Senses

I have quite a few games on my iphone. To be perfectly honest I don't really play all of them that much. On occasion I'll go through all of them and play for a bit when I am really bored, but that is about it. There are actually just a handful of games on my phone that I bother playing often. Some of these are Tetris, Unblock me, Asphalt 7 and 8, and Puzzle & Dragons. There are probably a couple others I am blanking out right now. Puzzle & Dragons seems to be my obsession as of late, I can't remember if I mentioned it in one of my last couple of entries or probably both, but I've been playing it a ton. It's kind of like a cross between Bejeweled and Pokemon. Basically there are hundreds of monsters you can collect and you use them to get through various dungeons. You use a match 3 mechanic like Bejeweled to give the monsters power. The difference between this game an bejeweled though is that you can manipulate the elements around so you can get combos. Instead of further confusing you just look at this.

Anyway I had woken up pretty early when I started playing and so no surprise to me I fell asleep again and slept another 3 hours around 9am. I managed to get a little breakfast before I fell back asleep, nothing super spectacular though. There is this drink called Zevia I am quite fond of. It's pretty much soda, only instead of being sweetened with sugar it's sweetened with stevia. It's great and it comes in all kinds of flavors.

Not very many people know but not only am I am introvert, but I am a highly sensitive introvert or a highly sensitive person (HSP). HSP get overwhelmed by all the sensory info (stimuli) around them. I get pretty overloaded and overwhelmed by a lot of things around me. HSP process all of the external information around them so well that our brains can get overwhelmed and burned out. I'm aware of a lot more than it seems because of this, I notice a lot more because my brain takes in everything so excellently. A good example of this is if I am around neon colors, flashing lights, and / or loud noises like a lot of talking people or something. When I am overexposed to things like this I might get anxious, stressed, tired, and in some cases my brain tries to respond by spacing out a LOT (it tries to shut off my awareness partially). Sometimes I get super restless and jumpy, the effects vary, and come in different combinations. I listed only a few of the things that happen to me.

Anyway, even though I an an introvert and prefer to be by myself most of the time and I'm an HSP I try and get a healthy amount of social interaction. I try not to shut myself in to much, I start getting agoraphobia if I do that. The way I cope with all of the sensory information around me is I use my sense of touch. My sense of touch never overwhelms me. I get jumpy and fidgety when I am becoming overloaded and playing with something with my hands helps a lot with coping with everything. I find it very relaxing to take full advantage of my sense of touch, I tend to last a lot longer when I do this.

The kind of things I love to play with are pretty simple. Things like Slinky, tangles, Rubik's cubes, stress balls, clay, putty, etc. There are so many things that fit under the category of fidget toys and / or stress toys. They are fairly simple to find because autistic kids also love these kind of things. I am obviously not the only person that uses this method to cope with all of the overwhelming sensory info around me.

I use officeplayground.com to shop for my fidget toys and stress toys. It has a whole lot of stuff and the site is really organized. Amazon is a great site too, but it takes a lot more searching and stuff to find what I want when it comes to stuff like this. If i can't find what i want on officeplayground.com I always go and find it on Amazon. I made a pretty big order at officeplayground.com today, 20 items in total and it cost me a fair amount of money, not too much though. I won't spoil the surprise and tell you what i got, my package arrives in 3 days or so UPS says. UPS is pretty spot on usually when I order something though so I'm not worried. I love the excitement of waiting for a package. I will make sure to get pictures or video or something like that when it arrives.

Anyway, after I did my order nothing sectacular happened for a few hours, I just had pasta and chicken for lunch, listen to Harry Potter, watched anime, and played Puzzle & Dragons. I was pretty laid back today. The ward had family home evening tonight, we had pizze and rootbeet, and a spiritual message. I don't remember what the spiritual message was sadly, but I loved the company and the pizza and root beer. Everyone introduced themself before we ate, they told their names and something about themselves, it was pretty cool. I think I might have slurred my speech a little because when I mentioned I have an obsession with stars everyone heard it as I have a room full of stars. I didn't even bother to correct them, the whole introduction didn't come out quite as planned. I told them I love to read, how many brothers and sisters I have, that i am probably the quietest person in the ward, and that my dream is to become a clinical psychologist. Somewhere in there I mentioned the thing about stars, I could have left that out though. Stuff like that always happens when I intend to make myself sound even a little cool.

I won't lie, I like to talk about myself. I'm nowhere near being a narcissist though. I am pretty open with people when I don't feel nervous or pressured. I know I can seem a bit cold and aloof sometimes, but I'm a pretty nice person and i try my best to always have good intentions and get along with everyone.

Anyway after the pizza and stuff I just went home and crashed. I didn't do anything particularly spectacular, just more of the same stuff I was doing before.

I've probably written enough to today, sorry it was so long, I get carried away sometimes. haha. :)

Christmas Colds

I woke up on Christmas with a stuffy / runny nose, I was really sensitive to cold things, and was aching a little. I noticed that I was hyper sensitive to touch, it was pretty weird and uncomfortable. In short I caught a cold, and I did not feel up to par. The night was not very kind to me, I hardly got any sleep and felt like a zombie when I woke up. It took everyone time to get together, we ate breakfast first yesterday. We have a tradition every year, we make aebleskivers, bacon, and sausage. I just sat in the living room in a daze and waited for everyone to gather so we could open presents.

It was a couple of hours after I woke up that we finally began to open our presents. This is what I got.

Starting from the bottom, going from right to left:

1. A blue shirt with sequens
2. Winter stuff, hat, gloves, and scarf.
3. Thomas Kinkade Calendar (he's a beautiful artist).
4. New pair of jeans
5. The Hobbit (book)
6. Bandanas, headbands, and soap
7. Number 7 is what the bandanas and headbands were in. It's a box disguised as a book. It has peacock designs on it.
8. My new shoes, they look blue in the photo, but they are actually more like aquamarine, or mint green.
9. This one was the one I did not expect at ALL. iPhone 5. Both me and my brother got one.

 

My nieces got an Xbox 360, with a couple of games. I have always wanted an Xbox, so this made me really happy. I will probably buy some games of my own soon for it.

When we were setting up my iPhone yesterday, the person that was setting it up accidentally got my number and my dad's number mixed up somehow. We got it fixed though. I had to have my dad's number for the night, everything else on my phone was mine though.

My day was a bit blurry because of my cold. My mom made beef stew  and cream of brocoli soup for dinner. I am really glad she made soup, it was exactly what I needed. In the evening after dinner my family started playing games. I just went back downstairs and started watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" on TV. I talked to Ronnie and played around with my new iPhone while i was doing this. My head was pounding, so it was nice to just lie on the couch and relax. I was also pretty worn out because of all the social interaction.

My mom made her English Toffee, she is really great at making it. We put nuts on top of it sometimes, but this time it was just caramel and chocolate.

It was so nice when I got to go to sleep. I woke up twice, but I still got pretty good sleep. I think this is all for now. I'm still feeling pretty bad right now, but not as bad. I am not sensitive or achy anymore. My cold is basically the reason why I didn't do this yesterday. :)

Un-Birthday Dinner

 

Pretty ordinary Sunday. I woke up at 10am, washed my hair, played Tetris for a while, blow dried my hair, styled it a little after I sprayed my anti frizz treatment on it and my anti- heat damage spray on it too. I hair sprayed it, then got ready for church.

Church was normal as usual. Today we had fast and testimony meeting so i got a chance to go up and bear my testimony in front of everyone. We also had a nice lesson on being grateful for what we have. I read my scriptures and played a little bit of Flow during church as well.  I have actually gotten to the 11X11 grids now. Above you see a picture of the game.   I still have so many levels to go.

We had a break the fast dunner after church. Everyone brought something. I didn't eat very much because my mom was making dinner at home. I went home after 20 minutes with one of my other friends named Melissa. We talked about life and stuff in the car and stuff we like.

When I got home i watched stuff on my computer for a while and played Tetris.

We had Cesar Salad, parmasan chicken, carrots. garlic butter potatoes, and peas for dinner. Dinner was fabulous. We had cheesecake for dessert. This was my early birthday dinner. I am actually going out to eat on my birthday, but i wanted to have a regular dinner today because it is easier to get everyone together on Sunday.

Anyway, sorry if I'm kind of rushed tonight, i'm kind of tired and sorta jumpy right now.

Flow

Today and most of the time yesterday after I posted my last entry was mainly spent on playing games on my iPhone. I have a habit of neglecting a lot of my apps and games on my phone. Not to long ago a game called 'Where's My Perry?" came out into the app store. It is based off of an older game that is similar called "Where's My Water?'. The new game is mostly centered around the Phineas and Ferb character called Perry the Platypus. I have been finding my way through water physics puzzles all day.

I also started playing another popular game in the app store called 'Flow". I am hooked on both of these games now and i intend to take my games and other apps on my phone more seriously now because they are quite entertaining. I'll make sure to talk some screenshots of the games and put there on here tomorrow, I don't feel like doing it right now.

It was an extremely nice day today and the smoke has almost disappeared completely for now.  I just spent the day working on watching Twilight Zone and other stuff and playing the games I mentioned above.  I also got my money in the mail, so glad to not be broke anymore. I can now get my new shampoo and conditioner. I get these little frizzies in my hair and my current shampoo and conditioner just isn't cutting it.

I usually spend a lot of time on the computer every day, but other than playing Tetris battle I didn't spend that much time on the computer today due to my other distractions. It was nice to do this for a change instead of sitting here for hours letting my feet fall asleep.

I think this is all I am going to do for now. I'll make sure to edit this tomorrow and add pictures.  Right now I just want to relax and go into lazy, pre-bedtime mode.

Phones!!

Wow I have a lot to tell!

So I'll start with last Saturday. I woke up in the morning, my check had been cleared. That meant that I could get my iPhone. I was SO happy, it felt so nice to be getting a phone again after 2 years of being phoneless.

We went to Best Buy first though (me and my dad), and I picked up my new headset for talking to people on skype and stuff, i like the sound from headphones anyway, they sound nice and my speakers are old.  I got another regular pair of headphones, they had noise cancellation though, we thought that would work out, i'll get to that story later though. My haedset, the one with the mic and stuff, those weren't noise cancellation ones, i didn't need anything like that for those.  It's a Logitech headset and it cost me about $45 dollars, probably a little more, I can't remember.

Anyway, after we were done there we went to the AT&T store to get my phone. I was so psyched to get there. It didn't take long from Best Buy to get there, just a few minutes. Nate (the guy that helped us in the AT&T store the evening before, was there. He had set everything aside for me for when I came back to get my phone. All i had to do is buy it, and I was set! He tought me how to use some of the basic functions such as the camera, and the app store, and some other things.

Me and my dad went back home to the best of my memory.

 

I was going to make this longer, but I have decided to add everything else in my next entry. I need to blog about this next subject so bad it's making me have a stomach ache.

 

I don't think I will make the mistake of waiting a whole week to blog. My memory get's a little fuzzy when I have a lot of stuff to think about. Oh, by the way sorry I am a day late on coming back.

My Day Out!

So today was fun, in more ways than one.

Around 2pm me and my dad went and dropped my mom off at work. I got my SSI check today. We went to go deposit the check in the bank. I'm not going to tell you how much it was by the way.  ha ha.

We went to another bank and payed our car payment first. On our way out my dad accidentally took the tube thing they put the receipts in, with the pen and stuff. We forgot to send it back into the bank, it was funny so we had to drive through the bank drive through again and put it back in the tube thing or whatever they use to transfer it outside.

After we did that we went to the post office which wasn't far ahead. My dad just had to send in his passport application or whatever. We were in line for a while. I looked at some greeting cards and post cards and stuff while we were waiting.  There was this Japanese family that was walking through the line right behind us. They were so cute, I think japanese people are so cute. I could understand bits and pieces of things that they were saying but tried not to evesdrop on their conversation to much. I've watched a lot of anime so I have picked up some things.

Anyway, after that we went to the bank to make my checking account. While I was waiting for Ayeisha (the lady that helped me make it), to be done with another person I was just reading TIME magazine. I read some pretty interesting stuff. After she was done with the other person I was called forward. My dad was on the phone so I had to wait for him to be done because I had no clue how to do it on my own.

I had forgotten to being my ID so we had to call my sister and she had to read off the various numbers that Ayeisha needed. It was quite funny actually. We joked about some stuff, it was pretty enjoyable for what we were doing. I just signed some stuff after that and the usual. She gave me some dumdum suckers when we were done. I got a few checks and got my account set up and stuff.

When we were done with that we headed off to the AT&T store in the mall to look at some phones.  I tried out a couple with buttons for texting. It was a lot of fun to play with the phones. I had a lot of trouble texting though because my nails were to long. This complicated things a lot when I was picking a phone.  We decided to go look for nail clippers in the mall. we tried various stores like the nail shop, Express, and some others, but for some reason we couldn't find them so we decided to just go to Wallmart. I'm actually glad we went there because they probably would have been overpriced.

Funny little story, while we were walking through this store we got ambushed by this girl that was selling nail products, we insisted she do a demonstration of this 4 sided nail buffer that smoothed the nail and polished it and stuff. It was really funny, she made a good saleswoman.  She was very nice, and pretty. I would have bought one if I had had extra money on me. Unfortunately I did not, because i have a lot of other important things i need to spend my money on first.  I told her I would think of it sometime later though.

Anyway, so we went to wallmart, and I remembered I had to get another watch so we got another watch. I got this white and silver Timex digital sports watch. It's pretty nice. Than we got the nail clippers, and went to buy the stuff. It was funny watching my ad and the cashier trying to figure out how to work my watch.

So I got back in the car and we went to go visit my mom at work, and to buy some pumpkin seeds there.  I clipped my nails on the way to the AT&T store. We went again now that I had my nails clipped. I tried the same phones again, the ones wit the little keypads, and then I tried the normal iPhone that didn't have the actual keypad but had one on the screen. I found it to be a ot easier with the nails clipped to navigate and to text on the phone.

We were going to buy the phone but my check probably won't clear until tomorrow or monday so we decided to wait to get all the stuff like the phone and the case, and the charger. I'm excited to get it though! I had a lot of fun at the AT&T store. the guy that was helping us was very friendly, and explained things well. We are hoping to see him again when we go again and buy it next time.

After we were done there, we went to the post office again. The sun had set by this time and it was getting dark. My had forgotten to mail a letter so he just had to drop it off real quick.

We went to subway for dinner. I got a sandwitch with chicken and cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, ranch, mustard, and onions on it. It was very good. I also got a chocolate chip cookie.

Anyway, so after that we went home. and how here I am! :)