OMG
LIFE IS SO AWWESOME
I GOTS MONEYZ
AND A TV!

AND I GETS TO EAT CHIKINZ
ANNE AND ASHE FEEDS ME MEAT MOAR MEATS MOARRR ARGHHH
STRATO SHORTEEZ SHIELDS ARE CUDDLY CUTE
SCIN IS BUYING ME MOAR MEATS
VID IS STILL MAH SLAVE!
MAKE ME PS2 BEST RPG LIST NAOO PRIS I RUV U RONG TIME
VARGY IS COMING!
DEB IS STILL DORKY
EVERYONE IS STILL SO <3

ISAAC IS <3
DARYL IS <3
CHANCE AND DIEGO ARE <3
LA IS STARTING TO BE <3
PS3 IS COMING IS <3!!!!!

XD

What canse I say
OMG
LIfE IS Aquesome!

so… as I mentioned before this past week has been ‘the’ moving week. It all started when a month and a half or so ago when I started to pack for this giant move to LA.

No matter what I did there is no way I could have envisioned the events that actually unfolded this past week… I tell ya… when things happen, they happen all at once!

It all started with a glass of unknown alcoholic lemonade beverage that didn’t taste like suck.

I had been away since Thursday of last week until Sunday night, at Ocean City MD having a blast at the beach and the bar apparently (some pictures I never wanna see again! NO!). On Saturday night, I finally decided to have a drink with all the girls, since it’s a bachelorette after all! I figure hey fruity lemodaney drink, can’t be that bad and if tastes like bad bad alcohol (I hate the taste of drinks that taste like alcohol… that’s why I don’t drink XD) then I just won’t finish it. Turns out that cup was the yummiest lemonade in the world of or something since I was chugging it like it was water. I didn’t even know what all was in it.

We then got ourselves a nice table at this cool bar called Macky’s, waiting for the DJ to start spinning around 10.30 or so. The girls decided to order… a GIANT bucket yes a BUCKET of some fruity alcoholic beverage. They made me take a few sips but it tasted like alcohol so I didn’t bother much with it.

I did however at this point finish my entire cup of lemonadey goodness and was proceeding to get really red and giggly -_- yeah I’m a lightweight, I don’t normally drink at all. I used to way way back in the day but after my first puke my guts out experience, I cut down on drinking considerably coz IEW… never again pris.

I had so far been paying with my card coz I wanted amazon points and what better to rack up points then paying for mucho dollars at a girls out bachelorrette weekend! The girls would then give me cash for their share and the world was alright.

We walked away from Mackys around 12.30pm or so, after dancing and all kinds of silliness and proceeded to walk to Seacrets a block or two down, another crazy large bar that the Bride to be wanted to go to. As we stood in line waiting to pay the cover and go in, I realized that shit I no longer had my credit card on me. Shit shit shit!

I told Kristen I’d be right back… yeah right… lol and ran off back to Macky’s by myself, I’m not sure what was so urgent.. other than it WAS THE END OF THE WORLD! ( yay drinking) I got to Mackys and NO ONE knew where my card was and the waitress waiting on us had already left for the night. 50 birrion “I’m so sorry I’m the suckiest wife in the entire universe” tearful calls to Isaac later, we had gotten the cards cancelled… and a new one would be coming in 3-5 days.

This may have been normal for others and would have been ok for any other time except… it was ‘moving week’ and this was the week that all the truck, the cube, the everything was to go on this card. Thankfully Isaac had another credit card to get us by (we’re saving all the cash in the bank for 2 months rent and 1 deposit which is hefty in LA so we really couldn’t be using it, credit was necessary). Unfortunately there goes my free PS3 plan from Amazon ;; Our chase card is an amazon credits card YAY! So we get about 150-200 points a year out of it. This year would have been great for points and I was going to use it all towards a ps3 for basically FREE! or as close to it as I could but booo…

So anyways… when I got home we had a nice chat about our options since the Chase card is basically where we had a nice padding of built up credit line (coz we’ve been really great about paying it off so they kept gaving us more credit bahahahah). This other card… we hardly ever if at all uses it ; ; which means a pretty low number and may be problematic.

It’s now Saturday mind you and the new chase card is no where to be seen -_- but thankfully the ‘cube’ container we ordered to take our junk and store it for a month in LA, will not charge our CC until it’s in ‘transit’ which… beings me to another amazing story but I’m actually jumping ahead. Let’s go back in time to Sunday evening when I got home.

I was pleasantly surprised that Isaac had a lot of stuff packed, the storage unit in York, PA rented, the truck scheduled, ALL DONE! yay for Isaac! on top of that writing more chapters of his thesis too, I’m like wow my being away made you productive! He replied “yeah its nice not to have someone randomly poking at me out of boredom every two hours!” ; ;… sadness!

So I was exhausted from the weekend of fun and sun and much sand up your woohaa from the sea beating the crap out of everyone coz there was a storm coming etc etc. and fell asleep really early and woke up around 8am and immediately started getting things together for what I was sure would have been a really stress free albeit tiring moving day.

First thing I did was to get directions to the storage unit while Isaac had gone out to pick up the truck. I mapped it and it said “Philadelphia” wtfbbq… I looked up several more things and several more times and over and over until I couldn’t help it anymore and called Isaac and asked him why in heavens name did he book a storage unit almost 4 hours away in Philadelphia… and he goes “crap……… I didnt look at the map” and I was like did you not notice that the area code for their phone number didn’t match ANYTHING remotely close to York/Hbg??? He goes “oopss…”

So when the truck arrived, instead of loading and packing, he had to spend about 30mins or so setting up another storage unit in York PA, which I found for him and made sure it was RIGHT NEXT TO Trudy’s house yay my other mom! In the meantime I was trying really hard to help load it but he insisted only the heaviest shit go down first -_- I sure made a sight! But I somehow managed.

We got everything packed in by 12.30 and started on the road. It was FUN. I don’t know why but I actually had fun riding in the truck lol usually I get scared. I finally felt like wow this is all truly happening and it’s gonna be alright!! YAYYY It was only 12.30, tons of time to spare for unloading which will be much faster due to no packing, and we’ll stop by HBG to pick up two chairs for a friend of ours, then head home in time to turn in the keys at 6pm and not have to pay for day 2 of the truck yay yay! happy happy.

Right. So we got there at 2.30pm and I was like perfect! We’re on time. Then we got ‘lost’ -_- The directions said ‘turn left’ so we did, and we drove and drove and never saw the thing, but then we turned back and we found it after 10mins, then we parked and spent 10mins trying to figure out why they won’t let us into their office, I’m like “Isaac stop yanking the damn door it won’t open just call them!” So we did… turns out the entire storage lot covered pretty much the same space on each side of the ginormous high way we just came out of -_-… how were we to know that! So back we went over the bridge/overpass type crap… we realized if we had just taken a ‘right’ it woulda been right there, the signs said it all! So we got there at 2.55pm… dang I said, we’re running out of time now, we will just have to unload 30mins faster and just breeze through Harrisburgh and hope the traffic doesn’t kill us.

So Isaac goes in… 5 mins later he came out with the clerk who was working the front desk and they were looking at the storage unit… I’m sitting in the truck tapping my foot… they wen’t back in… 10mins go by and I’m like wtf man. So I go in too and I see her attempting to set Isaac up with a payment plan and OMG SO SLOW and she had no clue what she was doing. After fuming a bit outside… I finally called Jen to gripe and was on the phone for 5 mins or something and still no Isaac. 10minutes later he finally comes out and had this dazed look in face, she probably confused the shit out of him. Turns out she didn’t even get the payment plan started she just didn’t know how and we were supposed to call back and somehow magically do it over the phone, but thankfully she let us in the storage unit to use it.

So at 3.30pm or so we FINALLY started unloading. We went as fast as we could and by 4pm, still no where close to being done since Isaac wanted to pack things smartly so Trudy could get to it. Trudy then arrives to see us sweating like piggies and completely tired and strung out, so she ran off and bought us heavenly cold bottles of lemonade, water and some munchies. We handed her the keys to the storage and she went home after throwing us one final worried look.

We conitnued working and by 4.25 I told Isac there is NO WAY we’ll get home at 6pm, can we just give up now? lol and he said “Fine let’s just go have dinner at Jen’s and hang out for a bit instead” HURRAY! We ended up just hanging out at Jen’s until 7pm or so before heading home, thankfully the rain had started after all the unloading so phiew! We returned the truck safely, paid for the extra day and got ourselves home and passed out cold lol. I was so tired I barely moved for the next two days!

I figured hey we’re mostly pack right! Thursday will be a breeze, we don’t have much stuff! YAY!

Right.

On Thursday morning we woke up bright and early and started putting as much as we can together since ‘everything’ was supposed to go today. Isaac is still convinced that ‘most of our shit’ is in storage, and we’d have very little to worry about space wise in the container.

I started packing up random stuff… and realized omg… there still a ton to do, some of the closets I haven’t even looked at! And look at all this furniture! So I got to work like a crazy woman in the kitchen and emptied everything out shelf by shelf. The cube came around 12pm or so and was parked nicely in front of the house and Isaac started packing things in and cheerfully exclaimed that we’d have no trouble at all packing all our shit in hurray! I ignored him and kept working in the kitchen. I scrubbed everything clean from top to bottom and in the middle of all this… Isaac comes up and goes “ermm the car won’t start so I can’t go and get us lunch or any of the cleaning supplies you asked for.”

Great.

Oh well, Tracy was nice and came over to return me the batch of Buffy comics she had borrowed and brought with her some nice munchies and a giant cucumber LOL! Very cute.

3 hours later we’re still packing… packing away. It’s now around 4pm. The kitchen is as clean as it’s going to be while there’s still stuff sitting around and I took a look at the cube and everything else in the house and I started to fret just a little bit.

We magically managed to break down the entire futon set and rolled up the futon and took it down with just the two of us, secured it nicely into the crate and we were congratulating ourselves for a bit. I kept packing boxes and taking it down to Isaac and we loaded up everything we had packed before and then realized that we had to stop because we were out of packed stuff yet the house didn’t look empty at all. In fact it looked like a hurricane had come through and unloaded all our shit from their nooks and crannies and was just floating around! OMG

I packed with more fervor and tried to get one room empty at least to make myself feel better. Isaac had gone back down to try to repack stuff because at this point his brow was furrowed and he was mumbling worrisome things like “hmmm it’s gonna be tight”.

Perfect.

We kept going at this frenzied pace until around 11pm or so… yes he was down there getting shit in somehow until 11pm or so. I had gone down too to help with stacking things etc. We somehow magically made the all our shit fit into that tiny cube (6×7x8 max of 2500lbs), hurray Isaac! things were stacked crazilly and tied in with ropes and ratchets from floor to ceiling lol it was a sight to behold. We managed to shove the final shit in and locked it up and called it a night. I refused to even look at the stuff still littering every floor of every room, REFUSED

We showered, went to bed and like clock work I woke up super early again naturally, I think I just do that when I know shit needs to be done man!

At 7.30am I started picking up the ‘trash’ type things, things that I felt like we could just throw, hey if I get rid of em before Isaac sees em he’ll never miss it! But I was being nice too and just throwing things I felt that we really can just get more, I mean come on!

He woke up around 8.30, washed up and went to try to start the car again. It still won’t start. Great……………. So now, all the stuff that we couldn’t pack into the cube that we wanted to get into the car, then storage and then with us to LA… was not going anywhere -_- Just great!

He gave up on the car and decided that we needed to tow it. No way around it, and it may never start again so who knows…

He decided that he’d try to maybe redo some stuff in the cube to get more shit in since we needed a revised plan for the rest of the stuff which we have no way of transporting now.

We managed to get a bunch of random little things into every nook and cranny we could find in the cube, the last item was a lamp I bought him for Xmas, and it went in right as the tractor trailer pulled up to pick up the cube. I went upstairs while Isaac stayed below to talk to the guy and watch him take our cube out.

I continued cleaning and felt really good about myself as I had gotten both bedrooms to be completely emptied, cept for the bed which we threw out once Isaac was free, and was already vacuuming and other types of cleaning.

I heard the guy coming to our front yard with his small forklift and went to watch. He hooked the lift under our cube and started lifting. For some reason I felt like it wasnt lifting as well as it should…. the end of it was almost hitting the ground. Then he had to try to drive the forklift backward on this narrow walkway (because their wheels arent meant for dirt roading) and he fell off the narrow walkway CRAP! My heart skipped a beat as I looked as his one back wheel entrenched in the dirt.

My idea would have been to put the whole cube back on the ground and start over. But nope.. he got off his forklift, and maneuvered his tracor trailer so it sat diagonal to the road blocking half the traffic -_-;;; and yanked giant chains out and tied it to his forklift… at this point any neighbors awake at 11am was outside watching this awesomeness.

He started his giant truck and started reeling in the whole shabang… forklift and cube attached to forklift… as you can imagine…. it didn’t go that well.

The sagging end of the cube was now dragging on the pavement and sparking as he FORCED it across while his forklift was yanking up chunks of the turft. I was so freaked out by this whole debacle I turned away and started cleaning with a frenzy of a mad monkey!

I somehow managed to clean both rooms the hallway the rest of the kitchen and then went back to look at what was happening. I could tell that the sight would not be pretty, due to the sounds I had been hearing this whole time. The end result was… He was not able to get it on his truck. He said the cube was way way way too heavy and he’d need to bring a bigger forklift back boo, so he parked it on the street and put cones near it. It’s still sitting there for all I know…

But that’s fine I gave up worrying about that, instead I noticed that the entire pavement had been scratched by what looked like dragon clawmarks… in white, and there was huge ugly lines of torn up yard all over… good god. Isaac quickly took the broom and tried to fix this ugliness and I noticed that the landlord came to express his displeasure although he was nice and said he knows it’s not our fault. Sigh….

So we continued working through all this and by 3pm the carpet cleaners had arrived. Tracy had graciously agreed to let us use her car and we transported all the straggling things… there was about 4 car loads of extra stuff that didn’t fit into the cube We still have no clue how we’re gonna handle that.

We finally was done! We took a shower, made sure the place was clean and proper and closed the door and at 5.50pm said good bye to our cozy home of 3 years.

Isaac drove us to Tracy’s and unloaded the final batch of things into her living room which looked like a hurricane went through it too now! Oh dear lord. I insisted that Isaac call and warn her. We’re going to pay her half a month worth of rent even though she refused. We insisted. We bought a giant dinner and then all around it was a great great evening, especially after the harrowing 2 days we had been through!

The car is at the workshop and no news yet from it and we won’t know till next week but it’s looking like we might need to spend a few thou on a new car…. Totally unexpected expense :/ but oh well, we’ll do what we can with what we get!

As long as we can get to LA safely that’s all I care about. But for now… the excitement should be mostly over for 3 weeks or so, and then maybe… it’ll be a less exciting graduation for Isaac and even less exciting drive to LA and getting settled in!

Oh yeah, we still don’t have a place to stay in LA yet.

So.. we moved the ‘rent a truck and move shit to storage in York, PA 2hrs away” date from Wednesday to next Monday. Which leaves me with 1 whole free day to play Champions Online Hurray! Will post impressions etc. at some point, but me and buncha girls are leaving for the beach on Thursday eve and wont be back till Sunday night, then the moving crap on Monday then gotta be outta this place and have shit in a shipping container to LA by the 14th so hopefully I get at least another crack at CO on this lovely PC before I gotta ghetto style it on the lappy. Will post screens tomorrow about how different the game looks on both pc lol. I havent actually been in the beta yet >< just got my code and everything set up and patched. Cant wait!

In the meantime I felt like I should list down the stuff I’m beta testing and also things I want to beta test in case I forget. I’m addicted to randomly beta testing games, who knows why!

Games I’m currently beta testing for:
- Aion
- Champions Online
- Alganon

Games in Open Beta I tried and promptly uninstalled after 5 mins of puking:
- CrimeCraft

Games I may want to beta:
- Earth Eternal
- Jade Dynasty
- 2029 (RTS Online? O.o;;)
- Jumpgate Evolution
- Stargate Worlds (which doesnt look like its gonna happen right now due to CME being retards)
- Fallen Earth

So next year looks to be like a fun fun fun time for online gaming. Until I get a brand new spanking HDTV and my PS360 as deb calls it lol, I won’t even begin to look at games I can’t play so I’m stuck looking at online games since they’re the most accessible to me right now (I dont like playing solo rpgs on the pc for some weird reason, this might change hmm)

Out of Korea comes 3 games that is currently in different stages of beta, some of which will launch in Korea by the end of the year but I’m positively sure that none of them will hit the US market before Fall of 2010, at which point FF14 will hopefully be in beta stage, which will make me WANT to play something… so I’ll be filling my fidgety time with one of the following 3.

Things to look at for these:
- Combat style – looks like devs are doing fun exciting things with mmos, FINALLY!
- Graphics coz I’m a graphics ho
- settings, environments and potential story (hopefully more)
- pvpve (unfortunately since Korean devs cater to this crowd the most)

Continent of the Ninth (C9)

Officially Trailer:

Gameplay Video:

Movements and keymapping (very cool stuff)

CBT Leaked Footage:

Boss Battle PVE, solo:

(notice that he keeps ‘reraising’ >.> no clue how that’s possible and hope its not done stupidly so that people can just keep raising etc. I love the dimensions of this fight)

Newly announced (as of June) class – Shaman

SO SMEXY! ME WANTS!

Tera Online
I really like the art direction of this particular game. I also love that they are hulking cute galka like beings in it lol, especially the one at the end lol.

there are no beta/etc gameplay footage that I can find yet that’s GREAT quality, but will post when I do. In the meantime these are from gameshows:

Full scale battles:

Boss battles:

Blade and Soul
Deb pointed me to this one and it looks fantastic… I’m very much looking forward to poking around this one. It’s another NCsoft title, so there’s something to be said for an established company behind this.

Can someone translate this site for me? ; ; would love more details but non forth coming right now! http://games.plaync.co.kr/bladeandsoul/

So me and vid were able to score some keys into the Champions Online closed beta (the OB is starting in 2 weeks you can join via preodering). I am not going to be able to play this weekend but my key came today via email and I hope vid can start using it and maybe stream some stuff for us yay! I hope to be able to poke around it sometime this next week using Vid’s key instead.

In the meantime, here are some awesome CBT videos from leakerz.
Follow this link to view all his CO videos: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A279E71A12122D6C

The following are some I really like, that cape is SMEXY and I want me some giganto booster boots yes pris, and flight battle is also smexy. Will be posting more thoughts after I can find time to play the CBT this week.