Yesterday was a bad day, not helped by my sudden and inexplicable hatred of everything. I hope I stop having days like that.

Christmas was delightful - we actually celebrated on the Eve, which was nice, because I didn’t have to wait. XD The tree was on its last legs, too. But it was really fun, getting presents handed out one at a time.

I got socks, underwear, a Vermont keychain, green tea in a mug, a “love” kanji wall tablet thing, a “friendship” kanji sconce thing, a wishing pot, a huuuuuuuuuge wall fan (with bamboo and cranes painted on it! I love bamboo and crane motifs, man.), a big Chinese coin mirror, a teddy bear ornament, a lovely soft black skirt with a cool belt (it has the zodiac on a big coin in front), and probably a bunch of things I’m forgetting right now. XD And I’m not even done yet!

Speaking of which, I don’t know yet when I’ll be visiting family, just that it’ll be sometime next month. ^^; I probably won’t know too far in advance. It depends on work and the car and winter and such.

So, happy season to you all!

;_; People already took all the variations on “Jenova’s Witnesses” on LJ. One of which is actually a “Jenova’s Witnesses” community, so I guess I don’t have to do it. Meh. Not like FF7 is a really active fandom anymore - just new brats going “zomg it’s so shiny!” at the movie. Pft. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE. GET OFF MY LAWN.

Got two new sticks of RAM. They seem to be working, as I can use my computer and all that jazz. I will test them with FFXI in a minute. Mmm, I smell taco meat.

Burt’s Bees lip balm tends to be hard and unusable at room temperature - you must keep it in your pocket to even think of using it. So I keep it on top of my computer.

I want to revamp this blog. I need more FF7 in my life. Namely, I need more Sephiroth in my life. As it’s midwinter, I also need something bright and cheerful and new. I feel grumpy and stagnant. And to think, the snow and cold has barely started. But it’s the short days that kill me, so.

Lalala I have no emotional issues.

So, who wants to join Jenova’s Witnesses?

And in a blatant reverse of yesterday, I am cheerful and full of holiday spirit. No, I’m not pregnant.

In other soda-spraying news, I don’t work on Christmas! But they want me to come in to do caroling on Wednesday after I already worked my shift. Heh. I dunno about that. Upon further consideration, I seem to have forgotten the second verses of every holiday song I know. How sad.

Trying to decide between Advent Children and FFXI is a toughie. I’ve stayed away from AC long enough that I’ve forgotten how pretty it is, but XI is updating later today and I want to get my time in now. Hm. I also need to shower. It’s nine now, and I get ready for work at 12:30, so let’s say… Game until 11, then shower, then AC. Win!

Life is great and I want to kill something. Or possibly cry. Or both. I will cure this by watching Advent Children, since I can’t listen to music at high volumes.

Basically, today sucked and winter sucks and I need vitamin D.

Oh yeah, I have no idea how to display a seperate subtitles file in Xine. Fuck it.

In the meadow we can kill a Crawler
And pretend that we’re in Dynamis
We’ll get XP and maybe a calculus
And if we’re lucky we can stack our silk!

Later on, we’ll flag party
As we sit by the Star Tree
A beautiful night
Full Moon treats us right
Walking in a Crawler Wonderland.

You know, all I’m doing lately is play FFXI. This would be bad if I had anything better to do. Well, I can think of a few things, but I wouldn’t do them anyway. I still clean up and sleep and get to work early and all that, so meh. It’ll lose its shiny eventually.

Met a girl at work that has an Advent Children Cloud on her bag. <3 We acted like dorks for a bit. She bought it at a con, so she gets extra points. XD

Anax is being an asshole again, Kaltia is acting like a guard dog and snottily denying she cares, and I’m kinda giggling because apparently what I say matters enough that they have to jump me. And Anax remembered me from the last time he pulled this shit. He claims he was unreasonably vicious to me because he was going to hurt me before I hurt him. <3 I love logic. Not getting into this one, nosiree. A friend expressed distress in her own journal, and I sympathized, and I am leaving it at that.

I want baklava. Mmmm.

I feel validated, because I’m maintaining my weight - slow but steady, I seem to be losing weight too. About half a pound each week. XD Who knows - this slow, maybe it’ll stay off. It’d be nice to not worry about diabetes and my back and such.

So, I’ll make my New Year’s Resolution now - to drop under 200 lbs. I want to see a 1 in front, and then my goal will be 180, and then we’ll see how I feel. I need to find out the average for my height - a few inches ago (one or two, really) it was 150, and I certainly don’t want to be any thinner than that. I like being warm in the winter. XD I don’t want to be thin - I want a squishy stomach. I think this is a reasonable goal.

Shan’s wisdom teeth came out fine, he’s slept through the drugs and is in fabulous pain, and I am babying him to my heart’s content. I remember what that felt like. They may just be teeth, but they turn your whole body into a world of hurt. Did you know you use your mouth to sit up? Yeah, neither did I until I got my teeth out. (Muscular pressure through the arms, see. When you’re hurting that bad, you feel it.)

I knew he’d be okay when he was walking out to the car with his dad on one side and the nurse on the other and mumbled around the gauze, “I swear, officer, there’s no blood in my alcohol system.”

Still lvl14. My party today sucked. Not as bad as the first one I was in, but damn. A bunch of 14s getting killed by a Damselfly. Our Party Leader spoke only English, and everyone else was Japanese, so I was the go-between. I did get complimented on my Japanese, though. XD One of them could read my Romanji, so that was awesome. So, see? Video games are good for something! I get to practice Japanese with actual Japanese people, which is something I am too afraid to do in real life. The game makes it distant enough that I don’t worry about messing up, and thus do better.

I’m really looking forward to Christmas. X3 The tree is so pretty! I need to take pictures. Gosh, all the presents! I haven’t seen that many presents in ages! I already got to open one of the things in my stocking - it was a neon orange pair of boyshort undies. XD They’re so cute! Neon orange! Hee! They go very well with my salmon-colored short pants and bright yellow Romulan Military shirt. Man, I have the ugliest kicking-around-the-house clothes. XD

Work has been weird. They keep tossing me all over the Front End - cashiering here, there, both at once, bagging, supervising… One of the women I was hired with just got promoted to Supervisor, though, and I hate those hours, so I doubt they’re setting me up for that. I guess they just like having someone who can do a little bit of everything. ^^; It makes the day go by faster, I guess. I like this job so much better than the 7-Eleven. I think that will be forever my most-hated job. “Well, it can’t be worse than the job at the 7-Eleven.”