Yeah, so I just got dumped on all of a sudden with a bunch of homework from my classes. They're all pushing for the one last assignment before Thanksgiving break, and they're all due on like the same day. It's crazy, and then at the same time Best Buy goes and schedules me for 30 hours. Yeah, thats totally not happening. So I tell them that I'm not going to do that, and they haggle me down to about 18, then I show up on Monday, the first day I worked this week and there's like 6 other people there for the day. They totally didn't need me, so I got it okayed by the manager and left. Big waste of time. The details of that work environment are nearly intolerable if it weren't for the rediculously good pay. So after having been down for 30.5 hours, I'm now down to 11. Crazy. It works well though, this way I had plenty of time to finish all the homework I'll have for this week. I still have some larger assignments to deal with, but they're not due until like the 17th or so. So I have like a week to do them all. I totally found and bought the first volume of the Kingdom Hearts manga for Dave and Mandy when I saw it at Barnes and Noble yesterday. I think they really liked that. Mandy's been feeling a bit under the weather lately, either with sinuses, or muscles being sore from one thing or another, but I'm trying to take care of her best I can. I've nearly finished my Christmas shopping already. All I have to do is find something for Dave and Gavin, and something for my Dad. Oh, and my cousin Marcus if I find something that just comes to me. But I've already gotten my mom, sister, and Mandy down, so the tuff stuff is done. Now it's just a trip to Wal-Mart for Brian, already know what to get him, and some brainstorming for the rest. I don't really know what to get Dave or Gavin. If anyone who happens to read this anymore happens to have any ideas, send 'em my way, I'd like some input. Wait. Who'd be reading this anyways, I hardly ever update it... Oops... Oh well.

Tuesday
11-13-05
Feeling: tired
Listening to: Blink 182ing myself

So everything in my apartment is attacking me recently. Turning all my whites pink in the washer, burning my nether regions when putting on blue jeans out of the dryer... So I decided to make a decoy John. I took a picture of Brad Pitt I found through a google image search (after filtering out all the gay porno I saw by searching Brad Pitt) and pasted my face on it from when I was making a goofy face while wearing my aviator sunglasses. It looks pretty funny. Gavin likes it a bit too much. Only other real piece of business that's occured is I concured Best Buy in halo deuce. I basically beat everyone there, and then they decided this one guy was the best one there besides me, and I played him with a moderate handycap on and still kicked his ass. So I'm pretty much the undisputed champ there. I think that's raise worthy. Oh well. To each their own.

Wednesday
11-23-05
Feeling: bored
Listening to: Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix

Well I've been officially poked in my guestbook. First post in my guestbook in a long long while... *le sigh* So I guess I need to update my journal. Well it just so happens that I finally have something to put in my journal besides "went to class today, went to work, hung out with Mandy." I went up to Michigan with Dave and got to spend some time with his family and friends up there. It was a lot of fun. I got to go to his grandfather's arcade and play around for a few hours, see the mall where Dave works, teach his little brother Halo deuce, see his sword collection, and drive on some crazy Michigan roads. All in all it was a fun relaxing week. We didn't really do anything uber special, but I got to see where Dave comes from, and that was fun. His parents are so nice too. They're very accomodating and went out of their way for me. *stuck on a couch everywhere I go... =p* I miss Mandy though. I keep thinking about her. I know it's only a week... But it's a long week. I miss my girl. I'm getting kind of nervous, only half of her Christmas present has come in. I'm really hope it all comes in before Christmas, or else it'll kinda really suck. :( Well I also need to get Gavin, my cousin Marcus, and my dad their Christmas presents too still. I really really don't know what to get Gavin. I was thinking about spending a day at Barnes & Noble and just look around for however long it takes until I find a book that I just know he'll love. I'm sure he'd like that. As for my dad that's already figured out, it's just a matter of making the action of getting it with my mom and sister, and my cousin Marcus told me what he wanted I think, but I forgot. So I'll ask him again. We stopped surprising each other about 4 or 5 years ago and just got each other exactly what the other said they wanted. Always within a reasonable price, but pretty blunt. No biggie, makes it easy on both of us, and we get exactly what we want. Christmas shopping is hard enough for both of us, we might as well take it easy on each other, right? :) Worst part now is wrapping all this stuff. Man, I'm so hopelessly horrible at wrapping gifts. I always have either my sister, or whoever do it for me. I can't seem to make them look HALF as nice as anyone else can. Booo wrapping paper. Well I'm off for now. Tomorrow I get to play with my dogs, and eat awesome food, and relax with my family and play some online Mario Karts.... shibby.

Sunday
11-27-05
Feeling: satisfied
Listening to: Power Rangers Theme

Everyone came back from home today. Back to school tomorrow. :( I'm going to be sooooo busy for the next three weeks. Well Troy and Mandy came over and we all played some Halo today. I had a good time like always. After Troy left I watched Stealth with Mandy and, having seen it twice before already, mostly just enjoyed Mandy's company while letting her watch the movie since it is so kick ass. She's so comfy. Well anyways, yeah, last friday I went shooting with the Rosenwinkel clan as we do every year on the day after Thanksgiving. We wake up early, pack up the shotguns, and... no we don't go to the mall, people trample each other anyways, we just go to a friend of our family's field and shoot clay pigeons which we launch out about 75 feet or so. Usually no higher than about 50 feet. We blast the crap out of them and it's always a lot of fun. But this time it was really really cold. I didn't shoot more than 20 rounds. I just couldn't handle the bitter numbness on my fingers. We were only there for about an hour and a half when we're usually there for about 4 or 5 hours. Big difference. It was slightly dissapointing, but we all still got to shoot stuff, so we were happy. I love my shotgun, it's so beautiful and shiny. It was my 18th birthday present. It was all I asked for. I went with my dad and picked it out myself. It STRONGLY happens to resemble the normal shotgun from Resident Evil 4. **Note: I got that shotgun about a year and a half before the release of that game.** That might be a factor also as to why I love the game so much. ^^' Ah, well I've said too much as it is, now the FBI's probably after me... Whatever...