Having put all my fiction (minus the three books in my bedroom) into a database I am forced to draw the conclusion that I will only own about 1500 books once I add in the non-fiction. Sigh, I thought I might have 2000 by now.

I just finished watching Antique Bakery which I watched because I kept not buying the manga in Japan - and it's only 12 episodes.
I regret watching Honey x Honey Drops and now fear for Japan's anime future...only 2 episodes but........oh dear.
I am currently watching Sky Girls and am amused by the fact that since a war wiped out 80% percent of males aged 20-50, all children under the age of 20 are now female... huh?
Somehow I forgot to buy Stigma volume 6 and now possess Stigma volume 7. So to read it I had to read volume 5, my Japanese version fo volume 6, and then the new volume 7. Ah Stigma, thank you for the early birthday present!




...yes, my life is this boring. I don't mind.

I'm getting closer to being fully "at home." All my books are on shelves (with the exception of the few duplicates I'll have to return, about 5 books). I have 20 shelves that are 1 1/2 feet long, and 8 six foot long shelves and one little book case of 4 two foot shelves. They are all filled. I'll let you know my count when I finish counting. I have no just finished counting 95% of my Japanese manga which gives me 87 different titles. (I'm not telling the volume count!)

Almost all my boxes are opened (with the exception of the boxes that I'm sending down to my storage container in the basement - hopefully, I'll have it tomorrow). All my furniture is in the place it'll be. And I've found out I have more packs of playing cards than I ever thought I could have. I should have it all done by next Sunday. I hope I can do my homework in the intervening days and still get the house done. MUST do my homework!!!

So, I'm well. Just a bit overwhelmed by life.

Tomorrow, I will be reunited with my books. All 2000+ of them (I haven't been able to count recently). I am all packed up and almost ready to move, I've been sleeping on the couch-form of my bed because of all the boxes. I've got a nice little 600sqFt 1Br apartment just south of Highland Park - this summer will be walking distance from Half-Price Books. So an ideal location really. East facing window, light tan walls and white cabinets. Three closets and a storage unit in the basement. "Open" floor plan as the kichen has a breakfast bar and overlooks the living area.

How much stuff will I be attempting to stuff into 600 sq feet? Besides the books, not much. I've got all my clothes fitting into my two largest suitcases which are part of a suitcase set - and the large suitcase isn't really that big and the next largest counts as a carry-on. (That is all my clothes minus seven days worth.) A couple boxes of Japanese fabric, pottery, and other decorations. A PSOne, Gamecube, and Nintendo DS, 18 years of legos, and more stationary, coloring books, crayons, markers, stickers, googly eyeballs and paper, than any person should have.  Not to mention my three desktops, two monitors, four external hardrives, printer, scanner, and laptop. I think - we'll be a bit snug when it's all said and done....

Perhaps I should start purging now?
Wish me luck! I'll let you know how it turns out. Maybe even take pictures?

Is there something in the water, or in my horoscope that says don't get up today?

I woke up at 3am to let our wonderful dog, Bailey, out since he was whining - which resulted in diarrhrea... Then at seven he had breakfast, but by 9 he'd been sick all over the kitchen and so after waking my poor parents out of their sound bed over in Washington State, I called the Vet. We braved Snelling Ave to find said vet and learned that Bailey is 34 lbs. (Nothing to do with being sick - everything to do with being a monster-sized sheltie. Sheltie 1.5 we call him). The vet gave him pills, bland food, water for his slight dehydration and a shot to keep him from throwing up. (Cost $114- not my bill thank god).

I return home, clean the kitchen up and call my parents with the better new - probably he's fine - while Bailey has diarrhea in the living room on the white carpet. Exiled to the balcony outside - where there is snow - I finish mopping up the kitchen and clean the living. NOT my idea of a wonderful day.

Then I check my email and find out my sister is sicker than I'd last hear. Poor thing. I call immediately - but of course, with her in Florida, there is little I can do to help, except threaten to beat the doctor who didn't give her any pain pills and didn't believe the severity of her problem until she made him check. Canker sores, swollen gums, swollen glands, pain swallowing, impossible to eat - she's lost pounds in the last week (which she cannot afford to do) becuase she can't eat anything. Jey, I love you! I hope you feel better very soon!!!!!

Then my dad calls as I'm trying to get Bailey to eat his anti-diarrhea pill - no I can't answer the phone, my fingers are covered in peanut butter! He can't get my mom's computer to go on Grandma's wireless and he's trying to find a new printer for her to buy since the one she has needs adaptors to plug into the new laptop. I am useless of course - although I try my best. Hope he figured it out...

Then off to return the medium-sized boxes I bought yesterday for small-sized ones that will not be so big as to be unweildly. Luckily, I find the receipt in my coat pocket. As I get lunch and coffee (I have no desire to cook in that kitchen, yet) my soon-to-be landlord calls while I wait for my chai - by now I know I DESERVE a chai from Carabou Coffee. We set up a meeting for Friday for me to pick which of two apartments and fill out paper work - No fuss, thank you very much!

I return home where, yeah! Bailey seems perfectly happy desipe having less than a fourth a cup of bland dog food eariler. Yeah!! Now all I have to do is find a U-haul place that HAS truck for Saturday (the one on Snelling doesn't) - and see if anyone will help me move beside my mother - who can't walk up and down stairs all day - or my father, who is healthy, but 54. Some of that furnature is BIG.

....and it's not even 1:30 yet....

Yes, I have blogged just to complain, but well, it was nice to get it out of my system.

EDIT: Oh and my PBWikis which I use for writing and for school haven't been working well all week.

On Tuesday - my laptop died - pszft (although the hard drive is fine and now safely embedded in a small, red external hard drive case - so I didn't loose anything but the laptop. So I had to buy a new one - which is really too bad since I was just looking at computers the day before to buy one for my grandma and lusting after the netbooks. I think perhaps I cursed it - or Peggle cursed it... Now, four days later, I now have a brand-new laptop - a MSi Wind Netbook to be precise - which was recommended to me by a friend, and had gotten good reviews. Plus the battery life claims to be 5 hours - I'm hoping for 4 since I'm not overly optimistic about manufacturer claims. Personally, I'm just hoping for an insanely fast start-up time.

I'm in the midst of customizing said baby laptop (Kaze-kun) and have just finished putting firefox on it and the four most important add-ons: A good theme (in this case TinyFox), Foxmarks - to get all my bookmarks, GTD gmail addon - since I'm in the middle of deciding whether I want to use it and TabMix Plus to make my tab bar sensible.

Next I will teach it Japanese, and then remove the trial MS Office and put Open Office on the thing and then see what other damage I can do to the creature. We'll see how long it takes for me to be jealous of someone elses laptop THIS time. I can hope.
 

"I became operational at the H—A—L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992. My first instructor was Mr. Langley. He taught me to sing a song ... 'Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I'm half-crazy all for the love of you.'"

Happy 17th, you insane computer!

And for more evil computers:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/top-10-evil-com.html

Okay, classes, Christmas, and other random holidays are over. I have survived the chaos.
Currently, I'm dog-sitting in the suburbs and have nothing to do but play on my laptop and watch TV.

Christmas was nice, although I have to decide what to do with the Christmas money...I thinking a terabyte would be nice, but so would more clothes, or books - books are always nice. So I have another day or do to decide what to do with it.

Elsewhere in my life, I finished up animeosusume.com for class - but it's still non-functional. I can't figure out why my facets don't limit the results when you click on them. I just don't know enough to figure out what's wrong and why...and the creator doesn't seem to know either since he hasn't responded to my most recent plea for aide. If it ever works-I'll add more shows.

I'm taking only two classes next semester: Database Management and Information, Technology, and Society - which should look at how technological advances and such affect societies and groups. It looks like a lot of fun.

And finally, I'm attempting to move out of the basement and into an apartment this spring. We'll see how it works out.

So, that's my life, on a blog-page.