| Return from the great white north |
[01 Sep 2010|05:22pm] |
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Mary and I went to Canada this weekend. Why? Besides the fact that Canada is supposed to be awesome we wanted to go to the FanExpo convention. It was a blast. Crowded, but a blast. I got a few things I was looking for, and pictures from it are up on Mary's facebook
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| Moving on up |
[01 Jul 2010|12:59am] |
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We're finally completely moved in, the house is now empty. Have I unpacked much of anything? No, not at all.
Lately my mom's been acting weird. I don't know why but she's gotten bitchier. She even got rid of Lily!! Why get rid of the best dog ever? Sure she's out of shape and a little stupid, but she was our dog. You don't just get rid of a member of the family like she did, it's not right. I miss you Lily and I hope you are safe.
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| The end? |
[28 Apr 2010|10:01pm] |
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Well folks, it's been nice, but I'm moving to blogspot.com to talk about things. I might still post her once in a while, since my blogspot is mostly about my opinions instead of a record of things that happened. If you're interested here it is. Not much yet, but I hope to have some posts there soon. Ta ta
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| Tis the season |
[20 Feb 2010|12:00am] |
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I finally...FINALLY...feel like I'm ready to make a post about the various holidays I brought Mary to/she brought me to:
Thanksgiving was the first time she met my father's side of the family as we both went to the usual gathering held at my Aunt Judy's house. Everyone took an instant liking to Mary and I didn't hear any bad things said. I didn't play to many video games there out of courtesy since she was with me, but I did manage to squeeze in a few songs on Rock Band 2. After my family ate dinner we left to visit a part of her extended family who, oddly enough, live pretty close to my aunt. We stayed a few minutes, I got to meet everyone, and then we went back to my aunt's house so I could get my things.
Christmas Eve I went with her mom and dad to the side of the family I met on Thanksgiving. I thought it was a lot of fun, even if her relative got the wrong game and I spilled some pop on my lasagna, but her dad complained the whole way back. Apparently he doesn't like getting socks as a present.
Christmas Day was spent mainly apart from one another because she had to work, but she finally got over to Andrew and Adam's house to join in for dinner and the yearly embarrassing of ourselves by singing 12 Days of Christmas. Afterward we went back to my house and opened the presents we got for one another.
New Years Eve I decided to forgo the usual small get together with friends, mainly because I wasn't feeling well but also because of low turnout, and spent it with Mary at her house. We watched Dr. Who, snuggled, and kissed after the ball dropped. I didn't really ring in the new year the best of ways though. On Day 1 I got angry at my sister and attacked her, all in front of Mary. I felt terrible, how would you feel if your significant other flew off the chain like I did? I would be terrified. I mostly just cried a lot after, worrying that Mary might leave me right then and there.
This Valentine's Day was the first I've spent with anyone, and I was ecstatic to spend it with her. She made me a meal, we exchanged gifts, and we watched Dr. Horrible and Dr. Who.
With those holidays out of the way I'm looking forward to the next batch. We won't have a problem with Easter since my family likes to celebrate the day before, but I've already started thinking about the next few and even the ones next year again.
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| It's been a while |
[11 Jan 2010|10:49pm] |
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Wow it's been some time since I've last updated. I feel I use this less and less as my life goes on, finding it hard to think up things to fill the paragraphs. Regardless, soon I will have my massive new years update and maybe a separate update about the holidays. Check back soon.
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| The wide open highway |
[25 Nov 2009|12:40am] |
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Almost 2 weeks ago I left the state of Michigan for the first time in 3 years. Mary wanted to see her friends, her friends all the way in Beloit, WI, and she brought me along for the ride. After 5 or 6 hours, thanks to the time difference, we were finally in the small, and kind of crappy, town of Beloit. Over the next 3 days I met her friends, good people all around, put more alcohol inside of me then I ever have, saw Grease, ate a crepe, and bowled for the first time in 3 years. Unfortunately I didn't have any money at the time, but Mary was gracious enough to cover for me, instead of, you know, letting me starve. I think the drive home was better then the drive there, even if we gained an hour bringing the total to 7.
On the way to Beloit we stopped by a little comic shop in Illinois. When I saw little I mean little; think of a small house, then renovate that small house and put a small collection of comics in it. That's what the shop was like. Thanks to us stopping there I got Mary interested in collecting the Blackest Night collector rings. I've already gotten the blue and pink for her, and tomorrow I'll get her a Green Lantern ring.
With my sister home her boyfriend is always over for some reason. I don't know why, but he's always fucking over. Every night I seem him descend the stairs and go into her room with her. Why is he always over? I don't have Mary over all the time, and she sleeps over even less. Why is this? Well we're two different people, we have lives that don't always revolve around each other.
Thanks to Mary I am now employed, and just in time for the holiday season. She has graciously gotten the word out that I needed a job at Petsmart and they hired me on her word. So far I've had 3 short days of training; going through the rules, watching the videos, filling out the paperwork, and doing something like a scavenger hunt. This Friday, Black Friday, they have me doing real work. At least I hope they do. At least I don't have to come in at 4 AM to stock any more.
Two days till Turkey Day. I probably won't post anything new till after it so I want to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
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| This is Halloween 2009 |
[02 Nov 2009|12:31am] |
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I spent all of Halloween, and Devil's/Angel's Night with Mary. For Halloween proper we handed out candy at her house, me in costume with her in regular clothes, and eating candy that we didn't hand out. What did I dress as? If you can't figure it out from these, I was Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski. Before Halloween we made a day of carving pumpkins. I did this Joker stencil design, while Mary did a something like this design. Unfortunately by Halloween the face was missing (I think squirrels carried it off in the night but who knows). I wanted to do this design too, but after the difficulty with the Joker one I said fuck it and did a standard design. For Devil's/Angel's Night I was invited to a party, thrown by my friend Genny, in New Baltimore. By the time we got there though, everyone but Genny and her boyfriend were gone. Not wanting to leave early we decided to watch The Birds, since Mary hadn't seen it yet, and then we left.
Thanks to a mix up with Gamespot, Steve got a second code for the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, and I'm playing the hell through it. The new infected help change the gameplay; the new weapons are awesome, especially the melee weapons and the new sniper rifle; I love the new survivor characters; and I can't wait for the release of it. I knew it was a day one buy, but almost impossibly they sold it on me even more.
Tomorrow Laura comes home from rehab. All good things must come to an end.
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| Nobody does it like Mary again |
[19 Oct 2009|02:06pm] |
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It's been over a month since Mary and I have been going out, and I couldn't be happier. Every time we are together we try to do something, from driving to Ann Arbor to visiting out of the way porn shops just to see what they're like, but most of the time we spend together is on the couch watching TV, and I love it. I'm completely content sitting with her, watching what ever may be on. From time to time there are special events that we bring each other along to. From her grandmas birthday to my cousin's daughter's baptism, we're just happy to be together. We're even planning to spend Halloween together at her house, handing out candy to the local kids while in costume. If you didn't read all that, the one thing to take away from it is that I'm happy being with her. One thing I especially like about Mary, for some odd reason, is her long hair. Sitting on the couch and watching TV, sitting in church, even watching a movie in theaters I enjoy playing with her hair.
Hailey's at that age where if something goes wrong or she doesn't get her way she just starts bawling her eyes out. At first I didn't know this, thinking my mom was some horrible person when I would be woken by Hailey's piercing cries, but after looking after Hailey I finally found out most of the problem is with her. You don't think she should have a cookie? She cries. You want her to put some clothes on? She cries. She wants to go downstairs but you think she shouldn't? She cries. Sometimes she just cries to cry, and it's never nice. Whenever Mary's over when Hailey is staying at our house I tell her, "(Hailey)'s a walking contraceptive." Welcome to the terrible twos I guess.
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| Nobody does it like Mary |
[27 Sep 2009|10:27pm] |
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Good god I haven't updated this in forever. Any way, that wonderful woman that I had an amazing time with in Royal Oak? Well we're going out now. Also? I've been laid off from The Blue Nile. I hate the food industry.
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| Time of my life |
[08 Sep 2009|12:21am] |
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If you've been following my facebook account then you probably already know that I have a new job. I'm now a dishwasher/runner at The Blue Nile in Ferndale. The odd thing, I didn't even know there was such a classification as Ethiopian food.
Another cool thing in my life is that I'm spending time with a wonderful woman. Last Wednesday we walked around Royal Oak to show her around, and even though I got some terrible blisters on my pinky toes it was absolutely fantastic.
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| Energized |
[26 Aug 2009|12:51pm] |
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I'm back from my sojourn to the north with my cousin Andrew and his father. Sure, Tawas isn't actually in the north, but it's more north than my current local. My time there was relaxing and exciting. Most of my time there was spent watching TV and lazing around, but the better times were the things we did in between that, mainly hiking, tubing, and seeing natural monuments. Something I was quite fond of during my time there was how quiet everything was. One could hear the birds, the quiet rustle of the trees, and other sounds of nature, but rarely could I hear the roar of an engine, aside from the occasional boat out on the lake, or the sounds of Michigan construction. Another awesome thing, when I got home my sister was already gone and the baby was over at the other grandparents house for the night. I did come back to a whole new set of drama though as my Aunt Nancy seeks restitution from Laura to the tune of over $7,000, an amount I don't think she will ever get seeing as how Laura doesn't have a job and when she does she will be using the money to take care of Hailey and further her dream to become a hair dresser.
Something else of note; despite the fact that my uncle installed wireless modem in the cabin, I rarely, if ever, went online. The one time I did was to see if there was anything new on my latest addiction, in my efforts to be more aware of upcoming movies, Trailer Addict. My cousin Andrew, on the other hand, went online nightly to play World of Warcraft. Well not actually play. Because his main character is at the highest level he didn't go on quests and spent most of his time talking with his guild on the side bar and floating on a magic carpet. We did watch a lot of TV though, most of our time at the cabin it was overcast and a little cold outside. We mostly spent our TV time watching Food Networking and hoping to one day visit the locals they went to.
Okay, time for some links:
-Ventures Brothers Season 4 trailer
-This, my friends, is what a Gundam wedding looks like
-Preview for Fable 3. Mild optimism abounds
-What a Wonderful L4D
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| A good week |
[09 Aug 2009|03:48pm] |
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Odd, my posts seem to be few and far in between these days. Anyway, time to post.
This week was a pretty good week. Laura left for rehab at the beginning of the week, and Hailey went with her other grandparents to their cabin up north. Quiet all around. To top things off my dad stopped by yesterday and gave me a check for my entire tuition.
Once more I am unemployed. That's right I've been laid off by Sushi Do again. That's the second fucking time and I'm all ready to be done with them. Hell, I'm tired with working in the food industry as a whole. This especially sucks because now is the time I need an income, what with paying for tuition and all the video games that come out this Fall.
Okay, link time:
-Why did Nintendo send him a rock?
-New Where the Wild Things Are trailer, I am so very excited for this movie. When I saw the first trailer in theaters I started tearing up.
-Beat Monsters, an awesome game.
-How to hook up an NES
Oh, Gorillaz's comes to Rock Band this week with Clint Eastwood, Feel Good INC, and Rehash. I'm pretty excited.
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| Good god long time |
[27 Jul 2009|01:37pm] |
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Another 11 days, so time for another post.
Hailey's birthday party was a blast. A lot more people turned out then I thought and they seemed to have a great time. As usual I spent most of my time hanging out with Andrew and Adam shooting the breeze. Adam told us all about his adventures in Germany and how wasted they would get every night. I tried a little Heineken, realized it wasn't for me, and went back to drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. We busted out Rock Band later in the day and the usual victims went along with it.
I think Comic Con has come and gone, I'm not really sure about these things. To my disappointment supposedly the biggest thing at it was for Twilight, at least that's what my paper said. Something cool I just found out about is that Top Cow has announced a new Darkness game. I loved the original, especially the moments with jenny, and I can't wait to play the sequel. Something cool to come out of Marvel is the announcement of new Marvel themed Sackboys.
Speaking of Marvel, if you get a chance you should watch the Hulk Vs series. Hulk VS Thor was just alright, but Hulk Vs Wolverine was amazing, especially it's portrayal of Deadpool.
Two things of note this week; Marvel vs Capcom 2 is finally released for Xbox Live and Mouse Guard Winter: 1152 is supposed to be released.
I want to head up north to Adam and Andrew's cabin some time this summer. I want to get away from Royal Oak for at least a little time, especially get away from Laura (by the way, she's almost gone!!).
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| Torch it down |
[16 Jul 2009|12:23am] |
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It's been what, 11 days since I said I was going to make a post? Then lets get to it.
Hailey's dad is finally gone, and it seems he will be for some time. Not years, but quite a few months. He's going to jail then boot camp, without the option of a tether like my sister got. Honestly, Hailey is better having him out of her life as much as possible.
Remember the changes to the menu at Sushi Do that confused every single cashier? Well it's back, but now it's more manageable. Instead of everything being by itself, now they ahve the numbers and the main dishes together, then the add ons on one page. Everything is easier and I am happier for it.
Right now I'm actually kind of depressed. It seems that each day my goal of Wayne State by 2010 gets farther and farther away. It turns out that everything I thought I knew wasn't true at all. Classes I never even knew I had to do come out of no where and classes I desperately need have 2 credit pre-req courses. 2 FUCKING CREDITS!!! Now it looks like I can't do a single science class that I want. Every single one I need has been filled in two days. The kicker here is that, even if I wanted to, I couldn't have registered for them because I'm not fucking priority. Instead of dreaming I start mulling over this. It seems like every day I am one step closer to doing something terrible to the nearest campus. This school is slowly killing my soul.
Enough of that, time for some movie talk:
I saw Moon with Andrew and Steve on Sunday. Steve seems set on hate the wonky science that sets up the back story, but like me he enjoyed the movie. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's it's trailer. I haven't really seen much of Sam Rockwell. All I've ever seen him in is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and then the trailer for Choke where I guess he's a scumbag. He does a great job in this movie and I liked Kevin Spacy as Gerty.
I finally saw Blade Runner. Not as good as people keep telling me. Andrew, Kyle, and I had a good time making fun of it. Also that ending, fuck it. I knew there was going to be some dues ex machina to save him, but the guy dying after talking to him? Fuck that.
Saw Spinal Tap too. We watched 15 minutes of it, said fuck it, then played Rock Band 2 the rest of the time we were there.
Want to know the plot of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen without actually seeing it? Wait no more! I wouldn't have believed half of this if I hadn't seen it myself.
There will be a sequel to Alvin and the Chipmunks. Make peace with your god/gods.
So Ryan Reynolds is going to be Green Lantern. At least that's what's going around. I don't think he was my first choice, not by a long shot, but I guess he could work. Mostly if he keeps his mouth shut. I kind of wanted him for the role of the Flash, but guess who is in the lead rumor wise to play him? NPH. That's right, Neil Patrick Harris may be the Flash. And that, my friends, would be legendary.
Time for some links:
-Helen Keller Simulator
-DDR alarm clock
-Golf on Cartoon Network?
-Zero Punctuation comes true
-Rejected "Love Is.." comics
-Green Lantern game coming soon
-46 foot tall paper gundam float
-Anyone can be a Cooking Mama. Look and see
-New Mass Effect 2 footage
-If only these people were in Sribblenauts
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| Red, white, and blue |
[04 Jul 2009|09:20pm] |
Happy 4th of July everyone. I got a Hotdog Hat from Nintendo for some reason.
Stuff about movies either tomorrow or Monday.
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| Give me your face |
[27 Jun 2009|01:23am] |
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Like I said I would in my last post, I saw Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen with Steve on Wednesday. Overall it was kind of shitty. The plot was a mess, then again I kind of knew it would be from the word of mouth about the reviews I was hearing about. Like I said, all I was expecting was robots changing into things and fighting each other, and holy fuck was there fighting. The fighting was definitely better in this movie then the last. In the first it seemed like the Autobots were evenly matched with the Decepticons, no one able to beat the other with the exception of Megatron killing Jazz, but in this one the Autobots fuck every Decepticon they come across. Hell, Optimus prime outmatches any Decepticon he gets in a fight with. He goes balls to the wall insane, going so far as to rip their faces or arms off. Oddly enough I really like Shia Labeouf in this. He played his part well and he seemed to grow into it over the course of the movie. What I did not like about the movie were the Twins. Mudflap and Skids are down right annoying, almost for the sake of being annoying. They spout quip after quip after quip after quip for what feels like forever. Also, Devastator had two wrecking ball testicles. Everyone in the theater groaned when they saw them.
The thing I, and most of the audience, hated about Transformers the most was that the first trailer to come on was for the Twilight sequel New Moon. As soon as we knew what it was groans and righteous anger echoed through the theater. I even shouted out, "WHY TRANSFORMERS?!?! WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME?!?!" The other trailers were all right, if forgettable, including M. Night's The Last Airbender. I would post the Penny Arcade strip, but it seems to be down at this time.
To redeem Wednesday Steve pulled out Fight Club and I finally got to watch an unabridged version. From the beginning I knew Edward Norton's character was Tyler Durden, but that was a drop in the ocean compared to what the movie would present me with. It was violent, it was surreal, it was trippy as fuck, and I loved pretty much every minute of it. Also, the theory that Edward Norton is really Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes really works well. I think I should read the book now to see how it holds up to the movie.
Marvel vs Capcom 2 comes out this Monday. I am going to play the hell out of it. Well, okay, maybe not the hell. I mean all of the characters are already unlocked so I won't need to go through it over and over again to get points or coins or what ever the hell they used in the original. But still, I will play the hell out of it.
I don't quite understand why but because I subscribed to EGM I am now getting Maxim, which was a little odd to explain. I don't like Maxim. To me it's like lite-lite-lite porn. I have enough trouble even thinking of buying porn, why would I want Maxim each month? I've gotta call and get my money back. On a side note, my mom says she kind of likes it, except for, you know, the half naked women.
Alright, time for a few links:
-This is how vampires should be; Daybreakers
-Awesome Left 4 Dead theme. One thing though, it's only free for OXM UK people
-I still need to look into this; There Will be Brawl
-Hayao Miyazaki's newest film, Ponyo
Time for some sleep.
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| Lets all hit the fan |
[24 Jun 2009|12:10am] |
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Steve let my borrow Prototype, and I have to say it's actually pretty good. If you've ever played Hulk: Ultimate Destruction then you've kind of played Prototype. The game lets you fly around and absorb/kill people, plus you can do guided karate kicks at flying helicopters and destroy them. Really, that's all you need. I don't think there's much there plot wise, just a basic revenge against the man plot, but it's pretty damn dark. As Alex Mercer you don't really need to care. You don't get any extra points for caring, though I think there is an achievement for not absorbing too many innocent people. I think it's interesting that you don't have some sort of, "With great power comes great responsibility," pushed on you like most other games like it have. All Alex cares about is figuring out what happened to him by getting his memories back, which happens when he eats people. Instead of outright telling you what happens you have to go through what is called the Web of Intrigue where you go around devouring marked people and they give you a flash of what's happened. Overall I kind of like it, but there's not much there.
I finally got a memory card for my Xbox 360 and have transferred my files and reformatted my hard drive. Unfortunately I accidentally got rid of my Fable 2 data and now I have to restart. On a plus note it's like I'm starting fresh, and if I get tired of the main story line I can always branch off into Knothole Island or See the Future. Also, I got Worms free when I bought the memory card. Don't exactly know how to play it, BUT IT'S FREE!!
I had some what of a snafu the other day. My Aunt Mandy's nieces Holly and Hannah came to Adam's grad party. Andrew kept telling me that they were lesbians, and for some reason this really pissed him off. I asked my mom the other day if she knew anything about it. She blankly looked at me, unsure of how to answer. She told me she didn't know and was wondering why Andrew told me that. She then asked me if I wanted her to ask Mandy if they were. Of course I told her, "I'd rather not know then bring that up."
I may have to kill my neighbor soon. For some god awful reason he likes to blast music out of his garage at terrible times in the morning. 9 AM IS NO TIME TO LISTEN TO RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, I DON'T CARE HOW AWESOME THEY ARE!! Laura tells me he's a personal trainer, but that still doesn't make it okay to wake me up early with the loud bass. I'm thinking I may have to get a bull horn and fuck with him, or some how sabotage his music collection.
Finally the air conditioning has been turned on. My mom's pretty stingy about it, so I was surprised when she told me it was going on during a particularly hot day.
Transformers 2 with Steve tomorrow. For some reason my co-worker Jeff isn't looking forward to it, but he is looking forward to the GI Joe movie. Sure, he cites it being terrible, but all I expect are robots transforming and fighting each other. How can I be disappointed?
Link time:
-Batman: Brave and the Bold is being pushed back
-Is it bad that I've never heard of the Palazzo Medici? Well now you can play in it in Assassin's Creed 2 if you pay for a pre-order
-The first Last Airbender trailer
-Glimpses of people in Wonder Land. Kind of getting tired of Burton's style
-Molecules with funny names
-The trailer for Whiteout
-And a trailer for Zombieland
-Amazing, Spider-man: The Musical
-Cardboard Tube Samurai will be in Tekken 6
-Pretty self explanatory, Alvin and the Chipmunks Soulja Boy
-New pocket pikachu. This time you can put any Pokemon on it and it will give them experience
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| Lets go change our names |
[16 Jun 2009|12:32am] |
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Finally..FINALLY..Nobana has become Sushi Do. Back when I was laid off two months ago they said we were changing, and now it actually happened. We're having this big celebration over it, with free food and everything, and everyone here is so happy. Okay, not really. We got the new menus today and they are pretty confusing. Everything we knew, every combo we used to have, is pretty much gone. Everything has been reorganized, but not all that well. Not only are the customers confused but so are we. Today was pretty stressful. Tomorrow night looks to be better.
I've been keeping some weird hours lately. Going to sleep at 3 AM is no way to live, especially if I have to get up at 8 to get ready for work. A sleepy Matt is no good for anyone. I'm thinking of doing a week of going to sleep early, it might even coincide with my No Internet Week.
Steve has gotten me to play Pokemon again by letting me borrow his version of Pokemon: Platinum. I'm really getting in to it, looking things up on Bulbapedia and everything. Hell, I was freaking out over the fact that Snorunt had a special female evolved form, aka Froslass. I'm even excited to finally catch an Electabuzz so I can evolve it.
I'm done with VG Cats. The comic that helped me pick my name just doesn't draw me in any more. Not only have I not enjoyed it since the Bitch Be Tripping Balls comic, but when he does update he tells us he is working on a comic and going to a convention, which means that, no, there will be no comic any time soon. Hell, I'm getting more enjoyment out of VG Butts.
Time for some links:
-Lets talk about sex
-This one's for the kids, a Left 4 Dead mobile
-Chincilli Day
-Dear Pixar, From All The Girls With Band-Aids On Their Knees
-Zoey gets a make over (NSFW)
-Red vs Blue is back with a new series, Recreation
-American born Chinese
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