The never-ending war against Tortilla
So I guess it's time to write something again, even if I don't know what exactly...
Last week at work was hard. Almost too hard. People were being retarded, and I don't care enough to fix things properly, so people got mad and sulky and bitchy and yeeeeah. This week has been better though, we have a tentative finish date of August 20th, and this seems to be keeping people going at the moment. If this date falls through (like the about 5 or so that have already) then I really don't know what's going to happen. I've been looking at baking, I really enjoy baking, but I reckon it's because it's a hobby that I like it and that if I did it for a job then I'd hate it really fast. Will have to wait and see I suppose :)
Spent last weekend at home playing Dragon Age with mum, she's been signed off for another 8 weeks, and doesn't really seem to be improving at all. She's cheerful enough, which is something I guess. At any rate she was well enough for us to go see Toy Story 3, which finally came out over here. I highly reccommend going to see it in 3d, because then the glasses hide the humiliation of how hard you were crying at the end. ;___;
I've got a few games on the go just now- by "on the go" I really mean "I started them in the last year then wandered away", namely Tales of Symphonia 2, Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dragon Age: Awakening and of course my Nuzlocke run! Not put in much time with any of these lately, I did a little more in my Nuzlocke, though it was mostly level grinding so not much to actually write:
All very exciting so far in part 2, mainly stayed in route 110 leveling. got Princess and Jabbu up to 18, then took care of the small Team Aqua disturbance in Slateport city, and delivered my final package. Now the rest of route 110 is open for me, I find the trick house. There's trainers inside, so I head in for some more exp for Princess. Only 2 more levels til she evolves, and can actually attack!
The combination of trick house trainers and team aqua grunts gets Princess just up to level 19, then the master of the trick house gives me a RARE CANDY for clearing the first level of the house. Candy immediately fed to Princess, who obligingly evolved into my very own Gyarados. mmmm, water attacks.
Heading further along the route, I ran into May again, who challenged me to a battle :/ Luckily she still only has 3 pokemon on her team, even if one of them is a level 20 Marshtomp. My newly evolved Princess handled it and her Numel very well, and Jabbu took out her Shroomish. Didn't take too much damage, but still went back to heal for the sake of paranoia.
Make it to the next town, which has 3 new routes attached to it! Headed west to toute 117 first, battled all the trainers and found a wild....... Zigzagoon again. Maybe I'll have more luck on route 118 to the east! Nope, it's a water route, no encounter. Last chance, north! First thing I find are some Rock Smash boulders, but I don't have the gym badge to move them... hopefully I can get a rock type when I come back here.
bold= current team itlalic= in PC strike= deceased
Starter - Torchic->Combusken (Kentucky) lvl 24
route 101 - -----------------
route 102 - Zigzagoon (Vector) lvl 15
route 103 - -----------------
route 104 - Wurmple->Cascoon->Dustox (Wiggles) lvl 23
Petalburg Woods - Slakoth->Vigoroth (Narco) lvl 22
route 115 - no encounter yet
route 116 - --------------------
Rusturf Tunnel - Whismur (Decibobby) lvl 16
Dewford Town - Magikarp->Gyarados (Princess) lvl 22
route 106 - no encounter yet
Granite Cave - MAKUHITA
route 110 - Gulpin (Jabbu) lvl 23
route 117 - ----------------------
route 118 - no encounter yet
I only got round to getting Dragon Age: Awakening last weekend, and spent as much time as possible over those 2 days playing it. I'd started to forget how much I enjoy that game, even if all my party members have buggered off to who knows where. No explanation, just left me on my own on a dark and rainy country road, stripped of my gear. Seriously. It was dumb of me to leave all my preorder bonus equipment on my character when I already knew it didn't transfer over. The end result was a high level mage stripped of all gear except armor, resorting to punching Darkspawn :( I quite like the new characters, even if they have pretty much taken the old characters and mixed up their job classes. For example, if Alistair had been a mage, he would pretty much be Anders, and the new warrior, "Justice", is a disturbing cross between Leliana, Wynne and Sten. Basically it all makes me wish my xbox wasn't a couple of hundred miles away.
Presently, I am waging a war against enchiladas. I bought an enchilada kit 2 days ago, with the intention of having it for my tea that night. Twice the kit has defied me, though I did manage to do most of the assembly yesterday. I have to make them tonight, or I'll just end up throwing them out in disgust at their mockery. I can hear them laughing at me even now :/
The only other thing I can think of that I've been doing is gulf_aid_now, where I offered my pokemon drawing services in their second auction. I never mentioned it, because I was pretty nervous about it, I've never done a 'commission' before, even if it was for charity rather than profit. My final bid was $30 for a drawing of a chibi trainer and up to 6 pokemon, and I've done the sketch and began the colouring. Obviously, since it's a commission I can't really post it about, but I reckon I can show you the rough sketch I did:
It's for an RP, and I just love that they're all still unevolved! There's still an egg in the team! On the other hand I feel guilty that the person isn't getting their money's worth, so I'll draw them a bonus picture too :) man I suck at drawing pichu
I reckon I'll offer up the same thing again when the next round of auctions begin in August, assuming that I get this one finished for the deadline next week. I may even go really crazy and offer 2! :O
Hmm, I think I'm procrastinating those enchiladas, I'm gonna give them what-for now.
Last week at work was hard. Almost too hard. People were being retarded, and I don't care enough to fix things properly, so people got mad and sulky and bitchy and yeeeeah. This week has been better though, we have a tentative finish date of August 20th, and this seems to be keeping people going at the moment. If this date falls through (like the about 5 or so that have already) then I really don't know what's going to happen. I've been looking at baking, I really enjoy baking, but I reckon it's because it's a hobby that I like it and that if I did it for a job then I'd hate it really fast. Will have to wait and see I suppose :)
Spent last weekend at home playing Dragon Age with mum, she's been signed off for another 8 weeks, and doesn't really seem to be improving at all. She's cheerful enough, which is something I guess. At any rate she was well enough for us to go see Toy Story 3, which finally came out over here. I highly reccommend going to see it in 3d, because then the glasses hide the humiliation of how hard you were crying at the end. ;___;
I've got a few games on the go just now- by "on the go" I really mean "I started them in the last year then wandered away", namely Tales of Symphonia 2, Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dragon Age: Awakening and of course my Nuzlocke run! Not put in much time with any of these lately, I did a little more in my Nuzlocke, though it was mostly level grinding so not much to actually write:
All very exciting so far in part 2, mainly stayed in route 110 leveling. got Princess and Jabbu up to 18, then took care of the small Team Aqua disturbance in Slateport city, and delivered my final package. Now the rest of route 110 is open for me, I find the trick house. There's trainers inside, so I head in for some more exp for Princess. Only 2 more levels til she evolves, and can actually attack!
The combination of trick house trainers and team aqua grunts gets Princess just up to level 19, then the master of the trick house gives me a RARE CANDY for clearing the first level of the house. Candy immediately fed to Princess, who obligingly evolved into my very own Gyarados. mmmm, water attacks.
Heading further along the route, I ran into May again, who challenged me to a battle :/ Luckily she still only has 3 pokemon on her team, even if one of them is a level 20 Marshtomp. My newly evolved Princess handled it and her Numel very well, and Jabbu took out her Shroomish. Didn't take too much damage, but still went back to heal for the sake of paranoia.
Make it to the next town, which has 3 new routes attached to it! Headed west to toute 117 first, battled all the trainers and found a wild....... Zigzagoon again. Maybe I'll have more luck on route 118 to the east! Nope, it's a water route, no encounter. Last chance, north! First thing I find are some Rock Smash boulders, but I don't have the gym badge to move them... hopefully I can get a rock type when I come back here.
bold= current team itlalic= in PC strike= deceased
Starter - Torchic->Combusken (Kentucky) lvl 24
route 101 - -----------------
route 102 - Zigzagoon (Vector) lvl 15
route 103 - -----------------
route 104 - Wurmple->Cascoon->Dustox (Wiggles) lvl 23
Petalburg Woods - Slakoth->Vigoroth (Narco) lvl 22
route 115 - no encounter yet
route 116 - --------------------
Rusturf Tunnel - Whismur (Decibobby) lvl 16
Dewford Town - Magikarp->Gyarados (Princess) lvl 22
route 106 - no encounter yet
Granite Cave - MAKUHITA
route 110 - Gulpin (Jabbu) lvl 23
route 117 - ----------------------
route 118 - no encounter yet
I only got round to getting Dragon Age: Awakening last weekend, and spent as much time as possible over those 2 days playing it. I'd started to forget how much I enjoy that game, even if all my party members have buggered off to who knows where. No explanation, just left me on my own on a dark and rainy country road, stripped of my gear. Seriously. It was dumb of me to leave all my preorder bonus equipment on my character when I already knew it didn't transfer over. The end result was a high level mage stripped of all gear except armor, resorting to punching Darkspawn :( I quite like the new characters, even if they have pretty much taken the old characters and mixed up their job classes. For example, if Alistair had been a mage, he would pretty much be Anders, and the new warrior, "Justice", is a disturbing cross between Leliana, Wynne and Sten. Basically it all makes me wish my xbox wasn't a couple of hundred miles away.
Presently, I am waging a war against enchiladas. I bought an enchilada kit 2 days ago, with the intention of having it for my tea that night. Twice the kit has defied me, though I did manage to do most of the assembly yesterday. I have to make them tonight, or I'll just end up throwing them out in disgust at their mockery. I can hear them laughing at me even now :/
The only other thing I can think of that I've been doing is gulf_aid_now, where I offered my pokemon drawing services in their second auction. I never mentioned it, because I was pretty nervous about it, I've never done a 'commission' before, even if it was for charity rather than profit. My final bid was $30 for a drawing of a chibi trainer and up to 6 pokemon, and I've done the sketch and began the colouring. Obviously, since it's a commission I can't really post it about, but I reckon I can show you the rough sketch I did:
It's for an RP, and I just love that they're all still unevolved! There's still an egg in the team! On the other hand I feel guilty that the person isn't getting their money's worth, so I'll draw them a bonus picture too :) man I suck at drawing pichu
I reckon I'll offer up the same thing again when the next round of auctions begin in August, assuming that I get this one finished for the deadline next week. I may even go really crazy and offer 2! :O
Hmm, I think I'm procrastinating those enchiladas, I'm gonna give them what-for now.