I hadn't even noticed that I had a blog here, isn't that odd?

Well, Raine has a lot to blog on. ^_^;

Things with a site I work for are currently driving me batty. I have this big thing that I know about, and I'm not supposed to say anything about it, or act and differently, but it's eating at me. I want to be able to tell people, the other staff especially, and it's killing me. x_x;

In other news, the site I own is making me very happy, though there is a lot of work to be done! @[email protected] I love my development team so much, and we are having so much fun! I mean, the things we come up with.... we are all insane. XD I've got a lot of work to do for it, and I feel as if I really must try super-hard to try to live up to their expectations. *takes a deep breath* I have so much to learn still!

In real-life news.. Raine is applying for a job, but, it's going to take a lot of my time; 32.5 hours a week.... I'm kinda iffy about it; but really.. it does beat working retail, and I need the money... so.. >......<;;;

I really don't feel at home at my dad's house.
Well, no. I do. I feel like it is a second home. That is, until it's time to go to sleep.
Currently, my room is in limbo. My brother had his room built out of the garage. He has a nice room. My dad and I were going to switch rooms, since Aaron and I no longer needed to share the bigger bedroom (on different nights). So. That's not happened yet. It's been a few months.
Currently my room has my bed, my bookshelf (empty), and my empty dresser in a little corner. The rest of the room is storage, and my brother's shit that he doesn't want.
My dad is still fine with the not switching, his room is exactly as he likes it. (well, minus more space)
It's not that he doesn't want to switch them. It's just not a high enough priority, apparently. Because I don't nag, and I trust that he'll do it when he has time/has people helping him, etc. I trust that he'll organize it. But apparently, I shouldn't be doing that.
I usually don't get more than 1 or 2 hours of sleep at my dad's house, but I don't want to tell him and make him feel bad. I just really don't feel at home, or that I have a bedroom here. It's filled with my dad and brother's stuff. It's not MY room. I have a bed. An empty dresser, and an empty bookshelf.
It's not an option for me to sleep at my mom's full time. I WANT to sleep here.. but I just can't sleep now.
*sigh*

[FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=2][COLOR=#a0199b]Okay. This starts off easy enough. Since Thursday i've been gone towards Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 'Tis one of the best Shakespeare/acting in general festivals in the world. This year, their productions of [I]Othello[/I][I]A Midsummer Night's Dream[/I] were amazing with [I]Corialanus[/I] and an old Indian play, [I]The Clay Cart[/I] also being...wow. This year's production of [I]Comedy of Errors[/I] still needs a bit of work, but not much. Would have liked to see the other plays, but time and money constricted. [I]Our Town, [/I]August Wilson's [I]Fences[/I], [I]Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, A View From the Bridge, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter, [/I]and finally, [I]The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler[/I] are the plays I was not able to see.

If anyone else can go to it, GO. This year's productiong of Midsummer is just brilliant. Basically, this one is a "fairy dance party," complete with hippies, men in tutus (not tacky at least), and so much more. xD


Well, now to the woes of this night.

I think we offended some traffic gods.

We left after seeing the matinee performance of Clay Cart.

We left. All was good for a while. Then some idiot shot a police officer about half way back home. Complete stop on south-bound I-5. Apparently, that's still going. We waited an hour (one of the first to be caught by the blockage) and then broke a few laws by crossing the median, got slightly lost, yelled at by a stressed police officer for going too fast at one point when he was directing traffic, and basically added two hours to the whole driving time. Our arrival now is set at 2:15 AM or so. Part of it was the perimiter which was kinda crazy to get through. You can also kinda understand why the officer was yelling. Heck, one of his co-workers had been shot.

Second was road work near Vacaville. People were being asses and merging literally, last second. As in, knocking over the traffic cones, must get as far ahead of as many people as possible type asses. Okay, I may exaggerate a bit, but they were still being really annoying. That added another 45 min or so.

We thought to get home at midnight originally.
We ended up here at 3.


Yeah.
Ah well. It's all over now.


Edit:
Link to story on shooting which stopped traffic the first time. I completely understand why they blocked off the area since heck, he was an ex-convict and used a high-powered rifle to punch through a kevlar jacket and mortally wound a police officer.
[url]http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/1016114.html[/url]
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[CENTER][SIZE=2][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Last night, my dad told me to order the bag that I wanted from Kohl's but he was in a bad mood at the time because apparently, he left Arizona for the weekend to get away from how things were expecting my mom to have made my brother and I do some more with the house or whatever and to come home to a whole new clean perfect lifestyle. I mean, not that I blame him for wanting certain things to change, but I've already made a huge lifestyle change for him to make him happy by getting a job at a McDonald's, the idea of which I absolutely hate by the way. I'm willingly punishing myself working in a McDonald's now just to make him happy. Yet he's mad at me because my room doesn't meet his ideal cleanliness. Because I hadn't cleaned the dishes from lunch earlier in the day. Because the floors haven't been vaccuumed in a week. Because my brother didn't bother cleaning his room. Because my mom didn't do anything to change anything.

Ugh.

So I'm a little upset with him right now for expecting such drastic changes in our entire family's lifestyle just to make him happy. That's a lot to expect out of us in a three day period.

And you know what, there isn't a damn thing wrong with my room. Sure I have clothing scattered in a few different places, and my desk is a mess, but my desk has become a place for me to just put my crap now that I no longer use my desktop, and I know which clothes are clean, and which are dirty. The floor is mostly clear, and I don't have dishes or trash anywhere. My bed looks like I just woke up in it, but that's what it always looks like. I don't see the point of making a bed if you're just going to mess it up again >>

Anyways, done with my rant.

I need to make a tshirt for the Breaking Dawn release party on the first of August. Long time away right? xD I want to do a vampire/werewolf why do I have to choose thing, but I can't find any good art or anything to use on a shirt. I thought about asking Mags if I could commission something small out of her to use, but she's really busy right now as it is, so I don't want to take up her time or anything. I can't think of anyone else who does good vector art and would be willing to come up with something for me. Sho? I haven't seen her vector work, but her art is cute. It would be a matter of getting her to do it for me though. She's behind in commissions though, so I don't know if she'd have time?

I'll figure it out : )
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[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Purple"]Greetings! I would like to be Zen at this moment and ask everyone how their days are going? I'm happy to say that today was great! I got to hang around a bunch of great people. Also, listening to my friend Bob Marley who was a great man will also make you Zen like me. So, I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm very happy today. I hope to make some new friends on here, so comment or post back if you wanna talk! ^_^ Peace & Love~ Wait, I also had to say when you are in Zen mode you are completely relaxed and at inner peace or what the chinese would like to call "Nirvana." Hence the band Nirvana, which everyone at first just thought it was a kool band, but it is much more than that. If you would like to check out some Bob Marley music, you can go to Youtube.com and find some for yourself. Personally, my favorite songs are "One Love" and "Three Little Birds." Classics, I know. But I am into that kind of thing. :) Anyway, If you want to contact me and talk to me more, you can PM me if you like, or you can just comment or post back as I said before. This time I am really leaving, so don't become doubtful of me x]. You all are great, Thanks for reading!

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