Happy Holidays
Written: December 24, 2007 at 4:19PM EST
Happy holidays everyone! And thus ends my longest EVER post! 
Long Time No See
Written: June 30, 2007 at 11:27PM EST
Nice! So glad to see I am able to keep up with writing of ANY sort over the summer. Oh well. In a sad pitiful attempt to write the events of the last, oh say, two months, I will attempt to do this in one sitting (due mainly to my short attention span over the last few weeks).
Prior to Myrtle Beach: I became employed at Wendy’s, probably one of the better fast food places, but like everything today, still has it’s skeletons. Before I went away, I was scheduled for two days of training, which consisted of the following*:
- How to wash your hands.
- How to obey the overlord (manager)
- The customer is the most important person on the face of the earth
- You are the slime beneath the customers feet
During the 4 hours of watching videos, I met the other three trainees who, I would easily say were the most unique group I have ever met (at least who were eventually forced to work together). And as a result of this, I will probably be killed
First off was Christina. She was a senior at my school. Prior to coming to Wendy’s she worked at Burger King so she probably had the most experience working with the slop which someone calls food.
Then was Tiffany. One word to describe her…. “Bubbly.”
I forget the other kids name Dustin was the final part of the interview group and I honestly don’t have much to say about him. During the entire course of training, he said probably 10 words. All I know is he goes to my school (what grade however, I have NO idea).
Once I arrived home from vacation, I was put to work on the fryer. I hate loath it. Nothing better than working for 5 hours over a 300 degree fryer.
But sadly, I don’t feel the need to dwell on that. </sarcasm>
Anyways, now on to the vacation. This year, like we have for the last two or three, we went to Myrtle Beach for week. This year, amazingly started out well. We made it to the airport on time, made it through all of the terminals and actually were there semi-early. An amazing feat for our family, considering the Andrus Family Curse (This of course is the constant inability to arrive to ANYTHING on time. No matter what it is; to give an example, one family member was late to her own wedding!).
After sitting in the airport for a little while we were allowed to board the plane. As usual, we played music plane seats and finally after a bit of rustling around we were all set to go. Just as the flight crew was about to shut the door, a man carrying a rather large “carry on” suitcase came aboard. I immediately got a strange feeling, which was further fueled by the large roll of red wire which fell out of the bag. Because of my completely uncalled for fear (which if I were to blame anyone, I would blame on the media) which left me white knuckling the entire flight to Charlotte, North Carolina. After flying for about 45 minutes my fear of the “terrorist” soon turned to disgust. For the entire flight I found myself looking over and seeing what he was doing. But towards the end of the flight, I was just too disgusted to look anymore. Of course, he began picking his nose, then rolling the “contents” around on his finger, then finally eating them… :vomit:
Upon arriving at Charlotte, my mom and sister met Gene Simmons and were freaking out about it the rest of the trip to Myrtle Beach. The rest of the day was rather uneventful. The days went by and I did some things I never dreamed of doing before. From para sailing, to riding a roller coaster (I don’t like the droppy felling in my stomach), and then getting into a huge fight with my uncle, which broke the almost non-existent relationship we shared. But overall the trip was a nice one, but sadly it hurt my chemistry grade because I “stopped working” (or so the teacher said).
Then every student in New York State’s favorite time of the year, Regents Exams! This semester, I had only two: American History and Chemistry. The American History one, I can only describe it as eventful.
June 19th was the day of the American History regents and of course it had to be close to 100 degrees when I have to take it. My school district decided when Regents first came out, that its students would take them in one of the two gymnasiums at the High School. This inevitably led to problems. Lets look at the flaw to this plan.
1. It’s 100 degrees. Gee, lets put all the kids in a room with windows that won’t open and lets not run any fans.
2. It’s 100 degrees, lets cram 250-300 kids into one room for three hours.
So the second the test begins everyone is sweating and the minutes begin to drag by slowly. I was able to get through the 50 multiple choice questions rather quickly and I began the first essay, which was a thematic essay. I had just finished the intro and all of a sudden I became light headed and my ears started ringing. Then the next thing I know I am being escorted out of the gym by the nurse and my American History teacher. Not at all fun. Then come to find out, the news of my trip to the nurse spread throughout the school and teachers were talking about me and other kids were talking about “the kid who passed out during the regents exams.” So nice to see the rumor mill at work because apparently, I had a heart attack and was escorted out by ambulance (when In reality, I went to the nurse, laid down for maybe 10 minutes and finished my exam.) The funniest part of the whole ordeal was the fact that I received a 98% on the exam.
Chemistry was the next day and that was a rather uneventful exam. I did ok on it and I think I got an 89%. Not the best grade in the world, but at least I passed.
After regents had ended, I officially began summer vacation. With work however, it seems as though its not really summer at all. I like working at Wendy’s, yet I hate it at the same time. I don’t know what I should do, but I have the rest of the summer to decide.
*By the way, that was sarcasm. I know for a fact someone will comment about that list…
Vacation
Written: May 26, 2007 at 2:34PM EST
Less than 24 hours until we go to Myrtle Beach for a week. I can’t wait. No school, no internet, nothing but a week of relaxation and no work! With that in mind, talk to everyone in a week!
A Hunting I will go…
Written: April 8, 2007 at 12:22AM EST
…job hunting that it. You would not believe how hard it is for a 17 year old to get a job anywhere. Today I went to a movie with my ex-girlfriend Megan and after the movie I went application hunting. Our god-awful mall has about 30 stores (each basically the same store, different name) and I applied at a good portion of them. However some had some strange rules which prevented me for applying.
1) Hershey Ice Cream Store - Must be 18 to scoop ice cream. (???) But what made it even more interesting was you could he 15 to pour scorching coffee in the store adjacent to it (Morning Brew).
2) Walden Books - Must be 18 years old to sell books. But whats funny is if you’re 16, you can use an oven, prepare food, use a deep fryer, a meat slicer, and drive semi-heavy machinery.
After hunting for a good 3 hours, we decided to go to Friendly’s and we (Megan and I) split a Munchy Mania and a side of fries (so healthy!). I then got a cone-head sundae and she had a friend-z. Luckily I didn’t have to pay for it (but I payed for the movie so I guess it evened out). We left and my hippie store, Rainbows End, closed. Now where will I get my incense?!
Anyways, following my hangover-like headache and a chat with Rose, I am ready for bed… Thank god its Spring Break!
Wow, that was fast!
Written: February 25, 2007 at 10:35PM EST
It only seems like Winter Vacation (no idea why we even got it) started, and already it’s over. Back to the same old rut
1) Wake Up
2) Catch The Bus
3) Try not to kill classmates
4) Catch the Bus
5) Go To Bed
I hate it so much, I just wish school would end.
However, I have been working feverishly on Zeisu. Over the course of the break I managed to get all of the major external features semi-working as well as some other “Top-Secret” aspects. I am hoping to get the site open before October, and if things keep going as they have been, I may be able to open much sooner!
#1 Sign You Need Sleep And A Break From PHP
Written: February 19, 2007 at 6:45PM EST
You know you need a break when, without thinking you come out with something like this:
<?php
mysql_connect(’sleep.sleepy.com’,’sleepy’,'verySleepy’);
mysql_select_db(’insomnia’);
$variable = “I seriously don’t”;
$tired = “Yes, Very Tired”;
$sql = “Select * From groups WHERE iDontCare=’$variable’ AND imTired=’$tired’”;
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$areYouReallyTired = mysql_num_rows($result);
if($areYouReallyTired >= 1) {
echo “ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ”;
} else {
echo “I don’t need no sleep”;
}
?>
Anyways, off to sleep for the next two or three days……..
Thanks a ton Zeisu! 
I will be screwed come the restart of school
Written: December 30, 2006 at 2:04PM EST
Christmas Break (or should I say, Winter Recess, to be more politically correct) has been awesome. Albeit it’s only a week away from the freaks which I am forced to associate with daily, but still freedom from them!
To top that off, the end of the first semester is drawing nearer and nearer. But as a result of this, I have a feeling that the work-load is going to double if not quadruple. I am quite surprised however, at the amount of homework I had over vacation. Only 40 note-cards for an American Literature essay. Considering I am taking classes like AP Spanish, I am surprised that I only received that assignment! 
Over the course of break, my sleeping schedule is getting more and more messed up (as I’m sure many other people’s are too). Going to bed at four or five in the morning and waking up in mid to late afternoon. I’m expecting it to lead to my downfall come next week. Last night, as I’m sure everyone knows, Saddam Hussein was executed (I’m expecting to hear nothing but this for quite some time). My sister and I, both interested in what the result of this would be were watching CNN last night and we became quite uneasy.
Only hours following the execution, a car-bomb exploded at an Airport in Madrid, Spain as well as increased violence in Iraq. The fact that across the bottom of the screen, messages of fear of repercussions in the U.S. did even more to instill this feeling within us. I myself have no idea as to what will occur, but I am pretty sure it won’t be good.
Wow, it does fit!
Written: December 26, 2006 at 11:54AM EST
For the last couple of months, we’ve been kinda busy and we figured we shouldn’t even bother putting up the large tree, so my mom dug out our little one (which usually goes outside) and set it up in the living room. My sister, the Christmas fanatic, convinced me to help her set up the big tree almost 8 feet tall) up. (Its fake because I have horrible allergies and the pine needles are a pain to vacuum out of Berber carpet.)
Anyways, our first task, dig the tree and the presents out of the nook underneath the stairs. Usually, we took the tree and decorations out of the nook via a large hole designed to access the nook. Come to find out, AFTER clearing out a path to get the tree and stuff out, the hole was sealed shut, making it impossible to get the tree out.
So we did the next best thing, my sister squeezed between to studs underneath the stairs and straddled the box. Then slowly she began digging out parts of the Christmas tree and handing it to me. I run each piece into her room (in the basement) and hid it. The whole reason for being secretive is because our mom didn’t want to mess around with the tree and decorations. Finally, after digging the tree out, we went for the decorations. We must have dug through at least 8 large plastic bins before finding them. We did come across a rather strange find “Jerry Springer… Too HOT for TV”. After transporting everything into her room and hiding it, we were set, now all that was left was to wait for our parents to go to bed.
Through this part of the experience, we learned one thing…
(sorry about the blurriness, camera was being weird)
“You CAN fit an 8 foot tree into a 3X3 foot space!”
At about 11pm, our parents went to bed and we set off to set everything up. Step one, take tree out of closet. As we did that, one of the larger parts of the tree fell on my toe. While attempting to be quiet, I was jumping around, foot throbbing , swearing in a whisper. We then carried everything upstairs.
We quickly set up the tree and decorate the living room. While trying to be as quiet as we could, the dog had other ideas. Picking up her soccer ball, she begins hurling it down the stairs. She would stomp down, grab the ball, walk up and do it again. Finally, our mom, fed up with the noise told us to go to bed. By this time, the tree was all set up and lit, and the living room decorated. She didn’t even see the tree when she yelled at us!
Done, we went to bed. 6am rolled around and my mom came and was surprised and happy to see the tree. She said when our stepdad came upstairs to go to work, he saw the tree and called her upstairs asking where his socks were. She came up and he said…
“Those little shits” staring at the tree, trying to get our mom to look”
So that’s my little Christmas story.
Merry Christmas!
Here’s the result!
No Comment…
Written: August 22, 2006 at 5:30AM EST
well actually, Please comment :D. Anyways, due to the lack of updates, I will now share with you my amazingly boring (and towards the end PAINFUL day). It started at 6:30, I woke up, then went back to sleep on and off until around 11… err make that 12:15ish. I then decided to check my email, as I am still attempting to download guestblock, and the creator was kind enough to upload a version for me, but I have yet to be able to download it. So then I went to SwayForum, where they were talking about the Sims 2. For some reason I had an urge to check out simlogical.com, a really cool spot for old Sims 1 downloads, it closed and I decided to look for the downloads. I found them, but it was in a SMF forum. It took FOREVER to download. But I did it, and it turned out to be 449 zip files. So now I have it for my own use, I’m so happy!!!
About 200 files earlier, we went to the gym and while we were there my sister and I decided to take a spinning class. BIG MISTAKE!!!! First off, for those of you who don’t already know, spinning is a class on modified exercise bikes with heavy disks in the front which make it hard to pedal and stop. Well, we started peddling normally, then we started picking up speed, which makes it harder. Then we had to stand up and stretch our arms to the side then behind our heads, all well peddeling faster and faster… It was NOT FUN. I could barely keep balanced normally on the bike (due to the way they are set up), let alone stand and lean in weird directions. I then fled the class :icon_redface: and ran on the treadmill instead and lifted weights instead.
All in all a rather interesting day… and I’m not going to go into what happened at Lowes :icon_eek:. Lets just say some things are better left unsaid.
As I promised . . .
Written: May 13, 2006 at 6:19AM EST
here are some pictures from my trip to Myrtle Beach. There are a lot more (yet to be developed).
More pictures are in the gallery.
View It here