Edit: My booklist is updated! Only 6 to go

So I wanted to be safe and wait a week but decided instead now is the time *fingers crossed*. On Friday we bought some Oscar fish! I was so afraid they’d die quickly like the last ones but they seem to be thriving in our new tank. We have an albino one (who might be called Jango) and a Zebra one (who is called Zep but who I renamed Spectrum because I think Zep is a stupid name :P) who are ravenous beasts! Well, when it comes to food… they never want anything else… they’d be little gluttons if we let them! Luckily, for them, we don’t So here’s hoping they survive… although they get big so fast it’s going to be hard to keep up with them.

So, you might have noticed my last post. Seems like Lazily is back in business! my first paid post since the ‘fresh start of 08′… so YAY to money Also I have a little text ad to the right if anyone would like to click on it
Also site related, I think Despair is broke… the code is all glitchy which is ruining my sidebar! I don’t want to remove it though because hopefully it’ll be working soonish.

Did I mention in my last post that I finally have season 3 of Veronica Mars? I finally know who the Hearst Rapist was and that Duncan and Veronica broke up… EEEEE! Obviously, she’s not with Weevil (even if my heart desires it) but still… boo to Logan! Sleeping with Madison? Eww!
On the Veronica Mars front, Season one is finally available to buy in Australia!! Only 4 years after it was on TV and all… not too long I’ve also seen that the second season will be out in September hurrah!
My only issue is if they’ll release Season 3… it’s never been aired in its entirety here so I’m afraid the TV station that was airing it will be a pain in the arse and not release it and that woul just be sad face see?

Lastly, and only because Menewsh stole my soul, I’m going to plug Menewsha again (if you join say Kalliste sent you! and then friend Kalliste) because I am it’s loyal servant

In a world where the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer it’s nice to know there are still people out there who will give their fortunes away to improve anothers life.

Over at the Kauffman Foundation they are putting money towards new initiatives and more education to make people financially independent. They offer a range of entrepreneurship opportunities for people in the community. The Kauffman Foundation holds and finances seminars to educate people on how to get the most out of their life and how to move forward and make money - which I’m sure everyone would love… I know I would! - they provide training on pushing your business to the next level and making a more successful you and hopefully you’ll see the entrepreneur within!

The foundation offers a college entrepreneurship and also minority entrepreneurship dependent on your needs and wants in life.

Through this education and training the Kauffman Foundation have changed the lives of many people and you could be next. Take a look at their incredibly informative website to see if the Kauffman Foundation can benefit you… unfortunately, for me they’re based in Kansas City which is much to far for me to swim but fortunately due to the beauty of the internet I can look at what they offer online.

This post sponsored by www.kauffman.com.

Over the course of the weekend I downloaded Firefox *squee* and The GIMP (what a sucky name? really? Gimp?) Hurrah! It’s been so long since I’ve had FireFox so I’m glad to have it’s company again. The Gimp on the other hand I have never had before, I’ve looked at it a few times but while I had Photoshop never took the time to download it.
Did I mention here that I had to format my PC? Well I did, and since then my Photoshop doesn’t work *cries* (I have a partitioned drive, PS was on a different partition to Windows). The Gimp is really not so bad, I quite like it… takes a while to get used to and I haven’t sorted out transparency yet but I do like some of the features it has that PS doesn’t… plus IT’S FREE!

So speaking FF, now that the PC has profiles (before Josh and I used to share) I’ve finally installed it because Josh used to whinge at me for even mentioning it before… the difference is this version of FF has an inbuilt spell checker which I mentioned… now Josh is also using FF! It took me years to even download it and now he’s decided “Oh hey, this is really quite good” >:(Oh well, plus side we’re all happy

In other events, have I told y’all about my house mate? He’s slightly wacky (which may in fact be an understatement). One of the specifics is being environmentally friendly… he thinks he’s good to the earth because he recycles (although mainly stuff that isn’t recyclable) meanwhile yesterday he had both the lights on, the dryer, his computer with MP3s blaring, the heater and the TV (with DVD on pause) on and where was he while all of this was happening? Outside having a cigarette! He does this junk all the time, it’s so frustrating… like in the morning he’ll get up, turn the heater, TV and his computer on. Make a cup of coffee and go out side to smoke for the next 30 minutes… why? Who knows!
He also opens the blinds for all the world to see us so most of the heat seeps out the windows anyway!

Yes, he drives me insane.

recently, he has decided he has a phobia of getting lost… uh,huh

Now that I’ve ranted that out There’s not much left to say… on a happy note though, I just found out my libraries loans out sci fi dvd’s!! (seems like it’s only sci fi and occasionally reality for some reason) so I’ve requested all these things… I’m 1st in the queue for many but people are taking their time!! Come on people!! You’re not the only ones that want to see this stuff

Ok, so I’m going to finish here… really

A few days ago I realised I owned ‘How to Deal’ which is a movie I love but didn’t realise I’d bought! So Last night I watched it, a few things happened after this (a few of which happen everytime I watch How To Deal):

1. I got sad, this movie makes me sad for some reason… maybe because I want to be Mandy Moore in this? Who knows? I definately don’t want to be Scarlett though!!
2. I get re-aquanted with my Trent Ford obsession! Gosh, he’s beautiful… I try to track him down a lot after watching this movie, unfortunately he’s not doing so much recently
3. I realised it was based on a book. Why have I never looked into this before? I assumed it would based on a book, in fact it is based on 2… one of which I have read!! Can you believe it? I didn’t even freaking realise lol I’m so stupid! Then again, it’s kind of a squish of 2 of Sarah Dessen’s books so I didn’t know the entire story but seriously with character names like Halley, Scarlett and Macon I should have realised! I’ve requested both of them from the library!

Speaking of books, I borrowed the 4th Gossip Girl book today. Yes, the show may be over for the season but the books (and fanfiction) still remain. Initially, I didn’t like the books… I wasn’t sure I would read more than the first but I love how they’re kinda like a TV show. Everything focuses on 1 event in time rather than a period of a few months or years. I like that, I like that about TV too.
So I’ve begun reading “Because I’m worth it”, overall I feel sorry for Jenny… poor big boobed Jenny On topic of the GG books I love the covers, I love that you never see their faces… I believe there was a re-release of the first one that has Blake Lively and Leighton Meester on it and it kinda sucks… you see them both and it’s just no mystery. The originals were much cooler!

Now that I’ve written like crazy I will end on a few points

1. I’ve been deemed Super Moderator of a forum. My new forum-y home Go find me over at LasciviousMB (my username is Kalliste!). It’s very post crazy and there’s some great, unique games so go check it out
2. Melissa (or Princess Melissa as she likes to be known) has pushed me in the direction of Menusha, it’s kind of hard to explain… virtual world? Mix of WhuddleWorld and Gaia I suppose but you earn gold by posting in their forums… unfortunatel the forums can be a bit dull so come and stalk Melissa (comotized) and me (Kaliste) and wreak some havoc!

I’ve begun starting work at 11am… I’ve been doing 8am starts for approximately 18 months and now I have to work at 11am. I hate this shift already and I’ve only been doing it for 3 days. I’m not sure it’s all the shifts fault though, there are a lot of changes going on at work which kinda suck, I’ve been fighting my battles though and have won most of them Which has meant slightly less work for me! Woo!

I’m also getting sick so that’s not helping… I have multitudes of cough lollies, Cold and Flu and soup to help me through though My soup has Croutons! I didn’t realise and was like “the hell are those?” and then *crunch* “ooh croutons!” at least I hope that’s what they are … just read the ingredients… yes, they are Croutons

It’s a sad few weeks for me for TV land. Gossip Girl finished this week (although I haven’t seen it yet so NO SPOILERS! :)) and Lost finishes this week as well… the 2 shows I wait for most! How upsetting! Should I be watching something else? Suggestions anyone? Maybe I should start getting Doctor Who Season 4 to help me with my withdrawals OR I could go out and actually do something other than watching TV shows But where is the fun in that?

Gah, I’m so bored right now (at work)… give me some stuff to look at readers! provide me with something cool, yet work safe

So, Mum really liked the Mothers Day stuff I bought/made for her. She was astonished about the necklace and earrings and couldn’t work out how the hell I did it… even when I tried to explain she still didn’t get it lol.
It was pretty great, my Scones came out of the oven just as she arrived so everything was timed perfectly and the cream *drools* tasty!
She (Mum) messaged later on Sunday night saying it was on of, if not the best Mothers Day she’s ever had! YAY, go me! Although, it was Josh’s idea so YAY him!

On a sadder note… both my fish died. I kinda forgot about them (when they were dead that is lol). I wasn’t overly surprised so I forget that it’s happened, they stopped eating and well, it was pretty inevitable. I’m kinda glad… burden free now (I know, thats terrible! But they were being right pains in the arse near the end).

Mother’s day is around the corner and well, I’m poor. My mum wanted a pair of slippers (I know right, yawn!) and well.. no haha. I couldn’t afford a decent pair and didn’t want to get something crappy; instead I bought her 2 pairs of fluffy ‘home’ socks with rubber grippers, made her a necklace and earrings set and made her some chocolates. I’ll be having her over on Sunday for afternoon tea which will include fresh home made scones with jam and cream and cupcakes… possibly tea, if she wants it lol. Yech to tea!

On other, close to the weekend news, work was great today. The best Friday imaginable The network was down when I got in, they reset the server approximately 40 mins later and it was all good again. I took one call and was about to take another when everything went down again… and stayed that way for the rest of the day!! As far as I know it might still be broken For some reason we have a Dreamcast at work so one of the guys that lived near by brought in 100+ games and we played Dreamcast all day WOO! Good times!

Lastly, I got pinged on my last post! Yes, someone linked to my post… my second and already it’s happening YAY! I also jumped back to PR3, this makes me very happy

I got tagged… ME, I don’t think I have 7 friends lol. Oh well. Unfortunately, I can’t even tag Melissa because she tagged me first!!

The Rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names and link to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.

The Weird
• Uhm, at 24 (nearly 25) I still read Young Adult novels… and prefer it to adult (not the naughty kind!) fiction. Example, I’m currently reading the second Gossip Girl book
• I get excited about buying new cereal, over the weekend I bought Weetbix Crunch: Cocoa and made myself wait until this morning just to try it… it near killed me (it was really tasty).
• When watching TV shows I make up alternative dialogue or talk about what the character is really thinking when they give another character that look (this is really fun to do with Lost… or Smallville, oh god the innuendo between Clark and Lex is endless… I love Lex heh, well I love my Lex, actually no I love both Lex’s).

The Random
• I watched the Super Mario Bros movie last night!! Ohh Luigi how pretty you are. I remember having a huge crush on him back when it was first released then John Leguizamo got a bit older (I just IMDBed him and yikes! He’s so old… 1 year younger than my parents! How could this be?) and prettier still and I loved him some more in Romeo and Juliet
• Speaking of older men… I started watching American Gothic last week. I still totally love/d Sheriff Buck, I believe he started my love of villains. Man, he was so cool! (and creepy).
• I constantly burn or cut myself… yesterday I cut myself while slicing cheese, it’s really freaking annoying. On the plus side I haven’t burnt myself in a while. YAY
• I watched Superbad last night… I don’t get what’s so great about it. If it weren’t for ‘McLovin’ and the cops it would have been very very dull! I was disappointed in Michael Cera, when we he get cast as a character not like George Michael?

So the random was hard… I just had a mind blank… I’m sure there’s other things I could have thought of but meh, oh well.

So now it’s your turn: Tristian, Rachel, Nik & Kelly - told you I wouldn’t be able to think of 7 lol

Edit: Fixed the smilies. YAY!

If you’re a returning visitor you might have noticed something’s not quite right… well different anyhow (my smilies might not work either… that something I’ll have to work on).
You see, there’s been a bit of drama within my online world and the end result is my host changing to another company to host us… initially my old db got left behind. My host was very accomodating in helping me get it back but in the end I decided I didn’t want it back… I can’t believe how much neater my site looks without a bunch of archives lining up the sidebar! So yes, I’ve started semi fresh, luckily my host has been great and moved all my other stuff for me and put in all my themes into WordPress… making it VERY easy for me Plus now I have a new version of WP and it looks neat!! So swish!

All this drama though has made me a bit down… even though it hasn’t hit me as hard as others involved it still upsets me.

What I’ve learnt though is that sometimes people do the wrong thing and perhaps they should think about the consequences of that rather than expecting something for nothing.
Another thing I’ve learnt is it’s probably easier in the long run to take your share of the blame.

I was terrified I’d be gone too. I haven’t been in contact with my host in quite a while and felt terrible mooching off her and just expecting her to host me even though I contribute $0 to my space. Luckily, she’s ok with that and is more than happy to host me *phew*

SO what does this newness mean for me? I’m hoping to produce a better site with more than a blog… I’ve said that a million times before and perhaps nothing will change but I’m invisioning something better! And less cluttered with archives… and maybe some tags… this WP has TAGS!

Anyway… lets hope this posts ok