10 posts tagged “alicante”
Two months ago I made a trip home and I took a bunch of pictures and then I never took them off the camera. Why? Well because ---->me<---- = lazy. But it is done and without further ado....
I love my sister and one of the first things I did was go home to my parents house to hang out with her. She is a bit of good ball. Atleast she wasn't making faces in this picture. Leaving in LA now makes me appreciate more
I made sure to go home for the 4th of July because my family has always done the 4th together. I don't really feel like they do much else together but this is like a special time. I almost feel like I am a part of a family then and that is something since all the rest of the time I feel quite removed from them. We went to a ball game to have it be rained out and then diverted to Roamingwood. It was a tiny private lake in the Hideout. I was
Philadelphia is a 2 hour drive on the turnpike and my sister has never really been so David and I packed her in (and I promptly fell asleep because I could not do EST hours) and took her to her first trip to Philly. Baby lemurs awaited us.
So to do a quick catch up... I play WoW still... A LOT!!!! Most days for atleast 12 hours. We have up to the General done in 10 man Ulduar, Lord Jarraxus in 10 and 25 man ToC.... No 25 man Maly:(. We have Kolo downed in 25 Uld but no IC and Auriaya handed us our asses last night. Mand and I started new toons. Two Draeni, a hunter and shaman. I like the shaman but it isn't Ali and I don't think I want to give up on Ali. I bought a mount on ebay the other day... it hasn't arrived yet. I hope the guy wasn't a fraud because it was expensive. I promised Mand that I would ride it instead of my kitty. I won't disappoint him.:)
Today is Sunday and as usual I am up before D and I want to be a child and jump on the bed and wake him but he has been really tired lately so I refrain. I would like to do a few chores today. Nothing much just small things. Tomorrow I have therapy and that means the day will be shot. And oh how therapy is going to be rough tomorrow. I have a shit ton of neurotic devices to bring to the table... all the downtime when Nielle was here that caused me to shut down. What's going on with Nicky. My not talking to Dr. Scott about the sleeping issues... although some of those have corrected themselves. And I see Dr. Scott this week and I never got my SMA-12 done and lithium level done. We will have to do that tomorrow morning. It looks like I will be going into work with D tomorrow.
I have been caught in a trap and Voxing has been the last thing on my mind but I promised myself that today I was going to do it. A little too much questing and a little too little living in the real world. My life is really in the toilet.
I've been doing a real little of reading. I'm reading You Will Know Our Velocity! in 15 page segments. Jason is going to get the impression that I don't want to read it at all, which just isn't true. I just have this buggy personality and when I obsess it takes up all my energy. I haven't been able to concentrate at all. Of course I'm going to devour City of Glass when it comes out a week from tomorrow. Oh my god am I excited. And in my feed this morning was a Rachel Caine update about Fade Out the 7th Morganville Vampire book. The cover design to the left. So she has the next two books in the box. Oh Shane, I'm wishing happy things for you.
Class has been more interesting. I still think my prof is a tool but I really liked the video we watched in the last class. I liked the debate of Intelligent Design/Creationism and Evolution. Go Evolution go! I'm eager to see what happens in class tomorrow. I hope we actually start learning about something other than religion and politics though. D needs to know about psychology before he goes to grad school.
April is coming soon and we have Portland and Shanny and then Nielle will be coming to visit. Oh fun everyway around. Speaking of Shannon she took the pic to the left and I loved it so much that I snagged it for in here. She is so awesome. And Nielle... when she comes here we are going to do the RenFaire in Irwindale. I'm hoping we can do it on a day when Belle can come too. Note to self: remind D to buy plane tickets.
I haven't been watching hockey but I have been playing fantasy hockey and my team beat James for the first time all year last week. WOOT! D tells me that Chris Kunitz is playing well in Pittsburgh and Ovie is edging in on the 50 spot for goals this year. Go boy! Do DC proud. I can't wait until Thanksgiving this year when we will be in DC and I have high hopes that we can see a live caps game.
Oh I am getting too excited. It's only 22 days until City of Glass. I have been reading the COG cookies at Cassandra Clare's My Space and I am completely abuzz. The earlier cookies were longer, the last two were snippets. And I love the picture from the tour to the right with Sebastian as the dark angel and Jace as the light. Oh but I don't want it to end. But she has her new shadowhunter series The Infernal Device. I just want more Jace and Clary.
I watched all the video and read the articles about Rob over the last few days. I love that he is still clueless as to why he is so popular. I was a little disappointed to hear that Little Ashes was pushed back to May 8. But incredibly happy to hear that Eclipse has been greenlit (is that the right tense?) and should be out June 10, 2010. There just isn't enough Twilight stuff for me. I haven't gotten my dolls yet but I plan to.
Note in the pic right that Ali is wearing pants instead of her robes. It's like she's naked.
We had a couple of good runs over the weekend we ran mainly with Kaei and Garvey and interchanged others. We played with Nasmirn and Dawsacre which I love running with, even if Nasmirn was a bit of a tool. He did give me 10 pieces of heavy leather so I could level up my tailoring. I was going to play after I wrote this but I don't have time before I have to get ready. I think I will take my computer with me and play at Iso. I also have the new Vampire Diaries book to start. Maybe in the waiting room.
Sunday bloomed early and we played more WoW and got ready to head home. I wanted to see some missions and we started at Mission San Jose in Fremont. I loved the ceiling of this mission. I thought the raw wood and chandelier effect was beautiful. The altar was simple and elegant. I love missions so hard. I wish this one had better grounds but it was pretty high up there in rating. It's small and I think I would like to see it when it isn't raining. Maybe we will visit it again.
I don't know why I like missions so much. D has a theory that it is because they are like art rather than religion and that is as sound as anything else that I can think up. I am always looking at the altar and because I'm not that well versed in biblical stories or religious iconography I don't know what it is depicting but I like it all the same. I loved San Juan Capistrano and it didn't have a chapel though so it isn't a pre-requisite. I think I'm going to collect the mission figurines from each place we go.
Can you say road trip? Later this morning D and I will be leaving to go to SJ for our Sharks weekend. I am so excited. We are staying in a hotel a hairsbreadth from the Shark Tank and our room has a jacuzzi! It will be good times. I am hoping to stop by some missions around the area if we have the time. The Mission Dolores is in SF which might be too far out for us to get to today. But Mission San Jose should be do able. Mission Santa Clara shouldn't be too far away either. Then for Sunday I'd like to take the 101 back and stop at Santa Cruz definitely and maybe a few others like Mission San Juan Bautista or San Carlos Borromeo which is touted as being the most beautiful of the missions. We can take it easy on the way back though... we don't have to rush. It's not like we go north all the time. This will be the first time we have been further north than Paso since we left Chico. All we really lose is questing time and we can make that up over sleep.
Speaking of questing... We are in Desolace now and I have to say it is my least favorite of all the lands. Although we were in the Barrens the other night and got attacked by NPC and some little shit Horde characters and killed us while we were fighting a lvl 40. I died quickly. D was impressive but couldn't take all 4 things at once. It was mad carnage on us. It sucked. I was reading some articles and player's guides this morning saying I should auction more of the stuff I get rather that just selling it off. And auction more stuff I mine too. Some people will be too lazy to get it on there own and you get more in an auction house than you do selling to a vendor. It's something to consider. My goals for playing over the weekend... and this is keeping in mind that we are traveling and will be doing other things so I am aiming low. I would like to be a lvl 38 by Sunday night and have 2g more. Nothing lofty.
I am still reading You Shall Know Our Velocity. I seem to not have gotten very far in the last few days. I'm getting closer to Thursday all the time. I think I am going to read the last 15 pages of this part in the car before we start listening to the audiobook. What I have been reading is Gena Showalter's Heart of the Dragon. I liked it differently then the Nymph King. I think I found Darius more callous. I liked whatever the Nymph King's name was. In both books I loved Layal, the Vampire King to be dastardly enough to make me melt a little. I love my villians. I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon yesterday including YSKOV, so I could own my own copy. I also ordered Nightfall, the new Vampire Diaries book. I don't have high hopes for this book. I think it has been a long time since the others were set and LJ Smith's mind isn't in the same place and that she will change their world when I liked the world they had already. Well, except for Bonnie. But I miss Stefan. We will just have to wait and see. I also ordered Dream Warrior, the new SK book. We will see how it goes. They are becoming formulaic. I wish she would take more time and write fewer better quality books. Not too long until City of Glass. Oh Cassandra Clare, I am so so so very excited. Almost a month now! I think it will be City of Bones that we listen to in the car. It's been a little over a month since I last gave it face time.
I woke up an hour ago singing the Canadian national anthem. I don't know why but it's stuck in my head. Maybe it is a little leftover from seeing the hockey game on Thursday night. The flames prevailed to win it with a 2-0 shutout. Belle enjoyed her first game. Paul and Amanda had a good time too I think. Ollie was over the moon because his team one. I think Mikey was just drunk. I was happy because I got to see a whole minute of Dion playing the way Dion played last year. I have to glean my Dion happiness wherever I can. I'm still a fan but man he is tanked this season. Only a week a way from watching the Sharks play. My Torrey jersey came. I swim in it but I am happy about it all the same. Go Torrey. I hope you might be back in time for Saturday's game.
So WoW is going well, although I think I have been a lvl32 forever. We did the Gnomeregen and that went well although a lot of heals. I have been thinking a lot about guilds and the last few days we have run a couple dungeons with his guildees and they haven't been asshats. I am just afraid to commit. I don't want to choose poorly. I have it in my mind that once I pick that's it for life. I know that isn't true but I still think that. I'm interested in where our next dungeon mission will be.
Speaking of guilds, I finally caught up on the Guild. The one before last I watched when I was falling asleep. I remember only bits and pieces clearly which is a shame when it is only 5 minutes long. There was a part with Clara and Tink selling Codex that was pretty horrifically funny. The last Guild was pretty good. I think Zaboo stole it for me and Vork and Bladezz talking to him about the duel was hilarious. Of course the entire show is a bunch more funny now that I'm playing WoW. The dynamic is better understood if you know from where they are coming from.
I'm still reading the Eggers book with Jason. It's going pretty well. I have a strange resistance for Will's thinking when we are submersed in his head. Jason's right, it is all very Kafka-esque and I'm not sure that I like that much of Kafka. I still like Hand though. Eggers has these phrases and these statements that I love. He was right. He was a titan. We were again golden. I just love the imagery it brings to mind for me. I won't get to the next park until tomorrow, as D and I are going to spend the day playing WoW.
It's been raining a lot lately. LA floods and it gets chilly. I kind of love it. Right now it's coming down and I have the blinds open so I can look out. Of course being who I am, I want to look at it but I don't want to be out in it.
There is a lot of hockey coming up. Thursday there will be a group of us going to see the Flames at the Kings. Mikey and Ollie will be meeting up with D, Belle and I and D said Paul and his girlfriend will be coming too. I am excited to see Chris because I haven't seen him since 2001/02 when he drove through Chico. I haven't seen Mikey since 2000. Then the weekend after next D and I will be driving up to SJ to see the Sharks play the Thrashers. I'll have my Torrey jersey then and we will fit in with all the Shark heads. I can't wait. Hockey in the day and WoW in a random hotel room with a jacuzzi at night. Heaven.
My sisters birthday was yesterday and she turned 13. A teenager. Now is the time where she starts to no longer make sense right? I hope that isn't the case. I do wish that I was home for her birthday. It's so hard being so far away. My mom said I got her too much for her birthday, but I feel I need to make up for not being there for her, Phone calls don't matter much in the end.
So it's been a while and it keeps slipping my mind to make mention of it but... I guess they offered Dakota Fanning the part of Jane in New Moon and I love the girl so all the more power to them getting her. I would like Taylor Lautner to grow a foot as well. Which one is more likely?
I'm almost done with City of Ashes at the gym. My theory of the week is that Simon lived through the sun coming up because he had Jace's blood in him and Jace is, as Valentine is the first to admit, altered. Only 53 more days until City of Glass. I can't wait. You can't begin to understand what a fiend I am for The Mortal Instruments. I love Jace to pieces. Oh I got too excited thinking about it. I want to jump up and down. If I could take only 3 books with me to the moon it would be these three. And I beat myself a bit because I bought the book, City of Bones, and didn't read it for two months. I could have fell in love that much sooner. Wasted time reading other books. When these are my soul mates. Speaking of soul mates. I realize that I owe Belle an apology. I finished The Vampire Academy and I didn't hate it. Once the school makes Rose cry I liked the book much more. And I do ship Rose and Dimitri even though I think I got spoiled for his fate and if it is so then I will go back to not liking the series much. I liked Christian and Mason right up to
So as I sit here, post finished, listening to Taking Back Sunday, I feel unable to close it out and have that be all. I've been feeling, and being more vocal, about this ever growing feeling of disenchantment with my life. I miss writing. It just feels like words are utilitarian now--they've lost their ability to mean deeper things. I'm feeling more detached. Distance seems to be growing between me and friends. The world is leached of real joy and in it's place is all these black and white things. Objects really, nothing personified. It makes me feel like hiding more behind things I can lose myself in, just so I can forget how little of life I live. And there is only one or two people that I can talk to because of these chasms that have leapt up where once I had faith in friends. They are just strangers who spend their lives in other worlds that don't even rub up against mine. I'm not even lonely really, I'm just utterly alone. No feelings but anger and fear, no dreams past reading books, nothing can make me happy. I don't see why people like me even exist. We find life support so we don't die but we don't have anything to live for. No future. It seems pathetic.
Lightning. Apparently I can't spell the word and rather than pull me aside via phone or email and tell me about my error, Kev called me out publicly. So now I don't just look stupid publicly but I feel dumb and backwoods too. Someday I will learn to spell it without the added e.
My sister is reading Twilight. My mom said she has been taking it to school and reading it. Pip said that her friends don't think she can finish it but I told her to take it a little at a time. Maybe I should have suggested we read a chapter at a time and then talk about it. I am over the moon though that she is trying to read a book like that. I can't wait til she's older and I can have her read City of Bones. Call me a book Nazi for not wanting her to read about incest and homosexuals when she doesn't even know about sex at all. She thinks sex is your gender. She's an innocent babe and I want her to stay like that until she is 80.
D and I started playing World of Warcraft and I made my character, I am a human priestess named Alicante--from the home of the nephilim in The Mortal Instruments. It's a lot of fun. Sometimes really frustrating... like those fucking irate kobolds last night. If D and I hadn't teamed up neither of us would have completed our quest. I wanted a screen cap of my character to post but the realms are down for maintenance until 11:00. Maybe for my next post. The one thing is time really flies when playing. Like really flies. We played last night until midnight. I'm too old for that kind of behavior.
Speaking of WOW the new Guild is up and it is not the best episode. The funniest part is the intro and then the cookies part between Codex and Tink.
I haven't been a fan of James Gunn's Spike internet tv show PG Porn until this week. This week's installment is Roadside Ass-sistance and I thought it was pretty funny. Atleast funnier than the Nathan Fillion one. I find James Gunn to be a funny, a little bit creepy and all out lawless. He goes where men fear to tread. If I paid attention to my Twitter it would behoove me to follow the man.
No post would be complete without me discussing books. First let me say that last week I read all 5 Nightwalker books and only loved the first one. Jacob was awesome. I loved the characters and they showed up in the other 4 books so I was happy about that. I was most excited about Noah and I hated the heroine although I maintained my love for Noah. They were good enough. I would definitely read Jacob again. I don't know about Gideon. And switching gears I finished Demon in my View this morning and I really liked it. I did not like the first Den of Shadows book, In the Forest of the Night but I liked the character of Aubrey. He was unflinchingly evil in the first book and he gets his ass handed to him by a girl but I loved him. He is in the second book and you get to read his perspective and he's a bit softer. I was surprised when I liked it. I immediately grabbed the next book Shattered Mirror to read next. I am also reading The Vampire Academy which I am not enjoying and am determined to finish--if not slowly--for the sake that Belle loves it. I detest the main character. I find her flat out stupid and so abrasive. I think she is supposed to come across as clever but I certainly don't see it. I like two characters Dimitri and Christian. I want Dimitri to hook up with Rose and I've been spoiled and heard that one of her teachers develops feelings for her and it can only be him. I don't see a YA book taking it to where I would like to see with a 25yo and a girl,17. I like Christian and here that Rose is a cunt to him and lies to him about Lissa. Yep, I hate her. Oh, and I like Mason. He's adorable and I like the dynamic between him and Rose. I want to like this book. I want to.
Yesterday in therapy I talked with Dr. Moore about my inability to access more emotions besides anger and fear. I would like to feel sadness. To cry. I would like to feel happiness that isn't hypomania. I would like to feel sublime. My days are marked by an absence of these emotions with blips of high or low energy... with flares of anger or anxiety and I want to create but there is just nothing in me. It's like my soul is dead and my body is just moving around. Dr. Moore said it is probably the meds. She doesn't know how I can access what the meds are suppressing. With the bad things that meds are keeping at bay they took the good stuff too. And the pills aren't even keeping me level. If I told my psychiatrist that he'd increase them again and I want fewer pills not more.
