Work, Home and Neopets
Jan. 29th, 2008 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukinofaeriiOkay, quick work and personal update and then I'll move onto what I really want to post about.
My boss finally had her baby, so I'm officially alone on the job. Of course, there are other people around to help me if I need it, but under normal circumstances they wouldn't be in the loop. So far nothing's been more than I can handle, but there's still a horrible ball of terror in my gut that's just waiting for the shoe to drop.
In personal life... I gained five pounds. :/ Okay, okay, so it's not a big deal. I don't look like I weigh 168 (I'll find a picture to post one day...), but I'd just managed to lose 20. That's a fourth of my achievement gone. So it's back to the diet. Not that I mind, since you can't really call it a diet. It just means not letting myself snack and paying attention to what I eat and how much. Kind of annoying, and I should probably add "exercise" to that, but I'm a lazy Faery. ^^; If I can do it by just eating less, that's what I'll do. I'll worry about muscle tone when it won't be hidden under a layer of jiggly padding.
Also, My father's mad at me. Again. *sigh* Nothing new there, really. at least he hasn't disowned me again I suppose. My great crime this time? Telling him that I think it's okay to allow yourself (myself) to be angry when you're angry. To sum up the story, I was pretty annoyed on Sunday when he called. Because my brain-to-mouth filter has yet to be installed, I told him about it. My bad. after 23+ years, I should know better. I immediately earned a lecture on enjoying life and how I "shouldn't" be angry. In other words, he wanted me to suck it up and force myself to not be pissy.
This, quite naturally, made me go from annoyed to infuriated.
Maybe I need to explain something. I have no problems with discussion actions as moral/immoral, whatever, as long as the other party stays on track with the discussion. But when it comes to things like emotions, there's no should or shouldn't. If you're angry, you're angry and there's nothing wrong with that. The fastest way to push my buttons is to try and tell me that I should/shouldn't think/feel/be/believe a. Tell me it's unhealthy, or irrational — whatever. But don't tell me that there's a right or wrong involved.
So the argument escalated, and he couldn't come up with anything to justify his attempted control of my emotional state than "we can die at any time, so you should be happy while you can" or "at least you're not a child starving in Africa". Oh, and, "I could die tomorrow because I have asthma, so do it for me". It ended with him deciding (and these are his words) that I'm too stupid and young to partake of the wisdom he's trying to share with me. After that, he passed the phone to Mom, who doesn't dare disagree with him when he's there, so who knows what she really thinks. *sigh* By that time I was practically crying with frustration, but Mom's usually pretty good at listening. We talked for a few minutes, and I might even have been able to get it off my chest if Dad hadn't kept picking up the phone every thirty seconds to call me stupid. I gave up and said goodbye.
There's something seriously wrong with my family, when my father's sterling and mature come-back is to resort to playground teasing.
And wow. Looking up at this, I'm obviously not as over it as I thought. Damn it.
Now for the big news. Neopets. I don't post on it very often, because really? It's not a big deal. Seldom does anything really exciting happen there. It's mostly just a way to pass time at work. Still, I'll give you some background info, just because.
I'm currently tsukinofaerii on Neo. My goal pets are a Fairie Draik, a Baby Lupe and a Fairie Shoyru. Because I'm specific in what I want, I'm going to do it the old-fashioned way - paintbrushes. (Besides, you can't get a Draik from the Lab Ray.) So that's a cool 9 million NP right there. I've got about 1.6m saved, but since I'm doing this more as a distraction than anything else, that number likes to wobble. I also occasionally occupy myself with avatar quests and such, which can also be expensive. For example, I have both Lab Rays. I collected pieces as they were cheap or as I found them, so it wasn't a lot of NP, but that's just an example of how I'm so not goal-oriented. XD I also play the plots when they come out (Altador rocked). Does anyone else think the cybunny in the new Dr. Sloth plot is hot?
So wrong....
Since I have the Lab Ray, I'm going to do sort of a mini-adoption agency thing, starting as soon as the Adoption Agency gets going. I've got a Halloween Cybunny ready to adopt and a Green Ruki who's still being zapped daily. The Shoyru and Lupe are mine. (ahem) But if you want Buddy or Peasy, drop me a line and we'll arrange something when the adoption agency is back up. Does anyone know what happens to Lab-Zapped Petpets when the pet they're attached to is adopted out? If I can zap petpets to go with the pets, that'd be cool, but they might revert, in which case I won't bother.
Great links for adoption are:
Finally... I finally got the packrat avatar. FINALLY. After I loan 1,000 items to someone (oh gods), I'm selling the lot, except for a few things which shall be used for other avatars. And before anyone remarks on the stupidity of that big of a loan without serious collateral, it's being loaned to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ds000 (deathsshadow000 on Neo). I trust her for some reason. Also, I know where she sleeps. So it's safe. If anyone else is going for the avvy and wants to buy in bulk, comment or neomail me and we'll work out a trade. I'm not interested in turning a profit or breaking even on the cheap things, so I'm sure we can arrange something. A very few people I might just loan the stuff out to with no collateral. Other people, expect about 100k collateral.
For people who are embarking on the avvy quest and for whatever reason don't want to buy/borrow my stuff, a very shiny place is
. What makes this site especially purty as far as avvy sites go is that it two relevant links and several sorting methods. Of the links, one checks your Safety Deposit Box for the item and the other takes you to the shop wizard with the item already entered in the search box. How cool is that? Once you get past a few hundred items, its hard to remember what you have and what you don't. Going back and forth between item list, sdb and the wiz is a pain - this site rocks. It also tells you the approximately what price, so you don't get ripped off. Go forth, my people, and shop.
And this was a long, rambling post on nothing at all really important.
My boss finally had her baby, so I'm officially alone on the job. Of course, there are other people around to help me if I need it, but under normal circumstances they wouldn't be in the loop. So far nothing's been more than I can handle, but there's still a horrible ball of terror in my gut that's just waiting for the shoe to drop.
In personal life... I gained five pounds. :/ Okay, okay, so it's not a big deal. I don't look like I weigh 168 (I'll find a picture to post one day...), but I'd just managed to lose 20. That's a fourth of my achievement gone. So it's back to the diet. Not that I mind, since you can't really call it a diet. It just means not letting myself snack and paying attention to what I eat and how much. Kind of annoying, and I should probably add "exercise" to that, but I'm a lazy Faery. ^^; If I can do it by just eating less, that's what I'll do. I'll worry about muscle tone when it won't be hidden under a layer of jiggly padding.
Also, My father's mad at me. Again. *sigh* Nothing new there, really. at least he hasn't disowned me again I suppose. My great crime this time? Telling him that I think it's okay to allow yourself (myself) to be angry when you're angry. To sum up the story, I was pretty annoyed on Sunday when he called. Because my brain-to-mouth filter has yet to be installed, I told him about it. My bad. after 23+ years, I should know better. I immediately earned a lecture on enjoying life and how I "shouldn't" be angry. In other words, he wanted me to suck it up and force myself to not be pissy.
This, quite naturally, made me go from annoyed to infuriated.
Maybe I need to explain something. I have no problems with discussion actions as moral/immoral, whatever, as long as the other party stays on track with the discussion. But when it comes to things like emotions, there's no should or shouldn't. If you're angry, you're angry and there's nothing wrong with that. The fastest way to push my buttons is to try and tell me that I should/shouldn't think/feel/be/believe a. Tell me it's unhealthy, or irrational — whatever. But don't tell me that there's a right or wrong involved.
So the argument escalated, and he couldn't come up with anything to justify his attempted control of my emotional state than "we can die at any time, so you should be happy while you can" or "at least you're not a child starving in Africa". Oh, and, "I could die tomorrow because I have asthma, so do it for me". It ended with him deciding (and these are his words) that I'm too stupid and young to partake of the wisdom he's trying to share with me. After that, he passed the phone to Mom, who doesn't dare disagree with him when he's there, so who knows what she really thinks. *sigh* By that time I was practically crying with frustration, but Mom's usually pretty good at listening. We talked for a few minutes, and I might even have been able to get it off my chest if Dad hadn't kept picking up the phone every thirty seconds to call me stupid. I gave up and said goodbye.
There's something seriously wrong with my family, when my father's sterling and mature come-back is to resort to playground teasing.
And wow. Looking up at this, I'm obviously not as over it as I thought. Damn it.
Now for the big news. Neopets. I don't post on it very often, because really? It's not a big deal. Seldom does anything really exciting happen there. It's mostly just a way to pass time at work. Still, I'll give you some background info, just because.
I'm currently tsukinofaerii on Neo. My goal pets are a Fairie Draik, a Baby Lupe and a Fairie Shoyru. Because I'm specific in what I want, I'm going to do it the old-fashioned way - paintbrushes. (Besides, you can't get a Draik from the Lab Ray.) So that's a cool 9 million NP right there. I've got about 1.6m saved, but since I'm doing this more as a distraction than anything else, that number likes to wobble. I also occasionally occupy myself with avatar quests and such, which can also be expensive. For example, I have both Lab Rays. I collected pieces as they were cheap or as I found them, so it wasn't a lot of NP, but that's just an example of how I'm so not goal-oriented. XD I also play the plots when they come out (Altador rocked). Does anyone else think the cybunny in the new Dr. Sloth plot is hot?
So wrong....
Since I have the Lab Ray, I'm going to do sort of a mini-adoption agency thing, starting as soon as the Adoption Agency gets going. I've got a Halloween Cybunny ready to adopt and a Green Ruki who's still being zapped daily. The Shoyru and Lupe are mine. (ahem) But if you want Buddy or Peasy, drop me a line and we'll arrange something when the adoption agency is back up. Does anyone know what happens to Lab-Zapped Petpets when the pet they're attached to is adopted out? If I can zap petpets to go with the pets, that'd be cool, but they might revert, in which case I won't bother.
Great links for adoption are:
Finally... I finally got the packrat avatar. FINALLY. After I loan 1,000 items to someone (oh gods), I'm selling the lot, except for a few things which shall be used for other avatars. And before anyone remarks on the stupidity of that big of a loan without serious collateral, it's being loaned to
ds000 (deathsshadow000 on Neo). I trust her for some reason. Also, I know where she sleeps. So it's safe. If anyone else is going for the avvy and wants to buy in bulk, comment or neomail me and we'll work out a trade. I'm not interested in turning a profit or breaking even on the cheap things, so I'm sure we can arrange something. A very few people I might just loan the stuff out to with no collateral. Other people, expect about 100k collateral.For people who are embarking on the avvy quest and for whatever reason don't want to buy/borrow my stuff, a very shiny place is
. What makes this site especially purty as far as avvy sites go is that it two relevant links and several sorting methods. Of the links, one checks your Safety Deposit Box for the item and the other takes you to the shop wizard with the item already entered in the search box. How cool is that? Once you get past a few hundred items, its hard to remember what you have and what you don't. Going back and forth between item list, sdb and the wiz is a pain - this site rocks. It also tells you the approximately what price, so you don't get ripped off. Go forth, my people, and shop. And this was a long, rambling post on nothing at all really important.
