Apparently, it has been a while since I've updated this, but nothing interesting has happened that has provided me with various stories for all the peoples out there in the internets to read, because I am pretty sure you all have much better things to be reading. However, Christmas was fun and everything, I was gifted with good toys and reading material and date keeping devices. They please me, very much so, so I will followup that sentence with a list of what I did get for Christmas, which goes like this:

- Two WoW Calendars. A day by day and a sixteen month.
- The Rise of the Horde book.
- A sweet dartboard so I can finally play in my room without bothering anybody. From my older sister.
- A papier mache star my sister made me, which looks fuckin' sweet.
- A System of a Down poster, also courtesy of my sister.
- A Special Edition WoW Zboard keyset (Yes, I am a nerd like that. I love it!)
- Brand new Sketch paper! Finally I can complete some more sketches.
- Four new pairs of sweat pants, or as I like to call them, Pajamas.
- A new watch, because my old broke. :( Sad face for broken watch. From my oldest sister.
- The Dark Knight DVD, with a digital copy thing. Nice.
- A hundred dollars, courtesy of my grandparents.
- A twenty dollar gift card to Game Stop, from my other sister.
- Rock Band 2! Well, I bought this for myself, but it still counts as a Christmas gift!


Yep. That's what I got. Five things from my sisters, one from grandparents, five from my parents, and one from me! It was pretty awesome, and I also had a great New Years. I stayed up all night with my sisters playing Rock Band and playing Scrabble and whatnot. I didn't get drunk, though, mostly because none of us had money for any alcohol. I probably wouldn't have had any to begin with, but maybe, for the holiday, right?

There has been much luck with everything lately, which is surprisingly... uh, good. So far, and as far as I know I haven't said a word about the bet I had with my Father and our hair, and I can't seem to think of a good transition from that sentence to this one so I sneaked this one in here, and I will now tell you about the bet I had with my Father after this run on sentence ends. So, we made a bet on the basis of who could grow their hair the longest and keep it longer... longer. You know, grow it out, keep it out, the longest. Anyways, we called a draw due to the fact that our drains were becoming clogged with all our hair, which sucked, because the bet had been going on for over a year and a half. So, to get to the point, I got a hair cut today and it feels weird. I can no longer shake my head and my hair will flail about in a sexy manner. I can no longer put in pigtails and make myself look oh so pretty. I can no longer have a ponytail, either... or make funny looking moustaches. But I must say, it does feel good to have it short. I feel more breezy and alive. Plus, I look so goddamn sexy. It's like, damn, son, you lookin' good you sexy son of a bitch! Yeah... Besides that happening... I played WoW more, wrote more in my stories, drew some more to my pictures... Yeah. Now I'm going to watch Jay Leno and play WoW. And maybe play some Guitar if not everyone in my house is asleep.


Yep. That's it. The Subject to this post is also senseless, unless you've recently played WoW and did a certain quest. If you did that, you would understand how important it really is.

So, yeah, I spent the last couple of days playing World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. So what? It's awesome, which is why I am going to go play some more, and that is also why I am posting a video here so anyone who happens to come across this will have something funny to watch, all though, I must warn you it's NSFW. It's funny, though.




So, yeah, enjoy that for a while, also if you really did enjoy it (Yes, there might be a slim chance that you did) then head over to Sick Animation dot com and check out some of his other stuff. It's pretty much all the same stuff, but other things aren't so... vulgar and sexually explicit... Which I guess is good. No, but really, it's all funny if you like that sort of humour.


Anyways, I am off to play WoW now. And just in case anyone cares, I'm all ready seventy-two, over half way to seventy-three. It's pretty awesome, I am actually leveling on time now, haha. NICE!

Well, it seems like yet another sleepless night for me, and it sucks. Also, no, I did not stay up all night playing World of Warcraft, I merely played it because I was up all night, haha. Oh, yeah, I'm good.

Anyways, yeah... There's no real point to this I just wanted to say that I guess Obama is going to be our next president. Which does seem a little weird, for all the obvious reasons, and for those of you who think that's anything less than an ambiguous comment, you can go away or whatever the people on the internets tell other people to do in situations like that.

Yep, that's it. Short and sweet.

* A note to be added here: Click on the picture, it becomes a lot less blurry! You can actually see them in High Quality like they were meant to be seen! Sorry I haven't figured out how to do that in the cuts and stuff. Anyways, yeah, click them to see HQ. Thanks.

It seems as if everything is reoccurring in the exact same order as it did last year. A decent uphill change in financial status, a normal happiness towards the world, then a slow decent into less and less money and less, much less, happiness. Maybe it's just an annual ordinance that seems to have some sort of odd intent, or whatever I am trying to say. The point being, it's the same exact way as it always is, and I am supposing any actual questioning towards the fact of it just being me with my boring life or if it goes along with everyone as well. All though, no one reads this, and all that other stuff. I am too lazy to write this morning.

Anyways, onto more interesting things than internet woes. It seems in World of Warcraft, they've released a new achievement system which records and displayed major achievements, some extremely harder than others and some even impossible. Anyways, they're addicting. I mean, really addicting... I can't stop going around and trying to get the next one in hopes that no one else on my server has yet, haha. However, I spent almost the last four days grinding reputation with all five home cities (Alliance by the way for those of you who don't know all ready, and yes, I know, Horde is better, blah blah blah. Whatever.) which took forever mostly because those damned Gnomes have no quests for reputation, so you pretty much have to collect cloth and turn it in for reputation. It was worth it, though... Well, for the most part, anyways. It looks cool to have the title Ambassador. I also did the fishing achievements, and we all know how much fun virtual fishing is, it feels good to get those out of the way, so I don't have to do them ever again. /wink.

So, yeah... That's all, besides Halloween, which was awesome. I dressed up as Steven Seagal. Totally awesome, I know, I am far too weird looking and large to be anyone else, unless I went as Barf or maybe Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.... Damn it, it's too late now. That would've been so awesome.

But yeah, I watched all seven hours of Ghost Hunters on Halloween night, then Mythbusters, so all went well. I didn't party or go trick or treating mainly because no one I knew was doing it, haha. So, yeah... The Ghost Hunters follow up is on tonight! Watch it, seriously, zomg!

So, now for the pictures and whatnot. They're not very interesting, but hey, you know, yeah... no, they suck. Sorry.


( I never realised how beautiful your... )

Well, as anyone who has ever laid their eyes upon this journal, which might not be many, if any at all, I have recently began playing World of Warcraft again. Now, for those of you also thinking about it, I'll answer you this... Yes, it was totally worth it. The changes they've made have proved to be quite decent, and for a long time player, such as myself, they do not seem to have deducted from Original content, such things, which include: Dungeons, quests, leveling, different class skills, play styles, talents, etc. Besides that they nerfed some things, like Boss hit points and all that fun stuff, it definitely has the same feel as I remember when I first began playing, which was early 2005. And yes, I do have some screenshots to post because I am weird like that. However, they're mostly of my alt that I created when I began playing again, who is level thirty-five all ready, which might not seem significant, but considering that I only play about twelve to fourteen hours a week, that means I have leveled a character half way in that time period, which I consider to be pretty good since I do it all myself.

Anyways, this time around it's a lot different, it almost seems like people want to do Dungeons and things with other people, and not just pay for high level characters to run them through. So, that's been a different experience, since I don't pay for such things like run throughs, I just avoid all the content all together, which was hard because Instancing is where you get all the good loot and upgrades about every five levels, so I usually just sport my Quest rewards until level fifty when people need to do Instances and stuff to get to the good places, or for reputation, whatever you need. However, in one day, I ran four different instances with the same group, we were on such a roll, until the tank had to leave, then things kind of broke apart after that. However, I got in a Deadmines, Stockades, Blackfathom Deeps and Shadowfang Keep run! That's pretty rare for me, even more so for me to find a good group that knows what they're doing and doesn't screw everything up because they want to rush through it.... Which sadly happened during our shadowfang run, because for some reason our new tank thought he could handle seven elites without causing massive spam healing and even then, he couldn't even hold aggro... He just couldn't figure out why. He thought it was everyone else who was messing it up. Yeah, you get the point, I think everyone has had their fair share of bad pugs.

Anyways, I'll post some random pictures of whatever... nothing too exciting. However, it was my nieces birthday on Saturday! She turned one and had an awesome first birthday party. It was grand, it's too bad I don't have any pictures of her to post here, maybe later when I download them or get them from my sister... Yeah...

( Pictures aren't always as they seem... )

So, the day has finally come for me to make the big decision of whether or not to renew my World of Warcraft subscription... And I have decided that I will sleep on it! Mainly because I am still awake, so when I wake up I will most likely renew it. I have all ready decided that I will renew it, so, you know, whatever... Whenever I decide to wake up. Sadly, this night reminds me of the times where I could not sleep because the next day I knew I was going somewhere special and I could not sleep because the next day I knew I was going somewhere special and I could not sleep.


Yeah, I wrote that a few times, and you can't do anything about it, except post a comment telling me about how much I failed because I think I might be doing something funny or cute or anything else that relates to what it might be. But I was not! Instead, I did it so that if anyone happens to read it, which won't happen, but if someone does, they can post a comment and it would be funny because... Yeah.


Damn me and my enthusiasm towards a game that is so explicitly awesome. Also, I just felt what seemed to be an earthquake, but probably was not? It felt like it, though.


Also, damn it! This has turned into one of those rambling online Journals! I feel so horrible, like I should erase all that I've written, but I won't because I feel like maybe it's not that bad, but it really is... Oh, my weary mind.

Lately, besides becoming a completely insane individual, I have been so preoccupied by how quickly my room seems to be getting dirty. I clean it up, organise everything, and within a few hours, I return from my errands or whatever it is that I am doing, and it seems that everything has been scattered throughout my room again. It boggles my mind, and is confusing because I seriously can't seem to get it all the way.

Anyway, the sudden slowing of days passing is beginning to become bothersome. Since the start of October, I knew that the twentieth my World of Warcraft Subscription is going to be renewed. Well, now that it is so close, it is sort of like an extra twelve hours have been added to every day, just to spite me and make me rethink and rethink if this is the right decision.

All though, I know that this is something that I enjoy so very much, I still seem to have been wondering if it's what I really need at the moment, or if I should just wait it out, seemingly ridding it from myself, stopping the repetitive thoughts in my mind, collecting amasing memories... Or if my World of Warcraft days have come to an end. Should I quit completely? Will that help me with my reclusive social life, that seems to be every goddamn stereotype of this type of gaming situation. If that last sentence made sense, I don't even know, I'm just rambling because maybe writing all of this will help me decide.

Even so, I find it kind of sad that this is the biggest dilemma in my life at the moment. I suppose it's better than dragging myself to anything harsher just to prove to myself that I can cure bigger problems just like everyone else, or whatever it that other people must absolutely prove to the other people that are trying to prove to them almost the exact same thing. What in the hell is that supposed to mean.


Well, anyway, my actual work is proving nicely. I am almost done with all the drafts to my scripts/stories or what have you. They're not bad this time around... I think I might be getting better at this so called career.

In the meantime, to take my mind off of drug and alcohol ridden thoughts of ennui and less important suicide in teenage years typed out in a file on my computer, I have been practising with my drumming skills and I must say, I am getting significantly better. Not only can I maintain a decent beat, I have been going strong with paradiddles and double stroke rolls or whatever they are called. Even if my tutor is Rockband, it sure does help with endurance and speed and all those important things. Fun stuff... Yeah.



( Behind this cut is proof... )

I do believe that I am currently updating this because I am bored, however, I have finished my sketches... Well, I have only one now, mostly due to me being a "perfectionist", apparently. I just can't help it if even the smallest detail looks a bit out of place, I will consider it to be horrid or not worthy of being seen by anyone else besides me because I know they will find the flaw and just criticise the hell out of it. However, I never got around to scanning it into my computer, so, yeah.

I also believe that I've said this before, but I am pretty excited that my World of Warcraft subscription will be renewed on the twentieth of October. This pleases me, it pleases me very much.


Anyway, here's a great picture to view in the meantime.

( Hilarious )

Yesterday's Penny Arcade comic was quite nice, mostly because I had been feeling kind of nostalgic these past couple weeks, from looking back into a few things. For example, a few days ago me and my mother went through a cupboard full of VHS movies that we had recorded mostly from Television movies or shows, etc... Anyways, I found many that I used to love watching, and since having them locked away for so many years, I had forgotten them. However, I have been watching a few of them over these days, and all of those shows were so upbeat or full of all that good stuff. One tape contained a few shows, like Doug and the Rugrats, or even Mr. Boogedy! I've always loved that movie, except it was a little weird for me as a kid.


You get the idea about all that. It's just that Penny Arcade kind of reminded me of how I have been feeling lately. I just thought it was neat.



Anyways, I'm almost finished with those sketches... I feel like maybe I should post them so if anyone happens to pass by this they can see my amasing skills, haha. Not really, obviously, but hey, someone might like them...

Today was extremely boring, mostly due to the fact that all I did was play online games at this spiffy place called Kongregate, I probably should have done more... but today is the first of October.

Which apparently means that it's automatically a lazy day.

Also note that this post is pretty much useless... But no one reads this, so it does not matter? Right.

After a couple days of Jury Duty, this past week has not been as interesting as I'd previously hoped. I never got around to my Arts and Crafts project that I intended on, nor did I process any writings further than I wanted to. It seems that I will now begin to fall behind in a few things, which kind of sucks because now I most likely won't be able to finish any more of my sketches that I was working on. It's okay, I guess... I was just wishing that it would not have happened.

So, after a week of failing on a lot of different projects, I figured I'd work on other things... like, maybe practice more guitar and get a little better. Which... I don't need to explain or anything...

But, yes, I think I will now go work on my sketches... or finish mapping out my Paper Machè Azeroth.


I hope I'm not that much of a loser.

After a long Sunday, sort of, full of waiting to call in and find out if I even have to show up tomorrow, I realised that I could have called in on Friday to find out if I needed to go Monday. Now, this was kind of upsetting, because I could have had a less worried filled weekend if I had called in Friday, which it turns out I don't have to go tomorrow. However, right after I called in at about a quarter to six and found out I don't need to go, I went to my room to take a nap, since I had been up since the day before. I slept until about two in the morning, which was good because I needed some good sleep. It does suck, though, for the fact being that I will probably be up all day again today... 


Anyways, I was thinking about things I could do to fill up my extra time whilst I wait this entire week for Jury stuff... And I thought about making some landscapes from World of Warcraft. Landscapes, meaning... you know, Paper Machè kind of stuff... Because I'm lame like that.

But it seems pretty cool, right?

So, this past week has been going quite fast, which, unfortunately, is a bad thing. A few weeks ago, I got a Jury Summons in the mail, asking of me to make an appearance, Monday, the 22nd. So, I am sort of dreading that, mostly because I get nervous in those types of situations, and because I will have to sit in a room, waiting all day for my name to be called... Which sounds like a blast. All in all, I just hope they all reading material so the time spent won't seem to drag on.

Other news includes the announcement of the next World of Warcraft Expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King! It comes out the 13th of November, a grand time considering I probably was not going to renew until about Thanksgiving. As a result of it coming quite soon, I set forth to place a pre-order on it, ensuring that I obtain it on the day of arrival. I went to about four stores in search of such a placement, however, it seems that not even Best Buy has got them in yet. Luckily for me, my local Game Stop is just across the street from there, so, I lept afar to the establishment to find that they actually have it, despite every other superstore failed to. So I put forty dollars down on it, a reasonable amount since I got the Special Edition or Limited Edition... Whatever they call it. Thus, I have one less thing to worry about, all though, if receiving a copy of the new World of Warcraft Expansion is something legitimate to worry about, then I am pretty safe.

Having located my pre-order safely, I was feeling quite nostalgic about my prior WoW days, so I went looking through my old Screen Shots folder. I almost forgot, however, that my Sisters boyfriend decided that he knew everything about computer, and went and messed around with mine, resulting in complete destruction of my Hard Drive. Usually I wouldn't have been upset, however, I had become overwhelmed with other things the prior weeks and forgot to backup important files (yes, world of warcraft screenshots are considered important). So, it ended up with me losing over a weeks work of... well, work and dozens of photographs and pictures. Not to mention it set me back a hundred bucks for the new hard drive and hours of reinstalling everything to my normal settings... Anyways, I only found the ones that I had taken the days before this incident, which measured up to about nine or so.

I have more on a backup somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it, because I don't label my WoW backups. Nevertheless, I forgot how how much gold I had before I left. I'm pretty sure that a lot of people have a lot more, but for being a pre-Kara geared Warlock, I considered that 1,896 gold was pretty nice (All though, I hadn't bought my epic flying mount, yet). My sister always wonders why I stopped when I was so close to Raiding in Kara, but I figured that there are going to be new places to go in Wotlk, so why bother right now. Besides, she stopped the next month, anyways, so whatever.

Plus, they're pretty blurry, too... I don't know why...


( Subtle text, providing insight to pictures underneath )

After quite a long August of doing practically nothing, with an exception of getting further on my writings and whatnot, I've come to realize that when I quit World of Warcraft about a month ago (also knowing that I would eventually renew my subscription when Wrath Of The Lich King comes out), I did not expect it to be this... well, difficult. I'm not so much addicted to World of Warcraft as I am infatuated with it's expansive landscapes, quests, dungeons, etc. It occurred to me that after I continued playing some other games, why it is that I enjoy World of Warcraft so much. I know that I expressed my love for Pokemon, which I still play often, but WoW just seems to have something more to give. All though a lot of people say that it's cartoonish graphics and sometimes unlikely damage or boss encounters are annoying or stupid, I happen to find that I would much rather play a game that offers me a wider range of abilities and activities with a much more interactive world, than some game that is aesthetically pleasing. What good is this kind of game genre if the only good thing is that you can make your character super good looking, with fabulous clothes or such an intensely detailed landscape, so that you can walk around and make notes about how you can see the difference in colour of the tree bark, or the texture of the skin. I'll take fairy tale characteristics with excellent game-play over pretty faces any day.



After all of that, I wonder... Is anyone even here to read this?


Probably not, but I guess that's all right.

The ear ache that I had a month ago came back again a few weeks later. I went to a follow-up appointment to find out I had swimmers ear, and all though I know what it is, I haven't the slightest clue as to how I could have "caught" it... Or however you obtain it. Anyways, it hurt really bad, sort of like an ear ache... but always throbbing, you can't hear out of the respective ear, it's extremely inflamed and you can't sleep because anyway which way you turn your head, it ends up putting pressure on the ear, which makes it hurt even more.

I know that this isn't the worst possible infection that you can possibly get, however, I must admit that it was probably the most uncomfortable "illness" I've had in a long, long time.

It took about seven days for it to go away and now I am better, which is good.

Other than being sick or what have you, I have also been busy with other things... Like, getting my eyes checked again, and proceeding to obtain new glasses, which I did, and look a little awkward on me.

My family also got a new Refrigerator, which is quite spiffy, and a new vacuum, which is nice, but not so glamorous.

I bought Rock Band, too, which is pretty neat. I've all ready mastered all of the guitar parts in it, and Gold Starred all the songs except the hardest one in there... Which is okay, because I've moved onto the drums, which is going nicely. All though, I don't quite have the rhythm technique down yet. I have stupid hands that don't want to coordinate with my feet, so I get confused with double bass and quick drumming sections. But it is all well, I've moved onto Hard now, and am going through the set list one more time before I go to Expert and try to do anything else.

The vocals.... well, I can't sing, so I'm not so good at the vocals. I can't carry a tune, I have no pitch or sense of whatever it's called... But I can sing on easy.

Anyway.

It was a hot day, and I had to move a lot of stuff from the kitchen to adjust to the new Refrigerator, then cleaned the garage a little bit, not to mention I played Rock Band drums for about four hours...

Also, this is always fun to do... It's a few guys I watch online for fun, like I mentioned before, where they stream live with their Rock Band skills.

I don't know them personally, but they're cool to check out every once in a while...

It's.....         www.ustream.tv/channel/the-catholic-church

Yeah. Copy and paste because I suck. Whatever.

I woke up this morning and went to the County Fair with my mother and niece. It was fun, but we didn't spend too much time there, mostly because there wasn't much to do, and my niece didn't have any shade and since she is only eight months old, she can't stay out in the sun too long. Whilst browsing the local food dealers, we came across a fellow in one of those awkward suits who entertain children, and I avoided him because those kinds of things make me feel uncomfortable.

Since we only stayed for an hour or so, we got home early which meant that I got to take a nap, because that is what I do. However, I slept far too long and did not awake until past eight-thirty that same night. I figured no one cared anyways, so it's all good.

Also, I went to go see WALL•E, which was delightful. I've always enjoyed Pixar's movies, but I liked WALL•E more as a character than their usual creations. Nonetheless, I think he has a ecstatic personality, but the aesthetic of the picture also made it seem a lot more intriguing. Or whatever you might want to say about it.

It's a nice story, as well. It has a lot of heart, enough humor equal with it's dramatic moments, which made WALL•E very likable. Especially his awkward moments, which are quite adorable. Indeed.

I made this today, actually, I made this about five minutes ago. It depicts my Pokémon line up from my original Blue/Red/Yellow Versions. It varied from each cartridge, though, because having the same line up every time just seems too boring, but all in all, this is the one that I always won with.

On another Pokémon note, I am in the process of completing the Diamond/Pearl Versions right now, which is going kind of well. I have almost all the first part of the Pokédex filled, now I just need to do the rest, which seems to be a lot more Pokémon.

I wonder if I am too old to be playing Pokémon...

I always seem to forget my previous attempts at keeping a Live Journal account. Maybe this time I will remember everything and actual have a decent chance to keep this one for a while and keep it filled with interesting updates about my life, which might be kind of hard now that I think of it.

I don't really understand anything at the moment. I am pretty confused about some things, and it is bothering me a lot.