You put the dream in my reality

I caved in an bought a new laptop I got it on sale, and it’s an Acer Aspire 5920G.
Specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5550
Ram: 4096MB
HDD: 320GB
Monitor: 15,4″
Max resolution: 1280×800
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS - 256 MB/512 MB HM
Battery: 8-celler Li-ION
Soundcard: Dolby®-certified surround soundsystem
Optical drive: Blu-Ray player (DVD burner)
Webcamera: CrystalEye
Cardreader: 5 in 1 (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
Bluetooth: Yes
Network: Integrated 10/100/1000 mbit networkcard
Wireless: WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/Draft-N

It’s quite a nice upgrade from my Gateway, which is a AMD Athlon 2.2 gigs, no dual core or anything, with 2 gigs of ram and a 100 gig hdd. And, my work will pay for some of it, and I got it a lot cheaper cause of work connections and stuff. Hehe. It should be here in a week or so.
I really wanted to pick up a Macbook today, but they were sold out. They also sold out of the 30 gig iPod classics pretty fast - so no new iPod for me. I’m happy with my Nano though. I did end up getting new speakers though, JBL Spot ones. Tested them quite a bit already and I’m very glad I bought them! They have a neat touch-thing to up or down the volume.. I was a that damn store at 6:30am yet there was a long lineup of like 100 people. They’d only had 6 macbooks on sale, and 5 iPods or so. Sucks but I got a new laptop out of it anyway, and it’ll end up being cheaper cause of my work deal and stuff
Arthur (who I traveled in Japan with) invited me to his wedding in Vancouver! I really want to go, I’d be staying for free at Jeff’s so I’d pretty much only need spending money and the plane ticket.. I’m fairly sure I can get two weeks vacation time at the end of August.. Hmm! Decisions, decisions!

I won’t be going to Oslo cause my boss couldn’t find anyone to cover my shift. I’ve been pretty mad about it since they told me. I NEVER take a day off and now they can’t find someone to cover for me for one day.. Gah.
I worked all week pretty much, only had Wednesday off. Was on the phone switchboard Monday, Tuesday and Friday and then in my reception on Thursday. I like the phone switchboard cause the day passes really fast cause there’s always something to do but I hate it cause I get so annoyed at the people who call haha. I still wanna say “No” when someone calls and asks “Do you speak English?”. Just to see what kind of reaction I’d get
There’s a new Apple store opening up tomorrow, and I’m gonna get up hecka early (store opens at 7am) and get a 30 gig iPod for $60.. I’m also considering getting a MacBook, cause it’s such an awesome deal and I’ve kinda always wanted a Mac.. Hopefully they have some left when my cousin and I get there.
Been a pretty quiet weekend, I was too tired to do anything really. I went to watch “Sex and the City” in theaters yesterday with Gro and Sarah. Sarah’s baby is due really soon now, July 9th! I can’t wait to see it. Sarah is so cute pregnant
Downloaded and playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2 and loving it so far. It’s just like the PS1 and GBA version.
On Friday night I farmed organs for a gorget so I could get my novia. First I teamed up with some galka ninja that was there, and then Kelenae and Morg came to help me. Thanks a lot, owe you guys one

Yesterday after I came home was spent doing Salvage and ZNM with MithranArmy.

Gives +4 string or something and some MP haha. Inventory -1 anyone?

I killed Morgy (Rikktor) cause that damn bird uses charm-ga! But it was still pretty fun, and I’m glad I got to do something with MithranArmy for once - especially Morgy and Jeff
European championship soccer finale is on very soon, Germany vs Spain!

I downloaded the Sex & the City movie, that I’m supposed to watch with Gro haha. I’ll still go watch it with her though - I won’t mind at all watching it on the big screen I loved every part of the movie, it pretty much started where the series left, and it was an extremely good ending to the series I think. I don’t think I could’ve asked for a better movie really.
Jason Mraz is coming to Norway on July 4th, and I really really want to go. He’ll be having a concert in Oslo, but it’s a Friday - and seeing how I still have like 3 weeks vacation, it’s definitely a possibility.. However I don’t want to go alone… I think I’ll ask some friends, and my sister and see if any of them are interested.. I know he’s GREAT live though and I don’t want to miss this! Arghz.
Work has been very tiring this week. Good thing I have a day off tomorrow I’ve been on the phone switch board (day shifts) yesterday and today, and obviously there are a lot of calls. Answering the phone all day and being polite to so many makes you so grumpy haha. Back to my reception on Thursday and then phone switch board again on Friday. At least I don’t have to work Friday night!

My cousin arrived here this morning. I haven’t seen him in like two years, and he’s going to be here till August to work hehe. Having fun so far though It’s funny cause he’s my youngest cousin and I still remember when he was an annoying kid, following me and his two older brothers around XD.
Work today was busy Phone lines were running like crazy for some reason.. I don’t know what’s gotten into people cause usually it’s quiet at the evening shift.. But it made my day go by faster I guess - so I can’t complain
Dinged whm 75 last night!

Only my 3rd job at 75.. Man. Doing rdm next most likely.

Angel wings, teehee

And with my buddy Prk

Man, I need another vacation!

Got my nails done today A friend of my friend and co-worker is a nail design student, and she needed more practice so I figured it’d be nice to get my nails done hehe. My appointment was at 4:30pm and we were done around 6:30. Not bad at all. It’s kind of hard to adjust to having really long nails though, haha. My nails aren’t usually short but they’re not exactly long either. It looks pretty though. I came home, went back out to 3 or 4 stores to buy a nail file, and none of them had any… Turns out my mom had bought some though, so I filed my nails and then painted them with a french manicure
Now, on to the topic! There was a big update in Final Fantasy XI yesterday, followed by an emergency maintenance today (no big surprise there XD). They added NMs and gear and a bunch of other stuff. Log on after today’s maintenance, kill Simurgh (no drop) and Drooling Daisy (for some new quest where you’re supposed to kill a lot of NMs) and then we found Ixion up in Rolanberry. As this was a new NM, there was no strategy on it or anything, and most of us didn’t even think it was killable..
Was a pretty long fight, and it was not easy.
But, we won I think we were maybe second linkshell server-wide to kill it

Drops:

It was a fun fight, being new and all

I think I managed to find a new version of the LJ-crosspost, so yay for crossposting to my LJ again
I’m fiddling around with themes (layouts) right now, I don’t seem to have much luck being the perfectionist I am, there’s always SOMETHING missing with the themes I really like, hehe. And not being good with html and php, I don’t know how to fix it. Oh well.
I still have to edit the Japan posts, or maybe I’ll just write a really long one along with pictures.. We’ll see. Such a hassle though because it’s going to take forever and a day to go through 700+ pics.
I’m off work till Friday! I wish I’d found out before, but really it was my own fault. I was dumb and didn’t check my work schedule (we get emailed our schedules 2 weeks before the month starts or so), I actually have my whole schedule for the entire summer… Had I known I’d been off I would’ve gone to see my sister, or went with my mom to Sweden..
Summer is definitely here The weather’s been really nice for the past two weeks, but today it got a little colder - figures since I have the week off!
FFXI stuff - my whm is lvl 71! Only 4 more lvls to go now.. Been exping with a few friends lately which helps the boredom, moreso Guppie, a long-time good friend of mine. I try to pick up Doa’s paladin, and he comes with Suzy who’s lvling bard, and it just makes it so much easier hehe.
DH has gotten KV like.. 8 days in a row or more? Maintenance now though so we’ll see what happens after. This update should be good though!

So tired.. Haha. I’ve been away for 4 days with work Was for a course to understand the security guard work agreement.. Very interesting off course Too much social, too much alcohol and not enough sleep haha. 3 nights at a hotel with great food! It was a blast though and I met great people and had tons of fun Next course should be in the fall sometime, we’ll see if I’m still here.