.:reflections of twilight:.

My weekend was nothing spectacular. I did discover the cause of my car troubles though. Leaky transmission fluid. Hopefully the leak can be easily (and cheaply) fixed. So still driving mom's car to work in the meantime. Hey, at least we HAVE an alternative vehicle.

Tomorrow is the EOM for us at work, and that means looooots of pressure and stress. I dunno what exactly I'll be doing since the majority of the EOB's are all electronic now. I'll try not to think too much about it.

Finally read some of the manga I'd bought. Vampire Knight 5 and SDK 30. The mystery of Zero's feelings for Yuki is finally (mostly) revealed. Not that it was all that much of a mystery, but you know how the bishies are in the majority of shoujo: Can Not Spit It Out.

And we finally meet the rest of Yuan's family. Over on the love_deeper comm, I'd heard discussion and seen scans and whatnot, but the pieces are starting to fall into place for me. That typically happens with a series that has Loads And Loads Of Characters.

The tea time we had on Saturday was very delightful. I love it when we do that sort of thing. It's such fun!

Oh, and some of you may or may not notice that I changed out some of my icons.

Today in History: 1829
Greater London’s Metropolitan Police went into action. There was much opposition to the act of Parliament that authorized the police force. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel had requested the act; and, the police were called ‘Bobbies’ in honor of him. The Bobbies first official headquarters were at Scotland Yard; and Scotland Yard became the official name of the police force.

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Ever have one of those days? I did today.

When I came in, it was business as usual. Then I was notified about an error I had made on Monday. Now errors are generally no big deal. every one makes then once in awhile. But this one was following notification of another error I had made, in addition to the one before, so my self-esteem was already considerably bruised as it was.

So I was very down in the dumps for the majority of the day. And today of all days was the big Thanksgiving shindig our office had, and I couldn't even eat anything because my appetite had left me. So I missed out on pie.

I shouldn't let such minor things get to me, but I guess I feel that whenever I make an error, I'm letting the people I work for down and I kinda take it personally. Yet another personality flaw I dislike...

And, as it turned out, the "error" wasn't technically an error at all. Of course, by the time I discovered it, my supervisor had left for the day. I sent her an e-mail pointing it out, though.

I applied the salve of manga onto my wounded ego, however. I stopped by BAM and found Furuba 18, SDK 25 and TB 4.

Word of the Day: chaste
Pronunciation: /chayst/
adj : not having indulged in sexual activity; celibate

Ugh. Mondays are hell. I was so slammed today. I had a lot of charts to scan today since people tend to see the doctor on a Monday since they were held over from the weekend. That in itself wasn't so bad, but then I had messages for part of the day, and that kept me too busy to return to my scanning for a good portion of the time. So needless to say, I still have stuff to do tomorrow when I go in in the morning.

Plus, I have to get up early so I can go and vote when the polls open since we're not gonna make it after work. The non-early riser inside of me is complaining bitterly about it.

And, I have to fix my dinner and take a shower as well. *screams*

OK, onto the weekend:

Saturday:

Errands mostly. I had to go to the mall and get my pants for work (and a few shirts as well). Then a stop to the bookstore. I crapped out there except for a few magazines. Then we got groceries. It took a good part of the day...

Movie night was Over The Hedge. Still incredibly cute. I loved it.

Sunday:

Church. We had a membership meeting afterwards. The Ooma was there! And I actually talked to him, too! It helps that mom was a buffer. I'm slowly working up my nerve...

Different bookstore. Jackpot! I got Legacy 4 (even though I was looking for 5), SDK 20, Immortal Rain 7 and Trinity Blood 1. Good times!

I also discovered that my dad fell from a ladder sometime last week and broke his leg. *facepalm* I chewed him out via e-mail. So he's laid up for 6-8 weeks, which I'm sure he's thrilled about.

On to fandom news. Furuba 135 is out. A very bittersweet chapter, but it ties up some loose ends, so it was good.

SDK was good. I was glad 'Tora got to shine since he's terribly underused. I mean, I know it's Kyo's book, but still. A lot of the other minor characters seems to get more attention that 'Tora does, so I have to support him whenever I can.

And Immortal Rain 7 was much joy. Heee! I hope to do more detailed squeeage on my Greatest Journal, but not this coming weekend since I'll be out of town starting Thursday (heads up, FL).

Hopefully tomorrow I'll not be to much of a zombie and a cranky cuss, but I make no promises.


Be sure to vote tomorrow!!!

Trivia of the day: Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.

*sigh* I checked both of my sources and DN 108 and SDK 307 still aren't out yet... *grumble* So I guess I have to wait until who knows when in order to see them. And of course, they're both the final chapters of either series... Does this move come at a bad time, or what?

I went to the vet's to pick up the cats' medical info we need to give the management to the apartments, so that's out of the way. I also went to get the change of address cards so our mail can be forwarded. Now I just need to go online and change my address for things like Amazon and Netflix.

Today I'm basically going to finally go through my computer files and start burning them onto disks. That way, if any glitches occur, I won't have to panic (which I may have mentioned on yesterday's post. I don't remember).


You would not believe the drama going on on my forum just about the color change. I myself could care less about changing the color. The color it's been for the past year or so has been perfectly fine. A little bland maybe, but nothing glaring or anything. But a few people kept bitching about it (one in particualar) so in order to shut them up, I asked people to contribute skin samples to be voted on. Well, we only got two entrants and so I set up a poll. Someone else on there said we should match the colors to the banner I had made. I for one, don't agree to this simply because I didn't make the banner to match anything. I just made it to be a banner telling who were are. Simple, eh? Well, then a big brouhaha went on about how the colors someone suggested were simply horrid and that we should stick with one of the two examples in the poll. I swear, we have a lot of hot heads on there. I myself am pretty much sick of the whole thing. I mean, I already voted for the colors I liked the best. Geez, I mean, you think there's wank on here!! I'm thisclose to changing the colors anyway and saying, "If you don't like it, too bad!" This is what I get for trying to be diplomatic...

Fandom-wise, I really lucked out. I went to B&N yesterday and got a bit of a haul I'm proud to say. RK 26, SDK 18, DN 5, FMA 7 and Beauty is the Beast 3.

In RK 26, we get to meet Sano's dad, and I must say "like father, like son." Now I know why Sano is the way he is (BTW, his little brother is absolutely adorable. "Apple Cheeks" indeed). There's only two more volumes after this, so the series will be concluded in July therabouts. I think the other series Watsuki-sensei had licensed will start in August (good timing, I say). I'm not 100% sure, though.

In SDK 18, Mahiro finally confronts the person responsible for the death of her sister. She doesn't succeed though and only winds up getting herself seriously injured. Kyo steps up though and fights in her place, basically because even though he didn't kill her, he still feels responsible since she died in front of him. And ol' 'Tora was really worried about Mahiro (squuueee). And now I know why Okuni has shorter hair. I had wondered about that. I think it looks good on her, though.

In DN 5, we see nonevil!Raito (or Light. Whatev). I agree with flamika. I like this version of Light much better than crazypsycho!Light.

Well, that's all for now. I'll be signing off now for awhile. I hope everyone takes care of themselves.

See you on the other side.

Trivia of the day: Designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel introduced her first perfume in 1921. She gave it the name "Chanel No. 5." According to Chanel, she jumped straight to number five because it was her lucky number. To add luck to the fragrance, she introduced it on the fifth day of May, the fifth month. Chanel No. 5 became the world's best selling perfume.

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Now entering radio silence.

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