stfu gym leader. i know i keep losing to you, i know it's cause my pokemon are the wrong type to be fighting you. i don't care. and when my water type beats the crap out of your electric type, boy will your face be red.

but on the plus side, i got the new design for nocturnal nearly finished. hoorah.

Tags: graphics & code, pokémon

i has a new keyboard! it's one of them ergonomic ones with the silent keys. it's a bit sad to be so excited over a keyboard, but i am. hehe.

college is working out really well still. it's loads of fun. but really hard work. on tuesday's practical we were just sectioning hair one four sections and one nine sections. that was fairly easy. nine sections was easiest for me because the lines were shorter and therefor easier to get straight. wednesday's practical was a lot of fun because we tried out first cut and blow dry. just a one length cut that was easy. the blow dry was harder5 cause we were all making the hair frizzy. apparently that was just cause we were not holding the hairdryer right. Thursday's class was a bit of a disaster because we were putting rollers into long hair, which by the way it really hard! i didn't even finish one head full in three hours. hopefully this tuesday we will be back to blow drying cause i really want to work on that. i haven't got much homework so far. it's all pretty basic stuff like, create a front page for your health and safety unit.

i have hardly been playing warcraft, i'll need to work out some sort of schedule for that. i think weekends are best, cause although i am working, i can still stay up late (after all, who needs to be awake for work?..). i had intended for wednesday to be a late night too, simply cause i don't have to get up in the morning. but i am too tired then and i just play badly when i am tired.
i have been paid now so i should be able to get my transfer of my shaman sorted this week. WOO!!
i also need to drag myself out of the rut i am in with my priest. i'm level 27 and i hate both ashenvale and thousand needles. hopefully i can get away with finishing off the hillbrad quests and then move on to stranglethorn or arathi (can't remember the level of arathi. it is around 30 isn't it?).

i have also rekindled my love of pokémon! i mentioned a while back that i bought pokémon pearl and i have been playing that loads. i am only two gym badges in mind. and i will insist on using naff pokémon. hehe i also can't manage to build a team that doesn't have glaring weaknesses. i am not going to bother saying levels (they are all low 20's anyway) but i has a golbat(poison/flying), ghastly(ghost), ponyta(fire), grotle(grass, onix(rock/ground)and luxio(electric). i fail at remembering what type is effective against what. all i know is that my ponyta must front my team (despite being the baby of the group) because he has the Run Away ability which is terribly useful for then you are up against a monster you can't possibly beat. as far as i understand you can catch most of the existing pokémon in this game, so i will probably end up with a whole load of poison types (arbok and seviper FTW).
i need to get my onix stored out. i love her to bits but... umm. i didn't realise she was a girl when i caught and named her so it's all very inappropriate. and yes i am awkward like that, my team has to be all male because all the names i use suit male characters. oh yes, i name them. all of them. every single monster i catch. means i don't bother to catch a monster i probably will never use :D
i am hoping that i'll be able to get my hands of more than one eevee. there are 7 eeveelutions now. and i want them all.
i also wish i had been smart and thought about what version of the game i wanted. i would have preferred the steel type legendary pokémon from diamond rather than the water type from pearl. oh well. maybe once i have got my wireless adsl sorted out i'll find someone online who wants to trade.
i have my fingers crossed that within the next few years we will see a pokémon MMORPG for the Wii. the sad geek in me would love that so very much. hehe.

enough pokémon chit chat. i have to shower ready for work, then try out my new keyboard with warcraft. (or a might just sit in the garden and play pokémon...

Tags: college, pokémon, world of warcraft
Current Mood: bouncy

soo...
i have my final 'interview' at college tomorrow. presumably to get all the paperwork sorted out and get my bus pass. yes i did do my trial bus run. so now i know where all the stops are. i need to catch the bus at 7:30 in the morning and that should get me to college just before 9:00.
hopefully tomorrow the college will be able to tell me what is going on with my uniform/kit. my kit is paid for and i know is delivered to the college itself. but my uniform seems to be in limbo. my application and cheque for it was sent. but it's not come out of my account yet. unless the college already paid for it with the funding and that too will be waiting for me on the first day (way to let my try it on first guys!).
i am terrified and excited at the same time.
i know my time will be valuable. i have to fit full time college and at least 20 hours of work a week. plus looking after my dog, housework oh and warcraft. *slips into coma* this is going to be an exhausting year. but totally worth it.

my warcraft life has been bitchslapped back to the Undercity. basically us four guild leaders decided to up and leave Twisting Nether - a PvP (player vs player)realm and move to a PvE (player vs environment) realm. which is brilliant and works for me because i am awful at PvP. except i am lagging behind because i can't afford to transfer my shaman yet.. for a reason i will get to eventually in this post. i miss my shaman so much. buuut, at the same time, during the transfer all four of us rolled horde characters. which i have enjoyed. i couldn't decide on a class at first. who knew that a horde shaman would 'feel' so different to alliance. i have finally settled with an undead priest called Stårscrêam (shadow spec of course). the playstyle is wickedly different between my two characters and i like that. i also love that i get a lot of invites to heal in dungeons. i like healing, though not as much on my priest as my shammy. still, i have finally caught up in level with the rest of my guild now, i was behind because i went though shaman and mage characters (to level 12) before my priest. i plan to focus a bit more on my shaman when i transfer her, to get her to 58 so i can go to outland, never been there, and i feel like i am missing out.

i bought pokémon pearl. teehee.
i only have 4 pokemon at the moment, because i am 'not' catching any i don't like the look of. petty isn't it. naturally. i already have myself a zubat (a crobat fronts my team all the time, this game is no exception). i started with the grass type (who's name eludes me at the moment) and i have a shinx and oddly enough, for the first time ever, an onix. two of them are level 13 and i am working to get the other two to that level as well so i can level them all equally. my playstyle for this game is so totally different from all the others i have played. i think warcraft has educated me. cause get this.. i use tactics! i never, ever, used to use stat changing moves, i deemed them a waste of a move. so yeah, that's cool. that's something i can do on the bus to college. /geek

thats one reason i can't afford my warcraft character transfer. the other is that i spent £50 on a pinstripe corset off ebay. yeh, totally worth it :) i'm waiting for it to be delivered at the moment, knowing my luck it won't fit (at worst it will be too small, but i am fat, so it won't kill me to lose some weight).
i also bought some new 'essential' clothes in tesco, trousers, tops oh and a black waistcoat. not sure what i will wear that with. but i wanted one anyway.

my application to the thefanlisting.org to open a fanlist for Blackout was approved. I have played around with a design; prototype one. i am not happy with the navigation though. i can tell something is missing, other than the content and the decepticon logo but i can't see what it is. i have a few modifications going round my head, so we'll see how they go.
still need to work on my main website as well. i'm not sure exactly what to do with it. i should also sign into msn more often too.

oh you know what i need is a computer that can handle running warcraft and trillian instant messenger at the same time. problem solved. apple should manufacture their macbook pro in black.

i've been a little bit better recently on my diet. not enough to make a difference. but i don't think i am gaining weight anymore. i have also been walking my dog a bit longer than i was so that helps.

sorry i never actually replied to anyone's comments on my last post. i think i elaborated on most of my list here anyway.
but yeh playbunnii, the ending to the transformers movie was a bit strange, i mean after the fight, Optimus Prime (who is still awesome really..) holding the two bits of Jazz was all "we lost a comrade, but gained new friends, so yah know, whatever". he lost is second in command! i want grief and mourning! i want to see emo robot tears! he was more upset when Megatron died (and fandom could give several reasons for this, each more perverse than the last). and also, other than for action eye candy, why did the fight occur in the middle of a city? need to hide an Allspark? just go the the most densely populated area you can think of, problem solved. duh.
kikazu, yes i was going to close nocturnal. but not anymore. i was just feeling down about it.
and taishokao, please send memo to Megatron. Leave Starscream alone!! 'he' didn't get himself frozen for thousands of years did he, so back off. kthxbai. :P

thus ends my giant post. mostly because it's late and i have to be up early for work tomorrow.

Tags: college, diet and exercise, graphics & code, pokémon, world of warcraft

i received my Provisional Driving license today. hooray! i can learn to drive now.. oh wait, no i can't.
i still haven't made an appointment with my local optician yet. my glasses are pretty much ineffective at the moment. i have only 60-70% vision quality, meaning i can't read a numberplate from the distance you are supposed to be able to read one (hell i sit 4 feet away from my tv and it's still kind of fuzzy!) so i need to have new lenses installed in my glasses, which costs moneys! oh noes!
i also need a haircut.
if it's not raining i'll walk down to Ystrad and book appointments for those two things.

I am pretty close to lvl 44 in warcraft. i managed to work my way through a few quests that i was avoiding which was good. i also ended up rearranging my action bars 'again'. i'm still not happy with it. but i think that's cause it's new and all in a different order now. i have grouped my stuff by 'type' now. so all the defense/resistance related totems are together, all the healing things are together and all the enhancing stuff is together and all the offensive stuff is together and within easy clicking distance. hehe. i also tried to get all my most used spells and whatnot on the main action bar so if for some reason i need to, i can use my keyboard to use them. i think it's ok now. but for a while i kept mixing up the Mana Stream totem with the Grounding totem. which is very bad when you life depends on 'not' being hit by that lightening bolt x_x

i haven't done 'any' exercise the last two days! well except for walking Pandora yesterday... it wasn't raining when i left the house, and just as i got to the gate at the 'end' of the walk (the point where i turn round and go back) the heavens opened and we got soaked, and you try getting your trainers dry when you don't have any central heating!
anyway, i feel bad for not doing my half an hour exercise so i'll have to make sure i do some today! i do 'slightly' have an excuse. our rowing machine is broken. every time i use it the bolt on the left side of the seat comes undone and i have to stop to do it up again. that almost defeats the point if i have to keep stopping.
other than the lack of exercise my diet has been pretty good this week. it started off a bit bad cause i ate a low fat pizza (which was yuk and pointless gimme the full fat calorific one any day) and chocolate (the whole bar.. all to myself mahah). i'm still hoping i have lost 2lb though - wishful thinking? probably.

i am rather looking forward to the pokémon diamond/pearl games that are out soon. i think i am about due for a bout of pokémania. it's been years since i was properly into that fandom (around the gold/silver era).
oh gosh wouldn't it be cool of there was a proper free roaming pokémon mmorpg? even better if it played like warcraft and the battles were time based instead of turn based. i suppose it would even be possible to allow your pokémon armour and stuff, i mean the current games allow your monsters to hold an item that helps them out (whether it allows them to self heal or increases their chance to dodge, etc).
player could still quite easily still be faction based. like in the ruby/sapphire games you essentially chose whther you are going to help Team Magmar or Team Aqua (or whatever they were called ha!).
yes, it could so work and it would be epic. it would also be the only game in the world that would tear me away from warcraft. and i hate to say it but it would tear me away. pokémon was my first fandom, waaay back in the day where there were only 151 of the damn things to remember. haha! i remember being at poisonedwarf's house singing along to the anime theme tune after she wrote down the lyrics (omg! do you remember that, ha that's so sad! and yet so awesome!).

which brings me to my next *squee* worthy bit of news. next pay day mum wants to get a Nintendo Wii. how cool is that? every time one of the ads comes on tv she sighs and say "oh i want one!" (or something to that effect). now we all knew Nintendo were awesome. but i never though they would succeed where i had failed so many times and get my mum into gaming. hooray.

while i remember. Linkin Park's new album is naff! there are two listenable songs on it and that's it.
i guess they didn't really get worse, just my taste in music got better. but i wanted to give them a chance, they were my first taste of *ahem* 'rock' music. now they just need to fade gracefully into the background.

well todays post saw the introduction of three new tags.
and the music i am listening to, is the same music that is used in the Britain's Next Top Model promo on that Living tv channel. i had to do a serious bit of googling to find it.

Tags: diet and exercise, driving, pokémon, world of warcraft
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Glôsôli by Sigur Rós