Goddammit. Flu, I guess. Feels like I'm running a fever, and everything hurts. Couldn't sleep last night either because every time I closed my eyes all I would see is long streams of four digit numerals. fucking numbers. fucking stupid brain making me dream stupid shit that makes no sense.

Barely had the strength to even get up but anything but those fucking numbers again, I swear.

Okay, sorry about the late notice guys, but I'm going to have to pull out of woolley this year entirely. Things are coming up, so I can't make it. Sorry. :/ With finances in such a state, I can't physically afford to go, despite having already paid the £25. But there's other things like food for the whole weekend and such, can't afford it I'm afraid. Sorry folks.

Okay, sat at my desk, just starting to eat lunch, massive dizzy spell for a second...

Not feeling particularly happy about that. Keeping an eye on it. Last thing I need is to have to go home early as I took my bike to work, and I am NOT cycling home if this gets worse.

I don't normally have dizzy spells like this. wtf is wrong with me. D:



Also annoyed, headphones that salith kindly donated me suddenly died, again at the plug, so I couldn't hear anything through them, while I Was on the way to work, mp3 player in my pocket.

What a pain in the arse. :/

I was going to post something, but ... you know, I have no idea what to post. I just really don't.

But I feel I should, so here's a random nonsense post, or something.

Life goes on I guess.

Okidoki. Several things:

( Boyfriend, House, Money, anything else I'm forgetting? )

Okay! I think that just about covers it. Phew!

so yeah! Favourite kids programs. Not going to comment much on it but going to list them at the least.

Knightmare was always a favourite. Scary way back when, but I loved it to bits.
The Dreamstone is even now a classic. Beautiful animation and the stories weren't too bad either.
The Raccoons was also lots of fun, and pretty amusing too.
Bucky O'Hare however was in a league of it's own (is there a pattern forming here I wonder?) and also had a really great themesong. Loved that show to bits.
Bananaman was ridiculous, cheesy hilarity. I loved it, as bad as it was.
Bravestarr.. I mean good gods his horse turns into a badass anthro cybernetic horse with a laser lever action shotgun, and has a southern accent. What more could you want?! Also holy crap characters died in that show. You'd never get away with that these days. O.o;
Sonic the Hedgehog got his own cartoons in the 90s too. The first cartoon wasn't that good. It was... well, pretty lame to be honest. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, it was called. But the next cartoon, just titled Sonic the Hedgehog, commonly known as the satAM sonic cartoon, was awesome.
Ulysses 31 was pretty depressing, but it was still pretty cool.
Mysterious Cities of Gold I sadly don't remember much of. :< but I remember it being fun nonetheless.
Animals of Farthing Wood was pretty cool too. Nifty tales. The cartoon was really quite neat. At the time though I felt a bit guilty for liking something 'girly'. I blame my school life.

aaand that's all I can remember so far, damn.

[edit]: Oh yes! The Real Ghostbusters. Hell yes.

Well, looks like I'm going to be kicked out of this property.

Just got an email from my landlord, he's finally found out I haven't paid rent. As if I can afford it and pay off the bills. Given the email he's sent to the council and copied me in on, I have 21 days apparently from when he serves the notice.

That's maybe just enough time for me to get paid again so MAYBE I can put a deposit down on a new house, if I'm lucky.

I'll be glad to be out of this shithole but dammit I really, really don't need the additional shit.

Despite not paying rent this month, all the bills I've paid off, not including clearing my abbey national account and without even spending anything over the top, hell I haven't even gone SHOPPING yet except for bread and shampoo, conditioner...

I'm left with £160 for the month. nice.

Aaand two new folks have moved in to the top room, two girls. One of which doesn't even seem to speak english at all.

*facedesks* I sort of want to cry now. This is going to be a fucking nightmare sorting out bills. I need out. I need to just do a runner and leave this whole stinking shitheap behind me FAST. I NEED a place where I'm not going to get fucked over every single fucking time I try to even make any headway.

Oh, my landlord finally called today, not about the rent, but about the fact that the council had phoned him. So he never even fucking looked at the letters.

I know his name now at least, Steven Brown. of rentsheffield.co.uk formerly protenant.co.uk.

DO NOT GO WITH THESE PEOPLE, Seriously. DO NOT.

Now can someone please help.

After a few tweaks here and there, the Engie manages to combine his two greatest weapons into one fearsome device.

( Diiiispensin' a sentry! )

Owwwww

Went to the dentist today.

Got tooth filled.

Will only cost 44.60. ish. Not bad at all. I likes.

But yeah tooth hole was pretty close to the nerve. Curse my teeth for falling apart on me.

Also found out my abbey account I hardly ever touch is in debt by 86 odd quid.
It will be £25 more than that on the 20th of next month if I don't pay in £120 when I get paid. Even though the charges come out on the 20th of each month, if I entered the period in debit, they still charge me. I'm still going to get charged even though it'll be six days since I got that overdraft charge that they'll get their bloody money.

Protip: don't ever get into debt with abbey. They'll charge you out the arse.

So, £120 going to abbey, £30 going to plusnet on the 26th, and most likely another £30 going on the 27th for this month coming up.

Plus £45 for dentistry.

The phone bill needs to be paid off. Because I'm withholding rent I'll at least be able to do that. That'll be another... £200 odd. but I can pay it all off.
Electricity is going to be £67. Fine.

Total bills this month: 120. +60. + 45. +200. + 67: £492. luckily I'm getting £970 I think, after tax. And I don't have to pay rent this month. The BT phonebill will be cleared off, and that'll be done and dusted. That's one less charge on my back.

PLUS: My tooth is fiiiixed yay! :D

Now I just have to stop playing with it. >.o; Stupid habit.

Oh, and finally sold my games at CEX. Gamestation, the pawn shop near where I live, they both would only give me £6 for it. :/ Finally took it to CEX since the other DVD and videogame shop near me was closed, and they gave me £16 for it. The £6 extra came from Ergheiz alone. Yep. I sold a crappy PSX fighting game with some FF7 characters in it, that was basically substandard, for £6, purely because it is rare. Awesome. *groovy boogie dance*

I spent £3 getting some lunch in town from Greggs. Mmm. sausage rolls. <3 And then went home. feel good. Got some cash in case I need emergency stuff before Friday.

[edit] Oh whoops. Forgot. £50 for Miquel too for the DS lite.

So here's a small Time-To-Quit review of Mirror's Edge. As in, a review from the last point I started, (in this case, the beginning), to the time it took me to quit the game. Ignore if you wish.

( blah blah blah DA VIDYA. )

And I'm done.

Seriously, goddammit. I had £7 left.

I checked Friday, I still had it. that was the 19th.

I just checked now before I went to the shops to buy bread so I can fucking EAT for the next week while I'm at work, and what do I notice? That my bank has now put interest charges, on the 19th, which wiped out all that I had left. I knew they were coming but they weren't there on the 19th when I LOOKED on the 19th, so they've suddenly turned up and now I can't FUCKING EAT.

Gods DAMMIT.

[edit]: Asked my neighbours. They've loaned me £10 until I get paid, which is a life saver. Dammit, I need out of this house and away from this bullshit artist of a landlord asap. I cannot keep putting up with this shit. By the looks of things not only has he not informed NPower, who supply the gas, people were living here, but he also didn't inform Yorkshire water who supply the water. Fucking wonderful.

It amused me enough to do it.
Rules:

1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone comments you and asks.

( meeeeeeeeeme )

Okay, it's now 11pm. My new monitor works, great, but I'm bored stupid, have been since I got back, trying to find things to occupy my time with, something FUN.

I tried installing FEAR 2. Only to find that it doesn't work. It took an hour in total to install, patch, get the DirectX file that was apparently missing installed, and then when I loaded it, all I got was a black screen with a spinning little globe thing, doing NOTHING but sitting there, spinning, while my HDD light was constantly on, but looking athte task manager, no more than 1% cpu usage, but the memory usage for FEAR 2 continuously climbed. I was patient. I waited TEN MINTUES

TEN BLOODY MINUTES after an HOUR of installing and trying to get it to run, before I decided 'fuck THAT for a game of soldiers'.

No game should take 10 minutes to do NOTHING but eat system resources.

I tried to play TF2 but I ended up on servers which were full of idiots, or empty by the time they loaded up for me, and when I finally found a server that might have been worth playing on, well, I found that it was 11pm.

I'm not happy.

Grghgn... Bed. Going to attempt to have fun after work tomorrow. >.

( So here's some awesome pixelly indie gameage reviewing and recommendations of one particular d00d. )

Also had a google around for 'Indie Brawl'. Which I assume is meant to be like Smash Brothers, but 2d, and with Indie Gaming characters.

Only one problem. It doesn't work and it's buggy as fuck. Hah! Ah well. But hey, check out Konjak's games at least. Noitu Love 2 costs $10 now to buy, instead of $20 too, so it's a good time to get it.

( So here's some art I did )

took 15 minutes. That's it. Made because I was being bugged to post some art on an art thread on a forum I go to.

I'm surprisingly proud of it mind you. For a crappy sketch, no construction lines, noting, just straight drawn on my tablet with Paint.NET, that turned out relatively good.

So I rode my bike to and from work again. ALMOST made it the entire way without walking the bike even once this time! Apart from a short little stretch, but DAMN it felt good to get there in one piece. Wore my cycle helmet too. I HATE how that bloody thing looks on me. It's ridiculous.

However I prefer how it looks to how my head would look splattered all over the tarmac, so I'm going to wear that son of a bitch and like it. *nods*

It's actually kind of comfy too...

But anyway. The fun part. The ride HOME from work. Now my legs stopped aching LONG before they took to relax on Wednesday when if you remember I LAST rode my bike to work.

Hell yes do I feel amazing. My back is killing me, and my legs are numb again but damn I feel alive and still active. Just took the bin out too. and found it was... ... oh gods it was icky. there was something liquid and unpleasantly coloured in the bottom of the bag, and it went all over my hand so I went and washed it off post haste, the bin is now outside, empty, and has been washed out with fairy liquid and rinsed, but it needs to dry out before I take it inside again, a thousand curses on water for being so wet.

MANY thousands of curses. *fistshake*

But damn do I feel good. Seriously. This is great. I also chose a different route home. The way the 75 and 76 come back from town to be precise. it's a lot flatter on the way back apart from that one huge hill that is Woodseats Road, but that takes less time to walk up than the series of huge hills that are the back-home route the 25A, 53, and 20A and such take. I don't know how much of the 'wow I feel great!' is from just changing routes or getting all the way back on bike apart from that huge hill is, but I still feel good. :3

My connection is atrocious. It keeps dropping every now and again. Spoken to Plusnet, it's nothing on their end that's the matter. My roommate's laptop connects just fine from anywhere in the house with a perfect signal. So it's not the router. :(

halp

new icon. fits how I feel right now.

Rode my bike to work for the first time. Not too bad. Mostly all downhill. Can deal with. Some bitches of hills though and good GODS it hurts, but I got there on time. didn't SAVE me any time but I got there on time at least. And if this goes well I won't have to shell out for bus fare again.

Now for the downside. Riding BACK from work.

My legs are currently numb. I think later I'll start feeling the pain. but it's a struggle to walk uphill now. Even up a gentle incline. Dear gods I didn't think I could be that worn out.

I now face the prospect of having to cook food for myself.

Another plus note. I do feel pretty groovy from doing that exercise. All going well I'll feel well enough to do it again tomorrow, and the day after...

But dear gods my arse hurts in very un-fun ways. Stupid bike saddles. D:

again emo mood icon foxy is emo. wtf. I wish I could custom make some icons. grarh

Been trying it out.

... sorry, let me correct that.

Been trying to TRY it out.

Here's the deal, it's installed, all 3 meaty gig of the damned thing. It's updated. All THREE MEATY GIG of it. I have more than the recommended system specs for it. Awesome. It loads up just fine, but when I get to the title screen, it immediately (and I mean basically as the title screen fades in, the error box is ALREADY THERE) shows a 'the neo steam server is offline' error message. Clicking OK causes the game to close immediately.

I have registered for the forums, chekced them out. Apparently the servers are ONLINE, and working. But only CERTAIN people can access it. I've opened up my firewall and everything. I'd open the ports for it too but I cannot find ANY information on what ports to open up for it, not on the forums or on google searching.

It's endearing me, but then it pulls this crap. I've been willing to set aside my MMO Prejudices (IE: Every MMO is a grind-tastic Epic Gear race) purely because the setting looks neat, and I might be wrong, but if I can't even PLAY, to try it out, why should I waste my time, or the harddrive space?

(also wtf my foxy mood icon is crying. cheer up emo moodiconfox)