The new schedule is up at work, and I have next Saturday and Sunday off. I can't help but think it would've been fun to see about going to the mini-golf fursuiting event in London, then more than likely have just enough time to get back here and head to work ^^; The ticket I have is for the 26th though, but it's going to be fun going back to the furmeet again as well as getting out of Chatham for another day or so. I can wait for a few more weeks~ I sort of have plans for the 18th too, but they're weird. I technically don't have to be here, but just somewhere that I'm able to access a computer that's connected to the internet. I'll probably just find something to do around the house though, but that still works :3

So yeah. Today has been largely the same as usual again. The only unexpected thing was someone knocking on the door (who I thought was Josh at first) that had an envelope for me that I needed to sign for, but meh. It's nothing worth mentioning (yet).

Work was pretty much normal, in that it wasn't extremely busy, but not really slow, and as per usual with Steve, we closed at ten to, and were out of there at about ten after. I was awfully chatty with Manoah though, which was strange. I seem to have nights like that from time to time though, where I talk so much my throat begins to hurt. Thankfully they're fairly uncommon :s Withdrew that money for Mom and Dad on the way home, and took a vastly shorter route than yesterday night (up to McNaughton, down Woods, right at Lacroix, and home from there), but it was still nice. This whole walking home thing has something else interesting to it too though. In my entire life, I've seen a single rabbit in the "wild". As in, out on it's own, and not somebody's pet. And that was back when I was a kid, and we spent our afternoons doing whatever in Tecumseh park. Anyways though, since I started walking home from work, I've seen *five* Most recent was last night, walking down the street that connects Richmond and Park Ave (I can't think of the name, but I know it was "built" not too long ago), but it's still fun, in an interesting sort of way. And then tonight I saw a cat in the Wellington Center parking lot. Yay ^^

As for tomorrow, outside of going to work, my plans are *possibly* (if she's able to accommodate it) going over to visit the lady Mom works for, and see about removing a virus from her computer. Apparently I'll be getting paid $10 to do so, which raises an interesting point. At first I was going to wait 'till the 20th, because she wouldn't have the money 'till then, but I told Mom it'd make more sense to go over there as soon as possible, because I don't plan on taking money unless I know the problem is fixed. And in this case, my thoughts are more "Running a virus scanner is not something you should have to pay me for", but feh.

The other problem with it is whether it's even a virus or not. I know Dad would call both a virus and spyware the same thing, and that's where the problem comes in. How computer literate is she? Probably not very considering this, but oh well. I burned the DOS version of F-Prot to a CD, and have ClamWin Portable, and the installers for AVG Free and AdAware 2008 on my USB stick. It'd help alot more if I could actually see the computer, but oh well.

Otherwise, I should probably tidy up my dresser a bit (or at least sort out the pile of money on it), then I'm going to play Picross DS 'till I get tired enough to go to sleep~

Took that long(er) way home yesterday night, which ended up being about an hour and a half worth of walking, but meh. It was fun and nice out too, except for one thing. Stopped at Tim Hortons on the way home (the one on Keil), and bought ~$3 worth of stuff, which I paid for with a twenty. The cashier gave me 6-something back, then told me she still owed me another 5, so she gave me that, and I left. As I was crossing over the street to the ATM (to get the money to put in Mom's card) I realized I should've gotten three fives back. What did I do though? Reasoned that if somebody did that to me at work, I wouldn't believe them, and just kept walking. It's only five dollars, I know, but I still badly want to go back there, find that same employee, and ask "Are you *trying* to shortchange your customers?" Feh.

Whenever I'm feeling in the mood to take an even longer route home though, I'm going to go the same way as I did yesterday night, except keep walking down Park Ave. straight through to Queen, and head home from there. Why? There's something strangely pleasing about turning only one direction the entire way home, and if I were to go that way, I'd always be turning left~

Work was alright, mainly because it was like Monday night again (slow after ~11), but Michelle couldn't make it for whatever reason, so Cindy ended up closing. Not bad for her first close on her own (without another manager there to show her what to do), but unfortunately, she's on the list with both Karen and Earl now too for not knowing how to wring the mop out. Maybe I'm just being overly fussy about it, but it's one of those *cough* "If I can be bothered to do it, why can't you?" things. Oh, and Joe is indeed slow, where washing dishes is concerned. On an unrelated note though, according to him, should I choose to walk home this coming Tuesday, he'll be walking with me. I know I will be, for three reasons now (the third being the price of gas lately), and the company will be a nice change, so meh.

Speaking of company, Josh got to bothering me last night about what I went to London for again, and I simply told him "I went to visit some friends". Cue the usual "Oh, I know! He went to visit his girlfriend... Oh, no! He went to visit his boyfriend~" stuff, then he got this serious look on his face, stared straight at me, and said "No, I'm really curious. What did you go for?" Dear Josh: I told you I went to visit some friends. That's really all there was to it. Once you move up to London, I might, circumstances permitting, visit you at work and explain what's different about those friends, and thus also the other reason I went, but if not / until then, why can't you just take my word for it? I was thinking about sending him an email explaining things, but no. Well, not yet, at any rate.

Otherwise, meh. It's 3:30 in the afternoon, so I'll probably head downstairs sometime soon, but before I do, I need to figure out just what I've done to Firefox. I installed this extension last night, because for the past several days, I've had enough space in my tab bar to open one or two new tabs before the scrollbar would appear, and it works (I've got nine open as I write this), but it seems to have broken both LiveClick as well as Smart Tooltip ;_; Perhaps restarting Firefox will fix that though. Oh, and I also installed FunPidgin, which seems to have deleted my "Foxies!" smiley theme :\ I know I can remake that without too much difficulty though, so hopefully I can have those problems fixed before I leave for work tonight.

I believe I'm closing with Michelle, Steve, and Manoah, so it shouldn't be a bad night, but that's what I thought about Tuesday at first too ^^;

I *was* going to pick up some candy or something on the way home from work, but we ended up doing a food swap with Dominos, which saw me eat four or five pieces of pizza (as well as some cheesy bread) which felt like quite enough :s The good part of it though is that the amount on my pay stub was ~$350, but there's a bad side to that too. Consider that it's the first pay of the month, and Mom and Dad will be getting their $205 right away for those various things. Then also, I plan on contributing $50 for taking Mom to Boston Pizza, and I plan on getting her a card and putting $40 inside. So there goes exactly $295 right there, and I'll most likely spend at least $20 more before the 22nd (our next pay). Feh.

On the topic of the card though, instead of leaving for work early and risking either taking too much time at Shoppers or the card getting bent, I just plan on taking yet another different way home on Thursday. What I have in mind is more or less the same as this, except I'll be walking down Keil to Park Ave, then heading towards Sobeys. I could save that 'till Friday or Saturday, but I don't want to leave it 'till the last minute. I still will head to the bank to withdraw the money on one of those nights, but that's completely different.

So as for work, outside of the food swap, it was throughly stressful and annoying. Not as bad as some other nights, but the store was still a mess right up 'till midnight or so, and it was annoyingly busy / steady on top of that. I know I've said it before, but I was able to finish making one order, and another customer would pull into the drive through, or someone would come into the dining room. We got out of there in good time though (thanks in no small part to Michelle letting us close at quarter to without knowing what time it was), but it was still frustrating. Tonight it's Michelle, Joe, and me, which should be alright, but Joe seems to have gotten himself a reputation for being slow and "dopey", so we'll have to see what that's all about. Hopefully it stops raining before 7 too, or else I'll be getting a ride there again :\

Anyways, I believe that's it once again. I'd like to find something to eat before Mom and Naomi get back from wherever they've gone, so I might as well right now~

Naomi and Adam both want to get their passports now, like I said in my previous entry, and one of the things I showed Adam yesterday was this site, because I figured he'd read through it for himself and see the option to apply online. I came home from work to find two printed (as in, presumably go to the post office and ask for an application) forms, and envelopes in which to send them in. But fine. Whatever. I assume it'll all work out the same in the end, but it's still amusing :3

And things are getting back to what they used to be like in terms of sleep now too. Twice in a row now, I've gone to sleep at ~6 in the morning, and woken up at 2 in the afternoon yesterday, and 4 today. Sort of better too because I don't wake up at noon, spend three or four hours in my room, then head downstairs and feel like I've wasted my time by being up there. Unfortunately, sleeping 'till 4 like I did today leaves me feeling like I have hardly any time in between going downstairs and having to leave for work, but I've done everything I planned to so far, so meh.

One of the things I've been doing with my time is playing a bunch more "Illust Logic DS and Colorful Logic", and I finally finished the first part of the "regular" puzzles. Now they're bringing color into them, which makes them so much more confusing. See here for an example of what I'm talking about. One of the main rules in the other puzzles was that there had to be at least one empty space between each group of filled-in boxes. Now I have to wrap my head around the fact that there doesn't have to be a space as long as the colors differ ;_; On the good side of things though, whenever I should be able to complete some of the puzzles I've been stuck on in Picross DS. You don't get hints in the other game, and it doesn't tell you if you've made the wrong "move", which should help quite a bit.

Anyways, it's 6:53, so this might as well be done. We get our pay stubs tonight, and I figure if I made more than $300, I'm going to go to Mac's on Sandys (just for a change), and if it ends up being closed, I'll just go to 7-11. Maybe~

Why did I keep all those boxes in the first place? I finally got around to collapsing / cutting up and discarding all the boxes I've had sitting under my bed for about half a year now, because they were really just taking up space. Well, to be technical, I saved two which I'm using to store those fur throws, but the other ones are now in the garbage. I guess I thought I'd have need for them eventually :x

Anyways though, fun facts about last night's close:

[1] Earl does not care about line being bagged / the fry dump being done / whatever else, as long as it's not too early. We usually start that stuff as soon as possible, but he prefers it to be left 'till 9 or 10.
[2] Like Karen, he (Earl) does not seem to understand wringing the mop out after dunking it in the bucket, nor what it means to do a thorough sweep.
[3] Quarter-to and five-to are the same thing where cleaning the grill is concerned.
[4] Closing five minutes early is fine, as long as there aren't still customers waiting then.

In all, it wasn't a bad night (aside from the walk home), although I did not enjoy having both Earl and Steve tell me to tuck my shirt in and put my name tag on when I hadn't even clocked in. But that's another fun point: one easy way to annoy just about everyone there is to refuse to clock in 'till the exact hour you're supposed to start. Or maybe it's just stubbornness on my part, but I'll freely admit to that. The walk was bad because I started out way too quickly which made my ankles really sore, and by the time they finally "stopped" I was only five minutes from the house. Hopefully tonight goes a bit better.

Oh, and that's another interesting thing. Naomi just came down here and asked me where I got my passport pictures taken. Told her "the place in the mall" (I couldn't think of "Sears" right away, and besides, it won't hurt her to look it up on her own), and that it cost $20. Not quite true there. It was actually closer to $22, but they were able to give me some discount. Then Adam piped in with how he needs his as well. The amusing thing about Naomi wanting to get hers is that she's not even making enough at her job to chip in for the internet, so how is she going to pay the $87? Even more if she takes it to the post office... Oh well. I have the satisfaction in this case of knowing that I've already sent my application off, and thus have a bit of a lead. I highly doubt they want to get theirs to go to a furry con, but then again, it'd be more weird if they did :p

And finally, Mother's Day was brought up at Swiss Chalet last night by Dad, who wanted to know if we had any plans. Adam's already bought Mom one of those waffle makers from Smittys (right in front of her, might I add :s), but I suggested taking her out for supper, and we decided on Boston Pizza. Dad phoned and made the reservations when we got home, so they're for the 11th (obviously), at 6pm. Good thing I have that day off :3 Never been there before though, and Adam says it's expensive, so I plan on chipping in $50, and most likely leaving for work fifteen minutes or so earlier than normal, so I can head to Shoppers and get her a card.

So tonight, I'm closing with Michelle and hopefully someone else, which means that once again, there's a 50% chance of me being on drive through, so I should probably get the dishes here done now. That can wait for a bit longer though~

That other theme was getting really old, and I tried to use the colors from this one in it, but that didn't work out (or moreso, I didn't have the patience to see if there was an option to set the entry background color), but I like this one anyways. The only problem(s) with it right now are that I'd like the "Edit", and "Add to Memories" (at very least) links to appear down there with the "Leave a comment" one. I can edit the text on the customization page, but it doesn't show up in here :\ Also on the topic of the "Leave a comment" link, I need to think of something new to put there. It makes me blush to even think about it, but I was going to have it say "Leave a Pawprint", but then what would the other one be? It wouldn't make sense to say "Read All", but... feh. I'll figure something out ^^;

There was something interesting in the kitchen when I came down here though. Specifically, a clipping from what I assume was a Wal-Mart flyer, with a little note attached. I scanned it, of course, so go here and take a look. Last time I recall anything being said about that was back when we were still in public school. To the best of my memory "Have you heard of a game called Duke Nukem 3D?" I can't speak for Adam or Naomi, but being as silly as I was back then, I said "No", in hopes that they'd just say "That's good, but if you do, we want you to tell us." It is a videogame, plain and simple. Where GTAIV is concerned, I have no interest in buying it right now, because the only game I play on the 360 is Guitar Hero III, and we don't have a PS3. If and when the PC version comes out I might see about... "acquiring" it, just to see what all the hype is / was about.

Getting back to the note though, it's funny. "Your very life may depend on it"? How so? Are you saying that if one of us goes out and buys the game, you'll kill us? I know what he's (Dad) is going for in this case, and believe me, "lifestyle" would be a vastly more appropriate word. But to be honest, I don't enjoy being told what I can and cannot do in the first place. Feh.

Ooh, and even more excitement now. Pop was stolen from Dad's fridge in the basement yesterday night. Naomi is responsible, and my reasons for saying so are as follows: Adam and I both have full-time jobs, and thus can buy those sorts of things with our own money. Secondly, when I went downstairs to grab my shirt for work (I dropped it when I took everything out of the dryer, evidently), the light in the front hallway was on. Naomi is the only one that does that, and frankly, I can't believe she's still afraid of the dark. Most definitively, Dad said he found "her cans", and told her to "Get off of it" after which she said something like "Oh, just stop", and ran upstairs.

*sigh*

Such are the fun things that (still) go on around here...

The pop thing reminds me of something else though: starting this Thursday (since that's when we get paid), I'm going to try to limit myself to $20 per pay for going to 7-11, Tim Hortons, or wherever else to get snacks. The way things are right now isn't so bad for eating alot, because I like to think the walking to / home from work I do is helping, but I still intend to have 10k in my bank account by the end of the year, and we're already into May :\ I know I don't have to say it in here, but a little accountability can't hurt~

And I've just been informed we're going to Swiss Chalet in about 20 minutes, because the hamburger Mom was going to use for the spaghetti sauce for supper has gone bad or something. Meh. Works for me~

Otherwise, I'm not looking forward to work tonight for having to close with Earl, but we'll see what happens, I guess :3

I probably shouldn't complain too much though, seeing as I get to close for a full week starting tomorrow. I am looking forward to the walking to and home, but not the actual working :p But we do get paid this week, so there's that too, although if I remember right, that full week I had off a little while back will be showing up on this one. Feh.

Never got around to tidying up my closet last night, and I doubt I will tonight either, because there's not that much space in there to begin with :\ I do, however, think I'll head to 7-11 and Tim Hortons a bit later on, because I've really been wanting to spoil myself lately, and I might as well do so while I have the day off ^^ That won't be for another couple hours yet though, so meh. Speaking of which, I should probably go put my laundry in the dryer...

Well actually, there is one other thing I could do tonight, but it's going to take a while even if I do start now. There's an external hard drive I bought a while back that, for the longest time, has been sitting next to the computer downstairs without so much as being turned on. So yesterday night, I brought it up here, connected it to my laptop, and transferred all the files to one of the other external drives I have. So now, there's a 300GB one that I'm using entirely for TV shows and movies (I recently "found" MacGyver, and 44.5GB for seasons 1 through 7 is quite a bit of space), and the other (120GB, I think) one is being used for music, random pictures (there's actually a folder on it called "Random Pictures"), wallpapers, and other such things. Then there's a third one I have too, but it's effectively a copy of the 120GB one, for the sake of redundancy, and because it's physically much smaller.

Problem is one of the folders on the second drive has who knows how many duplicate files in it, and it really needs to be organized anyways, so I might at least start on that.

Anyways, laundry~

Yes, it's a horrible title. No, I couldn't think of anything else. The only problem I have with it right now is that the departure time from Chatham is 2:48 in the afternoon, and I really doubt I'm going to want to be up that early :s I'm quite fine with the arrival time (3:45), because like I said a couple times already, I figure it'll take me about an hour to get to the apartment, and I'll more than likely stop by Wendys or some other fast food place on the way there to grab something to eat. It really is nice having something like this to look forward to :3

Unfortunately though, like that time I walked to 7-11 and Tim Hortons a while back, my pants were falling down half of the way to the train station :x I can literally do what the guy in this picture is doing with his pants (just without quite so much empty space), and it's not a good thing ;_; Also in that picture though, I like how his shirt is tucked in. Hmm~

And it just had to rain today. It was supposed to yesterday night, but never did, although I suppose that's alright. It's nice to be inside when it is, but it's really a pain when you want to go somewhere. It wasn't as busy as Steve made it sound like it was going to be either, but I'm sure that'll have changed tonight. Next time I work is Sunday though, but that's going to be fun anyways, because I get to close with Earl and Cindy. Feh. That Cindy being the one that's becoming a manager too, seeing as Cindy L. quit, and I could be sure I saw her while we were getting groceries yesterday. Mind you, if it was her, she's apparently working there now...

Anyways, I have the whole night ahead of me now, so I think the first thing I'm going to do is see about (re)organizing my closet~

Something amusing to start. See here. It's something from work, but there were two copies of it, so chances are they'll just make another copy, or I could take it back in tomorrow night, but that wouldn't be worth the trouble :s I booked the 27th of this month off though, so all I'm waiting for now is a reply from Cola, which I hope to get sometime later today. We will see~

Otherwise though, I really like my schedule for the next week and a bit.

Thursday: 8 - close
Friday: Off
Saturday: Off
Sunday: 8 - close
Monday: 8 - close
Tuesday: 8 - close
Wednesday: 8 - close
Thursday: 8 - close
Friday: 8 - close
Saturday: 8 - close
Sunday: Off
Monday: Off / No
Tuesday: 8 - close

As before, curiosity (and largely unchanging shifts) make kitty sad ;_; Even more so because I'm not sure if we're going back to our old hours now either. I suppose the best I can do for now is to take a look when I go in tomorrow night... Speaking of which, Steve thinks it's going to be busy, for it being the first Thursday of the month meaning some checks come out or something. Feh. It's him, Michelle, and me closing, and having Friday and Saturday off, I plan on walking home no matter what Michelle says. I should try to think of some way to explain why I don't want a ride, but all I can come up with is "I just want to walk." True enough, I guess, but it seems sort of... simple.

It was quite slow tonight, which made for a nice start getting back to work, and surprisingly nobody asked me what I'd been away for three days for, but I've more or less decided that if anyone asks (family or otherwise), I'll just say "I'd tell you, but I doubt you'd understand", and if they press any further than that, say "Would you know what I was talking about if I said I went to a furmeet?" Either way, it's a win / win type thing. I did leave a copy of that scan of the sketch Cooper did for me on the downstairs computer, but only because it's the one the scanner is attached to, and also because I figure it can't hurt one way or another. Perhaps it actually could, but if so, such a circumstance doesn't come to mind right now.

And so tomorrow, we're going grocery shopping at 4, then I have to head off for work at 7. It's going on 4:30 in the morning as I write this though, so I should probably finish it up and try to get to sleep for that very reason :3

At least where "normalcy" is going to bed around 4, waking up at noon or so, then leaving for work at 7. Feh. Yay for boring routines~ Still no email from Michele though, so I'm just going to assume she doesn't have anything for me this week. And like I said in my previous entry, unless things have been changed since I last checked, I have Friday and Saturday off, and I'll definitely have something to do on Friday. Although before I go, I will need to ask Cola what a good time to plan on showing up would be. 5:00 or after seems to be the best bet, but that depends on what schedules the trains are running on...

And otherwise today, not much of note again. Depending on how I'm feeling when I get home, I may or may not go through my closet and try to find some space for a couple things in my room. Specifically, I'd like to find somewhere to put all those fur throws, and I think one of the collapsed boxes I have underneath my bed might work, but even if it does, the problem turns to finding a place to put that box. Same thing goes for all my tails too, because they're still on my top bunk right now, but I lay down up there before going to bed at night, because I find that if I lay down on my bottom bunk, I get tired enough to go to sleep way too quickly :\

Anyways, it's now 6:30, and I do plan on walking to and home from work, so I should probably go get ready to go. I believe I'm closing with Steve tonight, but one way or another, we'll see~

With a distinct advantage over last time: the only thing keeping me from going to the furmeet again is not having a train ticket. I have a general idea of how to get from the train station to the apartment (which, by the way, should be about a 45 minute walk if I'm figuring things correctly), know where the specific apartment is, and also that I'd be able to stay there overnight, and head back to Chatham once again by either the afternoon or evening of the next day. So for now, I plan on booking the 27th of May off tomorrow (my name is already written in for the 26th), then on my next day off (Friday, last I looked), head up to Via Rail to see about getting a ticket. It may be a bit early, but I can't see why that'd affect anything. Right now, I'd like to try for at least one a month, but we'll see what happens~

Then upon getting home this afternoon, the first thing I did was checked if Michele had sent me an email about coming in this week, but instead had received an email from LiveJournal that said someone named "noirhearted" on here had sent me a message. Figured it was more than likely somebody that was at the furmeet, but apparently it isn't. *poke* Hi ^^ I'm not entirely sure who you are, outside of that you live in Chatham too, but a little mystery is always fun :3

As for goings on around here, outside of getting our new washer and dryer, there hasn't been much, apparently. Went out to Wendys to get some food around 8, and on the way back, Mom thanked me for leaving a note on the computer about how long I'd be gone for, but aside from that, and being asked what I did (I still haven't said anything yet, but I may), nothing much has happened. Well, Adam's 360 game collection has increased since I last saw it, and there were what look like a pair of work pants waiting for me in the mailbox when I got home, but yeah. Nothing significant, at least :p

Anyways, that thing I wrote about in my previous entry. What I only had in physical form, and would post once I got home. This <3 As the description says, it's done by Cooper, who I met both at the furmeet, and at some other gathering the night before. Funny story, really. Before I actually knew it was, I thought it was her, and all I could think at the time was "You aren't going to do my sketch now, are you?" One of the reasons I like to leave those things to email is because it gives me a bit of time to figure out the best way to say whatever, but she got up from the chair she was sitting in, walked over to and sat down on the couch next to me, and asked me "So what did you want again?" followed by something about stopping procrastinating, and at least wanting to have the sketch done before I had to leave. As opposed to trying to explain it right there, I opened the email, let her find the reply where I told her what I wanted, and she started drawing. The only things I remember hearing her say after that were something about it being all in pink, and also, I think "Floofy tail". Yes, floofy tail please <3

Then, the night of the actual furmeet (I'm not sure what the thing on Sunday night was for, but it was fun anyways), she brought in the completed sketch, gave it to me requesting that I scan it and email her the file (apparently her scanner is broken), after which I put it in my laptop (so that it'd stay between the screen and keyboard when closed), and right now, it's on my dresser behind me ^^ I really wish I had one of those plastic covers for it, but I might, so we'll have to see after I finish writing this and taking care of a couple other things.

That'll probably happen right now though, because like I said down below, I'm sure there are other things I want(ed) to write about, but nothing comes to mind, and there are some more pressing matters anyway~

Had an interesting start to the day though. Woke up around 11, feeling nowhere near tired enough to get back to sleep, so I got up, stumbled into the bathroom, went about my business, flushed, and watched in amazement as the water in the toilet got higher and higher :x I turned it off before it completely flooded, but yay anyways :p

The couple hours after that were spent trying to fix a problem I created by messing around with the ACLs for my external hard drive, which were eventually solved by enabling the option to show the "Security" tab in the properties window, and setting all admins to have full access to the drive.

As for the furmeet, it was both good and bad. I will admit that I'm slightly disappointed with myself for not putting on either my tail or footpaws, but hopefully this "Coming to the furmeet" thing doesn't end up being a one-time arrangement. Assuming it's not, I *want*, right now, to, before we leave London tomorrow, ask Cola if we can head over to the train station just so I can figure out how far away it is, and what sort of stuff there'll be for me to look out for to make sure I'm headed the right way. I did head out to Tim Hortons earlier, and on the way back went to "Hasty Mart", but there still appears to be a good distance between there and Via Rail :s I can't see minding the walk though, so the distance shouldn't be a problem. There's also the issue of "Would I be able to stay overnight?", but I can always ask about that too.

Anyways though, I bought a pack of 40 Timbits, which I planned on sharing with everyone at the furmeet, but between food already being ready / made (potatoes, chips and dip, and pizza), *and* one of the other furs asking somebody who work(s/ed) at Tim Hortons if the Timbits came premade in a bag or something, I never got around to it ;_; Oh well. I can always take them home and work on eating them there.

On the good side of things though, I didn't sit in the same spot all night this time, and actually talked. Well, more answered questions I guess. Specifically "What's your name?", to which I said "Karadur", when I gave my real name before, and also "Where are you from?" and "What are you?" The last question had me sort of confused until the word "species" was added, then it was just a simple matter of saying "Oh! Snow Leopard!". Speaking of which, the next entry I make from home *should* contain something I've wanted for a while. I'd post it right now, but I only have it in physical form, and it's not complete by any means, but at any rate you'll just have to wait and see ^^

Oh, and I also played a bit of Okami today, which has been... interesting, thus far. For one, I cannot draw a straight line with the Wiimote to save my life, so it's a good thing they added the "Hold Z" option, and also, the analog stick is screwed up. Pushing / holding right makes you move at a walking pace, even when you should be running :\ So perhaps I'll have to head up to EB Games while we're getting groceries on Thursday and see about buying another one.

With that though, I'm sure there's more stuff I wanted to write about that I've forgotten, but it's three in the morning again, and I'm not sure what time we're leaving tomorrow, so I should probably at least get ready to go to sleep :3

One thing I would like to see about doing tomorrow is to find a convenience store and / or Tim Hortons in close proximity (half an hour or less, preferably) to pick up some snacks. Really the same as I do sometimes at home, but meh. A quick search in Google Maps has shown that there is both a Tim Hortons and a convenience store a short distance away, so as long as I can get back in, I might head there around 5 or so...

The ride here was uneventful, mostly because my main thoughts were "There has to be something we can talk about", but actually turned out to be "Hey, it's Dragostea Din Tei. I haven't heard this song in a long time, but I can still remember some of the words, so I'm going to sing!~" That and some other song having to do with "end of the world", but yeah.

I really can't think of anything else right now otherwise :s There was a bit of an awkward moment earlier where Madius looked down at the bag with my tail in it and asked "Why do you have fur?" Let's put it this way: if I was more used to that sort of question, I would've just said "It's tail. I plan on wearing it at the furmeet tomorrow", but in this case, I just said "It's for the furmeet" ;_; And then there's also one thing I should be bringing home that I may have to remember this by (you might know what I'm talking about, Cola), but I'll leave that 'till I'm at home again~ Also, I wish there was some way to make the "Location" text in this entry blue, but I can't, and / or don't have the presence of mind to right now (I'm starting to get tired -_-).

On that note though, it's 3:37 in the morning, and I'm not sure what time I'll be getting up tomorrow, so I might as well call it a night right now :3

My laptop is all that remains to still be packed up. Oh, and there's a bag of stuff still up in my room (pillow, blanket, footpaws, tail), but I'm leaving that there 'till Cola gets here, lest somebody else sees it, and starts asking questions :s Adam's gone too though, so I typed a note up in Notepad, and now I'm just waiting :3

And of course... ( Obligatory Yesterday's Shift Stuff )

Also, this song. You can sometimes hear it in / at the main menu of Guitar Hero III, but why isn't it actually playable? Both it, and "Stricken", by "Disturbed" sound like they'd be fun to play, but unless I'm missing something completely obvious, I've downloaded all the song packs from XBOX Live, and bought all the songs from the shop in the game and they still aren't there ;_;

And otherwise this week, I close on Wednesday and Thursday, then have Friday and Saturday off again, so I may have to take that long route home a second time~ Not quite sure what's going on with Heart and Stroke though, but Michele said she'd email me if there was stuff to be done, so I guess I'm waiting on her for now :p

Ooh. Just got an IM from Cola to say that he'll be heading out the door in about ten minutes. I's excited ^^; It's going to be a bit though, so in the meantime, there's one place I have to go (it wouldn't hurt to get out for a quick walk anyways), then it'll probably be Guitar Hero III 'till he gets here. Perhaps next time I write an entry in here, I'll actually have to use the "Location" field~

I took yet another different route home yesterday night, as so: link. Like the description says, given the right weather, it is a nice walk. And by "right weather" I mean cool enough out that you start to get cold after a while, but stay warm as long as you keep walking. Went to both Tim Hortons and 7-11 along the way, and by the time I got to the latter, I was actually sweating :s Although the good thing about going to those two places as well is that I only spent ~$8 between them, five of which came out of my account. It definitely won't become a regular thing, given the length, namely, but there are really no immediate time limits when walking home from work, so I might as well take my time :3

As for work, it was busy, as you might expect. Starting to get really frustrating, too, but one thing I may or may not start doing is every couple hours or so, ask somebody to take over whatever I'm doing, and go outside or into the dining room and sit for five or ten minutes. Both Josh and Ange are working over supper today, so hopefully I end up being on something other than line, but we'll see, I guess.

And then tonight, I plan on trying to be home by 1 again, because there's obviously some stuff I need to do here. Namely, wash the clothes I'll be taking and figure out exactly what I'll need to pack for tomorrow. It's really sort of strange. The weeks leading up to here, it's been lingering in the back of my mind, but were always quickly followed by the thought of "But that's still a while away yet". I am excited, but also slightly nervous, because although I'm looking forward to the furmeet, I'm not sure what I'll do otherwise, and fear I might look or feel awkward as a result ;_;

On that topic though, Adam doesn't have to work on Monday, and thus will be up late Sunday night, so instead of just leaving a note in the kitchen or front hallway explaining where I'm going (I could, but I don't want to risk them seeing it before I leave), I think I'll either send him an email, or use Mom's Hotmail account to let him know what's going on via MSN.

Anyways, it's almost 2, so I might as well get my stuff ready for work and head downstairs~

A little less than halfway home this morning, I started going over the close, trying to think of stuff I might have forgotten. Couldn't remember anything directly close-related, but I did recall that I left my hat on the microwave :s But I ended up waking up for a bit at 9 anyways, first having to give Cola a link to the directions to get here once more (if you happen to need it again, either let me know, or it's somewhere in the email :p), so I phoned them and asked Ange to put it in the office.

As for the close itself, it was interesting, because there were five of us (Michelle, Steve, Cam, Joe, and me), and we were still really disorganized. We got out of there around 1:30 though, which is alright. And once again, Earl is starting up with stuff he doesn't want done on closes (right now, it's not doing the grill 'till 5 minutes to), which is amusing for two other reasons. One, I'd be much, *much* more willing to listen to and abide by his "rules" if he closed more than once a month, and two, we closed at 12:50 last night. I shouldn't have to explain more than that *sigh*

I'm not entirely looking forward to my shift today either, considering it's 8 hours, and the last supper shift I worked dragged by so slowly. They are genuinely easier than closes (busier, yes, but you don't have to worry about getting stuff cleaned up, etc.), but not without their own disadvantages. Tomorrow is going to be different, for obvious reasons, but we're not quite there yet ;_;

Oh, and now I'm being tasked with finding a train engineer hat on eBay for Mom. Well, really for the kid she works with, who apparently likes trains. Feh. I now have $12.39 left in my Paypal. Yay~ There are only two things I'm thinking of getting that I'd need money in there for anyways, and they're definitely waiting for at least a month.

Anyways, it's 2, and I leave at 3, so I'm going to post this then play a couple songs on Guitar Hero III :3

Searching Google for "ds picross" without wanting to see "Picross DS" anywhere in the results is fun :s I found one though: "Illust Logic DS and Colorful Logic". As best as I can tell, it's Japanese only, but I downloaded the ROM anyways and it works fine, despite not being able to read anything. Thankfully everything important is self-explanatory, as long as you've played Picross DS or something like it before :p

But yeah. For the fourth or fifth day in a row now, I'm up at 1, but I do feel rested, so meh. Was sort of strange earlier though, because I woke up at 12 too, and like what happened before, could not remember where I was, and what the date and time were, followed by trying to remember if I had to work, and I do / did, which sucked, because if I hadn't I would've tried to sleep in a bit longer. I may or may not be able to on Sunday, but I'm not concerned about that, because there'll be enough excitement that day to keep me awake ^^

Mom and Dad both know I'm going to London then though, but I still don't think they have any idea that I'll be there 'till Tuesday, but meh. If Adam's at work when I leave, I'll leave a note in Notepad on the other computer telling him how long I'll be gone, and to let everyone else know as well. If he's here, I'll write a note on a piece of paper and leave it in the kitchen or front hallway (wherever nobody's at when I leave). I had planned on doing the MSN thing up 'till now, but I can see that being more trouble than it's worth in the end :\

I have to leave now though, so this is done once again~

To start, something directed specifically to Cola, because he was offline at the time I wrote this, so I couldn't ask him then: what time do you plan on being here on Sunday? 3 in the afternoon got brought up the other time I asked you, and that's fine with me, but I'd like to make sure we're both agreed on the time :3 It's just that with those supper shifts I have coming up on Friday and Saturday, I probably won't talk to you then, so I might as well ask you now. I might still poke you on MSN tomorrow afternoon to make sure you saw this though ^^;

Anyways, that different way home was a 50 minute walk. Might differ in the future, but this time, I took McNaughton all the way out to Delaware instead of Victoria. Actually though, it was 45 minutes, if you consider the time I spent in 7-11 trying to decide what I wanted. Quite a nice walk though, because work was busy, and rather annoying, thanks to Earl. For one, he decided I'd be staying 'till midnight, despite never getting a definite answer from me, and also, he put a till on in my name a full hour before my shift started. Thankfully, it ended up being over, because otherwise, I would've left a curt little note for him. And I worked with another new guy tonight whose name is Cam. He actually brought in his application / resumé yesterday night, asked to talk to Michelle (well, "the manager", to be technical), and next thing I know he's coming in to work tonight :p For the little bit tonight though, he seems pretty good, and I do close with him again tomorrow night, so yeah~

And now I'm just writing this, then I'm going to tidy up my room (again) plus a few other things, then tomorrow, I have to be at Heart and Stroke for 2, 'till when I don't know, but hopefully just until the stuff I have to do is done, then we're going out for supper (probably to Smittys), then work at 8. I'm just repeating my previous entry now though, so I might as well get going on the other stuff~

Yeah, I did. I never thought such a thing could cause such a fuss either. The guy had to call the passport office, ask them if it was alright, come back up front and ask if I had anything else with my signature on it (I gave him my health card, followed by having to explain that my signature was on the *front*), followed by him giving me a small lecture about the difference between writing and printing, having to fill out a couple more things (writing the words "Single", and "No" in two different places on the application), after which he didn't have anything else to fuss about, and filled out his stuff. I overheard him on the phone too, saying something like "I've seen old people do it, but never something like this". All I could think was "Excuse me? I've printed my signature for as long as I can remember, so I don't see what the big deal is. I have my Health Card right in front of me, as well as the two pictures I scanned of it yesterday night and signed. What proof more do you want that this is how I've signed for ages?" :\

And that all happened *after* going to Taco Bell and getting Josh to fill out the guarantor part of it, where he wrote some wrong numbers and had to white them out as a result. Had I known that was considered altering the application, I would've asked him to initial it right then and there, but no ;_; I have to go all the way over to the post office, have them tell me "He needs to initial this, because he changed it", but first I had to go home to get my Health Card, then back to Taco Bell again, then to the post office once more, and I ended up walking halfway home from there because Mom left to take Dad to work without telling me where she was going :s

But the main point is my passport application has been sent off (and I'm out $108 as a result too ;_;), so now I'm just waiting. Got what I needed at Shoppers and the bank as well, but that's less-urgent, so for now, my main concerns are going to work, then to 7-11 when I get done there. Oh, and we're going out for supper tomorrow too, which is going to be nice ^^

And yeah, they did want me to close, but I told Earl "Yes, I can close, but I don't want to", and Josh "I am going to start at 5. If *I* think they need me after ten, I'll stay, but I'm not making any promises." For what it's worth, Michelle called in sick, which is funny, because she seemed absolutely fine yesterday night.

Anyways though, I need to get my stuff ready for work, and head out in about ten minutes, so this is done. Maybe tomorrow things will be back to normal :3

^ what I wish I told Mom and Dad.

Just went downstairs to put my clothes in the dryer, and on the way down, Dad said something about how Josh had a message for me, so before I went back upstairs, I asked him what it was, and he said "Actually, ask your Mom. She probably remembers it better than I do." So I came up here and asked Mom. She told me to a) ask Dad, and b) call Josh to see what he wanted. I asked her one "Just... what did he want?", and she said something about how he wanted me to start at 5 or 10 or something and close.

No.

He wants me to, instead of starting at 5, close again tonight. Or at least that'd be my best guess. Is there something so severely wrong with just wanting / being able to work the shifts your scheduled for? Heaven forbid they end up calling me Friday or Saturday night to ask the same thing :\ And besides, yesterday night's close went on long enough, and for the third night in a row, I started on drive through, but by the end of the night was taking line down. I think Michelle knew I wasn't very happy (Karen was steaming, and thus should've at least taken cold line down at the appropriate time, but she just... umm... stood there, or, as I was told on the way home, kept bothering Michelle about going home early), but we made it out of there by quarter to, so... *shrug* I just really (really) don't like trying my hardest to get the dishes caught up during the rest of the night, just to have to, once they're done, start on somebody else's job. I'm all for helping, but that's on the strict condition that I'm not the only one doing the work.

And then I got to bed around 6, but I woke up at noon, and it's 12:30 right now. I'd like to get going on that other stuff at 2 this afternoon, so until then, hopefully I can get back to sleep for another hour (and half, maybe) :s