i was packing. until i found the sprinkles. pb had them buried behind all of his hot chocolates. so now i'm on an ice cream break

eventful time tonight.

well i saw 2 cars get totalled today or well at least 1. http://picasaweb.google.com/colleen.michelle.mccloskey/AccidentNearPanera

my car was almost a 3rd one but while parking i skipped over a spot and didn't want to park there. decided to pick a different one. dave was even like "now what was wrong with that one" and i said "it just doesn't look as nice"
and if i was in that original spot i would have be what stopped the one car instead of the light pole right past the spot.

i took pictures

one guy hurt his head/eye from the airbag dust or so some other guy thinks that's what it was.

this was on 22 by panera. we were coming out of panera.

i was almost parked between the red thing and the SUV thingy but instead i'm on the other side of the red thing.

the lady in the last picture that you can barely see is the one that was driving the blue car. the blue car was at fault.

i definitely saw a truck that had a dent in the bumper like it was hit too or hit the other guy and it just left. i guess the guy didn't car or know that his car had a dent in the bumper. if my memory card didn't have a "card read error" when i first turned it on, i may have gotten a picture of that truck.

the guy in the tuxedo shop says to never park there because there are accidents all the time. he said within the past week there was another accident right there. he said the fence was fixed from that one. but the fence is missing the end post so it must not have been totally fixed.

dave is the one who called 911. there was a panera employee sitting on the bench smoking as we left. he saw/heard it and ran to the car to make sure everyoen was alright. i didn't have that fast of a reaction. i was pointing (literally pointing) at it and stopped in my tracks.

i spent hours tonight cropping pictures for my calendar site http://colleen.akwire.net/_clothes/

i hate how the pittsburgh post gazette calls about 3-4 times a week trying ot get us to subscribe to the paper again.

about 4 different times this morning i thought about how i was goign to forget my mom's mother's day card and i better remember it.
well what do you know, i forgot it. :(

power

the power went out twice while i was cooking. it came back on after a minute but still.

i made a workout buddy. too bad i'm essentially moving out in 3 days. (moving out in over a week but will be out of town after that.

packing

i did a decent amount of packing yesterday and now my foot is swollen. i hate this.

moving

our pod arrived today. time to start loading so then i have room to pack more stuff.

anyone who wants to help load up the pod just let me know :)
Some people are coming May 19 after work if you want to join.

my tummy hurts. dinner didn't seem to sit well. now i don't know if i'll make it to the gym tonight. i only lifted weights yesterday.

we had our preconstruction meeting today. i didn't like driving home. there was entirely too much traffic on the parkway.

i also ate too many krispy kreme donuts. i did stop dave from ordering 2 dozen though.

i didn't pack anything today.

in a week, dave and I will be in massachusetts visiting kate. i'll miss 4 days of work. and i'll miss 4 different meetings (fun kind) at work.

i couldn't find my masking tape that i have been using to label boxes i've packed.
well it was in the laundry basket that is full to clean clothes. no wonder it took me so long to find it. i should have bought 2 things of tape so then i could misplace one and still have one to label stuff with.

nice

i ate a huge dinner
weighed myself
worked out and got naked (to shower)
weighed myself
and i gained weight
that is all

tonight was lots of exercising. still won't make up for my unhealthy lunch and dinner. good thing i don't work that way or it'd get discouraging.
i went for a nice walk with pb and we explored some side streets around here. we walked over 40 minutes. then i went to the gym and used hte exercise bike (because some girl was on the elliptical) she had her ipod but i still felt bad if i turned on the tv so i didn't. so it was awfully quiet for me for 20 min and instead of thinking about stuff in my life i kept doign the math of my percent complete. my guess of my milage i'd have done. my calories and stuff with the other numbers on the display.

i burn 2 calories in 25 seconds.
i burn 2 calories in a tenth of a mile
i go a tenth of a mile in 25 seconds.
i figured out the first statement based on the 2nd two.

i just checked some data i had from before and i went further per min than i did today and burned more calories per minute. hmmm i guess i suck now.

i went back tot he deaville park gym. i hadn't been there in ages. because the bike was broken.

well now the bike is fixed AND they added an elliptical machine. they should have updated me on this information. i would have gone more.

i bought a potato masher thing today so now i can make mashed potatoes if i want to. but i'm scared. i don't want them to be all lumpy. and i don't want them to be /get hard. and i don't want to use scary ingredients.

5 years

i've had LJ for over 5 years. i posted almost daily through it all until the last month or 2. i'm slipping up.

i just finished scrapbooking june 8-12, 2006 when gravester and kate visited.
i had all hte pictures glued in. i just needed to glue in the memoribilia and print the journaling. i had over half the journaling typed too. it still took 8 hours today and a few hours yesterday and then dave even found 2 typos in my journaling. i should probably reprint those so it can be complete and good.

it's the first i've scrapbooked in awhile. i may want to scrapbook or i may not. i don't know. should i take it to my parents when i live there or should i put the supplies in storage for a few months?

my nelnet loan is down to accruing 20 cents a day. how exciting. also this loan is now under 1,000 bucks.

my dinner/dessert tonight was 1780 calories

last night was more because the pizza alone was 1690

fun times

oh boy

i just took out a measuring tape and measured my waist, hips, and bust.

so my waist is still 6 sizes bigger than my hips but now i'm at new numbers.

if you look at a juniors sizing chart my waist is OFF the chart.

nap

i just had a wonderful hour long nap. i've been so exhausted and still wasn't able to get a good sleep in at night.

i put 53 bucks worth of gas in the car yesterday.
i remember when you could fill your tank for under 20 and i'm not even that old.

i've just done it again a few times.

and .. i already forget why i started this post.

oh and i'm going crazy. i keep thinking i hear the dryer beeping. i already folded everything about an hour ago.

today i really don't get anything done because while doing one thing i get distracted about another thing that needs to be one. or that i want to do. then then that other thing doesn't get done because something else distracts me. i even forget what the earlier things were i was doing. not good.

i'm gettin too fat. everyday i think i should exercise. i don't though.

i can't believe how many days in a row i have things planned. or even i have things double booked. not cool.

also i left work too late today to have time to get an allergy shot before my work dinner.

i have so much over time to put in since i've been working on an internal audit and boy do i not want to do it.

we went to obama tonight

waited in line forever
super long line

got an alright seat
the lady beside me smelled and we just couldn't take it so we moved to the other side which would make it so we can see obama's face. but then we forgot that he moves around when he talks. it was a little far away to get good pictures. i still tried. we'll see how they turn out.

tonight, i had a dinner with people who are on the iternal audit team with me. i remember all the names but not which person goes with which name.

I just updated my weight graph.
I'm still 2 months behind on my calendar (clothes) site.

the three hour nap that i took earlier really messed me up. i really need to get to sleep

i just woke up from a 3 hour nap.

4th nap t his week. 4th night too

i have to make a wedding card but myt able is so messy.
i also have to make a christening card.

if only this table wasn't a mess

also if only it wasn't 79 degrees in this room.

i hate when pb freezes me out with the windwos open. then i don't want to wake up.

busy

my weekend is busy
friday night is mom's birthday dinner
saturday is a wedding
sunday is jason's Christening and then a dinner for work.

oh boy

ok i'm awful
i just got an e-mail from someone who i have been in the car with her driving a few times and she's almost killed me a few times.
the e-mail said she totaled her car and i thought "nice" like maybe she'd learn how to drive now. but she just got this car less than a month ago. it's used but new to her.
someone rear-ended her and as a result she rear-ended someone else. so i don't know if they put any fault on her or not but the way she drives i'm surprised she hasn't caused numerous accidents. literally i HATE driving (hate it so bad that sometimes dave and i don't go out to eat because neither of us will drive the 3 min to a restaurant) and i would drive if we were going somewhere together.

then i told pb about her totalling her car and he said "nice" and went on about deserving it because she's a wreckless driver. he said a lot more and explained himself with specific examples. he can comment if he wants them typed.

nap

i ended up take another nap tonight. i think it was about an hour. last nights was longers. tonight i needed something becuase i was mad. still mad though but not about to explode

i think i accidentally stayed up too late.

i'm going to the bank tomorrow. i'm not looking forward to it.

also i can't believe michael johns was eliminated on american idol. he was my favorite.

i need more clothes.

i'm so tired. i brought work home. i didnt' do it. sigh

ok
fitflop fitness shoes by Victoria's secret. they say that they burn calroies and tone legs with every step. so i'd say all shoes do that in some way. what's special about these. really someone answer me. but model they have wearing these shoes has mighty thin legs so i bet tons of people by them.

i started off today thinking it was wedensday. then i thought it was friday. rude awakening when it was only Tuesday.

so for work i have to write this guidebook based on an analysis i've never done for a plant i've never even worked on. it's hard work. it's taking me longer than they guessed. they being experienced people at work and they guessed it would take me the same amount of time it takes them. grrrr. and it sure sucks not knowing and not being able to find the stuff because the previous calc notes that i'm looking at are not documented well.

when we come home, we notice the house smelling. like mildew or something. couldn't figure out what it was for days. i think i figured it out last night. the potatoes we bought a week ago were all liquidy of some sort in the bag. a brand new bag never opened. grrr.

i filled up my gas tank yesterday. it stoped on exactly 49 bucks. i even bought gas at the station that was 6 cents per gallon cheaper than most of the other ones around.

loan-dream

i'm so weird. i had a dream that was exciting. but this would not be exciting for anyone else. i dreamed i sent $3 to my nelnet loan. there was this long figuring as to why i sent it. oh man so exciting. (the balance of my nelnet is about a grand)

"you sure look fat from that angle"

very odd

so last year i got my mom this gameboy game for christmas. she already had it. i was going to return it. i couldn't find the receipt. i knew teh price and that i bought it on oct 22 (2006). well i requested a receitp from discover. that recipt didn't show much so i never returned it. i still have the game in the box sealed. well yesterday i found the receipt. just magic sitting there on the floor. friday i refound the game.

nap

i just had a very nice nap. perhaps too long of a nap. it was so comfy and nice.

i was so tired. even this morning i couldn't wake up. i just didn't want to. i stayed up a little late last night but also 2 nights ago i barely got any sleep and my body wanted it.

sleep

i had an awful sleeped. i tossed and turned so bad. i kept waking up. i barely got any sleep at all.

i only wish i had plans today because nobody else is on to im me or e-mail me.

all of those clothes are now at goodwill. they filled my trunk. i did decide to take one last peek at my dress before giving it away.

impressed!

Once we got home from dinner, we started going through boxes in the garage. We had these 2 big containers (well not as big as those plastic containers you used to pack stuff in when you moved) and we filled both 4 times and threw the stuff away. Then we also through away some broken up boxes with stuff in them. Sometimes I had to fight Dave to get him to not through away some of my stuff though. We didn’t totally finish. There are 4 or so half full boxes that we need to condense, then 2 thatthat have some scrapbook stuff in them that I didn’t realize were down there, and one more big one with blankets in it. Oh and the wedding centerpieces boxes that I’m trying to sell to someone.

Dave said that gram’s table was the best table we ever got. He said he wouldn’t have worked as long or gotten as much done if he had to keep getting up and down going through boxes. We were able to pick boxes up and put them on the table as we went through them. I also took inventory of the boxes. So I’m glad we had the table. It’s always so boring to do stuff down there myself. So in the past I’ve quit after like 5 minutes.

This morning I was also going through some clothes. If you add up the clothes I went through a few weeks ago that I haven’t given to goodwill yet and these clothes, it’s 64 things. I think I need to go through my shoes again.
I hate how I like shoes but then I wear them and can’t walk for a few days. Next time I wear the one dress shoes with a skirt I’m wearing in my walking shoes and changing in the building and changing before leaving too. That would help A LOT.

I’m also giving my wedding dress to goodwill. I was going to throw it away but remembered how they have dresses there and some people can’t afford to buy it new.

at 5pm when i hadn't gotten dressed yet I didn't think my holiday from work would be a productive one.
around 1:00 PM i started watching Men in Trees. I watched 4 episodes today. I guess it was fun to relax.

house

next weekend, we are meeting with someone from Heartland Homes and picking everything for our house and giving the rest of our deposit. It's not really picking everything, we don't pick the countertops or the handles or any of the flooring (unless we are getting hardwood).

seriously

how hard is it to reply to an e-mail with a sentence or even one word? if you have to research something and your reply has to be long and involved that may be a different story but really i'm sick of people not responding to e-mails that clearly require a response.

ugh update

i really am very miserable. so miserable that i made phone calls today to movers just to get out of doing work. like seriously i hate the phone. i have no ambition anymore. the one thing i liked my manager made me give up because most groups rotate this task after about a year. even though nobody in teh group wanted to do it. and she basically forced someone to do it. and he complains all the time about hating to do it.

i still have my eye twitch. that's been a few months. it's not as bad lately. almost not as bad since i applied for a new job because now there is hope to get out of the group.

also i was talking to dave asking him why the past few months i'm never fulfilled when eating and i just want to eat and he said that's because i hate work and that's how he was.

even when i'm home enjoying myself i'm not because of the thought of work the next day. sundays are actually the worst. i know i have a full week ahead of me. i just dread the entire day knowing the later in the day it is the closer i am to work.

i had cake for dinner
yellow cake with chocolate icicing
dave and i made it last night.

we got some pricing from movers today.
they charge a lot.
we'd have to pay even more since we're double moving (well moving to storage and then moving to the new place a few months later)

so we might try to move it ourselves and be people to help us. anyone want to help or should i say willing to help? it'll be in mid-may.

i always get distracted with TV and don't get done with what i want to get done.

update

i didn't sleep well. around 8 i was tossing and turning and super hot. i finally got to sleep and slept until 10:30.
my feet hurt so bad. just laying in bed was a kliler because they hurt so bad. then the first few steps in the morning are so awful
yesterday we finally used our linen's and things gift card that was a wedding gift.

i lost my paper when i inventoried the clothes for goodwill so i'll have to do that again and then i think we are going to drop them off. i just want to get it out of hte house.

i have so much that i want to get done today, just like every weekend. it's not going to happen though.

i just got home. i'm a rebel staying otu so late. i was at kelly's stamping. it was fun.

i'm tired so i'm reading then goign to sleep. i couldn't connect to work tonight so i couldn't do any of that.

today i ate cheeze itz around 11:15. then 2 oatmeals at lunch (well i didn't finish the bowl) then a bowl of broccoli chedar soup at panera, a panera bagel, and then ice cream. i wonder if that's a normal amount of food or not.

so the 5 lb weights were too light so i used 1 15 and 1 5. now my butt muscles are sore. i was doing step ups (or whatever they are called)

pb's computer is having all kinds of troubles. he was booting it up again to try to figure out how to back up the harddrives adn then it wasn'te ven working. gives hard disk drive errors or something. then we go to watch tv and the computer downstairs is broken in some way. he doesn't even know what is wrong with it. he's sad he can't get a new computer right now.

my Berry Bliss class went well. I was shocked that nobody ever made origami boxes growing up.

my scrapbook for Betsy has 31 pages. I just took pictures of the pages instead of scanning them in. I'm lazy.

i accidentally made too many pretzel clusters (i made up this name. i don't know what they are called but the are like coconut clusters but with pretzels and not coconut so i assume i can call them that).

i made 66. 37 white chocolate, 29 milk chocolate. i made about 50 cocnut clusters and 9 almond clusters yesterday (the bag of almonds only got me 9 clusters). i made these plus cookies that i'm making tomorrow for 4 people. i think i went overboard so i'm going to take some to work tomorrow for my group.

pricing keep going up and it makes me mad

i've noticed things at the grocery store being higher and higher every time.

also yesterday at staples the 250 pack of envelopes that was 18 bucks when i went with my gift card that didn't work was now 23.99. still cheaper than smaller boxes anywhere else but it was like 2-3 months ago that they were 18 bucks. so discover being stupid cost me 6 bucks plus another trip in gas out there.



i just made coconut clusters and almond clusters. i hope nobody gave up sweets for lent that's coming to the class on wed. it seems that more than half the people i hear who gave up something, gave up sweets. i want to make white chocolate covered pretzels since i like those the best but i just got aggravated with it all since i was doing laundry at the same time and that's rough work. half of the coconut clusters are using white chocolate. i hope that's good. dave said it would be. i don't like coconut so i can't verify. i almost have enough to take some into work but there's too many people in the group now.

late

oops i stayed up too late really it's only 2:15

but really that's too late too

interesting

i bought windshield wipers finally. it got so bad that the right one wasnt' working at all. the blade was only halfway attached.

walmart will put them on for free.
the guy had tons and tons and tons of trouble getting the drivers side one off.

then on the way home we were goign to stop at DQ or Dunkin Donuts. between DQ and Dunkin Donuts a guy in a truck almost hit me. then he over compensated and hti the guard rail and got stuck. and hit some sign too. he kept spinning out for a good minute. we then left Dunkin Donuts because PB said he's probably insane and is mad at me. then we came home.

i had 55 small round cheese raviolis for dinner last night. yummy.

well next time i doctor up the sauce i'm nto putting hot pepper flakes in. there were only a few in the entire sauce pot and it still burned my mouth.

i brought work home and didn't do any of it. i hate when i carry it just for nothin.

sigh

i cooked tonight and it took entirely too long. simple stuff even takes long. i didn't even make the potatoes in the oven, i made them in the microwave.

i made pork chops, corn, and parsley potatoes.

it took a solid 50 min to cook. i guess maybe between minutes 5 and 10 i was looking for mashed tater recipes so i wasn't cooking but based on my recipe searching i just made parsley potatoes. i decided i need to buy a potato masher before i make mashed potatoes.

my arm is really swollen from this allergy shot.

another thing

another murphy's law thing from Saturday
I called the Pittsburgh post gazette and their system was down so couldn't access customer info so couldn't cancel my account. first i tried searching online to cancel it there or figure out how to log into ez pay to stop that at least.

so it's nice and warm.

the snow melted mostly around oru bushes. i noticed we have 4 newspapers under the bushes. now i hear pb laughing. i bet he sees them too. he just got home.

so i can print from my pc that uses the internet through the mac and uses my mac's printer but it won't print from my mac. sigh

Murphy's law

today so many things went wrong. i can't even remember them all.

i tried to print pictures from Monica's shower and it says they printed but they didn't. i had to leave so i couldn't fix it.
then i get the mail. i get my spending account card and it says to activate it by calling the number on the sticker on the front of the card. there is no sticker
the fries at wendy's weren't the goodness they usually are, they were raw and greasy and just overall yuck.
then my aunt made a cake and it was red devil's food. i dont' like red devil's food. sigh
then we missed the beginning of SNL to see the nice political skit
then i got pulled over in trafford for going 36 in teh 25 and i was even thinking about getting pulled over seconds before it because i was riding the break the whole way and still wasnt' down to speed even though i've never seen a cop there. i didn't get a ticket though

there was more. i'll type later. oh all that stuff i typed above was since 5pm today.

wow

i went downstairs to eat. i'm back upstairs now and i have forgotten to eat. i did put laundry in and clean up the kitchen.

dreams

i had a few very weird dreams last night. one was where i was trying ot take pictures quickly. my camera was taking like a minute to take the pictures. i hate my camera that way. it doesn't actually take a minute but it takes awhile and i can't get good shots while driving. so the next camera i buy will be an actual photographers camera.

i did take pictures of the pretty snow on our way home yesterday and i kept missing all the pretty shots.

i went to sleep around 8:30 last night. i fell asleep on the couch. then pb woke me up when he got up. but he made me go to sleep on the couch down there. i dont' know why but i did. then he yelled down and woke up up to come up to bed. he sure was waking me up a lot. so i slept almost 13 hours

and now it's even later. the longer it is until i get into bed, the more dave is on my side of the bed.

crap i was going to go to sleep an hour ago. sigh. i've been so tired all week.

sleep

i keep staying up too late. i keep not getting what i want to done. tv is too good and the episodes are too long. we watched season 1 of the wire this week. it was really good. that show is on hbo so those episodes take a full hour. then american idol is 1.5 hour show. then there is big brother. i'm a day behind on american idol. today i watched 2 episodes of big brother to get caught up.

i went to a bachelorette party last night. the melting pot was very good. too bad i left my leftovers in Jackie's trunk. then we went to a few bars. it was interesting meeting new people.

oi. i did some coloring

and i'm mad my one stamp is on crooked so now i always seem to stmap my words crooked
and so then i just had to find a fix for my stamp being crooked.

always going to bed too late.

i realized it was late tonight and i didn't do what i watned to do. then i also had to shower. i brought work home but didn't do that. instead of doing the work and the shower i decided to make some cards. i half made 4. i just have to color them. i guess i'll go shower now. then sleep.

i always stay up later than i want to. then i sleep in later than i want to. but lately i've been saying up too late.

i don't seem to have time to do anything in my day. a random vacation day or even a half day is wanted. i don't know if i'll do it though.

i stayed up too late again tonight

i keep wanting to stamp and make cards. i do not have enough reasons to send cards out. well plus i like hoarding them for myself for some reason.

i started uploading some of the cards i've made to splitcoaststampers. i have 4 i uploaded so far. look it's a start. i have more. i find it pretty impressive that 1 has over 100 and one has 90. they haven't been on there 24 hours yet.

me and pb just slept 12 hours. we were even in bed just reading a lot before we went to sleep. the past few nights we've been sleeping over 8. i'm surprised we slept so long today.

i almost woke up at 9:30 when my alarm went off but i wanted to get back into my dream. well the dream was different when i got back into it. it was the same setting but the happenings of the dream were so different.

yay it's friday. but not really. i have so much to get done this weekend.

i think my eye twitches because of my dislike for work and the fairness of it. it's been twitching for like a month. some days are worse than others. today is a particularly bad one.

i just spent forever updating my checkbook in excel. making a separate file for 2008 and then updating so all the future months have the correct payments that are automatic. and excel crashed. it's still trying to recover. i don't think it will. this will teach me to not save it throughout. grrr


*update. it wouldn't recover. i lost it all.

i went to mad mex tonight. i need to quit ordering their cheese. it's been way too hot for me twice in a row. now it's time to watch big brother. i hope this season isn't stupid

soup

i made chicken noodle soup for dinner. it looked like a ton. i ate 3 bowls for dinner. pb ate one. then i packed 2 containers to freeze and 2 containers for 2 days of lunches (the glad or are they ziplock continers. the ones that you can also get lunch meat in and then they have a red lid) i didn't even fill the 2 for work. then i made a container for haley since she's sick. ...then i only had a tiny winy bit left. wow.

it took an hour and 15 minutes to make it.

aim conversation i've proofread 4 pages in an hr and a half brothers and sisters starts in 4 min Rukky G 9:56 hahah you're fast and efficient

me: i've proofread 4 pages in an hr and a half
pb: hahah you're fast and efficient

we went to rivertown. i got the same thing as last time but i got about 2/3 the amount of food as last time. the power flickered a few times while we were there and based on the reaction of other people, it had gone out before that. we were at giant eagle around 11. when we left it was so windy and snowy, you could barely see. but by the time the trunk was loaded, it wasn't snowy and was just windy.

then later the power went out for over 2 hours. i was reading. then i napped. what else to do when the power goes out.

update

we need to go to the grocery store but i'm thinking it's already too late in the day and they'd be packed.
i went to sleep before midnight last night. i slept about 10 hours. i took an hour nap yesterday. 2 nights ago i got 8.5 hours of sleep.

I made coupons last night for SU. I also made pb 2 bookmarks. we watched Terminator 3. We went to Target after WSHI because Giant Eagle was already too packed. Then we went to Panera. They never have potato shoup when i'm there anymore. Luckily i like broccoli cheddar soup. it wasn't filling so i ate when i got home. We ordered pizza from amili's. i'm sick of think pizza that i don't like. luckily i got fried zucchini too. fried zucchini is so much better with ketchup than it is with the marinara sauce that you're supposed to use.

i have so much to do, but i always want to do other stuff. i think i need a random vacation day or something.

i'm trying to decide if i should go to the gym before my shower this morning. there are pros and cons but the main con is that when i do that i usually get lightheaded. my body doesn't tend to like to go in the morning.

i want to visit gram. i'm always afraid i'm intruding on meal time or something for my aunts family so i don't go. i tend to tag along with my parents when they go

i went to sleep before 11 last night.

i woke up before 8! i had to. i was helping with Westinghouse Science Honors Institute. by the time that was over, Giant Eagle was already packed so we didn't go.

i made dave 2 bookmarks. one with snowflakes for winter and one with green leaves for spring. so now he has 3 bookmarks and he's just missing a summer one.

one of these days i need to finish Betsy's Wedding gift. I have finished what i thought i would do but i added to it and i didn't do that yet.

wow i am so tired.

last night

last night in bed i thought of 1 or 2 thigns that i forgot to type about that went wrong. i almost got out of bed to type them and realized our internet died so i couldn't even post it. so i stayed in bed. now i forget what i thought up. but one thing that was bad was the internet dying. i was connected to work and trying to work and boom no internet. so i couldn't finish working. i couldn't get the internet to work. sigh.