Aurora Derall @ Dreamwidth

So today, after leaving the parking lot of the supermarket (Mom and I were picking up the turkey and a few other things) and started heading home, I stop behind another car at the light. My eyes happen to stray towards the license plate, and it turns out to read...

396-UKE

My two thoughts were:

1. As incredibly juvenile as it is, it would only have been better if that first part of the plate had read 369. (Or maybe 669, for that matter.)

2. Also, for this find to be a TOTAL AND SUPREME WIN, the car with the plate should've been either a Hummer or one of those really oversized pickups. (You've all seen my interests, I think it's obvious why I say this. >D)


...it was pretty hard trying not to crack a grin or giggle (and mystifying my mom with it) on the way home. XD

Went yesterday to the movie theater to see I Am Legend with a friend of mine. Spoilerless review: We both found it to be as good as people on my friends list have been saying it was, and - if you didn't know this already from seeing even a little of the version of Six Degrees of Separation he starred in - it really does show that Will Smith has talent as a serious actor. Also, the freakin' dog was great, man. That was one seriously well-trained animal.

Today we got some pasteles and pernil from the lady that does me and my mom's hair. The pasteles were made by someone else, but the pernil was cooked by her - both were equally delicious. We also got some dulce de arroz (which I'm not that big a fan of) and a little bit of coquito from her to top it off - both were also quite tasty. Yum, holiday food is the best! :D

Anyway, now I will be heading shortly to my friend's apartment to celebrate the New Year with her and her family (and probably will drink more coquito there, since her mom was talking about possibly making some the other night :D), so I'll be ending this post with this: I want you all to know that I hope 2007 was kind to you (and if it wasn't, then I hope it was as benign as possible), and wish you all to have an even better 2008.

Cheers, to the New Year!

Went to the mall today to pick up my copy of Wild Arms 5. Got an employee by the name of Gustavo who was pretty friendly (And apparently recognized me from a previous purchase, because he said hello straight away and I KNOW I recognize his face from somewhere - maybe when I bought Persona 3? Or maybe earlier than that, I dunno...) and started talking about how much he wanted to play it, but he's still busy with another game (which title I can't recall now), and that he has a bad habit of leaving games halfway finished ("Haha, just like me!", I said. XD). I told him I was in the same boat, that I was getting WA5 before it became hard to find and was busy with P3 for the time being, and he was like "OH MAN, Persona. I've played the previous games, and I want to play this one SO BAD, but I still have that other game to finish! How is it?" I told him that I haven't had a chance to really dig into the game much, but thus far it's been enjoyable.

He HAS listened to the soundtrack, though, and told me he really wanted to find the complete version. I, being the good little enabler/crack pusher that I am, told him about CDJapan (Speaking of which, I got an email from them today saying that they got my money and are working on getting the items. Yay! Prepare for burninated copies sometime soon, shinkuu! :D). Hopefully he'll remember the URL (didn't have anything to write it down on), though it's a short one and he said he has a good memory for that stuff.


Anyway, WA5. Haven't played it (of course not, I just got back from the store, after all :P), and am not planning to start on it anytime soon as I'm still trying to make time for P3, but I DID open the box to look at the bonus goodie it came with - an artbook detailing the Wild Arms series over the past 10 years (Wow, it's been that long already?). So, I perused its contents.

Dude, XSEED went all out on this - it's small (same size as the game box) and it's softcover, but it's got a whopping 80 pages, and it's all either stuff you'd find in the official artbooks or individual character art. And it's NOT like, a lot of art for WA5 and then little-to-none of the previous games - it's actually really well-balanced out.

And they even remembered the old-style art from the original WA! :D Actually, all the art save for one picture (of Magdalen, who apparently was never in any of the original version's art) was of the original-flavor WA rather than the Alter Code: F version, which while quite welcome (I'm glad they didn't forget the old art in favor of the pretty! I mean, I LOVE the pretty, but there's a certain charm to the old art that's not to be missed.), was a little weird. (I would've liked it even better if they had featured some of both versions of the game rather than just one of them - kind of like a before/after thing.)

Anyway, final veredict on the bonus artbook - while obviously not nearly as great as having the actual artbooks for each game, is still a GORGEOUS and EXCELLENT piece of swag, especially for the price of the game (just $40 on Amazon). Good job, XSEED, good job. :D


Oh, BTW, am I the only one amused by the fact that the designers for the WA5 box AND the designers for the P3 box both went with the (pretty stylish) notion of having just the characters' silouhettes on them, while having different art on the actual games' cases? Coincidence? *dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN!!!* XD

Hey, redconverse, today I mailed out that VNV mp3 disc I said I was gonna send you a while back. Sent it to your home address, if that's okay with ya. By my estimate, you should get it hopefully by Saturday or so, Monday at the latest. So, enjoy! :D






And for the rest of you, to make this post actually worth something, here's a fun link: #1 Song on This Date in History. It lists dates as far back as the 1890's!

I found out that the #1 song on my birthdate was Michael Jackson's "Rock With You." What did you guys get for yours? :D

shinkuu, I got your package today. I didn't know you hadn't wrapped my birthday present, so I opened it kinda early, eheh. Oops. ^^;

But SQUEE! Tokunaga! (And I got the KOS-MOS head. Cute!) And the entire set of Lost Universe DVDs! You are too nice and awesome to me, man. THANK YOU! *HUG* :D

Other than that, it's been a fairly quiet day thus far. Played the beginning of FFIV Advance while I was waiting at the therapist, ran some errands with mom, and then we had some pizza for lunch. Mom said that we're going to try this one restaurant she's got coupons for on my birthday, which is next week. Hope the food's good, it's supposedly a reputable place for... uh, I forgot what kind of cuisine they feature. I think it's Spanish, though. ^^;

Oh yeah, and my parents gave me another $100 back on the 6th (my Día de los Reyes present). Still don't know what to do with it yet, though, so I'll just save it up. But yay, moneys! ^^

How did I spend my New Year? Oh, just sitting here with my parents, chilling and drinking a little coquito when the time for the countdown came. Nothing special, though I did do the "eating 12 grapes for good luck" ritual some folks do to welcome the new year (another one is throwing water [about a saucepan-full of it] over your shoulder out a window or balcony, but we don't do that one because we're wary of stray bullets from morons shooting their guns at 12:00).

Anyway, I really hope that the new year brings good things to y'all. Cheers! :D

I hope everyone's having a good time!

As for my haul, thus far it's:

- $100 from my parents.
- Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy and vol. 2 of the Slayers novels from redconverse. (Awesome, thanks! I always found that movie hilarious, and now I'm this much closer to having all the Slayers books that've been published - yay! :D)
- The Black Mages II: The Skies Above CD and Robot Chicken: Season 1 from shinkuu. (Yay, thank you! I'll be listening to this album in a bit! :D Though "eep!" on the Robot Chicken, as I had bought it this past week without knowing you had gotten it for me. No problem, though: I haven't opened that copy, so I can just go back to Suncoast on Tuesday and return it - I'm pretty sure it's still within the time frame for returns. So don't worry about me! ^^;)

And that's it for now. Again, Merry Christmas to y'all! :D

shinkuu, I got your package from Amazon today. Damn, you sure work fast! And now I don't know if I can hold out on opening it until Christmas! *is impatient* ;_;

Anyway, thank you! *hug*


(I have your gift too, I'm just not sure when I'll be able to go out and have it mailed. I'll do it soon, though, hopefully before your trip to see your parents!)

Mom's working on seasoning tomorrow's turkey right now. The stuffing's already prepared (shinkuu, you would probably love it - it's an all-meat stuffing that uses ground beef and ground pork in the recipe. :D), so all that needs to be done tomorrow is to take it out of the fridge and stuff into the bird, and roast the whole thing.


Also, my mom and I shopped for a new TV last week, as the old (15+ years, I think) TV wasn't working right anymore (display was wonky). So now, instead of our humble old 27" TV in the living room, we now have one of those fancy 42" flat HDTVs. We also got a DVD/VCR player (that also records on DVD as well as the VCR), so now I can watch my anime in this gloriously big screen (and the subtitles are easier to read). Sweetass. :D


Still haven't picked up Tales of the Abyss from where I left off due to either being busy, or being lazy, in equal parts. So no gamelog for today, sorry. ;_;

Last night, when I was approving someone's membership to slayers_etc, it finally hit me:

Dude, I am now actually older than most people in fandom(s).

I can honestly say that I've never actually once felt "old" in my life.

Until today.


...

......

.........damn you whippersnappers, get off my lawn! *waves cane around menacingly* >O