Monday, August 27, 2007
What The Hell???!!!
I just finished playing Suikoden for the second time to see "the better ending" and it wasn't any different at all!!!! I just wasted 28 hours and an entire weekend. Gremio didn't come back at all...and a bunch of people still died. What a waste. :'(
Friday, August 17, 2007
A New Harvest Moon, and Nobody Told Me?!!
It's called Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. From the whole ten minutes I spent researching this, it turns out that in this one you have a sword to fight monsters that live in the caves. I didn't see much of the storyline. Cows, chickens, and sheep seem to be replaced with monsters with attributes close to the counterpart that they replace. The cows kinda looked like a mix between a normal HM cow and Link's wolf form in Twilight Princess. The chickens make me think of chicken-dragons....its odd.
Your monsters don't reproduce and I think they said you can have a total of 80 or 90. You capture them from the caves and I guess domesticate them. There are also other monsters that you can capture and use to fight with you when you explore the caverns and destroy the portals. This made me think of that game Leah let me borrow, Azure Dreams I think it was called. With the monsters, and the dad killing tower...yeah.
You still farm and fish and stuff. I don't know about marrying anybody in the game. I didn't really look that hard. The platform is DS, so, I'm looking to two certain people to tell me all about it. :D *cough*RachaelandMatt*cough*
Kudos to Leah for turning 25! I am throwing a party in your honor that consists of me, my fridge full of booze, and my gamecube. Par-tay!
Your monsters don't reproduce and I think they said you can have a total of 80 or 90. You capture them from the caves and I guess domesticate them. There are also other monsters that you can capture and use to fight with you when you explore the caverns and destroy the portals. This made me think of that game Leah let me borrow, Azure Dreams I think it was called. With the monsters, and the dad killing tower...yeah.
You still farm and fish and stuff. I don't know about marrying anybody in the game. I didn't really look that hard. The platform is DS, so, I'm looking to two certain people to tell me all about it. :D *cough*RachaelandMatt*cough*
Kudos to Leah for turning 25! I am throwing a party in your honor that consists of me, my fridge full of booze, and my gamecube. Par-tay!
Monday, August 6, 2007
Oh yeah
Now Presenting: Some Major Cuteness
For Rachel:
Leah and Raff:
Alice, Queen of Grammar:
For my own amusement:
This is just a sketch of some lady that I did a while back. I'm posting it since someone said something about wanting to see my paintings (maybe?) or art or I don't remember. It's interesting looking at it since it looks like there are a lot of flaws in it, but that's what that lady looked like...not that im saying it's perfect....
My face hurts :'(
It's not that I choose the hard way everytime, I just have really shitty luck. So like, when I was getting my dressings put in, I had a new lady do it. That might be why that one came out. It's all luck, I tell you.
Since I cleaned my room up a bit the other day, I was able to get to my painting stuff and I painted a bit. I really like painting. It's a lot of fun. I'm thinking that's why I enjoyed CG-ing so much before. I still enjoy it now, but it hurts my eyes to look at the computer screen too long, so this is a nice alternative.
I had to paint over most of what I've already painted. Mostly because I thought it looked really bad. I completely painted over one of my canvas panels. I have to do another coat of white over that once it dries because I figured two thinner coats would work out better than a thick one that completely covered it. I only took a few chunks out of the second one. Things that didn't look right, or things that I needed to paint behind and couldn't.
It's interesting learning the method that works for you when you're painting. I've tried reading a few books on how other artists do it, and those ways really haven't worked much for me yet. I think I'm going to wait until I've developed my own method to painting before trying to see how other people do it. That way I have something to base my work on. One things is for sure: I love oils so much more than acrylics. At least, I say that without having used the gel based ones. I've only used the watery, cheap ones and they suck in comparison....in my opinion...
Sara and I have been playing Sims a lot lately. It's the one where you can have pets. It's a lot of fun and it's been giving Sara something to do instead of watching TV all the time. That gets old really quick. She's been spending more and more time awake, which I think is good. Hopefully that new doctor will get her feeling better.
I have to take Rachel to her appointment for her foot tomorrow (well, technically later today). Since we'll be on that side of town, we're gonna eat lunch with Rachael. Yay! That's always fun. I hope I'll be able to chew and stuff ok tomorrow. My cheeks are still swollen and I keep biting the inside of the left one. It really hurts. I need to ask the dentist if there is something I can do about that because dad said that if you keep biting it, it can get a really bad infection. What more would I want, right?
Since I cleaned my room up a bit the other day, I was able to get to my painting stuff and I painted a bit. I really like painting. It's a lot of fun. I'm thinking that's why I enjoyed CG-ing so much before. I still enjoy it now, but it hurts my eyes to look at the computer screen too long, so this is a nice alternative.
I had to paint over most of what I've already painted. Mostly because I thought it looked really bad. I completely painted over one of my canvas panels. I have to do another coat of white over that once it dries because I figured two thinner coats would work out better than a thick one that completely covered it. I only took a few chunks out of the second one. Things that didn't look right, or things that I needed to paint behind and couldn't.
It's interesting learning the method that works for you when you're painting. I've tried reading a few books on how other artists do it, and those ways really haven't worked much for me yet. I think I'm going to wait until I've developed my own method to painting before trying to see how other people do it. That way I have something to base my work on. One things is for sure: I love oils so much more than acrylics. At least, I say that without having used the gel based ones. I've only used the watery, cheap ones and they suck in comparison....in my opinion...
Sara and I have been playing Sims a lot lately. It's the one where you can have pets. It's a lot of fun and it's been giving Sara something to do instead of watching TV all the time. That gets old really quick. She's been spending more and more time awake, which I think is good. Hopefully that new doctor will get her feeling better.
I have to take Rachel to her appointment for her foot tomorrow (well, technically later today). Since we'll be on that side of town, we're gonna eat lunch with Rachael. Yay! That's always fun. I hope I'll be able to chew and stuff ok tomorrow. My cheeks are still swollen and I keep biting the inside of the left one. It really hurts. I need to ask the dentist if there is something I can do about that because dad said that if you keep biting it, it can get a really bad infection. What more would I want, right?
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Alas, I have no more wisdom!
Apparently, my mouth didn't heal correctly after my wisdom teeth were removed. 'Dry Sockets' formed in the bottom two. When healing correctly, a blood clot forms where the tooth used to be, like at the roots and under the gumline, and is supposed to stay there until the bone and other tissue of the mandible heals upwards and becomes even with the rest of the mouth. This is a mechanism that protects the nerves that were at the roots of your previous teeth as well as keeping all food and foreign material out so that it doesn't rot and lead to infection.
Basically, pretty important, right? Well, dry sockets occur when the blood clot disolves within a few days after surgery. Food gets trapped in there and it overstimulates the nerves, etc. Makes you feel really sick. I thought all that pain that I was experiencing was normal. I was just like, "Damn, getting your wisdom teeth out really sucks!" I found out yesterday that it wasn't.
To treat it, they dip small strips of gauze into a refined clove oil and basically shove it into the whole that is left from the absent tooth. It kinda really hurts. And makes you feel really sick. You get two of these dressings, both a few days apart to give the area time to absorb the medicine, etc, and then you're supposed to get a 'final' dressing that is a disposable sponge or something like that. That one stays there until the area fully heals.
An hour after my appointment, the dressing on the lower right kept trying to fall out and I kept pushing it back in. When I was eating two hours after that, it was coming out even more. I was pushing it back in between each mouthful of food, but then I realized that I was probalbly just putting little pieces of food down into the wound, which would then rot and stuff. So, I took it out. Now I only have medicine on one side...unless that came out too. I don't see it anywhere. Dunno.
I gotta go back on Tuesday and they'll tell me what's up. Worst part about this: They say that you have to irrigate the area after all meals and before bed anywhere from several weeks to several months until the wound heals. Fuck.
Basically, pretty important, right? Well, dry sockets occur when the blood clot disolves within a few days after surgery. Food gets trapped in there and it overstimulates the nerves, etc. Makes you feel really sick. I thought all that pain that I was experiencing was normal. I was just like, "Damn, getting your wisdom teeth out really sucks!" I found out yesterday that it wasn't.
To treat it, they dip small strips of gauze into a refined clove oil and basically shove it into the whole that is left from the absent tooth. It kinda really hurts. And makes you feel really sick. You get two of these dressings, both a few days apart to give the area time to absorb the medicine, etc, and then you're supposed to get a 'final' dressing that is a disposable sponge or something like that. That one stays there until the area fully heals.
An hour after my appointment, the dressing on the lower right kept trying to fall out and I kept pushing it back in. When I was eating two hours after that, it was coming out even more. I was pushing it back in between each mouthful of food, but then I realized that I was probalbly just putting little pieces of food down into the wound, which would then rot and stuff. So, I took it out. Now I only have medicine on one side...unless that came out too. I don't see it anywhere. Dunno.
I gotta go back on Tuesday and they'll tell me what's up. Worst part about this: They say that you have to irrigate the area after all meals and before bed anywhere from several weeks to several months until the wound heals. Fuck.
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