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I just rode the bike my friend gave me outside on the apartment patios a little, was frickin scary XD I havent ridden a bike since middle school I think. I have no idea how to tell if the seat is too high either, hehe.

My apartment manager got me new tires and a cute pink paul frank helmet with the monkey and a crocodile on it too :) He's a sweetheart.

I just wish I wasnt so out of shape, I'd ride it to work while I wait to go get my registration sticker..fricking dmv..

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• 01:21 exhausted today, looking forward to resting. Though was hoping to have some drinks with Pip :( #

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One ER visit later, I am diagnosed with Tendinitis in my foot.

I was doing so good, I was off crutches for almost 3 years this time! Almost! Ah well, another pair to the collection.

I almost didn't do today's comic.

I had a great night's sleep last night, which is so rare for me. I got up in a good mood, ready to have a productive NaNo day. But the phone kept ringing, George reminded me that we had to shop for Babette's birthday so I had to do that, then I had to go to the school, then the kids came home, then it was birthday dinner time, and then the day was over!

I was in a good mood all day, then the kids went to bed and I realized I'd accomplished nothing I got really down. Ugh.

Why can't I get away from Mars? I try to write about other stuff, but I always go back to Martian colonies.

What should I call my colony this time? I had the perfect name earlier, but I forgot it. argh.

So I ended up getting Dragon Age and I'm suddenly MORE EXCITED about it now. I have two questions for those of you who got it though:

1) What did you end up playing as?

2) Is your "downloadable character" the same for everyone or is it random?

For my answer to 1, I was originally going to be a Dwarf Noble just because but then I realized that Mages get more dialogue options and had a cooler selection of specialties, so I'm going that route and as a human. Slightly more boring, probably, but I figured I could do the elf path another time.

But then it became even tougher when I saw the range of specialties for mages and I was like "I CAN'T CHOOSE." Do I do the one with the melee focus? Sure, let's go with that. No wait, I should play as a healer since that's what I usually do. No, wait, the Blood Mage! I could play a Blood Mage who is as nice as possible! No wait the Shapeshifter! No the healer! No the Blood Mage! No the fighter!

And so it went on until I looked up a Wiki and read this:

Wiki: Shapeshifters can become giant spiders.
Me: :D SOLD!

I fear how my brain works.

ETA: CURSES! NEEDS MOAR MEMORY ON MY COMPUTER! brb deleting stuff

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What's that? It's time for Friday's NaBloPoMo? Well, if you insist...

Today's theme is music-- maybe a recommendation, maybe a critique, maybe just a discussion about what a certain song means to me. This week, I'll be reccing an entire album.

Music for Elevators is an album that was written, produced, and preformed by Anthony Stewart Head and George Sarah. I originally discovered it because of my huge love for Buffy and nearly just-as-huge love for ASH's singing. I then instantly feel in love with the entire album, and I've been regularly listening to it for the past four years.

It's hard to explain the genre, at least for me. There's a bit of a techno feel to it, but not completely. The lyrics lean toward poetic and the arrangements are just amazingly well done. Both Amber Benson and James Marsters are featured on the album, and there is an incredible arrangement of "We Can Work It Out". As big of a Beatles fan as I am, even I love it.

You can find a few sample songs here and here (they're not even my most-liked songs and I still love them. I'm including the lyrics to my favorite song, "The Last Time", too.

( The Last Time )

If you're interested in downloading it, Kelly kindly uploaded the album for me here. Again, highly recommended.

This is him, as channeled by Pop Will Eat Itself:

I'll love and leave you,
I believe I'm your friend and foe,

I'll make you better,
Get your butt on the bed, you know,

I'll take your love and give
You life with the seeds I sow,

I'll do it better,
Make you all better

I got a reason for the
Devil inside you know,

Get a ticket, get a gun and
I'll run the show,

Get a medal, get ahead and now you know
I got a reason, now I got a reason

I got a reason, now I got a reason, yeah!
You motherfuckers!
I got a reason, now I got a reason:

Rough justice, rough law
Rough justice, rough law

Gonna get the girl
Gonna kill the baddies and
save the entire planet!

I got the beauty of a cutey
Without the frills

You may not like it right now
but I bet you will,

the kiss of danger is the way
that I get my fill,

I got a purpose now, a special purpose

Rough justice, rough law
Rough justice, rough law

Gonna get the girl
Gonna kill the baddies and
save the entire planet!
Let 'em have it!

Of this I'm sure,
My heart is pure,

Of this I'm sure,
My heart is pure you know,

Of this I will say,
Control is just a step away.

Rough justice, rough law
Rough justice, rough law

Gonna get the girl
Gonna kill the baddies and
save the entire planet!

To a T.

During the early morning of November 1st, our neighbors put up their Christmas lights. They wasted no time and I love them for it. Therefore, it's time for...

HOLIDAY CARDS.

Who wants a card from me? I'm going to be a dork and admit that I look forward to doing this all year, so don't hesitate to ask for one. Seriously, all of you, I'd love it if you'd let me send you a card.

They're always secular/wintery cards, so I hope that's okay. If you want a card, just leave me a comment with your address and all that. Comments are screened. If you think I have your address, err on the side of caution and assume otherwise. If you're international, I don't care, I'll send it anyway.

Come on, everyone! Who wants a card?

Edit: Oh! If any of you have little kids who might like a card of their own (and not be creeped out by a stranger) let me know. I'd just include a "Have a great season!"-type note, maybe a drawing of a stick figure dancing. In case you want to take me up on the offer.

I want to figure out whether or not I want to actually get Dragon Age or whether I should hold off and finish the 500 other games I need to finish, which includes:

a) Phantasy Star II
b) Devil Summoner 2
c) Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
d) Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
e) Devil May Cry
f) Final Fantasy V's bonus dungeon
g) Scribblenauts
h) That one game I started on my iPhone

Annnd a few others, including those which are so frustratingly hard (MEGAMAN 9 AND CASTLEVANIA III I AM LOOKING AT YOU). And the ones that I still need to start arrrre:

a) No More Heroes
b) Viewtiful Joe
c) Eternal Darkness (which is also being borrowed)
d) Golden Sun
e) Earthbound - replay but I don't care it's sooo good
f) Second playthrough of Persona 4
g) The Secret of Monkey Island
h) Tales from Monkey Island Ep. 1
i) Vay

I may take advice from salacious_pop (Torchlight is cheaper!) and illian (Torchlight is also easier to just pick up and go!) and just get... Torchlight. But the fun of being a Dwarf Noble makes this a stalemate! CURSES!

I also want more time in the universe to do all the stuff I wanna do.

But most importantly, lest this post be entirely about the First World Problems: I WANT THE WORLD TO BE LESS CRAZY NOW. Or at least the good kind of crazy instead of the bad kind.

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So, who's interested in some black humor? I mean really black and dark. I laughed (which I feel is the important part), so don't feel bad if you do. Just thought I'd warn about the morbidity.

Kelly and I were discussing moustaches and how some will work, while others don't. Both my dad and Greg have moustaches (probably why I can't find them attractive) and the following exchange occurred:

Me: Well, I mean, my dad's moustache is kind of hilarious, but it still works for him. Do you agree?
Kelly: Yeah, it does.
Me: While Greg's just... it doesn't work. it's horrible. It makes him look, like, like a child pedophile or something.
Kelly: *silence* Um, Geena?

When I realized what I said, yes, I laughed. And, to be honest, it felt really good to laugh about that.

Anyway, I signed up for Yuletide. A stupid idea or the stupidest idea?

Guy comes in to get a tattoo

Guy: I would like a cock on a rocket on my ass.
Girl: A cock?
Guy: Yes, a cock.
Girl. Really? A cock?
Guy: Yes, really, a cock.
Girl: So you want a disembodied penis on a rocket on your ass?
Guy: NO A COCKEREL.

I thought it was funny.

Hello, internet. I LIVE.

In three days, Wordsworth is driving up here, picking me up, and driving us into the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, where we will stay in a cabin with a Jacuzzi, a DVD player, a nice big bed, and probable bears. He will take me clothes shopping, shoe shopping, hiking, out for sushi, steak, and Indian food, and to dinner at his mother's house. At the end of four days, he will bring me back here and stay the night, after which he will talk to Rob about getting a job at Rob's facility. Then next month, he will come back up here, stay for a week, and then take me to Florida! Two vacations in a row! I'm going to the beach! I haven't been to the beach in over a decade!

We are all moved in--sort of. Things have to come out of boxes and go on shelves and walls. I have no dresser, my desk lost a leg, the oven doesn't work, the bathtub leaks (fixed), we can't find the coffeepot and I'm pretty sure my window doesn't have a screen. And I have never been happier in my life.

The cats are SO HAPPY. Ruby meows and purrs all the time now, Raven loves on daddy, and Grimm follows me around out of bed and to the bathroom and back to the bed and when I take a bath and to the kitchen for dinner. He folds clothes with me, he unpacks with me, he takes a bath with me. I have my baby back.

I LOVE YOU ALL!