all made up with nowhere to go

So that order of art stuff? They tried to deliver it on NYE, when I was out of the house. I did not get the delivery slot notification until halfway through the freaking slot.

Then I came home to a "sorry we missed you!" slip that said they'd come back on the 2nd, when I would be working, with no contact details for me to say don't come in the morning, I will not be here!

Which is, of course, what they did.

And the same thing happened with the notification email. I was halfway through my shift when I got it. I decided not to rush home when I'd finished, though, because if they can't be arsed to let me know beforehand when they'll be coming, I literally can't make sure I'm there. They are allegedly coming back today (on their last attempt), but nobody's turned up as yet.

Also my teeth/gums are still hurting, so I'm going to see if I can get an appointment to see my dentist early next week. I don't think anything is seriously wrong, but it's better to check than all my teeth fall out, right? I actually think I may have had a very mild sinus infection in part, so am also going to get that checked out (I didn't have 100% of the symptoms, but a lot of stuff lined up when reading about them).

In happier news, I have been making some books with coloured paper and card to use as sketchbooks! I've watched a few videos about how to do it, and had a go, and it was so easy! (and also the one type of binding I can use to repair old books! *spins*)

I am super excited about this, as I've wanted/tried to make books several times before, but never quite got the hang of it. Now I know what I'm doing, I think things will be better!

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Memes:

I'm going to cheat with my first Post Once A Day meme, and post it today, rather than tomorrow, as I'm unlikely to be online tomorrow (because work). I'll continue taking questions until the 15th, if you're interested in asking them

And I'm going to post the video game meme (more on that in a sec) in batches of five questions, as I can't imagine my answers will get too rambly anyway.

Post Once A Day: thenicochan asked: What was the first video game you remember loving?

( my answer )

Video game meme, nabbed from althea_valara:

( all the questions )

( first five questions and answers! )

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I'm going to make a list of all the artists I've been watching on youtube, in case anyone is interested. They are all ladies, and most of them are left-handed.

I was going to post about Buffy (I'm two thirds of the way through S2), but this post feels waaaaaay long already. next time!

Video game outrage first, I think:

~ I was in CEX, because every time I go to Burnley, I go in there WITHOUT fail. I was actually looking for a copy of the third A:tLA game, as I was reminded the other day that I do not have it (I have the first two by some fluke of flukiness).

So I'm checking out the PS2 games. Most of them are a couple of quid a throw now. I spotted Project Zero (Fatal Frame in Japan/America) and it was £10, which is pretty expensive for a PS2 game these days. Then I spotted Suikoden IV, which I actually thought about buying (because it's the first time I've ever seen a Suikoden game and I wanted to play one). Then I saw the price. TWENTY FUCKING QUID WHAT. And also there was Silent Hill: 0rigins for £10, which is just taking the piss imho.

I tweeted about this. Then I checked prices on Amazon when I got home and wow. Apparently that is average price for a used copy of each of those games (the prices for Suikoden IV get ridiculous in the same way the Raidou games do *sighs*).

Mind you, then again, I paid £15 each for both ICO and Shadow of the Colossus used copies from CEX a few years ago so I can't comment, I guess. (Although I panic bought them because I thought I'd never see them again, and I was mostly correct. I've seen SoTC, but not ICO).

In non-video game rage:

~ Games I considered buying but didn't: Dragon's Dogma, Dark Souls (although that was WAY out of my price range), Lightning Returns (ditto), Ass Creed 1 and 2 (I could've had both for £6! BARGAIN), the Adventure Time game (I didn't even look at the price tag), and The Last Remnant. I think there were some others, probably, but I always feel bad about buying games when I have no money (and still have a mountain of games to play through).

~ I had sudden Harry and Cheryl feels and then I was sad. I also reblogged some Silent Hill stuff because of that and it did not help with the sad :( (if anything it made me feel worse because blargh FEELINGS).

~ I don't know if it's just me but: current story (Relatively Average Sized Mecha in Gratuitous German: The Story) - I keep thinking of all these AUs as I'm noodling stuff out. Stuff that would TOTALLY work but that is completely ridiculous (except the Wild West one; that's totally legit). I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, though???

In some ways, I think it's a good thing because YAY IDEAS but on the other hand, I can't help thinking that maybe I should just stick to the case in point (although what I WILL say, is that I'm not abandoning the actual story for any of the AUs. Which is good!)
(This sort of totally makes me wish it was a comic, because then I could put random bits of AUs at the end of chapters of the story or whatever because it was my comic and I could do as I liked with it. But me and comics production are unmixy things. I haven't tried making one for around eight years and I don't think I'm about to start again now).

(wow, I can't believe it's been that long, but yup. 2006 it was. wow).

~ I think I might spend tomorrow reading Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Because it's about time I did.

Ooh, ooh! Just been reading a comm about paper journals, and someone mentioned writing in a second language in a post (I'd link, but have you met me? I'm lazy). I've been panicking on and off for years because my grasp of French is getting worse and worse (I couldn't even remember how to conjugate "aller" yesterday, and that is an essential verb!) I think if I tried to actually write in it, then maybe that would help (I would online, but oh god accents and coding, bleh). Also I have about a million and one notebooks that I could use for writing in French, and attempting to write in German (obviously not as good at that).

Hmm. Maybe that's what I should do when I finally get my ass offline...

(Although damnit, I am supposed to be musing upon a whacked out idea for something-or-other I've had for a few months now).

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I totally want to make a tag called "jamesjamesjames" for no other reason than I ♥ James Sunderland. (On that note, I should probably make one called "harry mason saves babies", too. Because that would only be fair. Plus it's totally true).