Moshi Moshi

I've been spending a lot of my free time playing "virtual" games lately. The latest one I'm hooked on right now is a combination of plush and virtuality: Littlest Pet Shop (LPS) Virtual Interactive Pets.

Shawn and I have been up to our necks with stress over buying new furniture and necessities for our new apartment, and while on our search for that stuff, I came across some incredibly adorable plushies with big eyes and pretty fabrics. I think the reason I was attracted so much to them was because of their big eyes and sweet faces. (Shawn said I have a thing for toys that are top heavy, haha.)

I first came across the LPS bunny when Shawn and I were at Kohl's a few weeks ago. I saw that there were more animals available so I started searching for them at the stores we went to. I immediately fell in love with the panda, and after noticing how rare it was in my area (I had only seen one in all the stores we visited), I snatched her up when I realized I couldn't live without her. Normally, I go for the pink plushies, but there's something about her dark oriental print that really draws me to her. I've named my panda Moshi Moshi (which can mean "hello" in Japanese in certain contexts).

Plushies aside, I found that I could delve even more into Moshi Moshi's world by visiting littlestpetshop.com to interact with her virtual character. I just plugged her special access code in the LPS: VIP system and Moshi Moshi's life started coming together.

Even though the games and plushie sales in general are geared more towards younger, teenage girls, I'm actually not that great at all of the activities, haha! In fact, Shawn had to help me out for a while until I got the hang of it. As I play more games, I gain more points to spend in the stores for clothes, furniture and plants for my garden.

There are some features I haven't accessed all of the features yet. There's an option where I can "meet" other people on LPS, but I'm thinking that I'll rawk out Moshi Moshi and her friend, Chiisai (a pink mouse) and their houses first so I won't look too silly in the LPS virtual world. ^__~

Chiisai

Chiisai (which means "small" in Japanese) is the newest addition to my LPS family. I looked up all of the plushies online, and I thought the mouse was very similar to Yukimo's build (tee hee). Of course, I couldn't resist.

This last Sunday, Shawn and I made it our mission to hunt down and find the mouse. I really didn't feel like ordering her online when I knew that at least one could be found in stores just a few miles away from me. >__> I think I have a kawaii sickness or something.

Anyway, we ended up finding Chiisai at the very first store (a Toys 'R Us) we went to, and there happened to be only one mouse on display. Just like Moshi Moshi, Chiisai was one of a kind for me.

I'm still working on building her wardrobe and room in my house.

Besides playing my newfound LPS love, I've been working on a new Maple Story character. Kathleen decided that she wanted to try playing on a new server, so our friend and I decided to try it out with her.

My MS Gang

Now, I'm not a huge Harry Potter book fan (the writing style seems too simplistic and I get bored easily), but I do enjoy watching the movies. So when Kathleen said that she wanted to create a guild dedicated to Harry Potter characters, I was in. I would take a bullet for Luna Lovegood and Kathleen was nice enough to let me take that character while she took Nymphadora Tonks, and our friend taking Professor Moody. We had to think up names that sounded similar to the book characters, yet were original enough to enter into the MS system. As it turned out, Luna Lovegood became LunieLove; Nymphadora Tonks became NymphyTonks; and Professor Moody became MadMoodDood.

I don't think I'm as attached to LunieLove as my other MS characters (Minkka and Roonies), but it's been fun starting working on a character of such a low level. ^__^

I've also gotten into the routine of playing Animal Crossing after I finish my work shift every day. There's something extremely relaxing about sitting down and playing in a world that contains absolutely no worries. I can get money for my house's furniture just by collecting fruit around the village, and I can pay my mortgage at any pace I want. In fact, I don't even need to pay off my house if I don't want to! Living a simple virtual life is so much more enjoyable sometimes.

My Animal Crossing House

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This is actually me.

Today I had to venture down to our local family clinic because, for some reason, the medical practice I go to believes that you shouldn't be able to refill your birth control prescription like any other prescription.

If you have arthritis and need pain killers, you can refill your prescription by email.

If you need heart medication or anti depressants you can do the same.

But by god, if you just want to fuck for fun and not get pregnant - you must be punished!! No matter how long you've been on the pill or on the same prescription, the only way you can get a refill is by going down to the family clinic and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...

It's not as bad as going to a Planned Parenthood where you could end up being there for 4 hours- but you still have to wait a long time. But worst than the waiting, you have to put up with the other people who go to these clinics.

The trashy teenagers who need to travel in packs to get their pills. The nasty couples who are all over each other who want you to know just how badly they need that bag of free condoms, and the teenage mothers who, yet again, need to bring a posse with them to wait. It's just depressing.

I actually had a woman in there last time yelling at the staff that they didn't give her enough free condoms in her bag,

"Hello!! Can you fill this bag up! I tell ya! You people really skimp on these and never give me enough. It's your fault I have 8 kids!!!!"

I swear to god.

So today, I go. I wait. I wait. I get called into a room.

I step on an ancient looking scale, fully clothed and with my shoes on.

I go sit in a room where the lady pulls up a screen on a computer and says, "So last time you were on this....OK, six more months...OK."

She takes my blood pressure and says that it's good. And then she looks at me and says,

    "Your weight is over the top. You should try to lose the weight any way you can."

And then I couldn't speak. I quietly took my prescription and zombied my way out of the clinic.

MY WEIGHT IS OVER THE TOP!?!?!!

Had I been living in a world where when I thought I was a bit heavier and a bit curivier than I had ever been before when I was actually dangerously over weight and unhealthy?!

Are the UK size 12 jeans I wear actually plus sized jeans and I just didn't notice?

Perhaps it was somebody else going to the gym at least twice a week since April.

Maybe it's some other girl that's been eating fucking vegetable soup and god damn Special K snack bars every day for the past two weeks.

Maybe that girl doing push-ups each morning and sit-ups before she goes to bed is just a figment of my unhealthy, lard-filled, fatty McFat-fat imagination.

WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?!?!?!

How unbelievably, retardedly irresponsible of her!

Do you want to know how much information she had on me?

My weight. What birth control medication I've been on. My blood pressure.

THAT IS ALL.

She didn't have my chart, she didn't know how tall I was, my BMI, what my diet was like, if I exercise at all, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING.

She didn't know if I had an eating disorder or not!What if I was bulimic and she just flippantly said that my weight was "over the top" and that I should "lose it anyway I can".

How about binging and purging, does that sound like a good idea to you, you fucking idiot!!!!????

I'm sorry, but from what I've learned about body image and health, WEIGHT doesn't not equal HEALTH.

You DO NOT tell a young woman that she has a weight problem without knowing ANYTHING about her! Especialy if you're a fucking NURSE.

So, FUCK YOU nurse lady.

I don't have a god damn weight problem. I'm curvy. I weigh more that other girls my height because I have a different body type than they do. (OK and I like to eat pizza.)

I've been trying really hard to eat better lately. I've been trying to lose weight before I go back to California in September. I exercise. I take vitamins every single day. I drink a lot of water. And I don't drink as much as I used to, and I've really cut back on junk food.

I am healthy. So, if being curvy and healthy makes me fat, than you can kiss my fat ass, lady.

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With speculation that McCain is going to make his pick this week... my vote still goes to Sarah Palin -- "could be a home run."

All of the others seem like the same old song and dance.

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Our wedding photographers are really awesome, and right now it's pretty much just the two of them, (they're married) and if they need to do a second wedding on the same date, they subcontract a guy they've been working with for about 10 years... who has been doing wedding photography for about 25 years and used to own his own studio.

Welllll... a few months ago, before I bought my SLR, I emailed Cathy and asked her what she suggested and if the D80 was a good camera. They shoot with Fuji SLRs which are very similar so she said it was a good camera to start with and I bought it.

About 3 weeks ago, we went in for our final consultation prior to the wedding and I was talking to them about my camera and how I wish I knew how to use it well and that it'd be really cool to do wedding photography. They mentioned hiring me as an intern to learn and then eventually when I am trained and have a good portfolio set up, hiring me as a 4th photographer and subcontracting me to shoot weddings, either alone or with the 3rd photographer (or with them)

I didn't really take it too seriously although the idea was pretty exciting, but I never thought they'd follow through with it... until she called me out of the blue today!!

She said she met with a client today, and her and Scott are already booked for this particular date. The Bride wants 2 photographers and since the 3rd guy is the only other guy, they want to get me in to start shooting weddings as an intern and start training right away, as soon as my wedding is over, and then hire me to shoot this girl's wedding! and others!

And the really cool thing? The first wedding that they want me to come along to in September is at Holy Hill, a gorrrrgeous church out here in Wisconsin at the top of a mountain, overlooking a lot of WI

I take that back... my first photo shoot with them is going to be on August 9th at the Zoo... I'm not exactly sure what it's for but they're getting me a ticket to go with!

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of work until night time! yay. jeez. please go by fast.

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Why, hello there all you fabulous people.

Not much going on here other than Iain and I locking ourselves in our home office to work on launching BitchBuzz. We've left the room only to sleep, go and grab a take-away curry, and to try and take a few photos that we're going to base the new BitchBuzz logo on.

While I was all dolled up, we went ahead and a few for my VOX avatar, as I've had the same one for almost two years now.

Once I stopped laughing and having nightmarish flashbacks from The Observer Woman photo shoot, we finally managed to get a good amount of usable shots, so hopefully our new logo will be up and ready to go very soon.

I won't show you any that we're going to base the logo on just yet, but here are some of me being an asshole, grabbing my own boobs, and trying make "the sexy face".

Yes, the dress I'm wearing is my wedding dress, which is cool for various reasons. The first being that this means I can actually GET INTO IT, which is always an exicting moment.

Secondly, I'm getting multiple uses out of it. I've worn this puppy 3 times now, which makes me sort of proud that I managed to buy a wedding dress that I liked so much I actually want to wear it again.

Anyhoo...

Thank you all so much for your support. You're the best Internet friends a gal could ever ask for.

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Bachelorette party tonight :)

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Next weekend is Comic Con in San Diego and I've got tickets for all four days and the preview night on Wednesday where, assuming we get into town on time, we'll get to see the pilot for the new JJ Abrahams show "Fringe" months before everyone else.

We booked a hotel room in May and it was already too late, just about everything was booked solid; we were looking at a hotel online, deciding whether or not to stay there and when we refreshed the page five minutes later it was booked.

In the end we found a hotel about 30 miles from downtown, not a bad drive considering our former commutes to work (hers 60+ miles one way, mine 30) but far enough to be inconvenient too.

A few weeks later Office Wife said that we could stay with her for a couple days before their friend from out of town came to stay with them.

This is where the fun starts...

I called the hotel to change our reservation.
The automated attendant picked up and said "press 1 for blah blah blah, press 2 for reservations, press..." I pressed 2, I needed to change my reservation.

After being on hold where the "celebrity" hotel spokesperson actually read part of "A Tale of Two Cities" in lieu of hold music a man named Thomas picked up.

I explained the situation to him and he said "Oh yeah, you'll need to press 0 for that."
"But this is the number for reservations, I pressed 2. I'm trying to change my reservation."
"Oh yeah, it makes sense that you did that but just call back and press 0."
Begrudgingly I did so.
I pressed 0, the phone rang once and then someone picked up.

It was Thomas again! I couldn't believe it.
"Um, I just talked to you."
"Oh yeah, I needed to change desks so I had you call back."

Had he been able to see my face he might not have been so nonchalant with his lazy explanation for why I had to call back.

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