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Hmmm. What can I say to really describe whats been going on lately? Its been a challenge to really understand what I’ve been feeling and trying to understand. I’ve been emotionally drained in ways that I haven’t felt in a long time. Its been a challenge sometimes trying to keep everything cool and not let it effect my life, but apparently a few of you have noticed it, and bleh.
My friends are perhaps the biggest shapers in my life. They mean the world to me, and it seems like I never give them the credit that they are due. You guys deal with me in so many levels, from talking to me, to comforting me, to just about everything in my life. I don’t know what i’d do with out you guys. You really do mean a lot to me, and I can’t ever find the best way of thanking you.

Maybe the best way I can think of.. is talking about what friendship means to me.

• Being there for someone

• To Rant, Rave, Praise, Bitch, mumble, talk,

• Sometimes about nothing at all.. sometimes about something really important.

• All just as important and meaningfull

• To Listen to that friend and be there for them

• Good Times and Bad

• Putting whats important first.

• Knowing them

• Trust

• Secrets

• Keeping them

• Sharing them

• Knowing they wont take advantage of you

• Protection

• Protect you from bad things,

• Wanting whats best for you no matter what.

• Even if that means not getting what you want… but to do the best and right thing

• A strong Moral Compass

• Pretty much doing what they believe in

• Treating others the way they want to be treated

I cant list them all…
My friends are who I am. I can’t thank you enough.. and those of you that its been harder on lately, I’m sorry. I hope you can give me another chance.

Here is an entry from my Lockergnome blog.  Feel free to check it out sometime.  

If you are like me,  you tend to wait until the last minute to shop for Christmas, but also, you also never get stuff to the post office on time to get items from A to B on time.   It looks like we are getting to the point that you are running out of time to get to the little ELF’s at the Post Office.

What it looks like..

Domestic mail: Send Mail no later than Saturday for parcel post, Dec. 20 for first-class mail and priority mail, and Dec. 22 for express mail.

Military mail: For most military addresses, some holiday deadlines are still available. Priority mail should be sent no later than today and express mail by Dec. 18. All holiday deadlines have passed for Armed Forces Europe zip codes 093.

Deadlines for UPS/FedEx and DHL are usually more about how much you want to pay.  Remember that usually ground packages are rated 5 to 7 business days.

If you haven’t turned your letter to Santa in yet,  you will want to do that by the 18th to make sure it gets to the North Pole on time.

When in doubt about the time to mail the packages and cards for Christmas,  send them early.  Put a sticker of not to open until Christmas if you are really worried.  Most people will wait for your requests.

Tips for dealing with the Postal Elf’s.

• Have your packages ready to go and sealed when you get to the Post Office
• Start the transaction with a smile and a nice greeting.   (they will be more willing to help you out, if you are nice to them)
• Write Clearly, or Type all addresses for your envelopes and packages.
• Know that sending packages internationally, even to Canada tend to take a longer time than domestic letters.
• Use Click ‘n Ship.  It costs the same,  and you save a trip to the Post.  One of the Post Offices Elf’s will even come to your house to pick up the packages for free.
• Understand that the Post Office will see 20 Billion Cards between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I hope you are able to get your packages and cards out on time.

Merry Christmas

Check out my mini project DevilsFreek.  Its my IRC network that was started a while ago to learn,  We’re merged with DamDevil, and its picking up a bit. Let me know if you like it.  /server +m irc.devilsfreek.org 

Hmms:

• Lazy days are nice,  giving me a chance to relax,  though i have alot of stuff to still get done
• I’m not a good writer
• Thanksgiving is coming up pretty quick, means that i have to work..  beh
• I have a fitness test thingy on Thursday,  perhaps ill leave after it so Ryan can have the room to himself for watching a movie
•  People are strange
• Canceled classes are nice.
• I have two half dollars…  that makes a dollar..  w00t
• Call of Duty 2 multiplayer is decent
• I need to get some new video games..  damn saving money
• I’m hungry
• Lexie is amazing
• Its warmer than normal.. feels nice
• my install of Open Suse seems..  lacking things..
• I don’t know what i want to do with my servers..
• I hate when someone tries to know my business
• Apologizes are important 
• Beh
• 
  

Random:

• I want to go to Texas
  • Alexandria is there
    • I got a letter from her today…  truely made my day
      • I need to write her back
• People are loud.
• Don’t spill my candy.
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a good song,  that makes me think of Kristin.
• I need to do something with Kristin
  • She is so amazingly sweet
  • One of my closest friends
• Double standards are shit.
• Fuck is very versatile word. 
• I kinda wish i was drunk
• Joy to not having class tomorrow
• My thumbs are a little sore..  I’ve sent 828 txt   845 messages since  the 5th of November.
• Joys to 9 people breaking into song singing, ” Fuck her gently, by Tenacious D”
• I got a hair cut yesterday
• My car had an oil change
• Bickering with people that you thought were your friends…  evil
• Garage Band makes for some cool music

I’m not sure how i feel about this..  Kinda my way to rant about. kinda blah with out doing the big paragraph things.  We shall see how it turns out. C 

Well, lets see.  Its been a while since i’ve written,  school and life have kept me pretty busy. I have been trying to focus more on school to keep my grades up, and I think. that it is working for the most part. I have also been spending a little more time talking to Alexandria,  she truely is amazing, and every time that i am able to talk or text message her, my days go so much better,  I hope the same is true for her.  

        Whats new?  Well,  I bought a MacBook in september, and really love the bugger.  I actually like it so much, that i have brought my vista machine home from school, and am just using my laptop to do everything.  I have it hooked up to an external monitor, (yay for dual desktops), and a nice apple keyboard makes the deal better.  Im trying to come up with an irc client that i like on the mac, that functions close to mIRC, but so far, I’m stuck running parallels desktop, which, is alright, minus the fact that it has a bug in leopard.    

 Current mood of life:  Could be better, could be much worse. Thoughts:    

• Go Packers (they kicked the vikings ass)
• I’m glad i found my hat and gloves (Alexandria is going to be so cold in Wisconsin, I kinda feel sorry for having her come in the cold.. but i think it will be worth it)
• I have some amazing friends, that truly make the difference 
• Sociology Tests can bite it
• Who steals peoples dry erase markers?  Honestly.. thats shitty.
• Thank god for Time Machine backups when i screw up a file.
• Having a computer call out the time every half and hour helps when studying
• I need to spell better.

I think that is all for now.   


 

Well,  I havent written in a few days.  Not that much has been going on.  Just me working on a few computers around the house, trying to get my moms and dads all set and ready so I dont have to worry about them once i get back to school.

I’ve added a few buttions on the side of the blog.  Gotta support Wyldryde.  Lol.

Less then 2 weeks untill I go back to school, and I can’t wait.

Well, back to the backing up and such.

8/16/07
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I really slept funny last night, but once I did fall asleep, I did alright. I think I need to take a nap after work or something. 9 hours of sleep in two days just isn’t enough for me. I’m not really looking forward to work today, I have a feeling its going to be working stock all day again. Which, wouldn’t be that bad if we actually got the stuff we are out of, and not the stuff we are over stocked with. Like we have a toner cart. That we sell an average of two a week of… We have 26 sitting in extra stock. Just doesn’t make since at all.
Anyways..
To work I go

So I believe I am past the point of needing sleep. Yet here I am writing on my phone instead of sleeping. Oh well. Tonight I went to a going away party for someone I used to work with, it was good to see the old gang from American, its kinda sad how many of them are gone and have moved onto better things.
My manager that I had for the last 4 months when I worked there made peace with me tonight for all the crap that happened relating to me leaving. It sucks its taken this long, but I can officially close that chapter of my life.

I have started looking for jobs in Stevens point, it makes more since for me to work there than drive back 60 miles when I wanna work a weekend.

This week has been a bit stressful on me, and I hope I’ve been controlling it ok not to be snapping on people. I have to wait close to two weeks just to have an apt. With a specialist; then who knows how long to get back in for tests and then to figure out what to do. No, I am not dieing and I really don’t know what I think I have or what the doctor thinks I have.

I really miss Alexandria … Talking to her would make me feel much better. I saw a picture of her from homecoming from 5 years ago, she looks like an angel.

One of these days soon I need to see alexa and Teresa its been a long time and I feel very disconnected. I was souped to make time to go and see Jessica, but since I can’t even find time that works to see alexa and Teresa I think I am just going to chill by myself for a bit.

Anyone still check on this and read it? Shoot me a line or a comment its nice to hear from you.

~~corey