oooOOOooo newness (*U*)

well, i've done it. i have moved out of scumblock.
yay for me!

anyhoo, tis all madness. still got stuff to unpack and arrange. got work in the morning, so i can't stay on this long.

>:P i hate early mornings. oh well, nevermind. i have to earn my wages, then i get to buy stuff (>u<) hehe.

ah, uni starts up again on monday, then it's back to the routine. well, it's not quite routine, but it is structured, and fun.

nite nite world, the hamster needs sleep.
see you soon, maybe.

*:)

mmmmm choccy choccy, hehe

tomorrow, when i've finished work, i shall be heading off to coventry. yay!
i haven't been to visit my friend in ages.

considering it's supposed to be the holidays i haven't been relaxing much o.o
i have been needed at work (which is great for the extra cash, does mean early mornings though), i have been packing the last of my belongings ready for the move to rhyl, i've been packing ready for my trip to cov and i have been filling in many forms and typing up my new cv.

i'm looking forward to this mini break.

ooooo, on a side note, brian's getting huge. i'll post some piccys as soon as i get some good lighting on him. as my room in scum block is on the ground floor i keep my curtains shut all the time. great for keeping algae down in the fish tank (not so sure brian's happy with this, yay for algae wafers) bad for taking photos with a phone with no flash.

*take care, hwyl fawr*

*:)

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the best of both worlds

ooooooooh,
new intel macs can be partitioned to run os x and windows.

this means that if i get a new intel mac i can still use all my favourite software, that i'm familiar with and use on my course, but i'll also be able to get animation software that is currently only available for windows machines.

this would mean that i would also need very good protection software since while under the influence of windows the shiny new mac will be vulnerable to everything any other pc is.
risky, but possibly worth it.

i think this could be a very worth while investment.

for those who want more information about apple mac go here.


*:)

*lots of birthday's*

there are three people i know whose birthday is today,
1) my mum (^U^)
2) my uncle howard
3) phill

mum had to work on her birthday today, but i was there to help. all our family came to the shop in turn to drop cards off and wish mum a happy birthday. one of our regular customers even bought mum a plant with pretty red flowers. once we got back to my mum's we had take away for tea, then mum had an early night cos she's in work again tomorrow.

oooooh, busy, busy.
she's chuffed cos she gets easter sunday off though.
also, with it being the holidays she gets a bit of a break when i cover shifts.
kerching, hehe.

now, i'm going back to watching the new version of battle star galactica. i miss the old cheesy version. bring back re-runs! :)

*:)

getting kicked when you're down

at my workplace we've not been having much fun recently.
1st the water board close the road our shop is on, then the kwiksave close and all our customers think we are closing too. the article in the evening leader didn't help when it talked about an old man being unhappy that he wouldn't be able to have a cuppa at the complex any more. mum phoned up and complained so they printed an article titled 'we're still open for business', which can be found here.
as it's not today's news you have to type the word 'business' into their search engine and the title should be listed, the date is the 31/3/2006.

today i arrived to open the shop at 8am and found the outer doors wouldn't open. then as i looked more closely at the news agent's shutters oposite i saw something was wrong. they had been prized open. i looked across and saw that the shop nextdoor had a hole in the wall. then i saw that the petshop shutters had suffered the same fate as the news agent. my next thought "where's this waste of space security then?" i found them round the corner sat in their car and was told that there was a break in last night and that the police weren't letting anyone in.
i went round the back to see what was happening. there was a police woman there waiting for csi to turn up, until then no-one could enter the building. she took my name and mobile number and told me she'd let me know when i could get in, so i went to tesco for a cuppa, then another cuppa and some breakfast, then i still hadn't heard anything and it had been almost 2 hrs so i got bored and went back to the petshop. i could see a woman inside the shop moving things around, she was wearing gloves, so i assumed csi must have turned up then. then i spent an hour letting customers know that there had been a break in and that we couldn't open till the police said so. eventually i got in. all the shops were allowed to have a look to see if they noticed anything in particular that was missing. with us it was just the money from the safe. other shops had stock stolen, the wallpaper shop even suffered vandalisation. paint and varnish were thrown everywhere. it was completely senseless. there are some idiots in this world.
this is what they did to our safe









i didn't take any pictures of the shutters. they've been fixed now.
we're fighting so hard to keep our cutomers coming to us and we're only small businesses, but we will not be squashed.
these idiots had the cheek to leave a note in the bakery saying "thank you very much, ha ha ha!"
they must be found and punished. there was no need to do this to us.
we're all very angry.
there's already an article in today's flintshire evening leader, i'll add the link as soon as the put it on the website. *still no sign of this article on ther site*7/4/06
somerfield have let us down. they removed kwiks and left us vulnerable, the security situation is beyond a joke. one manager has demanded over night security, it's the least we deserve, all the shops in the complex pay rent.
that's my angry rant for the day.

*(")

yes, ok i know there are no pictures, but still...

i feel like sharing this :P

today i got myself my new young person's pass, yay for cheap rail travel.
also i wasn't happy with my cv so i went to the careers office for some advice and left with loads, more yay (*U*)

i have lots of work to do.

while i was in the careers office, 1st i mentioned my cv.
i had no luck with my present one when phill helped me hand them out to various shops accross wrexham, or more recently when i decided to try my luck with some of the new shops that wrexham has recently aquired on the plot of land that was once the wrexham lager brewery.
why do i miss that smell?
anyhoo.

so, yeah, they're going to help me write a cv that no future employer will be able to ignor (mwahahahahah)
ahem, carrying on,

i also mentioned that i wanted to do some work experience over the summer.
the lady was impressed, aparently most students wait until the final 2 weeks of their degree to go "oh, no! i need work experience!"
ha, i win :D *cheezy*

i have some e-mail addresses to get in touch with. hehe.

and, to help plan for my future i can even start learning how to set up my own animation studio, which is so far my prefered final aim once i finish my degree.

busy, busy, busy, yet bouncy. yay!

*:)

my list of links is growing

it's like a tiny seed that germinated, oh look how it grows.

hehe

it's one way of giving my bookmark list a break. my poor little laptop, tis only small.

i'm also quite chuffed that i'm managing to make some use of my deviant art account, though it's mostly socialising rather than uploading loads of work.

i want to come up with something that i can actually be proud to display.
(i know there's the scraps option, but some of my sketches i'd rather not show to the world)

sometimes i think to myself "how can i ever be a good animator, i clearly don't draw often enough" then i think "shut up stupid and get on with your work!"

sometimes i shouldn't think so much. v_v
hehe

anyhoo,
that's it for now.

*hugs for everyone, we all need hugs!*

*:)

party pics

here are some pics of my family at uncle billy's party
(the quality is poor since i used my phone :P)


and here is uncle billy surrounded by his children









thankfully my grandad brought a better camera so i can ask him for some nice photos of uncle billy.

*:)

uncle billy's party

tonight was my uncle billy's retirement/birthday party. he is now 65.
he is one of my nanna's two brothers, and to be honest i can't remember if he's the older or younger.
anyway, there was a big party with the whole family. i took some pictures with my phone, which i shall upload at some point.
another thing that made this party such a big deal is, a while ago we found out that uncle billy is suffering from a type of cancer and recently we were informed that the treatment he's been undergoing has had no effect. in a sad way this was a kind of 'this could be the last party we see him at' or even 'this could be the last time some of us actually see him' party. i may not visit him all that often, but that doesn't mean i'm not upset about what's happening to him. it's hitting my nanna quite hard, which is highly expected.
i suppose that sometimes you don't realise how much you've been taking someone for granted till you find out they're being taken away from you. it's too easy to allow your mind to slip into 'well, of course they'll always be there'.
we all need to make the most of the special people in our lives.

well, that was a grim post.
next post shall have pictures of people having fun. so there.

hmmmm, this blog could soon end up looking like a photo album, hehehehehe :D

*:)

ps
madness is contagious, you have been warned :P
so says the hamster of doom!