heading into the new year with a smile and a dance

got to spend 3 full days at home and it was great. between eating too much, walking in forests, walking on beaches, going out with friends, it was like a a little slice of reality in all this craziness of work hatred. and i'm heading down again for new year's. i'm really looking forward to it. life is so much better when you have something to look forward to. and lordkilljoy is back up on tuesday. yeay - i don't have to spend so long on my own. and i got an unlimited cinema card, so now i don't have to pay for tickets any more.

i really love my new camera too. it has the coolest features.

it does colour swapping and colour accenting. and you can take shots in a night club without using the flash (yes it's at 3200iso, but it's still better than horrid flash shots), it does macro and it has full manual control (which rocks).

i can't really think of anything else to say. i got the train up this morning and was in work for 12:10, after going out last night. and my fingers are freezing, so i'm just going to go to bed and warm up and sleep and hopefully will have a bit more energy tomorrow.

it's really great having something to look forward to. it really makes work not seem that bad at all.

ok - i really have to go to bed now.

happy winter solstice, and happy birthday to thanatos_elnyx.

i'll try to get around to posting properly at some stage. i'm back playing fallout3 - it's a big black hole of time and interest.

a squirrel

i saw a squirrel in a tree the other day. this might not seem amazing to anyone who lives in a squirrel-infested country, but for me it was a surprise. i think i've seen about 2 other squirrels in ireland ever.
i just wanted to say that.
i don't really have anything else of merit to say.
i am eating dinner way too fast.

super-powered dream

I had an insanely crazy dream last night. me and a group of people had some kind of super powers and we wanted to break out of the system or something - i can't really remember. the once scene i can remember clearly is me and another guy juicing oranges in a compressor-thing, like they have at juice bars. we were doing this because of some woman, because we wanted to make her suffer or just abuse her stuff or something. we were also looking for a place to stay - all of us who had the powers, but we didn't want to live together. we wanted places like old castles and churches, gothic sort of buildings. and from our ancient abodes we could do anything we wanted.
i think there was a lot more to it, but it's not coming back to me.

got mostly the end of my christmas shopping done yesterday. got something for lordkilljoy and i know what i'm getting for davidnarby.

i'm almost finished prince of persia, and last night i pulled off my first combo. that's not good - it took me the whole game to learn how to pull off one. and there's supposed to be loads of them. oh well.

heh - a crow just landed on the light outside and it turned off. like most people probably would, i assumed the two events were linked, but they weren't. all the lights on the row have turned off. that was mad.

ok, i have nothing else to say.

HCl dream

I had a really wierd dream last night. I can't remember how everything tied together, but it involved hydrochloric acid and poeple's bones being turned to dust within thier skin. there was one image with a guy in a hospital and his hands were covered in a metal exoskeleton. then there was another bit with me being lost in a city, not even knowing what city i was in and wandering around hippie shops looking at pretty clothes and things. the last bit i can remember was in an old temple in fiji or the caribbean somewhere and there was an old scientist researching the temple because it was the source of the HCl. There were steps leading up to the cavern inside the temple, but the steps were wet with HCl and people were getting it on thier clothes and hands. the last scene was two local girls laughing and smiling running down a beach while the scientist (?) took photos of them.

it was quite disturbing, actually.

things

I applied for a new job yesterday. The last straw in my patience with the company i'm working for now was the rota for next week. i'm working 46 hours and have only one day off. i nearly cried when i opened the email and looked at it. but it did give me the kick up the bum i needed to actually go look for a new job. and it's pretty silly. they gave me so many hours in an effort to get more sales, but i am going to be way to tried to actually sell anything by next week. pah - working 7 days in a row and them having one day off. then i'm guessing i'm not going to have a day off until christmas day. but that would be 7 consecutive days without a break and that goes against my contract... so we'll see.

in other news - excellent news - lordkilljoy got me a bike for christmas :) it's cool. the guy in the shop let me cycle it around for a bit last night and it's amazing how a new bike works. not like my bike, which has some problems.

i had a wierd / cool dream last night where i was a tourist wearing a cross and a photo of the pope and people thought i was "a little bible girl." there was a castle-type-thing with a view over the town and out to the ocean. as i was exploring the castle a massive wave came and drowned everything and we could see fish swimming around out the windows.
that was the quick and nasty version of my dream, it was actually quite good.

the games i'm playing

in the past 8 days i have played and finished little big planet, played and loved prince of persia, not played fallout3, watched lordkilljoy set up his new pc and crank WoW settings up to full (it does look pretty), contemplated moving my oblivion save games over to said computer to check out what a high-spec system can do with it, picked up my new camera, tested to make sure it worked, and my cold has improved a lot.

yea... little big planet is very addictive. even though i finished the story levels, i can't stop thinking about it. i want to design a level, but i'm not sure what to do - i want something that will work like a domino effect, where you start falling and hit something which falls over and hits something else and you go flying up in the air and stuff. but it might be a lot of effort and trail and error. but i feel somewhat up to the challenge.

prince of persia is good - extremely pretty. the price is kinda the same as usual, with his silly comments and brashness. though this time around he seems to care more - i guess because he's not quite as stuck up as the prince from the sands of time trilogy.

i don't have much else to say, really. i'm seriously considering getting a new job. not having weekends off is making me very depressed, because i don't get to do anything really interesting with lordkilljoy. it would be nice to have a full day off together to go into town, or off on a day trip or whatever.

ok - i'm going to go play little big planet now.

winter mornings

i fell over on my bike today. please note the distinction from falling off my bike - i was stationary when this happened. it was really frosted over and icy this morning, so i cycled carefully into work, not speeding down the hill like i normally do and going at a generally slower pace. so i made it to the bike railings in work just fine, but just was i was getting off the bike, the one leg i had on the ground slipped causing me to fall and my bike to fall on top of me. i'm sighing and rolling my eyes at myself. so after all of that, i have a slightly sore wrist and probably a bruise on my bum.

did i mention i have a cold at the moment? i'm heading into day 3 with it, and things are getting better. i hope it's gone by tomorrow.

two days off tuesday and wednesday - wooo! ugh - i can't say woo anymore without thinking of the episode of "how i met your mother" that featured woo-girls. it's really annoying.

the weekend was good - what little i caught of it. we played wipeout for a bit and marvel alliance or something. it was just about the worst game i have ever played. (no offence or anything to mulkabu and lordkilljoy, who enjoyed it a bit more because they knew all the characters.)

tonight i am going to come home and write 500 words, or for an hour (which ever comes first). i find that 500 words is impossible and takes an hour. 1,500 takes an hour and a half - it's just that getting started bit that takes ages, but i will write 500 words today.