No More Band, Sadness

The men’s team lost last night. It was pretty cool that they got all the way to the semi-finals. Unfortunately, Long Beach State was just too powerful. That and the ref sucks. I did my best to cheer on the team since the cheerleader’s don’t.

Ugh, I don’t like our cheerleaders. It seems they forgot the cheerleading part of cheerleading. They also seem to be out of tempo from the band and the CIA. The CIA doesn’t know how to follow either. If the band sets up the cheer, don’t start cheering at a different tempo. Idiots.

I miss band already. *sniff* ;_;

Laura’s Bday, UCI loses against Long Beach State, and Watercolor Paining

Several things in this update.

Laura’s birthday was on the first. I bought her a card and wrote some random stuff. I don’t know what she wants so I didn’t get her anything. The only thing I can think of that would be useful is a new laptop, but I’m not anywhere rich enough to just drop $2k. :( I told her that I’ll take her out to dinner this Saturday, which is today now (sleepy).

Also on the first was the last men’s basketball game I’ll probably be seeing for the rest of this season. My throat is still funny from all the shouting and chanting that I did on Thursday. U-C-I ZOT! Mmm, but no matter how much encouragement I shouted the Anteaters lost by 5 sucktastic points. Eric said that Irvine would lose and he was right, dammit. I wish I could go to the Big West Tournament, but I’ve got work… Maybe if the workload isn’t too hard, I can’t get a day off…

Today (technically yesterday now), I started watercolor painting again. I haven’t painted in a long time, so I thought something simple would be good. I picked the iPod my sister gave me for Christmas as my subject. It’s coming out fairly decent. I want to keep it as a quick sketch (painting?), so I’ll add a few more touches and call it done. THEN I’ll start on something a bit more complex. Gotta build up. ^_^

Ronfaure and Gustaberg belongs to Windurst

It all started last week when Roukii decided that it was time for a double takeover of the newbie regions. I wasn’t sure if it was possible, but I wanted to give it a try. Imagine all the fun it’d be. All the gil spent on cheapo equipment and synth ingredients, only to be traded to the guy at the outpost. I think Roukii had the most fun trading arrowheads and random stuff he could get his hands on. He even ran around Windurst with a jug of fish broth I synthed to see how much the NPC value of it was… I realized that I could make high-quality bug and carrot broths, and those have good NPC values. So I bought cheapo gear and synthed as many bug broths as possible over the week, and muled most of them to Nattotemaki. I deleted Sorennyonyo from Shiva to get the content ID back for Nattotemaki. I was rather fond of the name Sorennyonyo, too. :\ Oh well. So Saturday rolls around and I’m like, I’m completely out of inventory space! I wanna start trading! We had to make sure that our region influence didn’t go past minimal until the last 5 hours and everyone was itching to get started. Finally, the clock hits 2 am and everyone begins their mad dash to synth and trade. A few people traded and then passed out. I miraculously stayed up all night synthing in front of the Ronfaure region vendor (oh, the ironies!). Saotome, Jariten, and I were making carrot broths and Reiglo was our runner. At 1 hour before tally, Windurst gains major in Ronfaure and then another mad dash begins, but this time to Gustaberg. I give Jones a teleport to Dem, and then when I tele myself to Altep I get the dreaded blank screen of death. No matter what I did I couldn’t log back into Susperia. I eventually logged into my Bastok mule to kill her off a few times before I got the blank screen of death again. I finally log into Nattotemaki and hand over the rest of my goods to Rauzhon to trade to the Gustaberg outpost. I stood next to Rottata, hoping and hoping Windurst gains all three areas. Tense moments indeed. Finally, the tally was in and we won! We did it! Quite possibly the first server to gain control over all three starter nations at once. Go WindurstEnseiguntai on Lakshmi!

Ghost Rider is Cheesy!

Yes! And I totally love it! I finally was able to go see Ghost Rider today. Dave thought it was terrible, I liked it. I’m into terribly cheesy movies like that. The only thing I didn’t like was NIcholas Cage cast as the main hero of the movie.

Hmm, for lunch we had PF Chang’s before the movie. It’s such white washed Asian food. Tastes yummy, but somehow… off…

After the movie, we walked around the mall. Looked at clothing. I bought a new hat from the Gap for $7. Totally cute. :) More walking around, looked at the games in Gamestop. Sniffed the perfume at the Body Shop while Dave ran somewhere far away from the store. Ate cookies, looked at stuff at Brookstone and then walked back.

In the evening, I ended up playing with Hayley while Laura and Franklin moved the china cupboard to Laura’s house. Hayley is too adorable. For dinner it was at El Pollo Inka. Yummy. :9 Now I have more leftovers. :x