March 18 - Grr, Arrrgh

A little snippet from an msn convo today;

William Gulliver has 16 days says (11:26 PM):
Argh, ID3 tags
William Gulliver has 16 days says (11:27 PM):
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh phone dead
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH COMPUTER

Explanations of this and more, soon to come. 

March 15 - I Accidentally The Whole Project

Let's not spend a whole lot of time going over how majorly I failed at this, mmkay?

Last week I took a bus to a nearby city to spend some time with my boyfriend which was quite good, though he got a little sick at the end which was unfortunate. He has been having a rough time lately because his bosses are jerks and his work in general sucks and his family is kind of a variety pack of inconsideration. And he had pneumonia a while ago so his lungs hate him.

We watched a movie I bought called Yoyo Girl Cop, and yes it was as bad as it sounds.

We bought the new Pokemon games (him black, me white) and I started over three times to get all the starters, whereas he did not wish to do so. I decided to name all my team members after constellations this time around, and me not paying attention led to me having a boy Oshawott named Vela and a female Tepig named Orion. Whoops. My Snivy/Servine is named Hydra, my Swoobat (I think it's called) is Cygnus, I have a Tynamo named Andromeda, and a Krokorok named Lecerta. Dunno what I am going to name Zekrom yet, possibly Hercules. 

I have thirteen days of work yet which is exciting, because in between looking for a place to live and sending out e-mails/making calls, I have lots of time for writing and video games which are two things I am rather fond of.

Music is good, I have fallen back in love with the Korean group Supernova who are actually more popular in Japan and have three albums there and a whole whack load of singles, whereas in Korea they have one album and I think two singles. Also I bought Sarah McLachlan's new album and it kind of makes me want to cry (in a good way)

I have not been playing Monster Galaxy a whole lot lately but I will probably get back into it once I am not working anymore.

One of the friends that is moving in with me and I have decided that once we are settled into our new place we are going to buy a computer tower and a big screen monitor and start up a joined Let's Play (video games) youtube channel. I came up with a name but he hasn't been online in the past 4 days for me to share it with him.

I recently played and completed the Japanese SNES game Live a Live, which I found through one of my favourite LPers of all time Boltage MacGamar, and it was such an incredibly amaaaaaazing game and anyone at all who is a fan of oldschool rpgs should play it. (there is a fully translated English patch available on the interwebs)

Erm. I am really no closer at all to figuring out what I want to do in terms of schooling, and I think it's a very real possibility that I am just a lazy bum who will never amount to anything and I should just go ahead and resign myself to a crappy minimum wage position at a fast food restaurant that makes me hate my life forever. 

The thing that makes it so difficult is that I have soooooo maaaaany ideas. I am constantly creating stories and scenarios in my head. Anime shows, movies, video games, novel series, music videos, song lyrics, even titles for cds for crying out loud. I am ALWAYS coming up with new things, always stringing together words and characters and ideas, my mind is constantly working and creating and what I want more than anything in my life is to be able to create something from all of that... but I can't figure out how. I could literally sit with someone for hours and tell them about all my ideas, and I would be so excited while doing it and I would have so many random little details and scenarios to share with them. But that doesn't really do me a whole lot of good.

One thing I am really eager for right now, is I want to find someone who can draw a set of 10 characters from my one story for me. I can probably find someone on deviantart to do it, but a commission of ten characters would probably end up getting pretty pricey. I shall see, though... 

Anyway, I think that's it for now. I will try to update again this week and hopefully a bit more regularly afterwards.

Annnnd... I forget what I usually say at the end of these. Bother. 

December 19 - Card Trick

So, it has been almost a month this time. But I have lots of exciting things to share.

On Monday the 6th I took a bus to Toronto to visit a friend for his birthday, which was on Tuesday. He is from New York, but since I don't have my passport I couldn't visit him there, so he drove up to Toronto and we stayed in a hotel. Lots of exciting things happened over the course of the next few days. We watched the "Last Airbender" movie, we got lost on our way to a restaurant and ended up eating at the wrong hotel on our way back, we spent most of Tuesday shopping in the Eaton's Centre and I spent 140 dollars on books (five of the eight were for my dad, then two on mythology and a pokedex for me)

Wednesday we spent the entire day at the Ontario Science Centre which was also lots of fun. Andrew doesn't like big scary water creatures though, and one of the exhibits had all these massive whale skeletons on display that were making him kinda anxious. Poor guy D: The museum also had a mythological beasts exhibit which I kind of wanted to live in, but we didn't end up spending a whole lot of time in there. Sadtimes.

At one point we ended up in this kind of pretend rainforesty area, and there was this big pretty waterfall but my camera just would not photograph it at all. If I left the flash on while I took the picture, it was too dark. If I took the flash off it was just one big blur. Maybe the waterfall was shy.

When we got back on Wednesday night, we ordered some pizza with wings and cinnamon sticks and all of that stuff was reeeeeeeally good and then we also concluded that both of us would like to try some wine and that was reeeeeeeeeally bad. Like, completely and utterly disgusting, there was just NOTHING good in there. We took about two sips each and the rest went in the toilet. Andrew was more persistent than me, but it didn't last long.

On Thursday, it was time for me to go home, so I took a cab to the bus station. However, before we left the bus station we talked, and we ended up deciding that we should be dating. And so now we are. And it's nice.

He came up Wednesday night to surprise me with a visit, because we both had Thursday off. He bought a gps just for the visit. And then once we got to the room I saw he had also spent a bunch of money on a small pink (fake of course) tree, a few presents for me, and like 5 pounds of chocolate. Seriously.

So, he tried a card trick out on me and mine had been the two of hearts, and the card he showed me when he said "Was this your card?" was the six of hearts. So I said "Mmmm, nope." so then we went and showered and then once both of us were all done I opened my presents. And when I opened the envelope and took out the card, the two of hearts was in it. I was very impressed/amazed/swoony. So yes, it was magical.

On Thursday we went for breakfast which was good, and we drove around a lot, but then when I got home and plugged in my phone I saw that I had gotten a text from one of my coworkers asking where I was. I went into my e-mail right away and checked the schedule, and it did say that I had Thursday off. So I texted her back and said I wasn't on the schedule, and she told me to call and talk to my boss. So I did. Turns out when he was making up the schedule, he wrote down the wrong name.

He asked if I could come in for a few hours, and I didn't want to leave Andrew after him driving all that way and spending so much money on a gps and presents and everything, and I reeeeally wanted to spend the rest of the day with him. But I dunno, I felt compelled to go in, I felt that even though it wasn't what I really wanted to do it would be the better thing to do. So I said I'd go in for 2:30, which gave Andrew and I another hour and a half (roughly). He even drove me to work so that we could spend as much time together as possible. I'm still sad that I had to leave for work, but he says he wasn't disappointed with the trip.

So yes. My boyfriend is fantastic.

Also, I have been playing a game on Facebook lately called Monster Galaxy and it is excellent. I've even roped a couple of my friends and even Andrew (who hates Facebook) into playing it with me. I'm also writing a little story on it, just for the fun of it.

I also bought three video games earlier in the week - Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, God of War: The Ghost of Sparta, and Legendary (PS3) and so far I have played all of them only a little bit. But I've spent the most time on GoWGoS. Haha. Gowgos, that's a fun word.

Anyhoozles. I've also started listening to the Korean group Turtles again. They were my favourite group for a long time and then I didn't listen to them for... probably almost a year. And by listen to them, I mean frequently, not ever. I've made a playlist on mp3 player of all of their songs (105 I think) and I intend to be listening to it all the way through. There aren't many artists who I can listen to every single song of. At least, not many with more than one or two albums (Turtles have 5, plus a bunch of other ep's and stuff).

Errrrm. What else is there? My work is closing down from December 19th to January 3rd, but I still have to go in from 9-5 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday because I volunteered to help them with cleaning stuff. So thaaaaat won't be fun, but maybe it will be. I'm gonna bring my laptop so I have music. For the time I'm not working, though I am going to be visiting my parents and hopefully at some point after Christmas two of my best friends who I haven't seen in forever are going to visit.

I have so much stuff in my room, and I have nowhere to put it all. It's all just kind of piled up into disorganized three foot tall mounds. And if you think I am kidding about them being three feet tall, I assure you I am not. As you'd figure, even finding someplace to stand is a bit of a challenge at this point, nevermind actually moving around. After Christmas I will have significantly less stuff though, and that will be good.

Errrrm. Yes. That's all. At least, it had better be...