I'm Ang.

I'm a 23-year-old married woman who followed her heart (and her husband!) to Nova Scotia, where I'm currently a housewife, planning my future. I'm a huge computer nerd, especially when it comes to video games. I'm a fan of lists and spend a lot of time making them, even if they have no purpose at all. Want to know more?

July 11 2008

Protected: Domestic Frustration

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June 30 2008

When all else fails, check the date.

Apparently, in this case, I fail. For the past few days, I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with my computer, and why it wouldn’t let me go to certain websites (online banking being one of them). Then, I discovered that my MSN wouldn’t log me in on Trillian, and that made me want to pull my hair out! I then tried to download the actual MSN messenger (Live? MSN? Windows? Who knows, they keep changing it!) and install it, and that wouldn’t work.

All this time, and I sat here like an idiot, trying to figure it out. Matt sits down for a few minutes, tests a couple small things, and then realizes it’s my date. He did a few things to my computer about a week or so ago, and it reset the date. I knew it had, so I changed the month, day, and time back, but apparently forgot to do the year! My computer thought it was 2003, so none of the security certificate things for websites worked. What a dummy I am!

Matt and I rearranged the bedroom over the past few days, and it’s already feeling awesome in here. Lots of space and light and it just fits much much better! I’ve posted some photos on my flickr, but you can only see them if you’re set to a friend or family member. But it’s wonderful!

April 13 2008

Midnight.

Midnight is overflowing with spambots these days and I’ve got hacks to keep them out and it’s STILL not working. I don’t want to close registration because there are very few people there as it is (all two of us…) and so I don’t want the board to be private and closed off, but there’s not much else I can do short of going there and deleting them daily. How annoying! I might just do away with it altogether. It’s a disappointment but if people can’t be bothered to go there and post and help me keep it alive, why should I bother trying? It’s a waste! :)

Last night my 10-man team in my guild cleared ZA for the first time. After way too long of wiping on Hex Lord, we got him down. Next week we go for the third timed chest. I don’t doubt we can do it, we have a really good team!

There’s a lot of debate as to what we should do now in our guild. As a guild, we are at 5/6 SSC, 1/4 TK (We didn’t bother spending much time in here), 1/5 MH and just shy of killing the first boss in BT. Some of us want to go finish our BT and MH attunements (even if they’re not needed) for the rings as well as other things (like I still have pants from Solarian that I need very badly, and boots from Hydross) but at the same time, the other opinion is “Why wipe on T5 stuff when we can wipe on T6 stuff and still kill things?” It’s a compelling argument.

Kimberia’s getting a ton of upgrades lately. I have no idea how it happened because the last upgrade I got was my angel wings from VR, but within the last week I’ve gotten a new ring (from the badge vendor), a new cloak (from Hyjal trash) and a new hood (from Hex Lord). I’m very excited about this! I’m still not sure how well I buy into the new haste = awesome for spriests thing but I might mess with it once I hit 1400 damage, which is just around the corner. :)

I still have quite a bit of cleaning to do here in the bedroom. It’s down to one basket of “junk” to put away and one basket of laundry to put away. Then I have to clean off our desks (Matt likes to use his as a catch-all for everything he ever brings in the bedroom!), dust (Between the two computers, the construction across the street, the cat, the bird, and everything else going on, we have the worst dust problem ever!) and then vacuum. I also have a bunch of laundry to do. Probably three or four loads, which isn’t a ton, but is a tiny bit of a pain when you consider the fact that it’s in the basement and I’m on the 6th floor. Oh, well.

I didn’t go to the gym last week at all, which I think I needed to do to get my mindset right. I’m ready to push again and am shooting for five days this week. I just hope the weather’s nice enough to walk there! I know I’ll be a tiny bit sore after the first day, but I intend to do weights on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and maybe go to a class or two, and then cardio on Tuesday and Thursday and maybe a class on those days, too. I don’t have much else to do with my time most days, so I might as well push toward being healthier! I am feeling good lately, though. Happy, content, healthy. Well, mostly healthy.

Yesterday I spent most of the day in bed, cold, headache-y and queasy. Not sure what that was all about, but I’m feeling much better today, so I’m glad it went away!

January 07 2008

It’s official…

We now have more clothes than hangers. No joke. There is a basket of clothes (and towels) at the foot of the bed. However, the room is nice and clean! There’s a few things that need to be picked up still (trash needs to be taken out, Matt’s desk is a mess even after I -just- cleaned it two days ago, etc.) but overall, I’m proud of all that I got accomplished today! Yay, me! Even my desk looks a lot cleaner than it was.

I need to charge the batteries for the camera, because the other ones won’t last forever. I’ve been trying to take more pictures lately. I haven’t posted on Unwritten in the past two days, but don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten! I just felt too lazy to post them. I need to figure out a way to do it without having to do it manually. That requires so much thinking, though!

Anyway, Matt is getting antsy and wants to get to sleep. Like he just told me, “Only 12 hours of sleep before I have to go back to work!” Poor baby. How will he ever survive?

January 06 2008

Tomorrow is Beautify Day!

I’m a member of a few different teams on Sparkpeople. One of them just happens to be something called “1 Day Challenge” and is exactly what it sounds like. The fantastic leader posts a new challenge every night for the following day. Tomorrow is, as the title of this post suggests, beautify day. This is pretty fitting for what I had planned for tomorrow, so I’m excited! Since I like lists so much lately, here’s one with my plans for tomorrow!

  • Laundry. This is a must. In my last couple of loads I have managed to fail to get all of Matt’s shirts washed and he won’t have anything to wear on Monday when he goes back to work, which is, well, not a good thing.
  • Clean my desk. This isn’t the most important thing in the world, but it makes me happy to have a clean work(/play)space in front of me. Plus, it’s gotten pretty cluttered over the past few days and it could be better arranged.
  • Clean up the bedroom. Pretty self-explanatory, but the reason it’s such a disaster area right now is because I took almost everything out of the closet the other day in case it was getting repaired. Long story short, it’s not repaired, and I messed up the REST of the room for nothing. Oh well, it needed to be organized anyway, I guess.
  • Vacuum. As gross as this is, I’m shedding again. It always happens when I get stressed, and in the wintertime, which means right now, I’m surprised I’m not bald! So I want to vacuum up the room and get rid of the evidence.
  • 5v5. You expected me to have a post without any WoW stuff in it? Pfft, shame on you. I have 5v5 (Arenas) tomorrow at 5:00 my time. Wish us luck! We need it. We’re a bit of an, er, unconventional team. Mostly doing it for the experience, I guess.
  • Work out. I’m not going to the gym tomorrow (I’ve decided Monday, Wednesday, Friday for the gym. Easiest that way.) but I will do a small workout on Yourself! Fitness if I can get Matt out of the room for 15 minutes. Maybe I’ll ship him off to Wendy’s for food!

So that’s my day tomorrow. It doesn’t sound too busy, but it is for me. And it’s nice having the day mapped out like that, so I know what needs to be done and all that. Oh, I forgot to add one thing to the list, but I’m just going to put it here. I’m going to give myself a bit of a pampering session. Shower and shave, wash my hair and condition it, attempt to style my hair, lotion, mani/pedi… the works. Hey, it is Beautify Day, right? Right.

I might install some new plugins on the site, as well. Any recommendations for things you just can’t live without? I’d appreciate it!