Tea cups! Glorious tea cups!

0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 8:49 PM

This blog seems to be quite ADD. I still haven't gotten down the creek, but it WILL HAPPEN SOON! I got majorly distracted by belated spring cleaning. I had been slowly cleaning the house since getting back, but we donate our old stuff. This slows down the process because my mom meticulously logs everything we donate, so we can get a sweet tax break. When she move out of her house (effectively donating half of everything that was in it), she got a couple thousand dollars back, so it's worth while.

Anyway, now that I have a working laptop again, I decided to stop waiting for my mom and take the matter into my own hands. Organizing and logging junk is REALLY tiring... But since yesterday I've accumulated a lot of stuff to donate.

Most of the stuff is junk (albeit well-cared for junk that the thrift store should be happy to receive, unless they look a gift horse in the mouth like last time- See Side Story -->)
SIDE STORY!
My mom had stored a lot of clothes and a bunch of
other stuff from my childhood that for some reason
she thought I'd take when I have kids. And this
was nice stuff, not raggedy old stuff that had been
left to be eaten by moths in the attic.
So she was somewhat horrified when she saw
the woman at the thrift store throwing out
WHOLE BOXES off our donated stuff,
apparently because if we're donating
lots of stuff, most of it has to be junk.
That was literally their reasoning.
But then I found these old tea cups just packed away in a box lid. I'd like to know the whole story about these tea cups journey, since from what I know they seem lucky to still be here. First my mom saved them from the blackhole of my grandma's house (G-ma's an agoraphobic horder, you see) and it's a good thing she did because a couple of years ago we had a family reunion and start cleaning out a lot of G-ma's house. So these tea cups probably would have been tossed too, since they don't match. Then I ended up saving them from my mom's house when she was donating everything.

Pictures! Look at the pictures! (A whole bunch turned out blurry >:( So I'll be adding new ones tomorrow hopefully)
























 

Good-Bye My Old Lappy

0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 5:54 PM

So I know I promised to post pictures of my fabulous trek to the creek near my house with dog in tow, but sadly it seems I'm fighting off some kind of sickness. The major symptom is that I'm exhausted, which has been preventing me from doing anything other than play with my new laptop. Which has made me think that I didn't give my old laptop a proper send-off.

Sure, it was starting to get old and slow down a little, but considering all the problems with it, it was quite the trooper and lasted a lot longer than it would have, had I not be patient with it. It went through 3 (or 4) power cords, three keyboards, several sticky little feet, one mother board and finally died with two packed hard drives. And that reminds me - warranties are a good thing. Especially when the motherboard was fried. We sent it back to Dell and they replaced it, the keyboard and the feet (several of which I had bumped off) for free. Sweet.

And yeah, by the end it's memory was going and I couldn't multitask on it as well as I once could, but what can you expect from an over four-year-old (a.k.a. out-dated) laptop used as heavily as I used it? And let me tell you, I used it heavily, perhaps even sometimes abusing it. I'm sure we all remember the time I chucked it out of my lap and onto the floor - we NEEDN'T bring up why! And then there was the time I sat up in my bed and rammed it into my dresser, which was far too closely placed in my first college dorm room. That knocked out the front left corner of its frame. A few weeks later, I found the right corner knocked out; don't know how that happened. I dropped it at least once outside of its carrying case. I dropped it at least once inside its carrying case. It overheated more times than I'd care to admit (leading to the burnt-out motherboard), which was partly the fault of its poorly placed fans, but also because I just used it so dang much.

But now, my poor little laptop, it's time for you to be free. Let's have a moment of silence as I put Lappy out to pasture.

 

Introducing My New Lappy

0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 9:29 PM

Weee! I got a new laptop! And after a bumpy start, it's up and running smoothly. In celebratory celebration of the arrival of my new laptop, I thought I'd post. Unfortunately I really have nothing to say. I mean, I could say something, but only a fool says something when they have nothing to say. So paint me a fool cuz here I go:

I have to say there is some sadness in recieving my new laptop. Due to a major miscommunication error, I wasn't able to back up any of the information on my last (/first) laptop before it died. So playing majong on my laptop (other than surf the internet, which, let's face it, get's boring after a while) reminds me so very much of all the wonderful things and memories I may have lost forever. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to get my stuff off... and by I'll I mean my parents will because they're engineers and saving computers is what I like to imagine they do for a living.

So with a slightly disappointing (as of right now) laptop mopping around my living room, making me all kinds of sad, I thought I'd take my dog for a walk - which reminds me, one nice feature my new laptop has over the old one is a port for SD cards. Hopefully this will lead me to both taking and post more pictures, as I love pretty things. Like pictures.

Along the walk, which ended at this really peaceful creek near my house, we met this young gentleman... who I instantly feared, if you know what I mean.


Handsome, yes? The picture quality looks a little off, but considering how far away I had to shoot from (and thus how much I had to zoom) to keep it from pulling it's head back in it's shell, it's actually pretty good.

And that's it for the pictures, because my tiny-weeny memory card couldn't take any more pictures. But tomorrow I shall go back to the magical creek and take lots of lovely pictures to share, because it is a very pretty creek.

Oh yeah, I guess I should tell you guys what I found in my pocket (even though I think most of you guys know by now). MY GAMES! I FOUND MY GAMES! AND THEN I PLAYED MY GAMES AND THOUGHT 'HOLY COW, I HAVEN'T PLAYED THESE GAMES IN THE A LONG TIME - WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN THEM?!'. And then I went back to playing Pokemon Ruby because there's just something satisfying about playing a really easy game that's I've been in all it's previous incarnations. (Including the not released in the US Green Version - yes, I am that dorky).

 

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It's a Miracle, a miracle I tells ya! Part 1

2 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 7:21 PM

I've been doing some spring cleaning lately, which has led me to find many old and not so interesting things. Some of the things were interesting though. I've found a bunch of old notebooks with little sketches in them, and a lot of old photos perfect for black mail. But then I went through a box full of some stuff from my first years of college and some other stuff that I think just got thrown in there.


Which is how I found my Gameboy Advanced along with my long missing Pokemon Ruby game (that's right, I played it). My sister's held onto her Sapphire game and I had been looking at it earlier (the graphics are really bizarre) and I was kind of missing my old game which I never finished out of frustration (You know what you did, Solrock!). So it was nice to find my old Ruby game.

But here's the even better news - and the three people who read this blog will know what I mean. I was wearing this hoodie I have bu pretty much never wear or bring with me any place because I don't like the material. I've had it hanging in my room for ages and only took it down on this occasion because I could find my other hoodies (or maybe I was too lazy to go downstairs and get them, you choose). I put my hand in my pocket and felt something kind of bulky. Now, I haven't used this hoodie in ages, so it's anyone's guess what this could be. I pull it out and to my surprise I find-

Are you guys curious?




Are you on the edge of your seats?



I'm gonna let you guys ponder about what this could be for a while (mostly since I want to play some Pokemonz). Feel free to post any guesses... hopefully posting is back up.

 

Next Stop... KOREA!

0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 3:10 PM

So I'm not due to go to South Korea for another month, but I figured I'd start transitioning the blog in that direction. That's right guys, in just a few months this blog will be all Korean, all the time!

But first, I present for your entertainment - Secret Asian Man:

 

The World May Never Know

0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 9:33 PM

Okay so I had been planning on posting a Michael Jackson blog for a few days, but I see Alice has beat me to it, as well as most of the rest of the world. Curses, World, you've beat me this time! So I know a lot of people are wondering, following the King of Pop's death, what will happen to his estate and massive debt? What will happen to his children? What will his ultimate legacy be? But we here at We Amuse Myself am considering the bigger questions:


WAS he the one? WAS that kid really his son? I mean after all, he says himself 'those eyes were like mine'. Sounds like a confenssion to me and yet he INSISTS that kid is not his son. Now we may never know the truth!

Furthermore, WAS Annie okay after all? There were bloodstains on the carpet, so I wasn't terrible hopeful, but you never know. She does manage to escape to the bedroom... And for the poor-of-hearing listeners out there... WAS Annie really Oakley? Now the world may never know.

Also, while reviewing the footage of Thriller, which I think sufficiently answers the question of 'Was MJ a zombie?', I was pleased to see Mr. Vicient Price got top-billing. The man did great voice work. But the best part of the video was when it switches to the theater and Michael Jackson's smiling and eating popcorn. Best. Expression. Ever. Check. It. Out.


 

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