So I finally got around to picking up my copy of Twilight Princess on Wednesday and I've already logged some fifteen hours in the game.  Well, not a total of fifteen hours playtime because there was a lot of having to stop in the middle of playing to do something else (which also accounts for the accumulated play time in Tales of Symphonia), but I would have to say that I've played a solid tweleve at the least.  I think the biggest thing that lends itself to the amount of time in the game is all of the beautiful cinematics.  I'm very impressed.

Anyway, I'll be spending a lot of my free time playing Twilight Princess.  I am now hopelessly addicted and will not find rest until I finish the game.  And since my brother is back home for winter break, I get to try my hand at playing the game on the Wii as well.  Lefty Link versus righty Link.  Should be interesting to say the least.

Well, I think that about does it for now.  I really should get back to prepping for the party tonight.  Grandma turns 75.

More along the lines of Halloween, I figure I should also post a picture of my little sister in her Captain Jack costume.  I did her make-up, which took me half an hour to apply.

What can I say, it was a fun night.  Really cold, but still fun.

Okay, here's a few pictures of my Halloween costume (which I made most of).

So anyway, those are probably the most recent photos of me, being from just this last October.  The white hip-wrap is new, as I just bought it this last summer at our local Ren faire.  The headband is also new, since I just threw it together in a matter of minutes a week before Halloween.  I'll post the pictures of Captain Jack at a later date . . .

Holy crap, what a week!  For the most part, I've survived, I just have to make it through my mom's company Christmas party tonight.  But I do have a beautiful new gown to wear, awesome shoes and a velvet wrap so basically I just have to make sure that my make-up rocks the Casbah and that I don't drink too much.

Anyway, made a few changes around my profile here.  I changed my banner, and yes, those are all pictures of me.  However they're nearly three years old so don't think too much about them (if you're wondering about the font, it's called Burton's Nightmare 2000).  I'm hopefully going to have a more recent photo uploaded before too long . . . (Yeah, like those Halloween ones.)  At any rate, I also changed my icon to that of the awesome Momo from Avatar.  I like to change things up every so often.  Just felt it was time for an overhaul - especially since I just reformatted my Deadjournal.

Finals are next week and I still have eight lesson plans to write, not to mention that I have to finish my unit overview.  Meh, who knew that being a teacher would be so much hard work?  Okay, okay, I knew that but still!  It's a pain in the butt to try and figure out which Earned Academic Learning Requirements are being met with which lesson, and getting the EALRs for the other content areas as well.  Yikes.  I am getting painfully close to finishing my poli sci class though, I just have to finish my essay and short answer questions and turn them in!  Woo!

Oh my God.  As if my life couln't suck any more, my sister is marrying the biggest loser on the face of the planet, my cat is sick, and my dad feels it's his duty to air out all of the family dirty laundry.  I'm just a little on edge, if you couldn't tell.

Anyway, I'm on emotional overload this week and of course my father is insiting on making things worse than they already are.  Yup, still a firm believer in that some things are better left unsaid.  Too bad my father doesn't feel that way. 

Well, all I can do is fend off the sick feeling in my stomach at this point.  That, and try to find something to wear to this thing tonight. 

Is all black tacky for a wedding?

Despite the blizzard that covered most of western Washington yesterday (did you watch Monday Night Football last night?  Seattle was getting dumped on!) my town on the other side of the Cascades got no more than a little dusting.  It's fine powdery snow, unlike the slush we got on Sunday morning.  Makes me wanna make cocoa and sit by the fire.  Too bad I have homework - but what can I say, it's the end of the semester and the professors like dumping the work load on at this particular time of year. 

I'm hopeful for more snow, since where I grew up we always had white christmases.  Well, maybe I'll make a pot of cocoa and do homework.

Snow, snow, snow!

It snowed yesterday, big ol' fat flakes of the white stuff.  Of course, it's almost completely gone as I write this, but hey, it was fun while it lasted.

Just checking in here, saying my "Hello!" of the week.  I really should be doing homework but I just don't feel like it at the moment.

Nope, never mind - gotta get back to it.

So my brother called me yesterday morning (lucky for him I'd left my cell phone on all night) to tell me that he'd just bought a Wii.  I woke up to my ringtone of "Rip out the Wings of a Butterfly" at nine-thirty yesterday morning.

So he's all stoked he has a Wii and now he's probably playing with it non-stop.  I should probably call him and ask him his opinion.

In other news I have a cold.  Really bad timing on that, too, seeing as Thanksgiving is only three days away.  Meh. 

These are the ten essential questions by Bernard Pivot, and are the same ones that James Lipton uses to wrap up the official interview part of "Inside the Actor's Studio."  Anyway, I thought it would be fun to attempt to answer the questions to see just what kind of picture it paints of me.

What is your favorite word?

Juxtaposition!  It's one of those million-dollar words that makes you sound absolutely brilliant when you use it.  I learned that one in my American lit class in junior college.

What is your least favorite word?

Floccinaucinihilipilification.  Can you even use it in a sentence?

What turns you on [creatively, emotionally, spiritually]?

Good food, good company.  A party atmosphere, I guess.  There just something about being with the people you like and eating the foods you love.

What turns you off?

Smokers, which is actually kind of ironic since I dated a smoker once upon a time.  Of course, he was nice and never smoked around me because he knew how much I hated it.

What is your favorite curse word?

The "s" word.  It's the multipurpose word.  You can use it as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, color, number, the possibilities seem endless.  I used to play Mad Libs by only using the "s" word and I could get really far with it.  (And they were just flat out hilarious.)

What sound or noise do you love?

It's mixture of sounds, actually.  Rain hitting the windows and the roof while the tea kettle whistles and the oven creaks as it bakes fresh cookies.  Perferably snickerdoodles.

What sound or noise do you hate?

A fork or knife screeching across a plate.  Oh my gosh, it sends shivers up and down my spine.

What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

I think I'd love to be librarian.  I'm very at home amongst stacks of books.  And I'm an excellent researcher.  I could help kids work on research projects.  Or an eclectic artist.  I'd love to be able to dribble paint on a sidewalk or dress manequins in cellophane and call it art.

What profession would you not like to do?

Anything that tests my gag reflex, so I'm pretty sure that rules out sanatation engineer or a doctor/nurse.

If Heaven exsits, what would you like to hear God say when you get to the pearly gates?

"Take a breather kiddo, it's been a long and rough ride to get here."

Last night my step-dad's mother died.  Between the Alzheimer's, diabetes, and the UTI, her heart finally failed and she passed on.

Now, I can't say I was overly fond of the woman.  She wasn't very nice to be but I do feel bad for the rest of the family.  Naturally things are quite subdued around here.  '

Umm, not much else to say.  I just feel better saying something rather than just holding it in.