I Jumped the Fence
Friday 21st November, 2008 @ 11:43pm
filed under life. 10 comments.

My computer is pissing me off. I’ll be lucky if this blog makes it through.. my computer keeps freezing. I don’t know why, really. It was fine yesterday.. maybe it’s because I had to install this new plugin thing so I can view my formal photos on the internet?

Well, I’ve had a pretty busy day, though it doesn’t seem like I did much. In the morning I helped my mum make chicken strips and cut beans and peel carrots for her cousin; she loves my mum’s chicken. Hahha. I ended up eating a lot of it while we cooked.

Then we went to her house and I saw my little nephews Michael and Jonathan. They’re SO CUTE. Michael loves the Wiggles, especially their ‘Shimmy Shake’ song. Haha I found myself loving it too.

Yep. So.. we stayed there for a fair bit. I got a little bored. I wanted my computer! Haha.

When we got home my mum wanted to make some pineapple tarts so that’s basically what we’ve been doing the whole afternoon and evening. Something went wrong in the recipe.. don’t know what—but the dough was so oily and euw. Like really oily. Oh well, the first batch seemed okay!

The dough wasn’t enough for the pineapple though. Usually it is! But well, I tried to use as much as possible, and my mum told me to make any shape. Usually they’re just balls or spheres. I made some cubes, then made some funny taco-shaped ones. I wonder what they’ll look like when they’re done. Hahha.

So I haven’t done anything sitely today. I’m currently getting a review done, actually. It’s 11:36 at night and I’m hoping I can get it done by midnight. I don’t plan to stay up too late, maybe for another hour or so. I’m sorry if I can’t return comments today, but I will eventually—hopefully tomorrow.

I’m so paranoid my computer will freeze.. again. It’s so mean. My internet is also being a little laggy. I sort of want to stay up till the off-peak hours, but at the same time I can’t be bothered.

I didn’t eat dinner today because well.. I ate way too much chicken during the day. And had too many snacks. I feel so bloated and full. I might make miso soup soon, but.. we all know eating so late is bad. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have a big breakfast.

Anyway I’d better go off, and hope my computer doesn’t freeze. *sigh*

Quoogbags of Money
Thursday 20th November, 2008 @ 10:32pm
filed under website, life, work. 15 comments.

Work was so crazy today. I was enjoying—well not really enjoying—myself, going smoothly marking all the homework (thank goodness I wasn’t at the class table, otherwise kids would be asking for help).. and time just seemed to be going really slowly. I felt like I’d been there for hours!

Well, I was about to just mark everything correct, being very lazy.. and then my boss told me she had an interview and I had to take over font desk. I hate doing admin. Hate. Maybe it’s because I have to deal with so much crap at the counter—kids coming up to me wanting their stickers because they’ve finished their work, kids asking for help sometimes, parents paying things..

Usually I can put up with it but today was crazy! Before my boss went in for the interview, she told me about this parent at the front counter who was enrolling her son, and to get her form when she was done, so I could give her son a diagnostic test.

Well, I thought, I can do that. Then there were like, three parents waiting to pay. I had to get the receipt book and I was giving this parent a receipt and she said she usually doesn’t get a receipt when she pays by cheque. Well, okay, whatever, but I always give out a receipt; eh. First time complaint but I told her it’s best she get one anyway.

Then there was this parent who couldn’t speak English very well and she told me she had an interview so I had to tell my boss she’d come in. Then she told me to tell her to fill out a form. I did, and hmph. She was pretty unfamiliar with the whole thing. When you enroll your child, they have to do a test so they know where their starting point is. I had to tell her that. And she started saying random stuff about how she’d been waiting for a while outside, as her interview was at 5:00pm but she came early.

Well.. so?

Anyway, I sorted that out, and had to get a workmate to give the poor child a test. I can’t deal with new kids. Seriously. Well, the ones under the age of six. And this kid was five-and-a-half and.. crying. Okay. Just get me away, please.

I at least got to deal with this fairly polite kid who was doing a test. He seemed a little bored, but polite all the same. He was probably around eight.

And would you believe it, another two new kids.. I talked to his mum first, and she was really friendly. She explained to me that it was her children’s first class today, and that she really didn’t know what was going on, but the children were meant to get their folders of work today, and that she had to pay the enrollment fee and all.

Her sons were so nice and polite and had a good sense of humour. They seemed really bright as well; looks like they’ll go far. The family is so bubbly.

NGEH. And when I thought all that crap was over, I forgot about a parent at the front desk needing to pay fees. And that parent had turned into a small bunch. EEK. EEK! NOOOOO. But well, I dealt with them pretty fast, phew for that.

I sat back down to continue marking homework (finally). Emo Kid’s sister. Smart bitch, hahaha. She annoys me just as much as her sister..

Great. And then I hear little Laila (that’s not her real name; she’s about nine) calling me and my gosh, when I look at her, her nose is bleeding. I get her a box of tissues and tell her to wash her face. Poor thing. Look what the heat does! I would have let her rest and probably stayed with her, but this job is so ‘blatantly irritable’ [stolen off James] that I had to sit at my desk and work.

Well, that was really a crazy time. All that happened in the space of about half an hour. Nyeh. I didn’t do much today; read through my school yearbook, washed my hair, managed to squish in one review of my affiliate Hannah. Her site is unique and amazing, and regularly updated—she’s also a great affiliate—she deserved those five cookies out of five!

I had to scan almost all the pages a little manual for my mum. It’s a manual for a blood glucose level checker-thing. She has to translate the whole thing for family overseas (my uncle is diabetic) and she’s been working hard, I must say. Though, she needs to send the booklet off next week and I had to scan everything so she could continue translating it, and also keeping a copy for herself. So as I was saying to Larnbag (hahhahahaha ) earlier today, I was MULTI TASKING.

That means while I wait for a page to scan and process, I can do something (I know you’re thinking ‘for ten seconds, geez Georgie’).. BUT. YES. I could resize a photo in that time! So take that!

Yep, I was working on some stock images. They might be up later tonight (it’s getting late already) or they might not. I hope to get them up soon. I also added some pixels. They look more scribble-like, but oh well.

I’m thinking of adding more resources to the site. Things people can actually use, because a lot of idiots are saying that pixels are useless but I can’t make brushes for shit, and I’m just damn bloody jealous of people who can make textures, because I suck.

And we all know my avatars suck. Or if they don’t, you know they can be better.

• Do my avatars suck? BE HONEST!
• Do you like pixels or do you think they’re useless too (oh nooooo)?