I'm a retard. (Again.) Not for the same reason, but just as equally stupid.

Yesterday in an attempt to wake myself up and ease the restlessness that comes with sitting in a computer chair for 8+ hours a day, I went over to the mall on my lunch break to treat myself to some much-needed belated birthday shopping with the shiny Smart Set gift certificate my parents gave me.

So I walk into the store and just started piling clothes on my arm to try on. (I'm a glutton when it comes to free stuff.) I find several pieces I really love and fit me well so I come out of the changing room all excited and I'm waiting in the line to pay, just sort of looking around, and all of a sudden I realize I'M NOT IN SMART SET.

I'M IN SUZY SHIER. Which I most definitely do not have a big gift card for. D: I walked into the wrong effing store and I didn't even realize it while I was collecting all the sweet clothes and trying them on. (You would think all of the clothing tags and giant SUZY SHIER SALE signs would have tipped me off earlier. No such luck.)

So then I spend five minutes tortuously trying to decide whether to throw all the new pretties I found back *SOB*, or just suck it up and pay some splurge money which I really should be saving for house buying in the near future (more on this further down.) I ended up leaving feeling very guilty with $130 worth of new clothes.

*Shame cloud of guilt* It's the first splurge purchase I've made in a long time, Mason says I shouldn't feel guilty about it. *Love* At least I still have $75 more worth of actual free gift card money to spend frivolously. I'll be sure to actually walk in the right store this time.

More news, this time of the non-deprecating kind. We finished saving our down payment money early! We can start phoning around and looking at open houses! OMG!!! (Extra exclamation points illustrate my excitement~) I am so excited, I've been searching on mls.ca and I've found a dozen I want to make some phone calls to! HOUSES. ACTUAL HOUSES. Houses that could be MINE. X3 They're currently all in the North West-ish bit of Edmonton (yes, I caved and sectioned out a tiny quadrant of Edmonton in which I will actually live) but that's okay because the area is super close to St. Albert still. And it's cheaper. Sooooo much cheaper. More updates on house hunting as it develops~

Ugh, and a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature relaunch? Only you know, not with Joss Whedon... or any of Joss' characters... and therefor probably crap. Say it not so. D:

I technically just did a meme like this, so I tried to do 25 new things that weren't included in the last one. :P

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged.

1. I routinely look like I just crawled out of a barn. Between the bits and pieces of hay from sitting in my pet rabbit's playpen and the tufts of white feathers that escape from my down-filled winter jacket and get caught on my clothes, it raises the theory that I live in a chicken coup.


2. I used to be a tomboy. It's only in the last three or four-ish years that I've ditched the ugly over-sized man shirts to openly embrace my feminine side. Floral! Color! Dresses! Fitted clothes! OMG look I'm actually a girl and I LOVE IT~! :3 I would never ever go back to the way I was, because being girly is too much fun.


3. I really like my job, and that's something that I never would have believed I'd ever say. But I do, I like the job, I adore the people I work with, I get excited over new projects we're working on and where we're going. It's not very often many people are able to wake up everyday and not hate the idea of going to their job, and it concerns and makes me a little sad to not know whether I'll still be able to be there a year from now.


4. I would love to travel more. I especially dream one day of going back to Europe... England, Paris! *hearts* I wouldn't mind visiting Africa and maybe Japan too~


5. My biggest goal in the next five years (and that's a maximum ETA, preference would be one to two years) to own my own bloody house. I hate renting, I hate it! Look at all my beautiful money being sucked away that I'll never see again! D: I want more space, I want a garage, and I want a yard so we can finally get a puppy~


6. I'm probably one of the few people who was born in St. Albert, Alberta, and never ever wants to leave. It is one of the many aspects that is part of what makes up what has been affectionately coined the "Brenna Bubble". I love my little slice of suburbia and if I get my way I will live here forever. By an uncommon contrast, I despise Edmonton. It's too big, it's dirty, it's stressful, and it's scary, as opposed to my comfortably small city that is by comparison clean, easy, and safe, and most importantly, is close to my friends and family. If I ever make a move out of St. Albert, it will be to another suburb in the nearby area, but if it's left up to me, I will die here in one of the very many local retirement homes.


7. My dialogue is littered with what we in the family refer to as "Saunders Words", and sometimes I forget that the rest of the world has never heard of them. Terms like "gweeblies", "tuffettops", and "goobersmooch" have a habit of sneaking into my dictionary while out in public and end up earning me lots of funny looks and ridicule.


8. I speak to my bunny as if he were a tiny three-year-old. I never thought I'd be one of those people who engages in in depth conversations with my pet and treats them like their own child, but I can't help it! *Hugs Toby* He's so freaking adorable! X3


9. I wish I had more money to buy ridiculous amounts of clothes and shoes! I can't walk into a mall without seeing a dozen things I want to have, and if I didn't have the reserves of will power as I do, I would be very very poor.


10. I am probably the pickiest eater I have ever and will ever know of. (And I can't even blame mine on allergies or anything.)


11. I'm cold all the time. I hate being freaking cold! *Hugs her portable work heater*


12. I'd really like to get more in shape since my current shape is more like a squiggly no-muscly void of nothing, but I am admittedly notoriously lazy when it comes to physical activity. Gyms are an absolute no-go for me. Selected sports I can sometimes pull off, but it really has to be a very Brenna-friendly sport, and that usually means that it doesn't involve a lot of running or painful physical contact. I keep saying I want to get into a habit of playing DDR again every day, but that probably won't actually happen until we have a house and more space to keep the dancing mat out and available to remind me to use it.


13. On the note of Brenna-friendly sports, I'm extremely glad that Mason introduced me to golf. Yes, it's as boring as dirt to watch on television, but I really do enjoy playing it. It gives me some exercise, I get to go for a nice leisurely walk, and it's very relaxing.


14. I started taking piano lessons this year, something I've always wanted to do and finally did~


15. I don't like small talk. I'm much more of a comfortable silence kind of girl. Please don't talk to me about the weather or other things we know that neither of us are really interested in talking about just to fill an awkward void. Either have an actual conversation with me, or keep to the rule silence is golden.


16. When it comes to television and movies and books, my favorite characters always end up being either:
    
    1. villains (ex. Spike from Buffy, Grievous from Star Wars),
    2. arrogant assholes (ex. Alan Shore from Boston Legal, Severus Snape from HP), or
    3. a little bit crazy (ex. Dilandau from Escaflowne, The Joker from Batman).
    
    Or in some cases, all of the above mixed into some crazy Molotov cocktail of creepy. It's especially strange since all these characteristics when displayed in real life piss me off and make me want to punch the owner in the face. Yet in books and shows, I can't get enough of them. They draw me in -- they're just always so much more interesting than the heroes or other protagonists! :B


17. Denny Crane.


18. I'm so happy to be getting back into reading again. I was an obsessive book worm when I was younger, and then for whatever reason I stopped buying books and going to the library for a while when I discovered things like anime and manga and pink Nintendo DS's. Something clicked last year though and I've compiled a giant list of must-read material that I'm working though.


19. I am an Anal Annie when it comes to filling the dishwasher. Everything has a designated place, dishes must be sorted, everything has to fit in order to maximize dishwasher capacity and efficiency! Mason very often simply doesn't load the dishwasher at home because he knows that I'll just walk by, get frustrated, and proceed to take everything out and re-load it my own way. I go over to my parent's house for dinner some times and blanch at the horror that is their dishwasher now that I don't live at home with them. It's a disgrace, and I think they do it purely because they know it annoys me.


20. I like playing board games. One night a week I get together with a bunch of friends and we play a board game or card game of some sort, it's a lot of fun, and I like that I get to see the group of people at least once each week because of it.


21. I am an enormous fangirly geek, and I love it. Being a fangirl is my favorite hobby ever, whether it's watching episodes of a series over and over again, or finding a new piece of amazing fanart, or staying up until the wee hours of the morning researching information and details on specific parts of a story or character that I never knew before.


22. Directly related to / caused by / is the causing factor of #21, I'm a pretty big daydreamer. Not in the teenage girly sense of "and then Johnny Depp comes sweeping in with rippling muscles and carries me off for some full-frontal shagging", but more along the lines of where I write little scenes and bits in my head of various fandoms I'm currently indulging in. It's more or less fanfiction writing, only without the actual typing because that's far too much effort. I like to think up those scenes you'd love to see, or bits of a story and character experiences that were never included but should have been. They play like my own little directed movies in my head, and they can range from little two-minute concoctions to full blown half hour episodes where I end up getting really annoyed if someone interrupts me in the middle of it.


23. I both miss and do not miss my old spiky hair. I miss it because it was very unique, and not a style you saw on every female who walked by; though on the same note, I very much do not miss it because of the same reason. My hair may be more boring now, but it feels more mature and I'm finally no longer recognized every where I go as "That spiky haired girl who worked at Sobeys". =_=; There's a point when creepy old ladies try to run their hands over your hair gushing that you say enough is enough.


24. I live my life by my Google Calendar. *Hearts* I'm not sure I could get along in the world on a day-to-day basis without my online schedule and daytimer.


25. I can't stand rudeness. It is by far my biggest pet peeve and turn off. Egotistical people come in as a close second -- modesty is a virtue, learn to use it, you arrogant asswipes.

You won't really understand the reference unless you have properly witnessed the Nintendo64 Kid in all his wonderfully spazzy glory; either way though, it gets the point across. I am now the proud owner of bright and shiny new silver 2003 Ford Focus! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! XD Air conditioning, remote door-locks, anti-lock breaks, and some surprisingly expansive trunk space, my new car is very likely the sexiest/cutest thing I've ever owned. It feels like I'm driving a puffy little silver cloud of joy everywhere I go. I forgot to take some pictures of it with my digicam today, but I do have the one picture of it from the AutoTrader:

♥ New Car Love~ ♥

I'm going to ask a friend of my dad's who is an airbrusher to draw a little picture of a ninja on the side of it, because my car is simply that cool. While most of me is squealing over my new purchase, a little bit of me is feeling very sad and guilty when ever I drive up in it and see my old car sitting neglected and alone on the street. My poor Cavalier's little blinky red light that used to chirp hello to me so happily now seems very sad and depressed. . . :x You've served me well over the past four years, dear Binky. Now it's time to send you off to greener pastures. *Pat pat*

On the complete opposite side of the scale, however, I have fallen into a horrible, dingy sickness over the last few days of which I wish would very much go away and leave my nose and throat and other various sickly body parts alone. I was stupid and went to work on Monday where I nearly passed out at my till, had to be driven home, and spent the next twenty hours sleeping the not-so-much fun dizziness in my head away. -_-; I'm feeling better now, but my nose is still angry and my throat just started hurting again. *Sucks on a cherry Jolly Rancher because she despises the taste of actual throat drops*

OMGZ! Spike Joygasms. His own movie? I hope it's a lot of him being shirtless and crawling across a bed like a panther. *Salivates* I've said it once and I'll say it again, Joss Whedon is my god (and Spike is my naughty British sex kitten.)

Tomorrow Chelle and I are going shopping for a cute dress for me to wear to Rebecca's wedding~ Look at me, I've become such a horrible girlish girl. >_< *Ashamed* *Scrubs her skin with soap until it bleeds* Wash it off, wash it off! JK. I like my newfound femininity -- pink, floral, dresses, all of it.

Dirty quizzes I jacked from Seanathan's blog~

As it turns out, Brenna is aroused by ... Lime green shag carpets 'What crazy thing are you aroused by?' at QuizUniverse.com

Who isn't? Rawr. *Paw paw* *Gets fingers stuck in tangles of green shag and all the little creatures living in it start to attack her*

Your Pornstar Name is: B.J. Blue Take this quiz at QuizUniverse.com

I think I saw that slutty nighty at La Senza.

Brenna's sexual nickname: "Milk shop" Take this quiz at QuizUniverse.com

That's not sexy! *Sweatdrop* :x

I'm going to go sleep some more, or maybe make some cucumber salad. . .because cucumber salad is amazing and I'm craving it right now for some reason. . .and then maybe I'll read some more. I have so much stuff to read, but that's probably a good thing because it's only a matter of days until my new depressing $9000 car debt starts to sink in fully and I get all angsty and will need something to distract myself with.

Helped 'Manda and Lancedolf move on Saturday, engaging in much strenuous activity I haven't done in a long time and resulting in much pain the day after. You guys must get My Futon (I have coined it such) so we can amass at your crib ("yo yo" *hand thing*) for days at a time, muh HA HA HA HA. *Friends are still clumped in the living room a month later and are beginning to smell. Amanda and Lance have to force them out with cattle prods.* Remind me to do the cliche' housewarming thing and bring you a fruitbasket. . .or a fruitcake. . .I don't remember what is customary on these occasions. Maybe we'll just throw the whole fruit theme out the window and go with chocolate cake. That can be housewarming. And much tastier then fruit.

Also saw Onk Bak on Saturday, which while as ultimately awesome as it already was, would have been more so to the power of a billion if I hadn't been so tired that I was almost falling asleep in the theatre. Tony Jaa walking on your freaking head blew my mind. It makes me in a martial arts mood and craving to rent Jackie Chan: Drunken Master, which for some reason several completely different people have brought up conversation about over the past week. Coincidence? I THINK NOT. Obviously, A SIGN FROM GOD. (And by GOD, obviously I mean a drunk Chinese man.)

I want it to get warmer so I can ride my bike. I have no idea why, but for the last month I've had these incessant cravings to go bike riding, and then I remember that I can't, because I'll freeze, and that furthermore, my bike is still at my grandparents house. I want to start riding soon though before I lose the urge to and become a gelatin-like lump once more.

I also need to remember to book a doctors appointment to have someone take a look at my fingers. They're beginning to concern me, and I think my mom is about ready to launch into some maternal freakage every time she touches my fingers and they're frigid cold. T-T It's impossible not to look like a doofus when you have to walk around in measly 0 degree weather still wearing heavy snowboarding mitts.

*One hour break between that last paragraph and here to watch American Idol with Mom. Have to get my Simon fix. He was disappointingly complimentary tonight.*

WHOOOOOO, OMG, QUIZZES, EAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

You scored as Tara Maclay. You're soft-hearted and soft-spoken. You do get nervous, especially when around new people, but it passes. You love your loved ones and would do anything to help them. Tara Maclay 63% Willow Rosenberg 54% Buffy Summers 46% Dawn Summers 46% Anya 46% Rupert Giles 42% Xander Harris 33% Spike 33% Which Buffy The Vampire Slayer Character Are You Most Like!? created with QuizFarm.com

You Are 22 Years Old

22 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

Your Brain is 73.33% Female, 26.67% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

You Are A Romantic Realist

You are more romantic than 30% of the population. You tend to be grounded when it comes to romance. Sure, you can fall hard... but only for someone you've gotten to know. And once you're in love, you can be a total romantic goofball... But you'd never admit it to your friends!

Day off tomorrow! How should I waste a day? Nobody knoooooOOOOOOoooooows. . .

This week has been tiring for stupid reasons that shouldn't be, in turn making me feel equally stupid, thus provoking probably too much chocolate than is most likely healthy for one human body, and hours of Cardcaptor Sakura. Last couple of days work has been draaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaging, and I'm not looking forward to going back in tomorrow and standing for another seven hours that will seem like seven YEARS. *Falls off chair in a congealed mess on floor*

Seanathan sent me this link, and I was distracted from stupidness by better stupidness that made me gafaw (I don't think anyone has ever actually "gafaw"-ed, but it's a fun word so let's go with it.)

Had my first crash course in Macromedia Flash on the weekend. Flash eats my soul. It's simpler than I thought it would be, the basics anyway, but in a very loooooong, drawn out, time-consuming sort of way. A three minute flash movie like on Albino Blacksheep -- I would DIE before I can imagine making and finishing one of those.

Inane is getting sloppy on their Naruto translations. . .this saddens me. The news that Naruto has been licensed also aggravates me to a degree, for the sole reason that I fear having to be forced to resort to IRC to download episodes if bittorrent downloads become unavailable. I'll have to rage. Just a bit.

More links that have been compiling in my mailbox:

This happies me. Especially the dragging the mouse through the wood shavings part.

While this disturbs me.

AHHHHHHHH!

Gafaw! Matrix cow.

citroen_C4.wmv (You have to right-click and save this one to watch it, or you get a 404 error.)

Amanda-chan, you must show me this HP badger flash movie. It haunts my dreams at night. "Snaaaaaaape. Snaaaaaaape."

On with the quizes. For each of your fandoms, list:

Fandom: Escaflowne
1. A character you absolutely worship: Dilandau
2. A character you like: Folken
3. A character you could give or take: Allen
4. A character you don't really care for: Hitomi
5. A character you'd like to stab: Millerna

Fandom: Naruto
1. A character you absolutely worship: Orochimaru
2. A character you like: Gaara and Kakashi (so torn. . .)
3. A character you could give or take: Naruto
4. A character you don't really care for: Neji
5. A character you'd like to stab: Sakura

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
1. A character you absolutely worship: Roy
2. A character you like: Hughes
3. A character you could give or take: Winry
4. A character you don't really care for: Tucker
5. A character you'd like to stab: Rose

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1. A character you absolutely worship: Spike
2. A character you like: Practically every other character EVER.
3. A character you could give or take: Dawn
4. A character you don't really care for: Riley
5. A character you'd like to stab: Kenedy

Looking forward to next week on West Wing -- Josh and Toby, THROW DOWN! Be there next Wednesday! *Girly cat fight ensues* I want Josh and Donna to snog. It would happy me. (Lack of grammer also happies me. And lack of spell check.)

Okay, I'm out.

That's right, baby. We are now OS X-ified. Mmm, sexy. Rarw~ *Showers her Macintosh with love. It purrs.* The poor thing still has a bit of a head cold from all of this scary operating system upgrading, and in the mean time I'm deprived from my usual dual monitor set up, and Photoshop hasn't been loaded yet, the scanner isn't working, I've discovered that the new Safari web browser is a whore and I need to recode lots of websites to work in it, and there's tons of things I haven't figured out yet, but nevertheless OS X rocks my face off for the most part.

I've gone shopping twice in the last week and have bought an over-abundance of wonderful things, among them being many pretty shirts, volume seven of the Evangelion manga, volumes one to four of Hot Gimmick, season six of Buffy, two FMA posters, Romeo and Juliett DVD, lots of La Senza pretty things, the first Bridget Jones Diary book, and. . .*drumroll*. . .A NEW CELLPHONE! It's a cute little Samsung flip phone, and I bought a red cover for it, and I loooooove it.

My car starter is being installed on Friday morning! Which also means I have to wake up at 6:00 in the morning in order to have it in by 7:00. . . =__=; Good news is that I'll have the two or three hour wait while it's being done to read my new mangas. *Reads her shoujo in the waiting room and begins giggling and rolling around in her chair. All the other customers look scared.*

Hmm, out of things to say again. . . Dodgeball is freaking hilarious, and the montage scene with people getting hit in the face with wrenches practically killed me, holy shit, I couldn't stop laughing. Ben Stiller rocks my world. Seriously. I'm just kidding though. But not really.

Things. . .
. . .you shouldn't do with glue.