- I posted a grand total of 25 LJ entries for the entirety of 2006.

- I only finished 3 games for the entire year. Suikoden V, Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana and Final Fantasy XII.

- a good 70% of 2006 was spent playing online games. Mostly Lineage II, with a spattering trials for World of Warcraft, Zera, D&D Online and a bunch of other titles I didn't find very interesting.

- I probably finished watching more anime series' than I recall, but the only one that comes to mind right now is Mushishi and Jigoku Shoujo.

Haha, okay. I can't really think of anything to post here, I just felt the need to post on January 1, since I normally always do. I'm about to leave for the New Years party with the relatives, so don't really have much time to post.

Though old friends should already know this, every year we hold a New Year's play on our father's side of the family (the children and grandchildren perform) and at the same time, everyone is required to dress up depending on the year's theme. Last year we did Mulan and had a Chinese dress code. This year's theme is 50's vintage, since we're doing Grease as our New Year's play. My brother's (Carlo) costume is awesome. I end up laughing everytime I see him. It's so FPJ. >:3

And leaving. A good new year to all!

Was making something for my sister's gifts to her bearers (ring, coins, etc.) and I needed to use my table for it, which I found buried under piles of stuff related to work and wedding preparations. I kind of went DDDDD: looked around and realized the entire area was a mess, which made me go DDDDD: even more.

This is the place in the house where I practically live in. I go to my bedroom merely to sleep/change. My computer's here, as well as my PS2, and the table I use to keep work-related files in (but which I don't really work in). So yea, welcome to my life. XD

It's not as messy when I look at it from the photos, but when I turn around and look at it again it still makes me go DDD: And I swear the walls aren't as sickly green as the photos make them out to be. >:E

The combined mess of my normal living/work mess, plus wedding preparations + holiday preparations + 3 siblings arriving home for the holidays.

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re: the locked bathroom door

The good news: I was not dumb enough to lock myself out of my bathroom!

The bad news: I was dumb enough to think I'd locked myself out of my bathroom. (That explains why I couldn't unlock it!)

As it turns out, something suddenly caused my doorknob to get stuck, so you now have to apply more force to turn the knob. A whole lot more than I'm used to having to do so, which is why I thought it was locked. Seriously. You would have thought it was locked too!

ARGH. I JUST LOCKED MYSELF OUT OF MY BATHROOM.

And for some reason, I can't seem to unlock it. =/

The way the lock on our bathroom doors are made, it's virtually impossible (if you use doors like normal people do!) to lock yourself out. Geh.

*is kept awake by the sheer stupidity*

ETA: If they need to break my bathroom door down (which I really doubt), I want first dibs with the axe damnit. Besides, I should get a new door anyway. I cracked it the other day.

Geh. Where is everyone when I need someone to whine bitch talk to? *glares forlornly at her Gaim*

So I thought I'd add an additional 512 ram on my PC because it was slow and annoying and it was about time I put in more memory anyhow. As it turns out, since my old system had RDram on it (which was phased out), I had to completely change my processor and motherboard too. Other than wincing at the amount I ended up having to spend, I'm rather satisfied with it, as I was due for an upgrade anyway (it's been 4 years).

I'm also due to reformat my PC. The nice thing about having all the computers in the house networked is that I get to back up all my files on everyone else's computers instead of having to burn files to cd. Currently waiting for 20gbs worth of files to finish transferring to my sister's PC before I transfer another 20 to my dad's. I want everything done and over with by tomorrow morning so I can work properly.

Also, the shop where I brought my PS2 to be fixed called to tell me they can't get the parts for my PS2 model anymore. Blah. It was with them for a month and they just find this out now. =/ I can either bring it to another shop and hope they can find the parts and probably wait another month or 2 before that happens, or I can buy a new PS2. When it comes to money, I can be very patient. XD

Needless to say, 2006 apparently isn't a frugal year for me.

SHARE THE BUCKY LOVE!

Yes. I post only to pimp, but this is to be expected of me.

I demand that anyone with a sense of humor go here now and sign up:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/

I recall ririkit pimping this to me before, but that was when I'd just started MUDding, so my account got deleted for inactivity soon after. But I play now, thanks to a bit of successful nagging from lecheflan, so now I pimp.

The Disco Bandit boogies to and fro, hither and yon. Whence comes she? No man knows. Whither strikes she next? All men live in fear of her and her Moxie. The description for the disco bandit was too good to pass up. The 'avatar' for your character doesn't change when you wear equipment, that is just a very badly edited version of me slapping on my gear to the stick figure avi. Yes, that's a frilly skirt. She clubbers her opponents with her Gnollish flyswatter and that is a pail on her head to ward off enemy blows, as well as to butt heads with persistent Knobs. The hat is my Hovering Sombrero familiar, thusly named Tacochip. The game insisted on calling all my familiars (I only have 2 so far) Grog. Grog the Mosquito. Grog the Hovering Sombrero. So I had to rename the Sombrero.

Pros:
♠ The crack. It entertains immensely. You swallow the bottle of pills. Your weapon shimmers briefly and becomes engorged.You acquire an effect: Engorged Weapon <-- best game effect ever.
♠ Limited number of adventures per day. This is one of the things I love most about it. It makes the game addicting, but the limitation means you have no choice and won't be spending countless hours in a day playing it.
♠ Have I mentioned the crack?

Cons:
♠ Limited number of adventures per day. T_T Yes. We all know when I get addicted to something, I get addicted.

Now go hither and play! It won't require more than an hour or two of your time at the most.

Current pimp count: 6

RL stuff:
(Yea, I talk about boring RL tidbits more now because I have no interest in fandom currently.)
01. Ruined two routers in the span of 1 minute. I mistakenly plugged in the power source for the modem into the routers. >.> Never fixing cables again when half-asleep. Not only that, the brand spanking new Linksys router we got to replace it has the most hateful relationship with PLDT's DSL servers. I had the crappiest connection for the two weeks that I had it. Running on a D-Link now (thanks to silverhakai for the tip-off that PLDT and Linksys don't mix) and it's working just swell.

02. RL friends will be familiar with my tendency to misplace my cellphone. They are prone to receiving SMS messages going, "Oh look! I found my phone finally," a good day or two after they've sent me their message. Misplaced it again last week, but found it again a few hours later inside our refrigerator. I swear I don't know how I ended up leaving it there. Thankfully I have a habit of opening the fridge even when I have no plans of getting anything everytime I go down to get a glass of water (which is every few hours).

Phone messed up that evening and I couldn't send/receive text messages for a while. Was kind of going "Oh no!" already, because the last thing I needed was to have ruined something else again right after the routers by yet another stupid mistake. Thankfully leaving the battery out overnight seems to have fixed the problem.

03. And uhm.. a general hello to my flist? I'm sorry, I don't even bother to visit LJ anymore save for my feeds filter (it gives me my daily Bucky fix), so if anyone needed something and I have ignored, it's because I have been very neglectful of anything LJ related. Over 1 month of LJ comments backlog included. Anyway I'll just spilled water all over myself wtf get to those comments one of these days. Yea.

EDIT: Backlog complete! So alright, I deleted most of it, but some of them didn't really need a reply, especially one that was this late.

Network's down. Finally had time to try figuring out what was wrong, so I was able to connect the PC downstairs so I can at least go online now. I have to skip 325 to the last post I read on my friends list. I'll try going through it tonight, will probably just add posts I want to comment on to my memories so I can get back to them once we have the network back up (I think we need to change our hub router) and reply to them accordingly.

So to anyone that needs to get in touch with me, I'll be around even less until I get the connection back on my PC. E-mail especially, won't be replied to until I get the network back up.

To everyone I owe icons to, I've finished some of them, but still have a dozen more to go. I'll post everything at the same time. I should have my connection back by then, seeing as I can't make some of the icons without first hunting down the images for them.

Edit: So I didn't finish reading my entire backlog after all. But after all that reading, I'm going back to working with much greater enthusiasm. Mostly because it means I can use my PC again. I hate using someone else's computer.

I was cleaning up my phone's address book and was deleting Sheila's old number and got the sudden urge to call her. Didn't bother checking the time, and it turns out I called her up too early (7:30am I think it was, since they're on DST right now), so I ended up being her Sunday wake up call. ^__^ Love you, hun. *is killed* She pretty much got back at me for it since we ended up talking for a full hour and 20 minutes. My phone bill is going to be hell this month. >.<

To RL friends: Brother's home until December 7. As per usual, he'll be using my phone while he's here, so if you need to get in touch with me, landline, LJ, e-mail and AIM (w/c I'm hardly on these days) is the best way to do so.

AND AND, lots of love and sparkles to dreamlessness and bakadoushi, because they feed my InuTezu fangirl! *sparkles!*

And caillen's brother bought her the Juuni Kokki PS2 game! I love her brother, I do. <3 Die of envy all you JK fans who don't have the game! I can borrow it from her. >D >D *gets smacked*

Hmm. I'm done proving to the world how incapable I am of simple brain process at the moment. Sleep! I should make a Jirou!sleep icon.

Guess who's addicted to sugar now? Damn you, Isa.

http://www.candywarehouse.com/pixstixbul25.html

They sell pixy stix by the bulk. ;_; So my brother will be coming home for a visit in a few days, and my mom is still in Portland with the sibs. She's coming back early December, so I'm like thinking, hooboy! I'm so making them buy me an entire year's stash of these things. So I did. Except now my sister's just called and she refuses to buy it for me since it's unhealthy. O.O Wah! My mom wanted to buy me some (I love my mom!), but my sister is the evil biznat incarnate she is! Boo. *weeps*

*dies!*

isachi!!! *glompssnuggles!* I got your package. OMG you really sent me pixie sticks, didn't you? *is so amused*

I'm trying one of the strawberry ones right now and dude, I'd love to know how Ryoma and Gakuto managed to down one of these in one go. O.O I've been trying to eat it for the past 5 minutes and I'm not even halfway through it.

Gakuto is utterly envious, as his stash has ran out. *snerk*

And damnit if I get addicted to these you're providing me with an entire stash to last me a year! *glareglareglare!* (must now figure out if any of the local candy stores have it)

Alright. I've now made it halfway through the tube. Go me! I think my tastebuds have died.