LOVE

Malok

Obyn said:

@Benedicto Charles Dance is one of my favorites. Though I worry that every time I see him in something not Game of Thrones, I'll imagine him playing whatever part it is -as- Tywin.

@Obyn Yeah, I finished that movie last night, and Charles Dance was perfect in it as the nameless Elder Vampire. He was very much not Tywin, though that probably had a lot to do with the amount of makeup he had. On topic, I absolutely LOVE Dracula Untold, that is the best Dracula movie I have ever seen other than maybe Bram Stoker's.

Obyn

Jensen said:

@obyn Malok was talking about that ya noob

And that's what I get for browsing forums when I'm still half-asleep.

Jensen

dreaming about Bene's tentacles again?

Moirean

I get grumpy and ranty and sadface a lot, but tonight I'm reflecting on how good things are.

5 months ago, I was dumped, being evicted, utterly alone in a city hundreds of miles from anyone I knew, and facing legal issues, with a bank account in the negative, and deep in suicidal depression.

Now, I am working not just one well-paying job, but a second (also well-paying) one that is my dream, heading QA for an indie game company and developing skills that I will be able to transition eventually into a video game producer role. It's tiring, but it's the best sort of tiring. I'm challenged and excited and rewarded. I'm able to throw that money back onto myself, seeing a personal trainer twice a week - not only am I seeing my body change, it feels GOOD (painfulgood) and I am feeling buff and strong and I love it. My family loves me and is proud of me, as well; instead of worrying about me or seeing me as a burden, they are like "Damn, Jess is going places."

Best - scariest - of all, I just talked with my step-brother, and confided in him that I'm bisexual. I've...hidden this for a long time, and hated myself, paradoxically both for feeling it and for hiding it. I finally came clean to him. His response? He was silent for a long span, before nodding, hugging me, telling me that he - and my family - loves me no matter who I love...and then we had a nice long talk about boobies and how great they are.

I think things are going to be ok.

Riluo

Way to go and glad you could admit who you are to yourself it is a great feeling and freeing when we finally do.

Ishin

@Moirean - I'm glad we can be honest with one another of our love for boobies now, even though I'm not your step-brother. We will have conversations about this in the future

Benedicto

Obyn said:

Jensen said:

@obyn Malok was talking about that ya noob

And that's what I get for browsing forums when I'm still half-asleep.

It's because Charles Dance is also quintessentially British.

Teani

So! I made a white chocolate mud cake and brought it to my mom since it's her birthday on Monday and I felt like celebrating it. Tossed some whipped cream and raspberries on it too. Absolutely delicious!

Setne

/grabby hands

Obyn

Benedicto said:

Obyn said:

Jensen said:

@obyn Malok was talking about that ya noob

And that's what I get for browsing forums when I'm still half-asleep.

It's because Charles Dance is also quintessentially British.

I adore his accent.

Malok

I love that in even as small of an organization as House Bahir'an, we can still get some interesting RP going. In my experience, it's always the people who aren't as heavily known like @Malachai and @Callidora that make this game worthwhile to me. I can't wait until my next day off work so I can play this game with them some more!

Aldric

Just got back from a Flyleaf, Framing Hanley, and Adelitas Way concert. The lead singer of Flyleaf sang to me for like 10 seconds and oh. my. god.

/swoooon

Setne

Aldric said:

Just got back from a Flyleaf, Framing Hanley, and Adelitas Way concert. The lead singer of Flyleaf sang to me for like 10 seconds and oh. my. god.

/swoooon

Where? I love all 3 of those bands.

Aldric

It was at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster PA, only like 10 minutes away from my apartment Tickets were only $20 too, so it fit nicely into the budget.

Framing Hanley was fantastic, and the lead singer seemed really chill. Adelitas Way wasn't quite the same. Lead singer seemed cocky as hell, and every song they played they felt the need for a guitar solo that lasted at least 3 minutes. One or two is perfectly cool, but fff.

Flyleaf was simply awesome, like always. Love love love. Except lately they've been mixing All Around Me with a Cage the Elephant song that sounds amazing, and I was hoping they'd do that tonight but no dice.

EDIT:



This one.

Arbre

Jealous. I can't go to concerts anymore.

Setne

Ugh, that's 2 hours away by car, and I don't drive, so 5 days by SEPTA. I haven't been to any concerts in a while, because the free ones I used to go to got ruined by people not knowing how to act, and I really haven't kept abreast of any all that much. One day.

Aldric

I kinda have a thing with going to concerts whenever I can, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't go anymore @Arbre, I'm so sorry to hear that

Mom got me started on them when we were younger, and now she usually takes us to at least one a year around birthday/Christmas. Last was a few months ago in Bethlehem PA to see Volbeat and Five Finger Death Punch. A week before that was Breaking Benjamin.

Mmm. Concerts.

Asaraii

I grew up in PA and went to a lot, but most recent was in Westchester for Bam Margera's FERKFACE Unstoppable. Mostly because it was hometown for him, and Phil, his aunt, and parents were at this tiny dive bar for the concert. His wife took her shirt off, shoved her boobs in my face, then made out with another chick on stage. I have a ton of pics from that. Then there was the Hangover Al's, who guys who looked exactly the same as I went to get a drink and got a sweet ass pic of me and my big PBR between the two. Haha. Loved it!
**

Moirean

Today was the end of my first sprint cycle on a new project at work (in agile software dev, sprints are short iterations of work; basically steps towards a final product where every team member has various tasks to do, that last 1-4 weeks). We held sprint review to go over the good/bad aspects of the last sprint and everyone slapped post-its up on the board saying what sucked/needs fixing organizationally and what went well/was awesome.

Three separate people put up post-its saying "Jessica joined the team!!!" It feels pretty cool to be valued.

At my OTHER job, I'm finding my groove - I've been given this great chance to basically do lead-level work (basically the level of work that people 2-3 ranks up the ladder from me do) and at first I was really overwhelmed, but I've taken a lot of deep breaths, researched a lot and now I'm sitting here able to semi-confidently tell devs what needs doing and what I need from them and what I'm going to produce, instead of being handheld - and they are happy with what I'm doing as well! I spent my night geeking out happily writing a professional test plan. I'm basically Leslie Knope right now, preparing awesome project binders, for QA stuff. I'm still learning, but I feel proud of what I'm producing.

Jensen

At 6am I sat down at the empty airport bar only to find they can't serve till 7. By 630 there were 8 of us waiting. Love this little clique of business people not giving a fuck

Rashar

Dude, @jensen. That is probably one of my favorite things about flying - airport pubs.

You can meet some really cool people in them -plus- be sleepy by the time your flight is ready. And 0 fucks to give about drinking as the sun comes up. I met this.. ffs he had to be like a 70 year old Irish dude who was telling me about all the places he'd traveled in the world for his textile business. But the only thing he could remember about -any- of them were the pubs. He was on his way to a rugby reunion and I asked where his wife was. He just looks at me and goes, "This is a stag affair, lad."

Died.

Asaraii

Apple honey whole grain bagels. I CAN'T EVEN RIGHT NOW.

Malok

As much as I dislike waking up slightly earlier than I normally do on my day off, I love that my friend told me he was coming to get me today at noon to go hang out at the local hobby/card shop. I hadn't really got to play much Magic lately, and it was a lot of fun to do and also meet a new friend in the process. Unplugging from the computer was refreshing too, even though I couldn't help chatting with my new Aetolia friends on Skype on my phone. :P

Anyways, I love life, and today was a good one.

Benedicto

I got a promotion at work! My band is also starting to get some really good corporate bookings (cha-ching!). Life is good at the moment.

Toz

This yoyo. I don't know where I got it, why it's non-decay, or how someone made it? But I love it.

Toz

Double post: I'm finding that there is no anger in the world that cannot be solved by going to some form of sword fighting club. I wouldn't say it hurts so good, but it does so I will.

Nola

I got an 80 on my first math test.
AIIIEEEE

Kendri

Love @Auresae for picking up the roleplay of Kendri's emergence into the world. It's a layer of depth to her character that I appreciate greatly. Every time she's referred to as child of the flame it makes me smile.

This really expands to most of Kendri's family, @Roux, @Rashar, @Trager, @Arbre, thanks so much for helping me to build a character that I love to play.

Rashar

@kendri. Sorry my rp time is so slim and random lately. LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT.

Kendri

Rashar said:

@kendri. Sorry my rp time is so slim and random lately. LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT. </p>

Less than two weeks, yay! Though I hope you had a really great time in Thailand.