Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

midnightstar16 got her Christmas present, so that's all of them! >^-^<

*happy*

I'm glad everybody liked them... =3

Note to self: Mail big box of stuff for Cat, and finish writing for P.O.S.s for everybody!

Oh my God, I'm exhausted... =_=;;

Why aren't I in bed yet? ...oh yeah. Talking to Cassandra-san... ^^;;

Also, fwee-ness! kierseth got her Christmas package! Which just leaves midnightstar16 and cassandracsenta to go!

Sethi also says she talked to the post office people, and was told that meat products and produce aren't allowed through U.S. customs, but sweets and whatnot should be fine.

Like I told her: Candy and packaged tea for all! >^-^

Ganked from star_eyed

xmas party at senashenta's house!!

cassandracsenta cassandracsenta drank 15 everclears, 12 absinthes, 4 white russians, 14 sambuccas, 10 bloody marys and 4 rums. cassandracsenta moaned continually throughout the evening, calling chaos_unspoken a dirty sober bastard. chaos_unspoken proceeded to beat cassandracsenta with a claw hammer. Here cassandracsenta mate!! This substance is water. It doesnt have the best taste, but if you drunk more of it you wouldnt be so ratarsed all the time. chaos_unspoken chaos_unspoken drank 15 irish creams, 7 cosmopolitans, 9 red wines, 13 pernods and 7 absinthes. cat_mcdougall and catystorm thought it would be frightfully funny if they released an otter down chaos_unspoken's underpants. chaos_unspoken now appreciates the dangers of frenzied land mammals. taifu taifu drank 13 hot toddys, 4 bloody marys, 13 sherrys, 4 red wines and 15 mint juleps. catystorm catystorm drank 2 ciders, 11 cosmopolitans, 14 poteens, 14 lagers and 6 rums. senashenta senashenta drank 15 aligator bites, 2 mint juleps, 8 bloody marys, 3 sherrys and 15 pulques. sunset_glow sunset_glow drank 5 champagnes, 7 tequilas, 7 vermouths and 15 cognacs. cat_mcdougall cat_mcdougall drank 10 bloody marys, 6 ales, a pilsner, 3 hot toddys and 11 mint juleps. etcetera_cat etcetera_cat drank 2 aligator bites, 14 gins and 6 whiskeys. draco_ferreus draco_ferreus drank 6 rums and 12 absinthes. You should not allow the following LJ user's in your home without a sickbag in their immediate area - cassandracsenta, chaos_unspoken, senashenta, cat_mcdougall

And yay! etcetera_cat got her Christmas present! And she liked it! >^-^<

...I'm actually kind of surprised that she got hers first. How come the packages that didn't have to go over seas haven't arrived yet, but -cat's has, and she's in England?

Hm.

Also, my prayers to those who were caught in the Earthquake/Tsunami in the East. It's times like this that I feel completely helpless... click the link below to donate. I grabbed it from elsewherecw. Post it in your own journal. Hopefully if it's around a lot, people will donate.


You can make a difference.
Just by spreading the call for help.

It seems like everyone had a pretty okay Christmas... good. I'm glad. ^^

Yesterday, when Mom got off work (yes, she has to work on Christmas day), she picked me up and we headed back to her house... the plan being to pick my Step-Dad up, and head north to my Grandparents house.

When we got there, however, Amy and Brad were there. They're my long-long lost step-sister and step-brother, whom we see maybe once a year if we're lucky. So instead of leaving right away, we sat around and talked with them for a little while--Amy had brought her new puppy with her. His name is Paco, and he's a toy chiuawa. But I obviously can't spell that word for the life of me. O_O; Is there even a w in there at all?

He was cute... his head was the same size as the rest of his body, though. Bobblehead doggie! I wouldn't want to own one, but to each his own. I like animals that are furry and fluffy and cuddly-looking. >^-^;; So does Mom, actually...

Once Amy and Brad left, we piled our stuff in the car and drove up to Grandma and Grandpa's--we were already about an hour and a half late at that point. Which isn't a big deal, except that meant that everyone had to wait for us before they ate dinner, so we got poked about that. Repeatedly. ...but in a friendly manner, so that's okay.

My Grandma makes the best damn stuffing ever. *_* *drools* But I'm sure most people say that about at least one member of their family, so I won't go into details of the meal itself. It was awesome, but just a traditional Christmas dinner--turkey, stuffing, potatoes, veggies, etc. Date squares, broken-glass torte, mince pies and fruit cookies for dessert.

After that, Grandma cleaned up the tables (it takes two tables to accomidate us all ^^;;) and then we arbotrarily elected my Step-Dad to hand out the gifts, since he was the only one wearing a Santa hat this year. XD

I got DVDs of Mulan, Aladdin and Van Helsing from my Grandparents. I knew I was getting them, but I'm still happy about it. ^_~ Maa... Disney is releasing everything on DVD now, so I have to re-collect it all... at least they do it in time for Christmas, so I can put them on my list. ^^;

Even though Trunks didn't go, he got a couple of shirts and a DVD of The Alamo; and actually, one of my cousins, Darrius, didn't want to go either, so he wasn't there. It makes me feel a bit better about Trunks not wanting to go, since he's not the only one.

Then we all buckled down and dug out our generic, non-labelled gifts, and drew numbers for the Chinese-auction thing that we do every year. ^_^ They're always fun... last year, there was a crystal dragon in the mix that everyone wanted. We traded that thing around for about an hour until Trunks eventually ended up with it.

This year the most popular thing was the candle-lanterns that I put in. I actually bought them back in February, and I got them from a Halmark store, so the sales woman wrapped them up for me too--I hadn't even seen them since then, so I had totally forgot what they looked like... so pretty! And since they didn't cost as much as I was allowed supposed to spend, I bought a cute little plush loon to go in as filler. When you squeeze it, it does the loon call.

Eventually, I ended up with them. And even though I wanted the loon (kawaii!), and loved the candle-lanterns, I have nowhere to put something like that. And since Mom was giving my kind of sad looks the entire time (I stole them from her), I just gave the candle-lanterns to her. ^^ She really wanted them, and I have nowhere to put them, so she can have them.

I kept the loon, though. XD

So then Mom had two gifts... and have her other one to Grandma. And then Grandma had two gifts... and gave her other one to Alex. But since Alex wasn't in the game, that's where the extra trading ended. Except that Grandpa had ended up with an electric screwdriver, and already has one... so he gave it to me. O_o;

I was like "thank you!" and then I did the real-life equivallent of sweatdropping for the next few minutes... at the same time, I just moved out on my own and have no tools, so it'll come in handy. ^_~

It was 11:30pm by the time we made it home, but I still uwrapped Van Helsing and watched it then--because it was one I really really wanted to see--and it was awesome. >^-^< I kinda want to watch it again, actually...

....

Maaa. Spending time with my family always makes me happy, but this year it's been especially great. Just having fun and forgetting all my problems and pretending that I have no worries for one night. Thank you everyone!

Oh.

Grandma also gave me my birthday present yesterday, since my birthday is on January 3rd--she got me Avril Lavine's newest CD, a new photo album (since I've filled mine up completely), some blank CDs, some film for my camera, a bunch of AA batteries (I always ask for those) and a 2005 calendar, with fun cartoon cats on it.

My Happy Ending on the Avril CD has started a random plot bunny chewing at me, and now I'm tinkering with a new Heralds of Valdemar One-Shot-Songfic plotline, which is probably going to be disturbingly depressing--

Tosca: :As freaking usual.: =_=;;;

Ran: *patpat* ^^;;;

--yeah. Ahahaha... ^^;

etcetera_cat, kierseth, midnightstar16, cassandracsenta and elsewherecw, your Christmas presents have been mailed, and should reach you some time in the next week-and-a-half to two weeks. This is according to the post office (which is handling -cat's and Cassandra-san's) and the UPS people (who are handling 'Vandi, Sethi and Elsewhere's).

Let me know when they get to you and what you thought!

In a somewhat related note, I found out today that any packages containing food products are being stopped at the U.S. border... which means, Sethi and 'Vandi, that I have to go through your P.O.S.'s and take out anything edible before I send them.

Dammit.

I guess I'll send your misc. chocolate bars and teas and whatnot some other time, after they let up on that a bit. Since it's just the U.S., -cat can still get candy and stuff, though.

Sorry Sethi and 'Vandi!

Mom insisted that I spend the day/night at her place. I've been here for almost 24 hours now... and I actually am glad I'm here. I don't feel as alone here, for some reason.

My Doctor wasn't in the office today when we called. Not surprised. She's only there about three days a week anyway. So I'm going to see her tomorrow... and she's probably going to rescribe some heavy tranquilizers, and possibly lyhthium. I'm a fucking basketcase.

I've been crying almost nonstop since tuesday morning. Its now what... Thursday morning-ish? So for two whole days, not counting when I've managed to sleep, for bits and pieces at a time.

I ended up calling a crisis-type hotline today (on Mom's advice) and talked to a councillor for about 45 minutes. Spent the whole time in hysterics. Of course. The woman who talked to me was surprisingly patient, but I guess that's what she's paid for... anyway, she suggested that I call in sick to work tonight until I can talk to my Doctor tomorrow.

Good idea.

I don't know how I managed to make it through the last shift.

But I wasn't about to call my Manager and tell her I wasn't coming in while I was crying like that. So Mom did it for me. I know, very mature of me, but I don't give a flipping damn right now.

Anyway, she called and told Jackie that we were "having a family crisis" and that in the middle of it, she remembered that I was supposed to work tonight, so she thought she should call in and tell her that I wouldn't be in. Not entirely a lie, just kind of vague enough that it works.

Excape that Jackie wouldn't accept it.

It took Mom fifteen minutes to just tell her that I wouldn't be in tonight, because she kept going "why?" and "yes, you told me a crisis, but you're expecting me to accept that Sena won't be in tonight and you're not giving me anything to go on."

Mom was so pissed off. She just goes "we're having a family crisis, and it's personal. I'm not entirely sure what's happening myself. Sena won't be in tonight."

To which Jackie replied, which TONS of exess sarcasm; "oh, I guess she's having that break down she said she was having yesterday."

And Mom went, "I don't know. Goodbye."

And hung up.

And then went, "bitch."

My Manager doesn't care in the least that I'm about an inch away from being hospitalized...

The only reason that I didn't quit last night is because Mom convinved me not to quit until I talk to the Doctor--if she writes a note saying that I can't work there for health reasons, then I can quit and be elligible for workman's comp/unemployment insurance until I can find a new job.

I hate the idea of being on unemployment, but at the same time, if I don't have any money at all, I can't pay my rent and I can't pay for food for my cats/squirrels/me... DAMMIT.

Anyway, thank you very very much to everybody who's been trying to make me feel better. I appreciate all the support more thank you can ever imagine... not to mention knowing that there are actually people out there that don't think I'm nothing but a fuck up. In short: *HUGS BACK*

EDIT: etcetera_cat, kierseth, elsewherecw, cassandracsenta and midnightstar16, your Christmas presents are going to be a bit late getting to you. I was going to mail them a while ago, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Sorry.

Soooo tiiiired... =_=;

So Mom and I went up to see my Grandparents today. ^^ It was nice to sit and talk with Grandma... I finally showed her all of the pictures I took from my trip out east, and got to yammer about everything we did while we were out there. Or, the interesting stuff anyway. We did a lot of driving, which was really really boring... meh. *shrugness* Whatever.

When we got back into town, we stopped by the mall (it was already 1:30 in the afternoon and an hour-and-a-half past when I normally go to bed for the "night", but whatever) and poked around Zeller, Coles and San Diego so I could point out stuff for Trunks for Christmas.

Every year we have the same problem with him--it gets to be around the second week in November, and Dad and Grandma both call and go "okay! I need to know what Sena and Trunks want for Christmas this year!" and I sit down and scribble out a handful of CDs/DVDs/misc. stuff, and Trunks goes; "....."

And then two weeks into December, he finally tells us what he wants, and its always one thing. This year he told Dad he wanted a new computer (which he knows Dad can't afford...) and told Mom and Grandma he wants shirts.

The end.

*pokes annoying brother with stick*

The good thing is that I never have trouble finding things to buy for him even without a list, so I took Mom around and pointed out some books and other misc. things that she could pick up for him--a couple of Mercedes Lackey books, a couple of other books, and some dragon-related things from San Diego.

Random Note: Zellers has a poster with the pink Happy Bunny (I don't know much about Happy Bunnies, so don't ask me what its name is), that said "It's all about me. Deal with it." that I wanted to get soooo badly. One for me, and one for kierseth! XD

I might end up getting them anyway. Then I need to figure out how to ship one of them to Washington...

Anyway! Next weekend I have Sat/Sun off, and Grandma might be coming down on Saturday morning so we can go Christmas shopping. She's in the same boat as Mom when it comes to buying for Trunks, so I said I'd give her a hand. ^_~ I already suggested a bunch of things to Dad for him, too...

And then on the way to dropping me off back here (at like, 3:30...), I got Mom to stop at the bank so I could pay my cable/Internet bill. It's awesome. I paid straight from my account at the teller, and she added my Rogers account number to my Interac card, so from now on I can pay it from any random ATM machine that I want, too! >^-^<

Since I'm usually asleep when the bank's open, that makes things mightily easier for me!

.....

Also, I'm feeling the urge to write something about Kip and Dy, which are (two of) my new alters from over at SH. Mostly because Kip amuses me a lot. As do Vax and Cari, actually, but I already inflicted fic-writing about them on etcetera_cat, so I'm not writing anything about them... yet. XD

Days to Christmas: 17
Days to Sena's B-Day: 27

Tri is currently flopped over my shoulder. It's his favorite cuddling-place, and since he's about the size of a three-month-old kitten, he can do it and it's not an inconvenience. >^-^; If Neko tried it, I might fall over from the weight...

Right. So. If David does sweet fsuck all tonight, just like he finished doing last night, I'm so going to bitch slap his ass. If he quits... good! I don't want to have to "work" with him anymore! >_<;

Friday night is our busiest night, and he did nothing. Worse than that, he half-did some jobs, which meant that Diane and I had to be continually picking up after him all night! *KICKS*

People like him just piss me off. If you come to work, bloody work!

...other than that, I got $20 in gift certificates for Kelsey's. *shrugs* The owners of the store got them for everyone who works there... except that I don't eat at Kelsey's. I've never eaten at Kelsey's... in fact, the only time I've even been in Kelsey's was for C.A.'s birthday/going-away-to-college party last year.

I might give them to Sarah for Christmas or something. ^^; At least then they'll get used...

And finally~

If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal.

I stole this from elsewherecw. That right, STOLE.

( Christmas Wish Meme Instructions )

( Sena's Almighty List Of Random Stuff She Wants, Most Of Which Is Anime-Related! )

So much anime stuff... ^^;;;

And now I go to see if I can find my extra copy of Ami-chan no Hatsukoi.

*goes to rummage through her box of SM VHS tapes*

EDIT: Okay. My brother's law class went on a field trip... to the forensics center in Toronto. AND HE DIDN'T TAKE ME WITH HIM. *STABBITY!* He didn't even tell me until he'd already gone, which I think was on purpose, actually, so I wouldn't beg to go with him and then tie myself to the roof of the bus when he said "no"... *eyes him* Grr...

EDIT #2: I love Hiromi-san's art! :3