I have to start this post by saying that I’m amazed the title actually fits all in one line, haha.
I know automated phone systems are really irritating and you don’t want to have to go through all those steps and listen to all your options. You just want your answer and you want to be done fast. Right?
Well, if people did learn to listen they’d probably end up saving themselves a lot of time. See, we have an automated system that connects campers to various parks around the continent. When you call, it welcomes you and tells you to press one for the United States and two for Canada. It says it very clearly (I know, I’ve called it before).
This is the phone call I get today.
Me: Hello, [campgroundname] in Niagara Falls!
Lady: Hi, my last name is [lastname] and I have a reservation for today for one of your cabins. I just wanted to know what they’re like.
Me: Okay… looking at reservation list to find out which one she’s in, but her last name isn’t on it at all. Sorry, what was the last name again?
Lady: [spells out lastname]
Me: Sorry, but was it the [campgroundname] in Niagara Falls that you reserved at?
Lady: No, I reserved at the one in [some other location in the United States].
Me: Oh I see.
Lady: I PRESSED 205.
Me: Yeah… but when you call the system, it tells you to press 1 for United States or 2 for Canada. And we’re park number 05. So you’ll have to call the 1-800 number back, press 1 for the United States and then park number 205.
Lady: Ooh.
Me: Sorry about that.
Lady: Oh it’s okay. Thank you.
She was really nice about it in the end, but we get that call a lot. If people would just calm down and listen they’d be able to reach the place they were trying to call originally.
It’s like that for so many things though, isn’t it? I mean, people want to ask you tons of questions but don’t want to wait around to hear the answer. It actually drives me crazy. Don’t ask me something if you can’t have the courtesy to listen to the answer to your question.
But hey, people are impatient and there’s not a heck of a lot you can do about it.
Yesterday Melinda came over so that we could attempt to fix her computer which had decided to hate life. However, before that happened we headed out to Canadian Tire to look at air mattresses.
So, we were browsing around the store in search for some rubbing alcohol when we came across this:
Okay, so maybe it doesn’t seem so weird right off the bat, but look around it. For further clarification, this was the aisle it was in:
While I understand you can use Q-Tips to clean the ears of your beloved pet, would you really expect to find them stocked in the pet section? It wasn’t just one random box. It was like they apparently belonged there and had their own little tag and everything. O_O I just thought it was really… weird.
Anyways after our little shopping adventure, we tried to fix the computer which actually had some sort of ridiculous virus on it. Sometimes it would turn on and sometimes it would freeze up and decide to just load to a black screen. After hours we got avast! on it and it deleted the virus but it still left stuff messed up.
For example, it made the cursors rather… large. I tried to take a photo, but it turned out kind of blurry. I don’t know if you can tell that it’s actually stupidly big.
We got it to turn on enough so that at least Melinda can get her stuff off. I feel bad that I couldn’t make it all better, but at least she can get her photos and whatever she wants off and then we’re just going to wipe it clean and start all over.
I remember back in June when I had to do that to my computer and while it was a pain in the ass (especially getting some of the stuff I had back), it was kind of nice. It’s like a spring cleaning and you get rid of crap you never even knew you had.
In the midst of all this we watched the series premier of 90210 and played Mario Party.
Saturday night I met up with Melinda because we decided to do something. We weren’t exactly sure what it was we wanted to do, so we took a nice drive around town thinking about the possibilities and ended up deciding to rent a movie at Blockbuster.
We did one sweep of the new releases board and originally picked up “21″. I saw it in theatres when it came out and it was an awesome movie, but we decided we’d get “21″ and ask if “Ms. Pettigrew Lives for a Day” was available. They didn’t have any copies on the wall, but you know if you ask sometimes they just might have had a return.
Luckily, they did. So we picked up that instead (but I’m totally all for seeing 21 again). If you haven’t heard about it, it’s about this maid who keeps getting fired. When she’s completely down on her luck and out on the streets, she finds work for a day with this girl who’s dating three guys at once and having a mess of a time keeping it all together.
So basically, you follow their lives for one day while Ms. Pettigrew helps her out. She has to decide between the three men who are all extremely different and Ms. Pettigrew finds herself living a life she never dreamed of. It’s set in the 1930’s or 1940’s and I loved the clothes and sets that they had! It makes me wish I could have been in London during that time period and be at the top of the social ladder.
It’s just too cute. You have to love the ending because (in my opinion) everything works out just perfectly. Maybe it’s predictable, but it’s a movie that makes you feel happy in the end. It also makes you wsh that something like that will happen to you, haha. Well, it makes me wish like that. I’m not into the totally sappy romance stuff, but I love cute romantic movies like this one.
So yes. If you want a sweet movie check it out. It has some good laughs in it and I think everyone played their part very well. I’m not good at reviewing movies or anything like that, so there’s my two cents on it.
Today Kat and I finally got a perfect summer day at the beach! We were hoping Melinda could come with us, but it didn’t work out. Hopefully we’ll have another nice weekend so we can all go together! It seems like the real summer weather is kicking in now. A bit delayed.
I didn’t have to work and Kat doesn’t work on weekends, so at about 10:00am this morning we met up at Silks, which is a diner that serves very decently priced and good tasting breakfast. We both had french toast and now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve had anything else there.
I got there a bit early, so I was waiting for Kat and I had to wait in line anyways for a table because it was super busy. There was this lady who came in after me, and she was nice to me because she said “Make sure you stay in front of me so they don’t serve me first!”. Which was really nice, because she wasn’t trying to butt-in or anything. But then when she was talking to the waitress, she was so rude! I was kind of shocked.
The waitress asked her how many people were dining, and the lady is like, well, we need two tables. So the waitress is like okay. . . but, how many people will there be? And the lady goes, well only two of us are here now, but we need two tables. The girl asked one more time saying that she just needed to know a number and the lady says, WE COME HERE EVERY WEEK. WE NEED TWO TABLES.
Dude, is it really hard to say something like, oh there will be six of us. There will be eight. There will be seven. I mean come on, don’t be difficult.
Anyways, we ate and headed off to the beach! Perfect weather for it, seriously. We were there for about three hours but started feeling a bit burnt and decided to call it a day. We went for a swim, but the water was pretty cold so unfortunately we didn’t last long. Kind of makes me wish I was like, seven years old again when you never seemed to feel the coldness of the water.
There were crazy parents behind us, but I don’t want to get into that. I’ve seen so much poor parenting in the past month that I feel like I could write a book on it. I know I’m not exactly in the position to say because I’ve never had a kid of my own, but at the same time some things are just common sense.
So, after that we were having a craving for chips which we went and got and then trekked back to Kat’s house to clean up and change. From there we headed to my house, got some money out and met up with Jenn at Montana’s to celebrate her birthday which was August 13th.
It’s been so long since the three of us have been able to hang out! So we had a nice dinner (ate waayy too much) and went to Starbucks to talk some more. I started to feel kind of light headed and we were all pretty tired so we weren’t out very late, and I took Kat back home.
But here’s the story. See, you know the other day when I talked about how I got the gas out of my old car and put it into the red one? Well, a bit of gas spilt onto the gas can and into the plastic bag that the gas can was in. The can was in my trunk for about two days and my car REEKED like gas. I think spending all that time in the car today made the fumes get to me. I kid you not. I left my back windows down tonight in hopes that it might air out a little and since I have to work at eight, it’s not like they’ll be down all day or something.
I also learned that I got burnt. On my back and on the back of my legs. It’s… extremely uncomfortable. I put sun screen on my legs, so I have no idea why they’re burnt but I did miss my back. :/ It’s my own fault so I shouldn’t really complain and at least my face isn’t burnt.
But yes, it was a great day. I got home, updated S-T a bit and everything seems to be going smoothly.
Except for the person who decided to cheat in the contest. We called them out the first time and denyed it. We showed them proof and they admitted to it. Then they went right back to cheating. I mean seriously, the way Hideko and I watch the stats on our baby, do you really think we wouldn’t notice?
Okay I normally don’t go all fangirly on my journal and post about my favourite artists, actors and what not.
But Mamo is just so full of awesome that it can’t go unnoticed. He posted this story in his journal the other day (which I think I’ll post on S-T) about this pair of strawberry patterened underwear that he found on his washing machine that obviously were not his (because he’s not a woman, nor does he wear women’s underwear… I hope).
I’m not going to post the full translation of it, because like I said, it’ll be either on S-T or my translation community at some point in the future.
But here’s the part that tells the story.
Just now I thought I’d do some laundry, and so I opened the window
And found that there was a pair of strawberry patterned women’s panties neatly left on the washing machine. ┐(’～`;)┌
Who’s is it?
And I don’t think they were blown there by the wind.
For a moment, time flew past.
I picked them up with one hand for confirmation.
They weren’t gross, but when I tossed them outside they got stuck in the basket of someone’s bike.
I bet the owner’s gonna be surprised (Laughs)
He says a few things and then says,
I had to thoroughly wash the all of the panty hand.
Don’t make fun of me about it .┐(’～`;)┌
Hahahaha, I love it! Sometimes he has these really emo journal posts, sometimes they’re all about anime, sometimes they don’t really make sense, sometimes they’re insightul and sometimes they’re angry, but then there are the ones that are just so awesome that they make me laugh. I really hope I can see his band when I go to Japan!
Okay here’s where I look way too creepy for my own good. But he posted this photo along with it, and despite seeing this, I still adore him. You can enlarge the photo for completely amazingness. I feel really creepy posting something that was on his blog, but I can’t help it, hahaha.
I don’t normally write fan mail, but I’m seriously considering writing one to him. He also writes almost all the music and all of the lyrics for the band, which is pretty amazing. He’s also in school so you know that he’s working hard to be in both the band and in school and you really have to respect that.
And because I don’t want people thinking he normally goes around looking like that, here are three random photos (from his blog) that I think are cute.
Okay, I’m done. I’m happy I got the Mamo-ness out. Haha.
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If you really were friends with ZOMG ALL THOSE BAND MEMBERS, then you probably wouldn’t be found posting about very publicly on your MySpace page.
Anyone with half a brain knows better than to do that. It’s one thing if it comes up in conversation or if you’re telling your close friends… but it’s something entirely different when you just feel like you can use it as a bragging right.
Especially when it’s not even true.
Seriously, stop being a lame ass and go lock yourself in your basement.
If you remember the entry a few days ago, where I was ecstatic because someone who deserve to get theirs, was finally coming close to getting it?
Well, there’s so much shit on her I can’t believe it. And she’s so full of shit, that I can’t believe it.
The people who are trying to do something about it (and I’m so glad they are) have made this forum, which outlines just some of the crazy ass stuff that she’s done: the link is really long so click here to go there.
So here’s my question.
She seems to constantly complain about not having money. She needs money for surgery and money for food. Money for rent. Money for her dying father and sick sister.
If that’s the case, why are you dragging you fugly ass online every day (or at least often enough to make an impression on people) then? The internet costs money. Computers, cost money. Sell your computer, cancel your internet (or stop going to an internet cafe and wasting your money there) and get a real job to help yourself and your family.
She’s just a scammer, and therefore none of what she’s saying is true, so that’s not going to happen. And maybe this sounds mean, but I have no sympathy for people who try to mooch off of others when they could just as easily get off their ass and do something about it themselves.
I think that in general, I’m an understanding person and I try to be nice to people and give them the benefit of the doubt. I generally don’t actually wish harm on anyone because I don’t think that cool. Even though there are some people who have hurt me directly, I still don’t wish anything bad on them.
But this girl… she’s just ridiculous scum and I would love to see her rot in hell. I have no idea why I feel so strongly about it, but I do. So, if anyone knows anything let’s help the people who are putting this together out.
How can you hurt so many people and feel okay about it? I don’t understand people who think like that. It’s not okay to hurt people, to steal from them, to scam them… It’s not a hard concept to understand, so why are so many people unable to comprehend it?
The only reassuring thoughts that you can have about people like that, are that some day karma will catch up with them and beat their ass. Rightfully so.
I can’t believe people can be this pathetic and stoop this low. When we posted about it on S-T, I was actually surprised at the number of people who replied saying that they’ve been hurt by her. I’m glad that she can’t run and hide forever.
I forgot to add, that the people who are in charge of it e-mailed us to thank us for posting it on S-T! Which makes me really glad that we did. Spread the word～ε=ε= (ノ￣▽￣)ノ
The green car is officially, one hundred percent dead. You’re probably sick of hearing about it, but here’s the last post ever about old greeny.
D E D. Dead. (Points if you know what that’s from).
My dad and I went to the garage yesterday to get my stuff from it. I had about $5.00 worth of coin, sunglasses, my parking pass for my street and the tape thing that lets you play your iPod from a tape deck in there. Oh, and an umbrella, a spoon, my lunch bag, a random container (god knows what was in it) winter gloves and a map of Ontario.
How do you accumulate so much random crap in a car? There were other papers (like, pay cheque envelopes, directions to some place) and egg cartons in there too, but I don’t need to keep that stuff.
So yes. But my green car had a full tank of gas. My dad was going to try to get it out, but he couldn’t so the guys at the shop said that they could take it out for me, and put it into the red car. They did which was awesome, especially because gas just went up seven cents!
Now I have a full tank of gas and some left over (I brought a gas can so they filled that up).
The guy who filled it up today was super nice too, and it didn’t cost me a thing! Even better!
