A New Chance to be a Wiitard
If y’all missed out on the EB Games pre-order for the Wii, Toys “R” Us is having a pre-order this Sunday (Oct. 29), according to Reuters and Go Nintendo. Plus this time it’s on a Sunday, so it should be easier. I would call or stop by to check on the number that they’re pre-selling and what time they open if you want to be sure to get one. Just think, this could be your chance to hang out with the young’uns, watching the sun rise! Speaking with the voice of experience and all. B-)
This was a public service announcement (motivated by pure altruism!). Okay, now back to my regularly scheduled Sims.
Decisions, Decisions
So I swear I been meaning to post about this at least since Monday, but busy busy. Cos on Monday, I received my Sims 2: Pets expansion pack. From Amazon. Which I pre-ordered, so I should be receiving some sort of code or something that should allow me to have a purple pug! (Actually, that’s why I pre-ordered it. It was pre-order from Amazon and get a purple pug or pre-order from EB Games and get a bandit cat. Hard decision. The way I’ve been making (or not making) decisions lately, I considered buying both, but luckily sense prevailed.)
Anyhows, after I got it, I called K right away. She said, “OMG, you are so bad, you called me just to gloat!” Teeheehee, too true. I woulda called CT too, but while she likes The Sims and would want to play it sooner or later, she never feels the urge to play video games right away, right now! Well I think so anyhows. I hope I’m right cos otherwise I missed out on gloat opportunity #2!!! Too bad I had class on Monday. Yut was nice and installed it for me while I was at class so I could play when I got home.
Unlike The Sims: Unleashed expansion pack (the pet ep for the original Sims), there’s no garden component. (Or I haven’t noticed it yet.) In the original Sims, the point was, you could grow your own food, but sometimes rodents (like rabbits) would get in the garden and chew up your vegetables unless you had a cat. If you had a cat, the cat would get in a fight with the rabbit, and if the cat won, the rabbit would disappear in a puff of smoke sort of thing. It was cute. (Sorry misa, but it was! :>) In this expansion pack though, the cats and dogs can have jobs (I think movie star, guard, or service tracks.) And you have to teach them tricks to get them promoted. Like I think “shake” is the first trick to teach a service pet. Oh and you can praise and scold pets to get them to learn things like not scratching up the furniture. It’s pretty fun, so the past two nights, I’ve basically gone home, dinnered, and then played Sims.
But tonight! It’s tv night! So I think I’ll have to take a break. Cos it’s America’s Next Top Model and Lost night. But Project Runway is done, so maybe I can squeeze in an hour or so before bed. :))
Dream
I dreamed that we were playing a board/word game. There were lists of words/phrases/names and within a certain amount of time (measured by a game hourglass like in Pictionary) you had to come up with another word. Only it wasn’t always possible or advantageous or something, so you could skip your turn if you wanted to. Yut kept on winning! I couldn’t even understand what was going on, all my guesses were so far off, and Yut kept on trying to explain to me by giving me an example word and a possible example answer and it still didn’t make any sense.
I finally woke up from pure frustration and indignation. I asked Yut, “If the word is bird, and the possible answer is fizldoink, how does that make any sense?!” He said, “It was a dream, don’t be mad at me!!!”
Brain Rotted
I watched sooo much tv today. But seriously, it’s been such a great night of tv, Wednesdays. I’m just glad that Law & Order isn’t on Wednesdays anymore, cos it would be too much. Although of course, do-able. @-)
So it was all America’s Next Top Model, then Lost, then the Project Runway Season Finale. Well then I left the tv on and watched Top Chef. But that one was unplanned! Okay anyways, I’m obviously gonna talk about Project Runway, but I don’t want anyone to be messed up by spoilers. So y’all watched it right? Cos it was good!
Spoilers coming if you click to see the rest!
Wiitards, Indeed.
Well it’s Friday the 13th. But also, it’s Friday the 13th, the day Nintendo Wii pre-orders became available, first come first serve, at EB Games. Which we didn’t know about until yesterday! So yesterday evening we went to check when the store would open (10am), and how many pre-orders would be available (30). I thought that meant that we could get there in line at like 8am, eh, no big, 30 is a good number. But the EB Games people recommended 4AM!!! I KNOW! Complete madness. But geeeeez, we’d talked about pre-ordering for sooo long, so we thought we’d try. Yut didn’t bother going to sleep, and I was gonna try to stay up too, but I got too tired, so I slept for 2 hours or so. By 4:45AM (!!!) we were there, numbers 9 and 10 in line. The first 3 kids in line had been there since 7pm (before the store closed) the previous day.
Which explains why they’d had time to make a sign. Which they started to ask everyone to sign. (noun! verb! tricky!)
So towards the morning, it had way more stuff on it.
We were the oldest ones there! And it showed cos I was sooo tired but I couldn’t fall asleep. At 5:15am, I got in another line — for Starbucks. The Starbucks didn’t open til 5:30, but there were two old guys standing around discussing politics. At least I wasn’t one of the oldest ones there too — one of them mentioned being 21 in 1960. :P
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this post, and I think I’m having trouble following thoughts through and being coherent. Suffice it to say, I am tired. Not like I’m gonna fall asleep any second, but more like my head feels fuzzy or something. But we got our Wiis!
I think that in hindsight, if we had gotten there at 6am, it would’ve been fine. 8am would’ve been cutting it close. But on the other hand, if we’d gone to sleep for real, then by 6am, we might’ve changed our minds about the whole scheme. (For some reason, “madcap caper” came to mind first, and “scheme” second, but I’m not sure if that is right. :P) So maybe it had to be done this way. Yeah.
Season 3 Faves?
Last week, when the Project Runway reunion show was on, I slept through most of it. So today, I had a tough decision to make: Project Runway or Lost? I KNOW! Totally hard. Have I mentioned my love for our Replay DVR? (Well not that I am impugning Replay, but I actually don’t care which DVR, any DVR is fine.) In the end, I decided to watch Project Runway, cos it’d be hours of straight Runway, and also cos some part of me likes watching Lost on Replay cos I can fast forward through the commercials instead of yelling, “Noooooo don’t do this to me!!!” at the TV.
Anyways, so my belated thoughts on the Reunion: Keith is a bitch, and please, I don’t even see how he can believe his own bullshit. Although he even sent an open letter to Blogging Project Runway, so I dunno. It was whiny and lame — he seems to feel so entitled. I mean, he totally has this, “breaking the rules doesn’t have to mean more than a slap on the wrist” sort of attitude. Well that’s his attitude when he’s managing to admit that he’s maybe done something wrong. Alls I can say is, don’t be stupid. And especially, don’t be stupid in print. (I know I know, I blog for goodness’ sake, but I don’t claim to follow advice. :P) But anyhows, mostly it was pretty boring. Oh but I loved the Tim Gunn vocabulary segment. Hilarious. =)
Today’s episode was the penultimate episode. I like when Tim goes around to visit all the designers and hang out with them and you see their work areas and lives more and it’s cool. But I always feel like it’s an extended Saturn Sky Roadster commercial. Well, they are a sponsor, I know that, but still. The episode was also the starting segment of “the scandal” — wherein Laura accuses Jeff of maybe not sewing all of his own stuff. But of course, we won’t know what happened until the finale. I dunno though, I wanted them to just tell me already! It’s not like we’re gonna watch to see how the scandal breaks out, but we wouldn’t have bothered before. Puh-lease! I’m so there anyways! Btw, I finally went and looked at the designs from their collections for this season. Somewhat surprisingly, Yut and I both liked Uli’s collection the best. I’m really curious who’s gonna win — I think it’ll be a tough decision. Actually I’m also curious, which collection do (all) y’all like the best?
A Milestone Sort of Weekend
You know what I like? I really like having a car rental place within walking distance of where we live. This past weekend, we rented a Chevrolet HHR (which reminds me of a PT Cruiser, as a free upgrade) and drove around everywhere. On Saturday we had a wedding in Carmel Valley. Did you know October is like the most popular month for weddings? Or so I hear. We’ve only been to like 6 weddings in the last 5 years, and this is the fourth one in October. That’s 2/3!!! It was in Carmel Valley, and on the way down, Yut was like, hey didn’t misa get her wedding cake from that area? Too bad we didn’t think of it earlier! Well also, we left home at like 11:30am and didn’t get back ’til around 3am, so probably there wasn’t a good way to buy a wedding cake, bring it to a wedding, leave it in a car all day, and have it still be good. It’s too bad, cos it’s still the best wedding cake we’ve ever had. Although the cake and cupcakes at this wedding were quite good too. Not that I go to weddings and pay attention to just the food and cake! Heavens no! I noticed the hosted bar/happy hour/sparkling wine too. :)) Actually it was nice and kick back and quite fun. We hung around until 12:30 or so and then decided to drive back. It was tiring, but worth it to get home and sleep in our bed. Well ok, we had no reservations anywhere cos I didn’t start looking for a place until a week before the wedding cos I didn’t feel like booking travel/planning. Details, baby, details.
On Sunday we went out for pho and groceries at 99 Ranch Market. It’s not like we can’t get groceries without a car, but it’s harder to buy 24 cans of sweetened soy milk (think soda size) and etcetc sundry items without it. Not impossible mind you, just harder. We were gonna go to Safeway after, but too tired, so we played games and hung out and posted photos instead. Then around midnight, Lingo called to tell us him and Annie just had a baby. I know! It’s crazy, but I had no idea she was so far along. And we had a car for once! So we went to SF to visit and say hi. Then we went to Safeway. Cos we wanted to pick up some seltzer water for pomegranate Italian sodas, and also some other stuff. And just to take advantage of having a car. We like to squeeze every possible use out of it. :)
Booking Holiday Travel
I been putting off booking December holiday travel cos it’s always sucha pain. But finally today, I went to look, and dooood things are awful. If it’s not high prices, it’s weird dates. One of the available flights would be for over a week, and that much time away from home makes Yut kind of grumpy.
So I asked him, “Well I’m okaaaay about it, but I dunno, a week and a half, are you gonna be ok with it?”
He replied back, lightning fast, no hesitation whatsoever, “Oh yeah, it’s no problem, they have DSL now.” :))
Guess it’s not home he’s attached to, it’s computress and that internet thing. :P
September, on time!
Movies:
Little Miss Sunshine — Awesome. I mentioned it already in another post, but gosh it was a good movie, well worth watching.
Wedding Crashers — Meh, ok. It definitely had some funny parts, but the problem is, it wanted to be two movies: a comedy and a romantic comedy. What the hell is that all about?! You can’t be Old School and 13 Going on 30 all at the same time, it messes with the flow and feels like wussing out!
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior — Ok. Good action, the chase scenes were some of the coolest. Story-wise more just whatevers, but does that even matter? :P
Books:
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede — It’s 4 books, Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons, but since there’s a boxed set, easier to just link one cos after I finished the first book, I went out and bought all the rest. It’s technically young adult fantasy (fractured fairy tales style), but just so good and so much fun. Reminded me of one of my favorite kid’s books, The Ordinary Princess, by M. M. Kaye. So worth reading.
Book of Enchantments
Airborn
Silverwing
Spin
Hype
I can’t believe after the amount of talk and articles and everything about the separation of the races on Survivor, it lasted all of two episodes. What a crock.
