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So I'm both incredibly stupid and incredibly greedy.. My mom's friend threw a party, and her husband works for a local hospital. Apparently, the hospital staff keeps giving him assignments that aren't his job - one of them being to create a Craigslist-like page that the hospital staff can use to sell stuff (or something along those lines). He needs it in PHP - I told him I'd done work with HTML and that I could probably learn PHP. I'm worried I might not be able to learn PHP, though - I really need some help. Could someone at the very least point me in the right direction? Or better yet, happen to have a copy of the PHP code for Craigslist laying around..? Here's the email he sent me: I'm hoping you can see the dilemma. Any response would be greatly appreciate - please, I'm begging. I'm hoping that if I can do this good, he might give me more stuff to do and I'll be able to make some money this summer.
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Sure it's a desktop. And sure it's Windows and it kinda sucks. But it's mine and no one else's. ^.^ I'll have music this summer...without those school laptops, I was sure I was screwed. 16GB iPod Touch just isn't enough for my 25GB of music (and 10GB of movies, and 17GB of TV shows - hooray for DVD ripping).
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I have an insane amount of music...iPod Touch just doesn't cut it. But that problem is hopefully solved - my mom wants to get a MacBook for my brother (with his money), and when you order at the beginning of the schoolyear, apparently you get a free iPod. So I wanna ask my mom to get a Classic; then my sister can get my Touch and my mom can take her Nano. Everything works out. It's too bad I can't keep both iPods, though..I like the Touch for some things. That means that I might be able to ask my grandparents for a bass guitar for my birthday...fingers crossed, y'know? And then I could sell off my Bionicle and cross my fingers that I'd have some decent cash after that. Also might start trying to mow lawns on my street...I have a lot of elderly neighbors and I'm sure a majority of them would appreciate it - and I'd appreciate the money. I always feel so bad mooching off my friends or my parents when I go to do stuff.
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Sick. Ow. Sore throat and a cold. I hate this.
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What I hate... -Anyone who thinks "The Walmart" is a cool place to hang out. -Anyone who thinks they're better than everyone else. -That feeling in your throat like you're going to puke. -Girls who just don't and will never understand. -Girls with a face that makes your heart melt away. -Not wanting to go to bed because you really don't want to cry yourself to sleep again. -Me.
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I was having stomach cramps through 1st period, so I went to my mom's room and she called my dad and now I'm waiting for him in the office...he hasn't showed up yet. I can't wait to go home and just take a nap.
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We're going on free and reduced lunch. Pros: -No more brought lunches that get crushed under all my school stuff -HOT FOOD -Saves us money (which we really need) Cons: -After bringing for almost three years, people are going to ask why I'm buying all of a sudden -I don't want to tell anyone, out of pride (you guys don't count cuz I can't really shame myself too bad on BZP) -God forbid anyone does find out, I worry that I might be subject to teasing The pros definitely outweigh the cons to me, though.
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North Carolina law lets me get a learner's permit at 14 1/2. Which I'm conveniently coming up on in a few months. So I'll be learning to drive on what I think are the country's worst roads (generally, NCs are terrible drivers). Good experience, right? Only problem is that I don't have a car. My dad won't let me drive his truck, and I'm not gonna drive my mom's 10-year-old Odyssey. So I was car-less up until yesterday. My dad was talking to my neighbor - a really nice old man who does a lot of community service. He has five cars/trucks, and they only use two. My dad was joking about taking one of them, and our neighbor said that he could actually take his old truck - free - and fix it up. It runs great still, it just needs to be cleaned up, really. Paint and all that. Once I'm able to drive, we might ask him for it and I'll have a sweeet old truck that I can pimp out. I forgot the model/make...it was F100 or something like that. Pretty decent-looking truck, though. So I'm excited.
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I have pretty extreme mood swings throughout the day. Like today - I went from pretty calm and normal to extremely happy and a bit hyper to sad and almost depressed. If any of you actually keep up with my blog (which I'm sure you don't), I was rejected by a girl last year and I went into something short of depression. And apparently I come from a long line of emotionally traumatic family. So it's not entirely impossible; how much of it is regular teenage stuff and how much might actually be bipolar...well, I don't know yet. Not a very happy thought...
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Working on a new blog theme for October/Halloween. And my blog name/description is probably gonna change a lot in the next couple hours because I'm trying to find a good new name... Yes, I'm already bored with my old one.
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Someone posted a status on Facebook saying that a guy at their party had the swine flu. So now it could be going around my school. Anyone know the symptoms for it? I think I have the cold bug that's going around my school too, but it's probably a good idea not to take any chances, considering all the bad stuff we hear about H1N1.
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Swan Songs is only $8 at Target. I can get the new movie and a Glatorian at Toys 'R' Us for $23 or something along those lines. Trying to decide - do I want Hollywood Undead or Bionicle... I probably shouldn't be asking this on a forum filled with Bionicle fans. I think I already know the answer I'll get from all of you. :]
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Eh, I've been meaning to come back for a while, actually - since the beginning of summer. But, what with vacations and friends and all that, I never really got around to it. And when I finally was ready to come back...the forums went offline. So...I'm back. Not that I think many people would be interested to hear that. I talk to Carakki and Terakk on AIM and another site, so I don't have to worry about that. Well...time to reread the rules. Again. I should really keep a print-out next to my computer for every time I come back. Hopefully, this is the last time.
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February 22, 2009 ...and I didn't demand to be paid for it.
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February 15, 2008 Me: G'morning! Her: hi Me: Could u get on that temp aim acc? Her: no. Me: Ok... Me: D'you have any other msgrs? Me: Just so you know, I wont stop bugging you. I have to talk to you before Monday. Her: i cant get on! my mom wont let me ok? so chill Me: Ohh. xP You should have said that to begin with. And sorry. D: Her: its ok. y cant u just txt it? Me: Its too hard to txt. I know that probably sounds strange... Her: um...ok? do u want me 2 call u l8er then? Me: I could try; the only reason I didnt is because im terrible with words a lot of the time. Her: lol thats ok. i am 2 sometimes. so i am going 2 call u? or do u just wanna txt? Me: Call, but later. Her: ok. i cant til l8er anywaz. i hav church til 2. so can i call around 3? Me: Sure, sounds great. And thanks. Her: ok. kewl. wel i hav 2 go get ready so ill ttyl Me: K, seeya later! -- An exact transcript of this morning's conversation, all the way down to the capitalization. HELP MEEEEEEEE... I CANT TALK. I stink. Bad. The clock's taunting me now...I've got four hours. D:
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February 12, 2008 O.o She started texting me. The girl I like just started texting me. Long story...it would take me too long to explain. But I'm sitting here, chattering, shaking, messing up every word I type...ugh. Man, why won't she reply?
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January 26, 2009 *whistles* Wow, I need to stop being so vague...all my recent entries are filed under "Good News/Bad News". Just, please, someone stop me from making a category called "Random", or every entry I make will be in there. :] Let's start with Raanu...I decided to go to Walmart today in the hopes of picking up an Agori. I finally let my Gresh first dream go and instead decided to start with the Agori and work my way up to the Glatorian when I begin to earn money, then the titans. Earing $7 is a much more manageable goal than scrounging together $13... So. Raanu. Wonderful, I must say, especially because there was only one piece there that I already had. Every single piece was new for me, whether recolored or exclusive to '09--even the body, because I didn't pick up a Matoran last year with his body design. So he was very worth it for me. The only thing I already had was the Hordika Flamesword... I wanted to address a couple of points. He's awesome, first off, and the Vahi-like helmet is very much homely. Alien, but comforting. The size really surprise me...I was expecting something much bigger. I loved this change, though; it makes helmets seem like real collectables instead of hunks of useless plastic that don't even fit in your pocket *cough*Olmak*cough*. The head was also surprisingly small, and I also liked that. And the design. A lot nicer than the reviews and pictures made it out to be. I'm in love. His color scheme is great, though it consists of--you won't believe this--five colors: Metru Red, Keetorange, Orange, Dark Grey, and--Mata Red. His shield is indeed Mata Red, against all my doubts, and for that, I am pleased. Having these pieces in that color is also nice--I love using those, and it's going to make some of my MOCing bits a little more lively and different. And my take on the hands? AWESOME. I love it. It doesn't look "goofy" at all, but rather nice, to me. It adds an aspect that was lacking in Matoran Universe Sets. It makes them seem more...human. Easier to empathize, to understand, the character. And I can finally have a fistfight with my sets. SWEET. xD -- TEXTING. YESS I've been begging my mom FOREVER. Months now. She finally obliged with the consent that she would drop my dad's Media plan--internet and all that good stuff. He never used it, so getting something we all would use was in everyone's best interest, though it adds ten bucks to the phone bill. But what the hey, unlimited! And I can set up AIM so I can actually use the program FROM MY PHONE. If you've got AIM, then I really wanna have your SN now. :] I'll never stop talking. That is, if I ever get quick enough to start...but, y'know, practice makes perfect. Not that it's particularly easy on the stupid Razor. But trust me, I'll make sure to get a new phone someday. So I'm happy. Overjoyed, actually. Be overenthusiastic and support my short-lived joy. =DD
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January 26, 2008 Iza muh bloggy dead? =DD I'm sorry if the Vahki fad killed it. D: I don't blame you. KTHX.
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January 23, 2009 Reaally whack. :] First off, I guess I should esplain something. See, I like a girl--we'll call her KR for now --but I'm way too frightened to ask her out. And if I did, I'd really have nowhere to, y'know, take her. =DD So if anything I'm going to wait for a dance...if we have one coming up. Well, I still have to explain why I would have a dream about the girl I liked; usually, she's not that...well, on my mind. But yesterday in band she asked to see my band book and gave it back four or five minutes later. I have no idea why, but, y'know, I wasn't about to complain. And I should also probably say that my current relationship with her is practically perfect; she knows who I am, she considers me a friend, but more out of the way, you know? Liek, I'm not really involved in her life too much and therefore it wouldn't be quite so awkward to ask her out as it would be if I barely knew her at all or if I was a close friend. Works well, doesn't it? :] So, now that I've explained all that, onto my dream. Started out with my family in a car, driving to a band competition or something. Meh, normal, eh? Yeah. Not quite so. The girl I like was riding a bike behind the car...and somehow, amazingly, miraculously, she was keeping up. xD The dream then flashed to some room where we were all having dinner. I dunno why--I can never remember the dialect in my dreams, maybe because it's not there--but she gave me a huggle. <3 And then my dream took a turn away from happy-dandy and got upsetting, though not nightmare scary stuff. Someone told her something, I don't know who, and she jacked my trombone (remember the band competition thing)? But I found her jacking it and got really mad; she tried to explain, but I didn't let her, and I said...something that goes against the word filters on this site...and she got completely furious and took a taxi back home. And then my dream took yet another turn. I went to find her grandfather, because apparently no one else in her family, including her, was willing to talk to me. Her grandfather, who was named Ben in my dream, was some cross between a human and an ape (which looks very apelike, anyway) and had a pretty big, hard head. When I first saw him, he was sitting on a sloped ledge--and right when I was about to go and see him, he slipped down on the ledge and fell into an abyss. Well now, doesn't that suck for the direction of my dream? I dunno how--I've never managed to go beyond the confines of a set dream before--but I managed to back it up and seal off the abyss so that he simply bumped into a rock and climbed back up. Then I talked to him...or something...I don't honestly know about what. I think that ended my dream, though, but I just remember being happy. Then it set sail for completely different waters, something about a guy who forced people to give him awards--and he later met those people, who were furious and disgusted with him, and he felt terrible; but try as he might, he couldn't regain their friendships. Then we changed again, this time to a dream about the up-and-coming Hannah Montana movie. She wound up dating a complete cool dude who didn't keep his texts sealed away from his friends, and they saw them or something and they knew she was going out with him? Then it flashed to the end of the movie, and apparently she decided to not be Hannah anymore, which isn't a big decision considering she has two careers anyway. =DD I forgetzee what came next, but I think it was something to do with her personal life. As in, discussion with her father, but nothing to do with what Hannah Montana might. Soo...then Spongebob and Patrick found a way to make it day and night at the same time and screwed up the entire world. :] And I woke up.
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January 20, 2008 Things Lost *whistles* Wow, I have been really slack on my blog since the Vahki came around. I kinda started avoiding it because of the drama...xD Well, back in the swing of things now, I guess. And unfortunately starting with bad news. Don't kill me. *whimpers* On Sunday, my online friend Cole's mother passed away from cancer. She'd had it since July. His dad died about a year back, leaving him more or less orphaned. His sisters and brothers are staying with his grandparents until they graduate, whilst he's staying with his cousin. In a day, his whole family was split apart. There's a lot more to that store, but he requested I not share it. The worst part is, today is his birthday, and he felt like everyone had abandoned him and didn't care about him. So I spiced up our forum's homepage, put his favorite song in a little Grooveshark widget (You Found Me by The Fray) and decided to throw a Club Penguin party. If you have a Club Penguin account--or are willing to make one--PM me and tell me you can come. I'm Egaro800, and I'll be on the server Thermal in the town at 5:00 EST unless our plans change. JazzDawg, Kingdom Dark, and I are all pitching in to buy him two one-month CP memberships as a present. Which also reminds me--does anyone have a code for HTML confetti that we could add to the homepage? I'd very much appreciate it. Naughty People These naughty people, they posted gross stuff on my forum with Trojan Horse viruses planted in them that eat at your files and give your computer thousands of disgusting pop-ups. On top of that, it redirected to a site that automatically phished your password. We're trying to report them to the ICC or whatever...where would we go to do something like that? They went as a group called Iamthewalrus. Sorry, Goo Goo Goo'Job, but I now officially hate your sign-off. And walruses...don't any of you dare leave a comment with a walrus in it. =DD
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December 22, 2008 Aha! I knew it! I KNEW THERE WAS A USE FOR THE MASKS WITH DETACHABLE PEGS! Y'see? You can't stick a normal one on there--you need a different peg. See? USEFUL.
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October 19, 2008 Yay! I finally got my new laptop today, and I must say, it is very...very...shweet. Built-in web camera (anyone got Skype? ), tight keyboard--no dirt can get in, new mouse, a Logitech, THREE USB Ports (more than any laptop I've ever owned), Intel Centrino Processor, Vista Premium, attachable/detachable WiFi wire (to help catch signal), ability to play and act as a DVD Player, fast websurfing, 250 GB, 4-gig RAM... Yesh, I wub. Really, I'm overjoyed--I have my activity back on all my forums, I can play all my games, I can watch all my movies, get all my programs... I'm going to take pictures a little later; I'm on the phone with Jmg, so I can't really take pics.
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October 16, 2008 This fits under both good news and bad news for once. All right, a couple weeks ago, I posted that my ThinkPad 600X Series laptop died. We did everything we could to try to save it--even bought a new hard drive--but eventually we realized that it was dead and something was wrong with the harddrive. At that point, the guy at Radioshack said, you're better off with a brand new laptop. And so, that is what we have decided to do. I'm getting an Inspiron Model I1525-139B. Really sweet laptop--good gigs, good mem--and I can get my activity back on all my favorite forums, including BZP. On top of that, I CAN FINALLY DO MY GRAPHICS WORK AGAIN! You don't know how happy that makes me. The catch, the bad news: the laptop is on sale on Best Buy's site for $499; regular price: $679. We definitely won't buy it if the sale ends, but we can't buy it now. Apparently, the people at Best Buy, if it's in stock, can have it to you in forty-five minutes if you go and pick it up from a local Best Buy. But we can't order because my mom's applied for a Home Equity Loan, and if we put anything on a credit card (and you have to if you order online), it will lower our chances of getting the loan. So we have to wait for approval. *sighs* Which could take up to two weeks. I'm crossing my fingers that they'll decide before then; this laptop looks great. If you want to check out the system stats and all those goodies, click here.
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September 30th, 2008 I feel absolutely terrible. I was one of those who posted other pictures of sets that turned out to be leaked images. I thought that it was okay--I haven't been on BZP in a while, remember--and I went ahead and posted it. Well, I felt bad enough when I saw that article on posting leaked images, and I apologized in the Talkback topic. Then I read through all the posts, people saying how annoying it was, even people saying how stupid it was...you know how bad that made me feel? Horrible. --- School was good today; I don't have any homework for once. Also, with Carakki's help, I'm going to be restarting Silver and Gold no More. I'm still in school right now. My mom hasn't decided to leave yet. Oh, and my blog post colors are going to change tomorrow, along with Content Block colors.
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September 22, 2008 My weekend in a nutshell: I puked, spent most of the time sitting around the house moping miserably, AND my laptop died. Did anything good happen this weekend? ... No. Not really--it was very miserable. All right, at 2 in the morning on Friday I woke up, feeling really queasy. I tried to get back to sleep, couldn't, and spent about half an hour in the bathroom with my head over the toilet. I just knew I was gonna puke. And I did. Four times. I had a cold, too, which was a really bummer. I was coughing and puking, all at the same time...my mom heard and came to see what I had done. So I went and sat down on the couch, watching TV on really low volume until I finally fell asleep. So, I just watched TV and used my laptop Friday. This was the beginning of my laptop troubles...the mouse suddenly froze up and stopped working completely. I tried everything, no luck. I wound up digging out an old racecar mouse my grandfather bought me last summer. It has a BALL in it. Seriously. :/ Well, it worked fine all right...until Saturday. It just started freezing on me. Didn't work at all. I tried Ctrl + Alt + Delete and all that stuff, nothing happened. I even tried flipping the switch on the side that you use to turn it on/emergency off. Didn't work. In the end, I had to pull the cord out of the back of the laptop to get it to turn off. My mom and I tried everything we could, but it was still freezing...today, it pretty much stopped working. Period. I turn it on, it freezes almost immediately. This was a six-year-old IBM ThinkPad with Windows 2000 Professional. It was never built to last long or for all the stuff I like to do--my graphics and all the junk I save on it. My mom is trying to blame me for it: "well, it's not meant for all that stuff. It's just meant for word processing and things like that." And then I have to say OVER and OVER: "I don't keep any of my graphics stuff on that computer, just GIMP, and I uninstalled it, anyway. I do it all on my dad's computer." So, you're thinking "well, you can always use your dad's laptop for all that graphics stuff, right?" WRONG. My dad's laptop screen cracked. Literally, in half. It still works, but moving it is risking it completely cracking, and I'm pretty sure the stuff inside the screen is dangerous. He's going to have to get rid of it (our warranty expired and repairs are the same cost as a new laptop) and possibly buy a new one. And speaking of buying new ones...I can't live without a computer. I can only get on my brother and sister's MacBooks and sometimes my mom's computer... I need money more than ever. I'm going to take the babysitting class as soon as possible. If you have any other easy, magic ways of earning four to six hundred bucks, I'm your ear.
