Goal #100 - Bake a Layered Cake

Goal #100 is complete~! :D

Me, John and Laura baked a layered cake on Monday, March 22. We had a lot of fun making the batter and frosting and stuff. We didn't make enough frosting to cover the cake, though, and we didn't make it thick enough, so it looks like this terrifying green liquid oozed over the top layer of the cake.
Also, something is wrong with John's oven, and it doesn't heat up when it says it has. So.. the oven wasn't hot enough when we put the cake in, so when the cake came out, it wasn't done. We caught it on the top layer, but not the bottom. So the top layer was done, but fell apart, and then the bottom layer was whole and nice, but not cooked all the way through. xD

The parts that were baked all the way were delicious. I intend to post pictures once I find my camera cord.

Goal #22 - Read 50 books

I finished The Gunslinger, by Stephen King, about ten minutes ago. It's the first in the Dark Tower series.

I thought it was.. okay. I didn't really like the ending. It went along for most of the time, and I really liked it, but then it got all.. religion-ey at the end. There were a number of allusions, and I don't think I like them.

I'll probably read the next books in the series, but only because I already own them. My dad and stepmom bought them for me when I was.. 14? 13? I'm glad I didn't read them when I got them. I got a good chapter in, but it just isn't meant for someone that age.

Little Shop of Horrors

I finally found the right version of Little Shop of Horrors!

I thought it was funny that the only characters who could actually sing were the three chorus girls. Also Rick Moranis WAT. I love him. :D He's such a dork. I really like Audry and how she spoke, but OH MY GOD, I could not stand her singing voice. Which is sad, because I really liked her songs!

It was very much not what I expected. I didn't know anything about the story before I watched it. I thought it was about like.. early high school kids, first of all. And I thought that the whole shop was full of magic plants.

Overall I liked it, and I'm glad I saw it, but I wouldn't go out and get the soundtrack. Unless they got people who can sing. Then I might. ...Maybe.

84 - Reach Rank 20

I did it! Last night I finally hit rank 20 in WARhammer!

I started out the night at rank 17, and I was questing around and doing stuff in the very bottom of Ostland (OH MY GOD, I HATE T2), when John came to meet me on his Swordmaster. We completed the quests I had in the bottom of T2, then went to Altdorf for some reason that I can't remember, then went to the bottom part of the Elf zone's T2. We did some questing down there, when we realized that I'd get more experience if me and John weren't in a party together.

We also almost soloed a public quest, right at the beginning of High Pass? Basically, if we'd both been a level higher, we would have done it. We did do one public quest, inside of this HUGE building that I can't remember the name of. And a slayer, arcmage and a knight showed up, so we did the PQ together. I ended up being #1 contribution! Yaay! We had possibly the best healer I've ever encountered. Not that that's saying much from me, but she was really good. John was considering inviting her to the guild. I think his game crashed or something, though, so he didn't get a chance. I don't really remember why. But! I had hit rank 20 during that last PQ, so after letting myself die (so I'd be sent back to the Warcamp), I flew off to Altdorf and bought myself a spotted horse mount. I'm so happy.

I'm also finally out of Tier fucking two. :D

Fables

So I was thinking the other day.

I realized that Watchmen is officially considered a "novel." And I figured that if Watchmen is, why can't other graphic novels? So, from here on int and retroactively, I'm going to include graphic novels in my book count.

So those first six Fables books I read? Yeah. Those count. I'm now halfway done with goal #22: Read 50 books.

Brain Age

I ended up going to Game Stop yesterday (after groceries. Ugh.) and bought a used copy of Brain Age 2! After spending 20 minutes trying to figure out how to delete save files (before I realized that the internet probably knows), I created my own, did my first couple of Daily Training exercises and a Brain Age check, then moved on to the Sudoku~

I'm already 11% done. I bought it less than 24 hours ago. =3= I really missed it, ok?

For anyone curious, my starting Brain Age was 45. I took another test today, though, and it was down to 42. Turns out I've still got reflexes, especially when it comes to Sign Finder. My first time playing in several months, and I got 29 seconds. Not quite as good as I used to get, but passable. It's a little upsetting, though, that I don't have my old graphs for the trainings. I really liked going through all of them and looking at my progress. :( I guess I could always try to be bad at Sign Finder?

John is making a profile tomorrow, on my copy. I'm excited to have someone to compete with!

Working Away...

I'm working on things, I really am. General update, GO!

I'm actually taking a break from cleaning my room right now. I'm going to clear off my chair and put as much of it away as I can, then I'm going to put all of my laundry where it belongs (either in the closet or in the "to be washed" pile). The biggest issue here is that since my chair has been my I-don't-know-where-to-put-this-oh-I'll-just-put-it-here-for-now spot for... months, there's a lot of stuff on it. >.<

I subscribed to WARhammer last week! I'm really happy I did. I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's my first time playing an MMO, and I really like it. I helped John create a guild the other day, too, which was really neat. I'm at level 14 now, with like 60% of the level done. I'm gonna consider this goal complete when I hit 20 and buy my mount. :D

There's a good chance that I'll buy Brain Age 2 within the next few days, so I can finally start over on my Sudoku goal. >.<

I started reading Dracula the other day, too. It's really creepy, but since it was written so long ago (and I'm reading the original version, I think. The original English version? I dunno), the English is really weird sometimes, and it can be difficult to understand. I have to read 1.8 books per month in order to get this goal completed on time. I'm hoping to finish more than that this months, especially since I've been getting into the habit of reading before bed when John isn't over.

I used an Intous 4 for the first time the other day, and I'm really not sure if I like it. I really don't think I like how the buttons are laid out. :/

I'm planning on getting a better TV as soon as I can transport it home. When that happens, John and I are likely to buy a Wii together, 75/25, since I want to keep it at my house.

Aaaaaannd..... yeah. That's all I have to say for now. Better get cleaning, I guess.