ZOMG is he for realz?
I've dedicated a total of maybe 6 hours to FF7: Crisis Core since I got it. That was basically the evening I got it, and the day after. After that I was just too busy. Doing what? Being social. Yeah, I know, weird isn't it? Me giving up anything FF7 for something as trivial as "entertaining company" or "hanging out with other humans." What do I get out of it? I tell ya one thing; if I spend a weekend alone and without plans, I make up stuff to do, usually work around the house and projects that I always say I'll do and just haven't done to date. My mood is fairly neutral and anyone calling me to do anything genuinely comes as a surprise when it happens.
However, hanging out with friends and being able to socialize on an agreeable and enjoyable level makes me feel, I dunno, warm and fuzzy, for lack of better words (just woke up, active vocabulary in the toilet right now). I may hang out with a couple of close friends one day, and the next day, and today is not an exclusion, I feel kinda empty, which is worse than the neutral I feel when normally left alone and I make no effort to reach out. I hate the feeling, but I also hate the fact that I would have such a feeling, like I'm clingy or something. I always thought myself kind of a loner with a few friends I'm very loyal to. When connections to said friends becomes weak, something feels missing in myself. I guess that's just proof that humans truly are a community creature.
Anywho, enough emo talk, time for happy stuff! Yesterday I had the pleasant experience of going skiing for the first time in my life. No certified instructor, just a friend who's skied before to help me not fall on my ass so much. Even with the help, there were no shortages of biffs on my part. =P After I subconsciously picked up the rhythm of it all, the rest fell into place and I figured I was ready to be on my own. I learn quickest that way anyway. At least, I thought I was being left on my own, but apparently my friend was waiting on me a lot to catch up when I thought she had run off to do her own thing. Just because I'm a noob doesn't mean I should hold her back from having fun skiing as well, so I didn't bother her. I went down the "bunny hill" a few times to hone my swaying and not-falling-down skills, and I was pretty confident after just a couple of tries and went back onto the hill I first started out on, which is, in comparison to the bunny hill, maybe 20 or 30 times as long and muuuch steeper. Supposedly it was ranked "green" which is just one level above bunny, but bunny didn't do anything for my exercise and took longer to take the left to the top of the hill than it did to ski down and walk back to the start of the lift. The green hill made my legs so sore from trying to break and sway that my muscles were starting to fatigue near the end of the 2nd and 3rd runs I did, so I'd try to switch legs to even out the burn, but then I would be heading a direction I didn't want to go, start getting so fast that I would lose my confidence to stop safely, and would crash myself on purpose just to stop moving forward and what seemed like 60mph.
All in all, I had a lot of fun and would like to go again sometime. Maybe then a few more friends will be able to come along to, make it more of a group activity. Newbies, don't feel bad, I'll probably forget most of what I learned by then and be tripping alongside you. Besides that, I wanted to try a snowboard next time to see what that's like, so it'll be a completely new experience for me again!
It was a long day, and I'm a little sore today from it, but it's a good sore. Besides, I've made my muscles hurt worse from just weight lifting, so I guess I didn't work myself as hard as it felt, or my body's just used to the stress, but not that particular style of stress. I was sweating from walking shoes to the car in my ski boots before I even started skiing, but I attribute that mostly to my multiple layers and the sun being out at that time. I ended the day with a hot tub, ice cream and a movie to relax in front of. Aaah, it was nice.
That's all for this post. Catch y'all around later.
However, hanging out with friends and being able to socialize on an agreeable and enjoyable level makes me feel, I dunno, warm and fuzzy, for lack of better words (just woke up, active vocabulary in the toilet right now). I may hang out with a couple of close friends one day, and the next day, and today is not an exclusion, I feel kinda empty, which is worse than the neutral I feel when normally left alone and I make no effort to reach out. I hate the feeling, but I also hate the fact that I would have such a feeling, like I'm clingy or something. I always thought myself kind of a loner with a few friends I'm very loyal to. When connections to said friends becomes weak, something feels missing in myself. I guess that's just proof that humans truly are a community creature.
Anywho, enough emo talk, time for happy stuff! Yesterday I had the pleasant experience of going skiing for the first time in my life. No certified instructor, just a friend who's skied before to help me not fall on my ass so much. Even with the help, there were no shortages of biffs on my part. =P After I subconsciously picked up the rhythm of it all, the rest fell into place and I figured I was ready to be on my own. I learn quickest that way anyway. At least, I thought I was being left on my own, but apparently my friend was waiting on me a lot to catch up when I thought she had run off to do her own thing. Just because I'm a noob doesn't mean I should hold her back from having fun skiing as well, so I didn't bother her. I went down the "bunny hill" a few times to hone my swaying and not-falling-down skills, and I was pretty confident after just a couple of tries and went back onto the hill I first started out on, which is, in comparison to the bunny hill, maybe 20 or 30 times as long and muuuch steeper. Supposedly it was ranked "green" which is just one level above bunny, but bunny didn't do anything for my exercise and took longer to take the left to the top of the hill than it did to ski down and walk back to the start of the lift. The green hill made my legs so sore from trying to break and sway that my muscles were starting to fatigue near the end of the 2nd and 3rd runs I did, so I'd try to switch legs to even out the burn, but then I would be heading a direction I didn't want to go, start getting so fast that I would lose my confidence to stop safely, and would crash myself on purpose just to stop moving forward and what seemed like 60mph.
All in all, I had a lot of fun and would like to go again sometime. Maybe then a few more friends will be able to come along to, make it more of a group activity. Newbies, don't feel bad, I'll probably forget most of what I learned by then and be tripping alongside you. Besides that, I wanted to try a snowboard next time to see what that's like, so it'll be a completely new experience for me again!
It was a long day, and I'm a little sore today from it, but it's a good sore. Besides, I've made my muscles hurt worse from just weight lifting, so I guess I didn't work myself as hard as it felt, or my body's just used to the stress, but not that particular style of stress. I was sweating from walking shoes to the car in my ski boots before I even started skiing, but I attribute that mostly to my multiple layers and the sun being out at that time. I ended the day with a hot tub, ice cream and a movie to relax in front of. Aaah, it was nice.
That's all for this post. Catch y'all around later.