shopping

So we went out for Jon's 28th birthday. Just me and him, of course. We don't really have any friends here and I'm not very social any more. But I don't mind it just being the two of us.

We went out walking around in downtown Montreal. We didn't actually get out the door till almost 6 pm (laziness, mostly, slept in a lot 'cause Jon is ill), but still had fun. I got to buy Jon a new outfit and he looks good in it! And I bought him a necklace he thought was cool, too.

Then we had dinner at Reuben's, it's a steakhouse close to the mall we went to. Great food and service. I had a ribeye steak and Jon ordered a steak and cheese sandwich. We shared a 'chop-chop' poutine which was whoa! awesomely good! ('chop-chop' is apparently chopped smoked meat, I've never heard it called that before though.) Had to bring most back home 'cause we got so full from the poutine and salad.

I bought stuff, too. with money I should have saved but eh.

music
- Metallica Death Magnetic
- Keane Perfect Symmetry

(heh I actually went for popular albums :P)

game
- From the Abyss (Nintendo DS game, it's a roguelike adventure thingy so I'm excited to try it. not to be mixed up with Tales of the Abyss for PS2)

these things will cheer me up, though as usual it will be fleeting. that's pretty much the extent of happiness I have in my life.

p.s. Outcastes is still going fine so far... I hope I will be able to keep it up...

Now to continue my "let's not stay inside and be a hermit" efforts, I'm going out again today. Hopefully I will be in a good mood this time. I'm wearing clothes I like and I feel ok (I even got a decent face wash so my face feels clean) and my ear infection is going away.

I always feel kind of silly posting about "OOH I'M GOING OUT" but as I've said before, for me this is often a big thing. My mix of depression and anxiety leads to agoraphobic tendencies (especially now, while I'm still waiting on various papers and IDs) at times, and I have to fight that a lot so I don't end up languishing away indoors.

Anyway, I'm mostly going out to get a sound card for my computer. And I think we may go out to eat and see a movie cause we never got to last time. I'm going to be back by the time Kalli finishes work (hehe, 10 pm is "Kalli finishes work hour" now.) She wanted to play Last Chaos with us -- though OOH, she's going to be able to renew DR very soon now! I was telling Terra I was starting to get a little DR-apathetic, and having her in game again would TOTALLY reverse that for me.

*goes before it gets too late* :O

I'm tired but I wanted to post a bit...

Earlier, Manze (my friend from DR) was poking me about trying this MMO called Last Chaos (Aeria Games, same makers as DOMO that I tried a little while ago). So I did, and I got Jon to join and maybe Kalli will later.

Here are our characters (I'm the blond healer) and here's a closeup of the mage cause it amuses me Manze is playing this dommie-ish chick (he wanted to play mage, but unfortunately LC doesn't let you choose your gender.) Jon is the knightly beefcake. :D

now, about the rest of the day and yesterday...

Friday was my day to get out of the apartment for a while. Jon and I walked the whole distance to the mall, that was nearly an hour walk, but great exercise! Kinda tired me out, though, going all that way without even eating beforehand. :x

I almost bought a pretty dress on sale (it was really cute ;.; this kinda offwhite, with brown and burnt orange leafy patterns. I really like those colors on me.) But instead I went and got Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 for the DS. Does that make me a total dork, choosing video games over fashion? PROBABLY! :D

I came back and played some PSU (it was a lil late though, like 12 am) which was fun, since I haven't played in like 2 weeks. ;.; And then I talked to sis on Skype a bunch while training Talliska in swimming, skinning and combats. We had a nice conversation about various things. Nothing stressful, really. Work, games, etc.

So I'm back~

And we've got a lease for an apartment in Montreal. We put in the deposit, and are pretty much guaranteed to get it (apparently the landlady really likes us). We need to send over a few bits of information though, because we forgot to bring some documents. Wah.

Kalli was saying she helped us out by thinking about us getting a nice apartment the whole time. XD Woooo, voodoo powerz.

But it's a nice place. It's within walking distance of my college, a grocery store, pharmacy, hell... plenty of malls and restaurants too. It has a laundry room (mine right now does not. :O) It's on a low floor, which I really wanted -- I preferred having no one living below me so I could DDR to my heart's content. XD It's probably doubly as big as our current apartment.

I have all four volumes of Thrice's Alchemy Index now! I went and bought them yesterday with Jon, when we went out to the mall. I didn't end up finding anything for Kraken's birthday, though... the only things I could think of weren't in stores. So I'll probably end up ordering through Amazon, like he did for me. ^^ (I bought a card to mail him on Monday though! Yay!)

I'd hoped to buy some clothes, but I don't have much money to spare just yet. ;.; I did end up buying another album though -- the new Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree. I'm happy, because for this album Goldfrapp isn't focusing on the usual synth-pop / dance music that they've been doing with Black Cherry and Supernature. I actually got into Goldfrapp in the first place with Felt Mountain, which has less of the highly inorganic, manufactured sound (and is also darker in tone, I'd say, though Goldfrapp is always rather dark and abstract in lyrical theme).

But here's my impressions so far of the new Thrice!

I spent last night getting the webhosting space and setting up my sekrit project. Man... it made me wish Drupal had better theming capabilities, cause wow... I am really pleased with the layout of that site. I shouldn't be waving around "loooooky i have a secret project!" when no one will even see it, but it still excites me 'cause I'm satisfied with the work, and I LOVE working on webstuff.

Speaking of not so secret projects, I am beginning to be tempted by making money through a reseller hosting account... like, not a LOT of money, but more like an experiment. I mean, nowadays reseller accounts start as low as $6/mo. I could get something pretty decent at $10/mo. All I'd really want is to see what I can do with it -- whether I can come up with a concept for low-cost (I'm talking, like, $2-3 a month) web accounts, likely paid through Paypal, that would at the *least* repay the cost of the reseller account -- and if more, it could even pay for my DR / PSU accounts, and my darksiren.net account. That would be sweet. :O

Oooh, but even BETTER news: I ordered my new computer! Finally!!

I'm all sore and sleepy... I swear, I don't think my body can get used to waking earlier than 2 pm for some reason. That'll be a problem when I go back to college, I think... well maybe by then it'll be fixed, I dunno.

Yesterday we went shopping at the nearby mall with my sis. None of us really bought all that much, actually. Just a couple articles of clothing. My sis spent most of the 6 or 7 hours we were there mostly waffling about what to get (not unexpectedly!) Heh, I wish I could be that picky. I'm overweight so it is harder to find clothes I really like that fit me. So it made me a little bit... aggravated, I guess, because I saw *plenty* of stores with clothes I would have loved to buy if I was a more reasonable size.

Earlier, Jon and I went out for a bit. Walking in the snow was tiring, but we got where we needed to, had a nice lunch and bought a few RP books. Namely Warhammer Fantasy and Dark Heresy, since Selina told us they're now out of print. Also decided to pick up another copy of Ex1: The Dragon-blooded, because mine is all torn up. And a copy of the Ex1 Games of Divinity 'cause the scan I have sucks.

Hrmm... and I spent the evening playing TR. I'm wondering whether I can keep up with it... I like it but I have a lot of other interests too.

My char got her second class change. Reina the commando! I even have a general idea of a build for when she hits Grenadier. Whoa, I actually planned ahead. :P (do I really put ':P' a lot? I didn't notice but someone pointed it out. Odd. Maybe I feel/felt really sarcastic? *shrugs*)