Update, Christmas, etc
Dec. 27th, 2006 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ria_oaksI haven't updated since my birthday, have I? Okay, here's a rundown of my last week and Christmas Day, with pictures...
- got my hair cut & dyed on my birthday. Have blond highlights now!
Look, I'm blond! Kinda.
- got FFXII for my birthday, and have been playing it since. Not too far yet; I'm in Nalbina Dungeon right now. Having a good time so far; the battle system's fun and much better than many of us were worried about.
- Worked 2 shifts at the video store, fun fun. But it's fine as a temporary job to get some money over the holiday. Hopefully after this I'll be done there forever. -_-
- very little, really. heh. Hung out on Bowen, came down to town briefly a couple of times. Went to Metrotown with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rainbowpegacorn, did last minute shopping and whatnot.
- saw "Happy Feet" on my birthday. Very little to say about it. There were lots of dancing penguins. XD Pretty good, though the plot kinda dragged. OotP trailer looked good on the big screen.
- speaking of HP - freaked out when the 7th book title was announced. Did research on what Hallows are. Debated the title with my cousin. Am still a bit shocked that we actually know it at last. o.o
- watched a lot of TV, including several more episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, some Farscape commentaries (rented the DVDs from the library for the extras), a few episodes of Oz (finally broke out my copy of season 4 and re-watched some eps, plus one of the commentaries), and the most recent episodes of Torchwood. Also caught up on House and am sad at the ramifications for House/Wilson. :(
- made a Chris Keller doll. No, I'm not kidding. XD It's really a Chris Meloni doll, since he can be Stabler whenever I'm watching SVU... I embroidered his Christ tattoo on and everything. He's very cute for a convicted murderer. ;p I'm working on a Toby now so he won't be lonely.
Meet Chris!Doll:
Close-up of his face (he didn't have a shirt yet at this point):
Me, Chris, and the tree:
What I didn't do:
- work on my Christmas cards. Yeah, yeah, I know... sorry guys. You may or may not get them. I still have a lot of drawings left to outline/colour, and several to draw. I spent most of last week working on Chris!Doll instead.
- see enough of everyone! Need to make more plans for the coming 1 and a half weeks before I leave (on Jan 6th).
- upload the Farscape picspam. It's all compiled, I just need to upload the pictures and make the post. ^^ Laazy.
The tree, before the presents (because it's the best shot I have of it where you can see more of the room. Plus I love that painting of Dad's.)
And with the presents (and Chris)...
The Loot:
- Rygel!
Isn't he cute? ^__^ He's smaller than I thought he'd be, but still awesome. Looks better than in the original pictures I saw. Mom's stopped asking many questions when I ask her for various media-inspired plushies, ie. tonberry last year and puppet!Angel the year before. Hah.
- new graphics tablet (my old one broke)
- Firefly Official Companion vol. 1
- OotP softcover, at last. ^^ The only one I didn't have in softcover, yet the hardest to read in hardcover because it's so damned big.
- obligatory new clothes
- a number of other random things that aren't particularly interesting and which I'm too lazy to list
All in all, good haul this year. XD Very happy with Rygel and the tablet, not to mention FFXII from my b-day. Was playing it a few hours ago and got killed by a stupid Bomb which exploded. :( Was too tired to go back and re-do the dungeon, so I'll do it tomorrow or sometime. Going to be down in North Van tomorrow, then back up to work for Thurs/Fri, then down again for the weekend. Don't know about after that.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Christmas!
- got my hair cut & dyed on my birthday. Have blond highlights now!
Look, I'm blond! Kinda.
- got FFXII for my birthday, and have been playing it since. Not too far yet; I'm in Nalbina Dungeon right now. Having a good time so far; the battle system's fun and much better than many of us were worried about.
- Worked 2 shifts at the video store, fun fun. But it's fine as a temporary job to get some money over the holiday. Hopefully after this I'll be done there forever. -_-
- very little, really. heh. Hung out on Bowen, came down to town briefly a couple of times. Went to Metrotown with
rainbowpegacorn, did last minute shopping and whatnot.- saw "Happy Feet" on my birthday. Very little to say about it. There were lots of dancing penguins. XD Pretty good, though the plot kinda dragged. OotP trailer looked good on the big screen.
- speaking of HP - freaked out when the 7th book title was announced. Did research on what Hallows are. Debated the title with my cousin. Am still a bit shocked that we actually know it at last. o.o
- watched a lot of TV, including several more episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, some Farscape commentaries (rented the DVDs from the library for the extras), a few episodes of Oz (finally broke out my copy of season 4 and re-watched some eps, plus one of the commentaries), and the most recent episodes of Torchwood. Also caught up on House and am sad at the ramifications for House/Wilson. :(
- made a Chris Keller doll. No, I'm not kidding. XD It's really a Chris Meloni doll, since he can be Stabler whenever I'm watching SVU... I embroidered his Christ tattoo on and everything. He's very cute for a convicted murderer. ;p I'm working on a Toby now so he won't be lonely.
Meet Chris!Doll:
Close-up of his face (he didn't have a shirt yet at this point):
Me, Chris, and the tree:
What I didn't do:
- work on my Christmas cards. Yeah, yeah, I know... sorry guys. You may or may not get them. I still have a lot of drawings left to outline/colour, and several to draw. I spent most of last week working on Chris!Doll instead.
- see enough of everyone! Need to make more plans for the coming 1 and a half weeks before I leave (on Jan 6th).
- upload the Farscape picspam. It's all compiled, I just need to upload the pictures and make the post. ^^ Laazy.
The tree, before the presents (because it's the best shot I have of it where you can see more of the room. Plus I love that painting of Dad's.)
And with the presents (and Chris)...
The Loot:
- Rygel!
Isn't he cute? ^__^ He's smaller than I thought he'd be, but still awesome. Looks better than in the original pictures I saw. Mom's stopped asking many questions when I ask her for various media-inspired plushies, ie. tonberry last year and puppet!Angel the year before. Hah.
- new graphics tablet (my old one broke)
- Firefly Official Companion vol. 1
- OotP softcover, at last. ^^ The only one I didn't have in softcover, yet the hardest to read in hardcover because it's so damned big.
- obligatory new clothes
- a number of other random things that aren't particularly interesting and which I'm too lazy to list
All in all, good haul this year. XD Very happy with Rygel and the tablet, not to mention FFXII from my b-day. Was playing it a few hours ago and got killed by a stupid Bomb which exploded. :( Was too tired to go back and re-do the dungeon, so I'll do it tomorrow or sometime. Going to be down in North Van tomorrow, then back up to work for Thurs/Fri, then down again for the weekend. Don't know about after that.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Christmas!
