Not a fail, but a win in progress

So this summer, for the Ravellenic Games, I started my first sock. I haven't done the heel yet, so there's no way I'm getting to the finish line, but that's okay - I'm still happy that I had the guts to start a sock. I'll get them finished eventually; I don't want to rush and make a mistake and have to rip out inches of sock and arrrggghh. I've already had to rip out eight rows of 1x1 ribbing for the top of the cuff because it was too loose. But since redoing the cuff, it's looking good.

In other news, I think I'm finally becoming a gamer again. I'm reading walkthroughs, I'm looking up game titles on Wikipedia, and I'm making lists of games to buy "someday". I might go shopping for used PS2 games soon, because I have none of my own. It's exciting to think about that, because before I could only buy games for the PSone, because I didn't have a PS2 at the time. I'm also thinking of digging out my PSone games and picking up where I left off.


It's a great feeling.

I especially want to start playing Final Fantasy VIII again, because I got stuck trying to find the lunar gate when I last played it. But with the help of a good walkthrough (which I may have bookmarked; I've taken to bookmarking my favourites), I think I know where I need to go. I also want to dig out Final Fantasy Tactics, because I never did unlock everything. That, and it's a fun game.

Well, that's about it. If you know of any good PlayStation 2 games, feel free to comment! ;)

Oh, wait, I forgot....

I'm really enjoying reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology. I'm on African primal myths now, including a god that vomited up the sun - and I think the first man. I think.

Also, the other day (yesterday, I think), I was flipping through the index and came across the word 'Sefiroth'. So I looked it up in the book, and, according to one of the notes, there are ten holy Sefiroths and some unholy Sefiroths, too. I'm not sure if there are ten of the unholy Sefiroths or not - I can't remember.

Now, for anyone who doesn't know why I'm bringing up holy and unholy Sefiroths (or anyone who hasn't played Final Fantasy VII), allow me to explain.

Sephiroth is the villain of Final Fantasy VII. I have this weird habit of looking up the names of the Summons in a dictionary or encyclopedia to find out their meanings, so when I saw 'Sefiroth', I got excited. So far, I know for certain that Shiva is a Hindu god of destruction (although, in the Final Fantasy games, Shiva is portrayed as a female ice being), and I think Quezacotl (or Quetzacotl, according to either the encyclopedia or the dictionary) is a Mexican god. I'm still not entirely sure of the origin of Ifrit, though. Leviathan, I believe, is a being in the Bible.

I have far too much time on my hands :p

Anyways, I've been playing Final Fantasy VIII more often (this is the game after the one with Sephiroth, by the way), and I've gotten to disc 2 - or, I did, until I got my rear end handed to me by a robot!!! Anyways, I saved before the whole robot-kicking-my-ass business, so I'm good. I think I was better prepared than I was on my old file - but, I think I should buy some potions before I proceed to the bit where there's a chance of me fighting a robot again. Damn, those robots can pack a punch.

Oh yeah - and I have to remember to Junction Zell's Guardian Force before I even think about walking out of that cell.

...Yup, too much time on my hands! :p

edited to fix a slight mistake. I meant to say 'my old file', not 'my own file'.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I didn't get to the library yesterday. And now it looks like I might not get to the library today, either. 'Cause mom says that we don't have to go to the library today, we can go tomorrow, she'll give me change for the fine on Quadrophenia, yadda-yadda-yadda!!!!!! But wait, there's more...

She started yapping about the lack of tradespeople again. Are you interested in a trade, she askes. I told her what I want to do!

I WANT TO BE A RADIO DJ. NOT A BRICKLAYER, NOT A MILLWRIGHT, A RADIO DJ!!!!!!!!!!

...I feel better now.

So Momma's gonna watch her DVDs today. I'll probably read one of my library books while she's watching her library stuff. Maybe I'll even slap on the headphones.

I forgot to mention that when I was playing Final Fantasy VIII, I was getting lost a lot. I was in a tomb where you get lost easily. There's a side-quest in the tomb, and I started it by finding Sacred and beating him up. I left the rest of the side-quest til later, because I have to go to Deling City to tell the man what the Student ID number in the tomb was. All I have to do, once I get a chance to go back to the tomb, is find Sacred's brother and beat him up, too. Then I get the Brothers Guardian Force. Yay!

I still have to use the lamp and fight Diablo. I tried before, without success, but now that my main characer, Squall, has higher HP (yaaaay HP-Junction!), I think my party has a chance. And when I do get Diablo, I'll give him a cutesy name. How about...

Fluffy!

COME ON!!!!!!!!!

Well, I watched Canadian Idol tonight. I voted for Mookie, Earl, Drew and Theo. And Mookie got kicked off. I'm so mad.

Plus, I did not get to go to the library today. Tomorrow, my mom says. So I guess we're going tomorrow. Well, come tomorrow, she'd better not put it off, because I have to take back Quadrophenia, tomorrow.

And when I was playing Final Fantasy VIII while my parents were out, Teddy kept whining every time she heard a car door. "It's not them!" I kept telling her. And when they did come home, she got excited. Really, really excited.

Here's Mookie singing Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf...




And here he is singing Lola by The Kinks. Mom didn't like it as much as I did...




Mookie performing James Brown's 'I Feel Good'...




And last, but far, far, far from least, Mookie performing Ophelia by The Band.

Cream soda and Final Fantasy VIII

I did a bit of yardwork today. Dad wanted me to rake up clumps of grass after he cut the grass. At first I was freaking out because I was totally raking the grass wrong, so Dad came out and told me what to do. I stopped after a bit, though, because there were a couple of wasps in the yard, and I already had a fly hit my ear.

So I went inside, feeling like crap because my legs were sore. I watched a bit of Jerry Springer, then a bit of the 12:00 news, and then Mom and Dad had to go to Mom's doctor's appointment, so I was like, "What am I gonna do, with these sore legs?" and dad told me, "You could play PlayStation." So I brought up my PlayStation 1 (yes, I'm that old-fashioned :p) and hooked it up to the VCR/DVD player. We used to have a switch-box thing in which we would plug in the DVD player, VCR, TV, satellite and PlayStation, but then we had to replace our VCR, so we got a VCR/DVD combination thing, and the old DVD player went somewhere else. It was old, anyway, and had a tendancy to overheat. I'm not sure if we got rid of it, or if it's still around...

Anyway, I'm playing Final Fantasy VIII, and I have NO IDEA where I'm going! I had to find a train platform, but I couldn't remember where it was. I finally found the way, got on the train, and then I had to get off the train at the first stop and go through a forest. Now, keep in mind that this is my second file, and that I've gone through disc one already, but I still couldn't remember which forest I had to go through! I was walking though a huge forest - not an actual forest interior, just a bunch of trees on the main map - and got into battles regularly. And I kept running from the battles. Then I found the forest I needed to go into to continue the story.. it was RIGHT NEAR THE PLATFORM!!!!!!!

And then, after a separate storyline involving seperate characters, I find out that one of the characters doesn't have their Guardian Force equipped, and that someone else does! Then I get to Galbadia Garden (a military academy), and I can't find the stupid 2nd floor reception room. And because I've gone through this disc before, I'm saying to the TV, "Seifer isn't dead, Rinoa! He went with the sorceress!" Or something like that.

During my gaming, I was drinking cream soda. There was a time when I became sick of it, but now that we have a bottle of it in the house it's become my vice again.

I was also grooving to the super-cool battle music in the separate storyline :D

ETA: I changed the 'next to' to 'near'. It was still close to the platform though, and I'm still an idiot :p

I KNOW WHY I FEEL LIKE CRAP!!! :)

It's that time of the month. Yep. THAT time.

Plus, I have a lot of items to pick up from the library, and more coming. By the time everything's in, I'll have to pick up: four CDs, two books and two DVDs. Huzzah.

I got to play a bit of Final Fantasy VIII last night, but I decided to turn it off after a bit because the weather was making the TV flicker. I don't understand why I didn't turn it off when the storm started... I guess I was too stubborn.

Justin's scarf is coming along. It's looking more like a tube than it was before.

Oh, and I got to talk to Max on MSN the other night! :D

My thumb's better.

So, my thumb is healing nicely. Which is good, because that means I'll be able to play Final Fantasy VIII sometime soon. I had to start a new file a week or two ago because I got lost on my first file. Yikes.

I went to cardio kickboxing last night, and now I'm aching. It's my own fault, 'cause I haven't been going to cardio kickboxing on a regular basis like I should be.

Also, I started a new short story. It's about ghost hunters. I was so excited when I started writing down the characters names, because I'm so pround of the story idea.

I added a few more books to my GoodReads to-read list. Everyone has been talking about Twilight, so I thought, "Why not? Everyone on Ravelry who's read it loves it, so it can't be bad."

And now I'm craving honey garlic chicken wings. We ordered chicken wings last night, and we got some honey garlic ones. I had three for lunch and I'm hungry again. There's still five left, but I'll leave them for Dad.

The hood is off the needles!

It's not a very good photo, but it's the finished project!

I wasn't sure if I'd get it done today, because I sliced my thumb on a can lid. I was opening a couple cans of chili, and one can had a pull-off lid and the other was a standard can that needed to be opened with a can opener. So I got the lid off and was rinsing off the lid that I had to get off the standard can, and I accidentally cut my thumb. It's not that bad a cut, so I just cleaned it and put a knuckle band-aid on it, even though the cut isn't on the knuckle - it's on the pad of my thumb, which means I won't be playing Final Fantasy VIII for a few days.

Anyway, I was worried that the yarn would get caught on this band-aid, so my dad told me that there was two first aid kits downstairs. So, I brought one up and found a fingertip bandage (not Band-Aid brand, just a generic brand), and put it on. I managed to do the three-needle bind-off on my hood, and now it just needs ties! I think I'll use my blue chunky for the ties, because the blue will go well with the grey.