In the midst of an awful...awful...AWFUL recession here in Amercia I have found I've come about on hard times. Since I have been unemployed for almost a year I have found that the bills are getting harder and harder to keep up with. This being my last year at Mt. SAC I have found that I am going to have to figure out a way to transfer to UCR. But one thing has kept that desire at bay....money.

had a pretty chilled weekend, despite doing a whole load of travelling on public transport…. You don’t hear me say that very often.

The weekend started with me going to the local Waterstone’s to attend the book signing by Barry Nugent of his second book Fallen Heroes, and what a book it is people. Make sure you put that book on your Christmas Stocking list, I even got to talk to the great man himself.

i just wanted to tell everyone hi and i hope to make some new friends and have some fun playing the games. play hard! win big ! everyone have a good day!

www.phantasystaruniverse.com

This is the main website for this game. I, and many others play this game online. You can find a whole lot of people of all ages that play this game online.

If you do play this game online, please feel free to let me know what your game id is so that we can get in touch in the game and go "hunt" rares and everything else.

I am in a guild still. Warriors' Essence ...

That's what I have been experiencing. I find it comes on very very quickly and by the time I can actually recognize it, it's already grabbed ahold of my characters. The only thing is I am experiencing a weird sort of Writers block...in which I can write a chapter for one story, but none for others. I just finished the 14th chapter of Speciman Alpha, which is on its way towards the end, and I think now that I've just finished it I can write and write and write more for that story.

Virgin Money are having a bit of a mare at the moment. I have a prepaid credit card with them. Why have a prepaid credit card?, well it’s a security thing for buying things on the net, as the card can only spend what’s on there, so if you are buying stuff off the next you just put exact the money on the card and just spend what’s on there, but here’s the problem with my card. You know the three digit security number on the back of your card… well despite putting the right number in from the back of my card, they are not being accepted, as in these three numbers are not being linked to the correct card, so as yet I haven’t bought anything online.

Last night after getting home I plugged into Victoria to watch a couple of shows whilst I unwound after a not unusual poor train journey home.

One of my favourite channels is The Crime Investigation channel and currently I have to a show called Masterminds and a show called Crime Stories on series record, so I watched Mastermind, which was about some dude who took Vegas for $15M from slot machines but inserting a micro chip into the machine and forcing it to drop a jackpot combination, all very interesting, but after that I watched Crime Stories and it has got to be one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in ages.

As peeps may have noticed, if you read my full website, I’m DJing on Saturday night at the FLIRT After Party but hey I may have a date lined up before the event, but not sure if it will happen as I had to cuss her last night.

I sent a message at the weekend to a lass on PoF, the people I did the recently Beach Party for…she had put her profile in the My Likes section, the word “Movies”, but she’d written the word about 30 times, so I broke the ice by sending a message saying, “I assume you like movies then”… she came back with she liked RnB too…

It’s sure been a hot one over the last few days, and that’s been good.

Friday night was ok, as I actually made it to the gym. Once I get back into the gym thing, the plan is to hit the gym Tues, Weds, Friday nights… then first thing Sunday and then I’ve pencilled in every third Saturday, but as yet, I’m just about making two a week… Sunday and one other day. This week it will be Tues, hopefully Friday and… I went yesterday morning, which was very very nice as I was the only one in the pool house.

Well life around my neck of the woods has certainly been incredibly busy. I've been burying myself in stuff to do so that I have had no opportunity to sit and sulk over the fact that I still remain unemployed....for reasons I am still completely unaware of. Big changes have happened since I last wrote. I've lost touch with quite a few friends which I had at my old private university.

When I started back in 2004, I had quite a few friends but once I left that number quickly dwindled down to a mere five. From those five three left me in the cold...and then there were two. And the last of the two have finally parted ways with me. It makes me feel a little sad sometimes, but I think that it is probably just that we have nothing in common in their minds. I actually spent a whole afternoon speaking with the last friend I had about literature and music...and it seemed like a lovely conversation. But she has since decided to not speak to me again. Naturally I feel like it must have been something I said, but my mom has gone ahead and assured me that it probably was not...and was just her realizing that she had nothing in common with me.

Hey world how’s it going out there? My world is all very odd right now. I’ve been talking a lass on Facebook for quite a while now… for the purpose of the website we’ll call her American Twang… AT for short. Well the other night we touched base on Yahoo and she informs me that she likes me…as SHE LIKES ME…which I have to say is a bit of a shock, as I really didn’t think we’d communicated enough or in any depth for her to gauge what I’m really like. Also there is the whole thing that I have never looked at her beyond just being online mates and a contact…. She lives in Vegas by the way

When I was little summer was always devoted to Vacation Bible School and a Summer play. My cousins and I would all be in these musicals with the other children at my church and it was a lot of time and a lot of fun....but for whatever reason they decided to not to continue the tradition once I became a Jr. Higher (Age 12 [for you British folk]).

Now they have decided to restart the tradition, but the problem is that there are no kids anymore. Most the "kids" from the church had all grown up to teenagers. There is a total of 6 kids who originally go to our church and all of them are in it. They selected the Seussical musical for a performance in a few weeks...and all I can say is I never realized how much work goes into it.

When I was little summer was always devoted to Vacation Bible School and a Summer play. My cousins and I would all be in these musicals with the other children at my church and it was a lot of time and a lot of fun....but for whatever reason they decided to not to continue the tradition once I became a Jr. Higher (Age 12 [for you British folk]).

Now they have decided to restart the tradition, but the problem is that there are no kids anymore. Most the "kids" from the church had all grown up to teenagers. There is a total of 6 kids who originally go to our church and all of them are in it. They selected the Seussical musical for a performance in a few weeks...and all I can say is I never realized how much work goes into it.

What a weekend people, one hell of an emotional rollercoaster, from having one of the best days of my life on Saturday, what a cracking high… excuse the pun there…. Saturday couldn’t have been better.

Roll on Sunday, still feeling good, saw The Hulk and that was made better by the appearance of Tony Stark (Iron Man’s secret Identity) in the film, the high continued with The British Grand Prix, followed by one great tennis match between Fed and Nad…

it really sucks because my PS1 ALMOST broke down and it was horrible cuz i have been playing that baby since i was 2 1/2 years old. BUT i fixed it in time. my cuzin got 5 lego's stuck in the generater type thingy. PRAISE JEBUS THAT THING GOT FIXED!!!

Man oh man I’m still in shock…. Was in The Big Smoke that is London on Tuesday afternoon to have a meeting with a wine bar/club owner about holding some functions, After the meeting I hooked up with my friend, C.K. as she had a date with some bloke she met online and had some time to kill, so we went into a drinking establishment called Jewel, which is right by the Dunkin Donut place in Piccadilly….. we got our seats and I went to the bar to get the first round in, a woman arrived at the bar just as I did, so I let her order first…. She ordered….. 2 Vanilla Vodkas and a single bottle of slimline tonic split between the two vodkas….. total cost... £17.30…………………………………atm ……………………….. yes you read that correctly…. £17.30….the thing that got me was the woman didn’t even flinch, gave the barman a £20 and picked up her drinks and left him the change.

In moments when I feel particularly strange for some reason writing sonnets is cathartic. Yes, I do write stories, but if I am experiencing a strange episode of emotions I usually am to the point where I can't write anything productive...story-wise. So here I am. Today was a good day apart from one thing that makes me feel sad. My dogs discovered a baby bird today and being beagles lunged for it. I managed to get ahold of it and it was still alive. I placed it up on a wall where its parents sat and hoped for the best.

Some people do my head in, they will find anything to moan about. I can understand if you’re a cantankerous old git, who feels hard done by because it’s winter and the government has screwed you over by raises winter fuel prices and dropped your winter allowance, but when you some bird whose in her mid 20’s….. please sister get a dang life… Was out and about on Friday night, and the tap with a few people, and over heard some bird complaining about Americans, saying how rude the customs officers were, and they should be grateful that we’re going to their country to spend out money, and then she said the classic line, that is almost as amusing as when someone says… “I’m not being racist but…..” her line was… “Come on do I really look like a terrorist… “and there in lies the ignorance of some people in our society….

It's a weird day today. My birthday. A day I usually engage in some sort of fun party with people who I call friends. Yet, today is the first birthday that I spent 90% of it here by myself....although I suppose you can't entirely say "by myself". I always have my "pack" of dogs...my two beagles Maddie and Tifa. We played in a kiddie pool and ran around the yard, but it didn't hold a candle to the dancing and jumping and playing videogames that I engaged in last year with my best friend and boyfriend. It's so strange.

The other morning on the train I was talking Dr Kate, whose a female who I’ve got to know over the last two years travelling on the same train each morning and often in the evenings chatting whilst waiting for a delayed train or something. She’s not been about for about two months as her hubby has had some heart issues and as I found out the other day, she’s had major back issues.

Anyway, as we were chatting some bloke sat with us as he also knew the Doc. Now he was very well tanned, he’d obviously could the sun over the last few days, now alluding to his tan, the Doc said we both looked very well, to which he replied pointing at me… bearing in mind I’d never seen this guy before in my life…”Yeah but his got a good excuse…….” ………… atm……… yep “A Tumbleweed Moment” ensued between the Doc and I…. the silence was broken by Doc asking what he meant by that…… I made my excuses and headed back to my seat….. The guy’s a muppet.