Today I was helping my Mom and Dad rake the leaves in the backyard. This summer Dad replaced all the stones on the patio with very nice new ones. Dad announced during raking that he had a proclamation to make and we all needed to pay close attention. Okay, guys, this is the Word of my Father. Pay close attention.

"This is my proclamation. From this point forward, all raking shall be done directed away from the patio, on the lawn. No raking shall be done on the patio"

*he demonstrates this*

"Should any leaves fall on the patio, they shall be removed using a broom. Okay. You guys are ruining the patio."

I asked "If this should maybe be carved into stone and erected next to the patio." He said that "It's really not that complicated, you guys should be able to remember it"


I will keep his words in my heart forever.

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This has been a rough week. My computer broke last week ago, and I have been unable to fix it, meaning I was unable to get any of the many things I had to do last week done.

This morning my grandfather passed away. We've been in and out of the hospital visiting him all week. He's been sick for a very long while due to a House-esque turn of events. I really was hoping he'd get better. He passed very peacefully and surrounded by all of my family (so much family) and he was very very sick and lead a very long and eventful life, so I feel at peace with it, I'm not worried about what will become of my grandmother because she has many people to help her and she is a strong independent woman. I am just profoundly sad, though. I feel like I'll never be happy again. :|

So, not the relaxing week home I was hoping for. Now I'm desperately sad and have a ton of work to do, which I will be putting on hold for a week.

I drove up to school to get a few things and tidy up some affairs. Tuesday I'm driving all the way back home for the wake and funeral. I'm going to tell work that I can't work until next semester, because there are 2 weeks left in the semester, and this week I will be in Boston, and next week I will be working to catch up for the last 3 weeks missed work.

What this is rambling. I guess my point is :C and :C and I miss the dethklok fandom and hanging out in iScribble and having free time to draw silly dethklok stuff.

Also, I recieved a special gift today. When I returned to school, my noodly Toki plushie from Twonkie was there. Many months overdue, but, frankly, today of all days is the perfect day to have recieved him. I squee'd and tossed him around and hugged him and made him hug my Offdensen doll and I love his little face. So, Twonkie, I want to say thank you for cheering me up tremendously. I can't help but smile when I hug and hold him. Thank you so much :)

Urf I don't want to blog about my FEELINGS how gay :V

My computer is giving me the same BSOD as it was earlier this semester. Unfortunately, this time, taking out the video card and jiggling it a bit didn't help any. I'm running diagnostics on it now and using my sister's old laptop in the meantime. While I'm glad there's a spare here for me to use, this PC really kind of sucks. Vista? Less powerful machine? Well fuck this thing.

I have so much work to do over the break that I need Flash for it's not even funny, I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't fix my PC. Cry? A lot? Freak out? Gut my sister's PC and try to turn it into a facade of my old one? I don't have my install disks for Adobe Creative Suite 3, which blows. Also Vista blows. Jesus this thing blows :(

What also sucks is my PC ka-blooie'd after I got online to talk furiously about how fucking amazing last night's Metalocalypse was. I'm going to go re-watch it to make me happy <:\ Oh Toki, there needs to be a whole show done in your crazy fantasy vision with you singing :3

Here is my report from Canada. It has absolutely nothing to do with the game conference itself because that is business. It has everything to do with candy, strip joints, and some pictures that were also on my phone that I've been meaning to upload for a while.

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For the Montreal International Game Summit. Whoopee! Time to give out some business cards.

I'll be back Tuesday---and I'll miss the next episode of Metalocalypse! A Toki-centric episode about his obsession with Skwisgaar that I'm missing? Well fucking hell.

What sucks is when I get back I'll watch it on Adult Swim's website, but they have fucking coke zero commercials every, like, 4 minutes in an episode. Fuck. That. Shit. And I can't download the episode which will invariably be available for download at that point, since I can't check the comms, since spoilers, spoilers, spoilers D:

Face: Blown off by awesome

Below is a bunch of words about how terrible driving into Boston is, how awesome Marty is, and how sorry I am if I acted weird around people. Oh, and the magic of driving into curbs repeatedly.

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My first class was canceled. So I drew this.

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You may notice is has my name on it. I was inspired by Gears to make something that I want the creator of Dethklok to actually see. I'm going to the concert Tuesday night and while trying to get an autograph or two I might as well give Brendon Small some stupid fanart, too, because while it has been my utmost pleasure to draw creepy Dr. Rockzo's to amuse myself and the good folks on LJ, it would be pretty nifty to see the creator of it all actually see one of the utterly ridiculous doodles he inspired.

I really do want an autograph also though. That would be kickass. I hope the techs don't only let the hot chicks get through to get autographs!!! C'mon guys, not everyone on the world wants to sleep with the band, some people just want to give them stupid shit and get an autograph!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/14/obit.albano/index.html

May a flock of angels sing thee to thy rest.

*sniffle* YOU'RE DOING THE MARIO WITH GOD, NOW *SOB*

"Actions speak louder than talks."

this is going up on my wall

Help me, Older People. My father brought up an old game we had today, and now I'm freaking dying trying to figure out what it was. We both only have vague memories of it.

Here it is:

It was for the PC. You played an old man in a castle, with a lamp. You went around solving puzzles and stuff, like an adventure game. It must've been very early 90's when I was playing it.

There. Someone help me figure it out.

It's not:
Castle
Dark Castle
Beyond Dark Castle

Fried oreos.

Fried oreos....


....fried oreos.


Went to a state fair today. Had many fried foods, some of them on stick. Also tried...FRIED OREOS. They were very tasty. I feel very ill now :|

So today there was a small carnival thing at school. That means I got a free dinner. Also, there was a raffle. I won a luxurious red snuggie. That's right, you all can be jealous of my snuggie now. It's perfectly natural.

My friend won a goldfish. She named it Toki. After dinner she traded it back for 3 raffle tickets. She didn't end up winning anything :(

I had a dream last night that kind of devolved into a rather scary dream. At one point I went into a room, and there were cardboard cutouts of scary looking Dr. Rockzo's everywhere.

Then a cardboard cutout of Dr. Rockzo started humping a very disturbed looking cardboard cutout of Leonard Rockstein in his little suit. You know, as well as fully dressed, upright cardboard cutouts can hump.

So. I just thought you guys should know. This is what I dream about.

The paper on the envelope was all yellow and gnarly looking. I strongly suspect that it has been lost and sitting in a moldy basement for 2 weeks while the mailmen twiddled their thumbs.

It's so great. It gave me courage and strength at work today! COURAGE AND STRENGTH <3

I'm all fulla candy. I think I has diabetes. I gotsa take a fuckin' nap.

Today at my Women in Technology meeting, we made candy sushi. I took a twinkie, then frosted it with white frosting, then put perennials on it, then cut it up and rolled the pieces in sour fruit by the foot for the "seaweed", then stuck pieces of swedish fish and mini-oreos and such into them. Also used some rice crispie treats as "rice" and stuck candy on top of that. Top it all off with some green frosting "wasabi" and then eat, then feel violently ill for eating a metric shit ton of candy. Yes. And frosted twinkies.

I GOT MY DETHALBUM II TODAY <3 the case is very shiny.

I made a new icon to reflect my sadness upon not receiving the Dethalbum II or my bracelet today in the mail. It is a sadflail :(

Edit:I edited the icon to add the Fu Manchu, since apparently it took like 20 people seeing it to realize it was missing. I BLAME YOU PEOPLE.

For being slow and/or losing my things D: D: D:

I was expecting the Dethalbum II to come today...it shipped Saturday. But alas ;_;

And I've been checking the mail obsessively for the past week for a purty bracelet I won for the MSMD contest, but it never came ;_;

It's bad enough that the mail around here comes anytime between 10:00 am and 8:00 pm, like it did tonight. So I never know if I just didn't get any mail that day, or it hasn't come yet. SO MUCH CHECKING.

Did I give out my wrong address for both things!?!? This has happened before. Is this my fault!??! Is it the mail's fault!??!

IS SOMEONE STEALING MY MAIL!??!!

*explodes*

Attention world: What?

So my long story short for the past 2 days my parents have been getting boatloads of calls from people, companies really, saying that I have signed up for this that or the other thing. A dating website, for an electric scooter, weird shit. The last woman my Dad talked to, he specifically asked where she got her information, and she said it was from a Yahoo e-mail.

So, clearly, someone's been using my name and home-phone number. This is weird for 1 reason: I haven't used my home phone number since mid high-school, when I got a cell phone.

Good thing: My bank account hasn't had any weird transaction, so at least nobody's stealing from me!

Bad thing: My folks keep getting a bunch of phone calls, and it's pissing them off! Dad called today to ask if I was in a practical joke war with someone. I said no, not to my knowledge, and if I was I'd be pretty mad that someone was doing that to my folks.

I'm mad now because I know that he thinks I'm responsible for this, despite not actually saying that. I've always thought of myself as a very protective person with my identity online. That's loosened in recent years now that I've gained more independence but I still don't just give out a whole bunch of information. Also, I never give my parent's home phone number, like I said.

So...what the hell? Is someone deliberately trying to be a douchebag to me, and using my folk's home number in some misguided attempt at douchebaggery? Has someone or some internet trawler really signed me up for a million stupid things? And if so, why? It's not for money! Someone using Yahoo, whoever it is!!

Is it one of you guys...??!?! Who have I ever pissed off? I can't really think of anyone who I've pissed off who would have my home phone number. And I can't really think of anyone I've pissed off, at all, to that degree.

So I am very, very, very weirded out by all of this. Also I feel terrible for my folks, who are getting all of those calls. I do feel good, however, that it's not me getting them :3