Home!

I’m home, finally! We got home at around 2 am yesterday morning, and then went straight to bed. We then got up at 7am to get the rental car unpacked and returned. After we came home we lazed around a bit and then went over to my parents house for a late lunch/early dinner of Steak Bake Casserole (one of my favorite foods my mom makes), and then came home and lazed around some more, as we were both ridiculously tired. I’m not sure what it is about traveling, it’s not intense physical activity, but it just wears me out! Later in the evening we searched our storage for my stationary supplies(and found them!) so I can write letters!  I need to look for a thank you card to send to The Boy Creature’s mother, as she made the holiday pretty darn special even though the circumstances weren’t the greatest and the trip was basically completely unplanned. His parents did treat me well during the holiday, and even got me presents! I got a pink Nebraska beanie, a pink journal, a pink parker pen, a pink bic mechanical pencil set, A gift card to JC Penney, a gift card to Burger King, a hello kitty gummy sucker, licorice international red scotties(puppy licorice! But it had coconut oil in it so it gave me an allergic reaction), 3 Books, Gummy Bears, Swedish fish, Extra fruit sensations gum, a pair of cute socks, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites, Trail Mix, and Personal Trainer: Walking DS! So that was super cool and made me feel special, so I really want to send his mom a thank you card.

On the way back we stopped in Williamsburg, Iowa at a big outlet mall called Tangers. They had so many stores. The one that excited me most was the Claire’s outlet store. There, I got 10 pairs of earrings, and 2 hello kitty barrettes for $10. It was awesome. There was also a coach outlet, and an old navy outlet that we stopped at, but we didn’t find anything there really. It was a pretty decent trip back, and we took our time, and even though we ended up driving straight into the new year, the drive was pleasant.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

On Thursday we rented a car to head to Nebraska to visit the Boy Creature’s parents. The plan was to drive straight through the day and be in Nebraska late that night (the drive from Ohio to his parent’s house is about 12 hours on a good day, straight). Unfortunately we encountered a storm near Des Moines and got stuck there, so we stopped to spend the night in a hotel and got off in the morning. It wasn’t the greatest of circumstances, but we ended up making it to Nebraska around 4:00pm CST Christmas day.

So now I write to you from the middle of nowheresville, USA where my cell phone doesn’t work, I’ve not seen a Starbucks in 4 days, and there isn’t even a Wal-mart in this little town (however they have a gas station! Yay!). It’s colder than it has any right to be and there is so much snow that it might still be here come summertime. Celebrating Christmas with his parents was certainly different. I’ve not celebrated Christmas without my family…ever. It wasn’t honestly something I ever fathomed doing, but The Boy Creature wanted to have Christmas with his family, and we didn’t want to be apart, so this is the way it worked out.

Anyway, I hope everyone has had a lovely and safe holiday! I’ll see you in the new year!

Happy Holidays!

My Christmas Wish List!

Seems like I always make up a wish list for Christmas, but rarely get anything on it, but for some reason I still feel compelled to make the list. I guess it’s just because I love making lists, and making the list is fun for me, even if I don’t get anything on it! However, if you feel like getting me something on my list, I won’t say no!

-Wii Fit or Wii Fit Plus
-Wrist or Arm warmers! (want so much, always)
-Anything on my Amazon books wish list
-An ebook reader (sony reader!)
-Kinder Eggs (We can’t get these here, but I have an obsession)
-Anything Hello Kitty
-Super cute pink things!
-Legos (another obsession)
-Personal Trainer: Walking for DS
-Awesome 360 games that I don’t already have
-Microsoft Points!
-Post Cards, Stationary, Stamps, Pens, Pencils, memo sheets, rubber stamps (I have an office supply obsession)
-stickers!!! (Cute ones)
-cute kitchy long long strands of pearls
-Anything anyone thinks I might like!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! In honor of Thanksgiving, I’m posting 50 things I am thankful for!

1.) My family for being awesome and loving me!

2.) My friends (Online and off)

3.) Water! (Especially awesome flavors of it)

4.) Fabric Stores! (Even the craft department in Wal-Mart)

5.) restaurants, grocery stores, other food establishments!

6.) The fact that I live in a house! Houses are good.

7.) Having a car, and places to go in said car.

8.) My new guitar hero guitar with Taylor Swift Faceplate!

9.) Having a pretty cool job.

10.) Books!

11.) Sweet Tea!

12.) Duct Tape!

13.) Having electricity. Especially in my kitchen.

14.) Green Bean casserole on holidays!

15.) Tylenol, ibuprofen, and motrin!

16.) My DS Lite

17.) Candy!

18.) New Shoes!

19.) My T-mobile Sidekick and Internet EVERYWHERE

20.) Hello Kitty

21.) My BFF!

22.) Pouches

23.) Sour Patch Kids!

25.) Cool T-shirts!

26.) Video Games!

27.) Video Games where I kill people with guns.

28.) Video Games with cool peripherals

29.) Video Games with Neat Music

30.) Neat Music

31.) WordPress!

32.) Nice Weather

33.) Gum!

34.)  My ipod!

35.) 25 Gigs of my favorite music on said ipod

36.) Skullcandy for making all my favorite headphones!

37.) My 360!

38.) Anyone who actually pays attention to my blog!

39.) Twitter!

40.) My Crafty Gene! (Thanks Gramma!)

41.) Cool places to sell things I make!

42.) Holidays where very good food is made!

43.) Cute Pink Netbooks!

44.) Super balls

45.) Netflix

46.) People in my life who won’t ditch me at the first sign of a minor meltdown

47.) Youtube!

48.) Awesome Gaming Communities (Buddy System Gaming!)

49.) environmental Consciousness

50.) Most of all: The fact that I live in time when, due to awesome technology, the world can seem so small even when it isn’t.

Wow. It’s actually sort of difficult to think of 50 things I am thankful for. It shouldn’t be! So that’s it. I just want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Hope your holiday is full of good food, and great company. Be thankful!

Halo 3: ODST Review – Sort of

A little while ago, I got ODST thanks to  my awesome gaming BFF and it is pretty cool. I like playing as an ODST, and I certainly like seeing a different side of the UNSC. The game is darker, scarier, more intense, and even a little harder. The Campaign is a bit too short for my liking. Total Campaign playtime on normal was about 3 1/2 hours for one full run through. I’ve had quite a bit of fun though going back to get all the audio logs, the ‘naughty, naughty’ achievement and it’s counterpart, ‘Good Samaritan’ for deciding whether killing things that are new and different is good, or bad.

Firefight is also an amazing experience, and was definitely something different to add to the general halo experience.  Firefight seems like it can just go on for as long as you can last without losing all your lives, and therefore, the game. My first match of firefight, on lost platoon with 3 players lasted 3 hours! We actually ended up just screwing around in the end and losing all our lives, because we just didn’t want to keep going for fear that it would go on FOOOOREEEVVVEERRR!!!

I think one thing I noticed about ODST, isn’t actually about ODST itself. When I am playing ODST and switch back to playing Halo 3, It’s terribly hard to get used to being a Spartan again. I jump off buildings expecting to lose my shields, wonder where I’m gonna get a health pack, and forget how awesome my Battle Rifle is.

Overall, I really enjoy playing ODST and see myself going back to play it again and again in the future, because while it is halo, it’s completely different, with the same enjoyability. Awesome Game!

It’s my birthday but I don’t want to cry.

Happy Birthday to me!

I figured I might as well say it to myself. You know…just in case.

4th of july 2009

Videos from 4th of july!

I also have some pretty cool pictures up on my facebook.

I had quite a bit of fun watching the fireworks. Drew took the pictures, I gotten eaten by bugs. Yeah, lotsa fun. right.

I GOT IT

Drew got me the camera I wanted for my birthday. HOW EXCITING IS THAT? Anyway It’s really awesome and I think I am going to name him François because I just recently beat Chibi-Robo Park Patrol and my favorite friend in the game was the cool marionette, François who eventually rose above the need for strings. So say Au revoir to Calvin and hello François!

Now with new found cameraness I’m gonna celebrate with a picspam!

This is our new puppy, Jingles! Isn’t he just so rediculously cute? Okay so I wouldn’t normally put a shirt on him, but whatever, The shirt is our local schools’ colors (Go Wildcats!) and says ‘Team captain. Drew and I found it in that dollar area at target! There were tons of different clothing like cheerleading outfits and such! Too Cute! Also Starring in this picture is Bo-Bo which is that silly toy from PetSmart (Which is not where the pets go of course, but whatever). Anyway isn’t he just anerable? Yeah you can’t handle it! Go Ahead and give his head a little scratchypoo with your mouse. I know you want to.

This is lunch. (Hey I said pic-spam, didn’t I?) Lunch Consisted of a Ham Sandwich on Wheat Bread with colby-jack cheese on it, and an extra half piece on the side. Also Munchies which after taking the picture I promptly picked out all the pretzels, mini doritos and sunchips and gave the cheetos to Drew. And of course a Welches Grape Juice. Mmmm delicious!

This is my monitor/360/computer. Basically this is what I look at when I’m on my computer or playing my 360. My monitor is sitting on an Allsop stand thing that Drew got for me at wal-mart. The 360 fits under it just right and it’s so nice.

Also peeking out are the altec lansing speakers I use and my thumb drive, some random cables or something and my lists. I’m a compulsive list maker. I love to do lists especially.

Not pictured however is my actual computer (the tower, it sits under the table) and my sub woofer box thingy (also under the table.

This is my stack of gaaaaaames!!!!

Halo 3, Tenchu Z, Guitar Hero 2 & 3, Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo (Still unopened, lol, had it forever), Beautiful Katamari, Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged, Viva Pinata, Rockband, Halo 2, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Sims 2 Limited Edition (includes night life and bon voyage). Oh and Can’t forget Office Home and Student 2007! That’s the best game in that stack! and of course Fruits Basket! 1!

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This is my awesome table. It’s where I eat, play games, compute, work, craft and basically do everything! It’s actually about twice as long as you see, but that all got cut off.

OOOOH MAIL! I wonder what if could be! It’s from hong kong! So far away!

It’s my supercard! I was super excited about finally receiving this in the mail, but then I was really sad because it doesn’t work. So now it has to be sent back to deal extreme and I have to wait forever again to get a new one. Drew emailed them about an RMA number but I don’t think he has heard back yet. So disappointing!

And now Puppehkins says Bye!

a forgotten soap

I forgot to blog about this soap, but it was also one that was given away at christmas and I was particularly proud of it, so I thought I would write about it now.

So first we start off with a blue skateboard which is carved out of soap. By hand. yeah. (Please ignore my bitten fingernails, I’m trying to stop, really!)

Then it was embeded into soap that was clear on the top and then some clear orange on the bottom.

Here’s a side view so you can see how it is split up. I think it’s pretty cool.

Catch Up Post!

So I have a LOT LOT LOT to catch up on in Posting.

Okay, to make it easier I’m just going to do a bit of a bullet list.

• Our 360 died.
  - The dvd drive started making loud noises and then it stopped reading disks, right in the middle of a matchmaking sesh on Halo 3!
  -It’s now sitting in TX hopefully soon to be fixed or something like that…
• ACAD ’08 is starting off pretty well, despite the fact that I haven’t felt very well.
• We took the death of the 360 as an opportunity to send our Halo 3 game disk in because of the obscene scratching defectiveness and crap and received a new disk back in like a week, along with a one month card, YAY!
• Christmas was pretty cool. I got to spend a lot of time with my family and got many cool gifts, including a HUGE gift card to Gamestop which we used to purchase a PS2 and a bunch of awesome games, including Kingdom Hearts, Wild Arms 3, and In The Groove.

Now, some pictures.

I got these awesome wrist warmers that look homemade but are surprisingly mass produced.
I’ve officially decided to learn to knit so that I can someday make these for myself. I started learning the other night and am doing at least semi-decent. If anyone has any tips go ahead and leave a comment.

Or: Even Better, If you know how to knit, and would like to knit some loverly arm or wrist warmerage in a trade, I’d love to do that. Get in contact with me via a comment and leave your email or a messenger name and I will talk to you and see it there is anything we could work out.

Now soaps!

I started making soap and have found I’m actually pretty good at it!

First I made these, which I promptly turned into a set of these:

which actually look much better in real life. They are a light Pepperment scent and they are wonderful.

Then there came these, which were actually a present for Andrew’s (The Boy Creature) Brother Josiah. They are a Crisp Cucumber-Melon scent, and the color is actually really melony (Think Honeydew) and not the pinkish that it looks.

Now after successfully handling that, I decided to jump in full force and created:

They are varying scents and are all very wonderful. They were all gifted to the wonderful people in my life!

I think that’s a decent update for now. I’ll write more later!