It's getting cold here in Michigan. Today I walked to the grocery (food) store. When I walked out of my house I notice that there was some precipitation coming out of the sky. It was hail; small ones that didn't hurt but were accompanied by a little bit of rain. I walked nonetheless. I was wearing a jacket that I got from my grandfather. One that once belonged to an officer during world war two. I know this because I ripped the ranking patches off a few minutes before I left. Someone once told me that there was a law forbidding a non-militant from wearing those types of patches on military clothes out in public. So just to be sure I ripped them off. It was a warm jacket and this was my first time wearing it this season. As I said its getting cold now. The walk was fine. There's this band that I started listening to that I can't get enough of, Every Time I Die. I've been listening to them every time I go walking. Their sound is loud and fast, and every other music seems boring after listing to them. There isn't a band out there that I can compare them to but I'm looking. I bought these headphones a while back before we went to Costa Rica that use the same material as ear plugs to surround the headphone part that goes in ears. So when wearing them I can't hear very much outside my head. So when I'm walking and listing to Every Time I Die through my headphones I'm in my own little world. Wearing my warm jacket from WWII and enjoying fall is great. It's getting cold but there're things to enjoy.
Have I mentioned that I got another job? Yeah, I'm working at this vintage clothing store in downtown Ann Arbor and I love it. It's weird too. I got the job about a week ago, had two days of training and now I work two days a week, Monday and Tuesday, and I open, close, and run the store all by myself. I like it a lot. I get to meet tons of interesting people. Like on Tuesday I met this girl from New Zealand who was at the store her first in America. She was so happy to be at our store cause she thought everything was super cool. She was in love with American culture even our accents. I sold her a cool jacket. It was awesome. And at my job I play dress up all day. I've taken some pictures of myself wearing some clothes but I don't like any of the photos. I'll take some more next week and post them.
Rock Band comes out next week (the video game) and I'm excited. I've got it preordered and am so ready to play it. I hope I can get people to play with me. Everyone seems so busy with their lives now. But I'm okay if I have to go solo.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
What to do? What to do?
A couple of monumental things happened since the last time I blogged. Maybe not monumental but some fun things that happened. The first being that Halloween has come and gone but not without a bunch of fun in between. Last week Friday we had a party in our house, our house's first, and it went pretty well. Here's some pics:
this is me. Pretty scary, huh? The stuff on my teeth to make them look yellow felt like I had to brush my teeth real bad.
Here's Ellie. She was a rockstar.
The guy in the middle is Ellie's brother, Gus. He's a rockstar too. I don't know who those others are.
These guys are dressed like Marty and Jennifer from the Back to the Future movies. the guy has a tape walkman too. I thought it was clever.
The party was awesome. We had some loud music and danced the night away. I was playing the dj most of the time too.
For the party I made a guy, Alexander, out of some of my clothes that I hung from the banister. I took him apart today and forgot to get a picture of him. He was creepy, mostly because I found an old mask from years ago that I used for a head. It looked real enough to make your heart jump to see him when not expecting it. After the party we took him down and did more scaring with him. First I think we put him Liz's bed, under the covers so you could only see his head but only from looking straight down at him. That night when she came home she knew something was there; not really believing that it was a person, but not really disbelieving it either. She threw her bag at it just to make sure, but she said she was too scared to take the blankets off.
Alexander then found his way in Ellie's bed. I don't remember if she got scared that time. But after that Ellie threw Alex over the railing to the ground floor. I picked him up and positioned him in the corner of the tv room where he creeped everyone out. I put him in a curled up position to make him look a bit more real. It looked real enough to make your head turn and wonder for a split second if he was going to eat you. It was here that he had the most effect.
His next move was to Ellie's closet where he stayed for a few days, I think. It kind of creeped her out. She then put it in my bed where it had zero effect and I took him apart today. He was a fun guy for not being able to move.
The other monumental thing other than Halloween was that Guitar Hero 3 came out last Sunday. Ellie's brother, Gus, who is shown above as the other rock star, bought it that very Sunday and brought it over to our house.
Unfortunately Gus doesn't own a gaming console and his love for Guitar Hero was so great that he had to play it that very day. His only solution was to buy it for someone else's console and come play it whenever he can. It's cool for us that live here because we have Guitar Hero 3 in our house. The game comes out for computer sometime next month, and if I don't buy Gus's game Gus will take it in for store credit and buy the computer version of the game. I'm up the air about buying it. Guitar Hero is a fun game but I'm waiting for Rock Band, which is very much like Guitar Hero except it adds drums and vocals to the mix. One dilemma is guitar compatibility: both Rock Band and Guitar Hero have their own guitars that work with their games and I'm trying to figure out if they are cross compatible, i.e. if Guitar Hero's guitar will work with Rock Band and vise versa. If they are compatible I think I would buy Gus's game. That way I would already have a guitar for Rockband when it comes out. I'm definitely going to buy Rock Band and the bundle that it is selling comes with the game, drums, one guitar, and a microphone. The bundle could use a second guitar to play the fourth part, and acquiring it through Guitar Hero wouldn't be bad. It's sort of cheaper to buy guitars in a bundle cause it's a bunch cheaper that way. Games are usually $60 and the guitars are between $60-80. Guitar Hero 3 bundle was $100 for the game and the guitar. The thing is though that I don't know the compatibility yet. Neither company has come out and announced any compatibility. The other thing, though, is that Rock Band's guitar is supposed to be much cooler than Guitar Hero's: they made the guitar look and feel more like a real guitar and theirs can do more on their game. So if I got a Guitar Hero guitar it wouldn't be able to do all the cool things that it could on Rock Band. What to do?
this is me. Pretty scary, huh? The stuff on my teeth to make them look yellow felt like I had to brush my teeth real bad.
Here's Ellie. She was a rockstar.
The guy in the middle is Ellie's brother, Gus. He's a rockstar too. I don't know who those others are.
These guys are dressed like Marty and Jennifer from the Back to the Future movies. the guy has a tape walkman too. I thought it was clever.
The party was awesome. We had some loud music and danced the night away. I was playing the dj most of the time too.
For the party I made a guy, Alexander, out of some of my clothes that I hung from the banister. I took him apart today and forgot to get a picture of him. He was creepy, mostly because I found an old mask from years ago that I used for a head. It looked real enough to make your heart jump to see him when not expecting it. After the party we took him down and did more scaring with him. First I think we put him Liz's bed, under the covers so you could only see his head but only from looking straight down at him. That night when she came home she knew something was there; not really believing that it was a person, but not really disbelieving it either. She threw her bag at it just to make sure, but she said she was too scared to take the blankets off.
Alexander then found his way in Ellie's bed. I don't remember if she got scared that time. But after that Ellie threw Alex over the railing to the ground floor. I picked him up and positioned him in the corner of the tv room where he creeped everyone out. I put him in a curled up position to make him look a bit more real. It looked real enough to make your head turn and wonder for a split second if he was going to eat you. It was here that he had the most effect.
His next move was to Ellie's closet where he stayed for a few days, I think. It kind of creeped her out. She then put it in my bed where it had zero effect and I took him apart today. He was a fun guy for not being able to move.
The other monumental thing other than Halloween was that Guitar Hero 3 came out last Sunday. Ellie's brother, Gus, who is shown above as the other rock star, bought it that very Sunday and brought it over to our house.
Unfortunately Gus doesn't own a gaming console and his love for Guitar Hero was so great that he had to play it that very day. His only solution was to buy it for someone else's console and come play it whenever he can. It's cool for us that live here because we have Guitar Hero 3 in our house. The game comes out for computer sometime next month, and if I don't buy Gus's game Gus will take it in for store credit and buy the computer version of the game. I'm up the air about buying it. Guitar Hero is a fun game but I'm waiting for Rock Band, which is very much like Guitar Hero except it adds drums and vocals to the mix. One dilemma is guitar compatibility: both Rock Band and Guitar Hero have their own guitars that work with their games and I'm trying to figure out if they are cross compatible, i.e. if Guitar Hero's guitar will work with Rock Band and vise versa. If they are compatible I think I would buy Gus's game. That way I would already have a guitar for Rockband when it comes out. I'm definitely going to buy Rock Band and the bundle that it is selling comes with the game, drums, one guitar, and a microphone. The bundle could use a second guitar to play the fourth part, and acquiring it through Guitar Hero wouldn't be bad. It's sort of cheaper to buy guitars in a bundle cause it's a bunch cheaper that way. Games are usually $60 and the guitars are between $60-80. Guitar Hero 3 bundle was $100 for the game and the guitar. The thing is though that I don't know the compatibility yet. Neither company has come out and announced any compatibility. The other thing, though, is that Rock Band's guitar is supposed to be much cooler than Guitar Hero's: they made the guitar look and feel more like a real guitar and theirs can do more on their game. So if I got a Guitar Hero guitar it wouldn't be able to do all the cool things that it could on Rock Band. What to do?
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