I think I just had my first opthalmic migraine. It's strange and I couldn't see very well, with my glasses on or off. It seems to be going away now though.

At least this happened on my day off.

x___.

Vision-related problems always scare me.

Why am I awake.

Why am I at work?

Oh right. They're calling me in every day this week because the State is here.

*weep*

*flops*
*dies*
*oozes all over the floor messily*

So. Uh. I seem to have gotten myself a job.

Yeah, I know. It's shocking to me, too.

( cut for job-related babble )

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I have to be at work on Monday.

Gaia Online is having their Halloween Event and I'm trying to work my way through it (very very slowly >_>;;). But I need followers to do some of the missions, so if you'd like to help me out, please click this link.

X3!


EDIT...

Oops! I forgot to say that the link above is for my B.O.O.-sided account (a.k.a. The Good Guys). This link is for my S.I.N.-sided account. Yay for having account mules.

Clicking on both gets you twice the love!


RE-EDIT...

Oh, fine. If you have Gaia accounts, pimp your links in the comments, so we can go on mutual follower-sprees. ♥

We're good for Halloween at my place!

I didn't plan on doing much besides watching movies and hanging about (and, in my case, passing out candy to the kiddies). :P Food and munchies will have to be bought or brought I has no monies. And will you guys be spending the night? I need to know so I can set up the bedrooms.

Also, try to be at least a little holiday-ish? You don't have to come in costume, but a little fun is always fun.

Holy crap the wind is blowing something fierce outside. It's been like that since yesterday. Looks like we're finally getting the weather change, so I suppose I shouldn't complain. At least it's not roasting hot anymore.

And Halloween is coming! I'm feeling kind of 'meh' about it though. Have to pass out candy to the neighborhood kids again. But it's not like I ever go out and do something Halloween anyway. XP

So... everyone in the know knows that I've been absent lately because I've been raping the hell out of playing Dissidia: Final Fantasy. It's just so fun and there's so much to do, and the game rewards you constantly for things.I'm currently trying to finish Shade Impulse I with all the characters (just need Warrior of Light and Onion Knight), before I move on to Shade Impulse II. I have, of course, already finished the Destiny Odysseys with all characters at least twice each.

Playing this game so much has led to some wonderful observations and geekery.

-- FUCK YEAH SEPHIROTH. I unlocked him as a playable character (as well as his alternate outfit) as soon as I had enough points. Let me tell you, having Sephiroth run around half naked and killing things is endlessly fun. And he has a really really... I guess it would be beautiful way of fighting. He doesn't make too many extraneous movements, so he's very fast and deadly. He fights like he expects to kill everyone he touches with one strike. And that's usually the case!

Unfortunately, that also means that because he moves like he will OHKO everything, he has bad recovery time after an attack. >_>;; Seriously, after he connects an attack, he kind of stands with his sword out before a sort of flourish, which means if he doesn't OHKO (and I don't make him dodge fast enough after), he's completely open for a counterattack.

But it's okay, because I HAVE SEPHIROTH RUNNING AROUND HALF NAKED AND KILLING THINGS. Also, yes, he likes to set stuff on fire. His EX Mode attack (a.k.a. Limit Break) looks exactly like when he set Nibelheim on fire, and he's standing in front of the raging flames. Bravo, Squeenix. Bravo.

-- Have a massive hard-on for Firion. He's just so... woobie. He's an awesome fighter, which makes my life easier. But his dream of wild roses is just so cute. And he makes Cloud run around to rescue his rose which was stolen by Sephiroth. Bwahahahah. Hoenstly, why aren't there more Firion/Cloud fics, huh? I mean, really.

-- Kept expecting Tidus to burst into tears during his chapter, but he didn't! Also, he is fast, which makes me happy.

-- On a related note, Jecht, you are like the worst dad ever. But you teasing Tidus about crying like a pussy is hilarious. You are still a bastard though, and I fucking hate that you spam your attacks. You keep killing me if I don't get away. :/

-- Cecil, you are so so pretty. But that doesn't excuse you from being an absolute bitch to play. Why must you be so slow in Dark Knight form? And you jump like there's a ton of bricks attached to your feet. And WHY CAN'T YOU JUST START OUT IN PALADIN FORM? My life would be so much easier if I didn't have to do an airborn HP attack just to get you into you SO MUCH BETTER AND STRONGER mode.

Just... stand there and look pretty. :x

-- Squall... *hee* ♥ ♥ ♥ I have nothing coherent to say about Squall, except that he's badass and faster than I thought he'd be. Oyes, I will indeed spam all your close-range combos. ilu. ♥

-- Cloud... ♥ ♥ ♥ *explodes into sticky goo all over the place* Less emo than in Advent Children, but not as dorky as in the original FFVII game. But you can equip him with a Snowboard so it's all good! He's not as fast as I'd like, unless he's using certain attacks, but it's okay because his sword pretty much lets him Defense Crush everyone else.

Also, you can equip crossdressing accessories onto him (I really need to get my hands on that set), that gives him extra bonus boosts. Seriously. It's some set of accessories that is only equippable on the girls in the game. And Cloud. Bwahahaha. Yet another point in Squeenix's favor.

Okay, I'm done with my geeky squeeing for now.

*rolls away*

OMFG IT IS SO FUCKING COLD RIGHT NOW. I AM FREEZING TO DEATH.

*stabs ovaries*

... there were things I wanted to do this week. Stupid lumps of tissue.

I HAVE KINGDOM HEARTS: 358/2 DAYS!

Do not be disturbed if I am suddenly absent online. Gaming is srs biznezz and between this and Dissidia, I have a fun gaming list. Also, I managed to clear both Tidus and Firion's story mods on Dissidia, and have started Squall's. I totally raped things yesterday, since it was my bonus day.

:3

For those on my flist who are interested, but not really following the news yet, Tokyo Game Show has already started. It's in day two already. :3 I haven't seen any really good announcements yet, but I figure I'll keep tabs on stuff I find interesting (and you might too).

-- Nintendo is dropping the prices on the Wii by $50. That means the system is now only $199. I can confirm this, since I've got a Toys-R-Us ad in my house right now that is advertising the system.

----> This is not only to compete with Playstation and XBox, which have been dropping prices recently, but also timed to match up with the release of the new Wii Sports Resort game, and the Wii Motion Plus.

-- Sony dropped the price of the PS3 by $100 and has released (or will release) the new PS3 Slim version. So for $299 you get a 120GB harddrive, instead of the current (fat) models, which I think are 80GB for the same price. Kind of old news by now, but interesting given how the "console wars" are heating up.

-- Sony also dropped the price of the PSP-3000 by nearly $50, but only in Japan. But in Japan, the PSP base price is more than in the US (over $200 once you convert from yen). I dunno if this means they'll be dropping the US (and UK, for you people across the pond) prices too. But it's pretty much to put the PSP Go into a better position.

----> Also, Sony is apparently going to be running a dual-console strategy between the PSP and PSP Go, instead of the PSP Go being an upgrade for the PSP. Bastards. Evidence of this is that they've pretty much shut down the rumored "trade-in" program for the PSP Go in the US, where you were supposed to trade-in your UMD games for a download to put on your PSP Go. So, that means if you buy the Go, you have to buy your games all over again. What a ripoff. Especially since the PSP Go is already priced like, $50 more than the PSP.

-- Squeenix has a rumored date of December 2009 (that's this December) for the release of FFXIII in Japan. Of course, that means the US (and rest of the world) has to wait longer, because of that crap idea to wait on releasing FFXIII for everyone else until the XBox version is done, too. *shakes fist*

-- Project Natal from Microsoft is still looking awesome.

-- Oh, and Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver apparently crushed the game sales when they were released in Japan. It almost makes me want to pick up one of them when they're released stateside. I love games where I can collect things. ♥

-- KINGDOM HEARTS: 358/2 DAYS COMES OUT IN ONLY FOUR DAYS OMG.

So, Pet has allowed me to borrow her PSP while she's busy doing her project. :3 I've been playing for a couple hours every day, and yes, I'm playing Dissidia. It's so fun!

( cut for gaming babble and maybe spoilers )

And also, KH: 358/2 Days comes out in like, a week. I have it pre-ordered so I just have to go to GameStop and pick it up. ^________^

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuugh.

Started my period late Friday night (like when I was going to bed), which was horrifically bad timing since we had family visiting this weekend. Almost everyone from SF came down because they were going to a wedding in the area, so they all crashed our house for a visit. Somanypeopleomg.

So I was on my first day, which isn't as horrifically bad bleeding-wise as my second and third days, but still very much with the needing of super plus size. x___X;; And then I was coerced into driving the kids (all my younger cousins) to the mall, because some of the girls needed dresses for the wedding still. Plus, they just wanted to get out of the house and away from their parents. There were 7 of them, ranging from the oldest (21) to the youngest (10), and mostly in the annoying high schooler stage. The youngest didn't go to the mall with us, so we all fit in our SUV. Whoo.

D:

And it was really weird because they were all on their cellphones all the fucking time. Like, they should have had their phones surgically attached to their hands. They were always twittering or texting or doing God-knows-what, so I was surrounded by little electric chirping noises and beeping the whole time.

It is only by the grace of God and Advil that I survived. And the milk chocolate caramel chocolixir from Godiva.

After we got back from the mall, most of my relatives left, since they were staying in hotels closer to the wedding. Only my Kuya Charlie's family stayed with us at our house overnight, so it was five extra (Kuya Charlie, Ate Nene, and their 3 girls). Thank god we had rooms enough for everyone to have a bed, though two of the girls shared one.

They finally left this morning, and I went back to bed at like, 10:30am after having been awakened at 8am by my ovaries. Actually, had been awakened by then no less than three times (2am, 5am, 8am) because of girly issues, so I slept pretty badly. Slept until 1pm, and woke up in time to watch the new episode of What Would Brian Boitano Make. Have been floppy and curled up not moving since then.

I love my family, but I'm really glad they're gone.

OH. MY. GOD.

I can handle not getting the Dissidia Trading Arts (omgCloudandSquall) but I absolutely MUST HAVE the Kingdom Hearts Avatar Static Arts. Hopefully they have more than just Sora. Or, at the very least, those KH Avatar Mascot Straps. OMG THEY'RE SO CUTE. SOCUTE. ♥ ♥

Even the stuffed monster keychains are cute! I think I'd want either a chocobo or moogle... but mostly I want those mascot straps. MUST HAVE.

Hopefully Squeenix won't rape us out the ass for them. ;____;

Wait, what am I talking about? This is Squeenix.

And suddenly! Thunder and lightning! And really fierce wind! And it's over 100 degrees outside and CA is on fire.

>_>;;

There's no rain either yet. Unless it's gonna suddenly hail or something like it did last year, but I'm doubtful. However, heading thunder and seeing lightning and the yellowish-gray clouds (whoo smoke) is pretty scary by itself.

;o;

... also, when the first boom of thunder shook everything, I could hear all the kids at the high school nearby scream. It's the end of the schoolday for them, so they were all probably leaving campus and walking home/lingering out on the sidewalk like they normally do. Damn, they're loud.

What Would Brian Boitano Make? is a fucking hilarious cooking show. It's beyond awesome and now I shall have to watch it every week.

And yes, the theme song is "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" from South Park. That makes it more awesome.

XD;;

Japanese Mochi Ice Cream recipe, for if you wanna take a stab at making it yourself.

Or you could be like me and buy your mochi ice cream from a grocery store. This brand is decent -- though nothing compares to mochi fresh from the shop -- though it gets points for availability. If a grocery store near you actually carries these, that is. I actually found them in the ice cream section of the Stater Brothers near my house.

The third option is being super fancy and ordering Bubbies mochi ice cream to be shipped to you. It's gourmet and super-expensive and from Hawaii though. But they're apparently one of the best mochi ice cream makers in the world.

I still prefer that little shop in Little Tokyo though. XP ♥

Oh, and have a recipe for Sea Salt ice cream, too. It came up during my search, so fear my google-fu.