I had a weird occurrence happen again today. I work in retail, and people come asking what country I'm from. Then they take a guess. I've been accused of being from Holland, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom and just today Latvia. The one from today surprised me.
I'm California-born living in New Jersey since I was five. I can only guess why this keeps happening, though the person who accused me of being from the U.K said it was "because I was polite." Not sure about the rest.
It's done! I got my bachelors degree! I was just about to write how I wish the last two weeks could be erased from existence (first my go-to positiveness channel loses a kitten, then nazis drive over people, then terror attacks in spain…) but now things feel a little better. That thesis cost me my summer, glad it paid off.
I went to Target today and bought a Samsung Galaxy J3
I had a weird occurrence happen again today. I work in retail, and people come asking what country I'm from. Then they take a guess. I've been accused of being from Holland, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom and just today Latvia. The one from today surprised me.
I'm California-born living in New Jersey since I was five. I can only guess why this keeps happening, though the person who accused me of being from the U.K said it was "because I was polite." Not sure about the rest.
Do you have like…some kind of non-Jersey accent or way of talking that makes people think you're European?
A friend was able to snag me an SNES classic preorder just in time!
@Monkey:
Do you have like…some kind of non-Jersey accent or way of talking that makes people think you're European?
I actually think it seems from "being polite." I try to be formal to a ridiculous point, and due to living with hard-of-hearing relatives I try to pronounce things as clearly as possible. Having time to think of it, I think I have the perfect storm of coincidence in place to make this happen.
Went to Tgi Fridays to celebrate my twin cousins sweet 16, bought a cover for my new Samsung Galaxy phone, and had a nice walk around the mall afterward.
My Iphone 6 -which was a few years old now- started to break a week ago with the charging port. I could only charge it holding it at a very specific angle and it charged much slower. I was due for an upgrade so I got a new Iphone 7.
Having had Apple Music, I haven't touched Itunes in at least over a year. So for me to restore the new phone from my old ones back up, I needed to update Itunes. In doing so, it must have lost the information on the location of half of my songs.
I'm now into hour 3 of having to manually "locate" where each song file is on my PC.
It mislocated over 7,000 songs.
I planned on vacuum-cleaning today, but the temperature duscouraged me, so I went ahead and organized my bookshelves with some added cleaning. They haven't been cleaned for ages and uhm, let's just say I used a lot of paper towels. Also I forgot the basic rule of dusting of shelves: start from the top. I started in the middle (???), but screw that, because I made a good job and now it's clean and nice and looks organized as hell.
I'm proud of myself.
Also, I ate pretty well today. And drank a lot! I mean water and tea mostly. With some wine and a litre of apple juice.
Screw everything that's trying to hold me down.
Two days ago, I saw an aftermath of a woman getting hit by a truck in the parking lot at my job. It was so horrifying that it fucked my day up for the rest of my shift. I just hope she didn't die on the way to the hospital. :sad:
I'm glad I don't live in Houston anymore, but I'm really worried about all my friends and family there. The situation is only going to get worse.
My Facebook has been blown up with how bad various places have gotten, and not looking good for my parents place. On the bright side for them, their neighbor with a two story is offering them to stay over, since there is no way for them to get out of the neighborhood. As far as my area, despite all the rain there hasn't been flooding, and no problems except for power flickering out a few times. Though it's only the beginning, so hopefully it will stay like this for me till it all blows over. Of course even once the rain stops, it's going to be a long recovery and many streets won't be up and running for a while.
Update
Looks like somebody was able to get my parents out before things got worse, so now they can ride out the storm in a safer place at least.
Today, has been for the most part a good day! If I gave it a rating, it would be an eight out of ten!
I'm mostly happy that I finally woke up early today, compared to past days. I did not wake up with my alarm which was set to 9:00, but I did wake up an hour later plus, so that's way better than waking up around 15:00! ^.^
Besides that, I had a nice walk outside today. I liked the breeze, plus it was a sunny day too. Though a person freaked me out, when they were walking super close behind me, and I have like this "bubble", so I felt uncomfortable. I kept my distance from this person after that incident. And what I meant by distance, is that I got super far away from them XD
Well, Trump is in town today… and traffic has been terrible. Work is super busy too trying to work on the best way to help Houston.
Well, Trump is in town today… and traffic has been terrible. Work is super busy too trying to work on the best way to help Houston.
Oh, I see. Drive and stay safe!
Anyways, as for my day today, I got my wisdom teeth pulled out! All four of them! My two bottom ones had to be drilled out, since they were inside the gums sideways. And my two upper ones were just bad with cavities I believe. I know one was "cracked" on one side of my mouth. Regardless, I am glad I got this taken care of, I was scared before I came in, as my anxiety was up, but I'm glad it was not as bad as I thought it was.
Is that what I think it is, blue skies and the sun!? Oh God, please let it stay like this now, especially for those in the heavily affected areas.
The sun and sky cleared out at a perfect time, as my family got together for the first time since the storm for a meal, so it was nice to be together after all of this, despite some knowing most if not all their possessions may be lost. As we finished up out time together, that's when the sky started clearing and saw the first bit of sunlight since this storm came through. Hopefully things won't get worse with the day ending the way it did.
@The:
Is that what I think it is, blue skies and the sun!? Oh God, please let it stay like this now, especially for those in the heavily affected areas.
The sun and sky cleared out at a perfect time, as my family got together for the first time since the storm for a meal, so it was nice to be together after all of this, despite some knowing most if not all their possessions may be lost. As we finished up out time together, that's when the sky started clearing and saw the first bit of sunlight since this storm came through. Hopefully things won't get worse with the day ending the way it did.
Wow, that is good news that the storm is finally over, quite indeed! :3
And hopefully, your family will able to get back on their feet as well.
My final post about the storm stuff, promise.
So today I went with my parents to their house, and it was bad. They got 4 feet of water inside, and outside of pictures on the wall and stuff on high shelves or tall furniture, everything was ruined. After many hours all their furniture, kitchen ware, electronics, and miscellaneous stuff was put to the curb to be eventually picked up. They also lost both their cars. I think it would've been a lot more emotional for my parents, but with so many of their friends and neighbors coming over to help move and clean stuff, and getting sheetrock out and other stuff done to move the process along, I think that removed a lot of emotional stress that had been building up. It will hurt them for a while and will hit them financially, but they will pull through in the end thankfully.
I really wish the best for all affected, and yet to be affected by this storm. It's going to be a long, emotional journey back to any kind of normalcy for so many people.
This morning was a bit upsetting to me as I had a call from SSI and found out how much I be getting with my back-pay. But it was less than I thought, so my plans I made for the future got delayed or canceled. The biggest ones is not being able to go to D.C for the March for Racial Justice, but the page will see if there be any in my local area. And one of the delays will be getting my laptop later than I was expecting, again because of money issues. As I want to take care of debts, fix my car, and other important stuff, hence my plans getting ruined. But, I am more calmer now, as it is out of my control, and stuff happens.
I started taking an EMT course and it's like 4-10:30 in the evening twice a week and my work scheduled me for 4am-1pm on the same day after I gave them the schedule like lol no bug off with that nonsense
Well, I finally did it. I locked my keys in my car. Had to call someone to bring me a spare key. However, this belied a slightly scarier event.
Apparently 20 minutes before I got locked out, at home my dog had some trouble standing up. It's not the first time it's happened, he's old with one weak leg, but from what I heard it was one of the worse instance yet. When my family found him he was unable to stand, and he 'went' on the carpet, possibly part in fear and part because he couldn't get outside in time. Supposedly, he was scared he was in trouble which made him panic a little, and made it tough for him to regain his balance. He nearly tipped into the wall a few times. That's the account they gave me at least.
Yet, he seems fine now. When I got home he had trouble standing, but after some minutes he's completely normal. Hopefully this is just a one-off thing.
Halfway through my first Navy deployment overseas.
3 months down, 3 more to go!
Hey, my job had a BBQ during work so everyone got free food–which stands out cause it wasn't announced beforehand. Despite working on Labor Day, it was a chill work day.
I wanna mention I saw the cutest thing today, and while I normally wouldn't mention this its something I can't hold in. A family walked into my store and they have this toddler with him that held, in his arms, a puppy Chihuahua with ears too big for its head. Like, those dogs are small, and this dog was small compared to the kid. The greeters exclaimed in joy over how cute it was. Overall, it was just a nice moment on a shockingly relaxed day.
My last decent post in this thread was in June 23rd ?? Oh my, I need to update.
Aham, the last expo that I am going to do research and help around is going to be about Renato Russo (famous brazilian singer of the 80's/90's), I like his music and his biography, so I am going to enjoy this.
There is also going to be a workshop on how to restore old photos, documents, books.
The staff that worked with me said that they are going to miss me/working for me, and I left them know that I feel the same, but I have to strive for something more.
Speaking of old objects, me and my father went to store that was is a shed, inside, there was 500,000 records of different bands, singers, from different times and different styles. We were given gloves and masks (the place was so dusty) so we could "mine" throughout the store to find some hidden gems and man, it was worth. I found some really good records, like George Gershwin, Burt Bacharach, "The Sound Of Music" soundtrack, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Rubinstein".Can't wait to go there again.
And to close this post, I finally got my certification of conclusion of that literature class that I did in Harvard, nice. :)
Windy and rainy today. Went to Copenhagen to buy some manga I can't find in Sweden. Being the idiot I am I put them in a plastic bag instead of a backpack and arrived home with 4/5 partially wet. Just parts of them, so hopefully they can recover, but its still annoying. The silver lining is that the 1 book that survived intact was the one I cared most for: Dream Fossil by Satoshi Kon.
Also I'm super stressed out about everything. Trying to finish up my CV so I can finally start hunting for jobs. I'm also looking for an apartment but I'm not sure how it'll work. There's so many things that have to work out exactly right or I'll end up back home. I love my family, but my brother is always depressed and I have a hard time handling that. I've got my hands full with my own anxieties. And college, for some reason, is stressing me out. I normally love going to classes (currently I'm taking a comics course) but for some reason I just end up depressed after each lesson. In a way I think it's good for me (a long time dream of mine is finally facing reality, and I'm forced to meet competitors and start working seriously), but I hate coming home stressed and depressed. I don't know if it's worries about the future and getting a job, facing the reality of the comic industry, overall burnout of school/college or how the class is often preoccupied with politics (I have enough hearing those on the net) or something else. The worst part is I know it's not that complicated. I just gotta work as usual, start selling my drawings and apply for jobs. Not that hard. But my anxiety makes a big mess of it. I wish I could turn it off…
My day today was crummy, mostly because of a nightmare I had with my family. (I have PTSD because of the trauma I faced from my mother when I was younger.) So, basically, it ruined my whole day, resulting in a 3/10.
Though, I'm happy I don't live with my mother anymore, nor talk with her. I just need to keep on working on my issues, and I probably won't have these dreams anymore.
I got glasses made today and downloaded Tinder. Spent 3 hours thinking of a bio then decided to steal one from reddit. Talked to my mother on the phone. Stressed about my bank being dumb and my job prospects after graduating. Tried to convince my friends to go clubbing, failed. Decided junk food was in order. Ate so much I made my stomach hurt a little. Now I feel a little disgusted at myself. Watched MHA and MSNBC's Trump coverage for the day.
6/10 insufficient alcohol
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Yeah it's probably for the best you post all this in the Confession Session thread instead.
Got it, thanks for pointing that out
My morning was stressful because of another nightmare with my mother, and me going out to places to get stuff I needed. But it was worth going out to those places, as I found an Nintendo Switch when I was at Target. With it I got the new Zelda game that came out a few months ago too! (I was originally at Target to get a bike and hair dye, but they had a small selection of bicycles, plus they did not have the color of the hair dye I wanted.) And I got myself a bicycle when I was at Walmart, so I can get in shape. I decided to go this route, than going to the gym; and besides I'm scared to go to one anyway. I also dyed my hair pink, and that was honestly the best part of my day! ^_^
Earlier today, I was finally able to reconnect with my older (half) sister. When I finally spike to her again after all these years, I was so full of joy that I wanted to cry. We have a lot of catching up to do.
Sitting outside the building for my first EMT ambulance ride along and I'm nervous as heck. Watch me forget everything I've learned so far lol.
So, close to where I live, there's this new place called GEN, which I've heard is really good. But I've never had Korean barbecue before. What exactly are the most common foods in it, and stuff?
This week I've learned how to apply gauze! I mean, kind of. I've had a lot of practice this week, as my dog has had an injured paw. Basically a few times a day I have to wash it, disinfect it, and wrap it. It is healing well. So, all my week has been about treating paws. Yep, I live the exciting life. :pouty:
Today though, a friend of mine out of nowhere ordered shoes for my dog. Little velcro things that you slip onto his feet to not only protect them from damage, but they provide grip to help older dogs walk up stairs. I never thought I'd be dealing with dog shoes, but here I am.
Summery of the day: being in love can really dull even your sharpest edges.
I’m saving up all this money for the move to Singapore. But in the meantime, I’m really just scratching lines on a wall, counting days. I know once payday hits I’ll be able to turn a new leaf, but until then I’m in this horrible limbo of being too broke to do anything fun.
Which would be fine if I had my computer. Which I don’t, because of course it broken. And of course I can only repair it at the retail I bought it. Which don’t exist in Copenhagen of course. So I had to go to Sweden to repair a dinosaur computer for the same amount of its value. I seem to make horrible decisions when I’m “between things”.
Edit: and I just hit my pinkytoe on the table so now I wanna die. :(
Edit: and I just hit my pinkytoe on the table so now I wanna die. :(
I lost half a toenail when that happened to me once. I am sorry.
Spoiler:
"Life's not about finding out which card is yours, but finding out which cards you're not."
Starting to hunt for part-time work. It's nerve wracking but at least I'm trying. The worst part is the stress, I need to establish some sort of income beside the student loan so I can stay in the city (and even then I doubt a part-time job will be enough, but it's not like I can find a full-time job while studying). Also trying to set up a portfolio only to be depressed at having nothing worthwhile to show. But at least I'm working on that - currently trying to brush up my digital painting skills. I haven't drawn seriously in years, so hopefully I can get back into it.
In lighter news I've found an apartment I'm hopeful for. It's not much bigger than the one I have (a shame), but it's a good rent for a good area. Hoping it lives up to my expectations, has an oven (so I can finally bake!) and that the guy first in line doesn't like it.
@Count:
I lost half a toenail when that happened to me once. I am sorry.
You must have kicked the shit out of that leg table lol.
You must have kicked the shit out of that leg table lol.
I was running, so technically lol.
Hello Y'all!
A quickie update: My ship has pulled in Bahrain for a few days, only a month & a half left in deployment until I'm back home!
Can't Wait XD
I guess this is as good a place as any to vent for a bit.
So, the people of Manchester where I'm studying, great people overall. It's really nice seeing these lovely folk gong about their daily routine whenever I go out to buy some groceries.
But there's this one gaggle of kids, young teens about, who absolutely piss me off. It started one night while on my way back to my room, I went past these kids who were loitering in front of a convenience store. One of them pestered me to buy some cigarettes. When I refused, the lot started yelling at me, and one even smacked me on the back of the head.
I just continued walking home but goddamn, it took practically every fibre of my being to restrain the rage I had that night.
To make matters worse, I've started noticing them around the area more often, and they probably remember me if their pelting me with corn snacks is any indication.
I no longer feel that carefree jolliness when walking outside. I prefer to just stay inside now. They really soured what would have otherwise been a rather enjoyable time here.
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@Bond:
I guess this is as good a place as any to vent for a bit.
So, the people of Manchester where I'm studying, great people overall. It's really nice seeing these lovely folk gong about their daily routine whenever I go out to buy some groceries.
But there's this one gaggle of kids, young teens about, who absolutely piss me off. It started one night while on my way back to my room, I went past these kids who were loitering in front of a convenience store. One of them pestered me to buy some cigarettes. When I refused, the lot started yelling at me, and one even smacked me on the back of the head.
I just continued walking home but goddamn, it took practically every fibre of my being to restrain the rage I had that night.
To make matters worse, I've started noticing them around the area more often, and they probably remember me if their pelting me with corn snacks is any indication.I no longer feel that carefree jolliness when walking outside. I prefer to just stay inside now. They really soured what would have otherwise been a rather enjoyable time here.
Oh wow you're not far from where I am (Nottingham)
Sadly you find people like that pretty much everywhere, you just gotta try and not let them keep you down, and just ignore them as much as you can, it sucks and I know trust me I have experienced the same and worse before, I've found just ignoring and going about your business to work best.
Good luck!
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I've had a fever and a sore throat all day, and have a deadline for Monday. Bad bad day :getlost:
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@Bond:
I guess this is as good a place as any to vent for a bit.
So, the people of Manchester where I'm studying, great people overall. It's really nice seeing these lovely folk gong about their daily routine whenever I go out to buy some groceries.
But there's this one gaggle of kids, young teens about, who absolutely piss me off. It started one night while on my way back to my room, I went past these kids who were loitering in front of a convenience store. One of them pestered me to buy some cigarettes. When I refused, the lot started yelling at me, and one even smacked me on the back of the head.
I just continued walking home but goddamn, it took practically every fibre of my being to restrain the rage I had that night.
To make matters worse, I've started noticing them around the area more often, and they probably remember me if their pelting me with corn snacks is any indication.I no longer feel that carefree jolliness when walking outside. I prefer to just stay inside now. They really soured what would have otherwise been a rather enjoyable time here.
The brits are a weird bunch. They don't take well to being ignored. I find the best way to put em back in their place is humour, self depreciative, and then go onto brutal mocking of everything they stand for, under the veil of 'banter'. That said, I can get away with being pretty cut and dry, and even outright insulting, what with being a loudmouthed italian guy with a temper. I'm not exactly afraid to put someone back in their place if they start getting cocky, and I'll hit back double as hard at anyone who gets physical with me (despite being a total pacifist, I'll never start anything).
But I guess that might not be helpful to you, depending on whether you're a guy, a girl, whether they're much bigger than you, or whether you're good at riffing back against stupid teens at all. Just… a good joke at your own expense goes a long way to getting people on your side in england, and you're sort of forced to get used to that kind of behaviour, else feel shitty about yourself.
That said, i hate the brits who get all sensitive, they're the only type I can't deal with, they just get offended. But I'm pretty sure the assholes who hit you aren't that type, usually the sensitive ones are too nice for their own good :getlost:
I feel good, yet off. I might be coming down with something, but it's not quite impacting my health yet. I have aches and pains, mild dizziness, and I've sneezed a bit. Either way, I'm going to chug vitamina C, cause this would be a bad week for me to get sick. Next week the company president visits, and while I think I could call out, I'd rather be at my best. I also have a job fair I'm going to two weeks from now. With that in mind, hopefully this is nothing.
I feel good, yet off. I might be coming down with something, but it's not quite impacting my health yet. I have aches and pains, mild dizziness, and I've sneezed a bit. Either way, I'm going to chug vitamina C, cause this would be a bad week for me to get sick. Next week the company president visits, and while I think I could call out, I'd rather be at my best. I also have a job fair I'm going to two weeks from now. With that in mind, hopefully this is nothing.
Hopefully it is not anything too serious, either way, I hope this minor things go away soon!
Well, today is going to a great start! I found a new picture to use as my avatar yesterday, when I was chatting with someone on Facebook, which I put up today on several places; and I found out her first name was Alice! (Thanks to C_uggs for telling me where and who she was.) So, with her having the same first name as me, is like really awesome, and a lucky coincidence, quite indeed! ^.^
