Tag: Iowa

Christmas Party

Well, my first christmas party of the season is over.. JonJon cooked Chicken and Nikki brought pizza and Nichole brought salad. I bought the chiken and a pie. It was all really yummy food.

It was really good to have friends over and have such a great time.

Lauren came later, and she started going through my pics. After they left, I sat and looked through them some more. I’m really really home sick now. I want to go home and be with my family and see everyone and see my house.

I just can’t wait for it. I want to go now. I miss home, and Iowa and I miss college. I miss #151, my old apartment, and I miss going home on the weekends and sleeping in my room and going hot tubbing and redlight.

I miss it all so much, I can’t wait to gethome now.

And to top it all off, Nikki and Nichole bought my luggage! So that’s really exciting and makes me really excited to get home. I can’t wait to pack it up and get going. I’ll probably be packing this weekend!

Anyways, the party was tons of fun. As I said, everyone came over and we cooked and we ate and we sat around and talked and played with the kitties and we all exchanged presents.

So much fun.

Well. Tonight I get to start studying for my next test. Jon said that he wants me to have it by Mid January. I’m going to ask if after this one I can take a break from Cisco and go for my Unix/Linux cert. I’m getting really sick of RIP-1, RIP-2, STP, EIGRP, and all the other routing protocols out there. It’s all running into one!

Laters all.

SideKick/ Paper Napkin / Game Cabinet

So I’ve decided I REALLY want a sidekick II. However my cell plan with verizon doesn’t expire for another year. 🙁 Right now amazon has a sale on sidekicks, where they actually PAY you $50 to buy one! Very exciting.

Also, you’ve all heard of the rejection hotline, right? well how about the reject e-mail? Paper Napkin offers this service.. Just give someone YOURNAME@papernapkin.net and they’ll get a nice little rejection note… Also, the e-mails that come in get posted to thier blog!

And if you like arcade games, go get the ArcadePC Deluxe. Comes with a 2.8Ghz PC and 50 capcom games… Only $5,000!

Not much happened today. I finally got my hair cut! It’s reallyshort now.

Only 8 days tell Iowa!

Less then 14 hours to my test! Wish me luck…. Again!

Laters.

Bah.

I’m still really pissed about failing that stupid exam. And I really don’t want to have to face Jon when he comes in this morning and tell him about it! Gah.

I’ve been reviewing today, and I don’t see WHY I missed this.

I can only speculate… There’s two reseasons right now:

1) The questions where they asked you both the FULL and ABREVIATED commands for the IOS. (I only know the full, so had to guess on the abreviated)

2) I didn’t save the SIMs and thus they were counted wrong.

I’m leaning more towards option 2 right now though because I’m pretty sure I guess right on the commands. I really wish they had told you which questions you got wrong on the stupid thing. But it’s understandable that they don’t.

It just really annoys me, and now I’m very scared for the next one. Which I think I’m going to sign up for on Tuesday.

I MUST pass this test.

I think I’m going to implement a new going out schedule for me as well.. limit myself to Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Spend the rest of the week working out and studying the all the tests that I’ll be taking over the next 6 months. I must start passing them on the first go. I can’t do this.

Also, I MUST start working out more, I’m back up to 180. I haven’t been there since the times of dating Adam. Gah! I was, and now am SO FAT! Must get rid of it. Did the cuircit training at 24 hours tonight and then 25 minutes on the treadmill. I really like the 24 hour out by south coast, but they keep it ungodly HOT in there. So I’m thinking I may start going over to the one in Newport Beach instead. we’ll see.

Anyways, back to studying people! 9 days to IOWA!!!

LATERS ALL

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I forgot to mention, prices for tickets for dec 22-28th topped $1,000 today from SNA to DSM… Glad I only paid like $350! Wish I had gotten in earlier and got the $250. 🙁 Oh well.

Sad

I’ve been very unhappy here the last few days.

I just want to go back to Iowa State University and working at Krell and living in Ames. I wish I could do that my whole life.

I want to go back and see my family and see my kitties and see my dog.

I want to go back to the way things used to be in my life.

I wish I hadn;t ever moved here.

Utilities…

Damn, Why are utilities so fucking expensive out here!

Cox cable+Highspeed internet would be 81 a month… Plus taxes and the like.

If I get Sat TV and Cox Highspeed internet it would be 22+50, so 72 (But I’d do the one year upfront for the sat bill, so it’d be like $270).. But then I have to figure out what the total bill would be. Because then I’d be paying two taxes and everything else, eh? So I’m not sure which would be a cheaper choice. I think I’d enjoy sat TV more, because with it you get the program guide and all that without having to get the expanded cable.. Plus it comes free with the local CBS/FOX/NBC affiliates…

That’s one thing I haven’t quite figured out around here yet… Back in Iowa, you use the broadcast, (IE air waves) to receive Fox/PBS/NBC/ABC/CBS/WB for free… What about out here? I know they don’t use the air channels like we do, but do you still get those basics for free? How’s that work exactly? I’d be tempted to just do that, but I almost have to have my Bravo and food tv to live!

I found a fridge today for $279, and a queen bed for $350. I think I’ll hold out on a washer dryer, because even the cheapest combo wouldn’t break even for over 40 months or usage.

I went and signed all the paper today.

I also picked out colors because you can paint whatever you want, as long as it’s white when you move out! So that’s exciting for me. I think I’m going to go with dark RED in the bedroom and blue in the bathroom… Livingroom/dining room have yet to be decided. Though I have a stack of paint chips to choose from.

I think I’ll have a little kick back this weekend, to welcome myself into my new place and for assistance on the color choice.

They’re trying to get me to do the CR process here at work. I hate the process and I don’t understand it.. Nor do I want to. Bah, it’s so annoying.

My phone rang every hour today, while I was trying to sleep. And the house phone rang a couple times too. It was all very annoying and I didn’t get much sleep.

Laters all.