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Tuesday, December 31, 2002
Monday, December 30, 2002
Sunday, December 29, 2002
Nope, no DDR Workout stuff or wondering if I should pick back up Pokemon seeing how the only secrets I have left in Pokemon Stadium 1 is the Amniesa Pysduck outside of gaining another surfing Pikachu, Normal Box, and Lovely Box (or whatever it's called). No taking of tests to see what kind of Yu-Gi-Oh card I would be or how pick-up-able I am in the game of love. No, today's rant is different.
Today's rant comes from the heart, not from the mind like it used to.
Have you ever been in love with something or someone you could never have? Have you ever wish that just once you could wake up to see him or her or it waiting there for you? Do you wish with all your might that just for once in your life things could go your way? That things would be perfect? As selfish as that seems, most people wish for that almost everyday. I'm one of them. Everyday, every time I fall asleep and wake up, I just wish that for once I could wake up in a room that's not mine once again. Just once I wish I could wak up next to a person again instead of a pillow. And just once, to make it perfect, I wish the person sleeping next to me, holding me, breathing on me would be none other than James.
I don't know why it is like this. I know we agreed to go our different ways, but I still want him so badly! I can't have him. I know I can't. That's just impossible. As much as I love him, I know I can never have him again. I know that by the time I'll even have a chance to meet him, he would have found another. And it hurts me dearly. For he was the best in the world. He is the best in the world. No man or woman or anything can come close to shadowing him. Everything pales in comparison to him! Who needs anything when all you have is James? James is everything to me. And I lost everything.
Before I wrote this, I woke up from a nap hugging a pillow oh-so tightly. I wanted to feel his muscles and his big arms holding me. I knew that would never happen ever.
I know for a fact that I'll never find anyone like him ever again. I also know for a fact that there is someone out there that is much better than me.
Come the New Year, I'm quitting the sick little game of Love. If I can't have James, I might as well just die alone.
Today's rant comes from the heart, not from the mind like it used to.
Have you ever been in love with something or someone you could never have? Have you ever wish that just once you could wake up to see him or her or it waiting there for you? Do you wish with all your might that just for once in your life things could go your way? That things would be perfect? As selfish as that seems, most people wish for that almost everyday. I'm one of them. Everyday, every time I fall asleep and wake up, I just wish that for once I could wake up in a room that's not mine once again. Just once I wish I could wak up next to a person again instead of a pillow. And just once, to make it perfect, I wish the person sleeping next to me, holding me, breathing on me would be none other than James.
I don't know why it is like this. I know we agreed to go our different ways, but I still want him so badly! I can't have him. I know I can't. That's just impossible. As much as I love him, I know I can never have him again. I know that by the time I'll even have a chance to meet him, he would have found another. And it hurts me dearly. For he was the best in the world. He is the best in the world. No man or woman or anything can come close to shadowing him. Everything pales in comparison to him! Who needs anything when all you have is James? James is everything to me. And I lost everything.
Before I wrote this, I woke up from a nap hugging a pillow oh-so tightly. I wanted to feel his muscles and his big arms holding me. I knew that would never happen ever.
I know for a fact that I'll never find anyone like him ever again. I also know for a fact that there is someone out there that is much better than me.
Come the New Year, I'm quitting the sick little game of Love. If I can't have James, I might as well just die alone.
Saturday, December 28, 2002
What Kind Of Pokemon Are You?
Gah!! That's scary! And to think, I used to find this little balloon of a Pokemon cute!!
Friday, December 27, 2002
Well, since the Archives are fucking up again and there is nothing I can do about it, I might as well blog like normal and try again in the morning.
Anyway...
Look what NeoPets just mailed me about my Christmas Gift's Rare Item Code:
Hi,
Thanks for writing. The rare item codes for Grundo's warehouse were located on the merchandise originally available in the California stores on November 10th, 2001. They were not on the items from the online store. Neopets merchandise is now available in all Limited Too stores across America. Please click the link on the main page, www.neopets.com, or the news page, for more information. There was also one special day where NeoPets merchandise was available in Singapore. If you bought something at any of these locations, you will either see a sticker on the item that says secret code, or you received a card. You need to go to the grundos warehouse, located on the space station, and type in your code. If you bought a secret code from someone else, don't be surprised if the code doesn't work, or has already been claimed. Don't fall for anyone claiming to sell their 'secret code', it is usually a scam.
CLAIRE'S:
The RARE ITEM CODE ITEMS have now been released for the Claire's petpet merchandise, in the UK as well as in the US. :O) You can get anything from a Doglefox Marker to a super rare Baabackpack! The codes are only included on the stickers and notebooks etc., items that are sealed so no one else can see the code.
NOTE : If you are from Canada and redeeming a rare item code from a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, please visit this URL instead : http://www.neopets.com/bee . Thanks!
If your code doesn't work the first time, please try waiting a day, and trying again. Sometimes the codes are released a little bit early, and our system wasn't ready to accept those codes yet. :O)
If you are sure you have the right code, you got it directly from the store, and it doesn't work, please write back. Make sure you include your username, the code, when and where you got it, and this entire message. Please also put 'invalid code' in the subject line.
Thank you,
The NeoPets Team
Why do I have this feeling like this was typed by a machine? In any case, the last paragraph doesn't include me. I know my sister doesn't use NeoPets, but who knows who stole the code before me? I might as well just forget about that little Christmas "extra." Oh well, that's how the cookie crumbles I guess.
Anyway...
Look what NeoPets just mailed me about my Christmas Gift's Rare Item Code:
Hi,
Thanks for writing. The rare item codes for Grundo's warehouse were located on the merchandise originally available in the California stores on November 10th, 2001. They were not on the items from the online store. Neopets merchandise is now available in all Limited Too stores across America. Please click the link on the main page, www.neopets.com, or the news page, for more information. There was also one special day where NeoPets merchandise was available in Singapore. If you bought something at any of these locations, you will either see a sticker on the item that says secret code, or you received a card. You need to go to the grundos warehouse, located on the space station, and type in your code. If you bought a secret code from someone else, don't be surprised if the code doesn't work, or has already been claimed. Don't fall for anyone claiming to sell their 'secret code', it is usually a scam.
CLAIRE'S:
The RARE ITEM CODE ITEMS have now been released for the Claire's petpet merchandise, in the UK as well as in the US. :O) You can get anything from a Doglefox Marker to a super rare Baabackpack! The codes are only included on the stickers and notebooks etc., items that are sealed so no one else can see the code.
NOTE : If you are from Canada and redeeming a rare item code from a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, please visit this URL instead : http://www.neopets.com/bee . Thanks!
If your code doesn't work the first time, please try waiting a day, and trying again. Sometimes the codes are released a little bit early, and our system wasn't ready to accept those codes yet. :O)
If you are sure you have the right code, you got it directly from the store, and it doesn't work, please write back. Make sure you include your username, the code, when and where you got it, and this entire message. Please also put 'invalid code' in the subject line.
Thank you,
The NeoPets Team
Why do I have this feeling like this was typed by a machine? In any case, the last paragraph doesn't include me. I know my sister doesn't use NeoPets, but who knows who stole the code before me? I might as well just forget about that little Christmas "extra." Oh well, that's how the cookie crumbles I guess.
As I was resting and re-evaluating the plan about playing DDR to get back into shape, I couldn't help but go through some of my games. I didn't play many of them; I just looked at what I had.
A good portion of my games are all RPGs for some reason. They are all good RPGs in my opinion... well, except for Tomba! which doesn't make much sense to me to begin with (Oooo, evil pigs are going to destroy the earth... Whatever.), but they are all really good RPGs to play. The thing is, I don't know where I left off in most of them! Some of them I have a general idea of, like all my Pokemon ones, and others I can pick back up just by looking at where I am in the status page if they have one, like in... in... well, the only one that comes to mind is Pokemon Staduim, but I know there are others. The rest, like Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I don't have the slightest idea where I am in that game! If worst comes to worst, I might as well just start over again from the begining. Hey, most of these RPGs are all story based anyway. It's like reading a book. If you can't remember what happened, look back at the begining. There are a few games where going back to the start would be benifitial for me, like Zelda and Pokemon, while others like LUNAR aren't really unless I want to go through all that trouble of leveling up and finding this item here and there and looking up walkthrus on GameFAQs and so on because I've practically memorized the story like it was a movie I've seen a million times!
Another thing that crossed my mind when I went through my games is that no one really plays these games or these systems anymore. Hell, I have the old and extremely rare Sega CDX which was Sega's attempt to make their Sega CD system more portible!! Who still plays games on that? I do have some good ones for it... if you consider Sonic CD and Mickey Mouse's game through time good ones. If not, then play Sewer Shark. But still, not even I play those anymore! I looked at my unopened and unwraped Pokemon Gold game and still wonder as I'm typing this if I'll ever get a chance to play it if even on a casual basis.
That's when it hit me. I've become a casual gamer! It's not my fault. I've just evolved into it. Yes, games are fun, but believe it or not, I used to make it my life! In fact, there should be hints of it in early blog entries here. So, as a casual gamer, what can I do with these old games and systems? Play them at my lesuire of course. When will that be? Who knows? The only game I have set up is DDR and it feels odd to be playing that again. If that's the case, imagin how odd it will feel for me to pick back up Pokemon Red. In any event, I know the time will come when I'll end up setting back up the N64 and playing Pokemon Stadium with Red and/or Blue in the little GB64 attachment thingy, learning the game again and mastering it by myself.
That's another thing I noticed. Most of these games that I used to be into were social games. In a way, I'm still interested in social video games. There's just one problem. No friends. Sure, DDR is a social video game in the arcade. People come up to you and start asking how to play, how long have you been playing, and soon you get into a conversation that results in selling the game to them (or is that last part strickly for Best Buy personel?). But games that I used to be into like Soul Blade and even now with Animal Crossing are social games that involve playing with a buddy. Yes, it's fun sometimes to beat the snot out of the computer in, oh, let's say, Star Wars Fighters, but isn't the real challenge in fighting another person that has spent the same if not more time on the game as you have?
While games are a good escape for me, it's starting to become rather a drag again. I finally remembered why I ended up not playing them for so long. First off, I never really had anything that was considered cool. And second, I had no one to play them with let alone someone who was interested in the same games I was.
Heh, Pokemon... What a power trip that game is.
Gotta catch 'em all!
A good portion of my games are all RPGs for some reason. They are all good RPGs in my opinion... well, except for Tomba! which doesn't make much sense to me to begin with (Oooo, evil pigs are going to destroy the earth... Whatever.), but they are all really good RPGs to play. The thing is, I don't know where I left off in most of them! Some of them I have a general idea of, like all my Pokemon ones, and others I can pick back up just by looking at where I am in the status page if they have one, like in... in... well, the only one that comes to mind is Pokemon Staduim, but I know there are others. The rest, like Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I don't have the slightest idea where I am in that game! If worst comes to worst, I might as well just start over again from the begining. Hey, most of these RPGs are all story based anyway. It's like reading a book. If you can't remember what happened, look back at the begining. There are a few games where going back to the start would be benifitial for me, like Zelda and Pokemon, while others like LUNAR aren't really unless I want to go through all that trouble of leveling up and finding this item here and there and looking up walkthrus on GameFAQs and so on because I've practically memorized the story like it was a movie I've seen a million times!
Another thing that crossed my mind when I went through my games is that no one really plays these games or these systems anymore. Hell, I have the old and extremely rare Sega CDX which was Sega's attempt to make their Sega CD system more portible!! Who still plays games on that? I do have some good ones for it... if you consider Sonic CD and Mickey Mouse's game through time good ones. If not, then play Sewer Shark. But still, not even I play those anymore! I looked at my unopened and unwraped Pokemon Gold game and still wonder as I'm typing this if I'll ever get a chance to play it if even on a casual basis.
That's when it hit me. I've become a casual gamer! It's not my fault. I've just evolved into it. Yes, games are fun, but believe it or not, I used to make it my life! In fact, there should be hints of it in early blog entries here. So, as a casual gamer, what can I do with these old games and systems? Play them at my lesuire of course. When will that be? Who knows? The only game I have set up is DDR and it feels odd to be playing that again. If that's the case, imagin how odd it will feel for me to pick back up Pokemon Red. In any event, I know the time will come when I'll end up setting back up the N64 and playing Pokemon Stadium with Red and/or Blue in the little GB64 attachment thingy, learning the game again and mastering it by myself.
That's another thing I noticed. Most of these games that I used to be into were social games. In a way, I'm still interested in social video games. There's just one problem. No friends. Sure, DDR is a social video game in the arcade. People come up to you and start asking how to play, how long have you been playing, and soon you get into a conversation that results in selling the game to them (or is that last part strickly for Best Buy personel?). But games that I used to be into like Soul Blade and even now with Animal Crossing are social games that involve playing with a buddy. Yes, it's fun sometimes to beat the snot out of the computer in, oh, let's say, Star Wars Fighters, but isn't the real challenge in fighting another person that has spent the same if not more time on the game as you have?
While games are a good escape for me, it's starting to become rather a drag again. I finally remembered why I ended up not playing them for so long. First off, I never really had anything that was considered cool. And second, I had no one to play them with let alone someone who was interested in the same games I was.
Heh, Pokemon... What a power trip that game is.
Gotta catch 'em all!
It finally dawned on me today.
I just got off DDR in workout mode. I only burned off 57.714kcals. I'm asuming that the K in kcals means kilo as in thousand. I feel beat and weak. I remember a time when I used to be able to do that without getting tired, when I could do about twice that much before I would sweat.
The thing is, I was distracted. Whenever you play video games, you have to concentrait sometimes. Especially with this game. Concentration with DDR can mean the differance between winning and losing. But like I said, I was distracted. Playing DDR at home just felt alien to me. I've done it before, but for some reason, it just didn't feel right.
That's when it finally hit me. I got too used to playing it on the big arcade machine! I got too used to just shifting my weight to make the arrow register instead of having to stomp on the mat. I got too used to the flashing lights in a dark room. I got too used to not having to use my feet to guide through the menu. I got too used to playing this game with shoes and jeans instead of socks and sweatpants!! I got used to the shock absorbers in the metal stage instead of the sound of my floor creaking and the decoration atop the entertainment center shaking! I got too used to paying to play!! I GOT TOO USED TO THE ATTENTION I GOT PLAYING!
Man, who knew this would happen?
I just got off DDR in workout mode. I only burned off 57.714kcals. I'm asuming that the K in kcals means kilo as in thousand. I feel beat and weak. I remember a time when I used to be able to do that without getting tired, when I could do about twice that much before I would sweat.
The thing is, I was distracted. Whenever you play video games, you have to concentrait sometimes. Especially with this game. Concentration with DDR can mean the differance between winning and losing. But like I said, I was distracted. Playing DDR at home just felt alien to me. I've done it before, but for some reason, it just didn't feel right.
That's when it finally hit me. I got too used to playing it on the big arcade machine! I got too used to just shifting my weight to make the arrow register instead of having to stomp on the mat. I got too used to the flashing lights in a dark room. I got too used to not having to use my feet to guide through the menu. I got too used to playing this game with shoes and jeans instead of socks and sweatpants!! I got used to the shock absorbers in the metal stage instead of the sound of my floor creaking and the decoration atop the entertainment center shaking! I got too used to paying to play!! I GOT TOO USED TO THE ATTENTION I GOT PLAYING!
Man, who knew this would happen?
