Saturday @ MindSay 
friday
I went out to dinner with my parents, and it was lovely. When I got home, there were 2 messages on the machine. I assumed they were for mom, so I didn't play them. She finally hit play, and the first one was from Jeff, my boss. He asked me to call back, so I did. I had no idea what about; if anything, I was imagining being asked if I wanted to help with the CITs this week or something. I don't know. In my mind, it was some kind of good news. Maybe he was asking if my mom had the pictures she took, and meant to say 'Ellen' instead of 'I'm calling for Emily'. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's what I thought he was calling about, because why would he announce he was calling for me, when he's my boss?
I digress.
Anyway, I call back, and he asks if I know anything/have heard anything/the news. I figured LeighAnn hurt her knee again somehow, another step towards me and the CITs.
To be honest, I wish the news was, "I know there's only one week left of work, but you're fired". I would have LOVED that phone call.
Instead what I got was, "Gaelan's brother died this weekend. He was swimming in Montana, and he drowned". And he went on to tell me about how Gaelan and her parents flew out there, and how Redyn and Sara weren't coming in to work tomorrow (their last day) to deal with stuff.
But it's not just Gaelan's brother. IT'S SAM. Sam, my co-counselor 2 summers ago. Sam with the beautiful blue eyes, who did the the amazing dives off the board, and was so good with Russell and Aaron when even I couldn't deal with them. Sam. The really sweet and cool kid who would help me get the work done, and make me feel like I wasn't bothering him when it was just the 2 of us and our kids when he was really closer friends with people otherwise on staff. Did Jeff forget that I knew Sam? Did he know it might prevent the tears for a few minutes if I had to think of the association between 'Gaelan's brother' and who that was? Did he know I was talking to Jeanette about Sam on Friday?
I'm actually devastated right now. It can't be right. I mean...not Sam.
I have about 4 million Kenny Chesney songs floating through my head right now. Be okay, Sam. Jeff's been wrong about stuff before, this has to be one of them. It just has to be. There isn't a second option.
Gaelan needs to be okay, too. I wish I knew her as long as I knew Sam so I'd feel more comfortable trying to look her up and offer her ANY kind of comfort, even though she has a million other people who DO know the family better and can provide a lot more. I feel like I need to do SOMETHING.
Something other than cry.
So, the refrigerator issue turned into a freaking nightmare this morning with it ending in mom, Dave and I all pissed off at one another. It's way to long of a story to get into .... so I'm not. Sometimes we wonder why we bother trying to help though. Enough said.
Dave and his friend Mitch are taking the trailer in tomorrow. Dave is still outside doing final touches. I'm done asking if I can help ..... it just tends to get me in trouble. I don't know if it is because we are so close to leaving that we are fighting so much, but today has been just stupid. One argument after another. Stupid shit.
I will take mom into town tomorrow to look at a couple of refrigerators, make arrangements for delivery and then home to get things packed up to take out Saturday. And we are gone. Till we come out. I don't have to come out till the 14th of July. And I may not. I'm gonna have to regardless but it sure nice to think that maybe I won't. But I will. Fuck.
Right now we are using a 60's refrigerator .... no shit. Its pretty funny. Small. Olive green. But it runs and is keeping the food cold. Obviously not too economical ..... which is why we need to get another one in soon. In the meantime, thank you for friends who have old refrigerators laying around.
Alright, out of here ...... I'll post tomorrow I'm sure ..... which will probably be my final post till I come out from down river maybe mid week ...... time to get to work ...... gold is beckoning ......
Till tomorrow ...... sleep well ......
Peace. J.
Dixie currently feels:
Alone
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Currently playing:
- Pokémon Diamond
- Mario Party 4
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Currently listening to:
- Inhale - Stone Sour
- Less Talk, More Rokk - Freezepop
- My Obsession - Skillet
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Times cried: None
Wounds inflicted: None
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Well, last night, as I was taking the last few turns on the Bowser's Gnarly Party board, whilst responding to some posts on my forum - I got the craving to start a new game of Pokémon Diamond.
So whilst I was waiting for the slow-as-shit computers to take their turns, I opened up Pokésav and Serebii.net - and started making a team of six hacked monsters that I wanted to be my main team throughout the game.
I gave them high-level moves and high levels of IV and EV points too. Of course, I made them look legit, giving them the right natures, correct areas and the right abilities.
I hacked the following:
Espeon - "Emily" - level 8
Jolteon - "Spike" - level 8
Grimer - "Sticky" - level 10
Cyndaquil - "Volvic" - level 8
Piplup - level 5 - shiny
And my favourite ownage monster:
Rattftratz! - Level 1 Rattata with a focus sash, quick attack and endeavor! :)
I also altered my ID number, so it was the same one as my LeafGreen game - 24606.
I love that number, and I think it suits me well. :)
Heh, I've just noticed, it starts with the first numbers of my birthdate too.
I've been playing it for about six hours now.
I've even gone to the trouble of hacking some Mew, Palkia, Turtwig, Piplup and Chimchar for the greedy bastards on the GTS.
It won't let me trade my Palkia though - which is typical, because I caught 7 of them at level 99.
Humph. Nothing ever changes.
Either way, Adam came over today - and we spent most of the day sat about, eating chocolate and drinking Cherry Coke.
Then we turned on Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, and played a few 2P VS matches - then I was asked to play with my Chao.
I don't see what's so interesting about watching someone play with Chao... But.
Yeah, I did a bit of that, and completed a few more missions - but I'm getting to the point of the game now where I proper can't do anything else - the missions I have left to do are sodding ridiculous.
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Anyway, I'm back on Mario Party 4 at the moment.
I've done about 10 turns of Shy Guy's Jungle Jam - responding to forum posts whilst I wait for the computers.
I'm getting towards the end of the board now, as I'm writing this as Luigi, Daisy and Mario are messing about with mega mushrooms, running over star spots because they're retard CPUs on Normal difficulty. :)
This time, I'm playing through as Waluigi.
I've done it with Peach, Daisy and Wario, so I'm onto Waluigi next.
Then I'll do DK, so I've done the bottom row of characters. :)
As we all know, the Mario Party music gets so annoying and repetitive after a while - so I've made myself a playlist.
OMFG... I JUST WON 100 COINS IN THE LOTTERY SHOP!!!
Yeah, the coin star is TOTALLY in the bag. :)
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But yes, as I was saying, the playlist. :)
I feel like making a big list, so I'll list the songs that are on it.
- My current favourite few, and they all run on for a combined total of 3:00:31.
Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects
Indie Sux, Hardline Sux, Emo Sux, You Suck! - Anti-Flag
Grace - Apocalyptica
Trauma - Ayumi Hamasaki
GAME - Ayumi Hamasaki
About You - Ayumi Hamasaki
Red Flag - Billy Talent
Punk Rock 101 - Bowling For Soup
Somebody Put Something In My Drink - Chilrden Of Bodom
Bed Of Razors - Children Of Bodom
Follow The Wolves - Demon Hunter
Hier Kommt Alex - Die Toten Hosen
Bye, Bye, Alex - Die Toten Hosen
Southpaw - Double You
Valley Of The Damned - DragonForce
(F)lannigan's Ball - Dropkick Murphys
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya - Dropkick Murphys
A Dark Omen - Fairyland
Parlez-vous Freezepop? - Freezepop
Less Talk, More Rokk - Freezepop
Get Ready 2 Rokk - Freezepop
Ham On The Bone - GWAR
Living For The Weekend - Hard-Fi
Laid To Rest - Lamb Of God
Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura... - Maximum The Hormone
Koi No Megalover - Maximum The Hormone
Alive - P.O.D.
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
Morgenstern - Rammstein
Reise, Reise - Rammstein
Benzin - Rammstein
Rosenrot - Rammstein
Mann Gegen Mann - Rammstein
Tier - Rammstein
Klavier - Rammstein
Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Only This Moment - Röyksopp
My Obsession - Skillet
Falling Inside The Black - Skillet
Wait And Bleed - Slipknot
No Life - Slipknot
Snot - Snot
Inhale - Stone Sour
Absolute - Thousand Foot Krutch
Falls Apart - Thousand Foot Krutch
Just Like You - Three Days Grace
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - The Vandals
Let The Fire Fall - Virginia Creeper
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OMFG, LUIGI JUST STOLE MY STAR - THE LITTLE SHIT!
NOW I'M SECOND!
Not that it matters, of course... I'm going to win the mini-game star and the coin star, because Normal level CPUs are total retards.
Now this is multi-tasking at its finest. :)
I'm currently playing Mario Party 4, whilst listening to music.
I'm also on my PC.
For the past hour, and for the future several hours - I'm also going to be writing this blog, responding to forum posts, reading fan fiction, organising music, downloading stuff and maybe even doing a bit of writing and/or planning.
ROFL!
A MINI GAME STARTED WITHOUT ME NOTICING, AND I DIDN'T REALISE TILL 10 SECONDS IN - AND I STILL BEAT ALL THREE OF THEM!
Normal CPU retards! :D
Lmao, I have 218 coins, and it's the last turn. Eee. :)
Dixie currently feels:
Scared
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Okay, Saturday. :)
As usual, Adam came over - and we set up the PS1 downstairs.
I made some cheeseburgers and potato Rostis. - I accidentally burnt one of the buns trying to toast it, so I ate that one.
The fat burnt me twice - I was trying to turn them over, and the fat spat at my wrist, and it stung.
Potato Rostis are just like giant hash browns.
They break into little pieces when you try and cut them up. :)
So, I watched Adam play another hour and a half of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - watched him beat the hospital with Carlos, and save Jill from her T-virus infection.
Then he had to save quickly in the graveyard shed because dad wanted to watch football.
So we went upstairs, sat about doing nowt for a bit - then started watching weird videos on this bodged site with porno and deformity videos.
I wanted to watch the Goddess Bunny again - but Adam said she freaked him out.
I watched it again at about 6, once he'd gone.
It's not as spooky as the first time I watched it.
Then I sorted out some music - about half of my Guitar Hero I soundtrack folder - downed some Pepsi and munched on a Cheestring.
Then I set up the PS1 again, and loaded up my save - Adam had beat the sewer THING for me earlier - and mocked the fact I lacked the ability to quick-turn.
Hrm, down and square.
Must remember.
So I played through the clock tower and the hospital part myself - then through the graveyard and the park.
I got to where Adam was before we were made to turn it off - and I carried on, because I knew that the lighter and the iron pipe would be used to solve the next puzzle, of getting into the next room.
So I did that, got everything in there - came out, watched a cutscene, and learnt of a giant alligator, which is obviously soon to appear.
Then the ceiling started caving in, so I ran back to the save room, and saved it quickly.
Then I turned it off because I was scared...
Nemesis is getting less and less scary every time I face him.
He's taken his trenchcoat off now, and he's running about with all his tentacles out.
I'm just pumping him full of flame rounds now - I've got like 60 of them.
I'm saving my magnum and my freeze rounds for bigger things.
I'm addicted, methinks. :)
Addicted, but too scared to play it alone.
*Sniffle*
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