MCOQueen's Ramblings

I came in last place again with my Nascar Fantasy racing league on CBS sportsline with insignia_void and D.S. from work.  I even picked the winner of the race, Kyle Busch!  I stupidly forgot to check to see if all my drivers were qualified for the race.  Unfortunately, one of the driver's I picked did not qualify.   Double ugh!  I just know I'm gong to end up in last place by the end of the season at this rate.  I finished doing my unit 5 project and seminar discussion for one of my classes.  We are currently on Unit 6.  One of my professors allows us to turn these two assignments up to a week late without penalty.  As a result, I am always behind in that class.  Ugh!  I just finished reading the chapter for Unit 6.  I am hoping to catch up so I can get ahead and start working on my Final Projects for my classes.  I really can't wait for this quarter to end.  I need to do my FAFSA for my next quarter of the year.  I had a lot of fun at my brother's birthday party last night.  Great food and the Wii!  Too cool!  I showed off my laptop to my family.  It's the first time they've seen it.  I am getting used to typing and using it now.  Laptops rule!  For my Unit 6 project for one of my classes, I have to watch a tv show that I like and watch it with no audio and jot down all the nonverbal communication taking place.  I then have to write a paper on it.  Thank goodness my parents have cable and a DVR.  I do not have cable.  I am procrastinating at the moment and need to get back to my assignments.  Later. 

 This has been one long week.  I worked from Saturday through Friday.  I was having to use my brother's compuer until my new laptop came in.  Of course, it comes in this past Tuesday while I'm in the middle of doing a paper.  I'm still trying to get used to a laptop.  I've always had a pc.  I think I will never go back to that.  My games play so well on this laptop.  I'm not surprised.  It is a gaming laptop.  I'm actually liking all the services that Dell offers.  My laptop is an XPS m1530 Dell laptop.  I'm still tryin to get used to Vista.  It runs well.  I have so much school work to do.  I'm going to be writing papers and watching Nascar tomorrow.  I'm currently at my parent's place.  We're celebrating Varqa's birthday today even though it was last week.  Mom is cooking and the food smells wonderful.  Everybody around me seems to be getting sick.  I've been taking the airborne stuff and so far I haven't gotten sick.  I'm hoping this will last.  Later.

Hello to all my friends!  It has been two weeks since I last updated.  I don't have nearly as much free time as I used to have because I'm a full time student now.  I'm doing all my courses online and so far, I'm really enjoying it.  Since I've been working at my current job for over five years, I can actually go to the long term luncheon this year.  It's on December 5th.  My work has a tuition reimbursement policy and I just got approved for the two classes I'm taking right now which are "Fundamentals of Grammar and Editing" and "Technical Writing".  I'm an Advanced Start Bachelor of Science in Communications with an emphasis in Technical Writing.  I just have to wait until this quarter is over and pass my classes, and then I will be reimbursed.  Yay! 

The Wake County Public Library Book Sale started on the 14th.  I only went on the first day and spent $26.  This is much better than last year.  I spent over a hundred bucks last year. 

Yesterday was my birthday.  Thanks to all of you who wished me a happy birthday!  I was out and about yesterday.  I had made plans with Adib and Ayanna to go with them to the Durham County animal shelter to help them pick out two kittens.  We picked up Bridget (Thomas' girlfriend) and went.  They ended up picking a really cute little tabby who is 3 months old.  He is so cute and sweet and hyper!  They're going to name him Atreu, or Trey for short.  Atreu comes from the Never-ending Story.  The second one they picked is a little tuxedo kitty who's only 6 weeks old.  They're going to name him Xander.  He was a bit scared of us in the visitation room, but he seemed to warm up to Ayanna and Bridget.  Atreu licked Bridget's hand when she was holding him.   Animals just love Bridget for some reason.  After picking the kitties, we all went to the Olive Garden for lunch.  It was really busy.  Bridget went home after that.  The rest of us ended up going to Burlington Coat Factory.  Adib needed a coat and so did I.  I bought this really nice Ann Klein coat.  I also needed to get some business casual clothes for the luncheon.  Ayanna helped me pick just the right outfit. 

We then stopped by Trader Joe's which if you've never been there before is like an Earthfare or Wholefoods but with a lot cheaper prices.  It's a pretty cool store.  After that, Adib and I stayed at the house while Ayanna went to the store and got some more things for later that night.  Adib and Ayanna hosted a game night and invited all their friends.  There were a total of 9 of us.  I had a whole lot of fun.  Game night started at 8pm and I left the house at midnight!  I had been procrastinating for the past two days on doing my assignment but I managed to finish it last night after I got home.  I stayed up to 2am.  I just have a few small assignments left and then one big one which I really need to think about. 

I'm still waiting for my enrollment packet to come in the mail.  I want my student I.D.!  I can't wait to get a student discount!  Today, I'm going over to my parents' place for lunch and to watch football.  I won't actually be watching the game.  I had my mother make me Fesanjun.  It's this really awesome Persian dish.  I can't wait to eat.  I think I'll take my textbook and complete my small assignment while I'm there.  I think that's about it.  I'll try and update some time soon.  Later.

I am currently at work and am waiting for 2:00am to hurry up and get here. RPM is sick and C.D. asked me to stay until 2am. D.S. is coming in at 4am. M.G. and I have been catching up. I'm flashing back to the last four years of working overnight. I asked him if he missed me talking his head off all the time. He said he did miss it.

Tonight's been pretty busy in satellite but not because of commercials. I just had a lot of feeds to get and two feeds I had to get twice. One was a mistake in the show and the other was because of an audio blowout on one channel. I hate audio blowouts especially if the volume is turned up on one of the monitors. It's a bit startling. I also hate having to re-dub because of it.

My brother, Thomas, is taking me out to lunch tomorrow for my birthday even though my birthday is not until Friday. I'm assuming he has a day off tomorrow, but not Friday. He said I could pick any restaurant that I want. I'll have to think about it. He's going to get me a Barnes and Noble gift card as a present. He knows me well. My other brother is going to buy me accessories for my I-pod video. Not really sure what the other brother is going to do or what my parents are going to do. I don't really expect anything from them. Mom and Dad already spent a lot of money with mom's surgery. I don't want them to buy me anything. I usually just get mom to make me my favorite dish for my B-day. Obviously, this year she can't because she's still recovering from her surgery. I guess I'll just have to get her to make me 2 dishes next year. I love my mom's cooking!

Well, I should probably wrap this up. I need to go check my one last feed before I leave. Later.