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Friday, June 26, 2009
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Jeremy has been immortalized via Penny Arcade
*crickets*
Yes. I'm still around. I really don't like blogging as much. Plus whenever I'm on the internets, I'm mostly at work, you know, working. When I get home, I find myself occupied doing other things. But life is good.
Anyways, back to the epic topic at hand.
If you haven't caught Monday's (06/16/08) Penny Arcade, then please read what Tycho wrote. Basically over the weekend Gabe & Tycho were at Darkmoon Faire: Seattle. It's a convention/tournament for the World of Warcraft : Trading Card Game (WoW TCG). Since my boyfriend and I play the TCG and there were many chances to win cool prizes, we went.
[A quick backstory to give more information:
Jeremy and I have been playing the WoW TCG for over a year now. We have a pretty decent understanding of it and what not. Being also PA fans, we noticed Gabe & Tycho started getting into the TCG. Throughout the past conventions of PAX & Sakura Con, we would have Gabe sign any of the cards he had done the art for. Soon Gabe & Tycho would know us at the couple who play the WoW TCG. I had no problem with that.
So last Sakura Con 2008, we go to the Penny Arcade booth in the exhibition room to do our usual get things signed and talk a bit to Gabe & Tycho. We start talking about the TCG and Tycho asks for some advice on his druid deck. We were surprised that he was having difficulties, but we gladly gave him some good advice on how to play his deck and what he was doing incorrectly. Heck, the next day of Sakura Con we brought him an example deck of what he was asking for. So, Gabe was pretty happy and was thinking of many different ideas of how to improve his deck. ]
Fast forward back to the weekend. So Darkmoon Faire had a competition called "Gunslinging" in which you would compete against Gabe's druid deck and if you defeated him, you won a Leeroy Jenkins T-shirt. For those who live under a rock and don't know who Leeroy Jenkins is, click here and familiarize yourself with epic lulz.
So Jeremy goes and challenges Gabe in attempts to get the phat loots and uses his warlock deck:
Jeremy won. In fact he won so hardcore that Gabe & Tycho decided to create a tale of in their comic:
It pretty much went down like that. However instead of Gabe writing "Go FUCK the Devil in HELL!", he instead wished cancer upon Jeremy. It was pretty hilarious. After getting the cool shirt, Jeremy of course asked Gabe to sign it:
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I could not stop laughing at this.
So come Monday. I'm at work, looking forward to the new Penny Arcade to see what they said about Darkmoon Faire. Sometimes their comic goes up before the news. When I first saw the comic, I was in shock. I was thinking to myself, "There is no way this is about Jeremy, but this is what pretty much happened." I immediately call Jeremy and tell him this. He was 90% sure it was about his match with him. Only thing we needed to confirm it was to wait for the news post. Sure enough, the news post confirmed it.
We were floored. I know there are far many grander thing in life that give more prestige to a person, however for geeks, this is truly fucking epic. Not only was this comic hilarious, it was about something that happened to us. Well Jeremy, but shit I was there. :P
Having to be included in a Penny Arcade strip is, pun totally intended plus a BILLION points in geek cred.
Yes, Jeremy and I have already ordered copies of this print. We will be having Gabe sign it at PAX 08.
So yeah, all in all, it was a good weekend and a good Monday.
/flex geek muscle
Yes. I'm still around. I really don't like blogging as much. Plus whenever I'm on the internets, I'm mostly at work, you know, working. When I get home, I find myself occupied doing other things. But life is good.
Anyways, back to the epic topic at hand.
If you haven't caught Monday's (06/16/08) Penny Arcade, then please read what Tycho wrote. Basically over the weekend Gabe & Tycho were at Darkmoon Faire: Seattle. It's a convention/tournament for the World of Warcraft : Trading Card Game (WoW TCG). Since my boyfriend and I play the TCG and there were many chances to win cool prizes, we went.
[A quick backstory to give more information:
Jeremy and I have been playing the WoW TCG for over a year now. We have a pretty decent understanding of it and what not. Being also PA fans, we noticed Gabe & Tycho started getting into the TCG. Throughout the past conventions of PAX & Sakura Con, we would have Gabe sign any of the cards he had done the art for. Soon Gabe & Tycho would know us at the couple who play the WoW TCG. I had no problem with that.
So last Sakura Con 2008, we go to the Penny Arcade booth in the exhibition room to do our usual get things signed and talk a bit to Gabe & Tycho. We start talking about the TCG and Tycho asks for some advice on his druid deck. We were surprised that he was having difficulties, but we gladly gave him some good advice on how to play his deck and what he was doing incorrectly. Heck, the next day of Sakura Con we brought him an example deck of what he was asking for. So, Gabe was pretty happy and was thinking of many different ideas of how to improve his deck. ]
Fast forward back to the weekend. So Darkmoon Faire had a competition called "Gunslinging" in which you would compete against Gabe's druid deck and if you defeated him, you won a Leeroy Jenkins T-shirt. For those who live under a rock and don't know who Leeroy Jenkins is, click here and familiarize yourself with epic lulz.
So Jeremy goes and challenges Gabe in attempts to get the phat loots and uses his warlock deck:
Jeremy won. In fact he won so hardcore that Gabe & Tycho decided to create a tale of in their comic:
It pretty much went down like that. However instead of Gabe writing "Go FUCK the Devil in HELL!", he instead wished cancer upon Jeremy. It was pretty hilarious. After getting the cool shirt, Jeremy of course asked Gabe to sign it:
.I could not stop laughing at this.
So come Monday. I'm at work, looking forward to the new Penny Arcade to see what they said about Darkmoon Faire. Sometimes their comic goes up before the news. When I first saw the comic, I was in shock. I was thinking to myself, "There is no way this is about Jeremy, but this is what pretty much happened." I immediately call Jeremy and tell him this. He was 90% sure it was about his match with him. Only thing we needed to confirm it was to wait for the news post. Sure enough, the news post confirmed it.
We were floored. I know there are far many grander thing in life that give more prestige to a person, however for geeks, this is truly fucking epic. Not only was this comic hilarious, it was about something that happened to us. Well Jeremy, but shit I was there. :P
Having to be included in a Penny Arcade strip is, pun totally intended plus a BILLION points in geek cred.
Yes, Jeremy and I have already ordered copies of this print. We will be having Gabe sign it at PAX 08.
So yeah, all in all, it was a good weekend and a good Monday.
/flex geek muscle
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
TED
I love Geek Nights. They provide me with links to some of the coolest stuff on the internets. Seriously. Not just funny stuff, like my previous post, but really informative things. Like TED. TED, short for Technology Entertainment Design, is a conference held in California, where some of the smartest people in the world share their ideas. These speeches/presentations are recorded and put on the internet.
I can't begin to tell you how really cool these presentations are. You don't need to be super smart to understand what the speakers are saying, they present in a way, that anyone with junior high intelligence can understand.
Anyways, I'll link some of the cooler speeches I've listened to so far:
**Note** Some of these presentations average 10-20 mins, but it's well worth it.
Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind
Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
What's great is I get to actually listen/watch this stuff at work! It's not blocked! So I plan on listening/watching many of the talks on this website.
Hope you guys enjoy!
I can't begin to tell you how really cool these presentations are. You don't need to be super smart to understand what the speakers are saying, they present in a way, that anyone with junior high intelligence can understand.
Anyways, I'll link some of the cooler speeches I've listened to so far:
**Note** Some of these presentations average 10-20 mins, but it's well worth it.
Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind
Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
What's great is I get to actually listen/watch this stuff at work! It's not blocked! So I plan on listening/watching many of the talks on this website.
Hope you guys enjoy!
Baby Jesus is a better cleric!
This has been posted in the Geek Nights forums. I'm pretty sure Chris will be only seeing this, but I know you'll enjoy it. They have some of the best lines.
"Frankincense of eternal flame!"
You should also look at the response videos. Brilliant! XD
"Frankincense of eternal flame!"
You should also look at the response videos. Brilliant! XD
Monday, October 15, 2007
updates, moving, and computers: OH MY!
Holy poop on a stick, it's been since June 20th since I've updated. Sorry. -_- As my usual excuse, I was either lazy or busy, or both.
Anyways, life is going pretty darn great now. Had a very busy last few months, let's see if I can give a brief overview:
June: I can't remember anything special.
July: My 1 year anniversary with Jeremy, went to a Linkin Park concert, move in with Jeremy and lived in Kent.
August: PAX 07. That was probably one of the best conventions I've been to in a long time. Mind you, Sakura Con is fun, but PAX is just an experience of awesomeness. If you read PA and their posts about PAX, it was pretty much spot on. I look forward to attending PAX 08. And for a lil' something something to show how cool PAX was, this came in the goody bags:
September: Justin Timberlake Concert! *sigh* Yes, I am a girl. I love boy bands. Well probably "loved". I don't think I can get into any new boy bands, but Justin Timberlake = my #1 on my "Free 5". He maybe not much an actor, but imo, he's a great singer, dance, musician, entertainer. Went with my best friend and another friend. It was good times. Thank goodness I brought the earplugs to drown out the screaming fangirls.
Recent: Jeremy lost his job as the supervisor maintenance technician (09/27/07), which meant we had only a few days to find a new place according to the contract of being terminated. I cannot expresss how stressful that week was. We got extended to stay a week at our aparement in Kent, in hopes to look for a new place because it is almost impossible to find a new place towards the end of the month. Most available units are already taken and ready to be moved into. We were pretty much at the point where we were gonna move our stuff to my parents garage and live with my parents for a few weeks, however, Jeremy found a new job as a Lead Maintenance Tech for an apartment complex in Federal Way. So now, I live in Federal Way. The apartment is bigger, but we pretty much pay the same amount in rent. So far, I am enjoying the new place, the commute is shorter by 15 minutes to work. We are a lot closer to certain conveniences: grocery store, food, etc, except for movie theater. Only thing that kinda sucks, is that the cats have to stay inside because we live on a 2nd floor unit. I'm not a big fan of cat litter and the smell, but it's not too bad. Also either the celing/floors are thing or our upstairs neighbor steps like a fucking giant. And when he does walk, it's like between 12AM - 2AM in the morning. For now, I am enjoying the new place.
At the same time Jeremy lost his job, I was planning on buying a new computer. I've been researching it for a few months and have been listening to Geek Nights and their podcasts about "Buying a New Computer". It informed me about a lot of things I never knew about computers, and I feel a bit smarter from it. But it was past due for me to get a new computer. I've recently gotten back into playing WoW on a frequent basis. Jeremy made 2 toons on my account and man, oh mans, is he addicted. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. I needed a new computer because I planned on Jeremy getting his own WoW account and transferring his characters over. Also my computer is too slow for my preference. Also I like to download a crap ton of stuff. Having a 60 gig hard drive pretty much limits that. So after researching many prices and consulting with a friend, I went to a local store and had a computer built for around $1K. Oh man, how I love my new computer. Here are some of the specs:
Mobo: Asus M2N-E nForce 570 Ultra AMD (AM2)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5200+ 2.6GHz (AM2)
RAM: 2 gigs
Video Card: EVGA 256-P2-N761-AR GF GeForce 8600GTS 256MB PCI Express
Hard Drive: 2 SATA HDs (80 gig & 250 gig)
DVD/CD player
DVD/CD burner
Case: Antec Sonata III case w/ 500w power supply
I can really see the difference in performance my new computer. I am in love with it. I was happy when I realized how I can easily put my old & new computer on a network and transfer my files, settings, and especially my iTunes library to the new computer. Right now I'm running XP, but I keep hearing about Linux & Ubuntu. I am very curious to try out Linux, but at the same time leary, because I'm so used to XP, I use it at home and at work, and I'm also lazy. But I hear how much Linux doesn't mess up as much as XP, plus it uses less memory. I especially get Linux pushed by me at the Geek Nights forums. One day. We'll see. I also finally put Firefox on my new computer. Holy shit, what was I thinking using IE. Firefox = love. So now Jeremy & I play WoW together. I try not to play too much, but I'm slowly but surely getting my main toon to level 70 and might actually get some endgame going on. I mostly just quest with Jeremy and try to teach him a few things or two.
So yeah, that's pretty much my life right now. Still trying to finish unpacking the apartment, enjoying the new apartment, and what not. I've been living together with Jeremy for almost 3 months. It's been a bumpy ride, but overall I am loving it and very happy. Only thing I need now, is a dog, but that won't happen anytime soon.
Anyways, life is going pretty darn great now. Had a very busy last few months, let's see if I can give a brief overview:
June: I can't remember anything special.
July: My 1 year anniversary with Jeremy, went to a Linkin Park concert, move in with Jeremy and lived in Kent.
August: PAX 07. That was probably one of the best conventions I've been to in a long time. Mind you, Sakura Con is fun, but PAX is just an experience of awesomeness. If you read PA and their posts about PAX, it was pretty much spot on. I look forward to attending PAX 08. And for a lil' something something to show how cool PAX was, this came in the goody bags:
September: Justin Timberlake Concert! *sigh* Yes, I am a girl. I love boy bands. Well probably "loved". I don't think I can get into any new boy bands, but Justin Timberlake = my #1 on my "Free 5". He maybe not much an actor, but imo, he's a great singer, dance, musician, entertainer. Went with my best friend and another friend. It was good times. Thank goodness I brought the earplugs to drown out the screaming fangirls.
Recent: Jeremy lost his job as the supervisor maintenance technician (09/27/07), which meant we had only a few days to find a new place according to the contract of being terminated. I cannot expresss how stressful that week was. We got extended to stay a week at our aparement in Kent, in hopes to look for a new place because it is almost impossible to find a new place towards the end of the month. Most available units are already taken and ready to be moved into. We were pretty much at the point where we were gonna move our stuff to my parents garage and live with my parents for a few weeks, however, Jeremy found a new job as a Lead Maintenance Tech for an apartment complex in Federal Way. So now, I live in Federal Way. The apartment is bigger, but we pretty much pay the same amount in rent. So far, I am enjoying the new place, the commute is shorter by 15 minutes to work. We are a lot closer to certain conveniences: grocery store, food, etc, except for movie theater. Only thing that kinda sucks, is that the cats have to stay inside because we live on a 2nd floor unit. I'm not a big fan of cat litter and the smell, but it's not too bad. Also either the celing/floors are thing or our upstairs neighbor steps like a fucking giant. And when he does walk, it's like between 12AM - 2AM in the morning. For now, I am enjoying the new place.
At the same time Jeremy lost his job, I was planning on buying a new computer. I've been researching it for a few months and have been listening to Geek Nights and their podcasts about "Buying a New Computer". It informed me about a lot of things I never knew about computers, and I feel a bit smarter from it. But it was past due for me to get a new computer. I've recently gotten back into playing WoW on a frequent basis. Jeremy made 2 toons on my account and man, oh mans, is he addicted. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. I needed a new computer because I planned on Jeremy getting his own WoW account and transferring his characters over. Also my computer is too slow for my preference. Also I like to download a crap ton of stuff. Having a 60 gig hard drive pretty much limits that. So after researching many prices and consulting with a friend, I went to a local store and had a computer built for around $1K. Oh man, how I love my new computer. Here are some of the specs:
Mobo: Asus M2N-E nForce 570 Ultra AMD (AM2)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5200+ 2.6GHz (AM2)
RAM: 2 gigs
Video Card: EVGA 256-P2-N761-AR GF GeForce 8600GTS 256MB PCI Express
Hard Drive: 2 SATA HDs (80 gig & 250 gig)
DVD/CD player
DVD/CD burner
Case: Antec Sonata III case w/ 500w power supply
I can really see the difference in performance my new computer. I am in love with it. I was happy when I realized how I can easily put my old & new computer on a network and transfer my files, settings, and especially my iTunes library to the new computer. Right now I'm running XP, but I keep hearing about Linux & Ubuntu. I am very curious to try out Linux, but at the same time leary, because I'm so used to XP, I use it at home and at work, and I'm also lazy. But I hear how much Linux doesn't mess up as much as XP, plus it uses less memory. I especially get Linux pushed by me at the Geek Nights forums. One day. We'll see. I also finally put Firefox on my new computer. Holy shit, what was I thinking using IE. Firefox = love. So now Jeremy & I play WoW together. I try not to play too much, but I'm slowly but surely getting my main toon to level 70 and might actually get some endgame going on. I mostly just quest with Jeremy and try to teach him a few things or two.
So yeah, that's pretty much my life right now. Still trying to finish unpacking the apartment, enjoying the new apartment, and what not. I've been living together with Jeremy for almost 3 months. It's been a bumpy ride, but overall I am loving it and very happy. Only thing I need now, is a dog, but that won't happen anytime soon.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Podcasts
For a while now, I've been an avid fan girl of listening to a Podcast on Harry Potter called MuggleCast. They update weekly on Sunday and it's basically a bunch of young peoples that just talk about anything Harry Potter. I've been listening to them since last September and am absolutely in love with them. If anything they are the main reason I became such a big HP fan girl. They honestly have really good discussion and theories about the HP world and predicitons of what is to come in Deathly Hallows. They are based out of the website MuggleNet. This is a website all done by fans, originally created by a teenager and ran by teenagers for most part. It's an amazing site with tons of great links and info. But anyways, the podcast is pretty cool and has kept me very entertained at work and has given me new ideas and insight about Harry Potter and whatever.
Recently I was pointed in the direct of a new podcast called Geek Nights. I found it from a blog post from Anath of Apple Geeks. This is podcast done by two guys, Scott & Rym that talk about anything along the geek spectrum. They basically do 4 podcasts a week, Monday is Science/Technology, Tuesday is Gaming, Wednesday is Anime/Comics, and Thursday is a open discussion. I got lasts week's episodes to try them out.
and man...
This podcast is awesome. I could not stop laughing and be entertained by these guys. They are absolutely hilarious and I can not talk enough about how awesome this podcast is. If you haven't heard of them, you need to go download their shit and listen to them. I then started downloading more episodes, one anime one that goes over Revolutionarly Girl Utena, which is one of the best episodes I've listened to. If you've seen this series, you need to listen to their podcast, because the way they desribe and review it, hits the nail on the head and makes you "lol" all the way through.
I really look forward to listening through their archives. But yeah go get it!
And if you listen to other podcasts, what do you listen to? I'm curious to know and see what else is out there.
Recently I was pointed in the direct of a new podcast called Geek Nights. I found it from a blog post from Anath of Apple Geeks. This is podcast done by two guys, Scott & Rym that talk about anything along the geek spectrum. They basically do 4 podcasts a week, Monday is Science/Technology, Tuesday is Gaming, Wednesday is Anime/Comics, and Thursday is a open discussion. I got lasts week's episodes to try them out.
and man...
This podcast is awesome. I could not stop laughing and be entertained by these guys. They are absolutely hilarious and I can not talk enough about how awesome this podcast is. If you haven't heard of them, you need to go download their shit and listen to them. I then started downloading more episodes, one anime one that goes over Revolutionarly Girl Utena, which is one of the best episodes I've listened to. If you've seen this series, you need to listen to their podcast, because the way they desribe and review it, hits the nail on the head and makes you "lol" all the way through.
I really look forward to listening through their archives. But yeah go get it!
And if you listen to other podcasts, what do you listen to? I'm curious to know and see what else is out there.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
i hate you otakon
; _ ;
Damn you Otakon for having such awesome guests this year! & I can't afford to go in such a short notice.
Guest list
Freaking Morio Asaka, director of Card Captor Sakura..
Tomokazu Seki, voice actor for Toya Kinomoto from CCS and my most favortie of his.. Van Fanel from Escaflowne! >.<
Freaking STEVE BLUM! American Voice actor for Spike Speigel of Cowboy Bebop and Mugen of Samurai Champloo! One of my most favorite american voice actors!
QQ just QQ
I should plan to go to Otakon next year..
/cry
/emo
/wrists
Damn you Otakon for having such awesome guests this year! & I can't afford to go in such a short notice.
Guest list
Freaking Morio Asaka, director of Card Captor Sakura..
Tomokazu Seki, voice actor for Toya Kinomoto from CCS and my most favortie of his.. Van Fanel from Escaflowne! >.<
Freaking STEVE BLUM! American Voice actor for Spike Speigel of Cowboy Bebop and Mugen of Samurai Champloo! One of my most favorite american voice actors!
QQ just QQ
I should plan to go to Otakon next year..
/cry
/emo
/wrists
Friday, June 8, 2007
me = phantom poster!
Yeah it's been over a month since I have posted anything. It's not that I'm extremely busy, although I have been busy, and it's not that I suck, it's just that I'm that darn lazy. :P
No, seriously, my time at work and usage of the internets has become more limited, not because my work blocks me from certain websites, but the fact that my work keeps me actually fairly occupied, which is good.
So how are things, you say?
Well things are going well. Can't believe it's already June. Man, next month I will be moving in with Jeremy. I'm very excited. It's really getting old having to leave his place late at night during the weekdays that I do see him, when I'd rather just pass out in his bed, or always having to pack stuff to go hang out for the weekend etc. It will be nice having someone to hang out with on weekday evenings to just do whatever. From going out to the movies, playing some WoW TCG, or just vegging in front of the tv, just having that sort of company is something I have honestly missed over these past few months. Mind you, I do enjoy living on my own. I'm happy that I have finally experienced it for almost a good year. I feel most, if not all people should experience it. At least it makes me feel accomplished to know I can live on my own. Never thought I'd see the day. Heh.
I've gotten back into working out regularly. Especially at work. Having a very sendintary job makes it hard to make sure you get some exercise in, however a few coworkers and myself have found ways around this. During our breaks we climb stairs and during my lunch I go to the gym here and go on the cross trainer for a 15-20 mins then work out on the weights. I want to lose 20-30 more lbs and I'll be happy with myself. I'll be honest, my diet hasn't been the best. I've started going back to old habits which is very very bad, so I'm changing it again and making sure that I'm eating better. So let's just hope I can keep with it! ^_^
I've also beeing playing more WoW, the MMO that is. With playing the TCG with Jeremy, there has been a lingering feeling, a yearning to get back into the MMO, to finally see the new content. I'm happy I got back into it, however I'm still not, nor do I plan to play as much as I once did. I'll play whenever I feel like it, but if something else comes up or Jeremy wants to hang out, I'd rather do that. Yeah and now Jeremy is intrigued to play the MMO. I told him that if he does play, I don't want our lives to revolve around it. So I think I'll let him try out a new toon on my account and just get a new account, however we will definitely need to get a new computer for it. His puter is so not compatible for playing an MMO.
Also with WoW, the TCG has really gotten me hooked to it. We've been going weekly tournaments to a really cool new shop in Spanaway called House of Flying Monkeys. The store owners are awesome and it's a really fun, although, small place to hang out. But yeah Jeremy is really into it more than I am, however we do plan on going to the upcoming Regionals tournament and hoping to do well there. Yes, I'm a CCG geek/nerd now. I even go to their forums to look up an converse with other WoW TCG players to talk about strategy, decks, etc. Never thought I'd see this day. ^^;;
Movies. Geez so many good movies this year. However, Spiderman 3 was poop. I was pretty pissed after I saw it. I won't go into details, I'm sure many others have explained why they didn't like it, and more than likely I agree with it. Pirates was very enjoyable, the ending was a bit sad for me, but still good. Shrek was good. Not as good as the first 2, however having Justin Timberlake be a voice actor on there, made the experience enjoyable. ^^ =P Going to buy Harry Potter OOTP tickets for IMAX on Monday. Now this movie, is probably the #1 movie I have been eagerly anticipating to watch for 2007. Since Order of the Phoenix is so far my favorite book of the series, I keep watching the trailers over and over again and looking at still shots from mugglenet and listening to old podcasts from Mugglecast. I've heard a lot about the movie, and even though I know there is gonna be a lot of stuff from the book not in the movie, I really do hope that the movie will be really good. Also the last 20 mins the movie will be in 3D at IMAX, which means a it's gonna be awesome. I won't give spoilers, but just imagine the various scenes at the Ministry of Magic in 3D.. ZOMG! SQUEE!
In regards to Harry Potter, I'm currently rereading book 6. I'm actually on time. I should finish book 6 before the end of the month and pick up this book made by the creators of Mugglenet called "What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7". Looks pretty intriguing. It's actually a best seller, and it's just cool it's written by fans who are our age if not younger. Well actually younger. Like 18-20 year olds. Yeah that's not my age. In fact I'm 27. Gah! May 23rd was my bday. I'm not into being all big in anouncing my bday, but it was a good bday. I got a digital camera w/ docking station/printer from my parents, and Jeremy got me a really kick ass Serenity poster that is movie theater quality, that's double sided, the type you put in a lighted case. Pic included: ^^
Isn't it purdy?
But yes it was quite a pleasant birthday. I'm just a bit freaked at being 27. I know I'm still young, but damn, 3 years till 30. >.< Not looking forward to that. And what's even worse, my marital biological clock is ticking. Not that I'm really hinting it or telling Jeremy. I'm gonna let it go with the flow with him. Things are going very well with him, but part of me is getting the wedding bell itch. Damn womanish tendencies. But anyways...
Oh yeah movies still. Looking forward to seeing Transformers. I'm just going in expecting really cool special effects and action. Storyline.. haha yeah right. I even want to watch the Die Hard sequel, mostly because Justin Long is in it! ^_^ Ratatouille looks really good, hopefully better than Cars. Damn you Pixar for having a Nascar movie. >.<
But along with summer movies, there is also summer concerts! I'm very excited to say that I will so being going to see Justin Timberlake in Portland. I did have Tacoma tickets however that coincides with Rod Run, a hot rod festival in Long Beach, WA that I like to go to every year because my home girl lives there and it's always fun to go to. So yeah I'll be seeing Justin then partying it up with friends and looking at hot cars in September. But before that I'll be going to see Linkin Park. Jeremy and I got the basic cheap lawn tickets. We really didn't have the money for the good seats, however we both knew we really wanted to see Linkin Park and they are going to be here in July. And even more cooler, on our Anniversary! It was like it was preordained that this was to be. Because Jeremy and I really enjoy LP and have always been saying that if they do come back to Washington for a concert we would go, and lo' and behold they do! And on our anniversary of all days! So that will be a fun time to spend our anniversary together. And that following weekend I'l be moving in. Very fun week.
But hmm.. yeah also including PAX in August, this summer is going to be a very busy but fun filled summer. But umm..yeah that's about it for me for most part. Life is good.
No, seriously, my time at work and usage of the internets has become more limited, not because my work blocks me from certain websites, but the fact that my work keeps me actually fairly occupied, which is good.
So how are things, you say?
Well things are going well. Can't believe it's already June. Man, next month I will be moving in with Jeremy. I'm very excited. It's really getting old having to leave his place late at night during the weekdays that I do see him, when I'd rather just pass out in his bed, or always having to pack stuff to go hang out for the weekend etc. It will be nice having someone to hang out with on weekday evenings to just do whatever. From going out to the movies, playing some WoW TCG, or just vegging in front of the tv, just having that sort of company is something I have honestly missed over these past few months. Mind you, I do enjoy living on my own. I'm happy that I have finally experienced it for almost a good year. I feel most, if not all people should experience it. At least it makes me feel accomplished to know I can live on my own. Never thought I'd see the day. Heh.
I've gotten back into working out regularly. Especially at work. Having a very sendintary job makes it hard to make sure you get some exercise in, however a few coworkers and myself have found ways around this. During our breaks we climb stairs and during my lunch I go to the gym here and go on the cross trainer for a 15-20 mins then work out on the weights. I want to lose 20-30 more lbs and I'll be happy with myself. I'll be honest, my diet hasn't been the best. I've started going back to old habits which is very very bad, so I'm changing it again and making sure that I'm eating better. So let's just hope I can keep with it! ^_^
I've also beeing playing more WoW, the MMO that is. With playing the TCG with Jeremy, there has been a lingering feeling, a yearning to get back into the MMO, to finally see the new content. I'm happy I got back into it, however I'm still not, nor do I plan to play as much as I once did. I'll play whenever I feel like it, but if something else comes up or Jeremy wants to hang out, I'd rather do that. Yeah and now Jeremy is intrigued to play the MMO. I told him that if he does play, I don't want our lives to revolve around it. So I think I'll let him try out a new toon on my account and just get a new account, however we will definitely need to get a new computer for it. His puter is so not compatible for playing an MMO.
Also with WoW, the TCG has really gotten me hooked to it. We've been going weekly tournaments to a really cool new shop in Spanaway called House of Flying Monkeys. The store owners are awesome and it's a really fun, although, small place to hang out. But yeah Jeremy is really into it more than I am, however we do plan on going to the upcoming Regionals tournament and hoping to do well there. Yes, I'm a CCG geek/nerd now. I even go to their forums to look up an converse with other WoW TCG players to talk about strategy, decks, etc. Never thought I'd see this day. ^^;;
Movies. Geez so many good movies this year. However, Spiderman 3 was poop. I was pretty pissed after I saw it. I won't go into details, I'm sure many others have explained why they didn't like it, and more than likely I agree with it. Pirates was very enjoyable, the ending was a bit sad for me, but still good. Shrek was good. Not as good as the first 2, however having Justin Timberlake be a voice actor on there, made the experience enjoyable. ^^ =P Going to buy Harry Potter OOTP tickets for IMAX on Monday. Now this movie, is probably the #1 movie I have been eagerly anticipating to watch for 2007. Since Order of the Phoenix is so far my favorite book of the series, I keep watching the trailers over and over again and looking at still shots from mugglenet and listening to old podcasts from Mugglecast. I've heard a lot about the movie, and even though I know there is gonna be a lot of stuff from the book not in the movie, I really do hope that the movie will be really good. Also the last 20 mins the movie will be in 3D at IMAX, which means a it's gonna be awesome. I won't give spoilers, but just imagine the various scenes at the Ministry of Magic in 3D.. ZOMG! SQUEE!
In regards to Harry Potter, I'm currently rereading book 6. I'm actually on time. I should finish book 6 before the end of the month and pick up this book made by the creators of Mugglenet called "What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7". Looks pretty intriguing. It's actually a best seller, and it's just cool it's written by fans who are our age if not younger. Well actually younger. Like 18-20 year olds. Yeah that's not my age. In fact I'm 27. Gah! May 23rd was my bday. I'm not into being all big in anouncing my bday, but it was a good bday. I got a digital camera w/ docking station/printer from my parents, and Jeremy got me a really kick ass Serenity poster that is movie theater quality, that's double sided, the type you put in a lighted case. Pic included: ^^
Isn't it purdy?
But yes it was quite a pleasant birthday. I'm just a bit freaked at being 27. I know I'm still young, but damn, 3 years till 30. >.< Not looking forward to that. And what's even worse, my marital biological clock is ticking. Not that I'm really hinting it or telling Jeremy. I'm gonna let it go with the flow with him. Things are going very well with him, but part of me is getting the wedding bell itch. Damn womanish tendencies. But anyways...
Oh yeah movies still. Looking forward to seeing Transformers. I'm just going in expecting really cool special effects and action. Storyline.. haha yeah right. I even want to watch the Die Hard sequel, mostly because Justin Long is in it! ^_^ Ratatouille looks really good, hopefully better than Cars. Damn you Pixar for having a Nascar movie. >.<
But along with summer movies, there is also summer concerts! I'm very excited to say that I will so being going to see Justin Timberlake in Portland. I did have Tacoma tickets however that coincides with Rod Run, a hot rod festival in Long Beach, WA that I like to go to every year because my home girl lives there and it's always fun to go to. So yeah I'll be seeing Justin then partying it up with friends and looking at hot cars in September. But before that I'll be going to see Linkin Park. Jeremy and I got the basic cheap lawn tickets. We really didn't have the money for the good seats, however we both knew we really wanted to see Linkin Park and they are going to be here in July. And even more cooler, on our Anniversary! It was like it was preordained that this was to be. Because Jeremy and I really enjoy LP and have always been saying that if they do come back to Washington for a concert we would go, and lo' and behold they do! And on our anniversary of all days! So that will be a fun time to spend our anniversary together. And that following weekend I'l be moving in. Very fun week.
But hmm.. yeah also including PAX in August, this summer is going to be a very busy but fun filled summer. But umm..yeah that's about it for me for most part. Life is good.
Monday, April 30, 2007
O_O
The 2 new Harry Potter trailers just blew me away.
I'm finally done with reading the whole series, other than book 7 and am rereading Order of the Phoenix. I'm already 300 pages in.
But OMG OMG OMG. I'm way too excited for this movie. It's gonna be pimp.
But OMG OMG Spidey this Thursday night!
woot for the '07 movies that are starting!
I'm finally done with reading the whole series, other than book 7 and am rereading Order of the Phoenix. I'm already 300 pages in.
But OMG OMG OMG. I'm way too excited for this movie. It's gonna be pimp.
But OMG OMG Spidey this Thursday night!
woot for the '07 movies that are starting!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Spidey 3 at IMAX
FYI to you Washingtonians. IMAX tickets for Spiderman 3 are now on sale. I already bought midnight tickets.
You can get them online here, however I will be up there this Saturday for the Cherry Blossom Festival, if you are interested in coming, I can grab some tickets for you. Let me know! More Spidey fans the merrier! ^_^
You can get them online here, however I will be up there this Saturday for the Cherry Blossom Festival, if you are interested in coming, I can grab some tickets for you. Let me know! More Spidey fans the merrier! ^_^
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
so geeky it hurts
Finally found some time to be able to report on the weekends shenanigans at ECCC (Emerald City Comicon). I had a pretty fun time overall, however, I spent WAY too much money there, and mostly on Jeremy. ^^;; I can't help it, the sugar momma in me loves to spoil. It will be my downfall, I already know this. >.>
Comicon
It was my first ECCC, and it was pretty cool. We got there on Saturday after the WoW TCG tourney, later explained in this post, and walked around. Jeremy and I were able to get some of the WoW Trading Card Game cards signed by Gabe from Penny Arcade, because he did the artwork for some of the cards. It was cool that Gabe and Tycho remember me from the many past Sakura Cons as well as PAX's. Had some cool convos w/ them. Jeremy was just really happy that he got his cards signed and was kinda impressed that I kinda knew Gabe & Tycho. lol. Since they had the booth there, I partook in delights of purchasing a few tshirts. I bought Jeremy the RPG Shirt & got myself the Viva Miyamoto shirt, althought it's a guys medium, they were out of the girly sizes. Ah well it works. Jeremy also wanted Gabe to draw him a picture of Fruit Fucker, but didn't have anything to write on, so I bought the first book to Penny Arcade to replace the one that was so conveniently taken by a certain ex.
Walked around more. Got my Powers vol 1-3 signed by Bendis & Oeming. They were pretty cool people. I didn't partake in the Sunday armwrestling of Oeming for Powers Art. I was pretty broke by then. However, they were giving out free black & white cardboard poster as well as a funny childrens coloring book based on Powers. (pic below)
Saw a lot of cool booths that sold various things. There were even many anime themed booths that gave a lil' preview of what to expect from Sakura Con.
Also stopped by the PvP booth and met Scott Kurtz. Got him to autograph the limited edition cells he made for ECCC. (pic below) He and his wife seemed pretty cool.
On a side not at Comicon, Jeremy and I wore our matching Pandamonium T shirts from Threadless. Jeremy wore a hoody over his shirt so no one could really see exactly how cool we were! >.> XD But it was funny because I saw some people who glanced at me or pointed at me, and were talking about my shirt. It seems that my shirt was recognizable as well as there were a good number of people wearing Threadless shirts. It was pretty spiffy. On Sunday I wore the Meat is Murder shirt and got some pretty funny grins and snickers. :D
On a note worth mentioning, there was a booth that I saw a picture of a really cute bunny by the name of Brinkerhoff. There was a local guy who does the webcomic. I was intrigued mostly because it was cute animals that looked sarcastic. Always a good thing, cute animals with attitudes. The artist, Gabe, told me what his comic was about, basically a bunny rabbit going through a divorce w/ this wife and children and his experiences with his friend, Hank, the happy go lucky and sometimes oblivous, hedgehog. I read some of the enlarged strips he had on display and giggled with glee. I immediately purchased one of his comic books and stickers. The comic that hooked me was this one. The line in the last panel is priceless! XD I think I'll use most of today to read and catch up on his comic. Yay another webcomic for me to look forward to reading!
Sunday we went back mainly for the other WoW Trading Card game tourney, which is later explained because it's actually a pretty damn funny story. Got a few more things signed, walked around, and eventually left. Overall it's was a fun convention. Dunno if I'll go next year. More than likely. Got a few more pics to share from it. Because one of the guests of honor was the guy who played Chewbacca from Star Wars, there were a good amount of Star Wars fans there and Jeremy and I happened to get a pic:
Yes. We are geeks. ^_^
World of Warcraft Trading Card Game
On Saturday, before Comicon, we went to the WoW Trading Card Game Dark Portal set prerelease tournament at Seattle Center, like I stated in a previous post. I was mainly going there for Jeremy because he is really into the TCG and you get free special cards for showing up/participating as well as a chance to win prizes. There was a $25 entry fee, and I actually had to sign up with Upper Deck Entertainment. The tournament basically consisted of using 4 packs of the current release deck "Heroes of Azeroth" and 2 packs of the not-yet-released "Dark Portal" set, make a deck out of it and play in a tournament. Now I know how to play the game because Jeremy taught me, however, I really had not desire or aspiration to participate with such enthusiasm as Jeremy or his friends. However, there is a rare card that they give you for participating, so I ask the judges if I can just pay, get the cards and leave, and they replied, "No, to get the rare card you have to at least play one round, and after that we will do a drawing for prizes". Much to my non-enthusiastic reaction, I humbly sighed and sucked it up, made my deck and awaited till they anounced the first round playoffs.
Ironic as they can be, my first round, I was paired off to play, of all people of the 50 geeks that were there, Jeremy. Yes, my boyfriend. WTF? Dunno how that happened, but hey irony and my many life events go hand in hand. Based on the cards I was able to use, I had to make a *shudders* paladin. *shudders*. Yes, I still feel very very very dirty from using it, however it was a Horde Blood Elf Paladin, so that sorta makes up for it. I downright refused to make an alliance deck. Anyways, I played vs Jeremy and actually held my own, but in the end lost. I gave him the "evil eye" in jealousy to beating me, but forgave him, j/k.
After that, we waited for the postings of the next round. I ended up playing a young kid and beat him! woot! But before we started playing, they passed out the rare card they said they were gonna give out that round, and also anounced the winners in a drawing for a Dark Portal Card box. What was funny was as the judge was anouncing the winners, he stated beforehand, "Now this is how it came to be, I swear to you, it isn't rigged". Guess whose name he announced. Yes. Me. I started lol'ing my way up to collect my prize. It's funny because I know I'm the reason why he stated that "wasn't rigged" thing, because they knew I was there for Jeremy. So I guess I a lucky charm for Jeremy so he could get cool stuff. Pics below. After my 3rd round, I lost and decided after that to opt out so we could head over to Comicon.
Here is a closeup for the Dark Portal Card Box I won:
and here is me with the card box with the big cheesey smile! :D
On the Sunday tournament at Comicon, it was just the basic deck tournament. We made the best deck out of 4 booster packs that we were actually able to pass around each deck among a certain number of people. I made an Alliance Hunter deck because I knew there were easy to use and normally easy to win with.
It was kinda funny because the judge that was there, was one of the judges from the previous day's tournament. I'm sure he recognized Jeremy and myself. But my first round I won, mainly because I played a guy who was playing for the first time, and I was mostly teaching him how to play. Took a while to play but I won because I r leet. 2nd round I ended up losing to Jeremy's friend, Dave. It was inevitable. Dave has a knack for collectible card games, as he also plays Yu-gi-oh and Magic. But I think I held my own for a while. But yeah, so as we walked around to kill the time as Dave was competing in the semi-finals, we came back, and the judge, who has a funny name of "Kevin Smith", seriously that's his name, he came up to me and said "Hey Rochelle, just so you know, we had a drawing and you won this":
It was a Dark Portal Playmat. I was like OMG! NO WAI! It was so funny. I was so excited I gave him a hug, well not too big of a hug cuz Jeremy was there. ^^:; but it was hilarious. Here I am winning another prize. Me, a person who isn't a fanatic of the TCG. Jeremy had this look of disbelief, even though deep down he knew I was going to be giving him the prize. After that, I was just giggling because of the irony of it all. Jeremy was kinda bitter because he didn't really win anything but the cards that we played with. He was saying "That is so HAX". I bet you won those conveniently because you're a girl, you're asian/islander & cuz you're cute."
After he made that comment, it made me think on it a bit. He was probably right, well partially at that. I mean yeah more than likely I might have won them because I was a girl, but in all honesty, if that was trully the case, it would be possibly the first time I got something because of that. It's kinda flattering, actually, no, it IS flattering and a bit of an ego booster, however, I normally would like to be credited based on merits other than things of superficiality, but dammit, that felt good. But after thinking about that, I replied, "well think of it this way honey, you get free stuff regardless, you are dating a cute girl and remember next time for any tournament, make sure to bring me along!" lol
XD hehe ^^
But yeah, as much as I hate to admit this, I actually enjoyed playing the Horde Paladin deck, and Jeremy helped me later on that weekend create a good deck. & overall I enjoyed playing the game more. I might actually have to stop by Game Matrix on Friday evenings to play.
So yeah Comicon was a blast, now I have Sakura Con to look forward too. Man another busy weekend of spending monies. >.<
Comicon
It was my first ECCC, and it was pretty cool. We got there on Saturday after the WoW TCG tourney, later explained in this post, and walked around. Jeremy and I were able to get some of the WoW Trading Card Game cards signed by Gabe from Penny Arcade, because he did the artwork for some of the cards. It was cool that Gabe and Tycho remember me from the many past Sakura Cons as well as PAX's. Had some cool convos w/ them. Jeremy was just really happy that he got his cards signed and was kinda impressed that I kinda knew Gabe & Tycho. lol. Since they had the booth there, I partook in delights of purchasing a few tshirts. I bought Jeremy the RPG Shirt & got myself the Viva Miyamoto shirt, althought it's a guys medium, they were out of the girly sizes. Ah well it works. Jeremy also wanted Gabe to draw him a picture of Fruit Fucker, but didn't have anything to write on, so I bought the first book to Penny Arcade to replace the one that was so conveniently taken by a certain ex.
Walked around more. Got my Powers vol 1-3 signed by Bendis & Oeming. They were pretty cool people. I didn't partake in the Sunday armwrestling of Oeming for Powers Art. I was pretty broke by then. However, they were giving out free black & white cardboard poster as well as a funny childrens coloring book based on Powers. (pic below)
Saw a lot of cool booths that sold various things. There were even many anime themed booths that gave a lil' preview of what to expect from Sakura Con.
Also stopped by the PvP booth and met Scott Kurtz. Got him to autograph the limited edition cells he made for ECCC. (pic below) He and his wife seemed pretty cool.
On a side not at Comicon, Jeremy and I wore our matching Pandamonium T shirts from Threadless. Jeremy wore a hoody over his shirt so no one could really see exactly how cool we were! >.> XD But it was funny because I saw some people who glanced at me or pointed at me, and were talking about my shirt. It seems that my shirt was recognizable as well as there were a good number of people wearing Threadless shirts. It was pretty spiffy. On Sunday I wore the Meat is Murder shirt and got some pretty funny grins and snickers. :D
On a note worth mentioning, there was a booth that I saw a picture of a really cute bunny by the name of Brinkerhoff. There was a local guy who does the webcomic. I was intrigued mostly because it was cute animals that looked sarcastic. Always a good thing, cute animals with attitudes. The artist, Gabe, told me what his comic was about, basically a bunny rabbit going through a divorce w/ this wife and children and his experiences with his friend, Hank, the happy go lucky and sometimes oblivous, hedgehog. I read some of the enlarged strips he had on display and giggled with glee. I immediately purchased one of his comic books and stickers. The comic that hooked me was this one. The line in the last panel is priceless! XD I think I'll use most of today to read and catch up on his comic. Yay another webcomic for me to look forward to reading!
Sunday we went back mainly for the other WoW Trading Card game tourney, which is later explained because it's actually a pretty damn funny story. Got a few more things signed, walked around, and eventually left. Overall it's was a fun convention. Dunno if I'll go next year. More than likely. Got a few more pics to share from it. Because one of the guests of honor was the guy who played Chewbacca from Star Wars, there were a good amount of Star Wars fans there and Jeremy and I happened to get a pic:
Yes. We are geeks. ^_^
World of Warcraft Trading Card Game
On Saturday, before Comicon, we went to the WoW Trading Card Game Dark Portal set prerelease tournament at Seattle Center, like I stated in a previous post. I was mainly going there for Jeremy because he is really into the TCG and you get free special cards for showing up/participating as well as a chance to win prizes. There was a $25 entry fee, and I actually had to sign up with Upper Deck Entertainment. The tournament basically consisted of using 4 packs of the current release deck "Heroes of Azeroth" and 2 packs of the not-yet-released "Dark Portal" set, make a deck out of it and play in a tournament. Now I know how to play the game because Jeremy taught me, however, I really had not desire or aspiration to participate with such enthusiasm as Jeremy or his friends. However, there is a rare card that they give you for participating, so I ask the judges if I can just pay, get the cards and leave, and they replied, "No, to get the rare card you have to at least play one round, and after that we will do a drawing for prizes". Much to my non-enthusiastic reaction, I humbly sighed and sucked it up, made my deck and awaited till they anounced the first round playoffs.
Ironic as they can be, my first round, I was paired off to play, of all people of the 50 geeks that were there, Jeremy. Yes, my boyfriend. WTF? Dunno how that happened, but hey irony and my many life events go hand in hand. Based on the cards I was able to use, I had to make a *shudders* paladin. *shudders*. Yes, I still feel very very very dirty from using it, however it was a Horde Blood Elf Paladin, so that sorta makes up for it. I downright refused to make an alliance deck. Anyways, I played vs Jeremy and actually held my own, but in the end lost. I gave him the "evil eye" in jealousy to beating me, but forgave him, j/k.
After that, we waited for the postings of the next round. I ended up playing a young kid and beat him! woot! But before we started playing, they passed out the rare card they said they were gonna give out that round, and also anounced the winners in a drawing for a Dark Portal Card box. What was funny was as the judge was anouncing the winners, he stated beforehand, "Now this is how it came to be, I swear to you, it isn't rigged". Guess whose name he announced. Yes. Me. I started lol'ing my way up to collect my prize. It's funny because I know I'm the reason why he stated that "wasn't rigged" thing, because they knew I was there for Jeremy. So I guess I a lucky charm for Jeremy so he could get cool stuff. Pics below. After my 3rd round, I lost and decided after that to opt out so we could head over to Comicon.
Here is a closeup for the Dark Portal Card Box I won:
and here is me with the card box with the big cheesey smile! :D
On the Sunday tournament at Comicon, it was just the basic deck tournament. We made the best deck out of 4 booster packs that we were actually able to pass around each deck among a certain number of people. I made an Alliance Hunter deck because I knew there were easy to use and normally easy to win with.
It was kinda funny because the judge that was there, was one of the judges from the previous day's tournament. I'm sure he recognized Jeremy and myself. But my first round I won, mainly because I played a guy who was playing for the first time, and I was mostly teaching him how to play. Took a while to play but I won because I r leet. 2nd round I ended up losing to Jeremy's friend, Dave. It was inevitable. Dave has a knack for collectible card games, as he also plays Yu-gi-oh and Magic. But I think I held my own for a while. But yeah, so as we walked around to kill the time as Dave was competing in the semi-finals, we came back, and the judge, who has a funny name of "Kevin Smith", seriously that's his name, he came up to me and said "Hey Rochelle, just so you know, we had a drawing and you won this":
It was a Dark Portal Playmat. I was like OMG! NO WAI! It was so funny. I was so excited I gave him a hug, well not too big of a hug cuz Jeremy was there. ^^:; but it was hilarious. Here I am winning another prize. Me, a person who isn't a fanatic of the TCG. Jeremy had this look of disbelief, even though deep down he knew I was going to be giving him the prize. After that, I was just giggling because of the irony of it all. Jeremy was kinda bitter because he didn't really win anything but the cards that we played with. He was saying "That is so HAX". I bet you won those conveniently because you're a girl, you're asian/islander & cuz you're cute."
After he made that comment, it made me think on it a bit. He was probably right, well partially at that. I mean yeah more than likely I might have won them because I was a girl, but in all honesty, if that was trully the case, it would be possibly the first time I got something because of that. It's kinda flattering, actually, no, it IS flattering and a bit of an ego booster, however, I normally would like to be credited based on merits other than things of superficiality, but dammit, that felt good. But after thinking about that, I replied, "well think of it this way honey, you get free stuff regardless, you are dating a cute girl and remember next time for any tournament, make sure to bring me along!" lol
XD hehe ^^
But yeah, as much as I hate to admit this, I actually enjoyed playing the Horde Paladin deck, and Jeremy helped me later on that weekend create a good deck. & overall I enjoyed playing the game more. I might actually have to stop by Game Matrix on Friday evenings to play.
So yeah Comicon was a blast, now I have Sakura Con to look forward too. Man another busy weekend of spending monies. >.<
Thursday, March 29, 2007
omg holey moley donut shop
To quote my best friend Tera after I told her the wonderful news.
This just in.. (hehe no pun intended)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS COMING TO TACOMA SEPT 8TH!
holy mary mother of god, i'm so excited. tickets go on sale this saturday! >.< crap! i'll be to busy at comicon and what not. but i'm willing to drop some dough on buying tickets online well better tickets that other people sell.
but omg, he's coming! this is the best news ever!
This just in.. (hehe no pun intended)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS COMING TO TACOMA SEPT 8TH!
holy mary mother of god, i'm so excited. tickets go on sale this saturday! >.< crap! i'll be to busy at comicon and what not. but i'm willing to drop some dough on buying tickets online well better tickets that other people sell.
but omg, he's coming! this is the best news ever!
gah, i should be working! :P
Yeah, I'm updating. Man I have a lot to talk about. As I'm at work, I'm toggling windows from processing claims to typing all this loverly fun stuff on notepad. Hmm.. where to begin.
Upcoming events
Emerald City Comicon
Happening this weekend. Jeremy and I are only going on Saturday. They have announced some pretty darn cool guests such as Peter Mayhew most commonly known as Chewbacca from Star Wars. I, myself, just want to meet Scott Kurtz from PvP and get my Powers TPB's signed by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Avon Oeming. That would be hawt.
LOL and apparently on Sunday, Oeming is a doing an arm wrestling contest for a $10 donation to HERO, you can arm wrestle Oeming and if you win, you get an original page of POWERS art. Hmm.. maybe I might stop by on Sunday. hehe
WoW TCG expansion pack release
For those who don't know what WoW TCG is.. it's the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Yeah. I'm not really too much into it, however I was highly addicted to the MMO. It's mostly for Jeremy, who is really into the TCG. Apparently at Seattle Center there is going to be a sneak preview of the new upcoming expansion to the card game and tournament. For $25, you get a starter pack with some boosters and you play with them and get to keep the cards. In all honestly since it's the same day as Comicon, we'll more than likely go there first, get the cards then head to Comicon. Hehe
Sakura Con
This is next weekend. I'm kinda excited for it, however I can only imagine how even bigger it's going to be. At least from what Chris Louck, American Guest Relations Manager, told me, I'll have Sunday off. That will be nice. I'll try to steal my mom's digi cam so I can take pics and eventually post them.
Lent update
Yeah.. umm.. I'm weak. I gave into chocolate a week ago. I couldn't help it, nor do I care anymore. Chocolate is damn good, it was worth consuming those heavenly Cow Chip chocolate chip cookies that were freshly baked. I went for a few weeks w/o chocolate. I did, however, realize I didn't need chocolate as much as I thought I did. But regardless it was interesting to see how silly one can get when they crave something even more when they know they can't have it. Damn "forbidden fruit" complex >.<
Movies
Having Jeremy be quite the big movie fanatic, which I do enjoy that he does like movies, gives me more opportunities to go to the movie theater to watch them. I honestly forgot most of the movies I've seen in the past few weeks, I'll just go over the ones I enjoyed the most.
300
Yeah. I saw this movie twice already. Yes. It is worth seeing it twice in the theaters, IMO. From what many people have referred this movie as being "all man/male" or whatever, I being not a male/man, enjoyed it. I mean seriously, 300 hard bodies of the Spartans. Yummy. ^_^ But in all honesty, the battle/fight sequences were great, loved the cinematography. Probably one of the best movies I will see this year, however the upcoming Spiderman 3, and Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix will definitely give 300 a run for best movie for me this year.
Anothing thing I loved a lot was the many webcomic references to this movie. Man, I can't get over them. I'll go ahead and list/link them.
Penny Arcade
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Apple Geeks Lite
Multiplex
They all made me giggle. :D
TMNT
Ahh Turtles. How can you not feel pure nostalgia when you think of TMNT? Although, many critics have complained the jokes were corny and blah, umm.. well EXCUSE ME!?! Turtles' jokes were always corny and silly. The movie was quite enjoyable. There was this one joke that Michaelango said near the end, that just made me giggle beyond all amusement as well as most if not all the audience. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if you know it, let me know!
But one thing I really enjoyed about the movie, were not only some of the big names of some of the voice actors, but the fact that the main characters, ie the Turtles were voiced by non famous hollywood actors, but in fact real talented Voice actors. People who have been in the biz of voice acting. Because lord knows how annoying it can be when you have a famous voice behind some of your favorite characters growing up as a child. That I will definitely applaud the creators of TMNT for. The big names played side roles, which weren't too bad and didn't take away the concentration or focus from the Turtles. I do hope they come out with a sequel.
Eragon
This movie I saw twice in the theaters, and was recently released on DVD. I'm bringing up this movie for many reasons. I'm not sure if I blogged about this, but if you enjoyed this movie, I suggest you read the book. And for those who read the book , but haven't watched the movie, I'm very sorry.
(Warning fan girl rant coming..)
This movie did not do this book justice whatsoever. I mean yeah there was a lot in the book that you coudln't cover in the movie, but seriously, some of the things from the book, they could have easily covered in the movie. One of the biggest things that piss me off, was Arya, the elf princess that Eragon goes to rescue. In the book she has black hair, and is a FUCKING ELF! In the movie, she's strawberry blonde, which I can let that go, but if you're a fucking elf, you better have fucking pointy elf goddamn ears. But noo...apparently the creators thought hey you don't need to put pointy ears on elves for them to be elves. Jesus tap dancing Christ that is beyond retarded. There were many parts of the movie that could have been done a lot better, but meh. The movie is good if you didn't read the book, however I remember how I wish there was more character development when I first watched it, and now I wish there was even more, and they cut out one of the more important characters in the book from the movie, Murtagh, who in book 2, Eldest, proves to be a very important character.
However after watching the movie again for the 3rd time, I was ok with it, but if anything the deleted scenes would have made the movie a lot better, because there were some key elements in the book that I was upset for the movie for cutting out, so if anything that "kinda" made up for it.
After reading the 2nd book, Eldest, I can only imagine how much they would butcher that story too, and if anything there is just WAY too much in that book for them to put into a 2 hour movie. Who knows if there is going to be a sequel. But I can only pray if there is a sequel, they actually try to stick to the book.
Personal things
It has been 8 months now since I've been dating/having a relationship with Jeremy. It's crazy how things turn out to be. There are many instances where I think about a year ago, how things were, when I was living with my ex. How much different my relationship with him was compared to things with Jeremy. I know I might really mushy, but in all honesty I'm crazy about Jeremy. I try to spend most of my free time with him and just wish we lived closer. He lives like a good 30-40 mins away w/ average traffic. It really sucks living that far away from a person, however I've been in relationships where they lived farther. But anyways to get to the point, we have decided that by the time my lease runs out in July/August, I will be moving in with Jeremy in Kent. It will have been over a year since we have been together, and as long as things between us stay good, I will be living in Kent. It will be quite different for me because I will be the one commuting to work. Instead of my awesome 10 min drive taking backroads to work, I'll be travelling 40 mins avg. *sigh* But in the end it will be worth it, I'll be saving more money with rent and bills even though gas prices are going up yet again. But overall I want to live with him, not just as some excuse as I did before to move out of my parents' place, but to honestly live with a person who I love and want to see the relationship grow. (Wow, I've actually said something smart for once :P)
But Jeremy feels the same way, and I'm so happy that he does. The only thing that we will have to face is figuring out what goes and what stays, because that man is a pack rat beyond all imagination. I don't have a lot of stuff and my stuff is mostly furniture that any aparement needs. All I know come around June/July, Jeremy and I will have to have a nice discussion of what we are going to do, the terms of living together etc and what to expect from eachother. I don't want to go into something this big w/o having most of my bases covered to help prevent any possible problems I once had in the past w/ my ex. I just really look forward to living with him and having to come home with him there and being able to snuggle and cuddle with. ^_^
But yeah. I'm really excited for this. Jeremy of course has to kick out his current roommate, Lee, but yeah, it's life. Plus I make a way better roommate anyday ^_~. All in all life is going great. Just trying to save up for stuff, pay bills off and get ready for upcoming events. Life is very busy. I don't get much sleep because I'm retarded and stupid, but yeah, as my friend, Scott would say, "I can sleep when I'm dead"
p.s.
Bonus picture of my Jeremy with his cat Jo, my favorite of his 2 cats
http://img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jeremyjoay6.jpg
Upcoming events
Emerald City Comicon
Happening this weekend. Jeremy and I are only going on Saturday. They have announced some pretty darn cool guests such as Peter Mayhew most commonly known as Chewbacca from Star Wars. I, myself, just want to meet Scott Kurtz from PvP and get my Powers TPB's signed by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Avon Oeming. That would be hawt.
LOL and apparently on Sunday, Oeming is a doing an arm wrestling contest for a $10 donation to HERO, you can arm wrestle Oeming and if you win, you get an original page of POWERS art. Hmm.. maybe I might stop by on Sunday. hehe
WoW TCG expansion pack release
For those who don't know what WoW TCG is.. it's the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Yeah. I'm not really too much into it, however I was highly addicted to the MMO. It's mostly for Jeremy, who is really into the TCG. Apparently at Seattle Center there is going to be a sneak preview of the new upcoming expansion to the card game and tournament. For $25, you get a starter pack with some boosters and you play with them and get to keep the cards. In all honestly since it's the same day as Comicon, we'll more than likely go there first, get the cards then head to Comicon. Hehe
Sakura Con
This is next weekend. I'm kinda excited for it, however I can only imagine how even bigger it's going to be. At least from what Chris Louck, American Guest Relations Manager, told me, I'll have Sunday off. That will be nice. I'll try to steal my mom's digi cam so I can take pics and eventually post them.
Lent update
Yeah.. umm.. I'm weak. I gave into chocolate a week ago. I couldn't help it, nor do I care anymore. Chocolate is damn good, it was worth consuming those heavenly Cow Chip chocolate chip cookies that were freshly baked. I went for a few weeks w/o chocolate. I did, however, realize I didn't need chocolate as much as I thought I did. But regardless it was interesting to see how silly one can get when they crave something even more when they know they can't have it. Damn "forbidden fruit" complex >.<
Movies
Having Jeremy be quite the big movie fanatic, which I do enjoy that he does like movies, gives me more opportunities to go to the movie theater to watch them. I honestly forgot most of the movies I've seen in the past few weeks, I'll just go over the ones I enjoyed the most.
300
Yeah. I saw this movie twice already. Yes. It is worth seeing it twice in the theaters, IMO. From what many people have referred this movie as being "all man/male" or whatever, I being not a male/man, enjoyed it. I mean seriously, 300 hard bodies of the Spartans. Yummy. ^_^ But in all honesty, the battle/fight sequences were great, loved the cinematography. Probably one of the best movies I will see this year, however the upcoming Spiderman 3, and Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix will definitely give 300 a run for best movie for me this year.
Anothing thing I loved a lot was the many webcomic references to this movie. Man, I can't get over them. I'll go ahead and list/link them.
Penny Arcade
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Apple Geeks Lite
Multiplex
They all made me giggle. :D
TMNT
Ahh Turtles. How can you not feel pure nostalgia when you think of TMNT? Although, many critics have complained the jokes were corny and blah, umm.. well EXCUSE ME!?! Turtles' jokes were always corny and silly. The movie was quite enjoyable. There was this one joke that Michaelango said near the end, that just made me giggle beyond all amusement as well as most if not all the audience. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if you know it, let me know!
But one thing I really enjoyed about the movie, were not only some of the big names of some of the voice actors, but the fact that the main characters, ie the Turtles were voiced by non famous hollywood actors, but in fact real talented Voice actors. People who have been in the biz of voice acting. Because lord knows how annoying it can be when you have a famous voice behind some of your favorite characters growing up as a child. That I will definitely applaud the creators of TMNT for. The big names played side roles, which weren't too bad and didn't take away the concentration or focus from the Turtles. I do hope they come out with a sequel.
Eragon
This movie I saw twice in the theaters, and was recently released on DVD. I'm bringing up this movie for many reasons. I'm not sure if I blogged about this, but if you enjoyed this movie, I suggest you read the book. And for those who read the book , but haven't watched the movie, I'm very sorry.
(Warning fan girl rant coming..)
This movie did not do this book justice whatsoever. I mean yeah there was a lot in the book that you coudln't cover in the movie, but seriously, some of the things from the book, they could have easily covered in the movie. One of the biggest things that piss me off, was Arya, the elf princess that Eragon goes to rescue. In the book she has black hair, and is a FUCKING ELF! In the movie, she's strawberry blonde, which I can let that go, but if you're a fucking elf, you better have fucking pointy elf goddamn ears. But noo...apparently the creators thought hey you don't need to put pointy ears on elves for them to be elves. Jesus tap dancing Christ that is beyond retarded. There were many parts of the movie that could have been done a lot better, but meh. The movie is good if you didn't read the book, however I remember how I wish there was more character development when I first watched it, and now I wish there was even more, and they cut out one of the more important characters in the book from the movie, Murtagh, who in book 2, Eldest, proves to be a very important character.
However after watching the movie again for the 3rd time, I was ok with it, but if anything the deleted scenes would have made the movie a lot better, because there were some key elements in the book that I was upset for the movie for cutting out, so if anything that "kinda" made up for it.
After reading the 2nd book, Eldest, I can only imagine how much they would butcher that story too, and if anything there is just WAY too much in that book for them to put into a 2 hour movie. Who knows if there is going to be a sequel. But I can only pray if there is a sequel, they actually try to stick to the book.
Personal things
It has been 8 months now since I've been dating/having a relationship with Jeremy. It's crazy how things turn out to be. There are many instances where I think about a year ago, how things were, when I was living with my ex. How much different my relationship with him was compared to things with Jeremy. I know I might really mushy, but in all honesty I'm crazy about Jeremy. I try to spend most of my free time with him and just wish we lived closer. He lives like a good 30-40 mins away w/ average traffic. It really sucks living that far away from a person, however I've been in relationships where they lived farther. But anyways to get to the point, we have decided that by the time my lease runs out in July/August, I will be moving in with Jeremy in Kent. It will have been over a year since we have been together, and as long as things between us stay good, I will be living in Kent. It will be quite different for me because I will be the one commuting to work. Instead of my awesome 10 min drive taking backroads to work, I'll be travelling 40 mins avg. *sigh* But in the end it will be worth it, I'll be saving more money with rent and bills even though gas prices are going up yet again. But overall I want to live with him, not just as some excuse as I did before to move out of my parents' place, but to honestly live with a person who I love and want to see the relationship grow. (Wow, I've actually said something smart for once :P)
But Jeremy feels the same way, and I'm so happy that he does. The only thing that we will have to face is figuring out what goes and what stays, because that man is a pack rat beyond all imagination. I don't have a lot of stuff and my stuff is mostly furniture that any aparement needs. All I know come around June/July, Jeremy and I will have to have a nice discussion of what we are going to do, the terms of living together etc and what to expect from eachother. I don't want to go into something this big w/o having most of my bases covered to help prevent any possible problems I once had in the past w/ my ex. I just really look forward to living with him and having to come home with him there and being able to snuggle and cuddle with. ^_^
But yeah. I'm really excited for this. Jeremy of course has to kick out his current roommate, Lee, but yeah, it's life. Plus I make a way better roommate anyday ^_~. All in all life is going great. Just trying to save up for stuff, pay bills off and get ready for upcoming events. Life is very busy. I don't get much sleep because I'm retarded and stupid, but yeah, as my friend, Scott would say, "I can sleep when I'm dead"
p.s.
Bonus picture of my Jeremy with his cat Jo, my favorite of his 2 cats
http://img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jeremyjoay6.jpg
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
i still live... for most part
sorry for my lack of updating, i've been fairly occupied and lazy to do so.
so update coming soon, hopefully today, if not later on this week.
i'll try my best! sorry for those who actually read this!
>.>
so update coming soon, hopefully today, if not later on this week.
i'll try my best! sorry for those who actually read this!
>.>
Friday, March 9, 2007
zomg not another threadless sale!
yeah i haven't been posting. i r teh uber lazy. and honestly just really busy at work, that i barely even have time for webcomics!
and i refuse to type w/ caps right now, so ha!
anyways, threadless has another $10 sale, so i decided to partake in such a splendid event. i recently game my pandamonium in men's xl to jeremy because it no longer fit me, so i bought the girly version! also picked up bad teddy & meat is murder
scott, for some reason i thought of you when i saw the meat is murder shirt. dunno why, it just seems like something i would imagine you would say. but nonetheless great shirts. i would have gotten way more shirts, but i planned on only dropping $30 there.
however, these shirts also deserve honorable mention:
greetins from the ghetto would have so gotten this one in a heartbeat, if it wasn't on white!
planetary status poor poor pluto!
lil' soap so cute. i was so tempted to pick it up.
wwmd? i would have love to have seen how macgyver would have gotten out of that situation!
but yeah i love threadless. great stuff as usual.
but as for me, been just doing the normal work, home, boyfriend thing. working overtime. getting ready and excited for comicon, sakura con, and pax.
almost been 3 weeks w/o chocolate. it's been rough at times, especially when my office has 2 different potlucks where it serves chocolate cake! my weakness. (yes scott, cake > pie for life!) but yeah it's been hard at times, but i'm staying strong, what makes it even worse, it's girls' scout cookie month! those samoas/caramel delights haunt me. oh how i want them so badly. i plan on buying some and saving them for post easter! m'whahahahaha
i also plan on taking jeremy to the cherry blossom festival on april 21 in seattle, that will be very fun. hopefully the weather will be loverly for that.
but life is very good. i'm very happy with jeremy. i love him. he loves me. all is bliss.
and i refuse to type w/ caps right now, so ha!
anyways, threadless has another $10 sale, so i decided to partake in such a splendid event. i recently game my pandamonium in men's xl to jeremy because it no longer fit me, so i bought the girly version! also picked up bad teddy & meat is murder
scott, for some reason i thought of you when i saw the meat is murder shirt. dunno why, it just seems like something i would imagine you would say. but nonetheless great shirts. i would have gotten way more shirts, but i planned on only dropping $30 there.
however, these shirts also deserve honorable mention:
greetins from the ghetto would have so gotten this one in a heartbeat, if it wasn't on white!
planetary status poor poor pluto!
lil' soap so cute. i was so tempted to pick it up.
wwmd? i would have love to have seen how macgyver would have gotten out of that situation!
but yeah i love threadless. great stuff as usual.
but as for me, been just doing the normal work, home, boyfriend thing. working overtime. getting ready and excited for comicon, sakura con, and pax.
almost been 3 weeks w/o chocolate. it's been rough at times, especially when my office has 2 different potlucks where it serves chocolate cake! my weakness. (yes scott, cake > pie for life!) but yeah it's been hard at times, but i'm staying strong, what makes it even worse, it's girls' scout cookie month! those samoas/caramel delights haunt me. oh how i want them so badly. i plan on buying some and saving them for post easter! m'whahahahaha
i also plan on taking jeremy to the cherry blossom festival on april 21 in seattle, that will be very fun. hopefully the weather will be loverly for that.
but life is very good. i'm very happy with jeremy. i love him. he loves me. all is bliss.
Friday, February 23, 2007
bye bye chocolate ; _ ;
So I totally forgot that 02/21/07 was Ash Wednesday. Me being a Catholic and all. LOL. I'm don't really even consider myself a Catholic. More of less I'm Christian, that chooses to not go to church. But anways..
I got a text message from Tera telling me she's giving up alcohol for Lent. That's pretty tough for her considering she's become quite the party girl, however, I know she has the strength and determination to do so.
That got me thinking, should I give up something for Lent? I thought about this a throughout the day yesterday, and when I went to go see Jeremy, I told him about it. I then told him I was considering giving up sex for Lent. You know that whole "40 Days/40 Nights" movie with Josh Hartnett. ^^ Of course my expected reaction from him to this proposal was quite humorous. He was like "umm.. NO.. Hell no." LOL
Of course I was only joking. :P
But anyways, I propose that even though he's not really religious, we both give up something together for Lent. After much consideration of things we indulge in a lot and things that we can really try to do without and more than likely accomplish, I have chosen to give up chocolate for lent and for Jeremy, peanut butter.
This will be quite difficult for both of us, since we are both avid daily eaters of such delectible delights. However, I think through positive encouragement and determination we can do it. As a treat on Easter Sunday, I have ordered a 6 oz chocolate covered peanut butter egg for Jeremy as a gift in hopes he will accomplish this goal.
So yeah. No chocolate till Easter. That's April 8th. *sigh* This is gonna be rough. I already gave away all the chocolate type treats in my desk to coworkers. For my chocolate substitute, I'll be getting other various snacks such as fruits, nuts, yogurt etc. I'm sure they will tide me over, however there will be times when I will crave chocolate so badly I might have to slit a few throats to do so. ^^;; (Lord, give me strength during those times)
But yeah. Actually as a leeway because we both still have chocolate/peanut butter products at home, Jeremy and I won't officially start till this upcoming Sunday. So technically I have all day today and tomorrow to indulge in chocolate, however I'll try not to, too much.
But here goes, "The Epic Quest of No Chocolate for Ro" has commenced.
Wish me luck.
I got a text message from Tera telling me she's giving up alcohol for Lent. That's pretty tough for her considering she's become quite the party girl, however, I know she has the strength and determination to do so.
That got me thinking, should I give up something for Lent? I thought about this a throughout the day yesterday, and when I went to go see Jeremy, I told him about it. I then told him I was considering giving up sex for Lent. You know that whole "40 Days/40 Nights" movie with Josh Hartnett. ^^ Of course my expected reaction from him to this proposal was quite humorous. He was like "umm.. NO.. Hell no." LOL
Of course I was only joking. :P
But anyways, I propose that even though he's not really religious, we both give up something together for Lent. After much consideration of things we indulge in a lot and things that we can really try to do without and more than likely accomplish, I have chosen to give up chocolate for lent and for Jeremy, peanut butter.
This will be quite difficult for both of us, since we are both avid daily eaters of such delectible delights. However, I think through positive encouragement and determination we can do it. As a treat on Easter Sunday, I have ordered a 6 oz chocolate covered peanut butter egg for Jeremy as a gift in hopes he will accomplish this goal.
So yeah. No chocolate till Easter. That's April 8th. *sigh* This is gonna be rough. I already gave away all the chocolate type treats in my desk to coworkers. For my chocolate substitute, I'll be getting other various snacks such as fruits, nuts, yogurt etc. I'm sure they will tide me over, however there will be times when I will crave chocolate so badly I might have to slit a few throats to do so. ^^;; (Lord, give me strength during those times)
But yeah. Actually as a leeway because we both still have chocolate/peanut butter products at home, Jeremy and I won't officially start till this upcoming Sunday. So technically I have all day today and tomorrow to indulge in chocolate, however I'll try not to, too much.
But here goes, "The Epic Quest of No Chocolate for Ro" has commenced.
Wish me luck.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
updates, anniversary, cell phone, vday, what not
Yeah I havne't updated in a while. I've been meaning too, just got caught up in work and whenever I'm home, I don't feel like blogging. When I'm at home, blogging is the last thing I want to do.
But anyways some stuff going on:
Cell phone:
Verizon is my cell phone provider and a few weeks ago was the date I got to upgrade my phone to a newer one with discount. From what it said on my account info, I was only gonna get a $50 discount, because I started my account like 5 days after a cut-off date of getting $100 off. It was teh suck, but regardless I was gonna get a discount.
So a few Sundays ago, I was out with Jeremy & my parents. We went to eat lunch, and run errands. I go to Verizon and tell them I want to upgrade my phone. I find out I get a $100 discount for some reason, regardless woot! I had my eyes set on the new Motorola KRZR Fire phone. It was cool looking and it was a pretty red. ^_^ So I get that phone and with the $50 mail in rebate it was pretty much a free phone, just paid for accessories like bluetooth head set and car charger. The KRAZR seemed like a decent phone at the time, however I wished I would have looked at the phone more and the features they had to offer.
My orginial phone is a LG-6100. A great phone IMO. Very customizable for ringtones, txt tones, picture ID etc. The KRAZR, so not that easily customizable. I mean yeah, I can get ringtones from Verizon and set that to a certain caller ID, however it didn't really let me get ringtones sent to my phone via txt message. Reason why I like that, is because I have a certain tone that rings everytime I get a txt message from someone. It's the "eye-catcher" tune to Azumanga Daioh. Way cute tune and not too long for a tone. And on top of that, the KRAZR had issues with the ringtones I got from Verizon. They wouldn't play after having them for a day, even when I set them to certain Caller IDs. I had to go to Verizon store the next day to basically get a new phone because it wasn't working. So I was gonna give the KRAZR another chance. Redownloaded all the ringtones I had. Called customer care to get the ringtone credit. Then once again, the same problem, more or less. Ringtones werent' working. A certain ringtone I was trying to download, was corrupted. I had to contact tech support to let them know. Basically throughout the whole week, the KRAZR was a pain in the ass.
So come Friday, I was like "F*** this". I took off early and went to Verizon and traded for the LG 8600. A much better phone. Only thing so far that I miss from my old LG, I was able to save notes to contacts, because on a lot of them, I had mailing addresses. Also I don't have personalized txt message tones, but I'm at least happy I was able to send me the Azumanga Daioh tone and apply it to be my txt tone. Another weird thing, I don't think my phone is speaker phone capable. Which is very odd. Most phones have that, and to think that my new phone doesn't is weird, but at the same time, isn't really a big deal because I barely use speaker phone as is. So all in all the LG 8600 is a good buy. Just had to spend an extra $30 for it, which is still a good deal.
So yeah, I gots a new phone. Love it. It's sleek, thin, and light. Too bad it's black, wouldn't mind a more feminine color, but black will do.
Valentine's Day:
Didn't really want to go out on this day. As much as I am anti-Valetines Day, when you actually have someone to share it with, you become less anti-Vday. ^^;; I mean I don't like the fact that it's basically a commercialized holiday to make people buy stupid flowers, balloons, candy, jewelry, etc. But I basically went up to see Jeremy. We made dinner together. He's been hankering to try to make the Chinese Mushroom Chicken dish, and got basic instructions from my father and oyster sauce from my mother. I got a few more ingredients and a recipe online, in hopes to help give more direction. The dish turned out to be pretty good, however, some of our vegetables (broccoli & zucchini got a bit too mushy), but we'll have to try out that recipe again, and next time not to forget the garlic and ginger. We watched Fearless and just hung out.
It was kinda funny though, because by the time I go to his place, I was pulling into his complex and saw he was pulling out of the office area. I drove after him and as I parked and got out and started walking towards him, I couldnt' help but notice a red heart balloon hovering in his car. Then I saw him stuffing something under his jacket, and he looked at me, and I then pointed to his appartment and just started walking. He was basically trying to hide the present he got me. He got me a Wii sling bag, so I can easily transport my Wii to and from his place. However, I had to return it because it wasn't that big and honestly coudln't hold all that stuff. Plus one of my big grandma purses seems to hold my Wii w/ adapaters, games, 2 each of the Wii-mote, nun chuck, & classic controllers and even the Zelda strategy guide perfectly to transport. We did see a nice big Wii holder at Fred Meyer for $40, so I might drop some money on that if I ever decide I might need it. For my present for Jeremy I got him a wireless Xbox 360 controller because he only had one controller, and I figured he needed more. But it was cute to get the present because he was trying to be all sly, and I kinda made it hard because I arrived before he was ready.
He got me a really cute card, as I did for him. So all in all a great Valentines day. ^_^
Oh yeah, he also got me a turtle mount for WoW which I already redeemed on my Blood Elf Mage. I have pics uploaded to photobucket, but retardedly enough, my work has decided to block photobucket and I am have to find another site to host my blog images.
/wrists
I'll post pics eventually.
surgery anniversary:
02/07/06, it has been a year since I had my gastric bypass surgery. I went in yesterday for my yearly follow-up at Virginia Mason. I have lost 108lbs since then. Yeah it's a lot, but at the same time, I know I could have lost more, if I had exercised on a regular basis. But still losing 108lbs is freaking insane when you think about it, from not really exercising. I still can't believe it's been a year already. I still have a hard time realizing how much has changed and how much I've changed, physically and mentally.
Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and can't believe it. I am still not satisfied where I am at, and ideally would like to lose 30-50 more pounds, and will be totally fine with 30. I need to kick my ass more and get to the gym. >.< But yeah for most part I'm doing great, still need to incorporate more protein in my diet as well as get back into the habit of my vitamins. The thing that sucks the most, is the cost of the vitamins because I need elemental calcium and not the basic calcium vitamins, and that doesn't come cheap, along with some protein supplements, because honestly it can be a chore making sure I get my 60g of protein a day. I might have to get back into drinking a protein shake a day or something I'll have to figure something out. But my doctor and nutritionist where happy to see I was doing well and I am not gaining any of the weight back. I'd rather DIAF than gain the weight back.
But yeah, it's been a pretty good last week or so.
Saw Ghost Rider on Sunday. Yeah. I should have waited for the DVD, if that. Not too impressed. However, there was a kick ass trailer for 300, which look sexy. I look forward to that movie. Also this weekend, that Jim Carrey thriller, The Number 23 comes out as well as Reno 911: Miami. That looks hilarious. So looks like another movie weekend for me! ^_^
But anyways some stuff going on:
Cell phone:
Verizon is my cell phone provider and a few weeks ago was the date I got to upgrade my phone to a newer one with discount. From what it said on my account info, I was only gonna get a $50 discount, because I started my account like 5 days after a cut-off date of getting $100 off. It was teh suck, but regardless I was gonna get a discount.
So a few Sundays ago, I was out with Jeremy & my parents. We went to eat lunch, and run errands. I go to Verizon and tell them I want to upgrade my phone. I find out I get a $100 discount for some reason, regardless woot! I had my eyes set on the new Motorola KRZR Fire phone. It was cool looking and it was a pretty red. ^_^ So I get that phone and with the $50 mail in rebate it was pretty much a free phone, just paid for accessories like bluetooth head set and car charger. The KRAZR seemed like a decent phone at the time, however I wished I would have looked at the phone more and the features they had to offer.
My orginial phone is a LG-6100. A great phone IMO. Very customizable for ringtones, txt tones, picture ID etc. The KRAZR, so not that easily customizable. I mean yeah, I can get ringtones from Verizon and set that to a certain caller ID, however it didn't really let me get ringtones sent to my phone via txt message. Reason why I like that, is because I have a certain tone that rings everytime I get a txt message from someone. It's the "eye-catcher" tune to Azumanga Daioh. Way cute tune and not too long for a tone. And on top of that, the KRAZR had issues with the ringtones I got from Verizon. They wouldn't play after having them for a day, even when I set them to certain Caller IDs. I had to go to Verizon store the next day to basically get a new phone because it wasn't working. So I was gonna give the KRAZR another chance. Redownloaded all the ringtones I had. Called customer care to get the ringtone credit. Then once again, the same problem, more or less. Ringtones werent' working. A certain ringtone I was trying to download, was corrupted. I had to contact tech support to let them know. Basically throughout the whole week, the KRAZR was a pain in the ass.
So come Friday, I was like "F*** this". I took off early and went to Verizon and traded for the LG 8600. A much better phone. Only thing so far that I miss from my old LG, I was able to save notes to contacts, because on a lot of them, I had mailing addresses. Also I don't have personalized txt message tones, but I'm at least happy I was able to send me the Azumanga Daioh tone and apply it to be my txt tone. Another weird thing, I don't think my phone is speaker phone capable. Which is very odd. Most phones have that, and to think that my new phone doesn't is weird, but at the same time, isn't really a big deal because I barely use speaker phone as is. So all in all the LG 8600 is a good buy. Just had to spend an extra $30 for it, which is still a good deal.
So yeah, I gots a new phone. Love it. It's sleek, thin, and light. Too bad it's black, wouldn't mind a more feminine color, but black will do.
Valentine's Day:
Didn't really want to go out on this day. As much as I am anti-Valetines Day, when you actually have someone to share it with, you become less anti-Vday. ^^;; I mean I don't like the fact that it's basically a commercialized holiday to make people buy stupid flowers, balloons, candy, jewelry, etc. But I basically went up to see Jeremy. We made dinner together. He's been hankering to try to make the Chinese Mushroom Chicken dish, and got basic instructions from my father and oyster sauce from my mother. I got a few more ingredients and a recipe online, in hopes to help give more direction. The dish turned out to be pretty good, however, some of our vegetables (broccoli & zucchini got a bit too mushy), but we'll have to try out that recipe again, and next time not to forget the garlic and ginger. We watched Fearless and just hung out.
It was kinda funny though, because by the time I go to his place, I was pulling into his complex and saw he was pulling out of the office area. I drove after him and as I parked and got out and started walking towards him, I couldnt' help but notice a red heart balloon hovering in his car. Then I saw him stuffing something under his jacket, and he looked at me, and I then pointed to his appartment and just started walking. He was basically trying to hide the present he got me. He got me a Wii sling bag, so I can easily transport my Wii to and from his place. However, I had to return it because it wasn't that big and honestly coudln't hold all that stuff. Plus one of my big grandma purses seems to hold my Wii w/ adapaters, games, 2 each of the Wii-mote, nun chuck, & classic controllers and even the Zelda strategy guide perfectly to transport. We did see a nice big Wii holder at Fred Meyer for $40, so I might drop some money on that if I ever decide I might need it. For my present for Jeremy I got him a wireless Xbox 360 controller because he only had one controller, and I figured he needed more. But it was cute to get the present because he was trying to be all sly, and I kinda made it hard because I arrived before he was ready.
He got me a really cute card, as I did for him. So all in all a great Valentines day. ^_^
Oh yeah, he also got me a turtle mount for WoW which I already redeemed on my Blood Elf Mage. I have pics uploaded to photobucket, but retardedly enough, my work has decided to block photobucket and I am have to find another site to host my blog images.
/wrists
I'll post pics eventually.
surgery anniversary:
02/07/06, it has been a year since I had my gastric bypass surgery. I went in yesterday for my yearly follow-up at Virginia Mason. I have lost 108lbs since then. Yeah it's a lot, but at the same time, I know I could have lost more, if I had exercised on a regular basis. But still losing 108lbs is freaking insane when you think about it, from not really exercising. I still can't believe it's been a year already. I still have a hard time realizing how much has changed and how much I've changed, physically and mentally.
Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and can't believe it. I am still not satisfied where I am at, and ideally would like to lose 30-50 more pounds, and will be totally fine with 30. I need to kick my ass more and get to the gym. >.< But yeah for most part I'm doing great, still need to incorporate more protein in my diet as well as get back into the habit of my vitamins. The thing that sucks the most, is the cost of the vitamins because I need elemental calcium and not the basic calcium vitamins, and that doesn't come cheap, along with some protein supplements, because honestly it can be a chore making sure I get my 60g of protein a day. I might have to get back into drinking a protein shake a day or something I'll have to figure something out. But my doctor and nutritionist where happy to see I was doing well and I am not gaining any of the weight back. I'd rather DIAF than gain the weight back.
But yeah, it's been a pretty good last week or so.
Saw Ghost Rider on Sunday. Yeah. I should have waited for the DVD, if that. Not too impressed. However, there was a kick ass trailer for 300, which look sexy. I look forward to that movie. Also this weekend, that Jim Carrey thriller, The Number 23 comes out as well as Reno 911: Miami. That looks hilarious. So looks like another movie weekend for me! ^_^
Friday, February 9, 2007
happy friday!
Ahh anime.
Finally finished watching Samurai 7, that I borrowed from Megu. I have to say I finsished that series a lot faster than I did season 1 of Ahh! My Goddess TV Series. But man I NEED to own Samurai 7. What a good series.
I will admit, I cried pretty well at the last few episodes. Seeing some of the Samurai die. I knew it was bound to happen, but still, seeing cool characters that I've grown to know and love, seeing them die, very sad ;_; *tear*
Anyways, great series. If you haven't watched it, I suggest you do.
And in honor of watching such a kickass anime, I am not making my work desktop wallpaper this for the time being, until I find something better.
Also HAPPY FRIDAY! So far my Friday is going pretty well, although I am still pretty sore from the martial arts work outs, and didn't wake up in time for OT this morning, I found out I did get some sort of tax refund this year from the treasury. Originally I was told my tax refund would go to a debt I owed the government, which I had no problem with, but I seemed to have gotten $150 back. So umm.. yeah.. WOOT! Extra monies is always a good thing. I don't know what I"m gonna do with it, if anything it will be an extra payment towards the repair to my car.
but Happy Friday!
Finally finished watching Samurai 7, that I borrowed from Megu. I have to say I finsished that series a lot faster than I did season 1 of Ahh! My Goddess TV Series. But man I NEED to own Samurai 7. What a good series.
I will admit, I cried pretty well at the last few episodes. Seeing some of the Samurai die. I knew it was bound to happen, but still, seeing cool characters that I've grown to know and love, seeing them die, very sad ;_; *tear*
Anyways, great series. If you haven't watched it, I suggest you do.
And in honor of watching such a kickass anime, I am not making my work desktop wallpaper this for the time being, until I find something better.
Also HAPPY FRIDAY! So far my Friday is going pretty well, although I am still pretty sore from the martial arts work outs, and didn't wake up in time for OT this morning, I found out I did get some sort of tax refund this year from the treasury. Originally I was told my tax refund would go to a debt I owed the government, which I had no problem with, but I seemed to have gotten $150 back. So umm.. yeah.. WOOT! Extra monies is always a good thing. I don't know what I"m gonna do with it, if anything it will be an extra payment towards the repair to my car.
but Happy Friday!
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Kickboxing & Jujutsu..
So yesterday, Jeremy and I finally attended our complimentary 2 week pass to martial arts training. My friend Chris is a member of Leading Edge Kickboxing, and he was the one who gave us the vouchers.
I knew Jeremy wanted to get back into martial arts and from what I heard, the kickboxing class gives pretty good cardio workouts, as well as it's fun. So we go.
First class was mainly for Jeremy, althogh I participated. It was Jujutsu. Pretty interesting. It was cool to just get into techniques of how to get out of certain positions and what not. One of the girls I paired up with, I honestly forget her name, I think it's Laura or Lisa, made me feel comfortable doing the manuevers with her. I was pretty damn nervous because I had no idea what I was doing and she was very positive explained things to me. It was kinda funny, cuz she was also doing the class with her boyfriend Chase, who ironically paired up with Jeremy. From what I saw Jeremy was having a good time.
The next class was Kickboxing. Man, that certainly kicked my butt. I didn't go full out hard, because I didn't want to hurt my body, I probably went at like 60-70%. We first started out with warm up execercises such as skipping rope, sit-ups, and push-ups. Then we paired off, I was with Laura again, and we put on gloves and blocking pads, and we just practiced 3 hit combos of cross and hook punches. I did pretty good at that. I didn't hit hard because Laura was recently recovering from shoulder surgery and didn't want to hurt her. But from what she said, I was good at doing cross punches because I was able to easily learn to rotate my hip throughout the punch. I guess I'm used to that because I was a thrower in Track & Field in high school and with throwing discus and shot put, the power comes from your legs and rotating your hips, so that was pretty cool.
We then proceded with doing kicks. Same thing for most part. Threw a cross then kicked. Yean, I'm not that flexible and I realized that with my first few kicks. For some odd reason, it seemed easier for me to kick with my left leg than my right. The rotation in my hips seemed easier at least. Then we continued with sparring with punches again. This time the defender threw a hit to either the head or torso, so we can learn to block. Then followed up with a 3 combo hit of crosses, hooks and uppercuts.
Then we finished off with like a minute of fast hard jabbing alternating our punches and also knee lifts. Man that was a workout. Felt good.
After the sparring, we did more cardio, by doing these squat type thingies, where you squat, have your hands touch the ground, push out your legs as if you were about to do push ups, then pull your legs back in and jump up. We did that for about a minute. OMG... yeah. Those are tough. And we finished up with doing pushups for a minute. I had to do the female position because I was pretty tired.
After the class, I felt really lightheaded as if I coudln't breathe, and not enough oxygen was getting to my brain. And another odd thing, my hearing was muffled, I dunno what happened, I guess I over exerted myself a bit on the squat thingies. I had to sit down for a few minutes to catch my breath, and I felt better and my hearing came back.
They still had another class, Jeet Kun Do, which looked pretty cool from what I saw, however I dunno if I can get into that.
Overall Jeremy and I had a good time. From what he told me, he'd rather do the Jujutsu because the Kickboxing class kicked his ass and he kinda hurt his shoulder from the punching. I rather do the Kickboxing, so we have another week or so of classes, we'll more than likely just attend the Wednesday & Saturday class, and then decide if we want to join.
I honestly don't know if I can afford this right now. It's like $75 a month, and I can afford it, just right now I need to finish paying off the repairs to my car, and I won't get finished till like May, possibly earlier, if I work OT or something. I'll have to consider my finances and see if I can do it. But another negative is that the class is in Renton, which is like a good 45-60 minute drive depending upon traffic, so that's a bit on gas. I am already spending enough on gas with commuting to see Jeremy already, but I did enjoy the class a lot and it was refreshing to be able to exercise and have fun at the same time, and learn some pretty cool stuff.
So something to defintely consider.
But yeah, my body is sore. Not too badly, mostly my calves, quads, and pecs from the push ups.
/needs bengay
I knew Jeremy wanted to get back into martial arts and from what I heard, the kickboxing class gives pretty good cardio workouts, as well as it's fun. So we go.
First class was mainly for Jeremy, althogh I participated. It was Jujutsu. Pretty interesting. It was cool to just get into techniques of how to get out of certain positions and what not. One of the girls I paired up with, I honestly forget her name, I think it's Laura or Lisa, made me feel comfortable doing the manuevers with her. I was pretty damn nervous because I had no idea what I was doing and she was very positive explained things to me. It was kinda funny, cuz she was also doing the class with her boyfriend Chase, who ironically paired up with Jeremy. From what I saw Jeremy was having a good time.
The next class was Kickboxing. Man, that certainly kicked my butt. I didn't go full out hard, because I didn't want to hurt my body, I probably went at like 60-70%. We first started out with warm up execercises such as skipping rope, sit-ups, and push-ups. Then we paired off, I was with Laura again, and we put on gloves and blocking pads, and we just practiced 3 hit combos of cross and hook punches. I did pretty good at that. I didn't hit hard because Laura was recently recovering from shoulder surgery and didn't want to hurt her. But from what she said, I was good at doing cross punches because I was able to easily learn to rotate my hip throughout the punch. I guess I'm used to that because I was a thrower in Track & Field in high school and with throwing discus and shot put, the power comes from your legs and rotating your hips, so that was pretty cool.
We then proceded with doing kicks. Same thing for most part. Threw a cross then kicked. Yean, I'm not that flexible and I realized that with my first few kicks. For some odd reason, it seemed easier for me to kick with my left leg than my right. The rotation in my hips seemed easier at least. Then we continued with sparring with punches again. This time the defender threw a hit to either the head or torso, so we can learn to block. Then followed up with a 3 combo hit of crosses, hooks and uppercuts.
Then we finished off with like a minute of fast hard jabbing alternating our punches and also knee lifts. Man that was a workout. Felt good.
After the sparring, we did more cardio, by doing these squat type thingies, where you squat, have your hands touch the ground, push out your legs as if you were about to do push ups, then pull your legs back in and jump up. We did that for about a minute. OMG... yeah. Those are tough. And we finished up with doing pushups for a minute. I had to do the female position because I was pretty tired.
After the class, I felt really lightheaded as if I coudln't breathe, and not enough oxygen was getting to my brain. And another odd thing, my hearing was muffled, I dunno what happened, I guess I over exerted myself a bit on the squat thingies. I had to sit down for a few minutes to catch my breath, and I felt better and my hearing came back.
They still had another class, Jeet Kun Do, which looked pretty cool from what I saw, however I dunno if I can get into that.
Overall Jeremy and I had a good time. From what he told me, he'd rather do the Jujutsu because the Kickboxing class kicked his ass and he kinda hurt his shoulder from the punching. I rather do the Kickboxing, so we have another week or so of classes, we'll more than likely just attend the Wednesday & Saturday class, and then decide if we want to join.
I honestly don't know if I can afford this right now. It's like $75 a month, and I can afford it, just right now I need to finish paying off the repairs to my car, and I won't get finished till like May, possibly earlier, if I work OT or something. I'll have to consider my finances and see if I can do it. But another negative is that the class is in Renton, which is like a good 45-60 minute drive depending upon traffic, so that's a bit on gas. I am already spending enough on gas with commuting to see Jeremy already, but I did enjoy the class a lot and it was refreshing to be able to exercise and have fun at the same time, and learn some pretty cool stuff.
So something to defintely consider.
But yeah, my body is sore. Not too badly, mostly my calves, quads, and pecs from the push ups.
/needs bengay
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
the darkside has beckoned me back..
So it has come to my conclusion that whenever it comes to me and Nintendo products, well in my efforts for me to either get them or for them to work for me, it's basically some sort of epic journey that I must endure.
As you recall of my tales of search for the Pink DS Lite as well as the Wii, it was quite the search in order to get them. Now, from what you don't know, for Christmas I received a Belkin Wireless G router from Jeremy. He bought it for me because I've always wanted one to go online with my DS to play Tetris and for Animal Crossing. I was happy to get one finally.
A week or so after Christmas, I finally decide to hook it up to test the bad boy out. At first it was working, but then 15 mins later, I had no internet connection what-so-ever. It was very odd, so I reinstalled it again, and still no connection. At the point in time, I wasn't really needing to go online with my DS, so I just took out the wireless router and hooked up the computer to my modem.
After I got the Wii, I knew I needed to get my wireless router working. So last Monday, I try reinstalling it and to no luck, I coudln't get the damn thing to work. So I then call Belkin Tech support on Tuesday, went through all the mundane steps that they have to go through to make sure that I'm doing the right thing to connect the router. After spending a good hour on the phone with them, to basically have them tell me, my router isn't working. (dur-de-durrh *Carlos Mencia impersonation*)
Anyways, they basically told me that they will send me a new router, and it will take like 7-10 business days to get it in the mail, which would be like 2/14. I was like sure. Luckily, I received that router in the mail that following Friday. So with eager anticipation of finally being able to get online with the Wii, I hook up the router, and test it out.
Yeah. Guess what happens. No connection.
ARGH! >.<
This time, it couldn't have been the router. It had to be my ISP. So I call up Comcast and get in touch with their tech support. As they are verifying my account information and myself, they look at my account and tell me, "Umm.. You don't have internet services with us."
Much to my surprise, I respond like the Virgin Mary, "Come again?" (If you know what movie I'm referrencing you get a cookie!) This was a big shock to me because I've had internet services ever since I joined Comcast back in I think it was July or August of 05, back when I was still living with that "one guy". And when I moved out on my own last August, I still continued to have internet service. Even more ironic, my ex stole my modem that I was renting from Comcast and had to pay $90 for that and rent a new modem from them, that I got from their office, so they should have known that I had internet services. So yeah, I then go, "This can't be possible, I've been using the internet for ages, I pay every month for them, let me check my statement." I remembered that a billing statement came in the mail that day as well from them, so I open the letter, look at it, and say, "Well I'll be goddamned". It only said cable for the services I had with them. So I was like.. "um.. because you guys didn't bill me for the last few months, are you gonna back bill me?" They said "No, that's our error for not billing you for internet services". I then say "Woohoo! You're damn right that's it's your bad, but anyways, I want internet services but I don't want to pay anymore than what I've been paying, so what options are there to downgrade my cable?"
I basically had like 6 months of free cable internet and was paying for stupid cable with HBO & Encore, that I barely ever used. Ah well. But I downgraded my cable to just basic channels with On Demand access with Cable internet for pretty much the same price, give or take a dollar.
So after that lil' fiasco, I still talk to tech support about the modem/router, they test it out and said they are receiving a signal and everything looks fine, but I still wasn't connecting with my Wii or DS.
*twitch*
So I then go to the webiste, the Wii & DS told me to go to: nintendowifi to find out what the Error Code they gave me meant. After navigating througout their website I come to find that the specific Model of the Belkin router I had was apparently not compatable with Nintendo Products. Every other Belkin router was compatable, except for my specific model.
WTF? Of all the things I thought was wrong, it was the type of router. *sigh* So I had 2 routers that do work, but they aren't the ones I needed. No access to the internets via Wii & DS.
My next plan of action, see where Jeremy bought my router and try to exchange it there to get store credit, and then try to return the extra one to get additional store credit. Heehee. He originally got it at Frye's, and that was a bit far for me to travel.. So I then think of walmart. I go to their website to see if they even sold that specific router and model, and to my luck they did. So I call the new local Walmart that was recently built in Lakewood. I proceed to tell them, I received "both" routers as Christmas presents, however even though they do work, they aren't compatible with what I want it to work for, and ask if I can return it or get store credit. They respond with that as long as I had all the original stuff that came in the box and if a Electronics Customer Rep checks it out, I could.
So I go to Walmart and get store credit for both routers! Heehee, yes I know, it was evil of me, but what the hell am I gonna do with a router that I don't need? I get a $86 store credit! I then call Jeremy to tell him of the splendid and funny news, he was like "Geez, and I only spent like $36 on your router!" So not only did I get a free credit of a router, but I also got like an extra $4/$6 on it as well. Woot!
So now I had $86 to spend..Hmm.. I proceed to the Electronics/Gaming section. I had so many options. I've been wanting to get so many things. So many choices:
1) Replacement router, differnt brand, Linksys more than likely, so I can finally get online w/ the Wii/Ds
2) Elebits for the Wii, I've been back and forth with this game, and even though I do enjoy Zelda, I need a silly game to keep me amused for when I take my break from Zelda
3) Super Mario Sunshine for the GC, along with a Wavebird & Memory Card, cuz I miss my Mario Sunshine because a certain ex stole all my gaming systems and games.
4) Finally cave in and get WoW The Burning Crusade Expansion
So guess what I picked?
Yes. I have succumbed to the power of the darkside. I bought the WoW expansion. I finally reactivated my account after months of not playing it. I had to download so many freaking patches before I could finally install the damn thing. But yes, I finally got back online with WoW. I still feel dirty. lol But it was pretty cool from what I saw. A good guildmate of mine, gave me a tour of the new areas with my lvl 60 shaman so I can start grinding to lvl 70. I also created a Blood Elf Mage by the name of Leiloo. (Can you guess where I got that from?) So yeah, it looked pretty cool so far. It was so weird coming back after not playing for such a long time.
My guild is totally different. They underwent a big massive exodus of guildies leaving to other places, a lot of people that I enjoyed playing with. I don't know what I'm gonna be doing in the future with my guild. All I know is that I'll probably play no more than 10 hours a week on WoW because I have other things to do that I enjoy, and I'm just gonna enjoy playing from time to time, no big commitment, just checking things out.
But I still have a $40 credit on my Walmart card. I think this Friday, I'll use the rest of it and some of my paycheck to get a Linksys wireless router to finally hook up my Wii online and buy a Wii points card and download some fun games. ^_^
I just hope this will be the last of the epic journeys I'll be having with Nintendo for a while. I don't think I can handle the frustration anymore. ^^;;
As you recall of my tales of search for the Pink DS Lite as well as the Wii, it was quite the search in order to get them. Now, from what you don't know, for Christmas I received a Belkin Wireless G router from Jeremy. He bought it for me because I've always wanted one to go online with my DS to play Tetris and for Animal Crossing. I was happy to get one finally.
A week or so after Christmas, I finally decide to hook it up to test the bad boy out. At first it was working, but then 15 mins later, I had no internet connection what-so-ever. It was very odd, so I reinstalled it again, and still no connection. At the point in time, I wasn't really needing to go online with my DS, so I just took out the wireless router and hooked up the computer to my modem.
After I got the Wii, I knew I needed to get my wireless router working. So last Monday, I try reinstalling it and to no luck, I coudln't get the damn thing to work. So I then call Belkin Tech support on Tuesday, went through all the mundane steps that they have to go through to make sure that I'm doing the right thing to connect the router. After spending a good hour on the phone with them, to basically have them tell me, my router isn't working. (dur-de-durrh *Carlos Mencia impersonation*)
Anyways, they basically told me that they will send me a new router, and it will take like 7-10 business days to get it in the mail, which would be like 2/14. I was like sure. Luckily, I received that router in the mail that following Friday. So with eager anticipation of finally being able to get online with the Wii, I hook up the router, and test it out.
Yeah. Guess what happens. No connection.
ARGH! >.<
This time, it couldn't have been the router. It had to be my ISP. So I call up Comcast and get in touch with their tech support. As they are verifying my account information and myself, they look at my account and tell me, "Umm.. You don't have internet services with us."
Much to my surprise, I respond like the Virgin Mary, "Come again?" (If you know what movie I'm referrencing you get a cookie!) This was a big shock to me because I've had internet services ever since I joined Comcast back in I think it was July or August of 05, back when I was still living with that "one guy". And when I moved out on my own last August, I still continued to have internet service. Even more ironic, my ex stole my modem that I was renting from Comcast and had to pay $90 for that and rent a new modem from them, that I got from their office, so they should have known that I had internet services. So yeah, I then go, "This can't be possible, I've been using the internet for ages, I pay every month for them, let me check my statement." I remembered that a billing statement came in the mail that day as well from them, so I open the letter, look at it, and say, "Well I'll be goddamned". It only said cable for the services I had with them. So I was like.. "um.. because you guys didn't bill me for the last few months, are you gonna back bill me?" They said "No, that's our error for not billing you for internet services". I then say "Woohoo! You're damn right that's it's your bad, but anyways, I want internet services but I don't want to pay anymore than what I've been paying, so what options are there to downgrade my cable?"
I basically had like 6 months of free cable internet and was paying for stupid cable with HBO & Encore, that I barely ever used. Ah well. But I downgraded my cable to just basic channels with On Demand access with Cable internet for pretty much the same price, give or take a dollar.
So after that lil' fiasco, I still talk to tech support about the modem/router, they test it out and said they are receiving a signal and everything looks fine, but I still wasn't connecting with my Wii or DS.
*twitch*
So I then go to the webiste, the Wii & DS told me to go to: nintendowifi to find out what the Error Code they gave me meant. After navigating througout their website I come to find that the specific Model of the Belkin router I had was apparently not compatable with Nintendo Products. Every other Belkin router was compatable, except for my specific model.
WTF? Of all the things I thought was wrong, it was the type of router. *sigh* So I had 2 routers that do work, but they aren't the ones I needed. No access to the internets via Wii & DS.
My next plan of action, see where Jeremy bought my router and try to exchange it there to get store credit, and then try to return the extra one to get additional store credit. Heehee. He originally got it at Frye's, and that was a bit far for me to travel.. So I then think of walmart. I go to their website to see if they even sold that specific router and model, and to my luck they did. So I call the new local Walmart that was recently built in Lakewood. I proceed to tell them, I received "both" routers as Christmas presents, however even though they do work, they aren't compatible with what I want it to work for, and ask if I can return it or get store credit. They respond with that as long as I had all the original stuff that came in the box and if a Electronics Customer Rep checks it out, I could.
So I go to Walmart and get store credit for both routers! Heehee, yes I know, it was evil of me, but what the hell am I gonna do with a router that I don't need? I get a $86 store credit! I then call Jeremy to tell him of the splendid and funny news, he was like "Geez, and I only spent like $36 on your router!" So not only did I get a free credit of a router, but I also got like an extra $4/$6 on it as well. Woot!
So now I had $86 to spend..Hmm.. I proceed to the Electronics/Gaming section. I had so many options. I've been wanting to get so many things. So many choices:
1) Replacement router, differnt brand, Linksys more than likely, so I can finally get online w/ the Wii/Ds
2) Elebits for the Wii, I've been back and forth with this game, and even though I do enjoy Zelda, I need a silly game to keep me amused for when I take my break from Zelda
3) Super Mario Sunshine for the GC, along with a Wavebird & Memory Card, cuz I miss my Mario Sunshine because a certain ex stole all my gaming systems and games.
4) Finally cave in and get WoW The Burning Crusade Expansion
So guess what I picked?
Yes. I have succumbed to the power of the darkside. I bought the WoW expansion. I finally reactivated my account after months of not playing it. I had to download so many freaking patches before I could finally install the damn thing. But yes, I finally got back online with WoW. I still feel dirty. lol But it was pretty cool from what I saw. A good guildmate of mine, gave me a tour of the new areas with my lvl 60 shaman so I can start grinding to lvl 70. I also created a Blood Elf Mage by the name of Leiloo. (Can you guess where I got that from?) So yeah, it looked pretty cool so far. It was so weird coming back after not playing for such a long time.
My guild is totally different. They underwent a big massive exodus of guildies leaving to other places, a lot of people that I enjoyed playing with. I don't know what I'm gonna be doing in the future with my guild. All I know is that I'll probably play no more than 10 hours a week on WoW because I have other things to do that I enjoy, and I'm just gonna enjoy playing from time to time, no big commitment, just checking things out.
But I still have a $40 credit on my Walmart card. I think this Friday, I'll use the rest of it and some of my paycheck to get a Linksys wireless router to finally hook up my Wii online and buy a Wii points card and download some fun games. ^_^
I just hope this will be the last of the epic journeys I'll be having with Nintendo for a while. I don't think I can handle the frustration anymore. ^^;;
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