OMG already?

When I woke this morning I started off by checking my online things. I knew my sister would want to play the game as soon as she knew I was up so I tried to stay quiet so that I could get my things done without any pressure to hurry. My sister was straightening her hair when I got up so this was also to while away some time while I waited for her to be done. Of course, she found out I was away when I started sneezing. Luckily I was nearly done and was just needing to make my blog post for yesterday as I was too tired to do it then.

I tried to get the post done quickly but we kept talking so I kept getting distracted. I did keep it short but my sister thought it was long. I felt the need to show her one of my longer posts so I could prove I thought the one I was writing was short. We soon set up the Wii and got started playing Symphonia yet again. I just can't believe though that come this evening, we are almost done with the game. We are to the fight with level 80 Ricther and we cannot see how there could possibly be anything further to the game. Our characters are only level 60 but I really believe it's finally the end. It's just unreal, especially since we have only been playing this game about a week, possibly two. The first Tales of Symphonia took me almost a month to beat the first time and that was with me rushing through due to wanting to see the story. Nowadays however, playing the first Symphonia through seems to take much less time. Not sure why. Oh well, with this second Symphonia, I think I will still enjoy it many times over just as I did the first one. I cease to find the first one fun and I therefore have restarted it multiple times.

I beleive the second Symphonia took less time due to it's lack of side-quests compared to the first. So far as I know, there are only those Katz quests you can do. Though when I play alone I will do those, and spend a lot more time messing with the monsters. I never really stopped to tinker around with things as I didn't want to make my sister bored with my experiments so at least I know I can go through the game once more and really play with that, getting more entertainment. I will also have more fun when my mom and I play this game because she knows little of the plot so it will be fun to see her reactions and possibly laugh at different things than my sister and I did.

We failed the "final" battle. (I put that in quotation marks as I am uncertain it is truly the last though I have a bad feeling it will be.) As I mentioned, Ricther was level 80 and we stood our own pretty well at first but he ended up mauling us something bad in the end. We decided we would just have to do a lot of training and some Katz quests in the mean-time. It was too late at night to start that when we lost so we just shut off the Wii and packed it up.

During the day as my sis and I played, my mom frequently would come back and forth and chat with us. Admittedly this became somewhat annoying but mostly because it would happen during skits which will not wait for you nor can you pause and I would want to hear what my mom had to say but I didn't want to miss the skit either. I cannot blame my mom for chatting with us often. I really think she enjoys being able to do that since she was in the kitchen area most of today and we were in the living room instead of hiding away in our own bedrooms. I need to find more time to sit and chat with my mom in her room however. I think she gets really sad and lonely when my sis and I sit in the living room all day and play games. I feel bad about it, although despite this, I never do anything about it. I'm such a loser sometimes I swear.

After my sis had to go to bed I made sure to go to my mom's room to chat with her a bit. I felt I owed her that much. Don't get me wrong, I didn't just do it because I felt I "owed" it to her but I did truly want to be there. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered. I enjoyed talking to her and I even got to enjoy the company of my cat, Izzy. He's such a wonderful little ball of fur and lately I really miss him since he spends a lot of time outside.

I know I've missed some things I wanted to add here but I can not for the life of me remember what it was I wanted to add. Ah well. This will have to suffice. I think I may actually try playing my Wii in my room tonight. Heh, likely I'll say that then not do it like I did last time. Hopefully I'll either do that, or I will try to fall asleep to a movie. Well, cya!

Frustrated

Today I woke pretty early. Around 8. My sister was already eager to play Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of The New World. I don't blame her, the plot has me hooked too. I'll likely have to play through it again by myself to really get even more enjoyment out of the game as we're pushing through it pretty quickly, as is normal for your first time through a game.

I really can not remember much about what I did today really. About mid-day we stopped playing Symphonia and my mom and I played Nancy Drew: White Wolf of Icicle Creek. It was pretty fun at first and we all laughed together but it quickly became frustrating though by this point my mom wanted to get a bath and I certainly didn't want to go on without her so Leighanna and I resumed playing Symphonia.

Dinner was sort of a disaster. We were going to cook some catfish nuggets but found out they weren't breaded and needed to be thawed before cooking, so we became frustrated with that and put it into the refrigerator to thaw. We pulled out a Bertolli Shrimp Scampi dinner from the freezer and decided to cook that although my mom worried if it would be good since it was so icy. When we got it cooking it smelled pretty good although when we ate it my mom disliked the texture of the shrimp and I was not impressed with the flavor. I added some lemon juice to mine which made it tons better but it was far from exquisite. My mom and I have agreed we will never buy that ever. This one we had been given by a friend.

Leighanna and I returned to playing Symphonia again and played it until nearly 2 in the morning. I felt bad though cause when I checked my phone, Tyler had called me 20 times and left a text and voicemails expressing how worried he was. I don't blame him. I usually talk to him sooner but my sis and I just got too into the game. I managed to get a hold of him and everything is fine now.

Well I'm finally heading to bed. Goodnight.

Note: This post was completely and totally written the next morning but I wanted to write it in the sense that I was writing it the day that it happened.

Snow Day

As wonderful and fun as a snow day sounds, this one was far from it. This morning started just fine till my mom and I were headed out the door to head for work. We decided to leave our dogs inside the house since it was wet and snowy out, not to mention REALLY cold. Well, unfortunately, two of our dogs bolted through the front door while the third I managed to keep from getting out.

Chasing the two that got out was far from fun. It was bitter cold and I kept getting snow inside my shoes. I finally caught our Shi Tzu, Li when he decided to stop and bark at our next-door neighbor's much larger dog. Blanco, the other dog that got loose was MUCH harder to catch. Several times my mom would say she was going to give up on chasing him and trying to get him home. I worried about if she really would a few times but I should know better by now to know she would likely never do that. We both became very frustrated by chasing him. He would often come very close to us, just out of our reach then bolt before e could grab him. We finally caught him after 45 min of chasing when we got in the van and drove slowly down our street with the side door open. We stopped near him and he jumped right in where I grabbed him then my mom got the door shut.

Once we got him fully secured in the house again we finally headed on to work. Now of course, I don't actually work there, I just say "we got to work" because I go with my mom to her work on Fridays. From the time we got there till lunch was pretty generic although I took a nap just before 12. My mom had come into the room to check on me and was afraid of me going to sleep as it was so close to 12 but it was only 1 at the time and I told her I usually do not sleep more than an hour when I nap, which is true as odd as it is. It is rare for me to sleep longer than nearly exactly one hour.

I ate my lunch I packed with me, some leftover salmon and some sausage biscuits, then we headed to the bank for something. Not sure what. I went inside with my mom as I didn't want to stay inside the van while she ran her errand. My mom didn't even think until we were inside about the elevator. She asked me if I would be okay with it and I said yes despite my great fear and dislike of them. Of course, my mom had forgotten another detail. The elevator has a glass wall. At this point I knew I was in for it. I grabbed the wooden handrail on the glass wall and held on tight while looking away. I immediately felt ill as soon as it started moving, especially since I found myself unable to not glance out the side.

We came to the second floor and I thought I might be okay, till I noticed that the pathway had glass paneling on the side with the dropoff. Even though I'm certain I was secure, I felt far from it. It didn't help the tile had lines and a cracked pattern on it which gave the illusion it could crumble any second. We arrived at one office only to find it was not the one we needed so we had to go back to the elevator. On the way back I tried to use logic to curb my fear, telling myself that the surface Iwas walking on was indeed solid and that I would not fall, I also kept from looking to the side with the glass paneling. This actually worked on the trip to the elevator, although this was ineffective after the trip up another floor.

The whole time I walked I was absolutely panicked though I kept walking but by the time I got to the room we needed to go to I was having a massive Vertigo problem and I felt dizzy and like I was tottering around like I could fall any second, I was even feeling very sick to my stomach now. I had to cling to a wall as I really felt I was going to fall even though I wasn't. I was perfectly fine once I got into the office area. The lady we talked to was very nice and expressed she had the same problem as I did and seemed relieved she was not the only one. Of course, I kinda felt the same way.

When we were done we headed back, this time I avoided looking to the side again and stared solely at the solid wall next to me and once I was in the elevator my mom told me not to look through the glass and seemed confused when I moved towards it but I told her I needed to hold onto the rail. Once I had she stood next to me so I was unable to see out. This helped incredibly and I thanked her for it as I was very appreciative of her doing that for me. She apologized for having put my through that and promised we would not do that again. From now on, I will wait in the van. I told her I think I would rather repeat our morning than go through what I just had again. Even now I still debate which incident was worse to me.

We got back to the office and I played on my comp awhile and dozed off on the pillow I had laying on the desk. I video-chatted a bit with my boyfriend, Tyler. He wanted to show me this robot he was working on at school. Some of his friends even waved hello to me or said some things which were mostly incoherent over the computer. IT wasn't long before I had to stop to clean, although he had to go at that time anyway. We got done cleaning pretty quickly then headed over to Delyana's(SP?) house to eat as she had invited us over. She made roasted chicken and it was so amazingly good. After I finished I debated a long time whether I should ask for some more but I never did. I only finally mentioned it when I was asked if I had wanted more. I was not very strong in my answer as I did want some but I did not want to be rude. After awhile of me being a weirdo with my responses about it I did get permission to have some more but my conscience would have nothing of it so I just stood around and waited for us to head on to group.

I was glad I did not get more chicken earlier as there was some pizza which I ate without ranch dressing much to my mom's shock and my great entertainment in her reaction. Group was very long for me tonight. We had a couple new members so we all had to introduce ourselves briefly. I hate doing this. I don't really know why, I guess it's mostly I do not like an entire group of people to suddenly have all their attention on me. It makes me uncomfortable. I didn't speak tonight really. I laughed when someone said something funny but otherwise I was quiet, often drifting into contemplating various things though I was primarily distracted by Stephanie's son, James. He's just so cute it's hard not to pay him attention. We started off with a lesson for the smaller portion of group but the larger portion was spent listening to one of our new members, Christy. She seemed very nice although obviously troubled. I will not get into the details here even though it is my blog. There's just some things that even I would not post in my own personal journal, even if no one else would read it but me.

I never realized till today that group is actually 2 hours long. How I didn't know that till today is beyond me but I guess it is usually so interesting that it feels more like just one hour. When we got home getting in the house was a pain. My sis went to bed and left the dogs inside which caused us much distress trying to get in the door without letting them out as we really didn't want a repeat of this morning, especially when it was too dark to see and just a cold. At first we didn't even know my sis was in till my mom finally got in and got the dogs at bay to let me in. This was when we learned she had gone to bed already. I really wish Leighanna had thought to be considerate and let the dogs out back before we got home.

I got to my room and tried turning on my light, being immediately reminded of my light having gone out that morning. I went to get a screwdriver and tried to replace the bulb, but I had to get the globe off and even with a step-ladder-stool thingy, I was still too short to do it so my mom had to help me. It took awhile as my mom got a call midway but it was okay as I was not in a huge rush. Besides, I was grateful my mom was willing to help me with that tonight as it was as she could have easily decided to wait till tomorrow to do it.

I sat in my mom's room and visited with her awhile before deciding Iwas really tired and wanted to go work on this post and finish other things on my computer, and now that I am nearly done with this post I am going to be heading to bed very soon now.

Goodnight!

Rainy Day

Okay it's official. I've completely run dry of witty titles to give my posts. I had done so half-decently when I started. Oh well.

Today, as the title suggests, was pouring rain. I woke to an odd banging noise. I couldn't tell what it could be. My only guess was it was my mom doing something with feeding the animals as the dogs were all barking. I didn't notice the time so I didn't know that it wasn't the case. The banging kept going for awhile so I decided to get up and figure out what was going on. When I entered the living room I realized the banging was coming from the door. At this point I began to panic, I thought someone was trying to break in. Never id I think that if someone was trying to do so would they try to be quiet in doing so. In my panic I ran back to my room and grabbed my phone. It did occur to me for only a second it might be my mom trying to get back in, but I kept thinking of things such as her having keys and also she would call me if she was stuck outside. I hid behind my desk and called my mom. No answer. Shortly after I heard my mom screaming my name. This is when I felt incredibly foolish. It was my mom at the door and instead of having been helping her, I had left her outside in the cold and wet. There is a roof over the porch, but still, it doesn't mean anything.

I felt so bad and I immediately opened the door for my mom. She was very angry with me for my stupidity. she had every right to be. She explained to me all the very good points about people breaking in would be quiet and that she had forgotten her phone inside, also that the keys she had didn't work as she had expected. I apologized several times but I think she was still mad at me for what I did. If I had at least been brave enough to look out the window next to the door to see who was outside or look out the kitchen window to see the van outside, I would have known.

After she left again, I tried to go back to bed. It wasn't 5 minutes later my mom called me. For a moment I thought she needed back in so I jumped up but as soon as she started talking then I knew that wasn't the case. We talked for awhile and she seemed to no longer be mad at me but I still wonder if she is still, at the very least, a little angry for this morning. I know I probably would be if I was her.

It took me another 40 min or so to finally fall back asleep. My mom had grown worried as I had responded to a text just before then so she had assumed I was awake but I texted her back again to let her know I had gone back to sleep. After all that I wasn't up to much today. Really I just worked on my room just slightly. I put up a poster and my states quarters map and played on facebook a bit.

As usual I played the Wii before my sis got home. Played Naruto. All I did was try to get Hokage rank on several missions and played single player time and score attack a couple times. That was alot of fun as usual. Leighanna joined me for a little while before we decided to move on to ToS. Midway we stopped to eat supper then watched Ghost Whisperer while my sis straightened her hair. We stopped a little after our usual stop time as we had gotten to a place in the game my sister was anxious to get to as it concerned a character she is very fond of but we unfortunately had to save and stop soon after so we could both get to bed soon.

I got to cuddle with my kitty Izzy for a little while my sis and I played. It was really nice as I hardly ever see him anymore. He kept annoying my mom so I kept having to go get him. I really didn't want to throw him out in the rain if it could be helped. I wish he would come inside a little more often though, I don't often get to spend time with him anymore. Though that is really no one's fault at all and likely more so mine than anyone else's.

Now, obviously, I am just sitting here finishing this post up before heading off myself. Which, since I have nothing else to post here as I just noticed, I am going to be going now.

Goodnight!

Feeling A Bit Off

Okay so maybe it's more like a lot off and the way today started would really not lead you to believe it. Today was normal aside from me not playing my Wii. That's right. I DIDN'T play my Wii. I took a break today. I figured since it's Wednesday, that meaning my mom and sis would be home late, then it would be a good idea to get some things done around my room such as finishing tidying it up from my move. I probably would have finished today except later in the day I began to feel a bit sick to my stomach so I rested a bit on my bed. Didn't help though and I don't remember when I got over it.

I was so mad at myself today. I went to put my dragon poster back on my wall and to do so I decided to stand on my art trunk. Normally, this is fine. The trunk is plenty strong enough for me to stand on. That wasn't the problem. The problem was me not realizing the objects around it when I moved it into position and I ended up mangling the corner of a poster of forest scenery that I loved. I know I only paid a dollar for it but it made me angry. After that my dragon poster tore near the bottom just a little and after that the trunk pressed against, and cracked the glass on my cheetah poster. Uggh.. It just makes me sick. I keep breaking things today, mostly my own things. By accident, all of them I assure you.

Around 6 my mom called me. She hasn't been feeling good today, I feel bad for her. I hope she feels better soon. I can not recall much of what she called to tell me, but I do remember her telling me that, Stephanie, one of my friends, said she misses me and can not wait till Friday when I go to our Friday meeting thing. I didn't go last week as I was too sick with allergies to do anything. Oddly enough, my mom also said she too thinks I'm a genius. Of course, I take that with a grain of salt really because the two people who say I'm a genius are her and her mother, not to mention their friends of mine, so it really doesn't count when people who like you say something like that. Friend's are almost always willing to compliment their friends, regardless of where the truth lies. New don't get me wrong, I think it is very nice that they think that, I just do not believe it to be true. My mom thinks it is, but she's my mom, of course she's going to think I'm smart. I know otherwise. I'm not completely ignorant but I'm far from a genius.

Honestly, for some reason when someone calls me a genius, I hardly take it as a compliment. I don't take it as an insult either but rather, I generally ignore it then become depressed by it as I know it's not true though I sure wish it was.

Had to cook supper tonight. Really I shouldn't say "had to" I love to cook and really don't mind it one bit. Especially when it is a big help to my mom. Instead of cooking Shrimp Scampi as had been our usual meal for Wednesday night, I cooked some Salmon fillets. I used alot of the same ingredients as in the shrimp dish as that's pretty much all I had to use aside from dry spices. I did use some curry but not much. I felt fine cooking until my ingredients burned in the pan before I got the fish in. It's really odd too. Those ingredients never burn on me when doing the Shrimp Scampi, and it was on really low heat. I restarted after scraping the burnt bits into the trash but I felt really off after this. Everything I did that I knew would be fine to do for the dish just made me felt like I was being unintelligent. Perhaps part of that feeling is from earlier when I had tried to open the oven and the freaking handle broke off... After that I felt very freaked out. I thought my mom would be mad at me for it but she wasn't. I know it wasn't "my fault" but it still happened when I opened the oven. But I guess it could have happened to any of us, it just figures these things happen to me.

Eh, perhaps tomorrow will bring a brighter day. I think I'll hook up my Wii in my room and play it a little before bed then see about falling asleep to watching a movie. I've always wanted to do that for such a long time and never have. Not really sure why. Guess it's from the few friends I have had throughout my life saying something about doing so and it sounded like fun but I've really not had the set-up to do so.

For a year or two I've had a TV in my room, but of course it was always in an inconvenient place in relation to my bed so I couldn't really watch it from my bed, and before that the only televisions were in my parents room, my sister's room, or the living room.

I think I should go now. Before something else goes wrong by my own fault.

This Is My Blog

Okay. Recently I have fought with myself on what I should include in my blog. I don't really know why I am having such strife about it. This is my blog and I really do not need to be worrying myself with what details might be uninteresting to others. I have decided I will just type what I want in here, every detail I'd like to remember for whatever reason. If others find it uninteresting, then they need not read this, if they do find it interesting, then cool. As of late I have failed in writing my long posts from before because I was too worried of these things, but not anymore.

To start things off, my day started normally. I woke up and instead of playing my Wii as soon as I got up, I relaxed and played on my computer and dug out some of my Pokemon toys that I own so I will know where they are the next time I am to visit my friend Sarah. She may be energetic and annoying because of this very often but she is still very fun to be around. I had some issues with my allergies again this morning but I took some medicine and ate breakfast and they cleared up before I was finished. Not sure if the cure is the pill working so quickly, or just eating breakfast, maybe both.

When I did play the Wii, I played Naruto first, as always. It's crazy how addicting that game is. I didn't do much at first really, I just played around on various elements of the game. I was playing on the two-man squad missions for Orochimaru and partnered him with Kabuto. Now this started just a normally as any other mission of this type, but randomly, when I used my jutsu button, they did a weird combo attack. And it wasn't the default combo attack between most characters, they actually had a special one different from anything else. It was so odd. I was so shocked I just kinda stared at the TV likely with a weird expression on my face.

It was this moment that I decided to try the same thing again, to see how it had happened. Several times after it didn't work and my characters would just use their normal jutsu attacks. It was shortly after I realized Orochimaru is the one to initiate the special attack, or so I thought. I kept trying for a long time after, even tried other character combos to no avail. When my sister got home, it took some time, but I managed to show her what I found. She later realized in order to do the combo attack, you had to press forward and the jutsu button at the same time. Then if you had a pair of characters that have a special attack together they would perform it, otherwise, they used a default attack. It wad pretty cool. After we figured out how to do it, we spent some time finding as many combos as we could.

My mom didn't feel good today so I cooked some Stroganoff for supper. Leighanna and I played Naruto until we finished eating and as soon as we were done, we went on to Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of The New World. As always, we had a lot of fun. We laugh at Tenebrae, the Centurion of Darkness a lot but there are plenty of other things we find funny as well such as character quips at the end of battle. Tonight we got annoyed because we had to have a character we dislike join our team. We've never been a fan of Regal. He annoys us to no end. Unfortunately despite this, we had to put him in our fighting team in order to beat this one battle as we failed to do it with Emil, Marta and my two monster friends. Uggh.. Light-frogs, or Nesdrovie as Tenebrae insists on it being called, are REALLY tough to beat. I'm glad that fight is over although I'm sure it won't be the last tough one we come across. No, that would be too easy.

We got done with that only about 3o min ago then I came in here to check posts and write my post. That's all I know for now. Goodnight!

Foosh

Today has been pretty good. I had to think about what I was doing while getting breakfast today. My mom switched the food into the pantry and then put the pans into the cabinet where the food was so we would have more room for food. It's pretty confusing right now but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. Kinda nice though. This year is start for a lot of new changes in my daily routine. New room automatically makes my natural paths in the house completely different and now we have a new place to store food so it's almost like being in a new house, although not quite. Although I usually dislike change, and it takes me awhile to get used to a sudden new change, I really like these changes now that I have gotten used to it and gotten past the initial shock of it all. Although this happened a few weeks prior to this post.

Again today I played the Wii.So much fun really. Though I got very irritable with the Naruto game. I was trying to get the last two characters unlocked that my sis and I worked on the day before. It was REALLY hard. You would not have wanted to be around me during that time although I mellowed out by the time my sis got home. It was likely due to her being there that I didn't let my anger get out. I didn't want to look like a fool. With no one around, it doesn't matter though. I managed to get one character unlocked before my sis got home and thought I got the other shortly after but it turned out I didn't have enough completion to unlock it. I worked on several different things trying to get it to unlock, getting both tired and frustrated in the process. I was very happy when I finally unlocked it. My sister was happy too. It was such a relief to finally have all the characters unlocked. I was pretty tired from playing all day working so hard on those characters that my sis and I only played a few team battles before switching to Tales of Symphonia.

Our play of Symphonia was average really. Nothing much to talk about it as there isn't much that can variate between different players except for how they react to different scenes which there are far too many discussions that my sister and I have over various things to even begin to start to describe here. I don't care to do that, and I'm sure no one else cares to read it either. Honestly, I doubt anyone cares to read what I'm typing now. I often find typing a blog post every night is rather pointless as I don't think I do much that many would care about. Ah well. I guess this is more of a journal than a blog although even in a journal or diary I would never put the details of such conversations. Just too long.. Actually.. I'll probably look back on this paragraph later and wonder what the heck I was thinking typing it... Uggh... Whatever..

Tonight my mom threw some things together for supper. She cooked some chicken and put it in chicken flavored rice. At first I didn't think it could be all that interesting, chicken on chicken flavored rice, but to my surprise it was really good. My mom thought the rice was al dente but I don't think it was really. Of course, I like al dente rice so I guess I just didn't notice but if it was it was on the softer side and I like both ways so I loved it all the same. My sis and I had to break from the game to watch House. I almost always forget when it's on. Even if it airs every week. The hour went by slow. Not sure if it was the suspense from the show, or waiting to get back to the game. I didn't think much of the game though during the show, I was enjoying watching too much for that. We returned to playing the game for a couple hours after that then I headed in here to work on my post then finish up on my comp.

I'll likely be heading to bed soon. Cya!

This I Getting Frustrating

Well.. Again I have little to say here.. I guess something I can say is how sad I feel that in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, that most of the recurring characters from the first ToS game have different voice actors than before. It's super frustrating. Only a few keep their original voices and while some sound similar enough that it's livable, the others are just purely mutilated. I think I may cry, it's pretty depressing. In addition, a character named Richter that I had grown to like currently seems to be a bad guy. I hate this, he's my favorite new character thus far and I really expected him to be good. But no, he's just another Kratos. Wah.

I apologize to those of you whom may know little to nothing of what I am ranting about. I kept it short for your convenience. There was no need for me to go into full-assault detail to those who may not know. And those of you who may know, well, no need to go into full details as you already know. Oh well. I'll deal. The story and gameplay is still great although the map system being so dull makes me depressed as well. I hate that I cannot free-roam between towns and fight monsters along the way. At least the towns and dungeons work the same. Anywho, I'll stop this rant here and say goodnight as there is little else to speak of from my day today that would be of much, if any interest to readers.

As I may have stated in a previous post, my allergies and sore throat are completely gone. I still have an annoying cough occasionally. The sore place on my tongue from yesterday is still bothering me. Seems I can't be left alone by one affliction without getting another. Ah well, at least this one is tolerable if I don't talk. Which is VERY hard not to talk when I'm playing ToS:DotNW. The story of the game is just too funny and my sister and I are having such fun with it. I cannot wait to get to start my file with my mom. I know we'll enjoy it together too. My mom was supposed to play Nancy Drew with me today but when she got back home from getting her mom home she was too tired to do so. I understood and I am not mad at her. I know she will play with me as soon as time permits.

Joy.. I really wish I could actually post like I used to. I guess my lack of substance in my posts is a fair sign my life is finally getting into order. Although it's sad because it's also a sign I'm not doing near enough fun things in my day. Or I'm getting too self conscious about what details I should bother myself with writing or I'm too lazy... Eh. I'm getting boring... That's the main thing I think... So sad..

Goodnight.

Too Lazy To Think Of Something To Put Here

Really haven't done much of interest today. My allergies have completely cleared up though, of course, after that happens I'm afflicted with something else. More minor than allergies but it's still annoying. I'll hope it goes away tomorrow and does not bring another thing to replace it. Played more Naurto then by evening I started Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World with my sister. It's pretty great. Classic Tales of Symphonia-ness.

My mom went to pick up my nana this morning. They wanted to spend some time together this weekend and she is spending the night. She had brought her comp over as it was doing odd things. I was supposed to fix it but luckily it ran fine upon hooking it up so I didn't have to bother with it. I'm kinda glad though.. I'm currently a bit tired of working on computers, seeing how much of a pain my sister's comp was to deal with and all.

Wow... There.. Really isn't much to put here.. I have broke my record for the shortest blog post ever. Bleh whatever. Night.

Allergies Are Bleh

Today has really rather sucked aside from playing Wii. Wii is almost always my day's highlight. I was sick half the morning with allergies and I didn't even play the Wii till my sister got home from school. Eli brought the games he is letting us borrow so we played two of the games before the Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2. The other two we got bored of quick enough and we knew it. We've played Naruto ever since. We're completely addicted.

My allergies have bothered me all day. The wet washcloth I have is providing minor relief. Earlier a package addressed to my mom came in the mail. My sister came in so excited assuming it was a CD she had ordered on the 9th. She opened it and it was actually Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. I was happy the game came in but I felt so bad for my sister. She was so disappointed. We havent even played it yet. We're too preoccupied with Naurto.

Other than that, my dad called me asking how I was feeling. I really liked this as he usually just calls for dumb things like Farmville.

Anywho, that's about it for my day. Really boring actually. I'm going back to my gaming. Night all!

One Thing To Another

Today was pretty fun. I went over to visit my friend Sarah. We did nothing but do various Pokemon things all day. First we finished a poke battle we started the other night then went to a random pokemon "role play" with the figurines. I felt a bit silly and akward at first but it was still fun. I'm just not used to getting to do these sort of things. We actually played with the figurines for 2 hours shockingly enough but we grew bored of that soon after. She had some Pokemon movie, Rise of Darkrai so we went to the living room to watch that. It was a pretty good movie actually. Sarah insisted on watching it a second time right after though we only watch 3/4ths of it because her mom came home and wanted to watch something, which was fine.

We went back to her room and just chatted randomly until she decided to call this number that she heard in a song she liked. She was surprised when someone answered. The guy said something to the effect of "Wuzzup?" I cant remember for sure now. When Sarah didn't respond he was like "Hello?.... Hello?" then she hung up. I just laughed at her. That wasn't nice I'm sure, but she found it funny too. She then decided to call me just to hear the ringtone I had set her to prior to watching the movie. This was so funny as she had it on speaker phone and knew I didn't answer but she heard my voice mail start up and I say something like:

"Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now. I'm hiding from the men in white coats. We've been playing hide and seek for weeks and they still havent found me. Hehehehe. Leave a message?"

This freaked her out because she thought somehow someone else had answered the phone. She was like "What the heck?" And I was just laughing and trying to tell her it was my voicemail in the midst of all my laughter. After that chaos settled down she called me again so she could hear it again, this time, she found it funny and called me a third time to hear it once more.

We grew bored once more around 3-ish and Sarah wanted to go to the park for awhile. Sounded good to me so I agreed. We swang for awhile and just talked about Pokemon and Digimon. We walked around to and played on a different part of the playground then she wanted to play "Pokemon Ranger". It was actually kind fun. Luckily I'm still about 8 in my mind sometimes. Hardesr part of this was deciding my partner Pokemon for the game. Once I did we had alot of fun though it would have been more fun had I not been trying to keep my sandals on the whole time we were running. Next time I go over to play, I'm wearing my t-shoes so I don't have this problem. We went back to her house, arriving there 30min till 5.

Sarah and I did little until my mom came to pick me up. I was kinda glad yet kinda sad when I had to go. I was having fun but I was getting tired. Next time I will be sure to also bring much more Pokemon things I have. Including my Pokemon drawings which Sarah really wanted to see.

A short while after getting home Leighanna and I played my Naruto game. We wanted to play 2-player survival. We didn't do horrible but not good either. I played my best character at first then I played around with different ones before returning to my best again. We didn't play long before she needed to go to bed. Besides, my allergies were bothering me anyway so it was hindering my play and it wasn't worth trying to play by myself with it.

All today I had little problem with my throat and cough though I coughed a few times. As of now, I have no throat pain or cough, unfortunately that problem has now been replaced with nasal congestion and my eyes constantly feel tired and my nose is constantly itching like with allergies which I'm sure is what it is. Uggh.. I don't wanna get up in the morning. Really, I think a nice warm bath ought to help a lot though I know I will not be able to get one tomorrow as tomorrow is group night and I will be going in with my mom early then coming home late.

Well that's all the interesting things... I think.. I'm too tired to review and add anything I missed. not that anyone will really care too much.. I don't feel good.. I need to go to bed now.

I May Be Coughing But I'm Not A Pokemon

Last night after I made my blog post for the day, the cough that had been bothering me all day got a whole lot worse and really began to hurt. It was so bad, I was willing to take one of the nasty tasting Sucrets my mom bought for my sister since her throat is in bad shape. She took the cough drop and put it in a baggy then smashed it with a meat tenderizer so I would not have to suck on a whole one, thus, getting to sleep faster. It worked really great. It numbed my mouth and throat immediately relieving my pain and cough. It even did well on my gag reflex. I thought I was going to puke trying to get that down. I took the bag of Sucrets shards with me to my room and tried to go to sleep. I was asleep pretty quickly though I woke several times during the night and had to suck on another shard to get to sleep.

This morning I felt pretty good. I didn't even need any of the cough drop shards and I felt really great. Of course that didn't last long and as soon as noon rolled around I was coughing and hacking again. At first it was just an occasional cough but it got worse and worse as the day progressed. Luckily, my throat does not feel shredded. Really, it feels great except the instant I have a cough.

I again played the Wii alot. I was trying to unlock 2-player survival on Naurto: Clash of Ninja Revolution. You have to get a 30 win streak or better on the single survival in order to open it up. I worked all day trying to get it. I even found my best character. It's not Temari after all. It's Shikamaru. After several attempts, I finally nailed a 25 win streak before dying. I was pretty frustrated as I was only 5 wins away from unlocking 2-player survival. I kept going after this, getting pretty wimpy scores for a time; anywhere from 6 to 16 and such. I eventually got a 23 win streak before I died. I was shocked when it returned to the menu and told me I unlocked 2-player survival. It didn't make any sense to me. I didn't get it with 25 wins. How did I get it with only 23? Especially since I was supposed to need 30? Whatever. I sat stunned for a little. I was slightly frustrated and I wasn't sure where to go next from that. Part of me wanted to still aim for 30 but the other part of me was like "Heck no, I got what I wanted, let's leave it at that." I did.

Instead of playing survival any further I decided to take a whack at "time attack" again. I don't remember what it's really called but it's something like that. All you do is fight through a set number of battles and the faster you get through it the better. My original best was with Temari at approximately 8 min 21 seconds. My sister after that got about 12 min with Itachi, then beat my score with Neji with a time of 8 min 8 seconds. I went in today with Shikamaru and whooped through it in 5 min 45 seconds putting me at the rank Hokage, which I previously had no idea existed as I thought "Head Ninja" was the highest possible rank. Somewhere in the midst of this I began coughing to hard it really hurt my throat but worse of all I couldn't breathe. I tried getting some Sucrets shards melted in my mouth. No effect. I tried lifting my arms over my head. No effect. I really began to panic. I hated to worry my mom but I had to text her and let her know what was going on. She didn't seem worried however. She just suggested I drink a Mountain Dew to open up airways and such. By the time I got the text saying that, I was better for the most part though I did drink it. It tasted really good and I think it helped some.

After that I got a bit bored and went to playing Bleach some more. I had played it earlier somewhere in between playing Naruto. Before I played through Hanataro's episode. THAT was hard... Not only was he weak, but most of his attacks involved his sword which heals the enemy. I beat through this by managing to get my opponents HP slightly below mine then running away from them till time ran out. I felt like such a chicken but at least it ot the job done. Bleh, I hated that. I had a much easier time playing through Byakuya's episode as he is far more powerful.

Compared to Naruto, the battles on Bleach are rather.. Boring. I do have a hard time winning most of the time but even when it's hard it's boring. There's such a lag between being able to execute moves, it's kinda slow paced as opposed to Naruto which is so vicious and far more involving, thus more fun for me since I whoop butt at that game.

Around 3, before I managed to get that 2-player survival unlocked, Sid, a friend of my mom's, came over with another guy to help us with out sink problem. It wouldn't drain. It took them about 45 minutes just to get 85 feet of snake into the drain from outside. When they pulled it back out there was an unbelievable amount of sludge, hair, and other debris on the end. It took another hour to get the rest of the sludge the snake didn't get out. I'm so glad that their efforts did alleviate the problem. Sid even put in a new light fixture above the sink since the last one we had was still lying on the counter and without a switch. Instead of trying to fix that one, he found it easier to just install a "new" one he had in the back of his vehicle. I'm so glad he did that for us, it was getting so tiresome to wash dished in the bathroom. He didn't have to do that for us but he did anyway. We still have a bit of a problem to fix but at least our sink drains properly even with a cap on the cleaning thing on the outside of the house.

Since then I've been playing a little bit of Bleach. The Byakuya episode as mentioned earlier. I wanted to play a bit of Naruto but I thought it better to go to my room and start this post before it hits too late at night. I gotta get up early in the morning. I'm going over to my mom's friend's house for the day. Sarah really seemed to like my company and I enjoyed talking to her. Sarah's mom really seemed to be happy I might go over as well. It's so odd how so many people seem to just love me recently. It's kinda a new concept with people outside my family since I was pretty much despised for unknown reasons in school. Oh well. I'm not complaining. I like being loved.

Well, I'm tired. Post done. I'm going to bed. Cya!

Slow Day

For the majority, today has sucked. Mostly because I have a sore throat and a cough that keeps making my throat more and more sore. I really wish I knew what to do to make it better.. I just don't feel good. I've tried cough drops and I've tried gargling warm salt water. Neither worked. Well the first works for 30 min but the latter worked for about 5 seconds.

This is partially to blame for my day being slow. The other part is because I thought after lunch I would be helping my mom's friend with unpacking since she has recently moved. Well that ended up not happening till after my mom got off work. I was so restless most of the day. I couldn't find anything to do on my computer and my throat was just killing me. I couldn't even nap under the desk like I often do. I had finally gotten into a game on Candystand.com around 3 and went till 5 but the whole day before that I kept wanting to play my Wii. Although honestly, I don't know if I will play it tomorrow even though I will have the ability to do so because I just don't feel good enough for it. My mom also ordered Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for me. I gave her the money and she ordered it. Although to make things easier I just gave her three dollars instead of the full 28 because she was going t0 eventually give me 25 for the Nancy Drew game I bought so this way, instead of giving her 28 then she giving me 25 back later, me giving her 3 dollars just meant she doesn't have to pay me the 25 later.

When we got to my mom's friend's house to help unpack, I helped out a good bit at first but I ended up completely distracted by talking to Sarah. She was a lot of fun. She made me feel good to cause she said I was awesome. We talked about Pokemon a lot then played Pokemon battle with her figurines. That was alot of fun even though it ended soon after it started when my mom came in to say we were leaving. I felt so much like a little kid at that moment. Being told we were leaving and feeling disappointed cause I was in the middle of something.

We got pizza on the way home and ate that. It was so good and luckily didn't hurt my throat. I didn't get to play Wii with my sis today but it's okay. I can wait till Tuesday since she wont be here most of tomorrow. I did play a little of my Bleach game before I turned it off. I'm just too tired and I don't feel good to be playing that. I hope I feel better for it in the morning. If not, whatever.

Well that's all I feel like posting. I apologize if anything here ends up incoherent, jumbled, or missing altogether, although if things are missing, few of you would know. I do love you readers, I'm just not in a good mood right now and am looking forward to going to bed. Night.

Another Ninja Day with A Side of Soul Reaper

Just wanted to make a post and keep anyone reading this updated. Today I got up feeling pretty sore but this didn't stop me from playing my Wii again. It's far too addicting to choose not to play when I have the opportunity to. Since my sister was at school, obviously, I decided to take the opportunity to enjoy my Bleach game. The day before I was really "sucking it up" and losing horribly no matter how hard I tried. Of course I was feeling a bit awkward because even though Leighanna told me we could switch to that game and play it, she didn't want to play till I figured it out and she didn't like it from what she saw based on my horrible experience and her not playing made me feel like I was hogging the game and I wanted her to get to play on the Wii too. Since today I didn't have to worry about that I played on training mode and worked on figuring out everything individually without being attacked. That went well and I went on to battles. I still sucked. I eventually found a difficulty setting and changed it from Normal to Easy. Sure, call me a wimp, but at least now I can do something and actually get used to the game mechanics before eventually bumping it back up. About 11:00ish I turned off the game and took a bath so the hot water could soak my sore muscles. It worked really well to relieve the pain. I was so glad because it allowed me to go right back to playing.

Around 3:40 I retrieved my second controller, expecting to play Naruto with my sister when she got home from school. I hadn't expected her to be a little late. My other sister, Lindsay had picked her up from school because she had some kind of practice for band I believe. I was in the middle of playing Bleach when the arrived so instead of finishing the game off, I just paused and talked to her and her boyfriend, Eli. I didn't really want to look like I was ignoring people by playing on the game, plus it game me time to let my muscles recover a bit from playing. About 20 minutes later my dad arrived to help haul out Lindsay's bed and they gathered some other things belonging to her. We had recently been having some strife over whether Lindsay would get to have our Gamecube since I bought a Wii. We really didn't want to give it to her since it did belong to me and Leighanna as well. We had some arguments about it that I really prefer not to get into as it's a bit confusing anyway. In all if it, it turns out Eli bought Lindsay a Gamecube of her own so we get to keep ours. Of course this means she yet again gets everything she wants, but at least we no longer have to fight over something so trivial.

The whole time they were here they were all pleasant and despite my irritability and uneasiness of them being there, I remained pleasant as though I had no problem with them. The last thing I wanna do is start an unnecessary fight. We have enough of that recently as it is. They did not stay long and I was able to go back to my game. Leighanna seemed fine with watching me play Bleach for awhile. I was glad of this as I was having fun now that I figured out how to play it fairly well. She asked me a few times to play some certain characters and also asked me questions about the show as she has never watched it. I like it when she asks me questions about things I am interested in. It makes me feel good. I do hope someday she may actually watch Bleach with me. I think she would really like it if she gave it a chance although I would never force it on her or try to beg her if she doesn't want to. Although I might keep talking to her about it until it hopefully sounds interesting enough to her that she might do so. Her having not watched it is why she doesn't want to play. She knows nothing about it and therefore it isn't as much fun for her because she does not understand it like I do. I understand what she means by that though. I know I'd have felt the same playing the Naruto game if I had never watched the show with her months before.

I didn't play Bleach for too long, I didn't want to keep Leighanna waiting to play for long, plus, I wanted to play Naruto with her anyway. It's so much more fun when we play it together than it is playing alone. We've practically unlocked everything already, at least everything I know of aside from 2-player survival mode which I learned about tonight. I will try to unlock this either Wednesday or Thursday. I have to get through 1-player survival with at least 30 wins in order to do so and my best is 18 so I have a challenge ahead of me. My likely bets are to either use Temari or Orochimaru to accomplish this as they are my best characters.

The more I play this game I have found I am able to play for longer amounts of time before needing a break. At first I needed a break after almost every single player mode I did where Leighanna and I switched off so we could rest. I could also sometimes survive two multiplayer challenges before letting her do a single match. Now I just have dull pain in my shoulders. I'm sure I will soon be able to play this game any time and for any length of time without it phasing me or phasing me only a very little bit. It hurts, but the Wii is so much fun to play and I often play through the pain. Which may or may not be such a good thing.

Tonight Leighanna and I mostly worked on playing characters we hadn't played before and working to get better at them. I tried playing some of her favorites while she in turn played some of my favorites. I think we discovered we are not good at each other's characters aside from a few that we were both good at. I did still tire some tonight so I let my sister play a single match. I almost let her play two. I would have but she had an idea of something she wanted to do which I do not recall what it might have been at the moment. It coulda been another multiplayer match. Probably the one where we switched characters and she played my character, Orochimaru, and I played hers, Gaara. I was fairly good at playing Gaara and I think she rocked playing Orochimaru. Though she voiced she still liked playing her characters better. Suits me fine, I like playing Orochimaru.

I'm kinda sad really. Because tomorrow I won't get to play my Wii for a good majority of the day. At least I should get to play it in the evening. If not, I will at least get to play on Wednesday although all day I will have to play alone as Leighanna and my mom will not be home till late as usual. It might be a good day to play alot of Bleach or try that single player survival mode to unlock the two-player survival. Either way I'm sure I'll have fun. I know it won't be as much fun as if Leighanna was there but I'll have to just deal. I also hope that someday soon I get to play the Wii with my mom. I don't think she has gotten to play it since I bought it. This makes me sad I sure hope she is not angry with me. I know she likely feels left out and we have a Nancy Dree game to play on it. I'm certainly not trying to exclude her. I love playing games with her but she doesn't always have the time. Though she is down alot. I think if she could find time to set aside for playing a game it could lift her mood a bit. I know my mood has been better since I've become more active by playing the Wii. Although I understand being in such a poor mood as to not be very interested in playing games. I really hope my mom begins to feel better soon.

Well I think that's all I know today. Goodnight everyone.

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution FTW

Okay so as I likely said yesterday, this game I had originally only bought because I knew my sister would enjoy it. Well I knew I would too since I also like Naruto but I NEVER expected it to be as awesome and addicting as it is. I even tried playing Bleach: Shattered Blade mid-day but it seemed much harder as I could not jump or do half the combos I can on Naruto. After 16 min I was back on Naruto again. All day I was playing this with my sister. I actually cannot even begin to remember half the things that happened today in sequence of them happening. I know around 4 ish a friend of my mom's came over to the house to check on our sink which does not drain properly.. properly, as in hardly at all. My sister became frustrated with the game rather often but despite that we both kept playing. Even after the point my right heel was killing me even if I wasn't standing and I kept fighting, standing up. I find it so hard to play a Wii without standing. I feel restricted trying to do that though I did manage it a few times when I was too tired to stand.

Although we played for 11 hours and 44 minutes minus the 16 minutes spent on Bleach, I only feel slightly sore. Of course neither of us played constantly. We often switched off on playing single mode so the other could have about 10 minutes of rest time before going again. I'm sure that helped keep us from keeling over in the end. Needless to say, I'm very addicted to this game. Tomorrow, since my mom will be at work and my sister at school, I will try playing Bleach some more and see if I can get the hang of it. I do not think it will ever be as fun as Naruto. When I bought it I had said I would buy that one Naruto game and no more but I think I'm going to go back on that and buy the other two for the Wii eventually.

I had hoped my sister would play the Bleach game with me. She said she would but it's okay that she didn't. We started it up and I tried fighting but neither of us liked how to fight so she decided she didn't care to play. It doesn't hurt my feelings though, I initially figured I would be playing that one alone anyway. That's why I bought Nancy Drew: White Wolf of Icicle Creek to play with my mom and Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution for me to play with Leighanna. I just hope I can figure out how to fight well enough that it will be fun an I can enjoy it. Surely I will but I will admit I'm slightly worried. I know the Nancy Drew game will also be fun, though I worry about how much the Wii motion will be interactive with the game. I do hope it will not be mere click and point. That'd be kinda lame but even so my mom and I always have such fun with Nancy Drew games so it shouldn't matter. X3

Okay okay, so I dedicated this post to my Wii games. Well. It's all I did today... Seriously. Lame I know.. Hush. X3

Night all!

(Shortest post yet! Wah!)

Would Like To Sleep Till Monday

Today was sooo much fun. I got up pretty early this morning and my sister and mom were already up and soon after my sister wanted to play Wii. My mom seemed interested in doing other things at that time so my sister and I played Wii Sports for awhile before I had to leave at 12:30 to help my mom clean an office. My mom told me that while we were out we would get this Nancy Drew game for the Wii and that she would reimburse me for it since she really wants that game. I agreed because I know we will have fun with it. Before heading for the office we swung by Hastings to pick up the game. On the way there though I had decided I would pick up this one Naruto game for me and my sister, Leighanna to play since she really loves Naruto and I hated not getting a game she would like since I was getting one my mom would like. The office cleaning took over 2 hours even with me doing the vacuuming. I can't imagine how long it would have taken my mom had she had to do it alone so I was glad I was there to help. Afterward we headed to the grocery store to pick up some things then we headed home.

I could't wait to get home and show my sis the game I bought. I knew she would be really excited, especially considering how disappointed she was when I had not bought Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I didn't get the first as it was not in the stores and I didn't get the second because it was 50 dollars. I helped my mom put away groceries when we got home then waited till she was ready for me to show my sis the game.she was just about to stop playing when we came in too, but as soon as I showed it to her she got excited and wanted to play. I had agreed I would play awhile then play Nancy Drew with my mom, unfortunately my sister and I got too into Naruto and forgot. I still feel bad for it even though my mom insists she was too tired to play anyway. I've decided while my mom is at church, Leighanna and I will play Naruto then I will play Nancy Drew with my mom If she feels up to it. I just hope she is not angry or disappointed with me for not having played with her today.

We had been playing in my mom's room but she was tired and wanted to sleep so she helped us by setting up the living room then Leighanna helped me to plug the system in. We played a few more hours after that. I'm thinking I shouldn't have because I feel so tired and my shoulders are killing me right now. This game ended up far more fun than I had expected. It's really addicting even in the midst of feeling pain. I just pray that the pain won't be too much tomorrow though I'm certain my shoulders will be killer.

Sorry for this being so cut and dry. I didn't feel like going into more detail, I'm way wiped right now. I know I overdid it with Naruto on the Wii. I am going to be so dead tomorrow. Anywho, that's all I can think of to post. Good night everyone.

Horray for Wii!

Today was a very good day. Okay at first I wasn't very happy getting up but I did anyway knowing today my mom and I would at least try to go get my Wii. All was that of a typical Friday except the fact the day drug on so slowly. It seemed to take forever just to get to lunch time when we would go to the bank to pull my money out then go eat. Of course, I think the rainy, overcast day might have had a little to do with the day dragging on forever. When we got there around 8 AM it felt as though it was 6 PM. We ate at Burger King at lunch, sharing one of the "burger shots" 6 pack thing having 3 burgers each. We were surprised at just how good it tasted despite being fast food and what we ate filled us up well too so we ate pretty inexpensively.

We returned to the office and I played Phantom Hourglass till about 3 ish when I got my vacuuming done. I played on my comp a short while after just before we set out to get my Wii. When the time finally came to leave. I was feeling pretty excited at this point. It really felt like it would happen this time. My mom and I had some confusion on whether to go to Walmart or Hastings. I wanted to go to Hastings but it didn't matter enough to me to insist on going there over Walmart. In my mind, as long as I got my Wii, I was happy. After all I was the one paying for it. We had a few other things to get besides my gaming stuff but once we got that we headed for the games only to find they had no Wii consoles left and hardly anything of a Wii game choice.

This didn't stop us. We decided to check out Hastings next to see if we could have better luck. We got there and looked around. Again we didn't see any consoles. Though this time, before we left, we asked a clerk if they had any. They said yes, that they kept them in the back. We asked them to check on that for us. They did. When they came back they told us they had no new systems but they had used ones. Of course, my first thought is "what is the difference in price?" whereas my mom was leary about the whole used console thing. Well to get it used it was 169.99 as opposed to the new price of 199.99. I liked the first price better and having dealt at Hastings a bit, I knew they had a respectable quality check on all used items, seeing as if a CD you're trying to sell has even one slight scratch, they won't take it. So I was actually not bothered one bit by the thought of a used Wii especially if it meant saving approximately 30 dollars. It did help my mom to know there was a 90 day guarantee on the machine too. So if anything happens within that time, they will replace it.

We also looked at games and controllers. Well I decided against buying two extra controllers. The Nintendo brand controller was 40 dollars while an off-brand, Nyko, had them for 30. Well I have a Nyko memory card for Game Cube and it has had no problems so I think this controller will be fine. Of course, I looked at the prices of these plus the SD card to go with it, the nun-chuck was 20 and the card also 20. We decided to hold off on those and go to Target to scope their prices. Glad we did for their SD cards, which also looked alot less crappy than the ones at Hastings, were 5 dollars less. The nun-chuck was the same price so I bought those two things plus Bleach: Shattered Blade, which I was excited to see since it was the first game on my list I had seen all night. Lucky for me, it was only 20 dollars unlike most Wii games. Target was sold-out of the controllers so once we paid for these new items we trudged back over to Hastings to pick up the controller. Luckily the two stores are a stone throw away from each other so it wasn't a waste of gas, just a slight waste of time.

As we were pulling into the parking lot however, some stupid person decided to pull out right in front of us while we tried to turn in. Luckily no one was hurt and there was no collision. Thank the Lord for watching over us there, if he hadn't been, no telling what could have happened. At first I was just going to go in alone seeing as I was getting one item. I ran in but shortly after I was startled to see my mom pop up from around the corner. She had apparently texted me saying she was coming in but I didn't get it as my phone was on silent. We got the remote and headed for the check-out counter where some random lady came up behind us saying she had just been in line and had to go back to get a larger size of a shirt because she feared the other size she had wouldn't stretch enough because she is pregnant. She oddly enough found it important to let us know she was. Why I'm not really sure. My mom was actually ruffled by this whole thing. Me? I actually didn't mind her cutting in front. I only had one item and was in no hurry. Guess I was just in a nice mood. Of course, I am usually patient and therefore people take advantage of me often.. Kinda like that lady.. But it was still my mom more ticked about it then I even came close to being. Of course don't get my mom wrong, she wasn't feeling good anyway. I hope she feels better.

We finally checked-out by this very high-energy girl. She was fun. I liked her personality. She helped us out and asked us about getting a Hastings card. Well it was free so I said "why not?" then after looking up my driver's license she said I had already gotten one. I had no knowledge of this. I asked about a replacement card and was able to get one for free. This made me happy cause I felt left out. My mom got one too but she was a first timer, not getting a replacement like me. I didn't even know I had one in the first place. As I left I was full of excitement and anticipation, although I knew it would still be another few hours before I could play. We still had group to go to.

Group was nice. We arrived early but it was all good. At least we didn't have to stand out in the rain to wait for others to come. We were in the building almost immediately after arriving. We started out with a lesson about Godliness then we went on about discussing it. We went into some other discussions about our lives hen randomly ended up in random chatter by the end. That part was the most fun for me. Don't get me wrong, I love God, I just really enjoyed getting to chatter away to Jeannette(sp?) and she didn't seem to mind at all. I got to talking about all sorts of things that I like, such as role playing and talking about my fan-character, Syrus Allen and her story. I also somehow got into showing off some of my best drawings. She and her daughters seemed incredibly impressed. It made me feel so good. Unfortunately I got a little too involved so my mom had to call it to an end so that we did not stay too late and end up worrying my little sister, whom, as it turned out, was already in bed by the time we left.

I was glad to get home, I was getting tired but I couldn't rest yet. It was finally time for me to check out my new Wii and play around with it. I definitely wanted to check and make sure it operated properly. Everything went just fine. I found not a single error in all of my testing plus getting the software updated, which took forever. I was tempted to play the Bleach game but it was too hard to get out of it's package so I just popped in the Wii Sports that came with it. The clerk earlier was so nice, he actually checked and made sure it was in there before selling it to us. Although I still checked as soon as I got it in the car afterward as my mom asked me to. Everything played so well. I made myself a little Mii and made it look as closely to my image as possible then played some bowling. I hate bowling but oddly enough I enjoy Wii bowling.. Alot. I guess it's cause it's so easy to get a strike.

It didn't take long before I was too tired to continue. But I have all day tomorrow to play with it and get accustomed to it. It's already alot of fun and I can also play my game cube games on it by plugging in game cube controllers! Gah! I can't wait to try everything out! But until then I must sleep. I just hope the little bit I played doesn't make me sore so it is too painful to play. My shoulders feel tired right now and I'm not sure if it's from playing the Wii for even that short time or from typing all this out about how my day went.

Of course, you guys are lucky. This is just the short version. ;P

Average Days Are Average

Title says it all. Pretty average day today. I didn't even do anything even remotely worth mentioning. I didn't even work on my room today. I was purely a lazy bum. I played Facebook games ALL DAY. I guess I deserved to have one day to just relax and have fun though I kept wanting to work on my room but I'm not sure where to go on from this point. It's nearly clean, you'd think it'd be easy to finish. Somehow, not so much. There was a lot of drama on Treasure Madness today about some new updates, I was in on a lot of it as I am angry too. I think the TM developers plan to fix the things players are mad about. I hope so.

I ate pizza for supper and my mom actually played Spirit Tracks with me. It wasn't for too long, about an hour or two, but at least I got to play and without her falling asleep on me. I'm very much looking forward to tomorrow for, if God willing, I will get to go get my Wii tomorrow. My sister told me her friend Chris said that Hastings is having some sales so I think we will be going there to look instead of my original plan of Walmart. Works for me though, the less expensive I can get my Wii and everything to go with it the better.

Well that's all I have today. Hopefully tomorrow will yield a much healthier post. Gonna play some more Facebook then I'm heading to bed. Cya!

A Simple Post

Today I got a lot of progress done on my room. When I first started working on it today it ended up looking incredibly worse than before but it couldn't have been helped.I had to move things around so I could start getting things into my closet then get that organized. I did so and now I have very little to work on. About midday I ended up taking an unexpected nap but it felt nice.

Tonight I cooked Shrimp Scampi again and it turned out much better than last time. Although the whole day I kept telling myself to start it at 20 till 8 since my mom would be home at 8:30ish. Well for some dumb reason I started to get it started at 20 till 7. I felt so dumb. Luckily I was only boiling water at this point. I tried again at 20 till 8 and found I should have just started it at 8 as I ended up having to cook things on a lower temp just to prolong cooking time so it wouldn't be done too long before my mom got home. Fortunately this is not make any of the dish suffer as sometimes shrimp can if cooked too long. I ended up done with it and serving it into bowls about 5 min before my mom pulled in. I didn't know how long she'd be though so I started eating my share and put my mom's share in the microwave to keep it warm for her.

Aside from that, I don't think I know much. I'm just waiting for my boyfriend to call me now. I tried calling him and got no response. He might already be asleep, if so I guess I'll be waiting till tomorrow to talk to him. Anywho, I'll be here tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be more interesting then. Eh, we all know I won't be.

Insert Witty Title Here

Woke up today rather early. Again. Oddly enough recently I have been going to bed anywhere between 12:00 AM and 2:00 AM yet I still end up waking between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM. Not sure how that works. Today I was pretty much a lazy bum. I sat on my computer and played on Facebook for a good portion of the morning, till about 1o-ish when I decided to go through all that paper crap I mentioned last night. I soon had to stop to get something to eat. I ate a bowl of cereal but was still hungry as there was not much left in the bag to begin with so I went to get me some Great Value cherry poptarts. the poptarts were taking awhile to toast so I decided to take this opportunity to use the bathroom. I got distracted when I left and headed back for my room where I began checking over my plants. I noticed my lemon seedlings and my ghost plant needed water so I took them to the bathroom and gave them a thorough watering then placed them back on the table in my room.

I reentered the kitchen a little later and noticed my cat Izzy somehow managed to get into our food cabinet despite the new latches. This means either someone did not close the doors well enough or the latches were just not strong enough to keep him out. Luckily not much food was lost. Only about 3 mini bags of chips. I still punished him and threw him outside to hopefully discourage. This is when I noticed the weather was very pleasurable.

I wanted to take advantage of this and work on my metal stand I had primed a day or two ago. I ran back to my room to retrieve it then took it outside and placed it on an old, unused, plastic refrigerator drawer turned upside down in the middle of the yard. I took the gold aerosol paint and began coating it. Everything went well till it was nearly covered. I noticed some "drips" on the sides and carefully tried to wipe them up with a blue cloth-like paper towel to smooth them out. This actually worked on all but one in which I noticed it just seemed to make things worse. The spot I touched looked wrinkled as though I had crinkled some paper. Unfortunately what had happened was the aerosol paint had sodden the layer of primer just below. I tried to cover it thick with some more gold paint but it wouldn't work. I eventually had to take a steel wool and strip off whatever would come off. Not much came off but it allowed me to strip off and smooth the area that was ruining. Of course during doing this several other places in near proximity to the original flaw had to be dealt with as well. I carefully did so then looked around for some more primer. I found none. Instead I found a bottle of white lacquer. I decided that it had to do. I took it over to my stand and began spraying it on, hoping not to cover too much of the other areas so I would not have to re-paint the whole thing, especially since I didn't have enough paint left to do that. I hated the smell of the lacquer, it smelled too much like nail polish. I let it dry for awhile. I tried to keep myself busy while I gave it enough time to do so.

This is when I returned inside and felt hungry again. I began looking for something to eat when I looked over at the toaster and saw one cherry poptart in it. Just one. At first I thought. "Oooh! I forgot my poptarts!" Then I thought. "Wait.. What happened to the other one?" I have no idea where it went, but one of my poptarts was missing. I'm assuming a cat had to have stolen off with it but I have no evidence of it except no one else but me was in the house and that our dogs cannot get that far to get that out of a toaster. Weird thing is, I found no signs of the missing poptart. No crumbs, pieces, or an animal munching down on it. It was just... Gone. The other was completely untouched. I re-nuked it in the toaster and ate it with a glass of milk on the side, not wanting that one to disappear as well.

For awhile I wandered around, trying to give the lacquer more time to dry. Meanwhile I kept staring out the window at it mostly to make sure the cats were leaving it alone as I saw one of our cats, Pineapple, sniffing at it earlier. I returned to it shortly after and gave it a few quick, light touches to see if it was dry. It was dry enough and I was tired of waiting any longer so I resumed putting on the gold. The lacquer seemed to do a good job of covering the areas of stripped off primer and therefore allowed the gold to go on no problem. It looks like I never had the problem to begin with. This makes me happy. I kept doing a few touch ups as I finished it then I carted it to the porch so that it was not sitting out in the front yard unattended while it dried. I think it looks so pretty for an amateur job. Least it's better than the gold-ish metal from before accompanied by large splotches of rust.

I remembered my papers still needed to be sorted through so I did that. I can not remember how long I worked at that but it was a good while. I actually found leftover english class work in a folder from over 3 years ago when I graduated. I seriously thought I had thrown all that old struff away long ago. I guess not. Between today and the day before, I ended up with 1 and 3/4 of a bag of paper to throw out. And I'm almost certain there is more I could get rid of somewhere. I did eventually finish that and it took a lot less time than I expected. I did little more for my room today. I felt like being lazy and I didn't want to kill myself just to make significant progress.

My mom texted me about 5 and told me she would be late coming home. My sister has a sore throat, something to do with her tonsils and needed some medicine so my mom was going to pick that up but it wasn't going to be ready for another hour. It was rather nice that we were able to just get her a refill of a prescription for a similar thing she had awhile back so she did not have to go see a doctor just to get the meds she needed since it was within a year of her getting he original prescription.

I had a hard time waiting for my mom to get home. We were planning to cook some tilapia fillets for supper and found a really good looking recipe to go with it that we just so happened to have all the ingredients to so we didn't need to make a run to the store. My mom helped me to prepare it. She rinsed the fish and greased the pan while I was chopping the garilc, measuring the lemon juice and melting some butter. It was a really quick and easy recipe. the hardest part was waiting for it to be done. The smells were tantalizing. and it turned out really amazing. My mom and I enjoyed it thoroughly. My sister didn't get any because she doesn't like fish. We cooked her some popcorn chicken and steak-cut french fries although the fries she claimed to hurt her tonsils. I feel bad for her. I sure hope she gets better soon. She seemed so uncomfortable.

Clean up was a pain but only because we still have to wash dishes in our bathroom sink. Our sink in the kitchen is massively messed up due to unknown reasons. I hope it gets fixed soon. It's getting really annoying. I've been relaxing in my room a bit since then. My sister's cat, Phoenix paid a visit to my window again tonight. I don't understand why he howls at my window. I never let him in through there and I never will. I keep worrying about it when he gets up there because my window is broken and I fear he will force his way in if I don't let him in. So recently I usually let him in via the back door. Then I got an idea. I figured even though it's not very strong, that some tape would at least help reinforce it so that it was unlikely he could push the pieces inward and get in my room. I think it's strong enough to keep him out. It's at least strong enough to discourage him from trying I think.

After that I didn't do much. I called my boyfriend, Tyler and talked to him about 7. I usually call him at 10 but he told me he wanted to start chatting earlier in the day. Well the whole time since then he has been acting very sleepy and hardly speaks. I told him I won't call that early again. Don't know why he does better LATER at night but I dunno. I made fun of him for it awhile. I called him a lazy bum repeatedly. He just laughed. Sorta. Most of the time he was too out of it to notice. And the worst thing is, he won't let me get off the phone with him to let him rest. So stubborn. I've chatted with my mom a bit tonight, ate a peice of cheesecake, then came into my room and here I am now. Writing this.

One I do not understand is why people are SO FRICKING DISRESPECTFUL. Right now there are some idiots off on some road behind our house revving engines and I'm guessing, driving up and down the street like maniacs. I'm sure I'm not the only one pissed off about this. Can't they do this when people are NOT trying to sleep? Seriously. If they have to do it at night, they need to take it off somewhere where there are no people around. This has been going on for about 10min before starting this post and they are STILL doing it. I just hope they stop before I decide to go to bed, else I will be some sort of pissed off. On that note, I do beleive they have stopped now. Thank goodness.

Hmm that's about it. I wonder what you guys think of me giving you such a long dissertation of what I do every day. I'm not sure how normal people write their blog posts. Eh it's my blog I'll do what I want. If you guys don't like it.. Well.. I guess you'll stop reading... =s

Night!

Slowly Getting There

Today I worked long and hard trying to get my room cleaned up. No, I'm not messy, it just is still in a lot of chaos since moving into my new room. It's looking immensely better today although it is far from clean. I found out I have far more paper "documents" than I thought. And by "documents" I mean anything on a sheet of paper; from drawings to notebooks, blank paper, and even the occasional graded homework from years ago. Worst part of this is the fact I cannot just slap these papers anywhere. Okay so PHYSICALLY I can, but as far as functionality, no. I have to sort through AT LEAST 50 pounds of paper and decide which things are old and no longer have purpose, things I want to keep but do not need to access almost ever, things I wish to keep in an easy spot to access in case I want them and things I want to access frequently. And this does not include the older drawings that I will then be placing into a box with all the others to keep them "archived". Another bad thing... Currently, all those "documents" are piled two feet high on my bed. That means in order to go to bed, I gotta do one of two things:

Sort through it all and put it where it belongs.

Or,

Throw it all in the floor and go to sleep, leaving it for tomorrow.

Honestly, I don't know which I will choose. I will likely try the first until I get too tired then do the second. That way, I end up being a smart person in that I can do both my options.

Al day I expected my dad and sister to come by to pick up their stuff. Well the never showed up. I'm getting pretty irritated with this. Not that I am so rude and just want their stuff out of the way, honestly, their stuff isn't bothering me. What is bothering me is that they say they will come and do something such as getting their things, then when they decide they will not do so they make no attempt whatsoever to let any of us know they are not going to come. I think they owe us that much. If they're not going to come, then no big deal, They just need to be considerate and let us know. It's hard to do anything when you're expecting people to come over.It's so irritating when you don't make plans to do something because you think they are coming, then when they don't come, you realize you could have done what you wanted but didn't know it as the other people didn't tell you they weren't coming. I'm sorry. I may sound really petty saying that but it really ticks me off.

After all that I didn't do much. I didn't even play Phantom Hourglass today I just played on my computer and Facebook very sparsely. Lately on Farmville, I have been able to get more than one chicken coop and I am up to three of them due to a mysterious duplicating coop. I didn't do anything to make it do this, it's just happening. Though I do not think I will complain.

Come evening we cooked some Stroganoff for supper. I swear, that is probably one of my favorite foods if it is not my favorite. It never fails to sound or taste good. Although, I don't know if I am imagining it, but when my mom makes it, she puts in the powder for the sauce BEFORE putting in the liquids needed for the dish then stirs it all together and it always tastes a little off, although still good, while when I put it in AFTER I put in the liquid ingredients it comes out much more flavorful. Of course my mom likes it better, or seems to, when she puts the powder in before, but for some reason I seem to think it's better putting it in after.

It seems putting it in before makes the meat take on that flavor and absorb the powder and leaves less for the sauce therefore leaving a blander sauce than if you put it in after which makes it so the liquid all gets the flavor and it doesn't go into the meat as much. I could be crazy, well actually, I am crazy, but that's beside the point. It could make no difference, I just think it does and that's just my crazy reasoning behind it. I know my mom is probably gonna give me a weird look tomorrow when she sees that I wrote two paragraphs in my blog just about my thoughts on Stroganoff. It just takes a special kind of crazy to do that.

We watched House tonight as it was new. I do not fully know why I am so fascinated with that show but I am. I guess I just like to find out what's wrong with the patients. I do dislike episodes, like tonight, where the patient is diagnosed with something incurable and therefore they die. I understand that that is life and this sort of thing does happen in real life but it still makes me sad and I still don't like those eps. I enjoy the ones where they think they're gonna die then House has an epiphany and saves them. I find that cool. Although this episode was sad cause the guy died, i found it kinda cool in an odd, sick kind of way that the patient kept passing out when he heard a loud sound like a gunshot or House whacking his cane against a metal cabinet. My sister Leighanna thought that it was cool too. Not cool that he was sick and died, but very interesting that he passed out by loud sounds due to his disease. It was such a good episode though and I am saddened to know there will not be another new episode for two weeks. We already had to wait two weeks for the one that was on tonight. It's just not fair. The suspense. It kills me.

I feel like I have a sense of accomplishment recently. Instead of wasting all my time on my computer, I am actually doing things every day such as working on my room or cleaning something. It has made me a lot less depressed as of late, likely due to having something productive to do, plus I have been eating better and healthier. Now when I have time to sit at my computer and play and relax, I can feel good about it as though it is a reward for all the hard work I am doing instead of just being lazy when I am on it. Of course this means I have far less time to play on it but at least I don't feel guilty about doing so and can purely enjoy it, as I am now to be honest. Today I am quite enjoying typing all this even though, admittedly, I was not looking forward to this tonight.

I know for a post or two at the least I have made it seem like my blog is a chore. Sometimes it feels that way but not because I do not want to talk to my readers. I love you guys. Even though I'm pretty sure the only two people reading this is my awesome mom and my boyfriend, Tyler, who is not so awesome. I'm joking, he's awesome too. Although if there are more of you then yay! That means I'm not as boring as I thought! ^.^''

Anywho, I gotta get going. I still have those papers all over my bed and I really gotta get them off before I'm too tired to do so and am forced to sleep on my floor.

Nothing Much to Say

I think today has been the most boring of all days since I have started this blog. I did very little aside from playing Phantom Hourglass almost constantly. It was too cold and windy out today for me to even try to finish the metal stand mentioned yesterday. I did get a kick out of seeing the large bottle of lemon juice my mom bought at the store. It's about the size of a bottle of Coca-Cola. We had a pizza for supper and I had a piece of cheesecake for dessert. Straight after we watched the movie "The Passion of the Christ". Very powerful movie and very graphic. As my mom said, I feel as Christians we owe it to Jesus to watch that movie. He suffered through all that crap just for us so it's the least we can do to suffer through two and a half hours of watching him suffer. I am not ashamed to say that I indeed cried during that movie. I can not see any way that anyone could not do so. I've got a pain in my ear like you wouldn't believe. Feels like a pimple coming up right on the outside of my ear canal. Aside from that, I'm not looking forward to tomorrow. My dad and sis will likely be over to pick up more of their stuff and they always choose to do this on days and times my mom is not around and I am positive this is why they decided not to come by on Saturday. Hopefully things will be fine as my mom has reassured me it will be.

Well I think that is about it for today. I think I'm going to go on now. Bye!

Having an Operation is Delicious?

Today was a pretty good day, especially in comparison to recent days. I woke at about 7:30 AM to my sister's cat again howling at my window. Instead of just bearing it, I decided to let him in through the back door so I could go back to sleep. I had to explain this to my mom as she was already up. I woke again around 10:30 AM and was up for good this time. Shortly after waking though I realized that my mom said we would get my Wii today though I remembered the bank closes at 12 on Saturdays. Well the van still wasn't working today so we couldn't go do that anyway and after telling my mom this she mentioned the bank closing would not be a problem as she could just charge it too her credit card then I could just pay her back.

My dad and sister Lindsay were supposed to come over today to pick up some more of her things as well as jump off the van so it would start. Turns out they were flaky once more and decided that Lindsay had plans to have friends over and that he would cook burgers for them. They didn't even bother to call and say they weren't coming. Instead, they plan to come on Monday and I'm sure it is because they want to come over when my mom will not be here so that they do not have to deal with her. The cowards. In addition to not calling which was pretty irritating, my dad practically rubbed it in my mom's face that he was cooking burgers knowing that she would not be given any, and of course, neither would I but I am of lesser importance. Not only this, but since my dad decided it wasn't important enough for him to come and fix our van, he sent his friend Shorty to do it instead. Luckily, he was very nice and good-natured about the whole thing. He didn't take my dad's side nor my mom's which is good though he did agree that many things my dad had done were not acceptable.

We chatted and had a bit of fun while he worked on jump-starting our van. Turns out, the problem really wasn't my fault when the van would not start yesterday. Shorty had checked our engine oil and we were 2 quarts low. Apparently when the oil gets too low the vehicle shuts down and will refuse to start back up as a protective mechanism. This means when my dad said he put a quart of oil in the van about a week ago he either forgot and told my mom he did so she would not be mad, or he just chose not to do it for whatever reason then told her he did. We do have a leak but we found it was not severe enough to drain that much oil in so little time.

The van at this point was operational, sorta, but Shorty went ahead to buy some oil to put in it. While he was gone I decided to put some primer on this nice little metal stand that a friend of my grandma had given me. It was gold but a lot of paint was coming off and was rusty. When Shorty came back he instructed us to drive into town ex far then back again, turn it off, and after about 10 minutes to try starting it again. We did so but before going home we stopped by his house for awhile. he had asked us to pick him up some cigarettes which I am assuming he decided would be his payment for his service since my mom insisted on giving him money. We stayed there awhile and met his wife. They are so nice and welcoming. We ended up being there longer than expected but it was all right, we all were having fun. We talked a lot about cooking and other things about food. And... Short jokes.. Somehow, when I'm around, this almost ALWAYS comes up. I think we ended up hanging around there for a good hour and thirty minutes before we left.

We went home and I quickly finished my priming on the little stand I was working on. I didn't have much choice but to be done priming it. I kinda emptied the entire bottle on the darn thing. But it needed it. Tomorrow I will be coating it with a nice gold-colored aerosol paint to finish it off, provided the weather is mild. We have a few gold blades of grass near the front porch. I wanted to make sure it was a nice shiny gold. It is. I really wanted to go ahead and put the gold on but it was getting rather dark and cold so I just went inside and played Phantom Hourglass for awhile, ate supper and played more Phantom Hourglass.

My sister Leighanna randomly thought of a game she has called Apples to Apples. If you don't know what that game is, each player gets 7 red cards with various things written on them. One person is the judge and this changes clockwise each round. The judge will put out a green card that is some sort of descriptive word like silly, delicious, boring, etc. The players aside from the judge put down a card from their hand that matches the green card in a funny, serious, ironic, sarcastic or any other connection they make between the two cards. All player cards are shuffled so that the judge cannot tell what card belongs to whom then looks them over and decides which they like best for whatever reason. The owner of the winning card gets to take the green card. Usually a player wins when the first person to reach whatever number of cards that was agreed upon but you can also just play till you get bored or set a certain amount of time. In any of these ways, whomever has the most green cards is the winner. This game ALWAYS creates plenty of fun and laughter as well as weird and sometimes concerned expressions. Of all the games I've played that sometimes or even oftentimes end up in a fight, I do not think we have ever fought about this one. Tonight my mom, sister and I ended up with very close amounts of cards. We had just played till my mom was getting too tired to continue. My mom counted her cards, commenting on how she found it weird that she ended up with thirty cards exact. I counted mine, and found it odd that I too had 30 cards exact. My sister though won with thirty one cards.

This game is the reason behind the title of this post. The green card that was down was "Delicious" and I think it was my sister who had placed the "Having an Operation" card on it. I believe she was the one who won that round, merely cause it was hilarious, we all broke out laughing, and it was rather disturbing all at the same time. I became pretty depressed and bored after we put the game away. It's so hard going from being happy, laughing and having a good time to doing nothing and the next thing to do is writing a blog post. Sure I sorta have fun with this, at least at first, but recently it's felt more like a chore. I know I don't have to post if I do not want to but I guess just knowing how much I type is a bit intimidating. I always end up making the post anyway. I like to get it out of the way instead of procrastinating on it. I do not write my post at night because I am trying to put it off; I write it at night because my posts are a recap of the day gone by and I don't feel like making more than one per day. That way I don't have to break constantly to go update my blog and I can just enjoy my day then, the only things I do not post about are all the tiny insignificant details plus things I fail to recollect. I promise, no one is missing out on much if anything. Well that's all I have to say for today. Bye!

To Wii or not to Wii?

I started this morning fairly looking forward to 5:00 PM. Reason for this is that my mom and I were planning to go get me a Wii after work and before our evening group. I was pretty tired this morning due to the fact that right when I wanted to go to bed, my sister's cat, Phoenix, decided he had to incessantly howl at my window wanting in my room. By the time he finally quit, allowing me to go to sleep, it was already 1:00 AM so I only got about 5 hours of sleep since I had to wake at 6:30 AM.

I had to call a friend of my mom's and find out if she was going to bring her daughter's computer to the office so I could work on it. Luckily, she didn't want to get out in the cold weather so I'll have to do that another day. Honestly, I am getting rather tired of all the reschedules but at least this time it was a good thing. Reason why is some time before we were going to head out, my mom asked me to get her car keys and start the van to warming. I did so, sprinting through the bitter cold to the van and quickly got it started and made sure the heater was going. I didn't check the windshield at that time but I did so when I went to put things in the van and it was fine. Everything was going smoothly as usual.

When we were finally ready to go we started out of the house and I made a comment about hoping the van would be nice and warm for us when we got out there. My mom responded saying that it wouldn't be because it was off. I thought she was joking. Sure enough, she wasn't. The van had completely shut off for some unknown reason. My mom tried and tried but the van would not turn on whatsoever aside from all the interior lights flickering pitifully. I still honestly think I must have done something wrong but neither I, nor my mom can figure out what I did although my mom insists it wasn't my fault. Honestly? It worked just fine all the other mornings when she started it, then it fails the day I do. Yeah, either it's horrible coincidence or I did something wrong. I think the latter.

We decided to give the van some time to recharge as we believe it was a battery problem likely due to battery fluids freezing though we do not know for certain. My mom called her boss to let him know the situation and that we would be late. In case you're wondering, no, I do not work for her boss, I just go in with my mom on Friday's to make it easier for me to go to our women's church group thing we have. That aside, 30 min go by and the van still will not start. Even more time and it still will not start. Finally, my mom had to call one of her friends to come pick us up. This is not the one I have to fix the comp for. I can't spell her name, if I could, I'd put her name.

My mom and I relaxed and played on our computers while we waited for my moms friend to take us to work. During that time my mom found a Sonic coupon for a buy-one get-one-free deal for Sonic burgers that she said we would use to buy us something to eat before group. My mom's friend was so nice about taking us in to work and I am very grateful she was willing to do that for us. We got to work at about 10:30 AM so our day felt pretty short. Actually, my day still seemed fairly long despite the cut in time I had to spend there. I spent most of it playing Facebook games and Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on my DS. My mom noticed a website called Newegg.com. Apparently she saw this posted on Facebook and you can find A LOT of Wii games for reasonable prices. I had fun looking things up and seeing how many of the games I wanted was being sold on this site. To my surprise, most of my list was on there.

After I was done I played a bit more Phantom Hourglass but I soon had to help to clean the office. This is actually the second of the two reasons I go to my mom's work with her on Fridays. I get paid to help clean and this is how I am earning my money I am going to use on my Wii. Of course, I forgot to mention one thing. Since our van never started today, this rendered us unable to go get it. So sadly to say, I did not get my gaming system today though my mom told me if our van starts up tomorrow that she will take me into town to get it since we did not drive into town ourselves so it wouldn't be any extra gas though I will not get my hopes up as I'm sure something will get in the way. Something always does and it's usually something no one has any control over so there is no one to blame for it.

We finished all the cleaning then headed out to get dinner. Turns out instead of going to Sonic, my mom's friend and her two daughters decided they wanted to go to the oriental restaurant, Lin's. I've only been there once before with a friend and love it. It's an all you can eat buffet so that makes it even better especially since I love oriental food. My mom had never been there before but she said she loved it. I ended up eating three plate fulls of food. I even got brave and tried a crab leg. The first one tasted nice but the second was too salty and sweet so I didn't like it. I decided that I just don't like it and will never eat it again. I ate waaaay too much. But it was good aside from the smell of the concoction Sarah had created on her plate out of boredom when she was done. She kept daring me to eat it but I knew better than that. That girl is extremely hyper and a bit irritating because of it but overall she is a very nice girl and I get along with her really well. She and her sister, Amanda, both. We laughed and joked constantly till we had to part after group.

We soon drove to group. They had ordered a couple of pizzas to eat while they waited for everyone to arrive. I wanted some but I didn't eat any as I was far too stuffed to take even one bite. Group was really nice. We all sat at the table and discussed righteousness and how it our perspective of it can differ from God's perspecive and how we much strive to attain his perspective of it. I ended up often by little James, Stephanie's son. I couldn't help it. He is so darn adorable and his word for pizza is too cute. He calls it "Pi-sha". That of course is just my spelling of how it sounds. He asked for pizza alot. He is only about 2 years old so you can likely imagine just how cute that was.

One of the women there brought over some Avon products for us to have if we wanted them. Everyone took turns picking something out. I didn't think I would since I don't use makeup but I ended up taking something too just cause. Plus my mom told me the color would look good on me. I hope she's right. Why am I typing about this? I dunno. Just figured I'd add it too.

Group seemed to end quicker tonight than the other nights. I think I enjoyed it more today though I was glad when it was over as it meant I could finally go home and relax, and unfortunately start working on this blog post. I'm surprised I didn't put it off till tomorrow morning, I'm just too tired for this right now but I want it done. Before we left our group building, Jeannette, another of my mom's friends, well she's my friend too, let us take home the remainder of the pizza which was almost a whole pizza. We took it knowing it would make my sister happy. She absolutely loves cold pizza so it was a nice surprise for her when we brought that home.

I did not do much after coming home aside from setting up my laptop in my mom's room for a short time and played in there so that I could chat with her before bed though she and I both became pretty tired rather quickly. She went to bed and I came in here to finish up some Facebook games and write on my blog. I'm sure I am leaving out a great number of details from my day that would be fairly interesting to read but I do not really feel like going through and figuring out what other things are good enough to post. I'm tired so I'm going to bed now. This post is long enough as it is.