Walking through this life

Hee

2008-07-21T18:56:57Z

So, I had poison ivy on my foot for the past week.

Today, it sprouted up on a finger.

Not just any finger.

My middle finger on my left hand.

I'm amused.

And yes, I'm 12.

Friday...

2008-07-18T11:44:24Z

And the Thank God is in there.

Dood.

6 hours cleaning yesterday. SIX.

And I probably missed something. Oh well.

Mom should be in town early this afternoon, and barring any bad traffic, I should be home by five. Figure out what to do from there.

Tomorrow, I think we may hit Waynesville (Thanks Jess for the suggestion!) or the two Flea market-type places down by Butter Jesus (Anyone know anything about those two?)

Sunday is Faire.

Monday I work.

Tuesday, work from home, take car in for fix up due to recall.

Wednesday - hit wineries, Dragons Game.

Rest of week, who knows..

Might see Hellboy 2 tonight. W00t!

Much love to the following people:
forgottenalarms for car troubles. I know that pain, believe me.

aryaluna for the whole issue with her coworker. My thoughts are with you guys, and I really hope that somehow in all of it, there's a silver lining.

kurosawa2005 because he's a fellow geek, who is just as insane as I am. ;)

Re: Game

2008-07-17T18:36:43Z

Such an idiot.

Completely forgot I had a spell this weekend I should have used.

ARGHS!

Dangit, I DO have a higher level healing spell!!!!

ACK! Need help!

2008-07-17T13:45:33Z

First things first, if you havent' seen Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog
The first 10 minutes were okay,..but the last five had me on the ground laughing. Nathan Fillion is my hero. And he's damn cute too.

Will watch Act 2 later.

~~

Hell's Bells for return of the Dracos, methinks.

~~

Now for the plea:

2 things -

My mom is coming into town tomorrow.

I need help tonight cleaning if anyone is up to help. Pleasepleaseplease...I can offer ordering pizza or something; but just the company even if you don't want to clean, would be awesome.

And second, if you have ANY recommendations on where to eat/what to go do/see, etc, that would be great. We are hitting the KY Renfaire this weekend, and with the weather, it looks to be Sunday rather than Saturday; and next weekend the Celtic Festival one day at least. Also on her birthday we are going to a Dayton Dragons game, but that's about all I've got.

Anything?

I'd be very grateful!!

Crap.

2008-07-15T18:24:41Z

I need this like I need a hole in the head.

One of my cysts is either twisting horribly or it just burst.

My right side is in so much pain, I can barely walk.

(And yes, it's lower than the appendix. Much lower.)

And the bad news hits..

2008-07-15T11:47:41Z

Due to a massive money mistake on my part, Gencon is definitely out for all weekend. I may be able to make one day, but there's no way I can do the whole thing.

Oh well. I fucked up, I deal with it.

Mew.

2008-07-15T11:20:59Z

Last night was a ton of fun.

We had Sean and Sarah's going away party at Elsa's. Half of a bad juan and I was (mostly) done drinking for the night. I was not drunk; but probably as close as I've ever gotten. Don't think I'll do that ever again - the light headedness is not fun. Jess got the second half of my drink.

There was a ton of quotes and comments made; a lot of discussion about random things and half-watching the home run derby on the tv behind the table - so of course baseball was brought up.

The food was really very good. I am going to take my mom there when she's in town.

Got home about 11:10; finished laundry and popped online for a bit. Caught Mical online, chatted at him; and then hit bed around 12:45.

Yah, can we say tired today boys and girls?

Thought so.

"We got this.."

2008-07-14T11:42:49Z

The weekend was fun. I'm not sunburnt (thank Goodness), but I am quite tanned.

My poor character. The Son of a bitch factor hit on Sunday when it was confirmed what she and Makaia already knew Saturday afternoon. Damnit.

The next six months are going to be a ton of fun with that group on the plot team. AND we have a man with lots of hats again! Scott's hat for the new jackass --er...stand in for Phelan (who my character believes fully will be coming back soon) was awesomesauce.

The festival was fun. Ilana had to wear jewelry and got make up put on. She had that jewelry off within the first hour (at least the earrings) because it was too loud. But she was considering keeping the bracelet. She did like that one. ;)

Still trying to figure out why people came to Ilana for advice on their love life. Dude. You do know the last guy that was interested in her was driven pretty much insane by the chaos cleric, right? Yah, so ya know...she's not batting 1000 here folks ;)

It's a lot of fun playing a character who doesn't understand certain terms and situations while *I* do. Dave's NPC insult comment was a prime example. Heather understood exactly what was said to the Dingo; Ilana turned and in a confused voice said, "I do not understand what that meant."

Some of the best quotes (offhand) -

"I'm killing clouds with my mind."

"So, I was just following the Free Companions around and they asked me if I wanted to join them..." (four second silence.) "What? I thought it was funny! Fuck you."

"We got this."
(Seeing all of the Dracos.)
"We don't got this. Get help. EVERYONE."

"Don't lose my stick!" (Trust me, don't ask)

"These earrings are impractical. They make too much noise when out in the woods."

"Last year, there was one chaste female on the court who blushed every time she was kissed. It was quite a sight to see her turn as red as her blindfold." Mirth
"I'm sorry!" Eala
"Oh, it wasn't you!" Mirth
(That's when it hit Ilana he was talking about her. Whoops!)

I know there were one or two more that I am missing, but I'll post a top ten later and there's definitely fiction coming from this weekend.

Stupid Dracos.

I got home last night and *crashed* hardcore. Slept straight through. So much for quick nap and then heading over to Brandon and J's for swimming and party.

Goddamnit, snowtiger42!

2008-07-11T16:53:38Z

Asscrack of holding just came up in a conversation.

I have you to thank for that, you know. I would never have thought of it otherwise.

Hmph!

Visits and late nights and oh my!

2008-07-11T11:39:22Z

So last night I hung out with J9. We were going to hit Fridays to harass the guys, but NO ONE was working. GAH!

We had dinner there anyway.

She helped me run my errand at Kroger's and grab my meds.

Hung out for a bit; I went to look for the missing cat (not mine) that I had seen the day before, and J9 went home. No luck on the missing cat though.

Need to hang out again soon.

Caught up a bit with dragonkiss32676 on the phone and now that I have her cellphone number I can call!

Re other game stuff - Talked to shadow_heart as well a bit afterwards. Darlin', she may be talked into it, but it's going to take a major scene, cause right now, she doesn't trust the man. So, either we can do it on AIM or in person; but yah.

Went to bed soon after as I was getting a headache. Allegra is supposed to be working, damnit!

Tonight is Triumph game prep, cooking, and maybe watching Hellboy or something while I do my game stuff. If people want to come over and hang to keep me company while I cook and such; please do. I should be home after shopping at about 6:30.

Yah. I'm exciting.

Damn straight

2008-07-10T15:26:36Z

And swiped from the ever awesome ravenproject

And quoted for soooo much truth:

Sheets don't ruin games. Assholes ruin games.

This came about while talking on OWBN, but it can be translated into ANY game.

Ever.

stretches

2008-07-10T11:57:07Z

Sooo looking forward to this weekend.

Amanda is evil. Nuff said.
Brandon and the guys on Plot Team. Eek.
Relaxed cleric who can easily not have to run around healing everyone during Festival. That'll be a change!
Need to also have some IC convos with a few people on some situations. One of those should have hilarious considering who it is going to be with and what it's about. (from an OOC perspective anyway..absolutely NO sarcasm there, honestly! I'm looking forward to that convo!)
Looking forward to Sean's last dungeon. (sniff)
Looking forward to being creeped out and night raids by the guys. Will be quite disappointed if they don't live up to the hype they've been spouting ;)
Seeing what evil Dave has planned is also going to be fun.

Game prep is going to take a bit tomorrow night. Making the truffles will take about 3 hours total, but since two hours of that is them sitting in the fridge before I melt the chocolate around them, I can also make two of the three quiches at that time.

I don't mind it. If anyone wants to come and keep me company during it, please do!

(Now I just have to figure out if I can see Hellboy tomorrow night as well!)

One of these days I seriously need a sewing machine so I can make spellballs.
I still need some of those.

Need to update my spellbook.
Need to check on what I'm making both potions and scroll wise.
Need to ensure first aid kit is in bag, and I have my inhaler this game. (yes, I'm a dumbass)

I'm going to run out and buy a battery operated fan so in case I end up in one of the cabins this game, I will have a way to keep cool in the heat.

~~~

In other news, I got a refund check from the city of Lebanon. Seems I overpaid my citation by 60 bucks. This means I won't overdraft my bank account this month either! Rock on. :) Hey, amazing when it's a good thing.

~~~

Also, all the symptoms? I went to the immediate health center yesterday and the doctor checked me over, went over everything and came up with what he thinks explains almost everything, including the renewed pain in my shoulder and neck:
Allergies.

I'm on allegra as of now and will have to go in for new allergy tests for certain weeds and such that are local to this area of Ohio. He spent about 10 minutes explaining how everything related, including the earache; and the new stress that I'm having with being "sick" all the time is probably adding to the neck/shoulder aches.

Hopefully this will work and help out.

Of course this makes sense. Same thing happened on a level this bad when I moved to CU. Go figure.

~~~

On a positive note however, the water in Ohio is not nearly as bad as the water in Indy. Corri hasn't had a problem with nonfiltered water as of yet (fingers crossed) and my skin is clearing up pretty well.

That's pretty much it.

Eeek.

2008-07-09T15:58:14Z

Nothing like taking a break on lunch to check the local news and find out the apartment complex next door had a fire last night.

First suspicions have people thinking it was firebombed. One person saw someone throw something on the roof, a few moments later a loud boom; and residents heard tires squealing just after that.

Gah.

I did hear the firetrucks when they went by, and recall thinking it must be something big going on. My apartment faces away from Indian Creek and back towards the woods so I didn't notice anything odd from the skyline last night the few times I woke up.

I hope they get whoever did it, cause ...that's kind of scary.

Humping day

2008-07-09T11:37:24Z

First off, Supernatural tidbits:
Lazarus Rising - name of the season 4 premiere. Now do I really really have to explain the dual mythology there? Again, having seen the sides, I cannot wait. Kripke best not fuck this one up. ;-)

Bobby is back! My truck driving man of awesome! And they are bringing back Rufus (the Jim Beam loving drunkard hunter). Saweet. Maybe Kripke learned his lesson from my motivators on TWoP on how NOT to kill an awesome black man?

Second - and this is important - is anyone in this general area up for a midnight showing next Thursday of Dark Knight? I want to see it. I want to see it immediately upon opening and it is the only chance I'll get. My mother will be in town the day after, and she won't want to go see it.
Midnight. Batman. Much fun. Anyone in?

Third - I'm hitting Kentucky Renfaire on the 19th. Anyone want to go? I'm going to be with my mother and I think Amanda is joining. Also Celtic Festival in Dayton the weekend after. :)

Fourth - Triumph this weekend. Hee. Part of me cannot wait, and part of me is going, "Crap...the boys are gone.." Guess it's time to hide behind Feanor. ;)

~~

Non geeky shit.

Dude. I am really sick of the symptoms - headaches on a regular basis, sweating even in air conditioned places, nausea, dizziness randomly; my neck and shoulder in pain (though that may not be related to anything else). And now my acid reflux is back in action?
The hell is going on here?

(sighs) arghs.
Just. arghs.

Gah..

2008-07-08T15:57:14Z

The printers at work at bouncing, therefore word keeps bouncing.

I have tried to change the printers and remove the default printer, but nope.

Cause it's not only the printers, it's our servers today.

(bangs head)

QUIET!

2008-07-03T15:16:04Z

and bored.

Someone entertain me via AIM or Google?

huh..

2008-07-03T11:41:48Z

Someone from a 317 area code dropped me a text message. If you can read this and it was you, let me know? Cause I'm not going to answer a text if I don't know who it is from and they didn't sign it :)

Now if I can figure out why I'm fatigued constantly (another go for a quick nap and waking up at 4 am night - this is getting stupid); I'll be almost good.

Serenity tomorrow ,I think. (Do we have a time yet guys?)

Saturday - No plans! Apartment work probably. Hanging out. Anyone want to do something?

Sunday - Party somewhere. :)

I need to pick up the IoTM on KoL.

And write up some emails.

FYI

2008-07-02T11:56:55Z

2 midol + 4 exedrin migraine pills taken in about three hours time?

While good for killing ANY pain; knocks one out for about 12 hours.

Completely and totally.

I hate my body.

I also got my results from my bloodwork back. Everything is in the normal ranges.

Yet I have every single symptom of thyroid disorder; but I'm not even close to abnormal ranges. So why the hell can't I lose weight if I'm doing everything right including the excercise??

Bag o' Dicks

2008-07-01T19:01:58Z

I so need an icon for that.

Seriously.

yawns

2008-07-01T11:18:44Z

Okay, first rule of thumb - Chad is not allowed to meet any more of my friends.

We ended up at Friday's for dinner; and Brandon was working so I decided to harass him. Not only did the three of us geek out over comics in Brandon's very empty section, then the two of them decided to gang up on me.

Hrmph. Men.

Came back to the apartment, and I let Chad watch the two gag reels of Supernatural he hadn't seen; and also Nightshifter (still one of my absolute favorites of all seasons) and Folsom Prison Blues; both of which he hadn't seen.

Chad also tried to get through my geek-fu, but it is strong as I showed him with the answer to a Nightwing Trivia question. Mind you, I couldn't answer the first one because I was friggen tired and it was a Marvel question; (and sadly NOT Iron Man related, damnit. THAT I could have answered.) But hey..

I went to bed about 11:30; let the man use my computer to check his email for game. Last thing I heard was, "My kid's causing trouble again..." and the typing of the keys.

Chad was still sleeping on the couch when I left this morning. Man never stirred. So much fcr Mr. "I sleep light!" ;) However, plans to move him to Ohio are well underway. Muahahah.

I am so debating so many things OWBN right now, including playing again - though VERY sparsely. Maybe. Don't know. Need to chat at some point.

Which reminds me, kaylin ...can you do me one of two things? Either slap your man if that plot that got my PC yanked back into active duty is over or poke him to answer my email. :) Thank you darlin'.

That was my night.

Also - I work with a bunch of geeks. I just passed one group talking about WoW; and then walked in on another group discussing old comic books. Hee. Apparently there are geeks in Cincy. Who knew?

Don Davis died.

Shit.

Weekend over

2008-06-30T11:25:35Z

Mostly. Have one thing happening tonight that I hope is a lot of fun. Dinner with a friend I haven't seen in a long time.

Before I get into the weekend, I have a Doctor Who comment. For a long time, I wasn't able to put my finger on why I didn't have the "OMG Rose is the BEST EVAR!" feeling of companions that everyone else and their mother seem to have over her. In fact, I was lukewarm mostly about her at the best of times. kradical actually hit the nail on the head with a post about part one of the season finale this weekend. (No spoilers) -

"And Rose got to see that the Doctor goes on, with and without her -- more to the point, so do the viewers. I honestly never got the "bestest companion EVAR!" vibe off Rose, mainly because she is more or less the exact same character as Jo Grant, only translated into the early 21st century from the 1970s. She was a great companion for the Ninth Doctor, a necessary one in fact, but once he regenerated into Ten, she became less important."

Jo was never my biggest favorite either.

Now - weekend.

Friday was going to be get some work done in apartment day and quickly became too damn tired so going to sleep it off day. Which is what I did, after two hours of frantic cleaning because the clutter was pissing me off.

Saturday - Serenity! Had fun. Rewrote the character mostly though the background is going to stay 90% the same. I will hopefully have it back to Dave before the end of this week, but probably not with as busy as work gets. Hee.

I should have written down the "quip" I thought of that fits my character last night. Damnit, it was actually pretty good. Hopefully I'll recall it.

Thanks to Jess, got to see the gaming store in the area. Very nice one actually, I was mostly impressed (though being ignored by the guys who run/own the place at the time? Not so much. Dude. Just cause I have boobs doesn't mean I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. Then again, they ignored the guys too. Maybe cause we aren't regulars?)

Got Tammy, Chris and Thom their handfasting gifts. Something they could really use - dice sets! Hee.

Yesterday was mostly a relax and wait day.
Mostly.

See, Saturday night, my phone stops working. Completely. I turn the thing off and it doesn't turn back on. I try to charge it, nope. I take the battery out, wait 10 minutes and try it, nope. So Sunday, I run to the AT&T store to see what they can do. The guy fixes it in 20 seconds doing the exact same thing I had tried the night before. AARRRGGGHH!!

However I got to see and find new places. And I passed Elsa's - so now I know where the Mexican place is! Discovered Petmart is 4 bucks cheaper than Petsmart on cat litter; and I got to wander in and out of a few other stores I hadn't been in before. All in all, it could have been worse.

I let the cats out on the balcony early while I piddled away on KoL killing hobos; and then got them inside before I ran some errands. Got back home, waiting for a phone call, fell asleep, woke up and called Chad back; watched Law and Order and piddled about the house some more.

I'm so exciting, lemme tell ya.

Scarily enough I guessed at most of these

2008-06-27T16:48:58Z

And the others I heard randomly here and there - the sleeping guy made the news.

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TGIF

2008-06-27T12:01:43Z

Need to call doc today, this tired/no energy/sweat or freezing thing is now to the fucking pissing me off stage.

If anyone is available tonight to help clean up apartment/do last minute stuff to get apartment finally completely unpacked/hang pictures, I'd love the help. ;-)

Had wonderful sushi last night with Amanda, Jess, Dave, Brandon, Janine, Ryan and Sean. Lots of fun and lots of chatting. And making fun of things - the nerd and the frenchman came out. Jess, Janine, Sean and I all want to go see Wall-E. I'm a dork, but it's kinda a sci fi story, so ..it works, and it looks stupid adorable.

About halfway through dinner my energy level dropped like a rock. Instead of going to J&D's to hang out, I went home and slept. (Must learn Bollucks later!) Woke up earlyish enough to grab gas at 3.88/gall at the speedway in West Carrollton; which I hate to say it is a deal. I have a feeling it'll be back over four bucks again today by end of day.

I also discovered I do not like Mochi ice cream. Sorry Sean!

Looking forward to game tomorrow and then Sunday, which I do need to run some errands, may be going over to Jess and Dave's to help them cook (and learn some how-tos); and hopefully *crosses fingers* dinner with Chad, depending on how late the Origins aftermath goes for.

Damn Snark is gonna be quiet this weekend.

Changed my title and such of the lj. Wanted to change it up a bit. I may change it back in a week, may not.

Figuring out Budget. Gencon is a go, but it's gonna be tight - and I need to talk to some people. And I need to cut out a lot of stuff. I am going to limit myself to eating out twice a week (this includes lunch and dinner and breakfast. Twice. Two times. That's it.)

I want to pay off bills and be as debt free as possible. My car is finally paid off in March of next year; so that will be a BIG help once it's done. Until that time, money is gonna be a bit tight. No KY Renfaire twice this year. Ohio faire will be only once as well. I wanted to make Maryland, but that may have to wait with the gas prices and such. Blee. But in the end fixing my credit is a good thing.

Thursday..

2008-06-26T11:29:39Z

Sushi tonight! Mmmm, rawish fish.

So for those that care (that would be Wasta, Mary, and a few others on my f-list that watch Supernatural) - I've seen the sides for the first episode of Season 4.

All I can say is that if the episode is as good as the sides are, rock the fuck on; and then gleee! that I've been right since Season 1 about something. I'm not going to say what, because it will give away part of the plot. But *squeee!!!!* Reading the sides for the first char, I wasn't so sure, but the rest of them? OH yah.

Though come on, writers. Don't name someone "guy" when it's obvious from their lines who it is supposed to be. Be a bit more sly than that.

Playing around with my diet in an attempt to fix the temp problems my body is having and the exhaustion - I slept for over 12 hours yesterday. WTF?

Back on plain, organic, lowfat yogurt with berries in the morning and a boiled egg; and then lunch will be either chicken breast or tuna fish and a garden salad. Dinner is left up in the air. Tonight - sushi.

I'm hoping the cutting back of crap will help. I still don't have the results of the bloodwork. Eek.

Game notes, Ilana gave Dylan her hunch on what the Oracles said; seeing how that will play out. Heh.

Game the second - We have a month and a half to finish that trip. Whee!

Game the third - Kory, I'll be dropping you and Andrew a note today re-sending what I needed.

Game the fourth - Saturday! Let's hope Tammy and my char's don't end up shooting each other ;)

I have no plans on Friday night. I may want to try and hang my pictures though. Need to find some assistance for that as I'm not tall enough; nor do I own a stepladder.

Joys! ;)

autumnsfire @ 2008-06-25T12:24:00

2008-06-25T16:29:50Z

Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
- See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."

- Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1. Tried out for the Jeopardy Teen Tournament - passed test, interviews, etc made the final group; only to be cut after the interviews because they didn't want two kids from schools so close together. (The gal that made it was from a high school less than 5 miles from mine.)

2. White Water Rafting for college credit

3. Hehehe, I have to post this one: Won a pair of round trip airline tickets at a company picnic before I ever started to work for the company. aryaluna had taken me to the picnic as her guest...and I randomly picked a box. Tracy said she saw the look on the woman's face and she knew instantly...)