The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

Hi, everyone. Still sick. Coughing up a storm, so… if you see a storm, probably my fault. Sorry.

Classes have been going okay so far. Lowish stress. We’ll see if I can keep that up. I hope so.

So I was working today and thinking and I realized I’m scared to let  Brer read what I’ve gotten down for Role-playing. It’s not so much that I’m afraid of criticism or anything like that… it’s just… I don’t know… it is kind of a big project. I’ve done well so far keeping working at it. But I feel, I guess, like if he doesn’t like it, I won’t feel any support from him, and then I’ll stop. Or something. I don’t know. The story isn’t high art. It’s just supposed to be fun. And I know we have different definitions at times with this stuff… hell, I dunno. Oh well, it doesn’t really serve any purpose to worry about it. He’ll see it eventually, and we’ll see what happens, eh?
I hope to get through Chapter 5 of Arc 1 this week, since I’m not working… shouldn’t be too hard… I’m taking a break tonight, though, because I feel dizzy and cold and miserable. Maybe I shouldn’t, but eh. It’s supposed to be fun, not a chore. As long as I keep chipping away at it, I’m winning in my book.

In other news, I’ve started playing Picross again. I’m surprised at how many Normal level puzzles there are. Just when I think I’ve unlocked them all, they unlock a few more tiers. It’s nice. I don’t think I can handle the “Free” level puzzles… I like doing them on the DS because I get feedback if I fuck up, so I don’t end up at the end and get frustrated not knowing what I did wrong, you know? The “free” ones don’t do that. You can only solve them by trying out things a certainly way using the little “try but not really put dots there” mode. In any case, I think I’d really frustrate me, but we’ll see if I can handle it when I beat the Normal level puzzles. Also, there’s a whole lot of official download puzzles I can get from Nintendo if I run out of Normal level ones, I suppose. But man, Picross is fun. Seriously, it’s only 20 bucks. If you like little puzzles at all, go pick it up.

Tommorow’s Agenda: Wake Up, Food, Look for a copy of OXM for Exclusive Rock Band songs, Class, Food, Class, Waste Time with Brer/Write.

I am still so damn sick. Blearg. I still have one more Listening Time to review and I need to get the blog set up for Role-Playing (I’m thinking of modifying this template with the pictures Mama has drawn… I picked blue because she tends to use shades of blue… thoughts?) and stuff… and school is starting in like… 2 days… man, things to do… things to do…
Mostly, though, I just feel sick as fuck. I’ve been drinking water instead of my normal caffeine drinks, and I’ve actually like… taken medicine, which I rarely do, and I still feel like crap. I can function, unlike the first day I felt sick, but I feel like crap nonetheless.
Anyway, even though I have lots of shit to do, I don’t want to stress out. That’s something I want to make sure doesn’t happen with Role-Playing. I don’t want it to stress me out. “I have to do this, I have to do that.” No… I want to set up a schedule that will keep me working but not make me feel like shit and worry about it (the more I think about it, the more I think the episodes might be bi-weekly) so that I can, you know, accomplish something. That’s what I keep saying about it. I want to accomplish something.
Part of that is winning at school, of course. I only have 4 classes, but I need to actually COMPLETE them all… I can do this shit, I really can… I just have to keep this all going okay… and not let myself get stressed the fuck out.
Stress is my real enemy.

In other news, I’ve made up my mind, and I’m going to order one of these when they finally get back in stock? Why? Because I like the idea and I often wish I wore more jewelry on a daily basis. It looks kinda neat and is gender-neutral so I can wear it and I want to. So there.
Also, Rock Band continues to be awesome, by the way, even though my sickness means I haven’t been able to sing for awhile… which sucks. I really love singing! But oh well.
Finally… um… I dunno? I dunno. I don’t know what else to say. So there. A little update.

Firstly, Rock Band is FUCKING AMAZING.
I bought it today on a whim, and I spent HOURS singing for Spaeth, Jonathan, and I’s band, Sass of Potatoes. And it was COMPLETELY FUCKING AMAZING. Oh man. So much fun. Come over and play it with me, dammit! I gotta learn drums.

Okay, so anyway, here’s the warning line: I’m going to talk about what passes for my “sex life.” So, you know, if that sounds like something you’d never want to read, don’t keep going, okay? I just… I censor this blog too much, I think. The whole point of me keeping the blog in the first place was to keep myself more in touch and honest with my feelings and not bottle them up.

I want to sort of talk about love. I’m sure I’ve talked about it before, but spent the day rocking out with my brother and Jonathan, watched a movie with them and Essner, snuggled with Brer and he left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling as he went to bed, and then Ecks came on and we talked and I got yet another warm and fuzzy feeling… and it’s just… gods, I’m so damn lucky to have so many people who are awesome in my life. But the thing is, the two guys I am so… that I love… they don’t talk. They don’t know each other. I don’t know if I talk about Ecks enough with Brer. I mean, they are separate. Brer is my boyfriend. He is. I love the shit out of him. If it wasn’t a horrible idea for the long run, I wouldn’t hesitate to move near to him and be with him. It’s never been in question that I love him to death, and Ecks understands that, and has a girl he’s sorta dating anyway. We’re extremely good friends and writing buddies and we do… other things… and that’s awesome. Ecks knows about Brer, I talk to him for relationship advice… but I don’t really talk to Brer about what I do with Ecks. I worry about that.
I don’t talk about him because, I dunno, I never feel like it’s something I need to bring up? I mean, it’s not like anything I feel is wrong happens. Trust me, I worry about EVERYTHING and I never worry that my relationship with Ecks is betraying my serious romantic love for Brer in any way. At the same time, I feel like he might not want to hear about it, you know? Isn’t that weird, hearing about that? But I’m sure he doesn’t want to be in the dark, either… I don’t know, I guess I’m probably writing this to start the discussion between us.
I mean, okay, Brer and I have talked about, you know, third parties. There is nobody I’d feel more comfortable bringing in than Ecks. But Brer doesn’t know him… you know? I can’t suggest him because of that, because it has to be someone we’re both familiar with, you know? Close to?
I don’t know. Obsessing over these ideas is probably stupid, in the end. Like I said, if I felt something was wrong in all this, I would worry about it, because I worry about the stupidest shit you could ever believe. I guess that’s like… one thing about my current relationship situation that I’d like to change, in some respect. Get these two special people in my life talking, at least.

Okay, see, this is also a technique to get me to liveblog a CD tomorrow to get this off the top of the blog. Heh. Goodnight, people.
*cough*RockBand’sAwesome*cough*

Go ahead, have a look around. Is it to your liking? What’s that? You’ll take it? Awesome, cause YOU DIDN’T HAVE A CHOICE! TIME IS MEAN LIKE THAT! MUH HA HA HA!

Anyway, welcome to 2008, a year of endless opportunities, or at least 365 days worth of opportunity. What have I been spending this opportunity on so far? A little bit of writing, but mostly being moody. Off to a great start, I’m sure. I did go to a pretty spiffy party at the Burners’ last night, though. It was much more fun than I expected.

Mama, at random, drew me another picture of Tailrazor. I guess she was unhappy with the previous version? I thought it was great, myself… anyway, I should still share it, because it’s great artwork, so here it is. The other picture captures more of… who Rebecca is, though, in my head, so I’d point your imagination more that way for how I’m going to write her and treat this as really neat, badass art, because it is neat, badass art. Yesyes.
I’m still actually working on Role-Playing, by the way. I wrote a good thousand words on it last night. That’s like… progress, or some shit.

Something I am not making progress in, though, is FFXI. Which sucks. But I have new games to play, I haven’t gotten back into it. Mm… I need to, though. Also, I am not making progress in liveblogging these CDs in this stack here, which I’m sure you’ve noticed. Oh well.

Here is a well-worded rendition of this epic tale. Oh, the horror! That said, they are all fun, especially Bookworm Adventures, which is the reason I went Popcap game shopping. Stuff like Zuma and Peggle is really good for use during podcasts… I haven’t played Bejeweled 2, but I played Puzzle Quest for who knows how long so I know what to expect… I have no idea what Insaneaquarium is, but I own it now. I might try it after I finish this post. Anyway, I bought them because I wanted them and I wanted something to keep me occupied until Christmas (I find that I only have about an hour or two of FFXI in me a day, at most) and I wanted to reward myself for doing better than expected in school and actually saving a good deal of money up… I think I have more money in the bank right now, split between my two accounts, than I have had in my life. (Granted, this is not an insane amount of money we’re talking about or anything, but still)  It’s kind of a nice feeling, especially since I haven’t been especially working towards it… I think I might let that slow-building savings account eventually go towards some sort of lappy, like the EEE PC (if it drops another 100 bucks, I was so sad that they overshot their estimated price by like… 200 bucks, I was ready to snap one up), or just a new computer in general…
Anyway, the point is, expect at least a review of Bookworm Adventures, because it is completely great. It was even mesmerizing Jonathan as I played, and he sat next to me and called out possible words for me to look for. I have a feeling I’m going to wish it was longer, though. It would also work really well on, say, the DS. They should get on that. They have other Popcap crepe on there, don’t they?
I also just bought the new Halo 3 maps. We only played like 3 custom Foundry levels, but already I realize this was a good purchase. It was fun as hell. There was a really well-done game type Morbid Coffee made called Love on a custom map called The Battlefield (I hope you get that joke) that did a really good MGS sort of experience that will be even greater when he goes and tweaks it a little more, for example. It’ll be awesome. Too bad I’m working again Sunday, so it’ll be at least another week before I can join the Tyrants on Halo Night again.
In other news, I don’t have a Robogoose yet. This saddens me, because I’ve used like 30 Robotic Eggs. I waaaaaaaant it! Even though I’ll never uuuuuuuuuuuse it! Especially since I bought that P.R.E.S.S.I.E.!
And now, a list.

Things I still need to do before Chrissymas (not in order of importance)
1. Listen to and blog the last Listening Time CD in my stack
2. Finish up the little stuff I need to do on Grandma’s presents before I can no longer get to one of those photo printer thingamajigs.
3. Wrap the rest of the presents.
4. Fuck, I dunno… play more Bookworm Adventures? Something like that?

Create Your Own Video

I dunno, I had fun playing with it, and surely it’s better to look at than that huge Listening Time Liveblog, eh? Even if I think it’s good I got the listening blogging done with… and will do another CD’s worth tomorrow…

Good News: I wrote something today!
Bad News: It ended up as an erotic fairy tale about a page long that I probably won’t be passing around to too many people and, for being an erotic fairy tale, doesn’t have all that much sex in it.
Good News: I really enjoy playing FFXI with a 360 controller! It feels a lot more… relaxed like that, personally. Also, I’m enjoying Red Mage.
Bad News: I keep dying while trying to level. I played a decent chunk today and I think I just broke even on experience. Man, that’s annoying. I guess I need to duo with Jonathan some more… that was less frustrating.
Good News: I cleaned up another chunk of my room today!
Bad News: I could have finished the job if I wasn’t so lazy all morning.
Good News: Mom bought be a 4 Pack of Rockstar, because she saw how much I drink it. I appreciate the effort.
Bad News: I drink the Rockstar JUICED Mango/Orange/Passion Fruit flavor. She got the regular Rockstar flavor, which tastes like Red Bull and therefore tastes like complete and utter ass. Bleh.
Good News: Tomorrow is our little Chrissymas party that’s going to be a whole lot of fun!
Bad News: That means I can’t join in on the first Halo night with the new maps… I haven’t bought the new maps, yet, but just hearing about the horrible things people have already done in Foundry makes me ready to drop money on the Microsoft Funmoney Card.
Good News: Now that I’m out of school, I have all kinds of free time for shit!
Bad News: Brer has already left to go to his parent’s house for Chrissymas. Granted, he’ll be back like 2 days after Chrissymas, but eh, I’ll miss him… though he does say he’ll be around in the afternoons and have privacy, so hopefully I’ll see him a lot.
Good News: I wrote a new blog post!
Bad News: It was weighted down by some stupid Good News Bad News gimmick I came up with.

It’s late, but I wanted to post some crap. Like this.

CHRISSYMAS SHOPPING LIST UPDATE!
What everyone has been highly anticipating! Or something. This is just why you needed me to get my blog back on track!

Mom: Check.
Dad: Not Check (Still trying to think of something good…)
Jonathan: Check
Grandma: No Check (Got a crafty idea I have to look into doing soon)
Grandpa: Check
Brer: Check (Already mailed, should get there by Friday)
Essner: Half Check (Have something jokey, want to supplement with something good)
White Elephant Game: Check
Festivus Exchange: Check

I am ALMOST DONE. Exciting times. Should finish up sometime soon, I’d think. Hopefully. Yes.

Other business… hmm…. I picked up a Crimbo P.R.E.S.S.I.E. just because I really wanted the Can Has Cyborger effect. It triggers enough for me and I’m not such an optimizer as to stop using my Mayflower Bouquet, too, so I suppose it all works out in the end. I just figured if I wanted it, I should get it and support the game I love, you know? So I did. It’s currently named B.O.X.X.I.E., but I’m open to better suggestions for a name… that’s just what I came up with off the top of my head.
It looks like the Crimbo content is finally in full swing, too… I’ll hope the Wiki has some guidance up before I use my turns tomorrow… I don’t want to miss anything.

What else what else… oh, Talking Time is starting an FFXI static party, and I’m joining, and that makes Jonathan and Spaeth excited, so they’re joining in some capacity… even if it’s just being on the same server as me and going along with Jonathan’s crazy Three Beastmaster party.

Anyway, there’s some updates… I should probably get to bed. Tomorrow: Cleaning up my room, part 1!

Testing… testing… is this thing on? Testing… okay.
Welcome to the new server! Hm? Looks the same as the old one, you say? THEN THE ILLUSION IS COMPLETE!

What have I been doing while I was waiting pointlessly for the server to move? Well, the people of Talking Time convinced me to join a Static FFXI party, I entered a Yaris tournament, I managed to keep my head together for the rest of the semester, (almost, anyway. Still have to do well today, but then I’m done) I thought more and more about launching Roleplaying since I have all this server space for the MP3’s, and I met Jesus. He gave me a pony.
It was all really exciting! A shame I didn’t blog about it, huh?

But we’re back now! First order of business is the two Listening Time CDs I have waiting to be liveblogged, then I’ll probably see if I can’t work on Roleplaying… so hold on to your hats, Getmeoutofthis.net is back. (I know you don’t care, but just… you know… humor me and hold onto your hat anyway? Please?)

I’m starting the process of moving servers right… now. So if things are screwy, you know why! Things should be fine and normal after the move. Hopefully.