Media Update

I have been catching up on a lot of stuff via my computer. First off, I have watched all the Studio Ghibli movies, starting with Castle of Cagliostro all the way to The Cat Returns. I enjoyed most of them although I think Pom Poko was a bit too Japanese even for me. It's cultural references to old tales totally doesn't make sense to the American mind (disturbingly so).

I did however find the complete anime duplicate of my cat - Ramses. His name is Full Moon and looks just like my furball, especially from behind. Attitude is dead on too.


I finally watched all of American Gladiators as well. Amazingly its just as entertaining to me as it was when I was younger. Well maybe not completely, but close enough. I have listed my favorites below:



BSG! Like, finally - all my friends told me to watch but I missed the beginning so I didn't get caught up in the zeitgeist (office buzz word), so I think I missed out on some of the fun on this one. Parts were slow but over all the series is great. Helo is my favorite! My least favorite is Dr. Gaius Baltar, man he should have been strung up so early for being a complete twat.













Next up is Dexter, totally unexpected, this is probably my favorite. I thought it would be corny. But it is a drama and I know there is supposed to be some element of dark humor, but I don't often feel it - I never feel compelled to laugh at the show, or even snicker. I actually feel sorry for some of the folks and the things that happen to them. I guess the dark humor comes from the fact that Dexter never gets caught and its amazing that he doesn't. I can't wait for the new season.

As far as music I have downloaded all of Girl Talk (great albums) and Industrial Strength Nightmares. Terrific Canadian industrial podcast. Its short but good. I hate downloading endless tracks of music and at least this is hand selected well with good commentary.

Stress, Sinus Headache, and Dealing with Disorganization

I have a great deal of stress, if you know me it's something that plagues me all the time but right now its pretty bad. It's no one thing either. I love my new job, but I wish my place was clean and living in a mess causes me to feel bad. That's why OCD sucks. I keep telling myself a bit at a time and eventually it will get better but I have been saying that for a few months. I'm sitting on a mountain of administrative, clean up and financial mess.

I'm trying to take care of myself first and let everything else fall into place. I have headaches, I need to work out, and just take care of myself as much as possible. It felt like a good day to blog cause I have people waking me up when I'm napping for stuff that is so unimportant to me I don't know what to say.

I have my landlord yelling at me about the rent because Chase lost my check in the mail. Just drama upon drama and I need to take things a step at a time. Hopefully I can get things better soon. But first I need to take care of my health and sanity.

I Used To Be a Gamer...

No, really. I used to post here all the time of my feats and pictures of things I had done. But since moving cross country to work at GamerDNA, things have been insane to say the least. It has taken me quite a while to get some semblance of a routine going here.

And without a routine, I'm lost.

So, I have been playing Age of Conan and Cabal:Online a bit here and there. I'm still subbed to WoW and still not 70, but I hope to fix that soon. And I miss my FFXI guild.
I'm hoping to log into those one day soon.

I really will be a gamer again one day.

:(

[12:54] XiantheXian: massive headache , asher threw up in backseat of car
[12:54] XiantheXian: i found out i cant drive til wed due to insurance xfer
[12:54] XiantheXian: yay
[12:54] XiantheXian: ~
[12:54] MelodyOhYesss: ugh
[12:54] XiantheXian: always me
[12:55] XiantheXian: oh and while dealing with the insurance my citibank decided to put a fraud alert on my card
[12:55] XiantheXian: called to deal with that and asher was barking the whole fucking time
[12:57] XiantheXian: oh and lets not forget asher going up in my bedroom, climbing on the shelf behind my bed, getting my 400 dollar bite guard and carrying down here in his mouth to play with it on the floor
[12:57] XiantheXian: but of course, im just bsing about how much time i have
[12:57] XiantheXian: and im slacking!

For Julie D.

Julie wanted to see my new place, and I'm sure others do too. Tons of pics here so I'll just get to it. Please keep in mind I'm totally not unpacked at the moment. =)

I'll post "After" unpacking pictures later.

Moving to MA

It's been a while since my last update, but with a new job and a move on the horizon I have my hands full wrapping things up in IL. For the first time in my life I have friends dragging me out - not against my will - but to places I actually enjoy. We go to the dog park, out to eat, the coffee shop, etc. 

My mom of course is calling constantly to help me worry about my move. I'll be trekking across the country next week with my four animals, so today I wrapped up getting all the pets microchipped with Home Again and my vet. I also got plenty of medication and food.

Since I'm leaving the area, I'm grabbing food here and there so I got my favorite smoothie (Lollicup Bubble Tea) yesterday.

As you can see Henry is enjoying the whole move thing.

moar funny pictures

Hi

Hi

After a few weeks in Seattle, San Francisco and Boston and a serious bout with the GDC plague, things are finally settling in. I have accepted a position a Guild Cafe and I am beyond thrilled to be joining the team.

So the next few weeks I'll be prepping for a move and gearing up for the new job.

As for fun, my Priest finally hit the outlands:
We also are having some guests here in Vernon Hills:

Blargh

So after a trip to Seattle for WaMu, San Francisco for GDC 2008, a horrible bout with the flu and a trip to Boston. I'm finally back home. I hope things settle down a bit now as I'm tired and my life is in disarray.

I'm staring at the pile of work I have to do and picking it up one piece at a time.