Legends

Missed me any?

I've been verily busy. Mucho verily.

Okay, so I've got Legends launched. Tis' official. And all the spare time will be devoted to it, I'm sure.



And I'm also playing Animal Crossing on my new Nintendo DS. Bought it for my bday.. which was yesterday.

Ate mucho food. Stuffed. The END!

Currently: Going to bed.

*Wriggles Toes*

How many days 'till Christmas?

That job was pretty fun. Worked for three weeks. I couldn't wait for a break, but now I'm going on three weeks with no job... and can't wait to work again.

Oh goooooodness.. I think I may be going on a cruise soon. I won't get my hopes up, though, until the tickets are actually purchased.

Speaking of purchasing.... I feel major guilty. I bought premium for fifty dollars on a whim and now I wish I could have asked my friend to give me a referral before I did that. I've promised to give her a referral ages ago and now I never can.

I can't wait to move out. I'm running to the mail box every day hoping to see that check so I can just get out of here. As soon as that check comes, I'm going to purchase a cruise ticket, and then start taking more tours of apartments.

It's been suggested to me that I should get a loan on a small house just outside of Dallas instead of doing the apartment thing. I've been totally against that... but now I'm wondering if I should. It's not as simple as rent. There are taxes, insurance, and keeping up with things without a landlord's assistance. But the major benefit for me would be to have a back yard that my little chihuahuas cannot escape from... with a door that leads to this backyard. I need a yard people! I do. I thought about having a large pot with grass in it on the balcony of an apartment... or whatever. Having a yard would make life oh so much easier... aside from the mowing -.-.

I don't know what I'll do, but I do know I need to get out of here. I need to go.

Currently: Dreaming

If One More Thing Breaks...

I'm surrounded by things that are... well, breaking! My universe is crumbling into millions of useless little pieces! Yeeesh.

Air Conditioner broke. Fixed it. Fridge broke. Fixed it. Washer broke. Fixed it. Broke again. Didn't fix it. I just sit on it and enjoy the thumpy ride during the spin cycle. Stove broke. Didn't fix it. Don't know how to fix it. I rarely employ professionals to fix things unless they're a friend. TV broke. Didn't fix it. It's a ten year old rear projection big screen. Love the thing but we're learning little tricks to get around all the craziness. Like using the VCR to reach channels higher than the number thirteen. (I mean really... thirteen channels... like those old ancient televisions that my grandmother still used until she died... how come my TV has psychically reached into the past to some cousin TV... to employ only those channels with numbers between 1-13.) Then I press the magic button every time I turn it on and once every hour to keep that loose red tube in the right place. Sink clogged. Worked for three hours but I fixed it. The vacuum cleaner broke! A Kirby! Mind you, a ten year old Kirby, but still. Grarrr.

Guess what broke today. My dish washer broke today. Today, my dish washer died. It won't drain the water. I used a mop to get all that water out and tried to unclog it, but no luck. Then I turned the thing on so as to fill it up with cleaner water in hopes of like... using the plunger on it or something. But the little spin thingy wouldn't spin. Then it started smoking. Oh come on! Did I hit the mop against something I shouldn't have?

Maybe I just didn't have it on the right setting. Now that I think about it, maybe I need to fiddle with the position of the positioner and see if it really was on the rinse cycle. It could have been on the steam cycle. That would make sense. o_O

That does make sense.

Steam... not smoke.

I'm stupid.

Still clogged, though.

Oh, and the internet isn't working tonight, either. Two of the blogs I like, livejournal and deadjournal, are out so I can't check on people there. deviantART is on read only mode, so I can't submit anything or check on the comments.

NEOPETS IS CLOGGED WITH TRAFFIC!... Three in the morning and it's clogged to a grinding halt. I've been trying to battle for an hour and even when I manage to finish a fight, it won't count towards my score. One hour and I have one measly point against the stupid Black Elm! I've yet to fight the Blathering Beech and the Savage Sycamore. Don't you just love those names? Yes... they're trees. I'm fighting trees. It's three in the morning and I'm trying to fight some trees and I can't because so many other people are trying to fight the trees, too. This is some very popular tree fighting we've got here.

Oh, and George got his hand caught in a press today. Cut the tips of his fingers off and crushed the bones. I'm praying for him and I hope you will too.

Currently: Going back to kick some trees' rear ends... wherever that may be.

So Much To Gossip About

But you know I never hear and tell, so that's out.

There really isn't that much to talk about (besides the juicy gossip). My life is at a stand still. I spend much of my time chatting with my friends on Neopets and Gaia and a few other great forums. I now have Firefox 1.5. I love that you can reorder tabs. I don't love that Curacao is not compatible and I've had to switch to Red Cats Blue Flavor. I couldn't handle a color switch. Must always be blue.

I bought a Prima Strategy Guide to Pharaoh... and I've never seen such a badly written, disgustingly unorganized guide. I'm half way through with it, and I've learned exactly three things which is nice. You know I had gotten the Chronicles of Narnia for Christmas. I read all but the last book in only two weeks. Now I can't seem to get back into it. I absolutely love every book I've read, but the first few chapters of The Last Battle has really turned me off. I can't stand that ape. Someone please tell me it gets better than that! Maybe I'll be able to finish reading it if I knew it got better.

Did I mention that Cinnamon's website has been updated? Yeah. And I'll have to take some more pictures next month and update it. The cat is sick... again... worse than ever. We bought some antibiotics for him... same as we used last time. He really is a mess. He's sneezing all over the place, his eyes are draining, and when he sleeps, he snores. I keep thinking my brother is sleeping on the couch behind me. Who knew my brother and a sick cat have the same exact snore?

I've recently got into a new comic. Well, it's not new, but I'm new to it. Sam and Fuzzy. Check it out. Be sure to read up on the archives, cuz' the ninja stuff is priceless.

I'll have to add links to the things I've mentioned in this entry later, as this posting thing refuses to completely load... the whole top bar is missing. No spell check either, so sorry for all the wrong spellingzes. Also, I won't be able to enlarge my first paragraph and shrink the last, either. Where is my top bar!!!???!!!

EDIT: Top bar finally back and I went link crazy. :D Please note that some of these links are just stupid... but funny.

You know that background music I used to have? Well, the site said it would come back online soon, but that was a few months ago. I don't think it's coming back. *cry* I'll probably upload some midis I made to a free file host. Don't expect it too soon, though. I'm going to procrastinate on that for awhile. Who knew you could plan procrastination?

Currently: Er... Organizing.

You Know Uru

I've been playing Uru - Ages Beyond Myst.

It's nice. The visuals are great, the sound is fine, and the concept is intriguing... but what's the point? It's like looking at a sci-fi art book. The puzzles aren't fun, only annoying... and once you leave the entrance level, you have no guidance whatsoever. Just a vague concept of putting your hand on seven magic pieces of cloth hanging here and there.

It gets really stupid when they say there are seven journeys (that's what they call their magic cloth) in the desert... it's supposed to be something ancient, and yet one of them is hanging off the back of an RV and another on the back of a no trespassing sign.

My advice: Never play this game.

Weight: 185lbs

Let's All Go Swimming!

That would be nice right now.

What is up with that big concrete block thing in front of Glenville Pool? That is the ugliest thing ever. Who thought that one up?

Anywho... I've been working on my own games lately. Boinkers Unlimited! is being debugged and SpyGirls Mazes (never released) is getting some new music. They are both getting their interfaces overhauled and undorkified. After I get these new versions perfected, I'll upload them to all the freeware game sites.

I'm going to scrap my SpyGirls series and take all the games off my website. I get tons of traffic there, but none are interested in the games pages. I've also got some weird emails from the fans. Why are elementary school boys asking me for advice on how to get revenge on their classmates? They are asking the strangest questions about black mail and stuff. Hehe. I have no idea what to write back to them. I used to get easy questions from people, like how do I start a spy group in my school... now I'm getting specific procedural questions from elementary children. This one boy is either lying about his age, or the school system has seriously improved.

Weight: 185lbs

Would You Like Some Cinnamon On That Toast?

Puppy talk is boring, especially to the listener, but when you have a puppy, that's all you want to talk about.

I will do my absolute hardest best to restrain myself to just the following comment. Buster has discovered that knocking over Cinnamon causes her to roll all the way accross the room. He's been doing it non-stop. We should not have shown him that.

Well, I'm almost done with the whole Thousand Year Door thing. I don't know what happened to that promise of finishing the games I have first. I saw it. I bought it. What can I say?

Speaking of great games... I suggest EVERYONE hop over to Vertigo Games and download a free copy of Ore No Ryomi 2. Make sure your start-money goes to beer and a waste disposal system. A buffet is a nice addition, too. I hear they are coming out with an Ore No Ryomi 3. I can't wait!

Weight: 185lbs

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

So...

Did ya' miss me... any?

So, anyways... Phone companies are *snip* (paste) idiots! Particularly AT&T long distance. We had to call Germany because, you know, the uncle was getting sicker and his gal lives over there. Not on our plan... so a couple of hours cost six hundred bucks. Completely up-the-wall re*dic*u*loso!!!! No reduced charges with them, no paying it out over time, no nothing... so... no phone... and no more AT&T. Goodbye suckas! Hello Verizon. Be nice.

So we gots our phone turned on this morning (YAAAYYYYY!!!!!) and sign on to AOL. It says we need to pay its bill first. Understandable. Really. We had it and the phone on the same bill. So we call up trying to pay a check over the phone. They wouldn't do that... weirdos. They want our visa debit over the phone. We do. We give authorization to pay the 57 dollars we owed. They said sign on to aol and type in agree on a popup box and that would authorize the 57 dollars to be sent. We're not stupid. We read the "agreement" first. Nothing about what we discussed was on that "agreement". It basically said we were authorizing thirty bucks to be automatically withdrawn from our checking account each month. Huh? And it also said that it could think up any freaking fees they wanted and have that withdrawn too. *Bleepers* Calling them back didn't help and then they automatically withdrew one dollar from our checking without our permission. To make an already long story short... we're getting a new card number and pass code, blah blah blah, and I'm using Net Zero right now.

Oh, well. Lot's and lot's of junk has happened during this long and unfair absence from a home phone and with it, my only access to the net. Sanity was held only by a little-known, but very addictive game, called Pharaoh Cleopatra. It's a Sim City-esque escapade involving the entire history of Egypt. I've spent countless hours with this game and have led my family, Wepwawet, through 23 generations and still haven't gotten half way through the game.

I'll spare you the boring details of the many goings-ons these past couple of months but will leave you with this. A nifty little list full of mystery and intrigue.

1. a funeral
2. a wedding
3. a lovely new garden
4. a cleaning out of a cave
5. the discovory of the Whitmans
6. a selling of a cave
7. an Independence Day disaster
8. a dabilitating back injury
9. an awesome new tatoo on the Hot Sauce King

Oh... and a new family member!

Meet Cinnamon

Weight: 185lbs (cake was involved)

Raising Chao

I'm taking a break from Resident Evil and have switched over to the whole Sonic series. I just realized I haven't finished one single game that I have of those. I have SO lost my touch.

My brother came back tonight. He brought home his potato launcher and said him and Dad had fun playing with that. I didn't know he had taken it with him or even that he was finished making it. I've been watching him make that thing for a month.

I guess I'll go raise some more chao. It's my new found obsession. Brings back the days when everyone had those little pocket pets. I had plenty of those. Hehe.

Weight: 176lbs

Made A New Game

All this time spent in waiting rooms sure has given me a chance to plan plan plan... on my websites, that is.

I'm almost done with that wish list site which only Misty will know what I'm talking about. Yay!

I've been working on a game all week and I finished it last night. Tonight, I perfected and uploaded it so go check it out! It's called Make It Out Alive! Hehe. Can you?

Weight:176lbs

Don't Read This

I've just been playing RE. I keep dying and dying but at least I've found that room where you can actually remove things from your pockets. That's nice. I thought it was kind of odd that you couldn't set anything down.

I've also decided that before I buy any more games on my wish list, I must actually complete those seven+ games I haven't finished. Either that or give up on them for good. That should save me some wasted bucks and instill in me that age old parable. I forget what it was, but I'm sure it will instill something.

Weight: 176lbs

I Admit It... I Cheat!

I am so tired of playing Resident Evil over and over again only to give up in frustration so early in the game just because I've filled my pockets with useless crap or wasted my bullets trying to kill some zombie I should've just left to play by itself. (Nice run on sentence, Manda)

I know what I'd do, too. I'd just let the disc sit there for a couple of months before I attempted it again, only to give up again, until finally I would never try it, um, again. So I'm taking the easy way out. I'm printing a walkthrough. Hey, at least it's a "spoiler free" walkthrough. I was just gonna' play Jill but since I am cheating, I might as well experience the full story and play both characters. How fun. I must finish this game because I already bought RE2. I loved Zero so much, I thought these would be as great as that one. I guess I'm not that much of a "survivor" but I know I'll enjoy the story. (Must be getting old or something)

Well, I haven't given up getting out of the fish in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I've been trying to do that for about six months now. (Not continuously, though.) I just wish that fish wasn't so darn colorful. I feel queezy every time I play it.

Weight: 176lbs