want to work on irc chat more...
want to test webcam more..
aaak...so tired.. body heavy..eyes a ton....
must sleep.... must reach bed...

i just tested out ChillCam software because I read some girl say that she preferred it to webcam32. i didn't like it much.. partly because i couldn't get it to work. :)
i'll try later.. and do more reading on it.

we have the wireless cam set up in the living room now. i'm monitoring the cats from the bedroom now. :) dessy's playing with her toys. tigger is lounging.
so this is what they do when i'm not around.

oops. i forgot to take my "never assembled" sammich out of my lunch bag.
i better go do that now before something foul arrises.

nooo!!!! the damn cam didn't come with a usb connection! We had to order it today and it won't be in till later. so depressing. win 1 for life. 0 for me.
it's just not fair, i say. i'm going to go sulk now.

SPLIT FACE CMU. SMOOTH FACE CMU. NEW WROUGHT IRON PICKET FENCE. these are all notes i just put into the elevation i'm working on. this stuff is all pretty basic and boring. i only have 1.5 more hours to go..
i just remembered the first wireless cam is supposed to come in today. yeah. something to look forward too! woohoo.. focus on the good things.. hehe..as few and far between as they are. :)

watch..it won't get here today..hehe...that's how my luck goes.

tonight - first quarter moon

whew... i didn't eat the lunch i brought. a couple of us walked to downtown to go see the Hafele bus. Hafele is a manufacturing company for various furniture parts. They had a sample bus set up for people to come tour. They also were offering a free lunch to the Corner Bakery with a visit. :)

The tour was kind of short. The stuff displayed was pretty cool.
Afterwards, we walked to the Corner Bakery to get our free lunch...a sammich,
a salad or soup, and chips and a drink.
i got a turkey sammich, a ceasar salad, chips, and a dr pepper.

It was pretty good. We sat around and ate, bashed our company, and complained about working. You know, the standard hoopla of substandard work...hehehe.

anyhow, while we were in line ordering our food, one of my co-workers (in marketing dept) made this whole big fuss about what we were supposed to get with our free meal. it was very embarrassing and she was so slow to pick up what was going on.
she insisted that we get the box lunch and they insisted that we get the combo meal.
all she wanted to do was make sure what she was ordering was free but the way it came out made it sound like she was trying to haggle them. uuuh!

oh well, now it's back to working on walmart... i'm laying out the floor plan sheet now.
i'll let you know when it gets exciting. hehehehe..

just got through pimping myself around the office.
i got a job to do now. walmart. ick. it's probably the worse job
to have to do. the project manager for this job sucks.
he's a good guy but he can't communicate crap!
there's nothing worse than having to just feel around for what to do.
i have to set up all the sheets for the construction documents. where to begin?

there's got to be something better...
i'm longing for creation.. my mind wants to be set free...
"i pity the poor fool who never dared to dream she could be more than this...
i am not, can not, will not be this pitiful thing...."

oye! did not want to wake up this morning!
here at work now and really hungry.
is it lunch time yet?

i made myself lunch for tomorrow. i took the leftover chicken fried steak and put that in a zippy bag...then i toasted some bread and put them in a zippy bag... the same with some chips.. and then i took out a piece of cheese but kept it in the wrapper. I had to keep them all separate to control the mush factor. I'll put them all together tomorrow at lunch time. it should be gooood.

i made myself lunch for tomorrow. i took the leftover chicken fried steak and put that in a zippy bag...then i toasted some bread and put them in a zippy bag... the same with some chips.. and then i took out a piece of cheese but kept it in the wrapper. I had to keep them all separate to control the mush factor. I'll put them all together tomorrow at lunch time. it should be gooood.

you are getting sleepy. very sleepy. you want to crawl into bed and call it a night.
oh wait. you realize there's only 2 more hours left of your weekend! AAAH!
WHAT DO YOU DO??

you go take a bath, play on the internet some more, update your site and crash around 1am. And don't forget to CAD the design sketches.. must not forget.

i just fed the kitties. they each have to get into their cages before i can feed them. tigger has a poopy condition, so he has to have special medicated food. dessy's really trained. as soon as i pull out the food, she runs inside and waits. tigger is a little stubborn sometimes but if he's really hungry he'll hop right on in..

after looking at some sites, i found a couple of good ideas for daily updates.
there's the daily pictures, the daily quote, the daily question...
etc... i like the picture idea.. i'm not sure if i could come up with enough quotes though... nor would i want to. hmm.. i'll have to brainstorm some more.
hehe.. live journal will have to do for now! :)

just got through eating. i'm mucho tired now. i just stuck in BLADE. gonna watch that now and resty up a bit.

jeremy just got back from the grocery store. he bought meat for spaghetti, chicken fried steak, fish, ham, and a couple of other things for us to eat this week. mmm. I'm so hungry right now. I think we're going to have the chicken fried steak tonight...
if i didn't have my olser, i'd enjoy it more. :P

just got back from the design think tank. hehe. it was quite fun. it took me awhile to get my feet wet but we actually made lots of headway. Form follows parking. hehe.
i'm going to CAD up the sketches we made to check that we didn't overshoot the dimensions. I think we're going to present the designs to the clients on Wednesday.
Exciting.

I'm relaxing right now and watching Sleepless in Seatle.
I might start working on my site again later.
I'd like to add a few more thing here and there..
I've been thinking about something daily.. but i'm not sure if i could maintain it well enough. Maybe I'll go explore more sites and see what other people are doing.

well, i'm at work right now. yup.. it's sunday, i'm here, and it's all for free. :)
we're just about to get started with some design work. We'll probably mostly go over programming and site development. I don't think it's going to last too long. I hope not. I still want a part of my weekend too. All I had for lunch was a bowl of cereal..
*stomach grumbles*

just got back from getting jack in the box.
i got a teriyaki chicken bowl. it was all right.
i really miss my mom's food. I refused to learn how to cook when
i was growing up because i didn't want to be a slave to the kitchen.
jeremy actually likes cooking so that's good for me. unfortunately, he doesn't know how to cook my mom's food. gosh.. mmm.. mouth waters every time i think of what i used to be able to eat for dinner. ...the things you take for granted.

worked on my homepage some more. i know. i know.. i need to get a life.
oh well. i suppose as long as i'm content, damned be it to socialization.
tigger takes pictures so well. he should be one of those model cats for kitty chow or something. i think they used animated cats now, though.

i have an olser in my mouth. stress, most probably.
in order to help sooth the pain, i have to brush my teeth a lot.
i call this the "oral hygiene marathon."

guess i'll go brush right now. the pain is growing.
up and down like an air-o-plane
back and forth like a choo-choo train!

we went to eat at On the Border. I had my same ol' rice, beans, taco combo.
Jeremy got a beef burrito plate. funny, when we were in college, going to eat at on the border was a special thing... now it's a weekly thing. :)
Money changes you.

I did some cleaning up around here. I vacuumed. Filled up the cannister again. It's amazing how much nastiness accumulates on the floor over a weeks period. I guess I'm just glad i've got powerful allergy medicine. achoooo.

not sure what to do with the rest of my day. the people at my work say i need a life.
hehe. i guess this doesn't qualify for some reason.

i'm a sad creature for some reason.

ugh... i'm starving! Jeremy just got his hair cut. I think it's a little to much off the sides but it grows back pretty quickly. I'd like to get a haircut as well. However, everytime I go and get one, the stylist makes me feel really bad about doing it. The last time I went, she gave me a twenty question interview before she would cut it. Basically, my hair has two modes of style. LONG and SHORT. That's it.
I thought about getting bangs at one point. I haven't had them since I was five.
Too scared though. My mother said I'd look like a monkey.
hooo..hooo..

i just woke up about forty minutes ago. for some reason, i hate sleeping in too late. I guess a part of it is my fear of losing weekend time. i'm eating snack-ums right now. i really could use some bacon or eggs.. mmmmm.. and toast. the classic breakfast.
you gotta love it.

i think i'm going to sit down and pay bills this morning. i've been putting them off. i also have to balance my checkbook again since i'm short 2500 from the cd. I can't overspend!! must stay debt free! MUST!

on days like these, i always wonder what other people are doing around the world. I know half of them are sleeping. Some may be washing clothes, some may be shopping... some may be starving..or hungry. The world is paradox sometimes. We see only what we chose to.

been working on my webpage all night. i even did some emotion balls for live journal but i can't post them here since i'm not a paying member. I might become a member when lj is more stable. until then, you can check out my emote guys at my homepage.
http://www.geocities.com/alachia9
they're in the thoughts section.

it was quite fun making those. i think i'll go make some more.
TGIF.

I took a short nap and woke up feeling really nauseous. I kept gagging in the bathroom. I brushed my teeth and drank some liquids. Jeremy and I decided to eat here instead of going out. He had a tortino's pizza and i had a can of ravioli. It made me feel a whole lot better.

Since Jeremy came home early today, he didn't check the mail. We took a little walk to the mail slots (i live in an apt) and got our mail. All I got was a pre-approved credit card letter. Oh boy.

I'm currently drawing up a little emote guy for whenever it is that I upgrade my membership to live journal. Not sure how the whole emotion thing works but I'm coming up with concepts for the fun of it.
oodalay..oodalah...

http://www.geocities.com/alachia9

well i took off a few minutes earlier...but i'm here at it's 6pm.. so that's a GOOD thing.
the drive wasn't all that bad considering it's a friday. I'm trying to figure out what to do for my time off. Max and relax... and?

I have to go back to work this Sunday and work for free. :)
We have an actual design opportunity at our firm..ooooo..aaaaah...
However, the project is for charity. It's called the Samaritin house.
It's a housing project for people with AIDS who have lost their homes.
That's pretty pathetic don't you think that the only way I'll get to design work
at an architecture firm is for free!!! That's not right!

What to eat for dinner? I think we're gonna go out to eat tonight. Hmm..
what am I in the mood for?

well, i just got through binding the drawings, zipping them up, and now calvin is emailing them to the mechanical engineering people. Woohoo! What to do now? Gotta go pimp my architecture around the office I guess. :) Can't wait to go home!

Soup again. Jeremy said we ran out of bread so no sammich. I would be going out to eat today but the usual group that goes out to eat...well one is trying to make up for time loss, another is gone, and one wants to leave early today so he's eating in...

I got some cream cheese and chives crackers though. It should be good. :)
We're getting closer to finsihing up these drawings for today. I'll be so glad.
And it's the weekend soon! Just about 5 more hours. Woohoo.

caaahook.. eee. I just about choked on my soup. Not good. Slow down.
Enjoy lunch. ..sigh...

I woke up around 6am because my right sock was missing. I'm obsessed with having socks on (mental protection). I used to run around barefoot until about 7th grade when I was running to go turn on the tv and my pinky toe hit the door frame and snapped sideways. OUCH! After the ordeal was over and my broken toe was all fixed (by wires), I didn't feel comfortable going barefoot anymore. I know logically that socks won't really protect my feet from accidents like that, but they make me feel better.

Well, I spent a good ten minutes digging around my bed for the darn sock. I've got so much crap on my bed. A thin sheet, a thick sheet, my two yelly blankets, two warm hug pillows, two normal pillows, my valentine bear, my easter bunny, and my hand size pink bunny. It's crowded! :)

Everyday when I come to work...about 18 minutes into the drive...if I arrive at this on ramp about 8:50.. about 8 UPS trucks merge onto the highway. It's a pill.
I can't wait till we have transporters. One to beam up!

I'm drinking gatorade- fierce grape. I forgot to put my sunkist into the refrigerator last night. Mmmm....thirst quencher.

Just cleand the littermaid. That thing is awesome. It needs maintenance too but it's not as bad as having to dig the poop out myself. Those cats sure can take a dump!
I'd have to say that's the worst thing about having kitties. Stinkyness. :)

Dessy's following me around all the time. She just likes to know what's going down. Tigger could care less. hehe.

eating a milk chocolate hollow bunny. mmmm.... bad! i am sooo bad!!!

Friday is almost here. Can't you feel it? Driving home from work sucked as usual. I had this truck breaking every ten seconds in front of me. I was finally able to get around him and pass him up. It's a conspiracy I tell you!

Had some pene pasta for dinner. It was pretty good. I've been playing around on the net for awhile. I'm kinda bored. gonna go explore some more pages.

http://www.geocities.com/alachia9

staring at this computer screen for so long has given me a headache.
i feel dizzy. i'm also a little stressed because we're a long way from getting
done and i don't wanna be responsible for us not getting this out by tomorrow.
might have to stay longer... bum bum..

can i go home yet?

What's for lunch today? Campbell's Soup to Go- Chicken Rice, crackers, chippies, and a sunkist. And for desert we've got a donut stick. hehe. I know. I know. I'm a hording pig. I love food.

It's been an okay morning. I can't say I'm all the excited to be here. I'd much rather be at home play with the kitties or napping. Sometimes I wish I could crawl up under my desk and just snooze for ten minutes or so. In college, I was on a 32 hour cycle. I'd stay up for a long time with naps here and there and then finally crash after a day and a half. It was great. :)

I hope I win the lottery so I can retire soon. The lucky lotto numbers are
4 32 19

good luck!
http://www.geocities.com/alachia9

munching on snack-ums. aka gigantic fruit loops. mmmm

At work now. I woke up by myself around 6:50am this morning. I decided to get an early start instead of going back to bed. Our deadline for this project is coming up. Between Calvin (my co-worker) and myself, there's just not enough time or know-how to do it soon. My boss won't be happy about this. The project just sort of fell on us. The previous project manager had everything set up so poorly. We're compensating.
I'm about to go draw up a section of a vestibule now. woohoo. Can't wait till lunch.

Sleepyness. Not looking forward to work tomorrow. I just got through taking a shower. It's nice to be clean again. Jeremy and I did some mad restling tonight. I had him pinned for a good while. I'm pretty strong. RARRR! I hurt my finger though. The cats are meowing. They want a midnight snack. Cat life must be awesome if you've got a good owner. Sleep, eat, sleep, sleep, eat, poop, pee, play..

I created a frame for the webcam. It's got a pic of desdemona (dessy) on it.
http://www.geocities.com/alachia9
What's next on my list... hmmm.. :)

Well, 2500 is in a secure cd now! I got a special deal too with a greater interest rate. Boring I know. I'm not even sure how these thing work. Just trust in the bank. hehe.. Yeah right. I gotta go to work early tomorrow.. bum bum. I guess I'm pretty lucky in that I don't have to be at work till around 9am. I could get in later but I much prefer to leave around 6pm than 7pm.

Jeremy is cooking fish right now. We're gonna have fish, green beans, and rice and gravy. mmm.. Tonight one of the last Voyager shows comes on. I'm not a Trek fanatic but I plan on watching. It's from 8pm to 9pm. I started watching it when I first got to Ft Worth. I thought it was new. Apparently the show has been running for seven years. Things you learn when you only have 12 channels. We were going to get the 100 channel cable special, but at this point I'd rather have the extra cash to start up my own server. I hate watching tv because it SUPS me in. I just get stuck sitting there having this tube suck up all my brain juices! When I first started working, I was watching tv for most of my time off. I was so sick too. I had this horrible something I couldn't get rid of for weeks! My first real job and I get to be labeled the sick girl. It was bad. Anyhow, now my usual self is resurfacing again. I'm back online now and I have the will to get things going. Jeremy just bought another wireless cam (buy one get one free)..that bumps up the total to three! I can't wait to get those running. The usb ezcam i have is so cheap and the quality is so bad. Plus mobility is lacking since it's attached to the pc.

oop.. dinner time.. gotta go!

I'm gonna go to the bank after work. Wells Fargo. My dad told me I should go buy some CDs. The interest rates are really low now. I think the minimum CD is 2500 dollars though. That means I lose that for like 2 years! Oh well, pay day is coming up in a week. I hope I can make it there on time. I'll probably leave here shortly and just come to work earlier tomorrow. My firm is really good about flex hours. Money calls!

I'm doing more icky details now. You just don't know how exciting it is to draw a detail of a metal building gable.. oooh.. four years of design study and it all comes to this!
At least it's something. I just need to stay awake. An hour and a half to go.

could i deal with no work? would i be able to cope with not contributing to the gross national product?

Munch Munch time! kewla! I got my usual bologna sammich, plain chippies, oatmeal cookie and sunkist. But it looks like Jeremy threw in a rich n' creamy p-nut butter cracker pack and a plumb! I'm ready to start. This morning has been boring. I've been working setting up more construction document sheets. I worked on an elevation and inserted a few detail drawings.

I wish I could go home for lunch. Jeremy works like 6 minutes away from home so he can do his lunch there. I wish! I'd take a nap, play with the kitties, doodle on the internet...etc.. It would be great!

Well, gonna go enjoy my little break now.. CRUNCH CRUNCH.

Lexus and Mercedes are by far the worst "Traffic" drivers. First, they're slow and aloof. Second, if they wreck, YOU pay. I think they feel that their salary cap gives them the right to own the left lane. Screw you if you want to get around them They'll make it as hard as possible on you. Anyhow, today I'm adding BMWs to the list. This one little sporty bmw kept slowing down in front of me for NO reason. There was at least 100 ft of space in front of him/her. It's like they're begging you to rear them. CHA-CHING! $$$ UGH.

I made it to work okay though. It's such a bum-rut drive. I forgot to bring a sunkist for my morning drink. I tried to use a dollar at the soda machine, but it wouldn't take my buck. Therefore, I had to use the chip machine, buy a 50 cent bag of chips, and then use the change from that to buy my drink. It's a scam! Hmm. I wonder if I tried to insert the dollar then push, receive change, would it give me my dollar back or would it give me change for my dollar? Guess I'll make that a lunch experiment.

Gotta get to work now. Fun Fun...poot poot.

I want to test out the image insertion. I'll throw up a picture of Tigger. This is a pic of one of our many trips to and from home. He rides in cars pretty well.
[[POST ENTRY (heh..sounds kinky): didn't work. taking out the link. Will try again when I have my server up. :(]]

Okay, I started working on presentation with my webcam. I've worked out the code to get a good border around it. Now all I have to do is design the framework. It should be fun! I'll have to do that tomorrow though. I'm quite tired. I have lots to develop. Yeah! Fun stuff!

Working on my webpage. I'm trying to get the webcam to archive old pics. It keeps giving me an error and shutting down the software. I can't figure it out. Hopefully I'll finally get it before the night ends. Kay. I'm gonna go pooty and work on it some more. :)

I'm home! I met Jeremy at his work to see his new cubicle. They just fired some guy at his work so now he's finally got a real work space. He had been working in the conference room. We decided to go to Schlotzky's for dinner. I had the original sammich and Jeremy got a turkey/bacon one. It was greasy but it was good. I'm so glad to be in my own abode. Trying to play on the internet, even for a short time at work is really risky business. Supposedly, they can view every site we connect to and have a record of all of our email. Big brother is watching. :)

Anyhow, that just ads to my paranoia. I'm probably one of the fastest workers there, but I'm also one of the youngest. My job security there is exteremly thin. They just fired one of my co-workers last month. I believe it was because he wasn't efficient enough. My firm is a business firm that calls itself an architecture firm. There's a BIG difference. I got into architecture for more profound and high impact reasons than cutting the cheese. I guess that's why my job leaves me empty. It's mindless. I have about 3 more years of gimping though. Who knows what will happen. I wish I could work from home.

I can't wait for the wireless cam to come in so I can start up the kitty cam. Right now, the cam can either view my room or outside my window while I'm at work. The cord is only so long. Soon.

I think I'm going to work on my webpage some more. I need to work on the new one, but that's put on hold until Jeremy gets his new computer. Off to do some FUN work. :)

One more hour. I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here. I've resorted to changing leader lines on the drawings. Currently, they're just lines with arrows tacked on, so I'm changing them so they're one entity. It's so boring, I know. I already did the fun stuff for today. I drew up a wall section from scratch. It was quite fun...well as fun as my job gets anyhow. I can't wait to go home and find out what's wrong with my live journal. I still can't view it with any of my internet browsers at work. 55 more minutes!

ooo..so sleepy. how many more hours? 3 more hours! goodness. I think I'll go run downstairs and sharpen my pencil. That'll wake me up for sure! My office is slit into two levels. We out grew our downstairs one and had to expand the office to the fifth floor. At the end of May, we're going to move to a brand new office where we'll all be together on the same floor. Good or bad? Who knows. I won't be in the corner desk anymore probably. That means I can't get away with as much "break time". Bummer.

Ouch! I was peeling the orange and practically ripped off my thumbnail! Ofcourse, the acidic juices from the orange didn't help my pain. The panging nerve almost gave me a heartattack and the orange wasn't even sweet! I've got about ten more minutes of lunch break and then it's back to the grind.. grrrr. For some reason, livejournal is messing up on me. I can't seem to get to it from my homepage. I'm wondering if it's just my computer here or if it's a livejournal.com problem. I'll investigate it more when I get off work. I already emailed the help people.

Yeah! Lunch time! Let's see what Jeremy packed for me today!
I gotz a bologna sammich, chips, an orange, a oatmeal cookie, and a sunkist!
I'm ready to dig in now! This morning has gone by fairly quickly. The second half of the day won't be as swift I'm sure. I guess I'll go surf the internet now. MUNCH MUNCH!

I made it to work okay despite this horrid truck that kept breaking for no reason on the highway. It takes me 30 minutes to get to work every day. It's a pain in the arse. I can't wait till we move some place closer. I'm going to go check on my webcam really quick now and then start working. UGH!

Okay. I got my webcam working again. I think I'm going to go do some sit ups and then take a bath. I'm just about ready for bed.

Not sure how this software works. I'm testing it out now. I'm going to try it at work tomorrow. Hopefully it flies! HERE GOES!

Target

Hey. My first entry on this spiffy little
live journal! I've actually been keeping an online journal for about 3 years now. I think this will help me modify my thoughts more frequently. I'm a working girl now. I started
working for an architecture firm this past January. I have about three years of interning
to do before I can take the licensing exam and all. Plus, I have to get my masters. If you're interested in architecture make sure you have a thick wallet and no desire to have it refilled. :)

Anyhoo, I'm sitting here waiting for Jeremy to get back from Target. I'm currently listening to four songs on my playlist. Can you guess which four?

Good Morning -Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
Singing in the Rain -Gene Kelly
Push and Pull -Nikka Costa
The Last Time -Shea Seger

If you don't know me, you'll soon figure out that I have a very eclectic taste for music.
Anyhow, I'm going to go see how to implement this new journal system into my website!