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I really hate feeling that if I have nothing memorable to post, I really shouldn't at all, especially if stuff that I would have liked to have posted about is out of date... :\ Now that I'm not practically starved for attention and not all by myself all the time, I just don't seem to keep a really good record of my life on this journal any more. And that was the whole point -- to keep a record of my life so I can someday read over again.

I'm feeling kinda annoyed right now. There was a big moth in the room and I went to get the vacuum to suck it up because I'm normally a big sissy in killing bugs but as I went to get it, it disappeared on me. And it won't show itself. I'm afraid that it got through the vents and is now roaming around in the house, all ready to pop out of my bedroom's vent and to fly on my face and doom me into eating it. They say we will eat a number of bugs in our sleep in our lives and I really don't want to be thinking about it at all... :\

The other thing that annoyed me is the fact that I lost my antivirus CD. I had planned on installing a new one so I uninstalled it but then I lost the CD and now I'm antivirus-les. Which is very, very bad. I'm already seeing a number of evil popups as I go online... :\

The other thing that kinda got me tonight was on Jay Walk on Jay Leno. They were doing State mottos/sayings and one of them was about Oregon and how we were the beaver state. Some blond girl had the nerve to say that we spend all our time in Oregon sitting around and playing with our beavers. It was so insulting! I realize Oregon isn't exactly the most well-known state but it's careless words that like that that annoy the hell out of me. She seemed completely unmindful of it and that was the worst part. If she was trying to mean, she should have felt it within every fiber of her body and tried to convey that as best as she can. But the fact that she was okay with it means she didn't think that it could be hurtful which means that she didn't bother to think that it might have been. There should have been that consideration at the very least. Perhaps I'm too sensitive towards stuff like this because I've been hurt too many times by stray comments that were probably not supposed to have stung but did... I just wish people thought more about what they say and that no matter what it is, it might be hurtful and that if it wasn't your intention to be hurtful, then they should have minded what they said a bit more.

Well, that was rather rant-y of me... What else can I talk about? My parents' sucky tenants that are refusing to leave our house in Portland? We've been trying to kick them out for the last two months and it's gotten so bad that we are now going to trial. I can only imagine what they're doing to my childhood home in the mean time... We've been contacted by the police about them and their connection to drug dealing, they have piles of trash every where on our property, they've broken in our garage, which is separate from the house and not part of the rental agreement. And I half suspect they're to blame for the fact that the electricity meter box is broken. That has lead to the fact that the electric company had to shut off their power and because we can't find an electrician that can get out there immediately, might give them a good reason to sue us for inhospitable housing. It's such a huge headache... We go to court on August 2nd so hopefully the judge will rule in our favor and they'll finally leave. Or barring that, the judge would rule in our favor and they don't leave but we can get the sheriff to forcibly remove them. I'm so scared about our plum tree -- I hope they won't do something cruel and chop it down. It's been giving us bucketfuls of the biggest, juiciest, sweetest plums year after year and it was such a big part of my summers as a kid. I have so many fond memories of it and it's been there since before I was even born. I'm not even sure how old the tree is but it would be such a shame to see it go... *sigh*

The one thing I am not looking forward to is the 9 AM court date. My mother went out to Portland today, the second time in three days to lawyer up... I am hoping that the evil people will be too poor to get one (which could happen since apparently it came out in mediation that they're too poor to move) and we can win easily but it'll be too easy to find a lawyer to represent them with the promise to make us pay all the fees should they win. Apparently my uncle has gone through this before since his family rents out a bunch of homes so we've been hearing horror stories. I just hope we can move on from this as soon as possible.

Ah, I'm getting hungry now... It makes me think back to today's lunch in which I improvised with some dried shrimp noodles, soy sauce, white pepper, salt, sugar, and some chicken seasoning. Not to mention some fried dace from a can. I even drizzled some of the oil from the dace on the noodles -- it was so bad, yet surprisingly yummy. The only thing worse that I could have done was to have put slices of Spam on it. Which I did later on, but in an instant cup of beef flavored Pho instead. And to set the record straight -- Spam does not puff up in hot water and it was pretty yummy.

Mmm...instant Pho. Now that would be nice right about now...