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So I've been waiting for the World of Warcraft Mountain Dew to come out...

and apparently the ONE day this entire like .. past 6 months... I haven't been to a store for some random errand..

Yeah it's already out.

Hope Mark wasn't planning on sleeping when he got home from work because, you know.. new Mountain Dew flavors..

I only hope they don't suck like the last few times MD has put out new flavors. Those last 3 that had the big voting thing.. all pretty much just tasted like they dumped assorted fruit flavors and colors in them. Made me think maybe someone spilled candy in the factory and some guy went "OMGZ YUM!"  I also thought the grape halloween flavor they put out one year was terrible. But I imagine these 2 new ones will be at least decent, because they know by attaching WoW onto it they better not screw it up... or, you know, they'll have lots of angry people with swords on their asses.

yeah i'm rambling it's 5:30 in the morning, and now I want Mountain Dew and poppy seed muffins (because of jamie's post about his big poppies!)

the relay for life thing went pretty well. should have posted about it earlier, but after walking for like 4 hours every inch of my body said "GO TO BED FOR TWO DAYS".

there were a lot of little bratty kids there that i wanted to kick/trip/strangle, though.

mark should be posting a picspam soon, i know he's doing stuff for the paper on it so .. whenever he gets time it'll be around.

Got my non-personalized list of reasons for why I may have been rejected for writing at Suite101.. sigh.

I didn't think I'd get accepted, but it's still a kick to the ego. These days you have to be published to get published, and has to be in the same field and meet 50 other criteria. Bleck.

So .. I'm going to be a judge in the big county festival parade thing that happens every summer here. o_0 Judging horses.

A part of me is going.. yay! I'm judging the horses! I'm doing something important and relevant! win!

Another part of me is going.. how in the hell did I manage to get volunteered for this? (*cough*MARK*cough*). At least people will have the advantage that, since I don't know anyone, I'll be an impartial and hopefully fair judge.

On the other hand, I don't know who has done this before me. I would like to think I was picked because I know a lot about horses, etc... but in all reality it was more like "we need people to judge, Mark will your girlfriend get on stage?" "Emily likes/knows horses" "Ok she'll judge that".

So I'm half "WIN!" half "meh."

I'm doing the Relay for Life in a few weeks, and wanted to post a link to my donation page in case anyone is interested. Also, since I made the "custom url for donation" after I sent out the email en masse, I hope I didn't just screw the whole thing up :/

Anywho RFL is .. well, a relay... put on by the American Cancer Society to raise funds for those in the battle with cancer, remember those who have died, and celebrate those who have beaten it. All in all, a pretty awesome thing for anyone who's been affected by this disease.

Don't feel obligated or guilted into donating if you don't have the funds or simply don't want to. I'm posting this not to spam or solicit, but just to get the word out because most people don't donate simply because no one asked them to. Well, here's your chance. :) Tax deductible and all. And some employers will even match your donation, if you ask.

Even if it's just $1, that's $1 more toward a cure or someone's stack of hospital bills.

So Mark handed me the paper yesterday and told me to look at it.

I got a byline on the front page! Picture of two fire depts. fighting a field fire. Unfortunately they didn't use any of the ones with Mark actually in them.

Neat, though.

*headdesk*

So I found this freelance job advert.

Now this is right up my alley. Are you kidding me? I can do crafts projects for kids in my sleep. I'm a decent photographer and writer and how-to's are about the easiest thing ever. Awesome.

But how much do I charge? For the most part they'll probably be short articles, but the amount of pictures involved would make the price higher I'm sure. I wouldn't want to overcharge but at the same time I don't want to go selling myself short. I know several of you all do freelance articles - how much is reasonable for this kind of job?

Anyway I just wanted to post something for Jamie..



a picture of your assailant to give to the fuzz.

if you haven't read his blog and have no idea what i'm talking about, just nod your head and laugh a little. that's it, there you go.

I hate crappy ISPs.

It's bad enough that I have dial-up internet, and slow dial-up at that. But when my ISP suddenly starts just having no bandwidth and going excruciatingly slow.

Normally this would just be annoying. "Oh, the internet's going really slow today, bah, humbug."

But not when you're addicted to World of Warcraft.

Yes, it's possible to play on dial-up. Turn down the graphics and you're fine. Lags every once in a while, but other than that is okay.

But when your internet speed suddenly drops off the face of the earth, it does something really annoying. It lets you log in. It brings up your character list. It lets you enter your realm. The loading page loads, and gets all the way to the end.

And then it says you've been disconnected from the server and takes you back to the login page, since it can't load everything.

And if you repeatedly try to log in every so often just to check, it taunts you by sometimes putting you into the game, then immediately taking you back out. You get a glimpse of Stormwind, maybe, might run a few steps if you're lucky.. then BOOM. Disconnect.

It wouldn't be so annoying if it hadn't happened while I was in the middle of doing something.

Grr.

I don't feel well and just want to play to get my mind off it. And Valentine's Day, which is making me even more ill. And the really strange dreams I've been having lately, and my intro speech tomorrow that has me terrified.

And who knows if this entry will even post? I'm using Deepest Sender, a Firefox add-on, to post it - I don't dare try to load LJ right now.

And as long as I'm bitching I'm sick of college, sick of bad weather, and I miss Mark.

But, on to good news.

Erm. Trying to think of something positive here.

After I typed that, a flea bit me. Yeah, my house is flea-ridden. Again. Wtf? I don't have pets! I don't have fur! Why am I constantly being attacked by fleas?!

Ah, I know the good news. I get to re-read my Harry Potter books for one of my classes. There we go. That's good. That's something I don't mind doing.

Alrite, I'm going to stop this post. I just needed to rant a little. Sorry if I don't reply to comments quickly; there's the whole crummy connection thing going on.

The Cure - Doing the Unstuck.

Couldn't find a studio version on youtube, though, so you'll miss the cute way he does part of the song. It's still very good, though.

EDIT: Got the hard copy. Mark bought me the battle chest for an early Valentine's Day present since we we'll be apart then. Aw.  ^^

I did it.

I downloaded the 10 day free trail of World of Warcraft. That's where I've been.. holed up in Azeroth. Apparently the trial version caps at level 20 - I've still got a few days left but can't gain any more experience even when fighting creatures at a higher level than me.

I want to upgrade. I definitely want to play this game. I've only got dial-up at the house, though (I'm still at Mark's, until *sob* tomorrow). I want to see how it plays on dial-up before deciding to shell out money every month for it.

So now I have a question for the WoW players on my flist - online upgrade or go buy a hard copy? I'm leaning toward the hard copy because I'm one of those people who wants to have the physical copy in my hand in case something screws up. Online it said something about giving you 30 days free when you upgrade, though - I'm not sure if that's just for online upgrades or if it's in general. Also if I do the online upgrade it'll take longer to download. Blah.

It's $20 for the activation, is it $20 per month or 15?

*in zombie voice* iiiii nnnnneeeeeeddddddddd tooo pllllllllaaaaaayyyy

I can cross this one off the list now. :D

31.   Donate 10,000 grains of rice on Freerice.com

phwar!

Just sitting around, waiting on a reply from Mark about an article I'm writing.

Bored now.

Got some new icons.

Well, I spent the wee hours in dispatch with Mark... then we came home, ate some breakfast, watched Torchwood, and slept some. Then went to his mom's, dropped off a present, ate something, came back home, watched more Torchwood..

I can only hope the rest of my year is filled with Captain Jack Harkness! And Owen. ;)

I joined the group that's currently in the lj spotlight to do 101 things in 1001 days. I haven't finished my list yet but here's the start:

( list )

 

I need to add to it and also make the goals more measurable so I know how much progress I'm making. Some of them are pretty vague or broad. I'm also going to make a list of some of the books I want to read/ have read for this project

It's been a little crazy around here lately. And hey, honestly, I don't get to see Mark very often so I'm spending my time with him instead of on the internet!

Plus we've been busy watching all the Who and Torchwood the lovely jaded_jamie  sent us. He's kind of made of awesome, in case you didn't know. :)

I'll update more later.

Pluggin' away at teh novel.

Think a bit of conversing about things pertaining to it would oil the wheels a bit.

So tell me - what is/are your favorite [not-normal] creature(s)? Mythological, rare, extinct, urban legend, rumored, made-up, unknown, and unclassified ... creatures, beasts, cryptids and/or monsters. And I'm looking for more general things.. ie: dragons, unicorns, not Nessie and Bigfoot.

for example *takes deep breath*
zombies, werewolves, vampires, unicorns, dragons, feathered serpents, hell hounds, minotaurs, cockatrices, spotted lions, jackalopes, yeti, swamp monsters, dire wolves, mummies, wolpertingers, worgs, pegasus(es?), ao ao, maltese tigers, wasgos, dobhar chus.. *trails off*

Discuss!! It's just for fun, say whatever pops into your mind.