Crying at Movies

What is with getting older meaning you cry more? As a kid, I always laughed at my parents for crying at TV shows and movies... and now I do it! I have restricted myself from watching too many "Vet returns home from war" videos or I'll cry. I just watched This video and it made my well up and spill a tear or two.

And this kind of caught me unawares when it first started. You would have thought it happened slowly, like I would start getting closer and closer to cry every sad movie until finally one movie I finally actually cried. But no. I was happily watching the last Harry Potter movie and before I knew it, I was bawling. Like my boyfriend didn't know what to do, level of crying. Then came the first Hunger Games. I just don't trust myself not to at least tear up in movies any more. When and why did this happen?! Lets just hope it doesn't get worse... I don't want to start crying at events like weddings or dropping kids off some where...I'm doomed.

Until next time; may your day be wonderful.

No Excuses

Well this is the first time but I straight up forgot about these posts. I'm so sorry.

For the catching up: Thursday, my boyfriend (he would rather his name not used) and I rolled out of bed and delivered my friends computer right away. We finally got it set up to realize she didn't have a necessary cord so we ended up at the mall. I didn't mind, I got an Orange Julius. Orange Julius' drinks make all trips to the mall worth while.

Friday, the aforementioned friend came over to hang out. She figured that that would be the only motivation she had to go to classes that day. The make reason she got her computer was to game so getting up to go to classes was going to be hard. I totally understand, it is always hard to leave your new games and technology. So I offered to hang out for an extra motivation to leave the house.

Saturday I was going to hang out with my family but they all ended up sick. I'm glad my boyfriend hasn't brought home anything yet and lets keep our fingers crossed it stays that way. We didn't do much Saturday besides hang out.

Sunday was pretty lazy as well though we did do the weeks shopping. It is because of this that I realized I hadn't been making posts. When planning for the weeks menu, I find it easier to write the list here than just try to remember it. Plus, maybe it will help other people come up with ideas for their meals too.

Well, my "Breakfast" is finished (said as such being it is 1:00pm).

Sorry again about the long absence!

Until next time; have a wonderful day!

Starting to Think About Comic

 Yesterday I actually started some pages for my characters. I still haven't really pegged their exact traits but I'm getting there. A girl on another website I frequent wants to try creating some outfits for the girls so that will be really interesting. I think the characters will change clothes throughout the webcomic, unlike most. Problem is that I'm no good with coming up with styles...Hopefully it will become easier the more I do it and the more I know the characters.

I actually find that having other people draw my characters helps me learn about them. Kind of like learning the character wouldn't want to wear a color or that the character really likes that setting... Plus it is just a lot of fun to see other peoples take on my OCs ('original characters' for those who are unfamiliar).

I feel like these are so very random. I wonder if I should change that or stick with what is just naturally coming to me when I open a blank post. Don't forget you guys are free to post if you have suggestions if you have any, or just post for fun!

Until next time; may your day be wonderful!

(And my mouse stopped working... Now to figure out how to post this without being able to click the post button.)

Walk and Pizza

I wish my internet and computer could communicate better. One will say there is internet while the other does agree... Luckily we might have found a way to restart the modem that makes it reconnect right away instead of 12 hours later. This plus looking at apartments is making me really wish that it was May already.

But in more current news, Tov and I have started walking every day. We are going to just walk for a certain time then walk home. Today we walked up a hilly road for five minutes before turning around and coming home again. We started with 10 minutes total because not only are we unhealthy, we had delivery on the way. Every day we are going to add a minute, probably until we are walking 30 minutes total (don't want to have Tov spending his mornings walking instead of fun stuff!). It will be fun to get to see the different places we will go in that time. Also, I bet by the time we get bored of the area, we will be moving!

Have I mentioned I'm excited to move yet? Cause I am. Very.

Until next time; may your day be wonderful!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope that everyone had a amazing day! Even if you don't have that "Special Someone" you probably have some "Special People" in your life. I hope you got to share your love and appreciation with your friends and family!

Love you guys!

Until next time; have a wonderful day!

FINALLY!

I'm so sorry for the long absence!! I missed posting last weekend because I was busy but as soon as I was going to make a post earlier this week, our internet gave up again. It wasn't until some time yesterday that it decided to work again. So here is a review of the week!

Saturday the morning was spent making sure the house was all together then my family came over for dinner. We had a lot of fun playing Phase 10 again. I really enjoy it because everyone joins into the game. I wonder how it would be with even more people joined in. I imagine it would be hard to keep track of what everyone else was doing.

Sunday I spent mostly hanging out and working on getting all the dishes done again. Luckily I have been able to keep all the dishes done this week. So much easier to do when you only have to do a couple dishes a day instead of everything you own.

Monday morning was spent waiting for someone only to have that someone cancel. It was all and good though, spend the rest of the day gaming (surprise, surprise).

Tuesday my friend came over and we hung out for a good part of the day. It was her birthday and she also had mail to pick up and a check to drop off. Not really sure why I got her mail but I did. She is having Tov build a gaming computer for her using the money she got from her school loans.

Wednesday I spent a good couple of hours working on my finances. I didn't have internet so I couldn't add the newest transactions but I was mostly working on coding the excel sheet. It is tough work but I really enjoy it! I finally got it so that it will do all the math for me and now I can see how much I spend on what. It was horrifying to realize just how much we spent on 'take out'. We only went out to dinner or got delivery like 5 or 6 times but it ended up being almost $200 dollars. We spent only double that on actual food for good homemade meals! It doesn't see much to get fast food but goodness it adds up way too fast. Luckily, despite that, we made a bit more than spent.

Yesterday I finished adding the transactions. The check from my friend is going to really make this months numbers look weird. It was really hard deciding what categories to add it and the computer bill under.

Through out the week I have also been starting to play Don't Starve. We have played quite a bit together but I have finally started one on my own. I'm hoping that all the stuff we have figured out together will still work when I'm trying to survive alone.

Today I think I am going to make some brownies for Valentines. I don't think I did that last year but I would like it to be something I do most, being that is what I did for our first Valentines. I just need to find a good recipe for making them from scratch. My normal recipe is good but it makes them a little more cake like while we're in the mood for denser ones right now.

So I will now leave you with a ton to read while I look up recipes and apartments.

Until next time; may your day be wonderful!

Been Together for Weeks

Well, I decided to just push through and finish my Dragon Age story line. There is so much that I could still do that I can't even comprehend but it just doesn't feel right to play that save any more. I feel so bad for my character after what has happened. It is amazing how attacted/ familiar you get with your character. I spent literally days with this character and this game is so good at getting you emotionally involved. When it was all said and done, I felt really off and sad.

I tried making a new character but I am finding that I don't like her... Her voice is wrong and she is big and clunky though she is very pretty. I just got so used to seeing and hearing the previous character that it is hard to change modes. I considered having the same voice for this character but I associate it so strongly with the previous one... And it doesn't help that some of the voicing is done but the first voice actress? Not sure why they did that but the two difference voice options have the same voice for things like jumping, falling attacking etc. It really matches the first one but the second voice is much deeper than the first so those audio clips sound so out of place.

What got me thinking about all this is I stumbled upon some videos last night that go into the psychology of Character Creation. Being so into psych like I am, I found them fascinating. Here is the first episode and here is the second.

Regarding the first episode, I don't usually find myself recreating myself but more based off characters. The first time around in a game, is usually created purely based on what I think is pretty. From there I base it on characters that I have for gaming purposes.

For the second video, I never really play as a male character because I feel like taking every chance I can to play as a female. Unfortunately not every game has a female character so I like to take the opportunity when I can (not having female character available doesn't bother me, just as a side note).  And I prefer looking at a female for all those hours. Tov quite often plays as a female and he doesn't really know why. It is probably for all the reasons mentioned in the video. I do wonder how empathetic a person is, affects it all.

I suppose I shall stop rambling on about games and psychology!

Until next time; may your day be wonderful!

Working on the Blog

I've been thinking about editing my a bit. Not sure about the title and some of the formats of it all. I guess I am still trying to figure out exactly what I am going to be doing with this blog and what it should be about. I think I might change the title to the same as the URL's. I also tried editing the link colors so that they stand out some but it is hard to not make them stand out too much or too little.

With the weather changing as much as it is, I will probably have to get a new background soon. I want the background to reflect the season it is here. The bigger question is, from what game do I get the screen shot? Do I continue with the Skyrim theme or do I get it from a different game? I suppose for right now, it depends on if I can find spring like pictures in the game.

Sorry about the short post but I think I will spend my blogging time working on the blog itself instead of a post.

Until next time; may your day be wonderful.

Dependent Internet

Nothing like spending a good amount of time off the internet to realize how much you regularly check in on. One website has almost 200 notifications. Though,of course the site where my real life friends and family has no notifications but that is fine, I just use it to spy on everyone. There is another site where if I didn't 'work' there, I wouldn't be checking in on it much any more.

I have also found myself following many webcomics (all following titles will be links to the webcomic). Gunnerkrigg Court was the first webcomic I ever followed. I am still blown away by how much his art has changed from the beginning. This is the biggest inspiration for me to start my own webcomic just to improve. If you are getting into this one, expect to have a lot to back log and don't ever expect any questions to be answered. He has gone on a bit long on this but I still cant bring myself to stop reading.

Namesake is probably my favorite of all the webcomics I read. The art style is very unique and the story is awesome. While the art has improved, I think more than anything, it is the style that has really evolved in this one. Kind of in the same way that the next one has, it started out more complicated and turns into a simpler but much cleaner style.

Monsieur Charlatan is an awesome webcomic though if you get into it, you should be ready for irregular updates. She used to update weekly but at this point, it is just whenever she can manage. I understand life can get in the way but it also makes me forget about the comic for prolonged amounts of time. All the better I suppose, so I'm not disappointed every week (also makes me super happy when it does finally show up).

The newest that I am following is Headless Bliss. It is done by an artist of another webcomic I read but won't mention due to its occasionally NSFW nature. Headless Bliss is only 28 pages in but I think it will have a very interesting story line. The art style is very fluid and beautiful. It is nice to see this work colored as her other isn't.

All this talk about artwork makes me want to draw. Probably won't happen for a while but inspiration might be starting to bubble again.

Until next time; my your day be wonderful!

Fluffy Rain

Of course, after my previous post about having no snow, it snowed. Not much mind you, but it still managed to snow all day yesterday (and be foggy). Most of it has melted now, only standing on the roofs and hills. But that is okay, at least I can order pizza (the hill I live on is such a pain, that as long as there is snow, people won't deliver and I don't blame them).

Saturday we finally went out to see my family. I was so happy to see one of their pups as we almost had to put her down. Luckily, we were able to figure out a way to help her so she could live, she is the sweetest puppy I know.

While out there, we also got to hang out and play cards. The game we played was awesome though I was losing most the game. That's okay though, I'm used to that. I almost always loose games. What was nice about this one was after a while, I was able to pull ahead a bit (more from other people getting bad hands than from me doing well). I think that it is called Phase 10, which that makes me realize we should have been calling them 'phases' instead of 'tiers'...

Sunday we worked on the apartment a bit. We got a good portion of the Christmas decorations packed up. Now we just need a box or something to get everything officially packed up. It is so much easier to get chores down when we both do them at the same time. There is no excuses then!

Another thing that really helps is setting alarms. I used to do the "well, I'll start cleaning at this time" But then if I missed it, even by five minutes, I would tell myself "Well, missed that chance, now I'll start at This time." So now I give myself time limits instead. I set a timer for an hour and I can do anything I want during that time. Then I set it for 20 or 30 minutes and I have to work during that time. I also make sure that the alarm is somewhere across the room so that I have to stop and get up. Then it is easy to switch to chores cause I'm already up.

I think I might do that routine again today but we will see. For now, I'm going to go curl up and read!

Until next time; may your day be wonderful!