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.

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!

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! ^_^

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. >.<

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!

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

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!

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