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I cannot say your name five times fast and you need to be eradicated from the planet earth. This is the second time I have picked up the infection, and the chances of catching it increase with each concurrent infection.

I stole it from a family. Now I just need my license to kill.

While I was waiting to check out in line at Walmart today, there was this elderly woman behind me in one of the store's electronic scooters. My buggy (If you don't know that I mean by buggy, that's what most people in my state call a "cart") was already unloaded and on the checkout belt. The person ahead of me was still waiting to pay, and there was plenty of space on the belt since I only had like seven bags of stuff.

I offered to load her stuff up onto the checkout area for her, and it pretty much made her day. Even though I work in retail myself and usually help people on a daily basis that way, this was different and it felt good.


Now I just wish my stomach didn't feel so crummy, because I'm about ready to punch it... In other news, I did finish my course of steroids I was on... but pretty sure coming off them is causing the trouble. Gonna have to give it some time to clear out of my system. I'm so tired, sore all over, and emotionally void.

Today whilst my thrall pulled my cart along, a torrential downpour struck my travels. Not even thinking, I muttered some of the Elder Futhark under my breath. Much to my surprise and disappointment, the rain went from cats and dogs to a nonexistent sprinkle. I was dismayed that my thrall was now able to pull me along without added misery. Naturally I tried to merkstave the runic incantation to return the torrential rain, but my thrall was left to experience the duty carefree of weathering hardship.

Perhaps I should ask my mothers about this occurrence... If I can harness the elements... My assassination attempts would look nothing more than natural acts of extreme weather. No, I shall keep this delightfully dreadful incidence to myself. After all, my thrall makes a lovely test subject. I was able to learn the process to filet flesh, dislocate body parts, and boil a boil with a blister on a pimple within a zit. Oh the latter is saved for my most loathsome foes and causes such a fit.

As always, a bewildering array of desserts,

Lilith

Last night I saw a status update somewhere that said a 13 year old child in the area had stopped breathing. They life-flighted the child to the next largest hospital in our area.

When I woke up this morning, I found out that it was my cousins eldest daughter and that she unfortunately passed away last night. She was prone to having seizures and has had them since she was a small child. There were many different surgeries and tests that she endured through. Last night she had a seizure, stopped breathing, and despite her Mothers best attempts at resuscitation and the hospitals... there was nothing they could do.

Positive thoughts towards my family right now would be greatly appreciated.

My cousin was an only child, and her parents (my aunt and uncle) went through many failed attempts and sorrows just to have their daughter. No parent should have to bury a child, and neither should a grandparent a grandchild. This is going to be a very tough time for them and everyone. So please send us any positive thoughts you can.

I didn't actually get written up at work today, because i was proactive and had my shift covered in advance.

Hey. That's cool. Not like I'm running a fever. Can barely talk or anything. Call off work and "This is your third call off in a six month period, you're getting wrote up now it actually goes onto paper."

It's ridiculous. The best part is even if i had a doctors note they wouldn't care or consider it. Pretty much now if I do call off anymore, I'll get written up each time. You can only be written up like four or five times before they fire you too.

Well excuse me for getting sick and having a compromised immune system from being on steroids. I can't help it. Do you want me to come to work contagious and make other people sick?

So. That was awesome. Good episode yes.

Not so good? That girl I met and broke things off with, who was not on talking terms with me anymore. Is now stalking my profile elsewhere... and texting me again?

She doesn't understand how that episode made any sense...

And when did we get back on talking terms?

I wanted to take a course starting in September, but I cannot due to my financial aid scheduling. I'll have to wait another month until October. I guess I can't complain about having another month off school though. This just means I can get other important things done.

The past three days I've spent fiddle faddling with a new system and its components. It was not fully assembled until yesterday in the wee hours of the morning. I'm still in the process of downloading, updating, and installing but having a computer that is not five years old is amazing.

It feels even better since I assembled the unit myself. I put a fair chunk of change into it, but I spent less on it than my previous laptop for school. It is so shiny. It is quiet too! My disc drive on my laptop was constantly ejecting upon power-up and ran like it had a pair of car keys stuck in it. (Not that I know what that sounds like...)

The best part is the computer boots in under thirty seconds and I can be online in about a minute... my laptop took a good five minutes to properly boot up. I still need to reinstall my Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite CS3 (that's the only edition I have, hopefully it'll install and run properly), Skype, and a few other things. Plus I have all my additional files that I'll need to transfer to the new computer. The SSD will hold me over for now, but I plan on purchasing a mechanical hard-drive for the unit due to the sheer size of those drives. I have an external terabyte that is only halfway full. I might end up migrating my laptop data to it and transferring from it on a case by case basis. (Just a pain since it is a powered external and I don't like leaving it plugged in.)

You probably want some specs for the unit so here goes:

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40 GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
AMD Radeon HD7700 1GB
256 GB SSD
XFX - Ultra Overclock Edition Radeon HD 7770 1GB DDR5

It also just occurred to me... that I have no webcam or mic (not that I use Skype that often to merit an immediate purchase) or a card-reader...

Speaking of! I have pictures on my camera of the computer... but I don't have a card reader to plug the SD into, and my USB cable is in the original packaging boxed away somewhere.

Pictures!
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