle club. Phil made it back in time! Whee! Phil's mean and points me out when Don explains his offering of lessons between 7:30 & 8 to help riders ride in a straight line away from a wall. *shakes fist* Anyways, I practiced a whole bunch on the wall, then somewhat away from the wall, and I can get further than before, by maybe one or two half-cranks. So my average is now up to about 6 half-cranks, instead of 4. But only on a wall. If I free mount, I can still only get about 3. But watching unicycle-basketball, I tried to get Dave to play since he can ride. He declined because he can't idle. I watched and noticed no one else idled either, everyone hopped. So I told him to hop. He didn't know how. So I showed him. Yes. I didn't realize I could do it either. I can free mount and go into a hop. And I can keep hopping. I can hop to my heart's content. I can even gap. And I measured, in one instance, I gapped my way across probably about 10 feet sideways, and I only stopped because I was totally out of breath. Which did nothing but have Phil laugh at me more for now being able to free mount, AND hop, and STILL not know how to ride. Bah. Who needs riding? Trials is all about jumping on shit anyways! Apparently with this new found skill I will be able to enter myself into the Toque Games. Hahaha. Kickass. I have about 4 months to learn how to jump on stuff. (Oh yea, and ride!)

unicycle club exercise tonight. anyone who says unicycling isn't a workout has got to be f***ing kidding me. oh. i can now hop on it now too. and gap(ish). i can't ride. who needs to ride? I CAN HOP!

Seriously. No more large coffees during my Industrial Psychology class. Yes, it's required in order to stay awake during the three hour hell that is that class. It's not the professors fault, it's an interesting class, it's just at a horrible time. 3pm-6pm, right AFTER an EXTREMELY boring class from 1pm-2:30pm, and usually right after eating something unhealthy like McD's or similar food. Oh, especally today, after my three hour training session for my new place of employment as well. Nothing better than going to a training session, where we speak at length about counterfit bills and new security features on the new $20, then to go to my Management of Electronic Imaging class, where we… speak at length about counterfit bills and new security features on the new $20's. Thank the forces that Industrial Psycology all we talked about was The Apperentice, and how to properly hire/fire/evaluate employees, and NOTHING to do with that d*** new $20. Which is butt-ugly by the way.

Why no more large coffees? Because for one thing, I don't drink coffee on a regular basis. I don't drink coffee AT ALL. ESPECALLY after the fast a month ago. Therefore in the past four weeks I've drank four coffees. Is it a wonder that every Wednesday night I'm up until the wee hours of Thursday morning? Isn't it a good thing that I don't have class until late Thursday afternoon? Shouldn't I be sleeping so I can get to the gym in the morning before class???

Gym-shmym. I don't have my charger cord for my mp3 player. Therefore, no custom playlist. Therefore, no desire to hit the gym. Depressing, I know. But music is SUCH a requirement for working out when performing such monotonious tasks as running on an eliptical trainer for 35 minutes that any amusement such as music is a REQUIREMENT, not a suggestion. So instead, I'm building my website. I'm working on the unicycle section right now. I've finished a section on karaoke, and I've done mini-bits on my piercings, tattoos, and suspension(s). Sadly, this site is already becoming a chore, because I much rather the concept of new webpages, as opposed to the actual creation of them. It's totally a work-in-progress but I'm not releasing it until its at least 50% complete. There. That's a target goal.

After I upload these last few gallaries I'm heading to bed. Really. Because I need to be up to call my parents to make sure my chargers and various other electronic dohickeys they know nothing about will be delivered to my classmate so I can charge my mp3 player and maybe hit the gym this weekend. Or I might end up postering with Jill… who knows. All's I know is I have unicycle club tomorrow. And need to find money to pay for my membership.

I've been messing with the (not so) new tool to sort my diary entries. I figured this would be a great tool for me to sort out when I'm going to the gym, and what I end up doing there, to motivate me to continue going. (Sort of like my old massive diary entry I kept adding to, but this is more “real” since it's an entry for every time I go, easier to quantify my accomplishments) But to anyone who's curious, I've been semi-regularly hitting up the gym about 2-3 times a week, with a standard unicycle club meet once a week, for the past month. I've also learned in the past week, that my investment of a harddrive mp3 player is a wonderous contraption, listening to 7-8 songs continiously is definately better than 3-4 songs with advertisements and talk inbetween, even if I have to fast foward through songs I don't want to listen to. If you click on the little “go” button in my description bit, you'll get to see the most recent entries about my exercise exploits. (But not any further since custom layout won't let me it seems)

Having a custom layout page has drawbacks. Many many drawbacks. I'm almost tempted to go to a standard layout just so I can use all the nifty little tricks that all other standard-layout people get to use. But I remember I went custom because I HATED the standard layout. And it makes me want to start my own page. Again. But for once, with my own name, without extra frilly stuff added to it that makes my name look ugly. And I want my page to be free of advertising for other people, that end up totally ruining my page for using up to one third of the real estate of any given browser.

I also am in plans of rearranging my downtown apartment bedroom. (It's a dorm, let's just face it now.) To do so, I'll be losing a fair chunk of unusable space, and putting my computer into a vulnerable position, one where I can not regularly access the back ports. I also believe my main machine is infected with something I can't get rid of (virus perhaps? I ran loads of spyware checks for popups but they were still appearing, just not as often)

Finally, a few weeks ago, there was a job fair at Ryerson, and I thought “what the hell” and went down armed with a dozen or so copies of my resume and just gave one to everyone that was there. Not thinking anything of it. I received a phone call on Wednesday, screened it, called back and arranged myself an interview for Thursday morning. Thursday I arrive presentably dressed with a missing labret stud (let's face it, I know the limits I can push) but not at all hiding tongue piercings, streched ears or blue hair, and (pending a references check) was offered a job on the spot. Department style retail sales. I'm envisioning finally buying my own fluffy towels, 200thread count bedsheets, and blenders.

Anyways, I rant and rave about being frugal and stuff with money, and how I hate people who b**** and complain about having no money, yet spending it all… so here's my shopping I've done and still need to do. To combat the computer port issue, I've purchased a 2port USB 1.1 hub for about 5 dollars. I only needed the ports to be brought to the front, so I can exchange them, thus not needing more than 2. I only bought a 1.1 hub because that's as fast as my USB card is anyways, so why bother buying something if I can't take advantage of the features? I bought a 100 spindle of 48x CDr's for about 30 bucks. It was incorrectly labeled as 14 dollars (that was a 50pack) but I didn't want to be an ass. I will be returning to purchase a headset/microphone for the sake of skype-ing people and a compact flash card reader for my father. I love tigerdirect.ca, loads of cheap stuff that hopefully works. I also want to get the USB flash “buddy” that turns a USB pen drive into an mp3 player, but I need to ensure it's compatable with my current pen drive first!

Oh, I also bought two brand spankey new domain names to cure my fix for wanting a website. (And it was on sale!) I have an offer to host my mini websites for sexual favours and referals, but I've not got a clue of what I'm doing. All I know is, I own two URL's for the next two years. I think. Any advice would definately be appericated! (I'm trying to build a website right now, themes and stuff)

Oh, and I begin training on Wednesday with another the following Sunday. By the end of both(?) my training sessions, all this stuff should be paid for. Hopefully.