Potions Class

Lazyness strikes again!

It's almost time for me to go to bed, but I realized it's been a while since I've updated my journal, and I sort of miss it..

I don't have photos to post today, even though I made a lot of cakes and weird food, but the pictures are all in cameras that aren't mine, so I can't show them at the moment. Well, you'll live.

Nothing very interesting happened; still working, still sleepy, but I did finish Resident Evil 4 and I started the Separate Ways spin off, although I'm going to finish that only after I've finished The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, which is, so far, quite maddening. I knew I was clumsy with gamepads, but not THAT much! But I'm having loads of fun, I love Zelda games!

I also FINALLY finished Phantom Hourglass. I only had the last monster to beat, but I'd set it aside for a couple of months and the urge to see the end came only last week. I can't wait for Spirit Tracks to be out, hopefully by then I'll have caught up with both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess!

Oh, I'm looking for a room near my workplace, so I'll probably move before summer. I'm still looking and I'm not really that sure I'll find something that suits my tastes, but I really want to move, have a room just for myself and live in quiet and relax. My family drives me mad more often than not.

Tv shows keep rocking, and help me cope with work and family-related stress. Seasons seem to be coming to an end, and I'm very afraid of withdrawal. Can't wait to see how Supernatural comes out, though. And Bones. And I'm still hoping Kyle will one day get a decent ending (DAMN YOU ABC!!!).

Meanwhile, I'm being smothered by the tons of fics I still have to read. I don't even want to know how many tabs I've reached, just thinking about it makes me want to cry. Still. I love my fandom.

Oh, btw, does anyone have an invite for Dreamwidth to spare? I'd like to create an account there, since I've seen most of the people in my flist already did. Or is there a way to open a free one without having an invite? A drabble/ficlet will be written for those who help! All done!

I'm so lazy when it comes to writing... I meant to post about a couple of things, but then I got distracted by life and forgot...
I'll try to sum everything up in this post.

First of all, I'm so glad the spring has come. I can't wait for the nice warm weather to come, especially if it means I won't get headaches anymore. I hate cold. And I hate air conditioners in winter.

I finally managed to go to one of the biggest electronics stores around here and bought a new car stereo (the display it's actually a violet/blue when it's dark), a Wii singing game and a skin for my DS.

Speaking of DS, I sadly found my M3 flash card doesn't work. Well, it does work, but it freezes very often, so I'm going to have to buy a new one. Crap -.-

Oh, I forgot, I also bought a external hard-drive, and now I have 1TB of free space that I'm already planning to fill with anime and TV series *_*

I've already started downloading Battlestar Galactica, and, after 19 years from the first airing I'm watching... Twin Peaks! Who killed Laura Palmer?! (no, don't you even think about spoilering the end to me, I'm armed and merciless!)

Since we're talking about TV series, let me tell you about this series I fell madly in love with.

My sister convinced me to watch it and I was entranced from the first episode. It's plotty, it's cute, it deals with everyday problems in non-sappy ways, the characters are all interesting, and the actors are great.

Guess which one I'm talking about?

Yes, it's Kyle XY.

Yes, THE ONE THAT GOT CANCELLED AND ABRUPTLY INTERRUPTED WITH ONE OF THE. WORST. CLIFFHANGERS. EVER.

I don't think I've ever been that angry for any of the fandoms I'm in. The 7th book debacle? It's NOTHING compared. As sucky as some people said it was (not me, still love it) at least it had an ending. This crap they came up with for Kyle was one of the worst ways ever to deal with fans of TV shows.

So they stopped Kyle, and "Castle" starts, a couple of weeks ago... I mean, they don't have enough audience, they don't have enough money, but do they really hope to entice the same number of people with Castle as you did with Kyle?! Ah, ABC, surely you jest. No matter how good Castle is (it is nice, after all), it will NEVER be Kyle.

And now let's talk about something else because I heard that getting angry before bed it's not healthy.

I made new thingies! Remember the book my friends gave me from my birthday?
I finally managed to sew something using those patterns! ( Going to put this under a cut, cause you know there's going to be picspam! )

Well, I think that's all. There were other less important things too, I think, like the wooden construction kit I bough with 30 pieces of furniture, my newfound appreciation for pancakes with chocolate ice cream and the silly little things that happen at work, but it's late, I'm sleepy and cold and I have to get up early, so... night, everyone!

( Made a cake. )

Remember when in the last post I mentoned my job contract ending?

Well, it got renewed. For THREE YEARS!!!

Three years of assured paychecks every month!

So so SO happy!

*goes to bed still bouncing*

Yeah, I know, laziness struck again.
Nothing much has changed from the last post: work is still stressfull, hard and entertaining, (and I hope not about to finish... My contract ends next Friday, I hope it gets renewed), my family is always made of crazy, my Firefox tabs are ready to rule the world and I'm still my boring old self.

The only semi-interesting things I did in the past weeks were going out to dinner with my friends, catch up with fanfics and TV series (
can NEVER get enough of those) and finally spend some time on another craft I fell in love with. Since I don't know the name of said craft in English, I'm just gonna post pictures, but not in the open. ( Here, under the cut. )

Came out cute, didn't it? About time, too, I've had the materials from the past summer but I always procrastinated... Now that I've tried it I want to make more. So expect some more pictures like this in the future!

And more posts, I hope, if I find something interesting to say, of course! It's such a pity that IJ is blocked at work....

From pinkyzak's LJ:

YOU
1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Where you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal?:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad?:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. What do you love at the moment?:
10. Favourite place to spend time:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:

RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, or album:

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.

( A couple more things )

This must be the week of presents XD

Yesterday I received the one from my online friends, today my colleagues at work gave me a birthday present too!

I wasn't expecting it, since we started the tradition of buyng birthday presents at the start of December, but it seems they thought it wasn't fair to those who had their birthday prior to that, so they bought presents to everyone who had their birthday since we started working together XD

And I received mine today: it's an MP3 player which also has a camera, can record and play videos and has a lot of other cool options!

It's now recharging for the first time, I can't wait 'til tomorrow morning to try it!

But now I'm really falling asleep on the keyboard, so...

Dragon hatchling:

I was too tired and lazy yesterday night to make this post, but this morning I woke up feeling pretty well, so I'm going to use these last minutes before going to work to show you my birthday present from my online friends *_*
I'm now the proud owner of this and this!!!
I can't decide which one I'm loving more!
I've started reading the Phoenix Wright anthology and the stories remind me of the game so much, they're funny and crazy and Edgeworth and Phoenix are in love with each other even in gen books XD
The felt book... *cries* I don't know what I want to try first because everything in it looks so beautifuuuuuuuuuuuul! You should see the little pastrie! And the roll cakes! And the biscuits and the frit and the... ok, you get it.
Thank you, birmansan, black_hayate, kira_y, lillazza, prongie and yoketto!

Another weekend gone, and I feel like it didn't even start... Why do people keep bothering me and interrupting my 'lazying around' time I don't know.

Felt hasn't arrived yet, and I'm losing my hopes... I guess I'll have to inform the seller and make another order... so still more time to wait until I get it -.- Luckily Tv series have started again, so I can occupy my free time in other ways. By the way, I started to watch another one: it's called 'Demons', it's English, the protagonist looks a bit like Arthur form 'Merlin' and there's Gaius' actor in a Snape costume, so I'm gonna keep watching it XD I have to try a new one called Apparitions, too, I wonder how that will go.


Still haven't tried making crumpets, 'cause I've found too many recipes and every one of them says they're made differently and I still haven't decided which one I want to try. But I will. Someday. But I did make an omelette with ham and gorgonzola cheese and it was heavenly *ç* I miss cooking so much now that I only have time to do it on weekends ç_ç


One last thing for today. Since the reveals are up, here's my contribution to SnuSa 2008: I wrote How to save a life for nimrod_9. I'm so glad she liked it, because I felt it was too rushed (not much time to work on my assignment this year), and a couple of comments from people I know and worship in fandom made my day when I received them. I'm starting to get addicted to writing too, which is just what I need, one more thing to get obsessed about.

Well, I'd betetr start watching Apparitions, now, or I'll run out of time!


Dragon Eggs:

So good to watch my favourite TV Series again!
The last episode of Criminal Minds was wonderful, but I wasn't expecting anythjing less. And it was the first episode in which I didn't want to kill Rossi. The comment about where they found Reid was actually funny XD
But I can't wait until Bones and House and Supernatural start again... damn Christmas break!

Daily eggs:

♥

Go!


Clickies for today:

Headache comes and goes. The worst is when I get it during work hours. I really did bang my head on the wall a few times XD

I've discovered another thing I don't like about my new location: the fan of the air conditioner is just above my head. That's probably the main reason of my recent pains, since it usually it's set on warm, but when the warm gets too much they set it to loweer temperatures and I can feel the breeze grazing my neck.

That's when my beautiful Slytherin scarf comes so handy! I've kept it wrapped around my neck all day and it seems to be working.

No other news to report, I think.

I've almost finished reading all the Snupin Santa stories, I'm at the last one, and I left it for last because I knew it would be good and.. it is!!! I'll probably rec it later.

These are the new dragons who need help growing:

Still no felt!!! ;_;

First free weekend in a month and I'm sick.

I've got nausea, the bones of my skull this morning were driving me crazy to the point that even the effort of standing up straight made me weak, and I still have a bit of a cough, but of course, NO FEVER, which means that I'm going to work tomorrow too, taking some medicines with me. Thank God I'm not the one driving.

I just want to know why I get only the kinds of illnesses that still are not enough for me to stay home from work. It isn't fair, no sir >_<

Well, if the headache comes back as strong as this morning I *will* have to stay home, since there's no way I can answer to the phone while trying to bash my head on the nearest wall (I have been tempted once or twice today).

I'm just sad that I couldn't do a couple of the things I so wanted to, like catch up on some movies and tv shows, or close some firefox tabs after reading the fics. AND try making crumpets.

I did spend the morning sprawled on a chair listening to quiet music, though, so I am relaxed enough, headache aside.

Speaking of which, I feel it slowly coming back, which means I'll have to go to bed soon.

But first I wanted to post my dragons, who need some more clicking: .

Also, I know I don't say it often enough, but I love you all! Remus, HARDEN!!!

Today we reached a new low.

The calls were quite a few, not as bad as yesterday perhaps, but still, the IQ of the people calling didn't get any better.

And this time I'm afraid I must have laughed a tiny bit at the dumbness of a client XD

He couldn't find where to go to register in this site. As you can see it's quite easy to spot, at the upper right corner of the page there's the 'register' option.

Well, he couldn't find it. First he couldn't find the homepage, and that was because he was writing the url of the site in the yahoo homepage search box. I had to tell him where the address bar was. He finally managed to enter the page, but still couldn't find the 'registrati' option.

"You see there, at the right end of the blue bar at the top? On the right? In the upper right corner?"

"No, I see the bar but not the registration option."

Then something came to mind. "Have you... *cough* have you tried (no, surely it couldn't be...) moving to that side of the page using the right arrow?"

"The- Oh, yes! There it is! I'm so stupid!" YES YOU ARE.

I admit my voice turned all funny, because I wanted to laugh SO BADLY but it's bad form and I couldn't. I managed to hold it down as much as I could but it must have showed in my voice because he laughed a bit too, then I closed the call very fast and clicked the 'pause' button on the phone and laughed for two minutes.

Sometimes people are just that priceless.

My new neighbours seem to be nice, if a bit boring. Still can't stand the girl next to me, she also unintentionally had me postpone my break because she told another colleague there was a free spot and the other colleague took it, while I had been waiting for the spot to get free for ten minutes.

I know she didn't do it on purpose, but still >.<

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I decided what's the next thing I'll try cooking: crumpets! I saw some on antou_san's LJ and I wanna try too. Got any good recipe to share?

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Daily dragons to click:

... per gli italiani, che lo capiscono solo loro, suppongo XD

Oggi ha chiamato una signora, che ha esordito così: "Buongiorno, vorrei CONVERTIRE il cellulare per gli MMS che alla Vodafone non hanno il modello."

Una cosa si è certi di imparare, in questo lavoro: a non ridere subito in faccia alle persone, ma farlo appena dopo aver spostato il microfono.

Ok, I discovered today the thing I really hate about this job.

It's been another one of those endless days with a scary number of calls, I was already tired, sleepy and my back was killing me, and half an hour before the end of the day we received a message from the team manager saying that they changed the place of our workstations AGAIN.

That. That is what I hate.

They say it must be done to help the workers 'fraternize'... well, we are 36 in total, we know each other form August, some even before that, we have lunch together everyday, there have been dinners and we have barely enough time to catch our breath between calls anyway, so WHAT'S THE USE of making us move every three weeks or so?!

Every time it's a hassle: you barely get to know the person next to you than a new one is thrown in his/her place. You also have to take all your things, notes, printed schemes wth procedures and such, all carefully taped to the available desk space, and reorganize them at another desk. Then you have to unplug and take with you your own headset and get used to the new monitor and the new pc. AND the people around you.

It's so unsettling, coupled with all the stress, and I've been one of those who have been moved more frequently. It's kind of become a joke, but today it was making me depressed.

I'm an creature of habit, and I don't react too well to change. And the worst thing is that they put me next to this girl that I don't like AT ALL -.- And no amount of fraternizing is going to convince me otherwise, I'm afraid.

I'm going to have words with the team manager, I am -.- (He'll probably just laugh at me, the bastard XD)

That's why every time it happens I buy candies to share with my new neighbours. I hope the sugar high will be enough to help me cope, this time u.u

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The SnuSa Masterlist has finally been released! I'm very happy to finally know who wrote my gift, which was, as I previously said, great! If you haven't read it yet, go here and get ready to drool! And don't forget to leave apythia a comment to tell her how good it is!

Also, I liked the comments that were made about my fic when no-one knew yet who the author was XD Some of them were greatly appreciated ^^

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My eggs have finally opened! That doesn't meen they don't need more clicks, so...

If work keeps going at the same rythm of today and Monday I think I'm going to evaporate.

It's been a call after another, after another, another, after another. Sometimes there was something like a three seconds pause, just the time for me to open the water bottle for a sip and stop an inch before it reached my lips -.-

And morons today too! This guy showered me with (stupid) questions about wi-fi connections (ignoring the fact that I'm only there to give technical support for HIS PHONE'S problems), but I answered him anyway, trying to be concise but easily understandable. And after I'd answered one by one his questions, at every @[£/§ one, he told me 'could you please repeat it all, I want to write it down', so I had to repeat every single thing, not just one but sometimes even twice, and the call turned endless...

It's such a pity that they taught us to be nice and kind to all customers, and try to fulfill their requests as much as possible.

Luckily I had my brand new thermos to keep me company! My colleaguess liked it too (mostly because they drank half of my my hot tea XD)


I heard LJ is being stupid again... I'll have to refresh my lj-archiving skills this year too. Not bad, really, as year beginnings go. I wonder if the whole structure will still be up by December... Oh well, there's always other blog sites.


Today too, be nice and click these! Please click! I didn't manage to catch a Christmassy egg or hatchling, but I want these ones to grow strong and beautiful!

My mother's brother, cousin and relative spouses are here for lunch.

Way to spend the last holiday of the season -.-

They haven't even been here five minutes and I've already had to submit my pc to their will. Not to mention the fact that the speaking volume level has increased tenfold.


Oh, well, at least my sister made tasty appetizers for lunch...


Please click!

Today I sort of wanted to kill people.

Tell me, what kind of moron keeps you at the phone 15 minutes to ask questions like 'how much does this phone weight and by the way, what's a smartphone"?!

GOD.

I would be ashamed to sound that dumb even to a person I don't actually have in front of me and that's paid to answer my questions.


Felt still hasn't arrived >_< But your cards have Karasu, thank you so much <3 !!!

Nice videos you should watch if you've seen all the series and you like the main characters as much as I do:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJgI-lRC0E&feature=related
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=XGsYNNQWP7o&feature=related
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=2edllM1sysw&feature=related
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=gSO7x9cW3z0&feature=related

The actor who plays Arthur is such a moron... And so damn hot! Same for the actor who plays merlin, and don't let me get started on Lancelot... I love this show, I want to see moreeeeeeeee! When is it airing again?!