many thanks go to the illustrious ['tine] for cheering me up the other night, something i completely neglected to mention in the [i don't want to kill everyone anymore] post. i hereby bestow upon her the Humanitarian of the Moment Award for continually preventing me from becoming overly hostile and injuring myself and others. mad props to you, 'tine. truly, you are an asset to the human race.

just before writing this, i got myself a bowl of applesauce, and just now i went to take a bite and realised that i'd grabbed a fork rather than a spoon with which to eat it.

...this is another crappy post, isn't it? like [the one about my desk]. damn it. at least i did something pseudo-useful this time, like update the [digital] section.

as always, erin is super-cute and super-single. don't you want to meet an erin today? ask me how.

  mood: spastically monotonic (don't worry, i don't know what it means either)
now playing: nine inch nails - happiness in slavery [fixed mix]

i'm filled with less anger than [last night], and i count that as a good thing. although i'm pretty pissed that telemarketers called my cell phone at 9:30 this morning, the dirty bastards. i didn't answer it, and now i know their number, so i won't answer it ever. ha! take that, fuckers!

i went shopping yesterday, and picked up the 5.1 mix of The Downward Spiral (one of my all-time favourite albums), by [nin]. it's a 2-sided disc; one side has the surround mix on dvd, the other has a digital remaster of the album on cd. pretty sweet, if you ask me, and the surround mix is quite cool. it's certainly not a need-to-have item, but enjoyable nonetheless.

i've been working on helping my parents fix up the room right outside mine for the past few days. my job was to sand, stain and rub down the woodwork around the stairway. here's a picture; don't mind the floating dust:

as you can see, the room isn't quite finished yet... but the wood looks nice! oh yeah. plus, it led to lots of jokes about "rubbing wood" that i didn't really explain to anyone until yesterday. i think everyone just assumed i had been wanking a lot... which is what i was aiming for, really. mission: accomplished. hehe...

i haven't seen anyone besides my family for about a week. i think that contributed to last night's ill will toward the world. not that i dislike my family (very much the opposite, in fact), but not doing anything entertaining with friends for a week has a tendency to make me lust for the blood of innocents. but, as far as i know, the unspeakably cute and single [erin] is free tonight, so we'll probably do something. that should help.

  mood: don't worry baby, it'll be all right
now playing: chemlab - electric molecular

in video games, you can save, then go on a rampage, taking out everything that moves, be it man, woman, child, animal, vegetable, mineral, or other. sometimes i wish life had save points.

i guess it's just been one of those days.

  mood: see title
now playing: skinny puppy - cult

whee, it's valentine's day. not that i have any reason at all to be happy about that, but whatever. happy valentine's day to everyone on the internets!

the birthday was good, i'm now officially 23. mum asked if i felt any older, and i told her my hip hurt (because it did), and that i can't hit on 17-year-olds anymore. :P but those are really the only differences so far. i'll be sure to mention if i suddenly come across any life-changing differences between being 22 and being 23.

i got a digital camera for $1 the other day as a result of participating in a pyramid scam. "it's not a scam if you get stuff from it!" i can hear people saying. whatever. it was $1, and it's the size of a freakin' credit card. i showed it to craig, and he signed up as fast as humanly possible. since i already have a digital camera, this one's going to christine, so she can take more pictures of herself for my amusement and delight. at least, that's why i'm sending it. i dunno if that's what will happen or what, but i can only hope.

here's some of the first pictures taken with the camera:

...crazy too-bright flash. i can't figure out why my eyes look like that, though. anyway, aside from that, there's my dad, my mum (dunno why the color's weird on that one; it never happened again), me making a stupid face, craig doing... i don't even know what, and erin being cute, as usual.

there's still nothing going on in utica. i went roller-skating this weekend with my mum (yes, you read that right), and came home with two blisters, a killer headache, and ringing ears from the insanely loud 80's music. despite all that, it was sorta fun; since i haven't been roller-skating in at least 10 years, it was an experience reminiscent of my childhood. (damn, it feels weird saying that. add one to the list of differences about being 23.)

there was a very vocal argument between one of the guys that worked at the place and a rather ghetto 16-year-old guy that was there. i think it was because the kid went onto the skate-floor with street shoes on. i dunno if it was a matter of him being a dumbass or because the guy that worked there was an uptight prig; either way, obscenities were screamed in front of toddlers, the police were called, and ghetto-boy was thrown out. it seems you can't go anywhere to escape melodrama nowadays.

erin's away message today states that she is ill and needs a "valentine's day nurse." i offered to play doctor with her, but i haven't heard anything back yet. i get the feeling that i'm going to be shot down once again; which is just as well, since i wasn't serious anyway. ;)

  mood: whimsical
now playing: skinny puppy - pro-test