I want to play this game, now!

More Brawl pics here

Moving?

If there's anything I've come to hate in the last five years, it's that I hate helping other people move. Especially when you've only got a week or two in which to do the moving, and the person you're helping to move is something of a pack rat.

I swear, when I get my own place, I'm going to make sure it already comes with dressers and shelves and crap, and I'm going the Japanese way and foregoing a bed proper in preference for a bed roll, and that the heaviest thing I'll have to move is my freaking computer. And I'll keep it so immaculate and spider-free that moving won't be a Herculean task. Also, I'd just ask my parents and brother to help me move, because the rest of the family fails at being helpful.



Slightly off topic, Itachi's >8D face makes me cry ಠ_ಠ

What do vacumes do?

They suck, much like the beginning of this year.

First of all, I've got money troubles, but who doesn't have them around this time of year? I just find it rather annoying that I've got to come up with $1075 before the 15th of February for something that's not happening till the beginning of May. Also, WTF government? Why must you charge such ridiculously high fees? *slaps you*

Also, my mum's mum has perhaps only days to live, so of course that's a freaking bucket of chuckles. And why do nurses and doctors and crap have to laugh after telling you bad news? It's not funny. *slaps them*

And giant fucking hairy spiders? Why do you insist on running at me in the dead of night when people are trying to sleep? *slaps spiders to death from within an impregnable hazmat suit*

Also, sleep? Why must you evade me so? *slaps self*

And why is it every time someone in the family has to move, my parents and sibling and I are the only ones who bother to help? "Oh, but I work, and I'm tired, and I'm injured, and I'm busy!"
And what? My dad wasn't working? I've gotten more than six hours of sleep in the past week? My mom isn't recovering from lung surgery? My brother isn't spending most of his time handing out resumes and filling out application forms? Stop making excuses and fucking help! *slaps other family members*

And what the hell is up with world affairs? *slaps affairs*

President Bhutto assassinated!?! *slaps assassins*

Heath Ledger OD'd?!? *slaps drugs*

Writers Guild still on strike?!? *slaps the people not paying these people*

Hollywood still cranking out unnecessary remakes and derivative movies!?! *slaps the film industry*

Yanks sending in Marines because Brits and Canucks not "pulling their weight"!?! *slaps America*

Presidential election?!? *slaps America again*

Global warming? Natural disasters? Terrorism? Poverty? War? Famine? Pestilence? Death?



*just a big fucking slap against the entire world*



I just hope that this is all some sort of karmic colonic and that the rest of the year will be better >_<

New Years meme thing

Hehe, okay, this is a little late in coming, but oh well :P


1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Went to a gay bar XD

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I made a resolution last year, but my one for this year is to watch less crap on TV

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Does my cousin's girlfriend count?

4. Did anyone close to you die?
My cat died T_T

5. What countries did you visit?
Just Canada :P

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
A tablet

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 16, because that was the day my cat died

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting a book published!

9. What was your biggest failure?
NaNoWriMo

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing major, just a couple cuts and bruises, and some cold like symptoms

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My freaking book!

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Marvin's XD

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Marvin's XD

14. Where did most of your money go?
I went a little overboard on video games :P

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Zelda: Twilight Princess, and my book!

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
LDN by Lily Allen


17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Hah, a bit sadder :P
ii. thinner or fatter? The same
iii. richer or poorer? Richer, ironically enough

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing (I procrastinated something fierce last year...)

19.What do you wish you'd done less of?
Procrastinating

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Avoiding my grandmother

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
I fell in love with Metroid... all over again XD

23. How many one-night stands?
None, as I'm not a slut :P

24. What was your favourite TV program?
Doctor Who!

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No, my hate is fairly consistent

26. What was the best book you read?
My book! Or the His Dark Materials trilogy. Or Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The musical Wicked!

28. What did you want and get?
A FREAKING WII!!!

29. What did you want and not get?
A tablet x_x

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Stardust :D

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went camping for my 22nd

32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less contact with humans XD

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Insomniac tomboy with a fondness for wool and knives

34. What kept you sane?
Nothing. I lost my sanity a long time ago XD

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
David Wenham, especially when he was in 300 *perverted giggle*

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The Western world's rape of the Middle East, and the Middle East's inhabitant's inability to work together...

37. Who did you miss?
My cat

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Definitely Ruth XD

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Don't trust people. They suck.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I can't decide whether you should live or die
Though you'll probably go to heaven
Please don't hang your head and cry
It's no wonder why my heart is dead inside
It's cold and hard and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We're going for a ride


Haha, that song makes me sound emo XD
But seriously, listen to this song, it's good (also, it's used in a Doctor Who music video, which gives me +4 Nerdiness XD )

Amusement!

First of all, I just want to say that this damn thing cracks me up more than it probably should XD

Secondly, today was enjoyably crazy!

My little brother Trevor is now 19, and is thus allowed to legally go into bars and casinos and porn shops (though I don't think he'll actually go into a porn shop, as the pair of us burst into uncontrollable and immature giggles every time we pass one).
His birthday was on the 5th, and Chloe's birthday is coming up on the 11th, so since everyone had today off (well, technically yesterday), we decided to have a double birthday celebration hang out day. To use a word I don't often have a chance to use, it was a real hootenanny!
I woke up around 8-ish... No, that's a lie. It's more like I got out of bet around 8, as I'm not quite sure if I actually slept. I'm fairly sure I did, but as I generally fail at sleep, I can't be too sure.

ANYWAY, I got up, and the brother and I headed for the bus. He was going to do a resume hand-out run, and I was headed to Chloe's, along with Sable. I met up with her, only to discover the mall behind our usual bus stop was having it's parking lot torn up, as well as a section of the sidewalk across the street. As to why, I have no clue, though there was rumour of a Starbucks being somehow involved.

Just a side note here, but what in the blue purple fuck is the big deal with Starbucks? I don't understand why expensive "designer" coffee with oddly named sizes (what, are small, medium and large not trendy enough for you?) is such a fantastic thing? The only thing's I've ever had there were a coffee that was way too strong for me (I had to use so much sugar in it that I was afraid I was going to give myself diabetes), an overpriced hot chocolate with some peppermint flavouring, and some kind of iced frappa-mocha-hooba-joobaa thing that left a waxy film in my mouth instead of an aftertaste. So, in the words of the Internet, WTF?

Also, I should note that I had quite a bit of sugar today, and so I'm rather hyper right now.

So, back to what I was actually talking about!

Sable and I got to Chloe's, and after giving her her early birthday presents, we headed out to the mall to wander around until we met up with Trevor. While we waited, we got some lunch, and I picked up a belated birthday present for Trev (because with his birthday being so close to Christmas, I forget to get him his present before hand). For a while now, he's been requesting a scarf, and I managed to find a nice red one for him at this girly store that Sable likes. After that, we headed up to the knife shop (physically restraining Chloe when we passed the jewelry stores, because she spends to much money in those places, as she is attracted to shiny things like a magpie), where we ogled all the pretty swords and axes and shields at the back.
After that, we headed over to Michale's, where we picked up some art supplies (or in my case, a pack of 15 glow bracelets, because I'm inexplicably fixated with glow in the dark crap), then over to Petcetera, where Chloe stared longingly at the birds (as she really, really wants one).
We met up with Trev after that, and upon spotting him (and screaming out his tard name across half the bloody mall, because I have no shame and embarrassing people is kinda fun), I tossed him the scarf, still in the bag, saying, "Happy late birthday! Sorry about the gay colour," because, as my purchase was from an insufferably girly store, they insisted on having their bags coloured in the ugliest colour on the planet. Ugh.
Aside from the bag, which we threw away almost immediately (as though it were some kind of toxic waste), Trevor was very pleased with his present. He then presented me with a late Christmas present (a pair of water/snow sport goggles), and there was much jubilation to be had. After waisting a bit more time, we headed to the theatre to watch the second National Treasure movie.
Of the movie itself, I will say this: It starred Nick Cage.
Graphically, it was pretty, and during the entire London scene, Trev and I kept making Doctor Who references, and aww-ing at the picture of the Corgi. Plot-wise it was, well, there was a certain air of inconceivability to it. We got some laughs out of it (though I freely admit that most of those laughs came from us MST3K-ing the film), so I suppose it served its purpose as a form of entertainment. It was like an over-budget B-movie, and I have a certain fondness for their special brand of camp :P

Movie over, we headed across the highway to Moxie's, where we discovered that it was rather blustery. We got to the restaurant a little rain-dampened and windswept, and after ordering our food, Trevor freaked us all out by cracking his neck (by grabbing his chin and the top of his head and then snapping his head to the side like they do in movies to break necks), I threw ice cubes down Chloe and Sable's cleavage and accidentally screamed out "hump" (while quoting from the second Powerthirst commercial), Chloe pretended to be an Irish whore, and Sable was exasperated. After a while, she remarked, upon catching the scent of cooked and seasoned meat in the air, "It smells like my steak is about done," to which Trevor replied, "No, sorry, that was me," to much hilarity.
Also, Chloe and I had an ongoing conversation as though we were a little girl and creepy old man paedophile respectively (and yes, I know, there's quite a bit wrong with us), which involved me talking like a creepy old guy, while she sounded insufferably cute. Sable rolls her eyes whenever we do that.

I also informed them that in the upcoming American election, I hope that Hillary Clinton becomes president. My only reason for wanting her to win is so that I can call Bill Clinton "the First Lady."

After dinner, we caught the bus downtown, and once there we headed to a little place called Katz Lounge. It's a martini bar, but because they had only actually just opened up the day before (because they'd been doing some renovations), they had no menus, and so we ended up just making up drinks with the bartender. I had an coffee with chocolate and alcohol and sugar and whipped cream, not to mention a cherry on top (and when I tried to tie a knot into the cherry stem with nought but my tongue, I succeeded, much to my shock/amusement), Chloe had a raspberry and blackcurrant martini, as well as an apple cinnamon one (which tasted exactly like Apple Jacks, except for the alcohol part), Trevor tried a White Russian, per my suggestion (as he and I have similar tastes, and he didn't know what to try), and Sable had water, as she can't abide the taste of alcohol.
While we were enjoying our drinks, we soon saw that the wind and rain was gradually turning into snow. This is odd for our area because we are more prone to rain than snow, even in winter.
So the drinks are finished, and we head down the road a bit to a club by the name of The Jungle, where we meet up with Ruth and Joan. Tara couldn't make it, as she was puking her guts out. Aren't flus great?
After we'd gotten a round of drinks for everyone (which ended up being a Bacardi smoothie thing that tasted like an orange creamsicle), one of the bouncers came in to get his coat, because there was an inch of snow on the ground. Upon hearing that, Trevor was very clad that he now had a scarf.

Now, in my group of friends, we have this odd habit of creating alternate personae for each other, based around some kind of central theme. Examples include Kiribion the Sad Ringwraith (from LotR), Darth Agatha the Star Wars Nerd, Linda the Tard, Captain Kat Scratch the Pirate, and Bianca McGradey the Cowgirl. More often than not, these personae are used merely as an excuse to talk in funny accents and act like idiots. And now I have another one: Sandra the Man.
From what I could gather over the loud music playing at the Jungle, Joan and Ruth thought it was funny when guys had names that were traditionally reserved for females, so they decided to pretend to be manly men with girly names. Thus they became Candy and Tiffany, and in the noise of the club they gave us all manly names (Sable's was Kiki, Chloe's was Sheena, and Trevor's was Molly) and we all screamed manly things at each other, like "KIKI WANTS A LAP DANCE!" or "SANDRA LIKES CHICKS AND BEER!"

Look, our fun doesn't have to make sense, m'kay? And yes, we do know we're nuts :P

The night continued on in much the same fashion, but soon the time came when both Sable and Trevor wanted to go home. And so, biding goodbye to the others, we headed out into the snow, and promptly decided to forgo a taxi ride in favour of walking home. Well, Trevor and Sable walked home. I had my MP3 player on, so I danced home XD

Year end round-up

Yeah, just a wee bit late, what with it being the 3rd of a new year and all...

Scratch that, 12:03am means it's the 4th now. Bugger.

ANYWAY, back to the hole round-up!

Halloween was, for the most part, pretty fun. Sable and I went over to Chloe's to get into costume (the three of us were going as colour-coded pirates: Chloe was in green, Sable was in black (though she was supposed to be red), and I was in blue). We hung out at her place with the intent of handing out candy, but only one person came between the hours of 6pm and 9pm, so we ended up just watching Dead Man's Chest. After that, we intended to me up with friends at a club, but the place was packed to capacity so we couldn't get in, so we ended up going to the gay bar instead.
My only disappointment with the place was that they had very little in the way of holiday themed music. The only Halloween songs they ended up playing were Thriller and This Is Halloween.
Costumes I saw this year were something of a letdown. Most girls were dressed in costumes of varying degrees of sluttiness, and most of the guys were either rappers (at least, I assume they were rappers. For all I know, they were just wearing their normal clothes) or villains from horror movies. It got to the point where if I had one more Freddy Krueger waving his plastic claws at me, I was going to go on a killing spree of my own!
The only costumes that I thought were any good were the ones done by the girls and I (but that's probably just me being biased), a guy dressed up as an eerily accurate Edward Scissorhands (Sable has such a crush on the guy, it's hilarious!), this two year old dressed up as an adorable little lion (which is high praise from me, because I don't like kids), and a girl dressed up as Zant! Her costume totally made my night! Unfortunately, I was a dumb ass and forgot my camera, much to my regret >_<
Nothing really spectacular happened after than, so I'll just move on to November.

Well, for the longest time, I considered November to be something of a non-spectacular month. The only holiday it had was Remembrance Day, and unlike the holidays in the surrounding months, there was no mass of preparation that I had to go to. And while I think Remembrance Day is important, the rest of the month is just a psych-up for Christmas, and got all jaded about that holiday a long time ago. The only good thing about November was NaNoWriMo, which I accidentally discovered just as it was finishing in 2005. I participated in 2006, and got about halfway through my story in 2007, but then came the mid month and the worst week of my life (well, to date, at least).
I'm sure I could go on and on about it, but here's the short version: we found out that my cat had inoperable kidney cancer, and she had to be put to sleep.
More than a month's passed and it still hurts to write that.
Her death hit me hard, harder than I thought it would. The whole week after, I was physically and emotionally sick. No puking, but I ran a fever like you would not believe. And I cried the whole time, harder than when human members of my family died! Of course that's not so surprising, as aside from my parents and brother, I don't have much affection (or tolerance) for my family.
As such, I didn't manage to finish my story by the deadline, but I intend to finish it this month.
Beyond that, much of November was spent recovering and watching Firefly, and then becoming completely head over heels in love with said show. The exectutives at Fox should be shot for cancelling it, and I know plenty of Browncoats who would be more than willing to take a potshot at them.
Of course, being Canadian, I'd probably just throw a pie at them, as that's what we do in lieu of assassination. Well, either pie or chocolate milk (though probably the pie, as I'd end up drinking the chocolate before I could chuck it).

December was... well, it was better-ish. I got all the presents I wanted to give within the first week, so the rest of the wait till Christmas was spent with me hiding in my room and playing through Metroid Prime 1 and 2 (Echoes!) for the upteenth time. This mass playthrough was triggered by the fact that I knew I was getting a Wii for Christmas (as my mom took me up to Future Shop around the beginning of November and said, "Okay, we're getting you and your brother a Wii, so you go get whatever you need for the both of you to play it, and I'll meet you at the till."), and that my brother was getting me Metroid Prime 3: Corruption ("Hey Sibling! I'll tell you what I got you if you tell me what you got me?")
Let me just say this right now: MP3 makes me very very happy. It's in a tie with Zelda for my all time favourite game series, and Corruption does not disappoint. I FREAKING LOVE THIS GAME. If I was a huggy person, I would have hugged my brother.
Ironically enough, I just beat it today (20:34 hours with a 100% completion, baby!) and I've already started my second run through XD
Unfortunately, Grandma came down, so we weren't able to play anything till she left on Boxing Day. Surprisingly enough, she was nowhere near depressing as she usually is. Sure, she complained about absolutely everything, and couldn't do anything quietly, but she didn't have an emo fit of self pity, and that's a big improvement from last year. Never the less, I was more than happy to see her leave.

Odd bit of news I should have mentioned earlier: a cousin who is six months younger than me became a father last year. I find that rather consternating.

The rest of the month was spent in a haze of Ferrero Rocher induced hyperness and Wii Sport competition. And the past few days have been spent on Norion, Bryyo, Elysia and Phaaze respectively :D