You know what one of the best videogames ever is? Animal Crossing! It's so neat. I started playing last week, and it's so cute and fun, but it's also clever, and there's an awful lot involved. You go play it, too, okay?
posted by Beth at 9:50:00 PM
Oh man, I really want one of these! Not only are they easy to learn (and I like quick results!), but then there's the whole part about me being a Zelda fanatic. It's too perfect. I want, I want!
While non-Zelda-related, those eagle bone flutes and pendant ocarinas are pretty darn cool, too.
posted by Beth at 9:35:00 PM
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Here's something of absolutely no interest to anyone. {g}
I was at the store tonight with my mom and I wandered past a toy display and did a double take. There were Care Bears on it. Having been a child in the 80s, I was a huge Care Bear enthusiast. I had a bunch of them, too (I had Funshine Bear, Share Bear, Champ Bear and Baby Hugs Bear, as well as Bright Heart Raccoon and Lotsa Heart Elephant). Anyway, I only glanced at the rack and something seemed off. I realized what it was a second later. Champ Bear was blue! What's the deal with that? Actually, I thought I was crazy, and I went back to look at it and see if he was that color on the back of the box, and he was. I found it really weird, because I owned a Champ Bear, and I knew full well that mine was kind of a gold-brown color. Why make him blue, anyway? Grumpy Bear and Bedtime Bear are already blue and Wish Bear is bluish. What's the use in that?
Q. Why is Champ Bear blue instead of his original color?
A. We have released two versions of bears. Our Specialty Bears were designed to look like the bears did twenty years ago and our New Bears have some changes from the original bears. Champ Bear was released in blue for our New Style Care Bears. He is available in our Specialty Style in his original color.
B is a picture of an original Care Bear form the 80s. It is better! It is like my own.
While looking about, I noticed that they changed Share Bear's symbol from a milkshake to two lollipops. I don't understand that either, but it bugs me less for some reason. I don't know, I'm more likely to share lollipops than milkshakes, I guess. {g}
And I just downloaded Winamp 5, and the modern skin is horrible, because it's huge. Why's it so big?
I guess the point of this entry is: If it ain't broken, don't try to fix it.
This entry made me sound way more into Care Bears than I actually am. {g}
Okay, wait. {g}
Beth J E [5:01 AM]: her belly used to have a picture of a milkshake with two straws in it. Now it's TWO LOLLIPOPS
truthorsammiches [5:02 AM]: THAT'S NOT SHARING.
truthorsammiches [5:02 AM]: that's GIVING.
truthorsammiches [5:02 AM]: as in "HERE. I GIVE YOU A LOLLIPOP."
Wah. I wish I could go to the TMBG show this Sunday. :(
posted by Beth at 8:06:00 PM
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Haha, whoa, I am so bored and lame. I wish I were back in school, but that won't be til June at the earliest. And I need a job, but I think the only thing I can get right now would be something at a store, and I should go ahead and turn in that application I fillled out weeks ago. And I beat--
Oh man! On a whim I took a look at Rasputina's site, and it turns out that they were at the North Star Bar. A MONTH AGO. I had no idea! Oh please kill me. Here's some trivia for you. The North Star Bar is the last place I ever saw Moxy Fruvous play. Ever. And after the show, they (the bar employees, not Moxy Fruvous) wouldn't let my 20 year old ass inside the bar long enough to even ask that they call a cab for me, so I had to wait outside while Nathan went in and said, "could you get us a cab?" This discovery is made extra painful by the fact that I'm not going to a show of any kind until mid-March. Someone excellent should come to Philadelphia, so I can check it out.
So anyway, I beat (yes, that discovery up there, really did stop me from typing that sentence) Mario Kart Double Dash last night. Well, in the only sense that you can ever beat a Mario Kart game: I got gold cups in everything. Now I guess I could start playing Animal Crossing. But the thing I like about Mario Kart is that it's a great game, if you want to play for a long time, and it's also great, if you just want to play for ten minutes and then do something else. Interestingly, Double Dash is easier than the original SNES Mario Kart, where I had to cheat to win that. No cheating here, just lots of resetting.
Arr, this entry is worse than average for me. To summarize:
1. I miss school
2. I need a job, but don't want one quite enough to really go hand in the application (I'm not depressed about it, right now. I was last November, because I had no money at all, and present-buying time was approaching)
3. I MISSED RASPUTINA, AND I HATE MYSELF!
4. I have beaten Mario Kart, and it is bittersweet.
5. I was just thinking of making a mix CD of songs for cold weather, but I could only think of five songs, which is just under 20 minutes of music.
posted by Beth at 9:54:00 PM
Monday, January 19, 2004
Last night I had some weird dream that I lived in a ramshackle house in the deep south, and all of these musician ladies showed up to put on a show in my yard. It was weird. Let's see, the Nields came, and so did Neko Case, Carolyn Mark, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, and maybe a couple of other people. I think I was supposed to invite people to see the show, but the only person I could think of at the moment was Nathan, so I don't think anyone else saw the show. They were all nice, though. They shook hands with me, and introduced themselves when I first found them all standing in my house near the backdoor, when I was on my way to get some ice for a glass of soda. I guess this holds some kind of record for the most musicians in a dream at a time. And I never really have dreams like that anyway.
And the other night I dreamt that my dog was touring the country and talking about politics, so I accompanied him. While I was glad that he was on the left, I thought he was a little wishy-washy.
posted by Beth at 4:34:00 AM
Sunday, January 18, 2004
The Eagles lost. I guess they don't want me to have a job. :P
posted by Beth at 11:29:00 PM
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Last night, I went bowling and to Denny's with Dorothea and Eileen. To be technical, Eileen's boyfriend was at the bowling alley with us, although he did not bowl, and he didn't eat with us. Anyway, I stink at bowling, but I enjoy it, so I had a good time. I feel guilty about telling Dorothea to use a six pound ball, because she broke a fingernail and it hurt her a lot. Then we ate. It was fun. I like doing things. Yay!
Normally, I am all kinds of anti-sports. Especially, when I blame the NFL for the downfall of my beloved Futurama. But in a twist of twistiness, I have to hope that the Eagles win the game this Sunday, so that they can go to the Super Bowl. Why? Well, I signed up with a temp agency last fall, and they never got back to me until this week. It turns out that if the Eagles win the game this Sunday, then a store will open at a million malls in the area (And yes, South Jersey does have a million malls), which will sell loads of Eagles stuff, and then close a week after the Super Bowl, and I can work there. If the Eagles lose this weekend, then there is no store and therefore, no job for me. I find comfort in the fact that if I do not get the job, it is not through any fault of my own. On the other hand, this is the first time I've had to care about football, and the first time that football has had any influence on my life. Weird. Go Eagles, I guess.
Things I wish I had this very minute:
1. An i-pod (either the cute little ones in a fun color or a giant 40Gb one, you can pick it out, if you pay for it {g})
2. A fancy digital camera
3. Soft, pretty curly hair.
Hey! This spring, Al Franken is going to have his own three-hour, five days a week talk show on a new liberal radio station! ^_^ I am excited like crazy! I hope that our market carries it, and that I am able to listen to it. Al says this:
As you may know, starting this spring I will be doing a daily three hour-radio show on a new yet-to-be-named liberal network. While we will be starting in only a handful of markets, we will be streamed on the Internet. So each of you can spend three hours a day at work or school, ignoring your jobs and/or studies, listening to me bash the other side.
^_^
Also, Nathan told me that my blog is listed on a porn site or something. I guess he knows a lot about porn sites. {g} In order to not make the site a liar, I'm going to set about uploading some pictures. But not until I can get a good theme together. Like "Hot Asian Teens" or "Lactating Mamas".
posted by Beth at 5:49:00 PM
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Eeeargh. Today was such a wastey day. I purposely decided to come to volunteer late, because getting there later meant leaving later, which would, in turn, mean that I'd have less time to try to waste in the city before I could go home. I got there at about 10:25, instead of 10, and I just found out that they called home and talked to my mom at 10:15. They called to make sure I was coming, because they "really need me" or something. I look over checks and put them in envelopes in Accounts Payable. The lady that I do that for left last Friday to have a baby, so a guy that I'd never met before was filling in for her. Anyway, I get there late and meet the guy, and he starts to get things together for me, and then he finds out that I can't do what I'm supposed to do, because the checks haven't been signed, and the guy who signs them is at the dentist. I said I could do something else, so I spent two hours putting several hundred canceled checks in numerical order in a box. I left at 12:30, and the guy hadn't yet come back. I feel bad about this. I know they like to have their checks mailed by 3 on Tuesdays, and this is the first time I'd ever come in and had no checks to do. The guy (whom I've never met) usually signs them on Monday, I imagine. So I woke up early and went to Philadelphia mostly for nothing (I did volunteer, but I didn't do what I was meant to do), then I had to spend about three hours wasting time at the mall. Spending that much time at a mall is painful, when you're alone and don't want to spend money, and you really have no other option. I spent 90 minutes on a bench in front of a Joyce Leslie reading The Partly Cloudy Patriot, then I moved to the train station and read on a bench there, because it felt less like loitering that way. I hate wasting time after volunteering. I'm also unhappy that someone else is going to do my job, because I couldn't today. I've been getting the checks ready since July, and I'm attached to it, so the idea of someone else doing this makes me unhappy. I don't get paid to do it--if anything it costs me money to do, because of bus fare and all--so I guess that says a lot about how much I like it. I wish I could work in the financial department at WHYY, I do. I'm sure this paragraph was absolutely dreadful to read, even compared to my usual drivel.
This morning I woke up hungry for sushi.
posted by Beth at 6:34:00 PM
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Holy crap! I just went to the porch to get a new bottle of diet coke, and, I know I should have expected this, but it's almost entirely frozen solid in the bottle! I've never seen that before. Luckily, the bottle didn't break. But I'm thirsty. {whine, whine}
posted by Beth at 7:23:00 AM
Saturday, January 10, 2004
How come whenever I feel like I actually want to play the clarinet, it's in the middle of the night, so I can't? Bah.
posted by Beth at 2:04:00 AM
I'm bored like crazy. Again. What I need is for everyone with a blog to update it like crazy to give me something to read and for everyone without one to get one and fill it up with Interesting Notions. Like crazy.
I was trying to think of ways that I could make friends, but that didn't work out so well. What I need is to find a place where intellectuals can meet with other intellectuals and speak another language. Let me qualify that by saying that I don't really consider myself an intellectual and that the speaking another language part is unnecessary or perhaps irrelevant. I guess it's tough for me, because I'm a shut-in who likes to go out (no, I don't consider this a contradiction in terms), and shut-ins, by nature, have trouble meeting other shut-ins. Maybe "shut-in" is the wrong word and "scared" is more accurate. I need to rent a church basement and post notices so that people who like Nintendo and Al Franken can come or something. I am aware of how dorky I am, yes. Oh, and bars are out of the question. The idea of going to a bar to make friends pains me more than not having friends, because I suspect that real life isn't like TV. What I've seen go on in bars was very ugly. And I don't mean the clientele, har har.
I'll hate myself for posting the above, I bet.
I guess I should return to Mario Kart or my Sarah Vowell book or one and then the other.
posted by Beth at 1:53:00 AM
Friday, January 09, 2004
Tonight Nathan and I had dinner with Mark (for the first time since last February, I think) at Fridays, and we had one of the crappiest waitresses in the universe. We left her a rotten tip, and she deserved it, so I'm trying to tell myself not to feel bad. I mean, she took our drink orders, after we waited for like ten minutes, then came back to take our food orders but didn't bring drinks and she had no pen (except that Mark saw the pen in her pocket that she checked), so she borrowed Nathan's pen. And she didn't bring me my cole slaw and she didn't bring Nathan's fries, and she made me wait about 20 minutes before saying, "we don't have any more of the kind of dessert you want." Bleah. I have no idea why I wrote that crap on here. {g} I'm not one for writing quotes for conversations, but I think this is funny. We were pulling out of the parking lot, at the time.
Mark: Guess what I see on the ground over there.
me: {disgusted} A condom?
Mark: An empty Dunkaroos package
I've been sleeping like a crazy person all week. I literally won't be able to stay awake for more than three hours without falling asleep again for at least six, only to wake up and do the same. I was better today, though, and I guess I can now return to my normal and bad sleep schedule. I wasn't even sick or depressed, when I was sleeping that much, though, and that's generally why I would sleep like crazy.
I should really start looking for a job again. I guess I can apply to more stores, but I'd much rather do filing or some other kind of clerical work. I check all of the job sites, but there's never anything of that sort listed for my little town. Really, there's nothing or very few listings of any kind for my town. Are there no jobs? Do the people in this area think that careerbuilder and monster are too large scale for them to list on? I can get a local paper, but even then it's usually filled with careerbuilder listings anyway. Harrumph.
I still need to mail my application back to school. I'll need a check for $50 first. I can actually afford that, but I want my mom to write the check for me, because I have the chashmoney (I think "cashmoney" is humorous {g}), but I don't have much in the bank. My mom will pay for it herself, though.
Eng, something else I should do is try to be better friends with my cousins. Why? 1. I have no friends 2. I was friends with my cousins all throughout my childhood, until everything splintered, when people became teenagers. 3. I have no idea how to meet people and be friends with them. 4. I already know my cousins. 5. They all live nearby and, in one case, as close as next door. And 6. I think it's, y'know, important to be around your relative-people.
Damn them and their ability to make friends with others and me and my lack thereof. This is something that has (and could and can and probably will again) greatly depressed me in the past. Maybe if I can do something about it, this time, I can stop that. Problem is, I get stuck in "well, if they liked *me* at all, they'd call *me*" mode. Or worse, if I call them, well, one of them, they seem really puzzled by it. And not puzzled and flattered, either. Bah. See, I already feel like I shouldn't bother. :p
This will be a weird year for my family in that someone is getting married and two people are having babies. No one in my family has had a kid in over ten years, and in the last ten years, only one person has gotten married, but she didn't even have a wedding.
I realized that my pets have the exact personalities of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. I was going to say something to qualify that statement, like, "I have a lot of free time to think of such things," but I take that back. One thing I really and truly hate is when people feel embarrassed to make an observation that they feel others will find pointless or inane or stupid. I hate that, because you shouldn't feel that way, and I'd never talk to anybody if they talked only of things of great importance. But a comment like that implies that if you're thinking of that sort of crap, then you can't possibly be doing anything useful. And lately, I haven't been doing anything useful, BUT I can and have and will again have all kinds of thoughts, important and otherwise, while I was in school and while I was working. Anyway, the bottom line is that David is Simon, Dewey is Alvin, and Wally is Theodore.
What the hell was that? See, I'm doing it again. The next time I read someone's blog and they make some little observation that they feel dorky for pointing out, I'm gonna copy and past most of that little tirade into their comment box. {g}
Anybody wanna buy a copy of The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs Vol. 1? It's in super excellent condition.
posted by Beth at 2:56:00 AM
Saturday, January 03, 2004
I haven't been up to much. New Year's Eve was the most boring in a very long time. Nathan and I watched crap on TV, like this horrible "Disney Channel Original Movie" The Cheetah Girls. I think you should watch it, too. Why? Because misery loves company, that's why. It's about Raven (she's not Raven Simone anymore. Make a note of that) and how she forms this happenin' band with her friends (one of whom turns out to be a foster child, yipes!), and their struggle to become famous. It's a lesson in integrity or some shit. It was bad even for a Disney Channel movie. Then we watched the countdown on Dick Rockin' Clark's Rockin' New Year's Rockin' Eve. What a crappy night that was. {g}
On Thursday, we had the big New Year's Day dinner, but not many people came. Enh. Then Nathan and I went to Pennsylvania to have dinner number two with his dad, dad's wife, and dad's parents. It was my first time meeting the grandparents. I liked them a lot, really. I probably like them most out of everyone I've met from his family. {g} Also, I think I really missed being around grandparents, since I haven't had any of my own since I was six years old. I felt somewhat compelled to call Nathan's grandmother Grams Bear (I like calling people things, in general), but I thought she wouldn't know what I was talking about and that it would seem too forward or some weirdness like that. {g} Nathan's dad and his wifelady gave me Simpsons season two DVDs, and the grandparents gave me $20. That was awesome of them. {appreciation}
Yesterday and today, all I did was sleep really late, then go out. Yesterday, I had dinner at home, then went to pick up my last paycheck and to return a DVD to Best Buy and a book to Barnes and Noble. I also went to Wal-Mart to use a gift card that I got for Christmas. I wanted to get Dido's new album, but they didn't have it, so I'll try again later. Today, my uncle and I walked around a furniture store to waste time while Friendly's got less crowded.
Last night, I was reading movie, TV, and music reviews on family.org. It's not so much family-friendly as religious right-friendly. Usually I go there to laugh off reviews of albums I like and don't like, but last night, it really got to me. They have a lovely hate-filled review of Queer Eye on there, saying how ironic it is that Jai could teach anyone about being a gentleman. >:P They even came down on 7th Heaven, because a Christian character married a Jewish girl ("a slap in the face of Christian viewers"). Evil evil people are at work on that site, I tells ya.
Eck. Unless things get more interesting online, I should return to my nightly activities of playing Mario Kart Double Dash (very fun) and reading Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (Al Franken is one of my heroes).
I wish I could go back in time to a time before blogs were so present. Back then I could amuse myself online for hours and hours. Now I only ever feel like there's nothing left for me online after I've caught up on blogs. How did things get that way?
posted by Beth at 10:25:00 PM
Augh, such boredom, and it isn't even 10 o'clock yet. AND I woke up after 6PM. Yes, I know that's bad.
posted by Beth at 9:48:00 PM
