Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Home, Stress, Jerks.

Halloween is tomorrow, and it looks like I won't be able to make it to that Halloween party that my best friend invited me to. With all this moving around and such, I haven't had much time to do anything else really. On top of that, there would have been no way for me to get a costume with no money on myself, and I'm not going to ask my sister because she's already spent so much towards this house and other members in the family.

My eldest sister living with us on the other hand, is an idiot, rude, and disgusting. How dare she have the nerve to bark out commands when she does virtually nothing at all. Loading and unloading, she barely moved anything, lifting? Forced upon me. Claims she cleaned the house, but nothing looked any different, and in turn, made me clean both toilets in the house, causing me to throw up at one point, and receive a headache from all of the cleaners.

A lot of the things that I got yelled at to lift, were no light objects. I had a lot of difficulty, but all that comes out of her mouth is, "If dad can lift it, so can you, he's weaker and older and sick." And I just think to myself, how stupid can you be? I lack a whole lot of physical strength, and this body is much smaller compared to my father. How stupid can you be to not know you'll need some kind of muscle to lift heavy objects? Sick or not, he's had is years of muscle build up, though he struggles, he's still able to carry most of the things in the house, whereas if I tried, I would be crushed and topple over from the weight. I wouldn't even be able to pick it up.

My mother even agrees that she does nothing, followed by my middle sister. All she does is move about one thing, look at her nails, and leaves somewhere. Currently, she's not even helping to clean the older home, and instead, is out whoring with her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend, I don't even know anymore. She probably even has somebody on the side.

For sure by the time she comes home, she's going to yell at me for not having the house be clean and blah, blah, blah. I did my part, it's about time that she did hers. Sure, my middle sister bought a new computer desk and had trouble setting it up, all my elder sister was set it up for her and claims she did the greatest thing in the house. Big whoo, if you're going to talk about cleaning the house, I suggest you contribute to it to rather than just bark out commands.

In Slight Pain

It looks like a majority of household items have made it into the new house, with the exception of certain appliances. My muscles are sore from moving things around, but that's what happens when you don't exactly take care of your body for a while and try to do things that require physical strength.

I'm starting to get into the habit of doing some stretches and exercises now that I have my own room and space. It's a slow process that'll build up over time. Aside from the stretches, I'm slowing working on sit ups...that is, when I can actually do them again. I only managed to pull of crunches, five and working up. Same thing goes for push ups.

Roomm

my room is coming close to a finish. no computer to work from besides my sisters phone. will come back to edit in the future.

Transferring Big

Today we transported a ton of things over. We still have a long way to go, but a majority of the small and easy things have made it over. We took a trip to Wal-Mart to further personalize the rooms and house. More house cleaning to come later on tonight.

Other than moving, a new song by Namie aired on the radio today! I personally like it, some may say that it's repetitive, but hey, a lot of songs tend to be repetitive. So soothing and relaxing followed by a great beat. I can't wait for the release of this up and coming studio album!

Slight Progression

Tomorrow we'll be moving things over to the new home. Tonight was when we received our house key and a copy of finished paperwork. Moving really is a pain.

Hungry

Feeling hungry, there's not much to eat here. Packing is coming along slowly. I need to find all my art pieces and put them together in a new and seperate blog here to keep organized. I don't think that my profile on Gaia would be able to hold them all, there is probably a limit, but Gaia isn't really specific on it so I don't know when I'm pushing the line.

Packing and Cleaning

There isn't much to say, just working on packing everything up. It's going to be like this for a while.

Cleaning

Cleaning cleaning cleaning. In the process of moving, getting rid of what's not needed. Should have done that along the way up to now. But it is what it is.

Step Up to Animations

Same generic day today, but I did a little bit of experimenting with animations. Nothing major, just tiny gif files. Added the little animation for more comic relief. The still image didn't make it seem as comedic, but the blinking hits the spot.

Light Show

No big events today other than heading over to Target to grab some lamps for the new home. With no ceiling lights and all, we had to have some kind of light for us to move around at night. Candles would have been sufficient enough I think, that and it saves a lot of energy. We ended up getting standing lamps and some other light producing items though.

Later on tonight I took a sneak peak behind this dresser that we'll have to end up moving. It was ridiculous back there! There was nothing but thick patches of spider webs, I'm afraid of moving the dresser in fear that a ton of spiders might come crawling up from out of the dark!

New Pieces and Party City

Drawing list is growing again. Not enough, but enough to show something. A few good friends of mine on Gaia gave me some items, I'm very thankful for that. They're such nice people. I'm thinking maybe I'm going to make certain posts for images only of what I draw and what I've received from other people to keep images a little more organized, but first, I'd need to find everything that I've gathered.

The Starcraft plan didn't come along so smoothly. There were a few problems that occurred that I don't really want to go over at this moment. It was unfortunate.

But, good news blooms where other events had been covered in shade. That house spoken of before is now all set for the family. We'll be out and over by around the beginning of next month. There are still some paperworks to be done, but none that should take too long.

What else happened today..oh yes, we headed out to Party City followed by a few other stores in search of Halloween goods. None were all too satisfying since we did just go for a specific costume. A few pictures were taken, but that halted when we went into Spirit. Who would of thought that we couldn't take pictures in there? I managed to sneak a few though, the ones that counted thank goodness.

Way too lazy to rotate them, but at least you're still able to see whats been taken.

Starcraft

Never really played Starcraft yet, but a friend of mine has been bugging me for the longest time to give this a try. I'm going to see what it's about. It only happened because I mentioned to him that I played FF12 Rev. Wings and said I liked that RTS. So he just recommended this to me.

Not much else happened besides sleeping all day, oh and the landlord did call for us to say that the house is about ready. All that's left really is to take care of the paperwork which is for tomorrow.

Dragons and Halloween

Today was break time for drawing. I did however play a little bit of Dragon Quest, and boy was it difficult in the beginning. The characters seemed extremely weak compared to most of the monsters, even while just leveling them up in the first area you're in.

Other than that, there's Halloween to look forward to. I've been invited to a costume party that day and next week, my best friend and I are going to go costume hunting. Since I didn't exactly have a costume in mind, we were just going to do a costume set together. Cher and Sonny. That'll be interesting, but at the same time, it looks like it's going to be fun.

Nothing

Today turned out to be extremely warm. The slow moving day didn't help at all either. It was kind of amazing though, I didn't touch the computer at all this whole day until just now. I had kept myself busy with playing video games and falling asleep for a moment. No drawings had been done yet, or at least maybe so far, I may be working on something later tonight. It has just been such a slow and boring day today, I don't know if I'd have heart to work on anything at all. Bored out of my mind yet I'm not motivated to work on anything.

Cute and Decent

Out of all that I've been working on so far, these is the most decent on the eyes. Slowly moving along, but it's fun.

Practice?

Not doing much today. Just working on my new chibi style that I've picked up. Nothing worthy of showing yet, but something will eventually come up, right?

Bring On the Doodles!

Good news falls upon my lap today. I've found my tablet installation disc. Now I can start doodling random things again. The main program that I did use to draw had been wiped out due to a previous virus that I had, but this old version of Photoshop will have to do for now. Here are two new drawings that I've done today. I haven't drawn in a long while and it looks like I'm trying out a different style from what I usually draw.




The first image I suppose you could say is a narcissistic drawing of myself, although not entirely true. The second of course, follows up on what I've been doing these past few days, playing Final Fantasy 12. The image was set on when you first enter Eruyt Village, and as the group is leaving, Vaan asks Fran an insensitive and disrespectful question, causing the group to verbally bash him. It was soft though, unlike how it was in Tales of the Abyss. Either way, it was all in good fun.

Revenant Wings Black Out?

I woke up today to rain and a blackout. Not some of the best things you look forward to when you wake up. The electricity had been out for quite a long time, about eight hours. When the electricity had come back on, waiting on the internet router to connect took its time as well. I was afraid it would have been out all night.

With the power out, I didn't have many options all by myself. However, I had done something that I absolutely usually never do. Read a book. And, just like past experiences, I would read, but I wouldn't read for long. I got to about chapter four in this book before I stopped and proceeded to wander around the house. The book that I read was A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

So far it's nice, but a little unpleasant what with the situation that the main character is currently in. I don't know if it's a book that I would read to the end or not. My interest in reading is just very low, but even with that being said, there are books that I've finished. Aside from picture books.




So with all of the Final Fantasy XII I've been playing, I realized I'd never played Revenant Wings. I wanted to give it a try because I had heard it was an RTS (Real time strategy) game, and those are the types of games that I do not touch often. I ended up playing it and so far, this is the second RTS game I've played, and by far, one that I like. The controls are easy to learn, battling is quite fun. You get to issue commands to members in your party and such, having them run all over the battlefield to get rid of fiends to complete your objective.

The main characters from the previous game of course are in this as well, some being controllable characters, and others that just make cameo appearances. I'm not all that far in the game yet, but so far you have Vaan and Penelo, followed by Kytes, and another girl that is part of your beginning group. As you go further into the game, your group expands as you find more people along the journey. I'll dive more into this game another time. I'm not completely all that far enough to say more about it.

Gloomy Day

The first actual gloomy day was today. It was chilly earlier in the day, but that slowly faded away. No rhyme intended, those words just fell out of my head and into the fingers I'm using to type. For a gloomy day in fall, it sure is warm. I'm drowning myself in the Final Fantasy 13 trailer, it looks like it's going to be amazing. June 2010 is the supposed US release? I'm not exactly sure, I'm hearing a lot of things concerning this game. Really excited to the release, hopefully I'd have a Playstation 3 by then. So far, it's just that and Tales of Vesperia that I'd like for the PS3. Maybe in the future some other great titles will show up that I'd want to look into getting.

Digging Up the Years

With thought of moving in mind, the family decided to dig through some of the junk that we have to determine what's important, and what isn't. I cleaned up my room, this being the official first time, meaning, I actually took the time to go through all of the boxes underneath by bed, organize and label everything. Surprisingly, a lot of the papers where pretty much from the first days that I started school. There was a lot to go through, but it was easy since those weren't as important.

Through the hot mess, I found some old drawings. Those drawn by myself, and those that were given to me from a friend. I got to see progression and it was shocking to see how horribly I drew and wrote back in the past. I will say that my penmanship is not great, and that I'm no great artist either. I'll make scans sometime in the future, but not when I just cleaned up and organized everything. Fingers are crossed for that home, I'll finally be out of this house and with my own room possibly.

Potential New Home

I've been playing Final Fantasy 12 lately, so I've not much to say. There are some funny things to mention about that game, but it's late and I'm not exactly in the right mood to dig in my brain for moments that I thought was funny. A lot of pros and cons to be listing about that game, maybe I'll have more of a say when I finish the game. I started new game aside from my other file which was further ahead, but I decided to do a few things different this time with a new game.

Other than playing FF, today, the family went out to see our potential new home. See, the first time that we had been introduced to it was, it looked a whole lot more run down than the current house that we live in today. The landlord didn't even show up the first time, and there were a lot of missing pieces and very haunted looking doors and such. Today however, my parents went to go take another look at the house, low and behold, the landlord was there working on renovations.

They came back home and told us that the landlord would like for the whole family to go over and take a look to see what we think. We ended up going and this time around, the house looked much more nicer than the first time we had seen it. The house had received a new paint job, doors were put in, and a gate was in the process of being built for the backyard. The inside of the home had its spacial moments, but a majority of the rooms were small except for the master bedroom. Of course, those rooms would always be the largest in the house.

I'll talk more about that house if we do indeed move there, the main problem that we're facing is the question of, "are we able to pay the monthly rent?" Costly costly costly home, just like most homes out there right now. It's absolutely difficult facing up to the real world and being introduced to issue after issue, the time for being a carefree child doesn't exist anymore once you're thrown out into the harsh world.

A new source of entertainment arose for me today as well. Mad Gabs. Clever little words put together that make up a phrase or just any other plain and ordinary word. Recommended if you like brain teasers or humorous relief.

With Friend and Potential Animations?

I finally paid a visit to a friend who's been bugging to hang out lately. We duked it out on Mortal Kombat, but we didn't do anything else besides beat each other up in practice mode. Our thumbs got bruised and became absolutely sore while playing and button mashing just to bring out moves. It hurts playing on the Playstation. The directional pad isn't as comfortable and connected as previous game consoles were.

Later on she showed me some kind of anime and showed only a few episodes to me which she called them to be "low budget" and of course, it did appear that way, but it also got me thinking, it looked easy and simple enough, so I thought that maybe in the future I could do some short "low budget" animations like the episode that I saw. There wasn't much animation to it, just characters which occasionally changed in expression, moving through the screen with some kind of background and some sort of dialogue exchange. I'll get to that maybe by the time I eventually make recordings of myself playing video games.

News News News!

Today arrived...the copy of Mortal Kombat 4 that wasn't properly delivered before! It's great, it's fun, it plays well, very few scratches. Although the seller didn't respond by mail, I think that he's listening to his customers one way or the other. For a moment, I was beginning to lose faith in him, but in reality, he pulled through. Now with that part of the excitement over, I'm sure it's okay to say that I'm ridiculously horrible at playing it. I'll maybe upload some videos of my own gameplay, although I'm sure that wouldn't be so attractive. Something that I wished Midway would have done though, is that they should have also had Mortal Kombat Gold available for the Playstation rather than just be on the Dreamcast only. Some of the other character that were available in Gold were my favorites.

Google Letter

Today I received a letter from Google AdSense, and it was from this letter that I realized that earlier in the week, my AdSense ads had been disabled. I had not checked my email until earlier today to discover this. I did notice that I didn't have any ads, but I didn't think much of it really, I thought that it may have been resetting due to the month ending or something, I didn't know. But it turns out that the reason that they were disabled was because of invalid clicks/third party reasons. I have let friends know of this blog, and I have explained to them a little of what AdSense was and such, but how many clicks contributed, if any, I was unaware of.



I'd say either my friends did a majority of the clicks in order to support this blog, or maybe there was someone that had come across this blog and disliked me enough to ruin the ads for me. I'm not saying that everyone likes me, so this, of course, could be a possibility. I reported an appeal earlier today about the ads to see if I could get them enabled again. This time I'd make sure to let friends know of the situation this time as a warning for if enabled again.

I can't say that I would be mad at Google, after all, it's entirely their decision to enable ads to me or not. It's a privilege granted to those on blogger, sometimes it just doesn't work out right. Whether they'll enable their ads to me again or not, I'll respect their decision and continue this blog for my own benefit. It does come in handy actually, especially when it comes to dates and events.

Slow Moving Day

It's not even a Sunday, but today is going by extremely slow. I was taking a look at Playstation 3's and was confused with the gig sizes. I eventually understood a little more about them when I actually did a little bit of research. By the time I get one, if ever, a Playstation 7 is probably going to exist. Honestly, I think that what they're able to pull off with the PS3 and Xbox360 is fine just the way they are, but, more consoles are going to be made in the future. It makes you wonder how the graphics for those future consoles are going to look like. Maybe movie quality with actual people and no more CG. Darn those outrageous prices for these next generation consoles. I just want to enjoy great games at a realistic price affordable by low income families.

Early Hunger and Halloween Spirit

It looks like I've somewhat re-entered the normal sleeping schedule I had while I was still attending school. It's just a few minutes later than what it used to be, but at least it's not into the next morning like its been since I've graduated. I woke up this morning at three, starving. It was strange, I don't usually wake up hungry, and I wasn't hungry before I went to bed because I did eat something after bathing. Odd. I ended up eating a leftover cheeseburger from McDonald's. Bad idea, fast food would usually make someone feel sick, and that's exactly what it had done to me. Other than it being fast food, I tend to get a sick feeling in my stomach when I eat something early in the morning. Even when I was still in school, cereal for breakfast always had me feeling unwell in my stomach. All the stomach aches were taking care of though thanks to special balms.

Later on today, it was grocery shopping time. I think that my city is trying to be all cool now with how they're displaying their Halloween spirit, mainly because they were inspired from a little Mario soda case display that became quite a viral movement in grocery outlets I'm guessing. I took two pictures of what was featured there in Food Maxx, a pumpkin, and a Cactuar like creature in the shape of Texas. Both were quite entertaining to look at, I just wish there would have been more throughout the store to look at. They were only ones placed by the entrance of the store. I had thought there there would be another kind of display towards the soda specific aisle, but unfortunately there was none.

Video Game Classics Tossed With Sleep

Last night I had done something that I haven't done in the longest time. I went to bed before it was well into the next day! I tend to hit the sack early in the morning, but last night I had gone to bed at 11:40 PM. Not sure of how it's going to happen tonight though, whether I'll pull an all nighter again, or head into bed around the same time that I did last night. Only main reason I did go to sleep at that time though was because I didn't get much sleep that day, just four hours at most because I was awakened to go look at a potential home that might be the one my family is moving into. That itself was a disappointment. The house was more run down than what we're currently living in, on top of that, the landlord that said he would be there did not show up at all.

Aside from sleeping on the right time, I dug up the old Sega Genesis. I played that for a while after I was playing with the Super Nintendo and boy do I suck at playing. It's not the controller, it's me. I'm a really sloppy player with those side scrolling beat 'em up series. I played normal and I died so many times on the bosses. I'm losing hope, those videos that I've watched on youtube made it seem so easy to not get hit. They're the game experts, I'm just someone that enjoys playing them.

The Sega is old, so it took many tries booting it up. Because it's so old and has gone through so much, there are specific ways to work it and make it work. I wasn't patient enough to try to play another game, so I just decided to put it away and go do something else.

Optical Illusions and Bad Deliveries

So the day had finally come. The order of Mortal Kombat 4 had finally arrived! But the downfall? No game disc. The game case and instruction manual had made it here just fine, but there was no game at all. I'm quite the unsatisfied customer and disappointed in the seller. Either he didn't check to see if the game was inside, or that was his trick to just earn money, just selling the case. The purchased product was not listed as case only, and you figure that it would come in full. Although it was six dollars, it still irks me that something like this would happen. I was anticipating the delivery so long and when it had finally arrived, there was something missing.

The second item that was ordered made it here just fine, fine condition, everything there. Different seller though thank goodness, I'd be scared to see what the movie would look like if it had been purchased from the same person that MK4 was purchased from.

Aside from today's deliver mishap. I found a viral video of an optical illusion. Magic or mathematics? I believe it to be mathematics due to the three by three square set presented. It was all equal so the chances of which square to be removed would have been absolutely predictable if you thought thoroughly and logically about it. You can find it here. Not sure how long this Yahoo! links will last, I'm sure that they're subject to change in the future or just removed entirely.

Later on today I had found some discussion and arguments for the PC and Mac. These reasons I find to be legit, but that's just me.

"Macs are better at:
*Music Composition
*Picture Editing
*Movie/Video Editing

PCs are better at:
*Office activities (documents, spreadsheets, etc.)
*Gaming
*Hacking

Anyone who disagrees is purposely looking for a fight."

Bye Bye Sonya

So it would seem that Champions has caught onto my character about it being Sonya Blade, and for copyright reasons, had me change the name. In the beginning, copyrights did not come to mind, and no one usually takes their times to read the terms of agreement. I just made a character that I liked and just wanted to enjoy the game, but what with stingy companies and all, it has become quite difficult to enjoy the game now when you can't really commit to character. I knew that this day would come though, earlier through my gameplay, I had been informed by someone that was in a similar situation and told me that I was going to eventually have to change the name and costume in the future.

I've been waiting for that day to come, and that day turned out to be last night. It wasn't that big a deal, I just feel a little empty in character now though. I couldn't think of a name, but I didn't want to be in further trouble with the game so I just picked some random name and am now stuck with it for the rest of my Champions life. I've lost heart in basing my character off of someone and sort of want to discontinue what I had been doing. They're offering a new power set so possibly I would make a healer from that new power set and recreate a new hero to play as. I don't know though, I'll see in time.

Good Times

Whoo! Just got back from Moanie's home and I must say, it's been a great and fun day. I just wish that the order of Mortal Kombat 4 had come sooner so that we could have played that all day. Being reunited with Pheju and Moanie was a blast, followed by Moanie's dog, Baby. Adorable dog, even more so when we started howling and had her howl along. Moanie ended up borrowing Tales of the Abyss, and I also ended up leaving my memory card behind in the game case. I believe that it's in good hands though. And goodness, her house is amazing. It's so nice inside and out. I'm looking forward to stopping by again.

We played around with the Gamecube, having some fun with Tales of Symphonia, and then moved on to some other random titles. We eventually landed on Resident Evil 4 and that gave us some good jumps and scares. So much better to play when you're around good friends rather than playing it all by yourself. Sure you're still getting easily scared, but the things that they say and do just make the game all the more funnier playing.

I got my first taste at Baten Kaitos today, and I must say, from what I've played so far, I'm actually somewhat glad that I did not purchase it way back when. I was not all in favor of the battle system, and some of the characters just annoyed me. It's too bad that the Gamecube has no more games coming at it, it's all about the Wii now. I thought that the Gamecube was fine, the graphics were not bad at all, I just wish that there were some more RPG games for it.