Celebrations and Discoveries

So life is odd and a bit off kilter lately. I turned 30 on Wednesday and no, I don't feel any different. The day started off alright when Sugarbuzz sang happy birthday to me with my Mom. Then things started to slide downhill. Between painting some of the new apartment and putting down carpet I was exhausted. Add to that the fact that I forgot my pin number for my debit card and couldn't access any funds for celebrating and it seems bad but not awful yet. When you toss into the mix the fact that I got stuck picking up a friend for my party out of state when the car's headlights ceased to function at 10pm and I was frazzled and crying. It was a $25 piece of plastic that broke. That's it. The switch casing was causing the headlight on switch to not connect to the car's internal computer. So my buddy and I tore the car dash apart and duct taped the stupid thing together before hitting the road back to my state to make the party. The night significantly improved after that.

Yesterday I found something that causes most people to freak out completely. I found my first gray hair. Normally I'd be pissed, but the universe decided to apparently say it was sorry. I'm not actually getting gray or white hair. It's coming in silver.

You heard me. Silver.

Bright and shiney. It looks like someone just went and chromed a single strand of hair on my head. I like it. :)

But now that I've wasted enough time on this, it's back to pulling all the furnature to one room so that the movers can get it out. Won't that be nice. *sigh*

Aion Quest - Wedding Ring

So born out of frustration for the fact that I can't find a good help area for Aion that isn't in Chinese (even the google translations of these pages sucks), I've decided to start doing it myself. I've made a level one Scout named Trystal, and I'm going to be using her to write about the different quests so that if someone is stuck, maybe I can give them a hint. For now however, I just finished the Wedding Ring quest in Verteron Citadel with my Sorcerer Punky.

Here's how it's done.

1. Go out to the River, it doesn't matter where you do this.
2. Once you hit the water, go left.
3. Keep going left until it tells you that you're drowning.
4. On the shore there is a purple box. You can't miss it, everything else is green.
5. Now you have a choice, you can take it back to the husband or the wife.

That's it, pick which one you want to give it too and go drop it off. Easy peasy. I don't remember what the wife offered, but the husband coughed up 1800 kinah for it.

The Saddest Thing Ever

I cried... a lot... It was really sad. Maybe I'm just hormonal or something...

Blogs for the next generation

I'm going to be hosting a blog for my kid, who has chosen to call himself Sugarbuzz as a net name. Personally, I think it's pretty appropriate, but hey... I'm showing him what it looks like to make a blog entry.

Bizzare Injuries

Last night I managed to do the impossible. I injured myself in the most unusual way I've ever heard of. I actually managed to throat myself with the vacuum cleaner.

You heard me right, I throated myself with the vacuum cleaner.

Horray for bending the laws of possible reality! Ok, so it went down like this. I was out of smokes and wanted to run to the store to pick up another pack. I knew that my backpack was in the closet so without turning the light on, I reached in to grab the backpack. It was about 1:30am, so it was really pretty dark as the only light was the monitor on my laptop. What I failed to see was the handle of the vacuum cleaner as it is black. It impacted right on the left of my voicebox hard enough to knock the wind out of me. After making sure it didn't do any permanent damage, I sniffled for a bit and then went and got my smokes.

So in case anyone is wondering, no, nobody throat punched me, I did it to myself.

Oh! I also started playing this game that Jim got. It's called Aion. Apparently it's China's answer to WoW. I know I'm pathetic, but their character creation process is pretty neat and my character is nauseously adorable. :)

And now that I've revealed my sad and pathetic dorkdom... yeah, I'm going to go hide. I've spent so much time complaining about WoW, but at least this game has something WoW doesn't... a timer. After a few hours, it won't allow you to get xp or level anymore. It actually tells you to go do something else for at least 5 hours before it will let you play again. I like that... you can't blow your life away playing the game. Nice, go China!

Universal Advice

When you wake up in the morning and your first thought it "Shit happens." Take the universe's advice, roll over, and pull the blanket over your head. It is now time to take a mulligan with the day and wait for tomorrow.

*sigh*

So far I've bonked my head, coughed milk all over my computer, spilled a soda on the carpet, barked my shin, and have had my sinuses going ballistic due to allergies. Considering I've only been awake two hours, that's fucking impressive. And for my next trick ladies and gentlemen, I shall fall down the fucking stairs. Gods I hope not.

Oh yeah, before I forget, thank you ever so very very much Jim for the minor surgery kit that you gave me. I got to use it today to cut the palm of my hand open and pull out the very tiny piece of gravel that I missed yesterday. Remarkably, my hand feels tons better now that I've done that.

Life Lessons

Today I learned several very important things. One of them made me very happy, the other however, made me very very sad.

First off, there's been a lot of stuff going on lately. We did a lot of work at the site. Which is coming along nicely. Bonnie and Bill painted the hall and though the colors that were chosen were IL Dept of Corrections goldenrod and brown, the job that they did was not only very quick, but really spectacularly painted. We are however now stuck with 17 gal. of goldenrod yellow fucking paint that's going to go in the main room. I think if we get a gallon of Navajo Red stain and hit it with a sponge, it will look awesome. Before I do this however, I fully intend to run a photoshop simulation to see what it will look like. Yes, I will put the picture here so that others can see.

Today I learned that even though the workout machine says 3, it really means 30. So I felt like so much less of a total pussy with my workout. Before, I was kind of sad that my arms were all noodlely after doing fifteen reps with 3 lbs. I feel a whole lot better to know that it was after doing fifteen reps with 30 lbs.

The other thing that I learned today was that motorcycles and gravel roads do not mix. I did alright at first, but I braked too hard or too quick on my last run and dumped myself. Though I tore my hand up a bit, it looks more like I got into a pretty intense bar fight and not like I dumped my bike like a moron. After cleaning it with rubbing alcohol (that sucked beyond all rational thought), I slapped band-aids in place and we headed off to do a bit more work on the site.

From Motorcycle Whoops

From Motorcycle Whoops

The women's bathroom now kinda has toilets. Oh yeah... that's another thing I learned today, 80 year old poop smells really really bad.

Fuck it, now I'm just rambling and hurty... I'm going to bed.