Candy.... Road?

So the kids in California are pretty darn lucky! They got to play on a giant Candy Land board! Hasbro celebrated the 60th anniversary of the game on the 19th by changing extremely curvy Lombard St. into a Candy Land track. Man, what I would have given to be able to play!

Especially since I'm bored to death right now!

As (I think) I mentioned in the last post, I don't have a phone anymore... Daddy bought me a phone card to call them, but it was $5, and they didn't have any local access numbers, and every time I used the 800 number, it took $1 off... yeah, didn't last too long. So last night I called Sprint and practically threatened his first born if he didn't find me another way to call home. =D So he connected me to Raven and we fought with Sprint for about an hour and a half... But I ended up getting another phone and a new plan... Not too excited about the new phone, because now I've got to wait to get it in the mail. And I'm almost completely convinced they don't have the right address after 3 attempts to give them the right one... SIGH!

Anyway, I've got to go talk to LSU whenever they open and get them to pay for my school because I surely can't. And if they won't help me, I don't wanna be here any way! Okay, that's a lie... But we will see what happens Monday... Luckily I have hour breaks betwixt my classes, so that should be enough time to talk to somebody.

Mal and Dria came over today! It was a short visit, but I enjoyed it. Hopefully I'll see them again soon.

Ha, I guess I should mention I moved into the dorms Thursday, but I suppose you've figured that out. My roommate and I get along pretty well, so that's good. She must think I'm some sort of friendless loser, I haven't left the room since Thursday and she's been out every day. Ha, oh well...

Anyway, I'm about to fight with Sprint again... Must be the 5th time I've called them in the last 24 hours... OH WELL!

Kim, where the HECK are you!?

So yeah... I've been gone. I got kicked out of the house (for no reason), and Father has no internet... I've been coming to the library to check e-mail and see what else LSU wants from me... I guess I'm off the grid...

I'm at the central library now, but they're about to close... Just wanted to post recent whereabouts... I haven't done anything!

Went to Mom's house earlier to get some more clothes and other things I didn't take the first time. There are still things I need to get before I go back to school, but there's no point in taking up more room now. And I lost my wallet recently (with $60), so I have to get a new driver's license, library card (check), and find out how much it will cost them to cut the lock for the storage unit in BR. le sigh...

Good news: Talked to Chelsea and had a half hour of good laughs. Really needed that! Hopefully I'll get to go hang out with Bunnie some time this weekend (What's left of it!), but we shall see. I miss everybody, it's a shame my phone's cut off. We're looking into getting another phone plan, or having them add me to their plan, but we'll see...

UGH!

Not much to report...

Didn't really do anything worth mentioning over the weekend. If at all... I'm drawing a complete blank... Did I even leave the house!? =\

Anyway, today I got up and went to the post office to send out my completed swaps! There is no feeling like knowing you can mark 4 swaps sent in one day! =D Hope they like them!

Really, I'm just here to post a picture for a swap I missed out on... =\ I hope they'll have another, because I had every intention to join, but I was stupid and forgot... Oh well! Maybe this is why I should keep a calendar!

Anyway, nothing at all to report... Just a quicky. I just organized about 98% of the scrapbooking paper and 47% of all craft things total, and now I'm working on another swap, which reminds me, I need to get some soda cans...



=D <3

Michael Jackson Diamonds?! Are you NUTS?!

So apparently the folks at LifeGem have decided to take some of Michael Jackson's hair and turn it into 10 half-carat diamonds. These are the same guys who did that with Beethoven's hair that sold for $200,000... So imagine what the heck they're gonna get for MJs?! What I would give to get my hand on one of those babies!

I first heard about this process from Dria (old roommate) when she told me that's what her dad wanted. Well When I looked it up then and to get a carat made out of my cold, dead body would cost $13-20k. WOW! Or you could go the cheap route and get a little less than 1/3 carat for $27-35 hundred. The main factors of price are color, size, and quantity... They reduce the, er...remains to carbon and turn it into diamond in a process just like when earth does it naturally. Except it takes them a little less than a year, compared to the bajillions the all natural way would take. They can just take some hair from someone alive and even pets! Maybe I should have sent Bart over... =P I think it's kind of cool! Since I'll be a multi gazillionaire, I think I'll just get my whole body made into one big whopper! And maybe a couple of little ones for engagement rings of my off spring... =P

So yeah... I hung out with Daddy and Raven and little Keira today. She's sooo big! She's walking and dancing and such a sweety... I love her! I shall kidnap her one day! I do miss hanging out with them! He's gone all gung ho again about getting me a car. So tomorrow we're gonna look at pricing of various ways to get to that government cheese. I will be babysitting tomorrow and Friday from 8a-6p, so hopefully I will have time to do a little research before the little angels wake up...

I emailed the head hancho at Burbank Monday, and he just got back with me today (jerk...). I tried to call him all day, left him messages, he didn't call back (double jerk). So I will be blowing up his phone again tomorrow. Apparently there is no charge made, but I'm not sure because one of us is missing info, and it's most likely me... We'll see how it goes tomorrow...

Well, since I need to be up around 7, I guess I should go to sleep, huh?

Things I hope to complete by Sunday, August 2, 2009:

• Send out those swaps!^{Ain't gonna happen...}
• Have taken care of the whole storage mess
• Have at least gotten pricing for my new hard drive
• Clean up my room
• Gone to Grace's at least twice
• Have made at least 2 more entries! =P
• Have a frikkin housing assignment... C'mon, LSU!

Knews...

So, I'm in a newsy kind of mood!

Could Earth Be Hurt Like Jupiter Was?
Yah, so maybe some of yall heard about the new crater Jupiter was sporting. An astronomer noticed the hole the 19th and it gave them a good reason to test out the new camera on the Hubble. The best guess about what hit it was that it was a comet a little more than half a mile wide; it left a hole about the size of the Pacifc Ocean and apparently the atmosphere of the planet is distorting it. HOOOOOOLY MOLY!

So then the question becomes "Could the same thing happen to us?! HOLY CRAP!" How on Earth (or any other planet, for that matter!) would we survive that? Astonomer Donald Yeons has the understatement of the year award, "It would have been fairly catestrophic." No kidding! Luckily, the chances for something like that hitting us, or anything at all for that matter, are very slim! And if anything does hit us, we'll all be quite old and on our way out, anyway... And then bigger the thing, the smaller the chance it'll hit. Scientists have been keeping an eye on near Earth objects (NEOs) just in case. There are about 784 big ones (and about 100 more to be found... Well if they know that, why can't they 'find' them!?), and out of all of them, only one has a hint of a chance to actually hit us. His name is 2007 VK184, he's 425ft wide and enjoys long walks on the beach... But don't get him mad! There's a whopping 1 in 2940 chance he'll smack us 10,000 times stronger than the A-bomb in 40 years. Whew! At least now we can go out with our boots on...

Anyway, I found this cool little program that let's you see what happens when you destroy earth. =D So I plugged in the criteria for Mr. 2007 if he were to hit 500 miles from here at a hypothetical density of 3000 kg/m^3 head on. It wasn't so bad, which makes me question my knowledge of how to use it... But anyway, it would creat a crater 1.34 miles wide and .47 miles deep! Almost 3 minutes later, we would (not!) feel the effects of a 5.8 quake. 37 minutes after that, we'd feel a whopping 1.49 mph wind. Not to catestrophic, huh? Maybe you can figure it out!

=D Just thought I'd share!

So today was trying... Got on the phone with Chelsea to get the storage unit and something was up with Momma and I was about an inch away from pulling my hair out when I decided to go rouge... Ha, glad I did, because I could NOT wait another day for things to get done. It's really a bad habit of mine, putting things off. I'm not sure if I put them off or actually forget them... But it's a bad thing! And I've tried writing things down, but I forget to look at the thing I write them in! Talk about your catch 22s! Anyway, the unit has been secured and all we have to worry about now is this lame fee they got... I was NOT aware there was a dead line... But I'm slowly realizing I can't fix this... I guess the flailing should have been a clue. Hopefully I can get it removed, but if not, I'll be the jerk who can't fix what she caused.

And I just love that feeling........ =\

Went to the bank today to deposit a check to pay for the unit and I dropped my card in that space betwixt the car and the ATM... I was about 88% of the way home when I realized I didn't have it, so I went ALL the way back just to find it wasn't there... And then I found it. In the passenger seat. That was an extra 30 minutes of driving.... Half of which I spent screaming profanity. Where's a stress reliever when you need it?! And while going 5 over the speed limit, the cop I passed made a Uie, so I prayed I could make it home before he caught up with me. And I did. Oh yah!

Made a date with Uncle Philip to go get my hard drive and confirmed a date with Daddy tomorrow! YAY! I did NOT, however, make it to the post office. I sent off the one swap that was due today, the others aren't due until mid-August, so I'll (hopefully) have the $ for shipping by then!

Things I hope to complete by Sunday, August 2, 2009:

• Send out those swaps!
• Have taken care of the whole storage mess
• Have at least gotten pricing for my new hard drive
• Clean up my room
• Gone to Grace's at least twice
• Have made at least 2 more entries! =P
• Have a frikkin housing assignment... C'mon, LSU!

Tee hee, whoops!

I love how that lasted a whole month!!! =P

Anyway, my recent boom of crafting has inspired me to come back... =D Maybe I'll share my life along with those pictures!

Anyway, I don't feel like playing catch up, so I'll just write about today:

UGH! =P I stayed up all night because I was so frustrated that I've been putting off getting my stuff from Baton Rouge and now I've caused a $200 fee to be charge to Chelsea. Bad Kim! So... now we're trying again, but it helps that some people are actually willing to help me out this time! Hopefully my crap will be out by today (tomorrow?) and we can get that fee cleared... Lord knows we can't pay for it!

So what was I doing last night? I was making a cowl, of course! What's a cowl? Well... I'm not entirely sure! ?I think it's kinda like a turtle neck sweater, minus the sweater... A scarf that you don't have to wrap. For whom? Well, all I know is her name is Abby. Why am I making things for people I don't know? Well...

I've joined this site called Swap-Bot. Basically, you sign up for swaps where you make something, could be anything depending on the swap, and mail it off to your partner. It's pretty nifty. I've done 4 and am about to finish 4 or 5 more once I make a trip to the post office tomorrow. I'm a little obsessed with it and I'm sure it will just turn into another thing to keep me from studying! =P


Things I hope to complete by Sunday, August 2, 2009:

• Send out those swaps!
• Have taken care of the whole storage mess
• Have at least gotten pricing for my new hard drive
• Clean up my room
• Gone to Grace's at least twice
• Have made at least 2 more entries! =P
• Have a frikkin housing assignment... C'mon, LSU!
  

Congratulations, Mr. President!

Enough said!