Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Miffed, pissy and gumpy. Satisfied?

Right now, I am feeling in a tailspin, and  being pretty much miffed about it,  to the point of feeling aggravated  to the n-th degree,  and I really wanna howl  because  of it.  I feel  confined,  having no job and no work -  wait,  work I can find, but job... /grumpy face/.  The  unemployment is getting to me, and with mum biting my head off sometimes,  I am not a happy camper about it.  I want to do something. I NEED to do something before I burst.   Doesn't help there's also that damned SOPA 2014 on the strike, and  we still need some 6.400 signatures to get to the threshold!

Today I looked up the  possible study choices -  I am toying with the thought of picking up my previous study,  or  continuing the recently  finished one,   but   to my disgruntlement, I can't find in myself to get  serious about them, either becasue they  are too hard or  too confusing.   I am leaning on  continuing the  finished study, because it's shorter and I already have a background,  'sides it's near my home.   I am  a little bit wary of picking up the former  study, firstly becasue it's away from home and secondly, I know myself only too well -  not  having liking for  language and it's grammatical nuances.  Bitch, please,  I  can learn, but  I have some notable exceptions -  Old Slavic Language is one of them, because this   language is dead as  dead can be, and  I  so don NOT want to  have my  brains zombfied  for  a year  before  the  exam and so on and so forth.  Gimme French any day, thank you.   And while we are at French, oh glory of all glories,  mum finally did her homework without me!  /relieved sigh/.

 But back to me and my snit. I am feelin' snitty. Now it's a little bit easier, but   in the morning I snapped at my mum when she brought me possible contact for a job -  in my  defense, I was eating at the time, and  she  came in  just in the middle of my chow time. What pissed me off was that  she continued  even if she  saw me  eating.  (true, I was reading alongside, but  that isn't the crime, as far as I know, and I sorely  despise when someone  interrupts my read-chow time.) Back before   the snit, I was pissed off becasue a)  I found a  small mountain of a freshly laundered  clothes to hang,  which is ....  somehow my duty,  and b) the two berks who shall remain nameless for  the sake of democracy,   left their  dirty dishes in the  sink  ... for me to wash. Not a happy morning for me, if I have to  do mundane tasks even before my breakfast. Okay,  laundry I understand, because  we just repaired the washing machine, so the increase is understandable,   but  I am a mite bit pissed off  that  the two don't  wash the dishes they use after  themselves.   Noo, nope,  not in a million years, since  I and mum  got that  unwritten and unspoken agreement that I am an unofficial dishwasher in the house.  Hello? Gawd,  it's tedious,   and I  can't   help but admire her for  the sheer tenacity  of doing this 50+ years, and being grumpy that we still don't have  dishwashing machine to do the deed. if there's a machine which we use for washing the clothes, it boggles my mind that we don't  use  a machine that would wash the dishes and  spare us the pissing around the subject of  dishwashing once and for all. We would spare time, heating up the water -  well,  electricity and  water would be a collateral here, but still,  the  good would probably outweigh the bad. Probably. /skeptic glance/.

Good news -  this month I am absolved from paying the health bills :), so that's a plus.  Still, the sooner I find  a stable job, the better.   That means getting off of my behind, wagging my proverbial tail at prospective  employers and hoping  that I would be interesting enough  for them to employ me. Really, all this cheer is practically killing me /miserable groan/. And am not feeling charitable right now. Right,  shutting up now.

Have to do something productive.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Mia-tastic Day

Well, what do you know,   there are some days when both of us have  a respite from each other.   Today, I led Mia out, let her to  run and   dig her  goles to her heart content -  I  amused myself with thinking  that for  all of her entusiasm,  Mia could definitely   dig a hole to the other side of planet, but alas,  her abilities to find the juicy  mouse or a mole are on a declining side.   However,   digging tired her out.

We also found a spot where  she just threw herself down and   roll, roll, roll, like crazy.  I don't know why, but   it was Rolling Spot, even if I didn't  see anything that would differ that  patch of dried out  grass from  any other.  However, Mia   enjoyed it.  On the  walk back, I don't know, but she behaved as if she had hemorrhoids in her  behind -  sitting , rolling  anything,  just not  going home!  However, her  'beside-walk' improved -   I just had to tire her out enough for her to comply.   Today's  time was half an hour,  or three quarters of an hour -  I am not too clear on that, but okay.

Anything else?   Got  amusing  new concept for story, and   I am grinning at the thought of it.   Right now,  gotta go  read some more,  yesterday was once again  Pack Your Logs Day, and  I only  finished with  sorting it out  today.

Mia was a darling, though  I will have to  get her in the  garage tonight, because the  temperatures outside are, even if  days are  moderately  warm, still chilly.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Tornado Mia turned Brat Dog Mia

Remember Mia? The Tornado Mia?

Yup, that Mia.   This day, she became officially ours, and changed into Brat Dog Mia.

Duration of time spent together: 1 hour and a 10  minutes -  30 minutes in the morning, and then 40 in the afternoon.  

At morning, it was  good, because it was more informal,  nothing to take her attention aside from usual  things, but  the afternoon was a whole different kettle of fish.  First father  instructing me the leash should be slackened -  I  want to see HIM  leading Mia  without  being dragged along at first /growls out, incensed/,   then I  tapped Mia down  for  jumping on me -  all right, she weighs  some 35  kilos, and I am  twice her weight, but  that still doesn't excuse her  from jumping on me.

The work was mostly Mia-centered -  I let her down  to  wild herself out,   and I made a note to talk to Mum about  teaching her  to let go of the things -  I wanted to play fetch with her, but  she is as stubborn as a pitbull on that, and I am so not risking my hands without  a proper know-how on how to teach her to  NOT  chomp on my  fingers  when I take  anything from her mouth.   Fuck, I miss Sani.  He  had plenty energy too, but  he at least was obedient to me /slumps with defeat/.  Then,  walking alongside me -   she  had an unpleasant habit of trying to drag me  everywhere and anywhere, so  I was  teaching her  to  walk nicely beside, or even better, a little  behind me.  pack leader and all that.  It  went better than with the first lesson, but that was about it -  when she was  let off leash, she was  crazier than ever, not listening a whit  to me, and when we came home,  she  inadvertently -  not! -  scared the chickens. Mia the Dumbass  makes appearance. /quadruple  sweatdrop/ Father was angry, and I admit, I should've lead her home on  a least, so   a lesson for next time.   I  intend on ignoring her today and maybe tomorrow.   Even  Mia isn't as cute as to convince me to  forgive her so quickly.  One step forth, three back.  Oh, God, just why don't  the dogs come with some kind of  an user manual? /whines/ Cat-speak, I understand.  Dog  brains...  the next greatest mystery to me,  aside  male  ones.  Sometimes, I wish we could gotten one of the ankle-biter puppies and reared them up.   Because   while Mum seems to get  the Mia Manual, I am hopelessly lost within translations.

Till next time,

Eirenei

The theme for today Who Let The Dogs Out?


Sunday, February 23, 2014

Deliberation, Determination and uhh....what was it again?

Somehow, I managed to stumble upon  Rachel Aaron's blog -  about writing.  While she is good,  her writing is interesting, what took me in, was  that she wrote  a manual on how to upend the amont of words written.  I will have to ferret that out,  because if I truly want to  write,  I  have to have a system... though I am still  pondering on the 'verse I will use for my original story.  I have an outline, but   not  an outline  I could base most of the things yet,  but the  premise  looks interesting.   However,   father is  egging me to find a work, and I  din' wanna,  I want to write!   Fuck it all, I am again between Scylla and Charybdis.  Also, my other stories will have to  be kicked into a higher  gear, without me  having a candy-land with the fiction of my favorite authors. /sniffs/. oh, so sad, too bad.  While copyblogging   seemed interesting,   I am not inclined to  get into know' how of it -  thy get me onto a leash and I will rebel. and   copyblogging  is a game  you have to play if you want to  have some goodies. May-be sometime.  But not  right now.

My head is buzzing with ideas, I only have to get the   main characters, scenes and so on operating. /sweatdrops/. I  predict one more college block will be murdered.

PS: Wrote her an email and we'll see  about it.

PPS: Early wake up  awaiting me. /despondent sigh/.  Me no gusta.

Eirenei


Friday, February 21, 2014

Tornado called Mia

Yesterday was an exhausting day -  not only did I sleep only  three and a half hours,  had a  fitting  again (CI fitting),  but  we also brought home the newest member of our little family - Mia.

Mia is  a dog,  she is  a mixture of Labrador and Boxer.  I won't bother with  detailed descriuption, but suffice to say, when Mum  has seen her online,  (February the 14th, ironically,), she  immediatelly fallen in love with the  furball.   If I hadn't  been asleep at the time, she would  undoubtedly woke me up and tell me "I found  her.".

Last year we had to euthanize our German Shepherd dog Sani -  he lived  13 years,  unusually long for his species (usually, they live to 10 years), and  Mum was heartbroken. I admit,   I didn't know how much I missed Sani until  one  furry tornado called Mia practically skeddadled in my day and thus in my life.

She is 1  year old,  energetic and  very, very affectionate.  We will have to build rapport between the two of us still, and  it seems   we will have to teach her that  cats are acceptable family members too /sigh, sweatdropping/, because  Riki had freaked out  when Mia fearlessly advanced at him.  It would have been funny,  because  it proved that the old rivalry between the cats and dogs indeed does exist -  or at least  cats dislike dogs, and dogs are too curious for their own good,   so it was good mum  had her tightly  leashed.  Riki apparently didn't think that  his  sole reign of the house and surrounding domain would be challenged so fast, because  Sani was very humble.  Mia.... well, she isn't.  But  Riki  having his fur standing upward was a sigh to behold,  especially when he is one  orange puffball. I  really wish I  could have  photographed him then.

Riki's sentiments were shared by Dad, because  he wasn't very happy  we got Mia in without his approval, even if  she's schooled and whatnot, as for my brother, I am very curious what would he say. Entire operation was like  guerrilla -  it's happening, but  you don't know it happened until you are  ambushed,  and  Dad dislikes  suchlike ambushes.

Mia was very good  while  drive -  I swear, if I hadn't known better, Sani  behaved as if he  had  a motion sickness, whining and all, but Mia  bore it stoically.  It can easily fool you into thinking she is complacent, but   when she comes out, she  is a whirling dervish of energy, and she  likes countryside.  She is in a treat when Mum will  begin taking  her to woods, but for now, we are more more or less confined to the  house's surroundings and plains.

When we visited her -  the  navigation to the house was a murder, I  will definitely badger my brother in showing  me  how to deal with GPS on my phone - I didn't expect we would take her home.  Certainly, I knew my Mum had her  heart  set on her,  so I   took her claims-  if  we will like each other  she will go with us today -  for  a hot air,  so when it happened, I was  very surprised, but   well,  it seems Mia chose us. She liked Mum  for her treats, and she practically skedaddled to me  to   greet me and get a belly rub. (She is in love  with belly rubbing -  it's  her  weak point, besides  right ear scratching).  It was   only  half an hour -  probably,  and  the next thing I knew was we were in  car, Mia  in the  back and   we were driving home. And I  have to admit, she did wonders for Mum's  temperament -  thanks for dogs,   for they cause Mum  changing from angry dragoness to a  sweet kitten, temper-wise.  Really.

So, I can look forward to the ten years  or more of  walks,  trials and errors  and so on and so forth. More, if  we  will be lucky, because  death, in the end, comes for us all.  But until she does, we will at least have fun.

And such is the beginning of the next doggy chapter in my life,  nicknamed 'Tornado Mia'.

PS: Have a new desk lamp  because the old one  died on me.  it also caused me to  clean the desk, and wow, is that a change now .../fascinated/. Seems my desk is  big enough for me to work, but  it's always like this, when you clear it.

PPS: Have a  date with Mia today to  tire her out. Wish me luck!

Eirenei

PPPS: Wow.  My brother  named her a 'second wii'.  That's as good as  acceptance... reluctant acceptance, but acceptance nonetheless... and he has kinder eyes.   Mia is apparently good for us.

PPPS: Currently I am  frustrated as hell.  My  walk with Mia was both good and disappointing -  good because  she marginally obeys my commands, but bad, because she   tries to lead,   loves chewing things and   she  got a fixation with moles.  /groans, face palming/.    She is not concentrated on me  as she should be -  sure, she obey commands, but  she doesn't take me seriously.  It is enough to make me mad!

Walking was a mixture of  success and failure -  success  because I got her to walk  beside me, and failure  when  she dragged me or  walked in front of me.   I  admit, I am mostly a doormat for  my family, but  hells bells, I don't have any intentions of  being  a dog's doormat!   She obeys when  I call her, but I have to trick her, like I am going somewhere. I don't know how to deal with mole-seeking of hers yet.  However, it's only a first  day and I  will get better... only having to  read and  gett o know her more.  And tire her more! /growls/  So, I will have a pow-wow with my  Mum to get  the  wheels rolling  so we  will teach her the same and whatnot.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Plugged In, Charging Fix

Well, today I was baffled  because my computer didn't want to display it  was charging, despite  of me actually charging the damn thing.  So I asked Uncle Google for an advice, and   lo and behold, it had some.

In short, there are some steps on  kickbacking  your lappy back in order.

So:

1 - Power down your laptop
2 - Disconnect the AC cord
3 -  Remove the battery
4 - Connect the AC cord
5-Power on the laptop
6 - Go to Control devices  - Device Manager -  Battery
7 -  In Battery Section uninstall everything  with AC -  don't worry  about installing it back,  becasue it's automatic.
8 -  Power down the laptop
9 - Disconnect the AC cord
10 - Place the battery back in its slot
11 - Connect the AC cord
12- Power on the laptop

When you look on the icon, it shows you are charging (Yay!).

Fo  anyone who wants more visual there is link  to see for yourself.

Happy charging!

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Yaya con Dios, Sani

Why is that, when it comes to death, it's never easy?

Today I woke up, and thought -   cranky -  that I will have  another  ordinary day in front of me.  However, Mum stunned me with news that she decided to  euthanize  Sani, our German Shepherd dog.  What  a fucked up way to  begin the day.  I thought he could get himself out of this... whatever it is -  I tried,  and even then, I am feeling guilty somehow, even if realistically speaking, I've done  everything short of operation for him.  I am inclined to say  it isn't fair, but  human being are selfish like that.

It hurts to see him laying on his  rug, just breathing and being there, and knowing that  he  would pass on later this day, and it hurts knowing I won't have my canine four-legged companion to my treks to get milk.  It hurts to know that  he  won't sit on his favorite  sunspot, happy as a clam, or be his crazy self when the time comes for going into the forest.  When we accepted him into our home and hearts, I  rationally knew  that he would have to go someday, but  I am still asking myself -  does it have to be  right in this day? It seems as if I didn't have enough time with him,  even if he  was  with us almost 13 years total -  if  he  survived to this summer, it would have been 13 years.

Why is that, whenever we open ourselves for love, we also open ourselves for pain?  Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it.  I am remembering my kitten  Lae and  her broken spine,  my  white cat Mike and  how inseparable we were,  and Gray, the  tomcat who loved to make me take breaks when I was  stuck on particularly demanding Math problem. My lap was his favorite resting spot.  And Johnny, with his long white and black fur, the old gun of our house.  I am remembering them, and it hurts, because they are not here anymore,  and it hurts doubly because they  would get  new companion today.  This saying, 'if you love somebody, set them free ' is then one  I am  struggling with, accepting it the hardest. Love and letting go,  forever, doesn't compute.   But  I  don't  wish to make Sani  suffer because of cancer anymore.  So, the  rational -  and hurtful decision that he would  be gone -  has fallen today.  Even if we got  another  dog,  Sani would always have  a special  place in my heart -  he taught me that not all dogs are evil (was terrified of dogs, except when he came  home like a small furball with  incredibly sharp  teeth and  he had grown up  into a 88 lbs heavy  companion who was incredibly  patient with me, even if I sometimes lost my nerves with his antics).  He had given us so much -  to Mum a respite from  the home problems when they wandered  through the forests,  to me  he was another happy furball, if  annoying at times and  he made me concerned when he vanished off to  some of his short treks around, and he was faithful protector of our home.

It  hurts! God, it hurts!  It was one of the hardest things I've ever done, going downstairs and  saying farewell to him -  it never gets easier, no matter how  you try to distance from them.  They sneak in your heart, no matter how  tightly you lock it.  You think you have forever with them, but  you always  find out that kind of forever is just a very, very short moment in your life, no matter how many years  you were  gifted to be together.

Vaya con Dios,  Sani.

I'm Still Holding You.