.:Monday, September 28:.

..:Birthdays and Banter:..

So, was sitting in my car today, discussing Supernatural and such with the little sis. And I asked the question. You know, THE question: How the hell is Kripke going to top doing the freaking APOCALYPSE this past season.

Bryanna, being the brilliant sibling that she is, has been the first person with a satifactory answer. For no sooner had I asked this than she come back with "Carebears." The Winchesters VS the Carebears. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!
Or, you know, me.

This past weekend was Tiff the Majestics birthday party. Steampunked ourselves out, then went out for food. Found the orgasm cake from the matrix, it was SO damn good. Then headed off to futures for tea and company. Good night.

Computer has died yet again, am currently using the baby sis's compy back in caledon as I complete some work around the house for the parents. Oh joy. Oh Rapture. Housework. I don't even LIVE here anymore and I'm doing chores.

Blah

Labels: birthdays, Compy, Supernatural

Meru at 7:20 PM

.:Sunday, April 19:.

..:I'm baaa-ack baby!:..

I GOT MY COMPY BACK!!!!!!

That's right ladies and gents, Mere is back in business, and damn happy about it too. Compy is fully fixed, I didn't lose any of my files, and I have a date next week out of it too...

See, I went into future shop and dropped off compy to be fixed, then got a call the next day saying that they'd backed up all my files and wanted me to come in and double check that they'd gotten everything before they hard-wiped the system.

So I go into the store, and into the back room where they work on the compys, and practically the whole nerd herd was gathered around my compy. All I could think was "oh gods, they've found something embarassing...."

Instead, the boys turn around, spot me and say, "this is your computer? Damn, you're awesome!" Somewhat confused, I get a look at the screen, where my screensaver is playing. My screensaver cycle's through all the wallpapers and things I keep on my compy. Now, y'all know me. I am the queen of the geeks, practically any fandom out there is represented on my compy somewhere.

So I come in and start going through the files, and one of the cuter members of the herd comes up behind me and says, in this really hesitant voice, "Um... do you have the batman superman movie? I've been looking everywhere for it!" I actually did have it in the files, and copied it for him, and this lead to almost an hour of raping and pillaging mere's compy.

I love geeks.

Labels: awesome, Compy, geekiness

Meru at 1:15 PM

.:Thursday, March 12:.

..:Count 'em out:..

OK, so, my recapped life for the last few months. Am no longer working for the Evil-Trucking-Company-O-Doom (tm). Unfortunately got laid off in November due to seasonal slowdowns.

Of course, with my wonderful luck, a week and a half after I became unemployed and therefore unable to afford repairs, my beautiful compy suffered a rather inglorious death. So naturally there has been no blogging. It has slumbered ever since, waiting for the moment when it can re-awaken and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!! BWA HA HA HA!!!

... ahem. Sorry, read FH recently, it affects me.


So, spent the tag end of November and all of December going to a series of successively more frustrating interviews, and bumming about with Jenn, Tiff and KT who had come home for a visit. Was fun, went to the spa for Christmas (awesome, really really awesome), spent the whole day up there bumming about in the hot pools and saunas and such, surrounded by trees that looked gilded in glass from the condensation freezing to ice, and shaking icicles out of our own hair. Spent some time in one of the warm sun rooms, 15 ft windows in the middle of winter, and us lying about in bathing suits, very discordant, sweet.

Unfortunately, December was also spent packing up as loss of job = loss of money = moving into Brampton house so I can afford to eat.

So, I spent a few weeks up at the house in Brampton, painting what was to be my room and buying various fixtures and such, then moved in mid-December with Little odds and ends coming up as they would for the rest of the month.

Really enjoy living there tho, Brampton, not so much, but I missed living in an actual house. Room for my 2 cats and Kat and Drew's 2 cats (yes we have 4 cats, feel free to make jokes). A real kitchen, with a variety of appliances and more than one pan in the whole place, oh! And a sis-in-law who loves to cook and feed people amazing meals every night, all I have to do is whatever meat I may want to eat as they're both vegetarians. Also get access to the studio, which is amazing, they have so many funky tools and supplies and such that I would usually never think of but now my brain has practically exploded with art ideas. V. Cool.

So, spent the first week of Jan re-painting the living room and hall as I had nothing better to do and Kat and Drew were on vacation, turned out fairly well if I do say so myself. Still have to tackle the bathrooms and the kitchen, but that is gonna be a weekend project (if I ever get another free one that is).

Then came the jobs.

I have; not one, not two, but count 'em, three jobs at the moment.

Monday to Friday I work 8-5 at an auto shop doing admin work, really nice company, swanky office as we work mainly with BMW, and some really great people to work with. Then, I grab my car or a train and haul ass out to Woodbine where I'm an assistant manager at one of the stores out there, good people, some real ding-bats too, and good DE-stressing with the cleaning. Then, if I have the time, Fridays and Saturday nights I can be found tending bar for parties in the GTA.

I've been doing this for almost a month now, I'm just a wee bit tired.

But, I'm slowly clawing my way back to financial security, and hoping to save enough to head out to BC for a few weeks this summer (anyone wanna come?).

In the meantime, I have practically no real life aside from being dragged out by friends and siblings for movies and such, but you know, I sleep really really well now and I'm rather proud of myself really.

And this past weekend? Was the Watchmen weekend. Good gods did I love that movie, absolutely brilliant. PERFECTLY cast, the changes added to the story, and JDM was awesome as usual (I love that man). So. Very. Happy. Also? May gets us a bunch of freaking amazing movies this year; Public Enemies (Christian Bale, and Johnny Depp as old school cops and robbers, squee!), Wolverine (commence drooling. Also the new Terminator movie (after the most recent trailer it looks like it actually might not suck, altho all the ships look a hell of a lot like Serenity...) Up (new Pixar, totally going to that with Tiff, she's always a blast to see those with) and the newest Star Trek movie, which, with each successive trailer I see I just get MORE excited about. Again, so. Very. Happy.

So, this weekend is dinner with Jenn, hopefully in a few weeks I can drag her out to see Fast & Furious with me. (yeah, yeah, laugh it up, but that man is my guilty pleasure).

My Birthday is in a few weeks as well, not really that excited, another year, ho-hum. I think I'll just do a night out with the girls....

Relationships.... have been an absolute nightmare. A series of dumb guys, one weird stalkery guy who won't take a hint, one girl whom it unfortunately didn't work with as I never get to see her, and one guy who is currently unavailable. Bugger.

Hmm, at work now, office is freezing cold for some reason, I am praising the genius who invented those little hand and boot warmers, for they are absolutely AWESOME and have kept me sane today, off to work at the store tonight, should probably get back to work now. You know, productivity and all that.

Labels: artsy stuff, bumming about, cats, christmas, Compy, home repairs, job, Kickass movie, Movies, Moving, winter, work

Meru at 1:10 PM

.:Monday, February 19:.

..:Compy: Dead:..

So, computer has died a rather innoble death, which is why I wasn't able to blog over the weekend, am very sad.

Come home on Friday night and turn on compy to check mail and engage in other time wasting activities, to find a virus slowly eating it's way through all my files. Luckily my computer model is one with a built-in help service and they were able to get rid of the virus, but I still lost alot. Last time I backed up my compy was over a month ago... Christmas I think. So anyone to whom I've given files (pictures, word files, etc) can you please send me a copy? Email is meredydd@rogers.com .

Aside from compy's horrible and untimely demise, it was actually a good weekend. Went to the play Paperbag Princess with the family on saturday at Stage West. Was.... very much a little kids show, and we looked very strange being a group of 7 adults in a room with 400 little kids and parents. Still really funny though, I was amazed at how many of the kids knew all the lines in the stories. I mean, I remember reading this when I was a kid, but I really didn't expect the books to still be so well known.

Also headed out to the movies to see Ghostrider. What a waste of money that was. I thought to myself when I first saw the trailers that it looked.... kinda cheesy. And it could go one of 2 ways: Really really good: or horrifyingly bad. Unfortunately the second option was definitely the dominate one.

The lines were bad, the lead character acted like a complete and utter moron, the lines were horrible, the female lead had no personality beyond being a spokesperson for plastic surgery and the lines! Did I mention the lines? I have never in my life heard such cheesy and predictable writing! Only thing I can say to the positive for it was the graphics were impecable and the character designs were effective. Not enough to overshadow Nicholas Cage's bad acting, but still.

Bah, gotta work now, blog later

Labels: Bad Movies, Compy, Plays

Meru at 8:54 AM