90 posts tagged “david”
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.:)
Things on the home front are quiet. Nothing is going not that is a big deal aside from me cycling, but we have a new med dosage for that. I am looking forward to having D home for the long weekend. I feel like we haven't had
D just told me that I won't be able to get to Comic Con this year.:( Here is where I whine. I never want to go anywhere and the few places I want to go never work out and I am so sick of it. I get dragged to all these bullshit places I never want to go to and I hardly complain at all and then the 2 or 3 places I want to go don't work. Like TBS is in Anaheim on the 6/3 and I won't be able to go because of traffic. It fucking sucks. /end whinge, sorry for the tantrum.
I read two trashy romances this week. It's nice to read. I miss it. I have been picking romances because they don't
So I think I want to make some wishes and mayne anyone who reads this could combine their good thoughts and help make my wishes come true, I wish I could go to Comic Con for Thursday and see the New Moon Panel. I wish I could get BlizzCon tickets. I wish that Anya gets WotLK soon so she could hang out with us in Dal. I wish Mand gets a chance to do what he really wants to do. I wish T would come back because I need a break from being in charge. And I wish that I could do more things by myself so that Mand could raid and I could do more than sit and twiddle my thumbs.
Oh and this,,,
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!
Oregon agrees with me. I like it a lot. Things are green and lush in a way Socal just isn't. And so many people are tattooed. I would have found my place if we lived up here and not LA.
So we arrived and had a mini panic when we realized we only had one power cable for our laptops. I also forgot the camera, so it was off to Best Buy first thing. I think the camera we got we will give my sister when we are done with it. Then I yammered on about Oregon beaches and D got us going in the right direction when I saw signs for the zoo... I was lost then. The end of the end.
Can Anyone say kitties, polar bear and orangutans? Yay!!
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 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.
I finally read #3 of Spike: After the Fall this morning. I have #4 with me too but I only read the one. I don't know I didn't like it as much as the other two. I thought it dragged a little. I did like the kiss between Spike and Illyria but it had too little of her in it to be a really good issue. Hopefully #4 which is the end of the series will be better. And I want it said... comic book Gunn sucks. I haven't liked new vampire Gunn at all. I want softie/hardass Gunn. The one that was caught singing the Pirates of Penzance. That was the Gunn that I liked. I also read my first issue of Lords of Avalon Knight of Darkness. I forget how much I didn't like the beginning of that book. I do like Varian but all that stuff with Narishka, who is simply the most hatable book character in all of Sherrilyn Kenyon's books. Well maybe Satara and Stryker. When the woman wants to write evil she really can do it.
Last night I watched the new Guild eisode and it was a filler episode. It had a couple funny parts but ultimately it was missing the wallop of previous episodes. Zaboo was his normal annoying part. Vork had some chuckle lines. But there was no Clara, Bladezz or Tink. I give it a 3 out of 5 stars. Wait I'm giving stars now? Who do I think I am?
This entry that I'm writing is 2/3 negativity I should balance it out with some good stuff. I am sore from working out last night. I did 50 minutes of strength training and 50 on the bicycle. I feel like I had a good workout. I'll see what today is like. I plan to just do cardio, no weights. Maybe I will do an hour. But working out does make me feel better. I'm still having low days but I try to do the gym anyway. Maybe with enough working out I won't need meds anymore.
Oh wait I know something positive. I am playing my arch nemesis on my Fantasy Hockey League and last night was a big face off because Pittsburgh and DC were playing each other. Now you have to understand that I love the Pens, they are probably my favorite team and Geno, Evgeni Malkin is one of my favorite players. After Vesa he is my favorite player. But he's on this Down with the Ducks team and I love kicking this guys ass. So I had to lean toward routing for the Caps. Not a problem because I love Brooks Laich and Ovechkin and watching Federov play. So it was a tense matchup and they were playing goal for goal until the third period when the Caps just dominated and they one the game. I'm still up on Down with the Ducks, which is just a stupid name, and I hope to keep it up. I was doing it good until I disparged about his dumb name. It was almost positive.
I'm at work with David today. We have to see the allergist this afternoon so I had to go to work with him. My plan is to sit and read. I brought Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause and In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, so I have to decide which of the two I will read and I have Spike #4 and LOA #2 as well. I don't know I don't know which to read first. Then I'm going to lunch at Mika.... mmmmm veggie rolls. Then later it's back to the gym and then snuggled in for my day to myself.
I wonder why all my entries jump from topic to topic. I think it is because I lost the art of segue somewhere. I am just so eager to get all my thoughts out that they poop out of my head in little rabbit piles. I'd worry but I don't think anyone reads this on any regular basis. Well maybe Alison and I love her for replying to my posts.
I'll work on being more on the flipside rather than on the side of evil.
I started a Blaze book today. I haven't read any in weeks and I figured it would be good to recalibrate with something of normal contemporary romance. Of course what I piced is a time travel story, but, hey. I think I will get a little feeling of accomplishment from working on the Blaze pile at all. Although I was just remembered that I would like to read Wondrous Strange as soon as possible so I will have to rush through this.
There are times when I become very aware that I don't have feelings or passions anymore, with the exception of reading which is more of a desperation. I desperately want to have some guiding inclination. Something that makes me feel like something other than a shell. I haven't cried since I was in the hospital. I just have no sense of poignancy at all. I want something to matter rather than all these silly obsessive/compulsive rituals. I don't even know where they are rooted in. Dr. Moore says it's anxiety, but most days I can't even work up to anxiety. My prevailing feelings are ones of tiredness and energy. But I want to feel like things have weight. Like I love things. Like I have love for things in this world beyond books and a hand bag. Don't get me wrong, my hand bag rocks but it's a limit to my adoration for the world, whereas I want a limitless feeling. I want to touch the world again and not feel as if it is a lifetime away. I think it's why I am so attached to Twilight because I feel so strongly about it. I love it and it almost feels real.
Today I had to see Dr. Scott and it was a good visit even if he did increase my meds. He said that it seems as if I'm doing really well even if I am cycling some. I have to go back in three weeks so well see how things are going then.
Tomorrow is going to be a reading day. I haven't had much me time in the last few weeks. D's been home and I love that, but it really cuts into having the book time. Tomorrow night is hockey. Hopefully I won't sleep through the third period. We shall see.
P.S. I worked hard at the gym today and bicycled for 16 miles.
