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It's crazy how long it took me to become level 30. I've been here for 3 years and 3 months and I know of people who have been here for the exact same amount of time but are level 40s. Oh well...

As for life, had bronchitis for the last week of my college semester, which made life veeerrry miserable. I should be used to it though because I get either Pneumonia or Bronchitis every single year.

And now that I have a break from school I can FINALLY start playing video games again. The game I'm playing right now is Uncharted. My goal is to finish it so that I can buy the second one and finish it before the Spring semester starts (January 11). Eventually I hope to get around to playing Assassin's Creed II as well.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Work is going alright, but this was my first week and they tried to make me work this weekend as well. That would have been 7 days working in a row (8-10 hour days). My manager actually ASKED me if I wanted to work that kind of sceadule and I told her no. Apperently someone forgot. But I switched hours with someone so I could have this weekend off. Can not WAIT to start school and start working part time. Don't get me wrong though, I love my job. Just don't want to work 7 days in a row and then get 2 days off and do it all over again.

Anyways, this is why I haven't been on lately. My free time, what little I have, is spent playing the new Shin Megami: Devil Summoner 2 game. It's a great game so far, although I haven't gotten very far.

Hope everyone's weekend is going well. (Wish I could have written a more well written blog, but my mind is in such a fog...sorry lol)

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Thanks for reading and don't forget to rate. Hopefully I'll post more soon.

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Anyways, onto my firstday at work and the worst day I've suffered in a LONG time.
I had just gottenoff work, which was 8 hours of cleaning in a 80-85degree apartment. I was happy toget off work. Me and the lady I was working with got into the workvan and she drove us back. But on the way back we got into a car accident.It wasn't anything major, but it was enough to scare me (she lain changed, and didn't see another carthere). After that I was just readyto gohome.
I had my mompick me up in my car becausemy mothers car was in the shop and I didn'tknow my way around that side of town. So we about half wayhome, going down the interstate at 70 mph, my car starts to smoke and shuts off. This scared thehell out of me.It was 5o'clock traffic andwe had to jump out on the drivers side which was the safest place to get out because it was right next to the concrete barrier. We got it cranked up and managed to driveto town and drop it off at Herndon Chevy.We knowsome technicians down there and they are great, so I really trust them to find out what is wrong. Andthe guy said he isgoing to go over every inchof the car to make sure nothing else goeswrong.
I was talking to a woman at my temp job and she saidshehad the same model car (except it was a 92) and shehad the exactsame thing happen to her.Her'swas a coil or something like that. Whatever the case, I just want my car back.I'msure the guywho sold it to us had no idea, so I don't blamehim.

Thereis one good thingthat happened that day though. Walgreenscalled and told me to come in for an interview.Sadly I thought I wouldn't be able to make itbecause I was working my tempjob thatsame day she wanted to interview me. But the woman I was working with over heard my conversation and told me she understood and she would tell her boss I was meeting her over at the apartmentswe werecleaning. That wayhe would never know I was 2 hours late. So I went to the interview and she saidoutofall the people she had been interviewing the last coupledaysI was the best and she wanted tohire me. So I got the job even though she wanted someone who could be full time (I'll be working full time until the fall). YAY!! About time. And the job is VERY similar toGameStop, so I don't think it'll take long to get into the groove of things.

Anyways, I hope everyone hashad a great weekend Sorry for the long blog.

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Anyways, hope everyone has a goodnight anda greatWednesday!

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My messege to parents, do your research. If you have access to a computer, get online an read about these games. There are parent friendly web sites like WhatTheyPlay.com and, of course, the ESRB website. These sites have reviews by not only editors but fellow parents as well. Taking your time to find out what your kids are playing and what they maybe shouldn't be playing is better than walking into a GameStop blind.
Also, spend time with your children. Some of my favorite memories were with my mom and dad at the park or my mother pulling me in the wagon. My parents were strict when it came to video games when I was growing up (the ps1 era) and in this day and time you have to be even more aware as to what is out there.
Don't let the games babysit your children.

Thanks for reading my rant

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Well, almost. Tomorrow I will be a level 29. Been here for 3 years but am just not reaching level 29. Thanks to the extra points I got from voting for GameSpot, I've leveled up a little quicker as well. (thanks GameSpot!)

In other news, I went to see Star Trek today and I really enjoyed it. I think everyone played their characters really well. I'm sure the die hard fans maybe didn't enjoy the movie as much as I did. lol

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

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I'm really looking forward to getting back and shape, feeling better about how I look, and just feeling better in general.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend

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Anyways, here are some games I'm thinking about finishing. Which one do you think I should finish first?:
- Lost Odyssey: I started playing this game around the beginning of 2008. I've gotten to the 4th disc but stopped playing for some reason. Maybe another game came out around the same time or something came up in my life but I never finished this game. Shouldn't take too long to beat
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope: I started playing thisabout a month or two agoand I'm on the 3rd (final) disc. I think I got so caught up in trying to get all of the battle trophies that I got burnt out on this game.
- Afro Samurai: This is the most recent game that got pushed aside due to me playing Braid and Viva Pinata all the time. I'm pretty close to the end.

I hope everybody has a great rest of the week

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We got up around 4 am, got ready and got to the shuttle buses (which were school buses this year...) which took everyone to Mount Pleasent. I was in running shorts and my Cooper River Bridge T-Shirt and my GOD, I was cold.
So me, my boyfriend and my dad waited for about 3 hours for the race to start. Once it did start I realised that all that waiting had takena toll on my bladder. I have a bladder condition, but I thought there would be some port-a-johns on the 6.2 mile journey that I was embarking on. But I was sorely mistaken. All of the port-a-johns were at the VERY beginning of the walk. I saw 2 when I got off the bridge, but I didn't want to wait in that line.
So anyways, I had to stop at a gas station that had only one bathroom and I had to wait in line for so long that me, Michael and my dad ended up at the VERY last place. Not a big deal because some Ethiopian fellow one the race in 24 mins anyways. Most people don't do it to RACE, but to say they did it.
But when the police car is following you, it's a little worrying. lol Luckley we gained some speed and past a couple 100 people or so. But my bladder hurt SO bad because of my condition. I thought about stopping a couple times but I really wanted to do this for myself. I couldn't give up half way through! Although I did need to find another bathroom. So as soon as we got off the Bridge (which takes up most of the walk) I saw a Church's chicken. I saw an old lady runner come out of there and thought, if she can use their bathroom I can too. WRONG. Those *** holes locked me out. So I gave them the finger and a couple choice words and finally found one at an Ice Cream shop. lol
But I am proud of myself for completing that walk. It's made me want to start getting back into shape again.

As for the rest of my vacation, it was great. We went to the Market, out to eat, etc. But one of my favorite moments was with Michael. Me and him, right after the race went to East Bay street and walked out onto my favorite pier. It's really beautiful, it's a huge pier with a roof over the large wooden swings. We sat on the swings for a while and watched the cruise liner and looked out at Patriots Point (old war ships are docked there) and the sail boats. Then we got up and walked to the end of the pier and there were dolphins jumping up out of the water about 15 feet away from the edge of the pier. One of the many reasons I love Charleston; there are SO many little things like that to enjoy.

Hope everyone else had a great weekend and is having a good week!

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Let me elaborate on that "childhood friend" thing first off. I met her when I first moved into the neighborhood I'm currently living in, which was almost 13 years ago. I was 6, about to turn 7 and me, her and a boy who lived on the corner (Eric) used to hang out. But she wasn't really NICE to me. In fact I got beat up by her on an almost daily basis. So in other words, she was a bully. And most of my friends growing up were bullies (I didn't have many because I was home schooled). When I was about 9 or 10, Kelli started getting into some rough stuff. She was 13 or 14 then and was hanging with a rough crowd. My mom said I couldn't hang out with her so I stopped seeing much of her.
But between her and my "best friend", I turned into a bully and beat up kids and started fights for the hell of it. I was a pretty mean girl for years. But I grew out of that. Kelli on the other hand just kept hanging out with that rough crowd.
And for years, if I tried to walk down to other kids houses, she would sometimes confront me and we would get into really heated arguments (police were called several times). But that was when we were younger.
I hadn't seen much of her recently to tell the truth, but I did think about her from time to time.

So, when this happened a lot of things went through my mind. I should have apologize for all the arguments (at least for my part of the argument). I should have made a little bit of peace. I don't think she was a bad person, she just had problems. And even though she bullied me, she was still one of my first friends.

Anyways, I visited her mom and I hope none of you ever have to see someone who is dealing with the death of a murdered child (or go through it yourself). About half way through the conversation we were having she told us that she just wanted to die. I really wish I could do more for her and her family. Me and my mom are going to keep an eye on her for a while, just to make sure she doesn't do anything, because she is all alone in that house.

I just wish she would have figured out what I figured out when I was about 16, that making enemies and fighting is not worth it.

Rest in Peace Kelli.And I'm sorry for all that was said and done, on my part. May not have been my friend in the normal sense of the word but I've realized that I still cared for you enough to mourn your passing. I hope your life, even though it was short, was a good one.
1985-2009

(PS: Sorry if this blog seems like a mish-mash of thoughts, which is pretty much what it is.)

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Anyways, right now I'm tired as **** because I'm working the graveyard shift. 12 am-9 am. And for some reason I can't go back to sleep although I really need to if I'm going to survive tonight. Ugh...I hope they change my hours after I'm done training. This is the same shift my boyfriends been doing and now I see why he hates it so much. It's like trying to turn yourself into a vampire (without the drinking blood and immortality lol) and the human body just isn't made for that. But, it's a job.
(BTW: You must excuse the lazy way this blog is written. To tired to think...)

Onto other news. I'm almost done with Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Once it's completed, I'll hopefully have a little money because there are so many games on my wish list. Some of the ones at the top of my wish list are: MadWorld, Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero, Gears of War 2, and Loco Roco 2. I'm really looking forward to getting MadWorld because from all I've heard, that strikes me as my type of game even though it may be short.

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I really think that this could be solved if youcould switch between Japanese and American voices in these games. Nippon-ichi does that with their games. If you want to listen to the Japanese voices, you are more than welcome to. And some Atlus games are like that too (Odin Sphere was one). It just seems silly not to include it! It's a Japanese RPG for god sake. The culture of Japan is infused in the game. And the companies always say that they don't want to cheat their American voice actors by including the original voices, but if the Americans are making no sense then I would much rather hear the Japanese.

An example of what I'm talking about: the characters Welch and Lymle. VERY annoying.My dear god...it's hard to stand sometimes. lol But the sad thing is their Japanese counterparts did an amazing job. Those characters are pretty muchonly make sense in Japanese. Lymle saying ",kay" at the end of every second doesn't make any sense. Cute in Japanese, not cute in English.

So happy that is off my chest. lol

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