Raining Blood @ MindSay 
Dixie currently feels:
Pleased 
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Lesson I've learnt today:
Don't doubt yourself!
See, and I learnt this lesson all down to Guitar Hero.
Adam's been round today, and we played co-op mode.
I have to use the Wiimote, and I'm much more prone to bodging up with the Wiimote than I am with the guitar, natch.
So, I said I couldn't do Helicopter, by Bloc Party - and it's a really shitty song - but, I went for it.
Last time, we got 3 stars, this time, we got 4.
When we both have guitars, it'll be a 5, I assure you.
After he'd left, I started playing online.
I challenge myself, I set myself little forfeits too.
I'm trying to fill up all the song scores on Quickplay, as well as raise my rankings in the wi-fi stands on the community - www.guitarhero.com...
The link to my page is on the right. :)
So, I said to myself:
"If I lose this one, I do three songs. If I win this one, I do one song."
And I didn't lose any of them - so I was doing one song inbetween each match.
...So, here's where my lesson learnt today really came into play.
I was playing on Face-Off today - and on Face-Off, both players can choose different difficulties.
Now, if they were to pick Easy, I wouldn't pick Expert - for they'd abuse my weakness and pick Through The Fire And Flames.
I have had it happen, when I was on Hard against an Easy - twice.
So, if they chose Easy, I'd choose Medium.
They chose Medium, I'd either match, or choose Hard.
Hard, I would match.
Expert, I would match.
So anyway, I played through about 5 matches, all on Medium, and I was getting bored.
Then I was challenge by some gadge for a 3 song match, and they chose Expert.
So I chose Expert too.
I was worried a little, I haven't played another Expert over wi-fi for AGES.
And they only went and picked Suck My Kiss by Red Hot Chili Peppers - And I HATE that song.
Even so, I beat them by 5%.
So, feeling pleased, I did my one song on Quickplay - then returned to the online menu, and found another opponent.
This gadge was playing on Hard, and he wanted a 7-song match.
This sounded like fun, so I chose my character, and started picking my three songs.
It was by then that I noticed he was picking only level 8 and level 7 songs.
So he picked Raining Blood, Before I Forget and Knights Of Cydonia.
"Erghh... I'm not gonna win this one." I whimpered.
So I picked some level 5 songs.
Raining Blood started - and by about 30 seconds into the song, I realised there was an awful lot of mistake noises coming from the opposite fretboard.
I laughed, as I saw, for every 10 notes I hit, they were missing around 5 of them.
The final score was around 89% to me, and 53% to them.
FIFTY-THREE - that'd be a FAIL!
My song started - Holiday In Cambodia - my favourite setlist song - and I won by 15%!
Their song came next, Before I Forget - and they got 57%! Another FAIL!
Anything less than 78% on Career and Quickplay is a fail!
So I flew through the four songs, and won with a final score of 4-0.
He was so bad, we didn't even get to play our 3rd songs...
So there's your lesson for today.
Don't doubt your abilities.
Dixie currently feels:
Loving 
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Although I may be disallowed to keep in contact with Emily through instant messenger - there is no restrictions on sending e-mails.
We're both fast typers, we're both quick thinkers - it's only a fraction of a second slower than using instant messenger.
Of course, I am a fickle sort.
It does not seem the same.
Though, I am rather satisfied...
Emily has been reading my blogs.
She has been commenting too.
This one will be specifically for her, and anybody else who gets a mention here.
Oooookay, this is weird...
When I inserted my smiley for my "Dixie is currently feeling:" - it has become suspended at the top of this page... On the blue background, above the advert.
...I wonder why it wants to be up there?
Oh well, if it doesn't want to be included in my blog, then so be it.
I shan't judge.
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Last week, I finally got a parcel I'd been expecting long before Christmas.
A present from Emily.
What a great way to wake up - I thought, as soon as I'd lifted up the white box that had been placed down beside my pillow.
After the extreme struggle of removing all the annoying sellotape - I got into it, and I was greeted with the carefully aligned and thoughtfully chosen array of gifts.
Along with a handful of smiley marbles (w00t, SMILEYS), a packet of five-flavour Lifesavers, a squishably soft cuddly moose and a painstakingly written letter - were two shirts.
This way, I can feel Emily's love upon my skin every time I wear them.
So there's the first.
It's a little creased, but I've been wearing it for two days now.
The motif reads: "Every great idea I have - GETS ME IN TROUBLE."
Emily openly admitted to me, that she saw the shirt on sale, and it instantly made her think of me.
I agree - to be perfectly honest.
I'm the unfortunate sort, I'll plan out a perfect plot - and I'll fall flat on my face half-way through it.
It also seems to link well with my persona character within a story we're working on.
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In November of 2007 - around one month after we both began talking - Emily suggested the idea of a collaberation fiction.
I'd wrote alongside another person before, over instant messenger - and I'd greatly enjoyed it.
Thinking to myself that we both had a passion for writing, something we'd both enjoyed doing separatley... And, seeing as how we shared almost everything else in common...
I decided to give it a go.
At first, I didn't think we'd make much of it.
A couple pages, maybe?
Fifty?
Ten chapters, perhaps?
A year and three months later - we're on the 98th chapter, and the 527th page.
(SIZE TEN...)
The story is entitled 'Fire of Glory' - and, to explain it briefly; it's the tale of two teenage girls who meet together accidentally - both are repelled from each other, but they are both then forced to stick together to cope with everything that seems to be thrown at them.
The two characters, of course, are based off Emily and myself.
They're basically us - injected with a little bit more confidence, and given a special fighting ability each, which neither of us; at any point in our lives, would be able to do.
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So there's the second one.
- Yes, I did change my glasses. I have two pairs.
I don't know which pair I like best, however.
One day, when I was browsing Bearshare for more music to download - I typed in the keyword "Emily", remembering a Bowling For Soup song I'd heard recently on the radio.
But also, appeared on the list of searches:
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd.
With a double click, and thirteen seconds of waiting (yes, Bearshare is fast for me, it seems) - the song had planted itself within my downloads folder.
I clicked it twice, watching it appear within my Windows Media Player.
Instantly, the song was a success with me - a gentle, soothing melody, with a slightly melancholy set of guitar riffs; coupled with the strongly emotive lyrics, sang beautifully by Mr. Syd Barret.
"Soon after dark, Emily cries."
"Float on a river, forever and ever - Emily... Emily---"
"Emily tries, but misunderstands..."
Many lines contained within, seemed to fit so well with MY Emily - as well as Mr. Barret's Emily.
As soon as she became aware of my obsession with said song - Emily had to put up with my constant demands of: "Emily, GIVE ME BACK MY DREAMS."
("She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams 'till tomorrow.")
It's all down to Emily that I even discovered Pink Floyd, and started liking them. :)
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"SLOW RIDE... TAKE IT EASY..."
"OOOOOH... BARRACUDA!"
"I.... WANNA ROCK AND ROLL, ALL NITE!"
"NOW I SHALL RAIN BLOOD!"
"HELL AND FIRE WERE SWORN TO BE RELEASED!"
Is it possible to become a Guitar Hero NERD?
Yes, I WILL lick my fret buttons!
They taste like (Raining) blood, and fretful sweat.
Gettit? FRET-ful?
I really like that photo, for some reason.
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Emily... You have my heart.
Until you can collect it from me, I'll keep it warm for you - right here in my arms.