I finally remembered to stop in at the grocery store on my way home to buy a tomato and some lettuce. Then I came home and made a really good sandwich omg. 8)

I've done ~absolutely nothing~ ever since. I found out my Mario & Luigi (GBA) file deleted itself which really bugs me because, while I like the game, I'm REALLY bad at it and i was about halfway through--it was hard just to get there. D: So I've pulled it from my now playing list and I'll start it again... some other time. u_u;

In lieu of that I was playing some Elite Beat Agents trying to get to the highest rank but I can't seem to get A-rank (let alone S-rank) on any more songs than I have now so I'm not having much luck. I've set it aside for a while too (because the songs are starting to drive me crazy).

...so instead, I'm grinding in Diamond to get enough money to buy that last ribbon from the rich people place for Marluxia (...my Cherrim :D). I'm about halfway there which is awesome, considering I started with only 11k. (I need 999,999. XD;)

Three classes tomorrow and then WEEKEND. \o/

			Currently: Bored, lol Listening to: Trainer battle music - Pokemon D/P Current Tags: gaming:nintendo, gaming:pokemon

I've been alternating daily between feeling good and feeling horrible, it seems. Today's been one of those horrible days and I hope I'm feeling better in the morning. I really need to get up and take a shower since I put it off all day and now it's bedtime but... augh. So listless today. :'( So here I am typing an LJ entry instead.

Today was father's day. I cleaned up the kitchen and tidied other areas of the house. I wasn't well enough to go out to get his gift so mom picked that up for me. @_@ My brother and I got him the new Tiger Woods golf game for Wii... the one with Wii Motion Plus. He mentioned the other month that he really wanted another golf game and was thinking of getting it for a console so this seemed like a good gift. :] He said he liked it so I hope he enjoys it. He didn't give us any gift ideas this year and I was a little worried he'd think we were just getting a video game so we'd play it ourselves or something but I have little interest in golf games and only slightly more in Motion Plus anyway so... yeah.

Not much else to report. Saw Angels & Demons on... Friday, I think. Then finally saw Star Trek yesterday. I have never seen an episode of TOS (or any movies) before and the movie made dad want to see them all again so I think we're going to start either buying them or renting them. XD; I'm looking forward to that since it seemed really interesting. (b'-')b

We're heading to NJ again this year like we do almost every year. We'll be down there for the weekend of the 11th. Mom and dad said they're thinking of spending a day or two in NYC again and I got a positive on going back to Nintendo World. Watch them clear out all the decent Pokedolls again this time. (Last time I went, the only ones they had were like... Grimer, Igglybuff, Bonsly, etc. Then like two weeks later someone went and posted pictures from the store on pkmncollectors showing Pichu, legendaries, etc. FFFFFFFFFFFF) I want to get another Shaymin (because I totally molest mine when I'm high and it's not looking like a collector's item as I originally intended XD) and maybe some others... and some Tomy figs. :DD Eee I hope we do end up there again.

LASTLY I'm finally getting into the interesting stuff in 358/2 which means I actually have to stop and translate stuff in cutscenes now, haha. I'm on day like... 270 or something. I just hit the MOST CONFUSING CUTSCENE EVER OMG. It was a voiced one so I couldn't even pause to translate and even if I had I think I'd be confused as fuck anyway and just aaaaah. Aaaaah. What did I see omg I don't even know. 8| Assuming I've been translating stuff right though, it IS super interesting right now. And yay the inside of Castle Oblivion got a cameo and it made me way happier than it should have ahahaha. *dork* I can't wait for this to come out in English so I have more people to fangirl it with. ;~; And so I understand it completely, haha. So many gameplay mechanics are going right over my head, I think. (Also did I mention on here that Marluxia's default weapon has my name in it? I'm not even kidding! It translates to "Traitor's Erica". :DD All of his weapons have names of flowers in them and aaah omg his super ugly default weapon is my name. I had a total dorkgasm when I realized!)

...I need to go take that shower and get to bed. :(

			Situated: My bedroom Currently: Sick ;_; Current Tags: family, gaming:kingdom hearts, gaming:nintendo, health, media:movies, social:trips

I don't update this enough and I really should. I guess I'm just not doing anything interesting and anything notable enough to get a mention is stuff I don't really feel like talking about or else I've said enough on twitter.

( I'm nervous though, so I'm venting. TMI and tl;dr below the cut. )

Uhhhm what else of interest has happened in the last while...? screw it. Point form here we go!

→ Mom got her new car the other week. It's nice. I got to drive it (most of the way) home from the car dealership. I wasn't a fan of the colour but it's growing on me. My dad and I have named it BFTZ (pronounced Biftiz, sorta) because those are the first four letters on the license plate and we love pronouncing license plates and that is an awesome one. We took the BFTZ to work today 'cause mom was home recovering from having a tooth extracted yesterday.

→ I've been waiting every so impatiently since May 30th for my copy of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days to arrive. Some bitch nearly spoilt it for me on deviantART. It was very hard to not download a ROM to my R4 but I prevailed and it finally arrived last night. I LOVE IT AAAAAAH. Gameplay is fun and Marluxia is in it omggg. He teaches you how to fight (or rather, stands there looking *fabulous* with his hand on his hip as you get swarmed by heartless and are nearly dead). And has gotten like 50x gayer. He runs funny. But when he's actually helping you he's probably the most useful partner I've had so far. XD; We had a wonderful time trying to beat this one stupid boss. I bet he hated me for that because my strategy was just horrible. But enough fangirling (for now).

→ They want me to work five days a week at work. BAAAW. I worked 5 days this week and I'm ready to collapse. But... money is money so I'll probably take the offer. I hope this doesn't burn me out. (It probably will.)

→ I need to sell some stuff to make money. :( I really want a new computer since my HP is a piece of shit. I got internet working on it the other day by reconfiguring my linksys router with custom firmware to turn it into a wireless switch but it worked for a day and then stopped and I'm not reconfiguring every time I turn that thing on so it's basically acting as a paperweight right now.

→ Snagged the username "lightningism" on facebook. I'll probably regret that one day since I changed right at midnight and could've picked a plethora of names but oh well. It's only FB. Not like I ever use it anyway lolol.

→ goddamn I'm tired. And it's only 1 AM. Hahaha. Gotta get up earlyish to pick up my prescription for Sunday and then clean up a bit before Dean gets here. He's coming over around 1 to pick up his copy of 358/2 and then sticking around to play. omggg I can't wait to try out multiplayer.

→ I need a new LJ layout. :|

			Situated: Bedroom, falling asleep as I type ack Currently: Nervous ._. Current Tags: gaming:kingdom hearts, gaming:nintendo, health:endo, internet, job, tech:laptop, whining

MS and Nintendo thoughts are short. I got v. wordy with my Sony recap.

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That's about it. I am well aware I still have a huge Anime North con report to write. ;_;' I should get on that this week orz.

Also I found my iPod. :>

			Situated: Work! Currently: Giddy XD; Current Tags: gaming, gaming:360, gaming:nintendo, gaming:sony

Whoo, first week of work is over. :>

That job would srsly be the best ever if the early mornings weren't so... so... early. :( Getting up at 7 instead of 6 today (sometimes production starts later on Fridays so we head in later) was so much better. I got as much sleep as usual since I'm smart and stayed up like 4 hours later than I intended but I wasn't tired at aaaaall. (Well maybe just a little bit.) Work was fine today, aside from the boring parts where there was nothing to do, and then at lunch dad and I went out for sushi. I had a rainbow roll and tempura udon and OMG SO MUCH FOOD. lmao I didn't think there would be so much but there was and I ate as much as I could and it was good. ;~;

Not much else. Yay GS remakes, I guess. I think the names are retarded but they'll probably grow on me. So long as the acronym is GSDS for this iteration rather than HGSS, I can deal.

Oh, thanks for the votes on my poll, guys. It looks like I'll be playing Persona 3 first. XD I got through April when I started playing it at some point last year buuut I think I'm probably going to restart when I dig out the PS2 to play it this time around. I don't remember much of anything and I wasn't too far anyway so... yeah. I'll be giving it another try whenever my component cables come in from Monoprice. :D (I already have some but they don't carry the voice sound channel to my speakers so... so idk, I'll try another set. o_O)

Also also also... 2 weeks until Anime North. ♥ I've got to round up the people who're coming into a group convo so we can hammer out those final details. DON'T LET ME FORGET, GUYS.

For now.................... brb playing more Picross. >_>

			Situated: .......ON MY BED WHAT A SURPRISE Currently: Excited :3 Listening to: Dad mowing the lawn lol Current Tags: food, gaming, gaming:nintendo, gaming:pokemon, job

On Monday I got around 5-6 hours of sleep and by the end of the work day I was just dying of tired. Last night I had SUCH problems getting to sleep. I don't think I managed to doze off for a "decent" length of time (ie more than 20 minutes) until like 3 AM. Yet overall I've barely been tired today. It's really weirding me out but at least I know I'll be ready for bed muuuch earlier today. @_@

Not much of interest to say except I am shamelessly and hopelessly addicted to Picross oh my god. :( It's like all I've been doing aside from work and minimal sleep in the last 24 hours. I... I don't even know WHY it's so addicting. I wasn't even decent at it until this morning when some technique I can't even explain dawned on me, ahaha.

I need to start a new RPG soon to clear out my backlog but I am horribly indecisive and I won't even listen to Fortune Cookie on Backloggery, it seems. But I love my friends so I'll listen to you because unlike a cookie you can bother me over and over asking if I've finished whatever game is chosen. Everyone vote!

Poll #1396024 rpggame
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

What RPG should I start/finish next?

...if you are vehemently against all of these, suggest something else from my unfinished list here lmao.

ooh, new episode of chi is out. \o/

			Situated: ...I'm always on my bed these days. Currently: Okay 8| Current Tags: gaming, gaming:nintendo, job, poll

Okay my... May resolution is to update more so here we go. 8|

As I mentioned yesterday, I didn't have work today so I got to sleep in. I was so tired yesterday that I was in bed with lights out by 10:30ish. I made the mistake of tossing Picross DS on my R4 before that so I got a little addicted but I'm pretty sure I was asleep around midnight. XD; I woke up at 8:30 then hit snooze over and over (while just resting and not sleeping, I'm pretty sure) until 10:30 and then whooo I got up.

Well, I sort of got up. <_< I sat up and turned my DS back on to play more Picross which is basically what I did all day. I fully intended to start up a JRPG too. Oooops. It's such an addicting game but it's a lot of fun. I feel like I'm playing a Sudoku/Minesweeper hybrid when I play it even though neither are all that close to the game at all, lmao.

Then the doorbell rang not too long ago and my brother called me down to tell me I had a package. (b'-')b I didn't know what it was but it turns out it was the Little Sister figurine I ordered a while back. Haha, I may have to find a different place for her because she looks so creepy on my shelf with everything else:



I really wish I had one of the Big Daddy figures now. ;~; But alas, I don't want one enough to drop the required money on finding one, or

			Situated: ...sitting on my bed again Currently: Kinda bored but oh well Listening to: Pokemon song remixes on YT haha Current Tags: gaming:360, gaming:nintendo

hay LJ.

I'm kinda busy with Algebra but there was a Nintendo keynote today and I was happy about the announcement of a new Zelda DS game that uses the same Link as in TWW and PH. So I hopped on to check out screens from the little trailer they showed and found the trailer itself.

So I watched.

And. This was all I could pay any mind to. See this link?



( He's wearing this man's jacket )

But yeah. Back to algebra now. ;A;

			Situated: Dorm rooom Currently: Yay new Zelda DS game C: Listening to: Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive | Powered by Last.fm Current Tags: gaming:nintendo, gaming:twewy

This is my post on the E3 conferences, now that the big three have come and gone. Last year I watched all three conferences but the only one I paid any mind to was Nintendo's because I had no plans whatsoever to pick up the other consoles. This time around? I actually own every console on the market, even the handhelds. So everything they were showing off wasn't something I could go, "hey, that's pretty cool. I'd get that if I had ____ console" it was "ho snap that looks pretty neat, I'll have to pick that up." All in all, I think my bank account is going to suffer this year, but at least everything I'm interested in is something my brother will want. XD

Heads up... this is long. :D

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So overall, what I'm looking forward to most? Portal sequel, the new dashboard/live party features, and Fable II on the 360. And um. Um. :'D That's about it. Oh, and Cooking something or whatever the hell it is for DS. That recipe thing. ONLY BECAUSE SHIT I FAIL AT COOKING AND NEED IDEAS AND INSTRUCTIONS, K? I dunno. While I was more impressed by Sony's presence at E3 than Nintendo's, nothing really jumped out at me. :/ FF is still the only game I'm really looking forward to on it and... I guess it's staying that way for a bit.

In other, slightly related news. I do believe my 360 heats up my whole dorm room goddamn when it's turned on for a fair amount of time. Like, it was freezing earlier, so I turned it on jokingly and forgot about it. Noticed it was on about 10 minutes ago and turned if off. Now? It's freaking colder again. XD

			Situated: Dorm rooooom Currently: Geeky XD; Listening to: Absolutely nothing. Current Tags: gaming, gaming:360, gaming:nintendo, gaming:sony