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[Blog #265] --- Neutral --- [Monday] - Promising News For GH5
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Today is my daddy's birthday. I wrote him a card and bought him an indie-rock compilation CD. It has bands like: The Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs and Klaxons - bands that I know he likes to listen to when he's driving.
I've gotten sick of getting to the bus stop stupidly early and having to stand about - so I've set my alarm for 15 minutes later. It only takes me 5-10 minutes to get ready, if that, because I usually have everything laid out ready for me needing it the next day. My plan has worked, and today I was only stood about waiting for 5 minutes or so. It gives me a margin so I'm not waiting forever, and I have a low risk of missing it entirely. Mmmmyes, I am a logical and resourceful downright genius. :P
Media Studies today was a "coursework research" lesson.
In effect, for the entire thing I was just mooching around on Wikipedia for inspiration. I know WHAT I'm going to do, I just need a band to do it about. An essay either about a music video and how the conventions are used, or a big analysis of their song lyrics. My production will be a music video, if I do it well enough. If I end up fucking it up, I have a print option as a back-up plan.
Only problem is finding a damned band.
I want it to be one I like - Rammstein, King Diamond, Metallica, Silverstein - I'm going down that route. I just need them to have released an album in the last 3-5 years (and Rammstein is just starting to push that with 2005's Rosenrot, if next year 2010 counts) - whereas the music video looks like it can be made to a song of any year, it just needs to be 5 minutes or less, it can't be over.
That rules out Precious Jerusalem. Not that I'd know what the hell to do for the video like. :)
Metallica's lyrics are a bit dark... Rammstein's are really complex or about really obscure subjects... Silverstein's are all emo and suicidal... King Diamond is just downright fucked up... This looks like it shall be rather difficult...
(I seem to be saying "downright" a downright lot in this blog. :P)
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English was reasonable. It opened oddly - Angela sort of suggested I sit with Jack, and he's a fucking arse - so I just shook my head and said NO. It caused a weird reaction. :)
As a starter piece, Angela had us drawing GINGERBREAD MEN HOLDING BALLOONS.
Then we proceeded to write key words IN the balloons. I felt sad so I made my gingerbread man sad too. I drew him an icing sad face with a tear on his cheek.
It was an okay lesson, it just made me sad because we were thinking back to our childhood, the games we played and such. 5-6 were sad years for me. 5-15 as a whole were pretty wank, to be honest.
I met up with Shelly during the lunch break and I ate a bag of Mexican chilli McCoys and a big Aero bar. I felt really shitty so I was sat at the table tearing the Aero wrapper into tiny pieces. The caretaker gave me a weird look, but I assured him I'd dispose of it when I was finished.
Shelly could see I was sad, so she tried to cuddle me, but it didn't make me feel much better. We were discussing people and events that depress me, so it was obvious she couldn't.
I was proper thirsty too, because I'd forgotten my bottle of water.
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Photography pissed me right off.
First off we had Shelly suddenly getting in a pissy mood herself - but this was likely due to Paul being a right arsehole. Michelle said he's looking for any excuse to kick Shelly off the course. He was a twat to her last year as well, but he's even worse now. Apparently she distracts me - no, if anything, I distract myself. And I distract her more than she distracts me.
The whole lesson was a "peer marking" session. Seriously fucking shit. We all had our icons work up on the walls (mine was on the whiteboard because I hadn't printed it) and we had to basically wander around the classroom with sheets of paper, writing comments, constructive criticism and giving them marks out of 10.
I was quite reserved when I marked Michelle's - because I quite like her. But I don't know the others in the group, and they're sort of twats to me. Oh, and they're strangers - I'm very rude to strangers I've noticed.
So my critique of theirs was a bit more harsh. Roxy's was okay, pretty close to Michelle's - but I was really harsh with Johnny's. He deserved it though, the prick. He gave me 4/10.
AT LEAST YOU COULD TELL WHAT MY FUCKING IMAGES WERE OF!
I MAY HAVE USED THE SAME OBJECT TWICE, BUT AT LEAST MY ARRANGEMENT WASN'T WANK! EVERYONE EVEN TOLD YOU IT WAS WANK.
AT LEAST I VARIED IN COLOUR! IT WASN'T ALL BLACK AND BROWN.
Capital letters rant over. :)
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When I got home, I played Guitar Hero: World Tour.
I was mainly getting scores for the new free DLC I'd never played. No wonder they give these songs away for free - they're ALL shit!
The only two decent free ones are Grave Of Opportunity and Electro Rock.
Then I attempted to give Guitar Hero 5 another try.
OH, THERE'S HOPE FOR IT NOW. :)
Yes, the career has merged so it's one for all of the instruments, instead of 4 separate ones... BUT.
There's a new feature - instrument challenges!
Each song has a different one, so one would be drums while another is bass, vocals, guitar or whole band.
They're things like 'hit 200 snare beats' for drums, 'whammy sustains for 1 minute' for guitar and the best one that I proper OWNED: 'hit 300 notes using only UP STRUMS' for bass.
I did it on Expert too. :P
I'm going through the career mainly on Expert bass, getting the scores, then switching to the other instruments for the challenges. There's even gigs where you can choose your own song - including DLC.
So I chose Jessie's Girl on Expert lead and scored 100%. I had to hit as many chords as I could, but there wasn't enough in the actual song to get the diamond rank. I'll have to try it again with something more complex.
I also like the fact that 100% FC gets you SIX STARS.
100%s are optional, but they earn you more stars and they're ever so sexy. You also can't tell what instrument and level you've done the song on - so you could have gone through the entire thing on Beginner and nobody would know.
But I'm making it fun for myself with Expert bass. It is really easy though, compared to Greatest Hits.
Yes, the quickplay is a bit wank - it only shows one score instead of 5 for all the separate levels. The interface is still a bit shitty - and you can't give custom characters fucking beards!
I've been wondering for ages now why Ashley Darwin and Dudley Boone look so fucked - it's because they have BALD FACES.
I have my four custom characters set up as the band on-screen. They look so sexy together. I don't think I've ever seen it before. :)
Dixie currently feels:
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Blog #264
Promising News For GH5
Promising News For GH5
Today is my daddy's birthday. I wrote him a card and bought him an indie-rock compilation CD. It has bands like: The Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs and Klaxons - bands that I know he likes to listen to when he's driving.
I've gotten sick of getting to the bus stop stupidly early and having to stand about - so I've set my alarm for 15 minutes later. It only takes me 5-10 minutes to get ready, if that, because I usually have everything laid out ready for me needing it the next day. My plan has worked, and today I was only stood about waiting for 5 minutes or so. It gives me a margin so I'm not waiting forever, and I have a low risk of missing it entirely. Mmmmyes, I am a logical and resourceful downright genius. :P
Media Studies today was a "coursework research" lesson.
In effect, for the entire thing I was just mooching around on Wikipedia for inspiration. I know WHAT I'm going to do, I just need a band to do it about. An essay either about a music video and how the conventions are used, or a big analysis of their song lyrics. My production will be a music video, if I do it well enough. If I end up fucking it up, I have a print option as a back-up plan.
Only problem is finding a damned band.
I want it to be one I like - Rammstein, King Diamond, Metallica, Silverstein - I'm going down that route. I just need them to have released an album in the last 3-5 years (and Rammstein is just starting to push that with 2005's Rosenrot, if next year 2010 counts) - whereas the music video looks like it can be made to a song of any year, it just needs to be 5 minutes or less, it can't be over.
That rules out Precious Jerusalem. Not that I'd know what the hell to do for the video like. :)
Metallica's lyrics are a bit dark... Rammstein's are really complex or about really obscure subjects... Silverstein's are all emo and suicidal... King Diamond is just downright fucked up... This looks like it shall be rather difficult...
(I seem to be saying "downright" a downright lot in this blog. :P)
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English was reasonable. It opened oddly - Angela sort of suggested I sit with Jack, and he's a fucking arse - so I just shook my head and said NO. It caused a weird reaction. :)
As a starter piece, Angela had us drawing GINGERBREAD MEN HOLDING BALLOONS.
Then we proceeded to write key words IN the balloons. I felt sad so I made my gingerbread man sad too. I drew him an icing sad face with a tear on his cheek.
It was an okay lesson, it just made me sad because we were thinking back to our childhood, the games we played and such. 5-6 were sad years for me. 5-15 as a whole were pretty wank, to be honest.
I met up with Shelly during the lunch break and I ate a bag of Mexican chilli McCoys and a big Aero bar. I felt really shitty so I was sat at the table tearing the Aero wrapper into tiny pieces. The caretaker gave me a weird look, but I assured him I'd dispose of it when I was finished.
Shelly could see I was sad, so she tried to cuddle me, but it didn't make me feel much better. We were discussing people and events that depress me, so it was obvious she couldn't.
I was proper thirsty too, because I'd forgotten my bottle of water.
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Photography pissed me right off.
First off we had Shelly suddenly getting in a pissy mood herself - but this was likely due to Paul being a right arsehole. Michelle said he's looking for any excuse to kick Shelly off the course. He was a twat to her last year as well, but he's even worse now. Apparently she distracts me - no, if anything, I distract myself. And I distract her more than she distracts me.
The whole lesson was a "peer marking" session. Seriously fucking shit. We all had our icons work up on the walls (mine was on the whiteboard because I hadn't printed it) and we had to basically wander around the classroom with sheets of paper, writing comments, constructive criticism and giving them marks out of 10.
I was quite reserved when I marked Michelle's - because I quite like her. But I don't know the others in the group, and they're sort of twats to me. Oh, and they're strangers - I'm very rude to strangers I've noticed.
So my critique of theirs was a bit more harsh. Roxy's was okay, pretty close to Michelle's - but I was really harsh with Johnny's. He deserved it though, the prick. He gave me 4/10.
AT LEAST YOU COULD TELL WHAT MY FUCKING IMAGES WERE OF!
I MAY HAVE USED THE SAME OBJECT TWICE, BUT AT LEAST MY ARRANGEMENT WASN'T WANK! EVERYONE EVEN TOLD YOU IT WAS WANK.
AT LEAST I VARIED IN COLOUR! IT WASN'T ALL BLACK AND BROWN.
Capital letters rant over. :)
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When I got home, I played Guitar Hero: World Tour.
I was mainly getting scores for the new free DLC I'd never played. No wonder they give these songs away for free - they're ALL shit!
The only two decent free ones are Grave Of Opportunity and Electro Rock.
Then I attempted to give Guitar Hero 5 another try.
OH, THERE'S HOPE FOR IT NOW. :)
Yes, the career has merged so it's one for all of the instruments, instead of 4 separate ones... BUT.
There's a new feature - instrument challenges!
Each song has a different one, so one would be drums while another is bass, vocals, guitar or whole band.
They're things like 'hit 200 snare beats' for drums, 'whammy sustains for 1 minute' for guitar and the best one that I proper OWNED: 'hit 300 notes using only UP STRUMS' for bass.
I did it on Expert too. :P
I'm going through the career mainly on Expert bass, getting the scores, then switching to the other instruments for the challenges. There's even gigs where you can choose your own song - including DLC.
So I chose Jessie's Girl on Expert lead and scored 100%. I had to hit as many chords as I could, but there wasn't enough in the actual song to get the diamond rank. I'll have to try it again with something more complex.
I also like the fact that 100% FC gets you SIX STARS.
100%s are optional, but they earn you more stars and they're ever so sexy. You also can't tell what instrument and level you've done the song on - so you could have gone through the entire thing on Beginner and nobody would know.
But I'm making it fun for myself with Expert bass. It is really easy though, compared to Greatest Hits.
Yes, the quickplay is a bit wank - it only shows one score instead of 5 for all the separate levels. The interface is still a bit shitty - and you can't give custom characters fucking beards!
I've been wondering for ages now why Ashley Darwin and Dudley Boone look so fucked - it's because they have BALD FACES.
I have my four custom characters set up as the band on-screen. They look so sexy together. I don't think I've ever seen it before. :)
[Blog #262] --- Content --- [Saturday] - Saturday, Something Missing Here?
I was the first to wake up this morning.
We'd sort of arranged ourselves in a broken circle: Adam over by the TV, me and my airbed diagonally parallel, with Shelly on the sofa to my left and Ash on the sofa behind me.
Naturally, when I woke up, the first thing I saw were Ash's nostrils lmfao. She looks quite cute in her sleep - she doesn't look a great deal different, there's no weird face distortion like most people, squinty eyes and gaping jaws - nah, Ash looks pretty normal in that sense, but I was below her and her head was tilted, so I could proper see inside her nose. :)
I woke Adam and Ash up - but Shelly was more of a struggle - and I had to resort to practically diving on top of her to do so.
By the time we'd alternated around the bathroom - disregarding Ash of course, because she doesn't do sleepover showers - sorted out all the bedding and airbeds, we brought down my new PS2 and the GH drums.
We kicked it off with some We Love Katamari - level alternations. :)
We took it in turns making huge Katamaris and smashing them into stardust, because we didn't ever seem to beat my older scores. Ash and Shelly really seem to like it - of course, we had to play it because they were both practically begging me - mainly Ash. :)
We ate the cold boxed parmo from last night - and my word, it was epic and heavenly. :)
It was fucking legendary warm, but it's even better cold the next day. Then we broke into the cream cheese and chive pretzels that Shelly hated the smell of - and drank practically all of the Cherry Coke. :)
I sampled a bit of Maximo - and re-fell in love with it. :)
After a few seconds in the first level, and after hearing that old coin noise, I was drooling at it again. Ahhhh, Maximo. Another PS2 classic everyone must own. :)
I played through a few levels, then swapped to Silent Hill 3.
I got really fucking frustrated with it because the opening sequence is stupidly dark and I spent like 20 minutes looking for a door in the wrong place. Gaaaah.
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Ash, Shelly and I finished off the Guitar Hero: Metallica band career, with the ocassional input from Adam, who was off in his own little world with his iPod.
Then, with reluctance from me - we went to Guitar Hero 5.
Naturally, I refused to play it, it's still one game that hasn't gotten through to me yet. I just watched those three messing around on it - mainly Adam doing a solo drum lark. :)
Today has been fucked. It's only really Shelly who's had any life in her.
I've been in my usual neutral-bordering-content mood - but Ash hasn't seemed herself, and Adam's been really depressed, sat on the sofa with his iPod for an alarming amount of time. I wasn't very happy about it, but I just left him to it.
I tried to cheer Ash up, I cuddled her a lot and always let her decide on what game we'd be playing next. It was all rather off... I feel content, but it there seemed something missing.
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Out of the few photos we took together, this is the only reasonable one. They were all at fucked angles and we were always pulling fucked up faces. Even using the timer setting on the camera, we managed to fuck it up. :)
This is a potential photo to go in the photo frame Christine got me. I'm still deciding.
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Ash went home at 7 - not long after we'd taken that epic photo, and Adam followed her about 20 minutes later.
Shelly was going to go at 10, but she ended up spending the night instead. :D
It was a great combo. After we'd finished cleaning up downstairs, moving the consoles back to where they should be and so on - I got myself the bottle of Jaques and the bottle of WKD for Shelly, two pint glasses and ice - and we played We Love Katamari - co-op mode. :D
It's so fucking weird. Very difficult, and it does indeed require a lot of teamwork, but oddly enough - the two of us together managed to beat my score on the underwater level. All our other efforts fell short a bit, but we didn't ever fail a level together. :)
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Dixie currently feels:
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Blog #261
Saturday, Something Missing Here?
Saturday, Something Missing Here?
I was the first to wake up this morning.
We'd sort of arranged ourselves in a broken circle: Adam over by the TV, me and my airbed diagonally parallel, with Shelly on the sofa to my left and Ash on the sofa behind me.
Naturally, when I woke up, the first thing I saw were Ash's nostrils lmfao. She looks quite cute in her sleep - she doesn't look a great deal different, there's no weird face distortion like most people, squinty eyes and gaping jaws - nah, Ash looks pretty normal in that sense, but I was below her and her head was tilted, so I could proper see inside her nose. :)
I woke Adam and Ash up - but Shelly was more of a struggle - and I had to resort to practically diving on top of her to do so.
By the time we'd alternated around the bathroom - disregarding Ash of course, because she doesn't do sleepover showers - sorted out all the bedding and airbeds, we brought down my new PS2 and the GH drums.
We kicked it off with some We Love Katamari - level alternations. :)
We took it in turns making huge Katamaris and smashing them into stardust, because we didn't ever seem to beat my older scores. Ash and Shelly really seem to like it - of course, we had to play it because they were both practically begging me - mainly Ash. :)
We ate the cold boxed parmo from last night - and my word, it was epic and heavenly. :)
It was fucking legendary warm, but it's even better cold the next day. Then we broke into the cream cheese and chive pretzels that Shelly hated the smell of - and drank practically all of the Cherry Coke. :)
I sampled a bit of Maximo - and re-fell in love with it. :)
After a few seconds in the first level, and after hearing that old coin noise, I was drooling at it again. Ahhhh, Maximo. Another PS2 classic everyone must own. :)
I played through a few levels, then swapped to Silent Hill 3.
I got really fucking frustrated with it because the opening sequence is stupidly dark and I spent like 20 minutes looking for a door in the wrong place. Gaaaah.
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Ash, Shelly and I finished off the Guitar Hero: Metallica band career, with the ocassional input from Adam, who was off in his own little world with his iPod.
Then, with reluctance from me - we went to Guitar Hero 5.
Naturally, I refused to play it, it's still one game that hasn't gotten through to me yet. I just watched those three messing around on it - mainly Adam doing a solo drum lark. :)
Today has been fucked. It's only really Shelly who's had any life in her.
I've been in my usual neutral-bordering-content mood - but Ash hasn't seemed herself, and Adam's been really depressed, sat on the sofa with his iPod for an alarming amount of time. I wasn't very happy about it, but I just left him to it.
I tried to cheer Ash up, I cuddled her a lot and always let her decide on what game we'd be playing next. It was all rather off... I feel content, but it there seemed something missing.
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Out of the few photos we took together, this is the only reasonable one. They were all at fucked angles and we were always pulling fucked up faces. Even using the timer setting on the camera, we managed to fuck it up. :)
This is a potential photo to go in the photo frame Christine got me. I'm still deciding.
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Ash went home at 7 - not long after we'd taken that epic photo, and Adam followed her about 20 minutes later.
Shelly was going to go at 10, but she ended up spending the night instead. :D
It was a great combo. After we'd finished cleaning up downstairs, moving the consoles back to where they should be and so on - I got myself the bottle of Jaques and the bottle of WKD for Shelly, two pint glasses and ice - and we played We Love Katamari - co-op mode. :D
It's so fucking weird. Very difficult, and it does indeed require a lot of teamwork, but oddly enough - the two of us together managed to beat my score on the underwater level. All our other efforts fell short a bit, but we didn't ever fail a level together. :)
Update and Misc....
Fuzzy was moved into a room late yesterday.They are monitoring his heart and his kidneys,slowly taking him off oxygen.He is still having diaherria though. they cant get that under control.Peggy was very tired this morning when I talked with her. She looked it yesterday,but today you hear it in her voice. She has today covered.Hopefully she can get some sleep while her mom takes dialysis, as her aunt will pick her mom up afterwards.Peggy plans to go home and try to sleep a bit. She needs to. I'm concerned about her. She is gonna collaspe if she doesn't rest soon...She will probably get me to help her tomorrow...
James and I went yard sale-ing this morning. it gives us something to do and we never spend much. Maybe a few dollars. Its our Saturday morning routine! We found Morgan a drum set for xbox today! called and woke him up to ask if he wanted them...just $7.00!!! They put everything at half price after 11 am! They are gonna have a great yard sale by doing this and they were cheap anyway! Orginally the drums were $15.00! Came with the rock revolution game. I just hope they work! She said they did and they seem to be in great shape! Wont know til Morgan uses them!
Last weekend we went to Hillsville to the huge flea market there. I didnt think it was as crowded as in years past. Because of the recession many didn't travel for it. Even the vendors were down.We still enjoyed it, just getting away for a day was good! Got to see Morgan too, as he popped home for the weekend cause he bought a drum set and had to pick up his glasses that came in.It was hot though last weekend! I was ready to quit at 2, but James insisted we rest a bit then plow on some more! I was wore out! we got there at 9 that morning, and we finally quit about 4:30...still about 3-4 hours left that next day to cover it all. We got to our room about 5 and collasped. I got a shower and saw that I was sunburned! ouch! I put sunscreen on! anyway, we walked over to Sagebrush to eat. we were too beat to drive anywhere. waited an hour to sit, then waited 30 mintues for our food.... Finished at 8 then went back to room and fell into bed! we were asleep by 10! whew! Up at 7 next day and started again! we finished about 10:30...I will never do that again! I cant take the heat anymore. I feel like i'm gonna pass out in it. today while yard sale-ing I felt like it again. I get really weak all of a sudden and feel shaky, and cant get a good breath... I dont know what it is...but it bothers me. Since I turned 46 this year, I feel like my body is deserting me... Perimenopause... Hot flashes, cold,chills, now this with the heat. I get too hot now...Maybe I should get checked out by the doctor. Mood swings too! I can bite someones head off if they cross me at the wrong time of the month now!!!I cant help it either. Family will just have to deal with it!! looks like I've got a ways to go before I'm out. Most of my friends tell me it ends about the time you turn 50ish!! So I'm looking at 4 more years of this!??? Ouch!!!
We went to the West game last night..It was really wierd with Ariana not cheering... Still saw a lot of parents there whose kids graduated with Ariana. Even saw some there home for the weekend from college. Just as 4th quarter started,it starts raining...I look at James and start laughing...we wait a bit, and it starts getting harder, so pack up and leave. passed several others and we said"No need to get wet this year! Not sitting in any rain!" everyone laughed. last year see, it practically rained every football game! and we had to stay then! With Ariana cheering and James head of concessions, there was no leaving. Sat under an umbrella most of the season and learned to deal with getting wet! So, last night was fun to get up and leave with everyone else!! We sat in car and listened to the rest of the game...West won, 28-21...Its a wonder though as many passes as they threw and missed,dropped or whatever...They lost over half the team as most were Sr.'s. last years team was great..
Of course all the parents still there saw James and tried to get him back,or tell him they miss him doing concessions! Some even told him that it went downhill a bit! Oh well! It's time for other parents to step up to the plate and do it!! The new couple that took over the concessions said they didnt really know just how much work it took to keep it up! Ha! We told em!!its like having a second job with no pay! and then no other parents want to help.."Oh I have to see my child play!" what's one night??? oh well, not our concern anymore! we will go to most of the home games I guess. I especially want to see Homecoming... the athletic director gave James a pass for this year, for all the years he put in as head of concessions. Old saying goes, no one appreciates you until you aren't there!
Wow! 2 days at once on here1 I'm on a roll!!
James and I went yard sale-ing this morning. it gives us something to do and we never spend much. Maybe a few dollars. Its our Saturday morning routine! We found Morgan a drum set for xbox today! called and woke him up to ask if he wanted them...just $7.00!!! They put everything at half price after 11 am! They are gonna have a great yard sale by doing this and they were cheap anyway! Orginally the drums were $15.00! Came with the rock revolution game. I just hope they work! She said they did and they seem to be in great shape! Wont know til Morgan uses them!
Last weekend we went to Hillsville to the huge flea market there. I didnt think it was as crowded as in years past. Because of the recession many didn't travel for it. Even the vendors were down.We still enjoyed it, just getting away for a day was good! Got to see Morgan too, as he popped home for the weekend cause he bought a drum set and had to pick up his glasses that came in.It was hot though last weekend! I was ready to quit at 2, but James insisted we rest a bit then plow on some more! I was wore out! we got there at 9 that morning, and we finally quit about 4:30...still about 3-4 hours left that next day to cover it all. We got to our room about 5 and collasped. I got a shower and saw that I was sunburned! ouch! I put sunscreen on! anyway, we walked over to Sagebrush to eat. we were too beat to drive anywhere. waited an hour to sit, then waited 30 mintues for our food.... Finished at 8 then went back to room and fell into bed! we were asleep by 10! whew! Up at 7 next day and started again! we finished about 10:30...I will never do that again! I cant take the heat anymore. I feel like i'm gonna pass out in it. today while yard sale-ing I felt like it again. I get really weak all of a sudden and feel shaky, and cant get a good breath... I dont know what it is...but it bothers me. Since I turned 46 this year, I feel like my body is deserting me... Perimenopause... Hot flashes, cold,chills, now this with the heat. I get too hot now...Maybe I should get checked out by the doctor. Mood swings too! I can bite someones head off if they cross me at the wrong time of the month now!!!I cant help it either. Family will just have to deal with it!! looks like I've got a ways to go before I'm out. Most of my friends tell me it ends about the time you turn 50ish!! So I'm looking at 4 more years of this!??? Ouch!!!
We went to the West game last night..It was really wierd with Ariana not cheering... Still saw a lot of parents there whose kids graduated with Ariana. Even saw some there home for the weekend from college. Just as 4th quarter started,it starts raining...I look at James and start laughing...we wait a bit, and it starts getting harder, so pack up and leave. passed several others and we said"No need to get wet this year! Not sitting in any rain!" everyone laughed. last year see, it practically rained every football game! and we had to stay then! With Ariana cheering and James head of concessions, there was no leaving. Sat under an umbrella most of the season and learned to deal with getting wet! So, last night was fun to get up and leave with everyone else!! We sat in car and listened to the rest of the game...West won, 28-21...Its a wonder though as many passes as they threw and missed,dropped or whatever...They lost over half the team as most were Sr.'s. last years team was great..
Of course all the parents still there saw James and tried to get him back,or tell him they miss him doing concessions! Some even told him that it went downhill a bit! Oh well! It's time for other parents to step up to the plate and do it!! The new couple that took over the concessions said they didnt really know just how much work it took to keep it up! Ha! We told em!!its like having a second job with no pay! and then no other parents want to help.."Oh I have to see my child play!" what's one night??? oh well, not our concern anymore! we will go to most of the home games I guess. I especially want to see Homecoming... the athletic director gave James a pass for this year, for all the years he put in as head of concessions. Old saying goes, no one appreciates you until you aren't there!
Wow! 2 days at once on here1 I'm on a roll!!
[Blog #224] --- Neutral --- [Thursday] - Models, Marathons and MAM (no seriously)
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Soooo...
Naturally, I had to wake up reasonably early today to go into college and collect the shitty envelope.
As it often goes... We have the good, the bad and the ugly.
But mine is the reasonable, the shit and the unexpected.
The shit of course, is my English Language.
Go and fuck yourself AQA - you pile of wank with your dodgy as fuck exam papers and your shitty coursework.
Put it this way, if I'd gotten a D - I'd be deleting all of my writing and never writing another sentence. As far as I'm aware, DATWBSVOH, TFATH, #1263 and the rest of them are still in their folder.
You are supposed to get two grades lower than your GCSE results.
So I was supposed to drop from my sexy A* to a B - BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
The reasonable is my Photography.
I expected a C - I got one. No harm done.
But it's hilarious - I was the 4th highest in the group for sketchbook marks.
PAUL'S SKETCHBOOK MARKS - hence the reason everyone's got a shock today, he marked them all wrong.
Michelle was first, Ash was second, Shelly was third and I was fourth.
Exam results determined that...
I came first! :D
I BEAT ASH. I BEAT ASH, I BEAT ASH, I BEAT AAAAAASSSSSHHH!!!
Mwah ha ha, that's all I wanted to do. :D
I beat her by seven marks. We both got C - which is alright. :)
But the real shock came when Michelle got a D and Shelly got a fucking E!
I knew Paul's marking was fucked but I hadn't realised HOW fucked.
And now for the unexpected.
Going with the 'drop-two-grades' theory - I should have gotten a B for Media Studies.
Nah. I didn't do that.
GOT A FUCKING A INSTEAD. LMFAO.
Well, my coursework was totally epic and the exam was a pile of piss.
Lewis and Ash both got the same grade for coursework. :D
We all got Bs for the coursework and As for the exam - which just goes to show, I wasn't the only one who pissed all over it. Take THAT, AQA!
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I'd barely had my results in my hand for a second when mam had taken them off me and Sarah had swooped over, asking how I'd done.
To which I simply responded: "I don't know, I've only looked at them for A SECOND."
Sarah was pleased with me - she even said that if I carry on the same standard at A2, I could end up with an A*. Sounds alright, but will it be possible?
I passed Dianne on the way out too. She was more pleased with me than my mam was...
And as I was leaving, I had the voice in the head that was saying: "OMG, DIANNE JUST SAW YOUR MAM."
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On the way home, we stopped off at Hairwaves.
Debbie was outside having a cigarette. She was more pleased with my results than my mam was as well.
Of course, I pulled my modest face. Well, it was sort of modest - sort of embarrassed at how shit my fucking English grade was.
I got my eyebrows waxed. :)
It was weird this time, I actually had it done in the upstairs room, laid on this random bed with some weird arse piano concerto coupled with ocean sounds playing in the background.
I've discovered that apparently I have beasty follicles - which apparently makes waxing my eyebrows hurt a lot more than it'd hurt anyone else.
But it proper DOESN'T hurt. :/
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When we got home, I played Super Smash Bros.
I managed to finish the single-player mode with Samus, along with finishing one or two of the shitty bonus levels - with thanks to video tutorials on YouTube. :)
Mam came up, she'd been out and bought me a reward for my results, along with a card that was addressed to "MEDIA GENIUS".
Inside it said: "We are VERY VERY VERY proud of you" - I wonder if she means that. I'm pondering, is mam like me? Is she far better in words than she is in speech?
Either way, she gave me cards to give to Shelly and Ash too.
I rang Ash not long after I'd gotten home - her mam is proper buzzing off the walls.
And she's gotten her place at university - good on her. :D
But back to the point, this is the arrangement of stuff that I pulled out of the bag she presented me:
Modelling clay and Haribo Maom! :D
It's a very colourful collection of stuff.
So naturally, I started making things, as I listened to Rammstein and ate chews. :)
All I have to do is look around my room and there's endless characters jumping out at me.
There's Link, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, various Pokémon, various Simpsons characters, Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, Wario, Cortex and several Happy Tree Friends characters.
So of course, I can't decide who to make first!
I've made three today:
There's Pikachu - my first. :D
Made on request by mam - Psyduck.
When I asked who I should make next, she said "that orange duck who always had a headache" :)
There's the figure to compare it too, but I think I made him a bit TOO orange...
And straying away from the Pokémon theme - Homer Simpson. :)
He was proper staring at me from my collection of action figures on top of the bookshelf, so I made him too. :)
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I went downstairs after this and watched telly with mam for a bit.
We watched Come Dine With Me and Roar.
Then I persuaded her to come play on the Wii with me.
We started out playing Wii Play - but she got fed up with me winning dramatically every time, so we swapped to Guitar Hero.
Now this persuasion worked a little TOO well - we were playing from 4PM till 7:30PM. :)
We started out on Expert-Guitar, Easy-Bass combination, but then mam wanted to go on vocals.
So I swapped to drums - so then we had Medium-Drums, Easy-Vocals combination.
We went through all the songs on GH: Greatest Hits that she knew, then we switched to GH: World Tour to play more.
In all, we must've played over 40 songs in total.
Fucking hilarious at some parts though, mam's freestyles were just EPIC.
"I don't want to freeeeeeestyle, coz it's embarraaaaaaassing... But I get points, soooooo...!!!"
We had to keep pausing the game though, because people kept ringing us both to see how I'd done in my exams. We had nana, Ian, Paul and even Tracey had congratulated me over Facebook.
But of course, dad didn't even ring me up. This gave mam something else to moan at him about, but...
At the same time, this upset me. He was even in my room at one point - the two cards for Ash and Shelly, along with my results slip was ON THE DESK. He put them on the bed without even glancing at them or sparing a thought. :(
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Then I ate chicken legs and chicken noodles. A mint combination. :)
I watched How Clean Is Your House? with mam, then this random documentary about this woman who tried to smuggle cocaine through Cuba.
At 11, I spoke to Shelly on the phone for an hour.
It was a conversation with mixed emotions.
I had my occasional shout at her when she started being stupid, talking about how she's starving herself to get to a size 14.
Seriously, if she ends up thinner than me, I'll feel so fucking self-concious.
I'd never have sex with someone if they were smaller than me. Bigger is fine and the same size is fine too.
I don't care how fat someone is, as long as they love me for who I am.
But if they were thinner than me, I'd utterly refuse to be naked with them. :(
Dixie currently feels:
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Blog #224
Models, Marathons and MAM
(no seriously)
Models, Marathons and MAM
(no seriously)
Soooo...
Naturally, I had to wake up reasonably early today to go into college and collect the shitty envelope.
As it often goes... We have the good, the bad and the ugly.
But mine is the reasonable, the shit and the unexpected.
The shit of course, is my English Language.
Go and fuck yourself AQA - you pile of wank with your dodgy as fuck exam papers and your shitty coursework.
Put it this way, if I'd gotten a D - I'd be deleting all of my writing and never writing another sentence. As far as I'm aware, DATWBSVOH, TFATH, #1263 and the rest of them are still in their folder.
You are supposed to get two grades lower than your GCSE results.
So I was supposed to drop from my sexy A* to a B - BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
The reasonable is my Photography.
I expected a C - I got one. No harm done.
But it's hilarious - I was the 4th highest in the group for sketchbook marks.
PAUL'S SKETCHBOOK MARKS - hence the reason everyone's got a shock today, he marked them all wrong.
Michelle was first, Ash was second, Shelly was third and I was fourth.
Exam results determined that...
I came first! :D
I BEAT ASH. I BEAT ASH, I BEAT ASH, I BEAT AAAAAASSSSSHHH!!!
Mwah ha ha, that's all I wanted to do. :D
I beat her by seven marks. We both got C - which is alright. :)
But the real shock came when Michelle got a D and Shelly got a fucking E!
I knew Paul's marking was fucked but I hadn't realised HOW fucked.
And now for the unexpected.
Going with the 'drop-two-grades' theory - I should have gotten a B for Media Studies.
Nah. I didn't do that.
GOT A FUCKING A INSTEAD. LMFAO.
Well, my coursework was totally epic and the exam was a pile of piss.
Lewis and Ash both got the same grade for coursework. :D
We all got Bs for the coursework and As for the exam - which just goes to show, I wasn't the only one who pissed all over it. Take THAT, AQA!
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I'd barely had my results in my hand for a second when mam had taken them off me and Sarah had swooped over, asking how I'd done.
To which I simply responded: "I don't know, I've only looked at them for A SECOND."
Sarah was pleased with me - she even said that if I carry on the same standard at A2, I could end up with an A*. Sounds alright, but will it be possible?
I passed Dianne on the way out too. She was more pleased with me than my mam was...
And as I was leaving, I had the voice in the head that was saying: "OMG, DIANNE JUST SAW YOUR MAM."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On the way home, we stopped off at Hairwaves.
Debbie was outside having a cigarette. She was more pleased with my results than my mam was as well.
Of course, I pulled my modest face. Well, it was sort of modest - sort of embarrassed at how shit my fucking English grade was.
I got my eyebrows waxed. :)
It was weird this time, I actually had it done in the upstairs room, laid on this random bed with some weird arse piano concerto coupled with ocean sounds playing in the background.
I've discovered that apparently I have beasty follicles - which apparently makes waxing my eyebrows hurt a lot more than it'd hurt anyone else.
But it proper DOESN'T hurt. :/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When we got home, I played Super Smash Bros.
I managed to finish the single-player mode with Samus, along with finishing one or two of the shitty bonus levels - with thanks to video tutorials on YouTube. :)
Mam came up, she'd been out and bought me a reward for my results, along with a card that was addressed to "MEDIA GENIUS".
Inside it said: "We are VERY VERY VERY proud of you" - I wonder if she means that. I'm pondering, is mam like me? Is she far better in words than she is in speech?
Either way, she gave me cards to give to Shelly and Ash too.
I rang Ash not long after I'd gotten home - her mam is proper buzzing off the walls.
And she's gotten her place at university - good on her. :D
But back to the point, this is the arrangement of stuff that I pulled out of the bag she presented me:
Modelling clay and Haribo Maom! :D
It's a very colourful collection of stuff.
So naturally, I started making things, as I listened to Rammstein and ate chews. :)
All I have to do is look around my room and there's endless characters jumping out at me.
There's Link, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, various Pokémon, various Simpsons characters, Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, Wario, Cortex and several Happy Tree Friends characters.
So of course, I can't decide who to make first!
I've made three today:
There's Pikachu - my first. :D
Made on request by mam - Psyduck.
When I asked who I should make next, she said "that orange duck who always had a headache" :)
There's the figure to compare it too, but I think I made him a bit TOO orange...
And straying away from the Pokémon theme - Homer Simpson. :)
He was proper staring at me from my collection of action figures on top of the bookshelf, so I made him too. :)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I went downstairs after this and watched telly with mam for a bit.
We watched Come Dine With Me and Roar.
Then I persuaded her to come play on the Wii with me.
We started out playing Wii Play - but she got fed up with me winning dramatically every time, so we swapped to Guitar Hero.
Now this persuasion worked a little TOO well - we were playing from 4PM till 7:30PM. :)
We started out on Expert-Guitar, Easy-Bass combination, but then mam wanted to go on vocals.
So I swapped to drums - so then we had Medium-Drums, Easy-Vocals combination.
We went through all the songs on GH: Greatest Hits that she knew, then we switched to GH: World Tour to play more.
In all, we must've played over 40 songs in total.
Fucking hilarious at some parts though, mam's freestyles were just EPIC.
"I don't want to freeeeeeestyle, coz it's embarraaaaaaassing... But I get points, soooooo...!!!"
We had to keep pausing the game though, because people kept ringing us both to see how I'd done in my exams. We had nana, Ian, Paul and even Tracey had congratulated me over Facebook.
But of course, dad didn't even ring me up. This gave mam something else to moan at him about, but...
At the same time, this upset me. He was even in my room at one point - the two cards for Ash and Shelly, along with my results slip was ON THE DESK. He put them on the bed without even glancing at them or sparing a thought. :(
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Then I ate chicken legs and chicken noodles. A mint combination. :)
I watched How Clean Is Your House? with mam, then this random documentary about this woman who tried to smuggle cocaine through Cuba.
At 11, I spoke to Shelly on the phone for an hour.
It was a conversation with mixed emotions.
I had my occasional shout at her when she started being stupid, talking about how she's starving herself to get to a size 14.
Seriously, if she ends up thinner than me, I'll feel so fucking self-concious.
I'd never have sex with someone if they were smaller than me. Bigger is fine and the same size is fine too.
I don't care how fat someone is, as long as they love me for who I am.
But if they were thinner than me, I'd utterly refuse to be naked with them. :(
[Blog #196] --- Content --- [Saturday] - Resident Evil Randomness!
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Summer Accomplishments:
- Completed Resident Evil Zero (GC)
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Today's been a pretty cool Saturday I've spent with Ash.
We'd barely been in my room for about 10 minutes when I was making her go on Facebook and respond to the friend requests and messages that people had been sending her.
I even had to tell her to write a nicer response to one of them - as it was horribly blunt and practically ignored all the questions she'd been asked. Ash can be so rude sometimes.
We played Guitar Hero: Metallica today. It's been a while - as it's been overshadowed by the greatness of GH: Greatest Hits.
We started out on quickplay - I sang the three songs I actually know. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Enter Sandman and Toxicity. Metallica's setlist fails so epically.
Then we completed a full tier on the band career. Ash was on hard lead and I was on expert bass. We mainly got 4 stars, thanks to Ash being a general bodge-up - but we got a few 5 stars too.
Ash broke her sneezing record as well.
She actually sneezed SEVENTEEN TIMES IN A ROW.
I was sat there pissing myself, wondering if it was ever going to end.
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Ash was definatley in the Resident Evil mood today.
She practically begged me to play Resident Evil Zero.
I feel so bad sometimes, I start playing the games with Ash watching, and I get the urge to carry on when she's not there - and the same can be said for Adam. She was confused at where I was, she'd missed practically all of the mansion and the first Tyrant fight.
Oh, and never listen to strategy guides.
They OVER EXAGGERATE LIKE FUCK.
The guide practically made out that the final boss was impossible and you'd need like 5 sets of herbs and 4 different guns.
Mate, I killed it with a fucking SHOTGUN.
AND IT DIDN'T EVEN HURT ME ONCE.
Resident Evil is a twat with its serious anticlimax boss fights.
The only boss that's ever killed me was Tyrant on Resident Evil 1.
I laughed at the Resident Evil 2 bosses, all of them were stupidly easy.
Nemesis' final form was a disappointment - compared to what he's like when he still chases you around in his trenchcoat.
And this boss was ridiculous as well - you didn't even end up KILLING IT - you were merely DISTRACTING IT.
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After we'd eaten hotdogs - I had cheese with mine, Ash had tomato sauce - we played a few songs on GH: Greatest Hits.
Ash even commented that it felt weird us playing without any guitars.
I was on vocals, she went on drums.
It was hilarious when she was putting the Wii remote in the slot.
I had some clean shirts and jeans on my drums that I hadn't gotten around to putting away yet.
Ash goes: "Where do you want these?"
I go: "Oh, anywhere."
I go to take them from her and *DROP*.
I suppose you just had to be there - we were pissing. :D
After I'd told Ash about the forum post about TTFAF drums, she wanted to try it out.
"The vocalist falls asleep. The bassist falls asleep. The guitarist has fun. And the drummer DIES."
The drummer DID die - Ash failed during a part where there wasn't any vocals to keep the rock meter out of red. :)
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After this, Ash requested I start Resident Evil: Code Veronica X.
The only Resident Evil game I own and was yet to play.
She got it down off the shelf and I said: "DON'T EVEN BOTHER SAYING 'LOLCLAIRE'."
But then when I turned back to face her, I had a face full of cover art.
Ash didn't even NEED to say it.
We can blame Adam for that one. :D
Oh but it's horrible!
The graphics... Well, they're OKAY...
But not after you've just been playing Resident Evil Zero!
Zero has smooth Gamecube high-quality graphics.
Code Veronica looks like a slightly smoothened PS1-early PS2 graphics.
I did get used to it - the CHEESIEST VOICE ACTING EVER cheered me up.
I thought the likes of Resident Evil 1 was bad with the "You, the MASTER OF UNLOCKING." and "You were almost a JILL SANDWICH!"
No, Code Veronica beats them all.
Steve's VOICE is the most annoying thing I've ever heard.
Alfred's LAUGH is the weirdest noise I've ever heard.
Ash and I were in fits.
And there's SO MANY cutscenes too, so we got to hear a lot of this. :D
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And in Farmville news - I've got two more brown cows, and I'm now at level 18. :D
Shelly isn't pleased. She's afraid of me overtaking her.
I'm not even competing with her.
She's just being horribly childish. Even threatening to stop talking to me if I end up with more brown cows than her.
Pathetic really. :(
Dixie currently feels:
Content
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Blog #196
Resident Evil Randomness!
Resident Evil Randomness!
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Summer Accomplishments:
- Completed Resident Evil Zero (GC)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Today's been a pretty cool Saturday I've spent with Ash.
We'd barely been in my room for about 10 minutes when I was making her go on Facebook and respond to the friend requests and messages that people had been sending her.
I even had to tell her to write a nicer response to one of them - as it was horribly blunt and practically ignored all the questions she'd been asked. Ash can be so rude sometimes.
We played Guitar Hero: Metallica today. It's been a while - as it's been overshadowed by the greatness of GH: Greatest Hits.
We started out on quickplay - I sang the three songs I actually know. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Enter Sandman and Toxicity. Metallica's setlist fails so epically.
Then we completed a full tier on the band career. Ash was on hard lead and I was on expert bass. We mainly got 4 stars, thanks to Ash being a general bodge-up - but we got a few 5 stars too.
Ash broke her sneezing record as well.
She actually sneezed SEVENTEEN TIMES IN A ROW.
I was sat there pissing myself, wondering if it was ever going to end.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ash was definatley in the Resident Evil mood today.
She practically begged me to play Resident Evil Zero.
I feel so bad sometimes, I start playing the games with Ash watching, and I get the urge to carry on when she's not there - and the same can be said for Adam. She was confused at where I was, she'd missed practically all of the mansion and the first Tyrant fight.
Oh, and never listen to strategy guides.
They OVER EXAGGERATE LIKE FUCK.
The guide practically made out that the final boss was impossible and you'd need like 5 sets of herbs and 4 different guns.
Mate, I killed it with a fucking SHOTGUN.
AND IT DIDN'T EVEN HURT ME ONCE.
Resident Evil is a twat with its serious anticlimax boss fights.
The only boss that's ever killed me was Tyrant on Resident Evil 1.
I laughed at the Resident Evil 2 bosses, all of them were stupidly easy.
Nemesis' final form was a disappointment - compared to what he's like when he still chases you around in his trenchcoat.
And this boss was ridiculous as well - you didn't even end up KILLING IT - you were merely DISTRACTING IT.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After we'd eaten hotdogs - I had cheese with mine, Ash had tomato sauce - we played a few songs on GH: Greatest Hits.
Ash even commented that it felt weird us playing without any guitars.
I was on vocals, she went on drums.
It was hilarious when she was putting the Wii remote in the slot.
I had some clean shirts and jeans on my drums that I hadn't gotten around to putting away yet.
Ash goes: "Where do you want these?"
I go: "Oh, anywhere."
I go to take them from her and *DROP*.
I suppose you just had to be there - we were pissing. :D
After I'd told Ash about the forum post about TTFAF drums, she wanted to try it out.
"The vocalist falls asleep. The bassist falls asleep. The guitarist has fun. And the drummer DIES."
The drummer DID die - Ash failed during a part where there wasn't any vocals to keep the rock meter out of red. :)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After this, Ash requested I start Resident Evil: Code Veronica X.
The only Resident Evil game I own and was yet to play.
She got it down off the shelf and I said: "DON'T EVEN BOTHER SAYING 'LOLCLAIRE'."
But then when I turned back to face her, I had a face full of cover art.
Ash didn't even NEED to say it.
We can blame Adam for that one. :D
Oh but it's horrible!
The graphics... Well, they're OKAY...
But not after you've just been playing Resident Evil Zero!
Zero has smooth Gamecube high-quality graphics.
Code Veronica looks like a slightly smoothened PS1-early PS2 graphics.
I did get used to it - the CHEESIEST VOICE ACTING EVER cheered me up.
I thought the likes of Resident Evil 1 was bad with the "You, the MASTER OF UNLOCKING." and "You were almost a JILL SANDWICH!"
No, Code Veronica beats them all.
Steve's VOICE is the most annoying thing I've ever heard.
Alfred's LAUGH is the weirdest noise I've ever heard.
Ash and I were in fits.
And there's SO MANY cutscenes too, so we got to hear a lot of this. :D
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And in Farmville news - I've got two more brown cows, and I'm now at level 18. :D
Shelly isn't pleased. She's afraid of me overtaking her.
I'm not even competing with her.
She's just being horribly childish. Even threatening to stop talking to me if I end up with more brown cows than her.
Pathetic really. :(
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