It's a couple of days overdue for a new blog post and it's incredibly hot in my house and I should shower, so I'm going to write post because... that makes sense... yes...
Since my last post, I've seen The Dark Knight Rises twice, the new Aladdin musical once, made a new necklace, got a shirt and one for free, and painted my nails more than I should have.
I enjoyed the Aladdin musical. It was funny. WAY TOO LONG, but funny. I admit I was disappointed that there was no Abu, no Iago (parrot-wise) and no elephants, but I kind of figured there wouldn't be. I believe they should have stuck with the original songs from the movie and not added any. Most, I felt, were unnecessary. The Genie (as always) was the best character and really stole the show. Abu was changed into three friend of Aladdin and Iago was changed into a human. The man who played Iago did an excellent job, but I felt like he wasn't the same Iago was in the movies, more of a sniveling little yes-man than a snark side-kick.
I have a... very small obsession with painting my nails. They have to be painted or it bothers me. I think I painted them three times last week. The second time because the first time got messed up because it wasn't dry and the third time because I painted them too fast the second time and there were tiny air bubbles in them... I have issues.
Yes, I have seen TDKR twice. Almost three times, but my family are nerdfaces and didn't want to go. I really loved Bane [no, not just because he was played by Tom Hardy (who I adore!)]. I loved that he was like this big macho gun-for-hire and yet had this amazing voice and eloquence. If you've seen it, you understand. Also, and I know other disagree with me, I think he's just as good a villain as the Joker. I adore the Joker because he did what he did because he could, for the fun of it. Bane nearly killed Batman multiple times and, SPOILER did what he did because of the woman he loved, END SPOILER I think that's awesome.
As for the shirts, after I saw TDKR the first time, I REALLY wanted to buy a Bane shirt, but as he is the villain, there wasn't any in any stores that I saw that I liked. Most were not attractive. I was not happy. So I went on Amazon (the worst/best place ever) and found one that I liked. It was more than I wanted to pay, but it was the cheapest and had the design I wanted. I ordered it and found out it was going to take them 6-10 days to even get it ready to ship to me. I admit, I was a bit upset. Even more upset when I got it and found out it was a design I didn't want. However, the good news is (after I complained because, dude, I paid good money for this shirt), they're sending me the correct one (no charge) and I get to keep the other one too! Two Bane shirts for the price of one! AWESOME!!! BEST SELLERS EVER!
I'd post a picture of the necklace I made, but I don't really feel like it, but know it's a button with a nail on it (to hold the string/rope) with a picture of Bane in it. I wanted it to be kind of industrial looking. Overall I'm very happy with it and if I ever get off my butt, I'll post a picture of it, but I'm lazy... so I probably won't.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Adventures in Pirate Land
Yes, it's that time again. Time for another set of weirdness from me. In this weeks edition: Pirates of the Caribbean! Yeah that's pretty much all I've been doing...
Lately, a couple days anyway, I have become, depressingly, maddeningly obsessed with playing the Pirates of the Caribbean online game. I find it incredibly addictive. You can play it for free until you get to a certain point and then it laughs in your face and taunts you that you can't finish the missions you were working on for days. So yes, sadly I did pay $5 to be able to play for a month and have unlimited access.
In the game, you design your pirate and get missions to accomplish, you usually get three or so mission at a time, so if you want to put off plundering some Navy ships, you can go fight the undead to collect dust from them. There are lots of different islands you can go to. So far, the only big ones I've been to are Tortuga, Port Royal and Cuba. In fact, the other day, I swam around the entire island of Cuba because I couldn't remember how to get to Tia Dalma's shack. It took me about 30 minutes and was possibly the most boring 30 minutes of my life. Although I did end up finding a volcano island because of it.
When playing, you can join a crew or a guild (I have yet to do either. Lone wolf! Arrooo!!) and you can talk to other players in the game (by way of typing, not talking) Also, if you're near other people having a conversation, you can overhear their conversation. My favorite I've ever heard was last night.
It was so random. Usually it's "how do I get out of here?" or "Want to join my crew/guild?"
Oddly enough, my favorite activity in the game is fishing. I am frakkin' amazing at it. I love it because it's easy, not too time consuming and you can get lots of gold off it. I bought myself a 3000g French Assassin's coat only from catching fish. It's awesome. Another of my favorite things is when you run by someone and they are kind of slumped over. When you've been away from your computer/the game for a while your character slumps over and says AFK (Away from Keyboard) over your head. Depending on the time of day, there are a lot of "sleeping" people. It amuses me.
My least favorite is fixing my ship. I hate fixing my ship. Probably why I hate when a mission says I have to go out and plunder ships. I much prefer to keep my feet on dry ground. I guess that makes me kind of a crappy pirate. But I am an amazingly well-dressed one.
Lately, a couple days anyway, I have become, depressingly, maddeningly obsessed with playing the Pirates of the Caribbean online game. I find it incredibly addictive. You can play it for free until you get to a certain point and then it laughs in your face and taunts you that you can't finish the missions you were working on for days. So yes, sadly I did pay $5 to be able to play for a month and have unlimited access.
In the game, you design your pirate and get missions to accomplish, you usually get three or so mission at a time, so if you want to put off plundering some Navy ships, you can go fight the undead to collect dust from them. There are lots of different islands you can go to. So far, the only big ones I've been to are Tortuga, Port Royal and Cuba. In fact, the other day, I swam around the entire island of Cuba because I couldn't remember how to get to Tia Dalma's shack. It took me about 30 minutes and was possibly the most boring 30 minutes of my life. Although I did end up finding a volcano island because of it.
When playing, you can join a crew or a guild (I have yet to do either. Lone wolf! Arrooo!!) and you can talk to other players in the game (by way of typing, not talking) Also, if you're near other people having a conversation, you can overhear their conversation. My favorite I've ever heard was last night.
Pirate 1:Yo black man, what are you doing?
Pirate 2: Being black
It was so random. Usually it's "how do I get out of here?" or "Want to join my crew/guild?"
Oddly enough, my favorite activity in the game is fishing. I am frakkin' amazing at it. I love it because it's easy, not too time consuming and you can get lots of gold off it. I bought myself a 3000g French Assassin's coat only from catching fish. It's awesome. Another of my favorite things is when you run by someone and they are kind of slumped over. When you've been away from your computer/the game for a while your character slumps over and says AFK (Away from Keyboard) over your head. Depending on the time of day, there are a lot of "sleeping" people. It amuses me.
My least favorite is fixing my ship. I hate fixing my ship. Probably why I hate when a mission says I have to go out and plunder ships. I much prefer to keep my feet on dry ground. I guess that makes me kind of a crappy pirate. But I am an amazingly well-dressed one.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Hello!
Hello again everyone. How are we all doing? Wonderful? Good.
You know, I've been thinking about writing this post for a few days now and now I can't remember what I was going to write about. Strange.
I did watch an odd movie the other day. I missed the ending because I fell asleep, but I assume everything ended happily ever after. It was called Fire & Ice . It had Gimli (LOTR), Fred(Angel) and Imhotep(The Mummy) in it, which I think is why I started watching it in the first place. At first it seemed like any other cookie cutter we have to kill dragons fantasy movie until the dragons came out. They looked like giant flying sting rays. Yes. Sting Rays. It was so weird.
I've been watching Game of Thrones and, I'm going to get hate for this, I honestly don't see what's so good about it. There isn't really any characters I like except Tyrion and he keeps getting screwed out of everything, so that's no fun. I like Arya too, but she's not done anything really big lately either. I liked Stannis's brother, who's name I can't recall, but he got killed by a shadow so... yeah. Not a big fan. I liked the first season, but the second season is just full of stupid people doing stupid things that are easy to guess. I'm not surprised by it anymore.
So, I role play over Twitter. Yes, role play. Sherlock role play I'm a weirdy. Deal. Except I guess it gets worse as I currently role play as four different men. I used to have three men and a woman, but everyone hated her so she ran away. One of them doesn't have a job because he married a billionaire and they're having twins. One of them is a bodyguard to a man who is basically Moriarty, but not and is having a baby with his girlfriend. Another is the man's right hand man who just decided to settle down and the final is a high class escort. Funny thing about them is that they are all late 30s, early 40s. Except the jobless one. He's turning 52 this year.
I was supposed to play D&D today, but alas, I was too ill and feeling like I was going to have all my insides come out my face. It wasn't fun times. Hopefully, I can play next week and I'll have AWESOME dice to play with. I'm so excited.
I really like Dr. Pepper and salty chips. In fact, if given the choice between a bag of chips (that I found tasty) and a box of chocolates, I would take the bag of chips every time.
This is my dog Koschei. This picture is a few years old though. I'll probably post more when I get the uploaded to my computer. Which maybe a while because I'm lazy. My middle sister likes to call him Skippyjon Jones. It's never really made sense to me as the books are about a cat that think he's a Chihuahua whereas my dog is a dog that is part Chihuahua.
Did I mention I'm getting dice? I'm getting awesome clear-green dice.
That is the end of my ramblings for today. TTFN.
You know, I've been thinking about writing this post for a few days now and now I can't remember what I was going to write about. Strange.
I did watch an odd movie the other day. I missed the ending because I fell asleep, but I assume everything ended happily ever after. It was called Fire & Ice . It had Gimli (LOTR), Fred(Angel) and Imhotep(The Mummy) in it, which I think is why I started watching it in the first place. At first it seemed like any other cookie cutter we have to kill dragons fantasy movie until the dragons came out. They looked like giant flying sting rays. Yes. Sting Rays. It was so weird.
I've been watching Game of Thrones and, I'm going to get hate for this, I honestly don't see what's so good about it. There isn't really any characters I like except Tyrion and he keeps getting screwed out of everything, so that's no fun. I like Arya too, but she's not done anything really big lately either. I liked Stannis's brother, who's name I can't recall, but he got killed by a shadow so... yeah. Not a big fan. I liked the first season, but the second season is just full of stupid people doing stupid things that are easy to guess. I'm not surprised by it anymore.
So, I role play over Twitter. Yes, role play. Sherlock role play I'm a weirdy. Deal. Except I guess it gets worse as I currently role play as four different men. I used to have three men and a woman, but everyone hated her so she ran away. One of them doesn't have a job because he married a billionaire and they're having twins. One of them is a bodyguard to a man who is basically Moriarty, but not and is having a baby with his girlfriend. Another is the man's right hand man who just decided to settle down and the final is a high class escort. Funny thing about them is that they are all late 30s, early 40s. Except the jobless one. He's turning 52 this year.
I was supposed to play D&D today, but alas, I was too ill and feeling like I was going to have all my insides come out my face. It wasn't fun times. Hopefully, I can play next week and I'll have AWESOME dice to play with. I'm so excited.
I really like Dr. Pepper and salty chips. In fact, if given the choice between a bag of chips (that I found tasty) and a box of chocolates, I would take the bag of chips every time.
Did I mention I'm getting dice? I'm getting awesome clear-green dice.
That is the end of my ramblings for today. TTFN.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
First Post!
First Post! Woo!
This is my first post of my new blog that I decided to make after realizing that I never use Livejournal anymore and therefore never update my "blog" there. Hopefully, this one will be updated more. Honestly though, probably not much as nothing ever goes on in my real life. Yeah, it's sad. Oh well.
In case you didn't know, I have two other blogs on blogspot. They are my "story" blogs and, unfortunately, also haven't been updated in a long time.
http://caj-stories.blogspot.com/
http://apenasweetabusticket.blogspot.com/
I'll also apologize if I happen to spell things wrong. These days I tend to spell things the British way and sometimes it slips my mind that I'm in America and I need to spell things the American way without extra u's and with z's instead of s's. Also, my fingers work faster than my brain and put in different words than my brain wanted to put in a sentence. It's weird.
There will also probably be lots of picture of my dog, Koschei. He's like my baby. Yes, I did name him after a Doctor Who character. Yes, I'm weird like that.
Anywho, this is my opening post. Hopefully, there will be another one soon... ish.
~Emily
This is my first post of my new blog that I decided to make after realizing that I never use Livejournal anymore and therefore never update my "blog" there. Hopefully, this one will be updated more. Honestly though, probably not much as nothing ever goes on in my real life. Yeah, it's sad. Oh well.
In case you didn't know, I have two other blogs on blogspot. They are my "story" blogs and, unfortunately, also haven't been updated in a long time.
http://caj-stories.blogspot.com/
http://apenasweetabusticket.blogspot.com/
I'll also apologize if I happen to spell things wrong. These days I tend to spell things the British way and sometimes it slips my mind that I'm in America and I need to spell things the American way without extra u's and with z's instead of s's. Also, my fingers work faster than my brain and put in different words than my brain wanted to put in a sentence. It's weird.
There will also probably be lots of picture of my dog, Koschei. He's like my baby. Yes, I did name him after a Doctor Who character. Yes, I'm weird like that.
Anywho, this is my opening post. Hopefully, there will be another one soon... ish.
~Emily
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