lucas and i enjoy playing wow together, but one thing we clash on is how to level. he likes to just go and kill higher and higher level mobs until he reaches level cap. me, i enjoy questing… killing stuff gets boring and i love the storyline of the warcraft world, so questing is so much more fun for me.

it makes it kinda hard to play together sometimes, he ends up wanting to go on a genocidal rampage and i just pick up every quest i see lol.

at least we play together though. i have always felt, the couple that plays videogames together, stays together.. or something like that. it must really suck when one of you is interested in a game and the other person isn’t… i’ve never really had that problem before but it doesn’t sound fun.

not much else to really talk about. my dad got the message from newegg that they received my video card, and have issued a refund, now we have to wait for it to get into the bank. after that happens, new card is on its way. i’ll be so glad to get hat over with.

my birthday is next monday as my calendar reminded me last night. i’ll be sitting on my butt doing nothing, hopefully with a fully functional computer though. lucas bought me another year of flickr subscription yay! and i have no idea if i’m going to be getting anything else for my birthday yet.

i don’t know why, but one of the things i love to do is catalog everything… i have no clue why i enjoy it so much but it just relaxes me to organize, sort, and catalog everything i have. i recently even downloaded a program that will let me catalog my videogame collection! it has other reasons… when my brother’s business starts up, we’re going to use it to keep track of inventory (he’s going to sell videogames) but for now i’m using it to list every videogame i own. and so far i’m kinda impressed how large of a collection i have amassed over the years.

if you’re interested in the software its here and its free!

i’m also cataloging my book collection over at shelfari… that one is going to take a lot of time. i have a billion books! and a billion more on my wishlist!

i want to do the same for my dvd collection but i cannot find a site or program to do it with. i guess i’ll have to search more.

still waiting to replace the video card. basically we have to wait for new egg to receive the old card, and refund our money and then the moment that happens dad says he’ll order the new one. i wish it would hurry up. i’m really getting sick of being stuck with just the laptop. i mean.. i love my laptop but i can’t play games on it and i’m getting sick of WoW.

on the subject of WoW though, lucas and i switched private servers (yes yes don’t bitch.. i’m broke)… the one we are on now has a higher population and more server choices… so i can have my boring old blizz like, and he can have his crazy instant 80 stuff. its still not as fun as the real thing. i hope i can get back to that someday

lucas and i spend a lot of time watching movies online. mostly via justin.tv where people stream them. its a great way for us to spend some time together and feel close because we watch the movie together and all that stuff..

anyway last night he picked “the midnight meat train”… we’re both fans of horror, good and bad. but i tend to be more nitpicky about what horror movies i watch (hell i’m nitpicky about any movie i watch).

this movie was a big… WTF.

there was some great horror moments, lots of blood, twists and turns but also, a lot of stuff left you thinking.. “uh.. what?” especially near the end. they did not really explain a lot of things that happened in the movie, which was kind of annoying and left you to just speculate what the hell they were showing you.

i can’t decide if i actually liked this movie or not, and that’s bugging me. i might just have to watch it again. it does seem to be based off of a clive barker shot story, which definitely gives it points.

another small wtf for this movie? brooke shields plays a very small roll.. you see her like.. twice. *blinks* what has become of poor brooke.. lol

so, all in all.. i’m going to give this movie 3 stars out of 5. if you like blood and guts (and i mean  A LOT OF IT) then you might want to check this film out.

yup, i’m addicted! since i’m stuck with a laptop that doesn’t have the graphics or power to run stuff like fallout 3, i’ve been digging though my old games and online games to find something to do while i wait on my video card. i’ve had plants vs zombies on my laptop for a bit now, but never really got into it too heavily because i just didn’t have the time to mess with it. so for the last couple of days i’ve been playing it almost non-stop! i love this game and its packed full of hilarious zombies and plants. last night i was laughing my ass off about the little corn catapult that shoots butter and splats on zombie heads. i am easily amused all in all i think its a great game and you guys should check it out if you haven’t.

i’ve also been poking around some games on facebook. there’s a lot of sim games on there like rollercoaster kingdom, farmtown, farmville, resturant city.. yes i’m playing all of them lol i am so bored on this laptop! i guess i should get off my ass and work on my layout.

yeah i’m not ready to work yet so here’s a meme that i found over at caity.nu.

basically caity gave me 5 words and i have to describe what they mean to me. its kinda tough but here goes!

gaming has always been an important part of my life. ever since i was a little kid i can remember having some sort of videogame around me. a lot of people say that videogames are a waste of time, or that they will rot your brain, but really they have been a life line for me. when i’m over-stressed, i go play a shooter game, when i start to feel panicky, i play tetris, when i can’t find anything to do, i play sim games. and MMOs are great when i want to be social… (yes that’s my very first WoW character there in the picture.) gaming has always been a way for me to connect with others. i am sometimes nervous about meeting new people, but i perk up when they talk about videogames and i have make some great friends online in videogame forums. it gives me something i’m confident in talking about.

i have been blogging since 2001, not long after i graduated high school. i’ve always felt that blogging is a great way to reach out to people all over the world. you can find people who are sharing the same difficulties as you… you can give someone advice… and you can just rant and get out some of the irritation of day to day living.

my blog has always been a personal journey, both in learning about how to put one together, as well as a way to look back and reflect on how much i have grown up over the years. to look back at my old blogs from 2001, i laugh… you’d think i was a completely different person back then.

family is very important to me. my family has always been kinda… not close. i mean we’re close, but we don’t sit down to family dinner together (we don’t even have a table lol) and we’ve always just been in our own little worlds. i love my family of course, but sometimes i feel a bit disconnected from them.

i have always admired people who have a close family. i hope someday when/if i become a mom, that my family will be a bit closer knit.

relationships are tough, love in general is… distance can make things hard to deal with but if you love each other… miles are mere inches…

i never wanted to be in a long distance relationship. hell i used to say that they never work. but it wasn’t until i met lucas, that my thoughts changed. he is everything i’ve ever wanted in another human being, and still after 2 years, my heart leaps everytime i talk to him. he is my best friend, and i never thought i could actually have feelings for someone i’d never met in person, but there you go. yes that’s us.. we met in a computer world… another reason why i like videogames <3

this one is hard to write about… personally i’m kinda quiet about my beliefs, because i am used to the treatment i receive in the small minded town i live in. i think beliefs are personal, and they should not be something that others judge you for. i do not have a religion, though my code of ethics is some what like those of satanism. (educate yourselves…). personally, i do not believe that anyone should edit their life, and their enjoyment, or their feelings, based on words in a book. please don’t let that statement insult you, as i said, its personal feelings. in example: i do kind and generous things because it makes me feel good, not because i want to go to heaven or because someone in a church told me its a good thing to do.

i was raised by an atheist and a spiritualist, and pretty much told to find my own way with religion, so i chose the path i enjoyed the most, and in the end, i think that is what we all should do in order to be happy.

so those were my 5 words! thank you very much caity if anyone else would like to do this meme please leave a comment and i will assign you 5 words to blog about.

i forgot to blog! i’ve been pretty depressed over the stupid video card situation. i know its a dumb thing to be upset about but i am…

i’ve installed photoshop on my laptop. it hates me and my laptop is not too friendly with my tablet either, but its better than nothing, and so i’m going to start working on a layout that is less basic. i think i will stick with this colour scheme though, no one has complained that its blinding them, and i like it.

the paid blogging thing is not going well, social spark has declined me for a couple of small issues, first for not having dates on my post, which i honestly forgot in my template, and then again today because i don’t have enough active recent blog posts. so i’m doing my best to keep posting. the other site i signed up for hasn’t sent me any offers, so i’m guessing my site is not good enough or them either… its my fault though really, i just don’t know what to blog about anymore.

its time to go work on the new blog layout…

my video card arrived today and i was so excited to put it in my computer and get everything going again… except it ended up being the worst video card i have ever purchased!

i am not the best at picking computer hardware, because i really don’t know enough about it to make a good decision. i was trying to get something better than the geforce 7300 gt that i had previously, and decided on a geforce 9400 gt instead. the major difference was that the 9400 gt was a pci card, where my other card was an agp. upon installing, i swiftly went to second life expecting a great difference in game graphics, but instead i was faced with 1 measly fps… i get more fps on my laptop and its integrated graphics chip! i was so upset, i actually had a little bit of a panic attack… then i took the card out to my father in the living room and told him to send it back, and we looked up another one. this time we carefully looked at our choices, and instead of an nvidia i am getting an ati card. its an agp card this time, and i’m hoping it will do tons better than the other one. my dad is thankfully really good at smooth talking people, and was able to get our restocking fee waved.

this means that i’m stuck on the laptop for a bit longer, and that makes me pretty disappointed… i’m not sure when the new card will be here, as we have to send back the old card first before we can order the new one. probably another week

*frowns* i meant to blog more today but i just couldn’t motivate myself. i’m still working on the layout a lot, tweaking things here and there. i know its pretty boring looking but my graphics card comes tomorrow and i’ll use this as the framework for my actual layout, which i hope will be much prettier.

today i mostly laid around in bed on gtalk with lucas, i am attached to my computer via the ears for most of my day. we played a lot of WoW and finally got up to level 70 this afternoon. then there was a storm, and i had to log off for a bit because my wireless and storms do not get along.

later this afternoon i ended up having to chase a mouse around my bedroom trying to catch it to put it outside! i am a critter lover, and i don’t hurt rodents. i just trap them and take them out and put them into the flowerbed. yes i know they will come right back, but i cannot stand to hurt them. if it was my place, they’d end up being pets probably.

now i’m going to sit here and try to spruce up my dying link list. if you would like to exchange links please feel free to email me or comment on this entry, i’d love to add you.

so i’m working on finishing up this layout.. its very basic since i can’t really do any image work on the laptop. i’m kinda liking the colour scheme i have here though.. its very cherry vanilla coke..
anyway, i am trying to do a major makeover on my blog so you might notice content missing or stuff out of wack. just bare with me. it’ll be prettier soon.

sunday was the 80th birthday of my last living grandparent. we call him “pap pap”. he’s my mother’s father and i am so grateful that he has lived as long as he has.

pap pap has emphysema, due to smoking unfiltered pal mals most of his life. after my grandma died of a stroke, he quit, but the damage was done and now he is forced to ride around on a scooter, hooked up to an oxygen tank. it takes him a long time to do simple things, even getting out of a vehicle is tough on him. but i am still happy that he is with us, and he is a fighter. i am sure he’ll stick around for a long time.

for his birthday we took him to the lone star, which we’d gone to last year and he enjoyed it. he is still silly and set in his ways, told us to get what ever we want, and he footed the bill! we indulged a little, it made him happy. there was steak all around and then he and i got the silly birthday song thing (its my birthday this month too, apparently my dad had decided to kill two birds with one stone and told them it was for both of us) and we both got a free desert of our choice! i ended up with cheesecake and holy crap it was HUGE! i had to take it home and later ended up eating it because i just couldn’t take that it was sitting there waiting for me lol.

after dinner we all went back to the hotel room where he and my uncle are staying until tomorrow when they will drive back up to PA. my dad and he told stories of when they used to work in the coca-cola plant in northern va, and we heard about when my brother and i were babies. i hear these stories a million times but i am always amused by them.

when i got home we found out that my dad’s best friend wayne had been written up in the style section of the washington post! you can read that here if you want to. when i was a kid i used to tell people about wayne and that he was in the woodstock movie, and no one believed me! so i was kinda laughing as i sent this to my facebook… i hope they believe me now wayne is an awesome person and i am glad he is finally being recognized for his crazy life and the charity that came from it. he is a great human being all around, and has been there for my family since before i was born. there is talk that he will get on the tonight show! that would be really awesome and would spread the word about his charity even more! if you’re interested in his charity the website is here.

and now i’m exhausted! i napped for a bit after i came home and i should probably go to bed instead of sitting here at the computer!