WARNING: Graphic descriptions. If you don’t want to read about cat poop, then you may want to go elsewhere. Also, I’m extremely tired, so if this makes no sense, that’s why.
Current Mood:
Drained
Dec 132010
I seem to be in one of those moods where I just don’t feel like being social. I haven’t posted here in a wicked long time, and even That Other Blog of Mine hasn’t seen anything since Week 3 of NaNoWriMo (Reader’s Digest version: I won). Not too sure what’s causing this — could be internal factors, could be everything else — but yes, I’m alive.
So let’s see what’s shaking in Cas’ world:
NaNoWriMo 2010
There will be a post sometime this week about this on That Other Blog of Mine, but yes, I did manage to finish on Monday the 29th. Well, “finish” — I hit 50,000 words, and I’m about 75% done all the stories. In fact, the only story I did manage to complete was the psycho crack story, which NO ONE will ever see (I’m that embarrassed about it). However, my drive to finish it all went down the crapper, so who knows when that’ll get done.
Cas Can’t Drive
Nearly got into an accident on Friday. Let’s just say that I was trying to move over four lanes, and if the white car behind me in the next lane over hadn’t slowed down, Id’ve smacked right into them. I just can’t see anything in that stupid blind spot and it’s really disturbing me. I’m sorry, mister/miss driver in that car.
I mostly posted that here because I needed to confess somehow.
Eris Is Sick
Eris is in the vet hospital today (and she’s been in and out since Friday). Same thing as before. There’s a new food the vet and I want to try which is supposed to do wonders for her condition, but we can’t do anything until she’s cleared up.
She seemed okay on Saturday, but Sunday she was bloated up like a balloon… Anyways, bottom line, the treatment on Friday didn’t work, so I think they’re going to put her under today and, um, scoop out.
Cas Is Sick
In other news, the sun rises in the east. Yes, I’m sick again, and Mr. Cough has been plaguing my existence for the last two weeks. I’m at the stage of the game where I might as well eat cheap food since it’ll come out the wrong way before bed. Worse, half my Cotridin went down the drain because I dropped the bottle, and the other half is tainted with water. Awesome.
I feel drained, stressed and constantly on edge… possibly because of the Cas Can’t Drive incident, possibly because of Eris, possibly because of this sickness, or a combination of everything. I daresay that I’ve been getting panic attacks, which falls in the Really Not Good™ category…
Oh, and after getting sick on Saturday night, I now have these really big bags under my eyes, and they’re peppered with red dots. I usually get that if I cry a lot, and it usually goes away after a day… still there today, though.
Cas Loves FFXIV
I managed to get ALC 27 and TAN 9 this weekend on Jenis, and Soreas is a hair away from MRD 20. However, I’m finding myself not having to THINK while playing, which isn’t really good… hope it’s not a sign I’m getting bored with it.
Cas Has Hope for FFXI?
The big patch is out and the level cap is 90 now. Ugh. I’d given up on levelling, but what I’m hearing is that Dominion seems to be the key to getting level 90, at least for me (who doesn’t like 18-man, 9-hour long Abyssea parties where you can’t even take a piss). I still have my doubts, but it’s a hell of a lot more hope than I had a month ago. We’ll have to see what goes on…
Current Mood:
Distressed
Good: We got halfway done the flooring yesterday, and let me tell you that it looks fricking GORGEOUS. We’re more experienced after having put down the library and kitchen flooring, and thius looks polished and perfect. We shouldn’t have any problem finishing today, and we might be able to get some baseboards in.
Bad: We moved the aquarium — even completely empty, we had a 50-50 chance of it breaking due to to it having been there for 7 years and the pressure from everything. We actually managed to move it, so that’s not the bad. No, the bad was that as I was pulling out the thick clear garbage bag I was using as a fish bag out of the bucket, it RIPPED… sending the fish crashing down 6-12″ back into the bucket.
I mean, it could have been worse — the bag could have ripped while I was transferring it to the tank, and destroying the floor. But this isn’t much comfort as…
Ugly: … all the fish were dead come this morning, save for my pleco and my two clown loaches.
Current Mood:
Sad
Jun 142010
Okay, time to talk about real world stuff.
Library
Wow, having blogged about this in a while. Well, since the last update, we’ve bought a 40cm bookcase from Ikea and put it on the side of the room with all the manga — it really fills out the room! I’ve also bought a wall pendulum clock which will satisfy my need for some tick-tock in the room; it also has a Westminster chime, and it costs a fraction of what I’dve paid for a grandfather clock, so go me. That should be coming in on Saturday.
Moar Books
Chapters had their 20% off sale last weekend. We were holding off on catching up with our manga until the sale, but we still managed to spend $550 on books. I finally got the rest of the books I was missing from the Belgariad and the Malloreon, Sky got some more Dresden Files books (he’s caught up), among other things, and we got, sigh, up to One Piece 53 (from 43). By the way, Viz — cool it with the stupid releases. My wallet can’t take 5-6 releases a month. We got much more than that but details are fuzzy right now. (I’d say it was half manga, half “everything else”.)
Pets
Sky brought Whisper to the vet last week after his, ah, “aromatherapy” became too much. His glands needed to be expressed (it was gravel in there) so that was done, and Sky carted the old fart home.
Eris was NOT impressed. She hissed, spat and growled at him for three days straight, and I was seriously worried I’d have to cart one away. Whisper, for his part, was looking at him with a “WTF b*tch” look the whole time, though he seemed sick of it all by Thursday. She finally calmed down by Friday, and they were back to grooming each other by Saturday. Seriously, though…
Oh, and Eris snorts when she’s pissed.
That’s about it for now.
Apr 262010
Oh hai allzzzzzzz…
Health and Exercise
I’m apparently still slimming down… at least, according to my co-workers. The last few weeks have been hell so my diet hasn’t been great, but I think I managed to eat smart most of last week… just that I was dead on my feet (to the point of skipping Dynamis last Tuesday).
I went to bed early-ish last week and it did me a load of good. (Case in point, I went to bed at 11:00 last night and I feel like crap.) Early bed on Tuesday’s not an option, but I’m hoping to stay on track for the rest of the week (including tonight).
Car
We brought the car in for a tune-up two Saturdays ago, and we found out that the water pump needed to be replaced as it was leaking. So that, and the tune up, cost $660. Ow.
I’ll admit that I’m somewhat disappointed in this car. It feels like it’s more cheaply built than my old Corolla, but they don’t make ‘em like they used to. It did save my ass in that stupid car accident, though, so it can’t be all that bad.
I don’t want another car loan, seriously. I haven’t run this car through the ground yet, and in the coming years, we may need more than one vehicle…
Pets
Reese is doing great, but I have to drive to Saint Albert to buy him another grass hut since he utterly destroyed the one he has right now (he likes toppling it). Eris is okay, too.
My fish, however…
My fish themselves are fine, except for two otos that got caught by the powerhead intake (we’ve now taken steps to prevent this). But I have a nasty algae problem again, and there’s a ton of crap at the bottom of the tank… and I’ve only had this setup for two weeks! I’m going to need to check to see if it’s a filtration problem or something.
Anime
I started watching the anime adaptation of Fairy Tail; I hated it at first because the opening theme just does not fit with the series at all, and the style was more “cartoony” than I liked.
The soundtrack, however, is what got me loving the series. It’s a mix of celtic rock, Newfie-style music (I’m not joking) and hard rock (the type that you hear in Japanese fighting games). It’s glorious and it works. All of the Natsu-related themes are all Celtic-esque, and they’re oh-so-incredible. Next Amazon Japan order I make, I’m definitely buying this!
Renovations
We’re hoping to finish everything this weekend. I’m going to buy a nail gun sometime this week so we don’t have to worry about rushing to return it, and I’m borrowing the air compressor from work.
Final Fantasy XI
As mentioned above, I skipped my first Tuesday Dynamis last week and I feel like crap about it.
I’ll fully admit that I act girly in a sense that I like putting Dar in clothes that make him look good. The motivation behind my town gear for SCH (that black coat and pants) was entirely for looks, though I got a nice nuking body out of the deal, so yay for me. I hit DRG 70 the other day, and the Barone set caught my eye; it’s got “okay” stats, but there’s better elsewhere… however, I look amazing in it, so yes, I’m spending over a million gil to make my character look pretty. Sigh.
I’ve got everything but the helm (don’t want) and the feet; the latter is painful because it costs about 800,000 gil to make them, but they commonly sell for 400,000 gil on auction. There’s a guy, however, that’s trying to sell a pair for more than that — I tried up to 480,000 at one point and couldn’t buy them — so I’m holding off until I’ve got the money (I’d have to borrow again if I wanted them now).
Saturday, we got Ithan-Yuran and Mielle Lufaise/Misareaux access so we can go ahead with Myrna’s FFXI wedding on Friday. I still have to finish off the script since I’m the one officiating the whole thing (eep).
Sky was fond of “stab shit in the face” jobs in WoW, and he felt there was no outlet for that in FFXI. I suggested DRG, and seeing that his was 10, we synced down and with Ithan-Yuran in tow for heals, we started tearing stuff apart in Tahrongi as DRG DRG RDM. Myrna soon joined in with her DRG (with Anrym as plevel), and we moved to Buburimu. Over the course of three hours, we brought Karm from DRG 10 to 19 by just casually roaming and decimating stuff… and I hit level 71, meaning we got about 30,000 exp in that time, without rings (ours burned off really darn fast). And it was DAMN FUN.
I hope he likes DRG, but I’m not going to push him to level it if he doesn’t, seeing as he has other stuff he wants to level (BLM, SMN). If we do decide to duo (well, trio), though, this will be my ticket to getting DRG to 75 in a heck of a hurry, which means I can merit SCH.
That’s about it. I’m planning on making a “State of the RP” post on That Other Blog of Mine, so keep an eye out for that!
Current Mood:
Okay
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