The Fifth Marauder

mrssnuffles

I'm bored. Out of my fuh-reakin mind. More than usual anyway. It's nobody's fault really, coz i know that the parents would have helped me get a job if they could. I mean who wouldn't want extra help financially? I know i have like tons of stuff to do here at home. I have lots of unread books (including my Saunders NCLEX Comprehensive Reviewer hehehe), unfinished DS games, neverending new replies on plurk, and weekday reruns of Gilmore Girls. It's the kind of life a burnt (burned? whatever) out working yuppie/a person going through midlife crisis could only dream about (well except for the Gilmore Girls part hehe), but I am getting tired of it. I've been living the bum life since June 3 and it's not as fun as it used to be anymore. Maybe I need a new hobby?

Anyway it's been snowing since yesterday afternoon and i just love how the snow makes everything look so nice and clean. Plus it acts as a reflector so it makes the day feel less Seasonal Affective Disorder-y than usual. Meaning it's not as "makulimlim" during daytime as it has been for the past few weeks. I actually spent like 10 minutes watching snow fall to the ground yesterday. See, I am that bored. Haha. I can't seem to take a good picture of the snowy wonderland outside my window because I only have a regular point and shoot cam and well I suck at taking pictures hehehe. Nope, can't put all the blame on the camera.

So, any anti-boredom ideas?

mrssnuffles

I went on a walk this morning. I have been on house arrest for two weeks and I am getting really really bored here at home so i decided to do it eventhough the ground is covered with 2 inches of accumulated snow. Besides it's 35 degrees out and father did tell me to take advantage of the nice weather and took advantage of it I did. I hiked over to a christmas tree farm near our apartment, a 15 minute walk away. Today it took me twice as much time because walking on the snow is hard. It's a bit similar to walking on beach except it's really cold and a bit more difficult as my fugly black snow boots and winter coat weighed about 2 pounds each, and I weigh quite a lot without my winter gear to begin with so my legs were feeling sore by the time i got home. Well the hike was worth it. I took pictures of the real live snow covered christmas trees and as much as i wanted to post them here to make this blog entry a bit more interesting, I won't because they suck. My camwhore pics were worse though because i look like a boy in a black penis mascot costume. No kidding. I was wearing a black beanie and my coat was black as well that's why. And i realized earlier today that people here tuck their pants inside their boots power ranger style not because it looks good that way but to prevent the hems from getting wet from the snow. I had to do the same thing because i was sweeping the ground with the bottoms of my pants and I didn't want to at first because my boots were ugly but it's either change my pants or  get frostbitten.


Anyway, it's December and i have been seeing snow for the past 2 weeks. That means christmas is a few weeks away. I am not expecting to get great gifts this year because my parents are the king and queen of kuripot lanI (hehehe) and we're in tipid mode because I dunno we always are for as long as I can remember. Hahahahaha. Well i decided to make a christmas list anyway because I have nothing better to do and dreams are free. Aside from money, all I want for christmas are the following:

1. My CES report. Demmet CGFNS cough it up already!
2. An external hard drive. Because I'm running out of hard disk space
3. More RAM. To speed things up a bit. I currently have 512mb on this baby and it wouldn't hurt to make it 1GB at least hehehe
4. DSL. Because like what I've said before my parents are kuripot so they don't see a need for me to get a faster internet connection since I can do basic things with our dial up one. Blech.
5. Guitar Hero guitar grip for my DS
6. Wii. But only because of the Wii Fit. Hehehe
7. Philosophy Microdermabrasion kit
8. Kerastase oleo relax. I can't find this product anywhere here
9. Any form of skin whitening product. Because I have stubborn blemishes on my face and a t-shirt tan on my arms.
10. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I know I don't have the time (nor the attention span) to read non-nursing books nowadays but I would still love to get this one
11. A nude pink lip gloss from Lancome
12. Urban Decay Primer Potion
13. The winter coat with a fur-trimmed hood that I was wearing on my plurk user pic.
14. Baby blue or light gray Uggs.


Yoohoo calling Santa! hehehe

mrssnuffles

I can't believe it I actually got something that was on  my christmas list! Haha I checked my status on the CGFNS website yesterday and it says there that they are done evaluating my credentials and copies of the report has been mailed to the Illinois Board of Nursing and to me. So technically I still don't have the report and it's going to arrive through snail mail in 1-2 weeks' time but hey at least something's happening with my usrn application. Finally. Now is the time wherein I am going to give myself a mental kick for not taking my self-review seriously for the past 2 months. I have acquired a couple of review softwares before I left Manila last September but some of them refused to work. Maybe it's because the software is not vista compatible. Or maybe it's because it's just copied. Hahaha. Demmet I should have bought one of them 20-in-1 (parang game cartridge lang hahaha) cds in front of PRC. Here's to hoping that a kind stranger would somehow stumble upon this blog entry and would gladly share his or her vista compatible resources with me. Hahahaha.

Anyway christmas was almost a non-event for us. Father was not feeling well and mother is sort of in a bad mood because of uh, sister issues. But i still enjoyed our noche buena at 12 mn because all I had to eat during our usual dinner time was a bowl of cheerios and milk.

Happy holidays everyone!