27 posts tagged “nielle”
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.
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 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.
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.
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'm so excited for Christmas. I love opening presents. And I like Christmas to be a big affair. My mom is sending two more boxes of presents. She gives me plenty of gifts to unwrap. I am done shopping for D. My secret santa gift is under control. I think the gift I am most excited about is something I got for D. Although he never read the gift I was most excited about last year. He better be excited this year. Oh and I am excited about what I got for Belle. She's going to love it.
I've been doing a lot of downloading lately and I hit pay dirt today when I found Ripe by Ben Lee, The Perishers's Let There Be Morning and Nightcrawler, Pete Yorn's newest album. I also got some HIM albums I don't have and I cleaned up my Metric collection. I downloaded a bunch more too. I am happy to have so much new music. Although right now I am listening to Stellastarr* and I've had this cd for about four years. So maybe new music is wasted on me.
New Moon has a release date 20 November 2009. I am getting excited about it. I hope Chris Weitz doesn't fuck it up.
I got the best news this week. Nielle is going to buy her ticket to come and visit in April. I am already racking my brain as to things we can do. Maybe the LACMA, or the Science Center. Maybe to the Salton Sea. Maybe I will make her cook for me. I'm sure she will want to watch hours of the food channel. We will have tons of fun.
Today has been long already. I woke up at 4:30 this morning and got to get some reading in before I had to watch TV. I promised D that I would and I watched 4 episodes of Friday Night Lights. I just don't know about this season. I don't really like this season as much as I liked the first. I have to admit that I probably would have stopped watching it entirely if it weren't for an unspeakable crush that I have for Taylor Kitsch. I just find the man yummy. They need to show him without his shirt on some though. Then it would be truly aces in my books. But no, seriously, I don't like where they are going with Saracen. I'm so not interested in Landry, ever. Tyra... I just don't know. I want to be behind her but I feel like they make her wishy washy. The girl needs a backbone. I HATE Julie. And Tami is so fucking judgy and ridiculous. I do like Coach. Well I didn't like that he made Saracen QB2, but I generally stand behind him. But I want to like it. It used to be the show that I would go out of my way to watch. Oh well.
The one WONDERFUL thing about today is that it actually rained. Great glorious drops. It hasn't rained here since April I guess. So I went outside and walked in it. There was even thunder. I almost liked LA for a few minutes. It's supposed to rain tomorrow too. I will make D go for a walk arounf the block with me. Although he was a big weiner about the rain being cold so maybe he will have to dress up in warm clothes. My plan is to come home drenched and then have to take a shower. Please, please let there be thunder tomorrow too.
Oh and another wonderful thing about today was that I got to talk to Nielle on the phone. We don't do that very often. We tend to email and that hasn't been going too well for us since she started back to school for this semester. But I LOVE talking to her. And I feel weird writing this knowing she is going to read it but it means alot to me and I don't say it enough, but talking to her makes me feel really happy. She is one of my most elite friends and I need her in ways that I can't communicate. The separation in distance between us makes me jealous and petty because others get to do things with her while I am so far away. And I'm a child and get my nose bent out of shape about not having as much of her time as I want but it's only because I love her so dearly. I would like to have a pocket version of her that I could keep all the time. And now a message to her directly... you need to get a cell phone so I can call you whenever I want and I would reach you too.
As for the rest of the day... I'm going to bake homemade pot pies with D and watch The Fifth Element. Then I am going to read because I'm on the latest Kresley Cole book and I want to know what happens in the Lore with Cade and Holly. Although Holly is so not a romance book name in my mind. I picture Holly Rhinesmith my childhood friend who used to live next door to my grandparents' bar. Those are my plans and no one is going to tell me otherwise.
