29 posts tagged “belle”
Nielle is visiting and I have time to post right now because she is sleeping and D is trying to do a heroic run. I have been a bit of a shit while Nielle has been staying with me; logging on and playing leaving her unentertained, arguing things that aren't really that important... my general disinterest in doing anything. I really doubt it has been that fun for her. I kind of bet that she is wondering why she even came at all. We did go to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire at Santa Fe Dam yesterday. We got there before noon and walked around a little bit before trying to get some food. The food selection was pretty slim for vegetarians but they advertised corn on the cob and french fries. Ofcourse after waiting 10 minutes in line for corn the guy ahead
On our way back we stopped in Westwood to take Nielle to Iso and then we went to Santa Monica to the Water Garden by D's work to see the baby duckies. Only the water was almost all gone and the baby duckies are stranded. I didn't like it much. The mom and dad were on the outside and the babies were on the bottom of the pool. They are too tiny to get out. The concierge assured me that they grow up fast and that the mom feeds them grass. Nielle, who knows the ins and outs of baby duckies, told me that they eat bugs and that the concierge woman was making shit up.:)
Now Nielle is sitting here looking at me while I post so I already feel bad about being a little shit so I will leave this post with a comment to the fact that I miss Anya like crazy while I am doing things irl. Soon I will be back to playing and we can do a bunch of exploration places!
Oh my I am weeks behind in updating. I kind of feel like parts of my life are being failed. My apartment is a disaster area. My email commitments have gone to hell. I don't eat properly... okay I have never done that but still. For a while in January I was getting my shit together and now I am worse than ever. I am making a promise right now to post a Vox at least twice a week. Even if nothing new is happening. I can post how nothing ever strikes me as noteworthy. Oh! See? Now that is a lie. Things are noteworthy, I just always feel silly for what is of note to me. So on with this.
Last week City of Glass came out and I devoured it. Hard to believe The Mortal Instruments is over. I loved COG. There were a few places that I almost threw the book and I did scream at it some. The first half with all the Simon stuff when it was my last Jace book, annoyed. I felt so bad for Jace through out though. He more so than Clary. He's my favorite character of the three books. But I am having a hard time not writing anything that would spoil D who hasn't read it yet. I think that after he does I may have to write a play by play, chapter by chapter synopsis. For now it's a new tattoo I can't scratch.
So I have ebeen the world's worst BSG fan. I don't know what is up with me. I watched two eps and then got really stubborn. But no more. I have a plan. Nielle will be here visiting next month and we are watching all 10 eps. We can watch them 2 at a time and still have time for the Ren Faire and Salton Sea or San Juan Capistrano. I am making lots of plans for when she is here. I would take the car and drive her to some of the places alone.... but I can't handle the stress of driving anymore. Especially not in LA. So we will be stuck to the whim of D. Oh and I have to take her to Scoops for vegan ice cream for the win!
As for what I've been doing in game... well I'm a 69. Just a few tens of thousands away from lvl 70. Then all the good stuff starts. We are finishing up Nagrand... we are 2 or 3 quests away from the achievement. We have been playing a lot still with Terun/Deathtoou. We did Ring of Blood as primarily a 3 man. We needed help with the final boss and with Durn: the Hungerer. I'm always pretty amazed by what the three of us can do together. I've been having some disagreements with G since T and I started Tali. He really resents the fact that we didn't stay with him and I get it. It was a betrayal but I wouldn't have been happy in Ring of Fire. I don't know how to get that across. I have been spending a lot of time talking to Thelyon and I wish, wish, wish I could convince him to come to Tali. I don't want to pressure him but he's the kind of people I want to surround myslef with. But hey he could feel about Tali the way I feel about RoF and Warlords. Who knows. I've also been spending a lot of time with Sylianya. She is so cool. We spent the first morning killing big babies and walking to Lakeshire. The second morning we went to Exodar. And Tali... I mentioned it above but it's been a while since I last updated my Vox and I definitely never mentioned that T and I started our own guild. T and ali = Tali. It's small but growing. I hope it grows to be a very successful guild. Low key but fun.
I love this...
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.
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.
I am almost to the part where Clary and Luke pick up Jace from the institute to go after Simon and Maia. I got to listen to the part with Jace and Alec in the weapons room, which is one of my favorites. And I paid super attention to Alec talking Jace into jumping over the barrier and he does refer to some of Jace's endeavors as flying. D is convinced that he is going to prove to be an angel. I think he can just fly. The people who won the City of Glass contest have received their copies and this girl wrote a really good, yet non-spoilery review of it. I am a little disappointed that she didn't shadow a few events. I would have given my eyeteeth to know if there was a Jace and Clary kiss in CoG. I will be buying my copy as soon as I can. B&N sometimes put them out early and I will be there every day the week before to see if it's there. Then I will be ignoring all signs of responsible life to read it. I don't even believe I will be eating while reading it. I am that obsessed with knowing the end of this story. 64 more days. I can't do math and I got really excited saying that it was 55. Bejeebus, time makes it own sweet hellicious marks.
Sometimes I pick books up at Walgreens and they become a part of my collection and other times they end up mooched. More often it's that they are crap. I saw Ecstasy and it sounded really good and because of my track record I put it back and then proceeded to buy it two days later at B&N because it still sounded interesting. I really really liked it. It touches on a few sexual taboos and that always holds my interest. The hero is dark skinned and the heroine quite fair which is not the normal of romance novels. The story was really interesting. The entire mythology pretty riveting. And it was not about vampires even if the subtitle of Shadowdwellers lead me to think it might be. I added it too my bookshelf because I can see myself reading it again.I can't wait to read the next book that comes out in June that is called Rapture. I am going to read her previous series called Nightwalkers now. One of the characters Gideon did a cameo in Ecstasy. I hope I enjoy them as much as I did this one.
Yesterday we went to lunch with Belle to Iso and great gods do I love the girl. She always makes me laugh. It feels good to be with her and I only wish that there was more times that ended in that kind of laughter. We stopped at Old Navy on our way back to Hollywood and we got to shop. I got two sweaters that zip and a green argyle polo shirt that is just really cute and another top in white with a turquoise tank to wear under it. I have very little that is white. Everything I own is gray or black with some green thrown in for color. Anyway after that we still didn't want to put Belle back where we found her so we went to Koreatown to an ice cream shop, called Scoops, that has vegan ice cream. Mine was a non-vegan blueberry and lychee which was really really good. I can't remember what Belle got but she had a selection, which is good because now I know of a place to take Nielle. D had caramel oreo. He said it was very good. I think we are agreed that we would like to visit again. Maybe we can get Belle to come back with us.
So if the band aids at Hot Topic weren't ludicrous enough (yes I want them regardless), Torrid has come out with a Twilight perfume. Because I'm such a fangirl I want it badly. I think I will let it wait a little while but I will have it. The bandaids I hope to have much sooner. D might be stopping by Hot Topic on his way home from work next week. I wonder when the New Moon stuff will be coming out. I was sad to see Twilight is out of the theater in the Grove. We are going to see it on Friday at Universal Citywalk, along with Valkyrie and The Spirit. I am eager to see how Gabriel Macht does as The Spirit. I want to be impressed with the movie. I hope it doesn't leave me with the feeling that Sin City did.
Tomorrow is Christmas and I am amped up. I want to open presents! I kind of worry that I won't sleep tonight. I plan to take pictures of Christmas, I hope D likes his presents.
Now I am looking forward to the new year. It will be my new slate on my book tracker. I started it in September and I've read 89 books in 16 weeks. The new one will be for 52 weeks and I am ready to devour books in the new year. Maybe I will set a goal of something like 25 books a month. I want to be sure I read things other than fantasy too. So in the new year I am going to hope to mix things up. Of course saying that all the books in my pile to be read next are fantasy save for 1 which is a romance. I still haven't read Moby Dick. Oh and I will be finishing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before the end of the year. Even if the very act kills me.
On Saturday while out running errands D bought me new shoes and I love them. I have a really bad habit of buying shoes that I sometimes never wear. But I've already wore these so that shouldn't be a problem with these.. Ofcourse I keep all the original boxes for my shoes so when I'm done I can take them to the Goodwill in a tidy fashion. How do normal people house their shoes? Or a better question is how many pairs is normal to have? Not that I'm Amelda Marcos, she opened her shoes--so clearly, I'm not. I might be like her disciple.
There are new Guild episodes and I'm behind, Zaboo could be running amok. Felicia Day looks less cute this season. Robin Thorsen who plays Clara is getting a world's worth of good lines. Bladezz is still only seen for half a second. But still worth a watch even if you aren't an MMOG.
Today was a really busy day. We had to get me shoes for D's work Christmas party and I chose shoes that I don't believe I will wear that often over the ones I loved. I really regret getting them. The other ones were even on sale. I love shoes but why do they have to be such a labour when choosing them? Then we had to go to the comic book store and now we are up to date on Spike, Buffy and Angel. Our next mission is to actually read them. We are about five issues behind on Angel. Appalling. Then we went to Petco and got a friend for Nate. I haven't named him yet because I'm leaning towards either Jace or Seth, after Jace Wayland from The Mortal Instruments or Seth from Wicked Lovely and I would be heartbroken if I had to say either of them had died. So for now my little black moor goldfish is Little Fish. Then we went grocery shopping which was an ordeal because I was there. It had to be twice as expensive because I like to shop off the shopping list. It's like I'm the bane of D's life at times. I did get pickles, silk nog and raspberry sherbet. Score! Then we had to go to the boss's Christmas party. I was not excited about it because I have the social graces of a rock. He did have a nice house and the fresh pineapple was yummy. I even had a glass of bubbly and reminded myself that I find champagne god awful. We came home and made french toast with cinnabon bread. D's a master chef and it was so good. Oh and in between the grocery store and the party I wrapped D's Christmas gifts and I love Christmas. I keep wanting to talk to him about them and that would just be bad. I'm so excited for Christmas when he will open them and hopefully like them. I know three things that he will love. The rest is all up to the gods.
Tomorrow I'm meeting Team Logan at Mo's in Burbank at lunch. Tam will be there and I haven't seen her since last Christmas. I'll get to show Belle my new silver nail polish. She will love it. I hope to make plans with Susan and Belle to get lunch or dinner this week sometime. I don't see the group, well hardly ever. It'll be good to touch bases.
I have to sleep sometime soon. I am not tired. It's 3:30 in the morning. My sleep is a mess. Stupid red eye. I haven't been the same since. I doubt sitting here listening to music and updating my last.fm helps.
I don't really hold my early morning against D. It's not his fault that I made plans to see Kev today. Things just metered out in my having to go to work with him. So I'm bright eyed and my tail is more fluffy then bushy, but I'm here. All hail the god of the morning, which ever one may apply. So yes I plan to go to Palm Springs today. I did not bring my camera and my phone is dying. So poor planning on my part. But I will get to meet Ja and maybe see Kev's folks. It'll be a little like having a piece of home here in Cali. And I'll get to see the desert and maybe the Salton Sea.
So on the way in today we started listening to City of Bones. I know, it's unnatural to be so fixated on a book, true? But I am and it is wonderfully wonderful. I have already started noticing a bunch of things that I missed in my initial reading. She's sneaky and puts a bunch of things in the first few chapters that are hints to things later on. I didn't realize Magnus Bane gets a mention in the second chapter. And Jace. Jace, Jace, Jace... he is wicked hot from the first interaction. The things I want to do with this fictional character haven't been realized yet. This book is so damn good. And I don't want to listen to Belle when she tells me that Clary and Jace will never be together. I'd rather hear that Edward and Bella get a divorce.
As for books most recently read... I read the second in the Hathaways books by Lisa Kleypas, called Seduce Me At Sunrise and I loved Merripan more in this book than the first. Win was sort of lost in the telling. Not much happens from her perspective and that was sad. There was a lot from Cam's perspective and that makes sense in light of his connection to Kev. It was a very good book and I am hoping that the third book will be Leo's because in every page he was on he stole your attention. I don't really care about Beatrix or Poppy. I have loved this world Kleypas has made since the Wallflowers books and to see so many of the early characters making appearances is nice.
As for a check in on me. I am feeling okay. I've been dealing with some urges to cut lately and it's distracting as all hell. I haven't given in to these urges but I want to. During therapy this week I agreed to the assignment to write a story in the form of a children's tale. I decided it would be a fairy tale, but I haven't written anything yet. I keep putting it off a day and that doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe I will start it today when I have time to kill and D's computer to work on. Procrastination be damned.
