No contacts today. :/ My dad had an appointment for the eye doctor, and I had to go with him because they might dilate his eyes, so I would have to drive back. And I'm not comfortable driving with my contacts, though I can. It's just weird since I'm not used to seeing with my contacts in, blah blah blah.

Anyway, he ended up not getting dilated, but I managed to play a lot of Meteos while I was in the waiting room (which was quite pleasant as it was like a boutique eye store). He also got a new prescription, but not new glasses, since his insurance only covered the exam and not the glasses (which he thought it did). This weekend, we're gonna be going to Lens Crafters to see if they have more reasonable frames (the ones he chose were $350+), and he needs to get his lenses to be polycarbonate or better or he'd end up with the Coke-bottle-lenses.

Plus, we have two gift certificates for Lens Crafters, and they have a way better selection there.

In other news, I have tried the bareMinerals matte foundation that I got from Sephora! I... am not sure how I feel about it. I'm used to creme foundation, which covers everything, because of my scars and hyper-pigmentation. But this stuff works... strangely well for a powder. I suspect I'll have to get used to it. It really does feel like there's nothing there at all, but I had to use a lot of it over my trouble areas. At least there's a good amount in the sample, so I'll use it instead of my normal foundation until it runs out.

And I'll see if I start breaking out or itching because of it too. Dumb sensitive skin. :/

I'm in such a bad and antisocial mood right now. And it's cold and raining. =___=;; I apologize in advance if I take it out on anyone or act cranky.

Wow. Two earthquakes this morning, both of which woke me up from sleep. Actually, I slept kind of badly all night. Kept waking up and dreaming strange things, probably because last night I WATCHED SILENT HILL WITH MY MOM.

Anyone who knows me knows I hate scary movies and squeal like a little girl all the way through them. That's why I don't watch them. :/ But we were testing the new BlueRay player we have, and that was the movie we bought, and my mom loves scary movies and I had to appease her.

... it probably also didn't help that after the movie I went to wiki to refresh my memory on what happened in the games. I brought it upon myself.

T_T

Oh, and here are the two earthquakes I felt. The one at 9:40-ish that woke me up and got me out of bed (I didn't get out of bed because of the earthquake, I got up because it was time to get up and the earthquake was like an alarm |D;;). And here is the one that hit around 4am. It kinda scared me because it woke me up, and afterwards all the neighborhood dogs started barking really loud.

Point of interest! The city marked 'Riverside' on the maps is where I live. Or at least close enough. :/ They never put Moreno Valley on maps like this.

I has cookies and TOE SOCKS and chocolates and A LINT ROLLER.

This makes up for having to deal with my parents and their political views today. ♥

Oh Jesus, the family drama gets worse and worse the more we find out. Though, I guess it's lucky that my dad is on THIS side of the Pacific ocean, or things might be worse.

Having such a large (extended) family means so many opportunities for drama. =___=;; I almost wish I hadn't said anything this afternoon, but my parents probably would've found out about the gossip/situation anyway. Better to hear from our own family than another one (who, not-so-coincidentally was at the Trecenians part yesterday). The fallout from this better not hit the fan stateside.

x___X

Ahahaha... someone in the family might get murdered by the end of the month. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

No, that's not a cute turn of phrase.

I actually went shopping today and bought things. Things like clothes. ♥ Okay, actually, I needed a dress for one of my dad's Trecenian events. It's next Sunday and in the afternoon, and all my dressy clothes are... evening wear and super-formal. x__X;;

So I went shopping (with the parental units), and picked up 3 dresses: one for the event, one casual/everyday, and then a nice black dress because for some reason I DO NOT OWN A BLACK DRESS. Yeah, shocker. I also got two pairs of shoes, one to go with my event dress (red leather heels!), and another pair that's gray suede but can be dressy or worn with jeans. The gray ones I would've gotten in red, too, but they didn't have my size.

Plus, everything was ON SALE. Like, 50% or more off. And for my mom's dress, she was able to get another 10% off because there was tearing around the zipper, and it was the last dress of that type left.

There was another supercute dress that I wanted, but they only had a size 4, which I could wear. But I wouldn't be able to breathe, eat, or move in it. I really wanted it though, as it was also one sale. ;__;

An then In 'N Out for lunch. Yum yum.

Okay enough babble. I need a shower.

1. my mom has a cold. a bad one with coughing and stuff. but she's allergic to codeine and most medicines react with her blood pressure medicine so she usually just has to tough it out.

2. we have been watching the olympics together. for hours. next to each other on the couch.

3. woke up in the middle of the night last night when i couldn't breathe and my throat was all swollen.

4. woke up this morning with a drippy nose and the above, but no coughing (yet). throat hurts like a bitch.

5. called my mom, blamed her for my cold, and told her to buy soup and orange juice on the way home.

6. =___=;;

7. medicine and a nap now. even though i woke up like 2 hours ago.

The weather is bad today. It was gloomy yesterday but it rained overnight and this morning, so today is very cold and dreary and windy. The sun just came out a bit ago once the wind really started picking up, but I doubt that will last long.

In other news, my dad has the flu, so he's been staying home. Ugh. Thankfully he hasn't been harping at me all day or anything. I've been trying to steer clear of him, but this morning I woke up with a bit of a tickle in my throat. It still hasn't gone away. DX I'm hoping it does, because I CANNOT be sick next week. I CAN'T. I WON'T ALLOW MYSELF TO BE.

I've gotten through my re-review of Wills, Trusts, and I'm halfway through Evidence. I'll hopefully be starting Crim Pro/Crim Law later this evening and tomorrow. Ugh. My brain feels like it's fried. But I will persevere.

I am craving Krispy Kreme donuts (original glazed) and In 'N Out burgers (plain hamburger) something awful. I don't know why.

I wanna take a nap. ;___; Nooooo have to keep going. Argh.

*whines and rubs lower back* Feeling all crampy and hurty and bleh, so that ovary-stabbing time must be coming soon. If it doesn't hit this weekend (dammit class is on Sunday), it definitely will by Monday. =___=;; I think I dislike this pre-bleh feeling more than the during-bleh feeling.

I really didn't want to leave the house today because of this, and also because it's overcast and raining off and on, but the maternal unit is home today. >_>;; It was the better part of valor (and sanity) for me to leave the house. Besides, I have things to get done.

Eventually.

After I start feeling less bleh-y.

... and by funny, I mean utterly unexpected and somewhat tragic.

Today is/was my Dad's bday, so we were gonna go out to eat with my Ate, cousin, and my cousin's boyfriend. Family. Yay. Then after lunch, we'd go to watch a movie (The Golden Compass, which deserves its own post), and generally spend family-bonding time.

Unfortunately, while I was in the car and cleaning my glasses on my shirt hem because they were smudgy, my frames snapped. Let me repeat this.

The frames of my glasses -- frames made from titanium -- snapped in my hand while I was cleaning the lenses.

And it didn't snap somewhere nice, like the bridge over the nose or the arms. No, it broke on the top of the frame above the right lens. This was impossible to fix and I am blind without my glasses on. Did I mention that these are the only glasses I own? The good thing was that we were a bit early leaving the house, so we went to Lenscrafters, which was luckily near the restaurant we were going to (and I have my prescription there). Then the bad started rolling in.

Lenscrafters couldn't fix the frame. They couldn't stick my lenses in a new frame. They couldn't even make me up new glasses because my prescription was outdated (been 3 years), and my prescription is so high in the first place that they have to send my glasses out to be made (no 1 hour for me :/). With no other choice, I set myself up for an appointment to get my eyes checked.

They also told us the jeweler/watchmaker across the way might be able to solder the frame of my glasses. However, when we got there, the guy took one look at my glasses and said no way, since the frames are titanium. He didn't have the right tools for fixing it. We even stopped by Sears (since they do optometry too), but no luck in fixing my glasses.

So I got to eat lunch pretty much blind. It was an interesting experience.

Anyway, went back to Lenscrafters for my eye appointment afterwards. I decided to get a prescription for contact lenses, too, hoping that if I couldn't walk out with glasses, they might have something in stock so I wouldn't be blind. But yet again Teh Powers That Be stepped in. I seem to have astigmatism, and the contact lenses they had in stock didn't correct it. So, whether I got glasses or contact lenses, I'd have to wait 7-10 days for them to arrive.

But, I was able to get a pair of trial contact lenses that work (I'm not blind) and will last until my permanent ones get here. Yes, I'm going to be wearing contact lenses now. But I also ordered a pair of glasses (since I might get struck by lightning or rip all my contacts or something) as backup. I'll be wearing whichever gets here first quite gladly.

And then we watched the movie and went to Victoria's Secret.

At least that was a good thing.

I forgot today was a holiday (Veteran's Day) so both my parents don't have to go to work. Also, my dad is a veteran. Well, technically they both should be home, but my dad disappeared somewhere before I woke up. Mom is still here though, and I'm doing my best to avoid her. >_>;;

I wanted to go to Aoi-chan's and play Trickster. ;___;

So anyway, now I've got a little cornish game hen baking in the toaster oven (works marvelously and I don't have to use the regular oven). I'll probably bake those brownies today, but right now I'm eating M&M's.

A fair warning: I have either skipped one of my periods entirely, or I've managed to stress myself into being VERY late. I'm getting backachey, but not doing much more than that, and it's making me abnormally cranky. x___X I'd rather have the period.

So, I've decided that I'm going to cook the Chicken Parmigana from Bertolli for my dinner. Yay for one skillet meals. Also gonna toss the last garlic bread loaf we have in the freezer into the oven to go with the pasta. Mostly gonna do that so the oven helps warm up the house. >_>;; I'm also gonna see if we have brownie mix or something to bake, to keep that oven going.

Or I could, you know, turn the heater on. Decisions, decisions.

My parents also just left to do their weekly gambling thing. Maybe I should see if Aoi is home so I can raid her internet and do the Anniversary Event on Trickster. Or I can try and go sometime this weekend, so I have a full day of it. I have bajillions of Old Passports. ♥


EDIT...

I am weak. And frozen. So I turned on the heater. ^^;; Threw the bread in the oven anyway, but I'm considering whether or not to make the brownies.

*watches as good mood crashes in about 0.3 seconds*

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Sohot. x___X

Went out to Tyler today, since I ran out of Proactiv and needed more. Also bought a four-pack of Cinnabons. *__* ♥ Numnumnum. But, crap, was it ever busy today. It took me forever to find a parking space. I finally had to park at the top of the parking structure. XP The only thing that made it bearable was that I was able to park near the stairs, and that I wasn't facing the sun. But still, in 106 degree weather, I was hoping to park in the shaded part of the structure.

Getting food was a hassle too, and there were no tables, except the ones outside. I managed to snag one in the shade and by the doors, so everytime the doors opened, a blast of air conditioning hit me. Yay.

AND I VISITED THE PUPPIES OMG. ♥ The puppies are just so cute. I got to pet a tiny Puggle who had the cutest face and floppiest ears. Such soft fur, too. Also, there were two Weimeraners (sp?) in one of the windows. They were napping together cutely, then they woke up and started playing with each other. One of them started barking at the other, because he didn't want to play. XD! They were a gorgeous grey-blue color, too. ZOMG Rikupuppy and Ripuppy!

Then I came back home, had an argument with the paternal unit, and now he's gone. Yay. Maternal unit is also absent (I think she got called in to work for something).

I will eat one of those tasty Cinnabons later. *___*

In an unrelated note, I'm toying with the idea of creating a Trickster comm here on LJ. The one that exists... sucks. No one posts. But I think it might be nice to have a friendly comm for everything related to Trickster. And an easy way to rustle up party members. Yes/No?

Maternal unit is frying french fries and fried chicken for dinner. This makes me hate her a little less. But mostly, I am severely annoyed at her harping on me about getting a job. Does she think I'm not trying or something? At this point not even McD's would hire me, since once they see on my resume that I'm a lawyer (or have my degree anyway) they reject me. And all the lawyering jobs I find that I'm interested in require, oh, I dunno, acceptance ito the CA Bar. =___=;;

But on Monday I'm going to a job fair in Anaheim, since I scored an interview from one before. There's another in Ontario in September that I wanna go to, too.

Bleh. At least I have fried chicken.

In Trickster news, I'm level 61/57 now. Thank you, Nora Sprayers quest. ♥ I've been spending most of my time in Nora's Sewer to level up and do the quest. I put on my GMV and switched out to my better lvl 60 equips, and damn, I'm doing some good damage now, and can tank hits pretty well. ^___^

Today I managed to teleport to the top of Nora's (needs 1 Nora Doll and 1 Crystal Coupon [5 galder coupon/paper/crystal compounded by Paul]) and wandered around Abyss Dungeon 3 for a bit. All the Salamanders are there (lvl 71+) and I know I need their drops for compounding. It's not a bad place to fight, but they hit hard and love raping you mobbing.

Also realized that since I leveled to 61, I can do the next set of the World Fiesta monster quests. The monsters are lvl 70 Cucools, and the reward is a very very nice 2 million TMexp each time. I think I'm gonna do that now, since my TMlevel is lagging behind again, and I need the points for my skills. God, I love Hellfire so much. Since I got Arrow Rush, I no longer see 1000+ damage for my arrows, so I've gotten used to seeing smaller amounts of damage multiple times. But when my Hellfire connects (god it has bad accuracy), it's always 1000+ damage, which makes me happy in my Dragon pants... skirt. Dragons wear skirts. >.>;;

Yay. ♥ Massive damage is why I went Dark in the first place. XD!

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I thought today was gonna be a fairly normal day. Woke up a bit early, lounged about and texted Aoi-chan to see if I could come over, had cookies for breakfast. And then the power went out just as I was getting dressed to go to the library since Aoi-chan was out of the house. Apparently the power company was working on the lines again today and my parents ngelected to infor me. I only found out when I called my mom about it.

Thus I was stuck in the house until my dad came home, since I don't have the keys to the front door and there's no way for me to leave without either leaving the garage or front door unlocked. Finally dad came home at 2:30 and I escaped, figuring I could while away a few hours at the Mo Val library, since it was traffic time and I didn't want to go through it to get to the Riverside library. I got there just fine and settled in at the long table and plugged in my laptop and... nothing. Was confused and tried plugging again and... still nothing. Finally asked a librarian and apparently the code inspectors or whatever still haven't approved the 'public' outlets for use yet. And I couldn't check if they had wifi since my battery was dead and I wanted to charge it.

Finally sent off a text to Aoi-chan again, and went to McD's for french fries and soda, and drove around slowly. And now I am at Aoi-chan's house. *____* On Shukaku, who is happily charging up. He's at 17% now!

I'm gonna drown myself in sweet internets now.

I GET TO GO GROCERY SHOPPING TODAY. YAY.

I'm going to clip coupons and then I'm piling up the grocery cart with food. Glorious, wonderful, food. ♥ ♥ Maybe even sandwich fixings so I don't have to pay Subway $5 everytime I just want a nice ham and swiss. ;__;

Fooooooooood!

Seriously, I might be acting like a dork, but food. Food that I get to choose. Dad only bys food for whatever he feels like cooking that day and mom just went on a spree and threw out and reorganized the cupboard and freezer, so now we have... like nothing. Because I'm the only damn one in the house who actually buys food beyond what to use for one day. I'm gonna stock up for at least a month. Maybe two. And I'm buying ALL the goodies and snacks that I usually try to skip on to save money. >_>;; GLUTTONY. YES. AND THEN I WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

Foooooooood food foodie food.

... no, I haven't eaten yet today. Why do you ask?

Looks like I'm being dragged out to the casino today, since today is the luckiest day of the year. 777!

... maybe I'll be lucky. If I had any money to gamble in the first place. XP

At least I'll get food. We haven't gone grocery shopping yet.

It had been gradually getting hotter and hotter in the house all day and I was wondering why, since I checked the thermostat and had the air conditioner set at 76 degrees. Checked again, since the heat upstairs was unbearable and it was getting icky downstairs too.

One of my parents turned off the air conditioner. 105 degrees and someone turned the damn thing off and my mom was complaining that it was hot. OF COURSE IT'S HOT ONE OF YOU STUPIDLY TURNED OFF THE THING KEEPING THE HOUSE COLD.

... I turned the air conditioner back on and things are much better now.