I was looking for people I knew on Twitter, so I searched for turelie. I was all excited, because the one person that came up had the same first name (No last name given), so I thought it must be her. But on closer inspection, it turned out not to be her. (Unless I'm totally dumb, but as far as I can tell it isn't her) It's just weird that she happens to have the same user name and first name. Though it was turelie26, not just turelie. But still. (Tell me if I'm stupid, and that actually is you, Turelie!)

Ganked from turelie. And I'll post a real entry sooner or later. <3

21 Questions

Age: 21
Where did you grow up: Western Washington

WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks? Creak
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called? Shopping Cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in? Lunch Box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in? Frying Pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people? Couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof? Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening? Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages? Soda or Pop (Yes, Pop!)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup? Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself? Sub Sandwich
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach? Swim Trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports? Tennis Shoes
13. Putting a room in order? Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark? Lightning Bug
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball? Pill Bug
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down? See-Saw
17. How do you eat your pizza? Starting at the tip.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff? Garage Sale
19. What's the evening meal? Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are? Basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places? Drinking Fountain

Mostly the same, but not all!

Here it is a few days into Spring, and it's snowing big fat huge flakes, and the sky is dark as dusk. Just the other day it was sunny enough to go out without a jacket. I love weather. (I really do!)
But for once I hope the snow doesn't stick, because that would be a mess when we drive up to Seattle tomorrow.

Edit: Nevermind, it's sticking. For a place that never gets snow, we've been getting a lot this year. (And I get really excited by snow, just like a little kid)

I need a new MUD. Myth never emailed me back, and I think Xenobia is gone for good. *mourns* I've tried out a handful the past day, all have been good in some ways, bad in others.

So, I know I have LJ friends on here who play MUDs. (Especially since I know a good number of you from LoX) Which do you play, that you think I might like?

I am most familiar with SMAUG and AFKmud codebases, but I can figure out others. I like medieval fantasy, that way I can lapse into playing an Neutral Elven Druid until my RP rustyness goes away. (Though I am getting sick of that, too. I really need to bring my D&D Evil Cleric version of Elg back.) The only thing I really care about is that there are people to RP with. I much prefer RP to leveling and fighting.

Alanna: Someday I'll play FK, not right now, so shush. >_> Hee hee. <3

Sorry, I've been neglecting LJ again.

Still going in and out of post-relationship sadness, but overall I think I'm getting better.

Pulled my first all-nighter in a couple of years to finish a group project last night, so I'm kind of like a cranky little kid right now.

Finals are next week, most major homework is due friday, so I'm getting burried in that.

Sakuracon is in a couple of weeks, so I am excited for that.

I've been selling lots of stuff on eBay. Yay for extra money from stuff I don't need. (And yay that my store has a post office)

Speaking of extra money, I want my tax return...

I don't start work until 7 tonight, so I may go see my mom before that if she calls me back.
Edit: I love how whenever you say something like that, the phone rings. I guess she has to work late, so no mom-visits today.

That's it!

George and I were driving home from Fern's house not more than 20 minutes ago, when we saw a Safeway semi-truck coming out of a parking lot. We made the typical "blah... Safeway... Ugh." Comments, as we both work there. We were on a main street, and it was coming from a parking lot, so naturally, it should have stopped. It didn't, and if George hadn't have swerved, it would have run right into my side of the car. Seeing a truck coming at you just isn't good times.

Of course the fact that it was a freaking Safeway truck that almost killed us makes it that much worse.

*coughcough* How about some of our drivers go to the employee improvement course next saturday...?

I'm usually mildly ashamed to admit I like hip-hop or the like, but I really like Rihanna's 'Please Don't Stop the Music'. (So it isn't really hip hop, but whatever.) I can't get it out of my head, which is probably the idea.

I want to go dancing now. Anyone?

I will sound like I am bragging (Which maybe I am) But this happens so infrequently in my computer classes, that I feel compelled to share: I got 100% on the Requirements Analysis midterm, and I was the only one in the class who did.

I hope he didn't grade it wrong, or something... 0_0

I don't like Valentine's Day being shoved down my throat, unless someone is going to give me flowers or treat me like a person.

I get almost run over on a near to daily basis because idiot drivers here seem to think they live somewhere other than the United States in which PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY when they are in a crosswalk and the sign tells them to walk. Not to mention your light is red. I don't care if making a right-turn is legal, YOU STILL HAVE TO STOP IF THERE IS SOMEONE IN THE CROSSWALK.

Usually, I just laugh at the drivers when they look sorry for almost hitting me, or I secretly fume at the ones who don't look sorry. But today it finally pissed me off enough to flip the person off in front of everyone in the intersection. I would have given her a nice punch to the nose, too, if she hadn't been sitting all comfy behind the tinted glass of her SUV. I was half afraid she'd get out and yell at me, or something, but she didn't. She probably just thinks I'm some teenager with anger issues.

Sure I am mean, but I hope everyone who nearly hits (Or does hit) someone gets hit (or almost hit) themselves when they are walking perfectly legally across a crosswalk, being perfectly visible in the middle of the day.

FUCKING WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING.

Thank you.

Every Valentine's Day at Fools Play Improv, someone wins a 'date' with one of the Fools, and they record it to show everyone else. Having just seen the one for this year last night, I remembered that I had never seen last year's.

Last year, my roommate, Amanda won a date with the Blue Fool. After dinner, they headed back to our place...

I think it's really funny, but maybe that's because I know everyone in it.



Not my house, roommate or boyfriend anymore, but good times anyway.

I have this weird feeling. Generally, that doesn't mean anything, but as I am about to go out, and I don't have anyone to tell where I am going, I am telling you guys. I am just going to Fools Play, but that involves riding two busses and walking a little ways on both ends, so in case something happens, now you know where I went. Stupid weird feelings.

Edit: *gasp* Big surprise, I got there ok, and nothing happened. (No drunk people even talked to me on the bus!)
My mom always gets really worried if I take the bus somewhere at night, especially going through downtown, and she's conditioned that into me forever, so that's probably why. It's silly though, because it's Olympia, and nothing ever happens, and I used to live downtown, and I would walk through it to come home from work every night.

It would be really nice if the power didn't go out. Hint hint, wind.

I am going to go get ready for bed, then read for a while, even though I feel as if I should be asleep now. That makes me happy for some reason, so I feel the need to share.

I deleted my facebook and myspace, but I am keeping this around still, so if I regularly spoke to you on either of those, it shall have to be here, email, phones or RL from now on! *gasp* Love ya all.

I was reading one of those "You know you're from Washington when..." Lists, and I just had to pick out some of my favorites:

11. You yell at the TV if they pronounce the name of a city wrong or make an inaccurate Seattle reference on "Frasier" or "Grey's Anatomy."
I have done that exact thing. Especially in movies. "WTF!?? That isn't what Seattle looks like!! *fume*

20. You take a heavy coat and a hat with you for a day at the beach.
I liked this one, just because it wouldn't even have occured to me to include this on the list, because it wouldn't have occured to me to think of anything else when going to the beach.

53. You know how to pronounce geoduck and know that it doesn't quack or have feathers.
That one's for Alanna, since she goes to Evergreen.

59. You go to work in the dark and come home in the dark even though you only have an 8 hour workday.
I'm pretty sure this happens many other places, too, but it was happening alot a few weeks ago, so I had to post it.

60. You've ever stood alone on a deserted street corner in the rain.
Standing in the rain is where it's at!

62. You know what a Frango is.
One of the best treats when I was little. Especially the mint ones.

65. You have an earthquake story, and so does everyone else you know.
I have a couple. The most notable being the biggest, obviously. Though I have to say, even in tiny ones, the ground rolling like water is incredibly unsettling.

67. You can identify five different cities by smell alone.
Tacoma Aroma, anyone?

69. You know what 'Sodo Mojo' is.
Fucccck yeah!

79. You know you better enjoy the snow the first day it falls before the rain washes it away.
This has also been happening alot lately.

87. You know the difference between a rhododendron and an azalea.
That can't be just a Washington thing.

94. You don't know what a turnpike is and have never paid a toll to drive over a bridge. I never really knew they existed until middle school when I started paying attention more when I traveled around the country.

105. You prefer one mountain range to the other.
The Cascades, though I have only been climbing in the Olympics.

111. You know that Grey's Anatomy takes place in an alternate universe where the Space Needle and Pike's Place Market are both right next to a hospital which is REALLY the Komo 4 News building!
I think it's funny that Komo 4 is the hospital. And of course the few times they actually film there, they make a big deal on the news.

112. You get pissed off when Dr. Bailey asks for a "mocha latté" on Grey's Anatomy, even though those are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DRINKS! GOD!
This needs to be under the "You know you work for Starbucks when.." List. But I hate when people do that, yes.

118. When you cross the mountains and it feels like you entered a completely different country...
Desert in Washington. Holy crap!

119. You always have to specify "the state of Washington" instead of just saying Washington because of DC.
When I lived in Wales (Or when I visited the East coast) I took to just saying I was from Seattle, instead of having to explain myself fifty times a day.

134. When you visit anywhere else in the country and you say to yourself 'I'll never complain about the NW again because it's the greatest place on earth and everywhere else blows!'
Every time I fly/drive back into the Northwest, I marvel at how beautiful it is, and how I am glad I live here, even if I do complain all of the time.

144. You say 'pop' instead of 'soda.'
Because Jordan gives me crap about it, and occasionally customers from other places do too.

145. When in another state, you smell rain on the pavement and think of home.
A good smell.

203. Hanging out in parking lots is normal.
Hahaha we always hung out in the Safeway parking lot in High School.

205. You can identify the Tacoma Aroma
Seeing as I mentioned it above...

207. You still call it the Bon even though now it's Macy's
It was the Bon for most of my life, mmk?

214. You regularly pass volcanoe evacuation route signs.
And Tsunami ones, though neither are in Olympia.

216. You miss the Kingdome
And watched on TV with my entire family as it was imploded.

236. Seeing a submarine, aricraft carrier, or battleship is not a big deal.
When I was little, I got to tour the USS Olympia (Neucular submarine)

247. You remember what cities/towns looked like before sprawl.
Like the city I live in now... Poor Tumwater! They took away all the trees. :(

252. You always see "Sonic" fast food commercials but have never been to or know where one is.
I have seen one in Texas. But they have commercials here for some reason.

--You know where you were during the Nisqually Earthquake. And know how to say Nisqually.
8th grade in Mr. Clarke's Math class.


Wow, that turned out way longer than I thought it would. And it's probably only amusing if you are from Washington...

The lights just flickered followed by a huge explosion outside. I looked out, but didn't see anything weird. (And as the electricity seems fine now, and I don't hear any screaming, I am much too lazy to go walk up the street to see if anything happened.) Reason tells me it must have been a transformer blowing up. Though that usually only happens durring storms. Oh well.

I watched Star Trek Generations, and that with the hundred episodes of Voyager I've watched in the past month have got me all Star Treked out. Crap, going to have to find something new to do... Don't know if I am quite ready to get a life yet, might just exist for a while longer. You'd think with no life I could do my homework, but not so much. That requires more mental ability then I have currently.
That is all.

Good night.

I wake up today, look outside, and all is white with snow! And in Washington, where it hardly snows, everyone freaks out, and closes school if there is more than an inch. So I hop on my computer, and look up school closures. SPSCC is not listed as closed, or as even having classes start late. Bummer, but sometimes they keep colleges open when other schools are closed. So I get ready, head out to the bus stop, stand there a bit and when the bus comes, I start to get on. Then the bus driver says "If any of you are going to the college, campus is closed, ands classes are canceled for the rest of the day." There were five or so of us, who were like "Whaaat...?" Apparently they didn't say anything on the radio or TV, either. Goood job for not telling anyone, SPSCC. Tim got all the way to school before he found out, too. Fun times.
I'm glad for no school, mind you, but I wish I could have found out before I spent an hour getting ready.

Never seen the show. Actually had never heard of it until today at work, but apparently it's funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M

"You're not married, you don't have a girlfriend, and you've never watched Star Trek... Good lord."

That made me laugh a bit much.