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BASICALLY. FREE-FOR-ALL POST.

I was going to make a screenies post, but I'm too tired, and have too much to say.

MONSTER SIGNA 0/6.

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On the bright side, I got three people I sorta-know to agree to help me with my Mage's Ballad quest. I'd been worrying about that for forever, because I did not want to talk to strangers, and there were never many Windurstians in San d'Oria anyway. So I asked my friend if he could go on his mule (Windy mithra! How convenient; the second quest there needs a party for my race XD), and he ended up helping me ask another person I know whom he was closer friends with, and a friend of his that I don't know. So now I've got 4 people including me. It's a much less daunting task to try to find 2 strangers than 5... XD;;

...Ahahaha. Um.

I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean (yes, the first one) with one of my friends when the huge blackout of Toronto happened a few years back. People burst into a house and the screen went dark, and I thought it was a scene change at first. Except pictures didn't come back on.

The theater gave us a free pass to use after it seemed power wasn't going to come back, and we wandered around, got ice cream, bought manga, and walked home because the buses were way too full. (Since the subway ran on electricity and didn't work. Well, I mean, they got emergency power generators to get people off of it later.)

We walked for hours, sat outside to read the manga we got (I distinctly remember Demon Diary. Volume 2.), and then it got dark and I read more manga by the little light attachment of my GBC.

And then it ran out of batteries and I slept.

Next day, I called in to work to tell them there was no way I could make it. Apparently, amusement parks still ran when public transportation didn't have enough generators. Go figure. But anyway, they were fine with it.

I think it lasted three days in total. When power came back, everyone online was glad I wasn't dead.

1. The Emperor and Empress of Japan are apparently in Toronto right now.

2. I made milkshakes tonight! Used too much milk and too little ice cream, but other than how thin it was, it tasted pretty good.

3. I just visited the World Tree in ToS2. And the hot springs. Since Vil was interested in when I reached the World Tree. I need to take a break from playing it, though. I have so much I need to do and/or catch up on, and I am starting to get sick of it.

4. I am exhausted. I slept for about 3 hours last night. Urgh. Was going to nap, but got talked into playing ToS2 instead.

5. My brother is weird. He wants a hedge trimmer. We don't have hedges.

I'd better hurry up with these. XD; I think I'm taking them more frequently than I'm posting, argh. XD;

( From tropical paradises to the lands of the past - 44 images )

Dragon battle first attempt next time~! Amongst other things.

I'm doing it again! Hopefully going to keep up with it longer this time.

I started up the C25k stuff again this morning, and actually managed to lug myself out of bed at 8:30 AM. Huzzah! Mind you, it didn't have to be that early. It was that early because I promised Jami I'd be on at 10 for FFXI. *coughs* (We hit 37! I can teleport now! I mean, I've only got Mea and Holla, but that's still better than nothing.) So maybe (...rather, "certainly") I'll go a little later in the future. XD;

Gotta remind myself to sleep earlier, though. I've been tired all the time for the past few days-or-maybe-week, and it's making me grumbly and lethargic.

Right, exercise. Jami showed me a site with a training program for doing 100 push-ups. Figuring I have pathetically weak arms for an archer (...not that I've been doing archery lately), I decided to go do it. Hopefully, Jami and I will be trying to keep up with each other enough that we'd both keep doing it. XD;

The site also had sister sites for sit ups and squats. Squats made me go AHAHAHAHA ZACK, and since Jami decided to do those, too, I decided that I will, too. XD; And then I figured I'd do sit ups too, just for the heck of it.

I am so far hoping I'd be able to keep it up every day (not gonna skip weeks; I'll just repeat days), but I'm sure I'll go back on that once I get up tomorrow and discover that I'm sore all over.

In any case. I am cosplaying a mithra next year. I've got the height. So. I will get the build. Hopefully. Plus, being strong and pretty is always a nice bonus.

On an unrelated note, because I have lots of unrelated notes, my hair is getting long-ish. I mean, of course it is, I haven't been cutting it. But it still surprises me -- it's past the bottom of my shoulder blades now, about halfway down my back. If I lean my head back, it can reach my waist, but I don't think that counts. XD; (Yuri seemed surprised I considered this "long". But. XD; For the past few years, I've been keeping it boy-cut short, so this is long for me now...)

Also, it smells like chocolate. Addy would hate it. *coughs* One of mom's friends wanted me to try her favourite shampoo, and gave me a bottle of that plus conditioner, and it looks and smells like chocolate mousse, and makes my hair smell like it too. I'm surprised, actually -- I can still smell it, over 12 hours since my shower now.

Speaking of smells, my hands smell like garlic and onions, ewwww. Not that I don't like them, but, ew, foodsmells shouldn't stay on me. This is a result of chopping them today. I made spaghetti today and didn't mess up! Huzzah!

Um, wow, Maple Story, what?

Little background: I used to play it years and years ago, got my brother to play, eventually grew bored and got interested in other things, tried returning, got bored again and grew disgusted with the general playerbase, and pretty much decided I wasn't likely to ever play it again. My brother still plays right now, and keeps telling me things about it, to which I roll my eyes at him.

Anyway. Their latest announcement. Is that if you have an account with at least one level 30+ character, you can pay $15 for a level 30 character with "proper" stats and average equips and a whole lot of mesos.

That's right. Official RMT activities!

My brother went so far as to defend them and say that they're trying to stop RMT stuff with it. Ahahahahahaha, yeah right. They know it's going to happen regardless. They know there are enough people who'd jump at the chance. They're not trying to stop anything -- they're just getting in on the market themselves. After all, it's so much easier and safer for them to do it -- just program it in.

Ugh. This is disgusting.

It's not as if I'd actually planned to play it again, but if I ever did, I wouldn't anymore.

Covered. Ugh.

So, today, we went to buy the rest of our groceries, and flowers.

I didn't find any snapdragons or bluebells, and ended up buying random stuff. But anyway. (Actually, we did find snapdragon... seeds. But they're supposed to be planted January-March. It is way past March. *coughs*)

I got a... a fuschia? I think. I'm actually not sure what it is, since it didn't have one of those tag thingies. I thought the flowers looked cool and familiar, but couldn't place them. Saw a labeled fuschia plant later, with similar flowers, so I think that's what I got... (They're familiar because I sketched them for art class way back. XD)

And I got a... um. I'm... not sure... what it is... This one didn't have a tag either. But it's a pretty common flower, I think...? It has kinda... four-petaled, round-ish flowers with serated edges. The centers are usually a different colour radiating out. I wanted a white one with a magenta center before, but mom wanted a red one, so we got the red. It's a lovely red that I like anyway, so I don't mind.

I also got a. Um. *reads tag* "Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'". Also known as "Smooth Whilte Penstemon". I dunno. Basically, it's this thing with dark red stems and dark green leaves and white flowers. Mom didn't like it, but I did. It looks strangely elegant.

Randomly, I saw foxgloves and I want them. Mom won't get me them, though. Boo. They're pretty...

We also saw this weird plant nicknamed "Lamb's Ears" or something like that. It is really soft and fuzzy and I liked petting it. ;_;

Also, I bought (well, mom bought me) a pair of sandals. They are black and pretty and they fit perfectly.

...They are little girls shoes, size 1. Yes.

Right, so, mosquitos.

Mom insisted we planted our flowers today instead of tomorrow, and I proposed to do it after dinner, because we were really hungry by then, and it was still too sunny out.

After dinner, however, we watched a bit of TV (ugh, eating with my mom and my brother is going to turn me into a couch potato if I'm not careful D: ), and then my stomach really hurt so I rested for a bit. By the time I actually went to plant my stuff, it was dark out, and mosquitos loved me. They didn't even bite my brother much, even though he was standing right next to me. Sheesh.

I apparently have really sweet blood, and so attract mosquitos like crazy. x.x

On an unrelated note, because, come now, I can't make a new entry for every topic:

Someone held a favourite pairings poll on the ToA comm a few(?) weeks ago. They posted the results today.

Unsurprisingly, Luke/Tear came in first place.

Surprisingly, Asch/Natalia came in second.

What I don't get is why, if people actually like it, is there next to nothing of it in existence? D: (Maybe I'll make more of it. Argh, but when? I keep saying I'll do more of this and more of that, but... x.x)

We went grocery shopping today, since we're running low and I'm making fancy(?) stuff next week. Er, well, not really fancy, per se, but anyway. XD; I'm making spaghetti, shepherd's pie, and french onion soup. I think. And I'm almost certain I missed listing something, but ah well.

We somehow ended up buying a lot of clothes. There was a Stitches warehouse outlet near one grocery store, so I wanted to see, and ended up getting a shirt, an imitation corset, and a ruffly miniskirt. And then there was a Winners near another grocery store, and I originally didn't plan to go, but mom said my brother needed stuff, so we went. I ended up picking out a pair of black pants (because mine are all too biiiiig now, and I need formal black pants on many occasions), and a... sundress? Not sure if it classifies as one, might be a cocktail dress. But anyway, it's nice. Mom said I had to pay for it myself if I wanted to get it since she hated it, but I reeeaaaaally liked it, and now I hope I have enough money for Echoes of Time, haha. >.>; I promised Jami I'd get that soon.

Dress is white with stylized flowers in black, and an attached black sash with a high waist. Mom apparently mainly doesn't like the stark black and white and says it stands out too much, but... I don't see anything wrong with it...? (I'll probably take a picture sometime with it. XD; Since it seems like the type Addy would pick for me.) Also, my brother thinks it's not bad but a little too short, but I don't think so, either -- it's just above knee length.

Edit: On a completely unrelated note, Dissidia crack comic re-started, after over a month! I am happy. I was actually really worried something bad might have happened or something...

Edit 2: By the way, Jami, I've gotta buy more groceries tomorrow, and thus have to go earlier in the morning. I'm going to bed... now-ish. Shall we start at 5 my time after all? (...Not that you can actually answer. I'll just hope you're sorta-ready by then so I'm not sitting here for an hour looking stupid. XD;)

Mm, not really.

I accidentally burned tonight's dinner, oops.

Mom was all RAWR CLEAN YOUR ROOM TODAY, so I was downstairs all day, reading yuri manga, instead of up in the living room playing video games. Was trying to cook meat for dinner, so I put it on the stove, and figured it'd take hours, so... I... left.

Checked back an hour and a half later, and the kitchen's filled with smoke. Oooooooops.

Lugged my brother out to open all the windows, tried to cook other stuff and found it impossible to breathe in the kitchen, and went back to my room again.

Luuuuckily, mom happened to buy barbecued chicken, and we ate that during dinner. Omnomnom.

I had to scrub out the burnt pot afterwards. XD; I had to empty the cleaning water three times (outside, because it'd clog the sink), and it was completely black each time.

Well. I've learned not to do that again. Until I forget, anyway.

I am getting lazy about long entries. I meant to make this yesterday, but didn't feel like it, and... all in all, I guess it's not going to be that long anyway. XD;

So, yesterday, mom made my brother and me go out to dig in our garden with her. There was this strip of soil near our fence where she wanted to plant flowers, so we were weeding it and stuff. My hands got caked in dirt because I opted not to use huge, icky garden gloves, and discovered that playing in the mud with long(ish) nails might not have been the best idea. But anyway, a shower fixed that.

We divided the area into three, and each of us got to choose what to plant in ours, and we're going to go buy flowers this weekend. I want to either make mine an herb garden, or just... plant flowers. XD; Probably flowers, since mom wants the garden to look pretty.

I'm going to get snapdragons because I like them, bluebells because they're fairy flowers according to Kaori Yuki, and then either lilacs or lavender because they smell nice. Anyone got any other suggestions?

In other "garden" news: we're going to go visit the Royal Botanical Garden in about a week and a half, apparently. From the photos and the name, they're bound to be really pretty. I've asked mom if I could wear my Garnet dress there, and she gave me a weird look and told me that, no, I can't wear it on the way, but I can bring it, change into it there, and take pictures. And then put it away again. XD;; Which isn't as good, but isn't exactly bad. So, I'll get my brother to do my Garnet photoshoot there. And try to think of creative poses before then, I suppose.

On a completely unrelated note, I am back to playing Dissidia again. I am horribly jealous that the English version will have new content, but I still prefer my Japanese version anyway. So s'all good.

More video game stuff: my brother keeps begging me to play FE10 and/or ToS2, so I have been doing that. In FE10, I am on 3-8; and in ToS2, I am... at the part where Zelos joins your party. Despite my preference for the Kratos storyline, I am currently very much glad they kept Zelos alive for ToS2. He and Sheena both are making me very *_*.

Last topic change: have been researching Arthurian Legends stuff. Argh, am wondering if I should perhaps pick an easier thing to write after all. x.x

Region blackout...? How inconvenient...

HAPPY CANADA DAY! (I am so late with this... XD;)

I am so tired and my feet hurt and I am sore everywhere, but yesterday was fun in a way I never thought it would be. My family can actually be enjoyable sometimes.

We went to Niagara falls, and for once, I'll write about it before I leave it for days and start forgetting about it, and, uh. I'll try to work backwards to write about going to dad's place and then the con and week after? XD; Or maybe week after first, and con after that. And photos eventually. @_@ We took a billion and one yesterday, half of which are of birds, because my brother and I visited the aviary and the stupid things kept turning away as sooooooon as I got the camera ready, so I had a billion photos that were either blurry or had a turned-away head, and then my brother insisted on trying, and we had a billion more of a few pretty birds because he wanted to take a picture every time we saw one despite the fact that we had pictures of them already. @_@

...But more on that later.

( Waterfall, waterfall~ )

In non-yesterday news!

1. FFXI new add-on A Moogle Kupo d'Etat announced for soon! I am pretty excited. XD We probably wouldn't be able to do much (or any except the first cutscene? >.>;) of it, but the whole idea is just way too funny. The new equips announced amuse me -- or at least the melee/tank one does. The descriptions on the add-on site, I mean. (It made fun of 300. *coughs* But why does Windurst have to be the baddies? XD;)

2. I want to go back to my old loves and produce Elricest and Asch/Natalia again. Maybe I shall.

3. My orchid and lily diiiiiiiiied. ;_; They were all wilty and stuff even though they had enough water, so I worried that they might not have enough sunlight, so I gave them more, but they all died, and there were icky things on the leaves, so I think they got sick from bugs. ;_; Mou...

4. ...Almost 4000 words this entry. Man...

I really don't feel like sleeping tonight. Am tired, though.

But it's 5 in the morning and I don't want to sleep and I need to go to bed early tomorrow night (tonight, rather) anyway because I'm getting up at 6 the morning after that, for once not to play FFXI but to go to Niagara Falls. We're leaving at 6:30. Yeah. O_o;

Um.

...I've got chocolate and bread. Maybe I'll see how long I can stay up. Gonna write. Don't wanna lose.

Edit: 7:30. Bread is not keeping me from being hungry. I'm thirsty. Now that people keeping me company have gone to bed, I realize how tired I am. I wrote a little over 200 words, and blabbered a lot. I think I'm going to sleep after all.

Scarfle's new name is now Scarfictionary.

By the way, Scarfictionary, the word I was thinking of was "challenge". I think. Probably. Possibly. Let's have it here so that if I need it again, I'll remember.

Maybe I shouldn't write this early/late after all. I keep forgetting words and changing sentences because I can't write sentences that are missing words!

Maybe it's because of high expectations. Maybe it's because I'm used to soloing and randomly getting party invites on everything.

...But sitting on bard in Valkurm for over an hour without an invite is making me never want to play it again. This is a really stupid waste of time. I'm bored of reading, bored of the rest of my computer being slow because of FFXI, and so totally exhausted, and I wanna get the stupid thing leveled so I can nap or something.

Mrrrrrrrrrrr. Stupid songs taking up space. Stupid instruments taking up space. Stupid unsoloable jobs.

I hate it I hate it I hate it.

Maybe I'll make Jami duo it with me later after we're done with Ella.

Tonight was an interesting night on FFXI. Well. Actually. It was a horribly unproductive one, in which I knew more than someone. Multiple someones. It was frustrating.

( Here's a story about a faaaail party )

And now I am going to bed so that I can hopefully finish up with my bard tomorrow before Jami plays.

There was a rainstorm earlier today, but thankfully, it's just stopped when I went to work. I brought an umbrella, just in case.

On leaving work today, it was painfully sunny.

...And raining.

I have no idea where the rain came from, because directly overhead, there was barely a cloud in the sky. All I saw was blue blue blue broken by a few white wisps.

There was a rainbow, though! Long, pretty rainbow. I stood in the middle of the (thankfully small and un-busy) street admiring it. XD I took pictures on my cell camera, but, uh. We all know how prompt I am at posting pictures. And con reports. And things like that. Maybe eventually... *coughs*

It's also still way too hot even with a fan. Blah.

I finally made a friend in FFXI yest--the day before yesterday. An actual friend instead of someone I talked to once and healed for a while and never spoke with again. XD; Huzzah!

Now, then, back to leveling Bard, because I went crazy and bought all the songs from level 1-20, and I now need my storage space they're taking up. *coughs* Well. Am level 8 now. Two more and I can look for a party. Let's see if bards really are as beloved as rumours are leading me to believe... XD

It's been really hot these past few days, so I've been whining forever to mom that I want a fan. Anyway, today, she decided to give me hers for now until we can get me one, 'cause she's not using it yet anyway. It's a bit weak (as in the wind) and noisy, but it still feels much better than not having one. Oh, wind~ *puuuurr*

Woah, been almost a month since I posted screenshots.

I will eventually catch up with playing, with the screenies. Really! *coughs* We've done about. Um. ...Half of my total screenshots. With me taking more every time. Oops.

So, continuing from where I last left off...

( Exploration~! - 43 images )