Robin Sena by ~Ryiena on deviantART

Felt like making some fanart today! ;o

I planned tonight to play some EQ2 or WoW, but I was listening to some songs on iTunes and it made me wanna type. . .dammit lol.  Making a little mini web page since I miss having a web page at all.  I'll post the link up once I'm done. . .some day lol.  :p

I want to encourage anyone that has never visited the following link, to visit http://www.savedarfur.org/  and just take a few minutes to fill out one of their postcards.  I am just one of many that would like to see an end to the genocide happening in Darfur. 

Well, today Chris and I decided to go see Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.  I just wanna say I thought it was really good.  As excited as I was to see the film and have a day out, my day did not go so well.  After the film ended, Chris and I headed to the van and I realized the car door key was missing.  Hmm ok, maybe it fell in my purse.  Nope, no key.  So I looked around the car and still no key.  Chances are it fell off my keychain when I was in the car.  I called my dad to come over and unlock the van for me with his spare key, which would have happened much sooner if my dad wasn't such a damn procrastinator.  

After about 20 minutes he showed up, unlocked the van, but did not find the key.  The key is gone, not in the van nor at the theater as far as I know.  I went and asked if anyone turned a key into lost and found. . .nope.  Tomorrow my dad is heading out to make a copy of his key, thank goodness.  After we left the theater we ended up getting dinner to go at Zaxby's, which would have been much more enjoyable if my mother hadn't bugged us the entire time we were eating.  My dad stopped and got her Hardee's for dinner, which apparently was not enough for her enormous appetite.  

In other news, Sirenia has their new music video up!  I'd been waiting to hear what their new lead singer sounded like.  So far I like her, can't wait to hear the rest of their album.  

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=49746048

Well, my mom was admitted into the hospital on Friday afternoon, due to some kind of stomach bug.  Just as a precaution they kept her over the weekend—odd I know but if that's what they felt was best, by all means keep an eye on her.  It's been fairly quiet around here, which I've enjoyed.  When she's at home it's incredibly noisy.  The quiet has left me plenty of time to write and read, which reminds me, Breaking Dawn is just as the reviews on Amazon.com said—damn those overprotective mothers who read the book before their kids!  Actually, the book isn't terrible—I was expecting much worse after reading those reviews.  When Chris and I met Steven at Target two weeks ago, we talked about the books and if I should even bother finishing the series.  I took a chance and bought New Moon, it was good I will admit.  Eclipse was also good but it got boring towards the end.  Even the fight scenes were just blah.  Breaking Dawn—oh lord as I read through the book, I thought I was reading some drunken teenager's fanfic.  Seriously, how could the series go down that route?

Since I have no desire to finish reading Breaking Dawn at the moment, I decided to start working on a novel.  After all these years, the story that originated as a board game for an art project in high school and then as an outline for a video game in college, is now down on paper.  Though I must admit, many of the original characters have changed quite a bit since the original concept of the story began.  The title has changed, however.  Originally the title was Dragon Lights and in college I referred to it as The Dragon Lights of Arcen, but I found the titles rather silly.  DragonScars is a title currently under consideration.  Once I have the first few chapters complete, I'll hand them off to Steven and make him read them bwahaha.  It's my first story told from first person PoV, which is a big change for me, especially since I'm someone who dislikes stories told from that point of view.  You can be pretty descriptive in first person narrative, and it's something I've never been entirely good at.  So I will admit, I'm liking first person PoV much better now.  Every time I write I think of Mary, she use to be the one to review my stories.  Once I handed off a story to her and found out she'd read it to her entire family.  It was odd—not a happy story and one I will definitley never rewrite.  I was a little embarrassed to be honest lol.  

Hmm, nothing much else going on.  I was pretty surprised when I walked into Publix and most of the items I wanted were way too expensive.  Or in the case of the loaf of bread I was going to buy, way undersized and overpriced lol.  It was just so odd, it felt like I'd walked into a completely different store.  Now, they don't have deals like some grocery stores in the area but I've always gone there for the quality.  Yesterday it didn't much matter, I didn't get anything from their bakery, bought no cuts of meat—I could have just drove over to Food Lion and got groceries.   

Well, I'll admit it's been forever since I've actually baked anything.  I use to bake all the time when my aunt came over to visit, but after she had moved in I completely stopped.  The one time I tried to bake a cheesecake while she was here, she took it over and it tasted dreadful, the eggs in it were scrambled.  Last night I decided that I'll start baking again.  Next week I plan on baking a pound cake and today Chris and I are making baguettes.  When he was helping me in the kitchen, he was giggling because he had permission to "throw flour on me."  It was so funny.  He seemed to have fun.

I caught an episode of Summer Heights High last night.  That show is soooo funny but soooo bad lol.  I was telling Chris all about it earlier.  I've watched HBO quite a bit over the past two days.  I saw the film "Yesterday" and I must say it was a beautiful movie.  I realy enjoyed it and boy did it make me cry.  My dad caught a little bit of it and enjoyed the film as well.  A sad but truly beautiful story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyqUj3PGHv4

You're welcome, bitches.  :3  Please, while watching this video, do not YES too hard.

Another one of those mornings, where I can sleep yet once I go make my mom breakfast. . .I can't get myself to go back to bed.  I've spent most of the morning just surfing the internet. . .procrastinating when it comes to washing the dishes.  I really need to do it. or else I can't cook fewdz!  o.0  I'm feeling a tiny bit better today.  Last night I talked to another friend and he was really sweet and told me how much he hates seeing me sad.  I stayed up way longer than I wanted to because Chris suckered me into helping some friends with an instance.  Really, I planned on checking mail, logging, and going to bed early.  Chris always finds a way to make me stay up!  lol

In other news, I need a Quizno's Cobb salad.  :(

Well, I don't think I really told anyone, but about three weeks ago my mom went into the hospital.  She had pneumonia and a whole mess of other problems, which almost killed her.  She got home about a week ago and is doing ok.  I still have to fight with her to eat which seems worse than before.  Even fast food isn't pleasing her.  We had my aunt visit last weekend to get some of her stuff to take back with her at the care center she lives/works at.  All I gotta say is, I don't think I want her back. . .it was just a big mess.  I had problems with my mom and the entire time my aunt was here, she'd just watch me struggle.  She took over my mom's favorite chair and watched tv, talked on the phone, and ate.  That caused my mom to stay in bed most of the visit. . .which is BAD because we had my mom sitting up with us each day till my aunt came.  Now it's a struggle to get her to stay out of bed for 10 minutes.  Yesterday she kept trying to sneak back and I'd tell her to sit her little butt down LOL.

Hmm. . .Warcraft. . .nobody wants to hear about that lol.  Not much going on, except a problem I am having with a friend.  To be honest, I never had this problem with them before and it just hurts that this is happening.  This friend (as well as their spouse) did something for Chris and me at Christmas that we will never forget.  Both of them made sure that on Christmas day we had a present because. . .well. . .things were quite tough here.  When we were suppose to buy Christmas presents, we found out Chris would have to start paying out of pocket for his medications, so we had to hold on to the money.  Anyway, I've known this person for two years, I adore them to death.  Talk to them nearly every day when I have the chance, hang out with them when possible (though I suppose sometimes I need to let them have alone time, it's hard to not wanna hang around such a nice and fantastic person) and in a matter of two days, I'm just not sure what to think of them.  This person has been upset with the way things have been going on in the game and has expressed this to a couple of people.  Their attitude has been extremely negative. . .so much in fact that it's made playing a problem.  I haven't talked with this person in Vent since Tuesday, really. . .and I dunno. . .it's hard to wanna talk to someone that just seemed to completely change on you in no time at all. 

This person made decisions that hurt feelings and weren't necessarily right but thought (at the time) this was what was right and would work.  Some people were hurt by this, me especially.  The whole "we leave no one out, equality for all" that we preached as we transferred to the new guild, seemed to be thrown out the window.  This isn't just game talk and me whining over some thing that happened in a game.  This is me whining because a dear friend that I thought I knew, has become a total different person.  Last night it was just all negativity from them and by the time I was done raiding, I cried and logged off of my computer.  I was upset enough to guild quit or cancel my account, uninstall Ventrilo. . .cut off all access to this person that had suddenly become someone that I never thought they'd be.  There were a million things I wanted to do to tell this person I was upset at them, but I knew in the end all I would do was hurt myself. The best I can do, is step away and let this person figure out for themselves what must be done to make this all work.  They don't wanna listen, they feel as if no one is ever listening to them, everyone wants it their way.  Well, we want everything to work out and of course we're listening, but by the same token. . .listen to those trying to get through to you.  Have an open mind. 

So. . .I just needed to get that off of my chest.  I've had a nice two days of crying and doing things that weren't video games lol.   It's almost 8:30 and dinner is still cooking.  DAMN YOU, ROAST!!  Oh and in a bit of good news, the kidney specialist my mom was seeing, is now going to start doing her blood work/Procrit shots at his office.  Which means NO MORE DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON WOOOOOOT!!

Yeaaaah. . .Utah totally out of the picture now.  I have enough craziness here to deal with, thanks.  

So, Chris and I saw the Britney's performance on the Comcast web site.  I don't think Britney was aiming for people to laugh at her performance.  o.O  There was just too much wrong with it.  I kept hearing on TV "she's just human."  Yeah well, not all human beings get up on stage and do that. . .  You know Brit, with this whole custody thing going on with your kids, do you really need to get up on stage half naked and act like a moron?  Come on now. . .

I still love the very first line of the article I saw on Comcast "Somewhere, Kevin Federline is laughing!"  I hope so.

So, because I have absolutely nothing to do tonight, I shall work on my Witch Hunter Robin fanfic.  HELL HATH FROZEN OVER!

In other news, my aunt gets out of the hospital tomorrow and they're transferring her somewhere else, till she can walk again.  I told my dad there's no way I can take care of her, Chris, and my mom, if she's bed bound like before.  Last time I nearly packed my bags and left, my dad just pleaded with me not to leave.  So, I'm here till things are finally normal and then I really wanna go.  Where I go, who knows.  I'll figure it out before it happens, though.  :P

Haven't really talked to Steven lately.  Miss him heaps and wish he'd email me more often.  :(  Though I suppose it would help if my lazy ass would email more often too!  Speaking of which, I emailed a bunch of my old school friends and heard from none.  Either they're mad or don't use those email addresses anymore.  *sigh*

Oh and my dad lurvs 300.  I watched it with him about two weeks ago.  He thought it was an awesome movie.  Chris still has to finish watching it, though.  Unfortunately because our big screen is out, we don't watch much TV.

Well, don't worry about spoilers here lol.  I've got thirty pages left to read.  Had some errands to run, so that kept me from finishing this morning.  All I gotta say is, so far I really like the book.  Chris isn't much into reading, so I give him just brief summary from teh book, picking out what I find important, and then he asks me  "what's the ending?"!  LOL, I'm just gonna start makin crap up and see if he believes me.  :P  He really cracks me up. 

So, now WoW until I can update my credit card info.  Too bad the site has trouble loading for me.  Booo.

Been very tempted to work on my WHR fic and SAIREN: Sünden.  Perhaps once I finish Deathly Hallows, I'll work on em.  Last few days, I've had some ideas for THC, which of course, I don't bother to right down.  *slaps self*  So, hopefully I can remember everything once I get to work on the fic again.  Hell, I might even go back and rewrite my old Escaflowne fic.  o.O

Install game for thirty minutes
Download patch
Download next patch
Download another patch, that gives no info
Start game
Wait for server to come back up
Listen to brother scream everytime the Blizzard Downloader crashes
Take a nap
Wake up to new patch
Download patch
Start game
Play game till server crashes again

So, this morning I got quite a surprise in my email box. Got what I thought was my monthly statement from my web host, and clicked it open, to be sure everything was right. Well. . .not everything is right. For some reason, they want $121. o_O It's for additional traffic and disk space. Umm, I haven't used up either. I checked my traffic for the month and it is no different than it has been. Disk quota still remains the same. For the first time in three years, I'm being charged for something I have never been charged for before. I contacted them, but I have a feeling my web site will cease to exist because of this. This has me so confused and angry. Way to ruin a good thing I had going for this long. :(

1. Somewhere in my house, there's a Sailor Mercury doll
2. I wonder if there's a lock big enough, to stick this replica key from Pirates of the Caribbean 2, into
3. I like pie
4. Originality flew out the window this year. I gave out giftcards and money, only to get the same in return. w00t
5. I got a jar of strawberry jelly, in my Christmas stocking. Santa, you're mentally disturbed old man
6. I should finish watching Firefly. . .and the other thousands of DVDs that are just sitting here
7. Didn't I use to write stuff? Something called. . .erh. . .fanfiction?
8. Someone said there's life outside of Warcraft. I think they need help =D
9. I like pie
10. I think I've said number 9 before
11. A good way to drive your family insane, is by playing the Chipmunks Christmas Album over and over, for the entire month of December
12. 24 hours of A Christmas Story rocks, until I wanna watch something that isn't A Christmas Story on TBS
13. I think there's a screw, stabbing me in the leg
14. Did I remember to put out that fire?
15. Why is the sky blue?
16. I like pie
17. Now I'm pretty sure I've heard that before. . .
18. Sleep would sound really good, right about now
19. All your base are belong to us
20. It's already Tuesday?! Oh dammit, I overslept again

Hope everyone is having some happy freakin holidays! =3

So, I went and bought Pirates of the Caribbean 2 last week. It came with a nice collector's tin. Me likey lol. Didn't watch it till last night, cause almost every night last week, I did nothing but PvP in WoW. Trying for the Grand Marshall's Stave. Got my Night Elf priest her horsey. FWEEE!!! Anyway, WoW is acting wonky. I can login on Icecrown, but can't login to Suramar. Booooo

Today I went into Zaxby's for the first time. I'd always used their drive-thru, never actually went inside. It kind of reminds me of Smokey Bones and this wing place on Leeds Avenue. . .at least I think it's still there lol. Anyway, it's really nice and was so busy today. @-@

Chris made a grave mistake. He left a tub of homeade cookies next to me. Now I'm eating them. Mwahaha. As he says in WoW, when he gets a hold of oreos. . ."SUGAR BUZZ!!!!!!" LOL

Don't go to the store, when you're in a bad mood. You'll attempt to buy out the store's alcohol supply. I settled for Smirnoff, since my mom said I didn't need all that I stuck in the shopping cart LOL. Today I just feel like drinking myself into a coma. I don't know why I feel so depressed. This morning I just wanted to curl up in my bed and lay there till Christmas LOL. Instead, I'm forced to get up and go grocery shopping at 7am. Grrrrr, I know that partially put me in a bad mood LOL. My mom is promising to give me this and that, for my birthday. Right now I don't want anything. I don't wanna be bothered on my birthday. I decided that if the rest of my family is going to forget about it, how about I do it too.

I hate being sick. For the past three days, I've had a fever and have been so sluggish. Meals have consisted of jello. ACK!! Maybe I'll have a better towards FFXII once I'm better, you know. . .not get frustrated with the game play and throw the game across the room. o.O

I like Fruit Rollups. I forgot how good they were.