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Today I spent about 7 hours (minus coffee/smoke/bathroom breaks) working on my final C# project.

I ran into difficulty getting my grid view to display .. but after fixing that issue(I forgot to add a line of code into my program), I found that I couldn't bring up the edit entry form by double clicking the cell individual cells.  It should have worked.  

I had a working example of a similar program to reference, and EVERYTHING was the same.

What happened???

It turns out (at approx 7:50pm) that there was a typo in my SQL.  

Where I should have typed "MovieID" I put "movID".

movID made sense to me for its use, and especially since I had called my variable within the program, movID.

I feel like an idiot.

I officially wasted a full day of valuable homework time.

Hopefully tonight will be more productive.

Did I mention I feel like an idiot?

This 6 am crap is hell.

I tossed all night and didn't actually sleep.

Today eva is one. One! What the hell?! My baby is growing and she's so beautiful.

I don't get to see much of my kids in the morning and we're all so tired after school that we don't really spend much quality time together right now. We will have to work on this.

Sheldon is teaching at the college this year. Lol ... Computer applications. I don't know how he has the patience. I wonder if he'll be mad about my sharing a drinking story with the students haha!

I have a few ideas to bring a bit of money into CIPS. Hopefully they'll be approved. It would be nice to have a little bit more available to the students.

I am so tired. I have to leave the house by 745 today because we're picking my brother up. I just want to sleep.

My blackberry is causing me a lot of headache again.

Aside from it deciding not to send texts and not letting the internet work, I now have one more try to guess the keystore password before it wipes my phone. I didn't set this password, I didn't know what it was before this happened.

I tried to configure the facebook app to allow my notifications to ring my phone, and it asked for the keystore password to store the certificates. 10 tries later, and I still don't know what to do.

I got the facebook app to work by writing the URL manually into my browser on the computer to confirm the email change. But, this keystore thing wiping my phone has me worried in the event that I run into the problem again.

Help?!

So... The cable guy came today and hooked up our cable. The movers came and dropped off mikeys new bunk bed. The air conditioner guys came and put our brand new central air in.

Where the hell is the guy that's supposed to put in our bathroom fixtures???

We can't really shower here yet, so we've been going elsewhere. A friend of ours offered to do it for us tomorrow morning if we don't hear from the guy by then.

I'm not very creative with my subject lines. Oh well.

The move went as smoothly as possible, all things considered.

We got the truck on time and loaded the first load off of my balcony. I didn't realise how strong my boyfriend and his friends are until I watched my sectional ease off the balcony rail like it was floating on some invisible cloud.

We finished the first load and had a ridiculously expensive lunch and beer before having to sit and wait for the carpet guys to finish at the new place.

We unloaded and then loaded up the truck with the things I had stored at my dads place and the rest of the stuff from my apartment. This load was much bigger than the first for some reason, even though all of the furniture and most boxes were already gone.

Adam was drunk lol. It was funny.

The new place is so nice. I thought I was walking into a disaster, but it ended up immaculate thanks to the superintendent's wife who stayed up for three days straight making it ready for us. The carpet in the living room and dining room was left unfinished and they're regalzing the tub today so we have to stay with my dad until Sunday when the glaze cures.

It doesn't yet feel like my home, but it does feel remarkably comfortable. The breeze in our yard is amazing and the view is even better. The kitchen is huge!

Ill post pictures soon.

If it weren't for my cell phone, I don't think I would have posted an entry at all in June.

Its hard to find leisure time these days. More specifically its hard to find computer time these days. I've been rather busy with life in general, and haven't seen much quiet personal time. I have a few minutes here and there, which is how I've managed to update my lj, but no blocks of time to really sit back and relax. I think I'm starting to forget what that feels like.

The previous tenants of my new place should be all moved out by now, and I believe the last of the carpeting should be laid by tonight. Painting starts tomorrow.

Moving day is 3 days away. Were still not completely packed, and I will run out of boxes shortly after mikeys room is packed.

My bedroom and kitchen still need to be packed, coincidentally the two biggest jobs in the whole apartment.

It will be sad to leave. Even though were gaining a lot by moving, I'm leaving behind one of the only places I've ever lived longer that 2 years. Its been almost 5 years and it really was a blast.

I've been packing up the things we don't need to live our last week here and just yesterday started really packing.

I didn't realize I still had so much junk to throw away... I guess all those low income years turned me into a pack rat. Its hard to throw anything away when you don't have the money to replace things. I found myself keeping broken items I meant to fix and never really got around to it. Holey clothes I never got around to sewing made up most of my closet, along with many other items or sentimental value, that now seem to be more of a burden than a joy.

So far there are about 20 boxes packed in the apartment, about 10 in storage, and I haven't even begun to scratch the surface. I threw out so many bags of donations that never made it out, and several more bags of junk I don't know why I kept in the first place.

My apartment no longer looks like a home but ice managed to keep a play area in the living room free of debris for the baby to play. Ill be glad when this is all over and done with.

So far we have 3 friends helping with the move, another one that can only help with half, and 2 working things out at work. It shouldn't take long to actually move, its getting it all packed that really has me stressed.

I really enjoy the idea of having my own office at the school. Although I live close, having a place in the college to quietly (debatable) work on my, well, work will prove much more convenient than being in a public place (like the cafeteria) with headphones.

I stopped off at the college today to straighten out a few loose ends (mostly paperwork), and decided to clean out the office.

I ... was ... horrified.

The fridge had been unplugged.

There were various condiments left to rot.

The smell ... oh god the smell.

I had no idea that ketchup could turn such a lovely shade of greeny purple.  Apparently it predates the previous office occupant, which would have been ALMOST bearable had the fridge been left ON.  THere is mold all around it, rust on the inside, and grime everywhere.  This is just the fridge.  There is a small, dried puddle on the floor I suspect to be blood - whose I have no clue.  The dust is ridiculous, and it needs some serious organizing. Various computer parts - some small, some large and in the way - litter just about every filing cabinet and available surface in the place.  There were too many tables for comfort, and (thank you other) there was an abstract picture of a vagina (framed) leaning against the window, next to some empty PS2 game boxes. 

The picture is staying.  Everything else, still debatable. 

I moved things around a big, organized a bit, but it's still in desperate need of bleach and some TLC.  Personal touches will have to wait.

I wonder what it looked like when other got his hands on it.  I can only imagine ...

Eva started walking today! I am so proud of my little wobbly pudge! She's doing so well.

She took 3 steps by herself and then did it again a few more times. 4 was the highest count so far.

Yippee!

I officially have no table again. My uncle brought his computer over last night and left it with me so that I could use it to burn the discs I need to fix my laptop.

I am ready to throw it out the window. I have to slip stream the drivers for my hard drive into a windows installation in order to reformat and the past three times I've tried, I've failed miserably. Maybe number four will work. Ughh.

I'm even more distracted than usual today. Every time I try to do something on the computer, I find something else to do around the house, or on the computer. This entry is the perfect example. I was in the middle of photoshopping something for my website.

I don't know what it is. I'm not trying to procrastinate, but it seems like I have the attention span of a goldfish today.

Just now, I drifted into watching a movie that's on Tv. I don't even remember why I turned the Tv on in the first place. It was after Eva was sleeping, so I'm sure I wanted to watch something and it was right before I made a phone call ... after I turned the computer on.

I'm going to call it a night. This is ridiculous.

The weather here is ridiculous. Its humid and got and unbearable. It wouldn't be so bad if our air conditioner wasn't busted. 39 days to go until we get into the new place with central air!

Wow, 39 days. It seems so close. I should probably start packing up more of the non essentials and get rid of a lot of our junk.

So Raoul and I are having a surprisingly good day today. The past couple days have been stress and mood swings for the both of us so its a welcomed calm. I think its a combination of heat, moving, and his job.

I can't wait to move.

I've decided to learn PHP alongside the ASP I'm learning(laughing at) in school.

:)

Hopefully my new website http://www.enditwithakiss.com will be up soon.

I've been building up a portfolio over the past year or so in hopes that I could launch it online and I am nowhere close to having enough content. I have some branding stuff and a few websites but I think I'm going to put up a few mock websites to fill in some space.

Maybe the summer will yield more work and I can stick some other stuff in there. We will see.

As far as my actual website is concerned, I'm about halfway through photoshopping it and will move on to html in the coming weeks.

Maybe ill post some screenshots when I'm at that stage.

Who needs a playpen? Not us !!!! That's for sure. 





LOL .. she worked her way inside of Mikey's pop up hamper, and wouldn't come out.  Every time I lifted it off of her, she would grip on and pull it right back over her head.  Determined!

I emailed the coordinator of my program at Niagara, and asked him if I could have one of the offices in C.I.P.S. since other was graduating and wouldn't need it. 

At first he thought I was asking for the summer, but I cleared that up, we exchanged a few more emails, and I am now the president of C.I.P.S. at Niagara - the first female president there !!

I overheard some people chatting about how "that broad better not get his office", so I think it's safe to assume that some people will be upset.  Oh well! 

I HAVE AN OFFICE ... YIPPEE!!!!!!!

Finally, I have a quiet place to work at school.  It gets a little loud in the CIPS lounge sometimes, but it's not even close to the distractions I face in the cafeteria, and at home. 

Over the summer, I will have to go in and clean it out.  There's a lingering smell of sweat and ... something in the lounge, but it's nothing bleach and febreeze can't fix. 

I started smoking again.  Thank you everyone for not preaching to me about this.  I really hate that I'm doing it, and will attend to this matter ... and just about every other matter in my life ... when I'm done this school year. 

On another, slightly related, note ... I am stressed out beyond belief.  Things at home aren't as picture perfect as they used to be, and things at school aren't quite going as planned.  Everyone is tense, and I really don't have the motivation or the emotional means by which to deal with it all - or any of it for that matter. 

I guess that's where smoking comes in.

A couple of weeks ago I went out and bought myself a blackberry pearl 8130.  So far, I have run into several issues, mostly surrounding our service provider (Telus Mobility), but for the most part, I am in L-O-V-E with this phone.  I couldn't be more satisfied with a purchase. 

I can charge it from my laptop,  play games (although I'm not big on this), watch videos/movies, listen to music, take pictures, browse the web and SO much more. I absolutely adore the voice dialing.  No programming needed, and it reads names fairly accurately.

The 4GB SD card should be here in another week or so.  I can't wait.



So far, there are only a couple of applications I've used worth mentioning. 

JiveTalk  , an all in one messenger application is wonderful if you have a data plan (which I do, of course).  I can finally use MSN without having to go - and stay in - the web browser.  Although it offers quite convenient messaging tools, I like it mostly for its customizable LED message indicator.  It's nice to be able to distinguish between an SMS message and a web IM by a small flashing light.  It's fairly discreet.

BeamBerry - I use this one quite often for viewing documents, and haven't yet used it for its other features.  Although it boasts an ability to print from the blackberry, and online storage, I can get storage anywhere, and I can print from my computer.  It is nice, however, to be able to view office/pda documents.  There aren't many apps out there to do this with blackberry just yet, and I'm patiently impatiently awaiting the release of Documents To Go from DataViz. Then I'll be able to edit office documents.

eoffice from Dynoplex boasts an ability to edit office documents, but I don't like the need to convert the files first.  It takes WAY too long and let's face it, nobody wants to wait 10 minutes to convert a file. Thank goodness for free trials because this one sells for around 100$.

Find My Berry and Berry Locator  both pretty much work the same.  The only difference is a GPS email sent to your email with the approximate location of your berry.  I tried this feature out, and it narrowed it down to a 8569 meter radius.  That's pretty, um, useless.  The feature I DID like was the flashing screen on the Find my Berry, and the loud alert (Fully customizable.  It's hilarious to hear it yell "THIS PHONE IS STOLEN") that goes off regardless of ringtone setting - even if it's on silent !  You send an email to your blackberry inbox with the subject "findme" or whatever you've set it to be, and a message for the person who finds it in the body of the email.  When someone finds the phone and presses a button, the email that you sent to your phone will pop up with whatever you want it to say (hopefully instructions for returning your phone). It's approximately 5$ and almost silly not to have.

I found several useless apps, most of which mimic already installed apps that come with the pearl.  I haven't found too many useful things. 

I'm still looking for new and relatively affordable apps.

Bugs

Telus doesn't tell you, and it's not included in the manual, but to install applications on a blackberry pearl, you need to download software OTHER than the desktop manager and the device manager.

I know, I'm a geek.  I'm excited about my blackberry pearl.  I bought THIS to pretty it up a bit and then decided to make my laptop match like THIS . 

The keypad is a full QWERTY board, but it has two letters per key.  The first hour of using this phone was HELL.  I couldn't work the keys for the life of me, and had to push them harder than I was accustomed to.  After practicing for a short time, I don't know what I did on a phone before this, and find it really REALLY awkward to SMS message on a normal cell phone. 


Raoul has the HTC Touch.  It's pretty cool, and ORIGINALLY the phone that I wanted ... until I saw how small the onscreen keyboard is.  It comes with a free trial of office mobile, and has SO many media rich features that are absolutely amazing.  Overall, not the phone for me, but he loves it. 

I do, however, find myself amused with the media menu.  You bring it up by dragging your finger from the bottom of the phone upwards.  It pops up like a cube, and you can switch to most used contacts, or other menus by dragging your finger left or right across the screen to turn the "cube of menus".  It's pretty neat. 

Also, when you're viewing a picture,  if you use your finger in a clockwise fashion on the screen, the phone will zoom in on the area you  circled.  Counterclockwise zooms out. 


We've already hit a few bumps in the road with our service.  The internet keeps kicking out, and apparently we're with the ONLY provider that doesn't yet have a fix for video streaming.  We got screwed out of the promotional sale (a difference of 150$ I was LIVID), and in return, received 720$ in billing credits.  Fair trade :)  I had an issue with internet connection due to a hardware issue that required pulling the battery out and putting it back in.  I'm just WAITING for Raoul's screen to break ... I can just see it happening. 

Other than those little issues, we're SO happy to have these little gadgets. 

I checked my account yesterday, and noticed that osap finally came in. 

IT'S ABOUT TIME !!!!!!!!!

*sighs*  :)

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