Shadee’s Blog

So most of you know Sophie absolutely loves the snow.
We’ve had quite a bit of it today so I let her in the back yard for a bit so she could run around in it like mad like she always does.

Unfortunately she misjudged the height of the snow next to the house today…

That’s ok though cause apparently she has these amazing transformer like powers and turned into a jetski/snowmobile right after so she could continue her snow insanity.

Our dog is such a lunatic.
Guess that’s why she fits in so well. :S

-Dee.

At the diner:

*The D&D cartoon came up for some reason*

Dee: Yeah I remember watching that in the 80’s
Mord: I remember watching that… 30 years ago.
Dee: Was that even on 30 years ago?
Mord: The 80’s WAS 30 years ago.
Dee: …
Dee: No it wasn’t… :<

yes the rest of the week went a lot better lol. So no more Baaawing. Stiill not 100% over the flu but I’m feelin much better than I have. Playing Star Trek Online has been a fun distraction too

-Dee.

So this week has sucked so far.

Monday: It was pretty stormy and I woke up all mucusy with a sore throat so I started the day slow. I was sitting at my desk playing WoW when I suddenly heard this loud cracking sound. My first thought was that it might be either a tree snapping or possibly lightning. About a second later the power went out. So I got up, looked outside and saw that one of the electrical poles across the street had snapped in two. Figured I’d call the electric company until I started seeing smoke… and weird flashing colors. Turns out the wire was still live, hanging low over the road and setting the neighbors’ bushes on fire. Or trying to anyway, it was pouring down pretty hard but the sparks didn’t stop and neither did the smoke.

So since I couldn’t see much in the dark I figured: “Screw finding the power company’s number” and I called 911 instead. I didn’t want people driving their cars into that live wire on their way out to work or the neighbor’s house catching fire. Turns out someone had already called it in and both the electric co. and a fire truck were already on their way. Unfortunately it took them all freaking day to get the power back on. They had to replace the pole and were doing work down the street too so I guess a lot got blown out. So yeah, the day was spent with a fire going and me trying to keep myself entertained with candles, a blanket, my camera and my DS. I’ve changed my mind about electric stoves being handy after that day No microwave, no stove and no heat made for a very lousy tea and soup-less Flu day.

Tuesday: I’d forgotten about our dentist appointment. So meh, after the day before I so wasn’t in the mood but decided to go anyway and get it over with. Ended up with half my face numb. We decided to at least have a nice lunch after. I got my fav. at the sushi place nearby, Beef Negimaki (what can I say, I’m not much of a raw fish person :P). Unfortunately with half my face numb it was a huge pain to actually manage to eat and then I ended up swallowing a crunchy piece of beef which I thought I’d chewed properly but hadn’t so it felt like a little razor blade sliding down my throat. Had trouble eating and even just swallowing in general for the rest of the day. That combined with my flu not getting any better = +100 points on my “Oh boy aren’t we having fun today!”-meter.

So anyway, today’s Wednesday and even though the flu is still going I’m hoping the day will be nice and uneventful.

Wish me luck

-Dee.

PS. Workmen and vehicles in the dark + camera + shaky flu arms makes for pretty abstract photo art

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Haven’t blogged much. Not really much point to it when you can share your stool status on twitter every hour or so.
I’ll be back here when something major happens. Unless of course it’s too major.

-Dee.

Shot I took of the moon this eve. At first I thought something weird kept happening to the bottom of the photos but once the RAWs got developed and I got the sharp image I realized it’s actually just cratery goodness. So I figured I’d share

-Dee.

I think the person who did the second version was just about dead on when it comes to what the cat was thinking lol

Got this amazing game for the DS. It’s called Scribblenauts. It’s a 2D Puzzle game and when I first read the description I simply didn’t believe it. I just didn’t believe that they could’ve managed to put such a concept together. Normally in puzzle games you have to solve certain problems to get to the end of the level. You usually either find items to solve these puzzles with in the level itself or you’re given a set number of items at the start of each level.

Ok…

Now in Scribblenauts that’s not how it works.

You get to type (or write) the name of the item you want to use to solve the puzzle with. No… it’s not something pre-determined which you have to guess right or else it won’t give it to you. You literally get to type whatever you can come up with, and chances are very good that the game will give it to you.

Example:

I was faced with a soccer puzzle. I had to score a goal. The first couple of times the goalie caught the ball before it went in. And there was this other chick on the field who kept cheering. So I got annoyed. I typed “Hooligan” just for laughs and guess what? I got a soccer hooligan. And he proceeded to beat the shit out of everyone just like I wanted! Granted, he beat the crap out of me too and I still failed the level but it was SO worth it!

So as I’m sure you can imagine, lots of time in that game is wasted just summoning absurd items and watching the train wreck happen. There’s even a blank level screen where you can do just that without dying.

Chupacabra is in there. He does chase and kill goats if you summon them.
The headless horseman attacks you until you give yourself a pumpkin, then he becomes intrigued. You can send vampires running with cloves of garlic. Summon a nuclear bomb to just obliterate everything. Ride horses, pegasus, pterodactyls, you name it and it’s probably available.

So long story short, it’s an amazing little game with a huge library of items with their own interactions. Of course it doesn’t have “eeeverything”, no brand names or vulgarity, and there’s some things missing, but I really had to try very hard to find something it didn’t have.

So if this is the type of game that sounds interesting to you I would definitely recommend checking it out. I can see myself playing this game for quite a long time. Even going back to old levels to try different methods just to see how creative I can get

-Dee(Essing)

The WoW addiction epidemic is far worse than we’d imagined…

And these are just a few.
It’s scary how many WoW addicted kitties there are on youtube :S

-Dee.

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