I think so!  Well, more like mood deterioration.  I wake up, ready to cope and by the end of the day I want to yell till I’m blue in the face.  So I end up stewing in my room at night.  Thankfuly, my dad took grandma and cousin up to visit people in Michigan today through part of tomorrow.  And they leave Friday morning so less than a day left to deal with them.  *sigh*  Hopefully I won’t do something stupid or rash tomorrow.  Just a little longer…

I finally beat Black!  It was soooo goooood~  Makes me wanna hug N.  But I totally didn’t expect to fight Ghetsis after N!  And for their pokemon to be at such high levels!  A walkthrough said lvl 45 minimum, for the elite four and mine were 46-48.  Used almost all my max revives, too bad you can’t buy them.  But I really am surprised that I didn’t lose.  Oh, another thing that surprised me (more like downright shocked), that Rashiram/Zerkrom and Victini aren’t “auto-catches” if you will.  One being an intrical part of the story and the other being an event.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining.  It’s just that for both Rashiram and Victini I threw 1 ultra ball and it caught.  I figured it was part of the story/event but I’m reading that you should load up on ultra and dusk balls before the elite four.  For Cobalion and the grass one (forgot its name…) I had to keep chucking ultra balls.  Weird.  Maybe fire types like me…?

In the same vein, transferred a couple dittos over and got my Rotom (Eeks?  What kind of nickname is that?) and bred a female dratini with extreme speed.  Yay?  Got a lot of breeding to do.  And transferring so I can breed.

And I’m realizing just how bad I am at graphic design.  I knew I wasn’t good, but now I know I need to read some books or something.  In addition to tutorials, but knowledge before application.  It depresses me, but at least I have a better idea of how far I need to go.

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About trying to get back into polymer clay, not sure if that’s gonna happen anymore.  I’m finding that it’s more difficult and frustrating than I remember.  I may give something easy a go before quitting, but I’m doubting that right now.  Made a better Bulbasaur, first one wasn’t that easy on the eyes.

The better Bulbasaur with 2 Pokeballs

I really want to make a Charmander, but I don’t want to get really frustrated.  *sigh*  I’ll figure it out.

Trying to teach my mom how to crochet did not work out.  She got frustrated, I got frustrated so we called it quits.She can chain just fine but for whatever reason her stitches get messed up.

On the topic of making things, I attempted a fruit tart last week.  I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out and how easy it was.  The only thing I’d change is how the custard is made.  I’d combine the yolk mixture and milk earlier because I found that the yolk cooks too quickly with simmering milk.  Kinda how creme brulee is made.

It was yummy!

Worked a fair amount last week, 3 hours Thursday and 7 on Saturday.  I know, I need another job.  Usually I’ll get 4 hours a week.

Ok, I just need to mention this: I swear there’s a ghost in the house today.  Been hearing noises at the back door, metal clanging in the kitchen (and nothing moved), and various small noises everywhere else.  No, it’s not the cat.  It’s been freaking me out and the fact that I’m by myself doesn’t help.

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More like a random series of thoughts that may or may not have anything to do with each other.   I.e. rambling.

Speaking of ie, some add on was causing it to crash every time I tried to open any site.  Still not sure exactly which add on it was, probably a Norton one, but it’s working again.  Yes, ie isn’t the best of browsers, but I’m used to it and am not a fan of how Chrome displays favorites, because I bookmark everything, and Firefox is a bit “heavy” if you know what I mean.

I just pre-ordered Pokemon Black.  Honestly I was waiting for the price to drop after it’s release, but Amazon has an offer I couldn’t pass up.  A $10 Amazon credit, so, in a way, the game’s $25.  There’s always something I could put a $10 credit towards, plus free shipping.

It’s so depressing that Borders is closing!  I’m not sure why, but I’ve always preferred Borders to Barnes & Noble.  A small part is that for B&N you have to pay to be a part of their rewards program, but even before that I remember liking Borders more.  *sigh*  I did take advantage of their store closing sale though.  Bought 3 more manga (which brings the total of unread volumes to 10), a “teach yourself French” book, and 2 cook books.  Oh, and a bar of Lindt chocolate :3  I know it’s stupid and irrational, but I feel bad taking advantage of the sale.  I’m profiting from someone’s misfortune.  They’re trying to save money by having this sale, I know, but I can’t shake the feeling.

Been playing Dragon Age Origins practically non-stop these past 3 weeks, I think I built my character wrong and/or have horrible tactics settings because I find that I have to load a lot due to dying.  Currently around Landsmeet and romancing Alistair, not really sure how that’s gonna go…  Horribly enough, I don’t want to put him on the throne.  Maybe I won’t, seeing that I’m having a difficult time with my character anyway.  Hopefully my next play through will be better.

Just noticed that I need to adjust the time zone…  Anyway, Happy Early Girl’s Day!

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I’ve put off posting for as long as I could because I was feeling extremely depressed and a touch suicidal so I didn’t want to bring anyone down or be all emo.  I’ll get to that later.

But I beat Explorers of Sky!  Ending=love!  I’m a sucker for sad yet happy endings.  I kinda wish they would have left it but there would be no reason to keep the game if there was no post game stuff.  I got bored with going to random dungeons and I don’t have the patienceright now to get all those secret missions out of the way.  So!  I finally played Kurayami!  Love it!  I really don’t understand Japanese that well so I just listen to the voices (boy that sounded creepy!) and look at the pictures to figure everything out.  Doesn’t work too well.  I had 2 bad ends, 2 normal ends, and, thanks to walkthroughs, 2 true ends.  I’m pretty sure I have all of Sakuraba’s CGs and I’m missing 3 of Aoi’s, 1 is his death CG.  And everyone else doesn’t have too many.  So I think I’ll go for Honami (I think that’s his name) because he cracks me up and return to Aoi to get the 2 CGs I’m missing.  But, unfortunately, there is only 1 killer.  I’ll do his ending last.  But I’m curious to see what happens if you let everyone die, if you don’t pick the killer, or even if that’s a possibility.

Back to my issues.  I’ve been feeling really crappy lately.  Not gonna go into detail, but I started to feel better Mother’s Day and yesterday I was extremely irritable and locked myself in my room.  I was hoping that I suffer from depression and am not bi-polar as the mood stabilizer that works for me is very expensive.  So I’ve been off of it for a few months to test that theory out.  Obviously, it’s more than just depression.  I’ll be seeing another doctor in about a week so hopefully it can get sorted out.

On a high note, Amanda is coming back on Thursday!  I can’t wait to see her and have her cat stop bothering me.  But seriously, I miss my sister.  That was emphisized Saturday night/Sunday morning when I went to pick up a Mother’s Day card.  As I was looking for my car, I ran into Amanda (a friend, not my sister) and her mom and sister.  We talked for about an hour, I was standing outside their car for some of it, and then my mom called so I had to go back in to find an excuse for me to be at Meijer at 12:00 AM.  So the 4 of us went back in and it reminded me of when my sister and I would make “midnight runs to Martins” if we were craving something.  Meijer if it was after midnight.

Now why was I out that late?  Because a co-worker asked me if I wanted to meet at a bar an hour after we got off work.  Ok, I was trying to avoid agreeing not only because I’m not interested, but because of the location.  A bar?  Really?  There’s nothing wrong with going to a bar, but I hardly know this guy and don’t really trust him with my well being.  So by the time I got home, I had to leave.  I changed and found a smaller bag and was running at least 10-15 minutes late.  Got there and didn’t know where to park so I just found easy parking and walked.  Poked my head in, smelled smoke and didn’t see any black guys so I turned around and left.  I felt quite relived but now I have to deal with him thinking I stood him up and explain that I got there 30 minutes late.  Yes I need a life, but I really don’t want to get one that has him in it.

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I wanted to use “Epic Fail” as the title rather than “Fail” but its been more small fails rather than 1 huge somewhat funny fail.  First of all, Meijer brand Blue Moon ice cream FAILS!  I bought it because it was cheaper than Bonnie Doons and the only other Blue Moon ice cream.  It tastes like citrus…  And vanilla…  So it’s not as bad as yuzu, but it’s really not what I wanted.  So back to the store!

Second, my hours have been cut at work, again.  A new manager is beening trained so he’s getting my few weekday hours for at least the next month.  And because it’s getting nice out, people won’t want to spend their time inside at an arcade so Saturdays have been pretty dead.  And I don’t work Sundays.  Time for another job!

And the third fail is me.  I’ll just lump it all in one so I don’t have to keep counting.  I have no multitasking skills at all, so when I’m going back and forth between a game and the internet, I either fail at the game or don’t get the info I want off the internet when I need it.  That’s a nice segway into games!  I still haven’t played Kurayami or Age of Empires, but I just bought Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky.  Which I stayed up untill 4 playing.  I’ve also been playing Heart Gold, Papaya, We Rule, and Haypi Kingdom.  The last three are for iPhone/iTouch.  Plus I signed up for Super Poke Pets and FarmVille on Facebook and have been clicking like mad on Global PokedeX Plus.  Not to mention I bought a 2000 point Wii card and downloaded a Zelda game.  Oh!  For those of you who game on a console and don’t look at ads, Target has their cards on sale for $17!  Apparently, we’re strange here and the ads come on Sunday and start on Sunday so the sale may be over for the rest of the country.  Don’t know though.

And I still haven’t cleaned my room or even tried thinking of a new layout yet.  Bleh.  So much to do, and so little motivation.

Stupid random side-note time!  Yes I should have incorporated this into the previous paragraphs, but I’m not in the mood to edit right now.  My nail is breaking.  I know you don’t care, but it’s making it difficult for me to type and I can’t just rip it off because it’s below the skin and it may bleed if I do that.  I know, tmi.  And in Explorers of Sky I’m apparently jolly because I got Eevee.  I see myself as more lonely, quiet, or quirky, but I’m glad I didn’t get those because I don’t care for the Pokemon associated with them.  Actually, Piplup is cute so I wouldn’t have minded it.  Ok, I’m done now.

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