Today sure hasn't gone very well. I screamed at my puppy. Now I feel horrible about it. When Ruby came running in to the living room she knocked my laptop off of the coffee table. It fell on the carpet at an angle, busting my USB/Thumb drive. It would have been better if I'd lost the hard drive on my laptop. All of my school stuff was/is on that USB drive, along with several other things that are important to me.

Chris got a new car today. Well, new to him, anyway. It's a light blue 1983 Honda Accord LX hatchback. It's an automatic. It's a one owner car with 315k+ miles on it. It's front wheel drive, so it should work out a lot better for him. It was a pretty good deal, $500. I had to drive it home, though, since he had to take some of his pain medication.

My brother got hurt at work today. Apparently he went to Cascade Hospital via ambulance. From what I've been told his left hand has been injured. My mom called me when I was at the Marysville School District buildings, in the IT department. She wanted me to see if I could take an early lunch at head home to tell my dad, a phone was off the hook so she couldn't get through to him.

Ruby chewed on my glasses. Now I have to wear my contacts.

Today's been a long day. I've been up since 6am. Had to be at the Marysville School District offices in Marysville at 8am. Worked at Pinewood Elementary until 3pm. With a one hour lunch break from noon to 1pm.

Lonely

I'm feeling pretty lonely right now, and very out of the loop regarding my friends. I hate this feeling.
Just found out that Heather is 17 weeks pregnant! I guess she announced it on February 12th, but I missed it.
Nick finally texted me back last night, but all he said was "I'm not a good person you shouldn't associate with me. I'm just not who I used to be." But he didn't really give me any explanation.
I haven't heard from Satavy since February 5th. I sent her an e-mail, left her a message on Facebook and Myspace, but still haven't heard anything back.
Apparently Martina moved to Hawaii. The only reason I know is because I checked her Myspace page. I've called and left voice mail but haven't gotten any call back. I've sent her texts and haven't gotten anything back.

I think, starting today, I'm going to set aside at least 5 minutes a day to work with Ruby on her training. It kind of came to a head last night. She's a bouncy puppy. But I really need to work with her on reducing her bouncing/jumping on people.

This weekend has been so busy. And I haven't been able to get any Internet connection on my laptop. We were supposed to go to the movies this afternoon, but then I was reminded by my cell phone calendar that I had an Intro to TTouch class at the Everett Animal Shelter from 1pm-3pm. So my brother and father went and saw a movie, while my mother stayed home. I have a horrible migraine right now, and I'm hungry. At 5pm we have a young adults group meeting thing at Pastor Bryan's house. Hopefully I'll be over my migraine by then.

Didn't really do much today. Started Ruby on her new medication. Went to Costco, Petco, Target, and Lowe's with my dad. Hung out with Donn for a little bit. While I was hanging out with Donn Ruby got into the Petco bag and grabbed her bully sticks. Chris could only find one of the bully sticks. Hopefully I'll find the other two bully sticks once Spencer comes inside.

Started out the day going to Pacific Northwest Ballet and I took the open intermediate ballet class at 10am. It felt so good to be in a more 'normal' ballet class. After the class ended we discovered that 2 of the people in class were actors/performers in "South Pacific". My parents and I were going to the 1:30pm performance. That was pretty awesome, taking a ballet class with 2 people from the show I was going to see at The 5th Avenue Theatre that afternoon.

During the performance the vet and I kept missing each others phone calls, so we were playing a continual round of phone tag. We're going to start Ruby on a different medication, since she's still got the infection, and the Clavamox doesn't seem to be helping.

The only thing I really didn't get done was e-mailing the Marysville school district IT guy what my schedule is for the next three weeks. I also forgot to call about volunteering for a runway show. Darnit!

Laptop is Back in Working Order

My laptop is working again, just took a couple of attempts at reinstalling the OS. I've reinstalled Office Pro 2003, Firefox, and Photoshop CS2.

Right now I'm studying for my exam for my PC Tech II class. I pray that my memory retention works well and that I do well on this exam.

Last night Justin helped me to reformat my hard drive on my laptop, and reinstall the operating system. First we ran the repair, but Internet Explorer wasn't working properly, so then we decided to start from scratch. I loaded most of the drivers last night. Today I was running diagnostics, wanted to check the state of the hard drive. When I left for school, diagnostics were still running.

I've been going through my gmail account some more today. And I've been keeping mostly on top of the class stuff today.

Darn, I can't really think what to write about. I'm sure something will come to me while I'm in class. This is day 7 of no working laptop. Hmm, I must be bored, I'm actually finally going through my gmail account, looking at old e-mails, and then deleting them.

I spent a lot of time today just reading school books and cleaning. I was a good girl and cleaned both litter boxes, sorted laundry, and helped clean my bathroom. I did a deep pink eyeshadow makeup look that turned out really cute.

It sounds like my grandparents may be trying to give away Peggy, their Miniature Schnauzer. I'm not sure exactly why, I haven't heard the whole story. Apparently Peggy hasn't really been eating much lately. It sounds kind of like she's depressed. I hope that somebody tells me what is going on tomorrow. Grandma brought Peggy over around 4pm, figuring that being around Ruby might help put some life back into her. I hope it helped, but I don't think it really did. Then again, Peggy wasn't really given the opportunity to get comfortable and come out of her shell.

I told Sarah about trying out for Seattle Fashion Week. She's quite excited. I guess she really likes fashion. She said she'd want to work/intern at Vogue or Elle instead of Seventeen.

We got some great new toys for Ruby while we were at Costco. She loves them.

I'm looking forward to the opportunities that may arise from taking ballet at PNB. No, I did not get up and take a lesson at PNB today. I'm going to start next Friday, when my parents and I go down to Seattle for the day.

Took Ruby in to get a urinalysis done and more medication. I also stopped by Bridges and picked up another pack of the Greenies Pill Pockets in beef flavor.

I didn't quite make it to my ballet class today. I was running about half an hour late. So, instead I sat reading my new book, The Ballet Companion. I also searched Pacific Northwest Ballet's website for their Open program.

They're the only other area dance school that offers ballet classes at a time and day I can take them. They offer a Beginning/Intermediate class Saturday 10am-11:30am, and an Intermediate class Monday-Friday 10am-11:30am. So, theoretically, I could take 5 ballet classes a week! That would be great! After a while I would feel comfortable taking the Intermediate/Advanced class on Saturday 10am-11:30am. That class is on pointe.

After dinner I talked to my mom about taking ballet classes through PNB's Open program. I'm alright with taking ballet classes at this studio in Lake Stevens to work on my technique, but I want something more. This studio focuses a lot on competitions, so much so that I didn't have class last Friday due to there being a competition last weekend. My mom sounded alright with me taking ballet classes through PNB's Open program. Actually, she asked me when classes were, and when I told her that they're Monday-Saturday at 10am she offered to give me money for class and parking so that I can go tomorrow! That'll be awesome. I think I shall give it a try. It means I won't get to sleep in, but that's okay, I sleep in too much as it is. I pray that I wake up and get ready and am out of the house by 9am.

Well, it looks like my makeup tutorial video won't be up until next week, at the earliest. I had the hard drive of my laptop replaced on December 3rd, 2009, which was within the year of warranty that I had on my laptop. My laptop appears to be experiencing a problem that is similar to the problem I dealt with at the end of November/beginning of December. I feel that my replacement hard drive should have lasted more than the little over 2 months that it lasted. I don't feel that I should have to pay to have a replacement hard drive, seeing as the replacement hard drive appears to not have even lasted 3 months.

The only reason I'm at school right now is due to needing to make the final payment on my classes, and so that I can get help reformatting my hard drive on my laptop. See if that'll take care of the problem.

Bye-bye Laptop

Well, I probably won't be posting much over the next few days. I'm going to have to take the Mint CD that I have and back up my files, again. Looks like I shall be reformatting my hard drive tomorrow. Oh joy. To say that I'm pissed off would be an understatement. This is the second time I've had to deal with this since November!

I've already spent two hours reading my school books today. Go me! Haha. Now I have to quickly research Safe Mode and Diagnostic Mode and write a short paragraph on the differences between the two.

I was about 10 minutes to class today, which is better than it's been. I really need to work on getting to school on time.

Sorry, I haven't had the chance to work on editing my makeup video today. I was busy suffering from insomnia last night, so I didn't fall asleep until around 3am this morning. I only got up around 10am because my dad threatened to dump water on me to wake me up.

My Network Server Admin teacher talked to me about a possible internship for the summer, and about helping rid the Marysville school districts computer servers of viruses. He'll put my name in the queue for that opportunity. I wonder if it'll include some pay, even if it's minimum wage. My teacher said that it'll be a good way to network/meet people.

Well, I did film my tutorial yesterday, and I wore the look today. Now I just need to work on taking a picture of the look after wearing it all day, finish editing my tutorial, and load it on Youtube.

Yay, my mother's talking to my father again. Things are back to normal. I'm getting more studying done. So, that's good. I really need to work on Ruby and her jumping up when she greets people. Ooh, Ruby finally did a down! I was so happy. I'm going to attempt making my first makeup video. I think I'm going to do it on my everyday look using my Clinique quad.

My dad went to the model train show with my brother and my two nephews.

Woohoo! I filmed my first makeup tutorial! I'll try and get it edited and posted tomorrow. Wish me luck on that.

Well, I didn't really wake up around 4am this morning. I'm going to say that I was exhausted from the school week. I woke up around 10am. I didn't really accomplish any of the things that I'd planned on accomplishing today. But I did clean both litter boxes for the cats and have been studying for school.

My mother's being quite juvenile right now. She's basically giving my father the silent treatment. All because we tried to throw away perfume/cosmetic products that were over 24 years old. I don't think perfume is supposed to last that long.

I wish my headache would go away. This teacher has a loud, carrying voice, which is most likely contributing to my continued headache. I am hungry. I need and want a job. I so need to start focusing on my school work right now. I've just been spacing out for most of this class. I'm going to start reading now.

I think I'm just going to start getting up when I first wake up in the morning. Take a shower, eat breakfast, get ready for the day. I can take a nap later in the afternoon if I have to.

List of things I want/need to do in February:
Pay credit card bill
Get another job
Buy oil for the Accord
Get the Accord scheduled and in for service
Wash the Accord
Clean out the Accord
Vacuum out the Accord
Wash the Metro
Clean out the Metro
Vacuum out the Metro
Start driving the Metro more often
Study at least 2.5 hours per class
Spend at least 20 minutes a day working on my room/bathroom
Spend at least 5 minutes a day working with Ruby
Get up between 4am and 5am (whenever I first wake up)

So far, I'm 0 for 3 on being on time/early to things that I'm supposed to be to. I was supposed to be at an appointment yesterday at 1:10pm, I got there at 1:20pm. I was supposed to be to class by 4pm last night, I got there at 4:20pm. I was supposed to be to class at 4pm tonight, I got here at 4:10pm. Although, being only 10 minutes late is an improvement for me, sadly.

I thought that the college's wireless was working fine today, but then I got disconnected after almost 2 hours of being online. At least I'm back online, though.

I can't concentrate! I'm supposed to do an assignment, and I just can't focus. The assignment is due in half an hour!

Posting this really late because the school's wireless network wasn't working properly.

I got lots of compliments on what I wore today.