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I had that dream again…

Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at 11:24 am

That reoccurring school dream where I’m at UWaterloo and I have more exams than I know what to do with. And I’m going to fail them. The stress…ugh.
Fortunately I wake up and realize it’s all a dream and that I did indeed graduate. Whew. That’s always by far the best part of the nightmare. Knowing it’s just a dream and that I’m safe and don’t have to worry. Like srsly, school was 6 freaking years ago! I’m tired of having this stupid nightmare >:( Can’t dream Warren figure out it’s in a dream? What an idiot.

But I’m wondering why I’m having this dream now? I know I have it once in a while but I don’t think I’d had it in a long time.

I was working out timelines for the freelance project I’m working on last night and they’re….tight. Very tight. Manageable only if I work every day. So I was kinda stressed on it. And then I went to sleep… >_< So maybe my stress and anxiety from my real life seeped into my dream. On the plus side: While I’m stressed about freelance or work or anything like that…I don’t think any of it compares to the stress of UWaterloo. So it kind of puts things in perspective. As important as a job is, if I fail a project, there are lower consequences. I can always get another job (if that ever came to be). So I’m less stressed about the freelance project now…tho still have a lot to do.

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RIP (my hamster) Chandler May 24 2010 – March 17, 2012

Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 11:04 pm

(She wasn’t born May 24, 2010…that’s just when I got her)

Hamsters don’t live that long. Only 2 years. In this case, just shy. Well, 2 of my 5 hamsters had already passed away before this date. Phoebe succumbed to…what I can only describe as a fall from grace, being the nicenest hammy and then turning to pure evil! I think I still have a mark for when she bit me on the finger, causing blood :/ Joey fell a short distance (she just ran out of a cage! she wasn’t dropped) and had a hamster concussion. She passed away shortly after.

Chandler got this…leg infection thing months ago. I’d actually seen it before and it’s what killed a previous hammy. But for some reason, Chandler survived shockingly long in spite of this. Anyways, Chandler, probably my favorite hamster ever, passed away today :( I’m sad, but not as sad as some of the other times hammies have passed. I guess I’m just used to it now. Actually, I predicted her death a few days ago after watching her struggle to walk properly, eat, and noticing her lack of movement and that she was sleeping a lot more than usual. I was kinda waiting for it to come any day now.

Anyways, here are some of my Chandler videos! She was the cutie hammy and I’ll miss her a lot :'(

Chandler cleaning herself part II.
My favorite parts are 1:00-1:07 and 1:15-1:25 ! I love when she uses her tiny little hands and runs them down her face! HER ARMS ARE TOO SHORT! And rarely will a hamster sit on their bum with their legs out, usually they clean themselves when on their feet. Not Chandler tho, she liked putting her butt on the ground :) She’s so white compared to her earlier videos…age is a crappy thing.

Chandler cleaning herself

Chandler escaping

Other Hammies
Monica sleeping in the Tube

Phoebe and the magic almond

Hamsters int he good bowl

A rude awakening

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Accomplishments – March.548 2012 Edition

Saturday, March 17th, 2012 at 10:01 pm

Shows / Movies
Spirited Away – Complete
Dawson’s Creek S1 – S2 [Rewatched] – Complete
Big Bang Theory S5 [Rewatched] – Complete
Currently watching: New Prince of Tennis, Glee, Young Justice, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, House, Thundercats – In Progress

Books & Manga & Comics

worldofwarren.com / warrenshea.com / secretproject [to be renamed]

Gaming
Tiny Tower – Level 101
Draw Something – 15 Concurrent games, 405 turns

Web Development and Design
Freelance Project

Other
Going back to my last post regarding my TO DO list, here are the things I accomplished since then (which is 2 days ago):
Complete my March.5 2012 Accomplishments post
Work on complicated form over the weekend
Converting a few more Gundam Seed videos

Notes
Tiny Tower and Freelance dominated my time this month. Probably for the rest of the month. Will get back on track soon.

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My to do list is overwhelming.

Friday, March 16th, 2012 at 1:04 am

Sighhhhhhhh…..I want to be productive. But I’m too damned tired to do anything today. I WANT to work. But it’s too late and tomorrow’s going to be a busy work day (even tho I’m working from home). My accomplishments posts are supposed to keep me motivated but they’ve been more of a historical tracking thing than a motivator in the last few months.

My to do list includes
Finish Tiny Tower
Complete my March.5 2012 Accomplishments post
Work on complicated form over the weekend
Converting a few more Gundam Seed videos
Finish freelance project
Finish warrenshea.com
Research a DSLR camera
Research a new car
Converting my 8mm videos to digital (that this will take hours and hours)
Finish secretproject.com 1
Finish secretproject.com 2
Rewatch Avatar: The Last Airbender
Take pictures of my toys/models
Rewatch the rest of Dawson’s Creek
Organize my video files (and all my files)
Backup my photos and pictures.
Read Steve Jobs book
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Sigh.

I have a nice 6 days vacation (including weekends) next week starting Thursday. But I really wanted to just relax…and sleep.

Okay, back to….slowly wasting my life away :/

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Tiny Tower….I love/hate you.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 at 2:14 am

I started playing Tiny Tower a while ago. And I’m pretty sure I would have stopped by now if not for a co-worker’s competition. It’s unfortunate but both she and I are stupidly competitive. Also, we both (can) have no lives if we so choose. And I’m definitely one to choose that to win something meaningless and stupid. Pride is…a tricky thing.

While I enjoyed playing Tiny Tower in the beginning, I’m very bored of it now. However, I’m SO unwilling to lose and THAT’S definitely driving me. It’s stupid though, it’s subtly more difficult to level. There are 154 (?) level and I’m at around 96. I wager this battle, in which we’ve only been within 10-7 floor apart for 2 weeks (I’m in the lead), will end only when one of us reaches 154. And it’s going to be me. I don’t like to lose. No, I hate it.

Unfortunately, to keep this lead (in which we both progress quite quickly), we both have to play an incredible amount every day. I’m talking like, 5 hours dedicated time a night, followed by periodic checking at all times of the day. I mean, it would be insane if I were doing it alone. But because she’s doing it too….it’s less insane?

So nowadays, I’m just watching shows: Prince of Tennis, classic Simpsons. I just started playing Draw Something on the iPhone. That takes up some time…but both she and I are playing so that’s okay. And coincidentally, we’re both working on a freelance project together. So both of our time is (equallyish) divided doing that. So there’s not a lot of gaining and losing ground unless one of us doesn’t play. Sigh.

I dislike this situation a lot and I find myself cursing the competition I’m in as well as cursing playing Tiny Tower. And I somewhat curse my need to win…but…I’ve kind of accepted it. This is who I am. This is my sickness. And I’ve got to much pride, dedication, stubbornness, and a lack of willpower to stop.

Once I’m done this stupid game, I’m going to focus back on dev. And try not to let this World of Warcraft type behaviour come up again, at least for a while. I barely have the time or chance to blog and I know my posts have gone down because of this. I swear things will get back to normal.

Even as I’m typing this, I’m playing. Sigh.

JUST GIVE UP ALREADY SOPHIA. Cuz I WILL NOT YIELD.

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