NEW GLASSES AHHHHH

Apparently they’d had them ready for a while, but marked in the system as waiting for lenses to ship. Fuckers. So while I was like “Okay *tear*… Wait, what? We saw you personally put the lenses and frame into a little dish…” Shan was like “WHAT YOU SAY.” So I got glasses. *squee* It’s a little disorienting, I think because of the change in my astigmatism and not being used to where the glasses sit on my face, but OH MY GOD I CAN SEE. Like, we went outside and I looked up and said “HOLY SHIT THERE IS A GREENHOUSE OVER THERE.” And then I looked up and said “HOLY SHIT THAT’S A PLANE.” And if I look out the window, I can see a tower sticking up off the mountain that I never knew was there. I can read signs! I can see distant trees! I CAN SEEEEEEE! I had no idea how much I was missing.

I haven’t the slightest idea what I did to my knee to deserve this, but when it’s kept bent for more than oh, thirty seconds it starts in on the agonizing pain. So sitting hurts. I’ve got it propped up on Gibraltar right now, which seems to be working, but I suspect this means I should go for a walk. I want to anyway. I also want to pick up Aht Urgan, the expansion for FFXI. Might get my interest back in the game.
In other news, I finally made some headway in the Naruto story I’ve been working on since late 2004. I’ve been poking at it since I bribed someone to convert the file for me, but it kept dead-ending. Then I chatted with Ally about it, and determined the important parts of the story, and what to focus on. So I still have no idea where it’s going, but I like what’s being written so far. It keeps feeling longer than it really is, though. I think it’s because a year ago what I considered long is what I now see as quite short. That was a weird sentence.
And in completely awesome and totally random news, remember when I cut myself through my nail? It’s grown out! Yaaay! My nails grow so insanely fast, heh. (I did that on the 12th of this month. Yay search function!)

…I will not ask why there are tumbleweed-like plants in the yard. Instead, I will LAUGH because I have a three day weekend. LAUGH. HYSTERICALLY. Because I have nothing to do and the matriarch is DRIVING ME INSANE WITH HER MOODINESS. In her defense, we both have cramps. At the same time. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.

Ah, gratuitous caps lock. (Technically judicious use of the Shift key, but whatever. TECHNICALITIES.)

So I’ll probably call up the community college and ask for information on their Fall semester, if they have it available yet. I wanna take a class, maybe two, to warm up until I count as a resident and get cheap tuition. I need to get back into the swing of things, here. I’m also thinking of being a responsible adult and asking for an increase in my hours at work, but if I’m gonna take classes I might not want to do that just yet. Ganbatte, me! I will strive to do my best! Maybe I should carry around a little picture of Lee for inspiration.

COME ON MEDS KICK IN ALREADY

Woke up with bad cramping. Work is gonna be hellish. Why do they always schedule my 6′o’clocks for my cramping time? I can’t call out of this shift, I have to suck it up and go. There’s no one to take it except the night shift, and she deserves to go home and sleep.

I should go a few minutes early and buy one of those awesome self-heating pad things. Except, you know, for the early part of that sentence. Arrrgh.

Today has been an okay day, so far. Except that I’m alternating between really okay and really not okay. Yay PMS! I hate my ovaries. I hope the birth control helps this crap, because it’s almost as annoying to me as it is to the people around me.
The other day I went shopping for clothes. I couldn’t find anything vaguely attractive in my size. Since this happened within a week of my period starting (HELLO PMS FUCK YOU) I was in tears for the rest of the day. I can’t wear the patch-type birth control because I have to be under a certain weight. I AM NOT FAT. FUCK THAT. FUCK ALL OF THAT.

I love Shan for he gives me hugs and does not mind tearstains on his shirts. ♥

EDIT: Aaaand now am emotionally stable but cramping. YAY ME.

I got my first-ever raise!

And now I give you scary pictures!

Blaaaah. I’m really nervous about my appoinment tomorrow; I’m going to Planned Parenthood to hopefully get birth control again. It may not be well-known, but I am utterly terrified of having anyone look at my crotch. I think it’s the kind of paralyzing terror that counts as a phobia; I get the same cold lump in my chest when I think about bees. Scary. ;_;

So yesterday ended with me having almost completely organized everything, AND I worked on Kaire’s SUPER-belated present. IT WILL BE DONE SOMEDAY. So yeah, that made me feel good. I finally worked out something with wire, but I need to reinforce or stiffen another part to make it work. It felt like doing surgery, opening up an old seam and inserting the wire. Heh. Fluff and stuff! So anyway, I’m really cheerful about that, although I think I need to make some alterations to parts I had considered done. No biggie, just annoying, since I still am only like %50 done. (Why do I keep putting the percentage in front of the numbers?)

Still waiting on the glasses. Sigh. They did say the earliest would be tomorrow, but COME OOOON. I WANT TO SEEEE.

And I have officially missed the application time to try for Riku, which is okay because I totally decided I can’t afford to play in CFUD.

And now I eat and maybe sew things!

New comic link on the sidebar! I read through all of Dominic Deegan’s archives the other day. That is a hell of a lot of damn fine comic. The art style is solid, the storytelling is great, the jokes are funny enough to entertain, and the characters are awesome. It’s definitely worth the time it takes to read through the archives. (My favorite is Gregory, surprisingly. I thought I was gonna like Jacob.)

No glasses yet. Their machine was broken, so even though they had the frames and the lenses right there, no go. Sigh. Apparently my vision did deteriorate, like a fourth of a something across the board. He was a lot more informative than any other vision doctor I’ve had, explaining what he was doing and what it would tell him, and at the end he showed me the difference between my current prescription and the one I have now. It made me very excited - No more blurry everywhere! XD There was one set of lenses (aaaaand one, aaaaand two) that he said would be very similar, but one of them totally cut out all the extra blur around the projected light - it didn’t make much difference in the clarity of the lines of the eyechart itself, but the light-blur was gone. It made me so happy. So, new glasses sometime in the vague future. I’m trying not to get too excited. XD

P. S. Have been cleaning and reorganizing all day. Have done a good job. Still have nervous energy to burn off. Needs more Gaara.

The movie was great. It was really not geared for an audience that has never played the games, but it was a packed house anyway; The plot was along the lines of your standard Japanese horror flick, but injected with the Silent Hill crazies. My favorite part of the entire movie was a two-second distance shot. I know, that sounds weird, BUT. On the left side of the screen was something that looked like just another building facade. It wasn’t. The street was boarded off, two stories high. THAT was what scared me the most about Silent Hill; those goddamn blockaded streets. They changed.

Basically, the town was pure Silent Hill. I even recognized some of the side streets. The enemies were Silent Hill, the “obtained flashlight!” moment was Silent Hill, the way Pyramid Head both crushed and aided the denizens of the alter-world was totally Silent Hill. What I didn’t like so much was how easily they gave away the big twist. There are three Silent Hills; the real one, the ash-covered one, and the Hell one. You get into the first by walking, the second by dying, and the third by surviving. I liked the cop, though, even though she was seriously butch. I particularly liked the scene early on where they conveniently get her to strip off her jacket and such. Hee.

So basically, it was a great movie for Silent Hill, but a poor horror movie. I really liked it.

GONNA GO SEE SILENT HILL EEEEE Must remember to pee BEFORE, not DURING!

…OKAY WINAMP WHY DID YOU JUST PULL UP THE ONE SILENT HILL SONG I HAVE AHHHHHHH

Yes, this calls for all caps and many one-line paragraphs. PYRAMID HEAD EEEEEE