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!

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!

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!

Christmas Post!

Well there it is! Our first ever Christmas tree! It may be small, clocking in at just 3 feet, but it is still ours. I’m still Quite sick, but I’m starting to feel quite better.