Hobbies

Whew... my body is all achy and tired. I feel fatigued a lot. It's partially my period and partially having to be used to adjusting my usual habits at home I guess. Ah well, I'll have time to myself in a week or so.

I bought a Zune yesterday (had to stand in crazy line to get it) but it ended up being some sort of broken refurbished version and we exchanged to get a new one. I hope this one works. I mostly wanted a mp3 player so I could have music to listen to while I'm walking alone ('cause sometimes I get anxiety from loud noises, I could drown them out with music.)

I have to say I REALLY HATE earbuds though. They're uncomfortable for me. I suppose it's also because I only have the one that came with the Zune though, and it kind of blows. :P

...early. whatever. I should be sleeping but I'm not. x.x

ANYWAY, oh! we have Soul Calibur 4 for PS3 and I'm having fun with it. I've not played Soul Calibur since the first one, or was it the second? Anyway, I am playing Tira now and she is my favorite. :D Razor hula hoop anyone? also, her soul edge weapon looks like Ouroboros. *awesome!*

Then Jon and I went into character creation and made Archana and Seventeen. XD (Archa is using Mitsurugi style right now because her current weapon in Wardragon is a reaver daiklave with quick draw iaijutsu type style. 17 is using Cervantes style, since he's a two blade fighter and also happens to have a pistol. Except 17's is not a gunblade.)

We also went out and bought a *board game*, haha. It's an adventure dungeon crawler type thing. I forgot what it's called... possibly because I am so sleep deprived right now it's SICK.

Happy Christmas Eve though. :D more holiday posty later!

We're leaving pretty soon to get my sis! Yay!!

Unfortunately it seems she's arriving on one of the coldest days this month. Geez, it's FREEZING even inside. ;.; Doesn't help we have such big windows though, and the finishing touches haven't been done on the frames yet.

Ohoh I had the opportunity to try every one of my games yesterday, too. I have run after posting this (just got call from sis, she'll be here in 2 hours!) but I wanted to post some short impressions, and a bit about other games Jon and I want.

Also, bonus chara artwork! Mostly 'cause I think Selina will appreciate.

Since I wrote most of the Tower Revival stuff while COMPLETELY sleep deprived, I went and elaborated a bit about the project earlier today. I posted to LJ first -- now I'm pasting it here, so I have it saved in my database.

More info should be forthcoming in the next couple weeks. The new Tower forum itself won't actually appear until sometime in January. Along with the usual introduction, rules and setting threads, I'll have a subforum available to personally walk people through the character creation process.

I also want to read up on some non-core FFRPG rules. I'd like to potentially include subjobs, maybe even limit breaks. I also had an idea to allow PCs to start with some innate traits above and beyond what they get from chargen or job. (An example I had is allowing Ryshy to spend HP instead of MP to heal others, to simulate her 'empathicness'. Also, Kazuki's shapeshifting could count as an innate trait.) I think it'll end up being one passive trait and one active one, meaning you actually have to pay some extra cost to activate it.

Came back with some video games. :O I decided I'd put most of my Christmas money into a game shopping spree. Among other things I have Luminous Arc 2 and Rhapsody for DS, and also Baroque for the PS2. I got the only copy I have EVER seen of Nobunaga's Ambition for PS2, also. :D

I was really indecisive ;.; there are SO many games I want. I think I will go grab Persona 4 too (which Aurora on LJ very kindly reminded me about) and a PS3 game. That's *plenty* of games for the next few months. I tend to actually stockpile them... I'm a bit of a game packrat, but sooner or later I DO play them. ^^:

I keep wondering if I should've just grabbed Persona 4 instead. I was just less inclined to get it right away because it's newer and more likely to still be in stock. (The video game chain around here, Game Buzz, really favors Atlus games for some reason.)

I wasn't really able to play FFXI at all these past couple days. x.x Just had too much to do the day before yesterday, and then we lost our connection for several hours due to another lameass contractor messing up our cable connection.

I kinda feel bad for Rin since I don't have nearly as much time to put into playing (with all the other activities I do as well, free time or not). FFXI is harder to play solo and I wanted to try to keep up together as a group. Just don't know if I can manage it... especially in the coming weeks with sis over and all that.

Oh, I wanted to mention that the anniversary celebration was actually very nice and relaxing. Thanks to all who gave well wishes! Unfortunately, I'm in a bit of a sour mood lately, and that really put a damper on the good feelings I got from relaxing with husband.

We're going to be away till tomorrow evening-ish.

Going to stay at a hotel for 4th anniversary. (I'm old! o.O) And eat out and all that.

Also, I've been losing weight, I've found. I'm gradually approaching 180. :P But I really need to get back into exercising. In the spring I may lose a great deal if I start that up again. I'm surprised I've still been losing, even if it's only a half a pound a week.

RIN: I couldn't find you at all last night n.n and I kept dying, hehe. So I went and soloed to 12. I probably should try to do quests :P *bad about that* but we should party on Thurs if you want ^^;

Friday is PSU night though, and so is Sat.

See you~! (P.S. Selina, don't worry... I'm not mad at you.)

FFRPG: I got in! \o/ I'm in the process of creating Bryn for the game now.

Obligatory FF11 update: I trained Talliska in Monk job to 10th. Then switched back to Red Mage. Originally I was going to do White Mage next but Rin said I should wait! I just wanted to leave my options open, since 10th is when we can actually group together. But I'll train RDM to 18th first. (So I can get secondary job.)

I'm going to train both Ninja and Paladin for advanced classes. Not going to mix them together though I don't think. I'm actually going for two different builds I would like to switch between depending on mood: Red Mage / Paladin (MAYBE the reverse, too, only thing is that Paladin doesn't fit my aesthetics for Talli. I'm picky about that. :P But I want /PLD for Auto-Refresh and also better defenses) and Monk / Ninja (I LOVE being a fast fighter. Mmm.)

Ooh ooh. I may be getting into FFRPG on RPoL. The rules are a fan-made Final Fantasy based RPG system, by Returner Games. I'm really looking forward to trying this out. :D The FFRPG project has matured a lot over the past... decade? and now includes material from every game all the way up to FF12: Revenant Wings. :D

AND YES! I am playing a Viera. OF COURSE I am. :D In fact, I'm using Brynja -- though, it's a different Bryn than the one I was going to make for Lumi's story.

FF11 update: I am up to... level 10! Mithra Red Mage. I spent a lot of time playing and chatting with Rin, which was cool. He taught us a bunch of stuff we'd not been aware of and even took us on a quest (which led to a TPK. But we were all only level 8 then.) Apparently he really wishes I was a WHM, but I want to be versatile, and rather like Red. -_^

And here's some of the writing I sent the GM for my FFRPG character (it's set in a custom world named Grayth.)

Hrm. I had originally planned to write some sort of introspective post, but have no idea how to word it. So let's just go for a straight summary.

In the past few days I bought the new Ben Folds album Way to Normal (mini-review at the end of this post), ventured out in the winter cold only twice (for the album and to get groceries) and otherwise mostly sat around a lot. :P I guess winter is just the season for that. I mean, since right now I still don't have school or work.

Oh, and since I didn't write about it before: my bad day a little while back mostly stemmed from me freaking out because I got an email from Concordia saying they required my permanent residency proof before considering my application. As I have a very low trust of the Canadian government in following through with my documentation, I'm now afraid I will get barred from college (along with not being able to get a bank account, or get my passport back.)

So, you can probably see how that could be upsetting for me.