Advent calendar time! (On Neopets.com)

I got back on Neopets again because I got a cheery newsletter email from the site advertising the advent calendar. The advent calendar at neopets.com is an event you can participate in every day in which you get neopoints and prizes. This time of year is usually the only time I bother playing. I typically forget about it after the advent calendar is over.

Did you ever play games, or have a neopet on the site? What pet(s) did you have? It's okay, go ahead and admit it. There's no shame in this blogosphere.

I have one last final left: my french oral exam. And boy am I dragging my feet. I really should have my presentation written already but I haven't even begun to outline it yet. And it's tomorrow. Instead, I've been playing games and looking for treasure map pieces on Neopets, and it's nearly 4am. I'm just looking forward to getting this exam over with so I won't feel so bad about it anymore... X|

How's finals for all you schooled persons? How's normal every-day life to all the rest of you job peoples? Got all your Christmas shopping done yet?

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Seriously considering changing my layout. I really like this one, though. I feel it displays my signature more openly than any of my other layouts (Though the Beatles Love layouts came close.) Mostly because of all the work I put into the NuTang-green storm troopers.
And yet I want to change it up. Simplify it a little.
Hm.

Speaking of H&M, there's a new H&M (the first in the Kansas City area) that opened up around here about a month or two ago. I have only had the opportunity to go in once. I must say, I was not very impressed, and maybe even a little disappointed. This store has two levels: women's clothing and accessories on the first level, children's and men's on the second. Before going to the store, I had heard from hear say and from friends, that it's a lot like Forever XXI, so that's what I was expecting.
And it is much like Forever XXI in that some of the clothes look like they were acquired from the same factory. But it severely lacks in the accessories department, much unlike the Forever XXI's in my area. Which was what I really wanted to browse through when I walked into the store. And it may have just been the season, but a lot of their clothes were boring, neutral colors. Bah.

I am glad to announce that I HAVE FINISHED BUYING AND WRAPPING ALL OF MY CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR THIS YEAR. And it's only the 8th day of December! I always feel so glad and excited when I've finished Christmas shopping, because then I do not have to worry or think about it for another year--it's DONE.
This feat was a lot easier to accomplish this year than, I felt, ever before. I think it's because this year, instead of doing the "Secret Santa" bit where everyone in my immediate family (including my older brothers and their wives/children) drew names and just focused on that person (~$20-50) and then you could buy other people gifts if you wanted to, too (like other people with whom you live in the same house.) This was begun in my family a few years ago so one could still participate with gift giving, and yet not feel pressured to buy everyone they know a present=$$$$. Well, this year apparently we're doing a simple gift exchange. We've been charged to bring a cheap (in the $10 range), unisex gift that we will exchange in a white-elephant-esque fashion. And that's it. Easy.
Easy, but boring. So I just bought an iTunes gift card. It's $15--I hope it's not too much. I'm sure whoever gets it won't complain. X)

So, in addition to the gift-exchange gift, I bought gifts for my mom, dad, and younger brother and sister. I already had bought my dad's gift a few months ago. It's hard to find/think-up something to give my dad because who knows if he already has it. And he doesn't really want/need much stuff that he doesn't just up and buy himself. I'm afraid to buy him music--though it would be perfect--because I have no idea what he already has that he likes. So I bought him a DVD of Walk The Line when I saw it for $7. Done.
My mom and siblings were not quite so easy. But walking around the mall for a couple hours got it done well enough. Jewelry for mom, sweaters for bro & sis. And I bought a Perry Platypus knit hat I found at Walmart for my sister's birthday (a.k.a. Christmas eve-eve.) I hope she likes it. =)

Got any special Christmas-time plans?

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Because it's about time for a new entry, especially considering how much I creep on here. And to do all that without creating a new entry feels... weird/odd/yeah.
So here goes.

I had a well enough Thanksgiving holiday. I LOVED the break from school & work (the library I work at was closed Thursday & Friday--so I haven't worked since Tuesday!) ...and now the responsible part in the back of my brain is freaking out because I haven't done ANY homework at all this weekend. Blah.
It'll be okay: in two weeks, when the semester's over. GAH!! <:|

Whilst not doing homework, I have begun (finally) uploading my iTunes library to my amazon cloud. Apparently, your computer has to be working Windows 7 or an Intel Mac OS X (aka 10.5 or later) to use the little uploader application. Which works fine on my netbook, but all my music is connected to my Mac (OS 10.4) on which the uploader does not work. So I have to send a few folders at a time of music files from my Mac to my PC to upload to Amazon. Which is going to suck because I have roughly around 15,000 songs in my music library. =|

And now that it is nearly 1am, I shall away to bed, and try not to freak out too much about not having done any of my French homework... X/

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Research paper = absence

While doing some Doctor Who research, I came across an ad for this website:

Want to date someone who can

• Chat about movies?
• Wage verbal warfare over an episode of Doctor Who?
• Name all the Fantastic Four?
• Join you in a computer game instead of a card game?

If so, then Seek-a-Geek is here to help.

LOLZ

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