Two Major Purchases!

Yay! Over the last week or so, I completed two different goals, both in the "Major Purchases" category. My older stepbrother bought himself a new TV a couple weeks ago, so he gave his old (still very nice TV) to my little sister. She then gave me her old-but-still-nice-and-newer-than-mine TV. It's got wonderful picture, sound, and it's got all the right plugins. I don't need my VHS workaround anymore! :D

And, second, I finally spent my Detour money on a Wii! I'm so excited! I was originally gonna wait until after E3, but after research and advice, I went with one of Gizmodo's Deals of the Day and got it with free shipping, plus a 30$ game credit, which I spent on a dance pad for DDR3. I've also got Raving Rabbids and Super Mario Galaxy waiting, as well. I'm thrilled. I'm probably gonna ask my dad for the Wii Fit for my birthday or something.

Also, I finally started actively working on my 'get in shape' goal. I exercised yesterday a whole ton, and I plan to keep working at it until it's done.

#4, #30, and #50

I made some pretty big progress today!

First, I completed goal #30: Drink one bottle of water every day for a week. I really love drinking water, but I have a hard time carrying the bottle around with me, especially with my bag so full of school things already. I have it clipped to the bag via a carribeaner, but it always bangs the bottle into things all the time. :/ But, I finished the goal! I think I'm going to try and locate my bit (half liter) bottle, if only because it doesn't make a silly noise when I drink out of it.

Then, early this afternoon (technically late this morning?), Virginia and Amanda (mostly Amanda) taught me how to use Bare Essentials makeup. I know that the brand is spelled differently, but I can't remember how it's done right now. But the makeup was really easy to do, once I saw it done. I'm going in early next week to buy my own starter kit, so that I'll have the stuff for Detour.

Finally, after doing makeup stuff, we all went out to the cross stitch store in Minnetonka, and I bought a little starter kit thingy! It's Pooh and Eeyore, and it's super cute. I've been working on it for a couple of hours, and I've got nine rows done! Well. Nine rows of Eeyore. But still! Its fun!

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.