Misreading things: my brain sees what it wants to!

I hate misreading things, as I most recently did with Korey's email address. His handwriting was clear enough, but the "O" was not an "A"... neither was the "C" a "CE." I was wondering about the "mailbox not available" error in Hotmail to Corey, who said that I probably had the wrong email address. So then I looked at it again with a foggy brain, and actually read it properly! Whoa. At least this email wasn't promptly spat back at me, haha. My brain probably saw what it wanted to see on Friday. :P

Thanks to going through my Gmail contacts, I now know Isabel and Justin's middle initials. Then again, I also have been reminded of Eric's Hotmail address: he once asked me whether I even knew his Hotmail address, and now I do. (although it's at the top of every MSN conversation we have) Or maybe it was his work email address he was asking about, but I have no reason to know that one! I also know the middle names of two sets of sextuplets recently born, thanks to the bad baby names forum. Yay! Now I'm going to read the new Twinstuff forums. At least I'm used to this kind of board software! (Invision Zone) Apparently, I've been on there for six years now as of May 17 - man, 2001 was a long time ago!

Goodness from Quiz Heaven, Quiz Galaxy, and Memegen

Note: LJ Fairytale Memegen, by x_lindsayw_x.

You know I'm bored or something when I post a bunch of quizzes and stuff, haha.

Here's the full list of Quiz Heaven quizzes.

	Leslie fought Jet Li to the death
	Memorials will be held for Leslie tomorrow
'What will your Headline be?' at QuizGalaxy.com

You are 33% normal You're not normal. In fact, you are a weirdo, although you still have the potential to fool people into thinking you are normal. They will certainly be in for a rude awakening nonetheless. Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

What will your bride's name be?

Mary

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I'm not a lesbian just because I took this quiz, mmkay? :P

Just How Sexy Are You? by x_lindsayw_x
Name
Age
Sex	MaleFemaleYes Please!
Your Sexiness Score %	7%

Ouch. o_O

How many children and what gender will you have?

7 girls

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Reminds me of this poster on Twinstuff who had seven daughters. Wish I could remember their names, haha.

What love movie are you

A Walk To Remember

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Reminds me of when Vernon proposed to Sarah just so he wouldn't have to watch that movie, haha.

so close, yet so far away

You are so close! Maybe if you talked, you could be in love.

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What City Are You Most Like?

Tokyo: A modern, advanced world of technology, cars, and clothing. It's climbing its way to being a famous shopping point of the world.

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Prom Queen

You're one of the biggest brats in school... you only have two best friends who are upset with you, and everyone wants your body!

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HOTTIE

Hey, hottie. Everyone just loves you. You have the life everyone loves, and everyone wants to be a part of yours.

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you have 41 to 50% luck

you have 41 to 50% luck

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who are you in Lost?

James Ford

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Your Baby Daddy

Trick Daddy

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Your Biggest Regret

Not eating my weight in cereal to get some cheap plastic toy from Lucky Charms.

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What is your weirdest theme song?

Your weird theme song is They're Coming To Take Me Away.

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Who is your soulmate?

Nick

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How sexy are you

b) nothing

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What Is The Definition of My Name?

[Adject.]: Squirrel-like, dwells in trees, and is obsessed with nuts

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What level of Footballer are you?

D. Anderton

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Twins, Facts About Multiples, Corey, Winter Sports, and Sailor Moon

I just got an email from Jen Cassidy, who's the web person for a multiples mailing list I'm on: Facts About Multiples has now changed its URL to the one you see in the link. I've done a bunch of correcting past entries to reflect the new link... yes, I am obsessive about details. :P

For those of you who don't know, I've been interested in twins / triplets / quadruplets / and so on since I was a kid. No, I am not one myself, but I used to haunt the Twinstuff Forums until the bad spelling REALLY turned me off. Eric M. has seen me do a lot of Googling for multiples-related stuff. Spoz called it my "weird twin vibe," in fact! Two choice quotes from Corey:

"It will be cosmic retribution or a cosmic joke (or God's sense of humor) if you ever end up with multiples to parent!" (from late 2001 or early 2002)

"So what happens if you have a kid, and it turns out to just be one kid? Will you dump it off in a trash can and try again until there's more than one? :P You could just cut your baby in half and hope that each half regenerates another half and makes two babies." (this from March 2005; of course I wouldn't do that... it reminds me of this story!)

You Are Curling

What you lack in athleticism, you make up for in concentration. And while curling isn't much more of a sport than bowling, you *can* win a gold medal for it!

What Winter Sport Are You?

Take the "You're Senshi Who" Quiz at Wishing Moon.

"I am popular, fun, outgoing, and pretty." Somehow, I'm not so sure about those...

Facts About Multiples / Quizzes

Facts About Multiples is a good site to read if you want info on twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc.

I know I've mentioned "my weird twin vibe" (as Spoz likes to call it) here before, too. ;)


Two choice quotes from Corey:

"It will be cosmic retribution or a cosmic joke (or God's sense of humor) if you ever end up with multiples to parent!" (from 2001?)

"So what happens if you have a kid, and it turns out to just be one kid? Will you dump it off in a trash can and try again until there's more than one? :P You could just cut your baby in half and hope that each half regenerates another half and makes two babies." (from last night; of course I wouldn't do that, it reminds me of this story!)


Because I'm bored, here are some quizzes:


Take the quiz:
are you a freak?

total freak
you're really freaky (go get help)

Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook!

All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* total freak (You scored 3)
* you're normal (You scored 3)
* sometimes (You scored 1)


Take the quiz:
Are You Crazy About Horses?

You couldn't care less about horses!
Congratulations! You couldn't care less! You are perfectly happy without horses!

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* You hate horses! (You scored 0)
* You couldn't care less about horses! (You scored 2)
* You like horses! (You scored 2)
* You love horses! (You scored 0)


Take the quiz:
What color unicorn are you?

orange
you're nice

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* black (You scored 0)
* white (You scored 0)
* silver (You scored 0)
* pink (You scored 0)
* purple (You scored 0)
* blue (You scored 0)
* green (You scored 0)
* yellow (You scored 0)
* orange (You scored 1)
* red (You scored 0)
* gold (You scored 0)


Take the quiz:
are you a retard

maybe
mehhh

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* hell ya (You scored 0)
* kind of (You scored 0)
* maybe (You scored 3)
* I could consider you one (You scored 1)
* yes (You scored 0)


Take the quiz:
What kind of person are you? (in my opinion)

Okay...
You're normal... I accept you! o.O

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* FUN! (You scored 1)
* Good! (You scored 0)
* Okay... (You scored 2)
* Too serious... o.o (You scored 0)
* OMG... Where is your humor? (You scored 1)


Take the quiz:
Which Cure Album Are You? Part One

You are JAPANESE WHISPERS
A little bit silly, but you're still cool.

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* You are THREE IMAGINARY BOYS (You scored 1)
* You are BOYS DON'T CRY (You scored 1)
* You are SEVENTEEN SECONDS (You scored 3)
* You are FAITH (You scored 3)
* You are PORNOGRAPHY (You scored 1)
* You are THE WALK (okay, so it's an EP) (You scored 0)
* You are JAPANESE WHISPERS (You scored 4)


Take the quiz:
Which Cure Album Are You? Part Two

You are WILD MOOD SWINGS
As the title would suggest, you go through more mood swings than a menopausal grandmother. However, you still kick serious ass.

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* You are THE TOP (You scored 2)
* You are THE HEAD ON THE DOOR (You scored 2)
* You are KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME (You scored 2)
* You are DISINTEGRATION (You scored 1)
* You are WISH (You scored 1)
* You are WILD MOOD SWINGS (You scored 4)
* You are BLOODFLOWERS (You scored 1)

Hey, cool stuff! I actually do have that one! Rock! :D


Take the quiz:
are you a pervert?

nahhh, you're normal
you're like me.... yay!

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All of the possible quiz results for this quiz:

* uhhhh... get away from me, you little pervert!! (You scored 0)
* sometimes (You scored 1)
* nahhh, you're normal (You scored 3)
* nah, you're just a gaywad (You scored 0)

Spelling / grammar rant

This is inspired by an MSN conversation my brother and I were having earlier this afternoon about contagious misspellings. I thought he misspelled the name of Kom Jug Yuen, where I now want to eat. :P He said he didn't, and I told him to shut up a little further on. But I made a typo while doing that, so he said that now *I* was the one misspelling things... unless he had misspelt "misspell." I checked Dictionary.com for him, and said that he'd spelled it right according to that site. He knew that "misspell" was one of the most common words to be misspelt, so I said that he'd inspired a blog rant. His reaction before he signed off: "Aiya." Mwahahaha. :D


Disclaimer: I'm not slagging you if you have dyslexia / something similar, if English isn't your first language and you're learning, or just can't spell to save your life. In fact, some of the spelling errors I'm about to rant about are made by people whom I love to death, kind of like Alyial. :P



I don't know WHY people can't spell simple words correctly! Yes, I know this is the Internet and I'm "supposed" to be used to this sort of thing. I can definitely read fluent typo, if I have to. But certain errors just grate on my nerves. No, I don't expect all the Net to have perfect spelling or grammar... I know I don't have those things myself, and that would be an impossible expectation in any case. But here is a list of some things that just make me go "ARGH!" whenever I see them, unless used in a joking way:


GENERAL:

* leet speak / Netspeak and abbreviations ("u," "ur," "2" for "to," etc.)
* people putting apostrophes in places where there shouldn't be any




MISSPELLINGS:

* "definitely" as "definately" or any other word (Corey is forgiven, but still! :P)
* "necessarily" as "necissarily" (I saw this once, and went insane :P)
* "satellite" as "sattelite" (see above)
* "ridiculous" as "rediculous" (I'll only forgive Corey for it, but still! :P)
* "hilarious" as "hillarious" (see above)
* "appreciate" as "appriciate"
* "weird" as "werid" or "wierd" (unless it's an obvious typo)
* "just" as "jsut" (see above)
* "aggravation" as "aggrivation"
* "vacuum" as "vacume"

(just see AnjyB's or Alyssa's posts here)



*** plus a LOT more that I can't think of right now!


MIXING UP:

* "to" / "too" / "two"
* "you're" / "your" (I see this one SO OFTEN!)
* "where" / "were" (believe it or not, I see this one too!)
* "loose" / "lose"
* "hostels" / "hostiles"
* "toke" / "took" (I saw "I was bored when I toke the pictures" in a community just yesterday.. made me think she was smoking them out of a marijuana bong :P)
* "threw" / "through" (I hated it on the Twinstuff board in 2001, and still hate it now, thanks to Kim :P)
* "breath" / "breathe"
* "then" / "than"
* "affect" / "effect"
* "common" / "come on" (I know a person who does this ALL THE TIME!)



*** plus a LOT more that I can't think of right now!


For more examples, go here or here. I'm sure there are more things like that out there, as well.

I'm not perfect, as I said before, but UGH!

Online Life Has Not Been Good This Week!

This has NOT been a good week as far as things related to this computer and online life have been concerned:

1. that idiot who wanted me to call Maryland for her (um.. heck, no! not without a good reason, which she obviously didn't have.. and even then, probably not!)
2. my computer freezing when I wanted to open MS Excel documents out of the documents menu, instead of MS Excel out of the programs menu (I cleared out a bunch of crap on the machine -- something I should have done a LONG time ago -- and everything was copacetic again; it worked as it should, in other words)
3. that moron who got all worked up over my mild proprietary reaction to his multiple birthdays (hey, those threads are MY baby.. and NO one messes around with those things and gets away with it!)
4. that Pit thread started by the moron (though I'm obviously in the right on this one.. and no, I'm NOT being smug :P)
5. and now.. it turns out that I have at least 35 pieces of unsolicited email from About.com crop up in my inbox, all within the space of seemingly a minute! At least I can unsubscribe from it all in one place.. hopefully it works. I am NOT amused.. if this is connected to the moron and that fiasco, I swear I will KILL.. never mind that I don't know where he lives (lucky for him) or anything else.. blunt-force trauma objects, anyone? ;) (accursed unsolicited email / spam..)

Hopefully, nothing else happens.. and things will get better! To those who have helped me try to gain some modicum of sanity, thanks a lot! (Yazmine, Spoz, G, Corey, dantheman, Clayton, Greg, Steve Wright, Buck, erl, Nick, Patrick, lel, Cerowyn, Ice Wolf, TLD, Kody, Ben [whatami], Cartooniverse, supporters of me in the Pit thread, people I'll talk to in future about this, anyone I may have missed, etc...) Love you all.. :) (and no, the list isn't in any particular order..)

Stupid people over IM... damn you!

Well, I fire up Yahoo Messenger just now.. and the first message I get is from someone who I don't know very well. "Can you please do me a favor? It's really important that you call my friend's cell phone in Maryland for me, as I don't have a phone or a ride to one.. and there's no one else I can ask.." I immediately thought there was something not quite right about it, and made up my mind not to do it at any rate.. never mind the long distance factor. She never said WHY it was so vitally important.. nor indeed how repayment would be done. (you'd think she would, if it was so bloody vitally important..)

Not that I'm a cold / cruel / callous person, but for goodness sakes! Surely there are OTHER people who live closer to Maryland than I do? (Vancouver and Maryland are very far away, you know!) Even if it was a local call, I'd need details: why it was so important, why I should call up someone I don't know from Adam FOR someone ditto, etc. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh and aiiiiiiiiiyaaaaa!!!! Personally, I'd like to go after her with a cosh, hammer, and other implements of perhaps murderous destruction.. then knock some sense into her head repeatedly. ;) (not necessarily ruling out shanks, either.. hehehehe) She's lucky I don't know exactly where she lives.. ;)

And just so I don't have to go explaining it to everyone a zillion times later on, here is the IM text:

_____________________________

zaber_21911 (9:52:33 AM): hey
zaber_21911 (9:53:31 AM): are you there
flamsterette_x (9:54:44 AM): yup..
zaber_21911 (9:54:54 AM): plz say u can do me a favor
flamsterette_x (9:55:06 AM): what is it?
zaber_21911 (9:55:15 AM): i really need you to call my friend for me its important
zaber_21911 (9:55:24 AM): plz say yes
zaber_21911 (9:55:34 AM): i have no phone an no ride to a phone
zaber_21911 (9:55:36 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (9:55:37 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (9:55:38 AM): plz
flamsterette_x (9:56:07 AM): where does this person live?
zaber_21911 (9:56:12 AM): maryland
zaber_21911 (9:56:20 AM): but its just his cell phone and not his house phone
flamsterette_x (9:56:37 AM): I live in Vancouver.. that's a LONG distance, man...
zaber_21911 (9:56:41 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (9:56:47 AM): it will take 2 secs
zaber_21911 (9:56:49 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (9:56:53 AM): this is very important
zaber_21911 (9:57:00 AM): i have no one else that i can get to call
zaber_21911 (9:57:02 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (9:57:46 AM): this is so very important
zaber_21911 (10:00:59 AM): plz do this for me
zaber_21911 (10:01:29 AM): it wont even take a minute
zaber_21911 (10:01:37 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (10:01:39 AM): plz
zaber_21911 (10:01:40 AM): pzl
zaber_21911 (10:01:43 AM): plz
flamsterette_x (10:13:35 AM): I don't know.. surely you must have people that live closer to you that can help you out?
_____________________________

I mean, for goodness sakes. Fishy from the outset.. no phone, indeed. I'm sure that she needed a phone to at least connect to the Internet, even if she did have cable or whatnot. Not to mention everything else I thought about.. I definitely wouldn't have done it in any case. Sheeeeeeeeeesh.

Thanks go to Spoz, who helped amuse me with a simple comment (like he usually does).. love you! :P

Oh, and we beat the Atlanta Thrashers 8-0 yesterday.. WOOHOO! The Canucks now have won 14 in a row! (or at least have gone undefeated in that amount of time.. a tie isn't necessarily a defeat, right?) Reaching new franchise records and highs.. always nice! :)