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Since Shelly was away freezing her arse off in Blackpool for the weekend, today was an Ash-only Saturday. I like the odd Ash-only day. :)
Sure, I like spending my private time alone with Shelly, and I love the way we are together in our group of three - but Ash-only days are mint in their own little way. We can play games that would normally bore Shelly and discuss matters of a similar nature. And of course, I can discuss RCP matters and ensure I get 100% feedback - because normally, Shelly isn't ever arsed to contribute and I think it influences Ash a bit.
 
Before she came, I bit the bullet and decided to play a new game. I'm now at the point where there's too many of them and they won't all fit in the "to be played wallet" - and they're never to be moved to the "to be completed wallet" until they've actually been played. I'm proper OCD about my games wallets like. :)
 
So I started playing Ed, Edd 'N' Eddy: The Mis-Edventures. It's actually a lot better than what I expected. Yes, it seems to be short - there's only like 8 levels, on avarage taking about 20 minutes each - so it is a game I could complete in a day - but there's a lot of collectibles to it, and I love sweet obsessive collecting. (Unless it's to collect 1,000,000 roses. :P)
The movies between levels are fairly amusing, just as the cartoons were - the voice actors don't let up and there's tons of humour and jokes relating to the cartoon and the episodes that only true fans, like myself, would understand. :)
 
When Ash arrived, she then persuaded me to play two more new games - Freak Out and Lesuire Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
 
Freak Out is the weirdest pile of shite I've ever seen. :)
It's actually beyond description on several factors. The whole game is animated with a cel-shaded style, but with a slightly darker edge to it. The main monsters are curvy girls wearing bikinis, their hair up in pigtails and their faces are simple three stroke smileys like these: :).
Their tits are three times the size of their bodies and as they walk, they wobble about all over the screen. Oh, and they can also use their tits like a helicopter to regain ground if they happen to blunder off the edge of a cliff.
 
To kill them, you need to grab their hair with your "demon scarf".
Ash and I were pissing ourselves, but our amusement quickly turned to simply a: "WHAT THE FUCK MATE..."
 
And as for Lesuire Suit Larry - I fucking love it, Ash hates it. :)
She doesn't really like it because of the mini-game mission aspect, but I don't suppose she appreciates so much vulgar adult humour. Ash's sense of humour is slightly more sophisticated than mine. :)
 
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When mam and dad were both out - we played Guitar Hero 5 and I did some of the drum challenges. Naturally, I was skanking about on Expert + - but with auto-kick and sometimes No Fail cheats on. Saying that, I was scoring around 98% - and sometimes I actually was kicking the kick pedal, even though it was set to auto-kick. Some of the challenges were a pile of piss, but I reckon some of them, I'll need Shelly as well as Ash backing me up as the star power hoarders. :)
 
Mam and dad went to ASDA shortly after and refilled the vast emptiness that were our fridge and cupboards.
Ash and I ate hot dogs and discussed Spieluhr. Finally, thanks to a little piece of paper - Ash might have a chance at remembering her damn lyrics. Writing it down phonetically for her was a mint idea. :D
 
Oh, and then she agreed to let me paint her face up with the corpse-style face paint and baby powder. It was fun - though she did squirm about a bit. But I'm careful, I never got any in her eyes or up her nose. This is just our first attempt - when we do it for real, it'll be thicker, her eyes will be darker and her lips will be less blue - but I think it's alright for my first go.


 
And because she's strange, she insisted she go home like that. Whatever turns you on Ash. :P

I have a lot of friends, but I feel alone most of the time.

I stopped trusting people a year ago.

The reason behind that is, I'm sick and tired of being used as a shock absorber and "therapy doll".

A lot of my so-called friends cling to me when they go through low points in their lives.

I help them through their darkest hours. They drain me of whatever strength I have. And, when they get to the end of the tunnel, they leave me there. Broken. Drained. Depressed. On the verge of suicide. (Okay, that's a bit too much, but you get the point)
 
When they're happy and in love, they forget about me. They don't even send those cheesy forwarded quotes and jokes through email or SMS anymore.

The last time it happened, it was with a friend I was in love with. I don't know if he knew how I felt, but that's not the point. The point is, you should never do that to your friends.

I'm not asking my so-called friends to return the favor and help me out or anything. When I have a problem, I don't burden anyone else with it. I went through hell and back with only my twin sister as support (I can't hide anything from her) All I am asking is for them to remember me when they DON'T NEED me.

I'm sick and tired of feeling depressed because of everyone else's problems.

I'm a sucker for sad stories though. I just can't stand seeing people feeling hurt and lonely. It's hard for me to say no when a friend asks for help. Some of them even come back after a year or two. Guess what? They've got another problem.

I just hope that the next time I help a friend out (if there's anyone left that I haven't helped) is for our friendship to continue long after they've found their fairy-tale ending.

Trick or Treating in Janesville was super sweet with fellow Mindsayers Foreverknight (Rebekah), paths4byzantium (Rachel), Iverness63 (Josh), and Silverfire85 (Nadine). We had a lot of fun. I could write a novel about it. Heck, I'm still hoarse from talking so damn much with everyone I need to go on a vow of silence just to get my voice back. I'm still pooped from our adventures. Look at Josh in the last photo. All arms folded over the chest like a slumbering vampire. Yeah. Need I say more?



Thank you all for sharing your home with me. *smiles with a tear* Miss you and love you, guys. Now... where is that teleporter so I can just show up whenever I want to without having to take a two hour drive to get to your place? *giggles*



Oh, yeah, and remember that dream-idea-vision thing I had about my friend Pat's charity raffle? If you want to make it a reality, go here! Or go HERE for more info! And Rebekah, those Mother Earth Oracle cards may have alerted us to "Fantasy Transforms Reality" and perhaps this relates to that since we both had it as a future card! But we have to look out for "Those Who Mock Kindliness must Change their minds" because I can see some folks not getting into it and thinking it's not right or real. (just a thought)

I'm still recovering from all the fun I had visiting with Rebekah and Josh last weekend. Looking over the photos I took, I still can't believe it's a week later. In my mind I still feel like I'm back there with them in Janesville! Or like I could just walk next door and there's their house. If I ever wanted to have the super ability to teleport, I'd love to have it now. Words... not even song lyrics can describe clearly how wonderful our visit was. All I can say is wish you were there! And here's the closest thing I can get to teleporting you there... but first we're going to jump into the mountain of leaves Rebekah's daughter Savannah and her friend Ricky created the afternoon just before I left for home! With us is Rebekah's sister Rachael (jeez, hope I spelled your name right! Reply to me and let me know what your mindsay blog is again, Rachael!) who was an absolute gem to hang out with. You all gave me such fond memories, it makes me weep with joy!!!













Before I went go bye-bye, I couldn't resist playing in Rebekah's houseplants:





I want to write more, but the computer labs at the university close in five minutes and I've been sleeping in late (or is that staying up late? BOTH) for the last couple days. More to come! I love sharing. Yay!

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Today proper didn't feel like a Sunday. Obviously as Ash and Shelly were both here - it felt like a Saturday.
Both Shelly and I were very surprised when Ash agreed to come and see us both today. We thought she liked her family Sundays - but obviously today was an exception to the rule.
 
When she arrived, we enlightened her with our exaggerated story about last night's events. Of course, whenever we mentioned the exploding car, we had to wave our arms in the air and make our voices proper high. Ash was pissing herself - I don't know if it was the subject matter or just the way we were gesticulating and articulating the events.
 
We did a bit of work on the Guitar Hero 5 challenges.
Now that I've found that guide online and discovered that using cheats is A-OK - we're rolling in the stars. Tee hee. I wanted to do some drum challenges, but naturally, mam didn't approve. Arsehole.
 
Now that I've discovered I've been singing the lyrics to Spieluhr wrong for all these years - I told Ash what her lyrics actually ARE - and we both agree what they ARE is a lot easier than what I THOUGHT they were. :)
 
Ash got me to try out Half-Life.
I really don't like it, lmao.
I seriously don't like first-person shooters. I like to see my character, for one - but I also don't approve of games where L1 is JUMP. :(

Though the second game I was persuaded to try out made me a lot happier.
Manhunt is so epic. :D
I'm terrible at these type of games though, where stealth and being sneaky are key elements - I'm better at running into opponents and beating them up - but that doesn't work for Manhunt. My way of thinking is landing me with 1-star rankings for all the missions so far. It makes Dixie sad. :(

Though I can't help but smile when I see blood flying about the screen. I grin manically when I suffocate people with plastic bags - and I piss myself laughing when I smash open the skull of a felled victim and their brains splatter up the walls. :D

I also discovered today that Ash, like myself is partial to a saveloy. So I gave her one - though it was a right old song and dance peeling the red skin off them.
Seriously, when I was little I remember eating the skins and nothing came of it... But Shelly assured me it was waxy paper and wasn't for eating. :/