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Say uncle...go on say it...

...Because that's what I am now :D Yes my sister just had a baby girl :D well it happened last week but it's still pretty fresh in my mind. Some of you may have noticed I wasn't around as much. If not then I must be pretty good then :P Well anyway there was a false labor on Tuesday of last week, and I was at the hospital all night before we just decided to wait until the contractions were stronger. Luckily I decided to bring my laptop because I was there over 7 hours straight. But I wasn't too prepared though because after I got bored with that I had almost nothing to do :P The whole time I was thinking D'oh what a time to have given up caffeine :P I was strong though so you don't have to worry, the no caffeine streak is still going strong :D On Friday I will have gone 17 weeks without it :D After waiting there until around 6 AM in the morning. I didn't even get much sleep before I had to go to work. lol don't know if anyone could tell though.

On Wednesday I was a little more prepared. I brought several DVD movies with me. The Movies I brought should have been maybe some kind of baby movie like Look Who's Talking or somehting like that. But I had to settle for Blade: Trinity, The Rundown, and After The Sunset instead :P lol after watching those suprisingly it was still really early so I had to resort to playing the pinball game on my computer. Which I never actually played before. Now even though the waiting room had some of the most uncomfortable chairs ever, I was able to get a little bit of much needed rest. Which lasted all of twenty minutes. That was when I was told that my sister was taken to a delivery room. So after that I was unable to get much sleep until it was over and my niece was born :) I've been around babies before, but it's been a while since I've been around a newborn. She's really cute and tiny :)

oh and now for the unique smiley for this entry:

Two down four to go...Yes, I am that much closer

Ok just to prove that it wasn't just a fluke I finally completed another of the games from my list :D X-Men Legends is now completed. I'm glad I beat it too because the sequel X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse is out already. After seeing the ending to it I can understand why the sequel has the subtitle that it has. I won't give anything away for the people that haven't beat it yet though.

And with this game out of the way I've just removed another obstacle out of my path to world domina.... *ahem* I mean to completing my unbeaten games list

Here's a breakdown of my progress so far.

Completed games:

Metal Gear Solid 3
X-Men Legends

I still have these major games left to beat:

Devil May Cry 3
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Jade Empire
Resident Evil 4

And I will get to them :P, I'm so far in all of them too. I've been slowly making progress in DMC3. In Star Wars, I'm almost at the end of the game I have just been in this one place in the game earning experience :P Jade Empire I haven't really touched in a while but I'm more than half way done with it though. lol I'm actually amazed I haven't beat it yet since I've known people who were able to beat it in less than three days. Resident Evil 4 I'm not on the second disc yet but then again I haven't really touched that game in a while either. I'm not sure why though :P distractions maybe? Naaaa that can't be the reason. :P Ummmm....I'm going to stand over here now.

Creative mood?...oh yeah

Well during my time off I've been on a roll with all this built up creativity. I'm not sure why, let's just say that I've been inspired ;) These creative moments of being truly inspired don't come too often so I'd better make the most of it :P The new avatar and sig are really just the beginning. I actually created four avatars but I won't reveal the other ones just yet though since I'm sure everyone's still recovering from the shock of seeing my newest one :P

The best part is I did all this without caffeine I've been caffeine free for 15 weeks. I never thought I'd get this far without it when I first gave it up. It's been hard not going to StarBucks every other day :P but I've managed thanks to friends :D

For those who haven't seen this one yet. I made this for ArizonaGoddess. :D

This one I made for smasterwoo. I made his previous sig and I felt that it was time for a new one :)

Well with these two completed I'm still feeling some left over creativity so we'll see what else I can come up with. I almost feel like I can do anything right now  so you know I'll even be surprised with what I'll be making soon

w00t I'm finally back...look at what's new...

After about three weeks I'm finally back at GS regularly. :D The happy dance commences  It's been tough being away for weeks at a time but not that I'm back here, you can all relax :P I know I said that I'd be back better than ever, and I meant it...do I ever disappoint? :P First things first, while I haven't been on here I've had time to do other things like beating games. I'm getting a lot farther in DMC3 so I shoud be finished with that game soon. lol I know some people in particular will be very happy about that :P

Ok that's the "I'm back" part, Now the "Better than ever" part. I made a new sig while I was gone. I think the last time I had a new one was way back in May :shock:. I'm going back to the Trigun themed sig like before. :) Now while that's shocking in itself, here's the real kicker. I made a new Avatar for myself :D Now this is really big because I've had the same Avatar since I first started posting at GS over 9 months ago. This is basically only the second avatar I have ever had but the older one held up pretty nicely after all this time so I never really had a need for a new one at all :P lol Now I'm sure most of you on my friends list will see this new avatar and think, "Who's that?" I know I would :P

Here's the new Sig and Avatar:

so with those surprises being announced, I'm curious as to what everyone was thinking was going to happen upon my return. :P

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Naaa that's pretty unlikely :P

I'm not back yet, but.....

I did get some much needed XBL time. :D It feels good to play XBL again. it's been about three weeks since I was last on and it seemed like an eternity. :P Especially since I've added a lot of friends from GS to my XBL friends list. I look forward to playing more with everyone.

Thanks Matt and Meg for playing Halo 2 with me.:D I had fun as usual and I look forward to playing some more :) Now all we need to do is get a BO3 game going. :P

I'll be back this week. :D yep back to normal as usual only this time, as promised, better than ever ;) You'll just have to wait and see to find out what that means :P I'm sure you can be patient. right? :P

I've recently cleaned out my friends list a little more. There were a lot of people on there that I had no idea who they were. I think it's better to treat your friends list like an actual friends list anyway. Quality over quantity. Also my journal will now be a private journal. So only you guys can read it. :) I've been thinking about this for a while now and I think it's about time I did this :P You don't know who may be lurking.  at least I've come prepared though with the latest and greatest A.L.D. the Anti Lurk Device. ;)  NOTE: Dramatization, no actual smileys were harmed in the making of this re-enactment. The Storm Shelter is not responsible for any misuse of this device. And any similarities to any persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

OMG I beat a game, am I dreaming?

Somebody pinch me to make sure because I didn't think it was possible. :P

I finally completed Metal Gear Solid 3 *whew* and the ending was definitely worth the wait :D This is officially the first game that I have beaten since first posting at GS. That means that I haven't beaten a game since Halo 2 when it first came out. Ironically though it was during my time away from GS that I was able to do this. Hmmm could there be some kind of link there? Naaaaa just a coincidence :P Well anyway I thought I would never be able to cross one of the games off my list.

Completed games:

Metal Gear Solid 3

I still have these major games left to beat:

Devil May Cry 3
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Jade Empire
Resident Evil 4
X-Men Legends


Wish me luck....I'll need it ;)

I still have a little more time to go before I fully return to GS, and for those of you that I play games with on XBL I'm looking forward to playing online with you again. For everyone else, I'm missing you all :)

See you all later :)


Fall classes are starting up again.

They're starting tomorrow, which means that I may not be around as much for a few weeks. I'll probably still be coming on here but probably not everyday though. At least this will mean a little break from GS for me whether I want to or not. I'll probably be still on here but this will be a reduced amount of time, so no more all nighters for a while for me. That will probably be a good thing since I'll actually be able to get a good nights sleep for once :P It's funny because you would think that the summer would be the time where I would get the most rest :P

Well some of you know how to reach me if you need to talk or whatever, and I'll be checking my PMs on GS. :)

I'll see everyone around :)

I'll leave you with a sound clip from The Simpsons ;)

New journal header and more...

I feel like I've had the old header almost as long as I've had my journal so I thought it was time for a change. The old one I made way back when I first started making things so it's a little outdated. I'll keep it here as a comparison to how I've improved since I first started.

I have the new one up already and here's the old one:

I finally completed cgrumpyc's new sig after a couple weeks of working on it. I'm happy with the way it turned out :) Here's the finished sig.

And also I made a couple tags for the Fatal Frame Series Union. I made the union button before, and I'm happy to see people using it in their sigs :) It seems like these tags are pretty popular these days so I'm happy to provide the union with these.

My mini vacation update

I know you guys are anxious to find out how my day went yesterday. :) The Gilroy Garlic Festival was "awesome" like always :D There's so much to see and do there. For once traffic on the way there wasn't bad at all. In fact it only took us less an hour and a half to get there, which was cool and one of the reasons why we go there on Friday instead of Saturday ;) The most important reason for going there and one of my favorites has got to be....The food. They had all the classics that they have every year. One of the best things are the Stufffed mushrooms, and of course the shrimp scampi, pasta, and garlic bread. some of the other foods they had were calamari, pizza, garlic fries, and free even garlic ice cream. No Coke for me this time though, it was all water for me which is probably better anway :P

I think the best part about being out there is that you get to go the the outlet mall that's nearby. If you love to shop then you would be at heaven over here. With big names like, Nike, Addidas, Sony, Reebok, Banana Republic, Samsonite, Marie Claire, Sunglasses Hut all selling products cheaper than regular stores, you can get a lot of stuff for less than it would normally cost anywhere else. :D

Here are some pics that I took so you can see for yourself first hand some of the things I saw there:

I won't be on GS tomorrow....w00t three day weekend

Wait....tomorrow is relative. Umm well specifically I mean Friday :P
But I'll be back on Saturday. I'm sure everyone can live without me for a day ;)

I'll be going to the Gilroy Garlic Festival They have it every year and there's lots of cool stuff to do there. It's pretty popular in California. The place is huge. And there are a ton of people that go to that every year. It's farther south in the city of Gliroy, a place that's famous for it's garlic crop lol the easiest way to know that you're close to it around that time of year is that you can literally smell the food when you're getting close to it. The food is excellent there and there are a lot of things to do. They give out a lot of free stuff there so that's a plus. They also have a nice crafts section where people from all over go there to sell things that they've made. I've seen a lot of one of a kind stuff there that you can't get anywhere else. One thing I never really liked about that place though was they have Pepsi instead of Coke, lol at least I don't have to worry about that anymore ;)

One thing though it's going to be hot out there. Where I'm from we get bay breeze, and coastal winds that makes it so it's not that hot over here. This place is farther south and more inland so I'll be feeling weather in the high 90s. Not that I can complain at all though this is a day off so I'm pretty happy about that :D It's not a vacation though, but when can you say that a three day weekend isn't good? ;)