Jigsaw Puzzles

Not long after my last post I really got into jigsaw puzzles. I spent hours every day doing them for about two weeks. I've kind of slowed down since then, but I still love doing them. I find when I need to concentrate on something, like when I'm listening to some educational lecture or I'm in church they help me listen. Doodling and Jigsaw puzzles, or other puzzle games seem to be my go to method for focusing my mind. I started using Jigsaw Planet. I've uploaded my own pictures there as well. HERE is my profile if you want to see. There are a lot of fun ones on that site. I've also been using various apps on my iPhone as well. It's funny because real ones just confuse me to no end. I like the digital ones, because I don't have to worry about rotating the pieces. Growing up I never thought I'd like jigsaw puzzles as much as I do now. Being able to use my own photos for pictures is also really cool as well.

Finding a New Game... Or Not

today was pretty uneventful, I have just been looking for a new online game to play, napping, and reading tech support stories. Saturdays and Sundays are lay back days for me.

Friday was fun, I went to my nieces school carnival. It was mostly for kids, they had ponies, a rock climbing wall, face painting, food, and other stuff. I got some cotton candy and got a dinner from Costa Vita (a resteraunt nearby was catering). My sister brought me an orange flavored water. The food was great and I spent a while walking around, and just seeing the stuff there was. I took place in the silent auction they were having, they had a lot of different baskets of stuff like candy, sports stuff, gardening stuff, etc. I saw this basket full of Spry and Xlear products, my family is a big fan of Xylitol sweetened stuff, we use the toothpaste, chew the gum, etc. I placed a couple of bets, but I didn't win it, because someone bet higher than me. I was going to bet on something else, but couldn't find anything else I wanted to bet on. I just got some sweet break and a water instead with my money (everything cost tickets, $1 = 4 tickets, mostly everything was 4 tickets so I only needed 8).

My sister won massages, movie tickets, an oil change for the car, and a gardening basket, so that made up for me loosing. I'm hoping that I can go with her for the massage because I've never had one.

I am really glad I got some sun yesterday, I don't get it often enough I think. I really need to go outside more often this spring and summer. I have a bad habit of staying inside, I am a bit of a computer nerd. It's so easy for me to spend a lot of time on my laptop when I really have nothing I need to do when I am out of school until August. I am going to make sure I don't spend the whole time sitting on my floor this summer playing games however. I want to start running, and practice my yoga and pilates more this time around.

After the carnival when we were walking home I spotted out lilac bush and it had bloomed and smelled so good. I forgot to take a picture last year and almost forgot to take one this year, luckily on my way back I noticed the bush and got a picture this time. It is about 12 or 13 feet tall now, when we got it when I was 9 it was shorter than me! I will put a picture later

This online game I've been playing for years called Destiny Online is closing sometime next week. I have a lot of history with that game. I was a player GM (game master), and a moderator for about 2 and a half years. I made sure people didn't break the rules and helped with bug reports and stuff. I have made hundreds of friends on that game the 4 and a half years I have bee playing it. I am kind of sad it is going, it's going to be hard replacing Destiny Online. I might just stick with minecraft, it seems to be the only game I like right now besides that, plus it is both single player and multi player if you want it to be. I will have to show you my builds for sure sometime.

We had Stir Fry for dinner, that is the second time this week we have had it, I can't complain though. I think I want to learn how to cook however so we can have more variety, that would be nice.

Anyway, I guess that is all for now. :)

So Many Cubes

Another college semester has started this week. I only have 2 classes. I think they are both going to rock so much this semester. I am taking World History up to the 1600s, and Sociology. I am a little nervous about sociology, but my teacher is this funny Chinese guy that totally knows how to break the ice, so that makes it easier for me. He makes us laugh so much, and that gets rid of so much of the nervousness for me. We haven't done anything that major yet in either or my classes, we have just been over the syllabus so far and got the classes described to us and what we are going to be doing. I can tell history is going to be so interesting, and i'm sure Sociology is too.

Vocational rehab payed for my books this semester and my tuition, they didn't quite put enough money in for my books though, I was 94 dollars short. I had to pay that myself, it kind of sucked a lot. I am so glad I get SSI, otherwise I would have had to wait a few more days for them to put money in my account and I wouldn't be prepared for class probably, and that would have sucked believe me.  I had to wait in line for like a half an hour to buy them as well.

It's so nice to get to walk around the school again and see what everyone is doing. I don't talk to anyone really, but it doesn't bother me that much. I enjoy just observing and exploring different places. I get so bored just being at home. I have always been an observer and adventurer at heart.

I have been playing Minecraft a ton since my last post. I decided to go all out before school started and just bury myself in the game for a few days. I don't get to play that much during school, so I figured it was a great time. That is all I was doing before school after my last post was just play Minecraft with my nieces on the PC and on the Xbox. My week last week and the first couple of days before school this week went so fast because of that. I figured I could get away with not posting anything to my blog for a few days, I just wanted to take full advantage of my free time while I still could. I played so much that i see the game when I close my eyes now. When I have Tetris marathons the same thing happens. If you look up "Tetris Effect" you will probably understand more. I'll put up pictures of my Minecraft world in my next post, I still have a few things I want to do first.

New Years was just like another day, we did the countdown and snacked and stuff, but other than that nothing happened, and other than gaming and school nothing has happened since then.

Today I have just been watching movies, hanging out around the house, listening to music, reading "Holes", and just chilling out checking out my text books. I only have school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so the other days I'll be able to take it easy a little more. I know I'll have to be careful not to get lazy of course. Sometimes when I have too much freedom I tend to get lazy. I don't think that will happen this semester though.

Anyway, this is all for now I guess. I'll probably post more later if I forgot anything.

Mixed Feelings

Bleh, I have mixed feelings about today. It's been kind of crazy.

My day started off as pretty normal. I got up and washed my hair, got ready for school, the normal stuff. I actually had milk and peanut butter cookies for breakfast today though, that was different. I forgot to submit a short English assignment for my class, so I did that really quick before school. My sister had a doctor's appointment and she had to leave for a while. I played Destiny Online, listened to music, and submitted that assignment before she got back.

She didn't come back until 10 minutes before class was about to start, we had to hurry to the school. I was feeling kind of neutral abou this situation. I really wasn't that upset about it because my teacher really doesn't make a big deal about me being late. It couldn't be helped today. I was pretty quiet as usual in the car today, I usually do not talk very much when I am in the car. I like to think about stuff when I am moving around like that.  I kind of felt a little bad about having to be late, but it couldn't be helped, so I just tried to ignore this.

I got to my class 10 minutes late, I hurried as fast as I could all the way there and up the flights of stairs. I was pretty out of breath by the time I made it there and made sure I stopped by a drinking fountain right before because my mouth was dry.

The class itself, we just presented these lists, pretty easy lists to the class with our groups we have. We had a question (like ours was "Why is Fast food so popular?") we presented our list of reasons to the class and added details if we wanted. Other groups in class had other questions. It got pretty interesting.

I went to Astronomy afterward, and we talked about the different types of light, and what they effect and how they effect things and people and how they work as well. I accidentally got a little too comfortable for a little bit and almost fell asleep. My friend warned me that might happen haha. The class was really fun though, and interesting as always. We are taking a test in a week though, I'm kind of nervous for that.  I think I will do fine, because I love Astronomy, but I am still a little nervous, because it's a lot of info to take in. Sometimes I forget things. I am always kind of disappointed when class has to be over.

Anyway, today is Friday, so I had no fitness classes, so I was done after Astronomy.

I had a Fruit and nut bar for lunch and took some pictures (I"ll upload them in the morning). I decided I wanted to stay a big longer, so I found a good wifi spot, and watched an episode of Cake Boss. I like the atmosphere at school, so I usually end up staying a bit longer than I need to. I didn't call anyone until 40 minutes after my class had ended. Then it took my dad at least 25 minutes to get to the school and pick me up, so I wasn't home for a while.

I have just been listening to music, watching Cake Boss, playing Destiny online, surfing facebook, and just hanging around the house. After school I found out that one of my friends from Destiny Online was really mad at me for selling a pet he gave me on the game. I had no clue he was the one who gave me the pet, I thought it was just a random person, and so I didn't think about selling it. I felt bad afterwards and I have been trying to contact the person I sold it to to try and trade for a different pet, so I could get his back, but she hasn't answered. Something tells me she doesn't want to give it up and this has been a particular point of stress for me today. I know it is a game, but my friend was so mad at me and I really want to make things right. I once had a different pet on the game a long time ago and one of my other game friends sold that one when I was away, so I know how that feels. I was pretty attached to it as well. I know this sounds a bit silly, but my relationship with Destiny Online has always been unique compared to other games. Alll of us have always been close on the game, and have been through so much the 4 years it's been out. I have a ton of memories on there. I only started blogging on here 2 months before I joined the game. Some of my long disappearances from here have to do with me playing on there in the past. 

Anyway, so I had that to deal with, plus aunt flow decided to visit today **cough cough** , AND I got a really bad bloody nose earlier in the day. I always become kind of drained and a little moody after that happens. That mixed with the other thing made me feel kind of irritated today, and moody and stuff. I've been feeling weird. I guess that is expected though. Oh yeah, not to mention that I hadn't talked to Ronnie for almost 2 days, and this was making me go crazy as well. He is a really cool guy, another friend I met on DO, (If you didn't know that from my previous posts).  He only contacted me about an hour ago. I am so relieved to be talking to him again. I really have been feeling thrown around emotionally today, so I was honestly truly happy to talk to him again.

Anyway, I have pictures and stuff I am planning on adding tomorrow morning. I might add a few other thoughts and feelings too. I am pretty fried today, so I might have to add stuff tomorrow. :)

I'll wait to add the tags tomorrow to. :P

Walls Crashing Down

When I woke up it was pretty noisy. The old brick wall that we have had down in our basement was finally torn out today. I never mentioned this but there used to be a wood stove there, we took it out a long time ago though. Someone that had lived in the house before us had tried to use it once and they ended up damaging the chimney it uses. I think it has a separate chimney.

 I didn't even try to open my door because I knew that I would be assaulted by a lot of dust. The day before when we were taking the bricks off the floor (there weren't very many), there was also a lot of dust so I knew what to expect. My phone wasn't charged very much so I didn't do anything on it yesterday morning. Usually I check the mail, and do some stuff on facebook when I wake up and sometimes play games, but I decided to read some of the book I am working on instead. I have been reading David Eddings series “The Elenium”.  It is a very good read, I have all 3 books combined into a 3 in 1 book. My mom and dad bought it for me the Christmas before this last one we had a few days ago. It has a sequel series called “The Tamuli” that  continues the series. I also own those books as well. Both series are amazing reads and I would actually recommend every one of David's books if you need something to read. My favorite book of his is called “The Redemption of Althalus”, which just happens to be my favorite book on general as well.

 I am on the 3^rd book of the Elenium series called “The Sapphire Rose”.  I just read that for a while and then played some computer games for a while, nothing too exciting. I don't think you would be interested in hearing about my escapades in “Mario Party 1, 2 and 3. I plan on trying all the Mario Party games that I have missed eventually. I am a big fan of the games, but haven't gotten to try them all yet. I am not expert or anything like that but I still love playing the games anyway.  I am and always have been a big fan of all the Mario games in general.

 Anyway, as soon as things quieted down and they had knocked all the bricks of the wall, I peeked outside of my room for a few seconds. It was dusty so I held my breath. I was greeted by a large pile of bricks. They (being my brothers, my dad, and our contractor)  had to remove the screen on the downstairs window in order to be able to move the bricks out. They just threw them out the window, and onto the front lawn. I did not help with this, but I knew what was going on because of what they were talking about. I had gone back into my room at this point in time and was playing games again.  They eventually got them all out of the basement and swept the stuff off the floor, it was a real mess for a while though before that.

 Later today we tore out the wall that was separating the family room from this little office we had in the basement also. I also got a video of us doing that so it won't be so confusing to you when you read this. Our contractor framed the room that my brother is going to be using once it is done some time after we did this. He also got the place where the brick was ready for sheet rock, and ready to build shelves there. It was pretty noisy downstairs with everything going on, nail guns, wood cutters, hammers, etc. It was really nice to have the family here helping do stuff and clean up though.  Anyway, after our contractor had finished for the day we had everything that needed to be framed framed, and we began sweeping and vacuuming the floor.  I just retreated back in my room at this point and played more games again and read some more.

 I am not a very sociable person yet and I like to spend a lot of time alone. I plan on changing this because I want to, but I don't spend a lot of time around my family if you have noticed. I have stuff I like to do and they have stuff they like to do. Usually the stuff I like to do is different. I am pretty sure this will not be the case always, I think I will be more open in the future and I won't be as stubborn about playing games and doing other stuff with them and other people. Everyone except for me played games and just hung out for the rest of the day, into the night.  I was trying to beat a map in Mario Party 3, and doing some other stuff by myself. I did go upstairs a few times to play with my nieces and my nephew, and to see what everyone was doing. I also went upstairs when we ate dinner. We had beef with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and sour cream on tortillas it was really great. My phone was charged by this time so I also was playing games on there, and I also played some on my DS as well. I really like playing games if you haven't noticed, it keeps my mind going.  Puzzle games are my favorite kind of games. I don't remember if I ever mentioned this at all, I probably did.  I don't have an internet connection right now because the cord doesn't reach where my computer is, so I can't really play Tetris on Tetris Friends sadly. I am still waiting for my laptop to come, then I will have wireless. This is the reason why I have not just bought a wireless internet connection for my computer.  I have internet on my phone, that is good enough for now, even though I cant play on Tetris Friends on my phone.  I can however watch anime on my phone and I do have a Tetris APP on my iPhone.

 

Anyway, my cold is almost gone, I am glad about this. My stuffy and runny nose is completely gone, and my voice is almost back to normal. 

 

I guess this is all for today. I can't think of anything else at this point in time to write about. I'm pretty sure I got everything of interest. 

Game Horrors

So I lost track of time and went to bed late yesterday after watching a movie. Well my sleep was great. I had this dream abut the game I play “Destiny Online”. Anyway, I had moved to another server or something and there were these really weird bosses that had just come out. The only one I can clearly remember was this sort of yellowish dragon, I think it was a dragon it might have been sort of like one of the bosses they really do have called “Hellhound”. Anyway so I was in what is the level 25 map on the game just walking around and there are all these people running around trying to kill these various bosses it was crazy. I ended up getting killed a few times because they were so powerful. There was this time during the dream when they re-spawned and they were nice, like they started out as babies, like the lower level map monsters that don’t try to kill you every time you get within less than 10 feet of them. Anyway so I knew that they were going to turn soon so I go sprinting for this portal that is near by and I’m sort of freaked out because they are all gathering close to me, probably curious. I start talking to the teleporter but it’s to late, they suddenly realize they want to kill me and I’m dead within a second ha ha.  Really strange dream, there were other parts as well but that is what I remember the clearest.

Anyway, Today was supposed to be tribe war, it starts at 7:00am my time and since I was up sort of late i was debating on weather or not to wake up that early and do it. I ended up not waking up that early though. I ended up just ignoring my alarm and going back to sleep. I decided I cared about my sleep more than the tribe war. I mean, they’re fun and all but it was cold and stuff and at the time I did not fel like getting out of bed ha ha. So I can’t really say I regret it.

Yeah, so I woke up at 10:45am but I just lied there in my bed with the music playing for about 30 minutes. I usually do that.

I'm back

Hello everyone! I have returned. I know I'm back about 10 days earlier than I thought I'd be. 
You have probably been wondering where I have been and what I have been doing. 

Well almost a month back I got a reply to a gaming job that I wanted. It was a spot to be a GM in the game. I thought I could do it, but a few days before that my fan in my computer started acting up. I tried to do the job and ended up resigning from it instead. That was the original reason for me taking a break from xanga. The second one happened when the Olympics were on. I decided to take a break from xanga for the Olympics. Plus I just needed a few weeks away from xanga to think about stuff. 

I started going into the yahoo chat rooms a week ago. I am usually in Christian chat #1 or #3. I've also been spending time doing that. I go under the alias peppermint_magic. 

The Olympics were enjoyable. My favorite sport was figure skating. All my favorite people won their competitions. So many records were broken it was very cool. 

My family had been planning to actually go up to Canada when the games came there but we ran into financial problems a year or so back. Last time I went to Canada I was 9 years old. My grandma and Grandpa lived there. 

Valentines day was pretty normal. I just got chocolate, and cookies from my neighbors. We celebrated my brother's birthdays in Feburary. They're both older than me. They were within a week of each other. 2 years apart. 

Anyway so I guess that's all for now.