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    Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
    11:24 pm
    All I really want is
    Forget Christmas, this is what I want period. I want people to stop treating me like shit whenever they feel like it. I want people to stop acting like I don't know what I'm talking about. I want people to not look at me and think he is just another lazy fat guy. I WANT PEOPLE TO STOP HATING ME!. I swear I cannot go for more then a month without someone taking issue with something I did or even did not do. No I'm not kidding. There have been times when someone expected me to do something and if I don't do it for any reason they hate me for it. I know hate is a strong word but I'm not using it just because I can. Lets back up a bit and take each of the things in turn with examples. Sometimes people have bad days, it just happens with no real warning, they just wake up having a bad day. Sure they try not to let it slip out but it will happen. All to many times the people I work with have a bad day and I always am the one they take it out on. I ask them how they are doing and I get "fuck off" or other such responses. I feel hurt because I don't know what I did wrong and they are still to pissed off to care that they just bitched at me. I never get an apology for it, but why would I. I'm the fat kid everyone likes to pick on. Let's look at another instance. Couple weeks ago I went into the break room cause it was break and on the one table when you walk in was a box with 2 donuts in it. Sometimes we get extras from the company that makes them and the staff gets them. I took one cause they are the kind I like. The guy behind me( I will call him D) took the other one and left the empty box on the table. Other people came in the lunch room after we did and since the box was there they also checked it. Now here's the kicker. Each time they checked it and found it empty D would say yeah Vito took the last one I was lucky to get one at all cause you know how he is. He told everyone that walked in the same thing. It gets worse because everyone believed him instead of asking me about it and just laughed at me for it. So thanks a lot fuckers! Now everyone thinks I'm a greedy pig who doesn't like to share. After the break was over I went to talk to my supervisor an his boss about it because I was almost in tears over it. Never have I felt so bad in my whole time there. We have rules about the conduct in the job place and we all know we are not suppose to harass each other like that. We have even signed a sheet saying we will not do that. We signed that damn thing like 3 days previous to that. It goes from there. That's right it doesn't end there yet. Each person who made fun of me, D specifically, was brought into the office and given a verbal warning about it. Most people got what they did wrong right away. D on the other hand was angry about being called out for acting like a jerk for no reason. He hasn't spoken to me directly since that happened. His pride and ego took a beating because of that and he is such an arrogant prick he will not live it down. Fast forward to about 2 weeks or so ago. D got called into the office for doing something unsafe. We are very strict about safety cause it looks better to head office if we don't have injuries to report. I myself don't know what happened cause I was not around when it happened. But yet because D is the arrogant prick he is he stills takes it out on me just in a different way. He sits across from me at the one table in the lunch room. We don't speak to each other but really I don't care cause I'm not much of a talker anyway. Yet after being called into the office for the safety thing he has started eating like a pig. He chews with his mouth open, he talks with his mouth full, and when he has something that has bones he crunches up the bones and spits the bits out on the table onto a napkin. I was brought up with very good table manners which I still try to use at all times because it's polite. So his actions make me sick but what am I suppose to do. He doesn't listen to anyone unless its a supervisor and this is not something they can do anything about. Yet every time he starts eating he keeps shooting me looks to see if I'm paying attention to what he is doing. I think he is trying to get me to move away from him by acting like this but fuck him cause I was there first. If he were to be fired tomorrow I would hold the door open for him and hope it hits him on the way out as well.
    Lets look at the second thing I mentioned at the top. In the department I work in we use boxes to pack the stuff we are picking since otherwise all the boxes would go to waste. Lately since some of the orders are smaller we are not getting enough boxes to pack the orders properly. We don't want to use a box that can fit 50 boxes for just 2 or 3 pieces. It's super wasteful that way and there will be other orders that may need that box later. So myself an the other person I work with( call that person K) have been trying to not use more boxes then required. But sometimes we don't have a choice. Now at the start of the dept. most of the stuff is sort of medium size things but when you get a couple different kinds of each for 1 order it is tricky to pack with certain boxes. The stuff on my end is larger items and therefore come in larger boxes. When we have lots of boxes to use I move most of my larger ones to the start cause I will not need them and K will. Since however we are in a pinch for boxes I have to keep a lot of what I have. K however has a bad habit of taking all the boxes to the start and leaving me with what she thinks is enough instead of asking first. It got so bad that my work started to slow down cause I can spend 5 minutes looking for a box instead of keeping the work going. So I had to take some of the boxes from the start to my end. She got pissed off at me doing that since she believes that she knows best about all things and went to the supervisor to complain about it. He told her that if I need boxes and the start is the only place to get some she has to share with me. K has real bad control issues and to be told sorry you don't control the dept. and you have to share she took it personal. I even told her I don't need many but any is to many with her. This happened last week and she has not said a word to me since then. Again I am not much of a talker and while I would normally shrug it off I must admit seeing a spoiled brat get told no is rather nice. So that's where the first part comes from. I'll get to the second part last cause it has to do with family members more then people I work with.

    Yes I am a bit fat. I take after both sides of the family in that regard. I try to eat right but money is sometimes tight so I cannot always get the healthy stuff. Exercise is tricky in the colder months because I cannot ride my bike to work and back each day like I do in the summer. But despite all that, I don't feel bad about it. I know there are people who are much larger then me and in worse shape then me and I feel bad for them because they are health risks. But I do not hate them or look down on them for it. People look at me, see I am a bit fat and treat me like I'm lazy or make comments about how I look. Even if I tell them I try to be healthy they think I am lying to them. So to all those people out there who think it is o.k to comment on how I look or any of my living habits, TAKE YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES AND TRY SOME DECENCY FOR ONCE! Is it really so much to ask that all people try to be nice to each other at all times? I guess so seeing as how I get it on a regular basis. But since there is nothing I can do except bring it to people's attention now and again that they are making me weep for the future of our race by acting like this all the time.

    Now let's get to the second thing I mentioned at the top. This is will be painful for me and those that will read this post I'm sure but really I don't think I could say this in person because I don't want to hurt someone if I can avoid it. But it's gonna hurt so here goes.

    Sunday myself,dad, and sister went into Toronto to pick up a friend of Angelina's who is coming to stay with them for a week. As we were driving in I asked where at the airport we were to meet her. They both said terminal 1. That seems to be the standard these days no matter where you come from. I can't recall the last time I was at a different terminal anymore. But anyway now that I knew which terminal I asked which part of terminal 1 would we be going to. The response I got was there is only 1 part of terminal 1. Now I have been there enough times to know that there is a gate for people coming in from other parts of Canada, international and America, and 1 other part I can't remember what its for since it all seems the same to me. So I asked again which part of terminal 1 were they talking about. I got the same response. So now I'm a bit miffed because I am not getting an answer I understand and neither of them seem to know what I'm talking about. I started to say there is more then 1 part to terminal 1 but one or both of them I don't remember which cut me off and said the same thing again. So now I know that they aren't trying to listen to me. I was willing to let it go at that since I did not understand what they were saying. But Angelina says "you sound like you don't believe us". This is a direct quote here. Now here this, now here this. I did not say I don't believe you. I did not say you don't know what your talking about. I did not at anytime intimate that either of you were not talking about something of which you have no knowledge of any kind. I know you have both been to the airport plenty of times. But to say something like that...............





    HOW COULD YOU DO THAT! How could you ever think that I thought you were not telling me the truth. Sarcasm/joking/any thing like that aside, why would you say that. I have never been so hurt before ever. I don't think I could ever be that hurt again. I know I am not as smart as you. I won't ever be the world seer like you. I don't know half the things you do about the world or the internet or anything like that. I have always had complete faith in you for everything regardless of whats happening. But hearing those words, ever or at all. Well shit I guess even I can be wrong about how close I thought we are. I don't like to talk about personal things to anyone because it always ends badly for me. I have almost no friends to speak of because the few I have had in the past end up kicking me later on. I trusted your judgment completely for everything because I knew deep down that you did know best and that whatever you said to or told me would be the right thing. To ask me if I'm questioning your words is the worst.



    So it is the 15th of December 2009 and I have never been so depressed and miserable in my life. I broke up with my girlfriend, people at work hate me for existing, and my big sister, the one person I was always closet to despite all the moves and things over the years, actually wondered if I thought she was telling me something that was not true. I sure hope next year is better cause damn if this one is ending on the most horrible note ever. Night all, hope you can sleep easy cause my pillows are going to tear soaked from now till I don't know when.


    Oh and one other thing. Don't call me to talk to me about this. I will have no words to say. Not because this doesn't need to be talked about, but because I am hurting to much to know what to say at all. That's all there is to it. Oh yeah you might as well go ahead and decorate the tree without me cause I am not in the festive mood I wished I was at this time of year.

    Current Mood: The tears are flowing tonight
    Sunday, December 6th, 2009
    11:03 pm
    All I want for christmas
    Wow am I ever behind on this. But then a lot has happened since the last time I posted on here so I have not given it to much thought. Really right now there is not a whole lot I do want. Sure Ive seen some toys and such that might be fun to have but I'm not going to ask for them cause it would be silly. Hell I got a brand spanking new kick ass mp3 player for my birthday so that took care of a major item. After that well I had not thought about it. Socks an underwear I do need. Odd as it seems that is something I would like. Funny how when your a kid you don't want that at all, a teenager and you get them and sure its a nice thought but really not a priority, as an adult then you do want them. I have an awful lot of stuff right now so I think gift certificates to places would be for the best. I think wal-mart,shoppers drug mart, zellars are the best bet. Right now there are no games out for the wii that I want so you can give eb games a by. Same for HMV cause the internet and all its possibilities for downloads mean I can get movies or songs easy enough. I know that isn't really all that interesting for ideas but you all know me well enough. If you see something you know I will like then I trust your judgment. Hope that helps.

    Current Mood: awake
    Friday, August 21st, 2009
    11:02 am
    Angelina comes home today!
    Yeah that pretty much sums this entry up ^^

    Current Mood: sweet!
    Monday, August 10th, 2009
    8:31 pm
    Anyone catch the number of the storm that just came through here?
    So that storm we had on Sunday night was actually kinda terrifying. I was working on the details of the role-playing game for the picnic next week when I looked out my window just in time to see a bolt of lightning hit the Encore theater across the street from me. The sound from it and the intense light actually made me jump out of my chair. Then the rest of the storm hit and I was sure that my building was next on the hit list. I know there were a few more close by strikes cause the lights flickered a few times as well. My phone was on its charger cause I made a mistake and forgot to put it back on it earlier that day and when I do that the battery dies. I was worried that one good shock would fry the thing but the storm moved off before that could happen. I spent the rest of the night watching the storm cause even though it was not right over my head anymore it was still impressive to see that much rain come down. Only down side was that it made work today muggy as can be. The warehouse is not well ventilated or cooled so I was drinking water as fast as I could today. Thankfully it was not a long day and we all got out of there early. When I got home I turned on my a/c and fell asleep on my couch. Nice cool air and a comfy couch after working in a stuffy hot building was the perfect equation for a nap. I'm up now which is good cause I got dishes to clean, a mattress to put sheets on after I get the plastic off, and some holes in my clothes to sew up as best I can. I still am not that good at sewing so the stitches will be kind of obvious for somethings. Oh well with more work maybe I'll get better at it.


    And yes I know it's totally out of character for me to post this much right now but damned if that storm wasn't something worth talking about.

    Current Mood: still kinda dozy
    Sunday, August 9th, 2009
    1:22 am
    The ups and downs
    Well today(yesterday now) I got some new furniture in. A couch and a bed. Couch came in just fine and looks good,feels good, all that it is suppose to be. The bed on the other hand was a somewhat more problematic thing. The mattress is a queen size. A bit bigger then my old bed but it still fits in my room properly. The box spring that it came with however did not fit in my doorway no matter which way they tried to turn it. So they had to take it back and in 2 weeks they will send out a replacement box spring that is called a split which means it comes in two pieces so it should fit around the corners just fine. I hope so. For now I have the new mattress in place where the old bed was. I'm debating to take off the plastic cover on it since it will be getting moved around a fair bit when the new parts come in. Sure does look good where it is at least. I'm so tired right now cause the night before the stuff came I had no proper bed or couch to sleep on so I could not get comfortable at all. At least with the couch I have a proper place to crash on so I plan to spend most of Sunday pretty well comatose. There's other things I could type about here but I just don't have the brain power for it right now. Maybe in another 30 weeks or so Ill do another update.

    Current Mood: sleeping all day
    Sunday, December 7th, 2008
    10:29 pm
    Dear Santa...

    Dear Santa,

    This year I've been busy!

    In February I signed my organ donor card (28 points). Last Friday I farted in an elevator (-6 points). Last Wednesday I punched [info]verity53 in the arm (-10 points). In March I bought porn for [info]mad_jester (-10 points). Last month I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points).

    Overall, I've been nice (328 points). For Christmas I deserve a Pony Slaystation 3!

    Sincerely,
    Dreyun

    Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:


    Personally I don't think buying porn for Mad Jester should be minus points. I know he wouldn't mind if I did that for him right? How I managed to save a busload of nuns is beyond me but hey I ain't gonna complain and neither would the nuns. Oh and sorry Verity53 about the punch in the arm, I'm sure it was with the best of intentions *Shrugs*

    Current Mood: HaHa Good For Me
    Sunday, November 16th, 2008
    8:46 pm
    What I'd like for Christmas this year
    A Nintendo Wii. Plain and simple folks. Please follow the bellow link for more details about the system if you need to.
    http://www.nintendo.com/wii/what
    That is the basic console and everything that comes with it. I have looked at many games for the system and so far only 1 has come out that I would really like to have. It is called Hooked Real Motion Fishing. This is a link to future shop's site for the game.
    http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10095108&catid=24310&test_cookie=1#
    I have seen it at Best Buy as well and even though EB games or at least the one I was at say they do not have the game their website says they should. I'm not certain if it is suppose to come with the fishing rod attachment or not in all versions but if someone does get the game for me please check to make sure if does come with the handle. Most Wii controller peripherals are kinda ridicules but the one made for the game is a good and useful one. A second controller and nunchuk as well please since at some point Ill have company over and it would be nice to be able to have more then one person playing at a time. Please check out the link below. Always look for this symbol when checking Nintendo products because fake items and games are lurking out there and I would like to avoid any problems with that.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Seal_of_Quality
    That's about all I can think of system wise.
    I would still like the books I mentioned in my post about birthday gift items so if you can find them that's great to. I have also found that there is a new Garfield book out. It is number 46 in the series. Here again is a link for the book so you will know which one it is on sight. Also while I know that this close to the holiday season I am not suppose to buy stuff for myself I will not be waiting for the next Halo book cause I just cannot wait that long. Questions,comments,concerns will all be addressed as I am best able to do so. If I think of anything else or you have a suggestion for an item then I would like to know about it. Thank you all very much :)
    http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345491777/?tag=garfield02-20

    Current Mood: I saw snow today!
    Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
    10:14 pm
    So I figured out at least one answer to a question people ask me
    I have an answer to that (haha age old is so correct for this subject matter) question that I get at least once a year. What do I want for my birthday. Here is the answer, it is pretty simple actually.
    Item number 1=The book Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
    Item number 2=The book Seeress of Kell by David Eddings
    Item number 3=The book Polgara the Sorceress by David and Leigh Eddings(you may or may not need both names for the search)
    Item number 4=Gray t-shirts. It would be best I think if I was along to pick them out cause I can be strange about things(yes I know you all know that already) and maybe some shorts if there are any on shelves or hangers these days.
    Item number 5=A new t.v. Not a big fancy plasma flat screen thing that's so big it might as well be a movie theater screen that radiates more heat then laundry fresh out of a drier. Something the size that dad has. The small one Ive got now is o.k but it just is not the same as having something I don't have to sort of squint at to see properly. No my eyes are not going so you don't have to worry about it. Again it might be good if I was along to pick one out for the same reason I mentioned about the clothes. I know this is a bit late to be mentioning it but really after dad's birthday I don't think about my own cause it is so close together and Megan's is in November so I end up thinking about things for her instead.
    So there you have it folks. Things you can actually look for for a b-day present for me. The books might be a bit tricky to find since they are old but chapters should be able to order them in. May take a while but eventually they will come in and I'm not worried about that. If you have any questions or concerns about this list feel free to ask me about them.

    Current Mood: Im not old, IM BATMAN!
    Saturday, September 6th, 2008
    10:12 pm
    Think I got the basics down
    This may seem silly to some but its been bothering me for years now. I cant whistle. I hear people doing it all the time and it annoys me that I cant. Ive asked people how to do it many times and they always give me the same answer. "Put your lips together and blow". I think Ill hold off on the rather witty yet crude remark Ive always thought about using because some of the people that told me that are good people and don't deserve my harsh thoughts about how annoying it is to hear that. I have tried to do just that but I never seem to get it to work. But then I started thinking about how the whistling process really works. Maybe its not quite the same for everyone. I watched and observed people whistle for years but that still only gave me a vague idea of how they do it. It did confirm that people do whistle in different ways. Its not always a matter of put your lips together and blow. Its also about how much air is being expelled,tongue shape and position, and same thing for lips. Again after much attempts at it I still could not get it right. I finally stopped trying out of disgust. It was not until recently that I made a breakthrough. I was at work and I had to stop and take a deep breath cause I had been in constant motion for to long and was running short of breath. I inhaled and the sound was almost like that of a gust of air. I paused for a moment because I was not sure if what I had heard was me or a piece of machinery. I did it again to be sure and lo and behold it was me making that noise. I kept at it ever since because it was a deep sounding note I was making rather then the higher pitched noise people consider to be a whistle. By keeping up the work I have finally achieved the higher pitched sound that a whistle should be. But I seemed to be doing it backwards. Instead of whistling while exhaling, I was doing it while inhaling. I still wasn't getting any noise from exhaling. My perseverance has paid off however. I have started to get the higher pitch sound I have wanted while exhaling. I still need a lot of work so don't ask me to do it for you. Success at last!

    Current Mood: Might whistle dixie someday
    Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
    10:50 am
    Once again, a disappointing ending
    Whosdaboss 2008 is over now. I am disgusted by the results. Wonder woman won in the end over Patrick Stewart. I say thats B.S in the extreme. I don't care that the rules say its a fight to the death 1 on 1. I honestly don't think she could have beaten him. Also I am sick of last minute votes being thrown in by people who have never heard of this contest just because one of the people who has been watching it tells them to toss in their lot with the one they like just so they can win. I thought this was suppose to be based on personal preference, not a vote stuffing issue like they had in the last U.S presidential election. I really think that cheating like that should be disallowed for future WDB contests otherwise all someone really has to do is make up about 20 new L.J accounts and cast all those votes tho who they like more. I wouldn't be to surprised if someone had done that this year and the year previous. Last year the monty python foot won over the Mythbusters for the same reason. So hows about people stop trying to cheat and let everyone decide for themselves who they like more for a change. If things keep going like this I expect that the whole contest will fall apart because to many people are cheating their picks to victory. But perhaps it should.

    Current Mood: Cheating Jerks!
    Saturday, June 28th, 2008
    11:04 pm
    Unbelievable Bastards plus plenty of other stuff
    I just watched the latest episode of Doctor Who which is where the opening title of this entry comes from. Ive seen cliff hangers before for shows but OMG! This one really is the ultimate topper. They have so many things in it and have it end at the really kick ass part like they always do but serious nerds like myself are so into it at that point we practically have a complete brain meltdown when it goes to the end credits. But heres the real kicker...........................yes Im making you wait for it cause I have to wait another week for the next episode................................................................................







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    O.k if you had the patience to scroll down just to see what I was going to say next congratulate yourself with a big hug and maybe some ice cream. Where was I???? Oh yeah the whole kicker thing from above. Ha ha kicker from above, I suppose I could make a reference to god now, but again I would be digressing. The kicker is normally after an episode of Doctor Who they show a preview of the next one to keep you interested. This time they did not. Granted with all that just happened I don't think I will possibly be able to forget to download it next week but come on not even giving us a hint as to what may possibly happen next is just criminal. Although now I think on it IMDB will probably give me a least 1 answer to one of my many questions that I will keep to myself instead of saying here and possibly giving away anything I just saw for fear that someone(possibly and likely my sister if she sees this before tonights episode) may read it, use their own amazing powers of deduction(or as I said just a few keystrokes ago IMDB) and A) Beat my ass for giving something away and B).....oh damn I forgot what B was but I think it was something along the lines of A but maybe not so much the beating my ass part of things.


    So that explains the opening title of this entry. Yaay for me having actually done so without stopping to check fairyland or letting my mind wander enough to forget that I was even doing something with Live Journal at all. So lets get to the so called "other stuff".

    Time to take a trip back in time but without the nifty use of a T.A.R.D.I.S(time and relative dimension in space, the time travel machine the Doctor uses to do his thing) just my own memory of the events.

    We start out a week +3 days before Anime North. I was just getting ready for work when I suddenly felt this searing pain in my left side. I thought wow that hurts but it will go away in a few minutes and I go to work like always. WRONG! The pain did not stop so I did my best to move into a position that was not causing me so much pain. Ever watch that game on who's line is it anyway called standing sitting bending? Well thats what I was attempting to do to relieve the pain. I did succeed sort of for a few seconds each time but finally around 1015(my point of not making it to work on time time) when I called work and said I will not be in, don't cry to much cause I'm just about ready to do enough crying for all. From there I called Steph who very kindly woke up and drove myself, Phil, Sheldon, and of course herself to the hospital. I must admit getting driven to a hospital for medical reasons of my own instead of someone else was somewhat trippy due partly to the pain I was in and that I was almost hyper ventilating therefore making my head feel light and fluffy like a well made cake should be made. The usual questions at the desk led to a quick wheel into a room(I rode in style in a wheel chair and was moved by Phil and Sheldon, thank you both very much guys for doing that I don't recall if I said that at the time) and got me kit off and into a hospital gown. I wasn't even waiting that long for a doctor to see me again because of the amount of pain I had been in up till then. Of course by the time the guy got to see me the pain had almost stopped so he had a bit of trouble making a positive diagnosis. With Steph being there and her knowledge of medical things they both were of the conclusion that I was either dealing with a hernia or a kidney stone. You might as well look up what they both are because I can't tell you any details aside from it hurts and the stone one is pretty much like it sounds. Needless to say I did not go to work that day or the next 2 days afterward.


    You know I think I got my time line set wrong. All that happened in the above very long paragraph wasn't a week and a bit before anime north it was the same week. I know that now cause I was still feeling the pains from whatever was bothering me during that weekend.


    So from hospital trips to Anime North we go. Friday night not bad, went for a swim with Megan at the pool at the double tree. Slides were working but Megan didn't use them much cause she could not see when she was going to hit the water lying down so she was bumping her head on the ceiling trying to see. I used them a bit more but we did not stay there to long I don't think,could be wrong about how long it was, because after the slides and the hot tub there isn't a lot to do in the pool area. Saturday I had another major(but not as bad as the first time) pain attack and spent it lying in place, eating the food we brought and watching anime on the t.v since anime north con staff set up the 24 hour anime channel for all us people in the rooms. Still not a bad way to spend a day since I was spending it with my girl friend. She is a very pretty and wonderful nurse should the need arise, but even if not shes still very pretty and wonderful just the same. I did not buy much this year since without studio iron cat there are no ogenki clinic comics to get and laugh at and I seemed to be having nasty issues trying to find the latest issue of Battle Angel Alita Last Order series. Oh well I was able to find gifts for Megan's younger twin sisters who also love anime so I got my birthday shopping done for them right quickly. That was pretty much it for anime north this year. No there was not excessive drinking done by everyone mainly because no one this year is a drinker of any real standing. Thats right no one woke up the next day and had everything taste like tequila. I know that is something of an old wound to poke for whoever it happened to but I think it serves to illustrate the point of how little drinking there actually was done.

    Now lets back up a bit the my hospital trip. Just before I left I made an appointment with my doctor to let her know what happened. I saw her and she said o.k to what the doc at E.R said and let me go. There very next day I was on my way to work and I had an accident with my bike. I think what happened was my shoe laces go stuck in the pedals and when I slowed down to walk up a hill. I could not balance myself and down I went. I knew what was happening so I was able to twist my right arm enough that instead of landing in a way that would have broken my arm I landed in a way that broke the tip of my right thumb.....................................................Thats right the tip of my thumb. Oh I did kick the ground with my left foot and it bruised my toes a bit( the toe nails may come off but I hope not cause thats gross) but they are o.k. The shoes I was wearing were my steel toed work shoes which is what saved my toes. I was annoyed more then hurt since I had just seen my doctor the day before to. The nice thing is that my thumb turned a rather beautiful shade of purple which is impressive since I don't really like purple as a colour. The lady at the x-ray department really liked it to, she even mentioned wishing being able to paint her living room with that colour. So I wore a thumb splint for about 2 weeks or so. Another trip to the hospital showed that my thumb was healing even faster then it was thought possible so much that between the time it happened to when they took new x-rays at the hospital the break itself was almost non-existent. Thats right folks, I heal almost as good as wolverine when it comes to broken thumbs. Wish I could say the same for any other part of me that gets hurt but hey I am grateful my thumb is almost back to normal so I won't complain.


    So that is about all that major events that warrant speaking about right now. Oh other stuff has happened to others around me this is true but its up to them to talk about it.


    Lets end this email on a happy note shall we. I go for an ultra sound test on the 14th of July to see just what exactly is going on in my insides. Nothing has been bugging me since it first showed up in may so I think whatever was wrong is fine now but all the same I go for testing anyway. I will get the results a week later from my doctor then after thats done a few hours later I go to the airport to greet Angelina who is coming home for a visit! I will stop right there cause if I don't I will start hopping around madly like a bunny on speed being happy about seeing my sister again.

    Night all.

    Current Mood: All done back to fairyland now
    Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
    11:06 pm
    But but but we cant have 2 winners!
    Ladies and Gentlemen we have breaking news in the contest for holder of the title of The King. We are at a deadlock because its not just a single person making a stupid mistake beyond the norm of stupid mistakes. Its actually 2 departments trying to take ownership at the same time. Heres what happened. This Friday is good Friday so we are closed Yaay!. To make sure we don't fall behind on orders we are picking ahead each day for orders. Slightly annoying but it has to be done to justify not being at work. Today they dropped 3 runs of 7-11s and 1 shell order. Perhaps the shell got in there by mistake I don't know. Easy enough to do just awkward cause the 7-11 orders weren't small and the bulk guys were not putting in any real effort to make the skids look good. Granted right now theres a new energy drink out and all stores are getting a lot of it each time but that does not excuse the dangerously unbalanced skids they are making. Whatever we know its going to happen no matter what. Back to The King. 7-11 orders are packed into gray plastic boxes for the most part with only a few small things being put into boxes if theres no room in the plastic ones. But only the 7-11s are packed like that. All the departments know this. From day 1 all new people are taught that. But the 1 shell order that got dropped late today was also packed into the plastic boxes. Whoever did the orders in each department did not check what the order was so it was done wrong. I think the counts were right but I don't know for sure. I got the order when it came down the line and had to spend about 40 minutes or so repacking all the candy and groceries into separate boxes and taping them closed. I shudder to think what will be said to whoever tomorrow when they find out who did the orders. Of course maybe by messing up so bad they will be more careful next time. I've been wrong before about this so I would not count on it. So there you have it folks, 2 departments sharing the title of The King. I should go to burger king and ask if I can have or buy like 100 of those cardboard crowns and write The King on all of them then pass them out every time something like this happens. Course then its a copyright legal issue so I'm better off making my own crowns for people. Keeping watching for new and exciting updates as the staff at my job each make their own attempt at winning the title of The King!

    Current Mood: Frustrations galore!
    Friday, March 14th, 2008
    12:12 am
    Why didnt the writers strike happen before these movies got made?
    Maybe then the world would have been spared the bad plots. Warning the next few lines contain spoilers for Hit man, Beowulf, and 28 Weeks Later.


    So lets start off with Hit man. Predictable every step of the way, and in many ways a lot like The Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, and Bourne Ultimatum accept those movies were very well done. I could tell literally from the moment Agent 47(he has no name) walked into any room how any of the people who had to die were going to die. Nothing special about anything and no surprises. Easily open for a second one but I hope that doesn't happen.

    Beowulf. Terrible graphics for the movie. Ive seen better movies in video games between levels then what they had for it. No one looked life like and at the end I could actually see the pixels on some things. The story is so straight forward I could follow it while sleeping and not even miss a thing. Angelina Jolie is barely even in it so those wanting to see her aren't going really get their wish. The talking parts were hard to understand and there was a lot of repetition of sentences and even worse they grunted words to cover the silence. You all have heard the line in the trailer where Beowulf say I am slasher,ripper,monster,terror and a few other words then yell out I am Beowulf right? Well I'm sorry to ruin this but he only kills 2 things in the whole movie. I don't count the other part of the trailer where he is killing sea serpents because that had nothing to really do with the plot itself. Also I'm not terribly sure why they bothered with that part at all aside from maybe they wanted to see him really doing all those things he yells out. Now we get to the worst part of the whole movie. Beowulf really likes to get naked. I think he spent more time wearing almost nothing then he did with clothes on. But that I guess was something for the ladies. Here is where it gets stupid. You know how in the second Austin Powers movie he is naked at the start and running around but theres always something to cover the front part of him. They do the exact same thing in Beowulf. Really people we get the point now have that fool put some clothes on. It was a sorry excuse of a movie and a horrible telling of the story of Beowulf. It was better done at the Mud Show at the Ren fest when I saw it.

    Now we get to 28 weeks later. Sure it had zombies and killing of zombies and people getting eaten by zombies but thats to be expected. What bothers me is how the infection actually got out. The find a survivor that is infected but not actually a zombie. More like a plague carrier. She is left all alone with no one watching her(not even on video monitors) and her husband is able to just walk in and kiss her then gets infected himself then it just goes to hell from there. I think the whole U.S Army should be ashamed of how it is portrayed. They are ordered to shoot everyone at one point which I was hoping they would do even before people were getting loose but really they were asking for things to go wrong because they jammed all the civilians into tiny rooms, shut down all the lights, did not tell anyone what was going on, and the only zombie at that point managed to just waltz right in and do his thing. There were some positive points at least with this movie. I saw a helicopter mow down like 50 zombies which was kind of cool though when they shot the zombies they were dead yet when the helicopter blades were mincing them up good they were still kicking after so that could have been better. I did like the fire bombing of the city but I would have liked to get a clearer image of which jet fighter they were using. I suspect F-22 Raptors but something about the wing shape suggested F-18s instead. Not a major issue but I like fighter jets and knowing which ones they use in movies makes me a happy nerd. Hmmm.....what else. I was confused at one point because they were using gas on the zombies but they never said what kind. Perhaps something designed to kill just infected people but even the normal people were afraid of it so I am thinking either cyanide or sarin gas was used. Again knowing which kind of gas they used would make me a happier nerd but just knowing which type they would have used still makes me happy. Why gas of any kind would work on zombies is something of a mystery but these are not undead type zombies so I guess those rules do not apply. Oh well. The acting itself was kind of boring and I was not sure the young boy was really and English actor because he did not sound English at all. I am kind of glad the army chief medical officer died because it was her job to be in charge of the surviving lady plague carrier and she totally dropped the ball on that. Also she managed to get herself killed without even getting a chance to defend herself and while she is in the medical core I doubt that she does not know any kind of self defense and could not have put up any fight at all. Yes she was in the dark and only had a tiny night scope to see with on a rifle but she never even tried to fire a shot off as soon as she saw the zombie all up in her face. I could go on and on about other things but I think I covered all I wanted to cover for it now. There can be a third one but they need a better plot to keep things going so I don't get bored and start cheering on the zombies.


    So there you have it folks, movie reviews with a dash of spoiler information but no swearing that I can remember having put in there. I think that all came out pretty well since I could have easily used plenty of profanity but tried not to.

    Current Mood: hahaha stupid movie writers
    Thursday, December 20th, 2007
    9:59 pm
    We need a sign
    It would read Caution: Idiots Work Here

    Let me start this off bye explaining something. On the night shift in shipping myself,Tim,Noel and my supervisor STEVE HOLT! all get to count and laugh at all the stupid mistakes and badly built skids the bulk guys have made. There have been a few where Ive had to stop for 10 minutes cause Im laughing so hard at how bad the skid is or the silliness of the mistake. There are I believe 8 or so bulk pickers plus a few other people(like myself) who do the orders over the course a day. I can name 4 of them right now who need to be fired for being lazy,stupid and dangerous but I wont. Since I and the the rest of the night shift guys have to deal with what the bulk guys are throwing me and Time have decided that when one guy manages to pull a new stupid stunt worse then anything else we've seen we give him the informal title of The King(of doing it wrong if anyone were to ask). Currently Luke holds this title for 2 things. Firstly about 3 weeks or so ago he had been splitting skids of salt up to help lessen the amount of work the bulk guys have to do. Salt comes in skids of 100 and most places order either 50 or 100 or sometimes a number in between which is annoying. Now for whatever reason Luke split up a skid into 2 so there was 50 bags on each. But the store wanted a full 100 and Luke just misread the number. Not a big deal because theres still 2 more skids that can easily go out to different places anyway. But the reason Luke gets to be the King is because he never bother to get a full skid out for the store. Add to the fact that he labels both skids then moves one to a part of the warehouse and the other to a different part of the warehouse. But because its all going to one place the night time truck loader had to search out the missing skid. In the end Luke did a silly thing that caused much laughter for me and Tim. Skip forward to today. I'm counting an order and Ive got everything done except for the skids of windshield washer fluid. Its part of a different department if they want full skids or mostly full skids again to lessen what the bulk guys have to do. They wanted 200 boxes of the stuff(4 skids) so it was easy enough to find. But according to my computer, the order isn't located at all. I didn't yet know that it was 4 skids, I thought it was just 1 and Luke somehow missed it when he was doing all of the full skid orders for salt and wash. No big deal cause I know where they keep it to be loaded later. I go over to where its kept and find 4 skids all tagged and ready. Now I'm sorry but Luke should know better then to forget to locate 4 skids of wash like that. Its beyond silly, made even worse cause hes a supervisor. Again Luke is the King and until another bulk guy manages to find a new stupid thing to do Luke will keep it for a good while I think. It really does take a lot for a bulk guy to get the title of The King so they shouldn't worry to much about it. Until tonight.
    Me and Tim have a new saying now. It goes like this

    Luke may be the king, but Addy is The Fucking Emperor!

    Addy is a bulk guy who has been with us since about august or so. Hes slow, does bad work, makes bad skids, and doesn't listen to advice on how to do proper work. Granted he does do some good work now and again, but its few and far between. Tonight he managed to do something so stupid that will forever surpass the title of king. Heres what happened. I was doing an order with only a few pieces on it from candy,sundries and smokes so I knew the bulk part was also going to be small. It was located in BB0701. So I go there looking for my order and its not there. I was a bit confused because there was a skid of salt and firewood there and it wasn't what I wanted and the skid beside it was other stuff for the salt and wood skid. I thought oh maybe they moved it to make space for the bigger order. Sensible because its best to keep orders that are on more then 1 skid to be right beside each other so shippers don't have to wander all over the place trying to find the rest of an order. So I start walking around looking for what I need. I checked everywhere the bulk guys leave orders and I cant find it at all. I was starting to worry that it got taken by mistake by someone else and dropped on another order and would show up as an error later on. I told Josh I couldn't find the order at all and was starting to worry. He had to help finish the rest of the sundry orders first then he would help me look for what I needed. So I'm standing beside the smaller of the 2 skids where my order is suppose to be and I'm looking at the small skid.

    I suddenly realized that some of the shipping tags on a few pieces didn't match the rest of them. I looked closer and low and behold, there's my order. For whatever reason, Addy took not just my order but 1 more as well and sandwiched them in between stuff that belonged to the skid of salt and wood beside it. Also it was located in the wrong spot. Please understand something. Occasionally in bulk a picker will get 2 orders at the same time called a Batch order. Both orders are to be on the same skid because they are going to the same place and its a waste of a skid to have 2 orders done but not on 1 skid. But what Addy did is not right at all. My order was only 1 piece and the other one was 3 pieces but there is no excuse for dumping all of them on one skid like that. If I had not noticed what he did we would have been searching for the order all night long. It gets worse because the second order he did was not located at all so that was something else we would have been searching all night long for. I told Josh this and I swear I thought he was going to die from that. I don't know how they will deal with Addy tomorrow for this but I can tell you right now hes walking on thin ice as far as his job is concerned in my book for all his mistakes. One way or the other Luke may be the king right now, but Addy will forever be The Fucking(it up) if someone asks) Emperor!

    Current Mood: God bulk guys are stupid
    Current Music: Perfect Situation-Weezer
    Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
    1:07 am
    Ok heres the deal. Im playing fairyland and I just lved my char up to 10. When you lv you get 3 attribute points to put into whatever stats you want. I make wine which is heavy lifting work but my str was terribly low. So I put all 3 points into str. Tashah is also with me at the time and she said it was a good idea cause wine is hard to carry alot of. I said "Yeah, if Im going to be a drunk Id better be able to hold my liquer". I actually stopped for a moment after I realized just how perfect that saying was. I cant believe I came up with that. Im going to be laughing about this for the next few days for sure.

    Current Music: Avril Lavigne-Keep Holding On
    Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
    12:39 am
    No skin off my back
    Just skin off my elbow. See right away you know I went and got injured. Just slightly though. See last friday I was coming home from the pharmacy and I stopped at my moms office to say hi and see how she was doing. I think I was there for about 10 mins or so. I had to get going cause I needed to clean myself up to go to NOTL to pick up Megan with my dad. I was walking my bike up Kerr street and my cell phone rang. I answered it and it was my dad. We were making plans for when to leave when I hit a rock that was covered in leaves and I fell down.I was still wearing my helmet which saved my head from a nasty bump. My right elbow however ended up being street pizza. Good round scrap about the size of a quater. It didnt bleed at all but was pretty juicy from the looks of it. My dad helped me bandage it up for the trip out and later when I was at Stephs place she put a new bandage on. Its healing pretty well, just itchy and kinda ugly looking. Ah well, it will heal in time and I might even have a bit of a scar. Thatd be some trick though cause I havent yet had a noticeable scar from anything else yet.

    Current Mood: tired
    Current Music: If Everyone Cared-Nickelback
    Saturday, October 20th, 2007
    11:57 pm
    Pretty good so far
    I finally finished downloading Torchwood season 1. Its a spin off from the new series of Doctor Who. The main char is Captain Jack Harkness who was in only a few episodes but after how season 3 ended I guess they decided it was time for him to do his own thing. Also he did mention in at least one episode that he had been keeping Torchwood going himself. Really the best way to figure out what Im talking about is to do internet searches cause I cant remember all the details and if I did it would be a really loooooooooooooooooooooong entry. The first episode was pretty good and hopefully the rest of the episodes will also be good. Its not as good as Doctor Who though.



    P.S
    I dont have a clue what I want for my birthday or what I want to do for my birthday so dont ask cause I wont have an answer for you.

    Current Mood: calm
    Thursday, September 27th, 2007
    12:04 am
    Might as well be livejournal official
    Im going to keep this as short as I can cause god knows I can really chatty really fast when Im excited about something.


    I have a girlfriend. Her name is Megan Harley. Shes 19 and attending Niagara college for the 2 year horticulture program.


    Thats it. Im not going to say anymore then that cause if I did Id be up all night and there would be no end to the reading. If you want to know more your going to have to ask me or her in person. Most of you who will read this already know her so that makes it easy.

    The End.

    Current Mood: :D
    Saturday, September 8th, 2007
    9:48 am
    I was drunk drunk
    Yesterday after work was done I got home and found there was a voice message on my answering machine from steph. She had a party to go to last night so role-playing would be tonight now instead. Work let out early enough that I was able to get downtown to Madill pharmacy to get my Singular allergy meds. After I got home from that it was still pretty early and I wasnt sure what to do with myself. I figured Id go for a walk across the street maybe get something to eat and decide what if anything to do next. I went to the tartan fish and chips place near ho-lee chow. The fish and chips and gravy were all good but Id never get the onion rings again. There was no flavour and the onion pieces were to big. Anyway after I was done there I thought about where I was in relation to everything else in town. When you can look out your window and see all the way to hamilton you tend to figure out where alot of stuff is from a distance. I ended up walking up to KFC to see the old crew. Only 2 of the people I knew were there but it was still fun seeing them again. I also talked to Moe and Afon for a bit. It was funny when I walked in barb was up front and milad didnt know I was there yet. Barb says milad get out here we have a visitor. Milad is like who is it Im busy. So I yell get up here new fish. Back when I was still there milad had just started as a cook and all of us called him new fish while he was doing his training. Now hes a blue shirt but I still get to call him new fish for old times sake. Me and barb were giving milad a hard time cause I showed them the recording I made of my skydive and he said there was no way he would ever do that. We told him that if robbie and scott both went he would have to. We called scott to ask him cause milad said neither of them would. Turns out scott was just about to head out to arnolds and robbie was meeting him there later on. So Barb drove me over to arnolds and I got to see scott and robbie. Even robbie was a little hesitant about skydiving but I think I could convince him to do it. I had 3 smirnoff ice last night and not enough food to balance it out so by the time I was on my third I was past being tipsy and into the drunk drunk part of things. Since Im going to the ontario science center with dad today I decided to pack things in at that point. I said goodbye to robbie and made sure he will be able to get a hold of me on msn. Turns out he tried to add me but got the email backwards so I never saw it. Oh well thats fixed now. I walked home and am very very glad I didnt have far to go. After I walked in the door to my place thats when my balance went all to hell and didnt come back and I think its still sort of on hiatus right now. Also I was laughing to myself about a bunch of things which I do even when Im not drunk but this was more pronounced. Im definatly a happy drunk. That was a fun night and it was great to see the old crew again.

    Current Mood: Mildly unbalanced thanks
    Current Music: Lazlo Bane- Im No Superman
    Monday, August 27th, 2007
    12:10 am
    End season 3
    Ok Ive finished watching all of heroes and doctor who seasons 1 2 and 3 now. I'm still waiting to be convinced that heroes will be a good show to keep watching because they had to much that they didn't need. Doctor who was doing pretty good as well till the end of season 3. While it did have some neat explanations for stuff it still left a lot of things open for later episodes. I was a little confused about how the master regenerated himself after being shot and I guess dying in the year 100 trillion because in the movie The 5 Doctors they mentioned in it that he was on his last life and wouldn't be able to survive death again. For those hardcore fans out there give it some thought and let me know what you think happened. Also for the end of season 3 the doctor ends up alone once again which is just depressing. Guess Ill just have to wait till december to find out if he will get a new companion or not right away.

    Current Mood: Nothing new to watch
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